Chapter 45: Where's the Letter?
Dazhi was about to stop Qiao Xiaojing from shooting, but when Qiao Xiaojing saw that Cuiyu was shot, she was already out of control, and she pulled the trigger as if she was crazy, and the bullet seemed to rush out of the chamber and into the body of the bandit. In the blink of an eye, the bandit leader was full of bullet holes, and he had long since lost his breath.
"Cuiyu," the bullet ran out, Qiao Xiaojing threw down the gun, squatted beside Cuiyu, and asked with concern, "How is it?
"Don't be nervous," Jade said with a slight smile as she endured the pain, "It's okay, it's just a little bit of skin." ”
"These brutes," Qiao Xiaojing scolded, "I know that I have done too many evils and heinous crimes, and justice and justice can't let them go at all, and they don't have any hope of surviving, so they will risk death to escape from under our noses......"
"You're too impulsive," Dazhi heard that Cuiyu's injury was fine, and before Qiao Xiaojing finished speaking, he stepped forward and complained, "I want to stop it too late, I don't want to let go when I pick up the gun, and even the last bandit will be killed." ”
"What are you stopping me for?" Qiao Xiaojing turned her head to look at Dazhi, and said puzzledly, "Shouldn't that guy die, should he also leave a seed for the bandits, so that he can continue to gather ruffians to rob homes and houses, and harm the township?"
"I didn't mean that," Dazhi shook his head, "to be honest, if you don't shoot, I'll shoot him too." It's just that you shouldn't kill him without saying anything!"
"Why?"
"Have you forgotten? We're going to get rid of these bandits, and we're going to get rid of them all cleanly. However, this is not the whole of our mission, and we still have one thing that we have not yet implemented clearly. ”
"What the hell do you want to say, hurry up, spit, it's hard work. ”
"The letter, the letter. ”
"Letters?" Qiao Xiaojing suddenly realized, slapped her forehead twice, and said with some regret, "Look at me, I'm here, seeing that Cuiyu is injured, I can't get angry, and I forget about anything else." Oh, what a mess...... So, let Jade rest for a while, and then you take them to clean the branches and corn stalks on the edge of the cave, and let's go into the cave to find it. ”
Dazhi, Da Er, and Ah Zi cleared the still smoking branches and corn stalks aside, Ah Zi was arranged to stay behind to take care of Cuiyu, and Qiao Xiaojing, Da Zhi, Da Er, and the two old comrades slowly climbed into the cave with guns.
The cave that looks inconspicuous from the outside, really entering it, it makes Qiao Xiaojing and them amazed, it turns out that there is really a different scene in this cave, four stone pillars are beneficial to it, and there is a huge brazier at the top of each pillar, the fire in the brazier is gorgeous, and the cave is bright, as if shining in the sun, and all kinds of furnishings are impressive.
"Although I have heard of this cave," Qiao Xiaojing may have been shocked by the scene in front of her, and sighed a little incoherently, "but I never thought that this cave would be so magnificent, the situation is compelled to bother with it, if I have the opportunity in the future, I must find a way to find out whether this cave is man-made or naturally formed." If it is artificially chiseled, then the craftsman is really a genius who has appeared for 500 years, no, thousands of years. ”
"What if it's natural?" said the boss with a smile.
"That's the creation of heaven and earth," Qiao Xiaojing sighed, "It's a gift from nature, especially to the people here, and we must take good care of it." In short, no matter what, it can't be a den of bandits anymore......"
"Yes!" Except for Boss Zhou, the rest of the people felt that Qiao Xiaojing was reasonable.
Qiao Xiaojing saw that Boss Wu had his hands behind his back, and his mouth seemed to be saying something, but his voice was very small and he couldn't hear the specific content clearly, so he stepped forward and asked, "Does Boss Wu also think that this stone cave is extraordinary?"
"Of course. Boss Wu didn't seem to fully hear Qiao Xiaojing's words, just smiled at her, and then set his eyes on the cave.
"What did you think of?" Qiao Xiaojing stood beside Boss Wu.
"I thought of a passage," Boss Wu still stared at the cave, and said what was in his heart, "The smoke is scattered, and the sun and the moon are shaking." Thousands of old cypresses, ten thousand knots to repair the fence. Thousands of old cypresses, with rain in the middle of the sky, green and rising; ten thousand festivals are repaired, containing smoke and a ravine. Strange flowers outside the door, the grass by the bridge is fragrant. The stone cliff is abrupt and mossy, and the hanging wall is high and green and long. When I hear the cranes, I see the phoenix soaring. When the crane is chirping, the sound vibrates in the sky and the sky is far away, and the phoenix soars, and the feathers are colorful and cloudy. The white deer of the ape is hidden, and the golden lion and jade elephant are hidden. If you look closely at the blessed land, it is really a paradise! I saw that the door of the cave was closed, and there was no trace of it. Suddenly turned around, saw a stone tablet at the head of the cliff, about three zhang more than high, eight feet wide, there is a line of ten big characters, it is 'Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, oblique moon three-star hole'......"
"I didn't expect it!" Qiao Xiaojing sighed.
"What?" said Boss Wu with a smile.
"You are so knowledgeable, I have never heard many words, let alone understood them. Qiao Xiaojing's face showed a look of shame.
"Me too......" the others nodded as well.
"Oh," Boss Wu said with a smile, "These words are not my own words, this is a passage in "Journey to the West", one of the four famous novels of my country, talking about the Huaguo Mountain Water Curtain Cave in the eyes of Sun Wukong. ”
"We people don't read much," Qiao Xiaojing glanced at the others and said lightly, "You may have heard of "Journey to the West" you said, but there are not many people who have read it. ”
"There is an opportunity," said Boss Wu, "When the revolution is successful, the devil will go back to Japan, the world will be peaceful, and we won't have to fight, what to do with a lot of time, then you can study, read whatever you want." ”
"I wish that day came sooner!" Qiao Xiaojing muttered to herself.
The others didn't say anything, just smiled and looked back at the cave in front of them.
The first thing that came into everyone's eyes was the tiger skin stone chair where the bandit leader sits, that is, the top spot, which is located in the middle of the stone wall, just on a line with the entrance of the cave, high on the top, very majestic. At a glance, you can feel the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes.
Two rows of small stools are neatly arranged on the left side of the cave, and it is clear that this area is a place for the bandits to discuss things. On the right side of the cave is a round stone table, on which there are several plates of seasonal fruits, and five or six stone benches are placed around it, which shows how nourishing and luxurious the life of these robbers is on weekdays.
Walking along the stone table and stone bench, you can see the beds set up by the bandits not far away, and judging from the beds alone, there are at least five people living here on weekdays......
For Qiao Xiaojing, this is not the time to play in the mountains and rivers, of course, they have no interest and mood to play, when they see the things piled up by the bandits from the side of the bed, they completely return to the state of suppressing bandits.
"Dazhi," Qiao Xiaojing began to rummage through the things that the bandits had piled on the side, and said, "You and the big man come over to help, slowly get these things out of the cave, and see if there are any Boss Wu's things in them." ”
Dazhi and the big man nodded, and began to move all kinds of things outside, and it took nearly an hour before everything was finally moved outside the cave.
Qiao Xiaojing called out Boss Wu and Boss Zhou, who were visiting the cave, and she wanted Boss Wu to see if she could find his things from the things stored by the bandits, especially the very important letter he said.
"Found it," Boss Wu rummaged through the big bags for a long time, suddenly grabbed a dark cloth bag, and said excitedly, "It's this cloth bag, it's not wrong, it's this cloth bag." ”
"It seems," Qiao Xiaojing said, "our previous judgment was right, the two brutes who took advantage of the danger in the Red Maple Canyon that night were indeed bandits." They probably never dreamed that they had brought us here, and that they had all of their beasts killed at our hands. This may be the cycle of heaven and earth, and retribution is unpleasant!"
"Great," Boss Wu patted the dust on the bag, and blew it with his mouth, with a happy smile on his face, and said as he opened it, "I didn't expect the bandits to be wiped out, and the lost things were also found, which is really a double happiness! There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them. ”
Including Qiao Xiaojing, everyone's eyes were on the cloth bag in Boss Wu's hand, to be honest, they only knew that this letter was important in the past, but no one had seen it, this time the opportunity finally came, and everyone wanted to see what Boss Wu's lost letter looked like.
I found that the smile on Boss Wu's face gradually stiffened, and the more the things in the cloth bag were pulled out, the more ugly his face became, and he gradually lost his smile, and there was a little disappointment on his face.
"What's wrong?" Qiao Xiaojing felt that something was wrong and asked in a low voice.
Boss Wu didn't answer, but still pulled out the contents of the bag with all his might, and finally simply lifted the bottom of the bag and poured out all the things in the bag, as if there was nothing else except the clothes of each season.
"Don't worry," Qiao Xiaojing comforted, "Look slowly, you will definitely be able to find it." ”
Boss Wu still didn't answer, rummaging through the messy pile of clothes, picking up the clothes one by one and shaking them off, and groping through each piece of clothing, but still didn't find anything similar to a letter. In a hurry, he grabbed his clothes and shook them, then threw them aside, a gesture repeated many times.
Everyone knows that the reason why Boss Wu is abnormal is because he wants to find the letter too much. Seeing him impatiently pulling in the pile of clothes, they all wanted to dissuade him, but no one knew how to persuade him, including Qiao Xiaojing, of course.
"Boss Wu," In the end, Lao Zhou stepped forward and grabbed Boss Wu's arm, and said lightly, "We all know that you are in a hurry, and you really want to find that important letter, obviously that letter is no longer in your cloth bag, what's the use of you being in a hurry?"
"This cloth bag has been found," Boss Wu pointed to the cold things in front of him, and said disappointedly, "The clothes inside are all there, but the letter is not there, you say, where can it go?"
"Maybe," Qiao Xiaojing stepped forward and said, "Maybe the bandits saw that letter, and they thought it was important, and hid it, or put it on someone's body, it's not impossible!"
"That letter," Boss Wu took a deep breath and said coldly, "The bandits shouldn't be able to see its preciousness, I don't think there are such high-level bandits." But the question is, the letter is really missing, where can it go?"
"Don't worry," Qiao Xiaojing said, "Let's calm down first, and when our emotions calm down, I think we will definitely be able to find a way." ”