mtlumby2d Chapter 255 Looking for Someone (1)
Chapter 255 Looking for Someone (1)
Wang Jinyi sent Feng Jie and Feng Mei to look for someone.
There were three scholars supported at that time. Feng Jie and Feng Mei went out to divide the area according to the map. Feng Jie was responsible for going to Nanhe County, Yuzhou Prefecture to find the whereabouts of Wang Luanhe.
Although Yuzhou Prefecture and Xunyang Prefecture are adjacent to each other, the mountainous areas in Yuzhou are mostly barren and productive, and the people in the mountainous areas have a hard time living. Despite their difficult family conditions, they were able to study and pass the examination to become scholars, and were the main recipients of Wang Jinyi's financial support.
When Sister Feng arrived at Liujia Village in Nanhe County two days later, she found that the village was on a steep hillside. There were only a hundred or so people in the village. She found Liu Xiucai's home according to the funding materials given by the clan.
Before entering the house, I saw two newly built stone and tiled houses and the sound of children reading in the yard. Sister Feng was sure that this was the family that the young lady had sponsored.
I knocked on the gate, but no one answered. I pushed it open and saw a middle-aged man in a patched robe giving lectures to children of different ages. The children had no books, no notebooks, and no pens. Each of them was holding a sandbox and a half-broken wooden stick, and practicing writing on the sandbox.
The child who was writing noticed Sister Feng outside the door and loudly reminded Mr. Liu, the scholar who was giving a lecture.
Mr. Liu left the house, exchanged greetings with Sister Feng, and asked:
"I wonder what business you have in my humble abode?"
To make it easier to behave, Sister Feng dressed up as a man, wearing a short top and shorts, and a man's scarf on her head. The old scholar couldn't tell the difference between a man and a woman, so Sister Feng ignored her and asked directly:
"Old sir, has a man named Wang Luanhe ever been here?"
"you are?"
"He is my brother. We agreed to go home together, but he didn't show up, so I came here to look for him."
When Mr. Liu heard this, he was very enthusiastic and wanted to invite Sister Feng to sit in another room. Sister Feng ignored the old scholar's enthusiasm and asked again:
"When did he leave?"
Scholar Liu recalled: "He stayed here for three days and learned about the house construction in detail. He also asked me to write a report on the construction process and talked with the villagers before leaving.
He has been gone for half a month! Why hasn’t he come home yet? Oh! He hasn’t come home with you yet…”
The old scholar seemed to suddenly wake up and stamped his feet in annoyance, "Oh, could he be..."
"He said he wanted to go to Kushui Mountain in Xunnan County to visit a friend, and asked which way was closer. I reminded him not to go to Heifeng Mountain because I heard there was a group of bandits there..."
Listening to the unfocused narration, Feng Jie felt a bit confused, so she simply interrupted Mr. Liu and asked, "Which road did he take at that time?"
"I know."
"I know too."
Several children interrupted enthusiastically, and Sister Feng slowed down her tone and asked, "Which way did he go?"
A clever boy answered with his dark eyes:
"Mr. Wang went down the slope from the west and headed southwest!"
Mr. Liu quickly added:
"That road is full of forks going up and down the mountain. Could he be lost?!"
Sister Feng quickly analyzed in her head, a person who survived the hands of human traffickers and grew up to be a manager can't be so stupid! So he went to Kushui Mountain? Who stopped by to do some private business and stayed there? !
That is, something happened on the road, or something happened when returning to Xunyang City from Ku Shui Mountain. The latter possibility is almost impossible. The young lady's men have traveled back and forth on that road countless times in the past six years and nothing has happened.
Sister Feng was convinced that something unexpected had happened on the road.
So I started to prepare, "Can I buy some food in the village?"
The clever boy asked: "Are you going to see Mr. Wang? We can all bring you food, and I can also show you the way..."
Sister Feng said to Mr. Liu, "Prepare some dry food for me. I will buy it with my own money. Don't let anyone follow me. You will affect my search for someone."
After that, he entered the room and saw a pen and ink on the table. He wrote a note and handed it to Liu Lao Xiucai, "If anyone who claims to be my brother comes again, give this to him."
After saying this, he picked up the black or yellow dry biscuits that the children had brought, put them in his arms, and ran out.
Three days later, Feng Mei arrived to see the anxious eyes of the whole village and the small note left by Feng Jie. There were only a few words on the note: Southwest 1
Fengmei immediately understood what Fengjie meant and asked her to look for signpost No. 1 along the way and follow the track in the southwest direction.
When Feng Mei saw that the guards' tracking marks were used, she concluded that something had happened to Wang Luanhe, so she asked Liu Lao Xiucai. Feng Mei came half a month after Wang Luanhe left. Feng Mei did not dare to delay and ran away like the wind.
When Mr. Liu came back with some dry biscuits, Feng Mei was gone.
Besides, Sister Feng hurried on the mountain road during the day, and when it got dark, she used her lightness skills to fly on the narrow mountain road. After chasing along the winding path for four days, Sister Feng felt that this endless winding mountain road made people feel like walking the same road every day without any reference, like a ghost wall.
The bare dirt road made it difficult to even leave secret signals, so they had to use mud balls on the road to mark the roads. This could only be done during the day, as there was no time to leave marks at night when using light skills. In the end, Sister Feng was worried that Sister Feng might think she was lost too!
Just like that, when there was no one on the winding mountain road during the day, I started to run quickly using light skills. After running for another morning, I saw a lush mountain appear in the distance.
Before Sister Feng could judge how far away the mountain was, several people crawled out of the ash pits on both sides, and started hacking at Sister Feng, who was wearing shorts.
When Fengjie spun around and flew up, almost all the bandits screamed in fear, some were frightened, and some ran away.
There was no way Sister Feng would let them escape, so she knocked out all seven bandits effortlessly.
With extreme patience, they tied the bandits up in a pile with their legs facing upwards, without any torture. They could just be woken up with their fists and put a knife to their necks, and everything would become clear.
The mountain in front is called Black Front Mountain. It is eight miles away from where the seven bastards ambushed him. It is the bandits' outpost. There is also a tea shed five miles behind, which is also a secret sentry posted by the bandits.
When Sister Feng heard that this was a group of bandits with some brains, she decided to find out more about the situation. She asked them whether any passerby who looked like Wang Luanhe had been caught in the past month. Several people said they had never seen one.
Sister Feng wanted to solve all the problems right away, but a thin man shouted, "Hero, please spare his life. We change shifts every ten days. The person you are asking about may have been caught by that shift. Hero..."
Before he could say the next word, Sister Feng knocked him unconscious again.
He thought about it to himself and decided that he should take advantage of the fact that the bandits had not yet changed shifts and sneak into the mountains to find the people. As for the tea stall five miles ahead, he could just use light skills to pass by it at night. But if he went further, he would have to disguise himself as a bandit.
So, a staggering bandit on the mountain path was walking carelessly towards the Black Front Mountain. In the ditch behind him, there were seven bandits who had been stripped naked, their mouths were tightly gagged, and their hands were tied behind their backs with their clothes. Let God decide the fate of these seven idiots!