Ander felt that he had been tricked. When he shouted: "Who supports and who opposes!", Su Yu and Ye Tao both said that the Lu family is highly respected, and we, the younger brothers, can't be more relieved that Lu Ander is in charge.
We will act as an assistant this time and cheer for you.
Ender felt that he shouldn't have done this, and wanted to give the two families a blow and let them know how powerful he was, but they seemed to have taken the trouble and put the trouble on themselves.
It is said that the person who knows the gangster best is the gangster, and Ender could see at a glance the true nature of these two guys hidden behind their gowns and suits: gangsters who wanted to fish in troubled waters.
So Ander handed over all the work to the only honest person in the team: Chu Jie.
It's still more comfortable to be a salted fish.
Now, relying on Angers's foreign background and his PhD in history from Cambridge, Ander and his team disguised themselves as an archaeologist who came to China to investigate and his Chinese followers, starting from Pingjin and heading west.
To the north of Qinzhou.
Now the foreigners are real masters. Those officials did not dare to interfere with the affairs of the foreigners. Even though Ander and his party were carrying a lot of goods, they did not stop them.
Ender was riding a horse and leading two donkeys carrying goods. The goods appeared to be some hard currency such as sugar slices and kitchen knives, but in fact, underneath were several large pieces of Angers brought from Germany.
Explosives.
I don’t know if the explosives wrapped in oil paper bags can be stored for a hundred years, but it will definitely make the dragon’s veins rise to the sky and stand side by side with the sun.
Anger wore a cowboy hat, a beard, and a thick Chinese-style cotton coat. He looked like a nondescript American cowboy.
Ander wore a pair of glasses and had his hair slicked back. He looked like a progressive young man who yearned for Western learning.
Chu Jie, a little girl, turned into a man during this time, wearing an ordinary cotton coat, and he and three other people led a mule and followed Ander.
If this scene had to be given a name, it should be called the foreign devil, his translator and four followers.
Of course Ender wouldn't admit that he was a translator, but he looked like that in his outfit.
While walking on the road, he chatted with several people. Sometimes when Ander got into the mood, he would sing a few lines impromptu and use his singing to cast some magic to add a buff to a few people.
After all, Ender is still a bard, so it shouldn't be too easy to do this.
"Ange, when will Tongwan City arrive?"
Ender sat on the horse, playing with a piece of dogtail grass in his hand and stroking the fine fluff on the head to pass the time.
Maybe he should consider getting a familiar for fun, Ender thought.
"It's coming soon. Didn't the old man in the village say before that we can see it soon?"
Angers pointed to the mountain in front and comforted Ander.
There was nothing much going on along the way. Although the scenery in China was nice, such a boring journey made Ander a little tired.
Looking at the strange-shaped hills in front of him, Ander was a little surprised as to why there were such uneven hills on the Loess Plateau.
But upon closer inspection, I realized that it was not the top of a mountain, but the ruins of a stone tower.
The rolling hills in front are not naturally formed, but are the ruins of the ancient city wall.
"Look, we're here!" Angers shouted.
"The last capital of the Huns, the magnificent capital of Great Xia, dominates ten thousand cities!
Ander looked at the city wall in front of him. This once majestic capital city had long been destroyed by Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi and had been uninhabited for nearly a thousand years.
"It's so high! Why does it feel higher than the city wall of Qinzhou City?"
Chu Jie touched the ancient city wall of Tongwan City and looked upwards. The pitted walls continued upwards. He could only imagine how grand this city once was.
"It shouldn't be as high as the wall of Qinzhou City, but it's not much different. After all, it was the former capital."
Angers compared the walls he saw in Qinzhou City before and responded.
Ander groped on the wall and took out the Chu family Polu Sword he had obtained earlier. He unsheathed the long sword. Ander raised his hand and stabbed the long-abandoned wall of Tongwan City with the extremely sharp sword.
The eight-sided Han sword penetrated the masonry of the wall without any hindrance. The other people were shocked by Ender's behavior.
"Uncle De, what are you doing!"
Chu Jie jumped up. This was the ancestral sword of the Chu family. If it was broken, she would definitely fight Ander to the death.
"Have you never heard of the story about Tongwan City?"
Angers reacted and said:
"You mean that thing about stabbing the city wall with a sword to test the quality?"
It is said that when the Huns built Tongwan City, they would use their newly made swords to stab the built city walls. If the sword could penetrate even an inch, the builder would be killed. If the sword broke, it would be replaced with a forged sword.
who will be killed.
Ender pulled out his sword, which was unharmed. How could an ordinary city wall be comparable to an alchemical weapon?
"It looks like the people who built this wall are going to lose their heads."
Ender put his sword back and signaled to Angers: "I see there is a gap over there. Maybe we can get in through there."
A group of people crossed the city wall, and the appearance inside Tongwan City came into view.
There is nothing here. Tongwan City was razed to the ground as early as the Song Dynasty, leaving only the city walls built by the flesh and blood of craftsmen that are still strong.
"It seems we are hundreds of years too late, Ah Hao, did that Friedrich leave any clues?"
Chu Hao scratched his head, adjusted the braid behind him, and replied:
"There was no news after Fu took a few people to Tongwan City. We all thought they had an accident on the way."
Ender looked at this vast expanse of wasteland and thought it would be great if wheat could be grown here. Unfortunately, the people were not willing to run here because it was too remote and far away.
"Ye Tao, take action and see if you can find anything?"
Ye Tao of the Ye family, Yan Ling: Snake, can control bioelectricity to act like a snake, which is very suitable for reconnaissance.
When Ye Tao heard this, a hint of excitement appeared on his young face. Under Long Wen's urging, some kind of invisible electric current flowed slowly under Ye Tao's control, spying on everything around him.
As soon as the snake came out, Ye Tao frowned. Under the ruins, there were countless human corpses buried in the soil. The yellow and white bones were mixed together in a mess, allowing insects to make nests among them.
It seems that the legend about Tongwan City is not unreasonable. The Huns really killed the craftsmen who built the city and buried them under the city wall.
But soon, the snake fed back something different, and Ye Tao called everyone to go to that place.
"Footprints? How is that possible?"
Ender looked at a small depression in the ground. It didn't look like a footprint.
"There is little rain in Qinzhou and it is even drier every winter, so the footprints can be preserved. However, due to the strong wind and sand, there will inevitably be defects."
Ye Tao pointed at this small depression and continued to move in the other direction.
"This is the second one, and there is a third one not far ahead..."
Ande looked in the direction of Ye Tao's finger, which was the center of Tongwan City.