The author has something to say: Because of the stop for half a month, I will give you an overview of the previous plot.
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Meng Qi and Mo Li met Ayan Puka, the leader of the Xiliang forces, and then crossed the river to prepare to go to Feihe Mountain.
The two stayed at the inn in the middle of the night when they encountered a masked man who was about to set fire to it. The masked man was a scout from Qi Chao's navy. They found someone (Huang Liu, a traveling merchant) with a navy defense map across the river, so they tried to recover and kill the person who had seen the map. . The innkeeper's wife and the staff were not ordinary people. A group of people fought. Huang Liu said that the person who instructed him to steal the pictures was the former national teacher.
Because Huang Liu didn't know Meng Qi, the lie was exposed, and he changed his words and said that he didn't know who the messenger was when he used money to do things, but only knew that those people knew martial arts.
Everyone didn't believe it, so they were going to wait for the rabbit in the inn and wait for the behind-the-scenes mastermind. The proprietress was dissatisfied.
There was a faint smile in Meng Qi's eyes, he stroked his beard and looked like an expert who could see through the world.
Ink carp: "… "
Getting old and getting old, it is impossible for him to be as comfortable as Meng Qi.
For example, when stroking the beard, it feels weird.
Mo Li is just imitating Mr. Qin. His "heart" has never really grown old, and naturally he is not used to such an appearance. Zhushan County is too small, and everyone knows that he is a disciple of Qin Shenyi, and his medical skills are not bad. "Older" has no chance to gain the trust of others to practice medicine conveniently.
The original black-scaled fish, similar in appearance to carp, has beards.
The dragon also has two long whiskers. "Since childhood", the ink carp thought he was a fish and thought it was pretty, but he didn't associate "beard" with "old" at all.
And the habit of having beards does not mean that you are used to touching with your hands. Does the fish have hands? !
The dragon is long, but the dragon's claws are on the abdomen, and you can't touch the chin even if you lift it up!
…Wait, thinking about it this way, gerbils and dragons have subtle things in common.
Short claws!
Ink carp recalled the soft gerbil's short paws, which seemed to be only big enough to stuff food into their mouths. Maybe, maybe, maybe they could rub against their whiskers, but they couldn't touch their noses anyway. When I think about it like this, the ink carp is relieved. After all, the Taijing Longmai can touch the beard before it has no human form.
Meng Qi never imagined that Mo Li was thinking about these things. He saw Mo Li's tangled eyes turned relieved, and he thought that he had convinced his sweetheart with his lofty and graceful attitude.
The national teacher is complacent.
Everything is in his plan, otherwise why bother to persuade the doctor to grow old with him
It is necessary to let Mo Li meet the "real Meng Guoshi", the eighty-seven-year-old kind.
Eight, ten, seven, years old!
Just listening to it makes the scalp tingling, plus all kinds of weird rumors, especially these rumors existed in the Chu Dynasty.
For example, Emperor Chu Yuan abolished Jin Yiwei on the open face and may have secretly raised a group of dead spy agents who served him. More people don't think so. They think that Meng Guoshi knows everything, because he is proficient in the art of fighting ghosts, and has a lot of ghosts by his side. He can kill people invisibly. Even if the court officials are lying in the lotus tent and whispering with their concubine in their arms. , it is also possible that the ghost will listen to it and report it to the national teacher.
The more it spread, the more outrageous it became. Later, it was directly said that Meng Qi was a ghost and not a human being. Every night when the moon was full, he would eat human hearts/drink virgin blood/dig out the livers of living people... so much so that Baoguo Temple, the most prosperous incense in Taijing, was frightened by officials. They crossed the threshold.
In particular, once the imperial court investigated corruption in the bureaucracy, and frightened a small official with his eyes, the rumors became more demonized.
Meng Qi thought that age was already a problem. When he returned to Zhushan County and met Xue Ting, the county magistrate who may have heard all the rumors, how embarrassing and embarrassing the scene would be.
No, before that, let the doctor know what the "real Meng Guoshi" looks like.
Meng Qi thought the strategy was successful and solved the big problem, so he was more patient with the group of masked people who wanted to kill and set fire. He faced Doctor Mo who was walking back slowly, and said with a smile: "It's trivial matters, but I still have to worry about it. It's really not right to do it."
Mo Li: "..." Meng Qi said in the past that the word for calling the table is too common, just like the worldly people, and now it is easier to say than anyone else.
Do you change your mind as you get older
Or is the national teacher completely addicted
What if gerbils like to play
Just play along!
"Brother Qixing, you're welcome." Mo Li waved his sleeves and looked unconcerned.
The leader of the scout battalion stared at Mo Li, as if he wanted to remember his appearance completely, and asked, "I don't know who this old gentleman is, and what is his name?"
"There are no famous guests in the wild mountains, and Yan Huang is an idle person. He doesn't ask about the world, and this time he has a glimpse of the beautiful scenery of the river and mountains with his friends. If you want to call him, you can call him Huang Juke." All are sets.
Meng Qi was slightly surprised, he didn't know about this.
After thinking about it again, Huang means a piece of bamboo, and it can also happen to be in Zhushan County.
The leader of the scout battalion never thought that Mo Li would tell the truth, but the other party acted like a celebrity, and he couldn't help but want to test it.
The scholar regards his reputation as more than the sky, and he has a lot of names. Maybe the other party casually said something that is not commonly used. When he returns to the jurisdiction of the Qi Dynasty, he will be able to find some clues!
In the face of Meng Guoshi and friends who can't be offended at all, and the aggressive shopkeeper's wife and buddy, the masked man leader feels that he has lost blood and mold today. Sure enough, it's not a good thing to have a tengu eating day!
The people who colluded with Huang Liu were not caught, and the defense map was not taken back.
Can not use force, can only continue to deal with.
So under the watchful eyes of the public, the leader of the scout battalion had to draw out a silver note: "This is money for smashing things and continuing to harass the shopkeeper."
Before he put him on the table, Mrs. Tao gestured to hold out her hand, and sneered: "We can't accept banknotes for the business of small households. If you give me a banknote that can only be exchanged in Jiangbei, I have to contact me. customers instead.”
The leader of the scout battalion had blue veins on the back of his hand, and he could only suppress his anger and said solemnly: "Look clearly! This is a silver note issued by Fude Bank. Fude Bank is the largest ticket number in Jingzhou, and it's the bank to the south of you!"
"Hey! Fifty taels is enough to buy my small shop three times." Tao Niangzi glanced at the silver note, and suddenly laughed, as if she saw money.
The leader of the scout battalion had his face covered, so he couldn't see his expression, but there was contempt in his eyes, and he threw the silver note directly.
As a result, Mrs. Tao remained motionless, with the excited and flattering smile on her face.
—It just seems extra fake at the moment.
"you!"
The leader found out that Mrs. Tao was playing with him.
Grasshoppers like this should be shot to death by random arrows! And this is the other side of the river, even if you kill people and leave, it will not cause them any trouble, but who is unlucky today
The leader of the scout glanced at Mo Li and Meng Qi in a veiled look, and he held back his anger, and asked unhappily, "What does the lady of the shop mean?"
"Look at what you said, what does the slave family mean?"
Tao Niangzi picked up the long dust tail on the table, waving it like a fly and worm, and said casually, "This small inn, with such a large area and so many rooms, is worth a lot of money, but after a long time. In disrepair, it is cold in winter and cool in summer, and the door has been exhausted for many years. It is too much to sell for three taels of silver. Even if these tables, chairs and benches are sold as firewood, the cost of transporting them out is more expensive than firewood.”
"What are you talking about, what are you talking about?" a masked man beside the leader shouted impatiently.
Madam Tao's beautiful eyes flowed, and she smiled and said to Yan Yan: "I tell you, the slave family doesn't love money, otherwise they would have left long ago, why should they be trapped in such a small place."
Everyone: "… "
That's not a good idea. It is also possible that he willingly squatted in the wilderness store to avoid the enemy.
The leader of the scout thought that Mrs. Tao was too young for money. He glanced around and pointed at Huang Liudao, who was lying on the ground: "As long as you catch the person who instigated this guy behind his back, all the money on his body will be given to the lady of the shop."
Huang Liu shook for a while, but did not dare to look up.
But Mrs. Tao was amused, and sneered: "Send me with scattered silver? I know better than you who Huang Liu is. If he really got a hundred taels of silver from the master behind the scenes, he would never cross the river. I will carry it on my body, but just dig a hole and hide it. It's better if no one finds it after it's rotten. In this way, if the other party kills him, he will not be able to find any money from him. Tickets, this is called asking for money when you die, and you have to bring a sum of money to Huangquan when you are a ghost."
Huang Liu's face turned blue after being run.
Meng Qi had a smile in his eyes, as if he was watching a good show.
Mo Li felt that Mrs. Tao seemed to have unfinished words.
Sure enough, her next sentence was an undisguised irony: "Furthermore, if those people are smart and stingy enough, they will play tricks on the banknotes like you. Some people have the means to get some invalid bills that have been redeemed. The silver bills have numbers on them, and those that are crossed out cannot be redeemed. If someone takes such a silver bill to the bank, he will not be arrested by the police? The slave family is not stupid, Huang Liu is not stupid when it comes to money, who will be fooled?"
Huang Liu's eyes wandered, what he really wanted was silver ingots, not silver bills.
One catty sixteen taels, one hundred taels of silver in his arms is obvious, how can we cross the river
Besides, the other party refused to give him all the money, and only gave half of it. Now that the unidentified incident has happened, the remaining half is to stop thinking about it. Whether Huang Liu can save his life is a question.
The leader of the scout frowned and said directly: "Then wait a few days to catch someone and give the money they made for the transaction to the lady of the shop."
This time, Mrs. Tao didn't even bother to say sarcastic words, she just sneered.
- I don't even know who the mastermind behind the scenes is and where she is. With such an empty promise, it would be strange for Mrs. Tao to be fooled.
The masked man made a slight commotion, pressing the handle of the knife and trying to do it again, until their leader snorted angrily, and then suppressed the crowd.
Facing Mrs. Tao, who couldn't get enough oil and salt, the leader of the scout had a headache. He suppressed his anger and asked, "What exactly does the lady of the shop want?"
"I want you to get out, so as not to dirty my ground."
"presumptuous!"
This group of masked people was furious, but they were just a girl who opened a wild shop, and dared to be so arrogant.
"We commanded good words and good words, and even took out the money. You refused to listen. Could it be that you are with Huang Liu?"
"Yes, I think you colluded! All should be killed!"
"There is no one else who needs the navy's defense plan, that is, King Jing, the Yichu army on the south bank, still need to check?"
Madam Tao was still able to hold her steady, but the man was so angry that his fists clenched.
There was a lot of noise in the inn, and a fight was about to break out.
"Okay." The leader of the scout stopped, he glanced at the crowd, and said without meaning, "I believe that the lady of the store has nothing to do with the people like Huang Liu who stole the defense map, but if they are involved too deeply, this matter will be It’s hard to say. You people in the world are involved in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and the official affairs should be avoided. I say this for the sake of the lady of the store. The lady is here to open an inn, no matter how small the business is, it is a business. When you get up, who is the one who suffers? I'm afraid that the peaceful days will be gone forever, and it will be too late to regret it."
The ink carp frowned slightly.
Just now, I tried my best to detain the charges, as if I wanted to find a reason to do it. Now there is a faint sense of rejection inside and outside the words, alluding to the fact that once Meng Qichu's identity as the national teacher is involved in this matter, the situation will slide to the point where it can't be controlled. .
Mrs. Tao picked up a chair and handed it to the man, and said loudly: "You are trying to fool the old lady with eloquent words, today you are full of hypocrisy, asking for money for money, and if you are good, don't put money over it, in fact, it is not because of these two. On the face. Do you think the old lady doesn't know, and when the people leave, you turn your back and burn the old lady's house? Xiaohezi!"
"Have!"
The guy took the chair, his face full of wickedness.
"There has always been a thief for a thousand days, and there is no reason to prevent a thief for a thousand days. Get rid of one today, and tomorrow we will die in a different place and be buried in the sea of fire! Let's do it!"
The leader of the scout was shocked and angry, but Mrs. Tao took the lead.
Hidden weapons are inherently hard to guard against, and if you add a big guy who has practiced iron cloth shirt and is invulnerable like a humanoid weapon, whoever hits someone breaks a bone, and whoever catches someone breaks his hand, it's hard not to fight.
So there was a ping-pong-pong fight in the inn again.
In the midst of the commotion, Meng Qi picked up a good table and sat down. He also took the pot and two clean cups on the counter himself, while pouring water, he greeted the ink carp to come and sit.
Mo Li carried Huang Liu, who was trying to escape again, to the table, flicked his robe sleeves, blocked the hidden weapon that was bounced by the blade, and took the cup handed over by Meng Qi with a leisurely expression.
"Water is good water, but unfortunately there is no good tea."
"Brother Qixing, why should you regret? Luyang Feihe Mountain has been famous since ancient times, and Zhaoxi Yunwu Tea is even more famous. I will invite Brother Qixing to drink it." Mo Li blinked and deliberately used a wrong word, tea should be said Taste, wine is free to drink.
Drinking tea as wine is the most unpleasant scenery.
Mainly because of the reputation of Zhaoxi Yunwu Tea's bitterness, Mo Li heard Mr. Qin say it. So even if Meng Qi never showed that he hated Zhaoxi Yunwu Tea at all, and even pretended to appreciate it in front of Ayan Puka, Mo Li could still see through Meng Qi's disguise.
A gerbil, who is afraid of drinking bitter medicine, likes Zhaoxi Yunwu Tea? what!
Afraid of being wronged and wronged, I hugged the cup, and then poured it down in one breath.
It is also a drink.
"... It's suitable, and I know my heart."
The corner of Meng Qi's mouth twitched, and without turning his head, he slapped away a masked man who was smashed and flew over by his buddy.
In the entire inn, only the table they were sitting on and the vicinity of the table were safe and sound.
Huang Liu watched the sword come and go, shaking like a sieve.
"Why did Meng Guoshi stand by and watch?" The scout leader avoided the hidden weapon and said through gritted teeth, "Some thieves framed the national teacher for stealing the naval defense map, and the national teacher made such a mess as soon as he crossed the river and set foot in Jingzhou, and it is not good for the national teacher to spread it out. , if you can catch the mastermind behind the scenes..."
While speaking, a hidden weapon almost hit him on the forehead, and the scout leader scolded Mrs. Tao angrily: "Damn crazy girls, if you have brains, you have to wait a few days to instruct Huang Liu's people to be arrested. Turn your face again, now that you and I are fighting with snipe and clam, isn’t it that those people took advantage of it. When they see the plot leaked, they will definitely kill people and destroy your poor inn!”
"That's easy to say!" Mrs. Tao sneered, "Stay on the sidelines, Huang Liu is the tree stump. With him, I'm afraid that those people will not be fooled? As for the flies that are annoying... It should be shot to death sooner rather than later!"
Meng Qi raised his eyes and exchanged glances with Mo Li.
Tao Niangzi seemed to have read books and knew a lot of allusions.
Seeing that Mrs. Tao could not be deceived, the leader of the scout had to turn to Meng Qi.
"Meng Guoshi, next good words..."
"Don't!" Meng Qi raised his hand to stop him, and said with a half-smile, "This old man is getting old and his temperament has become stubborn, so he can't listen to good words."
He picked up the pot and poured himself a new glass of water, and said slowly, "As for your heart to help, you don't have to. Anyway, someone pretended to be an old man and swindled outside, and today's affairs should be regarded as the order of that person. , this old man wanders and indulges in the mountains and rivers, and does not ask about world affairs, even if King Jing fights with Qi Chao's navy master, what does it have to do with this old man?"
The scout leader was stunned.
"When you first arrived at the inn, you were tempted to kill. The innkeeper's wife didn't want to die. What's wrong?"
Whether it is the common people or the people of the rivers and lakes, they are not bulls and horses, and it can be said that killing is killing.
"How could you ever kill someone in this world, but not allow others to kill you?" After Meng Qi finished speaking, he handed the second cup of water to Mo Li.
Just when Mo Li raised his hand to take it, the two of them paused at the same time and looked at the door intently.
There are strange sounds, very dull and loud.
It was like a gust of wind that suddenly blew, and it was like a dull thunder looming in the distance.
There was a huddle in the inn, and no one else could hear it.
"No, this is—"
Meng Qi was the first to react, his pupils contracted, and he quickly picked up the ink carp and rushed out.
On the way, he threw the cup and hit the inn clerk on the forehead.
There was no inner strength in the cup, and it shattered in response.
The guy was stunned by the beating, and when he looked along the way he came, he found that the two old men who had been sitting at the table and drinking white water were all gone.
Tao Niangzi, who used a hidden weapon, was used to seeing the eighth road, and she was also the only person in the inn who saw Meng Qi's movements. Although she didn't know what happened, she thought that this national teacher could live in peace and stability until he was more than 80 years old, and his colleagues He was almost dead and even Chu Chao forgot that he was still alive. His ability to predict danger and escape was absolutely top-notch (… ), so Mrs. Tao didn’t have time to think about it, and decided to run first.
"Xiaohezi! Go!"
Madam Tao shouted, and the man ran after her without hesitation.
Meng Qi glanced back and saw that Mrs. Tao understood her meaning, and quickly patted Mo Li on the right shoulder, and then rushed around the outer wall of the inn to the backyard.
The ink carp looked up immediately after leaving the inn, followed the strange reputation and looked at something vaguely flying over in the dark night sky.
Now that thing has flown to the highest point, blocking the moon—
Mo Li suddenly changed color, turned his head suddenly to see Meng Qi's whereabouts, and quickly thought of the pair of grandparents who had been hiding in the inn room and dared not show their faces.
not good!
When Mrs. Tao came out, she saw smoke and dust flying, Meng Qi and Mo Li were actually tearing down the wall with their bare hands.
"… "
No, it's not tearing down the wall with bare hands, it's a direct rampage, even saving the time of jumping up and climbing the wall, leaving a human-shaped hole in the wall.
what happened
Why did Meng Qi demolish her inn? Madam Tao looked bewildered.
However, the inn clerk noticed the abnormality in the air, and instantly turned as white as paper, and shoved Mrs. Tao violently.
"Run!"
The man's shout was almost heart-wrenching.
The leader of the scout and his subordinates ran out of the inn right after. The opponents all ran away, what are they fighting? Coupled with the news of Meng Qi Mo Li tearing down the wall, even the coward Huang Liu didn't dare to stay inside.
It's just that everyone's movements were fast or slow. When Mo Li and Meng Qi broke into the dilapidated house and took out the trembling grandparents one by one, there were still masked people who had not yet stepped out of the inn.
Shadows are already under the hood.
"boom!"
After the loud noise, the lobby of the inn completely collapsed, and the sand and dust filled the air.
The child in Mo Li's hands was struggling with kicks and beatings, but was completely frozen by this fright, staring blankly at the ruins under his feet.
It's really right at the foot.
Mo Li finally performed light work and jumped up, away from the backyard of the inn.
Mo Li didn't have time to see Meng Qi, he tapped his right foot on the flying tile, and then ran towards the river at a faster speed.
Although the first rock hit was just in front of the inn, and the backyard was not affected, it was not safe to stay there.
"Who the hell uses a trebuchet?" The leader of the scout was dragged and run by two subordinates in disgrace. He looked at the two more shadows in the sky again, and couldn't help yelling.
A trebuchet is a siege weapon. No matter how thick and strong the city wall is, it will lose a layer of ash when it is smashed. This broken inn will be finished with one piece, and it will be one after another
The leader of the scout cursed angrily while staring at the ruins behind him.
Not all of his subordinates escaped.
Although the front of the inn is completely collapsed, as long as it is not hit by a stone, there is still a trace of vitality.
The scout leader even saw several of his subordinates staggeringly pull apart the pillars and broken bricks, desperately running in this direction.
"boom!"
The smoke and dust brought by the second falling rock obscured everyone's vision.
The scout leader's eyes were red, and his senses returned.
- No matter how capable the navy of Qi Chao can be, the stones thrown by the catapult can't cross the river, and this kind of siege equipment is only available in the army. Whether it is a privately raised dead man or a gangster, there is basically no such thing, because it is too big, even a trebuchet with wheels is not easy to carry.
"Trap! It's all traps!" the scout leader roared.
The inn is a trap! Huang Liu, the contact person they caught, and the navy's defense map are all part of the trap, which led them to scout Yingdujiang to this broken inn, and then suddenly attacked when they caught Huang Liu and tried to track down the messenger. , wipe them out.
Everyone ran wildly for two miles until they saw the sparkling river.
Along the way, they felt the ground vibrate constantly, and big stones fell one by one, as if chasing them.
Fortunately, the stones cannot be smashed endlessly. The boulders are a kind of military material and must be transported by manpower and water.
Madam Tao was panting heavily, feeling that the vibrations under her feet finally stopped, and then slowly turned her head.
The inn is completely invisible, but you don't need to look to know what it will look like.
Madam Tao's legs were weak and she sat down on the ground, tears streaming down the corners of her eyes.
The guy came running out of breath, at a loss, not knowing how to comfort him.
"If it wasn't for you, my brother wouldn't have died!"
Madam Tao's whole body changed immediately, and she jumped up and sarcastically said: "What's the matter, I'm blaming me for not being honest and being killed by you, causing you to delay the time, and failing to kill the people in time to take back the sailor's defense map and leave?"
At this time, a person slowly walked out of the darkness behind.
"... I was the one who took the defense map, and I was the one who didn't let you set fire to it."
The scout leader turned his head suddenly and met Meng Qi's cold eyes.
Mo Li stood beside Meng Qi, and behind him were the old woman and young child who were too shivering to stand.
"I was the one who dragged you in the inn, and I was the one who saved your life." Meng Qi asked word by word, "If you set fire to the first, what would have happened?"
The scout leader choked.
The weather was dry, the wind was strong by the river, and the wind helped the fire get out of hand. It was an obvious target at night.
- just makes the trebuchet easier to hit.
Thinking of this, the scout leader almost clenched his teeth. He retorted in disbelief: "Nonsense, how does the grandson of Jingzhou know what I'm going to do?"
In the dark night, the moonlight was obscured by the flying smoke and dust.
Everyone could hardly see Meng Qi's expression, and only heard the chilling voice:
"Really... Then I have to ask you what you thought when you gave the order."
There was a dead silence save for the rustling of the wind on the reeds.
Why did the scout leader order the fire? In a way, he didn't really want to know who the envoy who stole the defense map was, as he said before, only the Jingzhou garrison would do such a thing. The defense map is very important, yes, but it is useless for others to get it. The focus of this mission is to recover the defense map, not to catch the main envoy.
Killing Huang Liu and burning down the inn is the simplest, crudest and most direct way to get rid of all those who may have seen the defense map.
"... The soldiers of the Qi Dynasty don't want to fight, and the generals don't want to fight, so do you." Every word of Meng Qi seemed to strike everyone's heart.
He asked coldly, "What could be easier than setting fire to it?"
Just killing people, you may not be able to retrieve the defense map. Maybe Huang Liu also painted a copy, and it is safe to burn it all.
It's not hard to guess that the scout leader will set the fire, maybe the people behind the scenes are still wondering why the fire has not started, and finally can't wait. I am afraid that the time will drag on for a long time, and the people in the scout camp of Qi Chao will withdraw, so they simply send trebuchets.
"Did you know from the beginning?" The scout leader's face changed, and he directly put Meng Qi and the master behind the scenes together.
"Idiot." Mrs. Tao whispered.
If Meng Qi had ulterior motives, would he sit in the inn? No matter how high his martial arts skills are, how dare he face a trebuchet
Random arrows have no eyes, not to mention trebuchets.
Meng Qi just wanted to understand the cause and effect in a very short time after the shock happened.
The leader of the scout glared angrily, but Lady Tao was not afraid.
Meng Qi was too lazy to pay attention and asked directly: "Where is your ship, if you want to live, you must leave here as soon as possible."
The scouts hesitated for a while, and Madam Tao couldn't help stomping her feet and scolding: "The flying stones came from behind us, where the Jingzhou military camp is, so we instinctively ran to the riverside. Do you think the riverside is safe? You think you want to kill yourself Our people can't guess where we are going? What happened to the rocks that flew over when we were running away? The people who did it knew the terrain here!"
Meng Qi was a little surprised, but she didn't expect Madam Tao to react so quickly.
Mo Li vaguely guessed something, and when Tao Niangzi reminded her, her eyes immediately fell on the dense reeds by the river.
"Could it be—"
Mo Li was not afraid of shooting arrows and setting fires behind him. The river was close at hand, but Tao Niangzi's shop assistant and old women and children shouldn't die here.
"If you don't get on the boat, it will be too late."
The catapult can attack at a distance of up to seventy feet. The larger the stone, the closer the distance, and the shorter the range of the bow and arrow.
However, the location of the inn is fixed, even in the dark, as long as the calculation is completed early, the trebuchet can be used.
The scope of the riverside is wide, and it can be walked before and after. When it is not clear where people have escaped, throwing arrows in advance will only scare the snakes. Meng Qi estimated that in another quarter of an hour, an archer would arrive.
The leader of the scout was forced to take the crowd to the place where the boat was hidden.
The people who had been beaten in the dark a moment ago had to run for their lives together at this moment.
Mo Li wanted to turn back and find out those who attacked secretly, Meng Qi shook his head at him.
These scouts from the Qi Dynasty were not good people. Without the favorable location of the inn, Mrs. Tao could only protect herself and her buddies, and the grandparents and grandchildren had nowhere to escape.
"Huang, Huang Liu is not here." The man stammered to Mrs. Tao.
Tao Niangzi always wanted to break the bones of Huang Liu, the guy who caused the disaster, but when she knew that Huang Liu might not have escaped from the inn, she swallowed an angry curse and just squinted: "Come on, he is dead or alive. Does it even have anything to do with us?"
Dude shut up.
Mo Li knew that it wasn't just Huang Liu who died. There might also be a masked man who was initially prepared to set fire to the firewood in the backyard but was caught by Meng Qi.
It happened so suddenly that it was too late to save people.
Scouts—they don't have face coverings anymore, some lost them on the way to escape, and some ran out of breath and simply took them off by themselves. Anyway, there is no one who doesn't know their identities and origins, and the face coverings are meaningless. .
"The boat is below."
Several people jumped into the river, followed a rope and began to grope. After determining the location, they immediately dived to the bottom.
The way to hide the boat is to pile stones on the boat and let the boat sink. Now throw the stones away and pull them up with a rope.
There are three boats in total, not big, but they look solid.
Meng Qi Mo Li led the people to choose one boat, Tao Niangzi led the staff to follow without hesitation, and the others climbed onto the other two boats.
"The little one knows how to oar." The inn clerk volunteered.
Madam Tao looked at the other people on the boat in embarrassment. It was obviously impossible for old women and young children. Meng Guoshi and his friends were very old, so Madam Tao gritted her teeth and was about to get the oar, but was accidentally stopped by Mo Li. .
"No." Doctor Mo said lightly, "I can use my inner strength to push the water flow."
Tao Niangzi just breathed a sigh of relief when a reed not far away suddenly caught fire.
"coming!"
Meng Qi turned to look around, and the others were terrified.
The scout leader is still unbelievable until now.
"How? How is it possible?" he kept repeating.
For many years, the navy of Qi Chao and the navy of Jingzhou have been at peace with each other, and neither side wants to fight. Even if the navy's defense map was stolen, the scout leader once thought that although there were some ghosts in Jingzhou, most of the soldiers still did not buy it, and the defense map was stolen. It doesn't mean going to war.
However, they set traps against the most capable scout battalion of the Qi Chao navy, and even used trebuchets, so this is not a small conflict.
The three boats were still in the reeds, and they were very close to each other.
Meng Qi didn't want to be proud of the people behind the scenes, so he simply pointed out: "You suspected a third party before, but now you don't believe it because of the trebuchet?"
"But that's the direction of the Jingzhou garrison!" The scout leader's eyes widened.
"Don't allow others to convince King Jing to use the Jingzhou navy to ignite the war?" Meng Qi glanced at him, threw the defense map in the air, and said coldly, "This thing may be just a pretense to deceive you. Yes, Jingzhou may have already obtained the defense map through other channels."
The scout leader hurriedly opened the picture to check, the sky was too dark, and the more anxious he became, the less he could see.
Until the fire was approaching, faint voices came from the shore.
"People ran away."
"There are boats on the river! Shoot arrows!"
The wind sent an indistinct cry.
The old woman was frightened and frightened this night, and she fainted when she heard the whizzing arrows.
On the contrary, the child's eyes widened and he was not afraid. If it wasn't for Mrs. Tao, she might have climbed out of the cabin.
For the young child, the outside is bright red, fun and strange. He just "flyed" in the sky in a confused way. Although his legs were soft, his eyes were firmly glued to the ink carp after he recovered. See you now. It is also interesting to see the moi standing outside the boat and flicking the sleeves one after another (shooting down arrows).
Meng Qi Mo Li was able to protect the entire boat, but the other two boats were not so lucky, and the arrows in the boat would cause a panic.
The arrow was wrapped in something, hit the wood and immediately burst open and caught fire.
Fortunately, the scouts were very familiar with these accidents and knew how to put out fires, so it didn't cause a catastrophe.
The ship went farther and farther, gradually out of danger.
Without saying hello, the two boats quickly crossed the river.
Only the man was left holding the oars and looked at Meng Qi at a loss.
"Downstream." Meng Qi said slowly.
The fire was so great that it ignited the reeds on the south bank and could be seen across a river.
Tao Niangzi looked at the unconscious old woman and the child at hand with her probing eyes.
Mo Li paused, and Mrs. Tao quickly reacted, and said with a forced smile, "Forgive the slave family for the accident, and everyone will be suspicious."
The guy looked over and asked in confusion, "What? Is there something wrong with these two?"
"No." Madam Tao hurriedly urged, "Row your boat, don't look around."
Mo Li did not expose her. In fact, Mrs. Tao did not suspect that the ancestors and grandchildren were hidden enemies, but suspected that their identities were unusual. Otherwise, why would the national teacher of the Chu Dynasty protect them? Are you putting them first
Tao Niangzi doubted for a while, then gave up mockingly, even thinking it was absurd.
—Maybe it’s just saving people, but in this world, even saving people seems unusual.
Mo Li took the initiative to ask: "The lady of the store, you are familiar with the terrain. Is there any place nearby where you can go ashore without being found by the Jingzhou garrison?"
"This... Five or six miles to the east, there is a hidden river bend. The river's mouth is blocked by iron ropes. Normally, boats cannot enter, but Xiaohezi is very strong. As long as we all get off the boat, he can take the boat by himself. Carry it over. Enter the river bay at night, and you can reach Yeshan before dawn, and most of the villages there are people who have fled from the north."
Mrs. Tao tentatively tried it out.
"Just go." Meng Qi said casually.
Although the old woman said she was going to look for relatives, Jingzhou didn't seem to be peaceful, so it was enough to find a place where their grandparents could live temporarily. Meng Qi asked himself that he was in a lot of trouble, and it was impossible to help the grandparents and grandchildren all the way. Maybe they were far away from him, and their luck could get better.
"The national teacher is not afraid of the slave family's ulterior motives? For example, setting a trap?"
"I'm not afraid of traps, I'm just afraid that the enemy will hide his head and show his tail."
Meng Qi glanced at the inn clerk and Mrs. Tao lightly.
The guy couldn't help but shivered. The iron tower-like rough man was surprised when he came back to his senses. It was the first time he had felt this way in the hot summer, so he tried his best to wink Mrs. Tao while paddling.
- Don't mess with it, go early and good morning.
Madam Tao's expression changed, and she said hesitantly, "Listening to the words of the national teacher, it seems that you have some guesses about the culprit tonight?"
Meng Qi glanced at her and didn't answer.
Madam Tao gritted her teeth, walked out of the cabin, leaned down and said, "That inn is indeed the ancestral property of the slave family... It must not be lost, the slave family... My heart aches, I just want to kill the enemy."
"If you want revenge, why don't you go ashore to see what's going on?" Meng Qi asked back.
"Because the slave family listened to the words of the national teacher, the only soldiers who are shooting arrows by the river at this moment are pawns, and if you kill them, you can't ask anything. The national master is famous and his eyes are like torches.
Meng Qi smiled and said: "The lady of the shop is wrong. The old man's background is unknown. Maybe a hundred years later, when the new dynasty rebuilt the history of Chu, the word Meng Qi was copied, memorized, and omitted."
Lady Tao was dumbfounded.
In fact, she had not heard the rumors about Meng Qi on the Jianghu, who had been in the wild shop for a long time, mainly because she saw the reaction of the scout leader, plus what she saw and heard tonight. Speaking of which, Mrs. Tao had to tell the truth.
"Twenty-five years ago, I was kidnapped and sold to Yizhou. At that time, there were more than ten people in my three-bedroom family who were fishing and running an inn. Every day, there was an endless stream of merchants, and even the people who crossed the river came to sit. Stop and drink tea. By chance, I learned these trivial skills, and then I finally returned to my hometown, but all I saw was an empty yard full of weeds, foxes and mice.”
The river was rushing, and Mrs. Tao's voice flowed with the waves.
"... It turned out that Qi and Chu planned to rule the river, and the fishermen in the villages along the river were forcibly driven away. Because they lost their livelihood, the fishermen were either reduced to tenants or sold as slaves. My parents and relatives were also displaced. I don't know where they went. I searched for a long time, but found nothing. When I finally returned to the deserted courtyard in disappointment, I found Xiaohezi…”
The guy scratched his head when he heard the sound.
Madam Tao looked at him with soft eyes and said softly, "Xiaohezi is my cousin. He was just one year old when I left home, and he had two birthmarks on his back. When I met him, he was sitting foolishly in the ruins. , when I asked him, he said that this was his home. Later, the slave family found out that he was bought by a family to be a servant, so he only bought one of him. He was bullied, beaten and scolded, and when he was fourteen, he found an opportunity to run away at night. He didn’t know the way, he begged all the way from Guiyang County, the southernmost of Jingzhou, and finally returned to his hometown after a long journey.”
Mrs. Tao's voice was like crying and laughing, "The houses in the villages by the river have collapsed, and only the ancestral property of the Nujia, the bricks, stones and woods used in those years were not bad, and it barely survived the wind and rain for more than ten years, and finally became a nearby village. The largest house in the area that was saved by luck. Since Xiaohezi can be found, maybe someone else can find it again in the future. No matter how bad it is, people in a village will become. As long as someone comes back, maybe they will know my parents. The whereabouts of my relatives... Xiaohezi and I tried our best to repair the house, and we just kept waiting..."
Waiting for relatives who may no longer be alive.
Guarding the dream home of someone who doesn't know where.
But now the inn is gone.
A crescent moon, a river of water.
Jiang Yue once took photos of the old friend, but the old friend will not see the moon tonight.
"...I don't know the origins of the people behind the scenes."
Meng Qi closed his eyes and said in a low voice, "But this person must have other actions. As long as the lady of the store is willing to wait patiently and carefully observe the movements of the Jingzhou army and Qi Chao's navy, you may be able to see the person's fox tail."
"Master Meng Guo?"
"Whether it's Huang Liu or the leader of the scout battalion, he pushed himself into a dead end and a trap. Today, the scouts of the Qi Dynasty are one side, the Jingzhou Navy is the second side, and Huang Liu and the person who instructed him are the third side, the old man guesses. This person is most likely the fourth party... Even if we land on the shore to arrest people, we can only see the Jingzhou soldiers who were used. We don't know how he persuaded the Jingzhou army or Jingwang, but since he intends to provoke the two sides, it is inevitable It won't stop there."
"This-"
Madam Tao was anxious when she heard this, and wanted to ask further questions, but she held back.
Meng Qi was just passing by and had nothing to do with this matter. Tao Niangzi asked herself if she could have the cheek to ask, because the person behind the scenes pretended to use the name of the national teacher as a grudge against Meng Qi. If there is no such thing, Tao Niangzi feels that it is difficult to even speak.
People in the rivers and lakes are unwilling to get involved in the affairs of the government, and Meng Qi may not want to get involved regardless of the Qi Dynasty or the three kings of Chu.
Madam Tao thought a lot and became more and more silent.
Mo Li's voice transmission to Meng Qi: "Isn't it from Xiliang?"
"No, the styles of the two are not similar. Ayan Puka spent decades preparing slowly, calculating with his heart and not thinking, although he is an ambitious hero, but his long-term lack of light has sapped his ambition, and he is extra cautious in everything. . This person uses a conspiracy, like a sand table cloth, and he is more confident in himself. This is the style of a strategist. He will not hide himself for a long time. Once he starts, he will definitely get results. "
Meng Qi's eyes gleamed faintly in the firelight.
It had been a long, long time since he had met such an opponent.
The previous Ayan Puka awakened his long-silent heart of scheming and wit, and now this nameless person has directly added a fire.
"Doctor, the three kings of Chu Chu may have masters." Meng Qi's tone changed, he looked at the red river bank and muttered, "If you want to hide yourself and maintain a certain amount of power, you can only choose three King. On the surface, he is serving the three kings, but his eyes don't stop at Jiangnan. The lord he really serves... is he himself
Suddenly attacked and wanted King Jing to go to war with Qi Chao, what were you planning
Mo Li pondered, then he sighed.
"doctor?"
"Nothing, I just think the world... There are quite a few ambitious people." Mo Li frowned deeply, "Ayan Puka doesn't know where he is, but now there is another person who wants Qi Chao to fight King Jing. "
Meng Qi laughed when he heard the words: "Since ancient times, there have never been many ambitious people, but only those with strength and ambition. As for the wave of unresolved waves... Doctor, you and I are not knights in the book, we are against us. The people who trouble us will not line up one by one, follow the rule that if the front does not fall, the latter will never appear, and the world will not be as surprising as the book's mouth. The world is so big, and there is no world. The hero only makes the king and the ear."
Mo Li ruthlessly revealed the bottom line: "You said before that the troubled times have exhausted the talented and talented, and only the mediocre and the villain are left."
"Cough." Meng Qi touched his nose and said nothing.
The river is surging, and the boat moves very fast under the impetus of internal strength, and the waterway of five or six miles is fleeting.
Before Mo Li went ashore, he specifically asked Mrs. Tao where the iron cloth shirt kung fu practiced by the inn staff came from.
Tao Niangzi said that she was a few martial arts secrets brought back from Shu. Her cousin had a straight mind, he could not learn swordsmanship, he could not learn hidden weapons, and he could not learn internal strength.
Mo Li shook his head and reached out to check the pulse of the man.
"No matter what kind of kung fu, it's too much to go too far. You need someone to guide you all the time. Although your brother's kung fu is great, the meridian injury should not be underestimated. Now it doesn't matter. attack."
Mo Li said while reporting the prescription. He was about to ask Meng Qi to ask for a pen and paper, but saw Mrs. Tao chanting something next to him, and when he listened carefully, he had memorized the name and weight of the medicine by 80%.
"Do you understand pharmacology?"
"Don't dare, the slave family has some hidden weapons to poison poison, so I have learned a little bit, but I don't know how to cure diseases. It's okay to memorize prescriptions." Tao Niangzi replied with her head lowered.
Mo Li paused for a while, then reported the prescription again, and after Mrs. Tao recited it, he continued: "Slowly decoct the medicine three times, and take it for three months first. Within three months, I will come again with the Qixing Brotherhood. Here, we will conduct diagnosis and treatment and change the prescription at the time of referral.”
He didn't mention his whereabouts, and he didn't say anything about investigating tonight's matter, but Mrs. Tao seemed to have taken a reassurance.
- It will be good to be back.
It's heartbreaking that the inn is gone, but the only relatives around can never have an accident.
Tao Niangzi even heard a clue from Mo Li's tone. Perhaps these two came from crossing the river, and it was not as simple as swimming in the mountains and water, and they might be involved in the chaos in Jingzhou.
As soon as Meng Qi lifted his foot, he didn't see how he moved, and the man had already stepped on the shore lightly.
"The grandparents and grandchildren will ask the lady of the shop to take them to the village to settle down."
Tao Niangzi bowed her head and knew that Meng Qi and Qi would leave here, so she quickly said: "Thank you Meng Guoshi, thank you..."
She suddenly got stuck, because she didn't know how to call the ink carp. Calling the doctor is a bit arbitrary, just call it old gentleman, without a surname, and some are not respectful enough.
While hesitating, the back was pushed by the man's fan-sized slap.
"He... they're gone."
Madam Tao raised her head abruptly, only to see two figures gradually disappearing into the rich night in the distance, without a trace.