At night, in a certain room, a woman sat beside the bed, holding a black cat in her arms, her eyes lowered, and the black cat rubbed her head affectionately.
Early the next morning, Ruan Xianbei told Shen Xuan what happened at night.
Shen Xuan said: "Show me."
He studied the note carefully and asked, "Then what should we do?"
"Are you going to try with the villagers again?"
Several people looked at you and you looked at me, but they didn't say anything. The vague words written on the note told them to think of a solution, so how did they know what to think of?
Finally, Cheng Suisui's stomach growled, and she felt a little embarrassed when she touched her stomach.
Only then did I realize that everyone had been brainstorming here without eating all morning.
"Let's have breakfast first. I can't think of anything good to do when I'm hungry." Ruan Xianbei said and went to the box to look for something to eat.
Ruan Xianbei buried his head in rummaging through the box. Oops, Cui Lin brought a lot of things, but most of them were just snacks. Where can I get some food in this wilderness? It would be too troublesome to go back and forth to the town.
"Miss Ruan."
Ruan Xianbei looked up, and Xu Pei's bodyguard came to them at some unknown time.
"Young Master invites you and your friends to have breakfast together."
Why not find Shen Xuan? This sounds very interesting to you and your friends, she is not familiar with him.
Ruan Xianbei glanced at the opposite side and met Xu Pei's gaze. Although she couldn't see clearly, she could see Xu Pei waving to her with a smile.
The guard was obviously standing there waiting for her reply. She closed the box, stood up, clapped her hands and said, "Oh, wait a minute, I'll go ask."
"What's wrong?" Shen Xuan came to her side and asked.
What Sui Sui and Tong Chun did was indifferent. It didn't matter whether they asked or not. She repeated the guard's words to Shen Xuan and said, "Xu Pei asked us to come over and have breakfast together."
Shen Xuan looked at her: "Want to go?"
She laughed when she heard these words for no apparent reason. The young master of Lingxiao Villa invited them. Saying that she doesn't want it seems like she doesn't care about other people's opinions. If she doesn't want to, of course she wants to get the free breakfast.
So Ruan Xianbei didn't say whether he wanted to or not, he just smiled and said, "Go ahead."
The four of them followed the guards to the place where they camped. Cheng Suisui leaned against Ruan Xianbei and said, "Why did you agree? Can you eat this free food? Look at the look in Miss Mu's eyes... tsk tsk... ..”
Ruan Xianbei was amused by what she said: "I am a eldest lady, so I should have a bad temper."
"I know, the eldest lady of Lingxiao Villa." Cheng Suisui lowered his voice and said, "You are still a saint. Which one of you has the bigger temper?"
Ruan Xianbei almost laughed out loud. This inappropriate joke was so funny.
Seeing her weird expression, Cheng Suisui didn't know that he had told her a joke, so he muttered, "Just fill your stomach and leave."
Ruan Xianbei turned his head and took a deep breath, biting the tip of his tongue again to suppress his laughter.
"Maybe it's because I have a bigger temper."
After all, she is a cute and charming villain in this story.
"Good morning." Xu Pei greeted them with a slight smile.
Mu Ruojiao didn't even bother to look at them. She fiddled with the buns in her hands, tearing them off bit by bit and putting them in her mouth.
"They went to town to buy this this morning. I thought you might need it too, so I asked them to buy more."
The breakfast was divided into portions, each portion was put in a bag, and the guards brought it to them as soon as they sat down.
Xu Pei's words and deeds were very decent, with a faint smile on his lips. If he hadn't been sick and weak for many years, he would have been able to compete with Shen Xuan in terms of popularity just because of his spring breeze.
"Oh, by the way, I bought white porridge and fried cakes for my little master, and the other ones are meat buns. That should be fine, right?"
Cheng Suisui smiled happily when he smelled the aroma of meat buns
Said: "Thank you so much, Senior Brother Xu!"
Tongchun took his only portion and said, "Excuse me, Senior Brother Xu."
The steamed buns are still warm in the hand, white in color and soft in texture, with thin skin and large fillings. Being able to take a bite of the steamed buns in the morning when you are hungry is one of the great blessings in life.
After breakfast, Xu Pei asked, "What are your plans today?"
Both teams are here, and their intentions are very clear. There is nothing that cannot be said except about the note.
Shen Xuan glanced at the village and said, "Time is precious, so I have to go to the village and have a look."
Cheng Suisui held up his face and sighed: "We didn't even talk to each other yesterday, but they wouldn't let us get any closer, and they didn't know how to get in."
Seeing Cheng Suisui's sad face, Xu Pei smiled and said, "I'm going to ask you if you have any good ideas. It seems that the most difficult thing right now is to enter the village."
Mu Ruojiao followed Xu Pei's gaze and glared at Cheng Suisui.
Cheng Suisui was inexplicably glared at by Mu Ruojiao, tugged on Ruan Xianbei's clothes, and then said: "I was thinking about sneaking in at night, but I was afraid that the villagers would find out that we are bad guys -"
"Yes, the villagers are already very nervous. If we go in without their consent, we may arouse the hostility of the villagers."
So it's not difficult to get in, but it's hard to get the villagers' permission to enter the village openly.
But you can’t waste it here, right?
Mu Ruojiao said with some disdain: "Brother Ah Pei, can't we just go in and explain? These villagers are useless with guns. I can't sleep well in a tent at all."
"So I asked you to go back." Xu Pei said, "Why do we need you to come with us for such a hard work?"
"I'm not going back!" Mu Ruojiao pouted with a charming look: "I want to be with you. You never take me with you when you go out."
"I'll try it."
Too lazy to listen to them sitting here and wasting time in meaningless discussions, Ruan Xianbei, who had been silent, finished eating the buns, wiped his hands and mouth, got up and walked towards the entrance of the village.
"Hey! Ruan Ruan!" Cheng Suisui called her, and Ruan Xianbei raised his hand and waved to her, indicating that she didn't need to follow.
Everyone watched her walk over and said a few words to the young man guarding her. The young men all pointed their spears at her. She took a few steps forward. The fence almost touched her chest. On the tip of one of the spears.
The young man could pierce her skin with just a little force.
Ruan Xianbei didn't care that he was being pressed against by a spear, and looked at them with a smile on his face: "We are here to help you."
"Why should I believe you?" The young man obviously didn't believe what she said.
"Does anyone else dare to come to your village? Is there any gold or silver in your village? We are the only ones who come even though we know something will happen." Ruan Xianbei said without mercy.
The young people looked at each other, as if she was getting to the bottom of things, but no one could make the decision.
Yes, everyone avoids this haunted village, so why do these strangers come? Are you really here to help them? But the last time they let a stranger in, they were punished—
They thought about the girl who came last time again, and the hurt made them even more scared.
Ruan Xianbei saw that they were a little shaken and said again: "This is your only chance to save the village and yourself, because we are here to help you sincerely, and others - not necessarily."
Finally, she said: "If you can't be the master, call the village chief. I'll come back later."
After Ruan Xianbei said this, he turned around and walked back. Cheng Suisui asked, "Are you okay? I think the gun even hit you!"
"What did Miss Ruan say to them?" Xu Pei asked.
Because they had already seen someone leaving - after Ruan Xianbei left, several young people seemed to have an argument. I don't know who persuaded whom. The young man who left just now didn't know what to do.
"Ah." Ruan Xianbei smiled, "I said we are disciples of Cangshan, here to help them. They probably look at me
She looked very sincere and cute, so she believed me. "
Others: ...If you believe it, you will be a ghost.
Even Cheng Suisui couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth and silently recited three times: "You can't destroy it, you can't destroy it, you can't destroy it."
"Then what is he going to do?" Xu Pei pointed at the leaving figure.
"They can't make the decision, so they should go find the village chief." Ruan Xianbei tilted his head and said.
"You're lying, right?" Mu Ruojiao looked at her suspiciously. They tried several times yesterday, but those people didn't listen to them at all. They actually dared to attack Brother Apei. They are really evil people!
"Miss Mu should go out for a walk more often when she has free time. She is always shut up at home but doesn't know anything." Ruan Xianbei smiled at her, with a little pride in her smile.
The young man went and came back alone. Mu Ruojiao snorted, "Look, it's useless."
Cheng Suisui rolled his eyes: "Then Miss Mu should give it a try."
"You!" Mu Ruojiao stood up, "You dare to go with me?"
Cheng Suisui also stood up and put his hands on his hips and said, "If you go, just go! If you don't go, you're a puppy!"
The man next to him couldn't get a word in at all, and Ruan Xianbei didn't stop him. The two of them agreed and walked towards the entrance of the village. After a while, Cheng Suisui looked happy, and Mu Ruojiao came back with a strange look on her face.
Although Cheng Suisui had the upper hand at first glance, Xu Pei smiled softly and asked, "How do you say that?"
Mu Ruojiao turned her head and Cheng Suisui said happily: "The man said he had already told the village chief and they would discuss it before making a decision."
"Ruan Ruan, you are so awesome!" She looked at Ruan Xianbei with admiration and expressed her support.
"That's right, don't look at who I am." Ruan Xianbei raised his eyebrows, a little unable to stand her.
The group of people waited for a while, and an elderly man walking on crutches walked over from the other side of the road. There was also a middle-aged man beside the old man.
The village chief is here!
"Tongchun, you come with me."
Tongchun didn't know why she called him, but he followed her anyway.
"Why?"
Ruan Xianbei laughed: "Because you seem to be the easiest to gain trust. I'll go over and show off your glittering moves later. It will definitely work."
Tong Chun was speechless, the number of useless uses of the golden bell cover increased invisibly.
Twenty taels of silver was a bit too small, but in modern times it was still around eight thousand to ten thousand yuan.
At present, an ordinary soldier in the Yu Dynasty can only earn one tael of silver per month at most, and a centurion can earn three taels of silver per month.
Maybe he will accept it.
In addition, Qin Hu is also planning to draw a big pie for Li Xiaokun. After all, Qin Hu used to have money.
Now it depends on whether he and Qin An can survive the night.
"Little Marquis, I may not be able to survive. I'm so hungry, my hands and feet are frozen with cold." Qin An said in a daze.
"Xiao Anzi, Xiao Anzi, hold on, hold on, you can't stay still, get up and run, that's the only way you can survive."
In fact, Qin Hu himself is in trouble. Although he was a special soldier in his previous life, this body is not what he used to be. All he has now is a perseverance.
"Wait!"
Qin Hu's eyes were like cold stars, and he suddenly shouted in a low voice. A reflection and a rustling sound that appeared just ten meters away from the camp aroused his alertness.
With the professional sense of smell of a special scout, he felt that it was the enemy.
But should we notify Li Xiaokun?
Qin Hu hesitated a little. What if he saw it wrong? You know, his current physical condition is completely different from before.
If a false alarm causes night terrors or camp roars, and someone gets a handle on it, they will be killed without mercy.
"Xiao Anzi, hand me the bow and arrow."
Qin Hu crawled under the carriage and whispered.
But Qin An's next words scared him so much that he almost jumped up.
"Bow and arrow, what are bow and arrow?"
What, there are no bows and arrows in this era?
Qin Hu looked around and found a wooden stick with a sharpened top placed under the wheel. It was two meters long. It was thick at the handle and became thinner as it went up.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like a weapon.
Wooden gun, this is the iconic building of the cannon fodder.
"Come closer, come closer..." After a few breaths, Qin Hu was sure that he was right.
The other party may be the enemy's scouts, called scouts in this era. They are trying to enter the camp and conduct reconnaissance.
Of course, if conditions permit, you can also poison, set fire to, or perform a beheading operation.
"one two three……"
He and Qin An lay motionless on the ground until then, he suddenly jumped up and threw the wooden spear as a javelin.
"puff!"
It was impossible for the scout to wear armor because he had difficulty moving, so the shot pierced his chest directly.
Following Qin Hu, he picked up the wooden gun belonging to Qin An, jumped out of the carriage, and chased in the opposite direction desperately.
For the reliability of intelligence, the scouts are required to monitor each other and are not allowed to act alone, so there are at least two.
After a few moments, Qin Hu threw another black shadow to the ground.
Then he strangled his neck with a wooden gun. There was a crisp sound and the man's head hung down.
"Hoo, hoo!" Qin Hu was sweating profusely and almost collapsed. He lay on the ground gasping for air. His body was really too weak.
Just to break the enemy's neck, before he could just use his hands, but just now he had to rely on the power of a wooden gun.
"Qin An, come here and help me search you."
Qin Hu is familiar with the rules of the battlefield. He must collect all the trophies from these two guys as quickly as possible.
"Two daggers, two horizontal knives, a level, seven or eight taels of broken silver, two grain bags, flags, kettles, two sets of cotton-padded clothes, two pot helmets, bacon..."
"Qin An, brother, hurry up, hurry up, eat something quickly, you are saved..."
Qin Hu tremblingly grabbed a handful of fried beans from the grain bag and stuffed it into Qin An's mouth, then filled him with water and put on the captured cotton-padded clothes.
.
Before dawn, Qin Hu cut off the scout's head before the sentry on duty arrived, carried it into Shi Chang's camp, and reported what happened yesterday.
This was done to prevent others from taking credit, and he knew what kind of environment he was in now.
"Thirty taels of silver for one head, you are rich."
The chief's name was Gundam. He was a tall, muscular man with a beard.
At first, he didn't believe it until he saw the trophies captured by Qin Hu and the two corpses.
At this moment, his eyes were full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
"It's not me who gets rich, it's everyone who gets rich. This is the result of the ten of us."
