Chapter 40: The Only Choice
I jumped up from the stool, and just wanted to turn around and go back to the house to verify some things with Wang Shaoting, but when I turned around, I saw him leaning against the door, his face pale, his eyes full of shock and frustration, and he muttered: "Weilong Mountain, it's completely finished......"
Looks like he's overheard the conversation between us.
Before I could speak, Rui Wei said while holding a glass of water: "I heard that none of the backbones of Weilong Mountain have been caught, and the injured muscles have not moved. ”
These words were obviously comforting Wang Shaoting, and I couldn't help but throw a grateful smile at her, and then echoed: "That's right, as long as people are still there, it's not difficult to regroup!" ”
Hearing our words, Wang Shaoting seemed calmer, and struggled to come over and sit down. He was still very weak, and while holding his chest, he asked, "You just talked about Du Zifeng?" ”
"Yes, yes!" This is exactly what I want to ask him, "Isn't Du Zifeng from your Weilong Mountain?" ”
He shook his head and said, "No, he's a falcon." ”
"Bamboo shoots?" I think it's a strange name.
As soon as Rui Wei saw my expression, he knew that my stupidity was about to happen again, and quickly explained: "Some organizations will pay bounties in order to catch some people, and Hayabusa is the one who specializes in receiving this kind of bounty to eat. ”
Oh, it dawned on me that it was the "Falcon" of the "Eagle Falcon"! It was a bird, similar to an eagle, but it was known for its swift sprint when it pounced on its prey, and immediately exclaimed, "So he tricked me into coming to you for a reward." ”
Wang Shaoting nodded and said, "Yes, I originally thought the same way. But when he brought you in, he disappeared that night...... I've had some exchanges with him, and I always feel that he is different from ordinary mercenary people, as if he is more scheming, and I can't say it clearly. ”
"Well, I also feel like he's not doing it for money. If that's the case, he could just arrest me, force me to ask about the whereabouts of the Blood Rock Furnace, and then exchange the Blood Rock Furnace for money, isn't it easier? I said.
"Bloodrock Furnace? What is it? Rui Wei on the side asked.
"Well......" I wanted to stop talking, and I felt that if I wanted to make this point thorough, I am afraid that we would have to sit here for three days and three nights! I had to pass it by and say, "It's an heirloom of my family, and many people want it." ”
But she pouted and said, "You said it so lightly, I think that's what they are talking about." ”
I waved my hand and said, "Don't listen to their nonsense!" Seeing Wang Shaoting's embarrassed expression again, thinking that he had also believed this statement, his head suddenly became bigger, and he immediately changed the topic and said: "Oh, in short, if I think well, now the three of us are in big trouble!" ”
"What's the trouble?" Rui asked.
I didn't want her, and asked in a tongue: "Senior sister, do you know how to put on makeup?" ”
Seeing her looking at me stunned, I opened my mouth and explained, "That's it, it's just beating, dressing up, and applying grease and powder!" ”
She looked at me in bewilderment, apparently unable to understand my intentions, and I leaned down and commanded them both like that.
After listening to my words, Rui Wei stood up suddenly, his face turned red from eagerness, and shouted, "No, this, this is too dangerous!" ”
"Hey, don't worry!" I grabbed her arm and said, "Who am I, Tao Yong, I can adapt to any situation." ”
"Tao Yong?" Wang Shaoting suddenly asked beside him, "Aren't you Tao Zhihuan?" ”
"Uh, I ......" I secretly screamed in my heart, and when I was excited, I said that I had leaked my mouth, and quickly said nonsense: "My name is Tao Yong, the word Zhihuan, so I am also called Tao Zhihuan, hehe, hehehe......"
The two on the other side looked at me with puzzled eyes, but I could only pretend to be stupid.
"Without further ado, now is not the time to discuss my name, whether this matter can pass safely depends on the tacit understanding between us, the important thing is that you have to believe me, okay?" I broke the awkward situation and said seriously.
The two looked at each other for a moment and nodded firmly.
After a while, Rui Wei and I walked out of the courtyard, Rui Wei got on his horse and left, while I walked slowly in the direction of Xiping Town.
After staggering for a long time, I saw someone selling watermelons at a stall next to me. I had already missed the front, but suddenly turned back, squatted down and looked at the watermelon carefully, took one and held it in my hand, flicked it with the other hand, and put my ear up to listen to the sound.
In the process, I saw a shadow flickering in the distance behind me, and disappeared behind a wall in an instant.
I can't help but think in my heart, this person's tracking skills are really not very good, the movement is so big, others have to see it if they want to see it, don't you know that people's eyes are the most sensitive to moving things?
After looking at the watermelon for a long time, I stood up and walked into the town.
When I entered the town, I went straight to the morning market two blocks away, which was lined with small shops, and every morning many peasants brought their own products and put them on the ground to sell, bustling to occupy a street.
I turned around that street and squeezed directly into the crowd, moving left and right, east and west, where there were more people, and when I had passed that street, I pretended to look at the children's masks sold at a small stall, and when I looked back, I saw no suspicious people.
But I still couldn't be reassured, so I bought a mask and put it on my face, turned around, and went into an alley.
At the corner of the alley was a straw hut, and at the back there was a large thatched hut, which I had been here in the past when I was in a hurry. When I went in this time, I was a young man in a mask, and by the time I came out, I had become an old man.
Hunched over a few slow steps, a man wearing the mask of the child I had bought came out of the hut and walked in the other direction. Of course that's a stand-in I bought with money, haha! I thought to myself, with so many layers of tricks, if someone can see through it, it is really the ancestor of the agent!
As for my dress, it's bragging, but it's definitely simple and practical. I took a small jar of paste on my body, applied it thinly on my face, and then fanned my eyebrows and made my eyes for a while, and as soon as the paste dried, my face was all wrinkled, and then I sandwiched some gray-white horsehair in my hair, covered it with a turban, lowered my head, and bent my waist, which at first glance looked like an old man.
But for the sake of prudence, I confirmed it many times in a row, and I really didn't see any suspicious tails, so I returned to the right road and went straight to Daddy Yan's shop.
When I entered the store, it was still the empty hall and the high counter, and when I walked over, I could still only see the top of Daddy Yan's head.
"Shopkeeper, three taels of ephedra and gypsum, one tael of peeled almonds, one tael of boiled licorice, one tael of cinnamon branches, five jujubes, one or two halves of ginger, life-saving!" I leaned against the counter and spoke fluently.
Sure enough, Daddy Yan's confused face appeared from behind the counter, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw me, and he couldn't identify me for a while.
I deliberately stretched my face and continued: "The patient has a fever and chills, coughing and wheezing, and if he does not use medicine, he is afraid that his life may be in danger." ”
He stared at me for a few seconds with a pair of blazing eyes, looked behind me with a look of sudden realization, and then said, "The medicine is inside, please wait inside." ”
I followed him all the way to the back hall, and then he turned around and scolded: "Stinky boy, you don't want to die, you still run around at this time!" ”
I smiled and praised: "It's worthy of Dad, I can't hide it from you in such a disguise!" ”
He "snorted" and said, "Didn't I say that?" This doctor with a radius of 100 miles does not have such a prescription as you! ”
My prescription is a classic prescription, from Zhang Zhongjing's "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" of the "Daqinglong Soup", specializing in the treatment of external cold and internal heat, fever and cough of acute and severe diseases, even in modern times, many Western medicine think that incurable infectious diseases, Daqinglong can play a miraculous effect. It's just that in this era, I'm afraid not many people really know about this party.
"Why are you coming to me again?" Father Yan asked.
"I have something important to ask you." I said, "When you treated Wang Shaoting that day, you said that Shi Ye would die, what did that mean?" ”
He listened to my question, hesitated, and then pulled me and said, "Let's go, go into the house." ”
After entering the back hall and sitting down, Father Yan spoke: "About ten days ago, I heard a rumor that the Tao family was wiped out by the people of Weilong Mountain. ”
A simple sentence, but like a thunderbolt from the sky, I was stunned, and my head went blank.
Seeing my shock, Dad said in a low tone, "Well, it seems that you don't know that this matter has anything to do with them, do you?" No wonder he mixed up with the second master of Weilong Mountain. ”
Not only that, I didn't even know that something had happened to my family! I closed my eyes and felt like the world was spinning!
For a moment, I remembered what the parrot said when I was in the prison of Weilong Mountain: "I have heard about your family, don't blame Weilong Mountain, we all do this for a reason...... So that's what he meant.
I remembered the dream I had before, and watched the raft that my classmates were sitting on capsized, and it turned out that there was such a tragedy!
A tearing pain began to spread in my chest, and it became difficult to breathe! But my mind is completely blank, yes, I don't even have the impression of the faces of my relatives at all, and I can't even do it in my mind!
Daddy came over, poured me a cup of tea, sighed and said, "It's a bit cruel to tell you this, but since you're here today, I think I should let you know." Even if this matter was not done by Weilongshan, the current situation, it is very dangerous to have anything to do with their people. ”
Hearing him say this, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in my blank mind, and I looked up and asked, "My father has notified the Duying Group about my affairs in Xiping Town?" ”
Father Yan was shocked when he heard this, took a few steps back, frowned and asked, "You, how do you know......
"The Digging Troupe is so famous, it's hard for me to want to know!" I said, "And Dad, you're the one they're here to find out, right?" ”
"That day...... Did you hear our conversation? "It's worthy of Daddy Yan, but he still reacted.
"Daddy," I said, "now I need your help with something, so to speak, for you and me, it is a good choice, and almost the only choice!" ”
"What's the matter?" He asked.
"I want to ask you to immediately release the news to the people of the Digging Ying Group, just say that the only remaining descendants of the Tao family are hiding in Xiping Town with the Blood Rock Furnace!"