Chapter 170 Young General: It's getting late, and the mountains and rivers are already winter
Chapter 170 Young General: It's getting late, and the mountains and rivers are already winter
Shu Yijin stayed on Mount Longhu for one night. During that time, Zhou Si never came to see him again, but he did not treat him harshly. He provided him with three rich meals a day. Later, the famous eight delicacies of Wancheng, which even many dignitaries had to queue up for, were all served to him.
He was so bored that he even started counting stars.
It was not until dusk the next day that someone brought him back to the boat.
"It looks like a dreary day. Damn it. We have to get on the boat."
An old blind man sat on the bow of the boat with a cane, smiling and saying, "I've felt it, and it will rain in less than two hours. Hurry up and put away the quilt that I asked Xiao Waigui to dry this morning."
He was mumbling to himself, and the people around him ignored him. Shu Yijin was thrown aside, and then he slowly stood up. The old blind man narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Oh, there's a newcomer. I've been with a group of rough guys who haven't taken a bath for 800 years for a long time. This is the first time I smell such a fresh scent."
Shu Yijin asked curiously: "Old man, why are you staying on this mountain?"
"Huh, do I look old?"
The old blind man stroked his beard, looked ahead with unfocused eyes, and said, "I forgot. It doesn't matter where I am. As long as the other party gives me a bite to eat, it's fine."
"Oh."
Shu Yi Jin no longer had the desire to speak, so he simply shut his mouth, thinking that the old blind man was a relative of a bandit. The old blind man also stopped talking, and hummed a song from time to time. Perhaps he really had no talent for singing, as not a single word was in tune, and it was all messed up.
"Hey, kid, where are you from?" The old blind man felt a little bored and didn't hear the person next to him talking, so he couldn't help but speak.
"Beijing, I came here to have fun, but I was so unlucky that I ran into a group of bandits."
Shu Yijin complained, not noticing the complicated and sighing expression on the old blind man's face when he heard the word "Beijing". The old blind man muttered to himself: "Beijing? That's a good place, a good place."
Perhaps the word "Beijing" evoked the old blind man's memories. For the next few minutes, he didn't even hum a tune. He just sat there blankly, motionless as if he had stopped breathing.
Soon the boat stopped, and there was still thick fog all around, wrapping people up. Shu Yijin didn't like this scene very much, and had no interest in appreciating it. He just felt depressed.
When he saw Shu Yijin, Zhou Si's eyes changed slightly, and he couldn't help but look up at his eldest brother: "Brother, why did you bring him here? Didn't we agree to only deal with Xu Jinhuan today?"
"How could Xu Jinhuan be willing to board the ship if he didn't see anyone? Do you think the Xu family army is vegetarian? As for Shu Yijin, I don't care whether you care about the friendship of our childhood playmates or not. You'd better distinguish the occasion clearly and don't ruin all these years of hard work because of your womanly kindness."
"If he is lucky and not dead today, naturally no one will touch him. If he dies today, it can only be considered bad luck. Who told him to follow us to Wancheng?"
The two men confronted each other for a few seconds, neither of them willing to give in. Zhou Si strode out and said, "Brother, the Marquis' Mansion and our family were very close in the past. I will never watch him die. I agree to let him be bait, but you can't take him as a hostage when the fight breaks out. I will have someone send him away."
Zhou Si knows his current eldest brother better than anyone else. His eldest brother has completely reached the point of being possessed by a demon. Although he will not kill Shu Yi Jin verbally, he will definitely take action against Shu Yi Jin.
Not for anything else, just to eradicate the roots.
Zhou Zhi frowned and looked in Shu Yijin's direction with heavy eyes. He really didn't like this young marquis very much. Since yesterday, Zhou Zhi keenly noticed that his brother's attitude towards this young marquis was different. Fearing that the other party didn't eat well, he went down the mountain to buy food.
He could understand that the two had a good relationship when they were children, but things were different now, and he would never allow someone who knew all about them to live in this world.
If this young marquis goes back and says a few words, they will be dead without a burial place.
Shu Yijin watched Zhou Si walking towards him. After greeting the old blind man next to him, he helped him untie the rope on his hands.
"If you hide away for a while, I may not be able to take care of you. You must try to survive on your own. Remember, don't trust anyone."
Just as Shu Yi Jin was about to open his mouth to speak, he saw a ship appear in the fog and a figure who couldn't be more familiar was standing at the bow, but the fog made it difficult to see the young general's expression clearly.
Chang Qing looked at the boat full of bandits and the pitch-black fog with an indifferent expression. In fact, she had already asked people to thoroughly understand the terrain and conditions of Longhu Mountain. After all, she had saved so many people from the plague at that time. One family's son was cooking on Longhu Mountain, and the other party was very grateful to her, so he drew a map for her.
"These people really know how to pick a location. This river is the place they are most familiar with, so they are probably good swimmers. They also chose this kind of weather to attack us, which clearly shows that they want us to have no chance of returning."
Chun Heming smiled lightly, but there was a heaviness in his eyes. Originally, Chang Qing did not agree with him coming, but he insisted on coming. Although he said with a smile that he would help Chang Qing collect the body, he was worried about this person from the bottom of his heart.
Although he has always cherished his life the most and knows how to protect himself, there are always exceptions.
There is no doubt that he regards Chang Qing as a close friend and is willing to accompany Chang Qing through life and death.
However, these bandits had miscalculated one thing. The Xu family army had been fighting on the frontier for many years and had encountered all kinds of bad weather. Although they were not used to this kind of fog at first, they began to get used to it after staying there for a while.
"Why do I feel that this young marquis is living a very comfortable life? Look at his rosy complexion. It seems that he sleeps better than me. The identity of this bandit on Longhu Mountain is not simple. Could it be that Shu Yijin met him when he visited the brothel?"
No one knew where Chun Heming learned this quirk. Even in such foggy weather, he was still fanning himself with a fan, and commenting on Shu Yijin who was being escorted out not far away.
"Let's go."
Chang Qing was the first to walk to the boat where Zhou Zhi was, and said straight to the point: "I'm already here, you should release my brother. Since you have already tied him up and you know his identity, it will not be of any benefit to you if he dies."
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