At ten o'clock in the night, Wen Qingzhu and the others found a cave to rest.
Before he could light the fire after collecting the firewood, Beidou suddenly stood up and stared outside warily.
Wen Qingzhu and Lei Shuo immediately stood up and took out weapons in their hands.
There was a rustling sound getting closer and closer, but when they were about to reach the entrance of the cave, they suddenly turned a corner and the sound became farther and farther away.
That night, no one slept well until it got dark.
In order to avoid unnecessary complications, Wen Qingzhu decided not to take the uninhabited path and directly took the mountain road on the map.
Autumn is entering now, winter comes early in the northwest, and the denser the woods, the more dead leaves there are.
About half an hour later, they reached the mountain road.
There was a shallow layer of fallen leaves on the ground. Wen Qingzhu walked up a few steps and saw dots of reddish-brown traces on the half-yellow and half-green leaves on both sides of the road.
Wen Qingzhu was very familiar with this trace. He reached out and picked out a leaf with the trace. After confirming it carefully, he frowned.
"What is this?" Lei Shuo asked naturally when he saw her expression was strange.
Wen Qingzhu stepped forward and replied, "It's blood, and it's human blood!"
Lei Shuo immediately opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
After a long silence, Wen Qingzhu made arrangements. Beidou opened the way in front, Lei Shuo walked on the right and behind, and Wen Qingzhu walked on the left, showing a defensive posture.
The further they moved forward, the more and more bloodstains became, and the footprints could no longer be hidden.
According to Wen Qingzhu's judgment, the distance between the footprints was not that of a normal person, and the footprints were of different sizes and directions, so at least three people ran past here.
After walking for about two-quarters of an hour, Wen Qingzhu saw a fallen baggage in front of him, with gold, silver and other items scattered inside...
Wen Qingzhu went over to pick up these things and carefully identified them. They were made by Dingyuan Gold Bank.
She looked up and saw something in front of her. She quickly handed the bundle to Beidou and walked forward quickly.
Not long after, he saw a dagger and a pool of dried blood.
Wen Qingzhu wrote down all this carefully and continued to move forward.
A body was soon found, and the head had been chopped off.
Judging from the man's clothes, he looked like a businessman from Dingyuan.
"Why are there merchants here?" Wen Qingzhu wondered, and directly surpassed them.
It was Lei Shuo's first time to travel far away, and it was the first time he encountered such a thing, so he couldn't help but feel very scared.
However, she wasn't afraid when she saw Wen Qingzhu, and she naturally held up her face to make herself look unafraid.
This time they were much slower.
About evening, I saw a man lying by the creek.
Wen Qingzhu immediately went over to check. Several injuries on his body were not fatal, but he failed to stop the bleeding in time, resulting in excessive blood loss and coma.
After hesitating for a while, Wen Qingzhu gave him some medicine and gave him a small amount of Ruanjin Powder just to be on the safe side.
After feeding him water and administering acupuncture, the man slowly woke up after a while.
When he saw two men and one woman, although their attire was common in Dingyuan, he had lived in Dingyuan for nearly forty years and had a sophisticated eye, so he knew that they were not from Dingyuan.
He suddenly became excited: "Did the three of you save me?"
Wen Qingzhu nodded: "Yes! I am a doctor, and I happened to have medicine on my body that saved you."
"Thank you, sir! Thank you!" The man thanked him quickly and soon felt weak all over, but there was almost no pain in the wound.
Wen Qingzhu stood up: "Who are you? Where are you from? Where are you going?"
The man quickly replied: "My name is Guo Da, a hunter from outside Dingyuan City. I came to this mountain today to hunt..."
Originally he wanted to tell the truth, but when he thought about it, he couldn't help but hide it.
"Really?" Wen Qingzhu twitched the corner of his mouth and asked Beidou to open the bag and throw it in front of him, "A man died in front of him, his head was missing. I think he was a businessman, or in the timber business. As for you..."
Wen Qingzhu looked at Guo Da in front of him up and down, and said slowly: "There is a thin layer of cocoon on the tiger's mouth of your right hand. It is true that you often hold a bow, but there are many wild beasts and poisonous insects in the forest here, so if you really want to hunt, you must use Chong Gong, the calluses in your hands shouldn't be so thin! I guess you are very familiar with this place and have served as a guide for the merchants."
Before he finished speaking, Guo Da was already dripping with cold sweat and kept wiping the sweat with his hands.
Wen Qingzhu looked around here and exposed him again: "This is the junction of the Xiongnu and Daqi. Ordinary merchants don't dare to come. That means you are bringing smugglers! Those who want to go must be the Xiongnu!"
"Sir, have mercy on me! Have mercy on me! I don't know how to deceive you! How dare you deceive me!" Guo Da knelt down and begged for mercy, slapping himself at the same time.
Wen Qingzhu just looked at him and waited until he slapped him twenty times before speaking: "Tell me honestly, what are these businessmen doing with the Huns? How can you be hunted down?"
Guo Da glanced at Beidou, who was strong but silent, and saw Lei Shuo holding a sword in his hand. He was not easy to offend no matter what, so he finally chose to confess honestly.
"Someone paid ten taels of gold to let the villain lead the way, but it's not to go to the Huns! It's to summon the place where the Fu family's army is trapped!"
Where was Fu Jiajun trapped
Wen Qingzhu and Lei Shuo looked at each other, and their hearts became heavier.
Wen Qingzhu motioned for him to continue, and Guo Dacai said in detail: "The Fu family's army used a large amount of treasures to bribe the Huns nobles when they escaped from trouble. How could the fighting army carry treasures with them? They must have been found in this mountain! The villain didn't know this news. Yes, I overheard the two bosses last night."
"Then what?"
Guo Da looked frightened: "Later, the villain was not the only one who eavesdropped. The other person was discovered first and was killed directly by Boss Yu's guards! The villain and the others showed their flaws, and the guard looked over at that time. Of course the villain ran! After running around in circles for an hour, he unexpectedly met Boss Yu!"
"Wait! Wasn't it Boss Yu's guard who killed the person? Why was he running for his life?" Wen Qingzhu felt very strange.
Guo Da explained: "That guard was also invited by Boss Yu! Boss Yu didn't know why he wanted to kill him, and he couldn't even convince the guard with a thousand taels of gold! Boss Yu escaped under the protection of another guard Yes! We don’t know what went wrong.”
Wen Qingzhu was silent for a long time, feeling that there was something wrong with Boss Yu's guard: "What is that guard's name and where does he come from?"
Guo Da shook his head: "I don't know what the villain is called, but I heard Boss Yu call him Xiao Wang. I don't know where I hired him."
"Then how come Boss Yu was killed again? How come you are still alive?" Wen Qingzhu continued to ask him.
Guo Da patted his chest and said: "The villain decided to take risks for the sake of Boss Yu's money. But within an hour we were chased by that little king. The villain has been dealing with all kinds of people all year round. It can be seen that that little king is not I will let the villain go, so I immediately left Boss Yu and ran for my life. Taking advantage of my familiarity with the terrain, the villain survived despite being injured."
Looking at his expression, Wen Qingzhu was sure that he was not lying.
However, she still felt that it was strange to kill someone suddenly, and asked Guo Da: "What impression do you have of Xiao Wang? Has there been any change along the way?"
"It seems..." Guo Da began to think carefully, and suddenly clapped his thigh and said, "I remember! By the well where we first fetched water, the little king squatted and looked at us for a long time. He didn't talk much before, but then he suddenly talked to us. We chatted for a while and asked about the situation at home and the children.”
After asking about his family and children, Wen Qingzhu felt a very inconsistent feeling in his heart.
Do you need to ask the family's children before killing someone
Thinking of the stone formation in the well, Wen Qingzhu was almost certain that the little king might have discovered that the well had been tampered with and decided to kill him and silence him.
They had accidentally avoided that group of people because they took a small road.
The movement last night was probably the movement of them being hunted down.
Wen Qingzhu looked up and looked ahead: "Get up! Since you are familiar with this place, take us to where Fu Jiajun is trapped!"
"Ah?" Guo Da's legs immediately became weak with fear, and he said tremblingly, "Sir, do you really want to go? That's the place where the army was trapped in the past! What's more, the Huns are already very close to that place! It's not good if you can't get through, right? ?”
Wen Qingzhu squinted at him: "You don't have to go, but you know our purpose. The only ones who can keep secrets are dead people."
"Go! Go! Go, little man!" Guo Da's body was still weak and he quickly got up.
Soon he found a stick and held it on to lead the way.
In order to avoid meeting that little king, Beidou chose to cut off his queen.
Surprisingly, they walked all day and night without meeting anyone.
The Ruanjing Powder in Guo Da's body lost its effect, his body could not rest well, and his wounds could not be fully healed, which made him more and more uncomfortable.
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Wen Qingzhu glanced at him, took out the soft tendons and poured some more for him.
"Is this enough?" Guo Da was a little surprised.
Wen Qingzhu didn't look at him, pointed forward and said, "This is enough, we have to hurry up!"
Guo Da had no choice but to eat it quickly. The wound did not hurt much anymore, but he felt very tired.
But he didn't dare to say anything and continued moving forward with Wen Qingzhu and the others.
About another day, at dusk, they arrived at the mouth of a valley.
Guo Da pointed to the front and said: "Master Xue, after passing this valley, it's just ahead!"
The sun was setting and the light was extremely bad.
Wen Qingzhu took a quick look and saw only shadows and mist inside. It didn't look very real.
She turned back to Wen Qingzhu and Guo Da: "Is this the only way?"
"No, but this road is the fastest, and the other roads have long detours." Guo Da pointed to the left and right sides of the valley.
Lei Shuo didn't speak much. Firstly, she was worried that she had said the wrong thing, and secondly, she wanted to learn from her experience in acting outside.
She had read a lot of military books. She looked at the valley in front of her and frowned: "Let's take a detour!"
Wen Qingzhu looked over and asked her, "What do you think?"
"People from Daqi here don't dare to come, but that doesn't mean that the Huns don't dare to come. If you really want to enter this kind of terrain, it will be a desperate situation!"
After Lei Shuo explained, Guo Da couldn't help but interrupt: "Miss Lele, you are wrong! This valley is really safe! It is especially safe at night! If you take a detour, you will be more likely to encounter wolves!"
"What do you think, Brother Xue?" Lei Shuo had always been wary of Guo Da and didn't believe it, so he turned to ask Wen Qingzhu.
This time, Wen Qingzhu agreed with Guo Da's suggestion: "What he said makes sense. The fog in this valley always feels familiar to me, especially the looming smell."
Wen Qingzhu took a few steps forward and sniffed. There was a breeze at night, and a very faint fragrance was carried in the wind.
It feels a bit like—
"Star grass!" Wen Qingzhu looked ahead and looked at the valley. "General poisonous insects don't like the smell of star grass, and its smell will be more intense at night! It can be used in herbal medicine to detoxify!"
She turned to look at Lei Shuo: "As for the wolves, they won't appear in such a low-temperature place, and where there are star grass, there may be fruitless flowers that wolves hate most!"