Chapter 14: Chance Encounters
Rounding the mountain road, the first to run were the two horsemen, apparently also startled by the sudden appearance of the overnight camp here.
"Who's coming?" The people of the Zhou family and the Chen family shouted in unison.
"Passers-by." The men on the two horsemen immediately shouted, and raised their hands in the air, and the torches lit up to let them see that they were not threatened by weapons.
Otherwise, it would be too unjust to be treated as a bandit and a horse thief, and the sentry couldn't help but say that it would be too unjust to shoot to death.
But in the end, through the torch, I clearly saw that there was a crossbow arrow waist knife hanging on his body, and it was obviously not an ordinary passerby.
Behind them, there was another sound of carriage and horses, and they noticed something strange ahead of them and stopped.
The two sides formed a confrontation, and the night wind blew their respective torches and cheered, and the atmosphere was very tense.
Neither side believes the other, and each is vigilant.
"Lady, get in the car first." Steward Cao asked people to greet Cheng Jianniang.
The maidservant also turned slightly pale, and helped Cheng Jianniang to leave.
A whining sound suddenly sounded, and it seemed to be a whirlwind in the valley.
The two sides were tense and confrontational, but no one cared, and Cheng Jianniang, who was about to get into the carriage, stood up suddenly.
"Wolves!" She said.
The maid was stunned and didn't react.
"What?" She asked.
"The wolf is coming!" Cheng Jianniang said, stretching out her hand and pointing in the direction where the centaurs were.
The handmaid let out a scream.
It's especially scary at night.
"The wolf is coming!" She shouted without hesitation.
Wolf?
Both sides were stunned.
"What is this woman messing with?" someone from Steward Cao's side whispered.
At this time, it is not yet winter, it is easy to forage in the mountains, and the wild animals are also at their fattest. The wolf can't finish eating, where will it attack people and horses.
His words did not fall. I saw a commotion of the people on the opposite side.
"There are wolves!"
"It's a pack of wolves!"
They started rushing over there.
Are there really wolves?
It can't be a deliberate attack, right?
The people on Steward Cao's side were preparing for the attack, and the whining chirps followed. At the same time, from the cracks in the commotion of the convoy, everyone also saw dozens of green lights.
Sure enough, it's a wolf! Or wolves!
By the time everyone found out, the wolves had already attacked.
The swishing crossbow arrows were fired, and the wolves led by them fell to the ground with a howl, but this did not stop the other wolves from attacking, but instead angered the wolves, and they jumped over with white teeth.
No bandit would use this bitter trick of being attacked by wolves to confuse others.
This is really under attack by wolves.
"Hold on!" Steward Cao, Master Chen Si, finally came back to his senses, shouted loudly, and the torches and crossbow arrows whizzed towards the wolves.
Cheng Jianniang and the maidservant were surrounded by the bonfire. Jin Ge'er held the knife given by an unknown attendant, although he trembled, but he also guarded them decently.
The maid clung to Cheng Jianniang tightly, her body trembling.
"Lady, don't, don't be afraid." She said in a trembling voice.
Cheng Jianniang glanced at her.
"Don't be afraid." She said.
At this time, the men and horses on the other side also escorted the carriage to turn around, and used the men and horses as shields to block in front of the carriage.
Because there was a bonfire, the carriage consciously came this way.
"Standing." Cheng Jianniang said, "Either someone comes." Or don't come here. ”
Her voice was small, drowned out in the noise.
The maidservant heard the shriek and repeated the shout.
The attendants who were nervously guarding here realized that they immediately aimed the crossbow in their hands at the carriage here.
The attendants around the carriage over there also showed no weakness, and immediately aimed their weapons at this side.
"Shout." Cheng Jianniang said again.
The maid didn't hesitate, she didn't even ask, and shouted when she opened her mouth.
"Standing. Either people come or you don't. She shouted.
Is it because of this? The atmosphere of confrontation on both sides was slightly weaker, but they were both wary of each other.
"Get out of the car." Cheng Jianniang said. "Horses will be frightened by wolves, dangerous."
The maidservant immediately repeated in a trembling voice.
Is that so?
Torches crackled. The people over there looked at each other, as if hesitating.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted. A person jumped out of it and landed with a thud.
"Childe," the attendants asked nervously.
The maidservant looked over and saw that the man was like her own lady, wrapped in a great cloak and hooded over his head and face, and the torches flickered in the light.
Because there was no time to light the bonfire, the people on the other side surrounded the man with torches.
All eyes were on the confrontation with the wolves.
Although there were torches and crossbow arrows, the wolves were numerous, and they were not afraid of death, and soon they were bullied, and the crossbow arrows were no longer useful, and everyone brandished knives and torches to kill with the jumping wolves.
Everyone is red-eyed, and at this time, there is no distinction between who is who, there are more than 30 people on both sides, and more than forty or fifty wolves are fighting, and they have no advantage at all.
The horses neighed, apparently pounced on by the wolves, and the people screamed, apparently also by the wolves.
The maid's body trembled more and more, and she bit her lower lip to avoid crying.
Death is so close......
"You go and help." The man over there said.
The attendants hesitated.
"But you, Childe, it's too dangerous for us to go away." They said.
"When the people over there can't stand it, I'm even more dangerous." He said, looking this way, "I'll go over there, there's fire over there, and there's people." ”
As he spoke, he raised his foot and came this way, but the attendants hurried to stop him.
"Childe, those people don't know ......"
"It is better to die at the hands of men than in the mouths of brutes." The man said, smiling, and striding from his feet, "Go quickly." ”
The attendants gritted their teeth and separated two people to follow, and the rest of the people rushed forward to kill the wolf.
Seeing this person coming over, the attendant beside Cheng Jianniang was a little nervous.
"Don't be afraid." Cheng Jianniang said.
"Get out of the way, and passers-by are all in trouble." The servant girl hurriedly shouted when she understood the command.
The attendants had to get out of the way, and the man strode closer, standing on the other side of the campfire, his blunt chin and his fair complexion reflected in the firelight.
"Thank you, little lady." He said, bowing his hand to the maidservant, his voice was clear and young.
The maidservant was still trembling, and looked at him without speaking.
As soon as he stood here, he suddenly heard a whining, and a black shadow rushed straight over.
The handmaid screamed.
The attendant standing outside reacted quickly, slashing his knife with his backhand, and one wolf howled and rolled to the ground, but then the other pounced.
Where did these wolves come from?
The attendants looked at them with horror on their faces, and saw that four or five wolves were jumping from the road behind, and at this time, the stimulation of the bloody qi at the scene made them go crazy, revealing their white teeth and salivating like silk.
In the blink of an eye, he had already pounced on the front.
Therefore, it is not afraid to encounter lone wolves in the wild, but it is terrible to encounter wolves.
At the same time, the carriage that had stopped beside it was also frightened, screaming and pulling the cart away.
But no one paid attention to this, and the attendants didn't care about who to protect, and even Jin Ge'er shouted and slashed and slashed indiscriminately.
The maid screamed, and wanted to hug Cheng Jianniang, but she hugged her empty.
Cheng Jianniang picked up a burning firewood from the bonfire and aimed it at the wolves.
The servant girl wanted to learn to behave, but in the end she couldn't sit on the ground by herself.
The man next to him stretched out his hand and pulled out two of them, and also aimed at the wolf, with a bit of eagerness.
"Burn, theirs, nose." Cheng Jianniang said.
Her voice was inaudible in the noise.
"Burn their noses!" The handmaid screamed.
With her shout, the man stepped out of the jaw and slammed his torch into a wolf that pounced on him with his teeth.
The wolf howled in fear of fire and retreated, and the man immediately smashed the wolf's head and face with a fire stick in his other hand.
The wolf howled and rolled to the ground, being stabbed again by the attendants.
The man retreated, and with the movement, the hood fell, revealing a young face, and in the bloody aura of this firelight fight, he turned his head to look at the servant, and actually smiled slightly, showing his white teeth.
"It's fun." He said.
Playful?
Is this still fun?
Isn't that a fool?
The maid was stunned, and watched a wolf pounce on the man who turned around, and forgot to scream for a moment. (To be continued......)