Origins VIII
"Miss Su, huh? Rest assured, I'm not a robber, and I wouldn't have offended you if it weren't for the orders from above, but you'd better be at ease. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Miss Su is a person who knows the book in the scholarly family, but she can't embarrass Ling Zun! Think more for your father's sake. The words "your father" were very important in his words.
The expression on Su Xiaocui's face did not change because of Gou's verbal intimidation, and nodded, "I understand." ”
"That's for the best. The stove in the back kitchen of this broken temple can still be used, and there is a river not too far from here in the west, so I bother the girl to use the cooking utensils, tableware, rice, vegetables, meat, and seasonings we just bought to prepare our lunch. Although the sentence is polite, the tone is point-in, as if he is talking to his subordinates.
There is indeed a river there, and Xu Xiaocui is squatting by the river and scrubbing pots, bowls, and chopsticks with a rag, without an aggrieved look on her face.
Gou Steep Flip is leaning against a tree, holding his shoulders with both hands, biting a straw stick in his mouth, staring at her intently.
"I'm not going to run, you don't have to spy on me like that." Xu Xiaocui brushed things clean, turned around and turned to the steep road.
"It's not that I'm worried that the girl will run away by herself, I'm afraid that some 'bad guys' will force the girl to do something you don't want to do." As he spoke, he walked over and helped Xu Xiaocui carry six small bowls, a sea bowl, a pair of chopsticks, a spatula and a small pot.
She carried a large pot of water and went back to the temple with Gouqiu.
As soon as they left, the water in the middle of the river turned over, and a beautiful "silver carp" was soft and boneless on the surface of the river. Who is not the fish Ehime?
She had actually seen the note pressed under the flower pot a long time ago, but she didn't move, and when they went to ask for orchids, she read it again and put it back in its place, and she also observed from the gap in the door curtain in the back room that Lang took it away from her companion, afraid that something would happen that was not conducive to the Xu family, and after eating the dinner made by Xiaocui, she also made up a reason to rush to the mass grave immediately, but it was too late to get there, at that time, even Shi Yao's head and Di Lingling's arm had been taken away, and he hesitated, Because she didn't want to disturb Xiaocui's current life with a little bit of something, she thought about it again and again, and still felt that it was good to report to the official, after all, she was still an official of the country, so she quickly went to open the city gate of Lanzhou, and woke up with two slaps and screamed blindly to call the gatekeeper who came to open the door because she complained too late, as for the part about Xiaocui in this case, she prevaricated in a few words, anyway, Xiaocui has little to do with the death of these eight people, especially the Lanzhou prefect has no intention of investigating the details when he sees that the eight robbers are dead, All he thought about was how to fabricate the lie of killing the "Eight Knife Brothers" and ask the court for merit and reward.
When Yu Ehime quickly finished this matter, and when he returned to Su's house, he was running into Gou Steep and robbing Xiao Cui, and was about to draw the fishbone sword to save Xiao Cui, when he suddenly recognized the big and thin ghost head knife, and weighed himself, although he was confident that he could defeat Gou Steep, but Xiao Cui was in his hands, and if something went wrong, he couldn't explain to himself, Uncle Su, and his father, so she didn't ask for help from the people of the six doors, and chose to secretly track and wait for rescue.
"A dog is a dog, and I look at it so strictly." Yu Ehime was in the water at this time, and she cursed in a low voice.
As soon as she turned her head, an old fisherman who was fishing on the opposite shore and wore a hat caught her attention, and she felt as if she had seen it, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it, so she didn't need to be so careful, she swam ashore and walked quietly in the direction of the ruined temple.
A dog is a dog, and it looks so strict. This is the old fisherman's secret curse in his heart at this time.
How can it be the same as Yu Ehime's mood?
After Xu Xiaocui came back, he scrubbed a dusty vegetable mound in the temple, and cut meat and vegetables with a weapon that hooked and turned over, the knife edge was quite fast, and it didn't take long for four big bowls of steaming stir-fried vegetables to be served, fried pork slices with garlic, boiled celery, roasted radish, blanched cauliflower, as well as two bowls of rice and a big bowl of cabbage soup.
Gou was hungry for a long time, but he didn't move his chopsticks, he first carefully observed the four bowls of vegetables, rice and soup, and then took out a silver needle fed with medicinal solution and stirred it in several bowls.
"Don't you feel comfortable staring at what I'm cooking? Have you ever heard that the people of the Su family use poisons? Xu Xiaocui said and sat down at the table, picked up the chopsticks and slammed them on the table, and ate by himself, eating a bite of every dish, a big bite of rice, and a mouthful of soup, "Do you want to eat my bowl." Xu Xiaocui looked at him, waiting for the contents of his mouth to be swallowed.
Gou Shu walked to the opposite table and sat down, and said with a smile: "Miss Su, don't misunderstand, it's better to be careful when you go out." It doesn't matter if Gou Mou, if the girl loses half of her hair, I can't stand anyone. After speaking, he also picked up his chopsticks and began to eat.
He should be really hungry, and after a while, he ate up a bowl of white rice, and before he could speak, Xu Xiaocui served him another bowl, and he didn't say anything polite to her, so he opened his throat and chewed again, and then another bowl was also killed in the "Shaoqing".
Now Xu Xiaocui is cleaning up the table, whether it is in the bowl or in the pot, there is no leftovers, which shows that he will live a lot on weekdays.
After Gou Steep turned and ate enough, even his smile became more real, "I'm tired of the girl again, when I'm done, let's rest for a while and then hurry." ”
As he said, after really resting for a while, it is still important to hurry.
He carried a large bag in his hand, but not cooking utensils and cutlery, which were all thrown away in the ruined temple along with uncooked food and ingredients.
"You are amazing, Lang Ziban has practiced the iron cloth kung fu of a child's body for Xi Yanxue for a lifetime, and you can still make him fall in love with you." Although Gou Steep Flip walked side by side with Xu Xiaocui, he still tried his best to let her see her mouth shape clearly.
"Who said Lang was in love with me?" Xu Xiaocui asked faintly to Gou Steeply.
Gou Qi frowned after hearing this, "Then you are always friends, right?" There was a slight worry in his tone.
Xu Xiaocui smiled faintly and said, "Sister Xi Yanxue is my friend?" ”
After hearing this, the monk who was even more confused was puzzled, "Then does he like you?" ”
"Are you saying he's going to love Ya and Wu?" After Su Xiaocui asked this sentence, she felt as if she had heard a funny joke.
Gou Qiu's brows were about to twist together, "Is Miss Su trying to trick me into letting you go with these words?" ”
"What do you say?" These three words are not tight, but they let Gou Steep know her "awesomeness".
He simply frowned, "Anyway, the girl has to come with me, and everything is decided by the castle lord." ”
Gou Steep Flip changed the topic at this time, "I only ate my mother's cooking when I was very young, and after I was five years old, I came to cook, and eating your cooking at noon was like going home again." ”
Although I don't have a home anymore. These are the words that Gou Steep has secretly thought in his heart.
"Haven't you been home in a long time?" Although Su Xiaocui asked so, she had already deduced eight or nine in her heart.
Gou Steep didn't answer, and changed the subject: "It's weird." Why don't you even ask me where I'm going to take you? ”
"I haven't been far away, and even if you tell me, I don't know where it is, not to mention that the place you took me to is still a place of rivers and lakes. Isn't that your home? Xu Xiaocui pulled the topic back again, as if she didn't stop without a result.
"It's a place where I work for people, and maybe not even the homes of our two castle masters." This time he didn't dodge.
"And when did you get there?" "When I was a teenager, when I was just practicing my sword skills well." "Do you have any relatives there?" "Nope." When he said these two words, Gou Steep turned over and tried his best to hide the deep sadness in his heart and eyes.
As they talked, they walked, and a weed on the side of the road was blown up, which aroused the "interest" of Hook Steep.
Xu Xiaocui also stopped to watch, and saw that there was a small grass on the ground that was more than half a section shorter than the one that flew up.
There is also a small truncated root left next to the grass, which should belong to the big weed just now.
Gou Steep rolled over to the front, kicked a large boulder blocking the sunlight from the grass to the other place, stared at the grass for a long time, and turned to leave.
Could it be that this little grass is you with the knife on your back? She pondered in her heart.
After that, Xu Xiaocui was determined not to ask Gou Steep about anything at home again.
Before dusk that day, Su and Gou entered a county town and found an inn, but they only needed one room.
The shopkeeper and the men didn't ask a word, led them to the room, and brought them dinner.
Gou Steep's appetite at night is not as good as noon, just take a few bites and it's over, maybe he is to eat one less bite and stay comfortable, but it is more likely that it is because that meal was not made by Su Xiaocui.
After the meal, he asked the shopkeeper for a bed board, a set of bedding, and two chairs to make a bed, and lit a stick of incense that seemed to be used to dispel peculiar smells.
He let Xu Xiaocui sleep on the burning kang and sleep on the bed by himself, and both of them lay down in clothes.
Late at night, Gou Steep kicked off the quilt like a child, maybe he dreamed about the things of his childhood.
Xu Xiaocui walked to the side of the bed at this time, re-covered him, and tucked the quilt again.
"Mom." This is the call of the hook in his sleep.
Just as Xu Xiaocui went back to the kang and lay down, a small hole was pierced in the window paper, and a bamboo tube containing high-grade drugs was sent in.
It is indeed a high-grade drug, the drug used by ordinary young people is generally packed in a small copper crane, the crane leg is the handle, a crane tail, the crane belly will start a fire, the powder-like drug is burned into smoke and sprayed out from the crane's mouth, called "incense", and the drug used by this person does not need to be smoked, it works directly to blow the powder into the house, and the high-grade drug has now spread a piece in the house.
When the person outside the house estimated that the effect of the medicine had evaporated, he was about to go to the door, when a crystal slender jade hand put his arm on the man's shoulder, "Friend, your case has been committed, come with me to the yamen." As he spoke, the other jade hand grabbed the man's wrists.
The man was suddenly startled, turned around and used his second finger in the middle of the food to use a move in the swordsmanship of "Phoenix Piercing Peony", stabbing the "Shoulder Hair" point on the shoulder.
The owner of the slender jade hand secretly "huh", because it was the trick in Feng Wu's "Flying Phoenix Xiang Yu Sword", of course she was familiar with Feng Wu, she was Yu Ehime.
Yu Ehime followed here, looking for a chance to save people at night, but I didn't want to meet a person who did not have the capital to do business, with years of experience, she judged that the person used a high-grade drug instead of poison, which saved her a lot of effort, and she could catch a thief to play, but she knew that this was a thief just now, so she had to catch him, so she backhanded, buckled the wrist on the "Daling" point, did not expect that the person was not slow to change moves, a mistake under his feet, and the five fingers of the other hand were split together, which not only unloaded part of her strength but also recruited the enemy.
Yu Ehime was shocked again, the other party actually made the "force footwork" of the "car mantis" step measurement force in the "Five Joys" and the "willful walking" in the "when the car knife method", she hurriedly and flexibly seized the advantageous position, and a "elbow mallet" hit the "Tianquan" point on the opponent's arm. But the other party has become the "iron claw left flowers" in Dou Niyi's "Wild Cat Survival Style", and the pink cheeks of Ehime are scratched.
This angered Yu Ehime, and the "Slippery Fish Gong" "swam" behind the thief and grabbed the other party's two small arms.
Although the other party is not a "fish", it is enough to "slip", and it is obviously inferior to dodge it at once.
In the ensuing fight, Yu Ehime slowly discovered that this masked thief was a woman, although the changes in the tricks of each sect were many and fast, but the moves were lacking, and there were some more advanced martial arts such as "killer knife technique", "catching show brushwork", and "pounding medicine fist" could not even be talked about.
But she is also smart, and immediately knew that these kung fu could not scare the other party, so she immediately gave up and switched to kung fu that she was more familiar with, and made another move, "He Hou" in the "thick fist" of Xiaoyimen, hitting the opponent's chest.
Yu Ehime smiled slightly, knowing that it would not take much effort to capture it alive, and let it be caught one by one.
This can make the thief who is not strong startled, almost restrained, hurriedly in the right leg to use a soft guy kung fu, the result is that Yu Ehime got a chance, and she can catch her, but she is lucky in the back, cast a "wall of ice" in the weapon move, this desperate style of play really makes Yu Ehime surprised, and she immediately took advantage of a "hot ice" blade in the "flame line", a head over, taking advantage of Yu Ehime's flash to jump on the roof, to end this competition that did not make much noise.
Yu Ehime naturally did not let go, and also went to the room to chase after a dozen roofs, but when he was a few steps away, the thief jumped down, and Yu Ehime also flew to the ground, but scared a thin and weak middle-aged man, and the things in the pick on his shoulder shattered to the ground.
She couldn't see the thief around, and her eyes fell on the man who was so frightened that his face was as white as paper.
The man was even more shocked and retreated, calling "the heroine spares her life" in his mouth, and he also wanted to "honor" his picker to Yu Ehime.
Yu Ehime didn't dare to let her guard down, stared at him and said, "What's your name?" What for? ”
"The little one's name is Lu Kai, his double mouth is 'Lu', and the 'compassion' of 'everyone has compassion' is selling donkey meat noodles." The frightened man said.
"Donkey meat noodles?" Yu Ehime looked at a few broken porcelain bowls on the ground, as well as spoons and jars filled with seasonings, as well as the cleanly wiped but very old signboard, which reads "Lu Ji Donkey Meat Noodles", "Still selling it so late?" ”
"The small ones are waiting for the guests who get up early and are greedy for darkness, how many years have our family been selling here, and they are all cooked when it is almost dark, and it is also a time-honored brand." Until this moment, Lu Kai's voice was still very scared, and at first glance, he was a little ordinary man with little courage.
Yu Ehime was a little reluctant to listen to this, "Don't be afraid, I'm a head catcher." As he spoke, he took out a sign and showed it to him, and stuffed a few pieces of broken silver into his hand.
Lu Kai was obviously still skeptical, and he tried to shirk it.
Yu Ehime couldn't help it, and she was anxious, and her apricot eyes glared: "If you take it, you will take it." What else is there to ramble? ”
The man was immediately frightened and didn't dare to say no more, "The little one will thank the head catcher." He continued to talk and keep talking.
This made Yu Ehime feel uneasy, and secretly thought that the local public people might be too harsh and strict with the people, and they were scared out of the problem.
"You saw a man jumping off the house before me?" She lowered her tone softly and softly.
After listening to the questioning, Lu Kai looked like he was thinking hard, and then shook his head cautiously.
Could it be that she fell from behind him? Yu Ehime secretly thought in her heart, and looked at Lu Kai, who was still trembling in front of her, "Boss Lu will try to do business during the day in the future, your courage is really not suitable for walking at night, and when a curfew is also implemented here, you will not be able to make a living." She suggested with concern.
"Yes, yes. In fact, my brother used to come out to do business, but he got sick in the past few days, so he came out with a small one. At this time, he had a little smile on his face, and before he could rein in, Yu Ehime, who didn't want to scare him anymore, didn't use light skills, but quickly left the place where Lu Kai was in sight.
At dawn the next day, the boss of the big man who was not called "Lu Kai" and the only son of the family Lu Ji donkey meat noodles was found in the corner of the dead end, when he was knocked unconscious and was stripped of his coat, and the things in the pick were ruined a lot, but I don't know when there were a few more pieces of broken silver in the purse, the most surprising thing was that when others asked him, he didn't even mention a word about meeting a female catcher who caught a thief at night, and talked to him, as if there was no such thing.
Is it really scary? But the legend says that the speed of "pretending to be good" is comparable to the change of face in Shuzhong drama, which is very likely to be true.
"You said that the incense sticks you lit last night can cure all the drugs in the world." Xu Xiaocui, who was hurrying with Gou Steep during the day, asked.
"All the things in the world may be exaggerated, but I haven't encountered them so far, and they also have the effect of calming the nerves, which is given by the Lord of Fox Castle." The tone was very proud, as if the thing was the first one he made, revealing some childishness, "It's almost noon, don't go to the restaurant, you can make it for me." ”
So, they found a farmer and gave some money, used their own vegetables in the yard, and caught a chicken raised by the family, and borrowed someone else's stove to cook it.
"Hey, it's not easy for you to put it in the pot so early. Don't you know how to cook? ”
Gou Steep chuckled bitterly, "In the Trick Castle, I haven't eaten my own food for a few years. ”
It's another taste of home, especially when eaten with Xu Xiaocui, it's even stronger.
In the evening, they stayed in the inn, and they still wanted a room, and this time the shopkeeper asked more, "Who are you?" ”
"He's my mom."
I wonder what Xu Xiaocui would have done if she saw his mouth?
"Your mother!" The shopkeeper was a little surprised, and kept looking at Xu Xiaocui.
At this time, Gou said again: "Does the shopkeeper know why my mother is so young?" ”
The half-aged' inner shopkeeper looks very interested in this.
"Because my mom never had a lot of things."
The shopkeeper was indeed quite shrewd, and he couldn't hear what was in the other people's words, and he didn't say anything else, so he led them to an upper room.
The night is relatively late, although Gou Steep Flip has asked the shopkeeper for a mat and made a cover, but they haven't rested yet, because Gou Steep Flip and Xu Xiaocui are doing a game of energy, and they are playing with the flower rope.
This kind of game is suitable for playing between mother and child, but also suitable for children to play, children will be more concerned about winning or losing, mother and child generally not, Xu Xiaocui and hook steep flip will not, maybe the hook steep flip does not think that they will lose, when picking the last rope always think that it will turn out of the previous tricks.
Of course he thinks so, because he has never been exposed to it since he was a child, so he has a freshness to flip the flower rope like a child, especially playing with her, which is absolutely fresh.
"Come again, this time you'll come first." In the childlike laughter of the hook and steep, a new round of rope flipping game is about to start again.
This can make Yu Ehime, who has been following them, spend a lot of brains, as she observes along the way, she gradually finds that the relationship between Su and Gou is really incredible, at first it must be the relationship between the kidnapped and the kidnapper, and then it became the relationship between the sister and the brother, and then it seems to be the relationship between the aunt and the nephew, and now it is more and more like the relationship between the mother and the son, so that she feels that the article here is not so easy to read, and she dare not start rashly, thinking about it, Yu Ehime simply decided, Wait for the hook to turn over and bring Xiao Cui into the treacherous castle to save people, anyway, he is a thug in the fort, he can't do anything else all day long, looking at Xiao Cui all day long, then he can avoid his edge, it is relatively easy.
She didn't believe that the Trick Castle was an impregnable wall, and she couldn't even save herself with her own skills.
On this day, the Trick Castle was approaching, and the two "mother and son" of Su and Gou did not go to the direction of the gate of the Trick Castle but made a detour to a big river.
What exactly do you want to do?
"Are you ready?" Gou asked sharply.
"Why don't we go through the main entrance?"
"This is what the lord of the castle commanded. I guess the main gate is an open place to do 'business', and the owner of the castle is a man who wants to save face, and he doesn't want people to know that the Trick Castle has kidnapped a person who doesn't know martial arts. As he spoke, he picked up his "mother" on his back and swam into the water with neat skills, and it seemed that the kung fu in the water was not weak.
Because there was a person who couldn't swim on his back, he didn't dare to slow down all his movements, and he quickly swam across the middle of the river on the water surface with Xu Xiaocui on his back, "Hold your breath." ”
After saying that, he plunged into the water, quickly dived to the fence gate under the opposite river, quickly took out the key and opened the lock on it, and after drilling, when he turned around and relocked the fence gate, he did not find Yu Ehime because he remembered the person on his back.
It's no wonder he couldn't realize how good Yu Ehime's underwater concealment was.
At first, Yu Ehime was still rejoicing, if she took Xiaocui to the front gate, maybe it would be more troublesome, but she was dumbfounded when she came to the fence gate, the gate was a fence made of stainless steel, the file may not be able to file the break, the gap between the fences is relatively narrow, it is really a boneless silver carp may not swim past, and the lock on the door, she touched the keyhole with her hand is a nine-heart lock, she is not without the ability to unlock, but the nine-heart lock is specially prepared for people who can open the lock without a key.
What to do? If they don't chase after them, they won't know where they are, and if she wants to save people, she will have to search all over the treacherous fortress.
The hook is really fast, and when Su Xiaocui, a person who doesn't know martial arts, finishes holding it in one breath, he goes ashore, and he doesn't turn around after putting Xu Xiaocui down, because he can't look at Xu Xiaocui, who is soaked with clothes at this time, "Follow me, the rest of the Strange Dao Fort is not 'easy to walk'." ”
Since his back was facing the water, it was naturally impossible for him to see Ehime, the fish lurking and peeping under the water.
When they walked out of the way, she silently raised her eyes to the surface of the water, and took out a "clue ball" from her sleeve, one of the "six doors and six treasures".
A transparent ball smaller than a soybean made Xiao Cui stick to the sole of her shoe without feeling, which was not only the wonder of the baby ball.
Yes, Yu Ehime can't open the nine-heart lock, can't drill through the fence door, and is constantly prying the stainless steel fence, but she has a "no lock and no pass" that Bo said, fortunately the nine-heart lock is not made by the "creation of people" palace, otherwise the only lockless in the world will become a waste.
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