Farming and reading lady

"Wang Er, another day has passed. It gets dark so quickly. Where did the general get the news? How could the treasure be in such a remote place? Look at this bare mountain, just yellow soil, not even a blade of grass." A hoarse voice said, "I think we are just here to divert people's attention. Lieutenant Ke is the real boss."

"Li Jiu, stop yelling here. If the general hears you, will you still want to keep your head?" It should be Wang Er who was scolding him.

Li Jiu murmured: "Aren't there only you and me here? Otherwise, how could I speak? Alas, it's because we are not personal guards. If..."

"Do more work and talk less. Dig quickly. If there is no movement for another day, you have to move to another location." Wang Er interrupted his complaints and gave orders.

What followed was Li Jiu's mumbling, which was nothing more than complaining about all kinds of injustice.

It was obviously very close, and it was too late to move mud and rocks to block the passage. However, what happened here must not be known to more people. Time was too tight. Gu Xixian was so anxious that he wanted to stamp his feet, but was afraid of alarming the people outside.

"There's no other way. Uncle Ning, Uncle An, get ready. Judging from the sound of their voices just now, there should be only those two people nearby. Once the ground is broken, you must pull those two people in as quickly as possible." This was the only last resort that Gu Xixian could think of now.

The wall of the passage was quickly dug through from the outside. Wang Er and Li Jiu were still in a daze when they felt themselves being pulled down by a huge force. They were about to shout for help when a large amount of wet mud was stuffed into their mouths.

The two were quickly tied up. Before exploring the passage, the three took advantage of the break to pull the vines on the cave wall and twisted a thick and long rope. This idea came from Gu Xixian's sudden inspiration. He made it just in case. And now, it was used.

Wang Er and Li Jiu looked at the three people in front of them in horror. They were the most ordinary soldiers at the bottom of the army. They were so frightened that they even forgot to spit out the mud in their mouths. They just stared blankly with their eyes wide open.

Gu Xixian was not kind enough to help them solve their puzzlement. Instead, he said to Ning Yi and the others, "Uncle Ning, Uncle An, drag these two people in. We need to find a way to completely block this road."

After thinking for a while, she said, "If it's too troublesome, just seal the distance that an average person would normally dig in for a day."

Ning Yi and his partner dragged one person each and walked back. Gu Xixian also took the night pearl from the side of the passage wall and stuffed it into his small bag. When they reached the fork in the road, Ning Yi and his partner threw the person they were dragging to the ground, took the pickaxe and shovel they had pulled down and started to chisel the passage wall. With the blessing of internal force, the passage soon disappeared.

“Master, what should we do with these two? Just…” An Yi made a “kill” gesture, which scared Wang and Li so much that they peed their pants. They quickly spit out mud, and then said in a trembling voice: “Poison… poison… poison is going to kill… kill me… us, Jiujiu Li… Li Clan…”

Gu Xixian squatted down, revealing a mysterious smile like that of a wolf grandmother, and poked the vine ropes on them with his fingers: "I don't have to kill you, as long as you answer my questions obediently and promise not to lie."

The two of them nodded quickly like chicks pecking at rice.

"Which country are you from? Where is the outside world?" Gu Xixian looked at the clothes they were wearing and thought they were not from their Da Ling country.

"Puh, puh, puh," Li Jiu tried hard to spit out the mud in his mouth. He was a talkative person to begin with, and after hearing Gu Xixian's assurance, he felt much more at ease. He quickly replied, "Your Excellency, we are from Wuxu country, and outside is the Damu Mountain, which is the border between Wuxu and Jinyu country."

She had never heard of these two countries. Gu Xixian turned to Ning Yi and the others, saying that the natives should know about them.

Ning understood immediately: "Wuxu Country and Jinyu Country are both to our northwest, separated by Guming Mountain, which is the mountain to the west of our border town. Because they are too far away and have no diplomatic relations with Daling, many people don't know about them."

Gu Xixian... So, how did the three of them get here? They say that a horse will die if it is seen from a mountain, why does she feel that something is wrong? And what kind of god can shrink the earth into an inch?

Throwing aside the question she didn't understand, she continued to ask, "I just heard you guys talking about treasure outside. Can you explain it to me?"

Wang Er hesitated for a moment and said, "Our general, our third prince Li Gao, got a treasure map from somewhere, saying that there is a huge treasure hidden in the Damu Mountain, but he didn't know the exact location. So he sent out his entire army, and we were deployed to dig around the Damu Mountain in Wuxu."

"How long have you been digging?" Gu Xixian was curious. Such a large-scale operation did not attract the attention of others?

"We have been digging for several months, but so far, we haven't heard of any discoveries." Wang Er thought for a moment and replied.

Gu Xixian thought to herself: Good thing, she has been digging for several months, but when she was about to succeed, she was intercepted by the three of them. It seems that she is lucky. Well, this also shows that she is destined to find this treasure. Well, this treasure will be hers from now on, and she decided happily.

The third prince of Wuxu Kingdom: How dare you, a snatcher? I mobilized the entire army, and you just ran away with your life and took the treasure for yourself?

"Do you have many relatives and friends in Wuxu Kingdom?" Gu Xixian asked again.

Wang Er and Li Jiu: What are they doing? Are they going to hunt down their nine clans? No, they just dug the soil and didn't do anything bad. Fortunately, they were all orphans and didn't know what their nine clans were. Didn't you see how perfunctory their names were? Wang Er, named after the surname picked up by an old beggar, was the second child picked up by the old beggar, so he was named Wang Er. As for Li Jiu, it means old luggage. So, do they have nine clans? Of course not.

Seeing the two of them shaking their heads, Gu Xixian glanced at them again. They should be nearly thirty years old, right? How could they not have married and had children at such an old age?

"No parents, wife or children?" Could it be that the soldiers in this army were recruited from an orphanage?

"We used to be beggars, captured as conscripts." Li Jiu replied. At least they had food to eat, so it made no difference where they were. They were happy to be captured. Although they had no freedom, it was better than eating one meal and going hungry three times.

"Oh, that's good." Gu Xixian thought to herself, getting two free laborers for free is really good. She rummaged in her bag and took out two sugar pills with bitter chrysanthemum. They were made for the master's wife. They can reduce internal heat and are not so bitter. She fed the two pills into their mouths, and then said to Ning Yi: "Uncle Ning, untie their ropes. They have been fed poison. If they want to run, let them run. Anyway, they will die without the antidote."

Wang and Li just stood up and collapsed to the ground again: "Sir, sir, we don't want to escape, our lives belong to you, you say something and we will do whatever you want us to do."

Gu Xixian nodded: "You can follow me if you want. Just like you said, do whatever I tell you to do. I will make sure I give you the antidote on time, and I will also give you meat to eat and soup to drink."

"We will obey, we will definitely obey." The two of them promised hurriedly. Li Jiu asked carefully and flatteringly: "Sir, what are we going to do now?"

"Let's go, I'll take you to dig for treasure." Gu Xixian waved her hand, and displayed the momentum of an army of thousands.

Wang Er and Li Jiu's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and they screamed in shock: "There really is a treasure?!"