Chapter 352: A Chance Encounter
"Ouch, ah, ouch." After waking up groaning, Deputy Director Tao first vomited several liters of turbid water, and then finally regained some consciousness, first found that the sky was still dark and did not know the hour, and then roughly observed the surrounding environment, Deputy Director Tao was pleasantly surprised to find that he was washed by the river to the shallow place on the bank, or the shallow place on the bank where the reeds and aquatic plants were dense, and the intertwined reeds and aquatic plants stumbled on his body, not letting the river water re-flush himself into the center of the river, and also gave himself the opportunity to wake up on his own.
Trembling, he tried the depth of the water with his hands and feet, and then dragged the reeds and aquatic plants to climb to the shallower bank of the river for a distance, until the river could only flood his thighs, Deputy Director Tao struggled to stand up with his hands and feet, half-bent down, reached into his mouth and stimulated his throat with his fingers, forcing himself to vomit more water in his abdomen, as a result, the self-help technique that Deputy Director Tao learned in the wine field really worked, and after vomiting a large amount of turbid river water again, Deputy Director Tao was also suddenly much more relaxed, Except for the extreme soreness and weakness of his hands and feet, his consciousness has basically returned to normal.
"I wish this was the North Shore." Judging his position by the direction of the water, Deputy Director Tao soon found that his good luck had come to an end, because when Deputy Director Tao faced the Tanshui River, the flow of the Tanshui River flowed in the direction of Deputy Director Tao's right hand, and the Tanshui flowed from west to east in this area, which is enough to show that Deputy Director Tao is currently on the south bank of the dangerous Tanshui, rather than the relatively safe north bank. At the same time, Deputy Director Tao couldn't tell what time it was, let alone how far he was washed out by the river.
"I remember that Xu Chu was ambushed eight miles downstream of the Tanshui Ferry." In desperation, Deputy Director Tao could only analyze his position through reasoning, and secretly calculated: "According to common sense, I was forced by Zhang Fei to go down to the water and disappeared, my team will definitely come down to look for me, and Xu Chu's team will definitely go to the upper reaches of the water to reinforce first, and then the enemy and our armies will fight on the way, and the shouts of killing can be heard five or six miles away, but I can't hear any shouts and killings in this position, and I don't hear the voices of our soldiers calling me, which means that I have been at least rushed out of more than ten miles now." , maybe more than twenty miles, or even farther away. ”
"Damn, I wish I had learned more about hydrology." When the book is used, it is rare for Deputy Director Tao to regret that he did not learn more about hydrology, does not know the flow rate of the water, and cannot judge how far he has been washed out, how far away from his team, but now it is too late to regret it, for Deputy Director Tao, the most important thing now is to quickly find a bridge to cross the water, to the relatively safe north bank to hide and wait for help, or to find a relatively safe hidden place to hide, waiting for the rescue of his team.
While pondering, Deputy Director Tao cut off a piece of underwear with the Yitian Sword and pulled out the arrow he inserted in his left shoulder, and wrapped himself in underwear with the help of his teeth.
After resting on the panting shore for a while, Deputy Director Tao finally made up his mind and decided to go to the lower reaches of the Tanshui to find a bridge to cross the river, because Deputy Director Tao knew very well that even if the Jingji coalition army suffered a defeat, it would definitely not miss this opportunity to capture the thief and capture the king first, and would definitely arrange a large number of people to search and kill himYou can also try to stay away from the enemy and find a hidden place to hide temporarily at dawn.
After making up his mind, Deputy Director Tao used the Heavenly Sword as a staff to support himself up, and began to stumble and stumble downstream, the wound that had just pulled out the arrow was so painful that Deputy Director Tao sweated all over his body, and his stomach, which had vomited out the river water, was constantly pantothenic, so uncomfortable that Deputy Director Tao couldn't help but kneel and vomit again. And when Deputy Director Tao finally stopped vomiting this time, he was surprised to find that the sky had begun to glow, and Deputy Director Tao couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, because the autumn night was long and the sky was cloudy and white, which proved that it was at least the time now, and Deputy Director Tao had been forced to jump into the river by Zhang Fei before he was in the middle of the day.
That is to say, at least five hours and ten hours have passed, and in these ten hours, Deputy Director Tao may have been washed out by the river for thirty or forty miles, and maybe even sixty or seventy miles.
There is nothing to be done about this, Deputy Director Tao can only stand up again and continue walking, ready to find the crowd to confirm his position first, but when he got up again, Deputy Director Tao quickly discovered another big problem, that is, the bright silver armor worn by Deputy Director Tao who likes to pretend to be forced, when he was surrounded by the army, this set of silver armor was pretending to be forced and handsome, but when it came time to become a lost dog, this silver armor became a burden and danger, The heavy armor is not only a heavy burden for the current Deputy Director Tao, but also makes the enemy aware of his identity at the first time - at least immediately knowing that he is an important person who can be exchanged for a large reward.
Although he was aware of this danger, but at this time he couldn't find a change of clothes, and when the extremely embarrassed Deputy Director Tao was considering whether to escape only in underwear, as the sky became brighter, Deputy Director Tao suddenly found that there were two corpses of Jizhou soldiers floating in the shallow water on the shore not far ahead, and the red military uniforms were very conspicuous in the dawn. The military uniform was basically very complete, and Deputy Director Tao was even more happy, so he quickly stripped off his clothes and changed them for himself.
After taking off his armor and changing into a hemp military uniform, Deputy Director Tao once considered letting the corpse wear his own armor and create the illusion that he was dead to confuse the enemy who might come to him, but after thinking about it carefully, Deputy Director Tao gave up this plan again, first, if his lackey team misunderstood that he was dead and gave up the search and rescue, it would be troublesome, and second, it would be troublesome for his armor to fall into the hands of the enemy. Therefore, Deputy Director Tao finally chose to throw the armor into the depths of the water, and pushed the corpse of the ** Jizhou soldier into the water, so that the water could wash away the traces of the corpse, so as not to let the enemy realize that he had changed his Jizhou military uniform, and he also poked two holes in his wound position very carefully, so as not to let the enemy notice that his wound was wrong.
Panting after making these arrangements, the sky was already close to the whole day, and the golden sunlight could already be seen on the top of the towering West Mountain, Deputy Director Tao did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly stumbled downstream again, looking for a bridge to cross, fortunately, after taking off the armor weighing more than 30 catties, Deputy Director Tao was already much more relaxed, and the age of twenty-seven or eight was young and strong, so although the body was very weak, Deputy Director Tao could barely support it.
What made Deputy Director Tao depressed was that he struggled to walk two or three miles downstream, not only did he not have the shadow of the bridge, but after being injected by several small streams on the north bank, the surface of the Yanshui River was getting wider and wider, and at the same time, the thorny path on the bank was becoming more and more rugged and difficult, and there was a tendency to gradually have no way out.
It's a pity, affected by the war, to the southeast and walked two or three miles, not to mention the village, even the deputy director of the figure Tao has not seen one, both sides of the road are full of wild grass and shrubs of the barren field, it is obvious that no one has cultivated for a long time, tired, hungry and tired Deputy Director Tao is desperate, but suddenly glimpsed behind the mountains and forests in the east, a curling green smoke is rising, it seems that someone is lighting a fire there. Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed, and hurriedly staggered over again, praying in his heart that it was the local people who were lighting a fire to cook, not an enemy who was searching and killing him was lighting a fire for a picnic.
Out of prudence, Deputy Director Tao did not directly bypass the dirt mountain to see the situation behind the mountain, but did not hesitate to waste his physical strength to carefully climb the dirt mountain, condescending to observe the situation, fortunately, the earth mountain is not very high, Deputy Director Tao did not spend much to climb to the top of the mountain, and then looked carefully down the mountain, Deputy Director Tao was dumbfounded, behind the earth mountain there are indeed people making a fire to cook, but it is not the local people who are making a fire to cook, nor the soldiers of the Jizhou Army or the Jingzhou Army are making a fire for a picnic, Instead, a group of Cao soldiers in black uniforms were cooking something with their helmets around two bonfires.
"How is it the lackey of the Cao thief?" Deputy Director Tao was a little surprised at first, and then suddenly came to his senses, "By the way, it must be the defeated army of Cao Thief who was killed and dispersed the night before." ”
"Don't move."
As soon as he understood the identity of these Cao soldiers, Deputy Director Tao's back suddenly sounded a majestic roar, and then, a sharp and hard object hit Deputy Director Tao's back, and Deputy Director Tao, who was half-squatting to observe the situation under the mountain, was in his heart, and quickly raised his hands and slowly stood up as required, and then the Yitian Sword on Deputy Director Tao's waist was taken away by someone and sheathed, and only then did he order: "Go down the mountain, don't play tricks." ”
People are swords, they are fish and meat, and Deputy Director Tao, who has long practiced a good ability to endure humiliation and bear heavy loads under the hands of the director, did not hesitate, and immediately went down the mountain slowly according to the order, raising his hands to show surrender, and the enemy behind him shouted loudly, and several Cao soldiers quickly rushed up from the mountain, took Deputy Director Tao and held it down, and took his hands down the mountain. It was also at this time that Deputy Director Tao turned around and saw the person who captured him, and found that he was a general of the Cao Army dressed in leather armor, who was very young at the age of ten **, but the expression on his face was very majestic, but he was obviously not of high grade and was not even qualified to mix in scale armor, so it was unlikely that he had seen or knew himself.
Without saying a word, he was escorted down the mountain, and what surprised Deputy Director Tao was that in addition to the thirteen or fourteen Cao soldiers under the mountain, there were six female dependents and two little boys, and as an outstanding civil servant in the 21st century, Deputy Director Tao was of course more interested in the seven female dependents, and when he looked at the appearance of the six female dependents carefully, Deputy Director Tao's eyes lit up a little. It turned out that the quality of those women was very good, two middle-aged beauties who were very well maintained, three white and tender little Li, the oldest was only ** years old, and the youngest may be less than five years old.
There is also a beautiful girl who has grown up, fifteen or sixteen years old, with a graceful figure and a curvy figure, at first glance, she is well nourished and well-developed, which is very rare in this troubled world of general malnutrition, although the clothes are quite dirty, but a stubborn and delicate face is cleanly washed, the eyes are big, the mouth is small, the lips are red and the teeth are white, and the skin is so white and tender that it seems to be able to get out of the water when you pinch it, which makes the noble Deputy Director Tao very tempted - but seeing the short sword in the hand of the beautiful girl, Deputy Director Tao is a little temporary.
Seeing Deputy Director Tao looking at him in a daze, the beautiful girl's stubborn face couldn't help showing some anger, and she shouted with dignity: "Kneel!" ”
Except for when doing certain actions, Deputy Director Tao basically has no habit of kneeling his wife, and he couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words, but the young man behind him, Cao Jiang, used the tip of a knife to hit Deputy Director Tao's back and shouted: "Kneel!" ”
"Kneel down mother-in-law." In desperation, Deputy Director Tao had to kneel down to the two middle-aged beauties, and said obediently: "Villain Zhang San, meet the two ladies, Mrs. spare your life." ”
"You ......, you seem to be a soldier from Jizhou, right?" The older middle-aged beauty asked hesitantly.
"Yes." Deputy Director Tao replied more obediently: "The villain's name is Zhang San, a native of Taishan County, Yanzhou, when the old lord was forcibly conscripted into the army, and later the old lord became the prime minister and was paralyzed in bed, and the villain gave the new lord a soldier. ”
"I didn't expect you to be quite articulate." The middle-aged beautiful woman smiled, and she was very happy that Deputy Director Tao was articulate clearly, and introduced complicated things so simply.
"Who were you defeated? Say! The girl shouted majestically: "Dare to tell a lie, I will kill you!" ”
"Thief annihilated by Tao Ying!" Deputy Director Tao replied without even blinking an eyelid: "The Xuzhou pottery thieves chased and killed us, caught up with us at the ferry in Yecheng, and defeated us. ”
"It's a big life." The girl snorted and said, "I have been washed by the river for more than fifty miles, and I haven't drowned yet." ”
"More than fifty miles?" Deputy Director Tao was taken aback and said, "Son-in-law, I was really rushed so far?" ”
"Son-in-law?" The girl asked very carefully, "Are you a child of a good family?" Do you even know this name? ”
"Yes, the villain is not only a child of a good family, but also the uncle of the villain, and the county magistrate of Chixian County when Meng Degong was the king." Deputy Director Tao's mouth was like smearing honey, and explained: "So the villain got the help of his uncle, went to the township school for a few years, and later worked as a clerk in Chixian County, but later the Xuzhou pottery thieves forcibly occupied Taishan County and drove away the villain's uncle, and the villain also lost his mission and was forced to Liaocheng to make a living. ”
Hearing Deputy Director Tao introduce himself that he had been a lackey for Boss Cao, the two middle-aged beautiful women who were obviously Cao Jun's family members suddenly slowed down their faces and felt a little close to Deputy Director Tao - but they definitely didn't mean to give their beautiful daughter to Deputy Director Tao. But the beautiful girl's big eyes flickered twice, and she suddenly pointed a short sword at Deputy Director Tao's throat and shouted, "No! You're lying! ”
The cold tip of the sword was close to the flesh, almost piercing the skin of Deputy Director Tao's throat, and Deputy Director Tao suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, trembling and said: "Son-in-law, little ......, the villain didn't dare to lie." ”
The beautiful girl tightened her eyebrows and clenched her short sword............
Do you want to know if Deputy Director Tao has been punished? See the next chapter. (To be continued.) )