Chapter 617: Late Night Tracking(1/2)
As night fell, the small county town of Lang County gradually became quiet. It was sunrise and sunset. With the sound of the closed-door drum, the work of the people in Lang County came to an end, and the number of people on the street began to decrease.
As the night deepened little by little, the moon was dark and the wind was high, Liu Yu also asked all the people under his command to change into Yexing clothes and prepare for a sneak attack. Liu Yu thought very simply. Since Master Wuding came for her disciple, not King Su Zhe of Chu, he might as well be a favor, take her disciple south, get the heavenly book, and see what the heavenly book is. Regarding the development of history, is it true that Master Wuding pretended to be mysterious and pretended to be a secret.
Liu Yu changed into a night-mounted dress and almost didn't recognize himself in front of the bronze mirror. However, at this time, Liu Liniang seemed to be wearing work clothes, and everything seemed so natural. It was obvious that Liu Liniang had been commonplace in the night-mounted dress.
Liu Yu looked at Liu Liniang, and Liu Liniang smiled. Liu Yu stepped forward and hugged Liu Liniang's waist and smiled, "Liniang put on this outfit, making your waist look thinner."
Liu Liniang gave him a blank look and said, "The important thing is important."
Liu Yu and Liu Liniang came out, and everyone was ready and lined up in the yard to wait. Even Husheng stepped forward and said, "The people in the inn are already confused. If we leave like this, no one will notice the whereabouts."
Liu Yu is now trying to do everything in detail and said, "Let's check it again, don't miss the internet, it will be difficult to end when alarming the government."
Lian Sheng took the order and left. The young man stood aside, his whole body trembled and said, "You... are the King of Mountains?"
"Boy, don't you dare to cooperate with us?"
The boy swallowed his mouth and said, "This..."
"If we don't cooperate, we will not only not give you money, but also..." Liu Yu made a "kill" gesture, and the boy was even more scared.
Soon, Lian Husheng brought people out and reported the situation. After checking in the inn, there was no problem.
"Set off."
Liu Yu gave the order. The group went out directly from the back alley and left in the darkness.
The boy led the way, and the group followed behind. He was not familiar with the place. In order to prevent the boy from being slick, Liu Yu also asked Qu Zhu to find people from Lang County, the army to follow him. In this way, the boy deliberately led the wrong way and could be noticed.
The boy was walking slowly and slowly on the road. Liu Yu stepped forward and pushed him and asked, "What's wrong?"
The boy said with fear, "It's here."
Liu Yu looked around. There were only ordinary Min Lane, and this Min Lane was obviously a bit deserted. After nightfall, there were no lights around one or two miles around. It can be seen that he was poor. Most people cannot light candles at night, but some craftsmen will still use tung oil lamps to do some manual work at night. Otherwise, they will sleep in the long night light and feel that they will treat their lives badly.
The boy pointed to a deserted mansion not far away and said, "It was inside. It was originally an official office. But a few years ago, I moved away somehow, and later the families around me moved away. Some people said that the surroundings were haunted, and on the 1st and 15th day of the lunar month, people would come to burn incense and worship, and the two women, the old and the young, were in the haunted house."
Liu Yu took advantage of the night to look at the mansion. Even the courtyard wall was almost damaged. If it was just abandoned, it would definitely not be like this in two years. What is the reason that it will make the place uninhabited so soon?
Liu Yu made a gesture and asked the guards to go there in batches, approaching the house from all directions, forming a siege. Liu Yu knew that Liu Liniang's junior sister was not easy to mess with. If he couldn't do it later, Liu Yu would also use "hard moves" at the right time, that is, to subdue the uniform with muskets directly.
"Twelve Young Master, I'll be able to subdue my junior sister in person?" Liu Liniang came over and asked.
"How about your martial arts skills compared to your junior sister?"
Liu Liniang smiled confidently and said, "My junior sister is mixed, she learns all kinds of strange and lewd skills. In terms of martial arts, she is not as good as my servant."
"I'm going to try it later. I don't want you to be injured in Li Niang."
Liu Yu touched the two short guns on his back, and then touched the bullet bag, and felt a little confident. This time he met Liu Liniang's junior sister by accident. If even Master Wuding was present, Liu Yu really didn't know what to do. Anyway, he was going to get the heavenly book first and understood it thoroughly and did not plan to return it before.
Liu Yu and Liu Liniang, with their guards, also arrived at the back of the mansion. They vaguely saw a fire pounding in the house. Liu Yu guessed that it was Liu Liniang's hiding place.
Liu Yu hid behind the ruins and looked in, turned to look at Liu Liniang and asked, "Liniang, what's your junior sister's name?"
"Little girl." Liu Liniang said, "Only she and her master know her real name. I am from the Miao family, she is from the Han family in Nanzhao, and my junior sister has been abandoned since childhood..."
Liu Yu thought about the name "Little Girl", but it was really hard to associate it with the old lady. A young woman who insisted on pretending to be an old man and scaring her, would have to be ugly.
Liu Yu carefully identified the direction of some firelights. It should be in a small house in the yard. Liu Yu was about to order someone to be taken away, but Liu Liniang pulled Liu Yu's clothes and said, "Let me come in person."
Liu Yu remembered that he had promised Liu Liniang to solve the problem of the master just now, and nodded, and rushed into the yard with Liu Liniang and a group of guards. When he got around the small house, Liu Yu didn't plan to go in. The wall happened to be damaged, and there were some leaks in some places. Some light came out. Liu Yu could also look in through the leaks and observe the situation inside.
I saw an old woman sitting against the wall in a dilapidated house, leaning against the wall. The old woman held a crutch in one hand and her mouth with the other hand, coughing constantly. It looked like she was suffering from a serious illness and was about to die. In front of the fire on one side, there was a girl cooking medicine. The old and the young were the old and the young that Liu Yu met on his way to Mingzhou City two years ago. But they appeared separately at that time.
Liu Yu pointed to the old woman inside, and then looked at Liu Liniang with inquiring eyes. Liu Liniang nodded, which also proved that the old woman was indeed Liu Liniang's junior sister. Liu Yu pointed to the girl on the side again, and Liu Liniang shook her head and said she didn't know.
It seems that the girl accepted the apprentice after Liu Liniang's junior sister stole the Tianshu and left the master's sect. So Liu Liniang, the "master" who was not aware of the existence of this nephew.
Liu Yu made an encouragement gesture to Liu Liniang, then patted her chest, which roughly means: "It will be up to you later. It really won't work, I'm still there."
Liu Liniang was about to take action, but the old woman inside asked in a thick voice: "The fish soup has not been cooked yet? Why do you give me medicine to me?"
The girl couldn't speak clearly, "Just... OK."
Liu Yu suddenly remembered that when he saw the girl, he felt that she was not fluent in the Chinese language. Her fluent in nature was different from Wu Shuo's stuttering. It should be because he was a beginner in Chinese and didn't speak much, which made him speechless.
"Go out and get a basin of water and wipe your face for your teacher."
"Yes." The girl responded and got up and left.
Although the girl had good martial arts skills that day and even ordinary bandits admired her very much, in front of this old woman, she was just a good girl and didn't even dare to say anything serious. When the girl left the house, the old woman suddenly came to the front of the fire with agility. She opened the lid of the soup pot on the fire and added some "powder" to it.
Liu Yu and Liu Liniang looked at each other and saw the question in their eyes. This pot of fish soup was eaten by their master and apprentice, so why did this old woman need to drug it?
The old woman sprinkled the powder into the fish soup, stirred it with a spoon, then showed a cold smile on her face, retreating to the corner of the wall, and continued to cough half-deadly. Obviously, her sickness was also pretending, but her apprentice didn't know.
Soon, the girl came in with a basin of water from outside and placed it in front of the old woman. She was about to soak the towel to wipe the old woman's face, but the old woman snatched the cloth from her hand and shouted, "You are not dead yet. Come on yourself!"
"Oh." The girl retreated to the fire tremblingly and continued to add firewood to make soup.
The old woman took a towel and soaked it in the water, but didn't wipe it on her face. It was obvious that she had "makeup" on her face, and if she was wiped with water, it would reveal the filling. She held the towel and suddenly covered her mouth and coughed again.
"Master. The soup... is ready." The girl raved.
"You drink first, and come over after wiping your face for the teacher."
"Yeah." The girl used a bowl of fish soup with a bowl, but she didn't even dare to ride some meat for herself. She obviously wanted to leave all the fish for the old woman to eat. She sat on the side while blowing hot soup, but she couldn't wait to pour the soup into her mouth. This was a sign of hunger.
Liu Yu thought to himself that this old woman was so vicious. She not only treated her apprentice badly, but also prevented her from having enough food, but also drugged her apprentice. Does she want to poison her apprentice to death?
Originally, Liu Liniang wanted to go in and take her junior sister to solve her problems, but now she is not in a hurry when she sees this situation. Like Liu Yu, she also wants to know what tricks her junior sister is going to do.
Inside, the girl felt that she was not full after drinking the fish soup, so she asked for instructions: "Master, can I... drink it again... okay?"
"Well. Cough, drink more and eat some fish."
"Thank you...Master."
When the girl heard that she could eat fish, she was like being pardoned by the emperor's grace. She went up and scooped half a bowl of soup for herself with a spoon, but finally scooped out a little fish. Her face was cautious and her face was tight. She wanted to eat meat, but she didn't dare to scoop out too much at once to prevent the old woman from being dissatisfied.
From this point, it can be seen that the girl is full of fear of this old woman.
When the girl was holding it late, she squatted on the side and ate almost the same time. Suddenly her head seemed to shake, and then the bowl fell to the ground with a bang, while her body fell down. I don’t know if she was dead or dizzy.
"Ahem." The old woman looked at her apprentice and sneered, "Let you eat my fish!"
Liu Yu felt a chill in his heart. This old woman was not going to attack her because her apprentice drank soup and fish, right? This old woman was so possessive, it was hard to imagine what would happen if she offended this old woman. When the old woman used him to "tempt" Liu Liniang, it was obviously a hatred for Liu Liniang, but Liu Liniang once said that she had a good relationship with her junior sister, how could she make a fuss to the point of death?
The old woman stood up and walked to her apprentice, but ignored it. When she walked to the door, she suddenly put her hand in her mouth and blew a very long whistle. The whistle was extremely loud and I thought it could be heard far away.
After blowing the whistle, the old woman returned to the corner and sat down, as if waiting for someone.
Not long after, the footsteps came, and Liu Yu realized that there were not only the master and apprentice in this abandoned house, but also others. Soon, two men appeared at the door of the room. As soon as the two men appeared, Liu Yu and Liu Liniang looked surprised on their faces, because although their clothes were worn, they all carried the logo of the Three Pure Sects.
The two men came in, ignored the old woman and focused on the girl lying on the ground. One of them rubbed his hands and said with a lewd look on his face: "Grandma Gu, you really give face. Then we two brothers are not polite."
He was talking about anxious expressions, but his accent was not Guanzhong accent. It should be the accent of the Jiangnan generation. Liu Yu was thinking about where the two people came from. At this time, the two men lifted the girl up, one of them was carried on his back, and he was about to leave.
Only then did Liu Yu realize that the old woman was acting as a matchmaker and gave her apprentice to these two men to warm up the bed.
Liu Yu thought to himself that Liu Li's junior sister is indeed not an ordinary person. She doesn't even care about her apprentices. This is simply cold-blooded. Fortunately, she didn't anger the old woman at the beginning, so she would be sad if she killed her with one sword.
The old woman coughed and said, "Go and go, remember to wash the girl clean and send it back at dawn. I'm not feeling well. I won't give it to you."
A man smiled and said, "Grandma Gu is well cared for, my brothers will not forget you, let's go!"
As they were talking, the two men hurriedly took the girl away. When their footsteps left, Liu Yu made a gesture to the people behind him, asking them to detour and follow him, and not be discovered and hid.
After the two men left, the old woman finally restrained her previous morbidity and took out something from her back, which was for pretending to be hunched. Liu Yu saw it clearly, and it seemed like a burden. The old woman opened the burden and took Ye Xing's clothes from it.
Only then did Liu Yu realize that the old woman wanted to use her apprentice as bait. Liu Yu couldn't figure out what she wanted to do.
"Twelve Young Master. Let's not do anything for now. Follow her to see the situation." Liu Liniang whispered in her ear close to Liu Yu.
Liu Yu nodded in agreement.
Inside, the old woman had already changed into a night-dressing dress, but the old woman who was hunched and hunched back just now was the slim figure that was no worse than Liu Liniang, and her figure was as strong as a track and field athlete. It was just that in order to avoid the trouble of applying makeup afterwards, the old woman's makeup on her face did not take off. In this way, an old woman with a wrinkle face had a slimmer figure than a girl, which looked very weird.
The old woman picked up the crutch and pulled it from the head of the crutch. Since she pulled out a sword, it turned out that her crutch was a concealment, and the soldiers were hidden in the wood. The sword seemed very soft and was directly inserted into the belt by the old woman. Liu Yu realized that the belt that looked very poor on the old woman was a special soft sword scabbar.
When the old woman was ready, she came out of the house and looked at the sky, but she didn't have a plan to chase her. Obviously, she knew where her apprentice would be taken. She didn't need to rush to track her.
"After today, the whole world will be mine!" The old woman suddenly changed into a thick accent and sighed like a man.
Liu Yu frowned. What does she mean? What does it mean after today? Even the world belongs to her? Did she already know that she was here and was about to kill herself and then go to a certain dynasty to usurp the throne?
This is obviously illogical. Liu Liniang, the junior sister, is not obsessed with the law in doing things, which can be said to be extremely vicious. She said this must have a deep meaning. Liu Yu thought again, is it related to King Su Zhe of Chu that today is related to Su Zhe, who is going to kill Su Zhe and then pretend to be Su Zhe to seek the world?
This is obviously not wrong, because with Su Zhe's current power, he has not yet reached the ability to seek the world. He will not say that after one night, the world will be hers.
Liu Yu had no definite answer in his mind, but he had an idea. No matter what, if he killed the old woman in a while, he would be completely wiped out.
After a while, the old woman probably had about the time and started flying over the eaves and walking in one direction.
Seeing her skills, Liu Yu was secretly afraid that there was obviously no chance of winning the battle with her. He thought that he would not take action in person after a while, otherwise it would be very dangerous once he showed up.
If you follow this way, even if you can catch up, it will be difficult not to expose it. Even Liu Liniang is not confident that she can track it up and hide it from being discovered. Fortunately, the group of people sent by Liu Yu before have marked the directions of tracking the two men in a special way, so that Liu Yu can save the trouble of tracking the old woman and just follow the sign.
The road was not far away. From the old woman's house where her apprentice was stunned, to the place where the two men were, the distance was only one hundred feet, but it was not far from the yard, and it was a street.
When he arrived at the location, Liu Yu realized that the place where the two men entered was still a deserted mansion. Liu Yu thought to himself, there are so many deserted mansions in Lang County, is there any shocking secrets hidden in it? Could Su Zhe be here?
When they arrived in the mansion, they could not find the specific location for a while. Several guards hiding in the dark came out, and they were also following two men just now.
To be continued...