Lord Prime Minister

Chapter 41

There was a flat boat in sight, and there was a person standing on the boat holding an oar, against the light, Mu Zihuai squinted his eyes and didn't see clearly, but he could still hear who it was from the voice.

Su Ye bent slightly, with a smile on his face, looking at the few people trapped in the cave.

"Mr. Mu, are you looking for a boat?"

After being rejected by Mu Zihuai last time, Su Ye inadvertently saw the destination of their trip from the map. The place marked with a red dot was Fenshui County near the sea.

The soldier looked at Mu Zihuai. He remembered that he had met this woman on the road before. At that time, Mr. Mu had already rejected her request to go with him.

"Get on the boat." Mu Zihuai supported the unconscious two people with both hands, wondering if these four people were deep in the grotto and were deeply poisoned, and they still haven't woken up yet.The sea water was already up to his neck, and he had to protect the two of them to prevent them from choking on the water.

Several people boarded the boat quickly, Mu Zihuai and other soldiers sat down slumped from exhaustion, and the task of rowing fell to Su Ye.

She shook the oars slowly, and the boat moved forward steadily.

No one spoke, Su Ye concentrated on rowing the boat, did not mention why she was here, why she appeared at this time, Mu Zihuai did not ask, but he can roughly guess, exhausted, he wished Lie down now.

When I came back, I went downstream, which was obviously much faster than when I went there. In less than an hour, the boat docked on the shore, and at this time the other four people woke up.

Xiaodao opened his eyes, feeling limp and powerless, and saw that he was already at a port in a busy city, and was about to speak but was interrupted by Mu Zihuai.

"Let's go back and talk, now go back to the inn."

Su Ye silently followed behind them, and Mu Zihuai did not stop them this time.

In any case, this time their lives were saved by this woman.

"You go back to the room first, take us to freshen up and then we can talk." After asking for a room for Su Ye, Mu Zihuai was carrying a half-wet gown, sweating a little under the sun, mixed with the sea water, just feeling I feel bad all over.

When Su Ye heard this, she knew that Mu Zihuai's family agreed with her to stay, so she rolled up her sleeves and wanted to kneel down.

Mu Zihuai quickly pulled her back, endured the pain in his body and said: "You don't have to be polite, I'm not sure if I can help you."

"Mr. Mu can keep the folk woman, the woman is already very grateful."

"The future will depend on you." Mu Zihuai nodded, turned and walked upstairs.

I don't know if it was because I took a few breaths of poisonous gas just now, and my vision that was originally blurred due to myopia became even more difficult to see clearly.The added steps became a blur, and it was hard to tell who was who.

Frowning and blinking, Mu Zihuai stretched out his hand to hold on to the railing, caressing his small steps up the stairs, finally reached the second floor, and found his room after searching for a long time.

Once in, close the door and start washing.

By the time everyone sat down in the tavern on the first floor, it was already dark, and a few people were hungry, so they ordered a few dishes, but the waiter who served them was still the same person in the morning.

"Hey, guest officer, didn't you ask me about the place in the morning? Why... where did you go?" The young man wiped the table, looked at Mu Zihuai and the others, and looked at them Looking embarrassed, he couldn't help asking.

Mu Zihuai gave a wry smile, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. "Brother, you made me miserable. There is a strange grotto in that cave. The few of us almost collapsed there. You don't dare to tell others about that place in the future. What if something happens?"

"The grotto? I don't know. I've only been there once. Before I went in, the tide rose, so I had to back out. Look at the cave, sir. Is that cave so dangerous? It's the villain who hurt you." The little boy Hearing what Mu Zihuai said, his eyes widened in shock, and he was worried that these people would cause trouble for him.

"Forget it, forget it, it's our bad luck. Fortunately, nothing happened. Hurry up and serve the food. I'm starving." Mu Zihuai waved his hand, his stomach growling with hunger.

"Hey, I'll send it to you right away." Seeing that he didn't care about it, the boy readily agreed, and with the wind under his feet, he left quickly.

While waiting for the food to be served, Mu Zihuai told a few people about the situation in the cave, and he didn't say until after the meal: "Take a good rest today, and see the groves upstream and downstream tomorrow."

Today, the cave party found nothing, and all their hopes were pinned on that little forest that is rarely visited by people.

If the exit of the underground channel is not there...

The cliff to the west is so steep that even the most nimble apes can't climb it. It would be difficult to dig a river there, and Mu Zihuai didn't want to see the final result.

Four days have passed, and tomorrow is the deadline for the soldiers to go out of the city to find food. I don't know how the situation in Ji County is.

Before dawn the next day, several people set off early.Su Ye followed closely behind without saying a word.

The boat sailed downstream for about half an hour, and several people went ashore, walked along a small path for a while, and finally saw a small forest as the boy said.

The woods are not too big, but you can't see the end at a glance. The trees inside are thin and the leaves are black, which makes people uncomfortable.

For no reason, Mu Zihuai remembered that the boy had said something.

This forest is not clean.

Today is the fifth day since leaving Jixian County. The two brothers Okahira and Okamasa are in Wu County at this time, and the experience is unspeakable.

"Brother, why don't we go back." Younger brother Gangzheng squeezed his thick eyebrows, and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground. The scorching sun scorched his bare/exposed back, and a layer of skin had already shed after a few days.

Okadaira also frowned, and sweat flowed over his sunburned skin, causing a burning pain.When they left the barracks, the two had already made plans that they would not turn back after going out. In order to prevent being discovered, they took off their military uniforms and threw them away before walking far. Now they are only wearing a pair of trousers.

"Let's go over there and have a look first." Gang Ping wiped off his sweat without agreeing with his younger brother's words, and pointed to the place where there were people in front.

Before they came out, they didn't expect that this place had become so desolate, it was so different from the capital city, and they originally planned to live in this county town, but they didn't expect that there were houses here, but there was no one in sight.

Today is the fifth day out, if it is still too late to go back now, but...

Before the two got close, the people over there saw them and walked towards them.

"Hey! You two! What are you messing around here?"

The older brother, Gang Ping, put on a smiling face and slightly hooked his waist. "Brother, we came from other provinces to see if there is any work."

"From other provinces?" The man raised his head slightly, and looked down at the two brothers, each of them was obviously a little short, but he raised his neck and looked down at people, with sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, just like a monkey. "It's really strange that some people come here from other provinces these days."

Okadaira nodded with a smirk, without further explanation.

"Okay, you pay the money first, ten taels of silver per person." He picked his teeth with his little finger and spit on the ground, the man raised his eyebrows and said.

"Ten taels?" The younger brother, who had been silent all this time, exclaimed. He has always had a bad temper, and his elder brother is usually responsible for dealing with people, but at this moment he couldn't help it anymore when he heard the man speak loudly.

"Why, don't you want to? This is an order from our county magistrate. If you want to live here, you must first pay ten taels of silver, and if you don't, get out of here."

"It's not rare for me to come to this ghost place! Bah!" Gang Zheng became angry, staring at the man viciously and cursing.The strong muscles are naked/exposed to the sun, showing oppression.

"Get out if you don't pay the money, why are there so many nonsense!" The man was a little soft at first, but the other people came over when they heard the quarrel coming from here, and they immediately became confident.

The four people who walked over stood beside the man, and they could roughly understand what happened.Everyone knows that Li Butou is greedy for money. The new county magistrate issued an order as soon as he took office. Into the water, not even a sound can be heard.

Every time Catcher Li collected the money, he would secretly withhold some money before handing it over to the county magistrate. This quarrel could not escape the matter of handing over the money.

"Ah Zheng." Gang Ping pulled his younger brother behind him, and said with a smile on his face, "My lord, we really have no money."

"Get lost if you don't have any money! Why, do you still want to stay?" With a helper, Catcher Li stepped up to a higher level, looking at the two brothers as if he were looking at two ants.

The younger brother Gangzheng could bear this kind of anger, even when he was begging in the capital, he had never been treated like this before, and he was about to rush out after shaking off his brother's hand.

Gang Ping quickly stopped him, and dragged him away with a bad face.

"Brother, we might as well go back to the barracks. Why do we have to suffer this kind of anger here? The prince also said that if we return to the capital in the future, wouldn't it be delicious and spicy?" Gang Zheng kicked the wall, fisted with both hands, angry Unrevealable.

"If you go back to the barracks, do you think it will be easy? The uniforms are also thrown away, and the money can't be exchanged for food. How can they accept us again? I think the prince just didn't want us to go back, so he came up with such a way, and drove us out justifiably. Come out. Look at the Qianhu who brought us, he was the one who beheaded the head of the knife on the spot, you dare to go back?"

Gangzheng's voice froze and he lowered his voice. "The head of the knife deserves it, who told him to leak military information."

"Leaking military information? We have known Dao Tou for ten years, do you think he looks like a spy?" Gang Ping kindly pointed out the problem.

Gang Zheng didn't speak. The head of the sword is a well-known hooligan on the East Third Street of the capital. Although he is domineering and greedy for money, he has a single-minded mind.At this time, after his brother mentioned this point, Gang Zheng suddenly thought of it.

"Brother, do you mean someone did it on purpose?"

Gang Ping frowned, "I don't know, although the death of the knife head is a good thing for us, but the people who executed that day are now in Ji County, if we go back, what if there is something..."

"The two of us are just beggars. We haven't provoked any big shots. Will they make things difficult for us?"

"not sure."

Gang Ping sighed, and then said again: "Leave here first, look elsewhere, if it really doesn't work, we will return to Ji County within today."

"It's all up to brother." Gang Zheng stretched his muscles and bones, and the two turned around and left the depressed Wu County.

The two were worried whether to return to Ji County or not, while on the other side, Mu Zihuai was already in a huge panic, wishing he had never entered this terrifying forest.