Volume 1 The Journey of the Youth, the Journey of the Far Distance Chapter Seventy-Four: The Caravan Travels Strangely
Until the evening, the fire was too strong during the day to live in less than half of the houses that could be used to store people's belongings, under Li Yanhe's arrangement, he could only ensure that the old and young women and children could have a place to live, and the rest could only let the men in the village make do with the preparations for the night, and the busy Yanyang soldiers arranged the horses and found an open space to prepare for the fire to spend the night.
Under the persuasion of the villagers, a thatched hut that had not yet been burned was vacated and left for Li Yanhe, Ye Dangting, and Lin Manliu, who could only accept the villagers' requests.
When it was getting dark, the three of them sat on the ground by the bonfire in front of the hut, and Ye Dang, who was finally at ease, looked at the white-robed young man who was fiddling with the fire with branches on the edge of the bonfire, and Lin Manliu, who noticed his gaze, also looked at him and threw an inquiring look, as if to confirm whether it was really okay, Ye Dangting shook his head with a smile.
"When I first met your master, she had a friend in her boudoir called Yourong, who was a woman in the Miao Village, who traveled together in the past years and tasted Baiwei poison... These miasma pills and poison sacs are all small-handed and not to be feared," Ye Dang explained when he heard that the young man didn't believe it.
"When I first met Brother Ye and Miss Eleven in the past, I also heard her mention that her Gu poison method was really exquisite, but this time many years have passed," Li Yanhe said in response.
"Yes, it's been a long time now, but if it weren't for Yourong's actions back then, maybe I wouldn't even dare to mention it" Ye Dang raised his head and looked at the sky when he heard this, and there were starlight flashes from time to time, and he seemed to begin to recall the time when he met Eleven and Yourong, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he was so good at acting when he was young, and if he didn't have a helping hand on his side, I am afraid there would be no future story.
Hearing this, Lin Manliu reacted and asked, "Wait?" General Li knew this old liar in the early years? Do you know my master too? ”。
"Yes, in the early years, it was convenient for Brother Ye to get acquainted, you had just arrived in Rongcheng, and I received a letter from the eleventh girl to identify you, the eleventh girl should have only written 'his disciple' to prevent the letter from being circulated" Li Yanhe was a little puzzled by the young man's question, it was really strange that he didn't know, and he shouted Ye Dang, and he was shouting an old liar... After thinking about it, the age gap between the two doesn't have to be so old.
At this time, Ye Dang suddenly laughed when he heard the laughter: "Brother Li, I see, it's probably Eleven who teased you and me, what I received was 'Accepted a disciple' and Eleven told this little liar that he was me."
Speaking of this, Li Yanhe understood the relationship between the two, and then laughed out loud, leaving only the young man stunned.
Seeing this, the man in the yellow shirt remembered that he told him a few days ago that he was Ye Dang, so he hurriedly sat up and looked at the young man, and said with a smile: "Little liar, you have to think about something that you don't have, no one will persuade you."
Lin Manliu naturally knew what he was talking about, this time he would not make a fool of himself in front of everyone, so he snorted coldly and turned his head to look at the high sky in the distance, the south is the way back from this trip, and the sky is from here to south, and there are stars on it from time to time, as if to guide the direction of the homecoming wanderer.
There is not much distance from home, and tonight this scene will be seated by the sky and the earth, and I will fall asleep.
Early in the morning of April 27, Xujia Village
The early morning sun will still shine on the earth, and there is a continuous sound of horses' hooves in the distance, listening to the sound is not a hurry to march, but more like a slow and unhurried, orderly march to Xujia Village.
The first to notice was Ye Dangting and Lin Manliu, because when the sky was still bright, the white-robed young man was kicked awake to the position at the entrance of the village to practice the sword together, with the sound of horses' hooves and the sound of driving getting closer and closer, the two people who practiced the sword at the entrance of the village followed the sound to look at the mountain road when they came, only to see more than ten Yanyang soldiers in front, behind them were six wagons, in addition to wood and some dry food and cloth.
"In fact, if the royal power is controlled, it may be as little as possible to have less disasters like yesterday or more benefits to today?" Lin Manliu watched as truckloads of supplies entered Xujia Village under the command of the Yanyang Cavalry, distributed supplies to the villagers, and then began to help the villagers start to build temporary houses.
"Now this world is not comparable to the past, the world has been unified for more than half a hundred, but there are still bandits in the mountains and wilderness, such absurd things as recovering the country, they can't bend their waists for a hundred years, why did they go to the road of death in the past" Ye Dang asked when he heard the answer.
"In recent years, there have been a lot of chaos in the south, not only in Jiannan, but also in Qianzhong, Huainan, and Lingnan, where there have been bandit rebels, and the purpose of the statement is also very clear, that is, to overturn the rivers and mountains and discuss the restoration of the country, but only a few people who can be caught are related to the government of the previous dynasty, and more are some people who do not want to die" Li Yanhe's voice came into the ears of the two, and it turned out that Li Yanhe came to look for Ye Dangting and Lin Manliu after the command and dispatch.
Hearing that it was Li Yanhe coming, Lin Manliu took the lead in speaking out: "By the way, General Li, I have something I want to ask, maybe earlier in the next few days, I have seen the caravan traveling with me return to Jianmen Pass or enter the area of Rongcheng."
Li Yanhe thought for a moment and then replied: "No, except for yesterday, I have been going back and forth to inspect the camp, and I have not received any signs of caravan passing" In fact, it was because of Lin Manliu's travel, after the news of the completion of the opening of Yijian Villa, Li Yanhe was paying attention to the caravan entering and leaving the Jiannan area when he was fine, but until yesterday he met Lin Manliu and Ye Dangting, he had never heard that a caravan returning from Hangzhou passed somewhere.
In the face of such an answer, it inevitably caused Ye Dangting and Lin Manliu to think of the conjecture on the way back a few days ago, because because they were two people galloping and hurrying, according to the eastbound road at that time, they just bypassed Yuezhou, and the other routes were the same, and the foot must be much faster than the caravan that was one step ahead, even if they didn't catch up, it would not be the news that there was no caravan entering Qianzhong and Jiannan.
Lin Manliu was a little worried about whether the caravan steward did not adopt his proposal and directly led people through Yuezhou to enter the Qianzhong realm, and then encountered the disciples of the Great Guanlou in the wind and snow to make trouble.
"So, if the caravan hadn't been delayed on the way, it probably had an accident... Otherwise, according to their travel time, it is impossible not to enter Jiannan at this time" Ye Dangting was already prepared for the worst.
"You don't need to worry too much, don't you have to continue to rush back to southern Xinjiang after that, I'll help you keep an eye on it in the future," Li Yanhe said out loud when he saw that both of them had strange faces.
At the same time, the Yuezhou Hejiang Post Station
A young man just walked at the door of today's post station, dressed in a Taoist robe, looking at the undried water vapor on it, it should have just been washed last night and not dried thoroughly, with a wooden stick on his head as a hairpin and a random bun, passers-by avoided it one by one, and no one wanted to provoke such a mountain Taoist priest who did not know the origin of this early morning.
I saw that the young man dressed as a Taoist priest took out a completely shattered tortoise shell from his arms, shook his head and took it back, then stretched out his hand to pinch the trick for a moment and turned to look at an alley.
The alley is full of bottles and cans and bamboo frames that make it impossible to enter, the young man approached the alley and looked at the depths of the dull alley, where some debris was piled up almost above the walls on both sides, no different from some ordinary alleys, just as the young man was about to turn around and continue to hurry, he suddenly noticed that the edge of the debris piled up at the entrance of the alley, there was a trace of blood that had not been wiped clean, and it was pointed on the corner of the wall.