Chapter 464: Salutation
There is no small evil because there is a big evil, Pei Qingqing, who was listening silently on the side, grabbed a piece of halva again and put it in his mouth, looked at the two people in front of him, chewed it silently a few times, and suddenly said: "They want to find you and say it directly, the reason why they don't say it directly, is it that there are wicked people in this station?" β
"I don't know." Qiao Ran glanced up at her, then shook her head and said, "It's hard to say about this matter now, maybe there is, but I don't know which one or which ones." β
Pei Qingqing pursed her lips and said, "The postman who came to deliver the meal in the morning was particularly enthusiastic, and he looked weird, maybe he was one of them." "Although the cannibal mouth is short, the truth still has to be told! She said to herself.
Qiao Ran smiled and touched her head, the two balls on top of her head felt so good, and she was getting used to it more and more.
"So to speak, the people living in this post station are not ordinary people." Pei Qingqing sat on the chair and shook back and sighed, "There are three waves of people, one wave is an assassin who is covering, one wave is a real assassin, and one wave is also an assassin, but the difference is that the assassin is different." β
The small post station is so "hidden dragon and crouching tiger", it is really ridiculous.
Zhang Xie also finished reading the oil paper book at this time, handed the oil paper book back to Qiao Ran, and said: "It is written on the oil paper that this Gutong County Order covers the sky with one hand, robs the people's daughters, and local officials, businessmen, and even monks and Taoists in temples and Taoist temples are also used by this county order." I beg these adults to do justice for the local people. β
"So, the real Earth Emperor?" Qiao Ran understood, and her expression became more and more solemn at this time, "There really is a great evil." β
"Is this little county order so powerful?" Pei Qingqing seemed a little puzzled, she thought about it seriously, and said, "Those Xiangye in Chang'an City are not so powerful!" β
"Hades is so good that it is difficult to send little ghosts." Qiao Ran said, "A small county magistrate naturally doesn't have that much ability, but what if he colludes with some people who are enough to deter the people of the four townships of this county? β
Pei Qingqing seemed puzzled, and wanted to ask again, so she heard Zhang Xie speak again at this time.
"Monks, Taoist priests, and warlocks like me often control the energy of the people far more powerful than we think." He said, "Sometimes these people can convince the people with a little trickery and nonsense. β
"There are also such dangerous mountain ranges as this, if the bandits who occupy the mountains are out of the official body and cross the bright road, how dare the people make a mistake?" Qiao Ran continued, "Under such physical and mental control, the Emperor of Heaven is far away, and it is not difficult to suppress the entire county and four townships with a great evil. β
"So you're going to deal with the people here?" Pei Qingqing rubbed her hands excitedly and said, "I'll go with you to do the right thing for heaven and do chivalrous deeds." β
It was really enthusiastic, Qiao Ran smiled and said "yes", and turned to look at Zhang Jie: "This matter should be discussed with General Bai." β
Bai Zhijun's goal is too conspicuous, and once he leaves his position, it is easy to startle the snake.
Bai Zhijun himself also understood this, he looked at the three people in front of him, put down the map in his hand, and said, "So I can't move?" β
"I can't move for now." Qiao Ran nodded.
For the time being, to solve the troubles in Gutong County, it is impossible not to dispatch elite soldiers.
Bai Zhijun smiled when he heard this, looked at the girl's incomparably inconspicuous facial features and Pei Qingqing, who had lost her former beauty and cuteness, and said, "So, you guys go?" β
At that time, when he lied to the people in the post station that she was sick, he knew that Master Qiao was going, but no matter how smart she was, it was always inappropriate for her to go alone as a powerless girl.
Zhang Jie, who was holding a thin human skin mask in his hand, said, "And me." β
It's not surprising that the three of them went together. In addition to Lord Qiao, the other two are all powerful players, and it is naturally more than enough to protect one Lord Qiao.
Bai Zhijun was silent for a moment, and said, "Then it's up to me to cover up the eyes and ears of people in this station." After a pause, he seemed to hesitate, "If the postman here is suspicious......
The girl let out another chuckle at this moment, and said, "I'm going to talk about it!" She said and took out a note from her arms, glanced at Pei Qingqing, who was blinking on the side, and said, "The minister who brought the meat in the morning gave it to you." β
Pei Qingqing was stunned, dazed one after another, she was also a little used to it, but she still couldn't help but say, "When was it given to you?" β
Qiao Ran said: "When the end is handed over." β
There were only two scribbled words on the note, "ears and eyes", which seemed to have been written in a hurry.
There are eyes and ears for this...... In fact, it is not surprising, they have already guessed it, otherwise how could that family be so careful when handing over the news?
"Although this news is useless, it can at least prove that there are people in this post station who are not eyes and ears." Qiao Ran said, "For example, the one who comes to bring me soup and rice every day is not. In this way, I have to leave, the general will cover, and he will not break in if he finds any problems. β
That's a good thing.
Bai Zhijun was silent for a moment, and said, "Then you guys go, just remember not to have a head-on conflict with them, after all, they ...... There are many people. β
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The sky and the earth are white and spotless. Pei Qingqing's "poem" like a laugh is really vividly described at this moment.
Although Pei Qingqing walked with short legs, it was a little strenuous, but it was not slow, but she was very puzzled by the fact that they chose to walk: "Why don't you ride a horse?" β
The movement in the carriage is too big, but it is still okay to ask the accompanying elite soldiers to borrow two horses.
"It's so mountainous that you can't ride a horse." Zhang Xie explained, looked up at the old temple on the side of the road not far ahead, and said, "Moreover, since the old and young of that family handed over the news, they have not given up on this, and if they want to assassinate the Gutong County Order, they will definitely not go far, and it is recorded on the map that there are three trails from Gutong County, and I don't know which one they want to take." But the dilapidated temple in front of it, which was vacant before the parting, was the only place to stay except for the post station. β
"If there is another place to stay, they will not stay at the inn." Qiao Ran said as she walked, "And that sister-in-law who did the assassination has a leg injury, and she can't go far this day." Even if she doesn't take care of her body, if the assassination doesn't work for a day, her body can't be okay for a day, so she must find a place to decoct the medicine. β
The ruined temple is close at hand.
"Now that we have reached the point of assassinating ourselves, we categorically did not hand over the news and ignored it." Qiao Ran tightened Pei Qingqing beside her, and she couldn't open her eyes when the wind and snow blew, "So, they will definitely stay to investigate our movements." β
"Moreover, we have to listen to their own ears, after all, it is not wise to get involved in danger for the sake of unprovoked news." Zhang Xie paused as he spoke, and then said, "The doctor who is waiting for them here, if the post station is really under the supervision of that group of people, even if the doctor invited is not their own person, he must be a cowardly and obedient person, so this doctor must stop it." β
So, the seemingly random step by step was planned a long time ago? Pei Qingqing took Qiao Ran's hand, and her two eyebrows were about to knot: "When did you two discuss?" "Except for going to the thatched house, she and Miss Qiao have been together almost all day, why haven't you seen these two people discussing?
"It's non-negotiable." Zhang Xie looked down at Pei Qingqing and said, "When we go to Gutong County, we can't be commensurate with our real names, we have to change our identities." β
Pei Qingqing rolled her eyes and opened her mouth to shout, "Daddy......"
This sound made Qiao Ran, who was pulling Pei Qingqing on the side, almost stumble.
After shouting her father, she turned to Qiao Ran again and opened her mouth: "Mother!" After a pause, she looked at Zhang Xie proudly: "This is not negotiable, I understand!" β
The two "daddy" shouts were silent.
After a pause, Qiao Ran said, "Our ages don't match. "Her disguise has not been modified too much, and Zhang Jie's disguise methods are not very powerful, except for the human skin mask, the means in her hands can only modify people, so she looks like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl at the moment. It is obviously difficult to give birth to Pei Qingqing.
However, Zhang Jie's human skin mask belt was much older, and he seemed to be a middle-aged man in his thirties. His eyes flashed, and he said pity...... Only brought a human skin mask out, no one thought that such a thing would happen, he sighed, and said to Pei Qingqing: "Call ......"
Seeing that Pei Qingqing opened her mouth again, lest she shout something shocking again, Qiao Ran hurriedly covered her mouth and shouted "uncle".
Well...... Uncle? Zhang Xie subconsciously touched his face, this "uncle" shouted so happily, it stands to reason that he should be happy. After all, the tacit understanding with her has always been one of the most proud things in his life, but I don't know why, this tacit understanding makes people feel a little uncomfortable.
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When she walked into the broken temple, Pei Qingqing stuck out her tongue, couldn't help but exclaim, "warm", and then turned to Qiao Ran and said, "Miss Qiao, you're right, someone!" She pointed to her ears and smugly raised her hand to point to the worn-out timber in the corner, "Come out!" I heard the sound, and it was so warm, I couldn't even clean up the fire on the ground, and I could smell the medicine. β
According to Miss Qiao, this is called loopholes everywhere, and she Pei Qingqing is very smart and has learned it.
In fact, as early as she spoke, there was already movement behind the wood, and not long after, the old and young family who had exchanged sugar with them before came out from behind.
Although the appearance of the people in front of them was a little unfamiliar, they could hear the child's voice.
So, did you really receive a message from them?
The man who had come forward to exchange sugar with them bent his knees excitedly, and then the whole family, even the five or six-year-old child, although he didn't know why, knelt down with him.
"Help, sir!"
"Get up and talk!" Zhang Xie stretched out his hand to help them, looked at them, and said lightly, "It is impossible to send troops just by a few words on the oil paper." β
With 5,000 elite soldiers in hand, it is not impossible to send troops to suppress it, and it is not impossible to rescue the people of Gutong County from fire and water, after all, under the leadership of Bai Zhijun, it is not difficult to sweep away one county and four townships. But it is not an easy task to catch the so-called prefectural order and catch the black hand behind the scenes. Five thousand elite soldiers are huge, how can they not startle the snake?
And the five thousand elite soldiers are not dispatched when they say they will be dispatched, this time, if it were not for the reason that the strangeness of Gutong County might be related to Shanxi Road, Bai Zhijun might not have stayed.
It is true that the generals will be subject to the orders of the foreign monarchs, but now the matter of Shanxi Road is a major matter, and this is the reason why General Gu and his party were assassinated before and did not make a noise.
"You are the assassin who assassinated the county order wanted by the county government?" Qiao Ran looked at the fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl and asked out loud.
The girl nodded, got up with her family, and sat down by the fire.
After the family sat down, the man began to speak: "We are all from Gutong County, and we first carried a flat shoulder to walk the streets and alleys to make a living by selling snacks, so I was not rich at first, and my sister was sent to the opera troupe to learn to sing since she was a child." β
Grew up in a theater troupe...... No wonder that sister-in-law knows some martial arts and dares to assassinate.
Zhang Xie glanced at Qiao Ran, then hummed and motioned for him to continue.
"Although the owner of the troupe is strict, he is not bad to the sister, so even if he later started a shop and started a snack business, the sister-in-law often goes back to visit."
Pei Qingqing licked her mouth, and subconsciously answered: "Your halva is a little too sweet, and it may be more delicious to add some plum sourness." β
The man was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but "poof", the original anxiety seemed to have disappeared a lot because of this sound, and then said: "The troupe is still famous in Gutong County, there is a martial artist and the sister of the house, the childhood sweetheart, and the sister of the house, the result of the county order is a man and woman who are not taboo, seeing that the sister's fiancΓ© is good-looking, so he ......"
What people want is nothing more than seven emotions and six desires, so although things are a little bizarre, robbing people's women to replace them with men, it can also be explained.
"The head of the troupe is an upright person, so he naturally refused, but he didn't expect that after that, Master Yuanfeng and Daoist Guyuan said that the people in the troupe were the reincarnation of ghosts, and the people rushed into the troupe and arrested the entire troupe and burned them alive in public."
At that time, they were in pain, and the things that tossed and turned were really just between words, and the man looked stunned. I don't know if these adults, as outsiders, can understand their pain.
"There is a problem with the Gutong County Order, why don't you go to Shanxi Road to find the official Yin?" Zhang Xie asked.
"If we can report to the government to solve it, why should we take risks?" The man said and stretched out his hand to pat his sad wife and children, and said comfortingly, "The adults and their entourage are not ordinary people, or I and others dare not block the way of the adults." β
"But since Wang Chunlin was appointed as the commander of Gutong County, there have been many evil things that have happened, and a lot of things have been done to report to the official, and Yin of Shanxi Road Mansion has changed two groups of people, but every time someone reports to the official and sends someone to check it out, it is all over in the end."
Pei Qingqing listened carefully, and when she heard this, she couldn't help but pull the hem of Qiao Ran's clothes, and said, "So the entire Shanxi Road is in cahoots with this Wang Chunlin?" β
"Not necessarily." Qiao Ran said and looked at the man who spoke up, and said, "He just said that the people in the troupe were not beaten to death by Wang Chunlin or casually planted crimes, but they were allowed to say by the master and the Taoist leader, and drove the people to arrest and burn the people in the entire troupe alive, I think...... If the people turn back on the spot and falsely accuse the victims, under so many witnesses, the officials sent by Yin of Shanxi Road Mansion naturally believe the people, and the result is not good, and even the accuser is imprisoned, and over time, the people in the four townships of this county are either conforming to the crowd or silent. After all, most people will not care if the knife does not stab themselves, and when they really stab themselves, they will either assassinate themselves or consider themselves unlucky. β
Pei Qingqing was stunned when he heard this, and the man was also stunned when he heard this, paused for a moment, and immediately became excited: "My lord is right, this Gutong County, no, it is the four townships of this county, most of the people listen to the words of Master Yuanfeng and Guyuan Daoist, and they have to listen to them talk about Buddhism and Taoism every day, Gutong County has also repaired the golden body and the altar for the two, and these two people have a mouth for Wang Chunlin, and I don't know how many people who offended him......"
"It's like a cult." Zhang Jie, who had been silent for a while, also spoke up at this time, his expression was extremely solemn, "The cult controls people's hearts and souls, and it is not surprising that the accused believers do anything. β
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