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The night wind in Daqimeng Mountain seemed to be extremely cold. Chu Huan didn't speak, but frowned in thought. Naturally, all his subordinates didn't dare to say more. After a while, Chu Huan raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, search around the bamboo building. , see if you can find anything, pay special attention to the ground, and see if there are any traces of excavation...!"

Everyone took orders immediately, and Xuanyuan Sheng asked, "My lord, did you find anything?"

"There are no tea people in the tea house. This is their negligence, but it also shows that they are in a hurry." The lights in the bamboo house have been lit, Chu Huan looked around, and said solemnly: "They are not wrong in one thing. This is indeed a tea house, but the real tea maker may have been killed."

Only then did Xuanyuan Sheng understand, "My lord is saying that they took the first step and killed the tea maker here, and then pretended to be the tea maker and waited here, intending to harm us?"

Chu Huan nodded and said, "I'm just guessing. If that's the case, I'm afraid we can find something nearby...!"

After a while, I heard a voice from outside: "My lord, there is something wrong here!"

Chu Huan immediately followed the sound, Xuanyuan Shengcai and Qiu Ruxue followed Chu Huan from left to right, and went down the bamboo building. There were already guards waving from the woods. At this time, everyone gathered around. Chu Huan arrived Getting closer, I saw two corpses already exposed, covered with a layer of snow. These two corpses were all dressed in very obvious ghost clothes and had wooden necklaces on them. At this time, someone had already lit the fire. Zhezi, although the flames are not very bright, you can see that the faces of the two corpses are pale, and there are knife marks on their necks, and the snow on the knife marks has solidified.

Qiu Ruxue had already squatted down, touched the cheeks of these two people with his hand, then rolled their eyelids, turned around, and said to Chu Huan: "The time for them to die will not exceed An hour!"

Xuanyuan Sheng frowned and said: "One hour? That is to say, when we are about to reach Daqimeng Mountain...!"

Chu Huan looked at the two corpses, pondered for a while, and said, "Then I guessed right, they must have found our trail and knew we were going to get here, so they attacked the tea maker in the teahouse in advance. , and then pretend to be a tea maker and wait here."

"It should be like this." Qiu Ruxue said slowly: "They were not sure about your lord's whereabouts at the beginning, and they didn't know where he would go at the foot of Daqimeng Mountain. The teahouse started in a hurry, and the two corpses were thrown here casually, covered with snow and stones, and there was no time to bury them."

Only then did Xuanyuan Sheng hold the handle of the knife tightly, and frowned, "My lord, who is trying to assassinate us? Those disguised people are all ghosts...!"

An official of the Ministry of Households next to him said with some fear: "Lord Chu, the Guifang people have always been cruel and barbaric, like savages. This is probably the beginning. If we don't leave, the Guifang people may still attack us."

As soon as he said this, the four or five officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs who followed him all changed their colors slightly, with fear in their eyes.

Guifang lives in Anyi, and actually not many Qin people know about Guifang's existence. First, they are very low-key and neglected by others. Second, the number of people in the ethnic group is too small, less than 2.

But of course these officials of the Household Department knew the existence of Guifang. Guifang had previously made a deal with the Taiyuan Household Department headed by Huang Zhigui in order to survive. The ghost people still have some understanding. In their eyes, the ghost people are really tough, irritable, and lack of etiquette.

After this incident at this time, the officials of the household department immediately thought of the ferocity of the Guifang people, and immediately felt that they were in a dragon's pool and a tiger's den, and they became nervous and afraid.

Chu Huan didn't make a sound, and at this moment, he heard a guard soldier say: "My lord, look, there... there is a fire!"

Everyone looked over, and saw that the mountain was lit up with dots of fire, a little messy, and coming down from the mountain, Xuanyuan Shengcai had already drawn his sword in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Protect your lord!"

Ten Guards soldiers immediately formed a protective circle around Chu Huan, several officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs leaned on Chu Huan's side, Xuanyuan Shengcai, Qiu Ruxue and Sun Zikong also stood by Chu Huan's side.

Chu Huan frowned, everyone was fully alert, the fire on the mountain was moving very fast, Sun Zikong couldn't help but asked, "Shall we extinguish the fire?"

"They have seen it." Xuanyuan Shengcai said: "Whether it is an enemy or a friend, it is still unknown!"

Suddenly he heard a voice from the other side of the mountain, "Who is down there?"

Xuanyuan Sheng just glanced at Chu Huan, Chu Huan nodded slightly, Xuanyuan Sheng immediately took two steps forward, but at this time he had already sheathed his knife, took his bow in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "The imperial envoy is here, I want to see you." Cave Master Yi Gusi, who are you?"

He was full of energy, thick and powerful, and his voice was heard far away.

The flames 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 from the mountain: "Is it Master Chu Huan?"

Chu Huan said: "It's my official!"

"Yi Gusi is here!" A thick voice came from the other side, and then the fire light moved, and the scattered fire light merged together, and everyone soon saw a burly man coming from the forest, Chu Chu Huan only took one look and recognized it as Yi Gusi. He had seen Yi Gusi before when he came to Daqimeng Mountain secretly last time. Although there are not as many woodcarvings as in the Ghost Master He Valley, there are still a lot of them, densely packed.

Yi Gusi held a ghost-headed sword in his hand, and behind him, more than a dozen Guifang men also held swords in their hands, and each of them looked fierce and evil.

The Great Qin State issued a sword hunting order very early, and ordinary people were not allowed to have weapons in their hands.

It's just that 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 except when they contact them when they are urging for taxes.

Because of the lack of strong supervision from the government, Ghost Fang also secretly stockpiled some weapons for the safety of the group, but the quantity was extremely rare. The trading of weapons was forbidden on the market, and the few weapons could only be carried out in private.

What's more, people in the Central Plains have always been prejudiced against ghosts. Some private markets are unwilling to do business with ghosts. Although ghosts also have blacksmiths, Daqimeng Mountain does not belong to mines, so resources are scarce, and weapon forging is also impossible. .

Only after the Huang family rebellion, Gui Fang obtained a large number of weapons from the Huang family, not only the grain and weapons sent by Huang Zhigui as a condition to win over, but also during the battle of Lihua Valley, Gui Fang also took the opportunity to obtain a lot of sophisticated weapons. After that, they were distributed to Guifang Shiliudong according to the proportion. At this time, the weapons in the hands of Yi Gusi and others were obtained from Huang's army.

Chu Huan saw that Yi Gusi and the others looked unfriendly, and felt ominous in his heart, but he still smiled and took a few steps forward, cupping his hands and said, "Cave Master Yi, we said goodbye last time, are you all right?"

Yi Gusi's expression was indifferent, his eyes were wide open, he stared at Chu Huan, and said with a sneer, "Master Chu, I was about to find you, but unexpectedly you came...!" His hand holding the knife tightened, and the back of his hand The veins on his chest were raised, and he looked around, and suddenly saw two corpses lying on the ground beside him. He frowned, looked carefully, and then his expression changed drastically, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said sharply: "You guys ...you actually killed our people?"

Chu Huan knew that there was a misunderstanding, and his expression became 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 treat each other with this attitude, but according to reason, as the master of the sixteen caves, It is absolutely impossible for Yi Gusi to not know the purpose of his trip. The relocation of the ghost side is a major event that concerns the whole ghost side. Well prepared, it is naturally impossible for him to inform the Cave Master of Sixteen Caves about this matter.

It should have been more than half a month since He Xigu came back to Daqimeng Mountain. Yi Gusi, one of the masters of the Sixteen Caves, could not have known that Chu Huan had come to register his household registration and do the migration work.

But Yi Gusi's attitude is obviously contrary to common sense.

"Cave Master Yi, there may be a misunderstanding between us." Chu Huan frowned and said, "We did not kill these two people."

A person beside Yi Gusi sneered and said: "You hold knives in your hands, how dare you say that you didn't kill people?"

Chu Huan said lightly: "We didn't even get here for 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 really cruel and merciless, crossing the river and tearing down the bridge!"

Chu Huan felt that these ghost people were really weird, so he frowned, looked at Yi Gusi, and said solemnly: "Cave Master Yi, I don't understand what you mean, don't you know why we came here this time? ?”

"Of course I know." Yi Gu Siben's ugly face twitched, and he looked rather ferocious, "Didn't you people from the Central Plains have a good saying, crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, unloading mills and killing donkeys? You used us, and you swore it last time Make a promise to us, but... you backtrack, don't think that we don't know your sinister schemes, you have wanted to drive us Ghost Fang to extinction from the very beginning, Chu Huan, to tell you the truth, although my Ghost Fang is small and weak, but I will not let anyone bully me!"

Chu Huan only felt that Yi Gusi's words became more and more strange, and couldn't help asking: "Master Yi, I really don't understand what you said, where did you start with the so-called crossing the river and demolishing bridges, unloading mills and killing donkeys? Chu Huan Although Huan came a few days late, he did not break his promise, and by coming here this time, he is fulfilling his promise to you!"

Yi Gusi's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "You still want to argue here?" He said in a deep voice, "Bring it here!" A person came up from behind, holding a string of necklaces in his hand, Yi Gusi took it, and raised his hand to shine in front of Chu Huan , Shen Sheng asked: "Do you know this?"