Chapter Seventy-Six: The Boy
Yang Che stayed in the Shen Mansion for a few days, always sitting quietly in the courtyard, looking at the tree in a daze.
Xiaohua only looked at him from a distance at first, but then she would get closer, circle around him, and finally climb the stone table and jump on his head to "meow" at him, but he still didn't respond.
Lu Zhaoling didn't go out either, he practiced sword in the courtyard for a few days, seeing Yang Che's appearance, he was worried, but he didn't know how to persuade him.
Shen Lingyan saw this lifeless Yang Che and didn't ask much.
Four or five days passed like this, and on this morning, Shen Lingyan stuffed Lu Zhaoling with a piece of talisman paper as usual, on which the time and place were written.
"Take this one who eats and lives for nothing, and goes with him." Shen Lingyan said.
Lu Zhaoling glanced at Yang Che in embarrassment, who knew that Yang Che stood up silently when he heard this, and seemed to be about to go out with Lu Zhaoling.
Well...... It's good to go out for a walk.
The location written on the rune paper was not far away, in a cave halfway up the mountain on the western outskirts, and the hour was noon.
So Lu Zhaoling prepared two servings of dry food, brought a scimitar and a soft sword, followed by a gloomy Yang Che, and looked for it according to the location on the rune paper.
Because it was not convenient to ride a horse up the mountain, it was still early at this time, so Lu Zhaoling and Yang Che walked over.
I don't know what can happen in this cave, I can't make another trip for nothing, and I came back and said that I had made a mistake.
Lu Zhaoling was slandering in his heart as he walked, and suddenly Yang Che spoke: "Is someone coming to entrust it?" ”
When he spoke suddenly, Lu Zhaoling was taken aback, but this was a good thing, Lu Zhaoling hurriedly replied, "It's not a commission." Old man Shen is a fortune teller......"
Lu Zhaoling explained to Yang Che.
"Oh." Yang Che replied sullenly.
Lu Zhaoling suddenly remembered something: "Speaking of which, when Old Man Shen asked me to go to you that day, he behaved very strangely, I don't know if he calculated something...... Maybe you can ask him about your mother. ”
Yang Che looked up at Lu Zhaoling, as if he had some expectations, Lu Zhaoling hurriedly said: "But don't have too much hope, this old man is not reliable at all, what he can calculate is very limited, and he often miscalculates." ”
Yang Che retracted his gaze and nodded.
Then there was no word all the way.
The two of them arrived at the cave marked on the rune paper in the middle of the hour.
The cave is not big enough to fit two people. Lu Zhaoling stood at the mouth of the cave and thought for a while, not knowing for a moment whether to stay inside or wait in the woods on the side to stare at the cave.
"There are two of us, one can stay in the cave and one can hide nearby." Yang Che said.
Lu Zhaoling nodded in agreement.
"Then I'll go to the cave......"
Lu Zhaoling was halfway through his words, and was robbed by Yang Che and said, "I'll wait in the cave." ”
There is a greater chance of encountering danger in the cave, and if something really happens, it will also be limited by space and difficult to use its strengths.
Yang Che's state made Lu Zhaoling a little worried, but he insisted on entering the cave, and Lu Zhaoling couldn't stop him.
Looking at his appearance, he may also want to take this opportunity to vent......
Lu Zhaoling sighed, gave him a dry food, and hid in the woods near the cave.
I don't know what he was thinking alone in the cave.
Lu Zhaoling found a tree to climb on, sat on a thick branch, chaired the trunk behind his back, and kicked his legs in boredom.
Soon it was noon, Lu Zhaoling looked at the big sun overhead, sat up straight, and stared at the nearby cave.
Until halfway through noon, there was no vision.
Tsk, most of the stinky old man miscalculated again, entertaining people.
Lu Zhaoling pursed his lips, took out the dry food and ate it.
Hmm, the taste still doesn't work, maybe you can try adding some pepper next time? By the way, it's better to take Yang Che to have a good meal at night, there is a wine shop on the side of the road outside the city, the cooked beef is very good, salty and fragrant, and the taste is elastic.
Lu Zhaoling began to think about how to unravel Yang Che.
Yang Che's mother's matter is really strange, and I don't know if Yang An has found out some clues in the past few days. I asked him to send someone to the Shen Mansion to inform him if there was news, but there was no movement.
Lu Zhaoling thought while eating.
Until Lu Zhaoling finished eating the dry food, digested it for a while, and calculated that noon was almost over, nothing unexpected happened.
Bai waited for so long, I don't know if Yang Che was in a worse mood. Why don't you take him directly to the wine shop outside Dongcheng later?
Lu Zhaoling jumped down from the tree and was about to call Yang Che when suddenly a black shadow rolled down the hillside.
Lu Zhaoling was startled and hurriedly hid behind a tree.
The shadow fell to the ground, struggled to get up, and when he saw the cave next to it, he ran in.
It's a little boy.
Immediately after that, there were several dog barks from the mountain, and three big men chased down the hillside with two fierce dogs.
"What about people?" "There's a cave there, go in and find it!"
As soon as the three of them arrived nearby, they immediately stared at the cave and surrounded it.
Before they could step forward, Yang Che appeared at the entrance of the cave.
"Who?" A big man asked in a loud voice.
"That little bunny is in there!" Another man had sharp eyes and saw the boy in the cave.
"Brother, please let me go." The big man standing in the middle said to Yang Che.
Yang Che stood at the entrance of the cave, without any intention of avoiding.
The big man looked at Yang Che, who was bare-handed, and shook the steel knife in his hand: "Little brother, don't be nosy." The boy's mother sold him to us, and it was right for us to arrest him. ”
Yang Che still didn't say a word, and looked at the person in front of him with a gloomy face.
"Look at what it means, I have to compare brothers." The big man raised his head, and all three of them showed their weapons in their hands.
Seeing that both sides were about to make a move, Lu Zhaoling hurriedly jumped out of the woods.
"Oh? And accomplices. One of the big men immediately turned to Lu Zhaoling.
Lu Zhaoling originally wanted to try to be reasonable, at least to inquire about the owner of the boy, to see if these three people were really just hired thugs as they claimed, or some kind of bandit fugitive.
As a result, when one of them saw Lu Zhaoling, he laughed lewdly: "Hey, it's a little girl." ”
The other also whistled: "You're in good shape, and you must be excited to play." ”
Lu Zhaoling sneered and pulled out the scimitar at his waist.
And Yang Che has been stuffy with anger in his heart, and he has long wanted to find a place to vent.
After a while, the three big men fell to the ground with blue noses and swollen faces, and one of them had been beaten unconscious by Yang Che.
If Lu Zhaoling hadn't stopped him, that person might have been beaten to death by Yang Che.
"Alright, now I have a few questions for you." Lu Zhaoling tied up the two who were still awake and smiled kindly.
"Hero, spare your life! The little rabbit...... Ahem, boy, it was really his mother who voluntarily sold it to my master! One of them immediately wailed.
"Oh? Who is the owner of your house? Listening to what you just said, you don't look like a good citizen. Where did the bullies hire you? Lu Zhaoling slapped the big man's face with a scimitar.