The night wind of Daqimeng Mountain seemed to be extremely cold, Chu Huan didn't speak, frowned and pondered, and his subordinates naturally didn't dare to say much, after a while, Chu Huan raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "Let's search near the bamboo building to see if you can find anything, pay special attention to the ground, and see if there are any traces of excavation......!" ”

Everyone immediately received the order, and Xuanyuan Sheng asked, "My lord, have you found anything?" ”

"There are no tea people in the teahouse, which is their negligence, but it also shows that they are in a hurry." The lights had been lit in the bamboo building, Chu Huan looked around, and said solemnly: "One thing they are not wrong about, this is indeed a teahouse, but the real tea maker may have been killed." ”

Xuanyuan Sheng came to his senses, "Your Excellency is saying that they took the lead and killed the tea maker here, and then pretended to be a tea man waiting here, intending to harm us?" ”

Chu Huan bowed his head and said: "I'm just guessing, if that's the case, I'm afraid that I can find something around here...... ”

After a while, I heard a voice outside: "My lord, there is a situation here!" ”

Chu Huan immediately followed the sound, Xuanyuan Shengcai and Qiu Ruxue followed Chu Huan left and right, and went down the bamboo building, there were already guards and warriors beckoning on the other side of the woods, at this time everyone gathered around, Chu Huan got close, only to see that the two corpses had been revealed, and the bodies were covered with a layer of snow, the two corpses were dressed in extremely obvious ghost prescriptions, and they were also hung with wood carving necklaces. The snow had solidified at the scars.

Qiu Ruxue had already squatted down, probed his hand at the cheeks of the two of them, then rolled the eyelids of these two people, turned around, and said to Chu Huan: "The time of their death will not exceed an hour!" ”

Xuanyuan Shengcai frowned and said, "An hour? In other words, when we are about to reach the Great Qimeng Mountain, we ......! ”

Chu Huan looked at the two corpses, groaned slightly, and said: "Then my guess will not be wrong, they must have discovered our traces and knew that we were going to get here, so they attacked the tea maker in the teahouse in advance, and then pretended to be the tea maker and waited here." ”

"That's how it should be." Qiu Ruxue said slowly: "At first, they were not sure about the whereabouts of the adults, and they didn't know where the adults would go to the foot of the Great Qimeng Mountain, and when they found out where the adults were about to arrive, they immediately attacked the teahouse, and acted in a hurry. ”

Xuanyuan Shengcai clenched the handle of the knife and frowned: "My lord, who is this who wants to assassinate us?" Those few people in disguise are all ghost people......! ”

An official of the household department next to him was a little frightened and said: "Lord Chu, the ghost people have always been fierce and barbaric, like savages, this is just the beginning, if we don't leave, the ghost people are afraid that they will attack us." ”

As soon as he said this, the four or five officials who followed him all changed color slightly, and their eyes showed a look of fear.

The ghost side lives in Anyi, and in fact, there are not many Qin people who know the existence of the ghost side, firstly, they are very low-key and ignored, and secondly, the number of people in the ethnic group is too small, less than 20,000 people.

But of course, these officials of the Household Department know the existence of the ghost party, and the ghost party has made a transaction with the Taiyuan Household Department headed by Huang Zhigui in order to survive, and this kind of official transaction is handled by the Household Department, so the officials of the household department still have some understanding of the ghost people, in their eyes, the ghost people are indeed fierce, irritable, and lack of etiquette.

At this time, after this incident, these household officials immediately thought of the fierceness of the ghost people, and immediately felt that they were in the tiger's den in Longtan, and their hearts became nervous and afraid.

Chu Huan was silent, and at this moment, he had already heard a guard soldier say, "My lord, look, there...... There is a fire! ”

Everyone looked over, and saw that the mountain was really lit up, a little messy, coming down from the mountain, Xuanyuan Shengcai had already drawn his knife in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Protect your lord!" ”

The ten guards soldiers immediately formed a protective circle around Chu Huan, several household officials leaned on Chu Huan's left and right, and Xuanyuan Shengcai, Qiu Ruxue and Sun Zikong were also guarding Chu Huan's side.

Chu Huan frowned, everyone was on alert, the fire on the mountain moved quickly, Sun Zikong couldn't help but say, "Do we want to extinguish the fire?" ”

"They've seen it." Xuanyuan Shengcai said: "Whether it is friend or foe, it is still unknown!" ”

Suddenly, I heard a voice from the other side of the mountain, "Who's down there?" ”

Xuanyuan Sheng glanced at Chu Huan, Chu Huan bowed slightly, Xuanyuan Sheng immediately took two steps forward, but at this time, he had already put the knife into the sheath, took the bow in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Qin sent out to see the master of Yigu Si Cave, who are you?" ”

He was full of energy, strong and powerful, and his voice was heard far away.

The fire on the mountain soon stopped, the distance was not too far, Chu Huan vaguely saw more than a dozen figures on it, and soon, he heard a voice from the mountain: "Is it Lord Chu Huan Chu?" ”

Chu Huan said: "It's this official!" ”

"Yi Gusi is here!" A rich voice came down over there, and then the firelight moved, and the little firelight that was originally scattered was combined, and everyone soon saw a burly ghost man coming from the mountain forest, Chu Huan only glanced at it, and recognized it as Yi Gusi, he had seen Yi Gusi last time he came to Daqimeng Mountain secretly, and he had seen Yi Gusi, Yi Gusi looked a little hideous, dressed in fur clothes, with a necklace around his neck, although the wood carvings were not as numerous as the ghost lord He Xigu, but there were also a lot, dense.

Yi Gusi was holding a ghost-headed big knife in his hand, and behind him, more than a dozen ghost men were also holding knives in their hands, all of them looking fierce and evil, and their expressions were not good.

The Great Qin State issued a sword hunting order very early, and ordinary people were not allowed to have weapons in hand.

It's just that the ghost side is a little special, although they have to pay a certain amount of taxes to the local government every year, but the government almost never pays attention to them except for contacting them when they are urging them to pay taxes.

It is precisely because of the lack of strong supervision by the government that the ghost side has secretly stored some weapons for the safety of the clan, but the number is extremely scarce, and the trade of weapons is prohibited on the market, and the few weapons can only be carried out in private.

What's more, the original people have always been prejudiced against the ghost people, and some private markets are unwilling to trade with the ghost side, although the ghost side also has blacksmiths, but the Great Qimeng Mountain does not belong to the mine, so the resources are scarce, and weapon forging is also unrealizable.

It's just that after the rebellion of the Huang family, the ghost side got a large number of weapons from the Huang family, not only the food weapons sent by Huang Zhigui as a condition for wooing, but also the ghost side took the opportunity to get a lot of sophisticated weapons in the Pear Blossom Valley.

Chu Huan saw that Yi Gusi and the others were not good, and he had a sense of ominousness in his heart, but he still took a few steps forward with a smile and arched his hand: "Master Yidong, don't come here last time?" ”

Yi Gusi's expression was indifferent, his eyes were wide open, staring at Chu Huan, and he sneered: "Lord Chu, I was about to go to you, but I didn't expect you to come to ......!" His hand holding the knife tightened, the green tendons on the back of his hand bulged, his eyes looked around, and suddenly he saw two corpses lying on the ground on the side, he frowned, looked carefully, and then his expression changed greatly, his eyes were cold, and he said sharply: "You guys...... Someone who killed us? ”

Chu Huan knew that he had misunderstood, and his expression became solemn.

He didn't know why Yi Gusi had such an attitude today, if Yi Gusi knew the purpose of his trip, it would never be possible to treat each other with this attitude, but according to reason, Yi Gusi, as one of the sixteen cave masters, could never not know the purpose of his trip, the ghost side moved, this is a major event related to the entire ghost side, Hexi Valley returned to Daqimeng Mountain from Taiyuan early, it was to inform the caves to prepare, and it was naturally impossible for him to notify the sixteen cave masters of this matter.

It should have been more than half a month since Hexigu returned to Daqimeng Mountain, and Yi Gusi, as one of the sixteen cave masters, could not have known that Chu Huan had come to register his household registration and do a good job of migration.

But Yi Gusi's attitude is obviously contrary to common sense.

"Master Yidong, I'm afraid there is a misunderstanding between us." Chu Huan frowned and said, "These two people were not killed by us. ”

One of Yi Gusi's side had already sneered: "You are holding a knife in your hand, and you dare to say that you didn't kill people?" ”

Chu Huan said lightly: "We haven't even been here for half an hour, but these two people were killed an hour ago......!" ”

"You said you were less than half an hour, who can testify?" Someone behind Yi Gusi sneered: "The people from the government are really ruthless, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge!" ”

Chu Huan felt that these ghost people were really weird, his brows were tightened, he looked at Yi Gusi, and said solemnly: "Lord Yi Dong, this official doesn't understand what you mean, we came here this time, why don't you know?" ”

"Of course I do." Yi Gusi's already ugly face twitched, and he looked a little hideous, "Didn't you original people have a good saying, cross the river and tear down the bridge, unload the mill and kill the donkey?" You took advantage of us, and you swore to us last time, but ...... You go back on your word, don't think that we don't know your sinister scheming, you want to kill our ghost side from the beginning, Chu Huan, to tell you the truth, although my ghost side is few and weak, but I will not let others bully! ”

Chu Huan only felt that the more Yi Gu Si spoke, the more strange it became, and he couldn't help but ask: "Master Yi Dong, what you said, this official really doesn't understand, where do you start with the so-called crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, unloading the mill and killing the donkey?" Although Chu Huan came a few days late, he did not break his promise, and this time he came to fulfill his promise to you! ”

Yi Gusi's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "Still quibbling here? He said in a deep voice: "Take it!" A person came up from behind, holding a necklace in his hand, Yi Gusi took it, raised his hand in front of Chu Huan, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know this?" ”