I am farming and growing flowers in the ancient martial arts world

Chapter 222 Eavesdropping
In this case, if they want to live a good life, on the premise of being loyal to Wu Shixian, it is necessary to moderately please Wu Shixian's first seven adoptive sons.

And among all the ways they could do to please Wu Shixian's first seven adopted sons, the starling who stood on the same side with them and helped them secretly target and exclude Qiao Heng and Qiao Heng was obviously the most beneficial and not fee.

Qiao Heng is used to being treated like this. Normally, he would just wait here obediently.

Anyway, whether Wu Shixian wanted to see him or not, the concierge who informed him would eventually give him a definite reply.

After all, even if they wanted to please Wu Shixian's first seven adoptive sons, they would not dare to hide it in the middle, and they would not pass it on to him at all.They could delay in making things difficult for him, Qiao Heng, but they didn't dare to make their own claims and violate Wu Shixian's taboo.

However, today Qiao Heng didn't intend to continue to be embarrassed honestly. He took a look at the busy concierge, and then directly brought a few of his guards including Yun Zhao and Zhen Xiaomei into the City Lord's Mansion .

"Hey——" the last doorman who stayed on the spot just wanted to stop him, but Qiao Heng flew over with a sharp eye, and the other party immediately shrank his neck knowingly and swallowed what he wanted to say.

Qiao Heng snorted coldly, and continued walking towards the inner part of the City Lord's Mansion with big strides.

Yun Zhao and Zhen Xiaomei who were following behind him, one of them kept their eyes on Tao Jianye, while the other would silently leak a little medicine powder from their small hands every time they met a group of high-level warriors.

With previous experience, Qiao Heng purposely touched Zhen Xiaomei who was walking behind him on the right this time. However, Zhen Xiaomei's movements were too subtle. , it is difficult to accurately capture Zhen Xiaomei's small movements.

A few people followed Tao Jianye far away like this, and went straight to the courtyard where Wu Shixian worked every day.

Although Qiao Heng's status as "Wu Shixian's adopted son" is not good, but this status allows him to appear in Wu Shixian's City Lord's Mansion in a reasonable manner.

Because of this, the guards and servants in Wu Shixian's mansion did not feel suspicious or wary of them all the way.

It wasn't until they could hear the conversation between Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye that one of the guards responsible for personal protection of Wu Shixian appeared and stopped Qiao Heng and others outside Wu Shixian's yard.

He bowed to Qiao Heng very perfunctorily, "Jiu Ye, the city lord is discussing matters with Qi Ye, and he has no time to see you for now."

As for inviting Qiao Heng to the nearby yard to sit down and wait, and even bring him some tea and snacks, Qiao Heng said, sorry, he has never enjoyed this kind of experience in Wu Shixian's City Lord's Mansion. Very ordinary hospitality.

None of Wu Shixian's confidant guards and servants ever regarded him as a so-called "guest" who needed to be given the most basic respect.

Qiao Heng bowed his hands in return very calmly, "Thank you for letting me know. Then I'll walk around here by myself first."

Wu Shixian is very good at enjoying this huge city lord's mansion. Although he is the only city lord who can be regarded as a serious "master", he still makes the carved beams and painted buildings, every step and every scene in this city lord's mansion full of luxury and delicacy.

Not only did the back house of the City Lord's Mansion have several small gardens and a large garden for Wu Shixian and his concubines to entertain, even the front yard of the City Lord's Mansion was repaired by Wu Shixian, one large and one small.

The older one is next to the guest courtyard, where Wu Shixian usually entertains guests, rewards his adopted son and his subordinates, while the younger one is outside the courtyard where Wu Shixian usually works. ", which means he wants to spend time in that small garden.

The guard just wanted to stop Qiao Heng from disturbing Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye, but the other party didn't care about how he would pass the time.

He bowed his hands to Qiao Heng, "Please do what you want."

Qiao Heng returned the gift, then took Zhen Xiaomei and the others to the small garden outside Wu Shixian's courtyard.

After entering the small garden, Qiao Heng made sure that there were no other people around, so Qiao Heng cast his gaze on Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao.

He knew that Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao were far inferior to him and his guards in strength. In this place, he and his guards might not be able to hear what Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye were saying, but Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao were very Might be able to hear clearly.

Meeting his hopeful and anticipating eyes, Zhen Xiaomei gave him a slight nod, affirming his guess and fulfilling his hopes and expectations incidentally.

She eavesdropped openly with her ears open, and silently picked out important content to retell.

Qiao Heng had never learned such an unpopular skill as lip language, but after Zhen Xiaomei deliberately slowed down her speech and supplemented with certain movements, he was able to guess some of the messages she wanted to convey.

In fact, Wu Shixian and Tao Jianye didn’t say anything serious. What Zhen Xiaomei and Yun Zhao heard at the beginning was Tao Jianye reporting the battle situation to Wu Shixian with a dejected face, pleading guilty and defending himself by the way, and then Wu Shixian’s questioning and scolding and subsequent instructions.

The most critical content here is the follow-up instructions given by Wu Shixian, but since those who fought against Tao Jianye before have a close relationship with Qiao Heng, Qiao Heng will inevitably care about the first half of the two people's conversations.

Zhen Xiaomei caught the unconcealable worry from his eyes and expression, so she also kindly relayed Tao Jianye's content about the previous battle situation for him.

According to Tao Jianye, the reason why their quelling the chaos this time lost troops and failed to achieve an inch of success is because they fell into the trap of the enemy.

The main purpose of the opponent's attack on their big farm sixty miles east of Ganzhou City was not to rob Zhuangzi or store grain, but to lure them out of the city to ambush them.

The opponent chose a dense forest between Tianzhuang and Ganzhou City as an ambush location. As soon as Tao Jianye and the others entered the forest, countless organs inside were activated at the same time, catching them by surprise.

Tao Jianye was actually at the front of the team on horseback at that time, but at the moment when the danger approached, he used his high strength to quickly jump from the most aggressive place to the back of the team several times.

Other high-level warriors in the team also took the same action as him, but not all of these high-level warriors were as lucky as Tao Jianye.

The vast majority of them died in the initial wave of enemy attacks, and about half of the few who survived by chance were lost one after another during their hasty escape.

(End of this chapter)