famous concubine

Chapter 163
There is a small town there, although it is located in a remote place, but because there are many pedestrians passing by, this small town is also extremely prosperous.

Dongfang couldn't ride a horse, and couldn't find any means of transportation in this remote place, so he had to use the most primitive way, walking on two legs step by step.

Occasionally, she would meet one or two families on the way. When she met someone, she took the opportunity to ask for a bowl of water, and asked in a casual manner.

Just like now, she is holding a sea bowl with rough edges, pouring a bowl of cold water into her stomach, then flicking her sleeves, wiping the water droplets from the corners of her mouth, blinking her bright eyes, looking at the simple man, and asking with a smile Said: "Uncle, there are few pedestrians on this road, the surrounding area should be relatively peaceful, right?"

The dark-skinned man looked at the young man with thin skin and tender flesh, and said, "Generally speaking, I have lived here for three to forty years, and it's pretty peaceful. I haven't heard of any bandits."

"However..." The man thought for a while, looked at the young man, and said with some hesitation: "It's strange to say that in a place where nothing happened for decades, it is said that a strange thing happened more than a month ago."

"Oh, strange thing? What strange thing?" Dongfang Yu's heart suddenly shook. She lowered her eyes, her long eyelashes covered the throbbing in her eyes, then raised her eyebrows with a look of great interest, and smiled: "Can uncle Tell me about it? I've been interested in all sorts of strange things all my life."

The man grinned, beckoned Dongfang Yu to sit down on the stone bench under the tree, and then said: "Cough, I'm actually just hearing it from hearsay, so I don't think it's true, but since you're interested, little brother, I'll talk about it."

He thought for a while, and said: "I heard that more than a month ago, a batch of local money turned over to the treasury was robbed on the official road of Pingding Mountain."

Hearing this, Dongfang Yu's eyes changed slightly.Could it be that this matter, which is still a secret in the imperial capital, has already spread in this remote mountainous place?
She pretended to be surprised, and said: "How did uncle know this? Who has the guts to rob the government's money?"

"Hey, I just heard about it." The man waved his hand, and said again: "Little brother, you've heard of it, who knows if this kind of thing is true or not."

Dongfang Yu was taken aback for a moment, then regained his calm demeanor, and listened to this rumor with the attitude of an outsider.

"You are right, uncle, please continue."

"It's strange to say that. I heard that after the robbers got the money, they didn't take the money outside to show off. Instead, they hid the money in a secret place."

Dongfang Yu said with a smile: "It's nothing strange, the government's money has special marks, if they take it out and spend it carelessly, they may be arrested as soon as they show up."

"Hehe, the little brother is more knowledgeable." The man smiled honestly, and said again: "The little brother must not guess it. I heard that the place where they hide their money is in this mountain forest."

Dongfang Yu was stunned, and asked, "Uncle, you said they hid the silver in this mountain range? What else have you heard? Do you know why they hid the silver in such a place?"

"Cough, I don't know if it's true or not." The man scratched his head and said, "Anyway, I heard everything. It is said that they built a silver casting place in this rolling mountain in advance. I guess they will The silver is hidden in the mountains, it must be to imitate the silver."

After listening to Dongfangyu, she was silent for a while, she didn't think the robbers wanted to counterfeit silver.She felt that if this rumor was true, those robbers hid the silver in the mountains, firstly, it was convenient for hiding, and secondly: if there really was a secret base or something like that, they probably wanted to melt down the official silver and recast it. It should be silver without the official logo.

In that case, if they take out the money and spend it, no one will be able to grasp it, let alone trace the whereabouts of the stolen official money.

The girl's heart tightened. In that case, wouldn't it be possible that that person disappeared in the mountains?
She thought for a while, then showed great interest, and said with a smile, "What else have you heard, uncle?"

"Oh, little brother, what happened later will be interesting." Seeing her high interest, the man became interested at the moment, his eyes sparkled, and he said excitedly: "I heard that after the court knew that the silver was robbed, The emperor was very angry, and immediately sent someone to secretly investigate the whereabouts of the silver. The person he sent was a capable person, and he was able to find out the silver hidden in the mountains by the bandits, and sent it back to the emperor."

Dongfang raised his eyebrows, how could the uncle's rumors be so close to the truth?

"What then?"

The man grinned, and said again: "Later, I heard that something happened again. The young man who came to investigate and retrieve the silver was missed by those gangsters. The government hasn't released the silver for a long time. Far away, those gangsters used tricks secretly to entangle them again."

The man grinned, showing his jagged yellow teeth, which made Dongfang Yu frowned.

But he heard him say: "However, I heard that the young man was very skillful. At that time, most of the officers and soldiers were asked to protect the money and leave first, while he stayed where he was to stop the robbers. Seeing that the robbers lost their money, they were furious and couldn't beat them, so they followed them all the way secretly. Afterwards, they sneaked a few times and finally succeeded. They are not among those officers and soldiers who blatantly escort them."

When the dark-skinned man said this, he paused for a moment, sighed with regret, and said, "I found out that the robbers who were taken in are all cruel and ruthless guys, and they actually found a group of quack masters later on, and they were very angry." The young man who was left behind was seriously injured..."

The girl's eyebrows twitched violently, and the young man in the man's mouth must be Mobai.

She remembered that the emperor vaguely mentioned that Mo Bai was seriously injured, and then suddenly lost contact.

She raised her eyes, looked at the dark-skinned man, and asked with an inexplicable nervousness in her delicate voice, "What happened next? Is there any news about the seriously injured young man?"

Unexpectedly, the man nodded and then shook his head, with a strange expression on his face, and said: "I heard that the young man was still very good after being seriously injured, so he managed to escape from the encirclement of those robbers with all his might. Some people said that they saw him flee back to the mountains and hid himself to heal his wounds; others said that they seemed to see the young man who was given by them in the vicinity..."

The girl's heart tightened, and even her dark crystal-like pupils shrank suddenly in the man's last sentence.

She never dared to think about the worst scenario. She always believed that the person must still be alive, but she didn't know where he was hiding.

(End of this chapter)