Xianyang Bridge

Chapter 21

With a heart of death, his nose was sore, "Don't worry, my lord, Lao Deng must have taken care of Xiao Qi, and won't let him... to make trouble for you."

Uncle He watched from a distance, came over and put down the prepared food and water, and helped Deng Shifang carry Xiao Qi on his back, "My lord..."

When Gu Xichao heard that he had also come, he said, "Uncle He should go too, I won't see you off."

After finishing speaking, he sat down on the futon in front of the Skeleton King statue, put Deng Shifang's sword across his knees, and stopped talking. Seven went down the mountain.

Until everyone withdrew from the entrance of the village, the fog rose up in the formation, and in the huge valley, there was only the sound of Lao Huang circling and screaming. Gu Xichao gently stroked the pattern on the sword, and said in a low voice, "Report to the king on the golden platform!" , Hierarch."

23

After crossing the Yellow River, it’s not like being in the south, relying on the name of the county prince’s mansion, you can do whatever you want. If you say Tiqi’s name here, not only no one will be afraid, but you will probably be beaten. Tiqi people changed their arrogance after suffering a few times. Arrogant, hurried on his way with his head buried.

In these years, the Liao and Jin battles were full of swordsmen everywhere. After the Liao army was defeated, they fled in all directions.

Although the south of the three towns is relatively calm, the people in the north are tough, and all the villages I saw built villages and forts. The young and strong patrolling the walls of the villages were very vigilant when they saw a large cavalry passing by. The strictness of the interrogation is as strict as the city gates on the south bank.

Qi Shaoshang crossed the Yellow River alone on the seventh day out of the city. Gou Feng ordered the Tiqi who crossed the river from various places to gather, and continued to secretly monitor his movements. A place name came out, Gaoping.

Gu Xichao really went north, Qi Shaoshang was useless after knowing the location, Gou Feng withdrew the spies who were staring at him, set off camp overnight, arrived at Qingtian River at dawn, and met Tiqi who was crossing the river in Luoyang , It looks like there are thousands of people in the black mass.

Qi Shaoshang hid behind the rocks and looked at the people scattered along the river beach who were burying pots and cooking, and suddenly had an idea in his heart.

Waiting for them to finish the meal, the aroma of vegetables and meat wafted to the rocks, Qi Shaoshang licked his lips, stepped on the bluestone where he was hiding, and flew into the sky like a giant bird into Ti Qi who was about to eat middle.

He suddenly fell from the sky, and kicked two pots flying on the ground. The hot soup in the pots splashed out, and the scorching spies around Tiqi screamed. The spies who were about to eat had no weapons at hand, and they were kicked over by him when he stood out from the crowd. Near the pot, the river beach suddenly became a mess.Taking advantage of the chaos, he went all the way to the center and reached Gou Feng's side very quickly with knocking and beating movements. He smiled at him and grabbed his neck.

"Sneaky has been with me for so many days, and suddenly he left without saying hello, is it not righteous?" He held Gou Feng back and said, holding Ni Shuihan in front of him and shaking out a section of the sword, He shouted, "Don't move, anyone who moves will die!"

He yelled at the end with murderous intent, and his eyes made people terrified, Gou Feng deliberately told everyone to ignore him, and took Qi Shaoshang down, but he was strangled by the neck and couldn't speak.

Qi Shaoshang didn't like to fight, he knew that Tiqi had many tricks, so he was fully alert and pinched him and quickly retreated to the side of the road. Before the spies who rushed over could understand what happened, he had already snatched the horse and left.

Gou Feng was carried by him and placed horizontally on the saddle, his stomach churned and he straightened his neck and shouted, "What's the use of taking me away, the four masters of Tiqi are less than me, and they can still find Gu Xichao!" come out."

Qi Shaoshang ignored him, ran out for more than a dozen miles and heard no one was chasing him, stopped the horse and said, "You mean to let me catch the other three? No need, I don't know them well, lead the way You alone are enough."

"Where is he?" Before he could catch his breath, Qi Shaoshang grabbed Gou Feng's skirt and leaned over to ask.

Gou Feng lay on the horse's back, dizzy and nauseous, and almost vomited on him, Qi Shaoshang held him down and asked again, "Where is Gu Xichao?"

Gou Feng gritted his teeth and said, "Gao Ping."

Qi Shaoshang raised his eyebrows, "How do you know? Has anyone seen him?"

Gou Feng panted and shook his head, "No, no, can you stop talking while hanging upside down?"

Qi Shaoshang held his belt and pressed it down again, "Do you think I'm soft-hearted?"

"All right, let me say, I was caught before. After a few days of interrogation, I couldn't stand it, so I recruited."

Qi Shaoshang mentioned him back, and asked again, "How many interrogations have been conducted? They are all said to be in Gaoping?"

Gou Feng didn't quite understand what he meant, and didn't think deeply about it, so he said, "Three of them, all recruited are the same."

Qi Shaoshang nodded, "Three, recruited on the same day, what a coincidence."

What he said was not a question, it seemed to be talking to himself, but when Gou Feng heard it, it was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, he straightened his body suddenly, raised his head to look at him with difficulty, and said, "You... mean?"

Qi Shaoshang looked down at him and said, "I just thought of it just now, don't you think your people are all here?"

"It's impossible," Gou Feng shook his head, couldn't hold on anymore, and fell down again, "He is alone, how dare he, Mingjiao is now a toothless tiger, and he can't bite people long ago."

Qi Shaoshang turned his head while holding the rein, and said, "I don't know if the Mingjiao can still bite people, but I don't understand that you have been chasing south and even crossing the river. Why? Do you think he will go to Jiangnan? Or is it on purpose? Misled me?"

Gou Feng was still shocked by what he just said, and said casually, "The possibility of the money being in Jiangnan is the greatest."

Qi Shaoshang said, "No wonder, you only have money in your heart, and of course you wouldn't think that the Mingjiao who was forced by you to hide in Tibet would dare to plot against you."

What he said was so sure that it was true, Gou Feng became unconvinced. Although the three of them said at the same time that it was strange that Gao Ping had brought them here, he still refused to believe that Gu Xichao had such a big appetite and planned to take Ti Ride it all swallowed.

Regardless of whether he has this ability, how powerful are the battles with so many people, it is impossible not to alarm the government, is it true that the Jincheng Imperial Army is dead?

The most he did was to divert the tiger away from the mountain. Thinking of this, Gou Feng's heart skipped a beat. If he diverted the tiger away from the mountain, could Mingjiao be detrimental to the prince?

But Qingyuan was burned to ashes, and Cai Jing could force them to destroy their lair. Even if there were still a few remnants, it would be too unthinkable for the two to start a war.

Gou Feng's mind was spinning all kinds of thoughts quickly, the more he thought about it, the more he felt conflicted, he didn't notice that Qi Shaoshang had already gone towards Qingtianhe again.

Along the way, we only found traces left by the Tiqi Brigade on the other side of the Qingtian River, and went north until Gaoping County, where we never met again. Qi Shaoshang said to Gou Feng, "It seems that they took a shortcut, and they are in a hurry?"

The two sat at a noodle stall by the side of the road and ate noodles. Gou Feng had his acupuncture points tapped and his hands were bound to pretend to be a fugitive who was caught. Qi Shaoshang was naturally the arrester who handled the case.

Jincheng people like to be jealous, and the noodle soup is sour. Gou Feng frowned after taking a sip, and said angrily, "Of course it's urgent. With you following behind, can you not be in a hurry?"

Qi Shaoshang nodded, "It makes sense, we are in Gaoping now, can you tell me where he is hiding in Gaoping?"

Gou Feng ate noodles with chopsticks in both hands, rolled his eyes at him and said, "How do I know, you know him so well, you know what he thinks, how about you guess it?"

"Provocative method?" Qi Shaoshang ate two bowls of noodles, asked the proprietress for a third bowl, and whispered to him, "I know you are not convinced, let's go and see later, I guess I am right."

After he finished speaking, the proprietress came over with the noodles. Qi Shaoshang enthusiastically praised the proprietress for her craftsmanship. He had never eaten such delicious noodles. He coaxed the proprietress into a smile and told the proprietress that he was here to handle the case. The head catcher, the sly-eyed guy next to him is his prisoner.

Hearing that he said that he was a vile liar who did all kinds of crimes by stealing things and people, Gou Feng's face turned green.

The proprietress stayed away from Gou Feng a little disgusted, she was convinced of Qi Shaoshang's identity as a captor, so when he asked if there was any place near Gaoping where people could kill people and sell goods, it would not be easy to be found, and it could hide a lot of gold and silver treasures, no one would doubt it , the proprietress told him without any doubt, "Of course it is Toukuan Mountain, Lingling Ridge, and Taniguchi Village."

"That place has long been uninhabited. Two years ago, I heard that some people from the south of the Yangtze River escaped from the disaster. There were many people, old and young, who had nowhere to go, so they lived there. I don't know if they are still there now. Where is that place? It can live in people, but it can live in dead people, but if you want to say that it’s good to hide things there, the place is so big, even if there are thieves here, they won’t go to Taniguchi Village to steal dead people’s things.”

Qi Shaoshang listened and raised his eyebrows at Gou Feng. After the two of them ate the noodles, Qi Shaoshang took out money from Gou Feng's purse to pay the bill, asked the direction of Gukou Village, and bought a donkey for Gou Feng to ride on. , I arrived at the Great Wall before dark.

The Ten Mile Great Wall is also called Qin Lei. It is said that the Qin army built it to cut off the food and grass of the Zhao army. When they arrived here, they could no longer ride horses. Time is like a dark cloud over the city.

Qi Shaoshang originally thought Ti Qi hadn't arrived yet, and when he dragged Gou Feng up to the top of Lingling Ridge, he saw the tent outside Qin Lei on the other side, and said to him, "Hey, it turned out to be here a long time ago, look, I said he must have a way to lure people over."

It wasn't until this time that Gou Feng realized that this was really a trap when he saw the ghostly village surrounded by mountains on three sides on three sides of the ridge. , Even if it is several times more, it can die silently.

"Changping Ancient Battlefield...is really a good place to kill people