Chapter 171: Falling Short

Although Qingzhou City is a mountain city, the southeast and southeast sides outside the city are dominated by rare flat land, and occasionally there are some undulating hills. Only a mountain range rises in the north, connecting Longdi in the east to the foothills in the west, although the terrain is not high, but it also stretches for dozens of miles.

Lingshan is the most famous section of the northern suburbs, starting from Le'an Town, it takes more than an hour to reach the foot of the mountain. At this time, it is a good season for mountain climbing, and the ginkgo biloba leaves on the mountain make Lingshan as if wearing a golden armor as dazzling.

At this time, the sky is just bright, and the sun is shining on the leaves, shining a little bit. The mountain wind blew through, and there was a faint sound of human voice.

"Brother Wen, are you sure you read the map correctly? How do I feel more and more remote! ”

"Sister Feifei, you don't understand this, if you want to find them, how can there be clues on the pipeline, you can only look for them in the middle of nowhere."

"Really?" Nangong Feifei tilted her head, glanced at Wen Ziqi, who was opening the road in front, and asked with a puzzled expression, "How do I feel that you are putting gold on your face, and this place seems to have just passed." ”

Hearing this, Wen Ziqi hurriedly stopped and looked back, and when his eyes swept over Qin Keqing's face, he couldn't help but pause slightly, and hurriedly smiled, "Miss Qin, you had a good rest last night!" After saying that, he regretted it, but the words he said were like water spilled out, how could he say that he would take them.

I thought that I might eat a soft nail, but what I didn't expect was that Qin Keqing reached out and stroked his hair, raised his eyes and glanced lightly, and said with a chuckle: "If it weren't for a guest living next door who snored like thunder, I might have been able to rest better." ”

The wings were built side by side, Qin Keqing was in the middle, and Wen Ziqi and Nangong Feifei were on the left and right. Hearing this, Wen Ziqi smacked his tongue, looked up at Nangong Feifei, shook his head and said, "I didn't expect Feifei's sister, she seems to be weak, but in fact, she is so open-minded, unexpectedly..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Nangong Feifei's face pale, and he shouted, "Shut your mouth, I'm a yellow flower girl in the boudoir who is waiting for the word to be snoring like thunder by you, how can I see people!" ”

After saying that, he felt that he was still not relieved enough, but he didn't have a weapon in his hand, so he saw a stubborn stone a few steps away, and hurriedly took two steps forward and bent down to pick it up, and threw it towards Wen Ziqi.

For those who practice martial arts, their wrist strength is naturally not comparable to ordinary people, even Nangong Feifei, who looks delicate, has a sound of breaking the wind when she strikes a stubborn stone.

Although there was some anger in his heart, he didn't really hurt people, and the stubborn stone carried the sound of the wind whistling past Wen Ziqi's ears and flew to the mountain stream. Just when Wen Ziqi was surprised, an insult suddenly came from the mountain stream, "His grandmother, who threw the stone!" I've stoned Lao Tzu to death."

In the empty mountains, this sound came very abruptly, and the three people who were originally fighting were stunned for a moment, and after looking at each other, they each nodded. So he came to the side of the road in no particular order, and his eyes fell far away to the mountain stream.

I saw that in the depths of the dense forest, there were twenty people gathered together, and it was not difficult to guess from their tattered armor and scars that this group of people should be the group of bandits in Wu Qiong's mouth.

The armor that had been looking sluggish seemed to have spotted the three people on the top of the mountain, and they all stood up after pushing each other, and both sides were silent, looking at each other.

"Who are you?" A tall and majestic man with a bearded face asked, although his body was like iron, but he said that he was old and weak.

Lest Qin Keqing reveal his identity in advance, Wen Ziqi hurriedly replied, "I'm Lang Zhong from You Fang!" These two are my disciples. In just one moment, Wen Ziqi already knew that this group of people was by no means a deserter from the rout.

Nangong Feifei and Qin Keqing, who were standing on both sides, were slightly stunned at first when they heard his words, and then bowed their heads and expressed their agreement with his statement.

If they come up and report to their homes, they are very likely to be misunderstood, and now they are injured one by one, saying that they are Langzhong, which is tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow for them. This kind of on-the-spot reaction is really admirable to Qin Keqing.

Things were really as she thought, as soon as the soldiers in the mountain stream heard that the person was a wandering Langzhong, their faces were all happy, and the man who had just spoken hugged his fists from afar, and begged, "Please Mr. move over and take a look at my brothers?" ”

Wen Ziqi was overjoyed when he heard this, he wanted to come forward to ask, but he had no choice but to have no proper reason, but now when he heard the active invitation, he couldn't be excited. But his face pretended to be stagnant, his eyebrows were tightly locked, and he muttered, "In the past? ”

Although the two sides were not too close to each other, they could see each other's expressions clearly, and the man who spoke looked at the worried look on Wen Ziqi's face, and couldn't help but take a cool breath. Deep in the mountains and forests, everyone would be afraid of a group of them when they encountered them, so they hugged their fists again and said, "Sir, don't worry, we are not bad people, only because we encounter a vicious battle will we end up so embarrassed." ”

Qin Keqing was stunned when he heard this, then turned his head and glanced at Wen Ziqi, his expression was very admirable. I didn't know why he would mutter, but now I realized that this was an attempt to capture him.

The soldiers waiting for the echo in the mountain stream, seeing that this person was still indifferent, there was a soldier with a fierce personality, spit on the ground, scolded and said, "I already knew that it was these scum in the world who was protected, uncle, I didn't go to fight hard, didn't I see that we are all like this one by one, where are we still suspicious!" After that, he ignored the staring eyes of the talking man, and lay on the spot by himself.

Seeing that the time was almost there, Wen Ziqi sighed and raised his voice, "Officials, it's not that I don't want to go, but you are really a bit fierce, and I heard that there are bandits in this mountain, I don't know..."

Although the words were polite, but the suspicion was needless to say, when everyone heard it, this person was obviously suspecting that they were the bandits, and the man lying down was even more angry and scolded, "Let your mother's bullshit, Lao Tzu is the Weiyuan Tiger Army stationed in the northern Xinjiang on the emperor's salary, how can you be a scumbag like you who is suspicious of it?" ”

When Qin Keqing heard this, the look of surprise between his eyebrows suddenly appeared, it seemed that what Wen Ziqi said yesterday was right, so he whispered, "It's almost, let's go down." ”

Wen Ziqi, who already had this intention, naturally did not object, but he knew the importance of doing a full set of acts, so he hugged his fists at the people under the mountain, and replied respectfully, "Heroes, it was my fault before, I am here to compensate you for it, and I will go over to treat your injuries." After saying that, he really bowed respectfully, without the slightest intention of being pretentious.

Maybe he was pretending to be before, but this worship was sincere, and after the worship, he waved his hand and led the two of them along the sheep intestine path to the mountain stream. As we all know, it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, although it seems to be dozens of zhang apart, but it takes almost half a cup of tea to really walk.

Perhaps it was because the last apology had a role, and when the three of them came to the front of the soldiers, everyone was straight, as if they had never been injured, and even those who had lost one of their legs were stood up on their feet.

Seeing this scene, the three of them froze in place, Qin Keqing's eyes were even hotter, and he said, "You don't need to be so polite, we don't have an official here, just a civilian." ”

To her surprise, everyone seemed to have not heard it at all, and the man who spoke before shook his head and raised his voice, "We are not waiting for this, the previous gentleman said that we are heroes, which flatters us." But we have nothing to do with it, so we can only get up and chat to express our gratitude. ”

Wen Ziqi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Heroes, don't say that, this can hurt me," Chong Nangong Feifei lost a look as he spoke, and continued, "The three of me are walking in a hurry, and the dry food on my body is not too much, but there is still one cake per person." As he spoke, he untied a bulging burden from his body and handed it over.

At the same time, Nangong Feifei also took a step forward and handed the burden in her hand to the man closest to her, but she found that this person was covering his head with his only hand, and blood droplets were oozing from between his fingers from time to time.

Seeing that a burden was being handed over, the man looked back at the man who had spoken before, and asked, "Angkor?" ”

The man called Angkor turned around and swept the people behind him, looking a little helpless, and some people were even like drums, gurgling and thinking. smiled awkwardly and said, "Go on, we're all like this, don't care about the so-called face, besides, Mr. shouldn't be a bad person," he said while reaching out to take the burden handed over by Wen Ziqi.

As soon as this burden arrived, the man surnamed Wu had a sudden change in expression, hurriedly raised his eyes to look at Wen Ziqi, and asked in surprise, "Sir, you just said that dry food is insufficient?" But the weight of this package doesn't look like it's underprepared! As soon as the guards behind him heard this, they all looked solemn and looked at the three of them with a wary expression.

Wen Ziqi raised his eyes and looked at everyone's expressions, and couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and secretly thought to himself, this time the previous efforts were all lost, and the little goodwill that he had finally built up was completely dispersed by his own lie. Now, if you lie and deceive each other again, Gong is afraid that there will be a fight.

Thinking of this, Wen Ziqi clasped his fists with both hands and said calmly, "I can't hide it, the three of us are here for you." Speaking of this, he hurriedly raised his hands high, signaling that he was not hostile, for fear that there would be some misunderstanding, and then said, "The food in this package is also specially prepared for you, pancakes with salt!" ”

The man surnamed Wu looked surprised between his eyebrows, raised his hand to weigh the package in his hand, and asked suspiciously, "I came here for us, and I specially prepared enough dry food, who are you?" By the time he reached the last sentence, his voice had improved significantly, but because he could only rely on the bark of wild grass and trees for several days, some of the lack of qi seemed a bit nondescript.