The big man in black heard this fluent prairie dialect and asked doubtfully: "General Chengji sent a third person here?"
The companion shook his head and said, "How is that possible? It's just the two of us."
The big man in black asked doubtfully, "Then who was speaking just now?"
The two of them froze at the same time, then turned around to look, and saw an old man with an immortal air and a kind smile on his face.
At this moment, both of their hearts went cold...
When did this old Taoist priest float behind them?
Moreover, why does he also speak prairie dialect?
The big man in black suppressed the fear in his heart and said, "You...are you the old Taoist priest from Chu State?"
Taoist Master Chunyang smiled amiably and said, "Yes."
The companion of the big man in black asked: "You...how can you speak prairie dialect?"
Taoist Master Chunyang said: "When I was young, I used to travel all over the world and visit Kyushu. Is it strange to go to your grassland for a walk and learn something while coming back?"
The big man in black gritted his teeth and said, "Now that he has discovered it, don't talk nonsense to him and do something!"
…
"ah!"
"ah!"
…
After breathing in and out, Taoist Master Chunyang looked at the two people lying on the ground who were dead and alive and sighed: "Why didn't the grassland send a few people with strong martial arts skills here? The poor Taoist can still move his muscles and bones, ugh...
"
Tianshuzi came out and looked at the two strong men lying on the ground and said in surprise: "They prairie people came here to..."
Taoist Master Chunyang said: "Stealing the gunpowder formula, but unfortunately it is too big and conspicuous."
Tianshuzi gritted his teeth and said, "What a wolfish ambition! Why would Uncle Master keep such people alive?"
Taoist Master Chunyang said, "God has the virtue of a good life."
Tianshuzi smiled dryly and said: "Uncle, there are no outsiders here."
After hearing this, Taoist Master Chunyang finally spoke: "Didn't the alchemy furnace blow up a corner of the alchemy room when we were refining alchemy this afternoon? We must give evil people a chance to change their ways."
Tianshuzi swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked: "Then... what if they can't cultivate it well?"
Taoist Master Chunyang snorted coldly and said: "The poor Taoist will use them as pillars to hold them up!"
…
five days later
In the post house
Agula looked at the two people who walked in, limping, losing weight all over, and their clothes were still a little torn, and said in surprise: "You...where have you been these past few days?"
Ever since the two of them didn't come back that day, Agula felt that something was wrong, maybe he had been discovered!
However, there was no warning from the Chu State court, and there was no news about the arrests of people from their grassland, so it was probably not discovered by the Chu State court.
Since they were not discovered and did not come back, this made De Agula and Wanyan Chengji quite confused. They even thought that these two guys did not dare to go and ran away secretly, right?
The mission has been searching secretly for the past three days, but to no avail, making the entire mission restless.
Now that they are back, De'Agula is relieved.
But...how did they become like this?
Looking at the two people who had been ruined like this, Agula was shocked in his heart. What kind of inhuman abuse did they suffer in the past two days?
One of them said with tears in his eyes: "Master Agula... that old Taoist priest... that old Taoist priest is simply not a human being!"
Agula was surprised: "Have you really been discovered?"
The other person nodded and said with a cry in his voice: "I discovered it. He just stood behind us as soon as we climbed over the courtyard wall..."
Agula continued to ask: "Then what? The old Taoist priest didn't report it to the court?"
The former said: "No..."
Agula asked; "Then what did he ask you to do?"
The latter said, "He...he asked us to be his masons and help him repair the roof. It's such a big hole! It's so big!"
As he said this, the man in black clothes was almost unable to cover his body and he was gesturing with his hands, his face full of sorrow.
The former nodded and said: "If we don't know how to repair it, they won't give us food. Should they let us run away... It took the two of us four days to repair the roof!"
When the latter heard this, tears flowed down: "Really! We have learned how to build a house by ourselves now..."
The appearance of these two brothers now makes those who hear it sad and those who hear it cry, extremely sad.
The former took over and said: "If a big man wearing silk and satin, who is more handsome than the second prince, hadn't told them today, we... we might not be able to come back..."
Agula couldn't bear to look at it anymore: "Go down and have a good rest. I came to Chu State and learned a craft by the way, so it's not in vain... Go down, go down."
After the two brothers went down, Agula's face became complicated. They wanted to steal the gunpowder formula from Chunyang Taoist Temple, but they were discovered. However, they did not inform the Chu State that the court allowed them to repair the house for five days before returning it.
Already...
Moreover, the old Taoist priest turned out to be such a master! He listened to their wishes and had no power to fight back against the Taoist.
At this moment, Agula finally knew why the Chu court did not station troops at Chunyang Taoist Temple.
If the incoming attacker can defeat the Chunyang Taoist, or escape the Chunyang Taoist's perception, what's the use of garrisoning troops?
Wait, the tall man wearing silk and satin who is more handsome than the second prince said something to the Taoist priest?
This person...should be the Marquis of Anding County.
After the dust-cleansing banquet, they had just given their grassland envoys a blow, but now they have released the grassland people back?
Why did he do this?
Agula thought about it carefully and found that although these two things were both challenging the Chu State, there seemed to be only one difference between the two things.
That is, Dalba's affairs were put in front of the Chu State, and the Marquis of Anding County had to punish him in accordance with the law because of the anger of the people.
But this matter was different. No one in Chu State knew about stealing the gunpowder formula, only a few Taoist priests knew about it. Moreover, these two guys also repaired the roof of someone's house.
Since they have not been brought to light, the Marquis of Anding County can release them.
If the matter of stealing the gunpowder formula reaches the ears of the imperial court, then their mission will definitely be kicked out because of their evil intentions and steal the secrets of the Chu court, or they will not be kicked out at all.
However, the Marquis of Anding County did not inform the Chu court, but instead repaid the goodwill.
Could it be that he himself didn’t actually want to be at odds with the grassland?
What you did after the dust-cleansing banquet was actually out of necessity?
At this time, since people have shown goodwill to their grassland mission, Agula naturally cannot sit idly by and ignore it.
After pondering for a while, Agula said, "If you come, prepare a generous gift."