Chapter 42: Investigation
The boat slowly and silently leaned to the shore, and there was a crescent moon in the sky, so that even at night, it was possible to see the scenery from a considerable distance.
The waves crashed against the reef by the sea, constantly making a whooshing sound, just blocking the sound of the ship docking, so that when Yu Xiaotian's ship docked, it was almost impossible to attract anyone's attention.
According to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, the ship did not light a lamp, relying on Ma Mian and the others' familiarity with the sea in this area, the ship was sailed here, and with the help of the moonlight, the ship was docked in this secluded place.
They departed in the evening, and after a long voyage it was getting dark, and the ship approached the land under the cover of night, and sailed to this place.
They are very familiar with the coastal terrain in this area, and Liu Laoliu is even more familiar with the coastal situation in Funing, so it is not difficult for them to find a secluded place to dock.
After the ship docked, Yu Xiaotian immediately jumped off the boat and tied the boat to the shore with the black head and others, but they did not drop anchor, and once they encountered a situation, they could quickly cut the cable and sail the ship to the shore.
Yu Xiaotian checked the things on his body, tied the straw sandals on his feet tightly, as well as water bladders and dry food, etc., there was no problem, and then turned his head and said to Liu Laoliu, who sent him: "You will leave here in a while, find a place to wait on the sea, and come here to pick us up at this time tomorrow!" ”
Liu Laoliu's lips trembled and he took Yu Xiaotian's hand, and only after a while did he say, "You have to be careful!" We'll pick you up on time tomorrow! ”
Yu Xiaotian smiled, revealing a row of his beautiful big white teeth, nodded and said, "Don't get in the way, this time I just went with Uncle Ma to investigate the situation in the Jiang family's compound first, and inquire if Erya is locked up in the Jiang family's compound!" Just be careful! The sixth uncle can rest assured! ”
After saying that, Yu Xiaotian didn't talk nonsense, said hello to the horse face, the black head and Zhao Mazi, and strode ashore towards the land.
Although this was the first time he had set foot on the mainland in this world, Yu Xiaotian did not feel a little happy, on the contrary, it was a bit like before he was about to go to the boxing ring, the adrenaline began to increase and secretion, and his spirit became vigorous and nervous.
This time, he did not come for sightseeing on land, but to investigate the situation of the Jiang family's compound with Ma Yan and the others, and then return to the ship to determine the next course of action.
Don't look at him as a soldier, but it doesn't mean that he didn't know how the pig got away if he didn't eat pork, and later generations filled the screen with novels with various military themes, so he also learned a lot about military operations, so even if he painted a tiger according to a cat, at least it was much more thoughtful than the horses' faces and their dirt buns!
This time, he landed with only a few people who were familiar with the land situation in this area, such as Ma Mian, to go to Dongshan Village to inquire about the news about Erya, and in addition, he wanted to find a place to carefully observe the situation in the Jiang family's compound, and make full intelligence preparations for the next move, and then strive to enter the Jiang family in one fell swoop, rescue Erya, and find a safe road, withdraw to the sea as quickly as possible to board the ship, and retreat to the sea.
This plan is simple to say, but it is not very easy to do, after all, his physical appearance is different from ordinary people, and he is not suitable for appearing in the eyes of ordinary people on land, otherwise it is easy to alarm Jiang Baihu who controls this area, and when the time comes, he will not be able to startle the snake, and even he may be caught in this area.
So he has to be a little more careful, but Yu Xiaotian can't help but come, after all, this time he will preside over this matter, which is very important for him in the future, if he does a good job, he will be a blockbuster, and completely become the backbone of this group, but if it fails, he will have to take full responsibility, and it will not be easy to gain the trust of these people in the future, and the plan is proposed by him, if he doesn't go ashore, then first, he has no bottom in his heart, and second, he is afraid that these people will not be convinced, He couldn't do it with the help of someone else, so he had to take the risk.
This area is a relatively remote place along the coast, and the surrounding area is basically mountainous and hilly, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's policy of banning the sea, as well as the influence of the early years of the Japanese plague, the population of this area is relatively sparse, although it is nominally a place to prepare for the Japanese, but in essence it is loosely guarded, for the horse face who has lived here for a long time, they want to find a passage to enter, it is not a problem at all.
There is no mountain village nearby, and there is no Ming army garrison, which is a very suitable place to sneak in, and everyone under the leadership of Ma Mian quickly found a sheep intestine path in the mountains, and then quickly marched inland by the moonlight overhead.
Yu Xiaotian walked among several people without saying a word, constantly looking around with the help of the moonlight, observing the terrain in this area, and remembering it as much as possible in his heart in case of emergency.
In terms of remembering the road, Yu Xiaotian thinks that it is still good, many times as long as he walks the road once, even if he walks it every few years, he can find the road he has walked before, but today is a little difficult for him, the surrounding mountains are very similar, the terrain is very similar, and it is still night, the line of sight can not be far, and basically there are no markers on the path for him to remember, so after turning for a while, he turned a little, fortunately there is still the moon in the sky, which makes him more or less overcome the problem of turning, But if you want to memorize this trail, it's obviously a little difficult for him.
In the end, after walking for about an hour, Yu Xiaotian finally gave up the idea of remembering the road, and let the horse face lead the way in front, at this time, a cloud in the sky covered the moonlight, and the sky and the earth became dim.
"This is it, further ahead is Dongshan Village, Jiang Baihu's family is in front, see no, where is Dongshan, after going up, you can see the Jiang family compound, let's break up here, Zhao Mazi and I went to find someone to find out the news, the black head will take you up the mountain, tomorrow it will be dark and we will come to look for you, and we will meet here, let's go back to the boat!" Be careful, don't let anyone see it! After walking for a while, after everyone had bypassed a forest, Ma Yan suddenly stopped, pointed to the front and whispered to Xiaotian.
Yu Xiaotian immediately stopped his steps, and looked ahead with the faint moonlight that appeared in the sky from time to time, a hill appeared in front of him, leaning against a compound at the foot of the mountain like a monster entrenched at the foot of the mountain, and vaguely he could see that there seemed to be a faint light in the compound.
This compound should be the Jiang family's compound, not far from it, there seems to be a small mountain village hidden in the dark mountain col, but there is no light.
At night in this era, there is almost no entertainment for the common people, the exercise in bed with a wife is probably the only entertainment project, and the one without a wife can only lie down and eat himself, many poor families can not even light the lamp, as soon as it gets dark, ordinary people will turn off the lights early to go to bed, and get up early the next morning to start a day of farming.
Only large families will light lanterns in the yard at night, so it is easy to distinguish who is a rich family at night, Jiang Baihu is within a radius of dozens of miles, is a large household, so his home is not only a large yard, but also a relatively large pomp, although it is already the middle of the night at this time, but the yard is still lit with lanterns, so that people can determine his home from a distance.
Yu Xiaotian despised the guy surnamed Jiang, if it weren't for the fact that the trouble has been reduced a lot in recent years, the Jiang family's behavior is simply showing the way for the widows.
However, Yu Xiaotian immediately nodded and replied, "Okay! You should also be careful, try not to startle the snake, spend a little silver, just spend a little, and try to find out where Erya is locked up now! Rest assured on our side, we will hide in the mountains during the day and will not be discovered! Tomorrow at nine o'clock in the evening...... Oh! No, it's the second watch in the evening, and we're still meeting here! Take care! ”
After saying that, Yu Xiaotian immediately walked up the hill behind Dongshan Village with the black head, while Ma Mian and Zhao Mazi also immediately turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
The sea breeze rustled the leaves, and the black head took Yu Xiaotianshen to climb the hill behind Dongshan Village with one foot and one foot shallow, and when they climbed the hill and looked down, the mountain was pitch black, only a glimmer of light appeared in the front yard of the Jiang family's compound, and they couldn't see too much clearly.
Yu Xiaotian took the black head to find a position on the mountain that was most suitable for observing the Jiang family's compound and Dongshan Village below, and sat down, the temperature at this time of the night had begun to become relatively cool, and the two of them were covered with dew, which was very uncomfortable, and there were more mosquitoes on the mountain at night, and there were mosquitoes buzzing around them, which made people bored, and the bitten were full of bags, but Yu Xiaotian also endured it.
Because of the distance, and the moon was obscured by clouds after the second half of the night, the heaven and the earth seemed to be locked into a cauldron, and it was pitch black, except for the faint light from the Jiang family compound in the distance, although Yu Xiaotian tried his best to see the situation of the entire Jiang family compound.
After the black head arrived in the second half of the night, he was already drowsy leaning against the tree, Yu Xiaotian didn't care about him, but climbed a big tree, and carefully observed below, but the light was too dim, making his efforts in vain.
Suddenly, Yu Xiaotian's heart moved, and he slid down the tree and woke up the black head, the black head may be dreaming, and after being awakened, he was suddenly startled, and the spirit jumped up at once, and he opened his mouth to scream, but Yu Xiaotian covered his mouth and pressed him to the ground.
"Don't sleep! You keep an eye on it here, I'll go down and take a look! Whether there is a dog in the Jiang family's compound is very important to us, I will touch the outside of his yard first and listen, you are waiting for me here! Yu Xiaotian let go of his hand and whispered to the black head.
The black head had already woken up at this time, and hurriedly said: "I'll go down with you, it's too dark this day, I can't see anything here, it's too dark at this time, I'm afraid you won't be able to find me when you come up!" It's better to go together! ”
Yu Xiaotian also makes sense to listen to it, it is really dark on the mountain at this time, and it is said that there are wolves on the mountain, Fujian is known as eight mountains, one water and one field, there are many mountains, there are more wild animals, the degree of development is far less than the Central Plains, and it is indeed a bit dangerous to be alone in the mountains.
So he agreed to the black head's request, and the two of them cleaned up and immediately began to touch the mountain, and it took a while to touch the outside of the Jiang family's compound.
Yu Xiaotian listened carefully to the movement in the courtyard, the night was very quiet, and as long as there was movement in the courtyard, it could be heard far away, so this was also the best time for them to explore the Jiang family's compound.
But the courtyard is very quiet, there is no sound, it seems that everyone has fallen asleep, Yu Xiaotian quickly walked to the courtyard wall, looked up, the courtyard wall is indeed very high, about four meters, and the courtyard wall is very strong, the surface is also very smooth, if you don't rely on tools, you can't climb at all, so don't think about easy you can climb the wall, the wall can enter the compound, it can be seen that the Jiang family's financial resources are quite strong, otherwise it will be difficult for them to build such a courtyard wall alone.
Carefully following the background of the sky, Yu Xiaotian observed the Jiang family's compound, from his position, it can be known that they are now outside the backyard of the Jiang family's compound, there is an arrow tower in the corner of the courtyard, but at this time there is no family left, the arrow tower is dark, there is no light, and no sound can be heard.
The black head also came over cautiously at this time, probably because the mountain road was not easy to walk, and it was too physically exhausting, the black head was a little out of breath, leaning against the courtyard wall and panting, sticking to Yu Xiaotian's side, in the darkness could only see his eyes, Yu Xiaotian saw his nervousness from the black head's eyes, so he nodded to him to show encouragement.
Yu Xiaotian was also a little nervous at this time, after all, this time was about their lives, even if he was very bold, he couldn't say that he was not nervous at all, but he still managed to stabilize his emotions, and after listening carefully for a while, he reached out and touched a stone on the ground, and threw the stone into the compound with his arm.
In the silence of the night, the sound of stones falling in the courtyard could be clearly heard, but then no sound was heard.
Yu Xiaotian was a lot relieved at this time, and said in his heart that Jiang Baihu was really arrogant enough, with such a big family business, there was not a single dog in the yard, which really helped him a lot.
Yu Xiaotian is not very worried about the sneak attack on the Jiang family's compound, in his opinion, as long as they can sneak into the compound and catch the Jiang family off guard, they are very likely to succeed, the most difficult thing is to enter the compound before alarming the Jiang family, if the Jiang family has a dog, then it will become very difficult to sneak into his yard easily.
Although he has many ways to deal with dogs, if he wants to clean up the dog without any movement, then with his current ability, it is difficult to do it.
Now when it was determined that the Jiang family did not have a dog, Yu Xiaotian had a more certain certainty, so he immediately took the black head around the Jiang family's compound and carefully circled around, and after carefully observing the Jiang family's compound, he quietly retreated to the mountain again.
Although he was very worried about Erya at this time, and he wanted to climb over the wall immediately and rescue Erya, but because he was not sure that Erya was in this courtyard now, in order not to startle the snake, Yu Xiaotian still resisted this impulse and dispelled this idea.
While doing everything, the black head held his breath and didn't dare to take a breath, and carefully followed Yu Xiaotian around the Jiang family's compound, looking at Yu Xiaotian's courage and carefulness, the black head had to admire him at this time, in the black head's opinion, although he was very unconvinced when he first met Yu Xiaotian before, but after so many days of familiarity, he found that he was not as good as Yu Xiaotian in too many places, although he felt a little discouraged about this, but he still had to admit it.
Seeing that it was almost dawn, Yu Xiaotian and Heitou both climbed a big tree, tied themselves to the big tree with strips of cloth, and covered their bodies with branches and leaves, so they both squinted for a while.
When the sunlight fell on Xiaotian's eyelids through the gaps between the leaves, Yu Xiaotian woke up from his sleep, and at this time the sky was already bright, and human voices had begun to appear under the mountain.
Yu Xiaotian untied the strip of cloth tied to his body, drank saliva, took out a piece of dry food and ate a little, turned his head and saw that the black head was still holding saliva at this time, lying on a big branch to sleep incense, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head, and said in his heart This guy's nerves are really big enough, he can sleep under any circumstances, people like the black head, don't look at the usual babbling, in fact, Zheng'er Bajing is not the kind of person who has a city in his chest.
Brushing aside the dense branches and leaves, Yu Xiaotian condescendingly began to look down the mountain......
(It's two more today.,This chapter is basically almost 5,000 words.,I've been busy for the past two days.,A little cold.,Sitting in front of the computer for a day.,My head is dizzy!) What about red tickets? Give it back! )