(744) Rogues
- These three are not dressed as soldiers, they have withered grass-like hair, tied haphazardly behind their heads, and the same messy stubble-like beards that drown Houdun's lip line. The coarse sand grinds out the skin, and there is not much vicissitudes, but the eyes under the eyebrows are more fierce.
The three riders still had ropes, knives, and other things hanging from their saddles, and it was not difficult to tell that they were probably rogues in the vicinity. The three riders were running behind them and following the five runners, carrying slightly rusty iron knives in their hands, and there was a fierce glint in their eyes.
A group of eight people is not weak.
Lin Shan looked back at Chen Jiu, who was standing condescendingly on the dirt slope, and looked at the look in her eyes, obviously judging the identity of the eight uninvited guests.
"Just stay there." Chen Jiu was about to walk down the dirt slope, but was stopped by Lin Shan.
The last time I left the town and walked so far, I didn't meet the nest of rogues that the townspeople often talk about, but I didn't expect to meet them today. Lin Shan felt strange in his heart, although he was not afraid of color, but he had to be prepared in his heart.
In fact, the rogues will also pay attention to some rules and regulations when they commit crimes and loot, and if there is no news worth looting in advance, they will not be so popular. Three of the eight people rode horses, and it took about one-third of the manpower of a small village to move out of this group of belongings.
But looking at the behavior of this group of eight people, although they were fierce, they did not directly rush into the town with a whip, maybe there was something else for this trip.
Unsure in which direction the group of eight people would go, Lin Shan stood still the moment he found them. Blocking Chen Jiu's move to get closer, Lin Shan turned his gaze and looked at the people with a smooth expression, his perspective shifted slightly, and he stopped at the one with the most lazy expression among the five minions who ran forward.
If they were just passing by, if they really did something unusual, it was obvious that the minion with the most casual expression and the weakest kung fu would be the first to take down.
A group of rogues, either on horseback or running, approached quickly, and the three men on horseback, who were obviously the leaders, also took a closer look at Lin Shan. The three rogue leaders soon recognized that Lin Shan's dress style was obviously not local. But they didn't stop for interrogation because of this chance encounter, but only slowed down their pace slightly, and "kick and tap" walked over, rolling up a thin cloud of dust on the ground.
Looking at the backs of the eight people walking away, Lin Shan's eyes showed a trace of doubt. It's fleeting. Then he looked sideways at Chen Jiu, who was squatting on the dirt slope with a defensive face, and said slowly: "They're gone, you come down."
Chen Jiu stood up. As soon as he took a step forward, he suddenly seemed to remember something, retracted his steps, looked at the forest cedars down the slope blankly, moved his lips, and stopped talking.
Lin Shan looked at her like this, and soon remembered the inexplicable love that was twisted between each other just now, he was also stunned for a moment, and then smiled with relief. Seeing that the old wine refused to move. He walked up to her.
This time, she didn't choose to leave.
"Wine." Lin Shan said softly, "I seem to understand something. ”
He said this very implicitly, but Chen Jiu's heart throbbed, and he vaguely heard what he understood.
However. Just as Lin Shan was about to finish the second half of the sentence, something happened abruptly......
Sou!
I don't know when, I don't know from what angle, suddenly an arrow shot out!
The somewhat twisted arrows of the wooden pole flew with a hint of rust, perhaps precisely because the zuò was not well-made. And because the firing distance is too long, it is slightly offset when hitting the intended target...... The iron head of the arrow almost scraped the scalp of the old wine, cut the ribbon of her hair, and pried away the silver hairpin of her sideburns......
A green silk was torn apart, Chen Jiu was stunned, and before she came back to her senses, nor did she wait for her long hair raised by the breeze to fall slowly, her whole person was pushed down by a force and rolled down the low slope.
When her body rolled to the ground and stopped, the pain caused Chen Jiu to come back to her senses, and then she heard a whistling sound overhead, and another arrow flew over, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw that the arrow was pierced into the sand a few feet away.
If you don't lie down in time, I wonder if you can avoid the life-killing arrow later?
After dodging the second arrow, Lin Shan quickly pulled her up from the ground, dragged her behind his back, and then turned his head to look in the direction where the arrow was fired.
Although both of them were in pain, this was not the time to rest or ask each other questions. If you just lie on the ground and move slowly, it may be difficult to dodge the next third and fourth arrows.
Of the eight rogues who had just passed, two of them actually came back, and they were the second of the five minions who walked forward on foot.
Looking at the sinister smiles on the faces of these two minions, you don't have to ask to know what they want to do. But the situation in front of him was actually what Lin Shan had expected when he watched the eight people pass by just now, but the two cold arrows were too insidious, and the surprise on Lin Shan's face only paused for a moment, and then he regained his calm.
Lin Shan didn't look at the old wine behind him, but said slowly: "If there are arrows, you just have to protect yourself."
Standing a few feet away from each other, the two rogues were armed with bows and arrows, and the angles were so wide that it was impossible to guess exactly which angle their arrows would be aimed at. Chen Jiu would only give one or two close-quarters defensive punches and kicks, and Lin Shan would not be relieved to let her stay too far away.
Chen Jiu, who was walking on the side behind him, only responded when he heard this, and didn't say anything more. Although she couldn't tell what the basis for such obedience to him was, in front of the most advanced long-range weapons in the world, she only felt that his back was safe, and she would not question it at all, he would say this, and he must have already had a countermeasure.
Lin Shan led Chen Jiu and slowly approached the two rogues with half-matched bows and arrows, and said slowly: "What are these two heroes? Did the two of us offend the two heroes?"
The words seemed to be respectful, but the tone in the words was a little cold.
The two rogues were accustomed to bullying the weak and bullying the less, and they thought that the two arrows just now must have frightened the two people who were whispering on the dirt slope, and then the man who seemed to have some symptoms of deficiency ran away at the moment, leaving the woman two steps behind, waiting for the two brothers to come forward and pick up the leak......
Unexpectedly, this man was not only not afraid, but also walked over slowly!
This development of events is too different from what I expected, right?
The two rogues couldn't help but be stunned.
But after all, this is not the first time they have done this kind of thing, they have a lot of experience, and they are not too slow to react when they encounter an accident, and the two of them quickly set up their bows and arrows again. When the distance is not closer. The effect of these two tools in hand is still very strong.
When Chen Jiu saw this scene, he couldn't help but say, "Be careful......"
Lin Shan didn't seem to pay attention, but suddenly quickened his pace and strode towards the two minions whose bowstrings were half-opened!
The two rogues were slightly stunned again......
Only this moment, Lin Shan has taken five steps forward!
The two rogues finally came to their senses. The fierce light in his eyes was revealed......
Lin Shan's three more steps!
The fingers of the two rogues tightened the bowstring. The green tendons on the back of the hand are slightly protruding, the bow is bent and the moon is full, and the two arrows are fired together!
Lin Shan swept forward at the same time. Without slackening his slackening to observe the hands of the two rogues on the bowstring on the opposite side, he saw that their fingers holding the arrow bundle arched slightly, and his body had also deviated slightly to the right.
The arrow to the left side of his chest and heart flew past his shoulder, and he slashed at a piece of blood-stained clothing with great mensity, but he didn't care at all, and only devoted all his energy to his right hand. The wide-sleeved sleeve rolled up into the sleeve with another arrow shot at his right chest.
The sound of "hissing" clothing tearing came, and the cloth was no better than leather armor, under the cutting force of sharp arrows. The rolled-up sleeves were cut into strips of cloth......
But it didn't matter, because Lin Shan managed to sweep an arrow away from his sleeve.
An inferior arrow is just an arrow in the hands of the rogue, and it needs to be shot with a bowstring. But if such an arrow with a slightly curved rod bone falls into Lin Shan's hands, it will be like a soul hook in Bai Wuchang's hand!
Two indescribable voices came from the other side.
Chen Jiu, who was still two feet away from Lin Shan's back, frowned. She could hear what the voice meant.
From the moment Lin Shan grabbed the arrow, Chen Jiu knew that he had murderous intent, and the result could be imagined.
She hadn't seen him kill in years, and in recent years, the only sight she had seen was him wounded, bleeding, sick. Perhaps now he is killing these two rogues with ill intentions with great speed. From a certain point of view, it can be proved that he has indeed returned to his former state of six or seven points. But despite this, she was not used to hearing the dull sound of a sharp weapon cutting through flesh.
Two bows flew out.
Two men fell straight to the ground.
There were two deep bloody cuts on the dirty necks of these two rogues, and the severance of the white trachea was faintly visible.
For those who intend to kill, Lin Shan has always been extremely ruthless, and he feels that there is no chance to relax. The large blood vessels and trachea in the necks of the two rogues were cut together, and the speed of death was also extremely fast.
Lin Shan didn't want to get his hands on these rogues, he had already let them go once before, but they had to find them by themselves, and the intention was obviously to go towards Chen Jiu, so it was no wonder that he was ruthless.
Seeing that the threat was lifted, Chen Jiu quickly approached, and soon found the arrow wound on Lin Shan's left shoulder, and said anxiously: "It's injured on the shoulder, have you brought medicine?"
Lin Shan only glanced at his shoulder injury, and felt that the injury was not too deep, but the blood overflowed a lot, and in a few moments, half of the clothes on his shoulder had been wet, and he already felt thirsty. Despite this, he didn't care, and only said to Chen Jiu Wenyan: "Civilian clothes come out, and the sleeves are empty." This place should not be stayed for long, and you must go back quickly. ”
Only two of the eight rogues came, and although they had all been killed by his own men, Lin Shan was not sure if the other six would return. He remembered that the group of eight people just now not only brought two bows and arrows, but also that the other party had three horses to travel on their behalf, if he killed a horse pistol at this time, even if he could split into two, he would not be able to protect Chen Jiu.
Besides, he had a crack in his shoulder, and the injury seemed a little strange, and he had to go back to deal with it as much as possible, so as not to delay the injury.
The two were just about to return hand in hand, when suddenly there was a burst of "step, step, step!" The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and the other six rogues had returned!
Before the six of them could get closer, they had already seen two accomplices lying on the ground, as well as two large pools of blood, and even a fool could know what this meeting meant.
The first three leaders of the rogue who were riding on horseback were already furious, and one of them opened his eyes and said angrily: "Sure enough, you killed a few of them!" I want your lives to pay for it! ”
Lin Shan noticed the word "several" mentioned in the words of the rogue leader, and his calm face did not change at all, but a trace of doubt floated in his heart. At the same time, he pulled Chen Jiu behind his back again with his backhand, and the hand holding the blood-stained arrow tightened.
Seeing that Lin Shan didn't respond, the rogue people felt more and more that he was acquiescing, and another rogue leader burst out: "Die!" Pulling the reins, swinging his knife and kicking the stirrup, he rushed over.
Lin Shan only had an inferior arrow with an iron head and wooden in his hand, which was the opponent of this sword-wielding rider with extremely strong momentum.
But he was still calm, and his spirit was highly condensed.
His eyes were like thorns. Staring at a certain point in the horse's front legs, he clenched the arrow in his hand, and grasped the rhythm of the galloping horse, about to swing down......
At this moment, the sound of arrows suddenly came from overhead. The sound quality is slightly sharp. The direction is diametrically opposite. Several arrows were fired at the Liukou.
"Phew!"
"Poof!"
It was the dull sound of a sharp weapon piercing deep into the flesh, except for the rogue leader who was already very close to the forest cedar. The rest of the five rogues who were still three feet away were either dismounted by the strong energy carried by the arrows, and they were either immortal or crippled, or they were directly nailed to the ground, twisted twice, and their lives gradually dissipated.
Although the leader of the rogue who rushed to Lin Shan's horse avoided the arrow, the result was not optimistic.
Lin Shan seemed to stumble for a moment, but in fact, he broke a hamstring in the front leg of the rogue leader's mount at an extremely dangerous angle. However, the horse's leg bones were as hard as stone, and with a very fast forward momentum, it was just a touch. The only weapon in his hand, the wooden arrow, was discounted.
One of the galloping horse's front legs was demobilized, and the horse's body was crooked, and it knelt forward, causing the rogue leader on the horse's back to fall out. The big knife that slashed at Lin Shan's neck was also deflected, cutting off only a strand of his hair.
This scene made Chen Jiu's heart beat wildly. Cold sweat dripping down his back.
If it weren't for the sudden turn of the situation, the next moment she might not care about Lin Shan's advice, and she would have stepped forward desperately to block the knife for him!
Lin Shan's guards arrived in time, and the two crossbows were fired, and the five people were solved in a moment. The rest of the rogue leader who fell off his horse is a matter of making up for it.
It was Jiang Chao and two attendants who arrived in time. When he got closer, Jiang Chao also noticed the wound on Lin Shan's shoulder, and hurriedly took out the gold sore medicine he carried with him and applied it to bandage it.
Lin Shan cast his gaze far away, and shouted at the two attendants who were cleaning up the mess: "Leave two alive, and kill all the others, including the horses."
The old horse knows the way, in order to avoid future troubles, this horse can not stay.
Although horses are valuable in this deserted place, Lin Shan's party will leave tomorrow, and it is useless to stay.
As for why there are two live mouths, it is to facilitate the comparison of confessions.
……
Although Lin Shan's shoulder injury was treated in a timely manner, on the way back to his residence, Jiang Chao had already seen that this was not a deep wound, and the blood loss rate was a little frightening.
By the time he returned to his residence, the blood on Lin Shan's face had faded, and he was so pale that it was worrying, and his eyes were full of fatigue.
Lin Shan changed into loose clothes and sat in a recliner, and the former imperial physician Wu Xue re-cleaned his wounds, and after bandaging them, he saw that he had fallen asleep with his head tilted.
Wu Ze sighed softly, gave Chen Jiu and Jiang Chao in the house a look, and led the two out of the house to the small courtyard outside.
Wu Ze touched the sparse strands of beard on his chin, looked at Jiang Chao and asked, "Do you see it?"
Jiang Chao didn't speak, just nodded, and a trace of sadness appeared in his eyes.
"I can't say much about it." Wu Xue lowered his hand and touched his beard, thought about it for a while, and then said: "The situation that the old pharmacist said is gradually being fulfilled, although it is worrying, but we are helpless. Tomorrow you will go together, and you will have to be more cautious along the way. ”
Jiang Chao's mood was heavy, but he still just nodded and didn't speak.
Wu Ze lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then he reached out and pulled out a cloth bag in his arms. Looking at the style of this cloth bag, there is a long strap at the opening, which has been sewn in several layers, strong but also a little stiff. This cloth bag, which has a simple appearance and some slight damage at the corners, was actually hung around his neck by Wu Ze as a gem pendant and hidden in the inside of his clothes, which seemed to be quite precious.
Wu Xue took out a small bottle from the cloth bag, handed it to Jiang Chao, and then said, "This is a blood bulwark, a high-coagulant blood medicine refined with poison. Originally, I didn't plan to come up with something like this, but I don't know what will happen in the future, so I'll give it to you after thinking about it. Remember, this can only be used to save your life, and you don't have to use it as in today's situation. ”
Poison is a poison that seals the throat at the entrance, so is the blood poison a medicine?
Jiang Chao hesitated slightly, knowing that Wu Ze also had good intentions, and finally reached out to take the small bottle. His fingertips couldn't help but tremble slightly, and he hesitated and asked, "What harm will be done if you use this medicine?"
"Poison." Wu Ze sighed with emotion, "Take one pill, and immediately paralyze the whole body." Just like the result of drinking water to quench thirst. But. To drain a person's blood, it only takes about a moment, and when the qi and blood are exhausted, there is no way to return to heaven. But if you stop the bleeding at the cost of poisoning, and hang your life with medicine afterwards, you can always survive for one or two more days, and you will have one or two more chances of rescue. ”
Jiang Chao's eyes widened slightly, and he asked again, "Then who can cure this poison?" Old pharmacist?"
"Maybe so." Wu Ze said softly, "This medicine was actually given to me by him, and he seemed to be a little reluctant at the time. I don't know if it's because this medicine is too precious, or if there's something he can't bear about it. ”
Chen Jiu, who had been standing aside and had not interjected, finally couldn't help but say at this time: "With such a powerful medicine, how dare the old pharmacist ......?"
She was only halfway through her sentence before she could go on.
Although pharmacist Liao Shi has always been heavy-handed in medicine, he has not missed a single one of his actions over the years. If you deny the methods of this drug ghost. As early as three years ago, Lin Shan had to die.
Jiang Chao pondered for a moment and then said, "Since this is the case, it seems that there is no difference between using it and not using it, unless the old pharmacist can accompany Master Lin like a shadow." But how is this possible, the old pharmacist is so wandering. ”
Wu Xue sighed and said, "This may be the reason why the old pharmacist is reluctant to hand over this bottle of medicine to you personally. He fears that if you tell him how to use it, you will detain him. ”
The reason why the pharmacist Liao Shi returned to the Medicine Valley was related to the strange family disease that the Yan family had been entangled with for four generations, so the matter was covered up very strictly. Unfortunately, among the three people present, the other two knew that only Wu Xue was still hidden.
But then again, Wu Xue really didn't need to know about it.
Chen Jiu and Jiang Chao knew about the Yan family's strange illness, so they forgave Liao Shi for playing a little trick in order to get out as much as possible. Yan Xingzhi's illness really can't be delayed, Lin Shan's side, if he pays more attention to it, it shouldn't be a big deal.
The bottle of blood left by Liao Shi may not come in handy at all.
The three people in the courtyard were silent for a while, and at this moment, the voice of Lin Shan's voice came from inside the house:
"Jiang Chao, come in."
At this time, the sky is shining outside, if it is in normal times, it may be after lunch, people are in a lazy state, but after all, it is not the same as the time when the night is just right to sleep. After taking a nap, I heard the sparse sound of conversation outside, and Lin Shan, who was sitting on a recliner, naturally woke up.
Sitting up straight from the recliner, Lin Shan looked at Jiang Chao, who had just entered the house, and said, "Have those two rogues been tried?"
Jiang Chao bowed slightly and replied: "The trial is underway, the Shanliang trial of the minion, and the division of the trial of the rogue leader, separated in two places."
Lin Shan nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Be quick, it's best to solve this matter today." If the trial can't be brought out, and we can't delay our affairs, we can only kill those two rogues, so we might as well use a heavy sentence. ”
"Yes, my subordinates will go and pass the word." Jiang Chao responded, glanced sideways at Chen Jiu, and then left.
Wu Ze also realized that there was a certain problem in the house, so he only said "go to the back kitchen to boil medicine", and followed Jiang Chao with interest.
Now, there were only two people left in the room.
The two people who were still squeezing on the love just now.
For more than ten years, two people who have been clutched, intermittent, and unsympathetic.
Chen Jiu lowered his head slightly, twisted his sleeves, only glanced at Lin Shan a few times, and said in a suppressed voice: "I'll go cook you a bowl of soup." Then I was ready to leave.
"Wine." Lin Shan stopped her without hesitation, "I don't have the appetite to eat now, can you talk to me now?"
Chen Jiu's heart moved somewhere, but he was still calm on the surface, and only said lightly: "What to say?"
Lin Shan didn't answer, but suddenly sighed and said, "It seems that you are disgusted with me."
With that, he relaxed his shoulders and sat back in his chair. Maybe he didn't pay attention to his posture, and the shoulder injury hit the chair back a little harder, causing him to frown slightly, but he quickly let go.
When Chen Jiu saw this scene, his heart was also tugging, and he couldn't help but approach him, dragged a stool to sit beside him, took out a handkerchief and wiped the slight cold sweat on his forehead for him.
Observing the tired look on the face of the man in front of him at a very close distance, Chen Jiu knew that things had come to this point, and he couldn't help but sigh.
"And what do you want to say?" Chen Jiu repeated the question again, but his tone was noticeably much more softened than before-
PS: What to say, tomorrow will be revealed. I'm so depressed at the thought that updating is equivalent to dropping my collection......
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