One of the characteristics of the Luchuan soldiers is that they will have some colorful feathers tied on their clothes, and these feathers of birds that I don't know from seem to be a kind of code in their army, which can represent rank, official position, unit affiliation and other identities.

Of course, the most direct effect of these feathers is that the group of people in front of them is not a hunter somewhere, nor is it a robber or bandit, but the most powerful force in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty - the Luchuan soldiers.

They are the kings of the mountains and forests, and no one is their opponent. Only they hunt for someone else's share, and no one can really defeat them.

In the eyes of other forces everywhere, the most powerful force in the world, the Ming Dynasty, fought a war with them for ten years, but they are still strong. The Ming army occupied the city of Mengyang, but the whole of Mengyang was still theirs.

The Ming army's conquest not only failed to hit the forces of Luchuan, but because they could not achieve real results for a long time, their momentum in this area reached its peak. The people in this area no longer fear the Ming Dynasty, but they are afraid of Luchuan.

Chen Ziyu saw more than a dozen Luchuan soldiers walking along the path and into the cottage, and his heart was excited. Of course, the villagers around him were not so excited, their faces were pale, and they were about to go home separately when they moved their bodies carefully, not daring to make a sound to attract the attention of Lu Chuanbing.

Seeing that the Luchuan soldiers were about to enter the cottage, there was still one missing target in the distance - Xi'er did not come. Chen Ziyu frowned slightly, but this situation had already been expected by Jiang Yu, and what they had to do now was to drag the Luchuan soldiers.

Chen Ziyu gently patted the intelligence officer Yu Shi, and Yu Shi also felt at ease, picked up the bamboo basket full of grain, and walked slowly to the road in front of the village.

There are so many piles of grain in this bamboo basket that they are almost overflowing, as long as the Luchuan soldiers are not blind, it is impossible not to find out. Chen Ziyu touched the short knife hidden in his waist and was ready to deal with all kinds of emergencies.

Although he has studied medicine with the old doctors in the guard since he was a child, he is a person who does not admit defeat, because the partners around him are all military households, and Chen Ziyu, who does not want to lose to them, also learned to make a good knife, and was also one of the few knife-wielding soldiers left during the bloody battle of Manggu Mountain.

Lu Chuanbing really noticed Yu Shi and immediately drank him. The surrounding villagers were all stunned, and one by one they stopped, not daring to move any more. Yu Shi was not afraid to calmly wait for the Luchuan soldiers to come over and interrogate.

"What is the origin of your food?" One of the Luchuan soldiers at the head asked, he seemed to be one of the officers.

"Back to Shangguan, the villain is a merchant from Mengyang City, and I heard that there is a shortage of food here, so I took the grain to sell." Yu Shi replied.

"Lack of food?" The Luchuan officer shook his head: "There is no shortage of food here, the Luchuan army is short of food, and it needs the help of the people." ”

"You said that you are from Mengyang City, are you a descendant of the Ming army?" The Luchuan officer asked aggressively.

"The villain doesn't know the Ming army, he just does some business." Yu Shi said.

"Nonsense! You left Mengyang City with so much food, if you didn't know the Ming army, why would they let you out of the city? Officer Luchuan said angrily.

Yu Shi said unhurriedly: "The Ming army is not short of food, they don't collect food from the people. ”

As soon as these words came out, the Luchuan officer was speechless for a while, and the surrounding villagers were also faintly in a commotion.

"I think you are a spy of the Ming army!" The Luchuan officer was annoyed and angry: "Come on, arrest him for me and interrogate him!" ”

"Don't dare!" Yu Shi made a local gift in Luchuan: "The villain doesn't know where he offended Shangguan, and he is willing to dedicate my batch of goods to Shangguan, and ask Shangguan to let me go." ”

The officer didn't expect this Yu Shi to be so neat, but he didn't intend to put it down so easily, and when he was about to say something more, he found that Yu Shi took out a cloth bag from his waist and handed it to him silently.

The officer opened the mouth of the cloth bag with some curiosity, and found that it was actually a golden bead in it, and his hand shook and almost dropped the cloth bag, but he immediately held it tightly.

The officer, who was originally a little angry by this businessman, was a little panicked at this time, he didn't want to share this wealth with the other Luchuan soldiers behind him, but there were a lot of people around at the moment, if this businessman shouted a few words indiscriminately, let everyone know that he had collected a large amount of money, then these gold beads would not be able to be saved.

The officer, who originally wanted to kill the merchant and collect his goods and money cleanly, thought twice, but decided to let him go, these gold beads, I don't know how many years of fighting to save them, for this, everything else can be ignored for the time being.

"Get out of here, the cargo stays." The officer scolded, but he no longer bothered Yu Shi.

"Thank you, Shangguan." Yu Shi saluted again and walked towards the village.

Chen Ziyu frowned again and again as he watched from the sidelines, this Yu Shi still didn't understand the essence of the disguise that Jiang Yugang said.

Jiang Yuxuan told him not to panic and not be afraid when performing tasks, but this is his own internal requirement, and he doesn't need to show others his calm appearance.

was openly interrogated by the Luchuan officers, and he still looked calm, which really led people to doubt his identity. At this time, it should be a panicked look.

Fortunately, the hundred households left behind, and they used this time to exchange the gold beads from the rich families in Mengyang City from the village, just in case. If you don't use this gold bead to buy the officers today, I'm afraid that Yu Shizhen's life will not be guaranteed.

Chen Ziyu looked into the distance again, a small figure with a basket on his back, jumping in front, and a tall figure walking behind. Originally, he should have been pleasantly surprised to see the figures of these two people appear, but now he felt a little worried.

However, Chen Ziyu is not a hypocritical person, and the task of performing 100 households is the first. He patted the back of another intelligence agent and said softly, "Go and inform Ah Tian that Xi'er is here." ”

The informant nodded, and moved lightly, but very quickly. This man's name is Li Shi, he is athletic and very good at running, and in the past two months, he has relied on his flexible skills to find out a lot of information.

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Jiang Yuyan looked ahead, more than a dozen Luchuan soldiers stood in front of the gate of the village, looking at the villagers who entered the village viciously, and Chen Ziyu and two intelligence officers stood under the ancient tree at the gate of the village, mixing in the crowd.

He breathed a sigh of relief, everything went well, he had cultivated these people for two months, and he was finally able to do something simple. looked at Xi'er's figure running towards the gate of the village. He stopped and took the bird gun from his back.

When Xi'er walked to the front of the wall, she realized that something was wrong, these people in front of her seemed to be Luchuan soldiers, and she was carried away by the joy of being hunted and the sense of accomplishment of returning with a hunting knife, so she didn't react at the beginning and ran away.

Today's Luchuan soldiers are not patrolling the village casually as in the past, looking for trouble from the villagers' doors to obtain benefits, but stop in front of the village's gate and check the villagers one by one. Aren't these things in your basket ......

She turned around and wanted to run, but was stopped by an angry shout: "Little doll, what are you running?" ”