Chapter 236: The Sword Picks the Wind Chime
One caravan after another drove across the river, and as soon as each one reached the opposite bank, it was stopped and searched by the underworld minions.
Seeing such a situation, Yi Ruoying's heart was also a little relieved, so it seemed that the Huo steward did not leak the fact that Mr. Ma Da was hiding in a carriage in Zuihou, so the people in the underworld would check the vehicles one by one.
It's just that the other party searched so carefully, but he didn't know if the two people hiding in the luggage compartment could be fooled. But in any case, as long as the carriage crosses the river, even if it is detected by then, it is much better to fight the underworld people on the other side of the river than to be attacked by hundreds of arrows on the pontoon bridge.
Half an hour later, all thirteen caravans had driven to the other side, and it was Zuihou's turn to be a troika. Meng Huan, who was sitting in front of the car, was quite calm, there was no panic on his face, he spurred the horse and drove the carriage onto the pontoon bridge. Yi Ruoying, Bai Yiling and the others dressed up as the four little girls did not dare to slack off, and they also drove their mounts and followed closely behind the carriage.
The carriage crossed the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank, and Meng Huan lifted the reins of the horse. I could only hear Steward Huo, who was standing next to Chang Feixu, say: "Tell Second Master Chang that this time I went to the north to transport grain, just in time for Master Chai's sixth lady to return to his hometown in Xiangjing to save his relatives, and he walked all the way." In this carriage were the sixth lady and her sister, as well as her aunt, all of whom belonged to the family. ”
His statement was that the crowd had already made a good name before. The expression on Chang Feixu's face remained unchanged, and he didn't know if he heard what Steward Huo said.
The two minions had already walked to the front of the carriage and lifted the curtain in front of the carriage. I saw that there were four women sitting in the carriage, two of them were young women, both around 20 years old, the older one of them was beautiful and bewitching, and the other was also as beautiful as a flower, but there was still a little childishness on his face. The other two were an old woman with gray hair, a wrinkled face, at least fifty or sixty years old, and the other a middle-aged servant with thick hands and feet.
The two young women were naturally Chu Yiyi and Hai Hongzhu, while the old woman and the servant woman were Miaozhen and Miaojue, two masters, in disguise.
Hai Hongzhu pouted and sat in the car silently, but Chu Yiyi spoke in a coquettish voice, gave a half-salute, and said: "Concubine Chai, I have seen all the big heroes!"
The carriage was very empty, and there was nothing else, and it was impossible to hide anyone but these four people.
The underworld minion who lifted the curtain glanced twice at the car, and said in his mouth: "Old man Chai is a lot older, and he begs such a beautiful lady, this little sister-in-law looks even better, damn, this old guy will really enjoy the blessings!"
But Chang Feixu, who was riding on the horse, snorted and scolded: "Bastard! Did you come down the mountain this time to ask you to come and see the woman? There is a luggage compartment behind this carriage, go and check it out!"
That minion should claim that it was, hurriedly climbed down from the front of the car, went around to the back to open the luggage compartment, but Huo Yifan, the steward on the side, was so frightened that his face turned white, and said: "Second Master Chang, it is full of women's clothes, and it is inconvenient to look through a lot of inconveniences, so don't check it......"
Chang Feixu's face sank, and he glared at Steward Huo, his eyes were gloomy, like a sharp sword! Steward Huo originally wanted to say more, but he was so frightened that he couldn't make a sound, and swallowed all the words back into his stomach.
With a "bang", the luggage compartment behind the carriage had been opened, and Steward Huo's heart was shocked, however, to his surprise, Hua Bushi and Mr. Ma Da, who were obviously hiding in it before, were nowhere to be seen, and there was only a small rattan box flat in the empty luggage compartment.
This rattan box is only two or three feet long, more than a foot high, and it can't hide people, but the minions still pick up the buckle and mix it, and lift the lid of the box. But when he saw that the box was really full of women's clothes, he reached in and rummaged through it for a while, but he couldn't find anything suspicious.
Since nothing was noticed, the minions jumped out of the car and gestured to his accomplices in front of him, signaling for them to let go.
Meng Huan, who acted as a coachman, waved his long whip and was about to drive forward, but Chang Feifu suddenly shouted: "Slow!"
As soon as he urged the horse, he had come to the carriage, and his cold gaze swept over the faces of everyone in the carriage one by one, and suddenly, his shoulders moved, and a sword light flew out!
The black-sheathed long sword that often flew was originally hanging on the saddle, but it was in his hand in the blink of an eye. The sword was unsheathed, but there was no sound, and the sword light flashed in the space, but there was a soft sound of "ding", but the copper wind chime hanging in front of the carriage had been cut into two, and half of it was picked up by Chang Fei on the tip of the sword!
All the women in the carriage showed surprise on their faces, and Hai Hongzhu screamed "ahhhhhh
Chang Feixu picked up the copper bell with his sword, but a pair of eyes did not look at the tip of his sword at all, but stared at the people in the carriage. It is true that a martial arts master can restrain his breath and pretend that he does not know martial arts, but anyone who has practiced superior martial arts has a faster nervous reaction than ordinary people, especially for the flying sword light, he is extremely sensitive, and he can often make changes according to instinct.
Chang Feixu's intention was to observe the reaction speed of the people in the car at the moment of drawing the sword to judge whether they had martial arts. And now his gaze stayed on Hai Hongzhu's face.
The other three women were all very slow to react, and it wasn't until Chang Feixu put away the sword that she suddenly showed a look of horror, only the youngest beautiful young woman screamed when the sword light was together, although the reaction was much worse than that of a martial arts master, but it was obviously much faster than ordinary people.
In fact, this is because Miaozhen and Miaojue are profound and extremely self-controlled, and Chu Yiyi is even more astute, and he has already thought of the other party's temptation, so he has not revealed his flaws. But Hai Hongzhu has no city and shallow experience in the rivers and lakes, so her reaction is completely instinctive.
Chang Feixu stared at Hai Hongzhu's eyes and asked in a deep voice, "What's your name, have you ever practiced martial arts?"
Hai Hongzhu was even more panicked in her heart, and was about to deny it, but Mrs. Miao Zhen, who was sitting next to her, said: "She is the daughter of the old body Hongzhu, she practiced boxing for a few days when she was young, and now she is married to Nanao with her sister, please look at her brother-in-law Chai Dashan in front of her, don't embarrass her." ”
Chang Feixu had already made up his mind when he asked, if the young woman denied that she had practiced martial arts, he immediately turned his face and took her down, but at this time, the old woman admitted that her daughter had practiced martial arts, which made Chang Feixu hesitate.
He stretched out his ape arm, raised his long sword, and sent half of the wind chimes on the tip of the sword to Haihong Zhu, and said, "I saw that the wind chimes hanging on your car were very interesting, so I took them off and took a look, and I still give them back to you." ”
From beginning to end, he didn't look at the wind chime at all, and his eyes were fixed on Hai Hongzhu's face. Hai Hongzhu stretched out her hand and took out half of the wind chime from the tip of the sword tremblingly, obviously extremely nervous, and said, "Thank you...... King Xie ......"
Only then did she realize that she had almost goofed just now, but now she was really panicked and uneasy, and she was not pretentious at all.
Chang Feixu stared at Hai Hongzhu for a long time, and suddenly his wrist flipped, and the sword was inserted back into the scabbard, and he waved his hand and said, "Let them go!"
He had already seen that although Hai Hongzhu had practiced kung fu, he was very deficient in both reaction and courage, and at most he was only a person who was new to martial arts. If Yuejing Baidao wants to escort that important person, he will definitely send a master in the door, and he will never send this kind of rookie with half a bucket of water. Therefore, he completely dispelled his doubts.
Na Huo steward said again and again: "Thank you Second Master Chang for your magnanimity, let us go, the Nanao Chai family is grateful!"
The minions had already moved the barricades ahead, and the drivers set off one after another, and the entire convoy slowly moved forward, passing straight among the underworld strongmen on both sides of the road.
As soon as he passed the checkpoint, Steward Huo dared to slack off, shouting at the caravan to speed up. The coachmen drove the mules and horses desperately, until they could no longer see the shadow of the robbers behind them, and ran out of five or six miles, turning several turns, before Steward Huo ordered the convoy to stop.
He rode his horse to the carriage, and Zhu Hong had already stepped forward to open the luggage compartment behind him, and helped Hua Bushi and Mr. Ma Da out of the compartment.
Mr. Martha stretched his limbs and said, "Fortunately, that little minion was not careful enough, if he had been more careful and found that there was a mezzanine under this luggage compartment, we would have been terrible." ”
Hua Bushi said with a smile: "It's a pity that you and I are two big men crowded in that foot-high mezzanine, it's really a bad scenery, next time you want to hide in, you must find a big beauty to be together!"
As he spoke, he squinted at Yi Ruoying next to him, but Yi Ruoying's face blushed.
After hearing this, Steward Huo suddenly realized. It turned out that there was a mezzanine under the carriage of this carriage, and Hua Bushi and Mr. Ma Da had hidden in the mezzanine before, so that they could escape the search of the underworld minions.
At this time, Miaozhen Shitai and others in the carriage also jumped out of the carriage and came in front of Hua Bushi.
Master Miao Zhen Taiheshi saluted and said: "Thanks to Young Master Hua's clever plan this time, I can get out of danger without fighting, it's really a blessing!"
Hua Bushi suddenly shook his head and said, "I'm just lucky to get through now, but it may not be possible to get out of danger." ”
Master Miao Zhen frowned and said, "What does Young Master Hua mean by this, is there still danger ahead?"
Hua Bushi said: "Is there any danger ahead, I don't know below, but we have already revealed a flaw just now, that Chang Lao Er didn't notice it for a while, but if he thinks about it, he may find it, so most of them will chase after him." ”
Master Miao Zhen's eyes lit up and asked, "What is the flaw?"
Hua Bushi said: "This flaw is the accent of Yiyi and Shitai's conversation. Yiyi is playing the daughter of Mrs. Shi, but her accent is pure Mandarin, and when Mrs. Shi responds to Chang Feixu, she speaks with a Cantonese accent. It is reasonable to say that the daughter married into a South Australian husband's family and changed her accent, but the daughter's accent has not changed, but the mother speaks Cantonese, which is unreasonable. Chang Feixu hadn't noticed it before, but this flaw was really not small, and he would definitely be able to find it after a little thought. ”
Miao Zhen Shi Tai is originally a native of Guangdong, and in order to relieve Hai Hongzhu, she used a local accent when she spoke to Chang Feixu, in fact, even if she wanted to change her accent, she couldn't do it.