Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 328: Jiang Ping'er's Thousand Mile Search

While the brother and sister were talking, someone came to the gate of Zhao Guanxiang's courtyard and shouted loudly into the house:

"Cub Tiger, it's your turn to patrol, get going quickly!"

Just by hearing the address, I knew that he was a colleague of Zhao Guanxiangjian.

Zhao Guanxiang stood up and said to Zhao Nishang: "Sister, look..."

"Okay, I have a general idea of ​​what's going on in this county governor's mansion, so I won't stay any longer."

Zhao Nishang had achieved her purpose for coming here today. She stood up and said, "That's perfect. Take advantage of your shift change to send me out of the city."

"Will you stay a little longer?"

"No, I'm not bringing the Xiaowei with me to Jingzhou this time, but the people from Weiyuan Escort Agency." Zhao Nishang said this with a helpless look on her face. "Although the people under the command of Marquis Weiwu are much better than ordinary soldiers, they are not as disciplined as the Xiaowei, nor do they have the ability to hide and ambush as the Xiaowei. Now they are hiding outside the city. I have to go back as soon as possible to avoid any problems."

Most of the escorts of Weiyuan Escort Agency are retired officers and soldiers from the Northern Frontier, and they are also an elite force.

But those who retreated from the battlefield in the northern border must have some problems. Either they are disabled or they are troublemakers who have committed some serious mistakes.

Song Yizhan was right. The group of brothers under him were somewhat difficult to manage.

Although Zhao Nishang had a headache, fortunately these people obeyed the military orders and recognized her adoptive father's badge, and at least they obeyed the command on the surface.

However, I didn't expect that Jingzhou is now under such strict control. Every county town is taken over by the government soldiers. If you want to enter or leave the county town, you not only need a local Jingzhou household registration card but also a travel permit.

Zhao Nishang has commissioned the branch of Zhao's Trading Company in Jingzhou to forge these things, but this will take time. Before that, the escorts from Weiyuan Escort Agency can only hide in the counties under the jurisdiction of Tianyuan County.

……

"Big sister, you said...my brother-in-law is in Tianyuan County?"

Tianyuan County, in a dense forest outside the city.

A group of people were lurking in the woods, lying on the treetops, looking from afar at the towering city walls of Tianyuan County and the heavily guarded soldiers and officers at the city gate.

Each of them was a big, muscular, fierce-looking man with large tattoos on their exposed arms, chests, backs, etc.

If you pick one out alone, it will be enough to stop a child from crying.

But here, there are more than a dozen of them.

The one they called "Big Sister" was a very pretty and heroic looking woman.

Her long hair like a waterfall was simply tied into a high ponytail. The sleeves only reached her arms, revealing her wheat-colored arms. Her body did not look frail like a young lady in the boudoir. She had a slender waist and a plump butt, and was quite well-groomed.

This person was none other than Jiang Liuer's elder sister, Jiang Pinger.

The people around Jiang Ping'er were the "uncles" she brought from Huangsha Village. They were all the people who had followed the Shiwanli Mountain bandit leader Jiang Lin to fight all over the world.

Jiang Ping'er hid in the bushes, looking at the gate of Tianyuan County from afar, and pursed her lips: "I have already found out everything. The group of imperial envoys sent by the court are now in Tianyuan County. My man is so extraordinary, he must be the core of them, and he must be here too."

"Then it's not a solution for us to stay outside the city, right?"

"Uncle Snake is right. Then...why don't you go over and find out what's going on?"

Jiang Ping'er looked at the scarred man closest to her on the left, who was the one who had just complained.

"I go?"

Scarface's eyes widened and he pointed at himself, then shook his head vigorously: "No, no, I get scared when I see officials, I won't go."

Jiang Ping'er turned her head and looked at the other person: "Uncle Ma, how about you go?"

"Sister, half of my ear was cut off by the court's lackeys. I, I'm scared..."

Jiang Ping'er looked at other people again, but everyone who met her gaze immediately looked away out of guilt.

She immediately flew into a rage and said, "Can you guys show some self-esteem? We have already cleaned ourselves up and landed, okay? Why are you so afraid of these lackeys of the imperial court? If you continue like this, don't even mention being one of the Thirteen Protectors of Huangsha Village. I will be ashamed to have uncles like you."

"Big sister, this is not our fault." A bearded man said with a bitter smile, "When we were recruited, the court was on guard against us and had the experts of the Astronomical Observatory put a curse on us. From now on, when we see people in official uniforms, we tremble all over and break out in cold sweats. Look at so many people in official uniforms standing at the city gate. I just took a glance at them, and look at my hands, they are still shaking..."

"Big sister, isn't this looking for your man? Why don't you go?"

Jiang Ping'er immediately felt guilty and muttered, "My father was the first person to be cursed, and I was the second. You are afraid, but I am also afraid."

"Then...why don't we go back? It's hard to find a three-legged frog in the world, but isn't it hard to find a two-legged man? When we go back, the uncles will find you another one."

"It's easy to say, it's so easy to find someone, why am I still unmarried? I finally found this one, I can't let her run away!"

"What should we do?"

Everyone was in trouble again.

Finally, Jiang Ping'er sighed, "It's not a good idea to stay here forever. Let's see if there are any counties or towns nearby and find a place to stay first."

"Well, I think it's okay."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and then came out from the bushes where they were hiding.

The scarred man behind Jiang Ping'er put his fingers into his mouth and made two whistles, one long and one short.

After the whistle, people suddenly emerged from the trees, behind the tree trunks, and in the bushes in the dense forest that seemed to be empty.

A moment later, a team of over a thousand people gathered.

After everyone had gathered, the bearded man came behind Jiang Ping'er and pointed to the north. "Sister, on the way here just now, I saw a village over there that seemed to be inhabited. Let's go there and have a meal first."

"Okay, let's go north!"

Jiang Ping'er didn't think too much about it. She waved her hand and led everyone towards the north.

……

Jiang Ping'er and her group did not take the official road, but walked along this forest path. Although it was more winding, it was more hidden.

Along the way, there was no disturbance.

After walking for about two hours, the group killed some wild animals such as musk deer and wild boars on the way, and finally reached the end of the dense forest.

After exiting the dense forest, there is a village not far away, nestled between the mountains and the water.

"Big sister, in this kind of chicken feather shop, there is no need to step on the plate. I will take my two young men to the brothel. We don't even need to show the pieces. I will make sure they don't dare to hide anything."

Ban'er came behind Jiang Ping'er, staring at the small village not far away with a ferocious look on his face.

Jiang Ping'er whipped him and cursed, "What are you stepping on? What are you flashing? A dog will always eat shit. It's cleaned up! It's cleaned up! Do you know? If anyone says these dirty words again, I'll pull out his tongue."

She cursed so loudly that everyone was so embarrassed that they dared not look up.

Jiang Ping'er put her hands on her waist, calmed down, and pointed at two people: "Uncle Hu, Uncle Long, you two come with me into the village and see if you can use the silver to buy some food."

Then she looked at the others and raised her voice a few notes: "Everyone else, set up camp and make a fire outside the village! No one is allowed to enter the village without my order!"

"Uncle Tiger, Uncle Long, let's go!"

After she gave the order, she put the whip back to her waist and entered the village with two burly men.

……

"Big sister, don't blame your uncle. The brothers have been bandits for so many years, and it has only been a few years since they came ashore. Some habits are hard to change in such a short time..."

"Third brother is right."

After entering the village, Tiger and Dragon were still trying to reconcile the matter that Dog had just made the eldest sister angry.

After Jiang Ping'er entered the village, she didn't say anything. She just walked a few steps into the village and gradually stopped. Yin Hu thought that Jiang Ping'er didn't want to listen to his nagging, but when Jiang Ping'er, who was walking in front of him, turned around, he found that Jiang Ping'er's face was solemn.

"Uncles, do you feel that there is something wrong with this village?"

Jiang Ping'er looked solemn, her eyes scanning the houses on both sides.

Chen Long hadn't noticed anything was wrong yet, and smacked his lips and said, "What's the matter? It's normal that there are fewer people. With the situation in Jingzhou, I guess everyone in this village has fled to escape the famine, right?"

Yin Hu also looked puzzled. When he was about to say something, he suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that a small crack had been opened on the second-floor window of a small house next to him, and a flash of cold light flashed across the window in an instant.

His heart suddenly tightened, his whole body tensed up, and he shouted, "Be careful!"

"call out--"

Just as Yin Hu finished speaking, a small and sharp sound of breaking through the air was heard.

Jiang Ping'er turned around suddenly and dodged the attack.

And at her original position, an arrow was piercing into the ground with such great force that half of the arrow was embedded in the ground.

Seeing this scene, the three of them suddenly changed their expressions.

The next moment, when the three looked up, they were shocked to find that there were hundreds of arrows on the strings pointing at them in the surrounding buildings.

"Fine steel arrows!"

Jiang Ping'er's back was instantly wet with cold sweat.

Fine steel has only been around for twenty years, and its production is extremely small, supplied only to the elite in the military.

Jiang Ping'er once went to the Northern Frontier Iron Wolf Guard with her father and saw that even in the elite army such as the personal guard camp of Marquis Weiwu, which only warriors could join, only the arrowheads were made of fine steel.

But even so, it is already very expensive. It is said that it is because Marquis Weiwu has a close relationship with the only person in the world who controls fine steel that he was able to obtain a large amount of fine steel.

As for the rest of the army, being able to mix a little bit of fine steel into the arrowheads is a privilege only available to the most elite teams.

But the arrows in these people's hands were made of fine steel!
This is a killing weapon specially prepared for high-level warriors!
"The wind is so tight!"

Jiang Ping'er shouted loudly without hesitation.

As she finished speaking, Yinhu and Chenlong behind her roared, and their clothes burst open instantly. The tattoo that almost occupied their entire upper body seemed to "come alive".

The next moment, the two men's already unusually sturdy bodies suddenly swelled a bit, and inhuman signs such as hair and scales began to appear on their bodies.

"Roar!"

Yin Hu and Chen Long turned around and faced the enemy, roaring, and covered Jiang Ping'er's retreat.

"Wait, you are..."

Jiang Ping'er heard what seemed to be an enemy saying behind her.

But she was not indecisive at all, nor was she so pretentious as to turn around and fight alongside her two uncles and waste the time they had bought for her to escape. She rushed out of the village directly.

……

"Someone! Someone!"

Jiang Ping'er came to the riverside. All her subordinates had already set up camp and made a fire. When they heard her loud and sharp shout, they immediately put down their work and rushed over.

"Big sister, why are you alone? Where are the third and fifth brothers?"

Chouniu, the big man with a full beard, walked up to Jiang Ping'er and asked.

Jiang Ping'er gritted her teeth and said, "There is an ambush in the village. Uncle Hu and Uncle Long will cover my retreat. Follow me quickly and rescue them!"

After hearing this, several uncles became furious.

"Boys, fuck it!"

Following the order, the team quickly assembled, and the men held curved blades with excitement on their faces.

Jiang Ping'er also held a curved blade in her hand, which was a weapon unique to Huangfeng Village. Her blade was made of "meteorite gold", and its quality was almost as good as that of famous weapons.

She just came out, one to ask for help, and the other to get her own weapon!

She held the curved blade in her hand, her face full of murderous intent: "Kill!"

"kill!!!"

Behind him was a thunderous response.

……

"Hahaha, good wine, let's drink too, brothers!"

"We have military duties to attend to, and the commander has ordered us not to drink."

"Damn it! You guys are the regular army! Then Lao Wu and I will not be polite."

Just when Jiang Ping'er and her men rushed back to the village with murderous intent, the scene before her shocked her so much that she almost dropped her jaw.

In an open space at the entrance of the village, some people in armor were transporting carts of supplies out of the village houses.

There is everything to eat and drink.

Yinhu and Chenlong, who were thought to be in a tough battle at this moment, were now sitting on a stone block in an open space at the entrance of the village with their bare chests, holding a cake in one hand and a jar of wine in the other, and enjoying the food.

In front of them, these soldiers of unknown origin were so considerate that they even lit a bonfire, slaughtered a sheep and roasted it over the fire.

"This... Big sister, are you still going to fight?"

This hesitant question not only brought Jiang Ping'er back to her senses, but also made Yin Hu and Chen Long discover their own people who came to support them. They quickly stood up and shouted:
"Don't fight, don't fight, we are all family, the flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple!"

Jiang Ping'er put down the curved blade, looked at each other with the others, and asked, "What... is going on?"

……

"You two go to the pavilion in front and wait. You, you...you two come with me!"

On the official road north of Tianyuan County, Zhao Guanxiang stopped the team and pointed two people to walk towards a fork in the forest.

It was not until the three of them left the team that Zhao Nishang said, "Why did you give me the clothes of a palace soldier? They don't have the armor of your Patrol Observatory."

"Third sister, each lieutenant of the Astronomical Observatory has only so many people under his command. If two new faces suddenly appeared, they would definitely not be able to hide it." Zhao Guanxiang explained helplessly, "Only these soldiers came from various prefectures and were disbanded when they were transferred to Jingzhou. They are a mixed bunch, so it won't matter if there are one or two new faces."

He got off the horse and said, "I'll leave this horse to you. Are the people from the Weiwu Escort Agency in the village ahead?"

Zhao Nishang was not polite either. She took the horse and said, "Yes, I remember the village was called Liuxi Village."

"This place is too close to Tianyuan County City. It's less than 20 miles away, so the daily patrols may still find us." Zhao Guanxiang reminded him, "Before the fake household certificate is issued, it's safer to stay 100 miles away from Tianyuan County."

Zhao Nishang nodded: "Okay, I understand."

"Then be careful on the road. If necessary, have someone from the branch go into the county town to bring me a letter."

After Zhao Guanxiang gave a few more instructions, he watched Zhao Nishang and Gong Xinying leave.

When he returned to the pavilion where the team was, his subordinate who was temporarily taking over the position of adjutant came before him.

The subordinate was surprised to see him coming back alone, and asked, "Sir, where is your horse? Why is your horse gone?"

Zhao Guanxiang's face suddenly turned dark: "...Get lost!"

(End of this chapter)