Volume 1 The Battle of Luchuan Chapter 33 No Tiger in the Mountains (I)
In the early morning of Manggu Mountain and Nanshan, the pale golden sunlight shone through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the tall trees and shone on Jiang Yugang and Xi'er. This was the first time Xi'er had seen the fire gun, and when she saw Jiang Yu knocking down the bird on the branch with one blow, she jumped to the bottom of the tree with joy and put the prey down in her back basket.
On the surface, this seems to be no different from the usual Jiang Yu taking her out to hunt and play, but in addition to the things in this mountain, there are many other things that are happening.
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An Bai was heading to Nanshan with the hunting knife he had brought from the Manggu Mountain camp, and his destination was to find the place where Jiang Yugang and Xi'er were hunting.
Chen Ziyu took four intelligence officers to sit on the big stone in front of the gate of Nansangzhai, on which was the oldest and largest ancient tree in Nansangzhai.
They looked like they were enjoying the shade, chatting lazily with the villagers. But their eyes kept on the road to the village, waiting for the figure in the target to appear.
Ah Tian sat in front of Awuma's house, took off her shoes and socks, and plunged her feet into the stream to cool off, pretending to be leisurely, but in fact anxiously and nervously waiting for news.
Auma sat at home, wiping his long, family-handed weapon over and over again.
As soon as he woke up this morning, he learned that his daughter had followed Jiang Yugang to hunt. This is not the first time, but this time he has an uneasy feeling in his heart, as if something is about to happen, and only by constantly wiping the long knife can he make his heart stable.
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It was close to noon, and Xi'er's basket had been half of the volume of the prey, and although the burden on her back was heavy, she didn't feel tired at all, and her face was full of joy of harvest.
Jiang Yuyan slowly put away the bird gun, put it on his back again, and walked in the direction of Xi'er.
"Eh, don't you continue hunting?" Xi'er was still a little unsatisfied, and they would not return to the village until the afternoon when they hunted.
Jiang Yu shook his head: "This time I have already hit enough prey." ”
Xi'er turned her head as hard as she could, glanced at the prey in the back basket with her spare eyes, and wondered, "But, there is still a lot of space in the back basket?" ”
"Because this time, in addition to the prey, we will also release hunting knives." Jiang Yu explained with a smile.
"Hunting knives?" Xi'er was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted: "Are those weapons that were sent to other people in the village?" ”
"Yes, this is a new batch of hunting knives, just shipped from Mengyang City." Jiang Yugang replied: "So we just borrowed the bamboo basket we hunted to transport it, and it won't be discovered." ”
They used to distribute hunting knives in the stockade, and they also used various camouflage methods to hide the existence of hunting knives. Xi'er also nodded clearly: "Uncle Yu, I understand." ”
"It's good to get it." Jiang Yugang walked up a high slope, and here you could see the winding path under the mountain, and An Bai should have come from this mountain road.
"Uncle Yu, you say, when every household in the village has weapons, we will have to fight those Luchuan soldiers again?" Xi'er also chased after her, her little face full of excitement.
Jiang Yu's face twitched imperceptibly: "Xi'er is so smart, she thought of it so quickly." ”
"Haha, I really want to see those Luchuan soldiers driven out of the village quickly." Xi'er put down the back basket, sat on the ground to rest, and looked at the mountain road below the mountain like Jiang Yugang.
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I don't know how long I waited, maybe only a few minutes, but Jiang Yuyan's heart felt like a long time because of anticipation, and he finally saw An Bai's figure.
After An Bai under the mountain saw Jiang Yugang and Xi'er waiting for him, his expression also moved, and then he shook his arm and greeted him with an excited look.
After An Bai walked up the mountain, he put down his back basket, and inside were several brand-new hunting knives, which at a glance knew that they were the finished products just made by Lu Chong's alchemy academy.
"Wow, these knives are so beautiful." Because of her family and environment, Xi'er is not only not afraid of these murder weapons, but is full of interest.
"Beautiful, these are all good knives," An Bai said with a smile: "There are still Lao Xi'er who brought these knives back to the village." ”
Xi'er nodded vigorously: "Hmm! ”
Jiang Yugang helped Xi'er take out the prey she had caught one by one, put the hunting knife in An Bai's back basket one by one, and finally put the prey back and covered the hunting knife. At a glance, there is no trace of the hunting knife in the back basket except for the prey.
"So that you won't be discovered." Jiang Yugang said.
Xi'er excitedly picked up the basket, she was very happy to be able to help Jiang Yuran: "We will have a village." ”
"Okay." Jiang Yu smiled and hugged Xi'er's shoulder: "Let's go back to the village." ”
An Bai, who was standing behind the two of them and watching this scene, was as white as paper, and he couldn't pretend to be a little unbearable. Jiang Yugang's plan is to use Xi'er and Auma as bait, which eventually causes a conflict between the people in the village and the Luchuan soldiers.
But after spending almost two months with Auma and Xi'er, Anbai really found it difficult to accept this plan in his heart. He used to regard himself as the benefactor of the village, thinking that it was he who attracted Jiang Yugang's help that gave the villagers hope to drive away the Luchuan soldiers and live better.
But today, he vaguely realized in his heart that there was no difference between Jiang Yugang and Luchuan soldiers, and he just regarded the villagers as something to be used. If there is a difference, it is that Jiang Yuyan is more dangerous.
He was not afraid of fighting with the Luchuan soldiers, but he was afraid of being an enemy with Jiang Yu. He remembered Jiang Yu's cold gaze when he was angry, as if he regarded him as a prey to be slaughtered, and he even remembered that Jiang Yufu was covered in blood when guarding the defense line of Manggu Mountain, killing in and out of the Luchuan army, like a demon.
He didn't dare to imagine what he would have to do to survive if he was Jiang Yugang's enemy.
An Bai remembered what Jiang Yugang had said, there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are kings. Whether it is the Luchuan soldiers or the villagers, they may all seem to be monkeys in Jiang Yu's eyes, and he himself is a tiger who compares himself to the mountains.
The silence in the area of Manggu Mountain was finally about to be broken, An Bai thought as he went to chase after Jiang Yugang and Xi'er, who were almost invisible in their backs.
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In front of the gate of Nansangzhai Village, there are more villagers coming and going, and some foreign small traders can be seen among them, mixing in the crowd and entering the cottage.
Rao is Chen Ziyu has always been steady, but he was still a little anxious when he didn't see any of the figures in the plan, and the chats with other villagers who were enjoying the shade under the ancient trees began to become careless.
Could it be that the information is wrong? Impossible? Obviously, it has been confirmed again and again, and the intelligence construction in the past two months cannot be useless. Chen Ziyu looked at his intelligence officers with some anxiety, these people were safe, and they couldn't see that they were in a hurry.
However, at this moment, Chen Ziyu suddenly felt that the atmosphere around him began to become wrong, the sound of conversation seemed to be drowned by water in an instant, and the air became suffocating. It was the busiest noon, but suddenly it was so quiet that I could hear my heartbeat.
Chen Ziyu breathed a sigh of relief, and the Luchuan soldiers came.