After an hour or two, Song Jiang received a message from Fuli County, learned the whereabouts of Xu Ziling and the others, and hurriedly asked people to inform the leaders who had been scattered before.

In the evening, the people of Liangshan gathered ten miles north of Fuli County. Twenty or thirty people, large and small, had already raised their torches before the night was dark, and they were quite conspicuous in the wilderness.

Song Jiang stood in the middle of the crowd and said in a deep voice: "The thief who killed Wang Ying and Liu Tang brothers has been found. His exact identity is not known, but it can be determined that he has nothing to do with the death of the three Ruan brothers. New hatred and old hatred should be ended today! ”

Glancing at the silent crowd around him, Song Jiang continued: "The thief with two women came out of Fuli County in the afternoon, looking in the direction of Xuzhou, and several brothers have already followed.

The thief was burdened by those two women, and he couldn't go far. As the so-called lion fights rabbit, it also uses all its strength. Although there is only one thief, his martial arts cannot be underestimated, and all the brothers go to get him together, so it is safe. ”

Everyone said in unison: "It's all up to my brother's orders." Then the big black man was left to protect Song Jiang, and everyone started to chase Xu Ziling and the three of them in the starry night with torches.

More than ten miles away, the bright moon was empty.

Beside the crooked official road, there are rice fields. It is the golden autumn season, and the yellow ears of wheat are blown by the night wind, making a "rustling" sound. Autumn insects are also active in the fields, making all kinds of hissing sounds, and occasionally idle people are looking for weaving with insect nets.

By the moonlight, Xu Ziling took Ming Xia and Yue'er to continue walking on the official road. He just wanted to send the second daughter of Ming to the Su family's ship as soon as possible, and then solve the matter of Liangshan.

Although Fuli County is in Suzhou, it is only fifty or sixty miles away from Xuzhou City. The three of them walked in a hurry for an afternoon, but they also walked more than 20 miles, but Xu Ziling practiced martial arts all year round, and after more than 20 miles, he still did not blush or breathe, but the two women were exhausted, and they were already moving with difficulty.

Xu Ziling glanced at the two women, looked back again, and found that the people following him were much closer than before, it should be that the night affected the field of vision, and he was afraid that he would lose the three of them.

Visually measuring the distance between the two and himself, Xu Ziling was seventy percent sure that he could dispose of the two within a moment, but he had to take the second daughter to a slightly safer place first.

When Xu Ziling was thinking about it, the maid Yue'er muttered a few times, and then sat on the ground, took off her shoes and socks, and saw that there were several red bubbles on the white jade-like little feet, probably caused by the wear and tear along the way.

The maid reached out and gently touched a red bubble on her foot, and suddenly snorted softly and retracted her hand violently.

Ming Xia saw it and said distressedly: "Yue'er, you can't hurry like this, but it's too dangerous not to go, or let Ziling carry you." ”

The maid shook her head vigorously: "I don't want him to carry it." With that, he put on his shoes and socks, and the ninja stood up in pain and limped away.

Yue'er's stubborn appearance made Ming Xia feel distressed and headaches, and said to Xu Ziling: "Ziling, Yue'er's feet can't go anymore, can you find a farmer's house to rest first and smear some medicinal wine on her." ”

Xu Ziling looked ahead, there happened to be a brightly lit village not far away, thought for a while, and said, "It's okay, there happens to be a village over there." ”

So the three of them walked towards the village, but with every few steps the maid would snort softly at the pain in her foot. Xu Ziling was helpless, walked up to her and bowed up, ready to carry her over.

But the maid didn't appreciate it, and walked past him with bared teeth.

The stubborn temperament made Xu Ziling look at her a little higher, and then his heart moved, and Chixiao took the sword scabbard to the maid's side.

"Sit down."

The maid saw this technique for the first time and felt very novel, so she did not refuse and sat down gently. Then Chixiao took her and flew forward slowly. If the people in the Dao Sect saw him use Chixiao like this, they would not want to use the Five Thunder Righteous Method to kill him.

After walking a few more steps, Xu Ziling noticed Ming Xia's strange appearance again, and immediately said to her: "Your body is no better than Yue'er, let me carry you over." The village looks close, but it is two or three miles away. ”

Seeing Xu Ziling bowing in front of her on her own, she was indeed a little tired, so she went up and grabbed Xu Ziling's shoulders with both hands like a kitten, keeping her chest at a certain distance from his back. But the next moment the warm and powerful feeling on her buttocks came, and she still burned red.

After that, on the official road where the wind blows and insects chirp, a girl hangs behind the young man, looking up at the front, a green silk fluttering in the wind, and a maid next to her, sitting on a long sword, floating in the night sky. Qinghui sprinkled on the three people who walked slowly, like a peaceful and wonderful picture.

The village two or three miles in front of the three of them was bustling with activity.

The village is not very large, and the houses are lined up along the creek to the west of the village, and there are about a dozen families. The stream flows from northeast to southwest, the houses are all sitting north and facing south, there is a vacant lot in the south of the village, which has been built into a place of entertainment by the villagers who have done good things, and four large pine pillars surround the city in a square, and several large oil lamps are hung on the pillars, which shine as bright as day.

At this time, it was crowded with people, not only the villagers, but also two young men in gorgeous clothes, all looking at a strange clay pot with two notches at the two ends in the center of the crowd.

The two crickets are one yellow and one black, and the size of the two is almost the same, both of them are like ordinary human tail fingers, but the black tooth clamps are amazingly large. However, the black cricket was terrifying, but its reaction was quite slow, and the yellow one was easily dodged when it stepped forward to attack.

I saw that after the yellow cricket dodged the black cricket's blow, it jumped forward violently, biting the black cricket's tentacles, and the tooth tongs quickly clamped and broke the tentacles.

The crowd exclaimed. The black cricket was in pain and was about to retreat, but the yellow cricket attacked again, and bit another tentacle, and with the strength of the black cricket's retreat, it bit off its tentacles again.

The black cricket screamed twice when it landed, as if it was unwilling to fight again, but the yellow cricket pursued it again, and directly caught up with it, and the huge black cricket was bitten and jumped up and jumped along the basin wall a few times. The yellow crickets chirped again and again, but the black crickets were silent and froze in place.

Seeing that the victory and defeat had been divided, everyone sighed. In front of the basin, a peasant boy took out a jar, and with a wooden stick in his hand, the yellow cricket followed into the jar.

The boy opposite the young man sighed lightly and said, "Dongzi, you are really powerful, what's your name?" ”

The young man smiled innocently: "Brother Yu, don't forget to bet on silver in three taels of good." My cricket is golden all over, like silk and satin, and I have given it a nice name, called Sanduanjin, how about it? Listen to it. ”

Brother Yu chuckled, took out three taels of silver and handed it to the young man: "Will I, Geng Jingyu, lack these three taels of silver?" But your three brocades are really powerful. As he spoke, he looked back at the other boy next to him: "Qi Shao, do you want your handsome man to try it with him?" ”

The son-in-law named Yang Qi was a little moved, but he was afraid that his cricket would not be able to beat the young man's Sanduanjin, and he would lose face.

Seeing his hesitant look, Brother Yu smiled and said, "Don't hesitate, didn't you say how powerful your handsome man is and how loud your voice is before you come?" In this way, I will help you pay for the gambling money with Dongzi, how about it? ”

After saying this, Yang Qi had no choice but to nod, took a beautiful jar from the entourage behind him, and was about to put it in the clay pot, but saw that the black cricket was still there motionless, so he asked Brother Yu: "What do you do with this black overlord?" ”

Only then did Yu Ge'er remember that his crickets were still in the pot, so he picked up a pair of long chopsticks, stretched them into the clay pot, picked up the black crickets that had lost their fighting spirit, and came to a villager: "Take it and feed the chickens." ”

The villager smiled and took the cricket in his hand, but did not actually feed it to the chickens.

Yang Qi was already surprised by Yu Ge'er's actions, put the jar in his hand into the bucket, gently opened the lid, and a pale yellow cricket jumped out.

Dongzi saw that there was still money to be made, so he smiled and put Sanduanjin into it again.

After the crickets on both sides beat their teeth, they only heard the crisp sound of Sanduan Jin, but the pale yellow cricket named Dashuai was silent.

Yang Qi took the grass branch and touched its head, and it moved a step, still silent.

Everyone burst into laughter, and Brother Yu sarcastically said: "The big handsome man is stunned, and he is still cowardly? ”

Yang Qi's face flushed, and he took the grass branch and slapped the big handsome a few times, and the big handsome moved a few steps lazily, but he still didn't dare to make a sound.

Yu Ge'er took back the Black Overlord from the villagers and handed it to Yang Qi: "Take it back together, let your wife and you get into the oil pot, fry it and eat it." ”

Yang Qi was a little depressed, slapped away the cricket that Yu Ge'er pretended to hand over, gently picked up the jar, and led the handsome back to the jar.

Yu Ge'er didn't care, clapped his hands, and said to the young man next to him with a smile: "Dongzi, whether you sell these three pieces of brocade or not, I will pay a hundred taels, how about it?" ”

Hearing this, Dongzi hesitated for a while, but still shook his head: "Not for sale." ”

Yu Ge'er waved his hand: "If you don't sell it, you won't sell it, I'll go to the field to catch it, and I may not be able to find someone more powerful than your three pieces of brocade." After that, he patted Yang Qi on the shoulder: "Qi Shao, let's go, let's go catch some more." ”

Yang Qi looked at the jar in his hand and nodded.

So the two of them walked out of the village with their entourage, and the villagers slowly dispersed when they saw that they were gone. As soon as the two of them reached the entrance of the village, they saw a young girl flying over on a sheathed sword, followed by a young man, who carried another girl behind his back.

Yu Ge'er also saw the ability of this sword to lead people for the first time, looked at the girl sitting on the sword, and said in surprise: "Isn't it a fairy sister?" ”

The girl heard his frivolous words, but did not reply, and twisted her head to the side.

Yu Ge'er scratched his head, glanced back at his entourage, and felt that he was innocent.

But when he saw the girl jump down from the sword, the sword flew backwards and hung on the waist of the young man behind him.

The young man behind him was naturally Xu Ziling, he gently put Ming Xia on the ground, and said to Brother Yu: "This brother, the three of us have been on the road for a long time, do you have any medicine for bruises and sprains here, can you sell it to me?" ”

Brother Yu glanced at Xu Ziling carefully, his face changed imperceptibly, and said with a smile: "I don't think my brother is an ordinary person, just some medicine and wine, so I will give it to my brother, how about making a friend?" ”

Looking at his bright eyes, Xu Ziling felt that he had no malicious intent, so he said: "Then thank you brother, my name is Xu Ziling." He said and looked behind him: "But now is not the time to speak, we have a tail behind us, I have to deal with it first." ”

Brother Yu glanced at the distance, nodded, took a white porcelain vase from his entourage, and handed it to Xu Ziling: "Brother Xu, feel free, if you can trust me, you can leave the two girls with me, and I guarantee that no one can hurt them." We'll catch some weaving near the village, and you'll be able to find us. ”

Xu Ziling took the porcelain vase and handed it to Ming Xia, thought about it, and originally planned to ask the villagers to help, but this son's kindness saved a lot of trouble, so he said to Ming Xia: "You wait for me for a while, I'll be back soon." ”

Ming Xia said softly, "Be careful. ”

Xu Ziling nodded and arched his hand to Brother Yu'er: "There is Brother Laotai." With that, his legs and feet moved, and the figure disappeared in front of several people in an instant.