The man hurriedly said, "They ran into the mountains." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Running into the mountains?" Where are they going? ”

The man said: "Long Tengfei was supposed to wait for a person in Shangqingguan, but then the sentry on the mountain found out that the wheel soldiers were coming, so Long Tengfei asked everyone to go up the mountain to hide, and then come out when the wheel soldiers left, I took advantage of this time to escape." ”

Lin Yuan looked at the man for a while, saw the woman behind him at a glance, and asked, "What does that woman do?" ”

The man said: "It turned out to be in the barracks, and then we surrendered to Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai's men got them over, and today we rebelled, and they also escaped." ”

Lin Yuan waved his hand and said, "It's none of your business, let's go quickly." ”

The man thanked him and led the woman away, and Chen Fei asked on the side, "Do we want to go up the mountain?" ”

Lin Yuan pointed to the verdant mountain in front of him and said, "You see, although this mountain is not high, it stretches for several kilometers, and there are more than 100 of us, and we can't find them when we go in, so let's go back first." ”

Chen Fei nodded, led the people to the car, Lin Yuan asked the fellow: "Has anyone ever entered this mountain?" ”

The fellow smiled: "Yes, the hunters in the nearby villages sometimes go inside to hunt some pheasants and hares or something, don't look at this mountain is quite big, there are not even bigger beasts in it." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Is there a hunter in the village around here?" ”

The fellow pointed to the east with his hand and said, "There's one over there." ”

Lin Yuan said to Chen Fei: "Let's go to the village over there and let the army go back first." So Lin Yuan asked the driver to drive away from the convoy and head east, and the car drove through the wasteland to a wheat field, where a small river flowed, and a group of bare-bottomed dolls were playing in the water.

The car drove across the river, and the group of children happily ran behind the car, Lin Yuan let the car stop at the entrance of the village, and a middle-aged man at the entrance of the village was sitting on the ground with a stone and grinding a hoe. ”

Li Laosan stopped and promised to go back to the village, and soon the people inside came out, and an old man walked out of the crowd and said to Lin Yuan: "The old man is called Qin Laosan, he has been hunting for more than 30 years, and the hunters of the same generation in the village are gone, what does Lin Shuai want to ask?" Come to my house and talk about it. ”

Lin Yuan agreed to come down and fly with Chen to Qin Laosan's house, Lin Yuan walked outside the yard and heard the sound of a spinning wheel "creaking" inside, pushing open the door, a woman was weaving on the spinning wheel, Qin Laosan said: "This is my daughter-in-law, my son went to work in the field." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It is said that in rural China, men plough and women weave, which seems to be true at all. Lin Yuan asked, "Your son is still farming, aren't you hunting for a living?" ”

Qin Laosan sighed, pointed to the stone tables and chairs in the courtyard and said, "Let's sit down and talk slowly." When the three of them sat down, Qin Laosan pointed to the mountain in the distance and said, "Lin Shuai, don't look at the mountain, it's not small, but it's barren inside!" It is said that the mountain eats the mountain, but this mountain is not reliable at all, some of them are pheasants and hares, and they can catch a few to fight the tooth sacrifice, and they can't make money, even the pheasants and hares are not easy to fight, and sometimes they can't meet one in the mountains for a day. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Is there anything else to eat in the mountain?" ”

Qin Laosan shook his head and smiled: "Food? Where is there anything to eat? There are some wild fruits in it, but the fruit can also be eaten fresh, and when you don't feel hungry, when your stomach is empty, you don't feel at all when you pick some fruit and eat it! Oh, and by the way, there are eggs from pheasants, but they're harder to find than pheasants. ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and asked, "Then how many days can a person stay in there without food?" ”

Qin Laosan said with a smile: "I can't stay for a day, I have to starve them out!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded with a smile, and Chen Fei said with a smile: "In that case, we don't need to send people into the mountain, just wait for their people to come out." ”

Lin Yuan smiled and nodded, said goodbye to Qin Laosan, came out of the village, and on the way back to the city, Lin Yuan said: "When you go back, you go and see how Cheng Hai's group of people are arranged, I will go to Yuan Shikai and tell him to send someone to guard under the mountain." ”

While walking, Lin Yuan suddenly saw his convoy parked in front of him, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Why don't they go back to the city, what are they doing here?" It was only when Lin Yuan got close that he found that Yuan Shikai's soldiers were on the opposite side, and the two sides seemed to be facing each other, and at this time, Lin Yuan's subordinates also discovered Lin Yuan and came up one after another.

Lin Yuan asked, "What's the matter?" Did you have a conflict with Yuan Shikai's subordinates? ”

One of the warriors replied, "They're going to burn the mountain!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The educational materials we sent to the soldiers include the content of protecting the environment, which says that it is unreasonable to set fire to the mountain, these soldiers are very simple, it must be that they did not let Yuan Shikai's subordinates burn the mountain, which caused the conflict." So he asked, "Will you not let them go?" ”

But the warrior replied, "No, they are unreasonable!" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that it's not the reason I think, let's ask what's going on." So Lin Yuan asked, "What's going on?" ”

At this time, a tall and strong man walked over from the opposite side, Lin Yuan saw from the military uniform that he was also an officer under Yuan Shikai, but Lin Yuan had never seen him, so Lin Yuan asked, "May I ask who you are?" ”

The big man said in a loud voice: "I am He Meng, the commander of the fierce word battalion under the account of Lord Yuan, and I went to Xishan to search for bandits on the order of Lord Yuan, and Lord Yuan heard that the bandits were hiding in the mountains and forests, so he ordered me to use Zhou Gongjin's red cliff to destroy Cao Cao's method!" As he spoke, he pointed his hand behind him and said, "That's what we prepared to start a fire." ”

Lin Yuan looked in the direction pointed by the big man, and saw more than thirty carriages behind him, with dry firewood and other things piled up on the carriages, Lin Yuan asked, "What does this have to do with us?" ”

He Meng replied: "Our horses are disobedient, they can't pull the cart well, and the road is not easy to walk, it is even slower than a snail, so we have decided to requisition your car!" Pull our firewood and grass to the mountains! ”

A soldier immediately said to Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, do you think they are unreasonable?" Why should we give them our cars? Or requisition, who do they think they are! ”

Lin Yuan waved his hand to stop the warrior's complaint, then walked to the carriage, reached out and touched the horse's shoulder, and then said: "There is no trace of pressure on the hair on the shoulder, this horse is obviously not a horse that drives the cart, where did you get these horses?" ”

He Meng said: "These are the war horses of the Dragon Tengfei troops, and we couldn't find the horses to drive for a while, so we had to bring them." ”

Lin Yuan laughed helplessly and said, "Want to let the war horse drive? If you don't break three or five whips, can it drive honestly? It's you who don't know how to do it, and blame people for being disobedient! The nature of the country is easy to change, and your temperament and temperament can't be changed for a while, let alone a horse! ”

After Lin Yuan said this, the soldiers all laughed, and He Meng thought for a long time before saying, "Are you scolding me?" ”