Tang Bailing flicked her wrist, and a small medicine bottle slipped from the cuff into her palm. She gently removed the cork and threw the bottle to the floor. A stream of white smoke with a strange aroma floated out from the mouth of the bottle.
Someone exclaimed: "What is this?"
Tang Bailing smiled slightly: "Bones are corroded, and you will die if you smell it."
The water bandits hurriedly covered their mouths and noses, and Tang Bailing took advantage of this opportunity to turn around and run away.
Tang Sect's Qing Gong focuses on silence, and its speed is relatively average. During this period, she had many exchanges with Li Fenglan about Qing Gong and learned some tricks, so her speed accelerated a lot. But she was deeply trapped in the bandit camp, and the water bandits were well prepared. Several exits had been blocked by the water bandits, so the speed was not enough.
Fortunately, Tang Bailing has been tested for a long time, and he is not as panicked as Li Fenglan when encountering this situation, and can still deal with it calmly.
Before this, the three of them had already considered how to escape if their identities were discovered, so they were not completely unprepared. But the strange thing is that these people seemed to have already grasped her escape route. For a while, she could only wander around the water village with the chasing water bandits.
Tang Bailing brought a lot of gadgets with him, including chicken crow powder, poison, smoke bombs, etc. As for the Bone Erosion bomb he threw just now, it was actually a less violent smoke bomb. Apart from the weird aroma, it was not toxic at all. .
Seeing the right moment, she threw two smoke bombs behind her. The thick smoke rose instantly. Relying on the chaos created in an instant, she jumped over the wall of the water village. Just when the body reached its highest point, severe pain suddenly came from the back and shoulders, and the body staggered and fell heavily.
Fortunately, she had solid Qinggong skills and adjusted her posture in time to prevent herself from falling to the ground.
She didn't have time to check her back and ran away desperately.
She didn't know how long she ran, until there was no sound of pursuers behind her. The severe pain finally made her unable to move. Her legs gave out and she fell to the ground.
Tang Bailing reached out and touched her shoulder. She touched an arrow shaft. She thought that the pain on her back was also caused by the arrow. She wanted to cut off the arrow shaft with the dagger she carried with her, but the severe pain prevented her from lifting her arm at all.
Enduring the severe pain, I slowly climbed to a rocky tidal flat, and it took a lot of effort to crawl between two boulders.
She was gradually losing consciousness. She forced herself not to fall asleep, but her body didn't listen to her at all. Due to the combination of sleepiness and fatigue, she slowly lost consciousness.
In a daze, she saw her father and uncle, whose appearance she had long forgotten, walking towards her.
"Your uncle and I have discussed it a long time ago to save some money and send you to a good family to support you. But in our line of work, we don't know any decent people. I just hope you can learn our unique skills and don't want to get rich." Dagui, at least it’s enough to save your life.”
Tang Bailing raised his head and looked at them with difficulty: "I...I am like an empty box...Dad, uncle...you have never taught me how to get along with others..."
"Hey, why don't you say that I want to give you to a good family to raise you? We don't understand this either..."
At this time, another familiar voice came: "Stop moving, just die like this. A small character like you has lived long enough."
"Mu Zi...why? I have never betrayed you, I was just entangled by someone, and you...can't even wait for one day? Just one day...you want to kill me...why?"
"Whether you live or die has nothing to do with right or wrong. As I said, you are a small character. The position you are in now and the people you come into contact with are originally unworthy of you. How many people like you are there in Xiaozhu? ? How many people die every year? Which one will be remembered? Why do you want to live and live uniquely? Have you seen the sparrows? A group of sparrows can only live together. Those who are isolated will die, and so will Death is worthless. You are a sparrow, a dispensable sparrow."
She raised her head again and looked at that extremely familiar face. She gritted her teeth and said with a sad smile, "Not necessarily...I defeated your army and survived under your hands, which influenced your choice... Mu Zi, maybe you are like me, we are all small characters?"
Mu in front of me
Zi's expression began to become angry, and he waved his hand and slapped her. She had no ability to avoid it, so she could only watch the slap fall on her. But before his palm touched her, the person in front of her suddenly changed and turned into a fat man about twenty years old.
The palm slowly fell on her shoulder. The fat man smiled and said, "Sister Mu, you can come back to Chaolan Valley with us. Master Jiu will not blame you. You can spend the rest of your life well."
Tang Bailing smiled, the fatigue and pain in his body began to dissipate, and he became lighter.
"Fool...I'm not Mu Zi..."
"You are good to everyone."
As this sentence ended, Tang Bailing began to ring in her ears, and the noisy buzzing made her head hurt. As the tinnitus gets louder and louder, the previously light body begins to feel heavy. She had chest tightness and couldn't breathe.
Just when he was about to suffocate to death, his body's respiratory organs suddenly became unblocked.
She took a deep breath, her eyes widened, and her body trembled unconsciously.
She was walking forward. To be precise, she was being carried forward. The person carrying her was a little thin and walked very slowly, stumbling every step.
Tang Bailing turned his head slightly and saw a delicate face, but it was covered with sweat and a little ferocious.
"Miss Li..." Her voice was a little weak, and she was already exhausted after saying three words.
"You, are you awake?" Li Fenglan did not stop and continued to move forward as hard as possible.
She is a powerless girl. To say she is better than those purdah ladies, it may only be because of her good health. Tang Bailing has a relatively tall figure. Although he is thin, he still weighs more than 100 pounds. She found it a bit incredible that Li Fenglan, a person who had never done heavy work before, could carry herself on his back.
"Put me down...down..."
"Ha-ha...can you, can you walk?"
"Just hold on to me and let me go..."
Hearing this, Li Fenglan slowly put Tang Bailing down. To outsiders, she looked even weaker than Tang Bailing.
Li Fenglan put one of Tang Bailing's arms on her shoulders, and the two of them walked with difficulty. Li Fenglan did not ask her what happened, and the two of them had no time to communicate.
"Miss Li," Tang Bailing said, "They, they may come after you... You taking me with you will be a burden..."
"If I don't take you with me, Fatty Tan will blame me for the rest of his life... Stop talking, we have to leave quickly."
Tang Bailing smelled the burnt smell in the air, raised his head slightly, and found several fire spots in the direction of the water village. It seems that Li Fenglan has made sufficient preparations.
Li Fenglan felt a little regretful. She should have parked the sampan closer. In order not to be discovered when she landed, she deliberately parked the small sampan fifty meters offshore and flew to the shore by climbing across the water. Now that she was holding one person, she could no longer use her extraordinary lightness skills, so the two of them had no choice but to wade through the water and walk towards the sampan.
This was a shallow beach, but when they were halfway there, the water was already up to their waists.
Tang Bailing said feebly: "Why..."
"Don't tell me why, just escape first and then talk about it."
"Why……"
"Okay, Sister Tang, don't ask, save your energy."
"No, why...don't you put me on the shore, and then row the boat over?"
Li Fenglan was dumbfounded. She was so flustered just now that she even forgot about such a thing.
She was about to burst into tears and said, "Forget it, we're already halfway there anyway."
After exhausting all their efforts, the two finally climbed onto the small sampan. Li Fenglan lay on the boat, panting. After resting for a while, she sat up and rowed the boat, heading towards Hewu Town. Tang Bailing looked at the girl in white under the moonlight and asked, "Where do you... get your strength?"
The voice was too low and Li Fenglan didn't hear clearly: "What did you just say?"
"You don't know martial arts and you are weak...where did you find the strength to carry me out?"
"I thought I couldn't carry you, but at the critical moment, I used my strength."
"I'm just, just a dispensable little character... Why risk it, risk it to save me? I have nothing to do with you guys... You saved my life, and I will repay you... We are already inseparable. owe……"
I thought Li Fenglan would be polite, but she said seriously: "That's what I thought. To be honest, Sister Tang, I couldn't trust you at first. It's not just you... If Mu Yun comes back, I will too I can't trust him. It's not that I'm ruthless, but I have to do this. But I think people can change. You were desperate at the time, and you didn't want to put Fatty Tan in danger. I think you are essentially a Good guy... During the time we got together, I was also secretly observing you, fearing that you would suddenly betray me. You didn't come back in the afternoon, and Fatty Tan and I got into trouble. I can only trust you two here. , you died and I didn’t save you, I might have trouble with my conscience.”
"Between you and me...is it the same as your relationship with jade and amber?"
"Well... to be honest, it's different. The two of them are just like my biological sisters, and no one can compare with them. Sister Tang, if you are willing to stay with us, we can be considered good friends at last."
"This is enough……"
Mu Zi, I have everything you desire. I am no longer a dispensable little character.
Li Fenglan was tired from rowing and had no energy left in her hands.
She looked at Mu Zi who was lying on the boat, water dripping from the arrow shafts on his shoulders and back. The arrow was still in the flesh, so not much blood came out, but Tang Bailing's face was abnormally pale.
Something stirred in her mind and she asked in a low voice: "Sister Tang, how do you feel now?"
"I'm very sleepy and in pain..."
"Will the arrow... be poisonous?"
"Yes, it's possible."
"Then, let me help you pull it out. How to pull it out? Do you know?"
Tang Bailing had already discovered that the arrows were poisonous, but the poison was not strong and could at most cause people to fall into coma. And when she woke up, the effects of the medicine were probably gone. But she didn't know if the medicine had any remaining power, so the best option was to take it out. But Li Fenglan's hands were shaking from exhaustion, and she might not have the strength.
"You probably can't pull it out."
"I'll try it, and you can teach me how to do it."
"I have gold sore medicine and needles and threads in my sleeves. Please take them out."
Li Fenglan did as he was told.
Tang Bailing continued: "Take off your coat... cut it into strips."
Li Fenglan did so again.
"Then what?"
"Just pull it out...just pull it out..."
"Just, just stick with this?"
"right."
Li Fenglan gritted her teeth, walked to Tang Bailing, knelt down and held the arrow shaft with both hands, and applied force - but it didn't pull out. Tang Bailing groaned in pain, but held back from screaming.
"Li, Miss Li...you have to use a little force...if you can, try to pull it out when I'm not paying attention, so that I won't suffer any less...ah!!"
Li Fenglan had already pulled it out, and she was a little overwhelmed looking at the blood on the arrow.
Tang Bailing was panting in pain, and she gasped and said, "Yes, yes, that's it, try not to...ah!!"
The second one was also pulled out.
Tang Bailing was about to faint from the pain. It had to be said that Li Fenglan was very talented in this area. ,
She dropped the arrow and asked in a panic, "What's next?"
"Sew up the wound."
"Sew??" Li Fenglan had never done needlework when she was so old. She didn't expect that the first time she picked up a needle and thread was to help someone sew up a wound.
"Yes... it's best to hurry up. If water gets into the wound... it will become suppurative."
Li Fenglan was so anxious that she almost burst into tears. While threading needles and threads under the moonlight, she said without tears, "If you had told me earlier, we would have gone to the shore to find a doctor."
Tang Bailing suddenly laughed: "Just in time, practice with me... You may encounter this kind of situation again in the future..."
After struggling for a long time, Li Fenglan finally helped Tang Bailing suture the wound. Tang Bailing had two arrow wounds and needed four stitches in total. Li Fenglan had no arrow wounds and received eight injections on her hand.
