Chapter 237: Baoshan
Yiyi turned the crisis into safety, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, but the child had not woken up yet, and everyone did not dare to leave.
And because he was worried about the child, everyone didn't sleep all night, taking advantage of this gap, Jiang Yuqing simply drove everyone to rest, and no matter how anxious he was, he was not in a hurry at this time.
Yiyi slept until noon, and after getting up, he ate a big bowl of porridge and started to play energetically. I don't know what kind of danger I've just experienced.
After playing for a while, the little guy wanted to boo, and Jiang Yuqing led him to find the toilet.
After shouting, Yiyi was attracted by a cluster of daylily flowers in the yard, and walked towards the flowers to see the flowers.
It had just rained yesterday, and the yard was very slippery, and Jiang Yuqing was afraid that he would fall, so he followed.
The flowers are indeed very beautiful, and the little ones like them very much, but they are reluctant to pick one. just pulled her hard and said, "Mother, beautiful." ”
Jiang Yuqing was attracted by the stones in the flower garden.
They are irregular in shape and grayish-white throughout, which is very different from other stones.
She scraped a little bit of the dagger and put it in the palm of her hand to discern it carefully, and found that these were actually natural saltpeter.
So he hurriedly called Jing Yan to come and see, and after he saw it, he was sure that this was saltpeter.
So Jiang Yuqing took the child and ran to the front yard to chat with Aunt Chen, pretending to ask casually: "Auntie, the stones in your flower garden are really beautiful, it's quite rare, right?" ”
Mrs. Chen said happily: "What is rare, this broken stone, there are all over the rocky mountain." We don't want people here, it's too far away, it's hard to move. ”
Jiang Yuqing fooled around. exchanged glances with Jing Yan.
Jing Yan then went out with Canghai and Wuya, and came back when it was almost dark. There was a subtle hint of excitement in his eyes.
He said that the rocky mountain was full of saltpeter mines. Yesterday, I didn't pay attention to the rain when I was in a hurry, but today it seems that this is a treasure mountain.
Naturally, such a place should be nationalized and used for protection.
The next day, everyone quit the house, thanked Aunt Chen and set off again.
When he walked to a deserted mountain road, Jiang Yuqing sent Yiyi and Qiu Shenyi into the spiritual realm, and called Bai Xiaoshi to come out to walk.
The group hurried up and rushed towards the direction of Fucheng.
Yi Yi had just drawn qi into his body, and the abundant aura in the spiritual realm was very good for his body.
With a lot of toys to accompany him, and the conscientious Bai Xiaojiu looking at him, nothing big can happen.
And every once in a while she will talk to the child, or take him out to run a horse with him, so that the child will not feel lonely.
Divine Doctor Qiu is now old, and the many months of carriages and horses are indeed a bit unbearable for him, so it is just right for him to be placed in the spiritual realm.
The elixir and spirit grass in it were enough for him to study, and in her grandmother's words, it was a rat that fell into the rice tank.
Therefore, he easily does not come out except for eating.
Three days later, everyone rushed to Fucheng, because the lotus birthmark in front of Jiang Yuqing's forehead was too conspicuous, so in order not to startle the snake, she had to use illusions to cover herself.
Bai Xiaoshi also transformed into an ordinary horse. Not only that, but everyone else has also done more or less transfiguration.
After entering the city, everyone was also very careful, and did not dare to stay in the inn, but only rented an ordinary house in the city to live temporarily.
Jing Yan asked the people in Canghai to divide into several shifts and take turns to go to the Di family to inquire about the news, and Jiang Yuqing recruited a group of birds to help keep an eye on them.
Not only that, but she also transformed into a middle-aged Taoist and used silver to buy a beggar in a ruined temple in the west of the city.
agreed on the joint code, let them stare at the Di family for twelve hours a day, and report it as soon as there is any trouble.
The head of the Di family is a thousand-year-old fox, and since the first batch of goods had an accident on the Mekong River, he has been extra careful.
Although the people below reported that the boat accidentally touched a reef in the middle of the river and sank. But he always felt that it was not that simple.
Is it too much of a coincidence that a group of more than 20 boats sank only the one loaded with thunderbolts?
The only thing that is certain is that the imperial court does not know about this, otherwise the one in the capital would have already sent him the news.
Now I heard that His Majesty's Empress and the crown prince have come to Jiangnan, and there have been a lot of things along the way.
Jiangnan is so big, although it may not be so coincidental to find out on his head, but it doesn't hurt to be careful to sail a 10,000-year-old ship, and pay more attention.
Therefore, a few days earlier, he had sent men to keep an eye on the young and beautiful woman with the lotus birthmark on her forehead.
Because I was afraid that they would disguise themselves, I also specially instructed that special attention must be paid to carriages with escorts for the elderly and children.
He himself is also extremely cautious, except for his daily friends, he easily does not go out.
Therefore, whether it was the sea, the birds, or the beggars, they squatted in the Di family for six or seven days in a row, and there was no movement. makes people think that this is a businessman who does his duty.
If it weren't for Bai Xiaomen's reputation, Jiang Yu would have thought that Bai Xiaosheng was fooling people.
A good hunter often needs a lot of patience. On the eighth day, the Di family finally moved.
As soon as it was dawn that day, a small group of men and horses quietly walked out of the gate of Difu and headed for the west of the city.
After walking for a quarter of an hour, Di Xuan, the head of the Di family, stopped at the door of a breakfast shop on the side of the street.
The shopkeeper should have recognized him, and when he saw them coming, he came up very warmly to greet him: "Yo, Master Di is early!" Are you going to patrol the shop again? ”
Di Xuan pulled out a smile: "No, there are many places to go today, so you can't be early." ”
The owner of the breakfast shop said enviously: "Your big business is really good, how long will I be able to catch up with your fingernails." Master Di, what are you going to eat today? ”
"The old five."
"Haole, come right away!"
After Di Xuan finished breakfast, he began to patrol the shop unhurriedly.
First the silk shop, then the rice shop, when he walked to the third timber shop, he first looked in the front hall, and then turned around and went to the backyard under the pretext of going to the thatched house.
After looking around in the courtyard and seeing that there was no one, he pushed the door open and entered a small room that looked like a room for the night watchman, and closed the door.
Canghai hurriedly followed, and smudged the window paper with his fingers in saliva.
When I looked up, I saw that this guy had turned a basin shelf in the middle of the room. There is even a mechanism here.
With a scalp-tingling "click", the floor in the center of the room cracked, revealing a large black hole.
Di Xuan lit a lantern, bent down and walked down, and the ground immediately closed.
At this moment, there was movement behind Canghai, and someone was coming to the backyard.
He quickly flashed to the side, and when the others were gone, he came out and entered the room. Following Di Xuan's example, he opened the tunnel entrance.
He lit a finger-thick, special pine with a fire fold and followed him into the tunnel. As soon as I entered, the floor above my head automatically closed.
The tunnel is very narrow, and it will be enough for one person to walk, and if two people are walking opposite each other, they will have to turn sideways to pass.
There were no other references in the tunnels, and he could only roughly tell by feeling that the direction was leading to the outside of the city.
After walking for two quarters of an hour, the tunnel suddenly went up, and there were steps, which was the end.
After listening carefully to the movement outside, Canghai carefully pushed open the cover plate above his head, and the light in front of him suddenly shot in, squinting his eyes.
It's a small forest outside the city, and there's a trail up the hill not far away.
The exit of the tunnel was actually made in the shape of a tomb bag, which is indeed cunning enough.
Canghai crouched on the ground, carefully discerning the traces, and then quickly chased them in the direction where the traces had left, but it took half an hour to catch up with them.
This guy even has two retinues outside the city.
They went all the way to the mountains, turning around and rounding into a deep mountain col, and finally stopped, and it seemed that this was the place.
Di Xuan looked around, walked to the only large grave here, and reached out to press a certain word on the tombstone.
The tombstone slid open to the left, revealing another secret door.
After Canghai waited for them to go down, he took out the invisibility charm given by Jiang Yuqing from his sleeve and patted it on his body, pressed the mechanism and swaggered down.
After passing through a narrow walkway, there is a huge naturally formed karst cave underneath, which they used as an underground gunpowder workshop.
All kinds of raw materials are packed in boxes and stacked in different areas, which is very strict and orderly.
Otherwise, if these things explode, everyone will have to be buried here.
There were not many workers working in the cave, only twenty or thirty people, the expressions on their faces were numb, and when they saw Di Xuan coming, they all bowed slightly, thinking that they were all death contract slaves bought by the Di family.
Only one of them is one-armed, although his hair is messy and his clothes are ragged, his expression is extraordinarily resolute and arrogant.
When he saw Di Xuan coming, he didn't raise his head, but just did what he was doing unhurriedly by himself.
Di Xuan's entourage couldn't get used to his appearance, and scolded him loudly: "Jiang Zhiyuan, what is your attitude?" Don't salute when you see our master coming? ”
The one-armed man who was called Jiang Zhiyuan just raised his head and glanced at him with cold eyes, then lowered his head and stopped talking.
The entourage was angry, and said indignantly: "Jiang Zhiyuan, what kind of madness are you so crazy? Do you think this is still your Northwest Army? Don't forget that your wife is still in our hands. ”
Hearing the word "old lady", Jiang Zhiyuan's eyes instantly turned blood-red, and his right hand clenched his fist and his muscles exploded, but in the end he endured it.
When Canghai heard the words "Northwest Army", it was also a pupil earthquake, and it turned out that this person was actually from the Northwest Army.
Now that she is threatened, locked up in this dark place, and forced to make thunderbolts for people, Niangniang knows how distressed and angry she should be.
Moreover, this person is probably the core person they are looking for.
Fortunately, Di Xuan probably knew his temper and didn't embarrass him anymore. I just walked around the hole with my hands behind my back, checked it, and when I saw that there was no major problem, I left.
After he left, Canghai took advantage of people's inattention and threw a paper ball the size of a fingernail in front of Jiang Zhiyuan.
Jiang Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, and after looking around for a week, he picked up the paper ball with one arm and opened it to take a look, and there were three words "Little God of War" written on it in fly-headed small letters.
Sure enough, Jiang Zhiyuan was immediately excited when he saw it, and the big hand holding the note clenched into a fist, tight and loose, loose and tight.
After looking around, Fu lowered his head again.
Then another pebble struck him.