Chapter Seventy-One: A False Alarm

Ji Yan, Mei Yuning, and Sun Dayong put on hats, tidied up their clothes, and hid weapons on their bodies.

The weapons of the three of them are also different, they are Ji Yan's dagger, Mei Yuning's short sword, and Sun Dayong's short knife.

Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong hid their weapons behind their backs and covered them with a wide coat, which was still found from these households.

Ji Yan's dagger is mainly pretended, so he hides it in the leg of his trousers with a big grin.

If you don't agree with each other, if you really want to do something with someone, no one expects him to do anything.

Ji Yan made shorts and short sleeves when he was in the capital, and it has been nearly ten days since he landed in the city of Zhancheng, but he has never had the opportunity to wear them.

The main reason is that there are too many mosquitoes along the way, and there is no artifact like Liushen Flower Water, and wearing half sleeves is basically death.

So most of his short-sleeved tops were used to cover his mouth and nose with Mei Yuning.

Everything was packed up, and Ji Yan went to wake up Chen Laohan.

Chen Laohan slept quite soundly, it is estimated that although he was not at his own house, he was also a familiar place, and he just got up after being knocked on the door by Ji Yan and others.

Ji Yan explained to Chen Laohan that his house was occupied last night.

Let's go over and see what's going on over there.

Chen Laohan was very excited when he heard this, and immediately went back to the house to bring his hat, and ran in the direction of his house, probably thinking that his daughter was back.

Ji Yan and the other three also followed closely and walked out of the door quickly.

Chen Laohan trotted all the way back to the door of his house, first pushed the door, and the door was locked from the inside.

He stood at the door, banging on the door of his house while shouting something in the Chinese dialect of Champong.

Ji Yan guessed, it should be his daughter's name or something?

Soon, there was a corresponding language in the house, which was also the language of the people of Zhancheng, and Chen Laohan shouted and communicated.

It seems that Ji Yan heard it well last night, and the people in the house are also from the city.

The door opened, and there were three people standing in front of the door.

The person who opened the door was a middle-aged man, in his thirties, although he was dressed in silk fabric, but he did not have a wide shirt and robe, and the style was close-fitting and short, and it felt like it was custom-made for mountain climbing.

Behind this man stood two men, obviously much stronger and younger, both of whom should be less than thirty years old.

Ji Yan swept over the two of them, only to feel that their eyes were sharp, and they were also wearing robes, and they didn't know if they had brought blades.

Ji Yan's intuition is the bodyguard of the person who opened the door or something.

These three people from the city seem to know Chen Laohan, and they are quite familiar with each other from the conversation just now, and when they opened the door at this moment, they almost hugged each other.

This situation also seems to confirm their previous suspicions, that is, this is a local incense digging team in the Champa country, and it is also a frequent visitor to this place.

Ji Yan was thinking about it here, and Chen Laohan had already finished greeting the three people who occupied the city, and while excitedly leading Ji Yan and the others into the house, he was so happy that he didn't know why.

It was still raining outside, so no one wanted to continue to stand at the door and gossip, so they went into the house.

As soon as he stepped into the door, Ji Yan smelled a fragrant smell, elegant and timeless, not too strong and not enchanting, refreshing his heart and lungs, and smelling very good, he turned his head to Mei Yuning and glanced at him, and touched his nose by the way.

Mei Yuning naturally smelled this smell, and also returned a color to Ji Yan, and nodded lightly.

It seems that these people from Champa are lucky, they didn't work in vain this time, and they dug up the Qinan fragrant wood.

Entering the house, the Zhancheng countryman who opened the door first made a Ming Dynasty bow to Ji Yan and the others, and then said with a smile: "Chen Sihan, a Zhancheng man in Xiaxia, do some small business of fragrant wood, and respect a few people to look at the face, how should I call it?" ”

This person is fluent in Chinese, and he has a bit of an accent, which seems to be a wide area.

Ji Yan also returned the salute, and after talking about it, he said that the three of them were from Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty, and the first time they came here, they also came to dig fragrant wood.

After listening to Ji Yan's answer, Chen Sihan, the man who occupied the city, only smiled and was noncommittal.

Ji Yan was a little curious about where he learned his Chinese, so he asked.

Chen Sihan estimated that he skillfully explained that his grandfather was under Chen Youliang, a sailor general.

Zhu Yuanzhang estimated that he was worried about the battle of Poyang Lake, so after he established the Ming Dynasty, he severely criticized the people who had followed Chen Youliang back then, especially the sailors, and did not allow them to continue to engage in things related to boats and water for a living.

His grandfather was humiliated, so in the early years of Hongwu, the family fled to Guangdong, and went to sea from Guangzhou to settle in this city country.

Decades have passed, and it can be regarded as taking root in this Zhancheng country, because Chen Sihan's ancestors and parents can also speak Chinese, so he grew up speaking Chinese since he was a child, so he is a bilingual talent.

When talking about these ins and outs, Chen Laohan has been happy on the sidelines, busy living and cooking with them.

Ji Yan is still a little curious, what happened to this old man Chen.

After talking about his own affairs, Chen Sihan saw Ji Yan's doubts, looked at Chen Laohan again, and said to Ji Yan with a smile: "This Chen Laohan's daughter is actually not lost. ”

This incident made Ji Yan and the others put down a big stone in their hearts.

Chen Sihan said slowly, it turned out that in addition to the three of them, there was another team, a five-person Ming Dynasty incense digging team, but when they came, the locals ran out.

Therefore, the five-person Ming Dynasty team had no guide, and they could only turn to the daughter of Chen Laohan, a local who was still here.

Chen Laohan's daughter also wanted to share her father's worries, so she led this group of Ming Dynasty people up the mountain.

At this moment, the five of them were still in the mountains with the Ming Dynasty team and Chen Laohan's daughter, and they didn't know if they had dug up fragrant wood.

After listening to the words of Chen Sihan, the leader of the incense digging team, Sun Dayong only nodded slowly and didn't say anything.

Mei Yuning was very happy, she was overjoyed, and she was sincerely happy for Chen Laohan, but she didn't expect that the loss of her daughter turned out to be a false alarm.

Then Mei Yuning couldn't help but sigh with emotion, it seems that after all, the sky has eyes, and good people still have good rewards.

Ji Yan felt that something was a little wrong, but he didn't have any evidence or ideas at the moment, so he was too embarrassed to interrupt the festive atmosphere in the room.

Seeing that Old Man Chen and this team of Zhancheng country incense diggers were chatting in their own Chinese language, Ji Yan and the three of them couldn't interject, so they could only stay here in embarrassment.

However, while the Jiyan team, Chen Laohan, and the incense diggers of Zhancheng were talking in this house, the weather outside was much calmer, as if they had also joined in this happy and peaceful atmosphere.

At this time, only a light rain was left outside, the wind was much lighter, the clouds were not as thick as before, and even a few rays of sunlight could penetrate and sway.

If this momentum continues, by noon, maybe Ji Yan and the others will be able to go up the mountain?