Chapter 207

Strangers call themselves firewood cutters? What's the meaning of this?

"My Lord, we go out day and night. We're not familiar with firewood sellers, but we'll ask immediately tomorrow." One stammered.

"But only those people sell firewood. It's easy to ask." The other responded and said hurriedly.

The man looked at them without talking.

"Lord Baihu."

Footsteps came from the night, and four more men came with shouts.

Seeing these people, the man let go of his hand.

The two watchmen suddenly huddled together.

"How's it going?" The man looked at the visitor and asked.

Four men shook their heads.

"No trace of him." They said.

Sure enough, they are looking for someone. The two watchmen tremble. Is it a woodcutter? Can firewood choppers provoke the royal guards?

He was thinking wildly. Seeing the cold vision, the two people froze.

Fortunately, the man waved his hand.

Two watchmen, such as amnesty, look very ordinary. They don't look scary like those royal guards in the county. Instead, they look very kind, don't punch a hole at all, and they dress up like ordinary people.

But knowing their identity, I dare not treat them as ordinary people anyway.

They didn't even take care of the gong for the watch and ran away.

"Did your excellency find anything?" A man asked.

The previous hundred households looked at the night.

"I cooked here for two days and found nothing valuable." He said, pausing, "but do you think he'll cut firewood and sell money?"

Here he smiled.

"After all, he is also a woodcutter."

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"I remember."

A watchman walking out of a few streets finally realized that he had lost his Gong and remembered something.

"I know a woodcutter."

The other is a little puzzled.

"Do firewood choppers still have seed?" He blurted out a question.

That sounds strange.

"The woodcutter didn't plant the firewood, but the firewood was planted separately, so the woodcutter also planted the firewood." The previous watchman said meaningfully, "you forget, a long time ago, there was a kind of firewood in Mobei, not trees, but people, so there was a new firewood cutter."

"Is it the woodcutter who combs the blue lake?" Another watchman also said suddenly. His expression was a little complicated, "that's a legend." [note]

That's a legend.

Long ago, before the fall of a powerful Dynasty, there were a group of fierce soldiers who took pleasure in killing grassland horse thieves and claimed to be firewood choppers. Among them, a strong man from Shubi lake was the most legendary.

These legends were lost in the dust of history until the Duke of Cheng was killed in the north. A group of people recalled the of their ancestors, and the warriors formed a firewood chopper team in private.

They often go into Jin people's territory alone to rob and kill Jin soldiers, just like the warriors of their ancestors. They claim that this behavior is firewood cutting, and they are firewood cutting people.

These people are extremely brave, which makes Jin people very angry. The most important thing is that these people have strange identities. They are not big Zhou soldiers, and they don't know who they are.

"The golden man once offered a reward for catching these firewood choppers. Once, you don't have to catch them when you arrive. You can give a reward as long as you describe what they look like." Said a watchman.

"So powerful?" Another watchman exclaimed, and immediately covered his mouth again.

They are walking carefully along the alley.

"Yes, later, the Jinren official who issued the document was found by the firewood chopper. The firewood chopper said you want to see what I look like. If you give me the money, I'll show you enough." A watchman continued in a low voice, imagining the tone of the woodcutter in the night.

"And then?" Another couldn't help but listen to the tension and excitement, reached out and bit his finger and asked anxiously.

"Later, the official was beheaded by the woodcutter." First, a watchman waved his hand violently around his companion's neck.

The companion screamed with fright.

The cry was particularly penetrating in the dark night, and the frightening watchman also screamed. Lights were lit on both sides of the alley and asked with the voice of the people.

The two watchmen hurried off.

"You scared the hell out of me."

"You are too timid."

"What happened then?"

"The firewood chopper hung the official's head on the horse. It is said that he went in and out of a room. He said that when it comes to being honest, the old and the young will see enough when he collects the money."

"Oh, it's really frightening, but aren't these firewood choppers warriors? They're for the benefit of Da Zhou. Why should they catch them..."

"Maybe it's because these firewood choppers don't obey discipline, don't obey orders and government barracks, and act without authorization."

"Oh, don't say that. It doesn't matter what we do. Let's go."

The night fell back into silence.

The pot on the stove was picked up and the Gulu spicy soup was scooped out.

Facing ordinary and kind men is like a real boss, steadily placing the soup bowls one by one in front of the four people sitting in front of the table.

Like a child waiting for his elders.

"Lord Baihu, why don't you check these firewood choppers?" Asked one of them.

The man called to be an adult put the pot back on the stove, picked up the towel in his waist and wiped his hands. He acted skillfully as if he had cooked food here all his life.

"You can check." He said, "but let the local royal guards do these things, and we will continue to go south."

He said, reaching out and drawing a direction on the table.

"Huaiqing caizhou mansion is a piece of Canadian hands."

A man sitting at the table took a bowl of soup and made him spit out his tongue.

"It will be June soon. We still can't catch this boy. I really want to send him as a gift for adults' wedding." He said vaguely with his tongue sticking out.

"I'm kidding. What does the adult want him to do as a gift?" Lord Baihu said kindly, "I don't know him well."

The four men stopped talking and picked up a bowl of soup.

"But why do thousands of adults want us to go south to inquire?" A man put down his bowl and said, "he should escape back. How can he escape to the south? Isn't that a trap?"

Lord Baihu shook his head.

"What adults say is always right." He said, "just do it."

The four people replied that they stopped talking and snored, drank the spicy soup and got up and left, while the hundred adults neatly and skillfully cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, chanted a tune in the summer night, washed it, wiped it clean with a towel, put it in the bowl box, and extinguished the stove fire one by one. Then they left slowly with their hands on their backs.

At dawn, four or five men in an inn stood carefully by the window and looked out.

"It's really strange. Why are there so many royal guards everywhere all of a sudden?" A whispered.

"More is more. They do theirs and we do ours. We don't interfere with each other." Said the other.

Before he finished, he was slapped on the forehead by the person in front.

"How can we not interfere with each other? Are we doing something fair and aboveboard?" The man glared and said, "if we act like this, it's easy to be watched by the royal guards. Royal guards are the best people to make trouble. It's still a small matter to scare the snake. It's troublesome to involve adults."

The man shrunk his head and answered yes.

"What about that?" He whispered again, "the little paralytic of the Fang family won't look at it?"

The men beside him stared at him and closed the window.

"If you don't see it, you won't see it. He won't hide in Runan city forever." The leading man said in a moment of meditation, "tell adults that the plan has changed and wait for the arrangement."

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Shubi Lake firewood chopper.

Note: the allusion comes from "night", thanks to Zixing Qiyue, naughty Ariel and Heshi Bi.

See you tomorrow.