The last three kingdoms

Chapter 94 Gourd
The weather in July is always changing. The sky in the afternoon was originally clear and scorching hot, but in the blink of an eye, it was covered with clouds, rain was about to come, and the river was turbid.

Zhao Zhuo said to Liu Yin: "The weather has changed, brother, let's go back to the room and rest for a while. It is estimated that there will be no ships sailing in this kind of ghostly weather."

Liu Yin had no plans to turn around. The worse the weather was, the more opportunities Wei Guo's spies could take advantage of. Any bit of carelessness would cause irreversible consequences.

Liu Yin jumped on a patrol boat and ordered the soldiers on board to sail.

At this time, the wind and waves on the river were very strong, Zhao Zhuo urged urgently: "Brother, the wind and waves on the river are raging, it is not suitable to sail!"

"Will Jade Bird think it's not suitable to sail today?" Liu Yin said calmly.

Zhao Zhuo was speechless, since Liu Yin insisted on patrolling the river, he and Zhang Le were naturally not to be outdone, and followed him onto the boat.

When I was on the shore, I could clearly feel the shaking of the patrol boat. At this moment, the patrol boat sailed into the center of the river. In the turbulent waves, the patrol boat was bumping up and down, almost in danger of capsizing.

Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo's face was pale, and he was holding the mast of the ship tightly, with a dignified expression.

Although the Mian River in the Hanzhong section is not as wide as the downstream, it is still several miles wide, and the water depth is unpredictable. In the wind and waves, once the patrol boat capsizes, there is almost no possibility of escape. It is reasonable for Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo to be nervous .

Liu Yin was calm and composed. He stood on the side of the boat, clasped the side of the boat with one hand, and watched everything on the river closely.

But just as Zhao Zhuo said, with such a big storm, few boatmen dare to take the risk. At this time, no matter if it is a fishing boat or a merchant ship, they all enter the port to avoid the storm. Other than that, I can't seem to see anything.

Zhang Le was a little seasick, and the violent turbulence made him miserable, so he said: "Brother, it seems that there are no boats coming on this river, why don't we go back to the shore first, and wait for the wind and waves to calm down before we set sail again."

Liu Yin felt a little helpless. In his imagination, Jade Bird would definitely seize this rare bad weather and sneak out of Hanzhong. But now, after patrolling the river for a long time, he didn't even see a boat. Could it be that Jade Bird still Have another plan?

Seeing that the storm was approaching, Liu Yin sighed and ordered the cruise ship to return.

The soldiers who were driving the boat didn't want to stay on the water for a long time. Upon hearing Liu Yin's order, they immediately turned the bow of the boat and sailed towards the shore.

"Wait..." Liu Yin seemed to see something floating on the water, half-floating and half-sinking in the wind and waves, looming, he immediately ordered the soldiers to stop the boat to check.

"It's probably a gourd." Although Zhang Le's eyes are small, they focus the light. From a long distance, he saw a gourd floating in the water. "It's nothing unusual. I don't know who threw it into the river."

There are often some strange things floating in the water, and Zhang Le and others are naturally not surprised.

Liu Yin also saw clearly that it was a gourd, a very ordinary gourd, slightly larger than the usual ones, but there was nothing unusual about it.

The current on the river was very fast, and the gourd floated over quickly, rubbed against the side of the boat and drifted downstream. Everyone was focused on returning to the voyage, and did not pay much attention to the gourd that appeared unexpectedly.Liu Yin suddenly had a thought, and ordered the soldiers on the boat: "Quickly, fish up that gourd."

Zhang Le was very puzzled and said: "Brother, it's just a broken gourd. What's there to fish for? When I go back to the shore, I'll find you ten or eight."

Liu Yin ignored him and insisted on his own opinion. Naturally, the soldiers on the ship did not dare to disobey the orders of the lieutenant You Cheng. Fortunately, the gourd was bigger and the target was obvious in the river. The sailors paddled hard and quickly caught up with the gourd and picked it up.

Liu Yin got the gourd and saw that there were cracks on the seal of the gourd. It was obvious that the gourd was not intact. He immediately opened the gourd and pulled out a roll of cloth from inside as if by magic.

As soon as they saw something inside, Zhang Le and Zhao Zhuo's eyes were attracted to them. When Liu Yin opened the cloth, it turned out to be the same map as the defense map of Hanzhong intercepted by Chen Cangdao. They were speechless in surprise. Come.

"Brother, it's amazing, how do you know what's in this gourd?" Zhang Le exclaimed.

Liu Yin's expression was quite dignified. It was completely accidental that he intercepted the defense map. When Liu Yin saw the gourd, he never thought that there would be such an important thing hidden in the gourd.

Previously, I thought that Jade Bird would take advantage of the stormy weather to take action, but I never thought that Jade Bird would smuggle information out of the country in this way. The current on the river is so fast that no one will pay attention to a small There will be something hidden in the gourd, and this move of the blue bird is really unexpected.

Zhao Zhuo wiped off his cold sweat and said, "Thanks to my elder brother's knowledge of Zhuo Yuan, it's really a fluke to intercept Wei's spy's plot to use the water gourd to pass on the blueprint."

Liu Yin still had a solemn expression on his face. Since Jade Bird could think of this method to transmit information, it was obviously well thought out. It would definitely not use only one gourd, and there must be multiple backups. This blueprint is obviously the same as Chen Cangdao The intercepted blueprints are the same as transcripts, and the blue bird downstream will naturally send people to respond, and it will be safe to put multiple gourds in the water.

"My lord, just now I saw the same gourd floating past..." A soldier said cautiously, as if he was afraid that Liu Yin would blame him.

Liu Yin didn't mean to blame him at all, and immediately ordered the patrol boat to sail downstream, and at the same time ordered everyone on board to closely watch any objects on the water surface.

All the way down the river, the cruise ship swayed and bumped in the wind and waves, and there were many dangers, but no one had the slightest fear. They all stared at the river, for fear of missing any tiny thing.

"My lord, there is a gourd in front!" the sharp-eyed soldier shouted excitedly.

But at this moment, there was lightning and thunder, and a torrential rain came. The water and the sky lined up. Before the boat approached, the gourd that had just been discovered immediately disappeared into the water and sky.

"Brother, I can't chase anymore. Weixing County is in front of us. If we go further, we will enter the sphere of influence of Wei State!" Zhao Zhuo said helplessly. Once a boat and dozens of people enter the territory of Wei State, basically There is no return.

The torrential rain was coming, and Liu Yin was drenched by the rain, shivering from the cold, but his heart had dropped to a freezing point. Although this result had already been expected by him, when he finally failed , Liu Yin still felt a faint pain in his heart.

In the fight with the blue bird, he failed again.

"Let's go back to the voyage!" Liu Yin gave the order helplessly, with an extremely lonely expression on his face, and the heavens will not help him, but what can be done.

Thunderstorms came and went quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the clouds stopped and the rain stopped, and the setting sun hung far away on the river in the west. The whole Mian water seemed to be reflected red by it, and the blood color of the river was always red to the sky...

(End of this chapter)