Outside Liangzhou City.
When Lao Li and Gu Xiao parted, they repeatedly warned them not to be impulsive and to leave marks along the way so that they could catch up with Yun Yun in time.
This wordiness did not make Gu Xiao feel bored. Instead, his heart was filled with warmth. With a warm smile, Gu Xiao agreed one by one.
Lao Li pulled Lin'er aside again and said in a low voice: "Miss Lin'er, my young master is a miserable man. He lost his parents when he was a child. It was my master who raised him up. He also hopes that Miss Lin'er I can take care of you along the way."
Lin'er already knew about Gu Xiao's life experience in the Fengxue Temple, and when she heard Lao Li mention it again, her heart felt sour, and she looked back at Gu Xiao who was talking to Chi Tianya and others.
He had a warm smile, the dimple on his lips was looming, and his starry eyes revealed a maturity that did not match his age. His body was thin but tall, and he seemed to be able to shoulder anything in the world.
Then he turned back, smiled at Uncle Li and said, "He has so many evil thoughts, how can he be the one to suffer?"
After finishing speaking, he seemed to remember the scene where Gu Xiao teased him in the Fengxue Temple outside Liuzhuang. He couldn't help but blush, lowered his head, and said softly: "Uncle Li, don't worry, he won't be hungry on this journey. It won’t freeze him.”
Lao Li has been in the world for many years, and when he saw Lin'er's little daughter's appearance, he already understood it in his heart. He laughed and said: "Then Lao Li would like to thank Miss Lin'er again. I will go first and wait for the master to be informed, then I will come and talk to him." You’ll meet up.”
Lin'er was swept by Lao Li's gaze, and her thoughts seemed to be seen through by Uncle Li, so she could only stand there with a pretty face.
"Everyone, Lao Li, I'll go first. Let's meet in Lingzhou." Lao Li jumped on the carriage and clasped his fists towards Chi Tianya and others. Upon seeing this, everyone clasped their fists and returned the salute. Under everyone's gaze, the carriage gradually moved away, heading towards the Mountain of No Return.
Gu Xiao saw Lin'er approaching him with a pretty face and asked curiously: "Lin'er, what's wrong? What did Uncle Li say to you?"
Still thinking about what Uncle Li told her just now, she was pulled back from her thoughts by Gu Xiao's call. Lin'er hurriedly replied: "No, it's nothing, just a few casual words."
Seeing Gu Xiao's look of disbelief, Lin'er caught a glimpse of Guo Sumei walking towards the crowd from the corner of her eye. At this moment, Guo Sumei was no longer wearing the fur clothes, but just like Chi Tianya and others, she had put on Wearing a black shirt, her long hair was rolled up with a long black hairpin and tied behind her head, revealing a snow-white gooseneck.
Some of her hair was scattered around her ears, slightly covering the two meteor earrings. If Su Mei had a soft and feminine aura in Yuelai Tower, now she exudes the charisma of a heroine, making everyone laugh. I was stunned for a while.
Chi Tianya could no longer hear what Gu Xiao was saying in front of him. Uncle Kui and Aunt Kui looked at each other and smiled. The blacksmith and the 'secondary' Chi Liang had not seen the senior sister put on the clothes of a painter for many years. Mei's outfit brings back Momen time.
Even Xue Hu, a rough guy who was obsessed with eating meat and drinking wine, was showing appreciation at this moment. Even Ta Xue, who was squatting on Gu Xiao's shoulder, no longer paid attention to the dried meat in his hands, staring at this with dark eyes. A chivalrous woman.
Lin'er, on the other hand, looked surprised and ran forward with joy on her face, took Su Mei's arm affectionately, and said with a smile: "Sister, you are so handsome in your outfit today. Look at these people. Everyone’s eyes are attracted to you. Especially Brother Chi, all his eyes are on you.”
After many days of getting along, Su Mei and Lin'er have become sisters who talk about everything. Seeing Lin'er teasing her, she pursed her lips and smiled, and then whispered in Lin'er's ear: "Sister Lin'er is right. , but even though my sister has attracted the attention of everyone present, your brother Mu Yi doesn’t seem to have even glanced at me."
Su Mei's move of 'innuendo' brought her joking words back to herself, Lin'er's pretty face turned red again, and she stammered: "Sister, you...what are you doing?" It’s none of my business who he looks at.”
Taizumei immediately covered her lips and said with a smile: "Others can't see it, but I know it, sister. You must keep my sister's words in mind."
After Su Mei finished speaking, without waiting for Lin'er to speak, she took her little hand and walked into the crowd. Seeing Senior Brother Chi's lost look, Su Mei felt happy, but she still hid her smile and said, "Senior Brother, everything about us in Liangzhou City has been wiped clean."
Chi Tianya didn't come back to his senses until Gui Sumei spoke. Perhaps he felt that he had lost his composure, so he coughed a few times and said, "Okay, in that case, let's set off."
After saying that, everyone got on their horses, Uncle Kui and Aunt Kui drove the carriage, Lin'er and Su Mei got into the carriage, and the group set off in the direction of Lingzhou.
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A stone tablet seems to have experienced too much wind and frost. Not only are the marks of wind erosion left by the years on the stone tablet, but also the faint traces of swords and swords can be seen. Three simple characters are carved on the stone tablet with an axe: Lingzhou boundary.
Shen Yulou stroked the boundary monument and breathed a long sigh of relief. After several days of worry, he finally left the Lingzhou boundary. Further south was the Liangzhou boundary. Even if the group of people couldn't find his body, they wouldn't. Thinking that I, Shen Yulou, have escaped from Lingzhou territory at this moment.
After crossing the boundary monument, Shen Yulou's figure disappeared into the night.
Just half an hour after Shen Yulou left the boundary monument, several sounds of clothes were heard in the forest next to the boundary monument. Not long after, only three swishing sounds were heard, and three figures flew out of the forest and landed next to the boundary monument.
These three people were all wearing black shirts. Judging from the dust on their bodies and the tired looks on their faces, they must have been running around for days.
One of them carried a single sword on his back and had a thin face. He said to the other man in black with a cigarette pouch stuck on his back: "Junior brother, are you sure we are not pursuing the wrong direction? Ever since you started smoking that cigarette pouch, your tracking skills have been amazing. It’s getting worse every day.”
These three people were Yandianguo, Yinghoubi and Chifu who had been pursuing Shen Yulou's traces. After receiving orders from Shen Yulou, the three of them went down to Xiaolou Peak to pursue them. It has to be said that although Yantou Guo's tracking skills are not as good as those of the previous Shadow Guards, which can track thousands of miles, it can be considered a slight success.
Even though his sense of smell and taste had declined due to the influence of cigarette bags in the past few years, he still found the blood stains covered by Shen Yulou through the slight smell of blood.
The three of them searched all the way here without resting, but there was still no trace of Shen Yulou. Even the hooked noses who were full of confidence in the pipe pot were a little doubtful at this moment. Is this junior brother of mine ruined by the pipe on his waist?
Being ridiculed by Chifu, Yandianguo didn't say anything. He just grabbed the snow under his feet and put it on the tip of his nose to smell it. Then he scanned the surrounding environment with his eyes like torches until his eyes fell on the Lingzhou boundary monument. Yandianguo walked up quickly. In front of me, I carefully observed the thickness of snow on the boundary monument.
Then he grabbed a handful of snow and put it in the palm of his hand. When the snow slowly melted in the palm of his hand, the pipe pot used its internal force. The snow water in his palm was gradually evaporated by the internal force of the pipe pot and turned into a cloud of smoke rising up. A trace of blood slowly emerged from the smoke.
A smile appeared on Yantouguo's lips, he looked back at his aquiline nose and Chi Fu and said, "Two senior brothers, Shen Yulou must have passed by here."
"Hmph." Chi Fu snorted coldly and said no more. The hooked nose nodded slightly towards the pipe pot and said, "In which direction should we pursue now?"
Yantouguo looked around and pondered for a while, then turned due south and said, "Go south."
"Let's go." Hook-nosed and Chifu glanced at each other, soared into the air, and their figures quickly disappeared into the night.
Cigarette Guo watched the two senior brothers go away, talked for a while, put the cigarette bag he just held in his hand back into his waist, used Qinggong, and chased after the two figures.
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Donglai Peak, Hanshan Village, outside the meeting hall.
After receiving the lives of the village owner and his wife, Xiao Huang went to each village to wake up the leaders from their sleep. Each leader called up the minions under his command. Half an hour later, all the sleepy-eyed people outside the meeting hall of Hanshan Village were looking at you. They didn’t understand why the leader of the village summoned everyone in the middle of the night.
"Brothers, we have no choice but to gather everyone together." Song Shu said, cupping his fists towards everyone in the village.
"What are you talking about, the village master?"
"Is there someone worshiping the mountain?"
"Is there an enemy coming?"
Everyone knew that their village leader never acted like a village leader, and they all respected the scholar village leader very much. He summoned everyone in the middle of the night because there must be something urgent.
Some people thought that there was an enemy invading, while others thought that there were merchants visiting the mountain, so they all asked.
"Brothers, let me tell you the truth. Just tonight, a group of martial arts masters from Hutou Village attacked Xiaoloufeng at night. The leader of Yuling Village fell into Yulou and fell off the cliff. His life or death is unknown. None of the Yuling Village brothers survived."
After hearing what the village leader said, everyone was surprised and started talking, and most of them were in disbelief.
Seeing that the crowd's noise was getting louder, Shi Shi also walked to her husband's side and held her husband's cold hand tightly. Shi Shi channeled his energy and said loudly: "Everyone, be quiet for a moment."
When the village master's wife said this, everyone fell silent and looked at the village master's wife. She had grown up in the village since she was a child, and her prestige in the village was not that of the old village master. Everyone was quietly waiting for the village master's wife to speak.
"The master means that once this Xiaolou Peak is destroyed, the next step will be our Donglai Peak. The master does not want all brothers to die in vain."
Shi Shi paused at this point, then continued to speak with a firm mood: "The head of the family and I have decided that we abandon the village and leave Donglai Peak."
As soon as the wife of the village master said these words, the crowd immediately exploded again. Some people said that the old village master's life's hard work cannot be handed over to others. Some people said that even Shen Yulou couldn't stop that group of people, and Hanshan Village couldn't. block.
Song Shu felt the warmth of his wife's palm, and his heart became firm. Lang Ran said: "I know that everyone has feelings for the village, but now that a powerful enemy is on the side, we are all brothers who have experienced life and death with the old village master. My husband and I do not want everyone to sacrifice their lives for the village. If you wish, Although my husband and I are going down the mountain, you can pack your bags by yourself."
"If you don't want to follow me, I and my wife will also give you a hundred gold and silver each, so you won't be embarrassed."
After saying that, everyone in the audience fell silent. After a while, I saw a few people slowly walking out of the crowd, willing to go with Song Shu and his wife, and then went to pack their bags.
In the end, only three or five people were willing to go down the mountain with Song Shu and his wife, while the rest of the people in the village stood there looking embarrassed. It was not that they were unwilling to follow the village owner, but most of them did not believe that Hutou Village could destroy Yuling Village overnight. But since the village owner and his wife decided to disperse the village, these people all wanted to go down the mountain to serve the people.
Song Shu and Shi Shi looked at each other, and then Song Shu ordered everyone to carry out all the belongings in the stronghold, leaving some belongings for going down the mountain, and then scattered most of the gold and silver among the people.
Seeing that everyone had obtained gold and silver, they each packed their bags and left Hanshan Village, turning back three times at a time. Shi Shi looked at the people leaving. Some of these people were her childhood playmates, and some were leaders of her uncles. They were afraid they would never see each other again.
But now that everyone has left Hanshan Village, there will be no fear for their lives. It is not a bad thing to have money and be able to serve the people with peace of mind in the future.
