Chapter 5 Strangers on the Road

Jinlai Pavilion is not too harsh on the helpers, provided that they do things well.

Each helper has a different rest day, either four or seven days, according to the rules of the Kim Lai Court regulations such as long and short work. And this time can be decided freely, to come at intervals or in consecutive days, at the beginning of the month, you must explain clearly to the principal, and do a good job of registration.

Bai Xiaoxin has four days of rest every month, and he uses these four days in a row every month, spending more than a day rushing back and forth, and the rest of the time staying in Qingheng Mountain, on the border of Tang and Lingyue Kingdom, to find the medicinal materials on Duanmu Feng's list.

On the narrow road, the sun was shining, the yellow sand was permeated, and the dry weeds hung down from the steep mountain wall full of cracks, and the faint vitality was full of the spreading dead air.

Bai Xiaoxin wiped the sweat that was rolling around his chin, walked through the narrow road and entered the dense forest, carefully unloaded the bamboo basket behind him, found a big tree to sit down, and began to take care of the steamed buns.

There are several roads to Qingheng Mountain, Bai Xiaoxin chose the one that no one walked twice, four times back and forth, plus the fifth time this time, which can be regarded as a familiar road. And at this moment, the sun is poisoning, and he knows that the strength consumed to rush is exponential.

Bai Xiaoxin took out the water bag, carefully smeared some water on the dry lips of the steamed bun, looking at the steamed bun that was still frowning in his sleep, Bai Xiaoxin pursed his lips, he didn't think about leaving the steamed bun in Jinlai Pavilion, but as soon as this idea appeared, he was strangled to death, and the memory of Su Ling being hijacked in the theater with the steamed bun last time was constantly reminding him that the steamed bun must stay by his side.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiaoxin took out the package prepared by Su Ling from the bamboo basket.

This is the time to rest, just in time to eat.

When he opened the package, Bai Xiaoxin frowned, there was only one piece of steamed bread in it, and the remaining days were all pastries.

Without hesitation, Bai Xiaoxin decisively picked up a piece of pastry, chewed it quickly, and quickly flipped out the memory of the next journey...... After a section of the mountain road, there are several pits, and after another section, there is a mountain stream, which can replenish the water bag and wipe the body.

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Someone?

Bai Xiaoxin's ears moved slightly, and he packed up the package and put it in the bamboo basket and carried it without slowness.

A green shadow quickly skimmed over the road in front of Bai Xiaoxin, crossed the dense forest path, and then returned.

The man retreated from the bushes, then stopped in the middle of the path and made eye contact with Bai Xiaoxin.

Bai Xiaoxin was certainly able to restrain his own breath, but the sleeping steamed buns couldnnot, so Bai Xiaoxin simply did not restrain his own breath.

Therefore, in the eyes of the unknown person in white, Bai Xiaoxin is a clumsy laborer with slow movements.

"The Tang Kingdom is closed, if you are from the Tang Kingdom, you will not be here, you are from the Lingyue Kingdom?"

The unfamiliar and familiar accent made Bai Xiaoxin feel in a trance for a moment.

Unfamiliar, it was the first time Bai Xiaoxin had heard someone speak to him with such an accent in so long a long time. In the past, when I was mixing on the street, I couldn't help but hear one or two such accents in the noise, but it was not as big as the impact I now faced alone.

Bai Xiaoxin thought that he should not understand, but in fact...... He understood, and understood it all, word for word.

And the reason for the familiarity is that although this person's mouth is full of Tang State accents, in fact, it is full of loopholes, and the two or three words in it are sandwiched with the clumsy tongue of the Lingyue people. 168 Books

The strangeness and familiarity that rushed to Bai Xiaoxin was something Bai Xiaoxin didn't expect at all.

"......" Bai Xiaoxin ignored him, walked through a patch of weeds, and returned to the path leading to the depths of the dense forest.

When the man saw Bai Xiaoxin walking towards him, he couldn't help but shake the weapon in his hand, and the cold light in his eyes was shining, and he was about to do it when Bai Xiaoxin came to him.

But in fact, he watched Bai Xiaoxin walk past him.

Bai Xiaoxin naturally noticed this person's defense, and the diagonal sword wrapped in strips of cloth behind his back was ready to be unsheathed at any time, provided that the person in front of him made a move.

Peaceful.

After Bai Xiaoxin and the man passed closely, he walked for a while, and when he looked back, all he could get from his eyes was weeds and fallen leaves.

Bai Xiaoxin looked back indifferently, holding the steamed bun and taking a new step, but accelerated his pace.

Strange encounters often mean trouble.

And what that clumsy Tang dialect meant, although Bai Xiaoxin didn't want to think about it, combined with Su Ling's various instructions, he quickly understood-

The army of the Lingyue Kingdom.

Here, Bai Xiaoxin quickened his pace, but over there, the person who had just let Bai Xiaoxin go ushered in an overwhelming slap.

"We can't be discovered by people, if you don't kill him, just let that person go? Did you get kicked in the head by a donkey?"

The man staggered in the baptism of the storm, but he did not fall after all.

"But, that person's outfit looks like it's someone from our Lingyue Kingdom...... "The one who was beaten was the one who asked Bai Xiaoxin but was not taken care of, to be precise, this person was a member of the army of Lingyue Country, and he was under the command of General Zhu Zhengyue of Lingyue Kingdom, and it was the deputy general next to Zhu Zhengyue who beat him at this moment.

"Don't you know how secretive our operation is this time!?" The lieutenant's eyes widened and he continued to vent his anger.

"But, adjutant general...... The man, the man looked like he was still a child, and besides, he didn't go out of the mountains, but into the mountains...... I pondered, it should be a livelihood to find medicine and sell, and when our mission is completed, it is estimated that he will not be out of the mountain yet......" Under the increasingly devouring gaze of the adjutant general, the courage that the soldier had easily mustered slowly disappeared, and finally his tone gradually weakened.

"That's it, I don't care about you this time," the adjutant general looked at the other soldiers around him, and finally decided to put away his anger, he said coldly, "Since you are a countryman and a child, then the road should not be very far, you and a person go and tie him back for me!

"Yes!" the soldier scowled with a pig's face, and he was categorical.

Here, after Bai Xiaoxin walked two distances, he saw the mountain stream, and after he filled the water bag, he wiped it on the forehead and the middle of the steamed bun with some cold water, until he watched the tangled brows of the steamed bun stretch with satisfaction.

Then he threw his hand into the water of the mountain stream, and splashed it on his face, then untied his belt, opened his jacket and wiped it on his neck, chest and back.

Su Ling said that if the day is too hot, it will cause prickly heat, and when Bai Xiaoxin was still living in the beggars' pile, he also personally verified this truth, since he grew up twice, he paid special attention to his body in the summer.

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