Chapter 197, secretly followed the protection along the road, and broke up again in Dunhuang
After a big battle, Situ Yan held on and walked for two hours before she saw the fire, she tentatively got closer, and happened to see Duanmu Xuan sitting by the fire with a wine bag.
Duanmu Xuan naturally saw Situ Yan, but he had been waiting here early in the morning, just to have a chance encounter with the little brother, "Little brother, it's not me who follows you this time, you can't ask me for ransom anymore!" ”
Seeing this person at this time, Situ Yan was very happy, although this person was a bit of a scoundrel, he would not hurt her. And she and the snow wolf are in urgent need of rest, since there is a request for help at this time, naturally they will no longer have a cold face, and force a smile to come over.
Duanmu Xuan was a little puzzled when he saw that Situ Yan suddenly seemed to be a different person, but this kind of Situ Yan was not annoying, so he greeted her happily, "Come, little brother come and sit here, today is August 15, as the saying goes, 'The sea rises and the moon rises, and the end of the world is at this time.'" Although there is no sea at the moment, it is a great fortune for Ziheng to be able to spend this festival with his little brother! ”
Situ Yan was already tired at this time, and what she wanted to do most was to get a good night's sleep, but she didn't want this person to know that she had just experienced a big battle, so she had to fight hard and deal with it.
"Thank you brother, it's just that I'm not good at drinking, but today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, only the wine is a little fly in the ointment, I have my own mooncakes here, but I can give my brother a drink!"
"The little brother still has this good thing hidden, bring it quickly! I'm in for a treat! "Where would Duanmu Xuan think that Situ Yan's ring is not only moon cakes, even if it is not a problem for her to feed the people of a village.
Situ Yan didn't intend to let this person know his secret, got up and pretended to go to the mule cart to get moon cakes, and by the way, he looked at the snow wolf, his body temperature was normal and he didn't have a fever, but he didn't wake up after the anesthetic, and he took out 20 fruit trap moon cakes from the ring, put them in the basket and carried the mule cart.
Duanmu Xuan couldn't wait to take one and took a bite directly, "It's delicious!" Sweet but not greasy, little brother, you just said that you made it with your own hands. I don't know if it's a family handicraft? Duanmu Xuan ate selflessly, Mo Feng was a little anxious to look at it on the side, he also noticed the difference between Situ Yan, and was even more worried that there might be a problem with this moon cake, so he gestured to the young master with his eyes and reminded him to worry.
It's just that Duanmu Xuan didn't take Mofeng's gesture seriously at all, and ate a piece of moon cake in a few bites.
Situ Yan also noticed Mo Feng's expression, but she didn't do dark things, so she naturally didn't take it to heart, "Brother Tai saw a smile, there was a dim sum shop at home, and I only went to fight occasionally, and I didn't do it well, so I barely got in." This can be regarded as an advertisement for her future business, but it is not all deception.
"Little brother, you are too modest, Mo Feng, you have divided these ten, try them all! This is much more delicious than the dim sum shops in the capital! Duanmu Xuan pointed to the moon cake on the ground and glanced at Mo Feng.
Situ Yan didn't look up, but Mo Feng's worry just now was what she saw, "Eat it with confidence, it's not poisonous!" ”
"Mo Da Guard, the young master of your family has eaten, what else are you afraid of!" Duanmu Xuan drank some wine, and when he met the little brother under the beautiful scenery of this good day, he was happy, and he also followed Situ Yan to tease the ink wind. made a fuss, Mo Feng had to blush, and divided the moon cakes.
"Well, it's delicious!" The guards naturally listened to the young master's orders, took the moon cake and bit it without hesitation. Originally, I didn't like Situ Yan very much, but it was based on the young master's face, so the two of them shared a moon cake, but at this time, the applause continued, and the hostility towards Situ Yan was a little less.
"Little brother, look, I didn't lie to you! If it's not delicious, how can they eat so deliciously, and they keep applauding! It's a pity that there are few, and they can only watch Young Master Ben eat! For his subordinates to change their faces faster than flipping through a book, Duanmu Xuan didn't forget to tease a few words.
"Brother Tai likes it!" Situ Yan didn't care, ate the moon cakes in her hand, drank a few sips of water, and felt that the fatigue on her body seemed to have been reduced a little.
"Hahaha! Wine and fragrant cakes full moon, this Mid-Autumn Festival finally has a little taste! Seeing the embarrassed faces of his subordinates, Duanmu Xuan also became happy.
The crowd was eating around the fire when they heard the snort of the snow wolf coming from the boxcar. Situ Yan was startled and hurriedly ran to the mule cart to check. Seeing that the snow wolf had woken up, he tried his body temperature again, but it did not rise, which showed that the wound was well treated and not inflamed. Her move naturally attracted Duanmu Xuan's attention.
"Little brother, how could it hurt so badly?" Duanmu Xuan stood behind Situ Yan, and naturally saw the snow wolf lying in the boxcar, with strips of cloth on his body, oozing blood, and a slight smell of alcohol just now, and he woke up all of a sudden.
"Accident!" Situ Yan lowered her head and was busy feeding the snow wolf with food and medicine, and she didn't notice the worry that flashed in Duanmu Xuan's eyes.
Duanmu Xuan has been in the killing field for a long time, so he naturally knows this Tibetan mastiff very well, this dog is more fierce than a wolf, how could he be injured accidentally, and motioned to Mo Feng to step aside, "Go and check the way!" Mo Feng has been paying attention to Situ Yan's side, and he is not as relieved as the young master of this person and a wolf. So the injured snow wolf was also noted. Naturally, I understand what the young master means.
After feeding the snow wolf with food and water, and boiling medicine and feeding it, Situ Yan really couldn't hold it anymore, so she said hello to Duanmu Xuan, and got into a boxcar and lay on the side of the snow wolf and fell asleep.
Two hours later, Mo Feng rode back, "Young master, there are twelve corpses on the way, 11 of them are wounded in the neck, and 1 is injured in the back and straight through the heart. The horses were all wounded in the legs, but it was fine! ”
"Let's go, take me to see it!" Duanmu Xuan was surprised when he heard Mo Feng's return, but he was still a little untrustworthy and worried.
Mo Feng took Duanmu Xuan's horse and left two guards to guard Situ Yan, and the rest followed to the place where the body was found.
"How is this possible?" Looking at everything in front of him, not only Duanmu Xuan was deeply surprised this time, but even the guards who came with him were shocked by the scene in front of them, machetes were scattered all over the ground, and corpses were lying on the ground, all staring at a pair of eyes, dead and invisible. The smell of blood soaked the whole place in an eerie and terrifying way.
Duanmu Xuan looked through each corpse, especially the fatal wounds, and looked through them even more carefully, "Mo Feng, you see that these people have rough mouths and calluses on their knuckles, they are obviously people who practice martial arts, if so many people are really killed by the little brother, then his martial arts are really unfathomable!" ”
"Young master, it can't be so coincidental, right? Maybe someone else did it, and the subordinates looked at a few people who seemed to have arrow wounds, thinking that the kid was just being involved? ”
"No, although there are three people with arrow wounds on their bodies, none of them are fatal wounds, the real fatal wounds are in the neck, this person is not only accurate in his sword, but also must be quite agile in his movements. Look at this corpse again, the knife fell beside it, and there was a wound on the right hand that was obviously bitten by a wild beast, but the wound was in the throat, and the wound on the hand should have been caused by the snow wolf, and the wound on the neck must have been caused by the little brother. You look at this man's clothes, he is better than the others, obviously these people are following him. Since the leaders were all killed by the little brothers, it is obvious that these people are coming for him! ”
"Young master, these people are coming on horseback, obviously not ordinary thieves, maybe some kind of Jiangyang thief, with that kid's own strength, and so many people to fight, when he came, his subordinates did not see injuries on his body, and even if a subordinate faces so many people, he may not be able to retreat, how can he be a hairy boy who has not yet reached the crown?" It's not that Mo Feng doesn't believe it, it's that all this is unbelievable.
"Do you want to go back and ask, go!" Unlike Mo Feng, Duanmu Xuan had already decided that these people died at the hands of Situ Yan, he was just curious about Situ Yan at first, and intended to make friends, and now he is even more convinced that he must know Situ Yan, even if it is not for his own use, he must not be an enemy of this person.
When Duanmu Xuan and his entourage rushed back to the campsite, the sky was already slightly bright, and Situ Yan heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and naturally woke up. But she just lifted the curtain and took a look, and saw that it was just Duanmu Xuan who came back on horseback, so she lay down and continued to rest, she was still a little tired, but she planned to take advantage of the time when these people gave her as a guard, and recovered her body as quickly as possible.
When Duanmu Xuan came back, he saw that Situ Yan's mule cart was still there, and the person had not left, so he was relieved, and he didn't know why he was so nervous about this little brother, and he thought in his heart that it was just because he admired this person too much.
got off the horse and ate something, didn't go into the tent, and rested directly on the saddle for more than an hour, when he heard a sound from Situ Yan's side, he got up and walked over, took a look at the snow wolf first, and then chatted with Situ Yan.
"Little brother, did you suffer a catastrophe yesterday? Are you hurt? As early as when Duanmu Xuan and his entourage came back on horseback, Situ Yan had already thought that he would ask this question, after all, the snow wolf's injury could not be hidden, but she would not admit it like this, anyway, these people did not see it with their own eyes, as long as she killed and did not admit it, these people would have no way to take her.
"Thank you, brother, I'm fine, it's okay!" Situ Yan's answer didn't say whether she had been robbed, nor did she say whether she was injured, she planned not to admit or deny it, nor did she want to deceive the other party, she just felt that it was her own business, there was no need for others to sympathize, and she didn't need the care of others.
"Little brother, if you have injuries on your body, you should show me, although I am not very proficient in medicine, but I have a lot of expertise in sword injuries, by the way, I still have a good golden medicine on my body!" Duanmu Xuan said as he took out a medicine bottle from his arms and handed it to Situ Yan.
"Thank you, I don't need it!" Situ Yan felt that her medicine was very effective, there was no need to use other people's things, and she had to step on favors.
"Little brother, I heard you mention a few days ago that you learned from Master Ye, but I didn't expect you to be so good at kung fu, facing 12 people alone, you can escape unscathed. It's really embarrassing for Ziheng! ”
"Master, his old man's kung fu is very usual, but he knows some means of escaping, which makes my brother Taijian smile!" No matter how Duanmu Xuan knocked on the side and asked each other, Situ Yan finally refused to admit that she had killed someone.
"It's my luck to know the little brother, if you don't give up, you can call me Brother Ziheng, this 'brother Tai, brother Tai' is called, it's weird!"
"Okay, thank you Brother Ziheng for your love and concern! It's just that it's inconvenient to tell you the name now, and the little brother doesn't want to take a random name to lie to the liar Brother Heng, please forgive me! ”
"What's this! The little brother will tell each other when it is convenient. It's just that on the next road, Ziheng wants to go with the little brother, I don't know what the little brother wants? ”
Situ Yan was just about to refuse, when she heard Duanmu Xuan speak again, "Little brother, your snow wolf has been injured, if you encounter a strong enemy again, even if you can retreat with your whole body, I am afraid it will be difficult to save its life, it is better for us to be together, at least for my brother to protect you well!" Duanmu Xuan saw early on that Situ Yan valued the injured animal more than himself, so he used the snow wolf to force Situ Yan to commit the crime.
Situ Yan thought about it for a while, if it was just herself, even if she was seriously injured, as long as it was not fatal, she would not ask for help, but now that the snow wolf was injured, she couldn't help but bow her head and beg for help, she would not fall into danger because of her temporary recklessness.
"Well, thank you! It's just that I'm driving a mule cart, I'm afraid I'm going to drag down Brother Ziheng? ”
"It's okay, I'm an idler, there's nothing urgent to rush!" Seeing that Duanmu Xuan was sincerely invited, Situ Yan was worried about the snow wolf, and finally agreed to go on the road with them.
On the night of August 16, the group had already rushed to Wuwei County, turned west from here and walked for another 2 days, and arrived at Puqi County on August 18, finally able to recuperate.
Situ Yan thought that when she entered the county seat, she would be separated from Duanmu Xuan, but she didn't expect that this person would not only accompany her to live in the inn, but also sleep in the same room with her.
"Little brother, I'm not here to save money for the house, you see this long night, wouldn't it be good for us to talk at night?"
"Brother Ziheng is very loving, along the way, thanks to not abandoning the day and night, it is rare to enter the city and have a good rest for one night, and the younger brother sleeps ugly, but he has no intention of soothing Brother Ziheng's kindness!"
"Since the little brother wants to have a good rest, then I can't bother, just two rooms!" Duanmu Xuan could see that Situ Yan really wanted to sleep alone, so he no longer insisted on it.
The two of them ate some food together, and then went back to rest. After Situ Yan returned to the house, she first bathed herself, and then washed the snow wolf before going to bed. And Duanmu Xuan, who returned to the guest room, was not so comfortable, and directly called Mo Feng and ordered, "Mo Feng, you go to find out who those people the little brother killed?" Will there still be a colleague? Cut the grass and eradicate the roots, don't let them make any waves! ”
"Yes. It's just that young master, you are too good to that kid, he doesn't even dare to say his name, maybe he himself is some kind of traitor? ”
"Have you ever seen that the great traitors do not cling to the powerful, and that the great evildoers do not want to harm the lives of their livestock? I've been thinking about it for the past few days, the little brother loves his dog, and the death of those people is probably because they hurt his dog. And you also saw that although 12 people died, most of the horses were only slightly injured, and there was not even a fatal injury, which shows that this little brother is not a big traitor, go and check! ”
"And in the future, don't be unreasonable to your little brother and take care of your people!"
"Yes, my subordinates are commanded." Mo Feng retreated a little unwillingly, Duanmu Xuan washed up and went to bed and lay down, but his mind was full of Situ Yan's figure, and he couldn't fall asleep for a while, and he only fell asleep when he tossed his son. (To be continued.) )