The caravan that was originally attacked by bandits, because the bandits all went to attack the boy in a short shirt and the woman in a blue hooded hat, was out of danger and was taking a breath. The most serious thing was only some stab wounds and no casualties. Everyone Looking at the young men in short shirts who were fighting the enemy, some men picked up their knives again and prepared to help.
"Don't go up and cause trouble... Trust Brother Manliu... Look, the leader was also killed by Brother Manliu... Just leave these little minions alone," someone gasped from the side.
The man holding the knife looked at the person sitting next to him, spat in front of him, and stepped forward with the knife to help the boy in a short shirt who was desperately fighting. The other men looked at this scene in a daze, and then Another man picked up a long knife, spat on it and then rushed forward. More and more caravan men, two or three, picked up their long knives and rushed down the bandits. Only the man who advised others not to help stayed where he was and watched others rush forward. He looked at the knife at hand. When he was about to go forward to get it, he was so frightened by the roar of the bandit that he retracted his hand and continued to hug himself where he was curled up.
Lin Manliu's physical strength was obviously a bit low when facing the enemy. After several slashes, he could only avoid the attacks with the woman in blue clothes and hood by his side. However, the two exchanged positions with each other, which seemed to have a miraculous effect. The bandits were killed and retreated again and again. The retreating bandits were killed one by one by the caravan men who rose up to resist. It didn't take long for the bandits to be strangled to death. When the black shadows in the woods saw this, they ducked away and seemed to have something in their mouths. Saying "how could this be so".
"We finally survived. This is the first time for us merchants to fight these horse bandits head-on." Someone threw the long knife aside and lay on the ground breathing heavily.
"Damn it, I still have an old mother, wife and children at home waiting for me to go back. How could I be trapped here because of these mountain bandits who have killed thousands of people? Brother Manliu is really powerful..." Someone looked at the man who fell to the ground. The man laughed and said, then spat on the corpse of the bandit.
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All the thieves were dead, and more and more congratulations from the caravan men were heard in the crowd, and more of them were praising the young man in short shirts who was holding two swords in their caravan. Lin Manliu wiped the blood on the mountain walk and sheathed his sword. He tied the spring window butterfly with a black cloth strip again and tied it on his back. He looked at the man in blue who was holding the sword beside him and was about to turn around and leave. hat woman.
"Thank you for helping me, girl. I don't know how to thank you." The boy in a short shirt bowed his hand to the woman in blue and hat.
"I happen to be passing by here, no need to thank me." The woman in blue clothes and hood just said to herself and then walked forward. The rapier in her hand was put into the sheath on her waist before the battle was over, and she seemed to be still wary of the surroundings.
However, before he had taken a few steps, he staggered a little and almost fell to the ground. The rapier in his hand was immediately inserted into the ground to prevent him from falling. The squatting figure holding the sword staggered a little, and the curtain hat turned in the direction as if looking towards the boy in the short shirt. Lin Manliu noticed something strange and hurriedly stepped forward to help him, but the woman in blue clothes and hat blocked his outstretched hand with her left hand. This shot seemed to be the last strength of the woman in blue clothes and hat. Just after the shot, she fell straight to the ground and had no strength to stand up again. However, the face under the hat was still staring at Lin Manliu beside her.
"Girl, you're injured..." The boy in a short shirt saw three moderate blood stains on the woman in blue's abdomen, left hand and calf. It must have been injured by bandits during the siege. After saying that, he immediately helped him up. The woman in blue clothes and hood seemed to have lost her strength and could not stop the young man's support. "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. The girl still needs to treat her wounds first... In charge, I will take this one first." Girl, go to the hillside to treat the wound. After you finish the goods, go to the cherry blossom forest on the hillside to find us. I'll get some medicine." Lin Manliu first looked at the wound of the woman in blue and was silent for a while, then turned to the caravan manager and said.
After the steward who was still checking the caravan’s damage heard about it, he waved to the boy in a short shirt and said, "Brother Manliu, go ahead. We will come to find you after we finish sorting. Just take the medicine for your wounds... You all hurry up." We need to take care of them. We also took away whatever valuables, weapons and horses these thieves had on them. They dared to rob us and left nothing for them!" The caravan manager had obviously been in danger twice and became much more hardened. He began to fight the dead bandits. I am trying to make up for my losses.
Lin Manliu untied the spring window butterfly and held it in his hand. He took some medicine and a jar of water, then picked up the woman in blue and ran towards the cherry blossom forest on the mountainside that he had seen before. The woman in blue clothes and hat said nothing all the way. He raised his hair and looked through the curtain at the young man carrying him. His clear eyes were not stained by the previous battle at all.
After the two people entered the cherry blossom forest, the boy in a short shirt placed him under a tree and handed the water and wound medicine from his waist to the woman in blue. "There was some chaos just now. I guess it's not convenient for you to deal with the wound. There is nothing here." I'll go and watch and observe. If you need anything, just call me Lin Manliu."
Lin Manliu stood up and prepared to leave, but saw that the woman in blue was holding the medicine reluctantly, so he had to stay and said to her: "The girl's overstepping behavior behind her is really helpless and offensive." When he was young, his father would often come home with some injuries while doing farm work for the government. Lin Manliu and his mother would bandage their father's wounds together. Lin Manliu took off the wristband on the left hand of the woman in blue and the leggings on her calf. He washed the wound with clean water, then applied wound medicine and bandaged it with the cloth strip he brought with him. After that, the wound on his lower abdomen was left. The boy in the short shirt felt a little at a loss and looked at the curtain hat, possibly hoping to seek advice from him.
"Just stay out of the way...I'll do it myself..." The woman in blue seemed to have regained some energy. She was about to go through the wound medicine strips and water. The boy in the short shirt seemed relieved and was ready to turn around and leave. As soon as I got up, I knelt down and picked up my spring butterfly and walked down the hillside.
Not long after, "I've bandaged it up..." the voice of the woman in blue came from the hillside, and Lin Manliu turned to look towards the hillside. I don't know if it was because the curtain hat was too intrusive when bandaging the wound, but at this time, the woman in blue had already placed the curtain hat beside her. She leaned under the cherry blossom tree and looked at herself, her ponytail flying by her side in the wind. From time to time, cherry blossom petals fell on her blue hair. Lin Manliu's first feeling was that the face under the curtain was no less beautiful. When looking at her master, her eyes are as bright as the stars dotted in the sky at night, her eyebrows are as dark as black, and the bridge of her nose is as high as a peak. She is very beautiful.
It seemed that the boy in the short shirt had been looking at him for too long. When the woman in blue saw this, she turned her head to the other side to prevent this abrupt guy from staring at her. Lin Manliu also realized that there was something wrong with him and lowered his head. He said to the woman in blue: "I'm really sorry. I just remembered that my master at home forgot to avoid it, and I ask the heroine to forgive me...".
"It doesn't matter, let's rest here and wait for your caravan to arrive... By the way, my name is Yue Hanzhi." The woman in blue still looked into the distance and said, not looking at the young man in short shirt down the hillside.
After that, the two of them sat in the cherry blossom forest to rest. Lin Manliu tied up the black cloth strips that tied the spring window butterflies again and wiped them carefully to prevent blood stains from sticking to them. The woman in blue just leaned under the cherry blossom trees and looked at In the distance, further east.
