Mu Weiyang's side.

She led the shopkeeper and fifty soldiers along Qi Mu's border.

The shopkeeper looked at Mu Weiyang with a serious expression and was still staring at the map in his hand in the marching carriage, and said, "Little master, it's past noon, do you want to eat some dry food?" ”

Mu Weiyang looked up at the sky outside, it was indeed afternoon, although she was not hungry, but her soldiers should also be hungry.

So he ordered the car to stop, let everyone hide nearby, eat some dry food and rest.

After parking, Mu Weiyang looked at the surrounding locations again and compared them on the map.

The shopkeeper stayed aside, handing her food and drink, Mu Weiyang took the food handed by the shopkeeper, didn't look at it much, and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Little master, it's easy to get indigestion when you're distracted while eating, so take a break."

After listening to the words of the shopkeeper, Mu Weiyang raised his head and said with a smile: "Our side is less than half of Qi Lie's manpower, so it's always good to be meticulous." ”

"The little master is clever, then Qi Lie is definitely not an opponent."

Mu Weiyang hooked the corners of his mouth, knowing that the shopkeeper was complimenting himself, and he shouldn't admit it, so he just changed his mouth and ordered: "In half an hour, we will set off and continue to walk south along the national border. ”

The shopkeeper nodded yes, and saw that Mu Weiyang continued to lower his head and study the map, with an expression of displeasure or anger. As a house slave who has been in the Shui family for a long time, he naturally knew that the previous compliment was not pleasant, so he wrote it down, and he would not say these flattering words casually in the future.

Half an hour later, the group set off again, but this time the speed was much faster than before, this was mainly due to the fact that the shop Xiaoer deliberately asked people to speed up the trip when he was in command, and during this time of getting along, the shop Xiaoer had become more and more aware that this Mu Weiyang was not a foolish little master.

For a long time, the people of their Qingyun Inn did not have a special good impression of Mu Weiyang's biological father Mu Jing, in the hearts of the servants of Qingyun Inn, Mu Weiyang's father Mu Jing and their little master Mu Jing were a big difference, just like the difference between an honor student and a poor student.

So at the beginning, when Mu Jing ordered Mu Weiyang to inherit the Qingyun Inn and become their new master, they just obeyed Mu Jing's orders, and did not recognize Mu Weiyang from the bottom of their hearts as a descendant of the crane tail.

But from the contact in the past few days, the shopkeeper began to slowly feel that this little master was not easy to deal with.

If it was just a chance to see through the dishes made by Xu Fei at the beginning, then the next layout of the troops made Dian Xiaoer feel Mu Weiyang's calmness and decisiveness, although Dian Xiaoer did not completely see through Mu Weiyang's formations, but she felt an aura that she had never seen before from her bearing and state.

Presumably, this is what it looks like to fight on the battlefield all year round.

The group walked like this for a few hours, and just as it was close to dusk in the afternoon, a government soldier suddenly ran to Mu Weiyang's carriage and reported: "Report, black smoke has appeared in the northwest. ”

The shopkeeper immediately stopped the carriage at Mu Weiyang's signal, and as soon as the carriage stopped, Mu Weiyang got out of the car, stood on the rut, and looked towards the rear of the carriage.

I saw that in the twilight when the sky was slowly darkening, black smoke that could not tell whether it was smoke or clouds was coming out of the mountains of the medicine valley.

"That's the direction of Fei Lao's hut?" Mu Weiyang frowned and confirmed to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper nodded: "It should be that direction." ”

Mu Weiyang remembered some of the processes when Grandpa Fei explained to them how to make a mask with those red clay, "This mold needs to be baked and shaped, and then the substrate can be made according to the film, and after the substrate is formed, other accessories can be added to the periphery of the substrate, and then cut, sharpened, scraped, and engraved according to the needs, and finally the mask with a natural expression can be made while the face cannot be disobeyed." Among them, the first step was to bake the embryo mold, and the bark-faced Fei Bin did bring the red mud to the direction of the backyard.

It seems that there must be a stove or earthen kiln in the backyard where utensils can be fired.

Mu Weiyang thought like this, but his brows furrowed even tighter.

After nearly a day, if the red mud hadn't been baked, it should have been destroyed during Qi Lie's carpet search, if the red mud had already been baked, then why did the black shadow appear?

Mu Weiyang recalled what Fei Bin said when he hurried from the backyard before, the enemy he found when he was freeing his hands in the woods.

It seems that Fei Bin should have put the red mud in the oven before this.

In that case, what does the black smoke represent at this moment?

Mu Weiyang's expression became solemn, and he beckoned the shopkeeper who was waiting on the side, and asked, "With the Sparrow Holding Technique, how long can I notify Fei Lao and them at the earliest?" ”

After listening to Mu Weiyang's words, the shopkeeper's expression was a little ugly, and he said, "Do you want to contact Fei Lao directly?" ”

Mu Weiyang nodded: "Yes, what they did is too obvious, I need to adjust the layout, I can't waste these fifty people in vain." ”

"This ......," the shopkeeper said with some embarrassment, "Little master, I didn't expect you to want to directly lead troops to save people, so I waited for the only food box for Xu Fei to take." ”

"Feeding box?" Mu Weiyang didn't understand the words of the shopkeeper.

"It is a food box for feeding birds, which are not close to humans and are difficult to catch, so they are more suitable than carrier pigeons for the transmission of secret information. Generally speaking, only those who feed them on a daily basis can approach and replace the ankle rings, except that only those who have learned the art of holding finches can approach them with the feeder's food box in their hands. The shopkeeper explained.

"In other words, Grandpa Fei doesn't know how to hold birds, and he doesn't have a food box in his hand, so even if you send a bird over, he won't be able to get the information on the ankle ring, right?" Mu Weiyang said.

Shopkeeper nodded and added, "Fei Lao has the soldiers of the Qi Mu Palace's mansion by his side, and they should have special carrier pigeons to transmit information. ”

Mu Weiyang shook his head: "The carrier pigeon target is too big, and it is easy to be intercepted, maybe Qi Lie is waiting for the movement on our side now." ”

"I can contact the shopkeeper in the Medicine Valley Qingyun Inn, I don't know if that's okay?" Dian Xiaoer gave the second option.

Mu Weiyang took out the map in his hand, looked at it again, and sighed: "It seems that Qi Lie is going to pull out the camp today." ”

As she spoke, she calculated the location of the parties and the time it would take.

"Half a day, just half a day." Mu Weiyang muttered, took out a roll of paper from the side, wrote a paragraph on it, and then said, "Tell the shopkeeper ......."

Before Mu Weiyang's words were finished, a yellow finch suddenly flew in front of the shopkeeper and stopped.

"Leng Liuqing is not in the mansion, and he has not been found."