Chapter 409: A Mistake
Xiao Da: "Who is it?"
Gu Qing sighed: "I don't know him."
If you walk on the road at night too much, you will always encounter ghosts. Maybe it is someone who has been fooled by him, and he is angry and has evil thoughts.
Xiao Da asked again: "What does he look like?"
"His face was covered, only his eyes were visible. It was dark, so I couldn't see clearly, but..." Gu Qing raised his hand and tapped his forehead, "He has a red mole there."
Red mole?
Xiao Da suddenly thought of someone, immediately took the old man over and reported the matter to Xiao Jingfan.
The red mole was too obvious, and everyone inevitably thought of Ping Xuan who had escaped with Ping Yu.
Lu Fei looked at the fat old man sideways, wondering, "Why did Ping Xuan want to kill him?"
Chen Xing reached out and pulled Gu Qing's white beard: "Did he ask you to tell his fortune? He knew you had deceived him, so he wanted to kill you."
Gu Qing shook his head decisively, but then nodded hesitantly.
Everyone was confused by him. Feng Jing asked, "You're nodding and shaking your head at the same time. What do you mean?"
"I seem to have seen him." Gu Qing frowned and looked up at the sky reminiscing.
Chen Xing continued to pull his beard, and this time he used too much force, causing the old man to cry out in pain and stare at Chen Xing angrily but unable to say a word.
Chen Xing also glared at him: "If you have seen it, you have seen it. If you haven't seen it, you haven't seen it. What does it matter?"
"Why are you in such a hurry, little girl? The old man is old and his memory is not good. He meets so many people every day, so he must think carefully." Gu Qing rolled his eyes at her angrily, and continued to think while protecting his precious beard.
"There's no rush for this. Take your time to think about it." Xiao Jingfan pointed at the stack of formation diagrams Zhou Yuande was holding and asked the old man, "First, tell me clearly, when did that young man give you these things?"
"Two months or three months ago, the exact date... well... I can't remember." Gu Qing's memory wasn't great; even the dates were vague. He didn't look like he was pretending, so no one could do anything about it.
He actually predicted what would happen today two or three months ago. Who is that scholar?
Xiao Jingfan frowned and thought for a moment without any clue, so he had to put the matter aside for the time being. He sent Xiao Da to inform Huang Xin, and arranged for people to search the entire Sishui Town carefully overnight. Ping Xuan was very likely still hiding in the city. At the same time, he gave the formation map to Huang Qian, asking him to study it as soon as possible, lead people to break the formation, and try to crack all the mechanisms and formations before dawn.
As an assistant, Feng Jing specifically deals with poisonous insects, snakes and ants to ensure that Huang Qian and others have no worries when breaking the formation.
As for Xiao Jingfan, the emperor, whose gauze was bleeding, was forced to change the medicine. After being persuaded by Eunuch Zhou, he returned to the tent to rest.
Before following them up the mountain, Feng Jing went to see the wounded soldier who had lost his arm, re-bandaged him, and wrote a new prescription for the military doctor. If nothing unexpected happened, he would have no problem surviving.
Chen Xing was supposed to be there to serve Xiao Jingfan, but with Eunuch Zhou around and nothing else to do, she wasn't needed for the time being. After reporting to Xiao Jingfan, she followed Huang Qian and the others up the mountain to break the formation.
Then, he fell off the cliff with Doctor Feng.
The main responsibility for this matter lies with Feng Jing.
He saw two high-quality red pearl grasses growing on the edge of the cliff, and ran to pick them happily. However, the rocks under his feet became loose, and he failed to react in time, so he fell down with the grass.
Huang Qian and others were concentrating on comparing the battle formation diagram and did not pay attention to this side. When they heard Feng Jing's shout, it was too late.
Chen Xing gritted his teeth and jumped down.
She had wanted to catch up with the man and then use the trees or vines growing on the cliff to save herself. She even took out her claw hook, but in the end, some bastard was so stupid that he not only kicked the tree down, but also didn't leave them any vines.
The two men cursed and barely managed to escape the impact twice before falling into the pool.
Doctor Feng, who couldn't swim, struggled hard in the puddle and shouted to Chen Xing for help.
Chen Xing swam over and dragged him to the shore.
After falling off a cliff and into the water, Chen Xing was exhausted even though he had a foundation in martial arts. After throwing Feng Jing and himself ashore, he lay by the pool, gasping for breath.
"Cough, cough, cough!" Feng Jing had just choked on some water and was coughing violently while spitting it out. When he felt a little better, he turned to look at Chen Xing: "How are you?"
"I'm a little tired, but I'm not hurt." Chen Xing propped himself up and sat up. He looked around and his eyes fell on the pond. He said with lingering fear, "Luckily there's a pond, otherwise we would have died here."
Feng Jing asked while wringing the water from his clothes: "Why did you fall down too?"
"How could I possibly fall? I jumped down specifically to save you." Chen Xing rolled her eyes, her dimple visible. "Doctor Feng, how are you going to repay me for saving your life?"
Feng Jing covered his chest cautiously: "What do you want to do? Let me make it clear first, I won't marry you."
"I don't even want a promise." Chen Xing curled his lips, wrung the water out of his hair and stood up. "I'll report to you later. Find a way out first."
Fortunately, the pearl did not fall. She held the pearl up to illuminate the room and called Feng Jing to follow.
Feng Jing stuffed the two red pearl grasses into his arms. Suddenly, he saw some dragging marks on the ground and called out to Chen Xing, "Wait, look at the ground."
In order to facilitate tracking, secret guards must learn some trace detection skills.
"Looking at the traces of crushed grass leaves, it should not have been more than two hours." Chen Xing squatted down and looked carefully for a moment, then raised his head to the left front. Just as he was about to follow the traces to take a look, he was suddenly dazzled.
A silver ring inlaid with a sapphire lay quietly on the grass, with the word "Chu" engraved on the back of the ring.
Chen Xing said happily: "It's Sister Liu Zheng's ring!"
Feng Jing was delighted: "Liu Zheng has been here?"
"Yeah." Chen Xing answered while searching the grass to see if there were any other clues.
Feng Jing also squatted down to help look for it.
The two found another piece of emerald cloth, and nothing else.
"Let's go and take a look." Chen Xing stood up, holding the pearl in his hand and walked along the drag mark. Feng Jing hurriedly followed.
The trace ended in front of the mountain wall, and there were no footprints on either side.
"Take it." Chen Xing handed the pearl to Feng Jing, and went forward to look at the mountain wall in front of him, knocking on it in different directions.
Feng Jing tried to hold the pearl as high as possible so that the range of light could be wider.
After about a quarter of an hour, Chen Xing found nothing. She kicked the mountain wall angrily, pouted and muttered something, which, if you listened carefully, was all curse words.
Feng Jing chose not to listen, put the pearl aside, opened the cloth bag and took inventory of his belongings.
Fortunately, he had foresight and asked the tailor to make this cloth bag with three layers. Although it is a bit heavy, it is strong, waterproof and very durable.
After an inventory, it was found that the things in the cloth bag were basically intact, and the shadow-chasing bugs in the box were full of energy, crawling around lively.
Feng Jing was happy again.
Just as he was about to pack up his belongings, he suddenly had an idea and called Chen Xing, "Zheng Qianqian and Liu Zheng have been here before. If we release the Shadow Chaser Bugs to find Zheng Qianqian, can they help us find the way?"
Chen Xing thought about it and felt that it might be feasible.
There is no other way for now, so let’s try it first.
Feng Jing immediately released the shadow-chasing insect and fed it a drop of Zheng Qianqian's blood.
The shadow-chasing insect flapped its wings and flew up, circling around the bottom of the cliff for a while, and finally stopped at a place on the mountain wall.
Chen Xing and the other man held up the pearl and took a closer look, and found a semicircular bloodstain there, so shallow that it was almost invisible.
(End of this chapter)
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