266 This is not right
"Master Ping An." Lin Feng rushed over in a hurry and fell down soon after.
Xiao Wu and the other two quickly ran over and noticed that the cave entrance was not very big: "Master Ping An, Lin Feng, don't worry, I'll pull you up."
Ping An had already noticed something was wrong: "Lin Feng, I'll wait here. Go over and tell Xiao Wu to keep quiet and let him come down alone. Qing Shi and Wu Jun can hide upstairs."
Lin Feng frowned. This was not an ordinary pit. It was clearly dug by someone, and it should not have taken too long. The tunnel turned in a different direction after going more than ten feet forward. He didn't know what was in front, but there should be no one there for the time being.
After a while, Lin Feng and Xiao Wu came over.
"Are they both hiding?"
Xiao Wu said, "I asked them to go find Uncle He quietly."
Ping An squatted down and looked carefully: "Xiao Wu, look, this road was not dug for a long time. Why did people dig a road here? I was chasing a yellow sheep and got off track. This place should be farther from the hill. Let's go over there slowly and take a look."
He thought a lot in his mind, but felt that he was wrong. This place was too far away from the border of Youzhou. What would happen even if he dug ten miles?
The three of them walked forward quietly, with Xiao Wu walking in front. After turning a corner about ten feet away and walking another ten feet, they came to a square cellar. It was empty, but there were obvious footprints of many people.
Ping An checked carefully. Could it be a rich man hiding his wealth? Unfortunately, it was not. It was just an ordinary large cellar with a large empty space, as if he was going to put something there.
One end of the cellar was the same as the front, with a small path more than ten feet long leading to an exit on the ground, which was simply blocked by some dead branches.
When the three people reached the ground, they saw nothing unusual, no human figures, no sounds.
Ping An walked north cautiously, with more and more doubts in his mind. Why were they digging these things in the deep mountains?
It is not right to hide food. It would take too much energy. Isn't that stupid?
Half a mile away, Ping'an discovered a second identical cellar.
This is not normal.
"Lin Feng, go back quietly to meet up with Uncle He and the others, otherwise they will get anxious if they find out we're not here. Don't make any noise, I'm afraid something big is going to happen here. Go ahead and explore. You don't have to follow us, it's easy to be discovered if there are too many people. Don't worry, Xiao Wu and I are both the best at light skills, and we've brought medicine."
Lin Feng knew that this arrangement was the best. If Uncle He didn't see anyone, he would be anxious, and shouting loudly was obviously not an option.
Any fool would know that this is a problem.
After Lin Feng left.
Ping An whispered, "Let's search further ahead. If this is a conspiracy between outsiders and Yunzhou people, Yunzhou will be in danger. Do you remember the fifteen people near Shuangfeng Mountain that day? Could it be that they didn't come from Nanshan at all, but moved from the mountain behind the village to Nanshan, and even the villagers didn't know?"
"So they were probably planning to drive those people to Yunzhou by horse and mule carts, without entering Yunzhou City, and sneak up to this mountain in the dark. Even though this place is still far from the border, what would happen if they got here?"
"Master Ping An, the route from Yunzhou to Youzhou is along a mountain road. The further north you go, the more mountains there are. The longer the road becomes, the longer it takes to get there. The journey by car takes four days, but if you go straight, it will take more than half that time."
Ping An's face darkened: "So it is possible that the two sides are colluding. Let's explore further."
Xiao Wu's heart sank. If this was true, then Yunzhou would be in danger. He just didn't know how many such cellars they had dug.
Ping'an and Xiaowu continued to search towards the north, and indeed found several more such cellars, but these were no longer empty. There was actually some food and hoes inside.
Xiao Wu opened a bag of grain. It was just ordinary broken rice, held high up with a wooden stick, obviously to prevent it from getting moldy.
Every time he found a cellar, Ping An would make a mark that was difficult for others to notice.
The two of them had already found eight, which meant they had to travel another six or seven miles along the mountain road.
When they found the tenth one, they could clearly hear the sound of digging and people talking in front of them.
Ping An and Xiao Wu walked even more cautiously. When they reached the corner, they heard a man say, "Don't ask so many questions. What good will it do you to know more? Our master is helpless. Both sons have been arrested. We can't cut off the family line. The master is even more helpless to lock up your family members. If you put yourself in their shoes, he would not want to do so either. But what can we do?"
We are digging three tunnels every two days, and we can barely open the whole road by the end of August. The other side should not be slower than us.'
"Manager Wu, why are we digging here and there? It will not be good for the Great Zhou if they are connected." said an obviously older voice.
"Old Wu, why do you care so much? Think about your son and grandson.
"The master said that once the matter is settled, you will be sent to live out the rest of your life in a country farm. To be honest, life is not easy nowadays. As long as you are not lazy, you can make a living in a country farm. What does the Great Zhou have to do with us? You really don't care about anything else."
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Ping'an walked out quietly. These people must not be drugged or arrested, as this would alert the enemy.
My goodness, there is really someone who is connected with the Mongolians, just because they captured his two sons.
Xiao Wu followed the young master and slowly retreated to the entrance of the cellar. After leaving the cellar, the two restored the exit to its original state.
After walking for a while, the two men started running quickly, covering a distance of seven or eight miles.
"Peace." Master also came, and everyone came.
"Master, we can't say any more now. Let's hurry down the mountain. We still have to clean up the marks along the way."
He Jin nodded quickly: "We'll do this."
After bringing the prey down the mountain, the sun had already set. It was already mid-afternoon. At the agreed place, Wang Quan, Xiao Chen and Wen Zhu were waiting there in a mule cart.
Ping An asked Lin Feng to find some dead branches and hung some behind each car, with the branches dragging on the ground.
Sun Sicheng was full of questions, but he also knew that now was not the place to talk.
Wang Quan has been busy in the workshop these days. Today the workshop is quiet, so he came out to pick up the eldest son and Ping An and others.
What he didn't understand was why Master Ping An hung several large branches behind the three cars.
Later, when the vehicle moved and the branches were dragged up, he began to understand that Master Ping'an did this to prevent others from knowing that the vehicle had come. As for why, that was not something he should know.
He felt very happy these days following the eldest son and Ping An, which was something he could not have felt when he followed his father and uncles in the past to rebury their dead.
If possible, after returning from the border, he still wanted to follow the eldest son and Master Ping'an and do whatever they wanted.
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