Chapter 11: The Mysterious Traveling Companion

When the smoke on the top of the mountain had not yet dissipated, Li Que was already walking on the way down the mountain. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info suddenly, he stopped, because he found that there was another person behind him who had been following him, and that was Zuo Xianglan. Li Que turned around and asked, "Why do you still follow me?" ”

Zuo Xianglan also stopped, looked at Li Que with wide eyes, and said, "I've always followed you!" ”

Li Que then asked: "You said before that you followed me to come to Huashan to watch the divine soldiers, and now that Huashan has arrived, you did not stay at the top of the mountain, but continued to follow me down the mountain, why is this?" ”

Zuo Xianglan turned her head, pursed her mouth, and said, "Hmph! Originally, I wanted to come to Huashan to see the so-called heroes and heroes of the Central Plains martial arts, but it turned out to be a group of shameless people. So many people bully you, and you can't win. What else can I see if I stay there? It's better to follow you through the rivers and lakes. ”

"What? Follow me? Li Que was shocked, waved his hand again and again, and said, "No! Cannot! I, Li Que, have always been alone, and I will never take a woman to walk the rivers and lakes! ”

Zuo Xianglan said with a smile: "Even if you don't take me, I can follow you by myself!" ”

"You ......" Li Que was about to continue, but suddenly stopped, quickly pulled out the Maitreya knife, and with a "click", a dart fell on Zuo Xianglan's ear. Zuo Xianglan didn't know when the dart flew. Li Que shouted at the roadside boulder: "Who is it?" ”

I saw dozens of people "whooshing" from behind those boulders, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, and quickly surrounded Li Que and Zuo Xianglan, and one of them shouted: "Li Que! Ye Feng killed my master. If you don't tell him where he is, you will be killed today!" ”

Zuo Xianglan looked at the dozens of fierce men around her, sighed while pointing at them, and said, "Alas! Is it annoying? Even the heads of your factions together are not Li Que's opponents, you minions are still here to send them to death, what is it really called...... Bite off more than one can chew! ”

But the minions were not afraid, and sneered: "Hmph! Not necessarily! We have already laid a net on the road down the Huashan Mountain, even if you can win the head of several of our factions, how can you resist the siege of all our brothers? No matter how fast your Maitreya knife is, you will still be outnumbered after all! ”

Li Que clenched the knife in his hand and said, "I, Li Que, have come to Huashan here, and I have already put life and death aside!" Today, even if blood is splashed in Huashan, it is difficult to betray your best friend! ”

As soon as Li Que said this, all the minions swarmed up, and a shout of killing suddenly sounded on the mountainside of Huashan Mountain. But just these minions, where is Li Que's opponent? So this place has completely become the stage for the Maitreya knife to cross and horizontally again. After a while, the shouts of killing became screams. With a slight stroke of the Maitreya knife, three or five minions will fly out more than a kilometer away. More than a dozen knives came down, only to see the minions falling to the ground, or leaning on the side of the mountain, or hanging on the treetops, in a thousand postures.

But Li Que is a hero after all, Maitreya often has a merciful heart under the knife, although the minions are beaten to the ground, but they are all used on the back of the knife, and these minions are fortunate to save their lives. But where do they know about Entu? It's just that Li Que has a knife in his hand that can't kill people. As long as they could get up, they rushed up again. Li Que's kindness kept him under siege.

"Ahh Li Que suddenly heard a scream behind him, and when he looked back, it turned out that Zuo Xianglan was also besieged by all the minions. Zuo Xianglan doesn't have such good knife skills as Li Que, nor does she have such a sharp knife as Li Que, after all, she is just a little girl, and when there are many enemies, she is really a little unable to parry, and she is gradually forced into a corner. She took the sword on the left side with her left hand, and blocked the knife on the right side with her right hand, but a silver spear stabbed in the middle, where did she have a third hand?

When the gun came to his eyes, he really stretched out a hand and held the head of the gun alive, which was Li Que's left hand. The palm of his hand had been cut by the head of the spear, and Li Que's blood was finally sprinkled on Huashan. Li Que swiped hard, and the silver spear became a guillotine gun, and then, with a wave of the big knife, the silver spear fell to the ground, and the minions flew out.

"Brother Li Que!" Zuo Xianglan screamed, pushed away the minions on both sides with both hands, and hurriedly ran to Li Que, holding his bloody left hand, and shouted, "You are injured!" His eyes couldn't help but turn red.

At this moment, someone in the minions suddenly sprinkled a packet of white powder at Li Que. "Be careful!" Zuo Xianglan screamed and pushed Li Que away, and the white powder hit Zuo Xianglan's eyes. Zuo Xianglan's eyes were dark, her eyelids seemed to be glued, and she couldn't open them at all, and her eyes were hot, like burning. She fell to the ground, her hands over her eyes, and screaming.

Li Que hurriedly helped Zuo Xianglan up and looked at her eyes, which were all covered in white powder. Li Que knew that this white powder was lime. I can't imagine that these so-called famous and decent people would use such obscene means! Seeing Zuo Xianglan's painful expression, Li Que's heart was even more painful. His face twitched, his hands trembled, and his knife burned!

"Ahh Li Que finally roared. When his Maitreya sword was raised again, there was no mercy at all under the sword, only anger. The angry Maitreya knife slashed the frightened minions to his heart's content. Blood stained the mountainside of Mount Hua red. The last few of the remaining minions had already limped their legs. They threw down their weapons, pulled their legs and ran. Li Que jumped up, his hand up and down, and he didn't give them any more chance.

When the mountainside regained calm, Zuo Xianglan was still covering her eyes and walking on the ground, but she was silent. Li Que put away the knife, bent down, picked up Zuo Xianglan with both hands, and hurried down the mountain. Helplessly, his inconvenient legs and feet could not get up quickly, and he could only worry from the bottom of his heart, hoping that the lime was not soaked too deeply.

Li Que rushed to the inn at the foot of Huashan, the same family he met Mu Xiu yesterday. As soon as he entered the door, he shouted to the hotel shopkeeper: "I want two upper rooms!" ”

The hotel shopkeeper looked at Zuo Xianglan and asked, "This girl was plotted against by someone, right?" Li Que nodded. The shopkeeper said: "There are two upper rooms on the second floor, the hero can go up with the little two, and I will go to get some vegetable oil for the hero, so that I can wash her eyes." ”

Li Que thanked the shopkeeper and carried Zuo Xianglan to the guest room on the second floor and placed her.

After a while, the shopkeeper walked in with a bowl of vegetable oil and some wine and vegetables, and said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, don't worry, wipe the lime powder with vegetable oil, and the girl's eyes can be restored." When you come to me, you are my patrons, and no one can harm you. The hero is afraid that he is tired, and the small shop is not well greeted, so he only prepares some coarse tea and light rice. Let's eat it for the two of you! ”

Li Que thanked him again, took the vegetable oil with one hand, and gently smeared the vegetable oil on Zuo Xianglan's eyelids with the other. When the vegetable oil slowly soaks into the eyes, the lime powder will flow out with the vegetable oil.

The shopkeeper put the food and wine on the table, still smiling, slowly exited the room, and closed the door casually.

Zuo Xianglan's eyes were still very painful and she couldn't see anything, but she knew that Li Que was taking care of her carefully, and the joy in her heart relieved the pain in her eyes. She asked in a low voice, "Brother Li Que, will I become blind?" ”

Li Que replied: "Don't worry! This lime powder is not poisonous, as long as it is rinsed out, it will be fine. ”

Zuo Xianglan asked again: "What if people are really blind?" ”

"This ......" Li Que stared into Zuo Xianglan's eyes, and after a long while, he said, "If this is the case, you are blind for me Li, and Li will repay you with his own eyes!" ”

Zuo Xianglan lowered her head and smiled, and said, "I don't want your eyes!" ”

Half an hour later, the lime powder in Zuo Xianglan's eyes had been cleaned, but her eyes still couldn't be opened for the time being, so she simply closed her eyes and fell asleep. Li Que was relieved, and finally felt a little hungry, so he sat down at the table, picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and was about to eat. Suddenly, something flew in from the window and was passing in front of Li Que's eyes. Li Que clamped it with chopsticks, and it turned out to be a dart, and there was a note inserted in the dart. Li Que opened it and saw that there were four words written on the note: "Old tree under the mountain".

When Li Que saw this word, his eyes immediately widened. How could he not know the word? This is exactly the word of Ye Feng that he and the people in the rivers and lakes are looking for! And the so-called "old tree under the mountain" is where they separated five years ago. This was a note that only he and Ye Feng could understand. It seems that Ye Feng has really come to Huashan, and like Li Que, he has come to fulfill their agreement five years ago.

Li Que looked back at Zuo Xianglan lying on the bed. Zuo Xianglan still closed her eyes. Li Que called Zuo Xianglan's name softly, but Zuo Xianglan didn't respond, she should have fallen asleep. Li Que picked up the Maitreya knife, jumped out of the window, followed the roof, and walked towards the old tree under the mountain.

The night seemed to get darker, and the sky was so dark that it was almost impossible to see anything. In this darkness, Li Que walked for a full hour before finally reaching the other side of the foot of Huashan Mountain. Here, there is a towering locust tree, the trunk is so thick that five or six people are around, this is the so-called "old tree under the mountain". The tree was seen, but no one was seen. Could it be that Ye Feng hasn't come yet? Li Que walked under the tree and looked around the trunk to see that there was another dart on the back of the trunk, and there was also a note nailed to the dart's head! Li Que took off the note, and by the moonlight, he could still see the words on the note, which was still Ye Feng's handwriting. After Li Que finished reading, his face turned white. I saw that the note read: "The inn is dangerous! Don't go back! Hurry up! ”

At this time, Li Que heard a "rustling" sound behind the tree. He immediately realized that there were people there! He shouted, "Who? "Suddenly a dark shadow flew out from behind the bushes. Before Li Que could see clearly, the man had disappeared into the night. Is that Ye Feng? No! How could Li Que not know Ye Feng's figure? And is it necessary for Ye Feng to hide from Li Que? The man seemed to have followed Li Que all the way from the inn to here, afraid that he wanted to find out Ye Feng's whereabouts. And since Ye Feng sensed that there was a problem in the inn, he could expect that Li Que would be followed, so he didn't reappear, leaving only a note. Everything seems to make sense.

However, Ye Feng may not know that Li Que did not go to the inn alone, and there was still Zuo Xianglan, who was blind, lying there. How could Li Que really be as Ye Feng said, "don't go back" and "go quickly"? Li Que didn't have time to care about the black shadow anymore, and hurriedly turned back to the inn. As soon as he reached the main road, he saw a fire in the distance, which was the direction of the inn! So, he was even more anxious. He hated his legs and feet again, why was he so clumsy!

Li Que ran back to the market town. Sure enough, the inn caught fire! By this time, the sky was already dark, but the fire was so raging that it was impossible to see anything in the inn. Li Que's heart was in his throat, thinking that Zuo Xianglan had already been injured because of him, and if he died because of him now, wouldn't he be living in guilt for the rest of his life? Li Que was about to rush into the inn desperately, but saw a woman sitting at the door of the store opposite the inn, her clothes were disheveled, and her face was pale. That's Zuo Xianglan! Li Que hurriedly ran up, squatted down, put his hands on Zuo Xianglan's shoulders, and kept shouting: "Zuo Xianglan!" Left pandan! ……”

Zuo Xianglan slowly opened her eyes, it seemed that her eyes were fine, but it was estimated that the first scene she saw after her eyes regained her sight was this raging fire. Now, when she finally saw Li Que again, her heart eased a little, her nose was sore, and tears came out of her eyes, making her throw herself into Li Que's arms and cry.

Li Que touched Zuo Xianglan's head, comforted her, and asked, "What happened?" ”

Zuo Xianglan sobbed and said, "That innkeeper, it turns out that he is also like those people on the mountain, he wants to harm you!" He had put Ecstasy in your food to capture you. But when he came into the room again, you were gone, and I was the only one lying on the bed. He was so angry that he wanted to arrest me. At that time, my eyes were not healed, and I fought with him, and somehow a fire broke out! Luckily, I could still see the road clearly and ran out on my own, otherwise I would have been burned to death! ”

"I see! Looks like there's something wrong with this inn! Li Que muttered to himself, and asked, "What about the shopkeeper?" ”

"He wanted to arrest me, and I knocked me unconscious, and now I'm afraid I'm going to burn to death in the inn." Zuo Xianglan said, crying more and more.

Li Que hugged Zuo Xianglan tightly in his arms and said, "If you wait for someone like this, you will die innocently!" Don't be afraid, it's all over. Although he said so, he knew in his heart that now they hadn't even left Huashan, and this was just the beginning of his outlaw career. And the confusion in his heart is getting bigger and bigger. Just talking about this inn, who is the shopkeeper? How could Ye Feng know that the inn was dangerous? Who is that dark shadow? If, according to Zuo Xianglan, the shopkeeper was knocked out by her, then the black shadow was someone else. If it's not the shopkeeper, is it the second shopkeeper? As for Ye Feng, he didn't go to the old tree at the foot of the mountain, where is he now? At present, Zuo Xianglan was in shock, and Li Que had no choice but to let go of these doubts first, and hurriedly took Zuo Xianglan to leave this place of right and wrong.

After walking for two or three miles, Zuo Xianglan was already panting and said, "No, I really can't walk." She pointed to a big tree by the side of the road and said, "Let's rest there!" ”

Li Que also knew that Zuo Xianglan had just recovered from her injury and was frightened, so she really shouldn't be too tired, so she agreed, and slowly helped Zuo Xianglan to sit down by the tree.

Zuo Xianglan leaned weakly against the tree, grabbed Li Que's hand, and asked, "Brother Li Que, where are we going next?" ”

Li Que looked ahead and said, "Anyway, this Huashan can't stay any longer, and the entire Central Plains can't stay any longer!" ”

Zuo Xianglan asked: "Not in the Central Plains?" So where to go? ”

Li Que looked at Zuo Xianglan again, and said with a smile: "Aren't you from Xichuan?" Let's just send you back to Xichuan. ”

Zuo Xianglan was stunned for a moment, then laughed as well, and said, "Are you also afraid of them, Brother Li Que?" ”

Li Que nodded lightly and said, "I'm afraid!" I'm afraid they'll be bad for you again, and I'm afraid you'll be hurt for me again. So, I'm going to send you back to Nishikawa. If I'm alone, I don't have to be afraid of anything! ”

The smile on Zuo Xianglan's face disappeared. She lowered her head and said, "Well, I caused you trouble!" ”

After a while, Zuo Xianglan took out a steamed bun from her pocket, handed it to Li Que, and said with a smile: "Brother Li Que, you haven't eaten since last night, you must be hungry, right?" I still have a steamed bun here, you can eat it! ”

Li Que gently pushed and said, "You haven't eaten for a long time, you can eat first!" ”

Zuo Xianglan pursed her mouth and said, "No! You eat first! You must eat first! ”

Li Que couldn't see that he was stubborn, so he had to take the steamed bun with a smile and say, "Okay, let's be half of us!" As he spoke, he broke half of it and gave it to Zuo Xianglan, and then ate it himself. His stomach was indeed hungry for a long time.

Li Que was eating, and he was still thinking about the previous questions. I can't think of any clue, but the more I think about it, the more confused I become, and the more confused I become, the more confused I become. But confusion is confusion, why are you still sleepy? He just felt lightheaded and dizzy, which was not a good feeling. He held the knife in one hand and the tree in the other, but found that his feet had no strength to stand up again. Is it because you're too tired? No, it's because of poison!

A person like Li Que who has been tested by the rivers and lakes for a long time is also very secret. He didn't realize that Zuo Xianglan hadn't eaten the other half of the steamed bun he gave. When he found out that he had been poisoned, he went to see Zuo Xianglan again, but saw Zuo Xianglan throw half of the steamed bun in his hand on the ground and laughed again. But this time, it's a sneer.

Zuo Xianglan said: "Alas! Unexpectedly, the famous Li Que Daxia was finally planted in the hands of my little woman Zuo Xianglan! ”

"You! ......" Li Que's eyes widened, staring at Zuo Xianglan, the glittering golden light in her eyes seemed to eat her alive, "Who are you?" ”

"Me?" Zuo Xianglan stood up, looking much better than Li Que's spirit, "If it were in the Central Plains, my name would be Zuo Xianglan!" However, if it is in Miaojiang, everyone calls me Xinlan Zuo. ”

"Xinlan Left Envoy?" As soon as Li Que heard this title, he immediately understood, because the title of "Left Envoy" has no second place in the whole world except for the Eagle Sect. Under the Eagle Sect, the leader of the Sect, Yaoluan, is the chief manager Ming Feng. Under Mingfeng, in addition to the two princesses Chi Jin and Bi Ling, there are also two protectors known as the left wing envoy and the right wing envoy of the Eagle Sect, but these two people live in the southwest general altar and never show their heads, so few people know about it in the Central Plains. Zuo Xianglan calls herself the left envoy of Xinlan, which means that she is actually the left envoy of the Eagle Sect. Li Que couldn't believe that this little girl who had been with him all the time had such a big background! "So you're from the Eagle Sect? I, Li Que, have nothing to do with your Eagle Sect, why are you looking for me? Could it be that it's also because of Su Qing's matter? ”

Xinlan shook her head and said, "You can't even see such an obvious thing?" You yourself once said that the people who are looking for you today are only because of two things. If I was to help the second princess Biling avenge, why did I save you in Luoyang in the first place? ”

"Oh." Li Que knew that since it wasn't because of Su Qing, it was because of Ye Feng. Xinlan, like Nie Huai, Bai Shaolong, Huang Duo and others, wanted to find Ye Feng and Xiyue Sword through Li Que. It's just that Li Que didn't expect that the Eagle Sect, which lives in the southwest, would also be interested in the Xiyue Sword. "In this way, you saved me from the beginning because of Ye Feng, and then followed me under the pretext of Huashan Divine Soldier's decision, wanting to take the opportunity to learn Ye Feng's whereabouts."

Xinlan hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No, no, no!" It's definitely not an excuse to come to see the Huashan Divine Soldiers. Because I deduced that you and Ye Feng might meet in Huashan, that's why I asked you to bring me to Huashan. It's just a pity that Ye Feng didn't show up, leaving only a note. ”

"Notes? You know that note? Li Que knew that what Xinlan was talking about was the note on the old tree under the mountain, "Then, the black shadow in the bushes ......"

Xinlan pointed to herself and said, "It's me!" ”

Li Que asked, "But weren't your eyes still good at that time?" ”

Xinlan smiled: "This, I want to thank you for washing my eyes last night." By the time you go out, my eyes will already be healed, so I can follow you all the way. I thought I could see Ye Feng, what a disappointment! ”

After Li Que heard this, he also smiled faintly and said, "Hehe, if you hadn't come with you, maybe Ye Feng would have really appeared." But he found you, so he left only a note. ”

Xinlan squatted down, looked at Li Que, and asked, "Hey! Anyway, what the hell is written on that note? ”

Li Que also looked at Xinlan. Although Li Que still couldn't believe that he was deceived by the little girl in front of him, he regretted even more that he didn't listen to Ye Feng's advice. He let out a long sigh and said, "Alas! It was written 'The inn is dangerous! Don't go back! Hurry up! ’”

After hearing this, Xinlan also sighed and said, "Alas! Then you have to blame yourself for not listening to your good friend's advice, and you have to run back. ”

Li Que raised his head, leaned against the tree, and said, "It's me who is too stupid, I didn't expect that the danger in the inn that Ye Feng said was not the shopkeeper, but you!" ”

Xinlan immediately stood up again, pointed at Li Que, and said, "You are stupid enough!" That shopkeeper was a bad guy in the first place! He really wanted to stun you with ****** drugs, but he didn't succeed. So, I killed him and set fire to his shop. ”

"Oh, you didn't lie to me about it." Speaking of this, the confusion in Li Que's heart has been completely solved. The note, the shadow, the inn, the fire,...... Everything can be explained by Xinlan's special identity.

But Xinlan still hasn't gotten the answer she wants. She put her hands behind her back and paced back and forth as she said, "Originally, I planned to follow you like this until you and Ye Feng catch up." Now, although Ye Feng hasn't shown up yet, he has already contacted you, so I don't have to pretend anymore. What's more, you still plan to send me back to Xichuan, isn't this forcing me to have a showdown? Ye Feng must have told you how to contact him, right? You just hurry up and tell me, I'll let you go, and we don't owe each other! ”

Li Que still looked at Xinlan with both eyes. They looked at each other for a long time. Li Que said: "You know I won't say it! ”

Xinlan nodded and said, "I know, I know!" Your Li Daxia's righteousness, the little woman knew it on the top of Huashan Mountain. To be honest, Xinlan also admires Li Daxia. It's just that I have no choice but to have my life, so I can't help but ask! ”

When Li Que heard this, he laughed out loud and said, "If you say this, it can also calm the anger in my heart." In this way, it is inconvenient for me to ......"

"What's inconvenient?"

"It's inconvenient to kill you!"

When Xinlan heard the word "kill", she couldn't help but shudder in her heart. But when she saw that the Li Que in front of her was already weak, and a Maitreya knife was stuck in the ground, she was afraid that she couldn't even hold it, so she laughed reassuringly. The laughter echoed on the side of the road, and before it stopped, Xinlan suddenly felt a chill on her neck. It turned out that a knife was standing on her neck, and the word "Maitreya" was engraved on the back of the knife. Xinlan was stunned, her eyes widened wider than pearls, because at this time, in front of her was Li Que, who was holding a Maitreya knife and standing steadily. Xinlan didn't know what to say anymore, and sprang out a few words: "You...... You...... How? ……”

Li Que still smiled and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the ****** medicine on your steamed bun should have also come from the wine and food in the inn, right?" I haven't eaten it, but once I've smelled it, I remember it. You yourself have already told me that the shopkeeper poisoned the wine and food, so how could I eat steamed buns that smell the same as the wine and food? It's just a taste. I saw Li Que open his mouth and spit out a few mouthfuls of steamed buns he had just eaten, "I really didn't want to believe that you lied to me, but I still pretended to eat it and test you, but I didn't expect you to really give in, revealing a fox tail!" ”

Xinlan knew that her painstaking plan had failed. After following Li Que for so many days and suffering so much, he still didn't get Ye Feng's whereabouts in the end. She lowered her head and said nothing.

Li Que withdrew the knife, turned around, and said, "I have just said that since you have a life, it is inconvenient for me to kill you, but I don't want to see you again in the future!" Let's go! After saying that, he lifted the Maitreya knife and limped into the distance.

Xinlan stood in place, looking at Li Que's back, her vision gradually blurred, and her nose was faintly sour. She thought to herself, "Maybe we really won't see each other again in the future!" ”