Because the somewhat old voice appeared very suddenly, the transmission of the voice was quite empty, and the content of the words happened to be very in line with Mo Ye's state of mind at this time, which made her stunned.

But the voice seemed to have a back word, just the words that "he" said later, and the tone no longer had the hardness that Mo Ye noticed at the beginning.

Mo Ye listened attentively, and finally let her hear the slightest bit of the voice again.

"Stubborn, are you going to lie down like this forever?"

Hearing this sentence clearly, Mo Ye suddenly had doubts in his heart.

If the first sentence I heard, the tone and content are quite mysterious, then the latter sentence, on the whole, sounds very popular, and the two words at the beginning of the sentence seem to be insulting.

- It's not a god talking!

Mo Ye stood in place and held her breath, waited for a while, and finally heard the voice coming out again, this time she not only wanted to listen, but also touched the direction of the source of the sound, and slowly moved to the side next to the wall......

……

The source of the sound was actually from Master Ye's bedroom.

After Mo Ye ran out of Ye Nuonuo's boudoir, she didn't look carefully at the direction of the road ahead, she only knew that she was extremely depressed and complicated, and wanted to vent it, but she didn't expect her to run behind Ye Zhengming's bedroom unconsciously.

Generally speaking, a room has windows on at most three sides, and the one against it is a solid wall, so that when the sound in the room comes through the tightly knit wall, people outside the wall will feel that the sound seems to have lost its sense of direction, and even has a hint of ethereal meaning.

It's like a sound from underground.

Of course, this is just an illusion in Mo Ye's mind based on the psychology that she was already involved in the mystical realm just now, which is called the more you think about ghosts, the more ghosts will be born in your heart.

The fact is that when Ruan Luo had just left Ye Nuonuo's boudoir, the imperial medical bureau doctor Zheng Yan Guang arrived at the house. Yan Guang only exchanged a few words with everyone in the Ye Mansion, made a polite manner, and before he had time to take a sip of tea, he walked directly into Ye Zhengming's room.

And when Mo Ye almost quarreled with Ye Nuonuo, the situation in Ye Zhengming's ward was not good, and when Mo Ye ran out of the room over there, Yan Guang was already arguing in this room.

He yelled at Ye Zhengming, who was lying quietly on the bed: "Stubborn." ”

But he scolded a few times like this, and Ye Zhengming, a stubborn child in his thirties on the bed, was not moved at all.

However, Mo Ye, who was in a trance, happened to be behind Master Ye's hospital bed, separated by a wall. Finally, among the few "stubborn" voices that Yan Guang shouted, he heard it once, and then came back to his senses.

But. The reason why Mo Ye was awakened was that when she first heard the voice, she only regarded it as a chant of the gods. And Ye Zhengming, who had been lying quietly on the bed, or should I say that he was deliberately silent, showed a completely different indifferent attitude towards this voice, precisely because he knew very well who was talking to him. Just a mortal can't help him.

Among the mortals in this world, the only one who can solve his problems is the man who is called "Emperor".

The emperor he recognized in Ye Zhengming's heart was only the one surnamed Wang.

But the emperor never did that for him.

If he didn't nod, even his son wouldn't be able to intervene. What's more, a medical officer, even if he is a medical officer, what if he is a doctor? What the courtiers can't do, can the courtiers still get close to their hands?

……

When Qingqiang dragged a bed of cotton wool rolled up with a sheet. On the last trip to the small courtyard where the eldest lady lived, she suddenly saw two young men pulling a cart of firewood more than ten paces ahead.

The small courtyard where the eldest lady lived was close to the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and looking at the direction in which the two young men walked, it was also to go to the back door of the Shifu. Therefore, Qingqiang is considered to be on the same road as those two people.

The two couldn't walk too fast with the firewood cart, and Qingqiang was dragging a bed of cotton wool in her hand. Naturally, I can't go fast. The two sides are slowly embellished on the same road one after the other, and no one has thrown off anyone, but no one has copied anyone's forward road.

After walking for a while, Qingqiang saw clearly the short knives hanging from the waists of the two young men, and recognized that these two were members of the Ten Generals, and she couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

The duty of the ten generals is to protect the safety of Xiangye, although they are servants, but they are by no means simple. Occasionally, they do side jobs, but they don't do the menial work of dyeing their hands in a firewood house.

Until Qingqiang suddenly saw a corner of her clothes exposed between the firewood piles on the firewood cart......

She thought that she was too tired in the past few days because she had taken care of Cen Chi day and night, so she was dazzled.

But the chariot was in front of her, and with her on the same road, she could easily look at what she thought she was looking at the flowers again.

And when she blinked, and saw that the corner of her clothes was indeed under the pyre, her heart fluttered and a bolt of lightning slid through.

She is very familiar with this kind of clothing, in fact, the maid dress she wears herself is made of this kind of fabric.

Why is this kind of clothing pressed under the pyre? Why is the firewood cart full of firewood not sent to the house, but to the outside? Why is the firewood cart transported by the people of the ten generals, and what are the rough servants of the firewood house doing......

Gathering many clues, Qingqiang's thinking direction suddenly entered a realm that she herself felt scared.

And when she was about to look at it again and see clearly, a figure suddenly flashed into her sight! Because she was so focused on the front that she forgot what was going to happen behind her, the sudden arrival of this scene made her so startled that she almost fell backwards to the ground.

"Sister Qiang'er!"

After approaching Qingqiang lightly, he shouted coldly, and suddenly jumped in front of her from behind Qingqiang, his original intention was to surprise her, and by the way, he also wanted to scare her, but he didn't expect to really scare her into such a situation.

Seeing Qingqiang's face turned pale in an instant, her eyes were straight, and she was a little panicked with coldness, her long arm reached out, and she supported Qingqiang's body that wanted to lean back, and said in surprise: "Sister Qiang'er, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Oh... It's nothing ......," Qingqiang replied casually.

The sudden intervention of another person gave her the illusion that the unspoken discovery in her heart was exposed to the eyes of others, and she reflexively spoke perfunctorily.

It wasn't until she saw the person in front of her clearly that she breathed a sigh of relief, and then a smile appeared on her face, and she said, "Xiao Leng, why are you?" ”

"Why can't it be me?" Leng Qingqiang relieved himself, and he also eased his mind. Then he had to help with the futon that Qingqiang was pulling with some difficulty, "I'll help you get it." ”

After recognizing Leng Yi, Qing Qiang had no defense against him, and easily let go of her hand, and the bound futon slid into Leng Yi's hand and carried it.

With a light hand, she couldn't help but look at the two people pulling the firewood cart again. It's just that in the time when she paused, the cart of firewood had been pulled away by the two of them, the image was blurry, and the corner of the clothes exposed on the firewood cart was not very clear.

Qingqiang turned her gaze back, and the corner of her gaze slipped over the knife hanging from Leng Yi's waist. After pausing on the slightly fluffy handle of the cowhide knife, she thought more seriously about it, although Leng Yi was only thirteen years old. He is a few months younger than himself, but he does have the status of one of the ten generals.

I have long heard that even if the members of the ten generals are not guaranteed, there are at least seven adults, and the blades of the green steel knives hanging diagonally around their waists have licked human blood.

Although the coldness in front of him rarely came out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the handle of his saber was worn out. Most of the reason is that he is diligent in practicing, and the reason is relatively simple, but if he grows up for a few more years, he will inevitably be the same as the other members of the Ten Family Generals......

As soon as she thought of this, Qingqiang coughed dryly, and then asked softly, "Xiao Leng." Have you come here for something? As she spoke, she stepped back half a step with a slight movement.

Leng Yi seemed to be completely unaware of Qingqiang's small action, but in fact, it was because he didn't care in the first place. And also thought that this was a normal expression of a woman's reserve, after all, the two of them were really too close just now.

Hearing Qingqiang's soft inquiry, Leng Yi replied with a smile: "Uncle Housekeeper asked me to protect the eldest lady...... And you, don't you know? ”

It wasn't for him to mention it, Qingqiang really didn't know about it. She had just gone to consult the old butler. In order to ask him about the residence, the housekeeper agreed. But he didn't mention anything else, maybe he forgot.

But she thought about it, she had met the lord in the courtyard before, and the lord not only personally assigned her to serve in the courtyard of the eldest lady, but also mentioned that he would also send someone to guard the safety of the courtyard. In this way, what Leng Yi said is true.

It's just that it's still surprising, but I didn't expect the other person sent to the eldest lady to be Leng Yi.

Qing Qiang looked at the cold young face, endured it, and didn't glance at the saber on his waist again, and a trace of complexity floated in her happy mood.

Leng Yi was also staring at Qingqiang's face.

He felt that the sister Qiang'er in front of him, who had been frolicking together since the beginning of entering the Prime Minister's Mansion, had not seen each other for a while, and her appearance seemed to have changed. Her eyebrows and eyes are softer, and her cheeks are not as round as before, but they are a little more feminine, which still makes him look good.

Then, he noticed the slightly stunned look in her eyes, and before she could speak, he smiled again and said, "Maybe the housekeeper uncle was too busy and forgot to say it." However, it is the same for me to convey this matter to you now. ”

His thoughts are some the same as Qingqiang's unspoken pondering, but there are some differences.

Qingqiang smiled a little reluctantly, glanced at the direction where the firewood cart was going away just now, and said, "I thought you were here to help those two big brothers." ”

Leng Yi followed Qingqiang's gaze, and soon saw the firewood cart, but the firewood cart had already reached a turnaround on the road, and disappeared at the intersection in the blink of an eye, almost equivalent to almost leaving the back door of the Shifu.

"Ha, that's the fifth brother and the seventh brother." Retracting his gaze, he said coldly: "It's the fifth brother and the seventh brother who want to help me, and in the future, I must live next door to the courtyard where the eldest lady lives, and they will clean up the firewood house." ”

"Oh......" Qingqiang hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "These trivial affairs, you can call the miscellaneous servants in the house to do it, aren't the two eldest brothers just doing things for Xiangye?" ”

"The fifth brother and the seventh brother are not on duty today, they are in the mansion in their spare time, and they were originally going to accompany me to practice swordsmanship. Later, the housekeeper came to me and ordered me to be responsible for guarding the safety of the eldest lady in the future, and the two elder brothers were also present, so they knew about it and started to help me. ”

Looking at Qingqiang coldly, Wen Yan recounted what happened. As he spoke, he always had a smile in his eyes. This gentle attitude, against the backdrop of his extremely young face, seems extraordinarily pure, without any other feelings.

"My two brothers always take special care of me, so I have to do it myself. However, I heard from the servant in the firewood room that the firewood in the small firewood house had been stored for almost a year, and the moisture was very heavy. If only I asked the little sisters in the house to help me do those things. I'm afraid I'm going to be scared enough. ”

Speaking of this, Leng Yi raised the futon in his hand again, and said loudly: "If you have some strength, you should do it with a man." ”

Qingqiang's heart warmed when she heard this, and she finally completely let go of the vigilance and fear just now. At the same time, she also silently reminded herself not to always dwell on the 'things' she just saw, and not to indulge in thinking about those ordinary things.

Thinking about it, my lord is a prime minister, although his status is extremely high. However, when he uses his power to make decisions, it is inevitable that some people will be unconvinced, jealous, and then have evil intentions. Ten families will be by the master's side. Occasionally, you need to draw a knife to get rid of trouble, but also to protect the master. The loyalty of the protector could not be more normal.

Although the members of the ten generals are all from martial arts training, if you look closely, you will find out. They are not rough people who only know how to use force. They are loyal to their head of the family and love their brothers.

Of course, there are also delicate people like Leng Yi!

Seeing that Leng Yi's tone did not lag when he spoke, and he looked straightforward, Qingqiang no longer suspected him.

When her mind calmed down, Qingqiang was worried about the very damp little firewood house he mentioned. After pondering for a moment. Qingqiang advised: "If it's too humid, don't live in it immediately, be careful of the smell of mildew and moisture." ”

"It's still Sister Qiang'er's heart." Leng Yi winked and smiled, "I listen to my sister." Don't stay in tonight. ”

……

The fifth brother and the seventh brother mentioned in the cold words, the former is surnamed Ji, and as his name is, he ranks fifth among the ten generals. The latter's surname is Tian, in fact, Qingqiang should have a little impression of this person. Because she had only met this person a few days ago, Tian Qi was exactly when Cen Chi went to the temple in the southwest corner of the inner city of Kyoto that day. One of the two in charge of escorting along the way,

In addition to being more familiar with Leng Yi, Qingqiang couldn't distinguish the names and appearances of the other nine members of the ten generals. She didn't have a chance to get close to the chariot just now to take a closer look, so she ignored Tian Qi, who had several faces, and also missed an opportunity for her to see the dark side of the ten generals.

The things she speculated about just now are indeed cold enough.

Out of the back door of Shifu, Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled a firewood cart through the streets and alleys and came to the vicinity of the garbage mountain in the south of the city.

While the whole of Kyoto is thriving in commerce, there is also a phenomenon that a large amount of garbage is discarded every day, and it is necessary to pile up at an outlet after cleaning. However, the main component of the garbage mountain is construction waste, and it is difficult to completely eradicate the inner city area for a while. The garbage mountain has been standing here for a long time, and gradually formed its unique 'garbage culture'.

A corner of the garbage mountain, in addition to the usual dirty image on the surface, is also a sin on the inside.

The root of the evil lies in the fact that the garbage piled up here is not only the waste caused by people's livelihood activities, but also the abandoned life.

If it weren't for the fact that not far away, from time to time there would be bells and chanting Buddha in the small temple, but I was afraid that the south of the city would be empty because of the sin located in the corner of the garbage mountain.

In the nameless lake next to the garbage mountain, the water of the lake is dark blue all year round. In the past, the swamp by the lake often swallowed passers-by, and it was difficult to find the dead body, so there were rumors that the reason why the lake was blue was precisely because it was a symbol of the pool of the dead in the world.

This kind of rumor spread to the people, and gradually caused two phenomena. In addition to those who are passively swallowed up by the swamp, some people who can't think of it will also take the initiative to come to this place, but not deliberately to step on the swamp, but to deliberately jump into the lake, with their lives, hoping to get a good reincarnation.

Later, the swamp was filled in, and the shallow water in the swamp was pushed into the lake area and piled up, raising the water level of the nameless lake, but the disappearance of the murderous swamp weakened the rumors, and instead caused far fewer people to run to the lake to seek their deaths.

But between the huge lake and the mountain of garbage, which can never be cleaned up, there is another area, which is the corpse dump.

Originally, it was strictly forbidden to dispose of corpses in Kyoto, and those who did not have the money to bury their deceased relatives could go to the yamen to receive subsidies. Emperor Nanzhao took the land closest to him as the first model of his statecraft after he took power, and after nearly ten years of management and control of the official and civil order in Kyoto, until now, there will never be a situation where people die for a few days and are not buried in the territory of Kyoto.

And if the city patrol team sees a wandering beggar who died silently on the street, they will also send their bodies to Yizhuang in the south of the city for burial. Every year, Yizhuang receives material support from the imperial court and is obliged to take care of these affairs.

However, although Nanzhao established these comprehensive laws and implemented them very efficiently, these were the treatment of adults, and there was another outlier among the dead bodies, that is, dead babies.

Whether it is a difficult birth and death in the mother's womb. Or suffocated at birth, or even more cruel...... In short, this kind of corpse is the most difficult to dispose of, and it is a dead body that even Yizhuang is unwilling to receive.

There is an eternal legend that is difficult to dissolve, saying that the infant spirit has three uncertain souls, seven souls lack six, and only one human soul is the strongest, and it has a trace of anger of the reincarnation of the undead in the previous life. This kind of soul after death is not easy to exceed, but it is easy to be held hostage by the evil spirits in the world, so no one in the world wants to touch the dead baby. Perhaps only their mothers don't mind.

But the dead babies who have left traces of life in the world, so they do not need to erect a monument to commemorate them, they are not cats, dogs, livestock, but also human beings. It also needs to be buried seriously. If no one or department wants to take over this kind of thing, there is only a private settlement.

And most of the things that need to be settled in private are not in order, and being in this environment inevitably adds to the weird atmosphere.

Although the living standards of Kyoto residents have improved in recent years. At least no matter how poor you are, you can't starve your children, but there are still a few accidents that happen when a woman gives birth.

In the gloomy corner next to the garbage mountain, although the place is not big, occasionally after a month or two, a woman with red and tearful eyes comes with a basket. Maybe it's to bury the corpse, maybe it's just to burn a few yellow watches and worship the land here. Commemorate some regrets and sorrows.

The main reason why it became a burial ground for dead babies is because of the nearby temple, which has long been rumored to be there mainly for the purpose of suppressing evil spirits.

However, there are people who are outside the rules everywhere, and sometimes other dead bodies are buried in the infant burial ground. And this change in this phenomenon is actually a practice that the people of Kyoto know in private.

Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled the firewood cart to the area where the baby was buried next to the garbage mountain. He stopped.

When the two of them left the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, they had already untied the saber on their waists, took off their coats, wrapped them, and hid them in the firewood cart. At the same time, they untie the hair bands and use their fingers as a comb to break up their hair. With such a slight change in appearance, the two of them look not much different from ordinary chaifu.

Camouflage is a skill that the ten generals must learn, and these are just small tricks, and it is enough to deceive passers-by.

At this time, when they arrived at their destination, they took out their clothes wrapped in knives from the firewood cart and threw them on the ground, and then the two of them pulled out two bamboo tubes from under the board, tore off the wooden cork, and splashed them on the firewood cart.

The light yellow thick liquid in the bamboo tube is sprinkled on the wood cart, there is no smell, it seems to be a relatively pure oil, but it is a little different from the oil for stir-frying. The two not only sprinkled the firewood with this grease, but also did not miss the firewood cart.

After doing this, the two threw the bamboo tube to the car, and each took out the fire fold from the sleeve of the coat, blew it up, and lit the firewood cart back and forth.

The firewood, which originally looked so damp that it was about to rot, seemed to burn violently in an instant with the help of the kind of grease that had been poured before.

Not only does a cart of wet wood burn and the fire rages, but the temperature and color of the flame on the pyre also seem strange. The two who lit the fire only hesitated for a moment, and the skin of their arms exposed outside their clothes was scorched red by the heat wave that churned out from the flames.

The flame seemed to be attached to a kind of magic, it didn't seem to come from the firewood, but as if the air was burning, and then it actively devoured everything it could get its hands on - even the damp wood, even the three newly dead corpses covered under the wet wood.

The sound of "zi-zi-zi-" could still be heard in the flames, but it quickly faded away.

With the flames that soon dimmed, the firewood, the firewood, and the three corpses all turned into burnt white ashes, and there were not even half strips of carbon left.

The two of them, who had stepped back a few paces away, watched the scene change with cold eyes, until the fire was extinguished, and then they slowly approached again.

In the place where the body was burned, the fire had been extinguished, but the temperature was still relatively high. The kind of flame that seemed to be able to swallow a qiē almost instantaneously was only ignited on the firewood cart at first, and after the firewood cart collapsed, the flame stayed on the surface of the ground for a short time with the ashes, but it was only because of this moment's work that the slightly wet land was scorched.

Ji Wu walked to the pile of white ash left behind after the burning, squatted down and stretched out his palm, probed close to the white ash, and then he nodded sideways to Tian Qi beside him.

Tian Qi didn't speak, just exchanged glances with Ji Wu, and he knew something in his heart.

After killing people, the corpses were cremated, and it was not the first time that Tian Qi and Ji Wu had done this. They work together in this kind of thing. There have been several times. There are some rules that are already familiar with each other.

It's just to do this kind of thing to the people in your own house, after all, it's very rare. When Ji Wu stood up and walked away, a complicated look vaguely slipped in his eyes, but Tian Qi, who was standing, didn't see this scene.

After Ji Wu walked away a few steps, Tian Qi pulled out the knife wrapped in his clothes and fiddled with it a few times in the white ash. After some inspection, after making sure that there were no intact items left, he held the hand of the knife. With a slight turn of his wrist, he shook the blade and picked up two deformed iron rings on the ground. Throw yourself into the blue water of the lake.

The two rings, which had been nailed to the wheels, were now the only remnants of the flames. If you leave iron sheets, it is easy to wonder why even the car is burned when the garbage is burned. Remove these, and the land is white and ash. It is closer to the residue of burning the garbage.

The blade turned, cut off a section of the sleeve of the undershirt, and brushed away the ashes stained on the blade, Tian Qi put the knife into the sheath, wrapped the knife into the coat again, and then looked sideways at Ji Wu on the side. Calmly said, "You can go." ”

Ji Wu nodded slightly, walking with Tian Qi, he was vaguely different from when he came. When he left the crematorium, Ji Wu did not walk side by side with Tian Qi, but was a step behind.

Ji Wu's temperament is a little silent and withdrawn, Tian Qi has long understood this, so he doesn't care. And even if he had the leisure to chat with Ji Wu about the feeling when he was cremated just now. I know now is not the time.

After walking out of a distance, Ji Wu and Tian Qi did not go back to Shifu directly. Instead, they turned a corner and walked into the emerald green bamboo forest next to the nameless lake.

Tian Qi and Ji Wu entered the bamboo forest, but they did not want to go to the small temple located in the depths of the bamboo forest to worship the Buddha. The two of them really wanted to take advantage of the dense cover of the bamboo forest to take off the camouflage on their bodies.

By the time the two of them came out of the shade, their loose hair had been neatly tied up, and their saber coats were neatly put back on their bodies, and the saber hung on their waists as they were used to.

The two of them came to the nameless lake again, and without thinking about whether the blue water of the lake would contain any harmful substances, they quickly scooped up a handful of water and washed their faces. After the firewood ash that was deliberately wiped on their faces when they left the Shi Mansion just now was wiped clean, the two of them had already recovered the kind of spiritual qi that belonged to the ten generals.

Standing up on the shore of the lake, Ji Wu glanced at the faint surface of the lake, looking at his distorted reflection in the water, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Tian Qi finished washing his face, and then stood up as well, he heard the sigh of his old partner in his ears, and naturally followed Ji Wu's gaze to the water.

Looking at the two reflections that stood side by side and distorted together, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes for a moment, and he suddenly asked, "Why are you ...... Reluctant? ”

When Ji Wu heard this, he first turned his head sideways and glanced at Tian Qi, then he shook his head and didn't say anything.

"Look away, we're only burning three dead bodies." Tian Qi said lightly: "It's not that you haven't killed people with your own hands, why do you suddenly seem to be a little uncomfortable." ”

After Tian Qi said this, he took steps to leave the lake, this time he was ready to go back to Shifu to resume his life.

Ji Wu followed closely behind Tian Qi, but his eyes were slightly straight, as if he was a little distracted.

He didn't care if Tian Qi could see it, and after hearing Tian Qi's questioning words, he shook his head again, and finally was willing to speak, and said slowly: "Betraying Xiangye, they deserve to die." I'm just thinking about something else. ”

"What's the problem?" Tian Qi's steps slowed slightly, and when he looked back at Ji Wu, his steps moved slightly to the left. He is still used to walking side by side with Ji Wu, and he is not used to this taciturn partner almost silently behind him.

"If these three people have an afterlife, will they become a family?" Although Ji Wu's words mentioned 'family', there was no trace of warmth in his voice, "That man, in the final analysis, was dragged down by those two women and died." ”

"If that man wasn't alone, maybe he would be like the other two nurses, not to death, but to be driven back to his hometown to farm." Tian Qi also sighed like Ji Wu, and then said, "I seem to understand a little bit why you think so. ”

Five immediately spoke out in denial, and a cold smile appeared on his face, "I didn't think about you so much, I just think that they died together, and if they want to be reincarnated, they should be on the same path." ”

Tian Qi was slightly stunned when he heard this, he was a little surprised by Ji Wu's true thoughts.

After a moment of silence. He suddenly snorted coldly and said: "These two women are not gentle people, just play, if there is such a person in the family, it will be difficult to prosper the family, and it will only cause more trouble." ”

"Huh! The Wang family..."Ji Wu said suddenly: "Do you believe these? ”

Tian Qi ignored him, and just continued what he had just said: "In addition to meeting the needs of that aspect, you can make up a number, and there is still nothing more than a woman who has many things." ”

Ji Wu lowered his head and rubbed the handle of the knife on his waist, which was rough to the touch, and did not speak again.

The shore of the lake is not too far from the small temple in the woods. There was a bell in the temple, and the sound was very clear. Tian Qi suddenly closed his palms on his chest, and he didn't know if it was a prayer. He quickly let go of his hand and lowered it back to the hilt at his side.

……

In Tutuo Town, under the grass shed behind the inn, Gao Qian led two coachmen and began to tidy up the carriage. Ready to go.

Originally, Gao Qian had already gotten up and washed up, but because of the sudden rain yesterday evening, after one night, not only did the light rain not stop, but the rain clouds in the sky also piled up. The clouds were chaotic early in the morning, and the weather conditions could not be seen. I had to delay the departure time a bit.

At this time, the sky is already bright, and although the sun is covered by thick clouds, at least you can see the changes in cloud cover and wind direction. High potential, look at it empirically. I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape a heavy rain during the day today, but if there is no sudden strong wind, then the clouds in the sky should still be able to 'hold' for a while before dripping.

And plan your trip so that you can get to the next city and county for the night before it gets dark today. It is no longer possible to push back the departure time.

The three wagons were tidied up and the contents were examined. Ready to shelter from the rain on the roof of the car, Gao Qian drove the lead carriage out of Tutuo Town.

Because of the geographical characteristics of Tutuo Town, it is surrounded by mounds that protrude from the ground for unknown reasons, like hills and not many trees, so the fork road that winds between such natural obstacles cannot have a long straight road, so it is necessary to turn around and build a forward extension around the mound.

In such road conditions, the high diver drove the car and did not go too fast.

Under normal circumstances, the most common thing in the journey is the neat windproof and road protection trees on both sides of the road, which can be used on this fork road built by Tutuo Town, and the most seen on both sides of the road are relatively neat mounds. If they are simulated in human form, they seem to be sergeants standing solemnly on the side of the road, as if they are examining the pedestrians and carriages passing on the road, and they seem to be only tenacious and silent guarding this not very prosperous land.

The protection of the army was supposed to be rich and poor, and it only abided by geographical affiliation.

Cen Chi leaned boredly by the car window, looking at the mounds on the side of the road one by one, and when he was about to put down the curtain and lie down weakly, a dark shadow came into his sight in the gap between the overlapping mounds.

He had thought that it was because he had been poisoned and his eyes were slowly starting to show visual hallucinations, but when he blinked vigorously and looked again, he saw the tent clearly.

Cen Chi stared, as if talking to himself: "That seems to be the light I saw in the inn window last night, it was so close, I didn't expect them to leave yet." ”

Gao Qian glanced back at Cen Chi, followed Cen Chi's gaze, glanced at the side of the road, and only said casually: "Maybe it's because of the rain that I will stay here!" ”

It seemed that Gao Qian was not interested in this group of people camping in the wild with tents, but this made Cen Chi a little puzzled, because in his impression of Gao Qian, he felt that he would not be such a person who ignored the things around him so easily.

At least along the way, Gao Qian is very attentive to everything around him. Because the matter of the Prime Minister's poisoning has not yet been completely discovered, it is not ruled out that a real culprit behind the scenes will pursue Cen Chi and attack again, so Gao Qian must always be vigilant.

Although he sensed the strangeness of the high potential, Cen Chi didn't say anything more. He lowered the curtain and sat down in a corner of the car. The feeling of weakness after poisoning has not been improved in the slightest by rest, and it seems to have some effect on the mind, causing inertia in one's ability to think.

……

After a while, not far from the winding road, there were also helpers in the tent.

More than a dozen helpers came out of the big tent one after another, spread out, and dismantled the canvas on the top of the tent in a very tacit manner. Then the servants divided into two groups, one of whom rolled up the canvas and the other who began to dismantle the shelves that held up the tents.

When the tent was dismantled, several stalled carriages were revealed. Gray and black, flat and stable freight carriages, each with a small flag embroidered with a feathered swallow on one corner.

The one who arched his tent and camped among the mounds outside Tutuo Town last night was the Yan family caravan that he and Cen Chi and his party had met once at the gate of Kyoto's north city yesterday morning.

In fact, the destination of the Yan family's trip was Xiaoliang Country in the northwest, and the general direction was the same road as Cen Chi and his party. But in this trip, the Yan family's transportation of goods is secondary, and the most important task is to send a few people away. These people, the three vans that had been waiting for the convoy for more than an hour at the city gate in the morning, slowly interspersed with the middle of the convoy.

Because of this special errand, after leaving the north gate of Kyoto, the Yanjia caravan could not go straight to the west, but had to go north and detour for half a circle, so when it was halfway up the Hongdu trade road, it turned right and entered the fork through Tutuo Town.

Perhaps this was due to the will of heaven, Cen Chi and his party, who were a little slower than the Yan family caravan, because they couldn't bear the ruggedness of the official road in Hongdu, and when they were halfway there, they also turned right and got on the fork in the road leading to Tutuo Town. Although Cen Chi and the others stayed at the inn in Tutuo Town at night, they set off after dawn and saw the Yan family and their party who had set up tents and stayed in the wild again on the road.

However, this meeting again was only a passing by, and it was too late to take a closer look.

Maybe Cen Chi and his party set off a little later, just so that they could see a very interesting thing, but they missed it, which may also be providential.

But if Cen Chi knew which people the Yan family's caravan had brought on this business trip, he might have to sigh at his own miss, but also be glad at his miss.

The tents in the open space between the mound were all dismantled, and after they were sorted and loaded, the mercenaries began to divide the horses and wagons again. As soon as it was ready, the mercenary and groom stood in their places, and the noise of busyness in the open space gradually quieted down, but the convoy did not set off immediately.

Yan Yu, the second young leader of the Yan family, didn't rest very steadily last night, because of this trip, the responsibility of the Yan family was really not light. Yan Yu also wanted to finish this trip quickly, but he also knew that this matter was not in a hurry, and the more anxious it was, the easier it was to make trouble. Even if all the guys in the caravan were in a hurry, as a young master, he had to be more and more calm.

Although the sky was raining lightly and the sky was not very clear, the hour was really not early. Yan Yu closed her somewhat tired eyes, stretched out her fingers and pushed her eyelids a few times, then opened her eyes, cheered up, and jumped off the ground from the carriage where she was staying overnight.

Holding an umbrella, Yan Yu slowly and carefully checked every car in her fleet.

Supervisor Wu, who served as the general affairs supervisor of this business trip, saw that Yan Yu was checking the car, but he didn't give him the order to leave for a long time, Supervisor Wu hesitated, couldn't help but lean over and asked twice.

Yan Yu didn't think about it, and quickly replied, still "wait".

After inspecting the long convoy from beginning to end, Yan Yu stopped and let out a sigh of relief. He deflected the handle of the umbrella slightly, looked up at the sky where it was difficult to discern the exact hour, and muttered to himself, "They shouldn't miss the hour because of the weather, right?" ”

Standing silently in the rain with an umbrella for a moment, Yan Yu walked towards the three vans in the middle of the convoy.

Walking to the door of the last of the three vans, Yan Yu asked softly to the driver of the car, "The guests in the car, how is the situation now?" ”。

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