Chapter 723 Red Sox Transfer [Please vote for me!]
The night is dark and windy.
Hukou County, on Phoenix Ridge.
In the darkness outside the red wall belonging to the Zen temple, there is a longing figure.
"Why did shopkeeper Wang call Pindao over?"
A young man with a paralyzed face wearing a greasy Taoist robe came over.
He was carrying a mahogany sword on his back and a baggage on his shoulder. He asked with a slight tilt of his head towards the back of the short young man who was deploying his subordinates at any time in the darkness.
Wang Caozhi looked back at Lu Ya who was being chased back, and seemed to let out a breath.
"Master Lu, come with me and go to the side to talk."
Lu Ya said expressionlessly:
"Why can't I bring you a message? If I come here, I might have to miss the night boat at the crossing, and I won't be able to keep up with Duan Quanwu and Bai Huwei. This matter was ordered by Young Master Ouyang."
After Wang Caozhi heard this, he immediately waved his hand:
"It's a small matter. While I sent someone to call Daochang Lu, I also sent a few cronies to follow. They have prepared ships and will follow Duan Quanwu and his official ship to replace Daochang Lu... Daochang Dao can stay here with peace of mind. The important things at hand are important.
"
Lu Ya shook his head and said frankly: "But I have to rush back to the palace before the morning after tomorrow. I'm afraid I won't have time to stay too long."
Wang Caozhi was quiet for a while, seemed to make some calculations, and immediately made arrangements:
"If we rush back to Prince Xunyang's Mansion, we have already missed a boat. The Taoist priest can only take the earliest boat in the morning. There is still time. There is still time. Come over here without delaying the Taoist priest. Taoist priest, go this way
.”
After receiving the answer, Lu Ya seemed to acquiesce. He withdrew his eyes from him, moved forward with his hands behind his back, and at the same time looked around and asked:
"Where are you going?"
"The back hill of Guanyin Temple."
"Pindao knows, it's written on the plaque at the door of the temple. Pindao is asking where we should go to the back mountain and what we should do."
"Go and arrest people."
"Arrest someone?"
Wang Cao's words were concise and concise: "The subject under surveillance has changed, and seems to be in contact with someone."
Lu Ya tilted his head in confusion and asked:
"Who are you contacting? Your people can't deal with it? Didn't you have a plan before? Do you need Pindao to take temporary action?"
Wang Caozhi, who was walking in front, seemed to hesitate and replied:
"The latest news came in the middle of the night. The situation is a bit unexpected. It's better to have Director Lu take action to be safer, otherwise an accident may occur."
Lu Ya became more and more confused, paused, and then reminded:
"It is not part of Master Ouyang's plan to keep Pindao behind. Shopkeeper Wang is ready to go back and explain himself if something unexpected happens."
The young man with facial paralysis shook off his sleeves and robe, revealed a thin hand, pinched his fingers to calculate, and continued:
"In addition, Pindao must get on the boat tomorrow morning, otherwise he will not be able to return to the palace in time and will not be able to stay here for too long. Shopkeeper Wang should pay attention to this..."
Wang Caozhi, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and tried to lower his voice, interrupting Lu Ya's nagging:
"Shhh, here we are, Director Lu, right in front."
Lu Ya stopped instantly and looked around.
I found that the place where I stopped was a forest of stone tablets, with stone tablets that looked like tombs. During the day, it might be Sumuzhuang, but at night, when it was completely dark, it looked eerie and weird, but it was suitable for hiding my figure.
If he hadn't known in advance that this was the mountain behind a Zen temple, he would have thought that Wang Caozhi had brought him to a mass grave.
It should be the third watch now,
Lu Ya withdrew his gaze and looked in the direction pointed by Wang Caozhi's finger, which was one mile away in the northeast.
This forest of stone steles is very large. They have just arrived at the southwest edge. A mile away in the northeast, they are roughly at the edge of the other corner of the forest. The stone steles over there are so tall and numerous that they can't see any movement.
Two competent secret sentries waiting here saw Wang Caozhi and Lu Ya came over and sneaked forward.
"Shopkeeper, you are here!"
Lu Ya saw them whispering something into Wang Caozhi's ear.
Their voices were very low, but some faint intermittent words drifted into Lu Ya's keen ears with the night wind.
"...The thin man slipped out of the courtyard in the middle of the night... He got in for half an hour... There has been no movement... We didn't get too close... He probably didn't notice us..."
"Before you, the shopkeeper, came here, some strange men who were spotted by us while walking up the mountain in the evening also sneaked over and slipped in... It turned out to be a joint..."
Wang Caozhi, who was listening attentively, suddenly turned his head and asked in a somewhat serious voice:
"Are you sure you saw clearly that group of people coming?"
The secret whistle man nodded vigorously:
"You're right, I have very good eyesight. When I pretended to be a passerby passing by in the evening, I took a look. Under the collar of my soap jacket, I definitely had armor. There was a high probability that I was carrying a weapon. Few of us dared to get close. It was obvious at first glance.
It's so annoying, so I can only call the shopkeeper..."
"Okay, you go down and call everyone here."
"Yes, from the shopkeeper."
The two secretly sentry men did not dare to look at the paralyzed young man in Taoist robes strolling beside Wang Caozhi, and quietly retreated.
There were only two people left in the same place.
Wang Caozhi turned around and looked at Lu Ya.
The latter had a paralyzed face.
The two looked at each other silently for a moment.
"How many people?"
"We have found seven people so far, including the man named Qian Chen."
After a pause, he added: "I don't rule out whether there are others lying in wait."
Lu Ya suddenly stretched out his hand: "Take off your socks."
"Socks? Are they here?"
Wang Caozhi stared blankly at the paralyzed face.
But Lu Ya nodded and stretched out his hand expressionlessly.
Wang Caozhi felt a little embarrassed, looked around, quickly bent down and took off his boots, and took off the red stockings on both feet.
At this moment, after taking off his socks, he belatedly realized that both pairs of socks were on backwards. After receiving the news at night, he hurried out without paying attention...
After Wang Caozhi took off his socks, he hurriedly handed them over to Lu Ya's hands while they were still warm.
Lu Ya lowered his head and looked at the angry red socks, then looked up at Wang Caozhi who was blushing.
The latter covered his mouth and coughed, looked away, and whispered:
"A girl from the tribe gave it to me, saying nonsense that I am guilty of Tai Sui this year and need to hide. Wearing this thing can not only hide, but also transport... Ahem, I don't know if it is a crime of Tai Sui, but the transport... As expected, at the beginning of the year
I met good brothers-in-law and good sisters.”
Lu Ya ignored it, took out a yellow talisman from his arms, threw it to him, and casually told:
"Stay here, and after half a stick of incense, make some noise, preferably something that can be heard by the entire forest of stone tablets. If a fish that slips through the net approaches, throw out this talisman, then turn around and run away."
As Lu Ya spoke, he took out an incense stick and a fire stick from his sleeve. He folded the incense stick into two sticks and lit half of each stick.
Half of the stick was inserted at Wang Cao's feet, and the other half was twisted between two fingers and put into the sleeve of the robe.
Wang Caozhi nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Okay, by the way, do you want to wait until all our people are here... Hey, wait, don't leave yet, remember to stay alive, alive!"
Before he could finish his words, which he tried to lower his voice, the figure of the young man with a paralyzed face next to him had disappeared without a trace.
Took away a pair of red socks from him.
Only half a stick of incense was left in the soil at his feet.
I don’t know if I heard what he said later.
Wang Caozhi was speechless. He lowered his head and looked at the yellow paper talisman. It was too dark to see the talisman clearly. He only felt a little wet and sticky on his hands.
When he thought of Lu Ya's dirty monk's robe that had not been washed for an unknown amount of time, he pinched his nose in disgust as he had a mysophobia.
By the way, the Sanqing Taoist priests should be abstaining from sex, so this sticky yellow talisman should not be dirty, right...?
Wang Caozhi couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
However, Daochang Lu is so good, why do you want his hot socks? Is it because he likes them? Some men like women's feet? Could it be that Daochang has the opposite hobby? If I had known, I would have asked him, if he was really determined by the latter
Can't give it!
Even though it was a critical moment, he still couldn't help but think about everything.
At this time, I took off my socks and my bare feet, which were wearing boots, were suddenly blown cold by the cold wind.
Wang Caozhi was shocked and came to his senses.
He lowered his head and looked at the half-burnt incense stick. He looked around, but he still didn't see any of his subordinates arriving.
Wang Caozhi looked at the suspected place one mile away in the northeast. It was still dark and calm.
Seeing the half stick of incense at my feet, the faint red star disappeared and was completely burned out.
Wang Caozhi gritted his teeth and jumped up high on the spot. When he fell, he mustered up all his strength and stomped on the ground, making a heavy sound. At the same time, he also raised his voice so loudly that the whole forest of stone tablets could be heard.
call:
"Hey, you whore! How dare you have an affair with a bald donkey behind my back! How shameless! I let you steal! Let you steal! Come on, come and see this pair of naked adulterers..."
Accompanied by the "pop" sound produced by the applause, Wang Caozhi shouted indignantly, and his voice broke the silence of the entire forest of stone tablets. For a time, he became the most eye-catching child in the dark night, even the late spring green people behind him
The mountains and forests are not as colorful as his figure, and he is defeated.
"Let me go, let me go! Damn you, how dare you fight back..."
In the clearing, I saw a short young man who accidentally kicked off his boots. He was holding his neck with one hand and fighting with the air in front of him with the other hand. His voice became sharper, as if fate was being strangled by the throat, but he still kept speaking.
Shout:
"Ah, you dare to hit someone, do you still have the law? Do you have the moral code? The bald donkey is really lawless, you whore, get the hell out of your way, don't stop me, I will fight with you, a pair
Yehe’s adulterer and whore…”
The forest of stone tablets a mile away in the northeast was silent.
As Wang Caozhi shouted, he quietly looked sideways. Before he could continue speaking, he suddenly heard a series of sounds coming from the other side:
"who!"
"ah!"
"Be careful! It's in the woods behind...ah! Little man!"
"Bang--!"
"Boom!"
Human roars, thumping sounds of flesh and bones, and what sounded like the sound of sandbags falling heavily to the ground, sounded one after another in the dark forest.
After a while, all the sounds disappeared, and the world seemed to have returned to peace.
The fish that Wang Caozhi expected to escape and harm him did not appear.
All strange sounds in the forest of stone tablets disappeared completely.
The sticky yellow talisman in his sleeve was useless. He breathed a sigh of relief and immediately took out his palm and shook it like a fan.
After waiting for a while, Wang Caozhi saw a paralyzed young Taoist priest wearing red socks slowly walking out of the darkness ahead. There was no sound of footsteps.
The young Taoist priest with facial paralysis re-tied the mahogany sword on his back as he walked.
The blunt tip of the sword seemed to be dripping with a liquid. He picked up a handful of leaves and wiped it slowly.
Wang Caozhi's eyes were attracted by a pair of red socks on Lu's feet.
He lowered his head and looked carefully, and found that the red socks were worn outside the boots, and they were stained with a lot of blood and broken leaves.
Wang Caozhi immediately understood that at the turn of spring and summer, there were a lot of fallen leaves in the back mountains. Putting a layer of socks on his boots seemed to be able to slightly eliminate the sound of footsteps.
At this moment, Lu Ya walked up to Wang Caozhi and asked:
"What is Shopkeeper Wang shouting?"
Wang Cao looked innocent and looked around. He ran over and put on his boots again. As if nothing had happened, he asked:
"It's okay, just follow my friend's lead. By the way, Director Lu, how is the situation inside? Let's keep him alive."
Lu Ya shook his head:
"I'm sorry, I killed one of them. He was the only Qi practitioner. Judging from his physical strength, he should be a sixth-grade soldier. I only found out during the fight to prevent him from reacting and entangled me, so I didn't hold back."
"Is there a Qi Refiner?" Wang Caozhi was stunned for a moment.
When he came to his senses, a cold sweat broke out on his back. He licked his lips, turned around and ran into the forest of stone tablets in the northeast corner.
When I arrived at the scene, I saw six or seven unconscious men on the ground.
Wang Caozhi searched around and found that the thin-faced man named Qian Chen was among them. He stretched out his finger and tried it, but his breath was still there.
He finally let go of his worries, as long as he had a living source, this person was an important breakthrough for this trip.
Wang Caozhi shifted his gaze, looked around, and found a dead body under a tree ten meters away. The pubic area of his abdomen was bloody, showing a penetrating wound, and half of the burned incense had fallen on it.
The corpse's eyes were wide-eyed, and it looked unrelenting.
Wang Caozhi swallowed his saliva and looked at Lu Ya with admiration. He was worthy of being sent by his brother-in-law. He heard that he was a master from the palace.
Wang Caozhi seemed to have remembered something, and stretched out his hand to peel off the corpse man's wrinkled soap clothes. Through the moonlight, he saw that he was wearing a tight-fitting vest on the upper body and a shorts on the lower body... This outfit made him feel a little uncomfortable.
look familiar.
Wang Caozhi's expression changed slightly, he lowered his head and began to search carefully.
Lu Ya walked over with a mahogany sword on his back, stopped behind Wang Cao, and handed back the red socks that seemed to have good fortune:
"Here, give it back to you. There is indeed a big fish in this group of people. I don't know which side it is from. Fortunately, this soldier was careless and was traced out by the movement you made outside. At that time, he was the first
For the sake of being conservative, Pindao will start with him first... What is Shopkeeper Wang's expression like? Do you know this person?"
While Lu Ya was talking, he found Wang Caozhi squatting on the spot motionless.
"What's wrong with Shopkeeper Wang?"
He added: "The guy named Qian Chen is not dead. He will be in a coma for a while. You can wait for him to wake up and interrogate him. It should be okay to kill one of them. Ke Pindao is leaving first and is catching the boat..."
Wang Caozhi was silent for a long time, which made Lu Ya feel a little guilty when he spoke. Just as he was about to run away, he saw the short young man squatting in front of him suddenly turned around. In his hand, he was tightly holding a dye he had just found.
Bloody white cloth belt.
Wang Caozhi seemed to swallow his saliva and asked:
"When will Mr. Lu's boat arrive tomorrow morning?"
Lu Ya looked a little confused. Without waiting for an answer, Wang Caozhi had already passed by him. Lu Ya felt that his hands were empty. The pair of red socks had been taken away by Wang Cao. The latter hurriedly put them on and rushed out.