Chapter 151: The night is dark and the wind is high
Shilipu, a township ten miles away from the capital. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
Lao Li Tou walked briskly on the way here. When it was almost noon, I rushed to my old club.
The old owner happened to be there, and Lao Li Tou said some of the situations in the capital, and the owner was also very sympathetic to Lao Li Tou, and gave Lao Li Tou half a year's salary at one time.
Lao Li Tou was very happy when he took the salary, and he stayed at the owner's house, and after lunch, he left the owner and went to the city.
Before leaving, the old proprietor suddenly stopped him, gave him a little money, and told him to take a donkey cart on the road, and strive to enter the city after dark, and come here again to work in the spring of the next year.
Lao Li agreed to his old club with a smile and went out happily.
It was really my luck to meet this kind-hearted owner, not only did he not delay the arrears, but he was very happy to give all the arrears of half a year's wages at one time, not to mention, but also to the cost of taking a donkey cart on the road.
It's really hard to find such a proprietor with a lantern!
Lao Li Tou happily left the town and happily hurried towards his home in the capital.
He is reluctant to take a car, and the poor can only live a good life by making careful calculations, and this penny cannot be wasted.
Lao Li Tou looked at the sky and pondered the distance in his heart. As a result, if you go all the way back, you won't be able to reach the city gate before dark.
However, if you can't enter the city, you won't be able to return home. That's not going to be easy.
When I think of the old woman in his family, she is a very worried person, if she doesn't go back, the old woman will have to worry.
Lao Litou's wife has a heart attack, which is not easy to treat and easy to commit.
In the past, there was a Chunyutang pharmacy and Dr. Lu who treated the poor, but now I don't know that one, and killed such a good pharmacy and the shopkeeper, this is really a good person's life is short, and the evil person's life is long!
Lao Li Tou thought about how he could rush back to the capital before dark as he walked, but thinking about it, people began to complain.
When he came to a fork in the road, Lao Li stopped and hesitated.
On the left is the pipeline, and there are a lot of passers-by, and you can get a donkey cart for a lot of money on the way.
On the right side of this is a stone road, and there are few people walking. And it's basically woods along the way.
Lao Li Tou thought that he had half a year's salary on his body, if there was a mistake on the road, then the whole family would be hungry and cold this winter.
However, this road is the closest road to the capital, although the road is not easy to walk, not safe, but fast!
When Lao Li Tou held his hand and was leaving, he thought about the travel expenses given by the old club.
If you don't take a donkey cart, this money can eat your family for half a monthγγγγγγ
Lao Li Tou sighed, but then thought about it, if this money is saved, if you take that path, there is a mistake on the road, can that family still survive?
Lao Li Tou is a hesitant and honest person, and he has been following this problem for almost half his life, a lifetime of hesitation, a lifetime of honesty and kindness, so that no matter in the city or outside, there is a good popularity.
After hesitating again and again, Lao Li Tou chose the path and walked quickly on the approach.
Lao Li Tou not only had to come back for half a year's salary today, but also got the donkey cart fee given by his old boss on the road.
This heart, I am really happy. As soon as this person is happy, he is full of energy, as the saying goes, people are in good spirits when they are happy, which is probably what it means.
Don't look at Lao Li Tou, who is now over fifty years old, his black hair is now white mixed with black hair. But he walked for nearly an hour and a half, his face was not red, and the more he walked, the more energetic his feet became.
The weather was very cold, and the sky was gray, and it was snowing for a while in the morning.
On this road, there are also distant mountain scenes, all of which are white, and the occasional passers-by on the road are hiding their hands in their sleeves, trembling all over, and hurrying slowly.
But Lao Li Tou was the opposite, he was sweating all over, with a happy face, and strode forward.
Along the way, Lao Li Tou also met a few people who were in a hurry, and the original worry in his heart was gradually suppressed by today's happy events and sank to the deepest part of his heart.
However, when passing by a ridge, the road suddenly became difficult to walk.
In front of Lao Li Tou is a soil ridge, and after passing this ridge, the road behind is all forest roads.
However, arriving at this Tulingzi also means that the whole journey is more than half of the way, and from past experience, after walking about half an hour after this Tulingzi, you can reach an inn closest to the city gate.
However, the Tulingzi in front of Lao Li Tou is also a fork in the road of many roads, one of which is the road leading to the official road, but if you go to the official road from here, the road will be far away.
Although Lao Li Tou is honest, he is also a person full of faith, and he has never done anything halfway in his life.
Lao Li Tou rested slightly in front of Tulingzi for a while, and then the whole person strode up Lingzi and walked towards the forest road in front.
All the way through the woods, there was a lot less snow on the ground. This is the first snow since the beginning of winter.
It stopped in the morning after a while, and most of the snow fell on the trees, and some places under the trees by the stumps were still yellowish.
Lao Li Tou walked a stick of incense in the forest, and the person walked quickly, and his face was already sweating.
The forest was very quiet around the forest, and only Lao Li Tou was walking briskly on the whole road wearing a gray-black cotton coat.
"Ahh A heart-wrenching scream.
Suddenly, a miserable scream sounded, and Lao Li Tou hurriedly stopped and hid in the yellow grass on the side of the road.
Since entering this forest, Lao Li Tou has not been sloppy at all, and has raised his vigilance.
At this time, Lao Li Tou hid in the grass for about half a pillar of incense, and found that the surroundings were very quiet, except for the rustle of the wind and the dry grass shaking its head with the wind, he no longer heard the previous miserable cry.
At this moment, Lao Li Tou hesitated in his heart, a little doubtful that he was too nervous before, and his ears were hallucinating.
Because in the grass here, Lao Li Tou had been squatting for twenty minutes, and there was nothing else around him except the sound of the wind and the dead grass swaying in the wind.
This thought welled up in his heart and soon occupied Lao Litou's thoughts.
Then I saw him slowly get up from the ground,* leaning over, and secretly looking out in the dead grass that was about a man high, trying to look from a distance.
In this way, Lao Li Tou watched in the grass for more than ten minutes, and found that apart from the sound of the wind, there was nothing else around him that made him suspicious.
After thinking about it, Lao Li smiled bitterly, and felt more and more that he was suddenly so cowardly today, isn't it just that he can be nervous like this all of a sudden if he brings something more on his body?
The more I thought about Lao Li, the more I felt that my behavior was a bit ridiculous, and he had really lived most of his life in vain.
"I really scared myself." Lao Li Tou muttered like this, took a few big breaths, and stepped out of the grass.
"Ahh
No, as soon as Lao Li Tou stepped out of the grass and walked to the dirt road in the middle, a piercing and loud scream rang out.
Old Li Tou was wondering if his ears were hallucinating again, but at this moment, with a hula, he saw a burst of birds chirping in the woods not far away, and then a group of birds of all colors flew up.
Lao Li Tou hurriedly looked up, this look shivered, with most of his life's experience, he could see at a glance that this group of birds was originally inhabited in this forest.
There was only one reason for the sudden flight away, and that was that something suddenly appeared and alarmed them all of a sudden.
The birds, frightened, suddenly flew all at once.
Looking at the frightened birds in the sky, Lao Li Tou looked nervous, and his bright eyes quickly looked towards the place where the scream was made.
Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed. Lao Litou's face changed suddenly, and then at the fastest speed in his life, he squatted down and lay on the ground.
I saw him lying on the ground, probably completely still for a few minutes, and then listening quietly to the nearby noise with two ears pricked up.
After Lao Li Tou repeatedly made sure that there were no footsteps walking towards him, he slowly crawled towards the grass that had just been hiding.
Just now, Lao Li Tou was about to take a closer look at the place where he had screamed before.
Suddenly, a fat horse face appeared.
Lao Li, who was lying on the ground, was already sweating profusely at this time, and his heart was pounding rapidly.
He didn't know if he had been seen by the horse-faced man, and at the same time, he began to secretly regret it in his heart.
It was in a forest not far from the place where Lao Li was lying on the ground.
A man covered in blood leaned feebly against a very thick, very large tree.
I saw that this person's hair was messy, and his face was full of bruises that only appeared when he was beaten, and I saw that he was mentally atrophied, his eyes were closed, and he was leaning against the tree behind him, gasping for air.
There were three other people standing in front of him, all of whom were strangely low.
The three of them were all dressed in the same way, wearing gray horse coats.
One of the three was a man of about fifty years of age, fat and with a very long horse face, the whole person looked like an iron tower.
Seeing this person looking at the person in front of him with a gloomy face, he asked in a very cold tone: "I said Lao Sun, you are also an old man in the club, I won't embarrass you today, as long as you answer the question I asked, I, Zhu Chengming, will never embarrass you!" β
"I don't know, I don't know, I really don't know!"
"Hmph, you don't know who knows?" Zhu Chengming said: "That night in the Sansheng Nunnery, you were on the scene, and now you actually say that you don't know, how can you say that I can rest assured to participate in this Daxiangtang meeting?" β
"You, you, you'd better kill me."
"Want to die?" Zhu Chengming smiled: "How can it be so easy?" As he spoke, he squatted down, shouted with a smile in his mouth, and took out a small red porcelain bottle from his sleeve: "Sun Pi, if you don't say it today, I also have a way, as long as you take this medicine, you will be delirious, and then you will naturally say it." β
"Hey, just this medicine has only such a benefit, and the rest is that after you take this medicine again, within a few hours, the martial arts of the whole body will be wasted, not to mention, and a pair of eyes will also become blind, and then after ten days, your whole body will be soft, and at this time you can only lie in bed, but brother, I really can't bear to use this method, but you haven't spoken, brother is helpless!"
"Eat it quickly!" Zhu Chengming's eyes widened after speaking, and he opened the seal on the red porcelain bottle in his hand and stuffed it into Sun Pi's mouth in front of him.
The person's mouth is just a little, but the red porcelain bottle in Zhu Chengming's hand is very large, I saw that the hand holding the porcelain bottle used all his strength to stuff Sun Pi's mouth, and it seemed that he would not give up if he did not stuff the entire porcelain bottle into it.
"Ahem!" The porcelain bottle was full of medicinal powder, and Sun Pi coughed continuously: "The surname Zhu, as the helmsman of the Sichuan Branch, you actually violated the first article of the guild rules, and the head of Yangming Dao will not allow you, and you will definitely go with them!" β
"You tell me to shut up." Zhu Chengming was full of murderous energy, raised his foot and kicked Sun Pi in the chest.
At this step, Sun Pi only screamed miserably, and then the whole person immediately fainted.