Chapter 44: Longguan Suspicions
Wei Wei didn't expect to be besieged by so many Hu people on the border of his country, and he regretted that he relaxed his vigilance at the beginning, and then, he arranged a sentry on duty at night, and a group of people took over to rest. With no casualties, Wei decided to continue on the road tomorrow.
Everyone dispersed. Wei Wei and Su Qin went to the room where the girls lived to inspect, but saw that they were all calm, Wei Wei instructed them a few words, and after that, he and Su Qin went to the room to talk together.
Su Qin suggested to Wei Wei that he take Dong Ji to envoy Yiqu together, and they would suffer a big loss if they didn't translate, because Yiqu understood what the Qin people said, but the Qin envoy didn't understand the words of the Yiqu people.
Wei Wei agreed very much, so he found Dong Ji and asked him to accompany him. Dong Ji didn't agree at first, Wei Wei raised the sword in his hand and scolded him: "I am an envoy this time, and the king has ordered me to act cheaply at any time, if you don't go, I will not spare you." Dong Ji's body trembled and agreed.
Wei Wei also asked Su Qin to share his opinion on the enemy who attacked at night, and Su Qin believed that this should be the army of the Yiqu people, not like ordinary horse thieves.
Wei Wei thought so, and he said: "King Yiqu Rong is also too cunning, on the one hand, he came to make peace, and on the other hand, he attacked and made a mistake. It seems that we will encounter a lot of unexpected situations during this trip. ”
The two chatted a few more words, Su Qin said goodbye and left, he didn't go back to the room directly, but went to find Dong Ji. Dong Ji had already lay down, and he was forced to get up by Su Qin.
Su Qin ordered him to teach himself the language of the Yiqu people overnight. Dong Ji stayed up all night working pitifully, and he scolded in his heart: "I'm recruiting someone to provoke someone, and I'm on such a difficult matter." ”
Su Qin's language talent is extremely high, not only can he speak well, but also learn the language, he masters it very quickly, by the time of the fifth watch, Su Qin has learned no less than 200 sentences of Hu people's language, and can have a simple daily conversation with Dong Ji, which makes Dong Ji amazing.
Su Qin forced Dong Ji to repeat the sentences he had learned twice with him before leaving. Poor Dong Ji was tortured to the point of extreme fatigue, and he fell asleep without even taking off his clothes.
The next day, the team set out on the road to cross the rugged Longguan. Su Qin deliberately asked Dong Ji to accompany him, and at every opportunity, he approached the envoys of Yiqu, listened to their conversations, practiced the Hu language, and eavesdropped on what they were saying.
Since the Hu people set out, they had thought that Su Qin did not understand their language, so they didn't care about his behavior, and still shouted and spoke.
Some of their conversations Su Qin can already understand, and some don't understand, so feel free to ask Dong Ji. Su Qin pressed very tightly, and he was about to force Dong Ji to collapse, he saw Su Qin as if he had seen a flood beast, but unfortunately he couldn't dodge, and he secretly complained in his heart.
The team ran into big trouble while crossing the Longguan Pass. Since ancient times, Longguan is the most important passage to the western grassland, the mountain is high and long, the road is narrow, in the most precipitous place, the people in the carriage must get out of the carriage, let the horse pull the empty cart, can slowly climb up the mountain.
However, Su Qin found that even if the mountain road was steep, there was a carriage in the Yiqu Mission with the door closed all the time, and the carriage could not climb the mountain road.
Su Qin firmly believed that Huo Xuan had something important to hide from everyone.
Less than forty miles of Longguan Road, a group of people took a whole day to climb over. On the way, because everyone spent most of their time getting off the bus and walking, Su Qin saw the familiar person among the disciples of the Mo family again, and Su Qin suddenly had a mystery in his heart: There are six disciples of the Mo family, why did only four people come out in the battle with the Hu people last night?
He paid attention to the observation again, and found that the familiar Mo family disciple was always accompanied by another disciple, they got on and off the car together, ate and chatted together, even if it was convenient, the two of them went together.
Su Qin thought to himself: "Why do they always act alone, aren't these two disciples of the Mo family?" So who are they? It seems that this trip is really not peaceful, and it is better to be more careful and careful in the future. ”
After Longguan is an endless grassland, the grass is withered and yellow, there is no taste of spring, but the open vision is enough to make people feel refreshed.
Since it was already evening, the group decided to rest for the night before leaving. The entourage took down thick felt, leather and blankets from the car, and Su Qin and others built the felt bag for the first time, despite the guidance of Yiqu and Dong Ji, they were still in a hurry. However, after the end, five felt bags were finally built.
At night, a charcoal fire was lit in the felt bag, warm as spring, and the west wind howled outside the felt bag, but it was a different scene.
Su Qin was worried about the mysterious items on the carriage of the Yiqu people, and decided to take advantage of the night to go out to find out. Therefore, after Wei Xiang and the others in the same room rested, he sneaked out of the room.
He approached the suspicious carriage, and did not rush to show up, but first carefully observed the surroundings for a while, and found that there was no one around to guard the carriage.
The horses that had pulled the carts during the day had been unloaded and pulled to graze for fodder, leaving only the carriage frames there. Su Qin then quietly approached the car door, and when he opened it, it was empty, and it looked like an ordinary carriage.
Su Qin saw that there was no one around, so he simply got into the carriage, and he groped for a long time, searching all the horns, but he didn't touch anything. Su Qin was a little discouraged, could it be that he was wrong, or was he suspicious?
After he got out of the carriage, he was very unwilling in his heart, and thought to himself: "Obviously, the carriage looks heavy when going up the mountain, so the Yiqu people will push it away, if it is an empty car, how can it be like that?" ”
He was determined to take a look at Huo Xuan's felt bag again, maybe the items in the carriage were hidden there.
The distance between the Yiqu people's felt bag and the Qin State mission is about five zhang, and they form a group of felt bags alone, and the one in the middle is Huo Xuan's felt bag, and it is very difficult to get close.
Su Qin had no choice but to use the technique of tuna taught by Guigu, three short and two long, alternating luck, silently reciting the heart trick, and full of dantian. Then, with the help of light strength, he crept closer.
There was still light coming out of Huo Xuan's felt bag through the cracks in the felt bag, and it seemed that the person had not yet fallen asleep. Su Qin looked inside from the small slit behind the felt bag.
I saw that there were two people in the felt bag, in addition to Huo Xuan, there was also a thin man, he had thin eyes and thick eyebrows, and his face was square and flat, and he was a Yiqu person at first glance. Huo Xuan was very majestic in the Yiqu people on weekdays, but at this moment, he was respectful in front of this Yiqu people, nodding his head.
Su Qin had seen him among the people who came from Yiqu, this person always had a serious face, no superfluous expression, and he was not eye-catching, but it turned out to be such a high official rank, so that Huo Xuan also bowed his head in front of him.