This may be a valid clue!

For experts, especially the words and decorative patterns on the tombstones are the most valuable reference. They are more precious than the precious gold and jade in the eyes of ordinary people. Maybe they can find something helpful to Wu Liang from them.

"By the way, old sir, do you know when the Bian Que Tomb was built?"

With this in mind, Wu Liang asked again.

"This old man can't explain clearly. I heard from our ancestors that the tomb has been there before the Qin Dynasty. We rough people like us can't remember when it was built. No one knows it for a long time."

The old man shook his head and apologized.

"Thank you, old gentleman, for your advice."

Wu Liang saluted and finally stopped asking any more questions.

"It's not too early now. Let me take the young master and others to find a place to live first."

The old man stopped talking to him about these things, and immediately took them to an idle courtyard not far from the old mulberry tree.

The courtyard occupies a small area, but there are four bungalows in total. Although it is unused, the courtyard is cleaned quite cleanly. Wu Liang and others did not see a lot of dust in the courtyard and houses, but there were basically no dust inside.

There was no furniture, and it must have been used as a warehouse before. One of the bungalows was filled with farm tools, and it seemed that there must be at least a hundred pieces.

These are definitely not the farm tools of any one family, but the farm tools used by the people of the entire village, which are just put together and managed uniformly.

Seeing this scene, Wu Liang became more and more certain that this old man's status in the village must be high.

Because if it is an ordinary village living in groups, even if the villagers will help each other if something happens, each family still has to keep their own things, especially important production tools like farm tools... Let's put it this way, in a village, who

Being able to control all the production tools in one's own hands is tantamount to controlling the livelihood of all villagers. Not only can such a person cover the sky with one hand in the village, he must also be like a local emperor.

Landlord?

Three elders?

Wu Liangzhi guessed the old man's identity, but did not ask any more questions.

He just secretly told himself that it was necessary to be on guard against others. Although the old man seemed kind-hearted and the villagers were quite hospitable, compared with those villages where the relationship was relatively loose, if the old man and the villagers were hiding something bad,

If you are careful, you can advance and retreat at the same time, but it takes a lot of effort to deal with it.

Especially if this village is really owned by the old man, he alone can easily mobilize more than a hundred people in the village if he has any bad thoughts, which adds up to hundreds of people.

"We are in a remote and remote area, and the living conditions can only be as good as this. I hope you don't mind, sir."

After showing Wu Liang and others the situation in the courtyard, the old man turned around and saluted.

"How could it be possible? It's common for people like us to live in the open, so we're thankful to have such a shelter from the wind and rain. I also want to thank Mr. Kang for his help."

Wu Liang quickly returned the courtesy.

"I would like to ask, do you plan to stay in our village for a few days, or will you set off early tomorrow morning?"

The old man asked with a smile again.

"If nothing else happens, we will set off within tomorrow morning at the latest, if not early tomorrow morning."

Wu Liang pondered for a moment and said.

We have almost explored the folklore of this village. Let everyone rest for the night. It is not too late to go and take a look at the tomb tomorrow. However, it is definitely not to dig the tomb, but just to check out the external details of the tomb.

See if you can find some helpful clues.

As for whether there might be something important buried in the tomb...

No matter how impatient Wu Liang is, he will definitely not dig graves in front of these villagers. Doing so will definitely cause some unnecessary trouble. The best way is to pretend to leave first, and then return at night.

Come back and make a quick fight while the villagers and Bian Que's tomb are not paying attention.

"In this case, Master, please rest early."

The old man nodded slightly, turned around and left.

"Old gentleman, stay."

Wu Liang stopped him again, and Yang Wanli had already fetched a few pieces of dried meat wrapped in linen cloth at the right time. Wu Liang took it and handed it to the old man's hand, smiling, "This is my little wish, please

The old gentleman must accept it."

The Hu army was not short of money. The dried meats they brought with them on the expedition were the size of shoe soles. Although there were only a few pieces, they were quite substantial. These three pieces of dried meats added up to about a kilogram, but it took at least five kilograms of fresh meat to make them.

production.

In this war-torn period, the common people were basically starved of food. Not to mention meat, even the coarsest old grains were a luxury to be able to keep them full, so his thank you gift was no longer too light.

"Young master, you don't need to be polite... In this case, I would rather be respectful than obey your orders."

The old man was talking about giving in, but he already took the meat in his hand. The aroma of the meat immediately entered his nose, and there were some smacking sounds in the old man's words.

…

This is how the old man was sent away.

All the soldiers of the Hu army immediately unloaded the simple bedding that they were traveling with from the carriage and moved them into the house to set up. Several more soldiers of the Hu army started to light a fire and make food.

When the arrangements were almost made, Wu Liang called a group of backbone soldiers into the house with a bowl of porridge.

"Yang Wanli, you need to carefully arrange the defense work tonight. Tell the brothers not to be careless, not to miss any disturbance, and to be more vigilant than in the wilderness."

Wu Liang took the lead and said to Yang Wanli.

"Sir, do you think these villagers have any evil intentions?"

Yang Wanli asked subconsciously.

The rest of the people also frowned slightly, with a slightly worried look on their faces.

"That's not true, but the most difficult thing to understand in this world is the human heart. I can only tell through the centralized management of farm tools that the relationship between the villagers in this village is closer than that in ordinary villages. It is easier for a village with such close interpersonal relationships to make decisions.

There are some things that are not good for us, so we have to guard against them."

Wu Liang said seriously.

"Then why did you return the meat to the old man? If you were worried about this, wouldn't it be better to keep your wealth private?"

Bai Jingjing immediately raised a very practical question.

"I only realized this problem later. Maybe the good times have passed for a long time, and I have forgotten the sufferings of the people. I don't think there is anything wrong with giving a few pieces of dried meat. Now that I have said it later, I can only bite the bullet.

If you give it, you should treat it as a courtesy."

Wu Liang frankly admitted his mistake and said helplessly, "Now that the matter is over, those three slices of meat can be used as their touchstone. If they are really disadvantageous to us because of this, they can only blame themselves for being greedy."

"That is, if they are going to harm us just because of some dried meat, then maybe they have done similar things to past business travelers before, and we are doing justice to justice."

Cao Ni then spoke for Wu Liang.

Perhaps everyone had seen some bigger battles than this, so even though they were a little worried when it came to this matter, no one was afraid of it.

Even Cao Ni is like this.

It is said that this girl has been pampered since she was a child. She has never been on the battlefield, and has never seen with her own eyes the decisiveness and thunderousness of Wu Liang and the Hu army when they faced off against the enemy. At this moment, she was not afraid at all.

This was actually due to the deeds of Wu Liang that Cao Ang and Cao Zhen occasionally told her. In the eyes of this girl, although Wu Liang did not often go to the battlefield, he was invincible on the battlefield. Those who were well-trained

If our army is like this, let alone these ignorant mountain people in the countryside?

"In short, if what I'm worried about does happen tonight, there is no need to deliberately spare them, but if we can capture the thieves and capture the king with the power of thunder, and resolve the dispute with the smallest amount of killing, there is no need to kill them all."

Wu Liang said again.

"Young master, are you talking about the old man just now?"

Yang Wanli asked.

"Exactly, he was the one negotiating with me from the beginning to the end. No one from the other villagers came close to me easily. Even the children rarely approached me. It is not difficult to judge that he is the leader of this village."

Wu Liang nodded.

Just at this time.

"Dongdongdong!"

The door suddenly rang, and the voice of a soldier from the Hu army came from outside: "Sir, a woman holding a child came outside the courtyard. The woman looked panicked. She was kneeling outside the door and kept kowtowing and begging us to take him in. What should we do?

Even if I try to persuade you to live or die, you won’t get up.”

"what's the situation?"

Yang Wanli stood up after hearing this, stepped forward to open the door and said to the soldier, "What is this woman's background? Is she also a villager in the village?"

"It looks like..."

The soldier replied, "Her hair is disheveled and her face is stained. She is dressed in tatters and has no shoes on her feet. She must not be able to walk very far. The child in her arms looks to be only a few months old.

She was crying in a ragged piece of clothing, but the woman seemed to be afraid that others would hear her cry, so she tightly covered the child's mouth and nose. I saw that the child's face was turning purple. If she continued to cover it,

I was afraid that someone would be killed, so I hurriedly came in to report, otherwise how could I dare to disturb the young master with such a trivial matter."

"This... Young Master."

It was hard for Yang Wanli to make a decision without authorization, so he had no choice but to look back at Wu Liang.

"I'll go take a look."
To be continued...