Chapter 45: Infighting (Add. 1)
Wang Ding thought for a while: "Seven." ”
"Granny Mu usually kills only two people at a time. ”
Wang Ding was stunned, his heart was cold, and he heard Wu Laoba continue: "The extra one is your predecessor." Granny Mu has always been frugal. "She doesn't waste the essence of human flesh and blood.
At this time, Granny Mu pulled out her crutches and took a few steps forward, reached out and stroked a ginseng leaf on the ground: "The morning after tomorrow, its vintage should be enough." You make another trip for me and send it to Master Huang. ”
I don't know how many natural treasures there are in this garden, and the hundred-year-old ginseng is really not outstanding at all. But the money that Master Huang paid was enough to buy it.
Wu Laoba responded, and then said cautiously: "However, Pinggu County has been searching for wanted criminals in the past few days, and the rumors are very tight...... "Although it is not him who the officials want to arrest, he is a mountain bandit, and he has a weak heart! The whole city is strictly arrested, but don't mistake his auxiliary car."
Before he finished speaking, Granny Mu interrupted him: "It's you who are searching for you?"
Wang Ding hurriedly denied: "It's not ......" Although the mountain bandits are indeed wanted, this time Pinggu County is really not for them.
"Then why did they rush to Fangs Mountain?"
The two mountain bandits glanced at each other and were surprised: "What, the officers and soldiers have entered the mountain again?"
Wu Laoba even asked one more question: "When will it be?"
"A few hours ago. Granny Mu said word by word, "Now they have broken through the fragrant miasma forest, and they are not far from here." There was a pause at this point, "There are quite a few people, and the speed of travel is fast. ”
She was standing in the hinterland of the Poison Fang Mountain, and she even knew the number of officers and soldiers who had just entered the mountain!
Granny Mu called the miasma she planted "fragrant miasma", but it would not change its essence of poisoning living beings. What's more, the two bandits did not miss a hearing, she said "breaking through" rather than "breaking in", that is, the intruder passed through the miasma area without harm. I don't know how many scattered people enter the boundary of the Poison Fang Mountain every day, and the nearby mountain people often come to collect medicine. But the one who can pass through the miasma belt ......
The poisonous miasma is also the most important barrier to the den of the bandits in the Poison Fang Mountain, so the two of them are not shocked.
Wu Laoba knew that Granny Mu was very good, and once a large number of living people broke into Poison Fang Mountain, it would not be able to hide from her ears and eyes. His expression turned serious, and he immediately said, "The stakes are very high, and I want to go back to the mountain to report." ”
As soon as the words fell, fireworks suddenly burst into the western sky, brilliant and unrestrained.
The three of them looked up in unison. Wang Ding's face changed color: "The enemy is attacking! The officers and soldiers are about to rush to the back mountain!"
Wu Laoba's face was still a little confused in the gloomy: "Why are two colors coming out together?" He is an old man in the bandits' den, and Poison Fang Mountain has always been such a rule, according to the number of enemies who come to attack, the sentries will release fireworks of different colors.
Now the bicolor goes to the sky, what does it mean?
In any case, this only means that the situation is getting worse, right?
The wind was blowing from outside, and the leaves rustled. Wu Laoba turned around and was about to leave, but when he heard Granny Mu's tone, it became even stranger, "My treasures said that the sentry was killed. The person who took off his waist card was probably only that tall!" gestured with his hand.
She could sense the person wearing the waist tag, but the murderer probably only picked up the wooden tag and didn't hang it on herself, so the information she collected was very limited.
Not enough for her chest? It could only be- "Child?"
Thinking of the word "child", Wu Laoba's mind suddenly buzzed, inexplicably reminiscent of the wanted notice posted on the main street of Pinggu County. Why did the official family arrest a child? Although this was abnormal, it had nothing to do with him, and he didn't bother to think about it at the time.
Granny Mu bowed her jaw, as if she had seen it herself: "Well, it seems to be riding a horse." ”
Not only a child, but also riding a horse...... A figure flashed in Wu Laoba's mind, and he couldn't help but whisper: "Could it be him!" Isn't that the little ghost who designed to dig a pit and harm him? That kid did look less than ten years old, similar to the requirements on the wanted notice.
How could there be such a coincidence in the world? But a young boy should never have appeared alone in a barren mountain and a remote mountain, and an eight-year-old boy should not have the honor of being wanted by the government.
The question is: what is this little ghost doing sneaking into Poison Fang Mountain alone? Also, whether he ran into the mountain bandits robbing the road that day, intentionally or unintentionally.
Wu Laoba's heart became a mess: "Did you see where he went?"
Granny Mu shook her head: "His popularity is too weak, it seems to be covered by something, if it weren't for the conflict with the sentinel, it would be difficult for me to perceive him." ”
Wu Laoba hurriedly said: "I'll go back to the house." ”
Granny Mu stopped him on crutches, and while taking out a small gold ingot from the leather bag he had just handed over, she said, "You take a hundred taels of silver and help me buy some more livestock." ”
Wu Laoba was in a hurry and didn't say yes, but Granny Mu's hand reached into the skin bag and touched it a few times, and her face changed.
When she shrank her wrist and turned her palm, there were only two small pebbles in her palm, where did she get any small gold ingots?
Granny Mu looked at him, and suddenly turned gloomy: "What about my two hundred taels?" She reversed her skin and shook it twice, and a few stones fell to the ground with a thud and fell into the medicine bush.
Other than that, the bag is empty.
Wu Laoba's surprise was also extraordinary, and he subconsciously said: "How come, what I received is clearly gold...... "He also counted in front of the old gatehouse of the Yellow Mansion, but it was just a few small gold ingots, how could it be that Granny Mu poured out a stone?
Could it be that Wang Ding moved his hands and feet? Last night he slept soundly, and this kid got up in the middle of the night. Thinking of this, Wu Laoba looked at Wang Ding's eyes with a ruthless look, and it happened that the latter had already spoken out when he saw that the situation was not good: "You two slowly settle accounts, and I will go back to the mountain to report the enemy situation first." ”
"Stop!" As soon as he raised his leg like this, Wu Laoba sat down seven points in his heart, "Did you transfer the gold!" That's two hundred taels, it's hard to guarantee that this kid won't have bad intentions.
Wang Ding was stunned: "Nonsense! I don't even know where your gold is hidden." ”
Wu Laoba grabbed his shirt: "Search!"
Wang Ding's expression changed suddenly: "By the way, I remembered, you sneaked out without sleeping last night, and when you came back, you were covered in mud, so you took the opportunity to steal and bury gold, right?"
Wu Laoba was furious, and Granny Mu was suspicious, no matter what Wang Ding said was right or wrong, she would definitely doubt him. Thinking of this, he said in a dark voice: "You are squirting people with blood!" showed his long knife and stabbed him five times in a row with lightning speed, each of which hit the chest and abdomen!
The two were too close, Wang Ding didn't dodge for a moment, he couldn't breathe in a few breaths, and fell to the ground and convulsed.
Granny Mu shook her head again and again: "Don't waste it." He stretched out his staff.
When she absorbed Wang Ding's only remaining vitality, Wu Lao Batou did not rush back to her mount, turned over on her horse, and ran towards the front mountain.