The morning dew is scattered unscrupulously in all corners of the forest, and the footsteps are a little soft and make a verdant "creaking" sound. Maybe it was awakened by two people passing by, four or five finches flew out of the dense branches, and one of them landed on Mu Mingxue's shoulder, Mu Mingxue stopped, let the small thing's thin feet step on her shoulder, and suddenly, the finch "chirped" and flew away in the direction of the big tree.

"After a month of walking on the mountain road, I finally saw the ground." Luo Chen took out the map in his arms, compared it with the surrounding scene, and said: "If it is as drawn by the Lord of the White Valley, if you go further, you can see a quagmire land, according to the map, this quagmire is not small. ”

Mu Mingxue nodded, took off the bamboo tube around her waist, raised her head and drank a few sips, turned her head to look at Luo Chen, and said, "Ah Luo, do you want to get water again?" Luo Chen saw the stream not far away, so he bowed his head and handed the bamboo tube on his waist to Mu Mingxue. The closer they got to Wuling, the greener the surrounding scenery became, just like the bushes that the two of them were stepping on.

"This southwest is really different from the Central Plains, in the past, I only thought that late autumn was full of withered bright yellow, but I never thought that this place was still like the middle of summer." Mu Mingxue walked quickly to the edge of the stream, squatted down, immersed the bamboo tube in the stream, and said.

"Definitely. Counting the days, since we set off from the Medicine Immortal Valley, it has been more than three months, and in less than a month, it will be the time of winter. However, the land is as humid as the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, which is very pleasant. ”

Mu Mingxue looked back and smiled, twisted the bamboo tube in her hand, and was about to get up and move forward, but suddenly stopped in place and said, "Ah Luo, listen over there!" ”

Luo Chen carefully identified the direction of Mu Mingxue's finger and said, "It's a woman, the voice came from the forest!" I'll take a look. After speaking, Luo Chen followed the voice and walked in the other direction in the forest, and when he got closer and closer, he heard the woman's cry clearly.

"Help! Kill! Kill! Murder here! ”

When Luo Chen heard this, he quickened his pace, and when he arrived at the source of the sound, he saw that there were five big men surrounding an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, pressing step by step, the girl's face was full of panic and panic, and her mouth kept shouting "help". Seeing this, Luo Chen immediately stepped forward to block in front of the girl, and shouted at the big men: "In broad daylight, why do you want to bully a weak woman? ”

The big men looked at each other for a while, not knowing the situation, and one of them yelled at Luo Chen: "Who are you?" Mind other people's business! ”

"It's just that the road is uneven, if you insist on doing it, you will have to take care of it to the end."

"Hey? Is your road uneven? One of the strongest men jumped out, and then turned back to the rest and said, "I think this kid must be the accomplice of this little demon girl, brothers, let's settle him first!" Above! ”

As soon as the words fell, five stout men rushed up and came towards Luo Chen with fists. Luo Chen hurriedly took a few steps back, immediately squatted down, grabbed a handful of stones, and threw them at the bottom plate of the strong men, and the stones hit their knees one by one for a while, and then, the five strong men knelt in front of Luo Chen at the same time, unable to move anymore.

Luo Chen got up, bowed his head to them and said, "I just clicked on your acupoints, if you promise not to do anything bullying again, I will let you go, okay?" ”

At this time, the girl who had been hiding behind Luo Chen saw this, and her face was snickering, and she immediately rushed to Luo Chen and said, "Thank you." You are so kind-hearted, if you were me, I would have to destroy their legs immediately! ”

Luo Chen was stunned, "Girl, you are young, you can't see that you are so ruthless." ”

When the big man who took the lead heard what the girl said, he immediately changed his tone and begged for mercy: "Ouch, my aunt, you just don't care about the villain, and go around us!" Big deal, if you steal our chickens and ducks, we'll write it off. ”

"What to steal! I'm just borrowing a few meals, and I'll return them later. I have told you that it is you who do not believe and who have arrested me. ”

"You little demon" Dahan blurted out, the word "demon girl" had not yet been spoken, seeing that the girl's eyes were wide open, Dahan looked at Luo Chen beside her again, and hurriedly changed his words: "Grandma, yes, yes, just as you borrowed." Please raise your noble hand and let this hero let us go! ”

Luo Chen only heard the clue at this moment, why did he seem to have subdued these strong men without asking the reason, but now it doesn't seem to be the case, so he asked suspiciously: "Aren't you here to bully?"

"Oh, hero, what are we honest farmers doing bullying a little girl. It's just that this girl has been stealing in our village for a few days in a row" The big man glanced at the girl, and then changed his words: "No, it is borrowing chickens and ducks from several of our families." We stared at her for a long time, and today we finally found her in this forest, and we wanted to ask her if she was the daughter of that family, and wanted to escort her back to the village, so that her family could discipline her well. Who knew that you would meet you, hero, you will let us go. ”

When Luo Chen heard this, he roughly understood what was going on, and then turned to the girl and asked, "Girl, what this uncle said is the truth?" And please don't lie to me. ”

I saw that the girl lowered her head and said, "Yes, yes, what?" I'm a woman, but I haven't eaten for a few days, and I'm hungry, so I borrowed a few chickens and ducks to fill my stomach, and they chased me as if they wanted to kill me, and I didn't want to pay it back."

"It's thirteen," said one of the big men, and as soon as he looked up and saw the girl's fierce appearance, he immediately lowered his head and said no more.

Hearing this, Luo Chen only felt guilty, and hurriedly leaned over to untie the acupoints of several strong men and let them get up. Luo Chen was about to apologize, but before he could speak, the big men ran away, shouting as they walked: "Demon girl, count yourself lucky!" ”

Seeing them running away, she made a grimace at their backs and shouted, "Look how you dare to arrest me again, hum!" ”

Luo Chen knew that this girl was a very unreasonable and willful girl, and when she looked carefully at the side, she found that she was dressed in rags, her face was full of dust, and her face was not real.

Luo Chen took a breath, and remembered that the strong men just now kept calling her a "little demon girl", probably because of this pair of blue eyes.

When the woman saw Luo Chen's surprised face, she immediately understood, but she didn't say anything, just snickered and kept staring at Luo Chen, motionless, and said, "I didn't expect that you are a handsome brother." ”

When Luo Chen heard this, he hurriedly took a few steps back, and took out a money bag from his sleeve with one hand, "Girl, I have some entanglements here, if you are hungry again, go buy some food, don't steal the villagers' things again." If you let them catch it again, you won't be so lucky, and you will meet a blind good person like me to relieve you. ”

Luo Chen saw that the expression on the girl's face changed from joy to surprise, and she only took the money bag in a daze. Luo Chen saw her accept the money bag, so he said: "If the girl is okay and has to hurry up next, she will take the first step and say goodbye!" ”

As soon as he turned around, Luo Chen found that his clothes were being grabbed by someone, and when he looked back, the girl was staring at him with a happy face, and said loudly: "Xiyue, my name is Xiyue." Brother Joon, what's your name? ”