Bai Shan didn't sleep very peacefully, he seemed to hear the sound of someone walking outside in a vague way, and there was also a rumbling sound of kicking in his ears, this sound was very familiar, it made him feel tight even in his sleep...
He was confused for a while, and when he thought it was the sound of horseshoes in his mind, he opened his eyes and sat up.
His eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and there was a faint firelight reflected on the tent. Bai Erlang, Yin or Liu Huan beside him were still fast asleep, but Daji and a general of the Yin family who shared the tent with them were not. gone.
He lightly lifted the quilt and got up, and as soon as he got out of the tent, he saw a few people standing not far away.
Mr. Zhuang and Man Bao were both standing in cloaks. When they heard the movement, they looked back and laughed together, "Are you awake too?"
Man Bao's hair was still draped, and only a cloak was draped over his body, so he obviously got up straight away.
Man Bao: "Why don't you wear more? Be careful of catching a cold."
Daji then went to get the cloak for Bai Shan, walked to Man Bao's side, looked up to the hillside, and asked, "Is someone here?"
As soon as the words fell, they saw a fire light up in the night, and several people saw more than twenty horses stopped in the distance.
Bai Shan squinted his eyes and asked Nie Canjun, "Only these people?"
Nie Canjun said: "The scouts have been sent to investigate. The other party may still be hiding elsewhere, but the distance must not be close, otherwise we will definitely find out."
There is no shelter here, and the surrounding fields are empty. There are disadvantages and advantages.
The disadvantage is that they are not easy to hide, but the advantage is also the same. The other party wants to attack at night or something, and it is also not easy to hide.
Daji took out a black cloak and put it on Bai Shan, and a scout sent to communicate with the other party came back quickly and reported, "My lord, they said that they are herdsmen nearby, and there are lost children in the tribe, so they came out late at night to look for them." .”
The scout paused and continued: "You have already explained our identities. They said that they disturbed the adults and wanted to come forward to apologize in person and ask for a bowl of hot water."
Everyone looked at each other, Man Bao said: "Let them come up."
Nie Canjun clicked on one person and said, "You take people into the tent to watch them. It's okay for them to sleep. If they wake up and make a fuss, kill them directly."
The soldiers took orders and left, and the scouts also got up and left to invite people.
Man Bao stroked his messy hair, Bai Shan glanced at it, and gave her his hair tie, and she casually scooped it up and tied it up.
After receiving the reply from the scouts, twenty or so riders galloped over. All the guards in the camp woke up, and even the two passers-by looked out, but seeing that Zhou Man and the others were in normal clothes, they retreated back and continued to lie down. Although the eyes are squinted, the ears are pricked up, just waiting for the movement to be wrong, and then run away.
In her twenties, she rushed to the front, and Man Bao felt a rush of arrogance coming, she raised her lips, dare to pretend to be a herdsman with such a gangster spirit
The leader of the three got off the horse, and the rest were still on the horse. The three of them stepped forward, glanced past Zhou Man who was standing in the middle, and then skipped over Mr. Zhuang, who was standing beside her, who bent slightly with his right hand in front of his heart Salute, "My lord, please forgive me for disturbing my lord."
Mr. Zhuang glanced at Man Bao and smiled and said: "Young man, you are welcome, but it is late at night and there is no ready-made hot water. I have ordered someone to burn it."
Mr. Zhuang turned sideways, pointed to a big fire not far away, and said: "It's very simple when you go out, and the children are still sleeping in the tent. If you don't mind, why don't you just sit here and rest?"
The three of them responded with a smile, turned around and waved their hands, and the subordinates dismounted and walked over together, but surrounded them and went to the fire.
Nie Canjun lowered his eyes, slightly shook his hand on the side, and stopped the soldiers and guards who were about to surround him.
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, followed Mr. Zhuang and walked in front, and when they reached the fire, neither of them took the main seat, and still let Mr. Zhuang sit on the main seat, and Man Bao sat on the second seat.
Nie Canjun sat down behind Zhou Man, and asked the three people who came to sit on the opposite side. These small stools are from the carriage, and there are not many extras, so there are not many people who can sit on them.
They didn't care, they just sat cross-legged on the grass, but the three leaders did sit on stools.
They swept across their tent calmly, just in time to meet the eyes of Bai Erlang who was woken up and poked his head out to see the situation.
At this time, Bai Erlang's eyes didn't fully open, he just wrinkled his face and cracked a slit, his eyes swept over them and didn't go into his mind, he just saw the fiery red fire, so he shrank back and sat up in a daze Liu Huan and Yin said: "I don't know who can't sleep and get up to light the fire. Let's continue to sleep."
After speaking, he lay down, hugged the quilt, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.
Hearing what he said, Liu Huan also slid down and pulled the quilt around his neck.
Yin Ru was also about to lie down, but thinking about it was not right, he tried to open his eyes and looked around the tent, and asked, "Where is Bai Shan?"
The two who were not asleep murmured, "Who knows?"
"Let's go change your clothes, are you going to change your clothes too?"
Yin or didn't mean that, so he lay down, and then vaguely heard Mr. Zhuang's voice, strange, it was so late, how could Mr. Zhuang get up
The thought just flashed by, his breathing slowed down quickly, and he fell asleep...
As soon as Bai Erlang shrank back, he also looked away, and asked Mr. Zhuang with a smile: "What kind of official is your lord? Where are you going to get a job?"
Mr. Zhuang said with a smile: "No talent, I'm just a small official of Honglu Temple, this time I was ordered to go to the Anxi Protectorate."
"I didn't expect to go so far, but Anxi is a good thing, and my lord is going to live in Anxi Gao in the future?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded with a smile, "It's a good place. We and our subjects naturally listen to His Majesty's wishes. We will naturally stay if His Majesty ordered us to stay."
The person next to him couldn't help but ask, "Second Brother, where is the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion?"
The second brother gave the other side a glance and didn't speak.
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "Anxi is Gaochang, in the vicinity of Qiuci."
So they understood it, and couldn't help being startled, it was far enough.
The second brother wanted to ask more questions, but Mr. Zhuang asked slowly with a smile on his face, "I heard from the scouts that you lost your child?"
The few people almost forgot the reason they asked for. Hearing this, they nodded immediately, and said with a sad look: "Yeah, I don't know where they went."
Mr. Zhuang asked seriously: "How many children were lost in total? How old are they? Did they run away by themselves, or did they run into a girl?"
Even though he knew it was fake, Man Bao couldn't help but ask, "There are still paihuazi on the grassland?"
Mr. Zhuang glanced at her and said, "Why not? No matter where you are, there are flirtatious girls, so you have to be careful, don't let someone kidnap you."
After teaching his disciples, he looked at them with concern.
They could only come up with the excuses they had prepared in advance, "They are all children around ten years old, there are five in total. They disappeared when they were grazing. The cattle and sheep are still there, but the people are gone. The family is worried. The tribe is still the first. I lost so many children at once, so I came out to look for them."
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