Chapter 836 Ghost hits the wall
Early the next morning, before dawn, Xia Zihan and Chu Jingqi took two young men, Chu Fei, Chu Cong, Chu Lin, Fox, and fifty secret guards to the east gate of the capital, and Ao Tianchen converges.
Nuan Yu and Xiang Xiang are both pregnant and will give birth in a few months. Chu Jingqi's trip this time was unlucky, so she did not bring Ma Bao and Sheng Di with her, but brought two other boys.
These two young men, one named Chuan Qiong and the other Gan Song, are both young, fifteen or sixteen years old. They were selected by Fox from among the secret guards. They are smart, good at martial arts, careful in taking care of others, and prudent in doing things.
When a group of people arrived at the city gate, Ao Tianchen had already arrived.
Ao Tianchen also had fifty guards all dressed in black with him, and no servants. In the past few years in the military camp, he had become accustomed to doing everything by himself, without the need for servants to wait on him.
When Ao Tianchen saw Xia Zihan on horseback, his expression was stunned, and then he looked at Chu Jingqi, "Why did you bring Chu Yu with you? Don't you know how dangerous this mission is?"
The tone was full of reproach.
Chu Jingqi's face was gloomy. He was worried about his daughter-in-law's departure, but Ao Tianchen was worried about his daughter-in-law in front of him. What did this mean?
This feeling makes me want to hit someone so much.
Seeing this, Xia Zihan hurriedly said, "I insisted on following you. Don't worry, young prince, I won't hold you back."
"That's not what I meant." Ao Tianchen stared at her with a straight face, "Chu Yu, you know, that is the Miao territory, not outside the customs, and not the Japanese country. You should understand how dangerous the Miao territory is."
"I understand, and just because I understand, I won't let Aqi go alone, and I ask the young prince for your forgiveness."
Xia Zihan had a trace of prayer in his eyes.
Both Chu Jingqi and Ao Tianchen were ordered by the emperor. If Ao Tianchen refused to take her with him, then she really couldn't follow them openly.
Otherwise, it would be obstructing official duties and ignoring the emperor's will.
Ao Tianchen saw Xia Zihan's determined expression and Chu Jingqi's helpless expression. He pursed his lips and finally compromised.
Xia Zihan smiled like a peony and said, "It's getting late, little prince, Aqi, it's time for us to set off."
A group of hundreds of people, all on horseback, whipped their whips, and the team rushed towards the road to Miao territory like breaking bamboo.
Because it was urgent to save people, they traveled day and night without stopping, rarely resting except for meals.
If you are really tired, you will find a deserted place, squat down and squint for a while, and then continue on your way when you feel more energetic.
The journey that originally took two months should have been compressed into twenty days.
When they arrived at the temporary military camp set up under a big mountain in front of the entrance to Miao territory, Vice General Fang and others' hair was almost turning white.
"Young prince, the prince, you've got it." Vice General Fang came out and welcomed them behind the tent. Before Chu Jingqi and others could speak, he reported, "After I wrote to the prince, I sent another hundred Individuals go in, and one hundred people are divided into five groups, one group of twenty. After entering, they go deep in five different directions.”
"After three days, there was no news from one hundred people again. I thought that this time, these one hundred people would be sacrificed in vain again, so I didn't dare to act rashly. Who knew, two days later, a soldier's clothes were in tatters and covered in blood? Blood rushed out from inside. ”
"It's a pity that he was seriously injured. Before the doctor could check his pulse, he only said a few words and then died." Deputy General Fang shuddered when he thought of the soldier who rushed out, covered in wounds and blood. . "What did you say?" Chu Jingqi stood up quickly, her face tense.
Vice Admiral Fang said, "He said there were many snakes. After the twenty of them entered the forest, they got lost and kept spinning in circles. They thought they would be stuck in it forever and never get out, but not long after, they came. Lots of snakes.”
The twenty people panicked and separated. The soldier was lucky enough to be rushed out because of his rampage.
However, because he was seriously injured and was poisoned by snake venom, he died after just saying a few words.
When Chu Jingqi and Ao Tianchen heard this, their expressions were very solemn.
When they came to rescue Chu Yuexi, Divine Doctor Bai and others, they had already guessed that there would be dangerous witchcraft and poisonous insects inside.
Unexpectedly, there were poisonous insects.
If there are poisonous snakes, then there must be other poisons, and these poisons will not appear by coincidence. They all suspect that there are Miao people behind the poisonous snakes.
"It seems that before we go into the mountains, we need to prepare more powder to prevent poisonous insects." Xia Zihan said, "Leave this to me."
Ao Tianchen looked at her and said, "Well, I'm lucky for you."
"The people trapped here are my master and my brother. There is no need for you, the young prince, to be polite to me." After Xia Zihan finished speaking, he wrote down a few medicinal materials that could drive away poisonous substances, and ordered Chu Lin and the fox couple to go to the nearest town. purchase.
Before the medicinal materials arrived, Chu Jingqi and Ao Tianchen only had time to have a meal, and they were busy studying the route of this deep mountain with Deputy General Fang.
Vice General Fang said, "There is a village nearby. I took people to ask the villagers there. The villagers said that this deep mountain is very strange. People who go in are like ghosts beating the wall. They have to walk around for a whole day before they can turn around. You can’t come out, and you can’t catch any prey, so no one in the village dares to go in.”
"An old man in his eighties secretly told me that when he was a teenager, he could still go hunting in this mountain. At that time, he always went with his father to hunt rabbits and pheasants. The men in their village Almost everyone hunts. After finishing their farm work, the men like to go into the mountains to hunt some small game, add some meat and vegetables to their families, and earn some money for their families. Decades ago, this mountain was their village The Hunting Mountain ”
However, more than 60 years ago, the mountain suddenly became inaccessible to prey. Moreover, after the villagers entered the mountain, they would circle around until the sun went down before they could come out.
They suspected that there was something dirty inside the mountain, which made them walk around in circles like a ghost beating a wall.
Later, no villagers dared to enter the mountains anymore.
Decades have passed, and now, there are not many people in their village who can still hunt. Even if they hunt, they go farther into the mountains. As for this mountain, no one dares to enter it, or even mention it. One sentence.
"At first, I couldn't ask anything. Later, I took out five taels of silver and that made the old man speak."
The old man was getting older and his whole body was buried in the earth. He was not afraid of any dirty things, so for the sake of five taels of silver, he told the secrets from decades ago.
"Your Majesty, I suspect that this is the hiding place for the Miao people." Deputy General Fang said.
(End of chapter)