Chapter 523: The Jade Man Comes
This mountain village is surrounded by green mountains, with steep hanging rock cliffs on both sides and cloud-like peaks behind it. With Yang Fan's eyesight, you can see at a glance that this mountain village is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If a stone fortress is built here, with enough food and sufficient troops, it is probably difficult to capture a hundred thousand troops.
But it is easy to say that this village is not big, nor is it a military land. It does not have such a building strength or the need to spend generations to build a stone fortress. The village wall here is built with bamboo, wood, earth and stone along the mountain. It is not very high. Its main function is to prevent wild animals from entering.
Yang Fan thought of the girls whom he had met before. He probably had no living water or water source in this mountain village that was leaning against high. No matter how solid the castle was built, no matter how much food and soldiers there were, it would not be possible to stay for a long time.
The village gate is made of wooden, very rough, and the scars are not flattened. It can be seen that the village gate has just been repaired. When you walk into the village, you will see many houses half-collapsed in ashes, burnt beams and black walls, which show that there was a military disaster here not long ago.
Some people were cleaning up the ruins, and the atmosphere in the village was a little depressing. When they saw someone coming back with a big net, they didn't show any special performance when they saw a person carrying a fish in the net. They just glanced at him indifferently and continued to do their own things.
Yang Fan grabbed the rough net rope with both hands, and looked at the situation in the village, an inexplicable anger filled his chest.
He was carried to a fairly intact, wide hall, with many traces of knife and axe chopping on the hall column, and several bamboo arrows were inserted on a beam that needed to be climbed on a ladder to touch, which seemed to have not been cleared. From this remaining scene, you can imagine how fierce the battle had happened here.
Yang Fan was released from his net pocket. Of course, before untiing his restraints, his hands and feet were tied up with cow tendons like a pig's trotter, and then he was hung upside down on the beam with a rope.
Yang Fan did not resist. Since the other party brought him back, his life would be temporarily guaranteed. As long as he saw their camp explaining the situation, he believed that the situation would change immediately.
The hall had no walls, and was airtight on all sides. It felt quite cool when I was inside. The only drawback was that there was no fine wine to entertain guests. Yang Fan was hanging upside down in the hall, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. A man with a bit of anger between his eyebrows slowly walked up to him and looked at him coldly.
The big man asked, "Who are you? Do you know our Miss Xun'er?"
Yang Fan said: "Not bad! I... am Miss Xun'er's friend. I am not a spy sent by Huang Jingrong. I am here to meet your camp leader and discuss important things with him."
"Our village leader has been killed in battle! There is no village leader here now. What do you have to say to me!"
The voice of the great man was a little depressed, but Yang Fan felt a deep heart when he heard this. He had already learned about the tribal power structure in Yaozhou area, and it was not hereditary at the level of the village head. The village head was a respected tribe elected by the people in the village. After being confirmed by the chieftain or the head man, he became the leader of the village.
If the original head of the village had died, before the head of the village or head of the head, no one in the village dared to claim that the head of the village was in charge of the affairs of the village, which was a contempt for the head of the village. Since the person in front of him came forward to ask him, he should be a person with more prestigiousness in the village, but he could not have the right to interfere in some official matters.
Yang Fan frowned and said, "So, can you contact your Lord Chief? My affairs are very important, and they are related to the survival of your clan. This matter can only be negotiated with your Lord Chief Chief Chief. I cannot tell you the details."
The man seemed to hear some absurd joke and laughed out loud: "Do you know how busy our Lord Tusi is now? Do you know how much things we have to do in our village now? Just with your words, I have to invite Lord Tusi to see you, or travel through mountains and rivers to see you to see Lord Tusi?"
The big man pulled out a sharp short knife from his waist and said in a cold voice: "If you really have something important, then say it immediately. Otherwise, I will be too lazy to talk nonsense to you. If you kill you, you will be thrown into the valley to feed the wolf!"
"I am your Miss Xun'er's friend!"
The big man sneered: "If you say I believe it? How could Miss Xun'er know you? Even I have only seen her twice..."
As the two were talking, a beautiful little girl walked in with a water basket on her back, put down the water basket, poured a bucket of water, and said to the big man: "Brother Qingshan, drink some water."
The girl said and looked at Yang Fan, suddenly let out a soft cry, and said in a lost voice: "Why are you?"
The person she called Brother Aoyama looked at her with a sharp look and asked, "Do you know him?"
The girl nodded and said, "Well, he passed by us a few days ago and asked us about the way."
Brother Aoyama immediately asked: "How many people did he have at that time? What kind of dressing up?"
The girl said, "He is the only one, wearing a long-distance dress and a horse bag, asking us about how to get to Yaozhou City."
Brother Qingshan looked at Yang Fan again. Although there was still some suspicion in his eyes, his voice had already softened: "You are really not Huang Jingrong's person, nor are you the lackeys of Wen Hao and Yun Xuan? Then what's wrong?"
Yang Fan hesitated for a moment and said, "This matter is very important! There can't be too many people involved. Do you really want to listen?"
Brother Qingshan frowned his eyebrows slightly and said, "Don't be mysterious, what is your identity?"
Yang Fan said in a deep voice: "I am the imperial envoy! The imperial envoy sent by the imperial court!"
"What!"
The strong men in the village who were scattered around him surrounded him again and looked at him with shocking, angry and hatred. Yang Fan said in a deep voice: "Huang Jingrong and I are not the same person. I came here just to supervise what he did in Jiannan Road!"
The man was shocked and suspicious when he suddenly heard a crisp woman's voice calling: "Gao Qingshan!"
Brother Qingshan looked up and immediately looked happy. He quickly brought the people to meet him and called respectfully: "Miss!"
Yang Fan was tied up in the air with four legs and could not see the situation behind him. He only heard the woman say, "Dad, brother and all the leaders are busy. If you don't have time to send someone over, I will ask me to bring some people to help guard the village. Your leaders have already died in battle?"
Gao Qingshan said "um" in a low voice, and the woman shouted: "What are you doing dejectedly! Whoever kills our people, just use swords and guns to find them back! Who is this person? Is it the local soldier of Wen Hao and Yun Xuan?"
Gao Qingshan said, "No, this man passed by our territory and was arrested by us. At first he said he knew you, Miss. I was scared with a knife. He also said that he was the imperial envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty and had important things to meet our chieftain. I don't know which words he said were true. I was interrogating him."
"oh?"
Yang Fan heard a sound of footsteps of scattered footsteps, and a pretty figure appeared at the corner of his eyes, and the woman slowly turned to the front of him. Yang Fan's limbs were hanging in the air, ridiculously hanging in the air, and his eyes also came up with the girl's figure. When he looked at each other, Yang Fan shouted in surprise: "Miss Xun'er!"
The girl was Xun'er, with a white top, red vest, blue trousers and white shoes, clean and pretty, wearing a crescent-white hat on her head, and the white ears hung on her shoulders, as clear as a spring. She held the whip and looked at Yang Fan in surprise, and then she said in a while: "It's you?"
Gao Qingshan asked, "Miss, do you really know him?"
Xun'er looked at Yang Fan, then Gao Qingshan, and tapped Yang Fan's shoulder with a horse whip and asked, "Do you think he is the imperial envoy of the Great Zhou?"
Gao Qingshan said: "It was him who said it himself."
Xun'er sniffed, raised her little Yao'er and said disdainfully: "Imperial envoy? Bah! This is a liar, a big liar who cheats everywhere..."
"What?"
Gao Qingshan was furious and drew his sword and said, "I killed him!"
"Slow down!"
Xun'er gently pushed Gao Qingshan's steel knife away with the tip of the whip and said to Yang Fan with a smile: "Big liar, you are very brave. You didn't get any benefits from my sister-in-law. He actually ran to Yaozhou to deceive people. In Yizhou, you were a fugitive, but when you arrived in Yaozhou, you turned into an imperial envoy. It's amazing. If you continue walking south, won't you become the emperor when you arrive in Nanzhao?"
Yang Fan smiled bitterly and said, "Miss Xun'er, I am really the imperial envoy of the Great Zhou."
"Shut up!"
Xun'er glared at him, and his little nose wrinkled in a pretty way: "You will die if you don't brag? Judging from your virtue, I know that you can't be someone sent by Huang Jingrong. You are afraid of being killed by the people in the village, so you can just make a fool of yourself? Well, don't pretend. Because you and my sister-in-law are acquaintances, I won't make things difficult for you."
Xun'er waved her little hand and ordered Gao Qingshan: "Let him down first, this is a liar who cheats food and drink everywhere, not a great person."
"yes!"
Gao Qingshan agreed and waved his hand, four strong men came forward and untied Yang Fan's rope. Yang Fan's feet fell to the ground, and his hands were tied behind him, saying to Xun'er: "Miss Xun'er, I'm not to hide it. I am indeed the imperial envoy of the court."
Xun'er held her shoulders handsomely, stroked her smooth and round chin with one hand, and teased: "Oh! So, Master, do you want something here? Do you want gold or women? Or both? Aren't you Han people so greedy? Humph! You dare to talk nonsense, believe it or not, I will whip you with a whip?"
Yang Fan sighed and said, "The imperial edict is in my belt. If the girl doesn't believe it, she can take a look at it by herself."
Xun'er's black eyes rolled and she said suspiciously: "Go, take off his belt!"
Yang Fan is now wearing a folk outfit, and his belt is just a sweat towel, which is half new. A village chief stepped forward to take off the sweat towel around Yang Fan's waist, shook it, and a ball of yellow silk fell from the middle.
The village head bent over and picked it up and brought it to Xun'er. Miss Xun'er took Huang Ling and looked at it. It was an exquisite two-dragon playing pearl pattern embroidered with gold thread on it. Miss Xun'er's face became serious. She turned Huang Ling over, looked carefully for a while, and slowly raised her face. The pretty face was covered with frost.
Xun'er said hostilely: "You are indeed from the court. Why are you doing in our parody?"
At this time, the shrill sound of locks suddenly rang in the distance, and the whole village immediately became turbulent. Someone grabbed the gun and ran towards the wall of the village, shouting loudly as he ran: "There is an enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"
There was endless "clang" sound in the hall, and the villagers drew their swords and unsheathed them, surrounding Yang Fan like a group of evil wolves!
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