Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

He saw Gu Yue touching the coffin thoughtfully, and a smile appeared in his eyes.

Did he think of...the past?

"It seemed like I jumped out of a coffin of this type." Gu Yue said seriously.

Gu Xu chuckled.

"Is Wu Fei still monitoring Pin'an in Pinghu Town? He hasn't made any moves in the past few days. Can we rule him out as a suspect?" Gu Yue asked as it was still early.

"He seems to be in a hurry to enter Ganzhou, but given the current situation, we can't let him go." Gu Xu said, raising his hand to lower his head.

Gu Yue squatted down and said, "Is it really okay for you to bring me here? That person is going to conduct such an important transaction, so he must be extremely alert. I don't know how to fight, what if he finds out?"

"Wu Feng is following us too, don't panic." Gu Xu said.

He now understood the vixen's thoughts. This person wanted to help him, but was afraid of hindering him.

She seemed to be always worried, worried about being left out, worried about causing trouble for him, worried about missing something in her calculations.

Gu Xu whispered, "You've always done a good job and never held me back."

Gu Yue choked.

Although he didn't know why Gu Xu suddenly said that, a strange sourness surged in his chest. He didn't know what that feeling was, but the slight panic settled down. He calmed down and focused on the fence wall in the backyard of the charity cemetery.

……

At midnight, a horse-drawn carriage appeared on the loess path outside the charity cemetery.

The leader was none other than Master Feng, and beside him stood a trusted servant holding a lantern, his face pale.

Master Feng showed no fear. Perhaps his desire for the powder overwhelmed his fear. His cheeks were sunken and his eyes were cloudy. He looked around: "Sir? Sir?"

A cold wind blew by, and the servant beside him trembled with fear.

A man covered in a black cloak appeared in front of Mr. Feng.

"Sir!" Master Feng's eyes were filled with surprise. He quickly ran to the back of the carriage, opened several wooden boxes loaded on the carriage, and said earnestly, "Sir... although this is not enough, this is all the silver I can take out... If I take more, people will find out."

The man in black robe walked over to check the gold in the cart.

He didn't say anything, just nodded and waved his hand. Immediately, two subordinates came forward and took over the carriage.

The man in black robe said, "Send it to the old place."

His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, and you couldn't tell his age.

The two subordinates drove away.

The man in black robe took out a paper bag from his bosom and put it in Master Feng's hand. Master Feng's eyes almost lit up, and he immediately opened the paper bag carefully, licked it with his tongue, and revealed an expression of ecstasy.

When he opened his eyes again, the man in black robe had disappeared.

……

Gu Xu pulled Gu Yue onto the horse, and the two headed north.

"Why did that person suddenly disappear? Did you see it?" Gu Yue asked quietly.

The two of them rode on the same horse, Gu Xu sat behind him, his hands passing through his waist and holding the reins tightly.

The bodies are pressed very tightly together and it feels a bit crowded.

"It's just an ordinary sleight of hand." Gu Xu whispered in his ear.

Gu Yue only felt his ears were hot and itchy. He shivered violently and reached out to scratch them.

"In this direction, it seems to be Horseshoe Mountain ahead." Without thinking too much, Gu Yue looked up to identify the stars and the moon. His sense of direction is pretty good now.

"Yeah." Gu Xu responded.

"Why do they trade back and forth like this? Let these merchants buy the gold mines, they take the gold mines, but what about the silver? Was it swallowed up by the iron officials?"

Then he realized something was wrong, and Gu Yue said softly: "This... probably means eating from both ends."

"I think so too," said Gu Xu. "On the surface, the iron officials stole the treasures from the mines and sold them to local merchants. The merchants then used the gold they bought to trade privately with others... Even if they traced the case to the Hu merchant Yin Shun, he is a Hu merchant and there are plenty of loopholes that can be exploited."

Gu Yue covered his ears and said, "I guess Yin Shun took the silver. Tieguan sold the gold mine and used the silver to buy the medicine powder from Yin Shun."

"Yes. If the gold mines are transported back to Tianzhu or sold to nearby Xidi and Xihu, they will bring a lot of silver money, which can also be exchanged for iron ore and weapons."

Gu Xu was not riding too closely on his horse, and vaguely, Gu Yue saw a very small figure on the mountain road ahead.

"He should be going to find Tieguan to get the silver." Gu Xu fell further away, "There is little vegetation here. If we get too close, we will be easily discovered..."

"Oh." Of course Gu Yue listened to him.

Under the starry sky, the mountains in the distance were just a dark outline stretching across the horizon.

There were only some withered yellow weeds around, but there were many animals, and vague shadows were running quickly past. The sound of insects continued, and the sound of horse hooves was not so obvious.

Gu Xu's breath behind him moved closer.

He whispered, "Fox spirit."

"Hmm? Where?" Gu Yue looked around, "There are a lot of foxes in this area, right?"

"...I don't know." Gu Xu was in a good mood.

Gu Yue said: "If you push forward any further, I'll sit on the horse's neck."

"Oh." Gu Xu moved back a little.

……

Half a minute later, they followed the man in black robe into the mountain.

"This person is not very alert." Gu Yue commented.

"His martial arts skills are average, so he can't be detected from a distance." Gu Xu explained.

The two followed closer, slowly going into the mountains from the mountain path, and moving forward on the winding road. Not long after, they passed a canyon gap, and the figure of the black-robed man disappeared into the dark valley.

Gu Xu reined in his horse and stopped.

"Looking at the terrain ahead, there might be spies." Gu Xu said, "We will follow here."

Gu Yue had already taken out the map and was looking at it carefully in the light of the stars.

"Hmm... I can barely feel that we have left the range of Mati Mountain and should be in the belly of Pinghu Mountain."

"We went back and made a detour." said Gu Xu.

He kicked the horse lightly in the belly and walked back.

"Let's find a place to wait until dawn to see if there are any traces left by Wu Yan and his men around here." Gu Xu said, "Now that Wu Yan and Wu Huo haven't sent back any messages, I think they have made some discoveries... The gold mine should be nearby."

"Okay." Gu Yue had no objection.

The two men found a secluded cave in the mountains, hid their horses, and sat down next to each other in the grass.

The autumn wind was cool and dry. The Milky Way was spinning overhead.

……

In the mine.

During rest time, all miners sleep on the ground, and the straw mats in the mine tunnel serve as their beds.

The people around him had experienced a day of hard work and were all fast asleep. Wu Yan was still awake, and he put his ear to the ground, carefully distinguishing the noises coming from all directions in the mine tunnel.

Occasionally someone turns over or gets up to urinate.

About halfway through the break, Wu Yan suddenly heard hurried yet steady footsteps coming from a certain direction.

Then there seemed to be a voice: "...Meng...meet..."

Wuyan sat up.

The people around were breathing evenly and snoring loudly.