It was drizzling in the sky, and the mountain road was steep and slippery. A group of people who are stubborn and stubborn are trudging like a long dragon on the road.

The air resounded with the "clanging and clanging" of armor colliding, and everywhere there was the sound of people's breathing. The temperature in the mountains is even lower, and many people are spitting white vapor in their mouths.

Hu Hu's robe was covered with mud, and the hood on his head was crooked, and he fell more than once; The rain was not heavy, just wet the road, but under a thin layer of mud was hard soil, but the road surface was even more slippery. He carried a wooden stick, his mouth open like a fish out of water, panting like a bellows, but he did not snort bitterly.

Not only was he desperately climbing the mountain, but he also took the time to ask Duan Yang in front of him: "Mrs. Duan, think about it again, is there any path that has been missed......

Duan Yang, who walked in front of Hu Hui, was much more relaxed than Hu Hui. Although she is a woman, she is a person who practices martial arts, and she is not comparable to a scholar like Hu Hu.

Duan Yang glanced back and said, "The stream next to us is called Baishi Creek, and this is the closest way to Lanfeng. We went up the mountain from Diancang Mountain, and the two closest roads in the north and south directions had sergeants go up the mountain; The other roads are far away, and there are people blocking the intersections. There really is no way out! ”

Hu Hu asked again: "What about the west?" Can the people of the temple in Lanfeng run to the mountains to the west? ”

Duan Yang immediately shook his head and said, "No! The temple is not on the top of Lanfeng Peak, the peak is surrounded by cliffs on both sides, and you can't go up from near Lanfeng Temple. Even if someone takes a detour over the mountain, there is no way out; The mountains to the west are even steeper, full of cliffs and uninhabited.

To the west of the peak, there is a river coming down; When the river flows down to the Sancha River, there is a Yi village. But the river was so turbulent that waterfalls and reefs were everywhere that if anyone had drifted down the river, he would have been killed by a fall; Even the mountain people can hardly descend from that place, let alone those who are used to being pampered......"

At this moment, someone in front of me suddenly shouted, "There is a house up there." All the armies are on alert, let the forward scouts take a look first! ”

The shouts of the soldiers were heard one after another from the long procession, and the ten-man small flag team that walked in the front prepared their weapons and passed up the hillside by the road.

The little flag team was just about to approach the wooden house on the slope when suddenly a figure appeared in people's sight. The soldiers immediately formed a formation on the spot, and although the road was narrow, the first few people were still in a row of three or two, forming two rows of dense gun and shield arrays.

Suddenly, three men rushed over with their swords in their hands! As soon as the two rows of sergeants in front of them squatted down, there were a few string sounds of "bang bang ......", and the archers in the back row hurriedly released their arrows! The screams rang out one after another, and the two fell to the ground; The wooden house was so close that the rest of the man had rushed to the front.

Several archers in the back were fetching arrows, and the spear and shield men in the front row had already stood up, holding their shields in front of them. The spear was too long, and the man in cloth who rushed was agile, and he rushed close to the shield in an instant, and the sergeant in the front row could not attack him with his spear for a while.

"Ahh Suddenly, there was a scream, and a sergeant in the second row stabbed his spear out of the gap between the two men in the front row, hitting the man. The man held his sword, and a spear stabbed a bloody hole in his chest, and the blade quickly fell from his hand and plunged straight into the dirt.

The sergeants killed the three, continued to climb the low slope, and rushed into the house to search.

Hu Hui and the others continued to walk forward, passing by the corpses that were thrown in the mud, he turned his head to look at the corpses for a long time, they were all white barbarians he didn't know. After a while, Hu Hu couldn't help but sigh: "If it weren't for the sudden dispatch of soldiers and horses, I really wouldn't be able to get close to this place......

Duan Yang turned his head and said, "I said it a long time ago, Duan Baoji's power in Dali cannot be underestimated. ”

Hu Hu nodded and said, "These three people are here to send them to death." A man who claims to be a hermit can raise a dead man! ”

The party continued up the hill, where they again encountered the White Barbarian outpost. However, most of them ran out of the houses and fled, except for two who ran too late and were killed by the sergeants with bows and arrows on the road.

"Lanfeng Temple!" Duan Yang pointed to a huge courtyard road under the snow-covered snow-capped mountain.

The army quickened its pace, and the sergeants who went up the mountain first surrounded the temple, while others rushed straight into the mountain gate and rushed to the temple. The doors of the temple are all open!

When Hu Hu heard the news that the door of the temple was open, he hurriedly shouted: "I'm afraid people have run away!" Immediately send someone to search for the footprints around and chase it immediately! ”

Sure enough, when Hu Hu arrived at the temple, he only saw a few irrelevant white barbarian nuns on the futon with their eyes closed and reciting scriptures, completely ignoring the soldiers who came in, looking like they were dead.

"Hu Keguan, come and see." A brocade guard sergeant shouted to this side.

Hu Hu ran into the dining room inside and saw several soldiers stepping on the embers on the ground. The room was full of smoke and soot, and the floor was full of black ash from burned paper, but there were still some scraps of paper that had not been burned; The military general Chen Dazhui was picking up scraps of paper and stuffing them into his armor.

Hu Hu immediately rushed over, regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, took off the cloth bag on his back, reached out to pick up the broken papers, and put them in his bag after a little tidying.

After a while, someone came in and reported to Chen Dazhui: "Mr. Chen, I have found the whereabouts of those people, and I am walking north, and there are new footprints on the muddy ground!" Our men are following the footprints. ”

"Let's go!" Chen Dazhui waved his hand.

The group came out of the temple and continued to chase north with the sergeant who reported the news.

Along the road on the side of the mountain, everyone walked for an unknown amount of time, and suddenly someone reported: "Two escaped people slipped down the cliff and fell to their deaths!" ”

Hu Hui listened to the "chuckle" in his heart, regardless of the sore legs, gritted his teeth and accelerated his pace forward.

When he came to the place where the accident happened, Hu Hu first saw a few slippery marks on the road; This section of the road is a bit sloping downward, and it seems that the person who fell to his death slipped down in a hurry. Several sergeants were putting ropes underneath, ready to send someone to climb down to find the body.

Another sergeant said: "There are still footprints to the north, but there are Zhao Baihu's men and horses on the other side, and it is estimated that they have already gone up the mountain." The rest of the people can't run away! ”

Hu Hu didn't continue to walk, waiting here, he wanted to see who the corpse was.

The sergeants tossed for a long time. First a thick hemp rope was put down, and then a sergeant tied the rope around his waist and asked the soldiers above to pull it, and the sergeant slowly climbed down the stone wall with his feet on the first hemp rope.

When the sergeant reached the bottom of the stone wall, he tied the corpse with a twine, and told the men above to drag it up.

Hu Hui's hands trembled a little, and he took a handkerchief and wiped the blood on the corpse's face. He suddenly felt his legs go limp, and he felt dizzy in front of his eyes from shock, and he almost fell off the cliff himself. Hu Hui's face was pale for a while, and red for a while, and his expression was very complicated.

"Does Keguan Hu recognize who this person is?" Chen Dazhui asked curiously. Duan Yang next to him also stared at Hu Hui's face expectantly.

Hu Hu didn't answer, and didn't even say a word.

The second one was the body of a boy, who looked like he was probably only seven or eight years old. Hu Hu went up to look at it and showed surprise again, but this time his reaction was not as big as just now, after all, he had already made some preparations in his heart.

Duan Yang couldn't help but ask, "Who are these two people, it should be the person Lord Hu is looking for?" ”

Hu Hu still didn't answer. After a while, he spoke up: "Only those who have the Jingshi can 'identify'." ”

An irrepressible smile suddenly appeared on Duan Yang's face......

The emperor sent Hu Hu to find Emperor Jianwen, how could he send someone who had never met Emperor Jianwen? Hu Hui did know them, but he originally wanted to catch them alive, but now that they are dead, he doesn't dare to speak out!

At this time, a young general said: "If you want to transport the corpse back to Jingshi, thousands of miles away, the corpse will have already turned into a pile of carrion." ”

Hu Hui gradually calmed down, and he said, "You can ask Jingshi to send someone to Dali." ”

Chen Da Hammer said: "Then you have to try to save the dead and put them in ice." He said and looked up at the white peaks.

Hu Hu followed his gaze and understood what Chen Dazhui meant. At this point, the peaks of Cangshan Mountain are covered with snow all year round, dripping into ice, and you can send someone to find a way to make a detour up the mountain, turn water into ice on the mountain, and then transport the ice down.

"Maybe it doesn't have to be so much trouble." Hu Hu thought for a while and said, "There should be someone in Dali City who has stored ice cubes. ”

In any city, there are always some rich and noble families who have amassed a lot of wealth. The luxury of the rich and noble, Hu Hu has seen it; As long as there is ice and snow in this place, even the midsummer envoys will definitely find ice!

Hu Hu immediately said: "Immediately send someone to Dali City to find the ice cellar, and after finding it, it was requisitioned and sent troops to defend it!" ”

Chen Dazhui clenched his fists and said: "I will arrange it immediately." ”

After a while, a brocade-clothed guard sergeant came from the north, found Hu Hu, and said, "The man who ran north has been caught." ”

"How many, caught alive?" Hu Hu asked.

The Jinyi guard sergeant clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "There is only one, and there is a living mouth." The man fled north and ran into Zhao Baihu's people. The man was desperate, so he wanted to jump off the cliff to kill himself, but the land below was soft mud, and he fainted without falling to his death. Then Zhao Baihu arrested the people and sent them down the mountain from the north road. ”

Hu Hui glared and said: "Then how can Zhao Baihu arrest people without permission, the official hasn't seen anyone yet!" ”

The Jinyi Guard sergeant frowned and said, "It's all their people over there, and the little ones can't help it." ”

Hu Hu asked again, "What does it look like?" ”

The Jinyi guard sergeant shook his head and said, "I didn't see the face clearly, but I saw that they caught a man." The man woke up after being caught, and shouted a few times, the small one could hear it clearly, it was the accent of Nanjing. ”

Hu Hu thought for a while, and then said: "That's it, anyway, they are all the guards of the King of Han, and they have to hand over the people to the King of Han." After we return to Kunming City, ask the King of Han to ask the person. ”

The Jinyi guard clasped his fists and said, "Officer Hu Ke is reasonable. ”