Chapter 34: The Secret of the Map
"Your daughter is also in the cottage? Retreated? Let's go, too! Zhao Yi listened to the noisy sound outside gradually disappearing, and said to Li Luobei, who was drinking tea silently.
Li Luobei pointed at the black-armored young man and said to Zhao Xi: "Lord Zhao, this is the little girl, Li Ruolan!" ”
"Poof! Ahem! Zhao Yi listened, and spit out a mouthful of water directly.
"He's ...... He's your daughter? He's obviously a man, and he even has the Adam's apple! Zhao Yi pointed at the black-armored young man and said in surprise.
Li Luobei turned his head and said to the black-armored young man: "Lan'er, don't remove the things on your face yet!" ”
The black-armored boy stomped his foot, turned around and went back into the house.
"He won't. He can't really be your daughter! Seeing the black-armored young man stomping his feet like a woman, Zhao Yi said hesitantly.
Li Luobei sighed and said: "Yes, Lan'er has been naughty since she was a child, and I am often in the army, so I rarely discipline her, and my temperament is getting wilder and wilder." Later, after his mother died, I went to the cottage, and he also followed me to practice martial arts and fight, so she is now like a boy. ”
Zhao Yi also thought of his father when he heard it, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
"Daddy!"
A crisp voice came, and Zhao Yi looked up to see that a woman about the same age as Li'er walked over, her skin was not as fair as Li'er, but she looked a wild beauty. The long black hair fell to the waist like a waterfall, and there was no ribbon restraint just fluttering in the wind, the thin eyebrows were like a touch of green daisy in the distant mountains and picked out a moving arc, the starry eyes Qiong nose and mouth, and there were faint water marks on the crystal clear face, which looked like it had just been cleaned. A black men's outfit is even more obvious
Zhao Xi secretly marveled at the beauty of the girl, it seemed that the girl had something to hide her face before.
"I haven't come to see Lord Zhao yet!" Li Luobei said dotingly.
"He? Hum! The girl tied her black hair with a blue ribbon and looked at Zhao Yi with disdain and said.
Zhao Yi touched his nose and was speechless, but he just started to say something harsh in his tone, as for it!
"Lan'er! How can you be so rude! Li Luobei scolded, and after speaking, he said to Zhao Xi: "The little girl is rude, Lord Zhao forgive me!" ”
"It's okay, Miss Li has an independent personality and is not inferior to men, which is really commendable!"
"Humph! Bear two faces under one hood! Lan'er glared at Zhao Yi fiercely and said.
Just when Zhao Yi was embarrassed, Junzi came in and reported: "My lord, all the people in the cottage have evacuated, are we also leaving!" ”
Zhao Yi said: "Leader Li, let's go too!" ”
Because I brought a lot of family members with me, the speed was much slower when I went back. However, Zhao Xi and his personal guards did not go back with Zhao Xiong, because he remembered that the map left by his father depicted this area.
After arranging for someone to go back and inform Li Chenfeng and ask him to prepare to settle a residence for the new people, he took the personal guards straight to the place drawn on the map.
Looking at the steep cliffs full of vines in front of him, and then looking at the map in his hand, if Zhao Xi hadn't confirmed that the map was drawn here, he would have thought that he had made a mistake. This high cliff is more than 100 meters high, as if it has been cut by a knife, but it is covered with unknown mountain vines.
"Qingshan, take a few people to climb up and see if there is anything special. Junko, you also take a few people to check around. ”
The two of them took a dozen or so people to explore the surroundings and the cliffs, while Zhao Xi thought about going to Yanzhou.
Judging from the news Li Luobei said, this trip is not too bad, and Sima Yun also has scruples, but he just said that the left soldier and horse envoy were assassinated and his whereabouts are unknown. But you can't be careless, Sima Yun is definitely a person with a black heart and a poisonous hand. What did he do to Su Yun for? Did the soldiers and horses get involved?
"My lord! The rocks here can be moved. A soldier who climbed the cliff with Zhao Qingshan shouted happily.
Zhao Yi looked up and saw that it was seven or eight meters above to the right.
"Zhao Qingshan, you go over and help him get the stones down there and see if he can find anything."
After Zhao Qingshan led people over, large and small gravels suddenly rolled down, and it didn't take long for Zhao Qingshan to shout: "My lord, there is a cave here!" ”
Zhao Yi was overjoyed and said, "You wait there first, and I'll come up immediately." He turned his head and said to Junko, who had returned to his side: "You take someone to wait here, and as soon as there is a situation, go up and report it immediately!" ”
Zhao Yi climbed up the high cliff and came to where Zhao Qingshan and the others were, and there was a cave two meters high and one meter five wide, I don't know how deep it was.
"Let's go, let's go in!" Zhao Yi said and prepared to drill in.
Zhao Qingshan stopped Zhao Xi and said, "My lord, you still wait here, let's go in first to avoid any danger." ”
Zhao Yi said with a smile: "This is left by my father, there shouldn't be any danger." ”
Zhao Qingshan was unmoved, and then said: "Then let me be in front, and I should be on guard if there is anything." ”
I was very moved by Zhao Qingshan's loyalty, so he said: "Okay, you are in front, be careful!" ”
Zhao Qingshan and the six walked in front, Zhao Yi followed closely behind, and there were four people behind him. A few people did not have torches, so they had to take fire folds and wipe the walls slowly. The cave was not as deep as Zhao Yi imagined, and less than twenty meters, Zhao Qingshan found that there was a hall in front of him, and at the door of the hall, there were two oil lamps. Happily, there is still lamp oil left in the oil lamp. After it is lit up, it is a space that is more than four meters high, ten meters wide, and five or six meters deep.
There were more than thirty large boxes in the hall, with iron locks on them, and a letter on the front one. Zhao Yi stepped forward, picked up the letter on the iron box, opened it and looked at it, there was a key in the envelope, it seemed that he opened these boxes.
"My son: If you read this letter, it means that your father has passed away. Surely you also know about your fatherhood from your mother. As a father, I don't want you to have the idea of avenging me, I just want you to live well............"
The letter said the origin of this place, it turned out that after Zhao He came to Youzhou, when those people in the imperial court were still fighting for power and profit, he used his previous identity to secretly transfer the money and property operated by Prince Yingwu in Youzhou here, waiting for the reaction of the imperial court. The young master of the later prince, that is, the current Zuo Xiang, has been sending people to hunt them down, so Zhao He also used this money.
Zhao He left the money to Zhao Yi, hoping that Zhao Yi could use the money to live a good life to make up for his failure to take care of their mother and son. The letter also talked about Li Chenfeng, and it also showed that Li Chenfeng was a trustworthy person.
"Qingshan, you say, parents are killed, what should the children do?"
Zhao Qingshan didn't know why Zhao Yi asked like this, but he still said: "Didn't everyone say that the hatred of killing one's father and taking one's wife are not shared." ”
"Yes! Implacable! Zhao Yi muttered, in my previous life, I could not even have a name for my brother, not to mention that you are my father! Father, don't worry, my son will not act recklessly, I will definitely avenge you and the entire Zhao Mansion, and I will take care of my mother. Even an ordinary person knows that the revenge of killing his father is not the same thing, let alone me.
"Qingshan, you go and ask Junko to buy a few carriages in a nearby town, and we will bring these boxes back, which my father left for me." There are 1,300,000 taels of silver and 200,000 taels of gold here, and since they have found it, they can't continue to put it here, but they should take it back, because there is a shortage of silver in the stockade.
Zhao Qingshan and the others wasted all their efforts to get these dozens of large iron boxes out and put them on a few carriages bought by Shunzi.
"Let's go! Get back! ”
Zhao Qingshan and the others saw that Zhao Xi's love was not high, and they all silently pulled the carriage and rushed back. Rao is Zhao Xian's speed was slow, and he still caught up with Li Luobei and Zhao Xiong halfway. This also made Zhao Qingshan breathe a sigh of relief, although Zhao Yi did not explain what was contained here, but he also guessed that it contained some valuable things, and now that he was united with the large army, he also put his heart at ease.
"Big brother, what's in here?" Zhao Xiong saw Zhao Xi pulling a few carts of large boxes and asked.
"This is what my father left behind, and it contains silver."
Li Lingfeng and Zhao Xiong next to him were taken aback, so many boxes were silver, how much should it be? However, the Zhao Biaoqing I saw was not high, and I didn't ask anything more.
"Hey! The surname Zhao, wasn't it quite powerful just now, how could this be like an eggplant beaten by frost? Li Ruolan rode a horse to Zhao Xi's side and sneered.
Zhao Yi looked at Li Ruolan and continued to lower his head and think about the placement of Li Luobei and the others.
"Hey! Shall I talk to you? Li Ruolan saw that Zhao Yi ignored her and said loudly. Suddenly, the people around him were stunned, and Zhao Xiong and the others didn't expect that a woman could be the same as a man, holding a spear and a horizontal knife.
Li Ruolan saw the reactions of the people around her, and she also knew that her behavior was a little inappropriate, but she was more boyish than girly, and she had long been used to her male body, and now she changed back to her daughter's body, and she couldn't change it. Li Luobei also shook his head and sighed in the back, his daughter is now about to become a man, but it did not prevent his daughter from getting along with Zhao Yi.
"I'm wondering, should I let Miss Li join the army with me in the future, or should the sisters who stayed in the village and cooperated with logistics make military uniforms and cloaks for the soldiers? Miss Li's temperament must be idle, and she will definitely not stay at home honestly. Zhao Yi laughed.
Who knew that Li Ruolan said happily: "I can fight with you?" That's great? I'm still with you, I'm definitely not weaker than them! After speaking, he also pointed to the personal guards behind Zhao Xi. She could also see that these people in flame cloaks were the real warriors.
"Huh! That one...... That's what I mean, it's not allowed to have women in the army, and besides, if Miss Ruolan wants to join the army, then you also need your father's consent. Hearing Li Ruolan's words, Zhao Xi's face changed, and he hurriedly said.
Zhao Xiong and the others snickered secretly.
Li Ruolan was like a proud little rooster, and said with her head held high: "Don't worry, my father will agree." I'll be in the army in men's attire. ”
Zhao Xi: "............"