Chapter 2040 Encounter on the road
If you talk about leaving sixty villages, it actually doesn’t take much time. After all, you only stay in each village for a few minutes. The rest of the time, most of them are On the way up and down the mountain.
The aborigines of the two sealed towns were always excited along the way, and the entire Qingcheng team was also working hard, hoping that they could really bring back some good news this time. Qingcheng, so even after walking through more than half of the villages and still not finding any news about the sealed town, everyone had no intention of being discouraged.
Everyone understands that after all, the worst possibility is to get nothing. Anyway, they have been disappointed not only once or twice, but they can still bear this blow. of.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Tuvas could not let the army continue to move forward. Even if they climbed to the top of the mountain and saw the village, they would not all be able to live in the village to take shelter from the rain. I can only sleep in the open between heaven and earth, but I don't have to worry about anything anymore.
Seeing all the Qingcheng guards skillfully setting up tents to shelter from the rain, and then preparing food, Tuvas let out a big breath and sat on the hillside with the two aborigines of the sealed town. He raised his head and looked towards the village glowing with warm candlelight on the top of the mountain.
“These people are really strange. They can live together obviously, but they have to be separated.” Tuvas said to the two aborigines of the sealed town next to him with a puzzled look on his face, looking at them With the same puzzled expression on his face, Tuvas suddenly laughed, "We have visited almost half of the village, and there is still no seal. According to the news about the town, it is estimated that there will be no other village here!"
The two aborigines of the sealed town also sighed, although they looked at Tuvas with a pretty good expression. But it's not easy to echo his words to dampen his enthusiasm. After all, everyone knows the result they will encounter now.
In the mountains at night, there are occasional roars of wild beasts, and from time to time, there are also the cries of various startled birds and beasts that linger in everyone's ears, which makes the whole mountain forest seem like nothing. It was so quiet and alive.
When the last moonlight in the sky was covered by a huge group of dark clouds, Tuvas sighed, and while telling the Qingcheng guards to pay attention to the next situation, he pulled the two original guards of the sealed town. The residents went together to find a tent and stayed inside waiting for the heavy rain to fall.
Sure enough, sporadic raindrops soon fell from the sky, making a crackling sound, and the night wind from the mountains blew into everyone's clothes, making everyone shiver.
“Make the bonfire even brighter!” Tuvas ordered the Qingcheng guards around him, and then he sat honestly by the fire, looking thoughtful and silent. What are you thinking about?
The forest in the rain was extremely silent, as if all the beasts and birds were driven back to their nests, making them all quiet.
Tuvas looked in the direction he came from. The dim yellow lights on the tops of several mountain peaks were in sharp contrast with the huge night. This feeling of insignificance suddenly penetrated into him. In his heart, he couldn't help but tremble, and then he didn't dare to look anymore.
He didn't know whether this was because of the fear of the desolate night or some other reason.
And not long after the heavy rain fell, a wolfish figure faintly appeared in the woods not far from where Tuvas and the others were camping. His steps were a little staggering. He appeared from the other side of the mountain in the heavy rain and wanted to go towards the mountain. Go towards the dim light at the top of the mountain.
It is precisely because of this that the figure came from a distance and ran into the Qingcheng army without any surprise.
Both parties had surprised expressions on their faces, and they just stared at each other in the rain for a long time. Only then did the embarrassed figure squeeze out a flattering smile, with a look of fear on his face. He glanced cautiously towards the top of the mountain, as if he was debating whether to call for help or something like that
The atmosphere suddenly calmed down, but the guards in Qingcheng suddenly reacted and immediately laughed. towards that The embarrassed man waved and then said loudly: "This little brother, come in quickly and take shelter. I don't know how long this heavy rain will continue to rain. Your clothes are already wet. Come in first and warm yourself up." Come on! We still have food here, do you need it?"
The man in the rain was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the countless Qingcheng guards in front of him in disbelief. At one glance, his mind became more active.
What he could see in front of him were basically the aborigines dressed in the same clothes. They should all be in the same group. If he didn't agree and made others unhappy and caused some unpleasant things, he didn't have to worry about what would happen to him. Just think about it.
Thinking that he was at a disadvantage and others were so enthusiastic, the man in the rain hesitated for a moment, nodded, and quickly thanked the many guards in Qingcheng. They carefully stepped into their tent, and then followed the guidance of the Qingcheng guards to the campfire. While rubbing their hands to warm themselves, they accepted the hot water and food handed over by the Qingcheng guards. For a moment, they did not dare to take the initiative to speak. say.
"Young brother should be from this Huanshan Village, right?" A Qingcheng guard looked at the man, smiled, and asked him casually, looking at the man After nodding silently, he continued to say with a smile: "Why haven't you gone back yet? The rain came a bit quickly. I wonder if my little brother lives on this mountain peak? Do we need to go up the mountain? Send you a letter, let Are they coming down to pick you up?"
The man shook his head quickly when he heard this, and politely refused: "No, no! Thank you, my home is still on the top of the mountain, and the heavy rain fell for a while. I won’t be able to go back for a while.”
“Oh, that’s right!” The Qingcheng guards nodded, greeted him very enthusiastically, and started chatting without a word, and then quickly let him go. The man relaxed.
"Where are you guys from? Our Huanshan Village usually doesn't have any outside aborigines coming. What are you doing with all these people here?" After holding it in for a long time, he seemed to look at the people in Qingcheng without any ill intentions. , the man from Huanshan Village thought for a while, and then asked the Qingcheng guards around him. Seeing that there was no change in the expressions on their faces, he suddenly felt relieved again.
At least judging from the current observation, these people have no bad intentions.
"We, we are from Qingcheng! Do you know Qingcheng?" When a guard from Qingcheng heard what the man from Huanshan Village said, he immediately introduced their origins to him with a positive face. He kept praising Ji Xiaoyan, the city lord. With all the benefits and wealth of Qingcheng, Sir, he waited until the end before saying: "We came all the way here just to find someone."
"Looking for someone?" The man in Huanshan Village was stunned. For a moment, he looked at Qingcheng with some confusion. The guards, after seeing everyone nodding affirmatively, asked in confusion: "Who are you looking for? There seem to be very few aborigines in our mountainous village going out, so it shouldn't cause anything else." Come on, please?”
“Heh. Ha, we are not here to trouble anyone!" The guards in Qingcheng laughed immediately after hearing this, and while they were greeting the man from Huanshan Village to eat, they said to him: "Actually, we were entrusted by others to find someone. From the village!”
"Looking for a village!" The man from Huanshan Village was stunned when he heard this, and the look of confusion on his face became a little more intense: "What village are you looking for? Our Huanshan Village is the only village within a few hundred miles." "Yeah, so we Now we are ready to go through your Huanshan Village and continue forward!" The Qingcheng guards spread their hands and said helplessly to the man in Huanshan Village: "When I came here, I just heard others saying, you guys Living in the mountains Some aborigines, that’s why we came here to take a look!”
“That’s it!” The man from Huanshan Village breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked with a smile: "Does the person who asked you to find the village have any grudges or favors with that village?"
"No, just looking for it!" A Qingcheng guard glanced at the others and said The man from Huanshan Village said with a smile.
“None of them?”
What are you looking for if you don’t have any? The man from Huanshan Village looked at everyone in confusion: "If you don't have any connection, then what's the use of looking for this village?"
"You'll know when you find it!" The Qingcheng guards smiled, but they were surprised. The deputy seemed unwilling to say more.
When the man from Huanshan Village heard this, he also understood that others were unwilling to say more. If he asked again, he would be going too far. If he annoyed everyone in front of him, it would be extremely uneconomical. of.
Thinking of this, the man from Huanshan Village quickly shut his mouth and started eating by himself.
The heavy rain lasted for an extremely long time, and it was already getting late. After the guards in Qingcheng cleared a place for the man from Huanshan Village to rest, they arranged for someone to be on duty at night, and then it was time to rest. Rest, the need to be vigilant, made the night pass by very smoothly.
When it dawned the next day, Tuvas received news from the guards of Qingcheng, knowing that they had rescued an aborigine in a mountainous village last night.
“Let them send the people here!” Tuvas thought for a moment and ordered the Qingcheng guard who came to report the news. After watching him turn around and leave, he ordered everyone to start collecting things and prepare. After the rain stopped, we set out to go up the mountain.
Soon, the aborigines of the Huanshan Village were brought to Tuvas and the others by the Qingcheng guards.
I saw him wearing a simple blue cloth, with a bun on his head, and a tattered bamboo basket on his back, which contained some random things that were probably herbs.
Tuvas nodded, without wanting to get to know the aboriginal in depth, and asked directly: "Which mountain is your home on? We will take you back!"
The man in Huanshan Village quickly pointed towards the distance and said to Tuvas and the others: "It's the sixth hill over here!"
Tuvas hummed and was not interested. After communicating with the man from Huanshan Village, he left him directly to the two people from the Sealed Town, and then stood quietly by the tent, staring at the rain curtain outside that was gradually getting smaller and became stunned.
About half an hour later, the sky was already bright, and the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have lost their strength, silently drifting into the distance with the cool wind, and the heavy rain that night stopped. .
“Let’s go, let’s keep going!” Tuvas had no intention of delaying at all. He waved to everyone to pack up tents and other things, and directly issued the order, and then with a mighty wave The Qingcheng troops headed all the way towards the village at the top of the mountain, preparing to continue their process of visiting each village.
The aborigines of the two sealed towns quickly started chatting with the man from Huanshan Village very enthusiastically, and it seemed that they were having a good conversation.
Going to the top of the mountain is almost the same as visiting other villages.
Tuvas sent someone to the village to inform the village chief, and then entered the village with two aborigines from the seal town, greeted the village chief and others, and asked There was something to sell in the village, and then he walked out, and then went directly to the bottom of the mountain, and walked neatly to the next mountain.
Watching every move of Tuvas, the man from Huanshan Village pulled the two people from the Sealed Town with some confusion and asked in a low voice: "I heard them say, you guys Are you here to find someone?”
“Yes, we are here to find someone!” The two aborigines from the sealed town nodded, with a look of regret on their faces: “We came from the east. We started from the mainland and walked a long way to get here.”
“From the East Continent?!” The aboriginal in Huanshan Village couldn’t help but widen his eyes, looking at the people in front of him with shock, and glanced at the endless army behind him. , then he suppressed the shock in his heart, and couldn't help but asked doubtfully to the two aborigines in the sealed town in front of him: "You came from so far away just to find someone? Who is worthy of letting go?" You spent so much effort?”
"Haha, it's definitely not the benefactor or enemy you think!" The two aboriginal people in the Seal Town smiled and said something to the aboriginal person in Huanshan Village, looking at him with a somewhat stunned look. , then patted him on the shoulder and said: "To be serious, we are actually just here to talk about the old times. Emotional!"
"Old acquaintance?" The aboriginal from Huanshan Village frowned and looked at the two aborigines from the sealed town in disbelief, as if it was inconvenient to ask any more questions. , could only nod, and then followed the large team over several more hills, and finally saw the village that belonged to him.
(End of this chapter)