Chapter 18: Up the Mountain
"Second floor girl?" Xuanyi asked, "Why does she want water?"
Jiang Yan swallowed a piece of dry cake and looked up at the sky outside the door.
The old shopkeeper smiled and said: "The girl's family loves to be clean!" The little girl spent eight ingots of silver and begged me to leave the last jar of water to her young lady. ”
“......” Xuanyi, as a straight man of steel, spit out a sentence: "These daughters really don't know the suffering of the world. ”
Eight ingots of silver can cover the expenses of ordinary people for a year.
"Eh, master, are you going out?" Xuanyi picked up his sword and followed behind Jiang Yan.
"Well, explore the customs. ”
Xuanyi thought to himself, we have been here for a few days, and we have been in the inn all day, why didn't you go out to explore the customs a few days ago?
Fenglai Town is said to have such a small slip, located at the foot of Fenglai Mountain, forked at the junction of the north and south, the terrain is steep.
It's a land where the mountains are poor and the birds don't.
Victory is victory in the steep terrain, potholes, easy to get lost. Throughout the ages, bandits in Fenglai Mountain were rampant, and in order to harm the passing merchants and people, the imperial court had failed to encircle and suppress it several times.
The king of Chengxi, who started with the Youming Army, was not a child of any family, but he could be traced back to his origin, that is, a hot-blooded man who rose from the pole in Xiaoxiao Fenglai Town, and was a mountain bandit in Fenglai Mountain for a period of time due to poverty before joining the army.
So this is the reason why the king of Chengxi is stationed in the northwest, but why the imperial court came to Fenglai Town to find the arsenal.
"Master, in case we can't find the arsenal in Fenglai Mountain, but finding the bandits' nest is considered meritorious?"
Jiang Yan said leisurely: "If you can find the bandits' den, you can find the arsenal." ”
"No, master, the direction of returning to the inn is not here. ”
"I said that, let's go explore Fenglai Mountain first. Too many people are easy to startle snakes. ”
“......”
Master, it deserves to be you.
......
"Girl, it's getting late, it's time for us to go. ”
Several guards had already pulled the carriage and parked outside the inn.
The old shopkeeper stood aside and persuaded: "A few guest officers, it only rained last night, and this mountain road is slippery and difficult to walk, so it won't take much time to set off again in the unknown day." ”
"If you encounter a mudslide, it's hard to say, it's a catastrophe of nine deaths!"
Several guards also felt justified when they heard this, but ...... On Sheng Jing's side, they didn't dare to delay.
Xie Changyu stood in front of the door, looking at the bleak street, and his mind was full of doubts.
Several guards began to discuss.
"Do you want to leave at an unknown date?"
"It's okay, anyway, it's just a day, and then we can explain it to the master's family. ”
......
"Let's go! Hurry up! The Youming Army is making trouble in the town, and if you stay for a long time, you will die on the streets!"
The old woman came out of nowhere, the sky was blue, she was still holding a candlestick in her hand, her mouth was broken, her old face was dry, her eyes were sunken, she looked like a ghost, and she was so scary.
The old shopkeeper sighed, hugged his wife's body and said: "Alas, don't listen to my wife, Fenglai Town has always been stable, where there have been deaths, this young man has already gone out to make a living, and the rest are all us lonely old people." ”
"She has been living in nightmares, but I don't know that my son has been dead for three years. The person who died tragically on the street and was killed by the Youming Army was actually the extremely miserable Youming Army. ”
The listeners were all sympathetic to the white-headed old man.
Also, whoever dies will go crazy.
"Thank you, shopkeeper, for your kindness, but we are still on our way, and it is inconvenient to stay for a long time. ”
Xie Changyu arched his hand and said, with a deep meaning between his eyebrows.
"Miss?" the magpie didn't understand, it wasn't that Miss didn't want to hurry just now!
"Everyone, didn't Sheng Jing rush it? The plan can't catch up with the changes, so let's hurry first. ”
Several wavering guards thought about it, but still followed Xie Changyu's instructions.
The trip was not smooth, the sky was not beautiful, as if he wanted to fight against Xie Changyu, he just arrived at the gate of Fenglai Town in a dilapidated carriage, the sky was overwhelmed by dark clouds, and after a while, the torrential rain hit.
"It's not good, there's a landslide ahead, and the road is blocked!"
The carriage was bumpy, Xie Changyu lifted the curtain, and the vast rain dripped in front of him, accompanied by a roaring sound.
"Miss, what should we do?" the magpie looked at the road ahead and said in despair, "We can't get out." ”
The guard who was driving the car sighed, "Hey, why don't we go back to the inn first." ”
"No, go up the mountain, go around the mountain road to the neighboring village, and then hurry. ”
Xie Changyu said suddenly, his tone had a meaning that could not be refused.
The guard said dissatisfiedly: "Miss, it is easy to collapse in a rainstorm, and Fenglai Mountain is dangerous, it is okay for you to sit in the carriage, but it is a few of us who are in a hurry." ”
"I said, go up the mountain at once!"
"Miss Xie, I have heard that you are flying in Wuzhou! We are from Shengjing, and we don't obey the Xie family in Wuzhou, so we will not obey our fate. ”
"Ladies and gentlemen, my young lady has a reason for saying this, everyone should be calm and calm first. The magpie turned his head and persuaded the peacemaker: "Miss, what they said is right, it is really dangerous to travel on a rainy day, and we are not in a hurry!"
Xie Changyu sneered: "Magpie, do you follow me?"
"Follow!"
"That's okay," Xie Changyu glanced at the guard who was driving the car and said, "You follow me up the mountain." ”
She took out an oil-paper umbrella from the carriage and dismounted in the pouring rain.
"Miss, just listen to our advice! It's not safe on the mountain. ”
The guard said in his heart that this young lady's head was not in the water, and she didn't wait for a good inn, so she had to risk multiple dangers to go up the mountain to find guilt.
How much I want to return to Shengjing Xie's family as a young lady!
"Brother guard, I'll accompany the young lady up the mountain first, and when the rain stops, you can come back later!
"It's unbelievable. ”
"Okay," looking at the two backs in the hazy rain, the guard said, "Why do you care so much? Anyway, the master doesn't pay much attention to her! Let's go back to the inn first." ”
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The rain ahead was so heavy that I couldn't even see the road clearly.
The magpie followed closely behind Xie Changyu and asked, "Miss, why do you have to go up the mountain?"
Xie Changyu grabbed the magpie's shoulder and whispered in her ear: "If you want to go up the mountain, go up the mountain!
"The slave still doesn't understand!"
Xie Changyu asked rhetorically: "Silly girl, don't you think this inn in Fenglai Town is too weird? Miss Ben still wants to be kind enough to save those guards, but they are so brainless that they can't figure it out." ”
Magpie couldn't believe it: "You mean it's dangerous for them to go back to the inn?"
"It's already so obvious!"
Xie Changyu spread his hands: "I wasn't sure before, but after the first meal, when the guards led the carriage and stopped waiting for me at the door of the inn, those conversations made me understand." The inn was a slaughter field, more terrifying than the money laundering black shop. And tonight, the bandits will have to kill people!"