Chapter 153 153: Action (11) [Please vote]
Brother Zhai Huan is worried about the hexagram, and the culprit has gone far enough away. The old man raised his hand to lift the brim of his bamboo hat, tilted his head slightly, and looked at the tax bank queue behind him, whose tail had long disappeared. A bit of youthful vitality that was inconsistent with his age appeared on his old and haggard face. He said: "I didn't expect to laugh. Fang is here too.”
I would be surprised if Zhai Le was still here.
He traveled to Xiaocheng, and there were not many people who were close enough to exchange first names. How did this old man, who had only met him once, know about him?
The shepherd boy twirled a simple and rough bamboo flute with his fingers.
His tone was mature: "Unexpected, good things can come with many consequences."
The old man asked with a smile: "With these two 'unexpected' events, Xiaofang and Zhai Huan, do we still have to execute the plan as planned?"
The shepherd boy asked, "What else? Ha, one Zhai Xiaofang and the other Zhai Yuewen are still young. Mr. Shen Xiaolang, there is nothing to be afraid of."
Seeing the shepherd boy's confidence, the old man shrugged.
“There’s something I don’t quite understand.”
The shepherd boy said in a cold and childish voice: "You ask."
The old man frowned in confusion and said: "Obviously you are only twenty-four or five years old, and that Zhai Huan is already weak. Even if he is younger than you, let's count him Twenty-one or two, why do you always speak in an old-fashioned way? You seem to be two or three rounds older than Zhai Huan. ? ”
“Then why does Shen Xiaolang like to take advantage of Zhai Xiaofang? Who is the ‘son’ in your mouth who loves wine and can drink three bottles at a time? Why are you, why am I? . ”
The shepherd boy’s rhetorical question immediately stopped the old man.
Why?
Naturally, it is to give people the joy of being a father. No matter whether it is a man or a woman, they all have the heart to be a father.
The old man was smiling, his expression suddenly stagnant.
In the blink of an eye, he returned to his kind and kind grandfather state. The shepherd boy understood without any hint, raised the bamboo flute in his hand, and started playing. Due to the material of the instrument, the sound of the flute is not very good, but the skill of the player can also be seen from it.
A father, a grandson and a cow returned to the village leisurely.
This is an abandoned village located in the mountains.
The other houses have been uninhabited for a long time. They were either eaten by insects and ants, decayed and collapsed, or were destroyed by the ground. The entire village was deserted and deserted. Only the old house at the end of the village was still intact. Behind the house were two orange trees that were growing wildly without care.
The old man led the old cow and pushed open the creaking old door.
The following scouts stared for a while, and saw a little light shining through the dilapidated windows of the old house. After half a quarter of an hour, green smoke rose from the chimney, and finally turned around and left with confidence. Inside the house, the old man standing in front of the window observing the outside nodded to the shepherd boy.
The shepherd boy said: "It should be Zhai Huan."
Zhai Le did not see through his disguise at all. Captain Yang was hesitant by nature, mediocre in ability, and still had aloof pride in his bones. , despised ordinary people, and would not regard two grandfathers and grandchildren who were not threatening at first sight as so important.
Not to mention sending scouts to follow him.
The only possibility is that Zhai Huan is suspicious.
"Zhai Huan? Since he was suspicious, why didn't he stop him at that time?"
The old man felt very happy in his heart.
They really lived here these two days, and there were indeed two orange trees in the backyard. The village originally had more than 30 households and was quite popular. It's just that the world is difficult, and young people are either being forcibly recruited as soldiers, or they can't survive and have no choice but to go out and seek development.
The remaining old people and children were left waiting to die. After several twists and turns, it gradually turned into an all-too-common uninhabited village.
"Of course it's because the enemy is lax that it's easy to reveal the truth. Instead of trying to scare the enemy, it's better to wait and see what happens." The shepherd boy thought through Zhai Huan's behavior and said softly, "He didn't see through me. We are disguised, and we are not sure whether we are innocent passers-by, outposts of thieves, or simply thieves..."
The two used old firewood to make a fire to boil water, and simply used some dry food.
There is no hint of impatience at all.
Except for the heavy rain outside, which was not part of the plan, other details did not depart from the shepherd boy and Chu Yao's plan, including the slippery field.
The shepherd boy looked calm, but actually he was sweating inside. If Captain Yang chooses to clean up the dirt and gravel, the chances of tax fraud soaring, they can only try to get closer to test the authenticity.
True, attack by force. It is not easy to intercept someone after passing this official road, and it is easy for them to be made dumplings by the tax collection team. If you leave, your work will be in vain, and you will go back home to wash up and sleep.
If you choose to take a detour, that’s exactly what you want.
This potholed dirt road is not only slippery and difficult to navigate, it is also very narrow. If you want to pass, the tax bank team can only stretch the old and the old. In the event of an enemy attack, you cannot take care of both the beginning and the end. Even if there are powerful warriors sitting there, it will be difficult to set up a formation.
The advantage is gone.
The most important thing is that it can also greatly consume the soldiers' physical strength.
Hey, don’t even think about leaving before dawn.
It happened to be raining heavily, so the difficulty increased to another level.
Thinking of what Chu Wuhui and Gong Shuwu had done, the shepherd boy was very much looking forward to what Duwei Yang would be like after he had gone through all the hard work and found out that there was another slippery slope on the mountain road.
It must be an angry and ferocious face.
Emmm......
His guess was pretty good.
It was already dark and the rain had not stopped. Captain Yang received the information from the scouts in front. His face was like a wild horse running wildly towards black. Iron green was no longer enough to describe his face at this time.
Coincidentally, another scout also came back on horseback.
Report back to the pair of cattle herders.
This is hitting the muzzle of the gun.
Captain Yang was holding back a fire that had nowhere to go. He didn't like anything at the moment, especially Zhai Huan who came up with random ideas and showed off after learning some skills. Any pedestrian passing by would be suspicious. Is he the reincarnation of a fox? So suspicious?
The only good thing is that the floor is not slippery and can be cleaned.
When Captain Yang looked at his subordinates and asked if they wanted to clean up, he roared at the top of his lungs: "If we don't clean up, how about a detour?"
Where to go?
Tough to turn around?
The subordinate officer was reprimanded and looked unhappy.
Although it did not take long to clean up the slippery ground, the tax team was forced to stop. At first, the soldiers were grateful to be able to take a break to catch their breath, but they soon discovered that they were too naive. The cold rain fell on the soldier's skin, cooling the heat from the inside out caused by a lot of exercise. When the cool breeze blows, the skin trembles, triggering goosebumps, and the limbs become cold and stiff.
This dirt road is difficult to walk during the day, let alone at night.
Captain Yang had no choice but to find a relatively open and flat place and order the entire army to rest on the spot.
Soldiers got into the tax collection vehicles to take shelter from the rain.
Those who have courage use martial courage to resist the bone-chilling chill with martial energy. Those who lack courage can only resist and rely on physical means such as shaking and gathering to keep warm. This half day was more tiring than the previous days combined, and soon I heard several thunderous snorings one after another.
Zhai Huan felt increasingly bad.
Even if there is no suspicion about the grandfather and grandson, the "Tuen hexagram" that appears in the scribe's way of starting a hexagram is actually the Xiaxia hexagram, which is a big trouble.
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1. Only then did I realize that Brother Zhai Huan hadn’t picked up the characters yet. By the way, I created a character, which can be regarded as taking notes.
To add, Zhai Huan, whose courtesy name is Yue Wen, is Wen Xin Sanpin Shang Xia
(I was quite satisfied with this character at first, because according to the naming rules, I planned to add a " "Happy", after all, "Happy" matches well, but what do you think of "Happy"? It was too down-to-earth, so I changed it again, and the result...emmm I thought about it and found something was wrong)
PS: I seem to have really fallen in love with the mechanical keyboard. I tried to use the soft keyboard of my laptop before. It's really weird to find that it doesn't feel comfortable for no reason... After searching on the Internet, I found that the dot mechanical keyboard is so cute (*▽*), but it is very expensive. One costs 500 to 600 yuan, which is 1,000 yuan larger...
(End of this chapter)