After burying the bodies of Xiao Daquan and Xiao Er, the depressed two walked forward silently, without saying anything all the way. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Now that the land of Liaozhong and Liaonan has been occupied by Houjin, it is impossible for Li Xiao to go to Liaoxi by land. Therefore, Li Xiao's plan was to cross Panlong Mountain and go west, along the way, only take the deserted path, then pass Shilibao, and then pass Weijia Town, and reach the western seaside of Jinzhou. It is said in the history of the Ming Dynasty that the smuggling ships in the late Ming Dynasty had secretly picked up refugees here, although they were expensive, but at present it should be the most reliable way to leave.

"Li Xiao, do you think we can return to Jinzhou smoothly?" Zu Wan'er finally couldn't help but express her worries.

Li Xiao secretly said in his heart, along the way, there may be unpredictable risks everywhere, and the only way to do his best is to obey the destiny of heaven, who dares to guarantee that there will be no changes?

However, in order to dispel Zu Wan'er's doubts, he still said calmly: "Don't worry, we have been walking on the mountain road now, and it should be relatively safe." ”

Zu Wan'er stroked her hair that was blown by the mountain wind, and she blinked her eyes and asked, "Li Xiao, you say, what are your plans after you send me back to Jinzhou?" ”

Li Xiao was speechless.

Now he is just taking one step at a time, and he doesn't know how to answer.

Zu Wan'er chuckled: "Li Xiao, when the time comes, I will tell my father to ask him to help you find a position in the official army of Liaoxi, so that you can have a step forward." ”

Li Xiao's heart moved, if he could really rely on Zu Wan'er's introduction to enter the Ming army in Liaoxi and get a position, it would be much better than wandering around without any purpose.

It's just that although Li Xiao thought so in his heart, he didn't show any surprise on his face, he just replied with a faint smile: "Wan'er's heart, Li Xiao's heart, let's talk about this matter later." ”

Seeing that Li Xiao was noncommittal, Zu Wan'er was a little disappointed, but she didn't say anything more.

When it was almost dark, Li Xiao and Zu Wan'er had already walked out of the boundary of Panlong Mountain, and took advantage of the moonlight to make a ride, and saw a deserted house passing by, Li Xiao took Wan'er over and prepared to stay in it temporarily tonight.

Li Xiao first lit the torch with a fire sickle, then tied his horse, and entered the house, only to see that this house had been abandoned for a long time, there were only a few pieces of tiles left on the sloping roof, the courtyard wall was falling, the moss on the wall was dark green, and the dust on the ground was extremely thick.

Li Xiao looked around and sighed secretly in his heart, now in this time of chaos, I don't know how long this house has been abandoned, and I don't know whether the original owner of this house is dead or alive now.

When he entered the house, he found some miscellaneous wood and hay inside and outside the house, made a fire, and began to cook rice porridge, while plucking the feathers of a pheasant that he had shot on the road and scooping it into the water, forking it with a wooden stick, and setting it up on the fire for barbecue.

Zu Wan'er immediately came over to help, as a young lady from a big family, although her hands and feet were not sharp, and she was even a little clumsy, but her attitude of taking the initiative to do things made Li Xiao's heart warm and had a good impression of her.

Both of them felt that the distance between them seemed to be closer.

After a while, the rice porridge was cooked, and the pheasant was roasted fragrantly, and the two immediately ate it.

Soon, Li Xiao quickly finished dinner, he asked Zu Wan'er to continue to eat slowly in the house, and he went out to put down the horse and let the horse eat some forage.

Li Xiao went out to untie the reins and let him find some grass to eat on the spot, he felt a little sorry for the horse, and he could only eat some grass, not even some refined beans, but he was also quite aggrieved by it.

About twenty minutes later, when Li Xiao was about to return to the house, he suddenly heard Zu Wan'er's frightened scream from inside the house.

Li Xiao was shocked, hurriedly tied his horse on the spot, held a tiger knife in his hand, and strode into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, Li Xiao was stunned.

He could see clearly that a man in a tattered fat jacket was chewing on the leftover roasted pheasant he had snatched from Wan'er's hand in his left hand, but in his right hand he was holding a feather knife with a cold light, which was resting fiercely on Zu Wan'er's neck!

Next to this person, there were more than a dozen people with the same unkind face, surrounding Zu Wan'er.

When these people heard the sound of Li Xiao breaking in, they quickly turned around, and everyone's face changed instantly when they saw Li Xiao's appearance.

"My lord, it's a tartar." One of them screamed.

Li Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, these people must have regarded him as a tartar wearing the armor of a white swinging tooth soldier.

"Li Xiao, save me!" Zu Wan'er screamed.

"Who are you? Let her go! ”

Li Xiao slammed the tiger knife in his hand and shouted angrily.

A bare-headed, unkempt beard, with a fierce scar on his fleshy face, wearing a tattered ordinary iron armor, walked out of these people with his shoulders shaking, he squinted at Li Xiao, and said coldly: "You Tartar, how can you speak Chinese so well?" ”

Li Xiao took off his helmet and revealed his hair scarf: "You can see clearly, grandpa is an authentic Han Chinese, and this armor is obtained by this grandfather by killing Tartars." ”

The scarred man's face suddenly showed obvious surprise, and the accomplices next to him also looked at each other in shock.

A grim-faced guy approached Scar's side and whispered, "My lord, this person is of unknown origin, don't be gullible. There are many people in us, so why bother talking nonsense with him, just take down this person in one fell swoop. ”

Scar Man was noncommittal, just stood with his mouth shut. This grim-faced guy squeezed his eyes into the crowd, and two more tall and strong men walked out with swords in their hands, followed the grim-faced guy, and approached Li Xiao step by step.

The corners of Li Xiao's mouth showed a touch of contempt, and he hooked his hand to the guy in front: "You guys go up together, save grandpa trouble." ”

The three of them were furious, and each held a sword and slashed at Li Xiao.

The tiger knife in Li Xiao's hand was oblique, with a soft shout, a horizontal striking, and a crisp sound of "ding", he knocked the knife in the front guy's hand, and then flew up and kicked the person in the chest, kicking the stunned guy a few meters away.

Li Xiao immediately twisted his waist and dodged, dodging the horizontal slash of a straight iron sword, and then bent down, the tiger knife was reversed, and swept suddenly, the handle of the tiger knife slammed into the person's calf, making a dull hitting sound, and the guy who wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack immediately screamed and fell to the ground.

At this time, the grim-faced guy shouted and raised a feather knife and rushed towards Li Xiao, Li Xiao secretly said that it was good, the tiger knife in his right hand was pulled upward, and the knife edge swept away, and the sword in this person's hand was knocked away with a "dang" sound. Li Xiao immediately rushed forward, and the tiger horse in his hand pressed fiercely on the neck of this guy, although it was not very hard, but it made the blood on this person's neck crawl out like a small snake, which looked quite scary. This grim-faced guy turned pale at this time, for fear that Li Xiao would take his life ruthlessly, so he just stood trembling and didn't dare to move.

All the onlookers froze. In this short moment, Li Xiao defeated the three of them, such outstanding martial arts, how could they be opponents.

"Good man! Please stop. The scarred man, who had not spoken, hurriedly shouted.

"You let her go first!" Li Xiao shouted angrily.

The other two guys who struggled to get up from the ground also wanted to raise their knives to attack Li Xiao, but they were stopped by the scar man.

The scar man turned around and slanted his mouth at the guy who was holding the knife to Zu Wan'er's neck, and the man snorted coldly and put the knife into the sheath.

Seeing Wan'er being let go, Li Xiao flew up and kicked the cruel-looking guy in the stomach, and the guy howled strangely and staggered towards the scar man.

This person was held steady by his accomplices, and he felt that he had been greatly humiliated, so he gritted his teeth and shouted, and wanted to rush towards Li Xiao again, but he was held by the scar man who held the right hand holding the knife.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

After two clear slaps, the grim-faced guy, on the left and right faces, two huge palm prints appeared.

"Rat, aren't you ashamed enough! If it weren't for his subordinates, the three of you would have seen Hades long ago! The scarred man who stopped slapping roared like thunder, and the guy he called the bearded rat wilted.

Zu Wan'er stood up from the ground at this time, ran towards Li Xiao, hugged Li Xiao tightly, and cried loudly.

The two clinging softness in her chest made Li Xiao's heart tremble.

Li Xiao patted her back with his left hand, whispered some comforting words to her who was still trembling, and when Zu Wan'er cried a little less, he pulled her behind him.

Seeing Li Xiao and Zu Wan'er separated, the scarred man laughed loudly on the opposite side and said: "This strong man, your martial arts are so good, you said that you killed the Tartar to get this armor, and you believe it." Fuck, it's also a fucking fight and don't know each other, today I have to meet a strong man, isn't it fate. But I don't know the name of the strong man? ”

Li Xiao looked at him vigilantly, and replied lightly: "Contemptible Li Xiao, dare to ask。。。。。。 ”

Scar Han immediately interrupted him: "A certain family surname is An, a single name is a Yi character, everyone calls me Monk An, you don't call me a big name, call Monk An is more pleasant to hear." ”

Without waiting for Li Xiao to answer, Monk An pulled over the reluctant Hu Mouse: "This famous Hu Rushu, we think his name is difficult to pronounce, we all call him Hu Mouse, and he is my deputy." ”

Li Xiao's expression on his face relaxed: "But I don't know where Brother An and the others come from, how can they come here?" ”

Monk An didn't wave his hand, and said with a long sigh: "This matter is a long story, come on, come on, Brother Li, sit down, and wait for the elder brother to talk to you." ”

After Li Xiao found a rotten wooden stool and sat down, he patiently listened to Monk An finish his story while sighing and beating his chest.

It turned out that this monk An and his subordinates were actually the remnants of the Ming army guarding Jinzhou. The official position of this monk is a general banner, and he led this group of people to garrison a fort outside Lushun City.

Originally received an order to enter the city to guard Lushun, who knew that the Houjin army moved fast, they only arrived outside the city of Lushun, and saw that Lushun had been surrounded by the Houjin group, and when they wanted to return to the original dungeon, they found that the dungeon had been captured by the Houjin, and Monk An was helpless, so he withdrew to the dense forest with his own small team to wait for the opportunity to see if there were Ming reinforcements coming, and then they would join it to fight with the Tartars.

As a result, they endured in the dense forest, and waited until the city of Lushun was broken, but they never waited for any reinforcements to arrive.

After the Houjin army withdrew, Monk An saw that Houjin's local precautions had been negligent, so he prepared to leave Jinzhou with his subordinates, wanting to defect to the Ming army in other places. Coincidentally, when Li Xiaozu and Wan'er were cooking here, Monk An and the remnants of the Ming army also happened to pass by. Seeing the fire in this deserted mansion and smelling the smell of rice, the group quietly climbed over the wall and prepared to do something. Seeing that Zu Wan'er was having dinner, Monk An immediately controlled her, and before she could search for her belongings, she was broken in by Li Xiao, who could hear the movement.

"The brothers were in the woods, and they were so hungry that their stomachs were very empty, and that was the 。。。。。。 Brother Li, don't worry, we are officers and soldiers, not bandits, at most we will grab some food and property, and we don't want people's lives. When Monk An said this, he barely squeezed out a trace of an embarrassed smile to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao's face was grim and he didn't speak. He knew that in this late Ming Dynasty, the Ming army, which was short of food and salary, was no different from bandits. All kinds of evil deeds, such as prostitution, plunder, and murder, and meritorious deeds, have also been committed. If she hadn't come in time, she really didn't know what kind of terrible ending Zu Wan'er would have.

"A misunderstanding, Brother Li don't mind." Monk An snorted.

Li Xiao put away the tiger knife and said lightly: "Brother An, brother still has some food stored here, let's give it to everyone now." With that, he got up and took out all the large bags of rice on horseback, and began to cook porridge on the spot.

Seeing that Li Xiao was so generous, Monk An looked embarrassed. The subordinates next to him were also all ashamed on their faces, and only the bearded rat had a tense face and no expression.

In a short time, the porridge was ready, and everyone began to eat it.

"Brother Li, brother, I owe you a favor." Monk An sighed and drank the piping hot rice porridge and said with emotion.

"There's nothing to owe, it's just the end of the world." Li Xiao replied calmly.

"But I don't know why Brother Li is here, and what will he want?" After Monk An finished eating, he asked as if he suddenly remembered.

Li Xiao thought about it for a while, and told Monk An about his life experience, but he didn't tell Monk An about Zu Wan'er's true life experience, but only said that she was his distant relative, her home was in Jinzhou, and now he wanted to escort her back to Jinzhou.

The reason why Li Xiao did this was because he didn't know about these people after all, and if he told Zu Wan'er the true situation, if any of these people had bad intentions and went to attract Houjin Tartar, the situation would be bad.

Monk An sighed and expressed his deep condolences to Li Xiao's tragic life experience. Then he asked, "Then what are the plans of Brother Li after escorting this girl back?" ”

Li Xiao smiled and said half-truthfully: "I plan to go to Liaoxi to join the army." ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Monk An pouted and shook his head: "Brother Li, you can't see this person, what kind of Liaoxi is it, it's better to go to Shandong to join the army like my brother." ”