Chapter 31: This is not a good sign
At dawn, in the silence of the mountain forest, a group of soldiers ran down the river towards the bottom of the mountain.
The leader rode a brown horse, it was the leading soldier Yun Xin, he was followed by twenty soldiers in civilian clothes, and at the back of the line, a soldier drove a small carriage, which was loaded with soldiers' heavy armor and weapons.
Yunxin and his team had traveled thirty-five kilometers, groping all night in this rolling mountain forest, non-stop, and finally caught a glimpse of a populated village in front of them at dawn.
"Pick up the pace!" Yun Xin turned around and ordered the soldiers behind him who were all panting.
Rushing more than 30 kilometers of mountain roads overnight, without means of transportation, relying only on the soldiers to climb with their bare hands and wade through mountains and rivers with their feet, if they did not maintain a certain amount of physical training every day, these soldiers would definitely be at a loss.
The speed of the march began to increase, and the hazy village scene in front of them gradually became clear, and soon the group of soldiers stepped onto the gravel clearing in front of the village.
The ruins, the crooked huts, and a huge ravine, clearly caused by the battle, crisscrossed the middle of the village.
Yun Xin straddled the horse at the front of the team, he looked at the boulder carved with "Sand and Stone Village" in front of the village with three flying characters on his face, he didn't look back, and shouted: "The whole team listens to the order!" Get ready for battle now! ”
When the soldiers received the order, they immediately put away their legs and panted with their legs hunched over, removed their blades and heavy armor from the carriage and quickly equipped.
No matter what happened in this village before this, it didn't matter at all in Yun Xin's eyes, all he cared about was to capture the escaped prisoner Bei Ji back to prison, even if it was from the abyss, he had to fish Bei Ji up, because he didn't allow himself to have any professional stains.
The movement in front of the village obviously did not escape the attention of the villagers, and some villagers poked their heads out of the hut one after another to check, and some even ran outside the hut.
At this time, the door of the blacksmith shop closest to the entrance of the village was pushed open, Lao Zhang walked out of the house, carrying a shovel and looking at the soldiers who suddenly appeared at the gate of the village suspiciously.
"What do you guys do?" Lao Zhang asked loudly.
"Captain," one of the soldiers saw that someone in the village was questioning, so he leaned over to the horse and waited for the leading soldier to speak.
Yun Xin snorted at him, so the soldier trotted to Lao Zhang with his sword.
"We are the soldiers of the No. 2 Prison of the Empire, the prison of hell, there is news that the fugitives from the Empire have escaped from prison and absconded here, and we have been ordered to come to arrest and return to prison, please actively cooperate," the soldier said in detail.
As soon as Lao Zhang heard that there were fugitives in his village, he immediately retorted: "Impossible! Our gravel village has never been indisputable with the world, the people are simple, everyone just wants to live their lives in peace, how can they become prisoners and escape from prison! ”
"This is the prisoner's message," the soldier said, without conforming to him, pulling out the bounty order and propping it up with both hands.
At this time, curious villagers came to the entrance of the village one after another, and looked at the bounty order, and the portrait above was a shell pole, and the details were marked at the bottom.
Prisoner Bei Ji, hijacked the Imperial Army's rations halfway, seriously injured more than a dozen soldiers of the escort team, had obvious rebel intentions, extremely dangerous, half a month ago in the prison of hell, openly resisted, escaped from prison, if there is an insider to provide valid information, the reward is 2,000 gold coins! - Hell's Prison
Lao Zhang stared at the reward order in the soldier's hand with an ugly face, speechless, he didn't expect that the escaped prisoner that the soldiers wanted to capture was actually Bei Ji.
The third aunt, who came over at some point, pinched Lao Zhang's back with her hand, and hurriedly grabbed Lao Zhang's mouth and said: "That, my lord, there is no such person in our village, you must have made a mistake, you see, why don't you go somewhere else to find it?" ”
"Did you know that harboring prisoners is also a crime?" Yun Xin turned over from his horse and walked towards the villagers, and the soldiers with swords behind him approached at the same time: "We have received the exact news, the prisoner is with you, the bounty has been taken away, you say there is no such person?" ”
Yun Xin took out his heavy sword and slammed it towards the ground: "Are you treating us as shit!" ”
The gathered villagers looked at the heavy sword, some of them were pale and speechless, and some of them sighed sadly, and took a step back and whispered beside them.
"He was indeed here," Lao Zhang endured for a long time, and finally didn't listen to the third aunt's advice, and said: "But yesterday I left the village and went to another place, we are in Shashi Village, and there is no such person now." ”
"Fart!"
Yun Xin replied loudly with a swear word, not caring at all about Lao Zhang, who was already frowning in front of him.
"The news we got in the middle of the night last night was chased over the mountain road of more than 30 kilometers overnight, and it didn't stop for a moment, and now you tell me that he has left?"
Yun Xin put his face very close to Lao Post, and his speech almost popped out from between his teeth: "Lao Tzu is very angry now, you better hand over the person to me immediately!" ”
"I said, people are no longer in the village, if you don't believe it, you can enter the village to search, we won't stop you," Lao Zhang's right hand holding the shovel became more and more forceful, he himself was extremely short-tempered, who dared to speak to himself in this tone on weekdays, it was not easy to be amicable in front of these soldiers for so long.
But Yun Xin couldn't hear such words, he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers behind him: "Tie them up for me!" ”
At this order, the onlookers immediately retreated in panic and hid in the village, while the soldiers took out the ropes and rushed out in a swarm.
"I'll fuck your uncle, I see who dares?!"
Lao Zhang finally couldn't hold back the anger that was rising in his heart anymore, and picked up the shovel and stood up in front of the surging soldiers.
"Smack!"
A shovel stunned a soldier who rushed to the front, Lao Zhang danced his arms without fear, and the hurricane-like majestic attack came overwhelmingly towards the soldiers, and the soldiers marching towards the village were blocked from advancing outside the village for a while.
"Lock him up!" Yun Xin saw that this person was like a mad cow, so he shouted.
When the soldiers heard the order, they quickly formed a circle around him and framed Lao Zhang in it.
Suddenly, as a soldier lifted a shield and rushed out first, all the soldiers around rushed out, and more than a dozen heavily armored soldiers rushed up one after another.
Facing Lao Zhang, who was pressed under the bottom and only exposed a head and kept scolding, Yunxin lifted a stone and stepped forward, aiming at his head and slapping it fiercely.
"Smack!"
Bei Ji slapped out a palm and imprinted it on Wu Tuo's face on the side, just when Wu Tuo was about to scold with a confused face, Bei Ji slowly pulled out his palm: "Brother Wu, there are mosquitoes." ”。
With a calm face, he used his fingers to shoot the mosquito away, and Bei Ji frowned and looked around at the environment on the way.
Compared with yesterday's outing, today's weather seems to be extraordinarily stuffy, and there are so many mosquitoes on the way back to the village, Bei Ji sighed to himself: "This is not a good sign......"