Raising her head, I saw Yuanmei wearing a hat on her head, wearing a robe, looking at us condescendingly, the hat and the coat were too big, covering her thin figure tightly, if she hadn't spoken, she wouldn't have seen that there was someone inside.

The two of us supported and slowly climbed up the mound, there was a person standing behind Yuanmei, also wearing a hat and a robe, leading an ox cart, with our backpacks and weapons on the ox cart, a person and a cow stood quietly on the side, looking at the appearance of this ox cart, it should be the one that Yuan Mei sat in yesterday.

After the second master stood still, he asked, "What's the matter, do you know that black hair?" ”

"Where did I go?" If you look at it like that, it must be a hundred years old, a hundred years old, and the body is not rotten, and there must be no less blood and marrow, doing evil, this time the body was destroyed by the thunder, and the old saying that evil deeds must be repaid."

Although she couldn't see Yuanmei's face, she could clearly feel her disdain and contempt for the second master, who was just a brain problem, from her tone.

The second master has a big heart, he doesn't take it seriously at all, he sat on the ox cart, first turned out a cigarette from his bag, threw one to me, and then found socks and a pair of brand-new mille-feuille shoes, smoked a cigarette and hummed a little song, slowly wiped his feet, I also turned out of the bag, just changed, Yuanmei came over, held my chin with one hand, pulled down my eyelids with the other hand, glanced at it and said: "Well, no matter what, it's still the military commander's people who have the best way, okay, it's not early, let's go on the road." ”

As soon as the second master heard about the road, he hurriedly turned out the leggings from his bag, and began to wrap his legs round by circle, watching him wrap around, I remembered when I first arrived in the army, the leggings were my dead end, the two belts seemed simple, but they were really difficult to control, and the legs were uncomfortable, and they fell off after a few steps when they were loosened, and finally the second master taught me little by little, thinking of the wind and thunder group, naturally remembering Zeng Weiguo last night, looking at Yuanmei and thinking of Li Xiao, Lin Xiaoxiao and Zeng Rourou, hey, just a few years, it has been a matter of fact, It's a pity that it's really a trick to make people.

Everyone cleaned up, and Yuanmei said to the second master sitting on the ox cart: "Come down, you think this is a car, how can it be moving, and don't look at this road." ”

The second master craned his neck and wanted to refute, but it was true, so he had to roll his eyes, reluctantly look at the new shoes on his feet, and finally shook his head helplessly and jumped out of the car.

The person who drove the car led the ox and walked in front without saying a word, depending on the situation, Yuanmei had already explained the destination, the second master was unhappy, walking alone on the left side of the ox cart, Yuanmei and I were on the right, I asked her: "You already know this place in Longchang?" ”

She let out a soft "um" without looking up.

"What's there?" ”

She lowered her head and was silent for a while and said, "I don't know, when I heard my grandfather mention this place before, he just said that it was an empty city, and all the secrets of the Lei and Li families were hidden in the city. ”

I remembered what Li Ruhai told me before and asked: "Li Ruhai once said that our two families began to study formations in the Tang Dynasty and were employed by the imperial court, and this city is only a hundred years old, what does it matter to us?" ”

"I also thought about this problem, and then secretly checked the family history of the two families, and I found that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the heads of the two families collectively disappeared for a whole year, although a year is not a long time, but if you want to plan a city, it is more than enough." ”

"The head of your Li family? You mean Li Wanshan? ”

The hat tapped lightly.

"If Longchang was designed by our two families, then who built it?" After all, a year's time is not enough just to design, let alone the construction of brick by brick, and what is their purpose? Why choose where? ”

"This is the purpose of our trip, and it is also the purpose of the military command, and even the purpose of the Japanese. ”

"Japanese? ”

"When you ran out, Zeng Weiguo happened to go to Chongqing, right? He went to Chongqing to meet the Japanese named Higashino. ”

"Heihachiro Higashino? What is he going to do? ”

"It's not what he wants to do, it's what they want to do, do you think that with Zeng Weiguo's official rank and character, he dares to talk and laugh with the Japanese in the teahouse in Chongqing in broad daylight?" He is just a clown who attracts attention, but from this point of view, the things in Longchang City are extremely important to the military commander or Zeng Weiguo and his gang, so important that they need to find the Japanese to help in order to be foolproof, and we are only responsible for the cannon fodder of the thunder in this plan, if we don't want to be cannon fodder, our speed will have to be fast, so fast that we have already retreated before we are surrounded. ”

I only then understood why Yuanmei spent a lot of money to buy that human skin map, now counting us, a total of three forces are heading towards Longchang, since Zeng Weiguo and they have long known the location of Longchang, why don't they go early or late, but let us go to the thunder first, using the trick of catching and secretly releasing it, with the power of military command, is it necessary? At the same time, I vaguely feel that there will be a decisive battle on this trip to Longchang, a big battle that will decide everything, well, it has finally come to this point, and I am now looking forward to that day soon, it is better to decide life and death with a knife than to hide and be calculated.

"When are you going to tell him about Xiugu?" Yuanmei asked in a low voice.

I frowned and shook my head.

"You should say this kind of thing as soon as possible, if you say it late, he will hate you." ”

I lowered my head and listened to the creaking sound of the ox cart, and the fighting spirit that had just been ignited in my heart was poured cold by her words, and I couldn't help but be upset again.

The already uneven mountain road, soaked by the rain is more rugged and muddy, the wooden wheels of the ox cart fall into the mud from time to time, the morning glory man is pulling the cow in front, the three of us are pushing desperately in the back, the second master looked at the new shoes that have been wrapped in yellow mud, and kept scolding his mother in distress, I and Yuanmei no longer talked, except for the creaking sound of the ox cart along the way, I listened to him bow his head and scold the ground, raise his head and scold the sky, like a little daughter-in-law who was angry.

The rain is continuous, the clothes on the body have not been dry from beginning to end, the wet sticky is very uncomfortable, the whole day, the drop of rice does not enter, there is no strength in the body, the foot slips next, the legs keep trembling, if it is not for the leggings, I am afraid that I would have collapsed, looking at Yuanmei panting and grabbing the wheel, I want to comfort a few words, but after thinking for a long time, there is no suitable word, after all, the road is chosen by myself, at this time any mercy, care is redundant.

Until it was dark, the ox cart finally stopped above a valley, and the peaks and peaks in front of him stretched endlessly, Yuanmei pointed to the valley and said: "This is the starting point marked on the map, while it is not dark, hurry up and go down." ”

Hearing this, the second master and I picked up the backpack, Yuanmei took out a small rosewood box with a small golden lock from her bag and said: "This go to Longchang, there will be a fierce battle, my Li family never fights uncertain battles, this worship box is a Li family order flag, which means to wave the flag to help, if you two still have someone to entrust, I suggest that the two of you may as well make a complete preparation, I will definitely entrust someone to bring." ”

After speaking, I opened the box, and a Ling Qi was lying quietly in it, different from Li Ruhai's red, this Ling Qi is gold on a black background, it should be exclusive to Yuanmei, next to the Ling Qi, a jade tube was placed on a few pieces of letter paper and envelopes, and the small tube was tied with a red rope, I was shocked, it was the Lei family whistle that was searched by Zeng Weiguo in Tibet, it seems that the Li family is really not exhausted, there are still certain means, Yuan Mei handed the box in front of my eyes, I trembled and took out the jade tube, held it in my hand and looked at it, and sighed, nodded, rubbed his hand on his body, put it in his mouth, bit his index finger, smeared it on the jade tube, rolled the jade tube on the letter paper, and a bright red thunder word jumped on the paper.

Folded the paper and put it in the box, Yuanmei bit her lip and looked at the second master, I put the Lei family whistle on my neck, and said: The second master doesn't need to look at it, there is no one in his house for a long time, which Cheng thought, the second master stretched out his hand from behind me, took a piece of letter paper and envelope, turned around, also bit his fingers, and compared on the paper for a long time, and then used extremely skillful techniques to quickly fold the letter paper into a look similar to a thousand paper cranes, put it in the envelope, took the tap pen handed by Yuanmei, wrote an address on the envelope, and put it into the box with the front down after writing, With all this done, we looked at each other, and he shrugged his shoulders and looked past me to the mountains in the distance.

Yuanmei nodded, covered the box, put on a golden lock only the size of a thumb cover, and handed it to the coachman along with a small yellow croaker and said, "In any case, you must personally send it to No. 3 Caijia Hutong in Baishi Town, and there is a small yellow croaker when you get there, so be fast." ”

The coachman nodded, wrapped the worship box with an oilcloth and put it into the coat, led the ox cart, and left without looking back.

This valley is a no-man's land, there is no road to be found, plus the rain for days washed, slippery, not to mention, a few stones are also a step on the collapse, the three of them had to grasp the burr vines and jagged weeds, slowly climb down, the second master is larger, several times the vines were broken, straight down, he lost his hands and eyes quickly, in time to pick the stone cracks on the side to stabilize the figure, otherwise it would have fallen into a big photo.

The moment their feet hit the ground, the three of them were already sweating profusely, panting like cattle, the valley was filled with thick white mist, looking up, dense branches and vines covered the sky, although blocking the rain, but more cold and damp, this valley is very narrow, only about a dozen steps wide, so despite the white mist, but can still see everything around clearly, two steps away there is a slowly flowing stream, clear to the bottom, black fish in the round pebbles from time to time.

Before I could see clearly, there was a noise on the stone wall behind me, and a black shadow jumped out, startling me, three people hurried to see, it turned out to be a black gecko frightened, this gecko was half an arm long, and its back was covered with dense red bumps, and the people who watched it were extremely uncomfortable, and the second master looked at it and said with disgust: "Let's not put this pestle aside, hurry up and find a place to spend the night", after speaking, he took the lead and walked forward along the direction of the stream.

After walking a few steps, Yuanmei suddenly grabbed him and pointed to the stone wall opposite, I and the second master took a closer look, it turned out that under the stone wall on the opposite side, there was a tight cave blocked by branches and leaves, and Yuanmei was sharp-eyed, otherwise I would have missed it.

The three of them crossed the stream, came to the entrance of the cave, the second master picked up a stone and threw it in, listening to the movement of this cave is not big, I wrapped the gauze around the stone, poured kerosene, tied it with thin vines, lit it and threw it in, instantly from the inside burst out of a group of black geckos, but they are much smaller, the largest is only a palm long, after the gecko came out, scattered along the stone wall and fled, the three people couldn't help but take a step back, and when the gecko ran away, the second master took the lead in bending down and drilled in.

The cave is indeed not big, no more than three or four steps long and wide, less than one person high, and you have to bend your neck and bow your head when you stand up.

Interestingly, this cave seems to have been polished from the top to the ground, all are smooth and round, without any edges and corners protrusions, everyone roughly glanced at it, and after making sure that there was no danger, the three of them divided labor, Yuanmei and I went to find firewood, and the second master was the king of the mountain, responsible for finding some food.

Although there are some dry food in the bag, this is a long way, and I don't know when I will get supplies, so I can find it as much as possible.

Although the valley was full of plants, there was not a single tree except vines and weeds, and the humidity here was so great that it was difficult to find dry firewood, so I had no choice but to climb up alone and cut some roots from the roots of the big trees above.

Yuanmei cleaned up the roots I cut and threw down below, through the gaps in the leaves, I saw her frowning, a worried look, I couldn't help but wonder, recalling that she had nothing to say since she hit this valley, according to the character of the Li family, I am sure she has something to hide from us, and nine times out of ten it is related to this valley, no, everyone is now a grasshopper on a rope, you must not know not to tell, I must ask clearly, make up my mind, I slowly climbed down the stone wall, picked up a bundle of roots that have been packed on the ground, Nodding at her, the two of them walked one after the other to the cave.