He Yunxi's knowledge of poison making and medical skills greatly surprised Liang Chaofeng and the others.
They all felt that He Yunxi was no ordinary peasant girl, but must be the apprentice of some hidden master.
"We'll talk about the drug addiction later," Lu Yan's words brought back everyone's thoughts. "Tomorrow you will observe in secret, take action at the right time, and help the Yamen clear the cottage. In addition, capture the top leader of the cottage."
"Yes, Master."
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The group of people randomly found a place to rest. While it was still bright, He Yunxi asked people to find branches, peel off the bark, and selected four trees that were very close to each other. He first used four longer branches to build a tree.
I made a parallelogram, and then tied the branches with leaves to the top to serve as the top. Then I found large leaves and hung them on the front and sides to serve as walls.
Such a simple shed was set up, and if He Yunxi slept in it, he could be slightly separated.
In fact, when she went on missions with the army, she often spent the night with them in the wild. But times have changed now, and she still needs to pay attention to what she should pay attention to.
Lu Yan was very happy to have such a shed. When he saw the hard ground, he immediately asked someone to cut the grass.
In the deep mountains in early summer, the grass was already very luxuriant. Liang Chaofeng and others didn't spend much time to cut a pile and spread it into the shed with a thick layer. Lu Yan went up and tried it, and it was soft and fell asleep.
You won't feel the stiff ground anymore.
After He Yunxi finished building the shed, he went around and walked around. When he came back, he had a bunch of medicinal materials in his hand. It was almost dark by this time.
"What's this?"
"Herbs to repel mosquitoes." He Yunxi said, "I'm leaving in a hurry, so I didn't bring any mosquito repellent, but these can be used. Just light a fire and throw these herbs in to stifle it for a while."
If you light a fire at night, you may be able to see it from far away. In order not to alert the snake, Lu Yan pushed away the grass in the shed, lit a fire in the shed, and then threw the medicinal materials she found into the fire.
These are all fresh herbs. After entering, the flames were suppressed, and bursts of green smoke came out. The faint fragrance of herbs spread around, and the mosquitoes that came to join in the fun from time to time quickly disappeared.
"Ma'am, this is very useful." Song He sighed, "If I had known earlier that I could drive away mosquitoes like this, my eldest brother and I wouldn't have to feed mosquitoes every night."
In this season, mosquitoes have gradually increased in number. If you stay in one place, you will still get a lot of bites in one night.
Dinner was still steamed buns. Without the flavor of black bean sauce, the steamed buns were a bit hard to swallow.
Sure enough, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality!
After dinner, He Yunxi took out a bottle, drew a circle around it with the medicinal powder inside, and slept with Lu Yan in the shed. The others found suitable places to rest outside the shed. As long as they were in that circle,
You don't have to worry about being harassed by poisonous snakes or anything like that.
Liang Chaofeng and the others had a peaceful sleep in the wild for the first time.
He Yunxi slept on a soft straw mattress, covered with Lu Yan's coat, and slept very comfortably in his arms. He slept until the next morning.
At dawn, everyone got up, tidied up, ate two steamed buns, and then slowly walked towards the cottage.
Everyone came to a cliff. There was a wide valley below with simple houses, and there were also some houses that were still under construction.
"This is indeed a good place. It is backed by a cliff, with a pool on one side and a steep slope on the other. As long as the entrance in front is guarded, this valley is easy to defend and difficult to attack." He Yunxi sighed, "The person who chose this site is not an ordinary person!"
"This place is indeed not easy to attack. And according to our observation, there are only young and middle-aged people here, no old people and children. As for women, only two were captured and have been locked up and have never appeared." Song He said.
This is also unreasonable.
Bandits are usually desperate. Not all of them are alone. If it is a real village, it will be the same as the village outside. Not to mention the elderly and children, there will definitely be women.
But there were no old people, children, or women.
He Yunxi speculated that it was the first time for these people to pretend to be bandits, so they did not notice such details. Only when they looked at it from the perspective of suspicion would they feel something was wrong.
Everyone spread out and lurked on the cliff, observing the village below. After a while, someone came out of the house and went to the pool to wash up.
He Yunxi and Lu Yan observed together for a while, He Yunxi whispered to Lu Yan: "Ten people just came over to wash up, three are ordinary people, and the other seven must be soldiers."
"Are you sure?"
"I used to be in the army, and I am quite sensitive to the aura of soldiers. The momentum and some actions of these people are very similar to those in our army in the previous life. Nine out of ten are soldiers. And they have been in the army for a long time.
Soldiers of time." He Yunxi said affirmatively.
Lu Yan also went to the military camp with the third prince in his previous life, but because of his poor health, he did not have much contact with the soldiers. Just now, he only thought that the seven people looked like Lian Jiazi, and did not think of them as soldiers.
Thinking about it now, I had previously speculated that there was someone behind these bandits, so it was not impossible for soldiers to pretend to be bandits.
Soldiers pretending to be bandits——
The person behind this is almost revealed, either Prince Gong or Prince Xian.
The incident about the Yao family was never followed up, because the head of the Yao family was found to have committed suicide in prison after being interrogated by Luo Zixi. Only after interrogating other members of the Yao family did they find out that the village had always been managed by the head of the family himself. Therefore,
, what is inside and what is going on, only the head of the Yao family knows.
But according to Luo Zixi's speculation, it was either Prince Gong or Prince Xian.
The reason is the same. It is bordered by Prince Gong to the north and Prince Xian to the south. Although it belongs to the emperor, it can be regarded as living in the gap between the two princes' territories. It is so close that if there is any big move, it is impossible to escape.
The dog eyes of the two princes, ah no, the Dharma eyes.
Unless the prince himself is of comparable strength, it is possible for him to do something in this place without telling another prince.
According to what Lu Yan said, after the turmoil in the Daliang Kingdom in the previous life, both Prince Gong and Prince Xian rebelled.
Lu Yan continued to observe the people coming to wash up behind him, while He Yunxi turned his attention to the pool. Seeing that she had been staring at the pool in a daze, Lu Yan poked her: "What are you thinking about?"
"I'm looking at that water pool." He Yunxi pointed to the water pool below, "Lu Yan, look at that water pool, did you notice anything different?"
Lu Yan reacted to her reminder and his eyes shone with excitement.