Chapter 60: The Puzzle of the Beggar Gang (I)
After several days of running, Ouyang He and Lu Lingxuan came to Chengdu smoothly, and they arrived with a little fan sister of Ouyang He, Xiahou regret, who wanted to follow Ouyang He and Lu Lingxuan down the mountain without wavering no matter how persuaded by others when she was in the Firmament Palace.
After the carriage of the three girls arrived at the door of an inn, Lu Lingxuan carefully helped Xiahou Cheng to get out of the carriage, while Ouyang He, who had been driving the carriage before, walked quickly to the inn counter to book a room with the baggage they were carrying. When they finally walked into the room and settled down, Lu Lingxuan took off her shoes and hugged Xiahou Cheng and lay on the bed no longer wanting to move.
"Sister He, can my sister ask you something? Can you sit down and take a break like we did? Lu Lingxuan looked at Ouyang He, who was folding their clothes neatly in the room, and felt a little hard to imagine that Ouyang He, who was the owner of Yufeng Mountain Villa, would do these things that only people would do.
"Hehe, I'm just not too tired, you guys have a good rest first, see that Sister Xiahou is already sleepy and asleep." Ouyang He smiled and said to Lu Lingxuan with a caring tone, her hand still couldn't rest at this time.
Early in the morning of the second day, the three of them came to the Juyi Village, where the beggar gang meeting was about to be held. Because Ouyang He had applied some scar effects on his face with Lu Lingxuan's help, and at the same time, they had all changed into clothes that were no different from ordinary beggars, so they did not attract the attention of others after entering the village.
"Yo, it turns out that Miss is back, the helper is now discussing with the elders in the front hall, Miss please wait in the side hall for a while, and the little one will go to report to the helper immediately." A disciple stepped forward to greet Lu Lingxuan after recognizing him.
Lu Lingxuan was originally a little impatient and wanted to break into the front hall directly to find Lu Lin, but because they were forcibly stopped by some disciples, the three of them had to go to the side hall to wait.
"You girl, you've been crazy enough outside, and you finally remembered to come back to see your father?" After a while, Lu Lin, who was holding a turquoise dog-beating stick, came to the side hall and said to Lu Lingxuan with a serious face.
"Oh, Dad, my daughter is just traveling to increase her knowledge, and when my daughter has more experience in the rivers and lakes, she can help her father take care of the affairs of the gang in the future!" Lu Lingxuan said to Lu Lin in a mischievous tone.
Lu Lin showed a helpless and doting smile, and then he asked Lu Lingxuan about their identities after noticing Ouyang He and Xiahou's repentance, and Lu Lingxuan replied that they were just a pair of sisters that he rescued from human traffickers in Fuzhou, and he temporarily left them by his side because he saw them pitiful.
"By the way, Dad, there is one more thing I want to ask my father when I come back this time, which is about ......"
Before Lu Lingxuan finished speaking, a beggar gang disciple hurriedly came to the side hall to report to Lu Linyu that the helmsman and elder of the beggar gang rudder in Shu had gathered in the courtyard, waiting for the gang leader to show up to preside over the meeting.
"Heh, they came quite quickly, Xuan'er, you also heard it, everyone is waiting for Dad now, you should wait for Dad to talk to Dad after the beggar gang conference is over."
Although Lu Lin didn't wait for Lu Lingxuan to continue to say something about Ouyang He, he then asked Lu Lingxuan to go with him to the courtyard to listen to everyone's deliberations, and said that this was a good opportunity for her to understand the composition of the beggar gang in Shuzhong.
Ouyang He and Xiahou regret followed Lu Lingxuan to the front yard, which had become crowded at this time, and with the appearance of Lu Lin, who was holding a dog-beating stick, the originally noisy courtyard gradually quieted down.
"Brothers of the Beggar Gang, today we are fortunate to be accompanied by the leader of the gang to Juyizhuang, which is really the protection of God for the rudder of my Beggar Gang. Over the years, the disciples of my beggar gang Shuzhong have been oppressed by other sects in Shu for a long time, and we have long wanted to spit out this evil breath! An elder with a long beard shouted towards the many beggar disciples in the courtyard.
Soon, the disciples of the beggar gang in Juyi Village were all angry, and they pointed the finger at more than a dozen large and small sects existing in the territory of Shu, and some even proposed to let the gang leader lead them to raze other sects in Shu, so that the rich land of Bashu became another base camp for the beggar gang to dominate the martial arts of the Central Plains.
Looking at the people in front of him who were like a group of walking corpses following several helmsmen raising sticks and shouting, Ouyang He suddenly felt that he had become a little confused, after all, since she followed Ling Rui out of Yufeng Mountain Villa and stepped into this chaotic rivers and lakes, she had already initially experienced the suffering of ordinary people and the sinister nature of the hearts of the people in the rivers and lakes. She turned her head to look at Lu Lin, who was sitting on a large chair in front of the courtyard, and then she noticed that Lu Lin's expression seemed to show that he was still very satisfied with the scene in front of him, which made Ouyang He even more inexplicably worried.
"Everyone, don't worry, now I have a proposal that will allow my beggars to accept disciples to buy weapons in a short period of time." The elder Chen, who had previously teamed up with the Wind Thunder Hall to encircle and suppress Meng Yan in Chengdu, suddenly interjected loudly, "Everyone knows that Ouyang He, the owner of Yufeng Mountain Villa, who had killed many sect leaders in the ghost castle of Xudu, has long since disappeared after being wanted by the rivers and lakes, and now there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the rich and world-famous Yufeng Mountain Villa who are still surviving, why don't we take this opportunity to take down Yufeng Mountain Villa in one fell swoop, and at the same time attribute all the wealth in the village to my beggars." In this way, who in the world's sects would dare to despise my beggar gang and my beggar gang disciples! ”
Elder Chen's proposal was immediately echoed by many of the beggar gang disciples, and although Lu Lin had already learned from Tang Xiong about the one-month deadline set by the Six Great Sects and Ouyang He, he did not show any objection to Elder Chen's proposal.
"Sister, they just said that you killed someone and you are still wanted, what's going on?" Xiahou regretted asked quietly behind Ouyang He's back, but Ouyang He didn't know how to answer to make Xiahou regret understand, so he had to whisper to her concisely that he was just framed by a group of bad people.
At this time, Lu Lingxuan, who originally didn't want to get involved in the trivial affairs of the beggar gang, heard that they were actually fighting the idea of Yufeng Mountain Villa, and immediately quarreled fiercely with Elder Chen and the other people who supported him, and immediately took out the promise made by the six major sects to Ouyang He as a basis to try to prevent the beggar gang from being unfavorable to Yufeng Mountain Villa. However, the beggar gang actually just regarded Lu Lingxuan as a willful young lady who didn't understand anything, and didn't take her seriously in their hearts at all, but because of her bad identity, they offended her too much verbally.
When everyone was still in the middle of the argument that eased their anger slightly, there was a sudden scream from the beggar gang disciples outside the village, and then a seriously injured beggar gang disciple ran into the village and told Lu Lin that a group of mysterious people wearing hats suddenly appeared outside the village gate and injured the beggar gang disciples who were guarding outside the village, and then they opened their mouths to let Shi Liu, the owner of the village, immediately leave the village with his people within three days, saying that this place will be owned by the Lingquan Cave Mansion from now on.
"How can this be reasonable, the small Lingquan Cave Mansion has provoked our beggar gang, the helper, let me take someone to drive them away." In addition to being the owner of the Juyi Village, Shi Liu is also the seven-bag elder of the Beggar Gang, and it is his duty to drive away the troublemakers of the Beggar Gang Conference.
However, just as he was about to leave the village with his people, this group of people who claimed to be subordinates of the Lingquan Cave Mansion had quickly entered the courtyard and stood behind the village gate.
"Hmph, Your Excellency led people to kill me in Juyizhuang so much, and you can't help but ignore my beggar brothers, right?" Shi Liu asked sharply towards one of the leading people wearing a hat covering his face.
The leading masked man ignored Shi Liu's angry rebuke, he looked around the courtyard, and then sent one of his subordinates to shout at everyone in the courtyard that they should move out of Juyizhuang within three days, otherwise the Lingquan Cave Mansion would kill everyone who remained in Juyizhuang without leaving behind three days.
The aggressive momentum of this group of people instantly angered the beggars in the village, so many beggar disciples were eager to step forward and teach these arrogant uninvited guests a lesson.
"Your Excellency seems to be deceiving me and the beggars have no one, since this is the case, then I will learn your Excellency's tricks!" Shi Liu angrily pulled out his saber and killed the masked man in the lead, who knew that the masked man glanced at the corner of his mouth, and with a wave of his sword with a scabbard, he easily blocked Shi Liu's attack with a wave of one hand.
"Since the people of the beggar gang are so self-defeating, then I will have a good time with you today." The leading masked man spoke in a deep, hoarse voice that had been deliberately handled, and then he jumped off on horseback and fought with Shi Liu.
"This voice, what...... It actually made me feel familiar. Although the masked man used ventriloquist to change his voice, Ouyang He still heard some familiar tones from the masked man's words.
After a few rounds of fighting, Shi Liu was completely in a passive situation, and was soon slapped by the masked man and flew to the steps in front of the front hall door and spat out a large mouthful of blood.
Lu Lin, who originally didn't take the group of people from the Lingquan Cave Mansion in his eyes at the beginning, was also a little shocked and surprised after seeing that Shi Liu was not the opponent of the other party at all.
"Hmph, a rabble, it's a waste of time." After the masked man finished talking to himself, he got on his horse and left without looking back.
"Stop me, you guys are too arrogant, the beggar gang assembly is a place where you can come and go when you want." At this time, the other eight beggar helmsmen also took up their weapons and attacked the masked leader one after another, but the masked man was not defeated at all, and the helmsmen did not fight with the masked man for too long before they were knocked to the ground one after another.
When the masked man knocked the last helmsman back and kicked him towards Lu Lin's location, Lu Lin quickly rescued the helmsman, and then he jumped up with a dog-beating stick and fought the masked man inextricably.
"Dad, I'll help you!" Lu Lingxuan pulled out two thin willow short swords and rushed forward, and the father and daughter fought back and forth with him under the masked man's hands.
Dozens of rounds later, the masked man suddenly threw several gunpowder bullets at the ground, and the courtyard suddenly became full of smoke. Taking advantage of this gap, the agile masked man easily used a few palms to repel Lu Lingxuan, and then swung his sword directly at Lu Lin, who was a little careless in the smoke.
Seeing that Lu Lin, who was facing away from the masked man, was already difficult to dodge this sword, suddenly, a dexterous figure came out from the masked man's side, and helped Lu Lin block the sword that would surely stab him in the back with internal force.
The smoke cleared, and the masked man was stunned to see through the veil of his hat the man who had been haunting him all along. Although the deliberately disguised scars and scribbled birthmarks made her face look a little unsightly, the masked man still recognized her in his heart.
"Lotus...... He'er, I'm not dreaming, really...... Is it really you? ”
The masked man's heart was full of mixed feelings, and his extreme joy made him seem to forget everything in the village at this moment. However, just as he subconsciously put down his sword and prepared to walk towards Ouyang He with joy on his face, Ouyang He's unhesitating sword made his mind fall back to reality again.