Rui Hegui

A flash of lightning flashed across the sky, reflecting the entire ancestral hall as if it were daylight for an instant. a small place.

The sound of the rainstorm pierced my ears, and the cool wind blew in through the cracks at night, Yubai blocked Zhao Liangyue, and dared not relax in the slightest, for fear that Zhao Liangyue would catch cold again.

Zhuo Chuan was resting on the side. He was already in a light sleep. An escort walked by carrying dry firewood and made a slight creaking sound. He opened his eyes and woke up. He asked in a low voice, "What day is it now?"

"Back to Young Escort, it's almost five o'clock."

Zhuo Chuan thought for a while, then frowned, seeing that Zhao Liangyue was still awake, he said, "I haven't come back at this time, Master Chu must have met the person opposite."

Zhao Liangyue nodded slightly, and his voice was hoarse and weak: "It's not far away, Young Xia Zhuo, please take someone to have a look."

"But Master Chu had instructions before leaving."

Zhao Liangyue shook his head and said: "It's urgent, don't worry too much, and this trip brother must not have any accidents, you should take someone there quickly."

Zhuo Chuan glanced at Youbai, nodded and stood up, pointing to several bodyguards.

Zhao Liangyue took a sip of the hot water handed over by Youbai, and then instructed: "After dawn, it is not suitable to stay here for long, and I will leave later, so after you find him, go directly to Tang County and Cangqing Mountain, and we will meet again later. and."

Zhuo Chuan clasped his fists at Zhao Liangyue and nodded, and led them away.

Youbai looked at the rain that had been falling all night outside, and said worriedly: "If the sky is not sunny again, I really dare not let the young master get caught in the rain again."

"I'm much better now." Zhao Liangyue said as he motioned for Youbai to hand him the dried clothes, and he smiled at Youbai.

Youbai knew that too much persuasion was useless, and Zhao Liangyue had the kind of temperament that seemed easy to talk when he was young, but in fact, after making a decision, he would not look back even if he bumped into the south wall.

So Youbai only hoped that the rain would stop before dawn.

Fortunately, the rain really stopped at five o'clock.

The rainstorm faded away with the night, and this time the surroundings gradually brightened, and the mountains and lush forests of the four fields appeared, revealing the cold green after being washed.

I saw Gao Tian's clear morning light piercing through the clouds and shining on the blood-stained long knife, two pairs of eyes with different thoughts reflected on the blade.

All the attendants brought along had fallen, and Chu Bandit and Jing Mo teamed up to narrowly draw with Xue Ran until dawn.

At this moment, Chu Bandit's entire right arm was trembling uncontrollably, and the blood had already soaked through the cloth wrapped around his hand and was still dripping down.Jing Mo was not much better either, one eye was injured, it was stinging and burning, so he had to close it tightly and let the blood smear.

Xue Ran yelled, swept the long knife away, and fought with the two of them for several rounds under the light of the sky, with fierce moves, all of which were for Chu Bandit's order.

However, with Jing Mo's desperate cover and assistance, although Xue Ran had the upper hand, he couldn't move Chu Bandit, so he became even more angry, and scolded Chu Bandit: "The last time I fought, I thought you still had a little bit left." Integrity, I didn't expect the old man to be blind!"

Chu bandit took a breath, held the knife horizontally as a shield, and said: "Master Xue, this junior has already said that I came to Ningzhou this time to thoroughly investigate the two cases of iron mines and disaster relief, and I must not die here! I hope you can Forgive..."

"Those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't talk too much and make excuses!"

In an instant, the blade swept across again, threatening to attack.

Seeing that Jing Mo was going to be unable to hold on, Bandit Chu pulled him behind him, and took Xue Ran's knife in his face for him.

In the blink of an eye, the blade broke into two pieces. Chu Bandit dodged sideways, but the tip of the knife bounced and pierced his shoulder. Chu Bandit couldn't help frowning, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"grown ups!"

Jing Mo picked up a pile of dirt on the ground with a knife, and splashed it towards Xue Ran's eyes. Xue Ran turned his head to avoid it, raised his hand and charged another knife, and Jing Mo jumped up to protect Chu Bandit.

Immediately there was the sound of swords clashing.

But it wasn't Jing Mo who received the saber, but Zhuo Chuan rushed over, and before he got off his horse, the white blade from his waist came out of its sheath first.

"excuse me."

Zhuo Chuan jumped off his horse, and together with Jing Mo, Xue Ranzhan retreated a few steps, forcing him to the edge of Maolin.

Seeing this, Xue Ran's subordinates raised their knives to help, but Xue Ran raised his hand to stop him. He also put away his knives and said to Bandit Chu: "You have quite a lot of lackeys, but..." He said with a laugh , "According to the time, Mr. Zhao should have boarded the carriage to Cangqing Mountain."

Bandit Chu was startled, and was about to ask a question, when Xue Ran had already left with his men on horseback.

Bandit Chu gritted his teeth, pulled out the point of the knife, and struggled to chase, but when he walked up to the horse, he found that his entire right arm had lost feeling, and his right arm was also weak, and he could no longer ride a horse.

But Bandit Chu stepped on the stirrup anyway.

Zhuo Chuan stepped forward to stop him, saying: "Lord Chu, don't panic, with Master Zhao's intelligence, he must have already evacuated to a safe place, not to mention Youbai is beside Master Zhao."

Chu Bandit didn't frowned, and shook his head: "You don't know Xue Ran, he is not just the martial artist you saw today, he is a real Confucian general, with both talents and wisdom, Xilin should indeed be taken away .”

Zhuo Chuan asked: "But now, my lord, you and Jing Mo are too seriously injured, I'm afraid you won't be able to chase after them."

Chu bandit looked at the direction Xue Ran was leaving, finally sighed, and laughed at himself: "Back then I despised that old man as annoying, and always practiced kung fu and was lazy, now it's my retribution."

"Let's do this." Bandit Chu said to Zhuo Chuan, "Take someone to see the situation in Tang County quickly. Jing Mo and I will go into the town to treat the wound, and then go to find Youbai and others, and head straight to Cangqing Mountain."

"it is good."

"Is there any news from Zhuo Nvxia?"

"not yet."

Bandit Chu nodded, frowned and said, "Most likely they were left on Cangqing Mountain."

Zhuo Chuan asked anxiously: "Then will my elder sister have something to do?"

"No, what they want should be the same as us, and at most they can take my life." Chu Bandit coughed twice and said, "Go quickly, remember to find a way to contact those two people from Tang County. official."

As soon as these words came out, Zhuo Chuan immediately thought of Jiang Zheng's tragic situation.

"Take orders, Mr. Chu, take care!"

After saying that, Zhuo Chuan no longer hesitated, raised his hand to let half of the bodyguards stay to be responsible for the safety of Chu bandits, and immediately led them to the southwest.

After Zhuo Chuan and Jing Mo went into town to treat their wounds, Han Zhou's assassin also arrived.

There was another fight as usual, the nearby households closed their doors and did not dare to go out, they heard the swords fighting outside, they were frightened.

But after it was not easy to stop outside, someone came knocking on the door again, and the residents were so shocked that they searched for something to block the door. Some children were so frightened that they cried immediately, and their mouths were tightly covered.

After a while, I heard a slightly weak but polite voice from outside saying: "Chu was chased by gangsters, so he had to fight here, which surprised you all, and because of the fight, he damaged many utensil shops, so he stayed here." There are twelve taels of gold on the stone as an expression of apology."

After speaking, the sound of footsteps outside gradually faded away.

After a long time, someone finally had the courage to open the door and saw that there were indeed gold taels on the boulder under the old banyan tree, and hurriedly called other people to come out as well.

"From the voice of that person just now, it sounds like someone from Kyoto. Could it be someone sent by the imperial court?"

"As far as I know in the imperial court, the person whose surname is Chu is Chu Bandit, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, but he is a treacherous minister who has brought disaster to the country and the people. He betrays his master for glory and commits all kinds of evil. It can't be him, right?"

"That's right, that nobleman surnamed Chu just now is a modest gentleman. Not only is he not like those people in the past who burned, killed and looted us, but also left this precious gold as an apology. It is absolutely impossible to be Bandit Chu. I guess it is." A certain newly appointed censor."

Cangqing Mountain.

The undulating ridges extend from west to east and then south, until the junction of Tang County and then westward, forming a natural barrier with only one break in the west, tightly enclosing a stockade.

Not far away, the blue sky was as clear as washing, with a round of setting sun, a monk riding a donkey was walking towards the gate of the village, slowly, holding a book to read, and stopped from time to time, the carriage behind him followed for a while Go, stop for a while.

On the gate of the village, there was a bearded man waiting anxiously, with a hulking back and a dignified body, wearing a tiger-skin costume, carrying a Fang Tian painted halberd on his back, but with a delicate sachet hanging on his waist, he looked strange .

When the man saw the monk, he slapped his knees and smiled, yelled for people to open the gate of the village quickly, and took them down to pick him up himself.

"Mr. has been away for a long time, and he told us to stay at home to catch up!"

"The owner of the village is too impatient. As the saying goes, there is no good step in rushing, and you should take a break if you walk slowly."

This man is Lei Xi, the leader of the bandit village in Cangqing Mountain, and the monk is his adviser, known as Mr. Ping Peng.

"Oh, you go to pick it up yourself, can I not worry?" Lei Xi walked to the front of the carriage in two steps, clasped his fists and said, "Well, see Mr. Zhao! I am the head of the house here, and my name is Lei Xi."

No one in the carriage responded to him.

Lei Xi looked at Ping Peng in embarrassment, and asked, "Is the etiquette wrong? I'm just a rough person, so I don't understand these things."

Ping Peng laughed twice, shook his head, and lifted the curtain of the car to signal Lei Xi to look over.

Lei Xi hesitated for a moment, then took another two steps forward and looked into the carriage, and saw a handsome young man lying in it, sleeping with a slight frown, looking very weak, like a piece of fragile jade. .

"My dear, this is more handsome and good-looking than the girls in the village." Lei Xi looked at Ping Peng suspiciously, "Is this Zhao Liangyue, Mr. Zhao?"

"Exactly." Ping Peng put the scroll in his hand back into his sleeve, turned around to look at Zhao Liangyue, and said, "What a beautiful woman, she actually made Chu Bandit so sympathetic, and now she is so sick, it's okay The poor monk is proficient in medical theory, and has already taken his pulse and given him medicine."

"Since you're sick, hurry up and enter the village. I've already asked Ling'er to clean up the room."

Hearing the words, Pingpeng clicked twice again, raised his hand and knocked on Lei Xi's forehead, and said: "Why do you have such an elm head, Miss Ling is now your village owner's wife, why do you always ask others to do it?" Do this and that, do you think she is your rough envoy?"

Lei Xi rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "I didn't make Ling'er tired, it was Ling'er who wanted to help me, you are a monk, you don't understand this!"

Ping Peng looked at Lei Xi's newlywed and happy look, and sighed: "Forget it, the poor monk has already half-entered Buddhism, so he shouldn't care about these worldly affairs."

Saying that, Ping Peng made a salute to Zhao Liangyue, saying: "The poor monk has offended you." Then he picked up Zhao Liangyue and walked towards the village.