Chapter 73 – The Son Says Non Non Non

The carriage is slightly cramped, even if folded up two rows of seats, but only seven feet square, good thing Su Yan and Jing Hong chasing are not particularly large people, lying down side by side, the middle of the shoulder width distance, can be allowed to roll over.

Su Yan just ate enough to be sleepy, now lying on the mat, but the sleepiness faded, in a darkness closed and opened his eyes.

The orange-red glow of the campfire filtered in through a crack in the door curtain, and he turned his face sideways to look at the man lying beside him, vaguely able to see the outline of the other man’s features.

Jinghong chased after him and moved into the wall, making more room for him.

Su Yan laughed lowly, his voice was even more transparent in the small and quiet space, like a clear spring on the rock flowing into people’s hearts. “Come over a little, why always shrink to the wall,” he said, “you practice gecko kung fu?”

Jing Hongchou lay down with his clothes on, crossing his arms to hold his longsword to his chest and just staring at the carriage, “I’m going to take a bath in the lake.”

Jing Hongchou immediately said, “Subordinate will keep a lookout for Your Excellency.”

Su Yan lost his smile, “What’s with the wind? I’m not a big girl, take a bath and still afraid of being peeped at?” In his previous life, the school’s open bathroom, ten or twenty men crowded in a bath, has long been used to being watched, each other’s back rub is also convenient, he greeted the other side: “Why don’t you also take a set of clothes, let’s go down to the lake together.”

Jing Hongchou was stunned and subconsciously refused, “No need.”

“Whatever you. I grew up on the river as a child, the water is not bad, if you are still not assured, just watch the lake, and catch a few fish on the way, later in the evening to boil fish soup to drink.”

Su Yan said, finding a suitable rock on the shore to put his clothes, he began to dismantle his hair and undress.

He moved with great skill, stripping off his single shirt in the twinkling of an eye, revealing his white shoulders and back, his sweaty skin crystallizing like jade in the daylight, and bending down to begin removing his white silk pants.

Jing Hong chased busy turning around, heard the sound of a plop into the water, only to turn back, see the blue waves between the white stripes hidden. His eyesight is good, immediately recognized, this is the waist and hips, that is the thighs, but also hot eyes and heart palpitations, hastily turned the corner of the rock, picked up a handful of gravel in hand.

He squinted at the shimmering lake, between the fingers of the gravel suddenly popped out, followed by a fish flopping white belly floating out of the water. Finger as a bow, stone as a bullet, a stone a fish, actually the case is not false, not long ago the lake drifted up a dozen fish.

Jing Hong chased his long sword out of its sheath and slashed at the water, and under the agitation of the sword’s energy, the water splashed up high and landed on the shore along with the stunned fish.

He was uneasy about Su Yan and turned out of the rocky corner to look at the lake, only to see that Su Yan had already swum near the waterfall and waved at him from afar, signaling him to go down to the lake as well.

Jing Hongchou shook his head to refuse, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly, thinking that after all, Lord Su is a young man at heart, so let him play a little more.

Back to the grass full of fish, he folded a few willows, pierced the fish’s mouths one by one, strung them into two big heavy strings, and hung them on the branches next to him. After doing this, he turned back to the lake, but suddenly realized that Su Yan on the lake surface had disappeared.

Maybe he was diving into the water to catch fish and shrimp? He waited patiently for a few moments, but there was still no sign of anyone, and his face changed.

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Only a few locals know that behind the Eagle’s Nest waterfall there is another cave, a large, ghostly cavern, and deep inside a twisting, hidden path that is a shortcut to the mountainside.

Wang Wu and Wang Liu walked out of the trail, tripped through the puddle-filled cave, went down through the waterfall, and were trying to swim across the lake. Wang Six violently tugged on his brother’s arm and called out in a lowered voice, “Look, there’s a little pussy in the lake!”

Wang Wu said, “Where is a woman in the wild mountains, I’m afraid it’s not a mountain spirit or a wild monster.”

Said to say, also fixed eyes to see, see not far from the lake, the woman back to them tread water, satin black hair can not cover a good flesh, from the hair strands exposed between the shoulders like a snow pile.

Half of the back naturally can not see men and women, but they have not seen any man can be born so white, and therefore decided that it is a woman, and the origin is unknown, through the strange.

The brothers gave each other a wink, quietly dived and swam over, and from behind one grabbed one side of the other’s ankle and yanked it down.

Su Yan was caught off guard and was dragged into the lake, choking on a large amount of water. His neck was strangled by a thick arm, and after being dragged backward for a short distance, the torrent of the waterfall poured down from the top of his head, smashing him into a daze.

Dragged into the cave and lowered onto the wet rocks, he coughed up tears and lungs.

When Wang Liu saw his front chest and between his legs, he said with five thunderbolts, “…… It’s even a man!”

Wang Wu also showed regret, “It’s actually a man.”

Su Yan easily stopped choking and wiped the water from his face, looking up angrily at the two psychopaths who suddenly appeared to drag him away.

Only to see the two men in a short fight, the lower body linen pants, the upper body only set a lapel sleeveless short coat, exposed blocky chest and abdominal muscles and two robust arms, skin color tanned to dark brown.

These two men are brothers, about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, the face was born with a few similarities, are thick eyebrows and big eyes, two cheeks of the beard root scraped iron green, appearing rough and hard. All tattooed with flower arm, and like a tiger and like a panther do not know what pattern, just a different location, one in the left arm, one in the right arm.

Su Yan look at their looks and dress, suspect that it is not bandits or horse thieves, heart some regret swimming too far offshore, did not Jing Hong chase also hard pull down.

He glanced at the waterfall with his afterglow, calculating whether the sound could penetrate the rumbling curtain of water and reach the opposite lake shore if he shouted for help here …… Well, it is absolutely impossible, unless he has practiced the Shaolin Jedi Lion Roar Kung Fu.

Wang Liu squatted down, stared at his face, and asked with a thick accent, “Who are you, what’s your family’s business, and what are you doing here on Eagle’s Mouth Mountain?”

Su Yan pulled out a mild and coy smile, “I’m from the capital, my family is a tenant, barely able to pay for me to finish the Ziang school, this time to follow the caravan, going to Shaanxi Yan’an Province to visit relatives, passing through the precious land, in order to avoid the heat of the lake mallard, if you do not intend to disturb the two good men, please forgive me.”

Wang Liu pooh-poohed, “So it’s a sour ding. I thought it was a fox spirit manifesting in the mountains, so I was happy for nothing.”

Su Yan cursed in her heart: you are the vixen! Your whole family is a vixen!

Face more and more harmless: “good man, the little man is uninhibited really indecent, can you allow me to swim back to the lake, dressed up and then ask questions? The son said, nonpolite do not see, nonpolite do not listen, nonpolite do not say, nonpolite do not move ……”.

Wang Liu was given a headache by his “saying non non non” and waved his hand, “Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Within a ten-mile radius of this Eagle’s Mouth Mountain, we are ringing–“

Wang Wu coughed dryly and said, “Since it’s irrelevant, hurry up.”

Su Yan arched his hand and made an appearance of being in a hurry, stepping on puddles with one foot deep and one foot shallow towards the waterfall.

Wang Liu got up resentfully, but saw his brother staring at the acid ding’s naked back, he also looked at it, muttered “what’s so pretty, it’s not a woman”, but couldn’t help but look at it twice more.

Seeing that he is going to go out of the waterfall, Wang Wu suddenly called out, “Stop!” Rushing over in two or three steps, he grabbed Su Yan’s wrist, felt the palms of his fingers, and lifted one of his legs to look at the soles of his feet.

Su Yan slipped on one foot and nearly fell on the rocks, exclaimed and grabbed the other party’s short lab coat, and with a stabbing sound, ripped the already unsturdy stitching at the shoulder.

The short coat on Wang Wu’s body became half a shawl, Su Yan grabbed the other half that was hanging down, and seeing that the back of his head was going to hit the ground, Wang Liu’s quick eyes stretched out his arm from the back and copied his neck.

Su Yan turned to grab his arm, rolled over and climbed up, sighing with relief, “Thanks for the good man’s helping hand, or else my head would have been broken and bleeding.”

Wang Wu grunted, “Thank you my ass! You son of a bitch, do not tell the truth, very cunning! I have not seen which home sharecropper origin, hands and feet so smooth, half calluses are not long. Obviously is a pampered son, the family is either rich or official.”

Wang Liu’s eyes lit up when he heard this, once again sizing up Su Yan, hehehe laughed, “Good fat sheep!”

Su Yan’s scalp was numb, and he wanted to say something else, but he was chopped on the back of his neck by Wang Wu’s hand knife, and he fainted immediately.

Wang Liu stopped his limp body and effortlessly carried it over his shoulder, asking, “Brother, what to do with it?”

Wang Wu said, “Go back to the fortress first, wake up and interrogate to see how much oil there is.”

The two immediately returned along the same route.

A moment later, a silhouette swept in from outside the waterfall.

Jing Hong traced all over the lake and the bottom of the lake, not seeing Su Yan’s figure, and finally cast his skeptical eyes towards the waterfall, and after bouncing a stone into it, he found that there was space behind him, and that’s how he broke through the current and found this cave.

He crouched down, carefully checking the rocky ground, looking for clues from the dampness everywhere, and soon found a hidden path deep in the cave, sitting down to the fact that Su Yan had been captured, his heart was anxious and furious, and he drilled in with a cold face.

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The woods by the lake, Tee riders rested almost, ready to greet the carriage to continue to move forward. Chu Yuan circled around, did not see Su Yan and Jing Hong chase, surprised to ask the crowd: “Has anyone seen Su adults where to go?”

The crowd shook their heads. Su Xiaobei said, “The adult previously returned to the carriage to take a set of clothes, thought to go to the lake to bathe, Wu …… Jinghong big brother accompanied, it should be nothing.”

“It’s time to depart, otherwise we won’t be able to make it to the city before nightfall.” Chu Yuan frowned, “Who will go to the lake to look for it?”

“Me! I’ll go!” Gao Shuo immediately responded, thinking damn what kind of bath takes two grown men so long, a mandarin duck bath?

He lifted his knife, and with the righteous indignation of catching an adulterer for his superior officer, he quickly walked towards the lake.

Not far away, on the hillside, a large group of roughly clad, short-beaten horseback-riding men were keeping a close eye on the movements in the forest. One of them asked the leader, “Do you want to do it? Twenty-two horses and two carts, it’s a big deal!”

The one at the head said, “All of them are armed with guys, and they seem to be well-built, with solid hard points.”

“Even if they are solid, there are only one or two dozen of them, we have two hundred or so brothers here, are we still afraid that we won’t be able to run them over?” A big man said.

“…… The big boss and the second boss haven’t come back yet, why don’t we wait again and listen to them.” Another big man proposed.

The first to open his mouth urged, “I’m afraid it’s not back so soon, if you miss this village, there won’t be this store, Brother Yang, you get an idea first!”

The man at the head hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that the people in the forest began to get up and take their horses, as if they were going to leave, he ordered, “Shoot the rattling arrows out and do it!”

An arrow with a sharp whistle cut through the sky.

Chu Yuan followed the sound and turned around, saw the hillside hula down a group of cavalry, although dressed differently, with a variety of weapons, bow and horse but skillful, a bandit aura came to the face, immediately shouted: “Prepare for battle! It’s the Rattlesnake Pirates!”