Chapter 38: Raiding a Bandit's Den to Make a Fortune
"Why did you end up in this bandit den?" he asked Xie Ning.
Xie Ning explained the whole thing.
Xie Yanyan's expression was still indifferent. She didn't care about the interaction between Xie Ning and Zhou Shaoyu. She was thinking about the things halfway up the mountain.
She originally wanted to take them all away, but now she thinks it would be better to give them to Zhou Shaoyu.
But how to tell him that I found a large amount of supplies and weapons hidden in a cave halfway up the mountain?
Or how to guide Zhou Shaoyu to discover it as soon as possible?
"How many people did you bring?" she asked Zhou Shaoyu.
"What?" Zhou Shaoyu was stunned for a moment, then he heard something else, and came forward and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"I just saw something with this." She handed him a monocular.
Xie Ning watched Xie Yanyan give the telescope to Zhou Shaoyu without saying a word, but he was secretly complaining in his heart.
[When did my sister and Prince Zhou become so familiar with each other?]
What is this?
Zhou Shaoyu took the metal cylinder curiously and looked at it over and over again.
The 22nd century monocular infinitely variable telescope is very small, only the size of a palm when folded. It is made of fine steel on the outside and has a glass mirror on the inside, which can be extended and retracted, with one end larger than the other.
Look at the small cave opposite, it's child's play.
It was the first time that Zhou Shaoyu heard about this kind of mirror that could see far, and he felt curious and ecstatic.
I looked here, looked there, and saw that the distant scenery became very close and clear. I was shocked and excited, and my eyes were like broken moons and stars.
[Did she do it herself?]
[It's too precious. If I use it in combat, the enemy is right in front of me.]
[Give it to His Majesty, and he will reward Miss Three and restore her status.]
[No, taking this kind of thing out may not necessarily bring good fortune]
Xie Yanyan: Zhou Shaoyu always considers her, very good, she did not choose the wrong person!
"You can really see very far." Zhou Shaoyu said excitedly, glancing at the people behind him.
Those people immediately lowered their heads and we knew nothing.
"Look in that direction." Xie Yanyan pointed to a place halfway up the mountain diagonally opposite.
The cave on the cliff is so deep that it is impossible to see the cave clearly with the naked eye, and no one can climb up there. The only way is to go up from the suspension bridge on the other side.
But now, when Zhou Shaoyu uses this magic weapon to look at the other side, nothing can escape his sight.
Looking down from here, you can clearly see the tip of the iceberg, including silver boxes, grain bags, and weapons glowing with cold light.
And the guard looking around at the cave entrance.
"Very good!" Zhou Shaoyu turned around and asked Xie Yanyan, "They didn't do anything to you, did they?"
Xie Yanyan pointed at Fu Xing and said, "Just now a bandit gave a letter to the bandit leader. He said that I saw his face and wanted to kill us all."
"letter?"
"In his sleeve."
"Oh, what's so special about his face?" Zhou Shaoyu looked at the tied-up Fu Xing and said to his men, "Search him, beat him up, and escort him to Kyoto with his face intact. Don't let him die."
His men quickly searched out the letter, and Zhou Shaoyu said to his men, “Don’t tell Shen Ziwen about this letter.”
If the county magistrate Shen Ziwen knew that the bandit nest belonged to King Xi, he would probably be timid.
Zhou Shaoyu said to Xie Ning and Xie Yanyan: "You go down the mountain first. I have left some people down there and will take you all to Nanyang City safely."
With Zhou Shaoyu's words, Xie Yanyan felt relieved. King Xi wanted to kill them? Impossible.
Xie Yanyan originally wanted to raid this bandit’s lair, otherwise she would not have bothered to go up the mountain on her own initiative.
Now that Zhou Shaoyu has come, she will not interfere.
Xie Xiangxiang said that he would die in Jin. I wonder if it was King Xi’s conspiracy or the old emperor’s conspiracy?
No matter who it is, these things in the bandit's den are enough to overthrow King Xi. No emperor or prince can tolerate someone coveting the throne while they are alive.
After they went down the mountain, Zhou Shaoyu caught up with them again, handed Xie Ning two sets of clothes, and said, "You and Tang Zhan go to the pond to wash them. When you get down the mountain, don't tell anyone that you participated in the suppression of bandits."
Xie Yanyan immediately understood that Zhou Shaoyu was protecting them to avoid revenge from King Xi.
Xie Ning was full of gratitude and clasped his fists: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your thoughtful consideration."
The road down the mountain was full of soldiers. Xie Ning and Tang Zhan jumped into the pool to wash off the blood, while Xie Yanyan and Su Moqing slowly walked down the mountain.
Scanning the entire mountain again, the mountain range is undulating and continuous, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Standing on the hillside, she found smoke rising from the valley and a village hidden among the trees.
The village didn't look big, but there were neat houses, women and children, and men chopping wood and making fire.
There are some cultivated fields in front of the mountain village, where various crops and vegetables are planted.
There is such a well-preserved mountain village right under the bandits’ noses!
She scanned the mountain village and was a little surprised. There was also a cave in the mountain village, and outside the cave was an orchard guarded by several strong men.
The cave is a sinkhole type, formed naturally and dug by humans, and it covers at least a thousand square meters.
The cave was filled with rice bags and grain bins. Those huge bins contained at least two or three hundred tons of grain.
The grains are very diverse, including rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, barley, etc., as well as millet.
There must be something wrong with this village. She was almost certain that this was part of a bandit's den.
It is true that a cunning rabbit has three burrows.
However, it was enough to leave the food and weapons above to Zhou Shaoyu, and she took the food in this granary.
When we came down the mountain, it was already dark and the road was crowded with soldiers holding torches.
The huge rocks that were blocking the road have been moved away, and the caravan’s grain carts have been rescued and have already left.
Xie Anfeng's injuries had been treated and bandaged, and he was relieved to see his children return safely.
A young man drove dozens of horse-drawn carriages and donkey-drawn carts from afar. He approached Li Rong and asked, "Is this Lord Li from Kyoto?"
"My name is Li Rong, and I am the escort officer for the prisoners from Lingnan exiled from Kyoto."
"I'm Zhou Huo, the guard of Prince Zhou. The prince said that everyone was frightened, so he asked me to find a car to take you to the Nanyang City Inn."
"Thank you, my Lord, and thank you, Lord Zhou." Li Rong said, "We still have to thank Qingmu for his wife and daughter."
Xie Yanyan just remembered that Fang and Xie Tingting had been abducted.
They didn't see Fang and Xie Tingting in the mountain village just now, and didn't know where they were taken by the bandits.
Because Zhou Shaoyu had reminded them, Xie Ning and Xie Yanyan kept silent about it.
Su Moqing did say, "Master Li, we didn't enter the mountain stronghold. We met soldiers and a group of unknown masters on the way. When they were fighting the bandits, we were hiding behind rocks."
"Didn't you see Fang's mother and daughter?"
"How could we see them? We couldn't even escape in time."
Xie Yanyan got on her own carriage. Song Lingling held her hand and wiped away her tears: "Sister, are you okay? Have the bandits been caught?"
She was always worried about the bandits' revenge, and she also realized that the bandits were not just an ordinary mob.
“They were all arrested by the soldiers.”
Jiang Shuang came over and asked, "You really didn't see Fang and Tingting?"
Xie Yanyan looked at her coldly: "If you are worried, you can go find it yourself."
"I'm just asking, why don't you just save them?" Jiang Shuang said awkwardly, "After all, they are two women. What good can they do in a bandit's den?"
"Why don't you ask me if I'm suffering from the beating?"
"Aren't you back safe and sound?"
"Just because I came back alive, I deserve to be questioned by you for not saving others?"
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