With a "squeak" sound, Qian Sibi pulled the handle outside the wooden cabinet and pulled it open.
Dozens of crossbow arrows were fired in an instant, hitting the stone wall opposite, entering the wall several inches, and almost piercing it.
Xia Zhaoyi took back Qian Sibi and went to check. There was only this mechanism in the cabinet. Apart from this mechanism, there was nothing else.
Xia Zhaoyi frowned and went to the next place to check.
When she chased her down, there was only the completely broken coffin in the courtyard, and there was no body in it. She stepped into the small rooms in the courtyard, and found that each room was full of mechanisms, on the beams, on the floor, in the cabinets,
Even the corner of the table has hidden arrows and silver needles ready to be fired.
She checked inside and out, one by one, and found no daily necessities, except for mechanisms, or mechanisms. She thought she could find a secret passage, but there was none.
A voice suddenly came from the window: "This courtyard looks big, but it is so dilapidated. There is a coffin in the courtyard!"
Another voice said: "No wonder there is no one around, they are all scared away."
The first voice said: "Yes, being a neighbor of this courtyard is really bad luck for eight lifetimes!"
Both have Tanzhou accents.
Xia Zhaoyi went out with a whip, and two Tanzhou soldiers entered the small courtyard and were looking at the coffin. From the corner of their eyes, they saw a man coming out lightly, describing it as "floating", and at the same time they were frightened and screamed.
Xia Zhaoyi was wearing a wet light green long coat, which looked just like white in the dim morning light.
Because she had been soaked in the rain all night, her original long ponytail hair had fallen down and was tied loosely to her back in a half-dry state, which made her lose a bit of her usual heroic spirit, and her fair face was as big as a palm.
A bit gentle and heart-warming.
"Ah, it's General Ali!" A soldier reacted first.
"Why are you here?" Xia Zhaoyi asked.
Seeing that she was not angry because of their screams just now, the two soldiers were embarrassed and stepped forward to salute and said: "General Ali, we followed the general down the secret passage in front of the Chen Family Ancestral Hall and walked all the way here."
"Is the exit in this area?" Xia Zhaoyi said.
"This is just one of them. There is another one. The general is still heading there. But Miss Ali, why are you here..."
The soldier said, looking towards the coffin in the courtyard.
"I followed a group of mysterious people here," Xia Zhaoyi said, "Where is the exit of the secret passage you came out of, please help me go and see it."
The two soldiers hurriedly said: "Well, General Ali, please come here!"
Before leaving the small courtyard, Xia Zhaoyi turned back to take one last look at the coffin.
In fact, she really wanted to find the corpse because she was quite curious about whether Tang Xiangsi was alive or dead.
Although I had a vague feeling that the corpse was definitely not his.
If Tang Xiangsi is alive, where is he now?
Should you stand by and watch the changes in the world, or will you be unable to bear the loneliness of a hundred years and come out to be a little military adviser and give some advice?
It was already sunrise, but the sky was still gray and the clouds were extremely thick and seemed to be frozen in place without moving.
The two soldiers always felt that it would rain at any time, so they looked at the girl following them several times, worried that she might get sick.
The girl's eyes were always looking around.
Zhaishuiling has a lot of fertile fields and is close to the river, so the whole village is quite wealthy compared to Sanbai Mountain or Hengxiang as a whole.
At this time, many breakfast shops were open on the street. Because soldiers suddenly appeared in the village, the people in the village were quite wary and uneasy.
But these soldiers did not regard themselves as outsiders. They spoke with an accent that they didn't know where they came from. They called "fellow fellow" and "big brother" affectionately. Some were inquiring about the local customs, some were asking for directions, and some were curious about the water of the village.
Ridge name.
Xia Zhaoyi suddenly asked: "How many people were there when you came out of this village's water ridge secret passage?"
A soldier replied: "There are twenty-five people returning to General Ali."
Xia Zhaoyi paused slightly, and the twenty-five people were actually beaten into a posture of two hundred and fifty people by them.
"Who is the leader?" Xia Zhaoyi asked again.
"It's Captain Chen," the soldier replied.
"I'd like to ask you two to go look for him. This place is not a safe place. We need to persuade Captain Chen to give the order. It's best to leave as soon as possible." Xia Zhaoyi said.
"But this," the soldier frowned, "our general ordered us to conduct a good survey after we come out..."
"Shen Lie?"
"Um."
"That's Shen Lie's lack of thinking," Xia Zhaoyi said, "This place is indeed dangerous."
Good fellow, they actually said that they were invincible and as brave as the generals in heaven. The general who had never lost a battle since he commanded them was not thinking well.
"Please go find the captain," Xia Zhaoyi said, "I will talk to Shen Lie."
The two soldiers looked at each other and said, "Yeah."
Although the soldiers in Tanzhou were often disengaged and idle, when they heard the rally call, they ran back quickly and stood up straight without squinting.
After Team Chen had gathered together, he walked quickly towards the girl who was squatting on the ground with her back to them to check the exit of the secret passage.
"General Ali, we've assembled, what's next?"
Xia Zhaoyi turned around and said: "It's not far from Zisu Dyeing House. Two miles south, you can see a road that passes through Jun Nei Township. Just follow the road and go east."
Although it was her first time here, she knew the topography of Hengxiang well because she had read the Hengxiang County Chronicle and the Hengxiang Local Geographical Volume.
"What about you?" Duan Zheng asked.
"I'll go down and take a look." Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Then we will follow you!" Dui Zheng said immediately.
"No, you go to the perilla dyeing workshop first."
With that said, Xia Zhaoyi took out the small oil ball lamp and said, "If I meet Shen Lie, I will explain to him that you don't have to worry."
Just as Xia Zhaoyi turned around and was about to step into the tunnel, a loud shout sounded in the distance: "It's on fire!"
Everyone followed the sound and looked toward the village in Zhaishuiling. The two soldiers who led Xia Zhaoyi over immediately recognized it as the small courtyard where the coffin was placed.
"General Ah Li!" one of the soldiers exclaimed and quickly looked towards Xia Zhaoyi.
The fire started very fast, suddenly jumped up and spread to the side as they watched, which was obviously abnormal.
Suddenly, Xia Zhaoyi saw fire coming out of a house a hundred meters away.
She shuddered and stepped forward quickly, her eyes filled with anger.
Not just here, more and more fires were lit in the village.
Outside their field of vision, there seemed to be fires raging.
The villagers were running and running, and someone was beating gongs and drums, which made a clanging sound in the village, and they were running all the way.
"General Ali, let's go put out the fire!" Captain Chen said to her.
Xia Zhaoyi put away the small oil ball lamp and said quickly: "Let's go together!"
The fire became more and more fierce, and the arsonists had a clear purpose. They burned all huts made of wood and bamboo, especially stone houses.
Those oil-splashed wooden houses were easily engulfed by flames because the floors were low, mostly two stories and no more than three stories, so sleeping people could escape quickly.
Some people couldn't escape, so they just opened the window and jumped down. Fortunately, at this height, it was not easy to fall to death, but their legs would definitely suffer.
