"Say it again."

“......”

"Let me say it again!"

The dusty subordinate in front of him raised his eyes and glanced at the person opposite when he heard this, trembling, he also knew that what he said was not a good thing, he gritted his teeth and repeated in a low voice: "Master Hou...... Hou Ye has been in for half a month, so far there is no news, the heavy snow has blocked the road in Yanshan Town, the people who went in before can't get out, we can't get in, this morning they flew two pigeons out, saying that the merchants who were stealing in the wasteland have all come out, but they are all dead, and the death is strange. Hou Ye, Hou Ye is afraid that it may be ......"

He couldn't continue, he only felt that half a word more, Fan Rui could pull out a knife on the spot and cut him down.

There was a tall and slender man standing on the side, who paid more attention to taking care of Fan Rui, so his appearance was exceptionally clean, and he was more energetic than Fan Rui, who had been working hard for days, he stepped forward at this moment and asked: "If I didn't find anyone, I dared to come to report the death, if I was Fan Steward, I would tear your throat out on the spot, since I can still communicate with pigeons, I will reply to the command and ask them to continue to look for it!" ”

The subordinates were even more frightened, and their teeth bumped against each other, and they spoke loudly: "The pigeons, the pigeons that were released from the wasteland, are all dead. ”

Fan Rui's face sank like a quagmire of black water, and he listened: "How did you die, you were poisoned, you froze to death, tell the result!" ”

"No result!" The subordinate also asked the question, and said: "As soon as the pigeon was taken from the letter, it was planted on the ground and died." At first, I thought about curing it, but when I caught the pigeon, I squeezed a lot of water out of my belly, and I don't know what it was, but the pigeon died. It doesn't look like it froze to death, it doesn't look like it was poisoned, and half a pigeon was thrown to feed the dog, and the dog was fine if he ate it. ”

"Then there is no other way to send the message in, and the people inside can't send the message out again?"

The subordinate answered, and said: "It's nothing, but it's ......"

Fan Rui was really about to get angry, and he hated people who twisted and pinched the rope the most, and his subordinates immediately said: "Just now, when I came, I suddenly received a letter, saying that General Feng had heard the news of Hou Ye's sudden departure from Beijing and sent someone!" ”

Fang Liangzhe frowned a little inexplicably, and said in a low voice: "What is Feng Xiwen going to do with this evil ghost." ”

Van Rui groaned and didn't say anything about it, but waved him to go out first, and finally asked, "How many people touched that pigeon?" ”

The subordinate said, "Three, three." ”

"What about dogs?"

"It's tied in its place, and no one has gone forward."

Fan Rui made a gesture that Fang Liangzhe couldn't understand, and the subordinate retreated with understanding, Fang Liangzhe couldn't help asking: "Those people have no way to live?" ”

"What do you say, Fang County Order." Fan Rui was a little surprised: "It's just to guard it first." Besides, if I don't keep them, I can't get out of my way now. It's the Fang County Order, the adults are not in Yanshan Town now, once General Feng's people enter the Yanshan, the adults will not be able to do well. ”

Fang Liangzhe made a bitter face: "Won't I be able to go back to that place?" I'm missing. How many people were parasitized in Rock Mountain Town, how many puppets were there, and how many people in the town were infected when they went to deal with those puppets, we don't have any count in our hearts, how dare I go back? You want me to go back and be a live target, but I won't do it. ”

Fan Rui glanced at him coldly and said, "Not to mention that I have been a magistrate of Yanshan for three or four years, and the people have a lot of food and clothing, so it is rare to leave it alone." ”

"I didn't mean to come here to be the county magistrate, I tell you the truth, I was transferred after receiving the order to protect Miss Chen, and on the first day I came, I thought that after this case was done, I could go back to ascend, I didn't think about it." Fang Liangzhe seemed very disapproving: "What ability to do something, I don't have the ambition to sacrifice myself for the people." ”

"It's the county magistrate's mansion that was bombed, and my county magistrate is missing, but I haven't received the news of the above investigation for a long time, and I haven't seen the new county magistrate coming. Steward Fan's news is blocked," Fang Liangzhe continued: "Who wants to be tight, but it still can't be done, what is this Feng Xiwen chasing after him?" He is the upstart in front of His Majesty, and once his people come, the news that Hou Ye has no news will be able to hide it. ”

Fan Rui's face is tight.

The heavy snow blocked the road, and even if he wanted to send people in at this time, he would no longer be able to enter people, not to mention that there were frequent strange things in the wasteland.

After Song Chuanbai first entered the wasteland, Fan Rui, who stayed behind, blew up the county order mansion and put down the North Hunting Hall, which had all become evens, he sent a group of people to chase it in, and the viciousness in the wasteland was hidden, and they brought a large amount of food and water, ready to meet Song Chuanbai and Chen Tongsheng at any time. However, soon after this group of people entered, they found corpses along the way, and after inspection, they were identified as merchants who entered the ruins of the Northern Dynasty in the depths of the wasteland, and according to Wang Er, it was also time for them to come out.

But the strange thing is that they didn't bring any goods with them this time, and when they died, they were completely empty-handed, and the area around the corpse was empty, and they didn't even see the luggage that they should have after a long journey. And three days after the body was found, it was soft to the touch and still looked like a living person.

They died peacefully, and when they first discovered their team, they even suspected that the gang had simply passed out in the wasteland, after all, once the temperature in the wasteland dropped, it was common for people to freeze to death.

However, as soon as the team sent out was divided into three people to transport the body back, it suddenly snowed heavily on the wasteland.

The rocky mountains next to the wasteland have not yet fallen, and the inconspicuous small villages next to the rocky mountains have not yet fallen, but the wasteland behind the mountains has been buried by the snow as thick as winter blankets overnight.

Heavy snow closed the mountain road connecting the wasteland to the outside world, and the situation was at a stalemate for a while.

Chen Tongsheng and the things they originally brought with them couldn't cope with the heavy snow at all.

The thieves and merchants who were able to survive in the ruins of the Northern Dynasties for a whole summer had to avoid the snow, which shows that the wasteland cannot provide a place for people to take shelter in the cold winter.

And Feng Xiwen chased after him at this time, this guy has always been at odds with Yang and Hou, in case he takes the opportunity to spread rumors outside, it will not be fun.

Fan Rui turned back to a simple table and began to write, Fang Liangzhe stood far away, looked outside, and said, "What does Manager Fan want to do next?" ”

Fan Rui didn't raise his head and said, "What does the county order think?" ”

Fang Liangzhe was silent for a moment and said, "I don't understand something, why did Master Hou go in such a place where life and death are unknown?" ”

Fan Rui raised his eyes and asked coldly, "If you have anything to say, just say it directly." ”

Fang Liangzhe immediately waved his hand: "Don't misunderstand, Fang Mouwan didn't mean to complain about Hou Ye, he just felt surprised." Hou Ye has always had arrangements for everything, and my time to do things in Hou Ye's hands is naturally not as good as that of Steward Fan, but even I will feel unexpected, how can Steward Fan not feel it? Hou Ye did very inappropriately in this battle, and now the former wolf and the tiger, either take people to pile up a road out, take care of life and death, and find Hou Ye back. Or, there is someone who can only report to the people in Kyoto first, hoping that they will take care of it first. ”

Fan Rui snorted coldly from his nose, kept writing in his hand, and said, "I thought that the Fang County Order would be directly blamed on Miss Chen." ”

Fang Liangzhe was not surprised, but smiled: "Hou Ye is not such a confused person, is it just to accompany her in?" It's also too ......."

Fan Rui listened to this half sentence, showing a little indescribable, some mockery, and some emotion, lowered his head and wrote another line.

Fang Liangzhe looked at his expression, almost as if he had admitted it, and felt very ridiculous in his heart at the moment, and the rest of his words suddenly stopped, without saying a word.

His previous cognition of Yang and Hou made his first reaction when he heard this was to refute it, but he soon found that Song Chuanbai seemed to have nothing to do with such things as children's love in his previous image. Now that this item was suddenly added, it became difficult to determine, Fang Liangzhe unconsciously lowered his eyebrows, but he didn't notice Fan Rui's cold sweeping eyes.

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Peak Gate Pass.

The door of the inn was pushed open by force, and the snow particles outside swept in with the wind, and two girls sat very close to the door, and one of them couldn't help but let out a soft "ahhhh

The eyes of the woman who came in were blazing, because of the wind and snow, her face was red, the small freckles were not very obvious, and her lips were also a little dry and cracked, she subconsciously glanced at the table behind the door when she heard the sound, and turned her head and ordered the shopkeeper: "Give me warm wine." ”

The people in the shop seemed to be very familiar with her, and asked with a smile: "General Fang, why did you come alone?" ”

Fang Ming moved his wrist and said, "Who else do you want to see?" Bring me a pot of charcoal, cut the mutton and speak again. ”

Xiao Er immediately nodded and turned around, Fang Ming was full of anger when she spoke, and she didn't deliberately hide it, as soon as she said this, the person who was sitting at the table at the door immediately said, "You stop!" ”

Fang Ming raised her eyebrows and looked back, and saw a woman standing up at the table, her face was lackluster, but she didn't look like a master to be messed with, she stared at the shopkeeper aggressively, and asked, "Why don't we ask about charcoal, she has it as soon as she asks for it?" ”

There was another girl beside the woman, wearing a hat, and the long silk hung from the wide brim of the hat to the neck, covering her face, and she was the one who had just exhaled softly, and her figure looked petite and pitiful, and she quickly reached out to pull her companion.

"Forget it......" she admonished in a low voice.

"Why?" The woman was still standing: "Is she a guest, and we are not guests?" My sister is sick, and she can't even get a fire to warm her here, but you look healthy, but you have a fire to warm your hands! ”

When she made such a fuss, the other customers in the store looked over, and the shopkeeper said helplessly: "This is ......"

"This is my shop, can't I let them think of getting me some carbon?" Fang Ming interrupted Xiao Er's words, raised her hand and said to him: "Go, bring a basin of carbon to this sick young lady, what kind of dishes did they order?" ”

Xiao Er said, "It's ordered." ”

"Have you ordered the mutton boiled with herbs?"

Xiao Er thought for a moment and said, "This one doesn't." ”

"Add one more, count me as a gift to them." Fang Ming smiled at the table as she spoke, and Xiao Er immediately took it.

Saying this, the woman who got up and asked was very embarrassed, her momentary anger was in the wrong place, she froze in place and didn't know what to do, when she heard Fang Ming order them one more dish, she wanted to refuse, but Fang Ming's calm and unhurried appearance made it difficult to brush off this kindness.

Fang Ming took the opportunity to step forward, sat down in front of them, and asked, "Dare to ask the two big names?" You're not from Fengmenguan, how did you come here now? ”

Fang Ming has a temperament that confuses gender, perhaps on the one hand, she mixed up with her brothers when she was a child, but more importantly, after the Fang family was destroyed, she deliberately wanted to blur her gender, and many of her previous habits were changed.

She smiled and said, "My surname is Fang, Fang Ming, and the late picker is the tea of Ming." Took over the store in someone else's hand, is the proprietress here, what about you? ”

The other party was not easy to refuse, looked at the girl next to him, and said, "My name is Wang Chengnan, and she ...... She's my sister-in-law, called Li'er. ”

"Pian." Fang Ming smiled again when she heard this, and pressed her hand on the table, not tabooing the greasy desktop at all: "Wang, Li'er? ”

"Wang Li'er, is that the name?"