ATPnovel Chapter 253 Lively Scene
Chapter 253 Lively Scene
At Xiaonihe Wharf.
The flag of Yuanwei Escort Agency fluttered in the wind.
A crowd gathered at the dock to wait, while Guo Laogan had already gone to the shipping company to contact ships heading south.
It is now the afternoon of the following day.
Li Hui held two small snakes in his hands, and even this grown man was rendered speechless because the snakes were covered in wounds.
Standing beside her was Miss Shu. The Green Chopstick Snake was originally quite cute, with a green body, just like green jade.
Now the snakes are covered in wounds. Even though Li Hui keeps trying to make them unconscious, they struggle three or four times a day, wanting to draw blood. If they can't draw blood and hurt others, they bite themselves.
In the end, Miss Shu was clever enough to come up with an idea: buy a few rabbits to keep with them.
Every time the green snake attacks, it bites the rabbits, and has now harmed more than a dozen of them.
Wang Daniu complained to Yang Silang in private.
"The green snake is cute, and the rabbit isn't bad-looking either."
"So this Miss Shu only cares about snakes, not rabbits?"
Yang Silang laughed.
"The owner of the green snake is a handsome young man, while the rabbit's owner is just a peddler. How can they be compared?"
Despite the rabbit taking the blame, the two snakes looked like they were about to die.
the other side.
Wu Tiechuan and Yang Silang chatted idly.
"Brother Yang, weren't you planning to leave? Why have you changed your mind?"
Yang Silang laughed heartily.
"Didn't I see many martial artists and Taoist priests hurrying northwards along the way that day?"
"Who knows what's ahead? It's best to be careful."
"After all, there are so many people here, it's definitely safer than me walking alone, so I'll just go slower."
Wu Tiechuan nodded and said that was indeed the case.
"I was originally going to persuade you, Brother Yang, not to leave. It's perfect, we can keep each other company on the road."
He saw Li Hui looking dejected and sighed.
"It's a pity about Brother Li's two snakes. They've been getting sick and they're probably going to die."
Yang Silang verbally agreed, saying it was a pity.
He turned around and looked back.
Inside the Niwan Palace.
More than twenty stone fragments were scattered along the way, and more than twenty images were simultaneously projected into the Niwan Palace.
My aunt would deliberately zoom in on the images of Feng San and other suspicious people.
However, after the Six Doors people left after noon yesterday, there were no suspicious people behind the escort team; they were all normal pedestrians and travelers.
Yang Silang felt much more at ease.
OK OK.
It seems I've finally gotten rid of those jinxes.
Judging from the telepathic message received by Feng San, Emperor Jinghe unexpectedly did not follow the caravan but headed straight for the capital to the west, causing havoc in a place called Zhaogong Town, killing more than a thousand people. His appetite is growing ever larger.
The head constable with six doors in that direction went to the scene and, after some investigation, determined that the "superior" was nearby.
That means the large group of people following the escort agency was wasting their time and chasing the wrong direction.
So they hurriedly left.
Since there were no hounds chasing after him and Emperor Jinghe was not nearby, Yang Silang naturally had to follow the caravan.
Wu Tiechuan said it was a pity about the two snakes, Li Hui.
He looked up at the wealthy man who was the nail in the line of six doors; he had probably been instructed to continue smoking snuff during breaks.
The Six Doors' main force retreated in such a hurry that no one had time to inform him, so he continued to take snuff as usual. This is why Li Hui's two snake pets kept having relapses.
"Shu Temple student..." Inside the Niwan Palace.
Yang Silang called out.
Shu Miaosheng knelt on the ground, revealing his true form as a rat.
"What are your orders, sir?"
"See that rich man taking snuff? I think his snuff bottle is quite nice."
"Get it for me tonight after he falls asleep."
The wealthy man that the Six Doors found turned out to be an ordinary person, and no one would have guessed that the "goods" were in his hands.
If he opens that snuff bottle a few more times, Li Hui's two snake pets will be doomed.
Besides, Yang Silang felt it was safer to keep such a dangerous item in his own compartment than to have it in his own hands.
Shu Miaosheng could hardly believe his ears.
My husband doesn't smoke snuff, so why should I "get" someone else's snuff?
"Master, you mean you want me to..." he stammered, "to take the money and buy it from him tonight?"
"Nonsense..." Yang Silang's eyes widened. "If you're going to buy it, why wait until he's asleep?"
"Have you forgotten how you used to eat scraps of food in the temple?"
Shu Miaosheng then realized what was happening and hurriedly replied that there was absolutely no problem.
It turns out they wanted to let this scoundrel go back to his old ways.
Forget it, even if the master asked him to steal something, or even to steal a beautiful woman, wouldn't he have to do it?
"She Nu..." Yang Silang called again.
"Master..." She Nu had been unable to cook recently, and was feeling sickly. She knelt down and kowtowed weakly.
"I'll go to relieve myself somewhere away from everyone later. You fly back and retrieve Auntie's stone fragment clones."
"Yes, sir..." She Nu's eyes lit up; it was finally her turn to let out some fresh air.
Yang Silang made the arrangements.
Some riders were already galloping back and forth in the group on horseback.
"We will depart in one hour, in four boats, and board in order..."
Inside a private room in a restaurant outside the dock.
Several members of the White Lotus Sect were leaning on the railing, gazing into the distance.
Yin Ciyou slapped the railing and frowned.
"No, this is very wrong!"
He looked at the black, poisonous worm in his hand, still pointing upwards towards the direction of the caravan below.
"The reaction of the zombie poison gu is correct. There is clearly a precious tonic hidden in that group that is very tempting to zombies."
"It is very likely to be at the level of a Longevity True Person, and should be at the same level as the Zombie Spirit Marrow that our sect has gone through so much trouble to find."
Why didn't Emperor Jinghe take the bait?
Saintess Ruyan asked in confusion from the side.
"Yesterday, we saw the wolf-riding scout who had been following the caravan leave."
"Could it be that Emperor Jinghe has appeared elsewhere, and the experts from the Six Doors have already left?"
Yin Ciyou shook her head.
"That doesn't make sense. If you're going to retreat, why not take the spies planted in the ranks as well? Even if their lives aren't worth much, how valuable are those precious materials?"
He never expected that the incident would happen so suddenly that the Six Doors didn't even have time to send anyone to retrieve the precious material.
The Saintess Ruyan's eyes lit up.
"In that case, there's only one possibility."
"Could it be that the Six Doors are deliberately creating a diversion, a feint to the east while attacking in the west?"
"Is it possible that other forces besides us have also gotten involved and given themselves away?"
Yin Ciyou stood up, put her hands behind her back, and spun around twice.
"Hmph, as long as the treasure is here, the bait is here, and the big fish will surely bite the hook."
"Forget about the thirty-six stratagems, we'll just follow the bait."
"It looks like they're about to board the ship... Chai Qing, go and find out what's going on, then we'll follow them onto the ship."
Chai Qing responded and hurriedly left.
A moment later he returned to report that about a hundred men from the Yuanwei Escort Agency had boarded four ships.
The four members of the White Lotus Sect were dumbfounded.
The venomous insects are not reacting, which means the bait has gone into hiding and is no longer emitting a scent. How can we determine which ship the bait is on?
After discussing it, Yin Ciyou and Saintess Ruyan decided that the four of them would board four boats, and he would also distribute some of the communication Gu to a few others, so that they could contact each other at any time.
So the four of them hurriedly paid their bill and went downstairs.
Shortly after the four people left.
Feng San reappeared, looking travel-worn. This time, instead of riding the conspicuous wolf, he brought a dog with him.
It would be quite terrifying for a man to ride a large wolf, but no one would care if he brought a black dog with him.
"Brother, I'm sorry to have wronged you..." he whispered, speaking to the wolf, "and those sonless bastards up there."
"I called you back. We've been gone for half a day and you only just remembered that Bao Cai is still with the caravan."
"Who told me to have the nickname 'Fast-Leg Wind Three'? This task fell to me again."
"Turning you into a dog is unavoidable; you'll have to bear with it for now."
The "dog" barked twice, and the wolf demon even imitated its bark perfectly.
Half an hour later.
Inside the cabin.
Yang Silang, Wang Daniu, Li Hui, and Wu Tiechuan shared a cabin.
There was a severe shortage of boats, and it was only thanks to Guo Laogan's extensive connections that he managed to snatch four boats from the shipping company.
Or to be more precise, to allow the ship to free up some cabins on the four southbound vessels for the Yuanwei Escort Agency's escort team.
Therefore, the number of people on each ship carrying the escort team varied.
But one thing is the same: don't even think about getting a two-person or single-person cabin.
It was not uncommon for four, five, six, or even seven men to squeeze into a single cabin; it was only the three women—Qi Shushi, Miss Shu, and their female guard—who shared a cabin, which was probably relatively more spacious for them.
The four of them settled down.
Daqing and Hongma naturally disembarked and went to the animal pen under the deck.
Because the escort agency had a lot of mule and horse carts, it would take a long time just to get them onto the ship.
Yang Silang closed his eyes and quietly observed the Niwan Palace.
She Nu had just flown back, bringing back the thin stone fragment that was his aunt's doppelganger, so he simply took a stroll around the boat.
Fortunately, there were many stone locks and similar items on the deck, and he took the opportunity to install a few eyes, but the positions were not good and the number of viewing angles was limited.
But it's okay.
Something is better than nothing.
At this time, because of boarding, the outside was chaotic.
It was not a good time to practice martial arts. Yang Silang seemed to be chatting with the others, but he was actually distracted by watching the real-time scene outside from inside his Niwan Palace.
People occasionally climbed onto the deck.
There happened to be a ballast rock nearby, offering a good view.
“Eh…”
"Is this Chai Qing?"
Among the many scenes, Yang Silang suddenly saw a tall figure with gray hair flash by.
He has a square face, thick eyebrows, an aquiline nose, and a lion's mouth. Although he has many wrinkles, he is still handsome and you can tell what he looked like when he was young.
This face.
Yang Silang would accept it even if he were reduced to ashes.
Isn't that Chai Qingyao, the former deputy general who betrayed the country in Gongzhou Prefecture?
During the search and pursuit, he killed a scholar and threw his head to Hu Feng.
It just so happened that this scholar was Hu Feng's close friend. Hu Feng was stunned for a moment in his grief, and by that very moment, he was decisively killed.
Highly skilled in martial arts, ruthless, and cold-bloodedly calculating.
How did this person end up on the ship?
He fled with Hong Tatian, and eventually news broke that Hong Tatian was a pawn of the Demonic Sect.
In this light, Chai Qing's identity is also quite suspicious.
Yang Silang was still muttering to himself.
My aunt provided another video.
The newcomer had thick legs, making his upper body appear "thin," and he was accompanied by a black dog. The soles of his thin-soled embroidered eagle boots were worn through.
"hiss……"
Yang Silang gasped.
"Even the imperial court's henchmen have come up here?"
"Isn't that Fast-Leg Feng San?"
"What is he doing here?"
"Should we continue to be a spies on the escort agency, or should we retrieve the treasure?"
He muttered to himself.
"This matter is getting more and more interesting..."
"Emperor Jinghe, you are sensible. You knew to go to the west and didn't come here to join the fun."
"As long as I return to Yidu Prefecture safely, I will definitely burn incense and pray for you..."
He summoned She Nu from the Niwan Palace.
"Do you still have those cosmetics you used to use?"
"Please dress me up later..."