After a break for lunch, everyone returned to the carriage, and then spent the whole afternoon on the road, stopping at a village when it was dark. The village is called Lingshui Village, and there are about 100 families, and they stay at the village chief's house, which is also the best house in the village.

Zhou Cheng paid two taels of silver, and the family cleaned up all the guest rooms, and then took out a few catties of meat and a dozen eggs stored at home, and immediately killed two big hens and gave them to the two little ones who were in charge of cooking. The farmhouse has little seasoning, but with these meat and eggs, it can be regarded as a good dinner.

Zhao Yiyun is not very picky, he has been in better health these days, and he is not as picky as before when he eats, and he stopped after eating a shallow bowl of rice in a small bowl the size of a palm.

Du Qiyue didn't have much appetite, no matter how good the shock absorption in the carriage was, it was still bumpy, Du Qiyue sat for almost an hour in the afternoon, only to feel that his bones were upside down. Later, although he slept lying down, the more uncomfortable he slept the more tired he became, and now he felt very tired and couldn't eat anything at all.

After returning to the room, Qiu'er saw that Du Qiyue was very tired, so she said: "Lang Jun, you must not have traveled far, I will pour you some hot water, soak your feet well, and it should be much better to sleep." ”

"Then go and get me water to wash my feet, I'm tired to death." Du Qiyue lay on the bed and said listlessly, he really wants to take a hot bath to relax his muscles and bones now, but unfortunately the conditions do not allow it, so he can only soak his feet.

Qiu'er immediately went to fetch footwater to put it on the edge of the bed, and then squatted down to help Du Qiyue take off her shoes. Du Qiyue moved her feet a little unaccustomedly, but in the end she did not refuse Qiu'er's service, and said that she was letting people do foot baths. When soaking her feet, Qiu'er simply massaged Du Qiyue, and when she finished soaking her feet, Du Qiyue felt that the whole person was much more relaxed, at least the soreness on her body was relieved a lot.

"Du Langjun, don't you feel better?" Qiu'er asked after returning from pouring the footwater.

"Yes, it's better, you should be able to get a good night's sleep. By the way, how are you going to sleep in my bed? Du Qiyue patted the quilt under him and asked, he slept in the village chief's grandson's room, with only a small wooden bed, just enough for him to sleep alone.

"Da Mao and I just lay on the floor, it's not cold now, just lay a quilt." Qiu'er said nonchalantly, he used to follow Wu Mingyao to do errands, but he never had his turn to sleep in bed, the bluestone floor tiles in winter were cold, and he still slept with a blanket at night, and now it is really not a problem to lay on the floor in this kind of weather.

"Everyone else sleeps like this?" Du Qiyue asked.

"Zhou Cheng and a few little guys who are favored by the master are anxious for someone to have a bed, and the others are all on the floor." Qiu'er said, while skillfully spreading the quilt that she had just picked up from the car on the ground.

Du Qiyue originally thought that he would not be able to sleep after sleeping for a night, but he didn't know anything about sleeping for a long time after lying down, and he didn't wake up until he was called several times by Qiu'er early the next morning.

At this time, the sky was still bright, because the village they were going to today was very far away from Lingshui Village, so they had to leave early, so that they could reach it when it was dark, so everyone ate a little breakfast casually and hurriedly got into the carriage.

For the next four days, as on the first day, except for the noon meal, when you could get off the carriage, the rest of the day was on the road, and at night you stayed in a farmhouse or inn. Just when Du Qiyue almost had the illusion that this was the way to go, they encountered heavy rain on the sixth day.

In fact, when I got up in the morning, the weather was not very good, it looked like it was going to rain, but it really didn't take long for Lu Tian to rain lightly, because I was prepared in advance, so everyone didn't pay much attention to the light rain. But I didn't expect the rain to get heavier and heavier at noon, and finally it turned into a downpour.

The raindrops of beans smashed on the carriage with a dense and heavy thumping sound, and the yellow mud-paved road soon formed puddles of various sizes, and the road surface began to become muddy. The speed of the horses was getting slower and slower, and Zhou Cheng, who was anxious to lead the way in front, turned red, he raised his whip and whipped it hard on the horse's buttocks, and then shouted behind him: "Everyone let the horse go quickly, this road may not be smooth, we must rush to the town before dark!" ”

Du Qiyue nestled in the carriage, and suddenly his chest jumped when he heard Zhou Cheng's shout, there were indeed rumors in the village where they stayed yesterday that this journey was not smooth, but nothing happened to the people in their village, so it is really uncertain, but this still makes people feel a little frightened, especially in the current situation.

The carriage walked another way with such difficulty, and listening to the sound of the rain, Du Qiyue finally relaxed, and tilted his stool to plan to take a nap.

At this time, a horse roared suddenly, and the carriage in which Du Qiyue was sitting suddenly stopped, and under the action of inertia, his whole person rushed forward, and he almost fell face down. However, he did not care that he was frightened, and opened the window and looked out. I saw about twenty burly men come out of the grass on the side of the road and stop at the front and back of the team, each of these people was holding a guy in their hands, with a hideous smile on their faces, and they looked at it that the person who came was not good.

Where had Du Qiyue seen this kind of battle, his frightened heart thumped, he didn't dare to look at it more, he immediately closed the window, but his ears were pricked up, listening carefully to the movement outside.

Zhou Cheng was also taken aback, he knew that there might not be much peace on the way, but who knew that this had not yet left Qinan County, so he came out like this. However, Zhou Cheng has also seen the world, and knows that this kind of robber generally only gives money to buy the road and will not hurt people, so he quickly calmed down, made a gesture to a man who looked like a leader, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are from the Marquis of Jingyuan's Mansion in the capital, and we are returning to Beijing for the funeral this time, please be accommodating to all the heroes, let us be glaurel." ”

After Zhou Cheng finished speaking, he glanced at a small guy on the side, and the little guy immediately took out two ingots and five taels of silver from his arms and handed them over. A robber standing next to him immediately reached out and took the two ingots of silver, put them in his mouth and bit them, and after making sure that they were true, he handed them to the man who led him, "Boss, it's true, it's ten taels of silver." ”

Ten taels of silver is already a lot of money to buy a road, if it weren't for Zhou Cheng's worry about getting into trouble, he wouldn't be so generous. Under normal circumstances, after receiving so much silver, and having the name of the Marquis of Jingyuan's Mansion, these robbers should get out of the way, but the robber leader took the money and turned it in his hand, but he had no intention of leaving.

Zhou Cheng frowned, thinking that these people were too ignorant of the rules of the road, but the weather was too bad, and seeing that it was about to get dark, Zhou Cheng had no intention of entanglement with these people, so he gave another look to the little guy just now. So the little man took out two more ingots and five taels of silver, and handed them over.

"It's getting late, please give way to all the heroes, let us pass." Zhou Cheng said again.

The bandit leader spoke this time, he pointed to the two carriages that Zhao Yiyun was sitting in, and said to a group of subordinates: "Since these masters are so generous, then how can we not accept this love, little ones, go to that carriage and see what good things are inside." ”

Zhou Cheng panicked, and hurriedly shouted: "It's our young master sitting there, how much money do you want to discuss." ”

The robbers didn't listen, and when Zhou Cheng spoke, two of them had already rushed to the front of the carriage, pushed away the driver of the car, and stretched out their hands to pull the car door. Who knew that the little guy who was pushed down hit the horse's ass hard when he rolled down, which frightened the horse, and raised his leg to a robber on the side while neighing loudly.

Everyone did not expect this kind of change, the robber was defenseless, he was kicked in the hoof solidly, the bones in his chest "clicked", and then a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fell to the ground and lost his breath.

This is good, those robbers rushed over in a swarm regardless of everything, and the little guys were afraid that the robbers would hurt Zhao Yiyun in the carriage, so they all rushed over. I don't know who was the first to make the move, and the two gangs fought in an instant.

When the robbers saw that their people were dead, their eyes were already red, and they raised their hands and slashed and slashed. Zhao Yiyun's subordinates will also be skilled, and they will pull out the guy from the truck and hit it back. Then there was chaos, shouting and screaming everywhere, and soon people were injured and blood was scattered everywhere.

All the horses were frightened, running and jumping, Du Qiyue sat in the carriage and clung to the stool, but he was still thrown around, and the bones on his body hurt. He had never encountered such a thing, and for a moment he was completely overwhelmed, and he could only rely on instinct to try to fix his body.

The two horses that had pulled Du Qiyue's carriage quickly got out of the place where they were fighting, and they rushed into the woods like crazy, because the carriage vibrated more and more violently because of the different directions, and the whole body of the carriage was creaking, as if the next moment the carriage would fall apart. The windows and doors of the car were slammed open, and Du Qiyue screamed in fright when he saw that he was rushing down the mountain.

In order not to let himself be killed by these two horses, Du Qiyue immediately took out his package from under the car, and then jumped off the carriage.

With a "bang", Du Qiyue fell to the ground, and the severe pain spread to all his limbs, almost numbing him. In such a situation, Du Qiyue should not have been able to get up in a short time, but when he heard the screams of Mama Shu Ci and Qin Yun not far away, his body was suddenly full of strength. Du Qiyue stood up from the ground with a "swish", then took out a sharp bone chopping knife from the package and rushed to the place where the sound of fighting came.

The carriage that Zhao Yiyun was sitting in was pulled by three horses, and at this time he was also frightened and wanted to run away, but because the three horses wanted to run in different directions, the carriage could not move forward at all, and could only rotate in place. The three men in the carriage were staggered, and then the carriage suddenly tilted to the side, and Qin Yun, who was sitting in the doorway, fell to the ground from the doorway that had been knocked open.

The little guys led by Zhao Yiyun have all been on the battlefield and have excellent skills, although the number is not as many as the robbers, but they still killed more than a dozen robbers in a short time. The rest of the robbers knew that they must have no way to live, and they had already killed red eyes, and someone saw Qin Yun, who was helpless, lying on the ground, so he raised his big knife and slashed over.

"Ahh Qin Yun only had time to scream when he saw a blood-stained knife slashing at his head, and he could almost catch the bloody knife wind slashing through his neck.

Qin Yun thought that he would definitely die, and when he was desperate to close his eyes, suddenly a black light passed by his ears, it was a sharp bone cleaver, which spun in the air and flew straight to the robber's chest, only to hear a "poof", the bone knife was not in the abdomen, and the robber spat out a mouthful of blood, and fell at Qin Yun's feet.

"Ahh Qin Yun screamed again, and her eyes fainted.

Du Qiyue, who threw out the bone cleaver not far away, was not much better than Qin Yun, seeing that his own one was inserted into a person's body, blood kept pouring out of the wound, and his whole person was paralyzed to the ground, lying on the grass and vomiting.

I don't know how long it took, but when Du Qiyue felt that he had even vomited out his internal organs, the fight was finally over, all the robbers were killed, and the little guys who were not injured much began to clean up the mess. The surroundings became eerily calm, and Du Qiyue took a few deep breaths, suppressing the feeling of nausea in his body, before stumbling over.

The three horses pulling the carriage had been pacified, Zhao Yiyun and Shu Cima were both sitting in the carriage with a bad face, Du Qiyue panted and ran over and asked, "Zhao Gongzi, are you okay?" ”

Although Zhao Yiyun's face was bad, there was no fear on his face, he glanced at Qin Yun, who was lying on the side and had not woken up, nodded to Du Qiyue and said, "Thank you Du Langjun for saving Qin Yun's life, it's raining heavily outside, Du Langjun should come to the carriage." ”

Thinking of the scene just now, Du Qiyue trembled slightly, he struggled to climb into the carriage, and then said with a pale face: "I... I didn't actually want to kill, I didn't expect the knife to be thrown so accurately. ”

Zhao Yiyun knew that Du Qiyue's reaction after killing for the first time, and it was almost like this when he killed someone for the first time, so he comforted: "Du Langjun, these robbers have seen blood, they have killed others, committed a capital crime, and they should have died." You killed one of them, but you saved a lot of people who might be mutilated by them, so you don't have to worry too much, you did the right thing, you just worked as an executioner for a while. ”

Du Qiyue knew that what Zhao Yiyun said was right, but he was still afraid and uneasy in his heart.

The servants quickly cleaned up all the corpses on the ground, and the blood was almost washed away by the heavy rain, and the people chased the horses that had just run away, and then hurried on the road.

Although the carriage that Du Qiyue was sitting in did not fall under the mountain and became shattered, it was also knocked apart, and there was no way to sit at all, so he had to sit in Zhao Yiyun's carriage for the rest of the journey.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the rain outside had not stopped, Du Qiyue was sitting wrapped in a quilt, shivering with cold. The clothes on his body were completely soaked by the heavy rain just now, and the other clothes in the broken carriage were also all wet, and there was nothing to replace, even if he could change other people's clothes, it would be inconvenient in this carriage, so he had to take off his coat and shoes, and wore his soaked underwear and pants to stand next to each other, only to feel that his body was cold inside.