Early the next morning.

Ou Feng got up and took a few bites of breakfast, said a word to his father and mother, and went out to the mountain behind the village. Last night, he made an appointment with Li Erhu and the three of them to go to the mountains to chop firewood in the morning.

The mountains behind Jixiang Village are densely vegetated, and towering trees can be seen everywhere, boundless. Because it is too big, it is easy to get lost, and the villagers usually only chop wood and hunt at most in the edge of the mountain.

According to the old hunter in the village, when he was young, he once went into the mountains to hunt, got lost in the mountains, and once saw with his own eyes a blind bear of more than 20 feet, walking and shaking the mountains, if he didn't run fast, he would have given the bear blind a tooth sacrifice.

Ou Feng carried a bamboo basket on his back, wielded a firewood knife in his right hand, and swayed as he walked, cutting the weeds on the side of the road with the firewood knife in his hand.

Suddenly, I heard a shout behind me, and when I looked back, the two brothers Li Lei and Li Yu were shouting not far away, and they were running towards this side.

Running in front of Ou Feng, the two brothers gasped for breath, obviously running desperately to catch up with Ou Feng along the way.

Ou Feng threw the kettle in the bamboo basket to the two brothers, looked up behind them, and asked, "Where is Li Erhu?"

Li Yu took a sip of the kettle thrown by Ou Feng, wiped his mouth, turned his head and threw it to his brother Li Lei, and then replied with a long sigh of relief.

"That stupid brute yesterday we clearly said that we would go to the mountains to chop wood today, this morning my brother and I went to their house to look for him, and found that this thing was still asleep in bed, you know how he can't wake up when he falls asleep, we have no choice but to let his father wait for him to wake up and let him come to the back mountain to find us. ”

The three friends rested in place for a while, and then walked towards the area on the mountain where they used to cut firewood.

In the early morning, the mountains are full of humidity. Close your eyes and take a deep breath, and you'll find a myriad of floral scents with the scent of earth entering your lungs, which is really refreshing. The sunlight from the rising sun shines through the leaves of the trees, and the birds in the trees chirp loudly from time to time.

All of this is a sign that this is a pleasant day.

In the blink of an eye, it was late afternoon, and the sun overhead had moved from the southeast in the early morning to the northwest unconsciously.

"Whew, it's finally going to be cut. ”

Li Lei picked up the kettle, poured the last mouthful of water left in the kettle into his mouth, spread it on all sides and fell to the ground, and kicked Li Yu who was already snoring next to him restlessly.

"Boldly pick flowers thief, when I see your Grandpa Yu, I will be arrested without restraint, be careful of the sword in my hand, and send you to see Lord Yama if you are not careful. ”

Li Yu was talking in a dream, and while waving the firewood knife in his hand in the air a few times, Li Lei next to him was so frightened that he rolled over and hurriedly dodged. After dodging, he kicked it hard, and Li Yu, who was asleep, was suddenly reminded, got up and looked at his brother blankly.

Just as Ou Feng was smiling and watching the two brothers fight, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps in the distance.

A middle-aged man seemed to be holding a little girl in his arms and was running quickly like them, and came to them in just two or three jumps, followed by two more figures, all dressed in black and masked. They all had a bright steel knife in their hands.

Ou Feng and the three of them were frightened by this sudden scene, and they were stunned and motionless.

The middle-aged man looked at the two people who were getting closer and closer behind him, then looked at the three teenagers in front of him who were stunned, and then looked at the bleeding knife wounds on his body. Gritting his teeth, he seemed to have made an important decision.

"Little brother, I beg you one thing, help me take my young lady to a safe place, and come to you when I get out. ”

After that, he handed the little girl in his arms to Ou Feng, and the moment his hands were handed out, a wisp of blood oozed from a wound on his shoulder. The middle-aged man gasped, but without the slightest pause, he drew the silver sword at his waist and faced the two masked men who were already close at hand.

Ou Feng was the first to come back to his senses, looked at the unconscious girl lying in his arms, and then looked at the middle-aged man who was already entangled with the two masked men.

At the beginning of the fight, the middle-aged man had already fallen into a clear disadvantage, and it was only a matter of time before he was defeated.

"Run!"

In a hurry, Ou Feng didn't have time to think, yelled at the two Li Lei brothers, and ran away.

The road in the mountains was rugged and winding, and the three of them were out of breath after not long running, and the speed of running was significantly slower.

After all, although the girl's figure is petite compared to the three of them, the three of them have chopped firewood for a day, and the mountain road is difficult to walk. At this time, all the strength of the whole body has been emptied.

"This won't work, when those two masked men get rid of the middle-aged man, sooner or later they will catch up with us. Ou Feng thought with a frown.

Just when the three of them were gritting their teeth and running for their lives while anxiously thinking about countermeasures, the burly voice and shadow of Li Ergou not far in front suddenly appeared.

Li Erhu obviously also saw the three people who were running wildly, and ran over.

Running in front of the three of them, he saw the girl behind Ou Feng at a glance, and just wanted to speak, Ou Feng turned sideways, threw the girl to Li Erhu as if relieved, and then ran forward without looking back.

Seeing the three people who rushed out ten zhang away in the blink of an eye, and then at the girl in his arms, Li Erhu didn't seem to have time to digest what happened at this moment, and stayed in place stupidly.

"Nerd, run. ”

Ou Feng, who was running last, turned around and saw Li Erhu still standing in place, and shouted anxiously.

When Li Erhu heard the shout, he put the girl in his arms on his shoulder, and took a step to chase after the three people who were running wildly.

The four of them didn't know how long they had been running, their legs were already unconscious, they only knew that the sun had already set, the white light was getting less and less, and the night was slowly enveloping the entire mountain.

"Don't run away... If you don't run, you can't run..."

Li Yu, who was running in the middle, suddenly stopped, supported his waist with his left hand, waved his right hand, and said breathlessly.

Li Lei also gasped for breath, and stopped to say to everyone: "It's not a way for us to run like this, what should we do now?"

Ou Feng looked at everyone and knew that everyone couldn't run anymore. After thinking about it, the vegetation of this mountain is dense and extensive, and it is late at night, so it should be difficult for the masked people to find the auspicious village located in the middle of the mountain. And in the middle of the night, there was danger everywhere in this big mountain, and the pursuers behind did not arrive, and several of them may have been buried in the mouths of jackals, tigers and leopards.

Then he said, "Let's go back to the village first, and we'll figure out a way when it dawns tomorrow." ”

When Ou Feng and the others finally rushed back to the village, the whole village was silent. Ou Feng walked to the door of the house and saw that there was still a faint light in the room in the courtyard, and a touch of emotion surged in his heart.

The son did not return for a day, and Ou Ruohai and his mother Li Yi, who were anxiously waiting in the room, saw Ou Feng push open the door and enter the house, and just wanted to ask, they saw Li Lei, Li Yu, Li Erhu and Li Erhu with blood stains on their shoulders who followed Ou Feng into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Ou Feng took Li Erhu to put the girl on his shoulder on the bed, and Li Yi hurriedly came over to check whether Ou Feng was injured. After careful examination, Ou Feng did not have any injuries on his body, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Ou Ruohai looked at the girl who was lying motionless on the bed, and said to Ou Feng, "What's going on?"

Ou Feng told everything that happened on the mountain.

Ou Ruohai frowned and listened, looked at the sleeping girl on the bed again, and said to Li Yi beside him: "Child, go and invite Langzhong in the village to show this girl." ”

Not long after leaving, a slight moan came out, and the girl on the bed slowly opened her eyes. When Ou Feng and others saw this scene, they immediately surrounded them.

Zhou Ling'er, who had just woken up from a coma, opened her eyes and saw the unfamiliar environment around her, and saw several strange teenagers around the bed, and hurriedly grabbed the quilt with both hands and said urgently: "Who are you? What are you going to do." ”

Seeing the girl's reaction, Ou Feng hurriedly opened his mouth to describe what happened in the mountain.

After listening to Ou Feng's explanation, Zhou Linger's nervous expression slowly eased, followed by a touch of sadness. Zhou Ling'er understands that if it is really as Ou Feng said, then her mother and Uncle Zhou, who love her the most, may be more than lucky.

Zhou Linger originally went to Baishui Town with her mother from Qingniu Town to meet her father. Qingniu Town is more than 200 miles away from Baishui Town, and just in case, Uncle Zhou and more than a dozen martial artists from his family escorted him along the way.

There was nothing to do along the way, seeing that it was only a few dozen kilometers away from Baishui Town, Zhou Ling'er, who was about to see her father, was snuggling up and playing beside her mother. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves outside the carriage, followed by the screams of swords fighting.

This sudden change frightened Zhou Ling'er's mother and daughter in the carriage hugged each other tightly, Zhou Ling'er only remembered that she listened to the shouts outside, curled up in her mother's arms tremblingly, and suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, and then fell asleep, unable to remember anything.

After a while, Ou Feng's mother Li Yi walked in with Lang Zhong in the village, Lang Zhong is an old man in his sixties, who worked as an apprentice in the pharmacy in Baishui Town in the early years.

Lang Zhong came to the bed and saw that Zhou Ling'er had woken up, so he first observed Zhou Ling'er's improvement. Then he raised his hand to check the pulse, and then got up and said.

"The little girl is fine, before the sleepy old man noticed that it should have inhaled the sweat medicine, and then the old man checked the pulse, and found that her stomach seemed to have some bruises because of the violent collision, the old man prescribed a prescription, and it was okay to take a few pairs of medicines. With that, he went to the table and wrote the prescription.

Hearing Lang Zhong's words, Ou Feng and the three of them threw their eyes towards Li Erhu in unison. Li Erhu saw the eyes of the three people, smiled, and scratched his head in embarrassment.

After Lang Zhong left, Li Yi heard that Zhou Ling'er was fine, so he was relieved, found a set of clean clothes from the back room and said to Zhou Ling'er: "Little girl, the clothes you are wearing are already dirty, if you don't dislike it, there is a set of clean clothes here, you take them and change them first." ”

Zhou Ling'er just wanted to refuse, but after looking at the blood stains on her body and the grass clippings on her body, she nodded lightly, picked up her clothes and walked towards the back room where no one was.

The moment Zhou Ling'er, who had changed her clothes, lifted the curtain and walked out, she found three pairs of big eyes staring at her, motionless. stared at Zhou Ling'er and lowered her head shyly.

At this time, Zhou Ling'er's hair was casually pulled into a loose hairpin, a round goose egg face, there seemed to be a touch of redness, and her eyes were like apricots.

When Ou Feng's mother saw this scene, she slapped one of the three people on the head angrily, making the three of them grin.

Seeing that there should be nothing to do, Li Erhu and the three of them said goodbye and prepared to go home, and made an appointment to come back early tomorrow morning.

As soon as the three of them were about to walk out of the courtyard, they heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the village, and through the doors and windows, they saw the distant firelight getting closer and closer.

Seeing this scene, Ou Feng's heart sank, and a bad premonition condensed in his heart.