Chapter 24 Entering Beijing
After traveling east for two days, they turned around and went north, and this time there was less delay on the road, and most of the wine shops on the road were packed and eaten.
One day at noon, she stopped to rest in a bamboo forest, Song Lingyi gnawed two mouthfuls of steamed buns in disgust, and took out the dried plums to eat, fortunately, she had a lot of snacks in the fan pendant, and she was not afraid of not having to eat on the road.
"Little brother, how many more days are we going to go?"
"About three days. ”
Song Ling nodded, saw that Xie Qiong was eating steamed buns slowly and methodically, playfully pulled a small bamboo next to him, pulled it to the ground, and then bounced at him.
Xie Qiong sat still, only raised his right hand and swung out a qi blade, cutting off the bamboo waist.
Ben didn't really want to hit him, but seeing the bamboo leaves falling on his head, Song Lingyi still laughed happily.
In the next second, she felt that her ankle was grabbed by something, and she thought that Xie Qiong was joking and using some small spell, but when she saw Xie Qiong, who was sitting opposite, she got up instantly, pulled out a knife and slashed at her foot.
In Song Ling's widening eyes, Xie Qiong hugged her waist with his left hand, lifted the person up, and took a knife in his right hand to cut off a pair of black, smelly and rotten hands.
The severed hand fell to the ground, and a rotting corpse was rising from the ground hidden by bamboo leaves, and a burst of black gas came out of the arm, and the hands took it back on their own.
Xie Qiong put Song Lingyi behind him to protect him, and cut off the dead body with a knife.
At this time, there was movement in the entire bamboo forest, and more than a dozen rotting corpses crawled out in black air.
"Little Senior Brother, this seems to be the same path as the last time the corpse refiner. ”
"Yes, you stand back. ”
Song Ling took two steps back, took out the peach blossom fan, and waited for Xie Qiong's horizontal knife to use the knife momentum to open up flames, and then made up a few fans to fuel the fire.
In an instant, the entire bamboo forest burned, and although more than a dozen carrion corpses were not afraid of swords, they struggled and howled in the fire, and the smell of decay became more and more obvious, and Song Ling felt that the two mouthfuls of steamed buns he had just eaten were about to spit out again.
"Let's go first!"
Although these dozen dead corpses couldn't stop them, the controller behind them never appeared, so be careful, Xie Qiong pulled Song Ling back, dropped the carriage, and rode away.
Riding a horse is more tiring than a carriage, Song Ling felt that he was sitting in front of Xie Qiong, and he was so upset that everyone was almost gone, and finally arrived at the place where he was staying, and he was clamoring to come down and refused to go again.
"Little brother, I'm going to be torn apart, let's rest for a night before leaving, they can't beat you anyway. ”
Xie Qiong knew that she had always been pampered, and it would definitely be uncomfortable to ride the horse for a long time, so he hugged her off the horse in distress.
"Someone must come at night, and you can't sleep in the inn, it will hurt other people. ”
"Okay, then let's have a meal and then leave?" Song Lingyi didn't want to be like last time, when a person from the inn died, but he was already hungry, so he asked to eat before leaving.
Xie Qiong admired her for having such a good appetite after reading the burnt rotting corpse, and nodded and took her in to eat.
Song Ling ordered two catties of braised beef, and asked for a chicken feet and two bowls of noodles, while blowing noodles, he sat down to talk to Xie Qiong.
"Little Senior Brother, you said that it shouldn't be the two corpse refiners you cut down to seek revenge, right?"
Xie Qiong took a sip of water and shook his head: "The number of paths is the same, but the corpse refiner has always acted alone, and the cultivation is mostly a family tradition, and there is no teacher." ”
"Then why are you chasing us?"
"It should be related to Baizhai. ”
Song Ling took a bite of the noodles, chewed and swallowed it and asked, "We didn't do anything in Baizhai, we just stayed for one night, why did you catch up with us?"
"The owner of Baizhai once said that he wanted to leave, but they must not have found anyone from Baizhai, so they wanted to arrest us and track us down. ”
"Uncle Bai is really an old man with a story," Song Lingyi began to gnaw on the chicken feet again: "The mushroom soup in Baizhai is so fresh that the tongue is fresh, I still think about it!"
Xie Qiong shook his head helplessly, took a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth.
After eating the noodles and packing the leftover beef and chicken feet, the two led their horses and left the inn.
Xie Qiong led the horse with one hand, and the other hand was led by Song Lingyi, and the sunset shone obliquely on the road, and the picture was very beautiful.
He suddenly felt in a very good mood, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl, hoping that the hour would pass slowly.
As soon as Song Ling looked back at him, he smiled even more happily, and blinked: "Ouch, little senior brother, don't laugh, we are being chased by dead corpses!
Xie Qiong ignored her, and she continued to say nonsense: "You are already the first beauty in Penglai in Penglai, and I will help you run for the first beauty in the capital when you get to the capital!"
"Really, really, when you are chosen, I will lock you up, sell tickets at the door with the most beautiful signboard in the capital, ten taels of silver per person, give the silver to go in to see the beauty, hahahaha!"
"When the time comes, I'll give you half of the silver, okay?"
"Little brother, take care of me!
"I have three and you have seven, and I can't be less!"
Listening to her noisy all the way, and finding a place to sleep in the open, Xie Qiong lit a fire on the spot, and the two sat and waited for the next wave of rotting corpses to arrive.
It wasn't until the middle of the night that there was finally movement around, and Xie Qiong gently woke up Song Lingyi who was lying on his lap.
Song Ling got up neatly, leaned his back against Xie Qiong, and looked around.
To tell the truth, in the white moonlight, these carrion corpses were even more ugly, and they twitched and moved forward quickly, but after a while, they were already in front of them.
There are so many rotting corpses encountered today, and the action and strength are obviously not as good as the four murderous corpses in Baizhai last time, it should be just an ordinary corpse, and the corpse did not spend too much thought, so it was so diligent to send the dead.
The two of them still adopted the old method, using fire to burn, the hunting knife and the peach blossom fan cooperated perfectly, and there were flames all around, but this time the rotting corpses held on longer, and they continued to narrow the encirclement with flames.
Xie Qiong grabbed Song Lingyi, shouted a word of cheering, jumped up hand in hand, and the two swept away from the top of the tree together. In the forest behind him, the black gas was permeated, and the fire and black gas were intertwined, but it was a pity that the good horse.
Protected by the night, Xie Qiong still couldn't find the controller hiding in the dark.
For that man, the carrion corpses nearby are his inexhaustible weapons, although they can't hurt the two of them for the time being, but it is still not good for them to fight a protracted battle, especially if they don't know when they will be attacked, which is also very annoying.
If Xie Qiong was alone, he could have killed all the way to the capital, but with Song Lingyi by his side, he had to be careful.
After thinking about it, he decided to take Song Lingyi to Beijing by water. The carrion sinks, sinks to the bottom, and it is impossible to entangle them in a short time.
The two didn't stay too long, hurried to the ferry, and caught up with a large passenger ship entering Beijing.
Xie Qiong was afraid that there were still people secretly following, so he only needed a cabin and didn't let Song Lingyi leave his side.