XVIII. Pathfinding
When she arrived at Madame's room and saw that Madame was still asleep, Aunt Zhang called Madame and asked Mei Sheng to wring out a towel to wipe Madame's face. After being wiped by this wet towel, Mrs. slowly sobered up, looked at the few people in front of her, and said a little unhappily, "What are you doing?" Sleep doesn't make people sleep well! ”
"Madam, today is your big day, we have to wait for you to wash up early!" Aunt Zhang is a little crying and laughing, is there such a lazy bride?
Oh, come to think of it, today is the day when my brother and Na Cao are married. Madame's mood fell to the bottom in an instant, but when she turned her head, she saw a set of bright red wedding dresses hanging on the wooden truss next to her, and the bright red color stimulated Madame's fragile nerves.
"I'm not married, I'm not married!" Madame waved her hands and kicked her feet and kicked, "You go, you go, I won't marry..."
Aunt Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Madame's hands and persuaded: "Madam, today is your big day, you can't make trouble like this!" Then he motioned for Mei Sheng to come over and change his wife's clothes.
As soon as Mei Sheng took the clothes to him, he was kicked to the ground by his wife, and Mei Sheng was so frightened that he quickly picked them up from the ground, and patted them while checking if there was anything dirty.
Aunt Zhang hugged Mrs. from behind, pressed her arms tightly, and panted and said, "Madam, what are you doing?" This woman has to walk a way, and after tonight there will be nothing. ”
Mrs. Zhang was imprisoned and couldn't move, so she could only look up to the sky and cry, crying and shouting: "Let go of me, I won't marry, I won't marry..."
Aunt Zhang said a little anxiously: "Madam, don't cry, it's not good to shed tears this morning..."
I was making a fuss when I heard someone shouting outside the window, "What's going on?" "It's my uncle's voice.
As soon as he entered the room and saw the appearance of several people, the uncle frowned and said unhappily: "Mother Zhang, how are you serving?" And how do you take care of the bride? ”
Aunt Zhang couldn't say anything, so she could only let go of her arm and whispered after standing still on the ground: "Uncle is angry, I didn't mean to, it's really..."
"Okay, you guys go out first, and I'll have a few words with Madame." The uncle waved his hand, and several people hurriedly walked out, and when she went out, Aunt Zhang didn't forget to bring out the basin of washing water.
As soon as she walked to the door, Aunt Zhang pushed the basin forward with both hands and lifted it vigorously, and a basin of water was splashed out. A bright light shone on the splashed water, instantly precipitating a rainbow color, and the crystal water droplets splashed in all directions, like colored pearls, falling to the ground, but only a trace of water remained.
Aunt Zhang stared blankly at the ground, and muttered blankly: "Go to turbidity and stay clear, good luck for a lifetime..."
Inside the house, the uncle handed a handkerchief to his wife and whispered, "What did I say to you yesterday?" Just endure this day a little longer, you're good, this trouble, people will definitely look at you more closely! ”
Madame took the veil and choked up as she wiped her tears, "I... I'm afraid, when I think of yesterday, I'm afraid..."
"Afraid of what? He can still eat you," the uncle said angrily: "You just need to be patient for another half a day, and I will find a way to take you away when I come back in the afternoon." ”
"You're going down the mountain?" Madame raised her head and stared at her uncle vigilantly.
"Don't worry, I'm going down the mountain to solve our back road problem, it only takes half a day, and I'll be back."
Seeing that the lady hesitated and didn't speak, the uncle said again: "It also takes time for me to go down the mountain, you have to hold up the scene for me, don't make any more trouble, do whatever you have to do, and then wait for me to come back with peace of mind." When we leave here, we will find a place that no one knows and live our little life steadily! ”
Madame nodded at this time, and finally said with some reassurance: "Then you can come back early!" ”
"Don't worry, I will!" Uncle got up and said goodbye.
When he walked to the door, he said to the three people outside the door: "Madame was a little stimulated yesterday, and you are waiting carefully." ”
"Yes, don't worry," Aunt Zhang replied hurriedly.
Li Zhutou, who was in charge of pathfinding, couldn't help but scold when he walked to a mountain beam: "Damn, Lao Tzu is busy in vain!" The others hurried around, and saw a noodle bag with a hole at each end of the dead grass on the ground, and a little flour left in the bag.
Li Zhutou squatted down and carefully inspected the pocket, and someone couldn't help asking: "Li Zhutou, was it found by that person and thrown out." ”
Li Zhutou reached out and rummaged through the pocket, shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be, you see that the terrain of this pocket and the white lines below are still continuous," then he stood up and looked forward, and continued: "If it is discovered, it will definitely throw this pocket far away, and it will be disconnected from the white lines below; Or maybe he found out that he deliberately went somewhere else, but you see, the road we found was flat with gravel in the middle, the weeds on both sides were not high, and there was horse manure, so it should have been walked by people from time to time. ”
"But how did that pocket end up here?" The man continued.
"Oh, it should be that this section of the road is bumpy, or the people driving the horses are in a hurry, and their pockets have been shaken." Li Zhutou clapped his hands and continued: "It seems that it should not be far from their lair, go, mark all the roads you have walked." Then he added: "Use stones or withered grass to make it more hidden." ”
"Yes" The group dispersed and went their separate ways to mark.
Lao Xia squatted on the back of a small slope and his legs were a little numb, and he was about to change his posture to move, when he suddenly heard something on the mountain, and quickly shrank behind the hillside, and signaled to others to be quiet.
After a while, there was a sound of horses' hooves from far and near, and the riders seemed to be in a hurry, constantly "driving" to urge the horses to run fast.
On such a steep mountain road, I still ride a fast horse, and I won't shoot you to death! Lao Xia waited for the horseman to pass over and secretly poked his head out to look, haha, Huang Tian paid off, it was the guy in the inn yesterday!
When the sound of the horse's hooves was far away, Lao Xia was just about to beckon people to leave, but he seemed to hear some sounds again, so he hurriedly waved his hand to let everyone hide again.
I have to say that Lao Xia's hearing is indeed better than ordinary people, and he really guessed correctly. After a while, two more people rode by, but these two people were not in a hurry, as if they were afraid that others would know, and ran slowly with the horses' hooves.
When all the voices were gone, Lao Xia stood up and went to join Li Zhutou.
Lao Xia talked about the situation, and Li Zhutou said to the young man who asked the question just now: "Dashan, send a signal to the three teams, tell them that the birds are out of the cage, and let them pay attention to it." ”
"Yes" The young man named Dashan took out a bamboo flute from his bosom, put it to his mouth and blew it, the sound of the bamboo flute was like the sound of the wind and like the song of birds, and it floated down the mountain with full penetrating power.
Li Zhutou looked at the mountain situation carefully and analyzed: "The road over there is relatively flat, it should be walked up the mountain, the road here is a little steep and suitable for going down the mountain, the road in and out of the mountain is not the same, so their lair has at least two doors, one in and one out." "If you look closely, it doesn't feel right, there should be a flat terrain not far from it, and they can choose which way to go in that flat area.
Well, yes, this is a good place to garrison soldiers, Li Zhutou secretly wrote it down.
"Li Zhutou, are you still going up?" Lao Xia asked.
"Don't go yet. The fast horse just now, although the horse was urged very quickly, but the horse's breath was not chaotic, the mane of the horse's body was still neat, and the four hooves were stable and powerful, it should have just been ridden, so the horse was not tired, that is to say, the man was likely to have just come out of their lair. And the flat mountainside, there will definitely be a dark whistle, if we rush up to the grass, won't we startle the snake?! As he spoke, everyone nodded their heads again and again.
"Now, let's scatter around," Li Zhutou ordered, "sort out the terrain around this area again, see which places are high and which places are low, and let's go back and draw a detailed topographic map." ”
"Yes," the crowd immediately dispersed and walked slowly down the mountain.