Chapter 344 – Night Stay at the Inn

Xu Zhengyong pondered for a while before saying, “Besides me there are Lord Wei, Lord Zheng, the Seventh Highness, and the two lords in charge of the granary, and the rest may be the deputies beside a few lords, it’s hard for me to be specific, I’ll have to go back and ask to find out.”

Those who are in the know are not saying much, but they are not saying little.

Because the matter was not considered a secret in the barracks, no secrecy was taken to determine where it might have gotten out.

Wei Ruo pondered for a moment before saying, “First, bandage and treat the wounds of the injured and reorganize the team, we’ll discuss other things later at length.”

Xu Zhengyong nodded.

Fortunately, this attack ended quickly, and there were no deaths amongst Wei Ruo’s men and those brought by Xu Zhengyong, but eleven people were injured.

Four of them were the long laborers from the manor that followed Wei Ruo in delivering the grain, and seven others were subordinates of Xu Zhengyong.

Wei Ruo let Xu Zhengyong and Xiu Mei, Xiao Bei they eleven wounded for wound treatment, give them all medicine bandage, wound medicine is Wei Ruo specially piggyback, originally intended to let Xu Zhengyong take to the barracks, this moment just used.

Wei Ruo himself went with Wei Jin also to the hillside where the ambush had taken place and checked the situation for himself.

Because of the power of the bomb, those ambushers died somewhat tragically.

Wei Ruo frowned, and Wei Jin also keenly sensed her discomfort and said, “Don’t look if you’re uncomfortable.”

Wei Ruo shook her head, “It’s not that I’m uncomfortable seeing the gruesome sight of a corpse, what kind of corpse doesn’t scare me, it’s just that I’m still a little uncomfortable with the idea of someone dying because of me.”

After a pause, Wei Ruo added, “But I don’t regret it at all, for those who want to kill me I can’t be soft on them, the one who dies when I’m soft is me. So second brother you don’t have to worry about me, I’ll be fine after a little bit of adaptation.”

Wei Ruo has emotional aspects, but ultimately, reason dominates.

Wei Jin also gazed at Wei Ruo’s eyes flickered for a moment, as if something had been touched inside.

After Wei Ruo and Wei Jin also inspected the circle, in addition to the incompetence used by these ambushers, they also found that these people had more or less old wounds on their bodies, and looking at the wounds, they looked like they had been suffered in the battlefield, and the shapes of the stab wounds among them were very much like those caused by the unique samurai swords of the Japanese invaders.

In this way, it further confirmed Wei Ruo’s and their previous conjecture that these ambushers were probably the people in the anti-Japanese army.

Coming down from the mountain, Wei Ruo arranged for her people to depart and return, leaving only Xu Zhengyong and the army at the scene.

Because the sound caused by the explosion just now was very loud, especially after being amplified by the special environment of this goat path, it could be heard even from a long distance away.

If the barracks side heard the sound, they should have sent someone here to check it out.

Wei Ruo temporarily do not want to deal with the people in the barracks head on, today to send food was only intended to mix in the ranks of the food sent to the barracks door to turn back.

Therefore, he intended to leave first, leaving the latter to Xu Zhengyong to accomplish.

Before leaving, Wei Ruo briefly explained to Xu Zhengyong about the tactics to explain to the military camp in a while. She probably guessed that when the barracks people came, they would want to ask about the bomb.

It wasn’t long after Wei Ruo and the others evacuated that Chu Lan arrived at the place of the incident with his men.

Remnants and bodies from the clashes remain at the scene.

One of the most surprising things was the bodies of the ambushers, in a gruesome condition that no weapon they had seen before could have caused.

Chu Lan asked Xu Zhengyong about what had happened, and Xu Zhengyong reported in detail what had just happened in the attack.

“And what caused such injuries to the ambushers on the hillsides on either side?” Chu Lan asked.

“It’s a very special weapon, I’m not sure for the moment, at that time I was busy leading people up the mountain to raid, I didn’t get a good look at that thing, I only vaguely saw something being thrown at the two sides of the mountainside, and then there was a very loud sound, and then when I reacted to it, the ambushers on the mountain were all already in the same state as they are now.” Xu Zhengyong replied.

“Where did that thing come from?” Chu Lan pressed again.

“It’s my cousin who bought it from a ship merchant, and I wanted to transport it together to the barracks this time, wanting to let all of you adults to see if it could be useful on the battlefield, but it just happened to come across this, so I used it straight away.” Xu Zhengyong explained.

After listening to Xu Zhengyong’s description, Chu Lan was silent for a long time before asking, “How much is left now? I want to take a look at that thing.”

“It’s all used up.” Xu Zhengyong replied.

There was actually some left, but Wei Ruo had just taken the rest with him when he left.

“Is there a way to get it again later?”

“I’m not sure about this, it depends on luck, if it’s still available.” Xu Zhengyong replied.

Hearing such an answer, Chu Lan’s face couldn’t help but flash a few disappointing colors, but he still instructed Xu Zhengyong, “Have your cousin ask carefully again, and if there is one, make sure to send it over to the military camp side again.”

“Below you lead the way.”

###

Because of the delay, it would not be possible to return to the capital city before nightfall.

Adding to the fact that someone in the group was injured, Wei Ruo decided to find an inn in the county town of Xianju County to rest for the night first, and then return to the Prefecture early in the morning.

Because it was a county close to the battlefield, the business of the inn was cold, and this night it was occupied by Wei Ruo and the others.

The not-so-big inn was also bustling in a rare way due to the arrival of Wei Ruo and his group.

The dinner was simply served, and afterward Wei Ruo let everyone go back to their rooms to recuperate.

Wei Ruo and Wei Jin also live in the two innermost rooms on the second floor.

At night, Wei Ruo knocked on Wei Jin Yi’s room door.

Through the shadow reflected on the door Wei Ruo saw Wei Jin also in front of the door, but he did not open the door immediately, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, Wei Jin also opened the door to the room.

Wei Ruo saw Wei Jin also neatly dressed, still wearing the same moonlight-white clothes in the day, looking untainted, not the slightest bit to see that today there was also a vicious fight with someone.

It was really because his martial arts skills were too high, and even though he was protecting her, he didn’t let the outlaws hurt him in the slightest.

Wei Ruo looked down at Wei Jin Yi’s shoes, which were stained with a lot of dirt and grime, and then asked, “How are second brother’s feet?”

“It’s fine.” Wei Jin also answered for the third time.

“Let me take a look.” Wei Ruo felt that Wei Jin Yi would say it was fine even if something was wrong.

Wei Jin also took two steps back with a serious expression, “You may not.”

“Second brother, don’t be shy, I’ve seen a lot of feet, in the past in the countryside, everyone planted rice seedlings in the fields with bare feet, regardless of men and women, young and old, there is no such taboo.” Wei Ruo said.

“Ruo’er, my feet aren’t hurt, I used martial arts, it was dexterity, I didn’t use my bones to go hard against that thing you made.” Wei Jin also explained.