Volume 1: A Stranger in a Foreign Land Chapter 13: Dark Moon and Strong Wind
After Shen Fa left, Yang Ge started to make trouble again.
He first wiped all the furniture, doors and windows twice, regardless of whether there was dust or not.
As soon as he put down the rag, he picked up the broom and swept and rinsed every corner of the floor from inside to outside.
Xiao Huang was chased from the inner room to the yard, and then from the yard to the inner room, wagging his tail. In the end, even he could not escape Yang Ge's clutches. He was pressed into the small pond and washed clean from head to toe.
When the sunset fills the courtyard...
A man and a dog sat side by side on the stone steps in front of the house, one wiping his wet long hair and the other licking his half-dry fur. The scene was indescribably neat and harmonious.
"What a beautiful day!"
Yang Ge looked at the azure sky with stars flickering in it, put his arm around Xiao Huang's neck and gently shook his head: "Is that so?"
Xiao Huang gently wagged his tail, licked his cheek with his warm tongue, and accompanied him silently.
Although the puppy can't speak, it understands everything.
The heaviness and uneasiness in Yang Ge's heart finally eased a little...
However, the peaceful time could never last. As soon as the sunset fell over the wall, Xiao Huang suddenly raised his head, pricked up his ears, and looked towards the gate with a serious expression.
Sure enough, there was a knock on the gate a few seconds later.
“Tap, tap, tap.”
The sound is very soft and the rhythm is very slow.
But when he heard the knock on the door, Yang Ge's heartbeat quickened.
He pinched Xiao Huang's mouth before he could speak, patted the dog's soft head soothingly, then stood up and walked towards the gate.
"Squeak."
When he opened the gate, Yang Ge saw a strong young man standing outside. He was wearing ordinary hemp clothes and had a kind face.
Before he could ask, the visitor had already clasped his hands together and bowed, saying in a low voice, "I am Fang Ke, a humble servant, and I have been ordered to come and show you the way, my Lord."
The visitor was very polite, and Yang Ge also politely bowed in return: "You are polite, but I am not an adult... Are you leaving now? Can you give me some time to prepare?"
Fang Ke: "My Lord, time waits for no one, you must leave immediately!"
Time was running out, so Yang Ge didn't bother arguing with him about the title. He just looked at his empty hands and asked, "Are we just going to leave like this?"
Fang Ke: "In this operation, I will be your deputy. If you need any weapons or equipment, please let me know. I will prepare them for you as soon as possible!"
"I see..."
Yang Ge thought for a few breaths and asked seriously, "Do you have lime?"
Fang Ke was slightly distracted when he heard this, but he quickly replied seriously, "Of course we have lime, but we have something else at home that's even more useful than lime. I promise I won't disappoint you, sir!"
Yang Ge readily agreed: "Then use the weapon you mentioned. Also, get me an axe. It should be heavy, so it can be used as a hammer, and the axe blade should be wide, so it can be used as a shield."
Fang Ke was more professional than Yang Ge: "My Lord, you want an axe? Do you prefer to use a long handle or a short handle?"
Yang Ge thought for a moment and said, "A short handle."
Fang Ke bowed and said, "Please follow me, sir. I will deliver the weapons and equipment to the ambush site with my comrades."
Yang Ge: "Let me lock the door first."
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The setting sun gradually disappears.
Yang Ge and Fang Ke quickly passed through several remote alleys, climbed out of the city, and then ran all the way to the northeast. Soon they heard the sound of flowing water.
"Bianhe River?"
Yang Ge looked in the direction of the sound of running water and asked in surprise, "Didn't they say they were Tartar spies? Why would they be heading south?"
The Bian River is a man-made canal with many dangerous shoals due to the rugged terrain and turbulent water. It is impossible to cross those dangerous shoals upstream by relying solely on the wind power of the sails and the power of the oars. A large number of trackers are required to assist in sailing.
During normal seasons, there are no trackers pulling the oars at night.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, there are only ships going downstream on the Bian River at night, and no ships going upstream.
Fang Ke bowed and said, "Your Excellency, the order I received was to lead you to the designated ambush location. I don't know the rest of the details."
Yang Ge stared at him intently, thinking to himself: "If a big shot like Shen Fa wanted to trick me, he could just find some ridiculous excuse to put me in jail. Is it really necessary to make it so complicated?"
He felt that the chances of Shen Fa using him as a knife were slim, but he still decided to be vigilant and never kill anyone unless absolutely necessary: "Okay...where's the thing I want?"
Fang Ke extended his hand and made a "please" gesture: "Please follow me, sir."
Yang Ge followed him doubtfully and walked quickly into the woods beside the river.
Not long after entering the forest, Fang Ke jumped onto a strange rock, then jumped down with a square wooden box in his hands, and landed on the ground with a dull "bang".
"Please look, sir!"
Fang Ke opened the wooden box in front of Yang Ge.
With the help of the bright moonlight, Yang Ge saw clearly the rusty carved axe with an axe blade bigger than a washbasin lying in the box.
Yang Ge: "Should I praise you for your timely support, or should I complain that you're too lazy to even pretend?"
He dared to guarantee that when he met Fang Ke and went back to the house to get the door lock, he was delayed for a short while, at most two or three minutes!
But with just a two or three minute difference, not only was Fang Ke able to transmit the information about the weapons and equipment he needed back to the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but the Embroidered Uniform Guard was also able to deliver the items to the designated location before they arrived...
Now that he was there, Yang Ge was too lazy to complain about Shen Fa taking off his pants and farting. He walked forward silently, grabbed the short axe and weighed it.
Fang Ke: "Sir, is your weapon still in good condition?"
Yang Ge casually swung the short axe with a light and graceful movement, as if he was holding not a heavy axe but a piece of light dogtail grass: "Just make do with it!"
Fang Ke listened to the terrifying muffled sounds of weapons breaking through the air, and with some doubt in his life, he picked up the note in the box that contained the weapon information and glanced at it. In the bright moonlight, he could vaguely see words such as "wrought iron axe", "weighs 62 pounds", etc.
"Gudong."
Fang Ke secretly swallowed his saliva and silently took two steps back, trying to stay away from the swinging axe.
When Yang Ge stopped swinging his axe, he picked up the four remaining egg-shaped black pills in the box and gestured to Yang Ge, "Sir, please look, this thing is called 'Ghost Wall'. It's made of gunpowder mixed with a little bit of eye-irritating powder, nasal powder, itching powder, and other drugs. To use it, just use your internal energy to hold this thing in your palm and throw it. In the blink of an eye, it will make a loud noise. Used properly, it can turn the enemy into a pig that can't see, hear, or smell, and whose whole body will be extremely itchy!"
Yang Ge put down his axe and curiously took the black pill from Fang Ke. He pinched it between his fingers and examined it carefully. "What is the effective killing range of this thing?"
Fang Ke: "My Lord, this item has an effective killing range of five feet, but my Lord must be careful that it must not be used on Qi Hai masters, otherwise they will suffer the consequences if they are not careful!"
"Qi Hai master?"
If Yang Ge remembered correctly, a Qi Hai master refers to a master who has cultivated internal Qi, and Shen Fa seemed to have mentioned that internal Qi can be released externally.
He imagined the scene where he used Ghost Wall against a Qi Hai master, but the enemy blew all the eye-irritating powder, nasal powder and itchy powder back to his face with a palm from the air, and he immediately shuddered.
He was about to return the ghost wall in his hand to Fang Ke when he heard a burst of noisy bird calls from the woods in the distance. Fang Ke turned around and pulled out a shiny oxtail knife from somewhere: "Sir, a guest has arrived!"
Yang Ge thought about it and put a few ghost wall bullets on his waist. He picked up the axe and followed Fang Ke towards the Bian River.
Soon, three or four small cargo ships appeared in the upper reaches of the Bian River.
On both sides of these cargo ships, there are strings of lanterns serving as lighting and position lights. Hundreds of lanterns float down the river, illuminating the dark river surface.
As the halo swayed, commercial flags with the word "Thanks" fluttered in the wind.
A dark cloud passed by, blocking the moonlight.
