Infinity only I can strengthen

Chapter 153 Fire
"Shufen, we meet again." Yuan Yang stepped forward enthusiastically, and said with a smile, "Xiaohu's illness is okay."

"Thanks to you, I have recovered from my illness, but the house is on fire, and now I have no place to live." Shufen looked nervous, and it was obvious that she was frightened.

"This is the mountain god getting angry!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Shufen glanced at Yuanshan, "The village chief said it was the goblin from Huluxi who set the fire, and it had nothing to do with the mountain god. Don't anger the mountain god by talking nonsense."

Hehe, ignorant villagers.

Yuan Yang smirked and said, "What's the relationship between Zhang Chao and Gao Lan?"

"They're friends."

"Have we known each other before?"

"I don't know that."

"Did Gao Lan write any letters after he was in the army?"

"There have been several letters in recent years."

"What's written on it?"

"Where is there something delicious, where is there something good-looking, fun, that's all."

"Didn't he say in his letter what he was doing? What friends did he make?"

"No! But I heard from Mr. Zhang that Gao Lan is selling salt." Shufen said this with a worried expression on her face.

Yuan Yang was a little annoyed, "He's crazy, let's talk about this."

"I think it might be because I was greedy for food and played for fun when I was a child." Shufen lowered her head and a blush flashed on her face.

"Didn't you reply to him?"

"There was one last year."

"Only one?"

Shufen lowered her head, "I can't even eat enough, how can I get the spare money to send letters?"

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of the question, Yuan Yang couldn't hold back. He said to Gong Jinrong, "Look, that's all. This woman doesn't know anything."

Gong Jinrong asked: "Then what did you write in the letter to Gao Lan?"

"Tell me about my life in the past 20 years."

"Where did you send the letter?"

"Ye City."

Huh?
Gong Jinrong looked at Yuan Yang fiercely, isn't that right, Yuan Shao's base camp is in Yecheng.

Yuan Yang asked excitedly: "Gao Lan started sending letters a few years ago?"

"Just the last few years."

Yuan Yang closed his eyes and meditated. Gao Lan only came out in the past few years, and the time was right.

At this moment, Zhang Chao also walked towards Shufen's house without anyone noticing. He always felt strange looking at the ruins and crying women along the way. This fire was a bit different, so he said no. What is the difference.

"Mr. Zhang." Shufen stopped Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that he had come to Shufen's house. He looked up, and saw a piece of black ruins still smoking, and only a single old pear tree was intact.

He finally understood what was wrong!

Zhang Chao glanced at Yuan Yang and Gong Jinrong, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Yuan Yang took a step back with a smile, making no secret of his dislike for Zhang Chao.

Shufen said: "The two gentlemen are asking about Gao Lan's situation. Why don't you tell them, Mr. Zhang? I haven't seen Gao Lan for a long time. The last time I met, I was a teenage girl."

How about Gao Lan?

Zhang Chao's heart skipped a beat. These two people were looking for news about him.

He asked: "Are you familiar with Gao Lan? Why don't I know?"

"Just ask, how is your inquiry about the sacrifice of the mountain god?"

"I didn't notice it, what about you?"

"We didn't find out either, let's not talk about it, we have to leave beforehand."

Zhang Chao looked at the retreating figure and knew that he was being abrupt. He shouldn't have exposed his purpose without concealing it. The reason why these reincarnations suspected him was probably because he was inquiring about the sacrifice.

His behavior was indeed suspicious.

When Zhang Chao saw Yuan Yang walking away, he asked Shufen: "There was such a big fire outside, how could you escape unscathed?"

This is what Zhang Chao discovered. A fire burned the entire village last night, but no one was killed!

Not only that, only a dozen people died in the previous fire,
It was obvious that the dozen or so people who died were killed by puppets, not by fire!

That's the problem!
Shufen said: "I don't know, there was a big fire outside, and then we ran into the yard, but there was no fire in the yard, so we escaped."

Shit!

There were not as many people who were burnt to death in the fire as those who were smoked to death, not to mention that with the intensity of the fire last night, let alone burnt to death, you can't escape the temperature!

Besides, the fire last night was too fierce.

Zhang Chao looked at the old pear tree in front of the door, could it be that Gao Lan's ghost was saving people?
This is too...

He asked Yuan Yang what he was looking for, and sure enough, the two were verifying Gao Lan's identity.

He asked, "You and Gao Lan have been together for 20 years?"

Shufen nodded and said, "Yes, he was very thin at that time, very skinny."

"Then how old is your son?"

"19 years old!"

Uh~ Gao Lan was not green!He was faintly happy, and Zhang Chao didn't understand why.

"Your son is quite strong."

"Yes." Shufen recalled: "It's not like when we were children. The winters in those years were very cold and no crops could grow in the fields. Mang Naohuang took me all over the mountains and fields to dig wild vegetables to satisfy our hunger. We were only a few years old. We We were afraid of the wild beasts in the mountains, so we could only look for food on the outskirts, and we never had enough to eat. Fortunately, we met the village chief sometimes in the mountains, and he would give us food.
We finally survived those years, and we were getting older. After the weather warmed up, the village chief gave us a piece of land. Mang Nao Ke took me to plant the land, and we had enough food for a year. Locusts, the overwhelming locusts have eaten all the bark, not to mention the crops, so the reckless brain took me into the mountains again. The mountains were desolate except for bare tree trunks. We dug roots in the mountains, caught fish in the streams, A lot of people died, if it wasn't for the strength of the reckless brain to find food, I would have died a long time ago.

In the second year, I continued to work hard to cultivate the land. When the harvest was approaching, the locusts came again, and the reckless head took me into the mountains again; in the third year, we had no seeds to plant the land, so we just dug roots in the mountains and picked up insects to eat. But the locusts came again, and he couldn't stand it any longer. He sold himself to a passing soldier for some copper coins and coarse grains, and the next news about him was the letter from five years ago. "

Shufen's eyes were red, and her eyes were full of 16-year-old Gao Lan's face.

"Shufen." Gao Lan dragged a large bag of coarse grains and said to her, "I went to join the army with Uncle Chen, you hide the money and the food well, understand."

Gao Lan kicked heavily, Shufen said excitedly: "The grown-ups say that Uncle Chen drinks the blood of soldiers, please don't go."

"I'm afraid of a hammer. Come on, I'll help you bury the grain in the ground and hide it. You can secretly take some out and eat it every night without letting anyone see it. Do you understand?"

Gao Lan dragged the grain to the wooden house under the old pear tree. He took out a bamboo stick and kept digging in the soil for a long, long time...

"I'm leaving tomorrow. You...you...live a good life in the future, get married and have children, and grow old with gray hair. Don't miss me. I am destined to live a life of delicious food and spicy food. Uncle Chen said, take care ..."

Gao Lan buried the grain in the soil and hid it, and after a few more instructions, he rushed off into the distance.

Only then did Zhang Chao realize that Gao Lan and Shufen were still teenagers when they parted.

Could it be Gao Lan's soul who saved Shufen's family from the flames?
This……

Shufen said: "Mr. Zhang, do you want to stay here too?"

"what do you mean?"

"A year ago, Gao Lan asked someone to deliver a letter, and then the gentleman who delivered the letter stayed here."

Huh?
Zhang Chao was startled and quickly glanced around. He said softly: "You must not tell anyone about this, especially those two Taoists."

If those two reincarnations find out the whereabouts of the messenger, he will get involved.

"I just remembered this." Shufen looked not far away, where a middle-aged man was silently watching them.

The middle-aged man saw that Zhang Chao was watching him, so he came over and cupped his hands and said, "I have met Mr. Zhang, the prefect of Guangling."

"Ah! You are the prefect." Shufen was taken aback.

Zhang Chao said awkwardly: "Not anymore."

At this moment, beside a ruin in the distance, Yuan Yang, who was monitoring Zhang Chao, nodded, "It is indeed the prefect of Guangling."

Gong Jinrong said: "Now you can rest assured."

"I'm relieved to be relieved, but I still have to rely on him for the sacrificial offering."

"What do you mean?"

"The prefect of Guangling is just a guy with 120 points of force, and I have 180 points of force! I was thinking, you see Zhang Chao has such a good relationship with the village chief, why don't we threaten Zhang Chao to persuade the village chief."

"He has a force of 120, is there such a threat?"

"Let's fight to the death. Think about it. Zhang Chao is a general, an NPC, and even a BOSS. If you kill him, the space will reward you with reincarnation points. It doesn't matter if we miss when you threaten him. You just get a wave of reincarnation points; It's even better if you succeed, after you find out about the sacrifice, you can go back and kill Zhang Chao, and you can also gain a wave of reincarnation points, this is a win-win choice."

"You group of wise men really have you!"

Gong Jinrong showed a fierce look, and the two disappeared beside the ruins together.

When the two left, the sender seemed to have noticed something, he cupped his hands and said: "Master Taishou, why don't you go to the humble house to talk."

"Um……"

Zhang Chao hesitated, whether to go or not.

The messenger approached Zhang Chao and said softly: "The person who watched you has left."

Hey, Zhang Chao was startled, and suddenly looked at the messenger, "Who?"

"Those two Taoists."

Oh shit!

So Zhang Chao followed the messenger to a remote ruin, and the man's house was also burned down.

Zhang Chao asked: "Did you notice anything unusual when the fire broke out last night?"

"I have been chopping firewood on the mountain for the past few days, and I only found out about the disaster in the village early in the morning." The messenger said with a smile, "Has General Gao been promoted again?"

"No."

After finishing speaking, the messenger showed sadness, "It turns out that the general is dead."

Zhang Chao's heart tightened, "How do you know?"

"Yuan Shao's family has always looked down on me and other mud-legged people. No matter Gao Lan or Qu, they have always been discriminated against in Yuan Shao's camp. If they have not made great achievements in battle, they will not reward Jingxin Pill. Since the general has obtained this pill, either The rewards for meritorious service and promotion are either because of Dan's death.

Since the general has not been promoted, it means that the general is dead. The sender said sadly, "I'm Wuwei Qu Yi." "

Hey, this is a big fish, the first brother of the best archer in the world who climbed first to the dead.

Wasn't he killed by Yuan Shao?

Seeing Zhang Chao's doubts, Qu Yi explained: "At that time, my meritorious service was so great that Yuan Shao was jealous of me and wanted to kill me, but General Gao saved my life by lying to the sky, so everyone in the world thought I was dead."

Then Qu Yi looked at Zhang Chao with a smile: "Excuse me, sir, who is your identity? I know the prefect of Guangling, but he is not you."

uh~~~~~
(End of this chapter)