Chapter 46 What an abstract bandit group, what an abstract Su Jinghe!
"I said, we might as well just take the merchant ship."
Su Jinghe and Song Shiyi, who were stuffed into a carriage and taken away along with their horses, reviewed the situation silently inside the carriage. Song Shiyi thought for a while and felt that the problem was still with the land route.
"We haven't encountered any pirates in the past thirty days! We just got ashore and we've been captured by bandits."
The bandits even really dressed up as ordinary people. The secret guards following them didn't even have time to react before they were caught.
"At least it's a cold weapon, even a hoe." Su Jinghe tried to make the best of it and comforted Song Shiyi.
"What will happen if they can take out the gunpowder?" Song Shiyi didn't fall for this consolation, but the people outside had sharp ears and heard it. They opened the car door on one side and came in to talk to them.
"You came too early. If you had come later, our military advisor would have already developed gunpowder."
Then he slammed the car door shut again.
The doors and windows were closed, and in the car were pheasants, wild boars, rabbits, and wild birds that they had hunted from who knows where, lying bloody with them...
After the man closed the door, Su Jinghe realized that the man could hear their conversation. He did not reflect on whether he had said anything he should not have said, but spoke immediately.
"Brother, brother? Open a window for us. The smell in here is really unbearable. The smell of blood is too strong. I'm about to faint, brother?"
No one answered.
"Brother, please, don't worry, my family definitely has the money to redeem me. The guy next to me is also rich. He is the only child in his family, and the family is huge. We will give you whatever you want." Su Jinghe promoted himself while introducing the product to Song Shiyi.
Song Shiyi was completely dead after hearing this. His voice was even lower than the last time they chatted. "What are you doing? Are you afraid that others won't know how much it costs?"
"Brother, brother?" Su Jinghe ignored him and continued to work hard to create an environment for them to breathe.
The effort was useful. After a while, the car window next to me slowly opened, and along with the fresh air came a cold sound.
"Our military advisor can see your worth, and he won't ask for less even if you don't tell him."
Then I stopped chatting with them altogether.
Su Jinghe leaned against the window and took a few breaths. He saw that the scenery outside was gradually changing to become greener and greener. It was obvious that it was heading deeper into the mountains.
He turned to look at Song Shiyi and said, "It's okay, don't panic. There are no deep mountains or old forests here in Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
"Uh..." Song Shiyi was already thinking of his last words. He never expected that his boss, who did not play by the rules, would say this. "Can you escape if it's not in the deep mountains and old forests?"
This is a very realistic question, and Su Jinghe also has a very realistic answer.
"I can't get out."
"Puff." "Cough cough."
There were laughter sounds outside, and their skit was really funny.
Song Shiyi's eyes were even more resentful. "So this isn't a deep forest. During the time we're caught, we can enjoy the scenery outside while waiting for money from home?"
"Hmm... don't they have a military advisor? Song Shiyi, you should work hard and become friends with them. Use your literary talent to impress them, and then we'll be saved." Su Jinghe said this, "After all, we don't know if they just want money. What if they want both money and our lives? After all, they've started researching gunpowder, maybe they're preparing for a rebellion."
Song Shiyi rolled his eyes and pursed his lips again and again, but he still couldn't control his urge to curse. "If I become the military advisor, the first thing I will do is shut your mouth. Say something useful all day long."
"That's right." Some people echoed Song Shiyi's words. He looked and saw that the man who had just opened the car door and talked to them opened the door again, holding a leaf in his mouth, looking quite unruly.
Seeing that both of them were looking at him, he continued speaking, "You two are so interesting. I'll just listen to a few of your stories. Don't worry, I won't go in. I'll just listen by the door."
It was unclear whether the latter sentence was directed at Su Jing and the others or at other people outside, and the voice was even raised a little.
It was even more speechless. He was captured by the bandits and used as a joke.
Song Shiyi didn't want to say anything anymore.
He didn't want to say it, but Su Jinghe wanted to say, "Why did you arrest us? Our car doesn't look like it has any money on it, and it's not a caravan."
"We can't capture anyone else. We can't defeat the caravan, and those who don't take the car are even poorer. Isn't this you?" The other party was also quite calm, as if telling Su Jinghe that they had a hard time too.
Why.
This man even started chatting with the bandits.
Song Shiyi was helpless. He thought about waiting for the secret guards to rescue them, and then telling Su Jinghe about it. This person couldn't chat with everyone outside.
Just because he can communicate doesn’t mean he’s a good person!
Su Jinghe is not the kind of naive and innocent person who has no guard against anything. He asked the system as soon as he was caught.
He didn't say he would die, but the system didn't provide him with any other information. He also wanted to get other information from this bandit.
"Oh, then I guess you are not bad people by nature. You just want money, right? If it's just money, it's easy to deal with. His family is rich." Su Jinghe pointed at Song Shiyi again.
The bandit looked at Song Shiyi with interest, and Song Shiyi nodded unhappily.
"Yes, my family is rich. I'm an only child. My parents have a very good relationship. They would go crazy without me, so they would spend money to save me. No matter how much money it costs, I'm willing to spend it!"
When saying the words "at all costs", Song Shiyi's back teeth were about to break and his fists were about to clench, but he still did not directly scold Su Jinghe.
Their performance is really obvious in terms of status.
"You have a say? What are you doing here? Floating on the water for thirty days? Only then traveling overland? Hmm...this distance, traveling by water, are you coming from Sichuan? You have a bit of an accent, you don't sound like one, and you act so pretentious...are you from Bianjing?"
Song Shiyi was shocked. He didn't expect that they would be exposed so quickly. If it was in Bian Jing, they would not really kill him.
Su Jinghe's eyes widened, and he was particularly indignant. "How can I speak with an accent? I don't have an accent at all, okay?"
"That's a little bit. It might be a habit you brought with you after your family came." Song Shiyi was no longer afraid at this moment and even had time to speak with Su Jinghe's accent.
"It's him, him, let his family pay more money." After hearing what Song Shiyi said, Su Jinghe turned around and complained blatantly.
The bandits all laughed, and while laughing, the man touched his face and said, "I look really young, aren't you two afraid of me?"
At the end of his words, his baby face suddenly changed, revealing a rather gloomy expression, which scared Song Shiyi again.
"It has the potential to kill, and it's said very touchingly, but the laughter is problematic."
Su Jinghe even performed it himself, the villain's laughter that he thought was "exciting", "Hahahaha hum hum hahahaha..."
"Okay, stop laughing." The voice was not spoken by the two people in the carriage, but came from outside the carriage.
"Are we there?" Su Jinghe looked outside when he heard the voice. A man dressed as a scholar was looking at him with a smile.
It's a bit of a stretch to call him a scholar. His clothes look a little pale, probably having been washed more than once.
"Why is the military advisor still wearing this?" The baby-faced bandit seemed to have just come to his senses and was trying hard to act natural when he brought up this topic.
Baby-faced boy was really frightened by Su Jinghe's laughter just now. He even felt for a moment that Su Jinghe would suddenly take out a knife from his pocket and stab him to death with two strokes.
After hearing the military advisor's voice, he seemed to have suddenly returned to the human world and realized that he was the bandit and Su Jinghe was the hostage they had captured.
The military advisor was actually also startled. He came over and knocked on the carriage, thinking that someone was crazy and wanted to kill people. When he went to the window and saw that it was the "hostage" who was smiling, he breathed a sigh of relief. In response to the baby-faced man's question, he answered very naturally.
"The clothes you stole weren't suitable. I told you to go down and change by myself, but you refused."
"Big brother said no, we can't go into the city. Even if we get in by chance, you are more familiar with the city. What if you run away?"
Baby Face is really honest and he speaks his mind.
Um……
No wonder he was so easy to fool and could talk to Su Jinghe for such a long time.
Song Shiyi looked at this man and immediately forgave all the interactions between the three of them. When fools interact with each other, don't they look like fools?
No, Song Shiyi is not a fool.
Su Jinghe looked at the military advisor, thought for a while, and continued to ask the system for help.
"System, system, I've seen the military advisor. Can you help me figure out how to get out? I still need to go to Zhuge's house!"
"Zhuge family!" The military advisor somehow heard Su Jinghe's words and even said them out loud. When he said them, he looked around for the source of the voice. There were still other people standing like wooden men next to them, so he couldn't tell who they were.
"What's wrong with the Zhuge family? Is the military advisor sending another letter? Can we deliver it on his behalf?" The baby-faced boy seemed to not want the military advisor's words to fall to the ground in embarrassment, and was eager to say something.
Su Jinghe didn't know why the military advisor suddenly said this, and didn't think about it any further. Instead, he stared at him and began to examine him carefully.
Song Shiyi was also looking at the military advisor. He was so scared that he wanted to speak, and was extremely shocked in his heart.
How can this guy hear? Isn't he a bandit?!
Several people had their own ulterior motives, and in the end it was the military advisor who spoke.
"No letters. Okay, take them back. They... take them to the Tianzi room. Do you want them to live separately?"
The latter sentence was asked to Su Jinghe, and Su Jinghe responded very naturally.
"Can we visit each other if we live separately?" This doesn't feel like being arrested, it feels like staying in a hotel.
Su Jinghe's question not only shocked Song Shiyi, but even the military advisor.
The military advisor was stunned for a moment, but finally replied, "Sure, it's fine if you don't run around here."
This answer is more like staying in a hotel!
Song Shiyi felt that he and Su Jinghe were really incompatible, and even somewhat incompatible with this bandit nest!
"Then let's separate and live next door." Su Jinghe arranged a place for the two of them. After thanking the "shopkeeper's" military advisor, he was taken to his residence quietly.
These people really didn't care about them. They just put them where they were and left. Su Jinghe first chose a location and then went to visit Song Shiyi.
"Your place is not bad." Unlike Song Shiyi who was rather self-pitying, Su Jinghe looked quite sunny.
"There are no mice. This is much better than I thought." Song Shiyi also followed Su Jinghe's words, trying to make the best of a difficult situation, but it was a bit sarcastic.
As soon as Su Jinghe sat down, he whispered to Song Shiyi.
"We're probably doomed. The military advisor hired by this bandit den is actually from the Zhuge family. With this lineup, I'm afraid they're going to rebel."
"What?!" Song Shiyi was shocked.
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