When he hesitated, Chi Nu had finished washing the dishes. He washed his face, and then went away with the food box.
From beginning to end, Chinu didn't make any sound, and didn't look at Cui Xiaoyong and others.
All the soldiers looked at Cui Xiaoyong.
Someone asked in a low voice, "shall we continue the task or go back?"
Cui Xiaoyong wiped the river on his face and said cautiously, "go back first."
Their whereabouts have been known. They are not sure whether Chinu will expose their whereabouts. If they continue to perform the task, they may be in danger. They'd better go back and discuss with envoy Gu Zhenfu before making a decision.
A thousand people swam back quietly.
Nan Chu's scouts hid behind the random stones and heard the sound of the river shaking. The scouts simulated the bird's cry with their mouths and heard the other party's whistle three times.
This is their code.
Make sure the code is right. The Scout jumps out and finds that Cui Xiaoyong and others are coming.
They did not dare to speak, for fear of disturbing the enemy on the other side of the river, and hurried to the stone forest not far away.
Gu Fei and the remaining 9000 people are hiding in the stone forest.
Seeing Cui Xiaoyong and others come back, Gu Fei knows that the task must have changed.
Sure enough, Cui Xiaoyong opened his mouth and said.
"We were found."
Gu Fei said, "but we didn't hear anything on the other side of the river just now."
According to the character of Xisha people, if they find an enemy sneak attack across the river, they will sound the horn to inform the whole camp at the first time. Gu Fei and others who are across the river from them can certainly hear the news, but they didn't hear anything just now. It's quiet on the other side.
Cui Xiaoyong was wet all over. He had no time to change his clothes and quickly told the story.
Gu Fei listened to him and pondered for a moment before asking, "what does the slave who found you look like? What are the characteristics? "
Cui Xiaoyong tried to recall: "he is tall and big, with dark skin, tattoos on his face and great strength... By the way, his right hand seems to be missing an index finger!"
Gu Fei was stunned at first, then seemed to think of something, and immediately asked, "are you sure the index finger of his right hand is gone?"
"When he finished washing his face by the river, I was very close to him. I clearly saw that his right hand had no index finger."
"Does he have any other characteristics?"
Cui Xiaoyong thought his question was very strange and asked, "what other characteristics?"
Gu Fei said, "for example, he can't speak."
Cui Xiaoyong was stunned briefly, then patted on the forehead and suddenly said, "why didn't I think of this? I said, why didn't he say a word from beginning to end? He turned out to be a mute. If I had known this, I should have killed him just now to avoid future trouble! "
Gu Fei said, "luckily you didn't fight him."
Cui Xiaoyong looked puzzled: "why?"
"He may be his own."
Cui Xiaoyong was surprised: "who are you? Impossible? His appearance is clearly from Xisha! "
The nine confidants left by Gu Zheng. Now Gu Fei has found Gu De, old five and old six. Old seven is dead, but he has found his daughter. Now the second, third, fourth, eighth and ninth are still missing.
Half of them are Xisha people, and his mother is Xisha dancer.
At that time, the relationship between Xisha and southern Chu was quite harmonious. Xisha would send envoys to southern Chu to pay tribute every year. Every time they came, they would bring some Xisha dancers. All these dancers were rewarded by the emperor to civil and military officials and various aristocratic families.
No one knows who Lao BA's father is. Anyway, no one cares about him since he was a child. He doesn't even have a serious name. And because he followed his mother and his natural eyes were blue, many ordinary people with little knowledge thought he was a monster, so they hated him.
By coincidence, Gu Zheng took him home.
Since then, old eight has stayed at home.
In Gu Fei's impression, old eight has the least sense of existence among the nine people. He doesn't like to talk or show. He is like a transparent person, which is easy to be ignored.
But he was the strongest and best of the nine.
At that time, someone plotted against Gu Zheng and sent more than a dozen killers to kill him. It was Lao Ba who killed each other with one against ten. He was unharmed.
Gu Fei couldn't tell Cui Xiaoyong about these things, so he had to say vaguely, "he may be an old friend of mine."
Cui Xiaoyong saw that he didn't want to say more, so he didn't ask again.
Gu Fei said, "go down and have a rest first."
Cui Xiaoyong took the 1000 people back down. They had to take off their wet clothes and wring them dry. It was impossible to dry them. As long as there was a fire here, Xisha people on the other side of the river would certainly see it.
The night was getting darker and darker, and the camp lights on the other side of the river were extinguished one after another, but the number of patrols was still not small.
Gu Fei is waiting.
He wants to see the reaction of Xisha people.
If the slave revealed the sneak attack of the southern Chu people, the king of Huoluo would send people to search everywhere. There must be a lot of news.
But Gu Fei waited for half the night and didn't see any big movement on the other side of the river.
This shows that the enemy should not know what Nanchu is going to attack tonight.
This indirectly proved that the slave did not report.
Gu Fei believed more and more that the slave was Lao ba.
He called Cui Xiaoyong.
"Get ready, cross the river again, and do everything as planned."
He paused and added two sentences.
"If you meet that slave again, tell him that you are doing things at the command of your family."
Cui Xiaoyong read it silently twice and kept these words in mind.
Gu Fei told: "remember, the first thing after crossing the river is to seize the control of the floating bridge."
"Here!"
Cui Xiaoyong then took his men away from the stone forest and disappeared into the night.
The river was cold, but a thousand Southern Chu soldiers seemed unaware of the cold. They hid their whole body under the river and swam quietly towards the other bank of the river.
They are very good at water. They swim across the river without changing their breath on the way.
At this time, the patrol had just left the river. Cui Xiaoyong was the first to climb ashore. He made a gesture.
One hundred people climbed onto the bank and ran upstream with Cui Xiaoyong, while the other 900 people followed the Naning River upstream.
The night wind blew and the stars were dim.
Two Xisha soldiers stood beside the pontoon. They had been guarding for half the night, but the person who should have come to change shifts had not come yet. They had stood numb in their legs and kept fighting with their eyelids.
One of them yawned and complained in Xisha dialect.
"Why haven't the two rotation guards come yet? They won't be lazy on purpose. Do you want us to keep them in the middle of the night? "
The other man was also weak and murmured, "if they really dare to do this, I can't kill them!"
They were talking when someone covered their mouths from behind!
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