Seeing that the time was not yet noon, the tall man decided not to stop at the Longquan Pavilion, and the Hippo Team crossed over here and advanced along the valley. The sun gradually became hot, and a fine layer of sweat appeared on the foreheads of the shepherds, and there was much less laughter. Everyone hurried away, the horses' hooves were mixed and dull, and it made people drowsy when they stepped on the sun-dried avenue.

One hundred and thirty miles further, there is a big mountain at the end of the willow valley, called Jinshaling. If you want to go to the Baiyang River, you have to climb this ridge, but many people sent people to explore the way, and then came back to report to the tall man that the mountain road across the ridge is steep and narrow, and the wide place can pass a carriage.

Master Gao told the horse team to stop, rest under the Jinsha Ridge, and cross the ridge in the afternoon. felt that such a mountain road was really not conducive to the passing of the large group of horses, and at this time, some herdsmen muttered behind their backs, "It's so difficult to walk, go back." ”

Gao Daren said, "If we don't go to Helian this time, but cross Jinshaling to attack Futu City, do we still want to cross?" The shepherd didn't squeak. "Who said we were just in a hurry?" Crossing this ridge is a training exercise that is about to be done! ”

So no one spoke anymore, and Feng Zheng commanded the horse team to disperse to the shade to rest according to the instructions of the tall man, and then walked after avoiding the most vicious day at noon.

The tall man loosened the charcoal fire, let it go to a distant place to eat grass and drink water, and sat under the shade of the tree, holding an oolong knife, leaning against a big tree and closing his eyes to recuperate. I suddenly thought of Fan Ying and the others in my heart, and I didn't know what kind of unhappiness they were at this moment, but thinking about Jinshaling, which was about to be crossed, Gao felt that there was nothing wrong with his decision.

Just as he was about to fall asleep in a daze, Lord Gao suddenly heard a few shepherds talking loudly, and a person walked towards him from the direction of Jinshaling. From afar, he shouted, "Master Gao, this person said to look for you!" ”

Master Gao raised his eyes and saw that although this person was ragged and limping, the head and face were already unrecognizable, and the blood stains on the top of his head had glued the hair on his sideburns together, but he still recognized it at a glance as Chen Zhutou.

The tall man jumped up and hurriedly asked what was going on. Although he was not very optimistic about this person in his heart, after all, he was an acquaintance of Jiaohe County, and when he met him more than 200 miles away from the county seat, the concern of the tall man was still obvious.

Someone laid a mat on the grass and asked Chen Zhutou to sit down and let him tell what had happened slowly.

After Master Gao left the Warm Soup Inn, Lilan talked about Lord Gao with her sister Lirong. It just so happens that Lirong also has something to talk to her sister about. Lilan said, "In the past, this tall man was not so sloppy, and at that time, I had to wipe the stool he was sitting on personally, why didn't I see him for a few months, and it changed to this!" ”

Lirong listened to her sister's words and had doubts in her heart: The last time Master Gao brought two subordinates and three women here, her sister Lilan's performance was not very familiar, how can she say this today? Could it be that my sister pretended not to know him in front of her?

She didn't expose her sister either, thinking in her heart that her suspicions were justified. Master Gao came twice before and after, how did it become like this last time? If he is sloppy, why didn't he feel it when he took a handkerchief to wipe his body last time in a hurry?

She remembered one of the actions of the tall man when her sister used the agitation method to get the tall man to stay for dinner, which was to dust off his boots with her hands. Such a casual action is by no means a fake. Could it be that a man who cherishes his boots so much would grab steamed cakes with his hands that have touched his feet?

and the fact that he had to fetch water and wash his hands after he was drunk, apparently deliberately avoiding himself and his sister's behavior. Why is he like this? In addition, she had the heart to ask what was going on between her sister and Master Gao, but it was not suitable when she thought about it? Anyway, she suspected that there was something between the two that she didn't know.

It just so happened that Lilan said, "My sister also knows that you have a good impression of him, so she let him catch a handful of them on his feet." Lirong said in her heart, it was originally like this, but now it is a little lively. I heard my sister say, "But since Master Gao came to our hostel twice in just one day, at least it shows that he is not averse to taking a dip here." ”

Lilan said, you and I have seen his ability, and ten Chen Zhutou can't compare. Besides, a five-grade official, shouldn't we hold him well? I can't find this big umbrella with a lantern!

Lirong said, "Sister, just say it, don't you wish I had no idea about him, how are you going?" ”

Before he finished speaking, Lilan took a sip and said, "Didn't you see the three women who came to Gao last time?" Looking at them, my sister has left all her previous thoughts behind! Lirong didn't expose it yet, but listened to her say:

"In the past, I thought that all the people who could come here were some street sellers, land wealth, and fast fishing, and then it was a seven- or eight-grade county order, and those fragrances, soaphorns and bath towels were enough to be of high grade, but this time I wanted to go into some better ones."

Lirong knew who her sister was going to come in for, and she suspected that she was not clear with Master Gao. But she knew that if she asked her directly, Lilan would definitely deny it, and she would never say it so casually in the future, so she wouldn't see any flaws.

In order to get a glimpse of her sister's secret, she was worried that her sisters didn't have a chance to be alone, so she said, "Sister, what you said is very reasonable, if you wait for the tall man, you can at least fifteen good thugs." So the two sisters discussed, took a short nap, and got up early the next day to go to the Longquan Pavilion.

In the evening, they handed a letter to Chen Zhutou and asked him to bring two catchers to escort him. It is not far from Jiaohe to Longquanguan Road, only eighty miles, but there is no village or town along the way, but the two women can't drive, and there are many things wrong on the road.

Chen Zhutou patted his chest and agreed, during the day, he let his family climb all over the ground, lost his face in front of Lilan, and was anxious to make up for one or two, how could it be unreasonable? Therefore, the carriage was prepared early, and when it was over, he brought the carriage and people to the hostel to pick up the two Lilan sisters on the road.

The road was quiet and sparsely populated, and the car was brisk, and it only took an hour to arrive at the Longquan Pavilion. The head catcher took two of his subordinates and followed the Lilan sisters around the Longhu Spring Pavilion, and in those bath-related stores, they specially selected expensive items to buy a little, just to entertain the tall people.

I didn't want a few people to carry things, I was saying that the time was very early and I could go back at noon, and I didn't want Chen Zhutou to see two people at the door of a store. He was so frightened that he turned his back to Sister Lilan and said, "It's not good, let's go!" ”

Lilan didn't hear clearly, thinking that he was saying that what he bought was not good, so she asked, "Nonsense, why is it bad?" The voice was a little higher, and I heard the two people at the door of the store behind me shouting, "Where to go, stop!" (To be continued.) )