Late at night, the mountains and forests whisper in the night wind, deepening the tranquility of the night in the mountains. The night owl chirped in the woods, a little terrifying.

Half of the moon rises, and the quiet light fills the mountains and forests. Fan Li and Zimei ate something, chatted for a while, and then fell asleep.

Suddenly, a vague voice woke up Fan Li. He was born in the military, and in the past ten years, he has been engaged in the security work of the Wu Palace, and the unique vigilance of a soldier has been retained.

He lay still, trying to discern where the sound that had awakened him was coming from.

When I touched my hand, my side was empty. Looking at it again, Zimei was at the door of the tent, looking out.

Fan Li got up lightly and came to Zimei's side. Zi Mei said without looking back: "The voice is still a hundred zhang away." ”

Fan Li said softly: "Can you hear what the sound is?" ”

Zimei said: "It should be the footsteps of people, listen to the sound, there are at least a dozen people." Oh, and a light carriage. ”

Fan Li said: "I also heard it, they are coming towards us. ”

Zimei said: "The position we are in now is the barren mountains and mountains, where did a group of people come from to rush to the night? ”

Fan Li said: "This is not easy to speculate. ”

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the common people were basically self-sufficient, and there was little exchange. People usually go to bed after dark, and few people go out at night. In later generations, in order to do business or work, it is often seen that people travel overnight, but in Fan Li's time, ordinary people rarely go out at night.

So in this barren mountain range, it is late at night, and it is an unusual thing to hear footsteps.

Footsteps are getting closer. Zimei said, "Who are these people? ”

Fan Li said: "It's definitely not the common people. It's deserted, and the people don't need to do anything here. ”

Zimei said: "It's not an army, and there is no army in Vietnam." ”

Fan Li said: "It's not a thief, there's nothing to steal here, and there's nothing to rob." ”

The two were very close, and the faint fragrance on Zimei's body wafted out, refreshing people's hearts. Fan Li couldn't help but put his arm on Zimei's back, and Zimei smiled silently in the dark.

Fan Li said: "Let's wait for them to get closer and see who these people are." ”

Zimei said: "I have a hunch that they are not good people. ”

Fan Li said: "But I don't know what kind of bad people they are and what kind of bad things they have done." ”

Zimei said: "Does Fan Jun want to take care of this? ”

Fan Li said: "Since you have encountered it, you have to figure out what it is, and if necessary, you should take action when you should do it." ”

As he spoke, the group approached. Before Zimei's cultivation, she was a nocturnal creature, so seeing things in the dark at night was no different from that during the day. "There were eight of them, and each one was armed," she said. A light carriage, what was pulled on the carriage, covered by the canopy, could not be seen clearly. ”

There is no army in Vietnam, and the common people do not know how to bring weapons. There is only one group of people with weapons in the Yue country, so Fan Li once arranged for Kun Chang, the boss of the three heroes of the Chang family, to secretly form an armed force of 300 people, and train them to be generals who can lead troops to fight, as the backbone of the rebuilding army of Yue in the future.

Could it be Kunchang's people?

"We follow them, first figuring out who they are, and then figuring out what they're doing," Fan said. ”

The two of them came out of the tent and quietly followed the group, dozens of paces apart. Fan Li is the leader of the army, the military quality is very high, and he has profound martial arts, although it is night, he still walks lightly, without making a sound. Zimei is more accustomed to outdoor activities.

The gang in front of them would never have dreamed that someone was following them. In this kind of place, it is very difficult to see a person during the day, and there is no one at night, so they go all the way forward, and they can't even think of looking back.

Of course, even if they turned back, they couldn't see anything, and Fan Li and Zimei would avoid their gaze the moment they turned their heads.

Fan Li said softly: "Zimei, your hearing is good, you have the idea that they speak, you don't care what they say, you mainly distinguish their accents." ”

Zimei said, "I know what you mean. ”

China has a vast territory and a large population, forming many different dialect accents, which later scholars have divided into seven dialect regions. Although the Wu-Yue area belongs to the Wu dialect area, there is still a big difference between the Wu dialect and the Yue dialect.

These people don't know they're being followed, and there's no need to hide their accent when they speak, so as soon as they speak, they reveal where they're from.

The group in front of them was only concerned with the road and rarely spoke. But occasionally they still talk to each other for a sentence or two.

Sure enough, there wasn't much time, and Zimei said, "I heard them talking." ”

Fan Li said: "Can you hear where they are talking about? ”

Zimei said: "Several of them speak authentic Gusu dialect. ”

Fan Li said: "Gusu dialect? So they are all Wu people? How can there be Wu people here? ”

Zimei said: "Did Fan Jun forget? Wu still has 50,000 troops stationed in Yue. Moreover, this group of people carried weapons, and it can be concluded that they are the garrison of Wu State here. ”

Fan Li said: "It makes sense, there is no doubt that this group of people is Wu Jun." Seven or eight soldiers in the Wu army drove a carriage in the barren mountains at night, what were they doing? ”

Zimei said: "Of course, driving the carriage is pulling things. ”

Fan Li said: "What are they pulling? ”

Zimei said: "It's definitely not something that can be pulled in broad daylight." You see, there was something in the car, and it was covered with a cloth, so you couldn't see what it was."

Fan Li said: "It is certain that these beasts must be doing something bad. ”

Zimei said, "What should we do? Why don't we come up and cut them off? ”

Fan Li thought about it as he walked, paused for a while and said, "It's better for us to find out the situation secretly, if we reveal our identities now, it's not good." ”

Zimei suddenly gestured, and listened carefully: "There is a voice, I heard another voice." ”

Fan Li said: "Listen carefully, what is the sound?" ”

Zimei said: "Let's take a few quick steps to get closer. ”

The two of them quickened their speed, and soon narrowed the distance, and they were only twenty or thirty paces away from the group.

The mountain grass is dense, and people step on it without making a sound. Fan Li and Zimei, while paying attention to their feet, kept steady, and listened attentively.

After walking for a while, Zimei whispered in Fan Li's ear: "Fan Jun, I heard it, the sound came from the car." It was probably a person who was covered with a cloth in the car. ”

Fan Li was taken aback: "It's a human?" They pull people? ”

Zimei said: "These people are probably controlled, their mouths are also gagged, and the voices they make are very weak. Wait a minute, I'll listen again. ”。

Zimei stopped for a while, and whispered in Fan Li's ear: "This time I heard clearly, there were people pulling in the car, and there were three women!" ”

"Three women?" Fan Li was even more surprised, suddenly angry with anger, and stretched out his hand and pulled out the long sword beside him.