step on mountains and rivers

After Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu finished writing the family letter, they sent out the tea leaves and the letter respectively.

On the way back, the two met Jiang Ling and Lu Qing, and the four of them went back to Tang Mu's mansion together.

After returning, Tang Mu had already prepared all the things he needed for the trip. Tang Qingfeng nodded in satisfaction, and then everyone went to rest.

Everyone rested overnight, and after bidding farewell to Tang Mu, they set off for Beichuan.

More than a month later, in Beichuan, in the midst of a blizzard, a carriage galloped through the snow, its wheels crushing the deep snow, and it drove quickly towards a small village with a dozen scattered homes not far away. .

Tang Qingfeng, who was driving in the car, glanced at the small village not far away, and said to Li Zhenwu who was wearing a plain light gauze hat beside him:

"Zhenwu, it's too snowy right now, it's inconvenient to move forward, let's rest in the small village ahead tonight."

"Okay." Li Zhenwu replied.

After Li Zhenwu finished speaking, Tang Qingfeng lightly waved his whip, the horse neighed, quickened its pace, and rushed towards the small village ahead.

On the carriage, Li Zhenwu squinted his eyes slightly to gather his gaze, and looked carefully at the small village ahead, trying to see the situation in the village clearly in the dense wind and snow.However, the wind and snow were very strong, covering most of his sight.Through the wind and snow, he vaguely saw a large group of people gathering in the village, and he didn't know what they were doing.

Li Zhenwu looked at the figure in the wind and snow not far away, frowned slightly, and said to Tang Qingfeng:

"Brother Tang, something seems to be happening ahead."

Tang Qingfeng was talking about tonight's arrangements to Jiang Ling and Lu Qing in the car. Hearing Li Zhenwu's voice, he turned his head to look at the village not far away.

When he looked at the figures in the village and was about to speak to Li Zhenwu, he saw Li Zhenwu beside him handing the whip to him with a serious expression and saying:

"Brother Tang, I'll go take a look."

After Li Zhenwu finished speaking, he jumped up from the carriage and flew towards the entrance of the village not far away by performing Qinggong.

Seeing him leave, Tang Qingfeng quickly drove the car to follow him, waving his whip.

In the open area of ​​the village, a man dressed in fur and holding a three-foot-wide round hammer was staring fiercely at the villagers gathered in front of him.Around the villagers, a group of people stood in a circle holding big knives, enclosing them in the circle.

Just listen to the man holding the round hammer sternly say to the villagers:

"Where did you hide people?! Hurry up and hand them over!! Otherwise, I will kill you all one by one!"

After hearing the words of the man with the round hammer, the villagers lowered their heads tremblingly, not daring to make a sound.

Seeing that they didn't answer, the man with the round hammer said angrily:

"If you don't say yes, then don't blame me for being rude!"

As he spoke, he picked up the round hammer and threw it at the crowd in front of him.

Seeing the round hammer coming, the crowd retreated and dodged one after another.While retreating, an old man was pushed down by the crowd and fell to the ground.

Just when the round hammer was about to hit the old man's head, there was a bang, and a dark blue epee suddenly appeared, blocking the fierce hammer.

Seeing that the sledgehammer was blocked, the old man looked up at the person holding the epee.He was dressed in vermilion, with a plain light gauze hat on his head, and he calmly swung his epee lightly, pushing the giant hammer away.The person holding the sledgehammer also jumped backwards as the sledgehammer was pushed by him.

After the man holding the giant hammer was pushed away, the man in the vermilion clothes withdrew his epee, lifted the old man gently, and asked softly:

"Old man, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, thank you young hero for saving me." The old man replied a little at a loss.

As soon as the old man finished speaking, he saw the person holding the round hammer throwing it at the young man in red with a huge hammer, so he reminded with a shocked expression:

"Young hero!!"

Hearing the reminder, the young man in red calmly glanced at the man holding the round hammer, and said slowly to the old man:

"It's okay, old man, don't be afraid."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a handsome young man wearing an indigo shirt suddenly rushing out from behind him, holding a dark ink folding fan and stabbing at the person holding the round hammer head-on.

With a puff, the blade of the fan sliced ​​across the throat, and scarlet blood spurted out. The person holding the round hammer fell back in shock, and the round hammer in his hand fell heavily to the ground.

Tang Qingfeng glanced at the corpse on the ground, and then said in cold words to the crowd surrounding the villagers with knives:

"If you don't want to die, get out."

Seeing that the boss was killed in an instant, the people with the knives panicked.After hearing the words of the fan-wielding youth, they fled in all directions as if they had been pardoned.

Seeing them fleeing, Tang Qingfeng glanced at the direction they were leaving, then turned his gaze away and walked towards Li Zhenwu's place.

Walking closer, Tang Qingfeng smiled slightly at the person in the scarlet shirt:

"Zhen Wu ran too fast, I almost missed it."

"Brother Tang, I'm sorry." Li Zhenwu apologized slightly.

"It's nothing, it happened suddenly, Zhenwu doesn't need to apologize." Tang Qingfeng replied with a smile, then looked at Li Zhenwu seriously and said: "Zhenwu, just don't do this next time. The wind and snow are very heavy, if Zhenwu gets lost, I'm going to be very distressed."

"Yes." Li Zhenwu nodded.

Listening to the conversation between the two, the old man looked at Tang Qingfeng in front of him in shock, but he didn't know what kind of person he was.

Just now, his face was calm, his eyes were cold, and he shot without any hesitation. With just one move, he instantly killed the person holding the giant hammer.Such a ruthless person, at this moment, was talking and laughing at the young man in red, showing his utmost concern.Even as an outsider, the old man can feel the strong friendship between the youth in indigo and the youth in red.

Just as the old man was thinking, a cheerful male voice sounded behind the three of them:

"Old Tang, what are you doing running so fast?!"

Sitting in the car, Jiang Ling and Lu Qing saw Li Zhenwu leaving suddenly. When they were wondering, they saw Tang Qingfeng driving quickly to the entrance of the village, stopped the carriage and jumped into the village.

Jiang Ling looked at the two people leaving, and got out of the car with Lu Qing with a puzzled expression.As soon as they walked into the village, they saw Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu standing together talking about something, so Jiang Ling asked about the situation.

Seeing Jiang Ling and Lu Qing approaching, Tang Qingfeng looked at them and said calmly:

"It's nothing, it's all settled."

"What was solved?" Jiang Ling asked.

After Jiang Ling finished speaking, Tang Qingfeng glanced at the corpse not far away and said:

"that."

Jiang Ling followed Tang Qingfeng's gaze, and asked Tang Qingfeng after seeing the corpse:

"who?"

"I don't know." Tang Qingfeng replied.

"I don't know?" Jiang Ling looked at Tang Qingfeng in doubt, and then complained: "If you don't know, you just killed someone? Old Tang, you are too casual."

Hearing what he said, Tang Qingfeng rolled his eyes at him and said, "Lao Jiang, we've known each other for so long, am I that kind of person?"

Jiang Ling listened to his question, thought for a while, and it was indeed not.So he looked at Tang Qingfeng and said, "Then why did you kill him?"

"He wanted to hurt Zhenwu, but I accidentally killed him." Tang Qingfeng said.

"........." Jiang Ling was speechless for a while.

Listening to the conversation between the two, the old man was frightened when he saw that they were talking about killing people so easily.

The villagers hiding on the side were shocked when they heard what the two said.

At this moment, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy in thin clothes suddenly rushed out from the darkness, looked at Tang Qingfeng sharply and said:

"Aren't you just trying to catch me? Let my grandfather go, and I'll go with you!"

Tang Qingfeng looked at the young man rushing out with a puzzled look on his face, but he heard the old man beside him anxiously say:

"Awu, why are you here?! Go back quickly!!"

"Grandpa, I won't go back!!" Ah Wu returned, then looked at Tang Qingfeng and said sharply: "Let my grandpa go, or don't blame me for being rude!"

Hearing what he said, Tang Qingfeng looked at him calmly and said, "Oh? How can you be so rude?"

"I," Ah Wu said, picked up a wooden stick from his side, pointed at Tang Qingfeng and said in a pretentious manner:

"Master, I have practiced before, you'd better not force me to take action!!"

"Really?" Tang Qingfeng glanced at him, but ignored his words.Turning to look at Li Zhenwu and asking:

"Zhenwu, what do you want for dinner? Barbecue or hot pot?"

Li Zhenwu looked at Tang Qingfeng, then at the nervous young man next to the room, and said slowly:

"It's all right, Brother Tang, he..."

"Don't worry about him." Tang Qingfeng smiled after returning, "Then eat together."

"Brother Tang can decide." Li Zhenwu saw that the young man had no intention of attacking, so he ignored him and replied with a smile to Tang Qingfeng.

"Okay." Seeing Li Zhenwu smiling, Tang Qingfeng smiled slightly at him.

When Jiang Ling heard the two talking about the dinner, he immediately became interested.He looked at Lu Qing and said:

"Lu Qing, I see that there seems to be a glacier nearby. Let's catch fish later, and make fish fillets to eat at night."

"Okay." Lu Qing replied.

Tang Qingfeng heard what Jiang Ling said, and after thinking for a moment, he said to Li Zhenwu: "Zhenwu, let's go too."

"Yes." Li Zhenwu replied.

Seeing that the two of them had finished speaking, Lu Qing was about to ask what happened just now, but saw a young man not far away looking at them angrily and said:

"Hey! Don't go too far!!"

"Why did we go too far?" Jiang Ling looked at the boy with a puzzled look on his face.

Seeing Jiang Ling pretending to be stupid, the young man looked at him and said indignantly:

"Don't be stupid, I asked you to let my grandfather go, but you are talking about catching fish! Are you looking down on me?!"

"Let your grandfather go?" Jiang Ling looked at the young man with a puzzled expression.

Seeing him like this, the young man didn't want to pay attention to him, so he looked at Tang Qingfeng and said:

"Let go of my grandfather."

After hearing what the young man said, Tang Qingfeng looked at him and said, "I didn't arrest your grandfather, so why let him go."

"You didn't catch him, she did! Tell your wife to release my grandpa!!!" the boy said angrily.

After the boy finished speaking, Tang Qingfeng looked at him with relief, then smiled and said to Li Zhenwu:

"Daughter-in-law, you heard me, let him go quickly."

"........." After hearing Tang Qingfeng's words, Li Zhenwu was speechless for a while.

"Old Tang, you are going too far." Jiang Ling said speechlessly.

Lu Qing looked at the people who were joking and smiled lightly.

Seeing the reaction of the crowd, the young man looked at Li Zhenwu and said, "Did you hear that? Your husband asked you to let my grandfather go!"

After Li Zhenwu heard the young man's words, he was silent for a while.He slowly raised his hand, took off the bamboo hat on his head, looked at the young man not far away and said:

"I didn't catch your grandpa."

Seeing the man in red take off his hat, the young man looked at his handsome face with shock in his eyes.

Li Zhenwu glanced at the young man, ignored his shock, turned his head and explained to the old man beside him: "Old man, we are just passing tourists, not here to arrest you."

The old man looked at the beautiful young man in front of him, and stood there blankly.

Li Zhenwu looked at the stunned old man, frowned slightly and thought to himself:

"The clothes are really eye-catching."

After thinking about it, he looked at Tang Qingfeng and asked, "Brother Tang."

"Well, no, Zhenwu's are all in the vermilion system." Seeing Li Zhenwu's question, Tang Qingfeng looked at him and smiled slightly, "If Zhenwu doesn't like vermilion, I'll change it with you?"

Hearing what he said, Li Zhenwu shook his head after looking at him and said, "No need."

"It's okay, the weather is cold, and it's okay to wear longer clothes." Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu and smiled when he heard Li Zhenwu's refusal.

"Well, it will be cold if the clothes are short." Li Zhenwu said.

"Okay." Tang Qingfeng replied with a smile.