Chapter 156: If you want to eat fish, you will naturally be willing to bait (Chinese)

Fang Henshui chose to obey without much struggle. If he knew that the group of people riding tall horses below were students of the Martial Arts Academy, he would have changed his mind. Unfortunately, he was just a captain from a remote fishing village. He had never seen Chang'an City or the Martial Arts Academy.

He knew that the two monks were both practitioners, but if he knew that the people below were from the Martial Arts Academy, his first reaction would be that the people from the Martial Arts Academy would be stronger, even if he was sure that these two monks were terrible. As a Sui man, he still felt that the most powerful convenience in the world was the Martial Arts Academy.

What he didn't know was that fortunately he didn't make another choice. Fortunately he didn't know the military uniforms of the Martial Arts Academy, and fortunately he was a coward.

So he was not dead.

Sliding down from the hillside, the ragged Fang Henshui immediately attracted the attention of Yuan Chengshi and the others.

Almost at the same time, the students in the front of the martial arts academy pulled out their swords. Although the students who stopped had only been studying in the martial arts academy for a few days, they still formed a defensive formation in the shortest time. All the people gathered together and the horse heads were facing outward. Such a circular formation could defend against attacks from any direction.

When they found a guy rolling down the hillside was covered in blood and dirty enough to almost no one could tell that he was a human. The students obviously relaxed their vigilance, and some people couldn't help but let out a low cry of surprise.

"Save me..."

Fang Henshui knelt down with difficulty, crawled on the ground and begged: "I was seriously injured, and my companions were captured by evil people on the mountain. I finally escaped. Please save me."

"Are you from Jiangnan?"

Liu Shuang frowned slightly and urged the horse to step forward and asked.

"Yes...I am the captain of Du County, Chuzhou, Jiangnan."

Fang Henshui said breathlessly: "I came to Chang'an for business after being ordered by my county magistrate. As a result, when I was about to arrive in Chang'an, I met several powerful gangsters who hijacked me and my companions. I wanted to let me go back and get the money to redeem it, but I knew we were from Jiangnan. After there were no relatives in Chang'an, they wanted to kill people to silence me. Today I finally found an opportunity to escape and ask you to save me."

He kowtowed while saying something, his appearance was so miserable that it was sad.

"You said you are from Duxian County, Chuzhou, Jiangnan?"

Liu Shuang was stunned and couldn't help asking, "What are the credentials?"

He was from Chuzhou, and his father was the governor of Chuzhou County.

Fang Henshui took off the constable waist card that had been preserved from his body, held it with both hands and handed it to Liu Shuang, "Please look, this is my waist card."

Liu Shuang leaned over and took it, glanced at it, then turned around and said to Yuan Chengshi: "It turns out that he is the captain of my Great Sui Dynasty. His accent is indeed from the Chuzhou area, so he should not be wrong. But I didn't expect that there were such a strong man at the foot of the emperor of Chang'an City who dared to kidnap the Great Sui official. Brother Maocheng, do we care about this?"

Yuan Chengshi's name is Maocheng. He pondered for a while and shook his head and said, "We are going to compete with the teacher today. How can we have time to meddle in this business? Give him some food and give him a few taels of silver to return to Chang'an City to report to the official. We still have some business!"

"don't want!"

Fang Henshui climbed forward two steps and stopped Yuan Chengshi and cried, "I have companions on the mountain. If those strong men find out that I have escaped, they will definitely kill him. Please help me, all the people of the Great Sui Dynasty. They can't stand by death and refuse to save him."

While begging, he pushed away his ragged clothes, revealing the cut-off area, which immediately attracted everyone's surprise.

Yuan Chengshi frowned in disgust and said, "We have other important things on us. Giving you money and food to make you go back to Chang'an has delayed your trip. If you stop me again, don't blame me for being polite!"

"Your father is still an official of the Great Sui Dynasty!"

At this moment, Ma Lilian at the end of the team urged the horse forward with a angrily angrily: "Don't kneel on him! You are a member of the Sui Dynasty's constable, why are you so weak? If he doesn't go to save your friend, I will accompany you. I don't believe it anymore. Someone dares to do evil more than ten miles away from Chang'an City!"

"I will accompany you too. You must not ignore this matter. Even if the gentleman is here, he will never stand by and watch!"

A student jumped off the war horse, held a horizontal knife and said to Ma Lilian: "It's just a group of bandits, and everyone doesn't need to go. You and I, if we can't pick the bandit's nest, we will be like a plant!"

"I'll go too!"

"I'll go too!"

Everyone spoke, obviously dissatisfied with Yuan Chengshi's attitude. As the descendants of the Sui Dynasty, especially from aristocratic families, their personalities determine their pride. How can robbers be allowed to appear outside Chang'an City?

"What's wrong!"

Niuhua frowned and said, "Not even outside Chang'an City, even in the entire Gyeonggi Province, no one dares to do anything that violates the court's laws. There are few people in the mountains, how can robbers rely on to survive? I think this guy's origin is a bit strange, so let's not be fooled."

"As you said!"

A student raised his head and said, "This is the imperial capital Chang'an. He is also a member of the official family. Will he still deceive us?"

Yuan Chengshi was silent for a while and then asked Fang Henshui: "How many robbers are there?"

"Seven or eight, all extremely fierce."

Fang Hen's head is hanging down.

"Don't lose all the people from the Chuzhou Yamen!"

Liu Shuang cursed: "After all, you are also the captain of a county, but you were captured by a few insignificant robbers. As a government official, you have forgotten the truth that you would rather die than be humiliated?"

"Don't forget!"

Fang Henshui kowtowed and said, "It's just that I have the errands assigned by the yamen, which is extremely important. If I don't see the officials of the Ministry of Justice explain clearly, I can't die! When I complete the county magistrate's instructions, I will definitely apologize for death!"

This sentence aroused more sympathy.

"We can't ignore it!"

"That's right, since you encounter it, there is no reason to ignore it."

Yuan Chengshi hesitated for a while and said, "Then let's camp here for a while. Liu Shuang, you can take nine people up the mountain to save people. The others will rest and be on guard. Don't be attacked by Fang Jie and Zhang Kuang. Both of them are scouts! They have already entered the mountain, so we must be careful!"

"Who wants to go? Just follow me!"

Liu Shuang greeted boldly and ordered Fang Henshui to say, "Can you still go? If you can go, lead the way!"

A big rock raised on the mountain, Chen Ya smiled and said, "Master, that guy finally gave in. Look, how competent is he making this bait?"

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Fang Jie and Zhang Kuang lived on a big tree. Both of them were disguised. Even if they looked carefully under the tree, they might not be able to find them. The two guys who were born as scouts in the border army were the best at hiding themselves. One had made twenty-one military achievements in Fan Gu, and the other lived in the Northern Barbarian tribe for two years. If people like them were not found, it would be difficult to reveal their flaws.

"I haven't come yet, why are you so slow?"

Zhang Kuang whispered to the other party: "According to the map given by the gentleman, they should be from here to close to the Crescent Lake. This is the only place to ride a horse. It doesn't matter that we have filled our stomachs and they haven't arrived yet."

Fang Jie was still savoring the deliciousness of the six-gilled fish, and the fish meat was indeed tender and smooth. There was no need to cook it, just add a little soy sauce and garlic juice, and after eating it, it was savored. This was Fang Jie's first time eating raw meat, but he didn't expect the taste to be so tempting. He had always firmly thought that the food was better cooked, and even when he was in exile, he stubbornly insisted on eating only cooked food.

"If you are either lost, you are in trouble."

Fang Jie said: "The former is almost impossible. Although the children of those aristocratic families are domineering and arrogant, they can't be argued if they get lost. How can those who can enter the Martial Arts Academy have trash? As for the latter... I can't think of any trouble. This is not the border, and it is impossible to encounter enemies."

“That’s what I said.”

Zhang Kuang hesitated for a moment: "Why don't we separate and move forward?"

"good!"

Fang Jie nodded and took out the signal fireworks specially brought in his arms and gave them to Zhang Kuang: "If there is any accident, send a signal. The sir should be not far from us, after all, he doesn't want to see something happen to the students."

"Um!"

Zhang Kuang took the fireworks and stuffed it into his arms, slid down the big tree lightly. He hugged his waist and walked through the dense forest, and soon disappeared. Fang Jie saw Zhang Kuang running while leaving traces on the big tree with a dagger. This was the standard practice of scouts, which made him recall the border town.

After Zhang Kuang disappeared, Fang Jie also slid down from the big tree. He chose to go out about five degrees from the direction he left, leaving a mark while walking. Just as he disappeared, Mo Wanshi appeared on the big tree where he was staying before him.

He looked at Fang Jie's disappearance with a serious expression, with a little worried look in his eyes.

After Fang Jie ran out for about three or four minutes, Mo Wanshi also took action immediately. He always kept a certain distance from Fang Jie and did not let Fang Jie discover it. For some reason, he kept following Fang Jie instead of Zhang Kuang.

Fang Jiefu lowered his body and ran in the dense forest. His feet were moving very quickly, as flexible as a cheetah born to belong to this jungle, keen and alert. His spirit was always at a high level of alertness and did not slackewer because it was just a competition rather than a real fight.

This is a good idea of ​​being a human attitude, and it is difficult to change.

After running forward for about two miles in one breath, Fang Jie quickly climbed up a big tree to hide. Although the angle deviated from Zhang Kuang was very small, the distance between the two was not close at this time. Fang Jie looked forward behind the leaves, looked carefully for a long time, and listened for a long time, but still did not find those people like Yuan Chengshi.

"Are you really in danger?"

Fang Jie frowned slightly and subconsciously touched his waist. When he touched the broken knife, he felt a little more at ease.

Thinking of the strangeness I saw in Mo Wanwu's eyes several times before, Fang Jie began to feel uneasy again.

Strange, but what's the weird thing?

This is just a competition in the martial arts academy, isn’t it?

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Ma Lilian was still walking at the end. Although she didn't want to, she was a girl's house after all. The other martial arts school students who followed Fang Henshui up the mountain naturally would not let her open the way. Liu Shuang was a smart person, so she did not walk behind Fang Henshui. He and Fang Henshui always kept a distance, and his right hand never left the hilt from the beginning of going up the mountain.

“How far is it?”

After climbing up for a while, Liu Shuang asked with some displeasure.

Fang Henshui, who was panting in front, said in a low voice: "It's almost done, young master, you see that big raised stone. The nests of those strong men are behind the big stone, and there is a cave. They are going out to find food, so we have to take this opportunity to go up and save people."

After Fang Henshui said this, he continued to climb up, but after he climbed for four or five steps, he felt something strange. He stopped and turned around and looked at him, and then found that the ten people behind him looked at him with cold eyes. The previous sympathy disappeared, with only hostility and indifference.

Especially the leader, Fang Henshui could see murderous intent in his eyes. He didn't know what he had made, why the reactions of those people suddenly changed.

"explain!"

Liu Shuang slowly pulled out the horizontal knife, pointed at Fang Henshui's nose and asked, "Who are you?"
Chapter completed!