Next to him, the shaggy-haired man lowered his eyes: "Those wounded soldiers won't be able to follow us for long. We will go up the mountain when they come back. Are they here?"
The bearded man nodded: "I found two more. They are all very capable, not the weak ones. They will be waiting in the woods in the afternoon, just waiting for us to pass."
Since he decided to do something, he picked two helpers from the refugees, and they were also dirty ones.
Originally, we had arranged for the people to be on the road early and waited until they left the village before taking action, but there were injured soldiers following, so the plan had to be postponed.
A few wounded soldiers walked out of the village for a while and then stopped. The road here was rugged and it was inconvenient for them to continue walking.
Xiaoman said goodbye one by one: "Brother Xiang, Brother Wu, promised that I would send you live rabbits in a few days!"
"Okay, come on, we have to move around here!" Xiang Dejin urged.
Jiang Zhi and the two men stopped delaying and started walking quickly.
Time passed slowly, and the bearded people in the village were so anxious that no one came back.
The road up the mountain is not easy. Do these wounded soldiers want to send people home?
In the woods outside the village, the two helpers they had found were also impatient. They watched Jiang Zhi and the two leave with their things on their backs, but they still didn't see Luo Hu give a signal to take action.
These two people usually did not do their job. After the war, they ran around and mingled among the refugees, doing many immoral things.
Luoji said nonsense that people on the mountain had food and drink, and he had wanted to quietly go up the mountain and occupy a house.
But people in the mountains know how to collect medicines, and the regular delivery of medicinal materials to the medical shed must not be adulterated. If something goes wrong, the medical shed will definitely pursue the case, so I have to stop thinking about it.
Now I plan to grab the food and leave without anyone noticing, and I can still have enough to eat comfortably for a few days.
As soon as he walked out of the village, Jiang Zhi saw the sneaky refugees not far away, and he couldn't help but feel worried.
Sending the few wounded soldiers out of the village will not be of much use unless they are sent to the mountains.
As long as these people find out that there is a scam, they will definitely take action immediately. Now they still need to leave quickly.
First climb a steep slope, followed by a gentle road around the mountain.
Jiang Zhi and the two trotted along, trying their best to keep the people behind them away.
Once this kind of road was completed, it started to go uphill again, but Xiaoman suddenly left the path and turned into a relatively gentle hillside next to it. He also deliberately stepped over a stone, leaving fresh traces.
"Aunt Jiang, if you don't want to go this way, let's find another way!"
Now the road is blocked by landslides, so from time to time it is necessary to change the route and take the hillside forest.
But based on the habits we have developed over the past six months, we will not leave footprints casually, let alone have obvious flaws like stepping on stones on the roadside.
Jiang Zhi's heart moved and he quickly followed: "Xiao Man, how to get there?"
When Xiaoman saw no one behind him, he whispered: "Auntie, there are pits on this slope. Follow my footsteps and don't make the wrong step."
"Okay, just keep walking forward and don't look back!" Jiang Zhi had completely relaxed. She knew what Xiaoman wanted to do.
During this period of time, Xiaoman no longer did farm work. His daily task was to patrol the mountains and set up some traps.
The mountain was big, so we couldn't dig holes all over the mountain, so Xiaoman set up ambushes along the way up the mountain.
Therefore, only Xiao Man himself knows where there are traps in the forest. This is why everyone dares to let Xiao Man go down the mountain.
The two of them walked on the hillside like this. Although the distance was longer, it was safe.
The grass on this slope is all ghost grass. These wild grasses are all ghost grass. Now there are flower needles, small white flowers blooming on the branches, and more clusters of black needles.
ghost needle grass
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It sounds cute, but it gives people too much trouble, like now.
Jiang Zhi and Xiao Man walked carefully, using wooden sticks in their hands to push away the stems and leaves of the ghost needle grass, while being careful to watch out for the "rabbit hole" below.
Xiaoman set a trap here to use these weeds to sting people.
The location of those holes is tricky, just at the footing where people need to avoid the ghost needle grass, otherwise they will be covered with ghost needles.
That thing is really annoying. If it sticks to your clothes, you have to pick it up one by one.
After a long time, it will penetrate through clothes and penetrate into the flesh, making people itchy and painful, and they will subconsciously avoid it when walking.
ghost needle
Just two quarters of an hour after the two of them walked past, the two gangsters in the forest finally received news from the bearded and unkempt man.
Seeing a column of green smoke rising from the village, knowing that the wounded soldiers had returned to the village, a gangster became excited and said, "Quick, chase the little bastards and the others."
The two of them didn't even wait to remove their beards, and directly pursued Jiang Zhi in the direction he walked.
On the road in the mountains, sometimes there is only a ditch in front of you, but you need to walk a mile to get around.
At this time, the sky was already dark, and the figures of Jiang Zhi and Xiao Man appeared and disappeared in the forest. They were about to disappear at the entrance of the col. The two gangsters also set foot on the path next to the slope just now.
The road has been blocked by a bunch of fallen bushes, and I want to climb over them.
On the slope next to it, the turned-over stone revealed the whereabouts of the person in front.
"Quick, this way! Old Dog Zheng, there are footprints here. They walked around the slope."
"Hehe, the kid wants to hide and run away. If he meets those of us who specialize in evil ways, he will meet his ancestors!" The gangster named Zheng Laogou said excitedly.
The two immediately entered the slope where the weeds were knee deep.
At this time, there was still a lush patch of ghost needle grass in front of them.
Zheng Laogou immediately complained and cursed: "This damn thing stabbed someone to death. Last time it entered the flesh, it hurt for a few days before it healed!" He pushed aside the grass branches and walked slowly.
Another person sneered: "What are you afraid of? Take bigger steps and jump over in one go... Oops!"
Before he could finish his words, his feet were empty and he fell down on the slope. The pain from his ankle made him scream.
At this time, his body was rolling down the hillside. He was so frightened that he exclaimed "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and grabbed the prickly weeds around him to stabilize himself.
Zheng Laogou also hurriedly chased after him, grabbing people and complaining at the same time: "I said what's wrong with you? You've eaten so much that you're still falling when you walk!"
The man's face was twisted in pain: "My foot...it seems like I stepped on a rabbit hole and twisted it!"
"Oh! It's really a leak. If you should do something, something will happen to you!" Zheng Laogou was a little dissatisfied.
This companion likes to play tricks the most. Every time he has to work, he either poops or has a stomachache. Now he has started twisting his feet again.
The gangster who twisted his feet was angry in his heart: "What you said is human language. I didn't twist it on purpose. If you don't accept it, just twist it. I will never blame you."
The two had internal strife, but for these two partners who had known each other for many years, bickering was just a common occurrence.
The two of them still had business to do, and after complaining to each other, they still had to chase Xiao Man and Jiang Zhi, but their legs were twisted so much that they could only walk slowly and slowly.
After this delay, the bearded man and the man with unkempt hair also came after him.
On the same slope of ghost needle grass, the shaggy-haired man almost stepped on a rabbit hole: "Be careful, you can't step on these holes."
The bearded man looked at these "rabbit holes" that bottomed out at a glance, and cursed: "This is dug intentionally."
I know in my heart that this slope is definitely not as simple as it appears, and others are also prepared.
The two people's impatient hearts suddenly became cold.
They recalled the scene of being hung from the treetop that night.
Although he was not the one who was hanged, the two of them were the most seriously injured. When he recalled it, his head started to hurt.
"Mom, I have to take revenge today!"
The two looked at each other and continued to chase. The matter had reached this point and they were not allowed to stop.
