Chapter 24: Ambush

"I think you're missing a place!"

"Back Mountain?" Lord Shen, who was sitting behind the desk, suddenly spoke.

"How do you know?"

"That's all there is left."

"Back Mountain? How can you stop such a big mountain? Lu Gongzi stopped his pen and looked over.

"You don't need to send someone to guard the back mountain, right? After going up the mountain, you can only go to the deep mountains from the northwest, and there is a road to the southeast area of Luoxia Mountain, where there are wild beasts, and from the northeast to Qingxi, there are even more strange rocks, snakes and insects, and there should not be a risk for a child, right? The shopkeeper felt that they were overly worried.

"No, everyone may think the same way as you are the shopkeeper, so when they are cornered, it is safest to walk from the mountain! As long as you know the road, there is not much danger......" Jiang Han said as his voice stopped hesitantly.

"Did you know that there is a shortcut in the mountains to the outside of the city?" Lu Gongzi immediately caught the point of her words, "Since you know the shortcut, why don't you say it quickly?" ”

"Lord Shen, you give me a few people, and I will lead them to guard the back mountain. You don't need a lot, just two or three skilled people. Jiang Han did not directly answer Lu Gongzi's words.

"No one." Lord Shen's voice did not wave, and after a pause, he said, "Lu Tong will go with you." ”

"Okay, let's go! On the fifth day of junior high school, you go to the backyard to find Komatsu and ask him to bring my sword. Then Lu Gongzi directly dropped the paintbrush, and while instructing, he took the wooden basin in the hands of the fifth junior high school and put it on the table, and washed his hands.

"Don't worry, go around the town first, and the thieves will go up the mountain as a last resort." Lord Shen sat behind the desk, half-lowered his eyes and said confidently.

"If it's a shortcut to the outside of the town, why can't you just stay outside the town?" The shopkeeper Wang suggested, "In this way, you can not only wait for the rabbit, but also not afraid that the range of the mountain is too big, and the thieves will easily escape!" ”

"Well, the shopkeeper is right to think so, it's more effortless. But what if there is more than one path in the back mountain? Speaking of this, Jiang Han was also a little apprehensive in her heart - yes, since she could inadvertently find a path, why couldn't others find other paths, and Xiaoluoxia Mountain was not closed.

"Or, send two people to guard the exit of the path first, and then Lu Gongzi and I will go to the back mountain, so that the two ends are blocked, wouldn't the chance of catching people be greater?"

"Let's let Komatsu and the fifth day of the first month go to guard outside the city. Although the fifth day of junior high school is useless, Komatsu has some skills, and it is no problem to deal with two or three people at the same time. Lu Gongzi made the final plan categorically.

In the end, everyone divided into three ways, Lord Shen sat in the inspection department, the shopkeeper Wang wanted to go back to the teahouse, and then followed the officials with the Xu family to preach, and Jiang Han wanted to lead people to the outside of the city first, and then go to the back mountain.

She handed over the tea bag in her hand to the shopkeeper Wang, led Lu Gongzi and the three little guys, and after going around the town, she quietly walked around to the river where she led Yun Niang's sister and brother before.

"The other side is the end of the path, so be prepared to get wet."

"Well, it's so hard, I can't swim. Wait to find a boat to ......."

"Brother Gongzi is Brother Gongzi, if you don't go, I'll leave first." Jiang Han said and went down the river.

"Then, then I'll go with you on the fifth day of the new year."

Chu Wu suddenly had a bitter face, "Young Master Lu, I can't swim either." ”

"No, you can let them sit on a bamboo raft, if we expect it, we will be lucky to catch someone. I'll go up from here myself, and I'll be waiting for you on the way up the mountainside. Have you been? Do you know which one? ”

"I've been there, I know, you can rest assured!" Lu Tong nodded.

"Then you go to town first, then go around, and then sneak up to me."

After saying this, she left the three big men behind and swam across the river.

In fact, she was asking for her own hardships - she could have taken three people from the mountain, but she had to get wet.

Ninety-nine steps have been exposed on this path, and it is not short of the last step.

However, Jiang Han thought of the tragic situation when he fell into the secret cave and the surprise after coming out, and thought that he hadn't used it a few times since he discovered this secret cave, so he had to hand over the secret to the government, and his heart was suddenly very repulsed.

And although she was clever for a while, she let the people present know that there was a path in the back mountain, but she didn't say what kind of path it was, and as she said before, if there are other roads, those crutches may not be this one - in short, she just wanted to drop the chain at the critical moment and was lucky.

What a cautious contradictory woman!

In view of her careful thoughts, after crossing the river and entering the bushes, she lowered herself in advance, and shook the bushes here and there, more misleading, less visible.

Lu Tong saw that Jiang Han went into the water without hesitation, glanced at his little servant Xiaosong, and saw that he was obviously able to swim in the water, not only did he not have the slightest consciousness of taking the initiative to go into the water, but after discovering his gaze, he also said confidently: "Young master, if I go with me, who will go to find the bamboo raft in a while?" ”

"Can't you separate the two sides of the river?" Lu Gongzi was choked by his words, and his face was very stinky, and he deliberately made a mistake, "I really regret sending Xiaozhu to Qinghe County!" ”

"Oh, then I'll go over." Komatsu said that he was about to leave.

"Forget it! Hurry up and find the bamboo raft to cross the river! With that, he left the two little men and went back to the town depressed.

Jiang Han came out of the cave covered in mud, covered the hole, climbed up the slope, climbed onto the strange rocks, and stood and looked down.

Under the gloomy sky, Luoxia Town, half-hidden under the mountain, with hazy rooftops, flows quietly along the green river to the east on the edge of the town. Suddenly, she inexplicably felt in her heart that "the green mountains can't cover it, after all, it flows eastward".

"Ah~" She shouted at the bottom of the mountain with her hands on her hips, sat down, and breathed a sigh of relief on the stone before she got up, shook the muddy water on her body, and went to the place agreed with Lu Gongzi.

The trail is fairly flat, but there are a lot of rocks.

On the slopes on both sides of the road, there were sparse trees of different heights, large and small stones, and clumps of half-leg-high thatch grew beside the stones, and occasionally some ferns or vines, interspersed between the trees, thatch, and stones.

Nearly one-third of the side of the hill is made of stone. Halfway up the mountain, the large jagged rocks are half-exposed, and the only way to safely ascend the mountain is to pass the road on the mountainside.

Jiang Han lit a fire, dried his clothes and shoes, smoothed the scene, and ambushed another person bored for a while, feeling that it was too stupid to hide so early, so he wandered around and surveyed all the paths near this road, and after the investigation, he returned to the main road, but still no one came.

She walked back and forth on the road irritably, a dozen times passed, and I don't know how long it had passed, and she was still the only one on the entire mountain road.

At this time, her stomach rumbled, and she remembered that she had been patronizing the road all noon, and she had not eaten a bite of lunch......

The next moment, I saw the person who was supposed to be guarding the mountain road, scurrying all over the hillside, looking for food all over the mountain.

The hard work paid off, and after she searched all the slopes she could go, although she didn't harvest a single animal, she inadvertently pulled out three wild Huaishan plants and picked a large handful of wild vegetables.

She coarsely knitted a net pocket from the wild Huaishan vine, spread some thatch, and used the remaining vines to tie up the wild vegetables and put them in the net pocket and tie them around her waist. Then she found a bunch of dead branches, dead grass and leaves, carried them and Ye Huaishan, returned to the place where she had baked her clothes, dug a shallow soil pit, buried Ye Huaishan, and made a fire to roast it.

She was humming an out-of-tune song while lighting the fire, and she seemed to have completely forgotten the task of her trip.