What they didn't know was that far behind them, there was a man who had been following him, the leader of the five, who did not die in the water, although he was also poisoned, but barely managed to climb his upper body ashore, and was unconscious in the water for a long time before he woke up. He followed the traces left by Geng Qiu and Ah Hao, because he was the only one, and he was afraid that Ah Hao and they would have more powerful poisons, he didn't dare to act rashly, but just followed them from a distance, and watched them enter the village, so he left and went back to move the rescuers.

Geng Qiu was obviously not the first time to come to this village, and the people in the village were very enthusiastic about dealing with him. For a while, Ah Hao was a little confused.

Soon, an old man about fifty or sixty years old hurried over, and when he saw Geng Qiu, he smiled and saluted, and shouted, "Master Wu." You're back. ”

"Lao Liu, I came here to stay for a few days this time." Geng Qiu said with a smile. did not introduce Ah Hao to Lao Liu on the spot.

Then, under the leadership of Old Man Liu, he walked to the end of the village. At the end of the village was a large house, noticeably newer and larger than the other houses in the village. This is where Geng Qiu settled here, and there have been old man Liu and his wife and a couple of teenagers living in the house, the boy is about twelve or thirteen years old, and the girl is ten years old. They have lived in this village for about ten years. Living by hunting, the men in this village will hunt, and Old Man Liu is also related to the people in the village. However, he left here very early, and did not return until ten years ago, bringing back his wife and several children, but now the pair of grandchildren are still around.

Five years ago, Geng Qiu began to communicate with Lao Liu, at first his master brought him along, and in the last three years, Geng Qiu directly brought people over to contact Lao Liu, usually twice a year, each time he came to bring a lot of silver, to the village to buy leather goods and mountain goods. So everyone in the village knew Geng Qiu and was quite enthusiastic about him. The people in this village originally relied on hunting to make a living, because Geng Qiu often came to buy goods and was generous, so his life was relatively wealthy.

The table in the hall was soon filled with steaming meals, a large pot of wild mushrooms stewed with pheasant, a large pot of fresh fish soup, and a large bowl of fried vegetables and steamed brown rice with bacon. Ah Hao and Geng Qiu were not polite, and let go of their bellies and ate beautifully. After eating, they hurriedly took a shower, changed into the clean clothes left by Geng Qiu before, and the two rested.

There are many rooms in this house, Geng Qiu originally had a dedicated one, and Ah Hao's room was also a permanent resident, clean and tidy, after eating and drinking, the two slept hard all night and half a day, and did not wake up until the afternoon of the next day.

After resting here for five days, Geng Qiu began to collect leather goods and mountain goods in a fake manner, but this time, his requirements were very high, as long as the goods were of the highest quality, of course, the price was also high. He didn't have much silver on his body, a few gold ingots were sewn onto his close-fitting underwear, and silver ingots and some loose silver were tied around his waist. But I didn't bring a single silver ticket, because there was water and blood all the way, and the silver ticket was afraid of damage. Ah Hao had even less money, so he brought two gold ingots and five or six silver ingots on his body, which were also sewn on his close-fitting underwear.

Geng Qiu was busy looking at the goods, but Ah Hao was locked in the house and didn't want to go out, first, he was too tired and had to rest well, and second, he didn't bother to learn what he pretended. It's supposed to be a run, where can I really bring things to do business. It's just a matter of picking up a few things to take away and making a show.

After resting for ten days, the two of them were almost recovered, Geng Qiu discussed with Ah Hao, and planned to leave the next day. Old Man Liu didn't say much, but prepared a lot of dry food for the two of them, fifty or sixty pounds of cured meat, thirty large flour cakes and some boiled eggs. The two of them carried a few pieces of fine leather on their backs, brought dry food, and set off. Geng Qiu only brought three or two helpers when he came, but he usually came on mules, so he received a lot of goods. But this time, he and Ah Hao have not ridden a mule, and everyone knows that it is impossible for him to take too many goods away. I just earnestly hope that he will come again soon, so that he can buy all the things that have accumulated praise at home.

"Okay, okay. I came here this time, and I will send someone to collect it when I get back. Geng Qiu said with a smile. Wave your sleeves and say goodbye to everyone.

What Ah Hao didn't know was that after they left, that night, the village was surrounded by a group of black-clothed masked people. Then one by one, the families were drugged, and all the people of the family were lifted out of bed and thrown into the open space in the middle of the village, and tall torches were lit around them, and they were ordered to hand over Geng Qiu and Ah Hao.

"That's a furrier. How do we know what other things they have done, what other accomplices they have? That's how the people in the village answered. Because Geng Qiu had dealt with them a lot of times. He has always been a normal furrier. Where did they go and give an account?

Seeing that he couldn't get the answer he wanted, the man in black actually picked up a child casually and slashed it with a knife. Threatened by this, someone in the village immediately pointed out the old man Liu, saying: "The leather merchant stays at his house every time he comes, and if there is anything, only he may know." ”

Old Man Liu sighed secretly, obviously Geng Qiu had warned him when he left, to prepare early. But he was too confident to think he could prevent it. Fortunately, he still had a little poison in his hand, so he had to secretly look for an opportunity to put everyone down. However, at this time, he was still pretending to be semi-soft, and he was carried in front of the head by a man in black, and after a series of punches and kicks, he was beaten until his leg was broken and vomited blood, and then he asked: "Where did they go, and what other accomplices do you have?" ”

Old Man Liu pretended to be confused, only cared about howling and screaming in pain, and kept rolling around in front of the black-clothed people, and he couldn't say anything when his words were reversed. But in fact, he secretly looked for the best place to administer poison, and took the opportunity to drug all the people who beat him, but this medicine is so poisonous that not only the man in black will be poisoned, but the people present will basically be poisoned. If you don't take the antidote in time, everyone will be finished.

Then his two grandsons were brought forward, and in his presence the little girl was beheaded. The old man was stimulated by this, coupled with the pain on his body, his eyes turned black and he fainted. Soon, the villagers fainted, seeing that the old man and his neighbors all fainted, the leader quickly understood that there was a situation, so he bit the tip of his tongue, but it was just a little more time, he saw all the people in black fall to the ground one after another, especially a few people in black who had beaten or entangled with the old man, and soon bled and lost their lives one by one. The leader didn't have time to think about anything more, and he fell to the ground and died.

A gust of wind blew, rolled up a large pile of dead leaves, the torch that was originally taken care of fell to the ground, I don't know where it was lit first, anyway, soon the whole village fell into a sea of fire, the houses here were originally mostly built of wood and thatch, plus the weather was dry, there were firewood and grass on all sides, and there was a lot of pine resin oil on the torches.

The old man fought his last breath, pulled a few people around him to the small river at the entrance of the village, and fed them the antidote, he was seriously injured just now, and now he inhaled the smoke again, and he kept busy working, and finally exhausted his strength and fell into the fire.

Geng Qiu and Ah Hao didn't know what happened in the village, they walked all the small roads, and even some places were forced to step out of the road, they didn't dare to take the official road, and even the small road with more people didn't dare to walk, unless they had to, they generally lived in the wilderness. On this day, it rained heavily, and at the foot of a remote mountain, I actually found a Taoist temple, although the Taoist temple is not big, but it looks good, and it is raining. Geng Qiu decided to go to the Taoist temple to spend the night.

This Taoist temple called Baiyun Temple, there are only five people in it, two middle-aged Taoist priests, plus three small Taoist priests of different sizes, the house is also very clean, and there are still a few rows of vegetables planted in the courtyard, which are green and oily, and extremely interesting.

"Is that what you're going to eat?" Geng Qiu asked.

"Yes, we grow our own vegetables, and there are still a few acres of land under the mountain that are rented out, and the food we eat every year is basically enough." Reception of their small grape.

Geng Qiu and Ah Hao paid five taels of silver to eat and live here. The food is very light at every meal, but the rice grain is not bad, and the vegetables are also fried with a lot of vegetable oil, which shows that the life of this Taoist temple is not bad.

The two middle-aged Taoist priests basically didn't talk to them much, except for some daily homework, they rarely saw them. It rained heavily for three days, and it gradually subsided in the evening of the third day.

"If it stops at night, tomorrow the sun will be out during the day, and we will be gone the day after tomorrow." Geng Qiu said. The guest house where he and Ah Hao lived was a good small courtyard with a unique door, which was very quiet.

"Yes." Ah Hao replied absentmindedly.

"I'm going to fetch water, you can take a good bath, tomorrow it's time to wash and dry your clothes, and I don't know when I will meet a place to stay in the future." Geng Qiu looked at Qingxiao's face and white neck, and suddenly felt a little dry mouth.

The two have been with each other day and night, and they have been together for a long time. At the beginning, Geng Qiu only had the mentality that he must keep the general's bloodline for Ah Hao, but every day together, he actually found that he had a trace of ulterior feelings for Ah Hao. I always can't help but want to be close to him, for example, now, he likes to sit silently with him, even if he doesn't say anything, just watch the rain.

At night, the drizzling rain has long stopped, from time to time there are insects chirping, a bright moon half-covered hanging outside the window, printed with the shadows of those bamboo trees swaying in the wind on the window lattice. Geng Qiu was in an irritable mood and couldn't sleep, so he simply got up. Along the bluestone paved path, slowly wandering in the temple, the whole Taoist temple slept quietly in the middle of the night, he was the only one who was bored wandering around, except for his own elongated shadow in the moonlight, he could no longer find anyone to accompany him.

Geng Qiu suddenly felt a sense of loneliness from the outside in, he grew so big, except for following the master to run the rivers and lakes, he didn't have much of his own life. But the master was very good to him and taught him a lot of skills, and he knew very early on that the master had a master's family, that is, the general's mansion. But he didn't understand very much, why did the General's Mansion keep them, like Jianghu people and serious businessmen, but they didn't work hard to do business, what was it for?

Master's ability to do business is quite strong, but he has been fooling around, and he looks satisfied with earning 10,000 yuan a year. He once helped the master earn a lot of money very seriously, but the master actually smiled and said, "Stinky boy, why do you want to make money." The General's Mansion is not short of this bit of silver. ”

From then on, he knew that Master didn't want them to make a lot of money, but just ran around under the guise of doing business. But the general didn't seem to care about him, until one day, he realized that the master in the master's heart was not the general, but the general's Zhengjun, Ah Hao's father Wu Gongzi.

Wu Gongzi is a peerless husband, although he has always lived in a simple house, he rarely shows up outside. But it has a great background, Wu Gongzi's father is Jinshang's cousin. This cousin used to be the crown prince, so he held a troop in his hands, but then a lot of things happened, and today's father has to ascend to the throne. But the cousin died, but before he died, he had a very favorite lover, who was a father-in-law, and very few people knew about it. At that time, the lover was pregnant, and the child she gave birth to later was Wu Gongzi.

Because Wu Gongzi's father had a very good relationship with his father and the former general, the former general secretly raised Wu Gongzi's father outside, so that people could take care of him. At first, he didn't know that Wu Gongzi's father still held a team of people in his hands, and he was the confidant of the former prince. They have been secretly taking care of Wu Gongzi and his father. Later, of course, Wu Gongzi took over this team and married the general. After getting married, the two were extremely affectionate, and after giving birth to Ah Hao, Wu Gongzi handed over this team to the general, and somehow, the first emperor suddenly knew about it. So when there was an accident in the General's Mansion, there was actually the shadow of the first emperor, and later there were even more people from the first emperor who chased and killed Ah Hao all the way. That's why Ah Hao escaped so hard.

In fact, even Ah Hao himself doesn't understand this matter, and only Geng Qiu knows about it now, but this team is almost dead. Geng Qiu never thought that one day he would quietly like Ah Hao, and he didn't know when he would be able to escape the pursuit, and he didn't dare to hope that he would be able to get Ah Hao one day, so the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he became, and the more bad his mood became.

So the next day, Geng Qiu fell ill. Geng Qiu, who has always beaten dead tigers, would actually get sick, which scared Ah Hao a lot.

"Brother Qiu, why do you have a fever, what can I do now?" Ah Hao said anxiously.

"It's okay, it's just a cold, it must have been cold last night." Geng Qiu said weakly.

The Taoist temple has this ordinary medicine for wind and cold, Geng Qiu took a dose, raised it for a day, and got better, originally Ah Hao wanted him to rest for one more day, but Geng Qiu insisted on leaving. Ah Hao couldn't do anything, he knew that they had to rush to a certain place to find someone to get a new identity and guide, if they missed it, it would be a big trouble.