Chapter 23
After Huo Qubing said these words, he selected ten soldiers with lesser injuries from the team.

"General Feng, lead the way ahead. Whether the three hundred of us can find a safe and secure place to rest depends entirely on your ability, General Feng."

Feng Li nodded, picked up his weapon, and motioned for them to follow him.

After about an hour, Feng Li signaled that he was about to reach his destination.

Crossing in front of a dense forest, a semi-elliptical village suddenly appeared in front of the eyes, and the houses were also built according to the terrain, which appeared patchwork.

"General Feng, there should be no officials stationed here, right?" Huo Qubing asked.

"The people in the Qinling Mountains, the government has always been indifferent. Even, if you really think about it carefully, they are all fugitives who escaped from their original address." Feng Li replied.

"In this way, you and I will pretend to be the guards of a wealthy family, and come to explore the way for the master to find out what's going on inside the village."

"That's a good idea. As long as they think we are nobles and officials, they will naturally be fine."

Huo Qubing waved his hand and walked towards the village on the mountainside.

At this time, it was evening, and the rising smoke accompanied by the breeze in the mountains, accompanied by a few farmers walking on the road, created a beautiful picture of a mountain village.

When we arrived at the entrance of the village, someone had already reported the news of the arrival of outsiders to the village sage.

And the children who were playing happily at the entrance of the village have quietly hid behind their mothers, because the people holding short knives and long guns in front of them look a little scary.

"I am Li Baoyou, the village head of Lijiazhuang. Who are you?" A middle-aged man squeezed out from the crowd and came to Huo Qubing.

"People from the government." Feng Liliang lit up the bronze medal on his waist.

"Naturally, they are from the government. When they saw this weapon, they knew it was a weapon from the army. However, you guys don't know what to do here? We have already paid the agricultural tax that should be paid!"

Li Baoyou was afraid that these people would say that he was here to collect taxes. If that was the case, the village would have to collect some money to get rid of these people.

Living in the Qinling Mountains, I have never had any awareness of paying taxes, and those who clearly said they came to urge them to pay taxes must be the leading soldiers who came here to profit without permission.

However, looking at the armor of the man in front of him, it seems that he has been fought, and even in the gaps of the armor, there are still not so obvious bloodstains.

"Hey, why don't you pay taxes, Li Baoyou, right? You shouldn't know who we are, and don't ask about it. We came to accompany the young master to the Qinling Mountains to play and hunt, but we never thought that we would come across the mountain. That's why he was chased here." Feng Li's attitude seemed too arrogant.

Because he understands that if you are too polite to these people who are begging in the mountains, you are really asking for trouble for yourself.

Besides, I am a member of the government, and if the government is not violent, then can these troublemakers be obedient? If the government is not violent, who will do it!

Since he is pretending to be the guard of the big family, he is also deeply playing this role, for example, being rude to the village chief.

"The young master at home is injured, so he can't stay outside. Please vacate the best house here for me. Don't waste any words. I will pick up the young master now." Feng Li directly explained the purpose of his visit.

I'm here to occupy your best house for our young master to live in.

"Yes, yes, I will ask someone to free it up right now, and then ask someone to clean it up." The more rude the person in front of him was, the more Li Baoyou's waist bent.

"Old Huo, just stay here and watch. By the way, let the women in their village gather and cook for us."

"No, go on." Feng Lishun escaped with a piece of silver and threw it at it, "Catch it, take out all your good things, don't be reluctant, this little money is not all, the more comfortable you are to serve us, the more money you have. Naturally, you are indispensable."

"Yes, sir, don't worry, we will definitely bring out all the good things. They are just our good things, and they are just some bacon and some wild game that we hunted by ourselves. I'm afraid it doesn't suit the nobleman's mind."

"It's okay, the young master said, I'm used to eating big fish and big meat, and occasionally eat some unrefined food, just treat it as a way to adjust the taste, by the way, butcher the fattest chicken here, and stew the soup carefully over high heat, my family The young master prefers this."

"Dele, you've heard it too, don't rush to prepare." Li Baoyou turned around and said to the surrounding villagers.

"By the way, there are more than 300 of us. Please cook according to the portions of adults. Don't cook less, otherwise, you may not get anything to eat."

After saying this, Feng Li made a show of flirting with Huo Qubing.The two walked far away together.

"Old Huo, the village head should have seen that we have gone through a battle today, but we said that we encountered a giant bear, so I'm afraid it didn't dispel his doubts."

"General Feng, you don't need to dispel his doubts. If he doesn't understand people, it's over if he's dealt with. It's just a small farmer. I believe he will understand, and then pretend he doesn't know anything. Treat us as nobles. People come to respect."

Huo Qubing's voice was always cold, like a machine without emotion.

"Also, once we enter this village, no one can step out of this village, otherwise, His Highness may be in danger."

"Then let's do it this way. You stay here to watch and find out all the roads in the village. I'll go and take His Highness and them over now."

"Your Highness is still young, and nothing can go wrong with your body. If any root cause is left behind, it will be too late for people to regret." After Feng Li said this, he took two people with him, turned his head and walked towards from.

Huo Qubing, who was left behind, was not idle. He led his people to carefully explore the high places of the semi-elliptical village, and even took out all the knives known to the villagers.

In the current situation, he couldn't help but be careless. If he made a wrong move, the price of losing the lives of these three hundred people would be ushered in.

However, Feng Li, who brought Li Chengdao who was still unconscious to this village, was not idle. He put away some of the bloody clothes of some wounded soldiers, and then took a dozen people with him, and turned his head to go outside the Qinling Mountains.

It is difficult to hide the traces of one's own group. Since it cannot be hidden, the best way is to reveal the traces. However, this trace is fake, which is the best way to get rid of the tracking of enemy scouts.

Abandon the bloody clothes near a river, and at the same time make traces of someone bathing in the river, and throw the broken knife in the river to prove that this is the place where the person the scouts wanted to pursue stayed.

Then he created traces that his group had already left Chang'an far away, and then turned around and returned to the mountain safely.

Feng Li had tried his best to hide the traces, especially the places he had actually walked through. All the places he had walked through had been carefully cleaned up. The closer he got to the village, the less he could afford to be careless.

(End of this chapter)

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