Summary of the previous chapter: Because he was walking in a hurry, Ma Xiaoquan did not ask for the detailed route. At a three-way intersection, he met a woodcutter...
Li Qinghan hummed twice and looked at Ma Xiaoquan, asking Ma Xiaoquan to find a way to comfort the woodcutter.
Ma Xiaoquan sighed secretly in his heart and had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "Well...this big brother, you suddenly knelt down and asked me to save your wife. I also understand, well, you were thinking of us.
Pick some love flowers and get some for your wife to cure her mute disease, right?"
The woodcutter wiped his tears and nodded heavily.
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Okay, I promise you."
The woodcutter oohed twice and said: "I'm really sorry, I actually forced my elder brother to help me, but there is really no other way. Brother, I hope you don't mind."
Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "Where is it? If it wasn't for my impatience, I wouldn't be like this. Brother, which of these three roads is the best to go to Guangming Mountain?"
The woodcutter turned his head and looked at the three roads, and murmured: "To say that the rightmost road among these three roads is the best. Generally, you will not encounter Jurchen soldiers, but the rightmost road is the longest, and I am afraid that you can go back and forth.
It will take a long time, and the other two roads are much more difficult to walk than the road on the far right, especially the road on the left, but the road on the left is the closest, but it is also the easiest to encounter Jurchen soldiers."
"Yeah" Ma Xiaoquan hesitated for a moment with his chin in his mouth, looked at each other with Li Qinghan, nodded and said: "I understand, thank you, brother"
"Hey, what are you talking about? If I hadn't been shameless, how could my elder brother be in such a difficult situation? By the way, elder brother, which way do you want to go?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly and pointed to the road on the left: "This one"
"What? What? The road on the left? Brother, the road on the left is difficult to walk on. It is also easy to encounter Jurchen soldiers. Brother, it is very dangerous."
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "We have no choice, our time is tight, so we can only choose that path. Besides, we just want to meet the Jurchen soldiers and avenge our sister-in-law, right?"
The woodcutter was stunned, and nodded with a flat mouth: "Brother, I won't say anything if it's too much. Please tell me to kill a few of the stupid Jurchen soldiers. When the eldest brother comes back, come to my house."
"My house is on the mountainside not far ahead. I will cook some wild game for my eldest brother."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded, looked at each other with Li Qinghan, and the two remounted their horses and walked along the left road.
Looking at the retreating figures of Ma Xiaoquan and Li Qinghan, the woodcutter knelt down again and kowtowed three times at their backs.
Not long after the two left, Dongfang Qingxue suddenly appeared at the three-way intersection.
"There are three roads here, which one did they take?" Dongfang Qingxue hesitated for a moment and carefully checked the intersection of the three roads.
"Huh? There are horse hoof prints here. Well, it seems... Ma Xiaoquan and the others took the left path, so I'll go too." After saying that, Dongfang Qingxue didn't sit still, got on the horse again, and walked along.
Follow the road on the left.
...
Ma Xiaoquan and Li Qinghan were silent all the way and ran along the path for about half an hour.
"Wait a minute" Li Qinghan suddenly reined in the reins and shouted.
"Lü" Ma Xiaoquan also pulled the reins urgently, turned around and asked, "What's wrong, Qinghan?"
Li Qinghan jumped off the horse lightly, squatted down and looked at the ground carefully, raised his head and said, "Ma Xiaoquan, there are other horse hoof prints."
"Others?" Ma Xiaoquan was stunned, then jumped off the horse, walked to Li Qinghan, squatted down to check, nodded and said, "Yes, and the horse's hoofprints look like they were recently made, well, if
If I guessed correctly, it should be a Jurchen."
"Jurchens..." Li Qinghan seemed a little scared. After all, the woodcutter brother just said that his wife had been insulted by the Jurchens.
"Don't be afraid, um Qinghan, did you wear the human skin mask? Let's change your appearance, and this." Ma Xiaoquan took off his robe and put it on Li Qinghan, "You don't look good in my robe.
It would be too obvious.”
Li Qinghan hummed softly and put on Ma Xiaoquan's robe obediently.
Ma Xiaoquan nodded and said: "We can't ride horses anymore, otherwise the target will be too big and we have to walk instead. Qinghan, how much dry food and water did you bring?"
Li Qinghan turned to look at the horse behind him and said, "Enough for two days."
"enough"
Li Qinghan asked: "Ma Xiaoquan, what do you want to do?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "Of course I'm doing what I should do..."
"Ma Xiaoquan, the purpose of our trip..."
Before Li Qinghan finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan suddenly covered her mouth, then turned over and pulled her into a bush.
"Don't move, there's an emergency." Ma Xiaoquan only said one sentence, then stopped talking and stared outside the bush.
At this moment, several men in well-dressed clothes came over. Seeing the mounts left by Ma Xiaoquan and Li Qinghan, they immediately ran towards them.
"&" Several men in military uniforms spoke Jurchen dialect that Ma Xiaoquan could not understand. After looking around for a while, they happily led the two horses away.
After the other party walked away, Ma Xiaoquan pulled Li Qinghan to sit up.
"Sorry, Qinghan, the situation is too urgent, so I..."
Li Qinghan smiled slightly, shook his head and said: "It's okay, but Ma Xiaoquan, our dry food and water are all on the horse. Now, we are running out of food and water."
"Well" Ma Xiaoquan scratched his scalp, "This is really a bit tricky. In this case, we really have to go to the Jurchen camp."
"Shall we go to the Jurchen camp? What to do?"
Ma Xiaoquan grinned and said with a chuckle: "Of course it's a profit. The Jurchens are always harassing the border, burning, killing and looting. We have to get some interest, right?"
"Ma Xiaoquan, you don't really want to...kill someone, do you?"
Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand: "That's not true. Killing someone is detrimental to moral integrity. I won't do it casually unless it's absolutely necessary, Qinghan. Just follow me."
In fact, Ma Xiaoquan wanted to go to the Jurchen camp not to gain benefits, but to meet a person, a heroic figure that he felt was worth meeting in this life.
Ma Xiaoquan did not tell Li Qinghan the name of this heroic figure because she was afraid that Li Qinghan would not agree after hearing it.