Chapter 126 Suspicion and Unconditional Protection
Zhou Shaoyu and Xie Anfeng walked towards Hanguan for two days before turning back. They rode at full speed to reach Yaoguan, which took them another four days.
Except for drinking water on the way, they kept running.
But they didn't meet Xu Wenrong and Xie Yanyan until they reached the checkpoint.
Seeing that Zhou Shaoyu was confused due to his concern, Xie Anfeng said, "Yan'er and Wenrong haven't arrived yet, right?"
Zhou Shaoyu calculated and said, "No, even if they travel 80 miles a day, they should be there."
"Then we should have passed the test. Let's follow the road outside to find them in Shanyang County."
Xie Yanyan’s two-wheeled carriage is parked at the post station in Shanyang County!
After leaving Yaoguan, they headed straight for Shanyang County. The more they walked, the more they felt something was wrong. There was no one on the entire official road.
Is it really that I failed?
Halfway through the journey, Zhou Shaoyu asked Xie Anfeng to continue walking towards Shanyang County, and he and Zhou Jin turned around and walked back.
In fact, he was more worried about whether Xu Wenrong and Xie Yanyan were attacked.
Zhou Shaoyu ran all the way and met Xu Wenrong and Xie Yanyan in Yaoguan. The brother and sister thought they had not come and were still waiting for them in Yaoguan.
Both sides breathed a sigh of relief.
After leaving Yaoguan, there is a place called Dawagou Town. The sun is setting, and the road ahead is all mountain roads under the ridges. There may be bandits and wild beasts hiding in the mountains and forests. They are not in a hurry to travel in the dark, so they stay in Dawagou Town.
Dawagou is surrounded by mountains on one side and water on the other, but the town's economy mainly depends on the caravans traveling to and from Yaoguan. There are many street stalls, many small restaurants, and many inns.
A group of children came down the mountain carrying baskets on their backs. When they saw them, they asked with a smile, "Do you want to buy some wild honey?"
The boy selling honey was about ten years old. His left eye was swollen like an egg and there were two swellings on his forehead.
These children were all stung by bees to varying degrees.
The oldest child took out a clay pot from the backpack, and several blocks of light yellow honey could be clearly seen in it.
Zhou Jin took out the honey, opened the honeycomb and looked at it, and said, "This is wild honey."
There were three pieces of honey in the jar, not particularly big, but the four boys had tried their best and their faces were stung by them.
"How do you want to sell it?" Zhou Jin asked. "The honey is not very good. You didn't cut it well. It's all broken and covered with dust."
Several children said in unison: "There is very little wild honey. We only found this one in the whole forest."
"This is already a big piece, how can it be dirty? Try it, it's sweet."
While they were arguing, the boy, who was about seven or eight years old, put down his backpack and said proudly, "I picked up a nice-looking stone."
Zhou Shaoyu took a look at the stone and immediately picked it up.
It was a square piece of mutton-fat white jade covered with mud.
The jade is pure and flawless, crystal clear and moist, without any corrosion. There is a button on it, with a high relief of a crouching Chihu. The Chihu looks fierce, with round and bulging eyes, a high nose and square lips, an open mouth with teeth, ears sticking out, and a tail hidden in the cloud pattern.
Xie Yanyan: Could it be the emperor’s seal or something?
Zhou Shaoyu put down the square jade and asked calmly, "How much is the honey?"
When they asked about honey, the older child knew they wanted it, so he said, "This honey weighs more than three pounds. How about 200 coins?"
One tael of silver is about 250 coins, and he felt that asking for 200 coins was already too high.
Zhou Shaoyu didn't say anything.
Zhou Jin said, "200 yuan is too much. You didn't clean it up."
The older child slowly bargained, saying, "How about 180 yuan?"
Zhou Shaoyu said: "180 coins is fine, but you have to give us this square stone."
The seven or eight-year-old child was very happy to hear that the stones he picked up could help his brothers' business succeed. He looked at his brother and said proudly, "Brother, the stones I picked up are good. You all like them very much."
Use 180 coins to buy 3 kilograms of local honey.
After the children left, Zhou Shaoyu put away the stones and didn't even look at the honey.
Xu Wenrong and Xie Yanyan both knew that the stone was definitely not simple.
Several people strolled slowly along the street. Xie Yanyan bought a bag of saltpeter from a place selling saltpeter on the street, and also bought some fruits, red beans, mung beans and other things.
"It's so hot." Zhou Jin said flatteringly, "Miss Xie, can you make some more fruit salad?"
Xie Yanyan said: "I'll make popsicles for you today."
After returning to the inn, Xie Yanyan closed the door and "made popsicles" in the room.
What kind of popsicles? Buying saltpeter, mung beans and red beans is just a cover-up. She has so many ice creams and popsicles in her space, why not let them expire if she doesn't eat them?
A box of ice cream was brought out, and the most common red bean and mung bean popsicles were chosen, without the chocolate crispy ones.
They went to a restaurant for dinner. Zhou Shaoyu ordered a few dishes. While waiting for the waiter to serve the food, a few men next door were whispering to each other.
"Something big happened in Chang'an! All the roads were blocked. We were trapped for three days. We were only released after checking our ancestors for eight generations."
"What's going on?"
"Something happened to General He and the Tiger Roar Battalion. General He was hit to death, and the soldiers of the Tiger Roar Battalion were possessed by evil spirits."
"Is this true? Commander He could be killed by someone? He is the local tyrant of Northwest China, who can kill him by someone? And his Tiger Roaring Battalion, they are all living devils, how could they be killed by someone?"
"It's true. General He, his trusted confidant General Han, and 1,000 elite soldiers went to capture rebels or something, but they were crushed to death by a huge rock. It is said that the rock fell from the sky. Oh, their brains were all over the ground. It was so tragic."
"Were they all killed?"
“No, they killed General He and his confidants, and also a woman. The rest of the people were not killed.
Those who were not dead were all talking nonsense, saying that they had encountered a ghost wall. Others said that a little ghost rode a whirlwind, carrying sand and dust, and trapped them in a sandy town. They could not tell the direction, and the weapons in their hands and the horses they were riding were all gone.
Big rocks fell like heavy rain, breaking their legs and smashing General He's head. But Lord Yu sent people to check, and there were no big rocks at all. Everyone said they were possessed by evil spirits! "
"What the hell is this? They are acting strangely. What traitors are they trying to catch?"
"Those surviving elite soldiers only heard that they were going to catch the rebels, but they didn't even know what the rebels were called."
They kept talking, and everyone at Xie Yanyan's table had their ears perked up, listening to everything.
However, everyone remained calm.
The rice in Xu Wenrong's bowl had no taste and his eyeballs were shaking.
I'm not dreaming
[I really saw Governor He and that female killer]
[Is this related to my sister? ]
[Whether she is my younger sister or not, it has nothing to do with my younger sister]
The gentle and jade-like Master Xu thought of this, took a deep breath, looked at Xie Yanyan, and smiled dotingly.
Even if it was my sister who did it.
Great job!!
When Zhou Shaoyu heard that "a huge rock fell from the sky and crushed General He and the female secret guard to death", he immediately thought of several previous legendary cases of huge rocks falling from the sky.
[She was present at every stone formation]
[Is it the stone formation she set up? ]
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