Chapter 100: Searching for Someone in the Mine
He pulled Qin Mufeng's sleeve and pulled the person to the seat, it was so sunny outside, this Mufeng was really not afraid of the heat, look at this face is tanned.
The two drank wine, Gu Changheng had known Qin Mufeng for so long, and it was the first time he saw Qin Mufeng's thoughtful look.
"Hey, I said this woman can't be spoiled." Gu Changheng said, he vaguely guessed that this matter seemed to have nothing to do with his princess, because he hadn't seen this guy annoyed with other people.
Qin Mufeng glanced at Gu Changheng coldly.
"Okay, let's stop talking." Gu Changheng waved his hand helplessly.
Qin Mufeng didn't speak, and poured it directly with a glass of wine with a heavy mind, Gu Changheng saw that Qin Mufeng was drinking so violently, so he hurriedly held down Qin Mufeng's drinking action and poured the tea.
"Do you have any news over there?"
"It's being checked one by one." Qin Mufeng took a sip of the tea on the table, and the inexplicable fire in his heart was suppressed.
Gu Changheng nodded, as long as he has a clue, he is not afraid that he will not understand this matter? Although time seemed to be running out for them, now they were walking on the cliffs, and they had to be careful not to leave anyone with a handle, or the mad dog would not let them go.
The two were talking when there was a sudden "bang" on the door.
The expressions of the two changed slightly, they stood up, Gu Changheng stepped forward in a few steps, and opened the door, only to see Xiao Liuzi standing outside the door, Xiao Liuzi saw the door open and hurriedly greeted the fifth prince and his own prince.
Qin Mufeng's eyes flashed, and he said that he had something urgent and left first.
Gu Changheng nodded knowingly and let Qin Mufeng leave.
The two of them went out of Yayifang, and Xiao Liuzi whispered a simple matter.
Qin Mufeng touched his chin and pondered for a moment, "So the princess came out of the drunken supper building?" β
"Yes~" Xiao Liuzi nodded.
"Go back to the palace first~" Qin Mufeng said, this Lu Yue is going to save people, no matter what, he has to take people there, otherwise this Lu Yue will feel worried when he looks at it.
In the south of the city, as soon as Lu Yue came out of the gate of the drunken night building, she found an excuse to open the stupid girl Lu'er.
She strode towards an alley, and saw Li Hu squatting in the corner of the wall from a distance, and when Li Hu saw Lu Yue, he immediately stood up.
"Waiting a long time?" Lu Yue asked, since she remembered the wayfinding sign that day, she immediately sent a letter to Li Hu, asking Li Hu to come down the mountain in a few days.
Today is the day they have made an appointment.
Li Hu shook his head, in fact, he had been waiting for several hours, but as long as he could save his brother, he was willing to suffer anything, what was this.
Lu Yue whispered to Li Hu for a while, and after Li Hu was stunned, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he immediately ran to inquire.
And Lu Yue was not idle, she bought two horses with good foot strength in the street market, and then bought clothes and dry food, etc., and then found an inn to prepare to rest.
Lu Yue asked Xiao Er to build a pot of tea and sit on the chair alone to drink.
After a while, Li Hu came back dejectedly.
Lu Yue saw that she put down the teacup and said, "What's the matter?" β
Li Hu honestly told Lu Yue the news he had heard, it turned out that this was not an ordinary mountain, this was a mine belonging to the imperial court, and it was said that there were large pieces of jade under this mountain, which were very, very valuable.
Since the imperial court knew about this, it ordered the mountains around Qingfeng Mountain to be blocked, and ordinary people couldn't get in at all.
There were only two kinds of people in it, one was an officer and soldier, the other was a prisoner, and the kind of prisoner who had committed the death penalty.
Lu Yue's eyes lit up instantly when she heard the jade, and sure enough, Li Hu's younger brother was locked up in this kind of place, she waved her hand to signal Li Hu to come over, and whispered a few words to Li Hu, and let Li Hu do it.
People in this kind of place must also live, and life is inseparable from eating, drinking, and Lazar, hum, she still doesn't believe that this is Qingfeng Mountain, and not a single fly can fly in.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Li Hu came back with good news.
It turned out that there was a peasant family in the north of the city, an old man, who had to go into Qingfeng Mountain every evening at 10 o'clock to deliver vegetables and grain to the prisoners and officers there, once every three days, and he happened to be there this afternoon.
Lu Yue felt that this was a rare and good opportunity, and she resolutely couldn't miss it, so she ordered Li Hu to find two tattered clothes.
After some changes between the two, Li Hu pretended to be the old man's son, and Lu Yue pretended to be a servant who helped him.
They loaded a few bags of noodles and vegetables on the donkey cart, and Li Hu drove the donkey out of the city with a whip in his hand.
Lu Yue sat on the flour, closed her eyes and enjoyed the coolness of the breeze, and the wild flowers and grass along the way were fragrant.
She had a dirty cloth wrapped around her head, and on her dark face, it was almost impossible to see Lu Yue's original appearance.
The skin on Lu Yue's face and hands was delicate, and she was worried that others would find clues, so she ruthlessly blackened the skin on her face, neck, and arms.
Coupled with the dirty and torn clothes at the sight, it really looks like a flower child.
According to Li Hu's inquiry, everyone didn't know that there were treasures in this mountain at first, until one year, when there was a sudden wind and rain, lightning and thunder at night.
On the second day, a hunter who lived at the foot of the mountain went up the mountain to collect firewood, and was immediately stunned, and the mountain peak was split open, and the inside was brilliant and shining.
Lu Yue chewed on this story in her mouth, and it was not until she saw Qingfeng Mountain from a distance that she hurriedly jumped down and pushed the cart.
Full of devastation, Lu Yue just wanted to use these four words to describe Qingfeng Mountain, maybe Qingfeng Mountain used to be a high mountain with dense forests and beautiful scenery.
But now it is a pile of rubble, and there is no green under the eyes, which is in stark contrast to the surrounding peaks.
Looking at the level that was getting closer and closer, Li Hu glanced back at Lu Yue, the two looked at each other, and Lu Yue signaled to act.
"Who?" At the checkpoint, two fierce soldiers blocked Li Hu's donkey cart.
Li Hu hurriedly jumped out of the carriage and said in fear: "My lord, we are here to deliver food~"
The soldier looked around Li Hu's face, and then glanced at Lu Yue's face behind him, the two looked at each other, slid the spear in their hand, and scolded: "Nonsense, the person who delivers the food is obviously an old man." β
Not far away, several soldiers heard the movement here and immediately surrounded them, facing the soldiers who were eyeing them.
Li Hu said with a sad face: "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know, that old man is my father, my father accidentally twisted his waist when he got up today, and he couldn't even get up from the bed, please be clear." β
"Son?" Several soldiers bowed their heads and muttered.
Lu Yue was holding a handful of sweat in her hands, this was not something they made up randomly, the old man who delivered the food did have a son.
"Hey, you heard the old man has a son?" One of the soldiers shouted loudly, which immediately attracted the attention of many soldiers.
Time passed little by little, Li Hu held the short sword hidden in his sleeve, his expression was tense, and his eyes were fixed on those soldiers.
"Ah, I know.... I remember one time when the old man spoke to me and said that he had a sonβ" A thin soldier stepped forward.
"Hmm~ What smells so good?" Suddenly, a soldier spoke.
Li Hu immediately smiled and took out a wrapped roast chicken from a cloth bag on the carriage, "This is for you adults~"
Everyone's eyes instantly stared at the roast chicken, salivating one by one, but when they heard that it was for their adults, no one dared to move.
Lu Yue secretly glanced at these soldiers, these soldiers looked yellow and thin, in this kind of place, I am afraid that there are bosses who are greedy for money, and villains who are tigers are below, and it is not easy to think of these soldiers.
Li Hu stuffed the roast chicken into the hands of the soldier who led the team, "Brother Bing doesn't dislike it, just eat it, I still have it here~"
"Hmph, if you're interested, let's go." The soldier patted Li Hu on the shoulder.
"Hey, who is he?" The soldier grabbed Li Hu's shoulders again.
Li Hu looked back and saw that it was Lu Yue, and said: "Brother Bing, this is for help, look at such a thing in this car~"
The soldier glanced at Lu Yue twice, and saw that Lu Yue was so frightened that he almost cried.
The soldier snorted disdainfully and signaled to leave.
Li Hu hurriedly jumped into the car and drove away, and when he was far away, Lu Yue's face changed with panic, and the corners of his mouth hooked slightly.
She looked around carefully, this should be their living area, there were many tents set up on the field, and some of the tents were smoking next to them, and there were many prisoners working not far away, all of them were naked, their skin was tanned, and their bodies were bloodstained, which was simply miserable.
"Smack!"
A whip fell, and one of the prisoners was beaten "Ah! He screamed and rolled to the ground.
"What are you looking around? Don't hurry up and get to work! "A soldier swung his whip and whipped it a few times.
The man rolled around on the pile of stones, begging for mercy in mourning.
Lu Yue saw that the other prisoners on the field were all doing their work with expressionless faces, as if they hadn't seen it at all.
The men put the stones in baskets, filled them and carried them to the other side for the other prisoners to choose.
Lu Yue looked at the old and the young, the sick and the weak, looking at their weathered faces, she really couldn't imagine how vicious they were?
Li Hu and Lu Yue sent the vegetables to the back kitchen to set up a tent, only to see a thin soldier squatting on the ground and sobbing quietly while picking vegetables.
Lu Yue and Li Hu's eyes flashed with suspicion.
When the little soldier heard the voice, he was so frightened that he quickly wiped away his tears, looked up and saw two strangers, and stood up at once, "Who are you?" β
"The villain is here to deliver food~" Li Hu bowed and said.
The soldier instructed the two men to get the things out of the cart into the tent.
Lu Yue gave Li Hu a look, Li Hu nodded knowingly, and went up to have a relationship with Xiao Bing.
After a while, Li Hu asked where this little soldier's family lived and who else was in the family, and he was crying just now because he was homesick.
Lu Yue glanced around a few times and found that there didn't seem to be many soldiers coming and going, so she said, "Little brother, how many people do you usually cook?" Looking at you, there are not many of you, can you eat so much food? β
"Of course you can finish eating, the person in charge of things today is not here, and they dare to sneak to the other side of the mountain to enjoy the coolness, otherwise they will wait to be skinned~" Xiao Bing's tone of voice was very bad, and he should have been bullied by them on weekdays.
"Then have you heard a person named Li Shi here?" Li Hu hurriedly asked.
"What are you asking about this?" The little soldier looked at them, and his eyes flashed with suspicion.
"Don't be afraid, this little brother, we are good people, my brother lost a younger brother not long ago, we inquired for a long time before we found out here, if you want to know it, you must tell us."