Chapter 876 Suspicions abound
The night wind in the Great Qimeng Mountains seemed particularly cold. Chu Huan did not speak, frowned and pondered, and his subordinates naturally did not dare to say much. After a while, Chu Huan raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "Let's search near the bamboo building to see if you can find anything, pay special attention to the ground and see if there are any traces of excavation..."
Everyone immediately took the order, and Xuanyuan Sheng asked, "Sir, have you discovered anything?"
"There is no teahouse in the teahouse. This is their negligence, but it also shows that they are in a hurry." The lights had been lit in the bamboo building. Chu Huan looked around and said solemnly: "There is one thing they are not wrong. This is indeed a teahouse, but the real tea-maker may have been killed."
Xuanyuan Sheng realized, "Sir, they took the lead and killed the tea-making people here first, and then pretended to be tea-makers waiting here, intending to harm us?"
Chu Huan nodded and said, "I'm just guessing that if this is the case, I'm afraid I can find some things nearby..."
After a moment, I heard a voice from outside: "Sir, there is something wrong here!"
Chu Huan immediately followed the sound. Xuanyuan Shengcai and Qiu Ruxue followed Chu Huan, left and right, and went down the bamboo building. There were guard warriors waved to the other side of the woods. At this time, everyone surrounded him. Chu Huan was close to him and saw two corpses already revealed, covering them with a layer of snow. The two corpses were all wearing extremely obvious ghosts and served with wooden carved necklaces. At this time, someone had already lit up the fire slip. Although the fire was not very bright, you could see that the two corpses were pale and had knife marks on their necks. The snow at the knife marks had solidified.
Qiu Ruxue had already squatted down, reached out to explore the cheeks of the two men, then flipped over the eyelids of the two men, turned around, and said to Chu Huan: "Their death will not last more than an hour!"
Xuanyuan Sheng frowned and said, "One hour? In other words, when we are about to reach the Great Qimeng Mountains...!"
Chu Huan looked at the two corpses, pondered slightly, and said, "Then I guess is not wrong. They must have found our traces and knew that we were going to get here, so they attacked the tea-making people in the teahouse in advance, and then pretended to be the tea-making people waiting here."
"It should be like this." Qiu Ruxue said slowly: "At the beginning, they were not sure about the whereabouts of the adults. They didn't know where the adults would go to the foot of the Daqimeng Mountains. When they found out where the adults were about to arrive, they immediately attacked the teahouse and were very hurried. The two corpses were thrown here casually, covering them with snow and stones, and they didn't even have time to bury them."
Xuanyuan Sheng held the hilt tightly and frowned, "Sir, who wants to assassinate us? Those who are disguised are all Guifang people..."
An official from the Ministry of Revenue Department next to him said in a terrifying manner: "Master Chu, Guifangren has always been cruel and barbaric, like a savage. This is probably the beginning. If we don't leave, Guifangren may have to attack us."
As soon as he said this, the four or five officials of the Ministry of Revenue Department who followed him changed their color slightly, and their eyes showed a look of fear.
Guifang lives in Anyi, but in fact, there are not many Qin people who know that Guifang exists. First, they are very low-key and ignored, and second, the number of people in the ethnic group is too small, less than 20,000.
However, these officials of the Ministry of Revenue Department knew the existence of Guifang. Guifang had previously made transactions with Taiyuan Ministry of Revenue Department headed by Huang Zhigui in order to survive. This kind of official transaction was handled by the Ministry of Revenue Department, so the officials of the Ministry of Revenue Department still had some understanding of Guifang people. In their eyes, Guifang people were indeed fierce, irritable, and lack etiquette.
After this incident, these officials of the Ministry of Revenue immediately thought of the fierceness of Gui Fangren, and suddenly felt nervous and scared in their hearts.
Chu Huan didn't say anything, and at this moment, he heard a soldier in the Guards say, "Sir, look, there... there is a fire!"
Everyone looked over and saw that there was indeed a lit light on the mountain, which was a little messy. He was coming down from the mountain. Xuanyuan Sheng had already drew his sword in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Protect Master!"
Ten Guard soldiers immediately formed a protective circle around Chu Huan. Several officials from the Ministry of Revenue Department leaned against Chu Huan, Xuanyuan Shengcai, Qiu Ruxue and Sun Zikong were also guarding Chu Huan.
Chu Huan frowned, everyone was on guard. The firelight on the mountain moved very fast, and Sun Zikong couldn't help but say, "Do we want to extinguish the firelight?"
"They have seen it." Xuanyuan Shengcai said: "It is an enemy or a friend, it is still unknown!"
Suddenly, I heard a voice coming from the other side of the mountain, "Who is below?"
Xuanyuan Sheng looked at Chu Huan, Chu Huan nodded slightly, Xuanyuan Sheng immediately took two steps forward, but at this time he had already put his knife in the sheath, took the bow in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "The imperial envoy is here, and I want to see the master of Yigusi Cave, who are you?"
He was full of energy, thick and powerful, and his voice came from afar.
The fire on the mountain stopped quickly, and the distance was not too far. Chu Huan vaguely saw more than a dozen figures on it. Soon, he heard a voice coming from the mountain: "Is it Mr. Chu Huan Chu?"
Chu Huan said: "It's my official!"
"Yi Gusi is here!" A thick voice came over there, and then the fire lights moved. The scattered fire lights merged together. Everyone soon saw a burly ghost man coming from the mountains and forests. Chu Huan only glanced at him and recognized it as Yi Gusi. He had secretly come to Daqimeng Mountain last time and had seen Yi Gusi. Yi Gusi looked a little ferocious, wearing fur clothes and a necklace hanging around his neck. Although there were many wood carvings as good as the ghost master Hexi Valley, there were many, dense.
Yi Gusi held a ghost-headed sword in his hand. Behind him, more than a dozen ghost-side men also held the sword in their hands. They all looked fierce and evil, with bad expressions.
The Great Qin State issued a knife hunting order very early, and ordinary people were not allowed to have weapons in their hands.
But the Guifang is a bit special. Although they have to pay a certain amount of taxes to the local government every year, the government almost never pays attention to them when contacting them when urging them to pay taxes.
Because of the lack of strong supervision from the government, the Guifang secretly stored some weapons for the safety of the tribe, but the number was extremely rare. The transaction of weapons on the market was prohibited, and the few weapons could only be carried out in private.
What's more, the people in the Central Plains have always been prejudiced against the people of Guifang. Some private markets are unwilling to trade with the Guifang. Although the Guifang also has blacksmiths, the Daqimeng Mountains do not belong to the mine, so resources are scarce and weapons forging cannot be implemented.
However, after the Huang family rebellion, Gui Fang obtained a large number of weapons from the Huang family. Not only did Huang Zhigui send food and weapons as a condition to win over, Gui Fang also took the opportunity to obtain many excellent weapons during the battle of Lihua Valley. These weapons were distributed to Gui Fang Sixteen Caves in proportion. At this time, the weapons in the hands of Yi Gusi and others were obtained from the Huang family army.
When Chu Huan saw that Yi Gusi and others looked bad, he felt an ominous feeling in his heart, but he still smiled and took a few steps forward and bowed, "Master Yidong, after leaving last time, is it okay?"
Yi Gusi looked cold, his eyes wide open, stared at Chu Huan, and sneered: "Mr. Chu, I was about to go find you, but you came to the door...!" His hand holding the knife tightened, the blue veins on the back of his hand raised, and his eyes looked around and suddenly he saw two corpses standing on the ground. He frowned and looked carefully. Then his expression changed drastically. A cold light suddenly appeared in his eyes and said sternly: "You... actually killed our people?"
Chu Huan knew that the misunderstanding became more serious.
He didn't know why Yi Gusi had such an attitude today. If Yi Gusi knew the purpose of his trip, he would never be able to treat each other with this attitude. However, according to the truth, Yi Gusi, one of the masters of the Sixteen Caves, would never be able to notify the purpose of his trip. The migration of the ghost side was a major event related to the entire ghost side. He Xigu returned to Daqimeng Mountain from Taiyuan early in order to inform the caves to prepare, so he naturally could not notify the master of the Sixteen Caves.
It should have been half a month since Hexigu returned to Daqimeng Mountain. As one of the 16 cave owners, Yi Gusi could not have known that Chu Huan was here to log in to his household registration and do a good job in the migration.
However, Yi Gusi's attitude obviously goes against common sense.
"Master Yidong, there may be a misunderstanding between us." Chu Huan frowned and said, "These two people were not killed by us."
A person beside Yi Gusi sneered: "You hold the knife in your hands, and you dare to say that you were not killed by you?"
Chu Huan said lightly: "We have been here for less than half an hour, but these two people were killed an hour ago..."
"You said that you are less than half an hour, who can testify?" Someone behind Yi Gusi sneered: "The people in the government are indeed cruel and ruthless, and they will destroy the bridges when crossing the river!"
Chu Huan felt that these ghosts were really weird, frowned, looked at Yi Gusi, and said solemnly: "Master Yidong, I don't understand what you mean. Why are we here this time? Do you don't know what you are doing?"
"Of course I know." Yi Gusi's face was already ugly and his muscles twitched, looking quite ferocious, "Didn't you Zhongyuan people say something well, "Don't you burn bridges and kill donkeys when crossing the river? You took advantage of us and promised us last time, but... you go back on your word, don't think we don't know your sinister scheming. You have wanted to kill all our ghost parties from the beginning. Chu Huan, tell you the truth, although my ghost parties have few people and weak power, they will not let others bully them!"
Chu Huan felt that Yi Gusi became more and more strange the more he said, and couldn't help asking: "Master Yidong, I really don't understand what you said. Where did you start by breaking the bridge and killing the donkey when you cross the river? Although Chu Huan came a few days later, he did not break his promise. This time, he came to fulfill his promise to you!"
Yi Gusi's eyes widened and said angrily, "Do you still want to argue here?" He said in a deep voice, "Take it!" A person came up from behind, holding a string of necklaces in his hand. Yi Gusi took it, raised his hand to light it in front of Chu Huan, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know this?"
Chapter completed!