Chapter 713: Old Locust Tree Village
The old man with the long sword had extremely high martial arts, but he didn't expect that there would be this mechanism under his feet, and in an instant, he caught his left leg in the trap, and the sawtooth of the huge trap pierced into his leg bone, making him scream in pain, and he wanted to get out, but there was a thumb-thick chain tied to the back of the trap, and he couldn't get rid of it at all. 'Tian Lai Xiao' said.2.
He bent down to break the trap, and at this moment, Yang Xianmao stabbed at him with a sword without hesitation, and the black light was like the claws of the god of death.
The old man's left leg was seriously injured, and he was in danger, he snorted coldly, and the long sword in his hand was lifted from the bottom to the top, and he wanted to separate Yang Xianmao's long sword, but he heard a clear click, and Yang Xianmao's sword actually cut the long sword in his hand in two, and the sword stabbed directly into his chest.
The old man was so frightened that he turned sideways and tried to retreat to avoid it, but his legs were firmly tied to the roof of the house by the thumb-thick chain, and there was no way to avoid it.
Yang Xianmao's sword came too fast, and with a pop like a shock, it passed through his chest, and a puddle of blood spurted out from his back, but there was not a drop of blood on the tip of the sword.
The old man screamed, and quickly pounced to catch Yang Xianmao, and Yang Xianmao's long sword went up, and the sword actually cut half of his body entirely, the old man was killed almost instantly, and the corpse fell heavily in front of Yang Xianmao.
The strong man behind him jumped over, jumped on the roof of this side, because his light skills were not very good, so the place where he landed was closer to the wall, but he happened to step on the mechanism, the roof suddenly clicked and collapsed, he fell down, there was no way to borrow strength in the air, and when he fell halfway, a long scimitar suddenly swept from the wall of the house, and he was cut in two, and the body fell under the wall, and the whole wall was sprayed with blood.
Yang Xianmao didn't even glance at his corpse, and immediately turned around and went up the gable, but instead of running towards the opposite room, he snorted and slid down the gable to the roof.
Because there are already many masters on the roof, the field of vision is wide, it is not easy to dodge, and after coming down, Yang Xianmao becomes like a raccoon cat, quickly shuttling between the rooms.
Many of the houses in this inner house are used as a formation in the hands of the masters of Qimen Dunjia, because Yang Xianmao already knows the entire formation well, and he also knows the location of the organ clearly, so he does not hesitate to move, and quickly hides everywhere.
At this time, the guards who chased out screamed from time to time, some were shot into hedgehogs by countless sharp arrows shot from the shadows, some were crushed under the boulder by the collapsed gable, and some were caught up in nets, and then killed by sharp arrows.
These guards originally knew about these mechanisms, but when they wanted to avoid these mechanisms, they just happened to bump into these mechanisms and led the mechanisms, but they didn't know that Yang Xianmao had used the Qimen Dunjia he had learned to understand the situation in the inner house, and had changed these mechanisms in the past few days of observation, making them different from the original.
In this way, the guards who chased after them also dodged according to the original mechanism, thinking that they would avoid the mechanism, but they didn't expect it to be just triggered, causing these guards to die one after another, so that these guards did not dare to chase too forward, giving Yang Xianmao a more calm chance to dodge.
The flames in the inner house were getting bigger and bigger, and they had already ignited the surrounding houses from the house of Mrs. Ma and the shopkeeper, and Mrs. Ma and her maid under the bed were also burned to death.
Yang Xianmao was not in a hurry to break out. If he hadn't been shown before, he might have used Mrs. Ma's identity to quietly leave Majiazhuang, and the matter would have ended, since now these guards in Majiazhuang want to hunt him down, then he can't help but be unkind to them, he used the changes in the inner house and external organs of Majiazhuang, so that these guards suffered heavy casualties, and made the people who rushed to fight the fire also hit the mechanism one after another, unable to put out the fire.
The fire became bigger and bigger, sweeping the entire inner house, and those guards also rushed out to catch Yang Xianmao, and the leaders of the boat gang in the house fell into a coma, there were too many of them, and the maids and servants couldn't carry them, and the other male servants were not in the inner house, and these senior leaders of the gangs were all buried in the fire.
The inner house was in flames, and the guards were killed one after another, and after that, almost no one could catch up with him, and no trace of him could be found. It was only at this time that Yang Xianmao took advantage of the night to turn over the inner house, and took advantage of his familiarity with the mechanism to quickly pass through the outer house and go up to the high wall.
Standing on the wall and looking back, I saw that the entire Majiazhuang had become a sea of fire, and the flames of the inner house were spreading outward. He looked around again, because the surrounding houses were separated by the wall of Majiazhuang, the house of Majiazhuang had a certain distance from the houses of other people outside the wall, and it was difficult for the flames to burn to other places, and people had begun to gather around to demolish the house to block the source of fire, which was the most effective and basic way to fight fires in ancient times.
The fire burned until the afternoon of the next day, and Majiazhuang was almost in ruins.
Of course, Liu Lao Wu was the happiest about this fire, he almost didn't sleep all night, and he kept searching for news, and finally confirmed that the shopkeeper and his son and wife were all buried in the fire, including the important leaders of the boat gang were also burned to death, and Majiazhuang collapsed overnight. Liu Lao Wu unceremoniously quickly took over all the territory, and the merchant ships and men under the Ma shopkeeper also defected one after another and belonged to Liu Lao Wu.
Liu Lao Wu unified the dock almost overnight. While he was excited, he quickly thought that all this was probably thanks to Yang Xianmao,
He was ambushed in the inner line of the boat gang of the horse shopkeeper, saying that during this time, the horse shopkeeper has been buying martial arts masters with a lot of money to hunt down Yang Xianmao, but he has not succeeded, Liu Lao Wu is very sure of Yang Xianmao's ability, and he also knows that Yang Xianmao will not give the enemy a chance to get away with it, so he believes that Yang Xianmao will definitely find the horse shopkeeper for revenge.
According to the survivors of Majiazhuang, the fierce pursuit of the house in Majiazhuang seems to be chasing a person who infiltrated Majiazhuang, who destroyed the mechanism and formation and caused heavy casualties to the guards. Because Majiazhuang was heavily guarded and outsiders were forbidden to enter, no one came to put out the fire, and Majiazhuang's own people were not able to save such a big fire, so it was burned to the ground.
All kinds of news pointed to the fact that Yang Xianmao should have come back for revenge, Liu Lao Wu sent people to investigate everywhere, wanting to find Yang Xianmao to reward him, but Yang Xianmao was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no trace of him.
After destroying Majiazhuang, Yang Xianmao came to Cuixiang Building first, found the bustard, and asked the bustard to take a token to him, telling the bustard that the money he left in her Qinglou would one day be taken by someone to take the token given by the bustard. Of course, the bustard agreed.
Then he went to the house of the Leader of the Cleanwind Temple, and asked for a token of the Chief, as a proof of retrieving the silver hidden in the Yaksha Woman's place in the future.
Before this, Zhu Tiezhu had already informed the Qingfeng Daoist that Daoist Yiwen would come back here to ask about his whereabouts, and please tell him that he lived in the Maple Leaf Villa outside the city, so after Yang Xianmao came, the Qingfeng Daoist told him the news.
After Yang Xianmao got Zhu Tiehammer's whereabouts, he found Zhu Tiehammer according to the message.
Zhu Tiehammer's life was in the hands of Yang Xianmao, naturally he didn't dare to play any tricks, he wanted to know about the birth of Ma Jiazhuang, even the powerful character of the horse shopkeeper had died in the hands of Yang Xianmao, he was fortunate to have survived in the end, of course, he didn't dare to have any bad thoughts, therefore, he received Yang Xianmao with trepidation and enthusiasm.
Yang Xianmao didn't stay long, gave him the remaining two medicines, explained some precautions, and then took Liu Dongyan away.
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Laohuai Village is a mountain village deep in the mountains, named after a huge old locust tree at the entrance of the village.
Under the old locust tree, there is a big bamboo with the thickness of a child's arm, which is supported by a wooden frame, and one after another is connected to lead a clear spring down from the mountainside to the old locust tree, forming a well.
I don't know what year it was erected, but after a few years, when the bamboo rots, the villagers will come to replace the bamboo, which can lead the water flow down from the middle of the mountain, so that the villagers do not have to carry buckets to the middle of the mountain to fetch water.
There is no well in the village, and the whole village is drunk and washed by the spring water that is guided down from the mountain, and the water of this well is very clear, and has a sweet taste, and the amount of water is also very large, so it is not a problem for the whole village to drink and wash.
In order to separate the washing water from the drinking water, the villagers dug two pools, the top of which was directly drawn from the bamboo for drinking water, and the villagers took water from this pool when they wanted to carry water.
Because of the large amount of water, the drinking water is not used up at all, and the water overflows out of the pool and is led along a dug trench to the pool below.
This pool has a ladder, and there are some large bluestone slabs used to wash clothes next to the pool, which is a special water source for washing clothes and other miscellaneous items, and if the water in this pool is not used up, it will come out, and then flow down, and there is a bamboo sticking out below, where it can be used to wash some dirty things, such as dung buckets, dustpans, shoes, etc., and some children also run there to bathe.
This old locust tree is the favorite place for hundreds of families and hundreds of people in Laohuai Village. Aunt Bao is the wife of Bao Er, is a somewhat obese woman, their family is considered to be in the middle and upper part of the village, and several laborers in the family are very good at farm work, so the small life is not bad, almost a month can eat one or two meals of meat, which is already terrible in the village, other people all year round, and only during the New Year's holidays can they get meaty, so Aunt Bao always has a sense of superiority in front of people.
On this day she took a large basin of clothes and went to the sink to wash, and there were already several women here. While pounding his clothes, he discussed.
A thin woman didn't sleep well at first glance, Aunt Bao took the clothes and soaked them in water and put them on the washboard and sprinkled soap horns, and then joked to her: "Look at your eyes, there are still bloodshots, you didn't do anything good last night, did your man toss you all night?"