Chapter 81: Smoke curls
"Okay, let's get over here."
Immediately, Zong Jiyuan and Wang Yu jumped off the horse together, and led the horse up the slope, but fortunately, both of their horses were horses that were one in a hundred, and they were not only not slow, but also very agile.
While walking upward, Wang Yu said with a smile,
"Although the idea of climbing is not bad, it is still a bit risky, if it is discovered by the other party, and there is only such a way up and down the mountain, you and I will be unable to fly."
"Then why didn't you say it earlier,"
Zong Jiyuan complained in a joking tone,
"Now that we've all come up, isn't it too late to think about it?"
"Then just be careful and don't get noticed by those guys."
Wang Yu looked at her expression that was not nervous at all, and squeezed his eyes and smiled at her like a smile.
The two of them cautiously finally came to the top of the slope, and looked to the other side of the mountain, and from a distance, they really saw the group galloping on horseback, and from the side where they went, it could be seen that their destination was in a col where the fellows had gone, and further afield, the pieces of tiles were already faintly visible.
It's in that col—
Zong Jiyuan naturally looked at Wang Yu with questioning eyes again, but this time, Wang Yu was also looking at her with the same gaze.
"Could it be a hunting house?"
"The hunting house is there, isn't it?"
The two asked questions at the same time, were stunned and laughed at the same time, Wang Yu then made a "silence" gesture and lowered his voice,
"Whether it's true or not, we'll see."
"But what about those guys?"
As he spoke, Zong Ji Yuan pointed in the direction of his feet.
Wang Yu let out an "oh", lowered his head and looked at it, only to realize that there were three thieves guarding the exit of that valley.
Unexpectedly, the person headed by the surname Chang looked like a rude person on the outside, but he was quite fine in handling things, and he adopted an attitude of "I'd rather believe it than not believe it" to Xiao Ha'er's words, and sent someone to find it there.
If you want to enter their territory from here, then you have to clean up these guys, although doing so is not a difficult thing for Zong Jiyuan and Wang Yu to do, but that will inevitably cause unnecessary trouble.
After thinking about it, for the sake of safety, it is better to look for any other way in, and the two of them looked around, and suddenly, Wang Yu seemed to have discovered some new continent, and pointed to a place,
"Ji Yuan, look there."
Seeing his happy appearance, if it weren't for the guards of the thieves under his feet, this Wang Yu would have to jump.
Zong Jiyuan looked in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, some distance to the north, there was a road leading to the col where they were going, and the reason why they could conclude that there was a road there was because they could occasionally see pedestrians coming in and out.
The road was found, but the question was, how to get there, so the eyes of these two people began to follow that direction, looking for a rough place to enter the mountain, after looking for a while, Wang Yu looked up at the sun, and saw that it was already afternoon, so he said,
"It's better to do this, I see smoke rising from the cooking stove over there, I think there should be people living there, you and I will go there to ask and inquire, after all, those people are local villagers, there should always be someone who knows how to get there."
"Oh?"
When Zong Jiyuan heard this, he looked up curiously, and sure enough, he found the cooking smoke that Wang Yu said, so he nodded and said,
"Okay, if you can, it's good to find someone to eat something, I've been running for most of the day, and I'm really hungry, but it's just ......"
"Just what?"
Seeing her hesitation, Wang Yu couldn't help but ask.
Zong Jiyuan sighed and said with some worry,
"It doesn't seem too far away, but I don't know when I walked around the mountain, and when I got to the place where the smoke was rising."
"Even if it's late, it's okay,"
Wang Yu smiled slightly, relieved her heart,
"It's good to get there before sunset, anyway, because if we really want to explore that hunting house, we'll have to wait until it gets dark anyway before we can sneak in, and we can't do this 'sneaky' thing in broad daylight."
"That's not what I'm talking about,"
Zong Jiyuan's brows were still furrowed, and he didn't mean to expand, and said,
"What I'm saying is that when you find a place where there are people, your stomach won't be hungry."
"Huh? You're talking about this,"
Wang Yu was made to cry and laugh by her half-joking, half-serious attitude,
"Then there's no way, who made you hungry so easily, you can only endure it."
The two men led their horses down the hillside with light hands, discerned their directions, and walked in the general direction where the smoke had risen.
It really made Zong Jiyuan unfortunate to say it, when he stood on the top of the mountain and looked there, he didn't feel too far away, but when he really walked, this road was ridiculously long, and sometimes he thought it was about to arrive, but he had to go around in the opposite direction, but fortunately, the two of them were staring at it tightly, and it was already very good that they didn't get lost. It wasn't until the sun had set in the west and the mountain winds were blowing with it that the road was spotted with ruts, horses' hooves, and human footprints.
It's time to go to that inhabited place this time—
Thinking like this, although they were a little tired, they instinctively quickened their pace, and when they walked up this slightly sloping mountain road, they really found a small village.
Seeing such a closed place, Zong Jiyuan couldn't help but wonder if the two of them went to inquire about the Tao so abruptly, and wanted to have dinner, would it disturb them, or if there were people living here, could there be an eyeline of thieves in the Dongshan Valley, and after seeing Zong Jiyuan and Wang Yu, two outsiders, they would run to ventilate and report the news......
was hesitating, Wang Yu suddenly stretched out a finger and poked her waist, saying,
"Why don't you go forward, what are you doing here?"
"Ah......h
This finger stabbed Zong Jiyuan's whole body, and he glared at the other party hatefully and said,
"Don't touch me like that in the future!"
"Huh?"
Wang Yu held up his finger that had not yet been withdrawn, and said with some innocence and surprise,
"What's the matter, isn't it just stabbing you, what's the big deal?"
"If you say you are not allowed to touch me, you are not allowed to touch me,"
Zong Jiyuan's remaining anger has not disappeared,
"If you dare to do this next time, beware of me pulling your fingers off."
"Wow, oh my God, Ji Yuan is so ruthless,"
Wang Yu smiled and said,
"Okay, okay, don't you dare next time, but didn't you say you're hungry, why don't you take a few quick steps and enter the village?"