Chapter 147: The terrifying Zheng Da
"Childe, what did you say inside, why did you come out so quickly." Out of Meng Shan's barracks, Lao Qian asked Hu Ye in a low voice.
"Don't ask, it's important for us to hurry to Nanjing, it's been delayed for three days, and I don't know what trouble we will encounter along the way." Hu Ye whispered.
After leaving the barracks, Hu Ye did not ride a horse, but sat in the carriage with Saren and Tsing Yi. Then he took a brush and wrote two words crookedly in the carriage, crumpled them into a ball, and threw out the window of the carriage.
"Young Master, what are you doing here?" Sa Ren looked at Hu Ye curiously, why did the young master become strange after entering the barracks.
"Zhu Di asked me to be an undercover agent, and I will give him information before I arrive in Nanjing, which can be regarded as worthy of him." Hu Ye carefully put away the brush, this thing is just not as easy to use as a fountain pen.
Saren didn't understand what the young master was saying, but it sounded like the young master had been a good person again, so he and Tsing Yi looked at the scenery outside.
It didn't take long for the paper ball that Hu Ye threw out just now to be picked up by a person, who didn't open the paper ball, but handed it to a subordinate behind him and said, "Quickly return to the Yan Wang's Mansion and hand it over to His Highness." β
The subordinates behind answered, then mounted a fast horse and ran in the opposite direction to Hu Ye.
The person who gave the order was Zheng Da, he looked curiously at the direction where Hu Ye disappeared, and muttered in his mouth, "What a strange boy, that thing in his hand is very powerful, even more powerful than my arrows, I really don't know where it came from." β
After Zheng Da finished speaking, he followed the footsteps of the carriage again.
Hu Ye hung Long Yi's token in front of the carriage, and he was not stopped all the way to Baoding Mansion, it was really easy to use, and he didn't even meet a thief.
To the south of Baoding Mansion, it is the boundary of Hejian Mansion, as if Zhang Yu's hometown is Hejian Mansion, and he was named the King of Hejian after his death. Originally, Hu Ye wanted to see what Zhang Yu's hometown looked like. But as soon as he thought that time was running out, he gave up this idea, so he left the realm of Hejian Province in a day and a night.
To the south of Hejian Mansion, it went out of the Beiping Capital Division and entered the boundary of the Shandong Capital Division.
Although Long Yi's token still has some effect, it is far less effective than in Baoding Mansion, although Hu Ye is hanging on the carriage, there are often people blocking the road and robbing it.
Sometimes there will be two or three waves a day, some are forced by life, and some are interested in the 500,000 taels bounty. For what life is compelled for. Hu Ye is not a murderer, just give them some broken silver.
For those who tried to exchange their heads for bounties, Hu Ye gave Lao Qian a death order, and he would kill if he could. For those whose martial arts are okay and can live with Lao Qian in several ways, Hu Ye solved it with a flintlock pistol without hesitation.
He thought that he could not waste time on sending the little thief, and now he had set off for eight days, and he had only reached the Yan Prefecture in Shandong, and the journey was not yet halfway there. If it continues to be delayed like this, he has not yet arrived in Nanjing after the imperial examination has begun.
Hu Ye walked fast, and Zheng Da in the back was also relaxed, and Hu Ye solved the trouble along the way. There is no need for a big master like him to make a move. He wanted to go back to Beiping a little, and it seemed that Hu Ye didn't need his own protection at all.
But just when Zheng Da was thinking about it, he suddenly felt that there was a large murderous aura in front of him, and he had been mixed under Zhu Di for so many years. The perception of murderous aura has reached a certain level. So he knew that in this case, Hu Ye and Lao Qian alone should not be able to solve it. So he quickened his speed and caught up.
Lao Qian is also a person who has been in the army for many years, and he is also very sensitive to the perception of murderous energy, so at the same time that Zheng Da felt it, he also felt it, so he urgently stopped the carriage and looked at the canyon in front of him.
"Old money, what's the matter, why did it stop." Hu Ye lifted the curtain and asked Lao Qian.
"Young master, there is a situation ahead." Lao Qian said to Hu Ye with a stern expression.
Hu Ye saw the Yan sΓΉ on Lao Qian's expression, and knew that this time might be different from the previous situation, so he called Hongchen down in Tsing Yi on his back. Since leaving Hejian Mansion, Tsing Yi felt bored in the car, so he took the initiative to go to Hongchen's back, and he was reluctant to get down this time, which made Saren itch and wanted to ride Hongchen.
"Young Master, what's wrong?"
was called into the carriage by Hu Ye, and Tsing Yi said with a hint of excitement.
"Stay in the car, don't come out." Hu Ye said a word sternly, and then got out of the carriage, already grabbing two bullets in his hand.
"Young master, there must be an ambush in the canyon ahead, should we take a detour or force our way through?" Waiting for Hu Ye to get out of the carriage, Lao Qian asked.
Hu Ye looked at the canyon in front of him with empty eyes, the mountains on both sides were very high, and there was no edge in sight. If you take a detour, you will waste a day and a night, and now you don't have much time, so why waste so much time.
"The detour is too time-consuming, you go up and talk to them, it is best to solve it with money, otherwise you will have to let Zheng Da make a move." Hu Ye said with a stern face.
When Lao Qian heard this, he got on Hongchen's horse with a horizontal knife, came to the front of the canyon single-handedly, and yelled at the mountains on both sides, "The heroes on the mountain, I will pass by the treasure land, and I hope that you will be convenient." β
As soon as Lao Qian finished speaking, an arrow struck from the mountain, stabbing Lao Qian. Fortunately, Lao Qian was quick and fast, and he blocked the arrow with a horizontal knife.
Lao Qian's face changed, judging from the strength just now, the archery man was definitely an expert, not comparable to the bandits he had encountered before. And the other party didn't talk at all, he must have known that it was Hu Ye in the carriage, and they came at Hu Ye's head.
"Young master, it seems that there is some trouble today, and they don't talk at all." Old Qian rode back and said to Hu Ye with a grim face.
Hu Ye was furious when he heard this, he had endured it for a long time, and someone wanted his life every day, this kind of life was really a wretch. How many people have they killed, they still don't give up, it seems that they can't teach them a lesson, even if they go to Nanjing, they don't have a good life.
So Hu Ye bit through the oiled paper package of a bullet, poured gunpowder into the flintlock pistol, and then tamped it and put the iron ball in it, just this bullet should be able to kill a person. Now Zheng Da should also be nearby, just to teach these people who are blinded by silver a lesson.
"Old money. Follow me, I want to see what kind of heroes there are in the green forests of Shandong, my head is not easy to take. After Hu Ye finished speaking, he walked towards the front of the canyon, and Lao Qian also followed step by step, beware of the sudden attack of arrows like that just now.
"Don't you want my head, now that I'm here, I have the ability to come down and get it myself." Hu Ye came to the bottom of the canyon and yelled at the mountains on both sides.
"Haha, it's really a hero out of a teenager, it's a pity that your life is too valuable. Otherwise, we might have let you go. As soon as Hu Ye's words fell, a hearty voice came from inside the canyon.
"There are more people who want my life, but they are all making fertilizer now, I just don't know if you have this life to enjoy." Hu Ye said coldly.
The voice didn't speak, but shot an arrow like it had just done.
Old Qian had an idea and wanted to stop the arrow, but in a bush below the canyon, an arrow suddenly burst out, faster than Old Qian. Shoot the arrow from below in two.
There was a sound of surprise from the mountain, followed by two more arrows, one in front of the other.
Lao Qian's face changed greatly, but Hu Ye's face did not change. These two arrows are simply a piece of cake for Zheng Da.
Sure enough, as Hu Ye thought, two arrows were shot out of the woods again, and they were shot at the same time. Shoot down the arrows from the mountain with unmistakable accuracy.
"Haha, I said how dare you be fearless, it turned out that you came prepared. Looks like I'm going to have to get my hands dirty. Another voice came from inside the canyon. Then three figures appeared in the canyon not far away.
Hu Ye looked coldly at the three figures that appeared, although there were only three, but the momentum was far greater than all the bandits he had encountered before. Lao Qian protected Hu Ye behind him, and he could also see that these three people were extraordinary.
"Who are you?" Hu Ye asked loudly.
"Haha, the three heroes of Dongping are also." The man at the head said loudly.
"So, this is the boundary of Dongping Prefecture?"
"Yes, this Dongping Prefecture belongs to my Dongping Mountain, if you want to pass through this Dongping Gorge, either leave the head or leave 300,000 silver, you can choose for yourself." The leader said loudly.
"I'm in a hurry to cross, and I don't have any silver taels, so I can't meet your requirements." Hu Ye said coldly, and after saying that, the flintlock pistol in his hand was raised and aimed at the person who spoke.
"You want to fight against us with the toys in your hands? It's just whimsical. The three people on the other side laughed.
But before their laughter could end, they heard several successive whistling sounds, and dozens of arrows shot straight at them from the woods.
The three men were immediately startled, and by the time they noticed the arrow, they were already within easy reach of them. So the three of them dodged and blocked with the weapons in their hands.
Hu Ye and Lao Qian also looked at the dozens of arrows in shock, and they naturally noticed that these arrows were sent out at the same time, which means that Zheng Da actually shot ten arrows in a row in one breath, which seemed to have exceeded the limit of human beings.
At this time, the most distressing thing was the three heroes of Dongping, the arrows shot by Zheng Da were extremely powerful, and they were aimed at the death holes of the three people. The three of them dodged in a hurry, and when they blocked with weapons, they only blocked half of it, so the three of them now have two arrows stuck in their bodies, and they basically lost the ability to resist.
At this time, there was also a commotion on the mountain, and they were all under these three people, they didn't expect that the three bosses who were excellent in martial arts on weekdays would have no ability to parry in front of the arrows, and they didn't know what to do at this time.
Hu Ye put away the flintlock pistol, he didn't expect Zheng Da's archery skills to be so superb, and then glanced at Lao Qian, and the two walked up.
"Haha, I didn't expect the world-famous Arrow Demon to become your subordinate." When the three heroes of Dongping saw Hu Ye walking up, they laughed out loud with difficulty.
Hu Ye ignored the words of the three people and asked Lao Qian to solve the three of them. As long as they are eliminated, those subordinates on the mountain will naturally retreat without a fight.
Lao Qian was holding back his anger, he originally wanted to fight, but he didn't expect the three masters to be shot into a sieve by Zheng Da in a blink of an eye, and when he thought about it, he raised his horizontal knife and prepared to send these three people on the road.
"Keep people under the knife!"
At this moment, there was a sudden rush roar from the other side of the canyon. (To be continued......)