On June 29th, the light rain suddenly fell suddenly in the early morning yesterday, and it continued to rain all day and all night, and it did not stop until this time.
Ning Ke slowly woke up in the mill and saw that he was still lying on the haystack, holding himself up with both hands. He looked at the injury on his left foot and found that there was another pile of blood-stained cloth rolled up next to his feet. The wound on his left foot was wrapped with a new roll of cloth, and it seemed as if the wound had been cleaned again.
Ning Ke secretly thought, this
"Lin Manliu" wouldn't secretly take advantage of him when he was unconscious, right? Thinking about it, she started to rub her face, and suddenly she found that her hair was hanging down naturally. Only then did she realize that the boy in the short shirt had smashed the brim of his hat into pieces that day, and his bun was also messed up. Her appearance, her feminine appearance... Thinking of this, Ning Ke's original good impression of the boy in a short shirt who helped him deal with his wounds was instantly wiped out, and he began to curse Lin Manliulai with resentment.
Suddenly the firewood door of the mill was opened, and naturally it was Lin Manliu who heard the sound inside. The young man in a short shirt pushed the door open, looked at Ning Ke and said expressionlessly: "If you can leave on your own, I will say goodbye here today." ".
"I..." Ning Ke was about to speak out and naturally prepared to step on the ground. Unexpectedly, his left foot suddenly stepped on the ground. A stinging sensation instantly spread from his calf, and he fell back to the grass again. on top of the heap.
Lin Manliu sighed when he saw this, turned around and walked out of the mill. Without waiting for Ning Ke to say anything else, he closed the firewood door directly.
When Ning Ke saw this, he was furious. He hammered the haystack beside him with one hand. He really felt that this 'Lin Man Liu' was simply inexplicable!
It was noon, and the firewood door was opened again. Lin Manliu seemed to have not seen Ning Ke at all, and directly led the two horses out of the mill. He seemed to be talking to the woman outside, and the sound came through the firewood door, a little. passed into the mill.
"More aunties will take them in. These are your thoughts. I hope aunties will accept them."
"This can't be done, it can't be done. I was the aunt before and I thought you were a bad person. I wouldn't even let you in the main house... How dare you collect money from you?"
"It is a blessing to have a place to take shelter from the rain. Auntie, please don't refuse."
"I really don't need it. With all the money, I might as well give your little lady some clothes. I think she's really shabby. You said you kids who are out to make a living don't want to take good care of the people around you."
...The words that followed were like explanations from a boy in a short shirt. When Ning Ke heard the previous words, he became so embarrassed that he couldn't listen to the words that followed.
Waiting until the subsequent conversation was over, the chai door opened again, and the boy in a short shirt walked in expressionlessly, picked himself up and walked out of the mill.
Ning Ke looked up fiercely and stared at the Brother Lin she was talking about. He was talking so enthusiastically to the village woman outside the door. When he got here, he looked like this. Who was he showing off to? With such behavior, had he ever thought about himself? He's not a good person.
Ning Ke was then helped upright and sat on his horse. The boy in a short shirt asked: "Maybe I can sit on the horse by myself?".
Ning Ke then let the boy in a short shirt throw him across the horse's back, and immediately turned around and snorted. Lin Manliu stopped answering, and the woman behind him did laugh out loud.
The young man in a short shirt smiled and bowed to the woman in the house: "Auntie, let's go now. We still have to thank auntie for staying with us."
Then the woman exchanged some polite words with the young man, and then Lin Manliu and Ning Ke continued on their way.
Along the way, Ning Ke was riding the horse very slowly, and he could only sit stiffly on the horse's back. Lin Manliu was helpless, so he had no choice but to walk side by side, took the reins from his hands, and let Ning Ke hold it steady. saddle, and then galloped away like this.
During the subsequent rest, while Lin Manliu threw away the dry food, he told Ning Ke that he had asked the woman before about the distance between this place and Juzhou City, as well as the accessible villages nearby, and began to plan on his own. Regarding the starting route, Ning Ke didn't reply. He just listened to the young man's words and just acquiesced.
The two of them hurried on like this, and three more days passed, and the time came to July 3rd. Lin Manliu finally saw Juzhou City, which he had passed through on his long journey. Here he met his senior sister and a naughty child like himself. After these few days of rest, Ning Ke's injuries were mostly healed, and even The boy in the short shirt stopped helping to change the dressing and bandage on his left leg, leaving Ning Ke to handle it all by himself.
"Now that we have arrived at Juzhou City, your injury is getting worse. Can we say goodbye? Brother Ning?" Lin Manliu led the horse in front, and Ning Ke sat on the horse's back.
"When we enter the city, I'll find a way station. We'll say goodbye. I've bothered Brother Lin for so many days. I'm sorry." Ning Ke finally understood the young man in front of him. He didn't treat her as a woman at all, but as a person. The enemy who may counterattack at any time will be killed on the spot if he has even the slightest misconception.
Lin Manliu hummed, and the two of them maintained this atmosphere and entered Juzhou City. As they walked past the city wall, two people spread out a picture scroll at a tea stall on the edge of the city and observed it carefully. A boy in a short shirt leading a horse. "Having us squat for so long can be regarded as showing up. General... Big Brother is really a clever plan.
"One person said.
"Just come here. After dealing with this person, we will return to Jiannan immediately," a person on the other side of the table said.
Lin Manliu took Ning Ke to the inn where he stayed in Juzhou when he traveled with the caravan. When Lin Manliu entered the inn, he saw the familiar shopkeeper and shouted to the innkeeper. , while the shopkeeper was shouting, he also recognized this young man who had some relationship with the Qiao family of Zhujian Peak.
After the two greeted each other, they arranged a room for Lin Manliu and Ning Ke respectively. The horses of Xiao Huang and Ning Ke were also led to the backyard to rest by the shopkeeper called the waiter.
There were no more words after that. After Lin Manliu sent Ning Ke into the room, he turned around and left. Before leaving, he just said that he wanted to look around, and then left the room directly. Ning Ke naturally didn't care what the boy was. Thinking about what to do, he endured the injury to his left leg and walked towards the couch. He fell on the couch before he could sit firmly.
The young man in a short shirt was walking in the streets of Juzhou City. His eyes were full of scenes he had seen before. The one in front of him was where he met his senior sister and Yun Nian after buying the golden pastry for the first time. Lin Manliu and He did not revisit his old place, but wandered around because he noticed that after entering the city, people began to pay attention to the whereabouts of him and Ning Ke.
When they walked to a clothing store, Lin Manliu took the opportunity to enter the store. While choosing clothes, he began to pay attention to the movements of those people. The boy in the short shirt did not come out for a long time in the store. As expected, those who were watching could not sit still. After staying, Lin Manliu saw a well-built man walking in from the corner in the corner, and immediately began to look around the entire house, looking for himself.
Lin Manliu then acted as if he didn't notice it, and was still looking for the clothes he wanted. The man naturally found the boy in a short shirt, but he did not continue to observe. Instead, he walked straight forward and slowly approached Lin Manliu. The young man in short shirt alertly grasped Shan Ye Xing with his left hand at his waist.
The strong man just passed by the young man and said in Lin Manliu's ear: "At this time, let's talk around the corner of the inn." After the man said that, he suddenly threw out a small cloth bag, and the young man in short shirt stretched out his hand to explore , put it in his hand, and after the man walked out of the shop, Lin Manliu opened the bag.
There was a small piece of wood inside. Lin Manliu suddenly raised his head and looked towards the door of the shop. He knew that the man had already walked away and he would not be able to catch up. He had to hold the piece of wood tightly in his hand. It was part of the Eight Phases made by Mu Tianliao in Goat Bazi before... The boy in a short shirt began to calculate the travel time of everyone in Yijian Villa and what they might encounter on the way. No matter what kind of guess he was, he was told, Since these people were able to control their whereabouts and did not take action directly and rashly, everyone in Yijian Villa must have been in danger and just wanted to use this piece of wood to scare themselves and achieve their goals.
If nothing happened at Yijian Villa, and they wanted to do something, the only thing they wanted to do was to capture themselves, and they had let them succeed. After the young man in short shirt handed over the money to the shopkeeper, he returned directly to the inn.
The young man in a short shirt walked to Ning Ke's door. He originally planned to open the door and walk in. He paused for a moment, then raised his hand and knocked on the door several times.
"Come in!" Ning Ke shouted directly as if he had just woken up. Lin Manliu pushed the door open and walked in. The moment he opened the door, a teacup came towards his door. The boy in a short shirt raised his hand and directly took the teacup in his hand and looked at Ning Ke who was lying on the bed.
Ning Ke was seen panting with his mouth open, his disheveled hair hanging casually between his temples. He was staring at the door and found that it was Lin Manliu who lay down again.
"What happened..." Ning Ke gasped and said.
"You must also know that we are being watched and we will leave soon," Lin Manliu said aloud.
"Those people are chasing you, not me, so what does it have to do with me?" Ning Ke asked in question.
"Now that I understand, I'll give you the stuff and I'm leaving." Lin Manliu threw the clothes in his hands to Ning Ke, then placed the teacup on the table again, turned around and went downstairs to leave, without even entering his own room. .
Ning Ke raised the clothes in his hands, looked at the place where the boy in the short shirt was standing before, and cursed.
"Idiot", even if I buy men's clothes, can I pick up some bookish ones? How can I be that high-spirited scholar again?
Lin Manliu informed the innkeeper, left some housing money, and went to the backyard to hold Xiao Huang and prepare to leave the city quickly.
Not long after he left, Ning Ke changed his clothes, tore his original scholar's clothes into strips, put them into the bag, fixed the chopsticks in the room on his left foot, and bandaged it again After checking for a while and confirming that everything was correct, we started taking action.
The moon and stars are few and far between, and magpies are flying south. Lin Manliu has been on the road non-stop since he left the city. The sky has already darkened. He knows that those people will definitely be able to detect his movements and catch up with him. They must find a place where one can defeat many before they are in danger. , as long as the terrain is favorable, I may still have a chance of winning.
The young men in short shirts were riding one by one, and they were already submerged into the mountains and forests. They were surrounded by crows and magpies flying in the air, and their chirpings echoed in the silent mountain road for a long time.
Lin Manliu had already reached a fork in the mountain road, and when he was about to go there, there was a sudden noise behind him.
It was the sound of several people poking out from the forest, the scraping of branches and leaves.
"Eh, eh, eh..." He kept approaching the boy in a short shirt.
"Why don't you want to come forward and tell me?" someone shouted. Lin Manliu immediately turned over and dismounted, and patted Little Huang's horse's belly casually. Little Huang immediately galloped forward, leaving only the short-shirted boy standing at the fork in the mountain road. Without waiting for the sounds to continue approaching, Lin Manliu Both hands began to move.
Someone in the forest had already unsheathed his sword and slashed at the young man in a short shirt at the fork in the road. Lin Manliu was walking in the mountains upside down, holding Spring Chuangdie in his hand. With both swords unsheathed, he immediately faced the man who drew the sword first. The mysterious man, Shan Yexing, blocked the short knife slightly, and the Spring Window Butterfly immediately started to move.
The moment Chuchuangdie and the dagger connected, the dagger instantly shattered into pieces. The mysterious man was not surprised at all, and immediately took a few steps back. Then, in front of Lin Manliu, there were eight people.
"The dagger in his hand is indeed weird!" said the mysterious man who had met Lin Manliu before.
Lin Manliu was facing eight people, but he didn't get into trouble. He held his swords in front of him, ready to attack at any time with the eight people. He only saw one person in the middle of the eight people, who was shorter in stature than the others. Seeing the man raise his hand and wave, the seven people behind him immediately drew their swords and moved forward at the same time.
The seven people had clear goals and were deliberately avoiding the Spring Window Butterfly in Lin Manliu's hand. The blades collided with the green sword shadow waving in his hand. Under the attack of the seven people, Lin Manliu was still able to compete for the first time. , but as time went by, the decline gradually became apparent. These seven people and the person who gave the orders were different from any bandits he had encountered before.
They all had a tacit understanding whether they were using their swords or avoiding their spring window butterfly timing. Lin Manliu used the surge of spring mangosteen to forcibly trap the daggers in the two people's hands before smashing their daggers into pieces. But then the two people came from behind. He took out a short knife, obviously prepared.
Lin Manliu came up with a plan and imitated the masked senior buried in the Sword Valley. He used the dragging sword style to sweep the spring window butterfly in his hand. Then, Shanye Xing was held upside down by his side, ready to strike at any time. His entire move was instantly Become open and closed.
However, because of this, sometimes the short-shirted boy's arms were not protected enough, so those people would naturally aim at his arms and swing their swords down. Lin Manliu then handed the sword forward again, and slashed with the sword towards the man who was swinging the sword at him. The man's arm also moved along with the blade. When the blade passed through the iron armor on his forearm, it was unable to leave scratches on his arm guard, let alone directly chop the arm guard, and then cut the man's arm. The boy in the short shirt had his hands off.
