Volume 2 People in the Years of the Rivers and Lakes Chapter 44 Yellow Sparrows, Praying Mantises, and Cicadas

The boy made a big circle to avoid the guards in front of the camp gate, and cautiously touched the side of the barracks. According to the regulations of the military system within the dynasty, the garrison of each town in the Western Regions could not exceed 300, the garrison of each vassal state could not exceed 600, and the number of cities under its jurisdiction could not exceed 200. In case of war, it will be transferred from the surrounding towns, cities, and feudal states, and then rushed to the aid of Broken Leaf Castle, where the Metropolitan Protectorate is located.

If Qiang had not been self-reliant and did not belong to a vassal state before, he would have been able to accommodate about 300 people in the camp in response to the military system.

The walls of the camp are all made of huge stones, which should be quarried nearby, and are about six feet high, which is not as high as a person. The young man went around to the rear, felt the level of the comparison, quietly observed the situation inside, and jumped in after confirming that there was no one.

The barracks are naturally simple, all of them are simple houses made of pines and cypresses cut down on the mountain, and the rows are orderly, about four rows, but now they should have been idle for many years, and most of them are dilapidated. The young man tiptoed left and right to dodge, fumbled past the wooden houses, and stopped in the middle of the center.

A team of horse thieves is composed of six people, and there are decent patrols, but they are in a loose state at a glance. After all, they are all stragglers and rabble, and if they are all high and vigilant, then it is not a horse thief but an army.

The horse thief who deliberately slowed down and fell to the end limped as he walked, patted the bald horse thief in front of him, and pouted to the side. The horse thief, who had some messy hair on the back of his head, yawned, and the two of them walked one after the other towards the boy's hiding place.

The young man panicked, jumped onto the roof, pressed his body tightly against the beams, and held his breath.

The bald horse thief was outside, the lame horse thief was inside, the two of them were just below the young man, and they were also very careful to look around, to confirm that there was no one else, the lame horse thief reached into his arms, took out a package of things wrapped in oil paper, and said while opening it: "That's all, save a little, it will take two days for Shule's batch of goods to arrive." ”

Wrapped in oiled paper was a whole piece of what resembled a cigarette cake, vaguely black, until the bald horse thief's torch came closer, and it was not until the bald horse thief torch came closer that it was an oily green color.

This reminded the boy of the mint leaves in the sandalwood, the color after drying and drying.

I don't know if the bald horse thief didn't sleep well, he yawned again, and said, "How many times can you save it?" Let's talk about it after the addiction. As he spoke, he reached into his arms and pulled out a dark object, as thin as paper, but judging by his movements, it was also extremely hard, it should be an iron thing. The bald horse thief held the iron piece in one hand, and stretched out his little finger in the other hand to smear a small handful of the oily green cake on the oil paper onto the iron sheet.

When the lame horse thief put away the oil paper, the bald horse thief also put the little thumb stained with a little tobacco leaf in his mouth and sucked it for a while, with a happy expression.

Licking his fingers clean, the bald horse thief yawned and pulled out the fire fold, lit the fire, and pasted the flickering flames under the iron sheets, and scorched them for a while. In just two breaths, the green tobacco leaves on the iron sheet became burnt yellow, and a burst of white smoke rose, and the two horse thieves hurriedly stretched out their heads and inhaled violently, until the burnt yellow turned to carbon black and then completely scorched, and the white smoke also became black and gray, and the two of them reluctantly separated their heads that were close together, and exhaled heavily, with a satisfied expression on their faces. In the end, he wiped his nose very unanimously and left.

The young man on the roof was stunned, and there was a fragrance in the air, which smelled much better than the inferior tobacco leaves of Old Yintou, and the young man couldn't help but sniff again, thinking that he would write down the smell and look for it in the future.

But after sucking it a few times, he felt dizzy for a while, and the young man was busy gathering his mind, but the trance was even worse, so he could only bite the tip of his tongue to stimulate the nerves to keep a trace of consciousness.

I don't know how long it took for the young man to come to his senses, and then look around, the camp was already in the hand, and he was dizzy for half an hour unconsciously?

The young man calculated the time, it was already at the beginning of the year, so it was really inappropriate to be so careless, so he hurriedly calmed down, confirmed that there was no movement around, and went down the wooden house to return the same way.

Over there, Ah Da returned according to the specified time, and the three of them waited left and right to see the young man, and they couldn't help but be anxious and secretly worried.

When Ah Da went to the back mountain to investigate, he condescendingly saw the young man on a wooden roof, but he couldn't see it really from a distance, and how could he know the young man's situation at that time just when he saw him lying on the roof. Now that the time has come, there is still no trace of the young man, how can the three of them not be worried?

The sound of squirming sounded, Ah Da was suddenly alert, subconsciously bowed slightly, and his hand also touched the halberd hidden in his boots, and the old Yin Tou also protected Wu Liuqi behind him for the first time, his cloudy eyes suddenly became sharp, and he stared motionlessly in the direction of the sound.

The young man rubbed his head and appeared leisurely, and Ah Da and Lao Yin both breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed their minds. Without waiting for the outspoken Ah Da to ask, the young man did not hide it, and told him what he had just experienced.

After all, a wisp of green smoke had put him asleep for so long, and the boy was really curious about what it was.

After listening to the young man's story, Ah Da looked very clear and said, "Misty incense, definitely misty incense." The look of knowing everything as if he was in control caused the young man to pout.

Wu Liuqi opened his mouth to expose his shortcomings and said, "Those two people are fine." It caused Ah Da to roll his eyes.

The old Yin on the side smacked his mouth, rubbed his thumb against the fine stubble on the dry old face, and asked, "Oil green tobacco leaves?" ”

"But it's much thinner than tobacco leaves, like powder, but like tea cakes."

"No matter how much you grind tobacco leaves, you can't turn them into powder." Old Yin Tou'er muttered, "What's more, the tobacco leaves turn yellow as soon as they dry up, how can they still be green?" ”

The boy and Ah Nature had never seen this thing, and Wu Liuqi was not at a young age, and the three of them just waited for the well-informed old Yin Tou among the four to explain what this thing that made people drowsy for so long forgot the real purpose of coming here.

Fortunately, the old Yin Tou lived up to expectations, and suddenly said: "Ah Furong! ”

This answer stunned Ah Da and Wu Liuqi, but the young man was startled, and hurriedly sat down cross-legged, and his mind was united to urge the qi to swim in his body for a while.

The boy naturally knows the meaning of these three words, don't think that the name "A Furong" is very good, but when it comes to it, this thing has a great ability, a small amount can cause hallucinations, and a large amount of inhalation can make people die slowly, which is equivalent to chronic poison.

I remember that there was a time when I was a child, and my sister loved to read some miscellaneous notes on the left side, and she always had to read them to the teenagers. Therefore, after eating it for a long time, the shoulders shrug and the waist collapsed, and the color was withered and dying.

How could a young man not be afraid of such a terrible thing, after all, he was younger than himself with Lao Yin.

The old Yin head told Ah Furong and Wu Liuqi about this, and the young man felt that there was no big problem in his body and said: "During the Great Wei Dynasty of the previous dynasty, it was explicitly forbidden for the people to plant this thing, and I have been paying attention to it since the founding of the Emperor Tianwen, and the checkpoints at all levels have always been strictly investigated, and the criminal law for offenders is even more severe to the village and the village. ”

"Impossible." The old Yin Tou'er denied it directly, "The Duhu Mansion is in broken leaves, and it is a day or two away from Shule, they don't dare." Or Shule is just a transit station, and this Hibiscus should have been smuggled in. ”

The young man fell into deep thought again, considering whether to inform the court, after all, this thing was so harmful that it was almost the point of anger among people and gods.

"I'll go in and find out." The young man is no longer entangled in Ah Furong's matter, and puts it aside for the time being, this matter can only be regarded as inconsequential, saving people is the most important.

Ah Da stretched out his hand to hold the young man and said, "I saw it in the back mountain just now." Only then did the young man remember that this Ah Furong was really harmful, and his head was still a little dizzy.

Ah Da said again: "There are two teams patrolling here, one team of six people. To the northeast, there is a broken corner of the house, which should be a stove room, next to the stables. There were three or four rooms to the west, and there were two or three groups of people coming in and out, and I felt that it should be the house of the head of the group. Further northwest, there are two rooms, and three or four people in the middle come out to relieve themselves, which should be their bedrooms. According to the military system of the dynasty, the soldiers' bedrooms were 12 beds, and the number of people happened to be the same as the number of patrols. In this way, the total number of people in the battalion was limited to about thirty. I didn't find the girl you're looking for, though. ”

Ah Da was also careful, and found out the horse thief roughly, which made the young man slightly dumbfounded, and secretly praised, but he really had the talent to be a spy.

Old Yin Tou'er spoke: "It should be above thirty people." ”

The young man and Ah Da looked at the old head with suspicion in their eyes.

"After all, this is also a large stronghold, so there should be some dark whistles around here."

The two on the opposite side were stunned, and the young man immediately said: "But all the way until now, I haven't seen a single secret whistle." ”

Old Yin's wrinkled brows furrowed, "I'm wondering too." ”

The four of them fell silent for a while.

"There is a conspiracy." Wu Liuqi suddenly spoke, drawing the attention of the three of them again.

Don't look at this young little Shou Lang who usually doesn't like to talk, and will always make the boy unconsciously forget his existence, but this child's occasional words always seem to be able to pull out the fog when they fall into thought.

"When things go wrong, there must be demons." Thinking that the three of them didn't understand what they meant, Wu Liuqi hurriedly explained, "It's good to say this in the city. ”

"Makes sense." Ah Da nodded approvingly.

The young man also made a rare joke with them, saying: "It's okay to listen to more books and grow knowledge." ”

One sentence made Wu Liuqi's immature little face flush.

"If the horse thief really has a trap, according to my analysis, it is very likely that it is aimed at me. Last time, it was me and Zhuang Yuan who provoked them, but now they only caught Zhuang Yuan, and this eighty percent is to use Zhuang Yuan as bait to lure me into the bait. The teenager analyzed.

"This is called leading the king into the urn." Ah Da suddenly, "Then close the door and fight...", half of the words felt inappropriate, but in other words, "catch in the urn...", I also felt inappropriate, and closed up with a smile.

Old Yin Tou'er answered the phone and quipped: "You don't have the level of listening to this book as Xiao Wuzi." ”

The contact in the past few days has also made the boy accustomed to the jokes between the three of them, and he also echoes and laughs at their occasional innocuous jokes. The young man naturally didn't care about the unintentional mistakes of this Shou Lang, who had made a living by fishing since he was a child, and obviously didn't have much ink in his stomach, and said: "Even if they have a trap, let's make a plan." Then after whispering like this, the plan was finalized.

The crescent moon, which looked like it was close to the ground, was already in the air, and the evening breeze was even more bitter. This is the case in the Western Regions, because the terrain is too high, and it is hot during the day and freezing to death at night.

The noise in the camp gradually faded, and the few guards who had just been replaced were still listless, leaning or sitting on false sleep. The boy got up first, and was about to sneak in, when he heard the shouting of the mountain road in the distance, and the torches were bright.

After a few breaths, I saw a group of twenty or thirty people rushing to the camp gate with torches and sticks, and the first person had unkempt blonde hair under the firelight, and shouted in a very unauthentic Dazhou official language, "Return our women quickly, Allah will spare you." ”

The four teenagers, who were obviously frightened by the scene in front of them, looked at each other: What kind of song is this?

Ah Da was stunned and said, "The old man who told the story didn't say this paragraph." ”