Under the dim night sky, just where Lan Cui'er's carriage had just stopped, Ah Cai, who was lying on the ground with his hands cut off, looked at the body of Brother Long who was close at hand, and his eyes were suddenly clouded with mist. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"You're crazy!" The frightened Ouyang Xiaoyi turned over and dismounted, rushed to Ah Cai's side with an arrow, and then leaned over and grabbed his shoulder.

"Ah......h As if the newly created wound had been sprinkled with another handful of salt, the pain of drilling into the heart made Ah Cai scream miserably, but he stubbornly shouted: "Let go of me!" ”

"Humph!" Ouyang Xiaoyi noticed that Ah Cai's shoulder had been dislocated, so he grabbed his collar with both hands, twisted his body around, and stared at the stained face that was mixed with blood stains and mud and dust, and threw an accent: "Then what do you want!" ”

"Dragon...... Brother Long is dead......" A pair of Ouyang Xiaoyi's angry faces, a burst of cowardice suddenly diluted the courage that Ah Cai had just gathered, but when he turned to look at the corpse of Brother Long underground, it seemed that some power surged back to suppress the horror in his heart, making him look at Ouyang Xiaoyi's angry eyes with determination: "I can't let him storm the corpse wilderness and leave!" ”

Ouyang Xiaoyi glanced at the corpse on the ground with disdain, and sarcastically said contemptuously: "I knew this was the case, why bother in the first place? The eagle dog of Drifting Cloud Residence has done all the bad things, even if it is a violent corpse wilderness, it is his self-inflicted retribution! ”

"I don't know about anyone else...... But Brother Long is not this kind of person! Ah Cai's tears burst out of his eyes, and two faint marks washed down on his blood-stained cheeks: "Don't slander him!" ”

"Am I guilty of slandering him?!" Ouyang Xiaoyi laughed angrily, his left hand still grabbed Ah Cai's collar, and his right fist gurgled: "Do you want to follow in his footsteps?" Don't think I won't kill you! ”

"Okay, you kill me! If you don't kill me, you're a turtle bastard! The tearful Ah Cai had the courage to roar, but he didn't have the cowardly appearance he had when he was in Lianping Town in the evening.

Ouyang Xiaoyi's eyes really floated with a trace of killing intent. But now halfway through, kill him, who will lead the way? At this critical juncture, he was actually constrained by a little hairy child, and Ouyang Xiaoyi's mood rolled up like waves: I knew that this was the case, and at that time, I should have directly found someone else in Lianping Town to lead the way! But in that environment, who can be found? It's just a heavenly grab! Now how can this dead end be solved?

"If you have something to say, don't be so impulsive!" Lin Xinyin saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly stepped forward to clear the siege, she already knew a little bit about Ouyang Xiaoyi's personality, but she was still afraid that he would lose his mind for a while and kill Ah Cai, and the road behind would really be impossible.

"That's it! You violent maniac, savage! Ling Yueyuan, who was beside her, coaxed indignantly, but she didn't know that she was adding fuel to the fire: "I want to kill people at every turn!" ”

"Xiaoyi, calm down." Ouyang Xiaoxin also walked over, gently pushed away Ouyang Xiaoyi's left hand that grabbed Ah Cai, pulled Ah Cai to his side, and took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood and snot on his face for him: "Let's hear what he thinks first." ”

Ouyang Xiaoyi was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Ouyang Xiaoling, who was still riding on the horse, but saw that the other party was also looking at Ah Cai with pity, and said faintly: "It's really pitiful...... Xiaoyi, don't bully children. ”

Seeing that all the women on his side, plus Ling Yueyuan, all turned against Ah Cai, Ouyang Xiaoyi was extremely angry: Could it be that women really have the nature to sympathize with the weak? Now I'm a big black face! That Ling Yueyuan was actually overflowing with sympathy, is he still a man? How unreasonable! So, Ouyang Xiaoyi shook his hand fiercely and stared at Ah Cai angrily: "Then what do you want?" Tell me about it! ”

"I ......" Ah Cai, whose emotions calmed down a little, his voice was much calmer, but the more he said it, the softer he became: "There are jackals in the mountains and forests around here, and Brother Long's body can't be left here like this...... At least...... At least bury him before he goes......"

"That's a light point." Ouyang Xiaoyi sneered, and raised his sword eyebrows: "We don't have any tools now, how can we bury him?" Do you want us to dig holes by hand?! ”

Ah Cai also thought of this layer just now, but at this point, he was unwilling to leave like this, and he was silent for a while.

"That's true." Ouyang Xiaoxin explained to Lin Xinyin Ling Yueyuan: "When we went south from Fuzhou, we also brought some gadgets, but these things were stolen by the horse thieves on the road along with the package of the charge and the horses...... I've said it before. ”

As soon as "uh......" touched the real problem, Ling Yueyuan was also speechless for a while: without tools, could it be true that he was lying on the ground and digging a pit like a dog? Even if you can, I don't know when I have to plan.

Lin Xinyin thought for a while, looked at the Xiaoye Mei short sword in her hand, and then looked at several tree trunks of different thicknesses and sizes in the mountains and forests on the side of the road, and muttered, "Maybe you can make a few shovels on the spot." ”

"What?!" Everyone looked at Lin Xinyin in disbelief.

Lin Xinyin was not in a hurry to answer, turned around and searched a little in the wild forest beside the road, stopped in front of a tree that could be wrapped around her arms, took a deep breath, and then swung down the Ye Mei Sword violently.

Without a sound, the silver light flickered, and the Ye Mei Sword had already cut into the trunk of several inches, but ...... The tree didn't fall.

"Uh......" This result is a bit different from Lin Xinyin's assumption, and Ye Meijian seems to bite the tree body...... After finally pulling it out, Lin Xinyin slashed a few more times, and although she made a few cuts of different thicknesses, the unknown wild tree still stood upright without reluctance to her fate.

"Not true. The action is not right, and the strength is not right......" Ouyang Xiaoyi, who was on the side, noticed Lin Xinyin's intentions, in the battle just now, he had seen the power of this short sword that cut off the dagger of the man in black like cutting tofu, so he also had an idea, so he approached and instructed: "Although your sword is abnormally sharp, what is the difference between chopping like this and cutting a sponge?" You open a big hole in one direction, and I'll interrupt it for the rest. ”

"Hmm." Although Lin Xinyin humbly accepted the opinion, inadvertently, a red glow floated on her cheeks. She swung the Ye Mei Sword again as Ouyang Xiaoyi instructed, and soon, a large hole was carved in the trunk of the tree, as if it had carved a smile on the tree—but for it, it was definitely a bitter smile—because it was already a little crumbling.

"Alright, stand back, be careful." Ouyang Xiaoyi saw that Lin Xinyin was about to break the tree, but he was afraid that the tree would hit his own people after it fell down, so he asked Lin Xinyin to take a few steps back, stood in front of the tree's smile, lifted his breath, and after weighing the strength, punched the torso above the smile.

With a "boom", the sturdy tree finally couldn't support it anymore, and its body cracked along the laughing mouth, and it lay back on the ground, stirring up a cloud of flying dust.

"The sword...... Can you lend me one? It was rare for Ouyang Xiaoyi to speak first, instead of taking it over first.

"Yes." Lin Xinyin generously handed over the sword, but saw that Xiao Yemei's eyebrows flashed a blue light, and she seemed to be unwilling, so she stroked her sword body with a smile: "Be obedient." ”

Ouyang Xiaoyi took Xiao Yemei and observed this brilliant short sword a little: it was just held by Lin Xinyin and chopped the trunk for a while, but it didn't leave half a scar on her body, it's really incredible! But at this moment, Ye Meijian's touch was extremely cold, as if he was holding a piece of sharp ice, which surprised Ouyang Xiaoyi: if he didn't have the help of this short sword just now, he would only be able to penetrate a hole in the trunk of the tree no matter how hard he did......

After thinking for a while, Ouyang Xiaoyi picked up the Ye Mei Sword and began to work: first cut off the top part of the fallen tree trunk, and then flatten the incision at the lower end, leaving a torso of about four feet, and then split it in half; After picking up half of it and weighing it, he cut off the thick, redundant part of the trunk, leaving only a crescent-shaped cylinder; Finally, in a ratio of three to one, the torso is chiseled less than one foot and the edge of the sharp incision is sharpened to make a preliminary shovel surface; He then shaved off most of the wood from the torso that was more than three feet tall, until he had a handle.

Ouyang Xiaoyi's strength is appropriate, his work is like the wind, his movements are becoming more and more proficient, and the sharp Ye Mei sword is very handy in his hands, so, after a little more than a quarter of an hour, when the sawdust is flying, a rough but seemingly usable wooden shovel is made in this way.

"Next!" Ouyang Xiaoyi threw the wooden shovel to Ling Yueyuan, who was looking at it attentively, and said while picking up the other half of the wood, "Find a place with soft soil to dig a pit, and I'll follow." ”

"What about you?" Ling Yueyuan looked at the wooden shovel in his hand and was stunned for a while: this thing actually looks like a spatula magnified several times, could it be that Ouyang Xiaoyi's real identity is a cook?!

"I'll come when I'm done with another shovel." Ouyang Xiaoyi glanced at Ling Yueyuan dissatisfiedly: "Or do you do it?" Shall I dig first? ”

"Cut. Then you come quickly, turtle ......" Ling Yueyuan was a little unhappy: Ouyang Xiaoyi obviously looked at him as a coolie, bastard...... However, he still didn't say the last three words after all, because he saw Ouyang Xiaoyi's eyes that wanted to kill......

Ouyang Xiaoyi continued to make the next shovel with a calm face, he naturally knew what Ling Yueyuan wanted to say, and he was angry in his heart: tonight he was put on a scene by Ah Cai, a stinky boy, hateful ......

"Xiaoyuan, I'll help." Lin Xinyin didn't want to be taken care of by Ouyang Xiaoyi as a girl, so she hurriedly stepped forward and approached Ling Yueyuan.

"No, no need to ......" Ling Yueyuan relaxed and joked: "How can you give it to the fair lady?" Let me, the big husband who stands up to the sky, do it! ”

"Heh......" Seeing that Ling Yueyuan was in a better mood, Lin Xinyin was also happy: "Then I'll help you find a suitable place." ”

"Hmm!" After that, Ling Yueyuan and Lin Xinyin searched left and right, and finally found a good place, so Ling Yueyuan worked hard to excavate......

A quarter of an hour later, Ouyang Xiaoyi came over with a newly made wooden shovel, and after returning Ye Mei Sword to Lin Xinyin, he also joined the excavation group.

Lin Xinyin's slender fingers swept over the little Yemei short sword that glowed with blue light, and smiled and soothed: "Thank you for your hard work......

With a soft sound of "ding", this divine weapon that had killed chickens and cut trees shrank into a little light, and hid in the blue jade on Lin Xinyin's ring, like an aggrieved kitten curled up in his nest.

……

Nearly half an hour had passed, and under the struggle of Ling Yueyuan and Ouyang Xiaoyi, the outline of a big pit had become clearer and clearer.

Ouyang Xiaoxin and Ouyang Xiaoling were getting together and whispering, while Lin Xinyin, who had no tools in hand, sat next to Ah Cai.

"Does it still hurt?" Lin Xinyin asked with concern.

"It still hurts...... But out of the way. Ah Cai's mood calmed down a lot, and he turned his head to Lin Xinyin and reluctantly smiled: "Thank you, Sister Yin and Brother Yuan......"

Lin Xinyin's whole body suddenly passed through a chill. If Ling Yueyuan heard this salutation, I'm afraid she would spit it out, right?

"Actually, I already knew...... Brother Long, he is not a big hero, nor is he a big man...... I haven't even had a small boss in so many years...... It's nothing more than an old qualified miscellaneous soldier...... Even this important task was assigned to keep an eye on it......" Ah Cai didn't notice Lin Xinyin's reaction, but just muttered half reminiscing, half sentimental, his eyes were so empty that what he saw in front of him was all illusory, and the sentences were broken as if they were all memory fragments: "But I still like to listen to him blow...... Usually no matter how outrageous he blows, I pretend to think it's all true...... But he was gone...... I'll never see him again...... In fact, aren't the two of us just two grasses in this world? But he's old grass, I'm just young grass...... He usually takes good care of me, and he is not a bad person, but he may have done a lot of bad things...... But he didn't kill anyone...... Why did he die like this......"

Speaking of this, Ah Cai had tears and snot flowing together, turned his head to Lin Xinyin and cried: "Originally, Brother Long planned to retire after doing this single thing...... But he just died in this single thing...... Sister Yin, why do you say life is so unfair? Why are some people able to drink fragrant and spicy food for a lifetime, and we are destined to be trampled on for a lifetime or even trampled to death? Doesn't Heaven give us any hope? Is this fate? ”

Life? Lin Xinyin was stunned for a moment. Then the situation she and Ling Yueyuan are in now, is it also arranged by an irreversible fate? Although she was also worried, and only felt that the future seemed to be an unpredictable and endless darkness, she still longed to find a glimmer of light from this chaotic darkness - even if it would take her life in this world to find it.

"Ah Cai, life is just an excuse, the so-called belief in fate is just looking for a leaf to hide his cowardice to facilitate his escape from reality...... Heaven gives us suffering, but it also gives us hope...... Even if this hope is so small, like a small weak seedling growing in the crevices of the cliff boulder, as long as it exists, then we must spend our lives to find it, so that it can thrive in the sun, take root, blossom and bear fruit, right? Lin Xinyin came up with a line to comfort Ah Cai, and at the same time comforted herself.

"Really, Sister Yin, is there really hope?" Ah Cai's voice was still trembling, but there was more brilliance in her eyes when she looked at Lin Xinyin, as if she was the goddess who sowed the seeds of hope.

"Yes, there must be, and it's because we don't know where it exists that we need to look for it." Lin Xinyin's eyes were full of determination, and she smiled and scratched Ah Cai's nose: "Okay, don't cry, the boy is crying like this, it's ugly to death." ”

"Heh......" Ah Cai burst into tears and laughed, although he wanted to raise his hand to wipe away his tears, but now he couldn't do anything. Rao is like this, and his eyes, which were originally full of dazed and desperate, also gave him a glimmer of hope: "Brother Long said that he has some savings in the Fuxiang Money Village in Wuhua Town, and I want to take it out for him in the future, and I will do a good job for him to hold a funeral, and I can't let him be buried in the wild like this." ”

"The leaves fall back to the roots, and the soil is safe, which is quite right." Lin Xinyin encouraged Ah Cai and said, "Ah Cai, after you arrive at Qimu Peak, Xiaoyi should let you go, and then you will go to Wuhua Town." ”

Hearing this, Ah Cai was silent for a while, and then Shaoqing raised his head and said, "Sister Yin, I think it's better for you not to go to Qimu Mountain." ”

Lin Xinyin was stunned: "Why?" ”

"You are a good person, I don't want to lie to you......" Ah Cai pondered for a moment, trying his best to recall some details that Brother Long had told him: "I heard Brother Long say that the person you are looking for was indeed chased to Qimu Mountain, but now there are many masters of Piaoyunju there, in addition to the Xuanwu envoy, I heard that there are other big people, you insist on going there, it is simply sending yourself to the tiger's mouth." ”

"Thank you, Ah Cai. It's just that...... Those two are close friends with us who have experienced life and death tribulations...... Besides, we promised to join them, and now that they are in danger, can we see death and not save them? Ah Cai, if Brother Long is in trouble, will you hide aside? When Lin Xinyin heard Ah Cai's prompt, her heart also jumped: Who is the big man? Could it be dust or Lu Xiaoying? She had seen Mo Feichen's moves, and if Su Ruoyun wasn't by her side, she really didn't know how to crack that person's illusion! And what tricks does Lu Xiaoying know? If you meet that superb swordsman, what should you do? It seems that the trip to Qimu Mountain is only afraid of many dangers...... However, now I know that there are tigers in the mountains, and I want to go to the tiger mountain!

"Brother Long is in trouble, of course I won't hide...... He was afraid that I would be in danger, so he didn't let me act with him, in fact, I had already guessed it......" Ah Cai thought of this, and cried again.

"Okay, okay......" Lin Xinyin sighed and stroked Ah Cai's head.

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Ling Yueyuan, who had been working for half an hour, straightened up his tired waist, took a deep breath, and then glanced at Lin Xinyin, who was sitting and chatting with Ah Cai next to him, and suddenly sighed with emotion: If it were the original, he should be the one who sat and rested...... Now that the roles have been reversed, the responsibilities have also changed, which is really unfair...... But looking at Lin Xinyin's powerless appearance, forget it, let her enjoy the benefits of the girls for the time being......

After resting for a while, Ling Yueyuan continued to work hard, but suddenly the shovel hit a hard clod of soil, and he couldn't move the shovel for a while.

Damn it! Just a broken stone, dare to die and struggle! Makes you hard! Ling Yueyuan was annoyed, raised his right foot and stepped on the shovel, and slammed his hands forward.

Hey!

"Smack!"

The shovel in Ling Yueyuan's hand, which was already overwhelmed, announced his demise with a scream.

"Hmph." Ouyang Xiaoyi glanced at Ling Yueyuan, and while continuing to work, he was also thinking in his heart: there is not enough success, and there are more failures......

"You ......" Holding the shovel that was separated from the end to the end, Ling Yueyuan sprinkled a wave of grievances and anger on Ouyang Xiaoyi: "It's not because you make the shovel the same as a rice spoon, you think it's as easy as scooping rice!" ”

"It's not about styling at all! This thing is already fragile, and if you don't control it well, of course it will break! Keep your eyes open and see clearly! It's okay to use it like me......" Ouyang Xiaoyi was a little absent-minded while speaking: after his dignified family, when the black people were quiet at night, he was digging a grave for a miscellaneous fish of the Demon Sect in a barren mountain and wilderness, what is going on?! What the hell are you doing now?! As soon as he thought of this, Ouyang Xiaoyi almost vomited blood, and the strength in his hand increased a little unconsciously......

"Smack!"

Before Ouyang Xiaoyi's words fell, another scream came, and the wooden shovel in his hand was crooked, and he died heroically in the place where it had fought.

"Hahaha!" Ling Yueyuan smiled and bent over, holding her stomach with her left hand, and pointing at Ouyang Xiaoyi, who was also holding a severed head shovel in a daze with her right hand, and tears burst out of the corners of her eyes: "Yours is also broken!" ”

Ouyang Xiaoyi couldn't cry or laugh. He had never seen a big fool like Ling Yueyuan - was it time to laugh?

But what now? Ouyang Xiaoyi looked up at the bright moon in the sky, and his heart was already very anxious. Time is pressing, it is too much time to make another shovel, and the pit in the ground is actually basically formed, just a little bit; The shovel in his hand was not completely broken, and the shovel head was still connected to the shovel handle.

So, Ouyang Xiaoyi walked into Ah Cai with a shovel, pulled off the fiber rope that tied him, and then tied the shovel tightly, and then waved it again: Well, it's quite firm, it should be able to be used for a while.

Ah Cai rarely freed his hands, and was about to move his shoulders, but unexpectedly caused a burst of pain, and suddenly snorted.

Ouyang Xiaoyi stared at Ah Cai, and suddenly squeezed his dislocated shoulder!

"Ahh This sudden and sharp pain made Ah Cai almost unconscious.

"What are you doing!" Lin Xinyin was furious on the side.

Ouyang Xiaoyi turned his head and left, without a word of explanation.

"I didn't ...... It's okay......" Ah Cai found that his shoulder moved freely again, although there was still some residual pain, but it was no longer in the way: "Sister Yin, he was helping me with my bone ...... just now"

Lin Xinyin was stunned for a moment, looked at Ouyang Xiaoyi, who didn't speak and continued to shovel soil, and muttered in her heart: This person's character is really stubborn......

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After a while, the digging work was completed, and Ouyang Xiaoyi and Ling Yueyuan moved Brother Long's body over.

A blood hole was drilled into the center of Brother Long's eyebrows, and the blood had dried up; He didn't know what he had killed, but fear and disbelief were imprinted in his eyes, and he couldn't see it.

Ah Cai trembled and stretched out his hands to wipe Brother Long's eyelids, and then put his palms together to make a appearance, silently reciting in his heart, watching Ouyang Xiaoyi and Ling Yueyuan throw Brother Long's body into the pit. Ah Cai actually didn't believe in Buddhism, and he didn't know what to recite, so he just followed a nondescript ceremony to bid farewell to Brother Long according to the scene he had seen.

Then, Ling Yueyuan and Ouyang Xiaoyi began to shovel soil and fill the pit, the shovel in Ling Yueyuan's hand had already been broken, and he could only use the shovel head as a dustpan.

Eventually, a mound of loess rose from the originally flat ground. After the completion of the work, Ouyang Xiaoyi inserted the wooden shovel tied to the fiber rope directly in front of the grave, which was supposed to be a tombstone. In fact, he didn't want to take this shovel on the road, lest he have to take care of the aftermath after killing everyone in the future, but it would be too much of a waste of time......

"Okay, satisfied, right?" Ouyang Xiaoyi put Ah Cai on the horse, and after turning over himself, he instructed again: "Let me remind you, if there are really jackals around here, they will still dig up the pile of loess and take away the dragon brother you worship!" However, there are now three other bodies on the side of the road for their priority care...... So! You've wasted an hour ...... us! You're going to have to show us the way in the back! You'd better come back here and bury him again, that shovel is a sign, understand? ”

"Thank you...... Thank you......" Ah Cai nodded gratefully, and at the same time prayed in his heart: Brother Long, I will never let you die in the wilderness...... If you have a spirit in the sky, you must bless me with a safe and secure journey, so that I can go to Wuhua Town to get money to make up for your funeral......

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However, if there really is a spirit in the sky, Brother Long will definitely die. For the cord of the wind, which he hated, the silver thread that had killed many of his brothers, was now wrapped around the shovel in front of his grave, and was tilting in the breeze, as if sympathizing with his fate, and as if showing the mockery of fate.

There was a sound of horses' hooves all around, and gradually disappeared into the night sky.

The wind stopped, and the night was quiet.

The sparse weeds, the ghostly shade, the uneven loess mounds, the scarred wooden shovels, the windwivels that have lost all their brilliance, all of them have been quiet and picturesque.

When the bright moon sank into the clouds, endless darkness shrouded it, as if the picture was frozen forever.

……

An hour later, a red dot suddenly flashed in the dark mountain shadows in the distance.

Then, two, three...... Like a spark, it ignites the night sky.

Be...... Hopefully?

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