At this time, the sound of footsteps came again, more hurriedly than before, but no sound was made.
He must have arrived in front of the master before he said: "Master, my subordinate is back. There is no water there, only a bottomless cliff, but I have discovered some problems."
The master asked: "What's going on?"
The subordinate then continued: "There are traces of someone stepping on the cliff."
Before the master could speak, another subordinate answered: "Taoist Master Lin lives in seclusion on the mountain. Isn't it normal that there are traces of people walking here? He must always go down the mountain."
The subordinate named Wang Kun retorted: "I looked carefully and there were a few footprints that were not swept clean. They should have been made by the sergeant's shoes. Daochang Lin should have been wearing cloth shoes. How is that possible? Make that kind of footprints.
And judging from the shape of the grass that was trampled, there must be more than one person. The road up the mountain is obviously flatter on this side, but it is high, steep and cliffy on the other side. Why go up the mountain from that side?
It was obvious that he didn't want others to see him. If there was no problem, how could he not take the easier route and insist on taking risks on the cliff. "
Qingyan agreed with her face after hearing this. This subordinate is good and thinks very clearly.
It seemed that those twenty or thirty people were not too smart and did not clean up the situation properly.
Of course, even if they take the middle path, they will only be discovered earlier. No matter how careful twenty or thirty people are, there will definitely be traces when they walk up.
It was just a coincidence that instead of going from the valley, they went to the edge of the cliff. Wasn't this why they were discovered by Wang Kun who was looking for water there.
I heard another subordinate named Wang Qian say: "If this is the case, then we can't go up the mountain anymore. Someone must have set up an ambush on the mountain, master, otherwise we should return the same way now."
His master hesitated for a while and then said: "We have already reached here. We should not be far away from Taoist Lin's secluded place. Wouldn't it be a waste of all our efforts to return now?"
Wang Kun advised again: "Master, what you said is wrong. Although our purpose here is to find Taoist Master Lin and ask him to come out to help rescue the general, but if the master is trapped here, the general will not be able to save him. After that, there will be no leader. Action There will also be no one to command, wouldn’t the losses be even greater?
What's more, Wang Qian and I are unable to protect the master now. Judging from the opponent's posture, there must be a large number of people. If the three of us go up, it will be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth. We know that there is danger on the mountain, but we have to go forward. What a great idea!
Master, you’d better protect yourself first, and we can think about everything else in the long run. The general is not in a hurry at this moment. Why don’t the three of us go to the Second Young Master’s place first and meet him before thinking about anything else. "
The master sighed and said helplessly: "That's all we have to do. I don't know if Daoist Lin is in danger. Don't worry about him because of us."
"Master, don't worry. Taoist Master Lin is a famous living god. He will be able to predict the danger in advance. He may have already left." Wang Qian said.
"I hope so, let's go."
Then she heard footsteps coming from near and far. It wasn't until she couldn't hear them clearly that Qingyan pushed away the stone and got out of the tree hole.
Walking around from behind the boulder, looking at the place where they were sitting on the ground, there was no trace at all.
Qingyan raised her eyebrows. It seemed that the three of them were very experienced.
She turned around and looked at the road up the mountain, then turned and walked down the mountain.
Regardless of whether the people ambush on the mountain are good or bad, they are all dangerous to ordinary people like them. She must quickly go down the mountain and take everyone in Yangjiaping away from this place.
Qingyan quickly ran down the mountain and asked Chou Chou to go to the opposite mountain first to find Yang Dashan and the others.
When Qingyan came down from the mountain, she saw three strangers talking to everyone in Yangjiaping.
Qingyan: "..."
Lanhua was the first to see her and shouted excitedly: "Sister Xue! This eldest brother is also from the capital. He said he knows your family!"
Qingyan frowned, what happened to this person? I'm actually lying here, I don't know what the purpose is.
The three of them followed Lan Hua's gaze and were all stunned.
The clothes Qingyan was wearing were very strange, but her appearance was obviously not that of a foreigner. She looked very much like a lady from the capital city, and of course she was better looking than those ladies from the capital.
"Miss Xue is the daughter of the Xue Mansion in the capital? We are from General Li's house. I'm Li Xinyu. I just heard Uncle Yang say that you are going to the capital, and we are going to Hancheng, so we can stop by."
Qingyan was stunned for a moment. Through the voice, she could tell that it was the master who was on the mountain just now. She also knew that the other party might have misunderstood and thought that she was from the Xue Mansion in the capital.
The capital I mentioned before is not the current capital. The current capital should be Chang'an or Luoyang, right?
The capital of later generations is still called Youzhou...
