Chapter 29: Life and Death (1)
I was holding the hilt of my knife in one hand and wiping my knife with a handkerchief in the other. We are located on the outskirts of Luoyang at the moment, and the war is imminent, and everyone is preparing for each other. Half of my men were transferred to the apprentices, and he led the gang to the other side. After so many days of actual combat, he has grown into a strong man who can take charge of himself.
This time, the leader of the Red Sect Luoyang Propaganda Envoy Hestia should not be afraid, but after so many experiences, the beggar gang no longer relaxed their vigilance as they did the first time, and the sound of laughter and slapstick disappeared, and everyone occasionally talked in a low voice, and they all said words related to the war.
At this moment, suddenly a member of the gang ran up to me and whispered, "Right Governor, we caught a sneaky person on our patrol and threatened to see you. ”
I frowned slightly, and I had an inexplicable foreboding in my heart: "Did he say anything?" ”
She peeked at me and replied hesitantly, "He said, with you...... It's about that one in your family. ”
My face froze, and I stood up suddenly: "Take me there." ”
She hurriedly turned around, led the way, and in a moment brought me to the man. I looked at him carefully, he was a short, middle-aged man, dressed in coarse linen clothes, his face was gray and weathered, and when he saw me coming, the corners of his mouth trembled uncontrollably, and he looked like he was going to die.
I stared coldly at him, the knife in my hand as if it were turning carelessly, the sunlight reflected off the mirror-like knife occasionally shining in his face. His gaze was a little more frightened, and his form was a little more frozen.
"I'm the Right Governor, tell me, what's the matter?"
"There's something to be handed over to you...... "The man muttered as he took a cloth bag from his shoulder, and with trembling hands, he pulled something out of the inside and out, and placed it on the boulder in front of me.
The first was a finely carved silver-white mask, glowing like a moon, very familiar, and my pupils suddenly constricted.
The second is a crumpled note, unfolded to see that it is a familiar end font, but it is written in blood, with only six words "Wind and rain town wind howling forest".
Fengyu Town, I know, is a small town on the border of Luoyang, where a few families live. Could this howling forest be the wilderness next to it?
When my gaze touched the third thing, I was suffocated for breath, my eyes were black, I could barely see, and before he could put it down, I snatched it with my hand—
It's that Jade Lingluo!! The intricate patterns, the tactile texture, the carved Tibetan sword logo on the inside, and even the small notches on the edges that I accidentally bumped into and can only be perceived by touch......
Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely no mistake! This is Ye Shuyun's Jade Lingluo! Life is here, jade is there!
Masks can be faked, handwriting can be imitated, but this can't be imitated! A unique piece in the world!
The more times like this, the more calm you have to be. I inhaled again and again, trying my best to calm myself, the man on the side saw that the situation was not good, and was sneaking about to slip away, when I caught up with me and grabbed the placket of his clothes and mentioned it in front of me, his expression was as terrible as a cannibal, and his voice with anger changed dramatically and jumped out from between his teeth word by word:
"Say, where did it come from?"
The man trembled with fright, and said in horror: "Hero, spare your life!" I'm just an ordinary peddler outside Luoyang City, and this morning, someone threatened me with the lives of my wife and daughter, asking me to hand this over to you, and I don't know anything else......"
I looked at him like this, and my heart became more and more angry, and I knew that I couldn't ask anything from him, so I simply pinched him tighter—
"Tell me honestly, what that person looks like, how old he is, and what he wears!"
The man trembled and described what he had seen, and I wrung my brow as hard as I could remember, and suddenly I realized that the man in this man's outfit resembled the third party we had been attacked by the creek in the Aoi Camp earlier. After most of the letter, he suddenly let go of his hand, and he sat down on the ground in embarrassment, and immediately got up and ran away.
The gang looked at my face and cautiously asked, "Do you need to stop him?" ”
I took a deep breath, "No, just a normal person." "I've already tried out that this person is not forced, so he must indeed be coerced, so there is no need to pursue it further.
I put those three things away carefully, "Come back with me, gather the people, and go to Wind and Rain Town." With that, he turned around and walked back.
However, the situation on the return was very unexpected, and I was told that most of my men had been sent elsewhere by the Great Elder, and that only a few remained. I suddenly felt that something was wrong: this is too much of a coincidence, right?
But this matter is very important, it involves Ye Shuyun's life and safety, and it can't be delayed for a moment, and although the eldest old man is mean, he has always been loyal to the beggar gang, and he will never unite with a third-party force to frame me, and the gains outweigh the losses.
I thought about it for a while, and gave up the idea of going with the rest of the people, the situation on the other side was unpredictable, and I couldn't risk the lives of my brothers and sisters. What's more, there are too few people to worry about at all. I curled my index finger and thumb to my lips and whistled, followed by a sharp chirp, and a black purple figure descended from the sky and landed steadily on my outstretched forearm. I quickly wrote a note and passed it to my apprentice, asking him to receive support from the Wind Howling Forest, patted the falcon's smooth wings, and sent it out with a raised hand. It flapped its powerful wings and soared into the sky.
I immediately got on my horse and galloped all the way to Storm Town.