Chapter 18: All the Way West: Yiwu's Journey (2)

It is said that the two of them crossed the path from the foot of the mountain on the west side of Shiluo Manshan and galloped all the way to Yiwu, but the horse under the crotch was not a good horse, and it was only a hundred miles in a day, in order not to let the horse get tired to death, the two could only run wild during the day, eat some food at night and feed the horse, and then immediately lead the horse to the road.

On the third day of the trip, it suddenly rained heavily, and the road was muddy and slippery, which hindered the progress of the journey, so the two had no choice but to find a shelter from the rain nearby and wait for the heavy rain to pass before continuing their journey.

At this time, Qingli leaned against the wall of the stone cave, touched the sword in his hand and asked, "That kid shouldn't be nosy." ”

Di Wenyan smiled and said, "What do you think, I heard Rakshasa say that he sacrificed his life to save Dr. Mo's granddaughter, do you think this kid just likes Mo Ziyao to save her?" In fact, you are all wrong, this child is the same as adults, the duke is selfless and upright, I still remember that when we went on an expedition to the Turks in the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign, you were all hiding around to protect the adults, and I was pretending to be an adult's personal soldiers to protect his old man's home, I remember how many villages we saw along the way that were destroyed by the Turkic wolf cubs, and the adults saw those homeless people, and distributed the military rations they carried along the way, and when we were engaged in fire with the Turks, only one-third of the military rations of the Eastern Route Army remained. ”

Then Di listened to the heavy rain outside the cave, and slowly continued: "If it weren't for the Shangzhu State Zhao Zhongqing who pursued to the beggar Fubo (now the Yellow Flag Sea in the northeast of the front banner of the right wing of Chahar in Inner Mongolia), defeated the Turks again, captured more than 1,000 people and miscellaneous animals, and let the soldiers replace military food with livestock. ”

Qingli also said thoughtfully when she heard this: "Yes, for the sake of military rations, after the class teacher returned to the court, there were still people who used this matter to attack the adults in the court, saying that the adults used public weapons for private purposes. I remember that when the adults returned to the house at that time, they scolded angrily, but fortunately, in the end, Lord He Ruobi said a fair word to our adults, and then he escaped. ”

Then Qingli sighed and said, "In this way, this kid Mo Feng really followed his father, I just hope that he won't have an accident." ”

Di Ting looked at the sky outside and said, "Let's rest for a while, and wait for the rain to stop before we can hurry." Then he closed his eyes and leaned against the cave wall, silent.

Qingli stirred the fire with a wooden stick to make the fire more vigorous, then added some firewood, and rested against the cave wall.

At the same time, in the inn of Yiwu County, it had been ten days since Di Ting had left them, and Chu Mofeng was still practicing the kung fu taught by the masters step by step every day, and he was really bored and wandered around the city.

Because the whole people of the Sui Dynasty drank tea, there were also tea stalls in Yiwu County, and when Chu Mofeng was bored, he sat in the tea stall and drank tea, listening to the people around him say some anecdotes about the north and the south, and over time, Chu Mofeng actually fell in love with drinking tea.

After the daily practice, he would come to the tea stall to drink tea until he was comfortable, and gradually became familiar with the owner of the tea stall.

On this day, Chu Mofeng finished practicing early, went straight to the tea stall, and saw that the tea stall was already full from a distance, so he hurriedly ran over and asked the tea stall owner Lao Zhang: "Lao Zhang, do you have any seats, give me a pot of tea." ”

Lao Zhang saw that it was Chu Mofeng, and said to him with a smile: "Little brother, you are very punctual every day, there is still a seat here, you sit first and I will serve you tea later." ”

Chu Mofeng immediately sat down and waited for Lao Zhang to serve tea with peace of mind, and after waiting for a while, seeing that Lao Zhang hadn't brought tea yet, he stood up and was about to urge, but as soon as he got up, he was bumped from behind, and his body almost fell on the table. Chu Mofeng got up again and was about to get angry, only to hear a voice with a slight Turkic accent sound: "Boss, come to a pot of tea, five people." ”

Chu Mofeng straightened up, raised his eyes to look at the person who hit him, and saw that this person was wearing a lapel beard suit, a belt around his waist, and leather boots on his feet. After a while, Lao Zhang brought two pots of tea, one pot was put on Chu Mofeng's table, and the other pot was put on the Turk's table, Chu Mofeng looked back, only to see that this Turk man had four accompanying companions, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: Fortunately, I didn't take out the dagger impulsively, otherwise I am really not an opponent with one enemy and five. Then he drank his own tea.

At this time, I only heard five Turkic people talking in Turkic dialect, Chu Mofeng didn't understand and didn't care, it happened that there was no water in the pot, so he beckoned Lao Zhang to come over to add water, and when he brought Lao Zhang over, Chu Mofeng found that Lao Zhang's face was ugly, and he looked at the Turkic table from time to time, and asked Lao Zhang in doubt: "Lao Zhang, what's wrong with you, is there anything uncomfortable?"

Lao Zhang glanced at Chu Mofeng and said, "Little brother, it's okay, maybe I'm tired, just thank you." Then he added water to Chu Mofeng and turned to leave. At this point, the Turks at the table ended their conversation, paid their money and got up to leave. At this time, the guests on the tea stall also left one after another, leaving only Chu Mofeng at the table, Lao Zhang looked at Chu Mofeng uncertainly and said, "Little brother, I'm going to close the stall, you see if you come back tomorrow." ”

When Chu Mofeng heard this, he raised his head and looked at Lao Zhang and said: "Lao Zhang, you definitely have something, otherwise you wouldn't have closed the stall before four minutes, I boldly guess, do you see it right, it has something to do with those Turks, right?" ”

Lao Zhang looked at Chu Mofeng in embarrassment and said, "Little brother, don't guess, I don't want to get into trouble, I just want to run my tea stall with peace of mind." Immediately came to clean up the tea set on Chu Mofeng's table, Chu Mofeng saw this, took out a string of money from his pocket and threw it on the table and said, "This is half-run, tell me what you heard, you take the money." ”

Lao Zhang looked at the money on the table, hesitated for a long time, turned his head and looked around, and then attached himself to Chu Mofeng's ear and said, "This matter is out of my mouth and into your ears, don't let others know." Chu Mofeng nodded when he heard this.

Then Lao Zhang said to Chu Mofeng: "I live in Yiwu all the year round, I can understand Turkic language, but it is not good to say, just now those five people said that they would assassinate Lord Taishou Wang Wei tomorrow, because tomorrow Lord Taishou will go to the west of the city to inspect the progress of Tuntian, so one of them is unwilling, saying that there must be a lot of people and heavily guarded when the Taishou inspection is carried out tomorrow, and I am afraid that it will not be easy to ask for a change in time. ”

Chu Mofeng asked puzzledly: "Is this Xiangyun Restaurant opened by your Lord Taishou Wang?"

Lao Zhang shook his head and said, "No, because the Tuntian project has been progressing very fast recently, and Lord Wang has to go to Xiangyun Restaurant for dinner every time he returns." Okay, I've told you everything I know, so don't go and join in the fun. ”

After hearing this, Chu Mofeng took out two more hangs of money from his arms and handed them to Lao Zhang and said: "You take the money, don't go out of the stall tomorrow, this is compensation for you, and I will wait for you to come out of the stall at the end of the day after tomorrow." Then he turned and left the tea stall.

In the early morning of the second day, Chu Mofeng got up early, wrapped the burning sky with a cloth bag, and wrapped the other side of the Yellow Spring and the dart bag with the baggage, tied the burden and carried it out of the inn and walked to the west of the city.

Came to the west of the city Tuntian, found that at this time Taishou Wang Wei had not come, so he hid far away, while waiting for Wang Wei to arrive, while observing everywhere to beware of the Turkic attack, time passed little by little, Chu Mofeng observed for a long time and did not find any trace of the Turks, until the end of the Chen, Taishou Wang Wei arrived under the escort of the county Cheng, the county lieutenant and a group of soldiers, and inspected until noon, a group of people were about to go to the west gate for dinner, at this time Chu Mofeng heard a sound in the air. With the sound of breaking the wind, I saw that one of the soldiers on the opposite side was shot down, and a group of people hurriedly shouted: "Protect Taishou." He then surrounded Wang Wei in the center and slowly retreated towards the west gate.

At this time, there was suddenly another sound of breaking wind, and another soldier fell, Chu Mofeng heard that the two voices were not coming from one direction, and he couldn't help but quietly raise his head and look around, only to see that everyone on the opposite side saw that another person was shot down, and hurriedly raised his shield to protect himself and quickly retreated.

At this time, Chu Mofeng held the other side of the Yellow Spring in his hand, searched carefully, and suddenly he found that a person was waiting to open a bow and pull an arrow from the grass in front of him, so he quietly crawled in the direction of the person, at this time this person shot another arrow, and was about to take another arrow from the quiver behind his back, Chu Mofeng saw the timing of holding the dagger with both hands in the form of an iron hammer, rolled forward and rolled over to the back of the person, and the moment he straightened up, he used the falling star style, and the dagger in his left hand stabbed a positive stab, stabbing into the back of the target, and then covering the target's mouth with his left hand, and stabbing his waist and back with his right hand discontinuously, until the person was no longer struggling。

Gently putting down the target in front of him, Chu Mofeng was afraid that this person would come back from the dead, so he pulled out the dagger on his back and slashed at the throat of this person, and then wiped his blood-stained right hand on his clothes, picked up his bow and quiver, and then walked away from the distance, found a place to hide, and stared at the corpse on the ground in the distance.

Wang Wei had already entered the West City Gate under the escort of everyone, and the archers in the other direction found that there was one person missing, so he immediately called out to his companions in Turkic, and the smell of blood gradually wafted into the air.

It is estimated that another Turk asked about the smell of blood in the air, followed the direction where the smell came from, walked to the front and found that his companion was already dead, and immediately threw away the bow and arrow, pulled out a long knife and stood guard, at this time Chu Mofeng held the bow handle tightly with his left hand, took out an arrow from the quiver with his right hand, and then clamped the tail of the arrow with three fingers and hung it on the string, put the arrow body on the left side of the bow body, and forcefully aimed the bowstring at the Turks on the opposite side, and after pausing for a long time, he pulled it to the full moon shape, and after aiming at the Turks on the opposite side, he paused, and then threw his right hand away, just listen. There was a thud of breaking wind, and the arrow flew towards the target on the opposite side.

Chu Mofeng didn't care whether he could hit the target or not, he threw the bow to the ground while the arrow took out the bow and moved forward, and then pulled out the Burning Sky and rushed towards the target. At this time, the Turk heard the sound of the arrows and had no time to dodge, so he hurriedly turned sideways to avoid the vital parts, and at the same time felt a pain in his right shoulder, and the long knife in his hand also fell to the ground.

Chu Mofeng pounced in front of the target, his right hand clenched the burning sky and held it high above his head, and a Mount Tai pressed the top of the target to smash it, at this time, the Turkic man hurriedly picked up the long knife to resist, only to hear a crisp sound, the Turkic long knife broke in response, and the burning sky was castrated, and smashed heavily on the top of the Turkic head, and in an instant the Turkic man's head was smashed open, and blood flowed down the head and mouth.

Chu Mofeng threw all his strength into one blow, and at this time he was already a little out of strength, but for the sake of insurance, he still stabbed the Turkic man in the chest with the burning sky, and after confirming that the target was dead, Chu Mofeng sat on the ground and gasped for breath, his hands and legs kept shaking because of the loss.

After a long time, Chu Mofeng slowly stood up, scavenged the belongings of the two Turks, wrapped them with clothes, and then found a place to dig two pits with the burning sky to bury the two on the spot. After packing up, he carried his baggage and walked towards the West City Gate.