Tenzin called his two men over, handed them the hooks and belts they needed to use to cross the ropeway, and said, "Follow you two."
Ren Yonghai was used to taking matters into his own hands when it came to personal safety. He checked the equipment he was going to use many times, until he bit it with his teeth. Finally, he said to me with certainty: "Okay, it's absolutely safe now."
Xu Yaxian was still in a panic, very anxious, her lips were purple, and she looked very bad. I told Ren Yonghai that he was responsible for escorting Caiyun, and I took Xu Yaxian there. Ren Yonghai looked at Xu Yaxian and nodded to me.
Ren Yonghai took the lead and took Caiyun to the other side to meet us. Xu Yaxian and I walked to the cliff mouth and found that most of the people and horses had been transported to the other side. Danzhong reminded him to stay behind and watch us all arrive safely on the other side before he would follow us.
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"Don't be afraid." I glanced at Xu Yaxian, stretched out my hand, and motioned for her to grab my arm.
Xu Yaxian wondered: "What does it look like if a man and a woman do not have sex with each other?"
"What time has it been? Why do you still care about these red tapes? You don't want to stay alone in the wilderness, do you?"
Before I finished speaking, Xu Yaxian immediately hugged my neighbor tightly and resisted: "No, no!"
"That's right. Your second uncle and I are equals after all. Don't worry, your uncle won't take advantage of you."
"Bah, bah, bah, I'll settle the score with you when I get to the other side!"
As soon as we reached the other side, Uncle Ciwang caught us steadily. He smiled and said, "Good boy, it's my first time crossing the mountain road. I didn't rush. I didn't even hear you call me. I'm a man."
My calves were actually trembling, and I didn’t dare to look down all the way. Not to mention Xu Yaxian, who was simply dragged to the other side with her eyes closed. People say that out of sight is out of mind.
Uncle Tsewang removed the green flag that was stuck on the side and replaced it with a yellow flag. I asked him what this meant. He said: "The people and goods are almost here, let the people at the end of the line prepare to collect the ropeway.
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At this time, a whistle sounded from the other side, and the last black wooden box flew down the dual-line ropeway. For some reason, the guy who was originally on the shore to pick up the box did not step forward to catch the box. I shouted, "No!"
, I saw the cargo box suddenly rushed up to the river bank with huge inertia, making a loud noise.
The horses parked nearby were frightened and suddenly became restless and bumped around.
It is not a trivial matter for a horse to be frightened. I once saw a mad adult horse overturning a farmhouse, and its destructive power was shocking.
Uncle Ciwang knew the power of this and shouted: "One group of people will pick up the goods on the other side, and the other group of people will follow me to chase the horses!" Then he raised his riding whip high and whipped it out on the pebble beach with a terrifying "snap" sound.
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I was not good at training horses, so I immediately called Xu Yaxian and asked her to hide aside and never get in front of the horses. Then I turned around and ran towards the river bank, wanting to help the horse breeder take care of the goods that had just fallen.
I held a torch and waded across the stream to the shoal. Due to the impact of the cargo boxes, many of the shrimp lanterns originally scattered on the river had been damaged. I could only rely on the light of the torch to find the cargo boxes in the water.
When I took a closer look, I found that the wooden box had been broken into pieces. If it weren't for the hemp rope tied outside, it would have fallen apart. I squatted down and got close to the box, trying to drag it out of the water, but I couldn't help it.
The thing was so heavy and filled with water that it couldn't even move for a while.
I looked back at the shore. Experienced horse breeders were holding searchlights and whips, pulling up snagging ropes in pairs and starting to contain the crazy horses.
Seeing that none of them were able to help, I had to find a way to clean up the mess in front of me. I put my hand into the water and started groping. I don't know whether it was because of the night or the cold water itself. As soon as my hand touched the box in the water,
I was severely frozen, and a heartbreaking cold air came up from the cracked gap in the cargo box.
I feel something is wrong, so
I put my face close to the water to see what was inside the box. I moved the torch closer to the water and leaned down to take a look. Unfortunately, the gap was too small and too dark to see clearly. I could only vaguely feel what was inside.
The thing seemed to move.
"What?" I was startled, and I quickly pulled my hand back and rubbed my eyes.
"Is it an illusion caused by the reflection of the river water?" Because I really don't believe that any living creature can survive in such a box.
Not giving up, I lifted up one corner of the box and used my feet to fiddle with a pile of sand and gravel under the river bed to place it under the cargo box. In this way, the broken side of the box was temporarily lifted out of the water, making it easier for me to confirm whether it had just been
It's an illusion.
This time I directly pulled apart the rope tied to the corner, and most of the gaps on the box surface immediately opened up, and a stream of green smoke rose into the sky.
I was startled and thought to myself, "Is Ciwang also using chemical weapons?" I didn't dare to step forward anymore. I covered my mouth and nose with one hand and pulled up the rope with the other hand, trying to tie the box back.
At this moment, I heard a roar behind me, and I quickly turned around, only to see Tenzin, his face filled with death, as he tried his best to hit me with his gun.
"Did you take the wrong medicine?!" Fortunately, I reacted quickly and my subordinates didn't dare to be negligent. I waved my right hand and blocked the torch in front of me.
However, Tenzin seemed to be unaware of the pain and pulled me up. I don't know where he got such strength. He grabbed my hand like an iron plier and threw me out with a "swipe".
I leaned back and my back hit the corner of the box hard. The box, which had already fallen to pieces, could not bear my weight. In the blink of an eye, both the person and the goods fell into the cold river water.
Tenzin yelled, "No!"
Then, he immediately pounced.
I was choking and my eyes were full of water, and I was extremely depressed. "I was kind enough to help you rescue the goods that fell into the water, but you attacked me sneakily. If I had known, I would have burned your pile of broken boxes, which would have saved me a lot of trouble."
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I choked on the cold water and almost drowned on the spot. I thought Tenzin was going to add insult to injury and kill me on the spot, but unexpectedly, he didn't seem to see me and just kept fishing for the broken wood.
I crawled out of the water, soaked to the skin. The torches had long been extinguished, and the people on the shore had calmed down the commotion of the horses and were running toward us.
I coughed for a long time before spitting out the river water in my throat. I didn't know if the box of things was poisonous. I saw Tenzin squatting in the middle of the water, looking lost and without the murderous intention before, so I stepped forward.
He held down his shoulders.
"Alzheimer's disease is coming again? What on earth do you want to do?"
Tenzin turned around slowly, and for some reason the skin on his face bulged like a toad. His hands were hanging in the water, holding something. When I looked closer, I almost screamed.
It was a rotten broken arm.
Tenzin stared straight at me, squatting motionless in the water. The skin on his face was like a corpse that had been soaked for a long time, swollen and rotten. I took a step forward to pull him, but he backed away like crazy.
Go and keep mumbling: "I will deliver, I will deliver, I will definitely deliver..."
I was afraid that he was going crazy, so I didn't care so much. I took two big steps, held Tenzin down firmly, and shouted toward the shore: "Something happened to Tenzin, please come help."
The two guys who had been following Tenzin were waiting on the shore. When they heard what happened, instead of coming to help, they turned around and ran into the forest. Uncle Tsewang and Luosang ran towards me without saying a word.
He ran and asked what was going on.
I looked at Tenzin. He was neither shouting nor making a fuss. He was sitting slumped in the water as if he had lost his mind. The thing he was holding had long since disappeared, and there were no lights around. I was afraid that he would mess around.
He was half-supported and half-pressed all the time, but he couldn't free his hands to look for the things that fell into the water.
"Why is Tenzin dead?" Luosang held a searchlight in his hand. When he saw Tenzin's face, he took several steps back. He stammered, "No...it can't be that someone used it.
medicine......"
As soon as he said the word "medicine", Uncle Ciwang slapped him on the forehead: "Don't talk nonsense, take it to the shore first and let Deyang Ram take a look."
Under the firelight, Tenzin's face exuded the color of rust like bronze, with large areas of swelling on his cheeks, holes in some places, and thick and sticky rotten juice flowing out of them.
Seeing that Luosang was not willing to come up to pick him up, I joined forces with Uncle Tsewang, one on each side, and took Tenzin's left and right arms and dragged him to the river bank.
As soon as we got out of the water, we saw Deyang Ram waiting on the shore with a medical kit on her arm. She and Qiangba helped Tenzin to a temporary "bed" covered with a tarpaulin, and Ren Yonghai ran over from a distance to ask me what was going on.
I pointed at Tenzin, pulled him aside and whispered: "The goods shipped by Tsewang may not be clean."
Ren Yonghai didn't understand what I meant and asked, "Is he smuggling?"
"I haven't seen the details clearly, but the contents in the box are quite strange. Where are his two guys?"
"They entered the woods." Ren Yonghai pointed to the airtight woods behind us and said, "I saw that their faces were sweating profusely and they were grinning. I thought they had diarrhea!"
"This matter is not that simple. We have to inform Uncle Ciwang and ask him to pay attention."
After saying that, I returned to the shore. When Uncle Ciwang heard that someone had entered the woods, his expression changed drastically. He shouted danger and waved his hands. Luosang and the remaining two horse breeders immediately got on their horses and headed into the woods.
Chase after.
I asked him what was going on. Qiangba explained with a dark face: "This forest is the outer fortress of Heiyun Village, and ordinary people are not allowed to pass after dark. There are hidden sentries everywhere in the forest, and no one has received any notification from the chieftain in the village.
Notice, if you find someone... you will shoot them directly without shouting."
"This is not the worst," Uncle Ciwang said intently, "We just broke the fishing lanterns, which not only caused economic losses to the village, but also destroyed the long-standing friendship between our caravan and Heiyun Village. Those two
If you try again, it will be even harder to explain and cause trouble..."
I didn't expect that there would be so many taboos as soon as I entered the territory of Heiyun Village. I also thought that the two guys who rushed into the forest might be in danger, and I broke out in a cold sweat on the spot.
Jianba said: "How about I chase after you?"
"The more people there are, the more chaos there will be. Luosang knows how to advance and retreat. If he can't catch up...then we can only blame them for their short life. We can't make the same mistake again and again and rush into the stronghold overnight. Girl, look at what Tenzin is doing."
How did it happen? The others are camping at Linzikou, and we will wait until Luosang and the others come back to talk about everything."
Deyang Ram peeled off Tenzin's collar, and a stream of pus mixed with a foul smell suddenly came out. It turned out that not only his face was rotten, but sores began to appear on his body.
"You all get out of the way, I want to check him." As soon as she spoke, the people surrounding Tenzin backed away.
I asked why no one can be present during the physical examination. Qiangba quickly replied: "This is not an ordinary physical examination. Deyang Ram wants to see if there is any 'medicine' in his body."
I have heard people mention "medicine" countless times, and I also know that this is a common name for poisons by local residents. I just don't know how Deyang Ram can tell whether Tenzin has been poisoned.
Out of curiosity, I deliberately chose a tricky position and peeked through the wall to watch Deyang Ram conduct a physical examination on Tenzin. Deyang Ram first took out a five-cent green leaf from the purse he carried with him, and then chewed it in his mouth.
Break it into pieces, and finally paste the broken leaves on Tenzin’s body.
I don't know what her purpose is, so I have to wait patiently to see her next move. Deyang Ram has been standing cross-legged beside Tenzin, staring at his face meticulously, as if he has something to treasure in the blink of an eye.
Chapter completed!