Day 2.

After Liu Zheng settled his soldiers and horses, he took a few of his subordinates and went towards the location of Mingyue Mountain that Zhou Cang had found before, intending to visit Ou Xing.

The location of Ou Xing's lair is exactly the mountain range that Liu Zheng told Zhou Cang before.

It is about sixty miles away from Yichun County, there is no official road to it, and if you want to go, you can only go through a sheep intestine path, a winding path, and it is difficult to reach it directly.

In addition, the road is difficult and difficult to walk, and most of the time, more people go to that place by boat and go up the river.

In this way, the arrival time can be greatly shortened, and Yichun County is also built with water, this water area known as the Yuan River can go straight to the old nest of the district star, because of the back of the Poyang Lake waters, this piece of waterway is developed, extending in all directions, and the waterway is much more developed than the land route.

Liu Zheng and others found a boatman to get a small boat, and took Xu Huang, Zhou Cang, Huang Zhong and Su Fei, and a group of dozens of people found a boatman who was quite familiar with the surrounding Yichun County to lead the way to Ou Xing's lair.

The boat floated on the Yuan River, moving forward slowly, and it looked like an hour had passed. The boatman sailed the boat to a small ferry port.

There are some remnants of boats on the ferry, and you can vaguely tell what it looks like people are staying here.

"When you arrive, you go down from here and walk along this path to the mountain, and you will be able to reach the cottage with about a cup of tea."

Liu Zheng originally planned to let this boatman take Liu Zheng and others into this mountain range to find Ou Xing's lair, but no matter what Liu Zheng said, he didn't want to go, afraid of Ou Xing's name, and didn't dare to go up the mountain.

After repeated persuasion, the boatman was unwilling to go, so Liu Zheng had no choice but to give up, and then took his men and horses, along the road that the boatman said, and began to walk all the way up the mountain.

When the ship arrived, it was actually unable to move on.

The water poured down from the lake above, and it was so fast that boats could not pass directly through the river, so Liu Zheng's people had to walk along the riverbank path to the mountains.

It didn't take long to see some of the more modest village buildings. A wooden arrow tower similar to a door number appeared in front of Liu Zheng and the others.

Three or five guards on duty came out of it, and when they saw Liu Zheng's people, they immediately questioned them.

The words spoken by these people are not like the official discourse of the Han court, but more like some local dialects, which are obscure.

After all, in Changsha and Yuzhang, each village has a different dialect. Even if you find an old man who knows countless dialects, you can't understand all the dialects, you can only roughly understand what they say.

But fortunately, Liu Zheng is different, he is a person here, but he has crossed over after 2000.

I can still understand what these guards are saying.

"Who are you? What are you doing here? Any idea what this place is? ”

Three or five guards suddenly gathered up, all holding sharp weapons in their hands, and their menacing appearance made the two sides tense up at once.

Zhou Cang Xu Huang, who was beside Liu Zheng, immediately guarded Liu Zheng's side.

However, Liu Zheng immediately stepped forward and pushed away the swords that Xu Huang and Zhou Cang's guards came over, and then showed a smile and said a word to the guards in front of him.

"Don't be nervous, brothers, my name is Liu Zheng, I have already sent someone over yesterday to hand over the post, I want to see your leader Ou Xing, and I hope to go in and report it."

When Liu Zheng heard the dialects spoken by these people, he still had some intimacy. So his attitude towards them is quite kind, and he also uses the little dialect skills he only knows to talk to them.

At the same time, Liu Zheng's hand dialect immediately surprised these guards slightly, and then he lowered his guard slightly, put away his sword, and responded to Liu Zheng.

"You wait here, we'll go in and report."

It didn't take long for a few slightly gorgeously dressed soldiers and horses to come out of it and come to Liu Zheng and the others.

"Liu Zhengqu Shuai's name, our leader has already heard of it, welcome Qu Shuai, a little slack, and hope to atone for his sins, our leader has prepared a drink inside, please."

A literati wearing a Confucian robe walked out, with a smile, and gave Liu Zheng a smile. Then he opened his mouth and led Liu Zheng to start entering the cottage.

Liu Zheng didn't see Ou Xing, but the strategists under Ou Xing came out to greet him, and his first impression of Ou Xing was not very good.

If Ou Xing really welcomed him, he would definitely come out to greet him in person, so he only sent a subordinate strategist over, which shows that Ou Xing didn't really welcome Liu Zheng, but for the sake of face, he had to send someone over to probe Liu Zheng's tone, and I don't know what Liu Zheng is doing in his territory.

Liu Zheng knew that his attitude towards Ou Xing was a lot colder, but he didn't show it at this time.

Under the guidance of the strategist, he walked along a gravel path in the mountains and began to walk up the mountainside.

Ou Xing's nest is built on the mountainside, in this piece of a high mountain, between the mountains and ravines, there is only one path to go up the mountain, which is a good place.

Liu Zheng is a local, and he knows some of the local environment, but after all, it is the environment after 2,000 years, and it is very different from the primeval jungle 2,000 years ago.

The vicinity of Yichun County, since the end of the Han Dynasty, has always been a place favored by Taoists, not only near Yichun, but also in the entire Yuzhang County, there are many monks who believe in Taoism, and those monks have established Taoist temples in various deep mountains.

For example, Longhu Mountain, Sanqing Mountain and other places in Yuzhang County are all among the mountains, and the Mingyue Mountain, where the current district star is located, is also located in a remote place.

Along the path on the mountainside, it didn't take long to walk, and a flat mountain building appeared, and seven or eight houses made of bricks and stones appeared here.

The strategist also guided Liu Zheng and the others to start walking towards the room with the heaviest sword.

Soon, Liu Zheng approached the house, the room was not bright, there were some tables and chairs, on a wooden chair in the center, there were some animal skins, a shirtless man, half lying on it, and there were two maidservants next to him fanning the wind and enjoying the coolness.

It is now the end of August, it is the scorching summer, the hottest time, although the bright moon in the mountains is warm in winter and cool in summer, but it can't stand the scorching sun, it will still make people feel steaming.