"Ah, did you touch the mud?" Cheng Suisui, who was sitting on the other side, bounced up and looked. There was indeed some mud in Ruan Xianbei's hair, and there were some broken leaves hidden in the hair.
"Aren't you wearing a raincoat? Are you rolling on the ground? Why are there still these in your hair?" Cheng Suisui complained, and wiped it off with her handkerchief.
"The mountain road is difficult to walk and there are many trees. It is inevitable that you will not notice it. Please help me wipe it to prevent lice."
"Thank you, Miss Mu." Ruan Xianbei's hair was long and plentiful, and it was extremely troublesome to take care of it. If Mu Ruojiao hadn't been sharp-eyed, she didn't know when she would have discovered it.
Mu Ruojiao seemed to be thinking about her own affairs and said, "Did you get it on the mountain?"
"Maybe I got it when I was squatting somewhere looking for footprints." She thought, she almost didn't take a magnifying glass to look at it on the mountain just now, and she didn't care whether it was dirty or not.
Mu Ruojiao hummed, not knowing what she was thinking, and walked to her bed and sat down.
Ruan Xianbei gave Cheng Suisui a wink, and Cheng Suisui immediately received it. He came to Mu Ruojiao and asked, "Did Miss Mu discover anything?"
She was stunned and said, "Yes - I saw someone who seemed to have something similar to Miss Ruan's hair in their hair."
"Ah? Who is that person?" Cheng Suisui asked with eyes wide open.
Mu Ruojiao shook her head and refused to say, but said: "I'm not sure, maybe I saw it wrong."
She didn't want to say that there would be no results if they inquired, but seeing that she was worried, she was afraid that she would find the answer on her own.
The two of them had something to say, and Ruan Xianbei said, "Sui Sui, come with me to boil some water, and I'll wipe it again."
Cheng Suisui followed her to the kitchen, and Ruan Xianbei whispered: "Where did she just come back from?"
"It should be the home of the mother and daughter next door to Apple. Their name is Xi'er."
Ruan Xianbei also went there with Mu Ruojiao yesterday and heard Xi'er's name, "Well, is it the house where the mother is coughing in bed and the daughter is malnourished when she is about seven years old?"
Cheng Suisui nodded to confirm, and Ruan Xianbei said, "Go next door and ask if she has seen anyone else today."
Cheng Suisui looked at her strangely: "I'm not going, you have to go by yourself."
It was Xu Pei and Shen Xuan's, and Ruan Xianbei didn't want to go either.
She took out a copper coin and said, "Guess heads or tails. The loser will go over and the winner will stay and watch her."
"also."
As a result, as soon as the copper coin was thrown into the air, a clicking sound was heard in the room. I didn't know what the sound was.
The two looked at each other and hurried to look. The room was empty except for a window that was shaking. Mu Ruojiao probably didn't want to be followed by them, so she left through the window.
Damn, this is too sudden.
Ruan Xianbei's tone also became serious, "Sui Sui, hurry up and find Shen Xuan. I'll chase her. Do you know where Xi'er's house is?"
"It's the one to the left of Apple!"
Ruan Xianbei immediately chased after him. Mu Ruojiao must have discovered something at Xi'er's house, but he didn't expect that she would go there alone.
If there is really a murderer in Xi'er's family, it would be too dangerous given Mu Ruojiao's cultivation.
It's okay to deal with ordinary people, but the problem is that the other party can't even deal with Sangzhu Sangli, let alone her unstable cultivation at the first level of the Earth Xuan.
What worries Ruan Xianbei the most is her identity - the eldest lady of Lingxiao Villa.
If she dies here, will the blame fall on Cangshan? Cangshan couldn't carry him, they were allies, and even if Xu Pei failed to protect him, Lingxiao Villa would not deal with one of its own. She didn't even know which sect the murderer was, so did the Demon Cult take the blame?
The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became, and she had already broken into Xi'er's yard with a few glances. She, Ruan Xianbei, stepped lightly. The room was quiet and empty.
Mu Ruojiao disappeared.
Xi'er disappeared.
Even Xi'er's mother-in-law, who was bedridden, was missing.
"It's not good! Senior brother!" Cheng Suisui hurriedly rushed to Shen Xuan's side. Others heard
Her eager voice came out.
"What's wrong?" Shen Xuan saw her anxious expression, so there must be something going on.
"Miss Mu left by herself!"
What do you mean Miss Mu left on her own?
Even Xu Pei was stunned when he heard this. Where did Ruojiao go alone?
Cheng Suisui talked about Mu Ruojiao's reaction when she came back, and said that she saw mud in Ruan Xianbei's hair and asked her where she rubbed it, and then went out through the window when they went to the kitchen.
Since going out through the window meant that she didn't want to be discovered, the only person she had the most contact with in the village was the little girl from that family. Everyone here was smart, and all of a sudden they wanted to go to the same place.
That is, Mu Ruojiao accidentally discovered that there might be a problem with Xi'er's family, but she didn't want to believe it and wanted to find out the truth alone.
...
"Go this way."
Mu Ruojiao carried Xi'er's mother on her back, moved a pile of firewood to reveal a door, and followed her out of the door of her house. It was another winding path that led to no one knows where. Overgrown.
"Did you get it here?" Mu Ruojiao lowered her head to avoid it, but branches and leaves still brushed against her body.
The expression on Xi'er's face faded and she looked particularly indifferent. The two of them did not talk. Xi'er just gave simple instructions such as walking straight left or right. .
"Sister Mu, do you regret it?" These words came out of Xi'er's mouth with a slightly mocking meaning. Mu Ruojiao walked beside her one step at a time and did not reply.
The woman on Mu Ruojiao's back fell into a drowsy state. She pursed her lips and wondered if she would come back if she had it to do over again.
When she discovered that Xi'er might have lied, an uncertain suspicion arose in her heart. Then she saw the dirt that Ruan Xianbei had picked up when he went to the mountains in the morning, and she became even more uncertain.
Although her skills were not as good as others, she could just escape without being discovered, so she came to Xi'er's house alone again.
When Xi'er opened the door, she obviously didn't expect her to turn back so quickly. She didn't say anything after entering the door, and didn't know how to speak. She reached out and took a small piece of fallen leaf from Xi'er's hair.
Xi'er smiled when she saw this, her smile was so scary that it made people panic. She looked up at her and said, "You actually discovered me."
"Come with me, if you want to know where those people are." Xi'er said. If Mu Ruojiao finds out, it won't be far before others can find her. She looked at Mu Ruojiao with a complicated expression. What if she doesn't agree to go with her? Is she going to kill this sister? If she fights her——
Thinking of the drug that person injected into her, she was struggling in her heart even though she was smiling.
But Mu Ruojiao didn't do anything. She quietly looked at the girl who was no bigger than her chest for a few seconds, and finally nodded.
Xi'er's mother-in-law didn't know what method she used to fall asleep. Xi'er put a raincoat on her mother and asked Mu Ruojiao to carry the two of them and left through the back door.
The rain became lighter and fell in front of her eyes like mist. The humidity in the mountains was heavy, and Xi'er's clothes did not have suitable clothes. Her thin body could not store any heat, and soon her lips turned white from the cold.
"Are you cold? Stay closer to me."
Just like Ruan Xianbei could protect Cui Lin from the wind and snow, although Mu Ruojiao's cultivation level is not as high as hers, she still has the basic ability to withstand the cold.
She took Xi'er's little hand and pulled her closer.
Xi'er still wanted to pull her hand away, but it was a little stiff. The heat from Mu Ruojiao's hand spread from her palm to her limbs and even to her heart.
"If I had a sister as old as you, I would be reluctant to let her suffer." Mu Ruojiao said, "Although I don't know why you did this, but no matter who or what the reason is, you should not take advantage of a child. You should have You are at an age when you are carefree and loved by your family, so you should not do such a thing."
"Sister, you are so rich, how can you understand the affairs of our poor families." Xi'er said disapprovingly, "Everyone talks to us with such a pity tone, what is the use of pity? Can it just bring us out of the abyss? is to satisfy oneself
A sense of self-giving. "
"What's wrong with pity? At least there are people willing to lend a helping hand to give you hope, or do you even look down on yourself?"
"What hope? It's always been despair." Xi'er turned her face away bitterly and pulled her hand out.
"They wanted to humiliate me, but my mother-in-law found out. In the end...should we orphans and widowed mothers be humiliated worse than animals?" Xi'er lowered her head, her eyes filled with hatred.
"They deserve to die. When that sister came to me, I knew I would definitely promise her."
"She said she could help me get revenge, but the price is that I keep bringing people to her."
"She hit me with something, and I sometimes become very powerful. Even men are no match for me."
"Ask her about the whereabouts of the others." Mu Ruojiao's body trembled, and a voice suddenly came to her ears. She subconsciously wanted to turn around but held back.
It turned out that Ruan Xianbei discovered the path behind the house and chased after them. She never dared to get too close and followed them. She couldn't hear their conversation clearly. She could barely hear the fragments of words and could only send her voice to Mu Ruojiao, calling her. Follow Xi'er's words and continue to ask some questions.
"Then how did they follow you? Did you carry them on your back?" Mu Ruojiao asked.
"Them?" Xi'er laughed mockingly, "How can they deserve it? I just need to reveal that I have something to say to them at night, and they will come. No one will go out at night, and no one will notice that I knocked them unconscious. Then I dragged him away."
"Then you almost fell into the well while fetching water that day?"
"My strength will weaken during the day, just like usual. Our family has no food, so I naturally have no strength." Xi'er stopped after finishing speaking.
Mu Ruojiao paused and stopped, thinking she had discovered someone behind her, "Xi'er, where are we going now."
"Sister Mu, don't ask, you will know later."
Xi'er took out a piece of black cloth and covered her eyes. Ruan Xianbei stepped back a little when he saw this. Although she was on the tree and they were under the tree, Xi'er was obviously not that person. There was another person hiding somewhere.
Ruan Xianbei saw another woman appear and lead them further into the depths. The woman was a little wary and observed the surroundings for a moment before nodding to Xi'er.
Ruan Xianbei felt that the figure of this man seemed inexplicably familiar. She did not rush forward and chased him forward. She could not be like the Calabash Baby who saved her grandfather. She did not know what was leading to where, and she did not know whether the person captured was dead or alive. One after another they died.
From their conversation, it seemed that most of them were still alive. She wrote down the location, watched their figures disappear into the fog, and decided to go back to find Shen Xuan.
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 false alarms cause night terrors or camp roars, give people a handle.
, then he will be killed legitimately.
"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 daybreak, 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."
