Chapter 595: The North Goose Flies South (Part II)
Then Lan Ziyi asked:
"Where are we now?"
Peach Rabbit smiled:
"Young Master, you've been in a trance for the past few days, and you don't even know where we're going."
Qiu Wenruo replied:
"Wei Hou, we are now almost to the mountain, go further east, and when we reach the ferry, we can cross the river and return to Beijing today."
Lan Ziyi looked up at the sky, and he said:
"It's not yet noon, and we can go back today."
After finishing speaking, Lan Ziyi turned around and looked for Tao Zhuhu and said:
"Big brother, why did you fall behind? Let's go quickly. ”
Ke Lan Ziyi turned around this time, and actually found that the two of them between Tao Zhuhu and Yueshan were actually in the back of the palace, with bows and arrows in their hands, and the two of them looked solemn, vaguely stealing a murderous aura.
Seeing this, Lan Ziyi knew that something might happen, and he wanted to turn around and urge the horse over, but was stopped by Tao Zhuhu raising his hand. Next, Tao Zhuhu and Yueshan observed behind him for a while, and then rode slowly to Lan Ziyi.
Lan Ziyi saw the two of them coming, and hurriedly asked:
"What's wrong, big brother? What happened? ”
Tao Zhuhu replied:
"Young master, you looked around on the road when we came, what did you see?"
Although the vegetation along the road along the river is dense, it is not a primeval forest, and the roadside is mostly farmland, and the view from a distance is not wide, but it can be seen clearly. Lan Ziyi looked at it from afar, although he couldn't see too many things clearly, but he could also see the end of the horizon on the road, and it seemed that there were more than a dozen horsemen and horses knotting a piece.
Yue'er spoke first at this time:
"When we went out this morning, Da Lang felt as if he was being followed, and just now I was behind the palace with Da Lang, confirming that this group of people was indeed with us."
After hearing these words, Tao Zhutu was already with a bow and arrow in his hand, and even Qiu Wenruo pulled out the saber on the saddle. Lan Ziyi looked at the group of humanists in the distance:
"Who do you think of as big brother?"
Peach Chase Tiger Road:
"These people have been riding for half a day without showing signs of fatigue, and they should be skilled riders."
Qiu Wenruo said:
"So it's a ringing horse?"
Lan Ziyi still looked at the people in the distance, and he said thoughtfully:
"Now that the disaster is so serious, there is nothing abnormal about bandits, but shouldn't bandits in the mainland be mostly on foot? Why are there so many horse thieves all of a sudden? ”
The other people didn't have the heart to think about this issue with Lan Ziyi, their energy was all focused on the group of ill-intentioned people behind them, and they only heard Tao Zhuhu say:
"Miss Yue'er, you are not bad, after San Lang and I lead the group away, you will escort the young master and Mr. Wen Ruo to the ferry."
Yue'er replied:
"It's my duty to protect and guard, Dalang, just rest assured."
Then Tao Zhuhu said:
"Moon girl, how much gold and silver do you have? Give it all to me. ”
When Yueshan heard this, she untied the money bag from the saddle and handed it to Tao Zhuhu, she said:
"Xiangma asks for money, Dalang, you use the silver to lure the thief is a good way, but we are so far away from the thief, how do you let them know that the silver is on you?"
Peach Chase Tiger Road:
"Naturally, it's through the sun."
As he spoke, he untied his money bag and took out the largest ingot of silver. At noon, the sun was shining, the sky without rain clouds was clear, the silver ingots shining under the sun, the light could be seen clearly from a few miles away, and the peach and tiger only opened his body slightly and then leaked the silver light to the horse behind him.
Tao Zhuhu thought that the horse thieves should react after revealing his wealth, but the horse thieves on the other side of the road did not make any movement, and still stood from a distance.
Tao Zhutu looked at the horse thief over there and said suspiciously:
"It's strange, why is there no movement."
Lan Ziyi touched his chin and said:
"There is no horse farm in the north of the capital and Jiangbei, and there is a recent drought, where will anyone find so many horses at one time? I always think these people are weird•••••• what's on the way over there? ”
As he spoke, Lan Ziyi pointed to a few horses walking slowly on the ridge that was slightly north and parallel to the main road.
Tao Zhuhu looked in the direction pointed by Lan Ziyi, and he said:
"It's a lone horse walking in the field, I guess who's plowing the ground and pulling the cart, running blindly on the ground...
Peach Rabbit exclaimed at this time:
"Not good! Then there is a saddle sheath right away! ”
When Tao Zhutu shouted, the "unattended" horses had already entered the impact range, and the rider hanging on the other side of the horse did not hesitate to hear the sound, and immediately rolled into the saddle, urging the horse to charge Lan Ziyi and his party, and more than a dozen horsemen and horses came with Lan Ziyi and them.
Lan Ziyi shouted:
"Oops, we've been calculated! Come on! ”
Then he urged the horses to gallop and led the people to flee quickly. Originally, Tao Zhuhu also planned to act separately from Lan Ziyi, he and Tao Zhutu used silver taels as bait to lure away the horse bandits, but they didn't expect this group of horse thieves to be extremely cunning, and they actually turned into pieces and approached Lan Ziyi separately.
In the gallop, the moon mountain loudly scolded the peach chasing the tiger:
"Aren't you known as the eagle-eyed leopard, with an unobstructed view? Why don't you see a lone horse walking in the field with a saddle on its back? ”
Tao Zhuhu replied:
"My attention is all on the dozen or so riders on the other side of the road, and I don't care about these people and horses at all."
In just two sentences between Tao Zhuhu and Yueshan, the charging men and horses over there had already accelerated to Lan Ziyi's side. You must know that Lan Ziyi and the others are riding carefully selected good horses, and in terms of foot strength and riding skills, as long as Lan Ziyi and them run away, it is impossible for ordinary people to catch up. But now the ringing horses behind them have just caught up, such good horses, such riding skills are enough to amaze Lan Ziyi and them.
Peach Rabbit shouted and scolded while taking a bow:
"Ringing horses are very skilled!"
Saying that, Tao Zhutu and Tao Zhuhu turned around and aimed together, intending to shoot people, but as soon as the two turned around, they were surprised to find that the riders who were chasing behind them did not hold knives or bows, and chased after them with rope nozzles in their hands.
Qiu Wenruo and Yueshan had never seen that kind of thing, so they didn't know why, while Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers said in unison:
"Lasso?!"
Only such a flash of effort, the horse chased behind everyone, not waiting for the peach rabbit to release the arrow, someone threw out the lasso to tie the peach rabbit upright, the rider over there saw the hand immediately arm force, the rope tied the peach rabbit to death, dragged off the horse.
Peach Tiger and Peach Rabbit together was to shoot people with arrows, but he was also shaken by the lasso in the hands of the horse thief to hesitate, only so hesitated, the thieves flew out of a flying rope and smashed into the Peach Chase Tiger, after the long rope of the Peach Chase Tiger touched the Peach Chase Tiger, the stones tied to both ends of the rope were entangled like a snake under the action of inertia, and when the stone stopped moving, the Peach Chase Tiger's arms were also tied to death, the horse shook, and the Peach Chase Tiger Center was unstable and was thrown off the horse.
As for Qiu Wenruo, his riding skills are the worst, when the two brothers of the Tao family were put down by the Xiangma at the same time, Qiu Wenruo was also surrounded by the Xiangma herd and could not escape.
Xiangma captured three of Lan Ziyi's five people alive in a surprise attack, and now only Yueshan was left to protect Lan Ziyi and escape. Yueshanjian heard the movement behind him, looked back and saw that there were horse thieves behind him, and scolded angrily, and at the same time, Yueshanjian showed his skills, struck the iron plate bridge and lay on the horseback, and used a cold arrow when he drew his bow, and at this time Lan Ziyi suddenly shouted:
"Don't shoot people!"
Where would Yueshanjian listen to Lan Ziyi's inexplicable order, she pulled her bow and shot quickly this time, what she wanted was a hidden arrow to hurt people, and the shirtless big man who ran in front of the horse thief on the opposite side was just used as a target, how could Yueshanjian stop at this time?
Just listen to the muffled sound of "bang", the arrow is pushed out of the bow by the bowstring, such a short distance, the muffled sound has not disappeared, the arrow cluster is already about to hit the opponent's door.
But what I didn't expect was that the person who came was not afraid of the threat of arrows at all, but smiled:
"Bells and whistles, useless!"
As he spoke, the man stretched out his hand to catch the arrow, as if the arrow was specially sent by Yueshan, and then he raised his bow and shot it at Lan Ziyi's head.
The shirtless strong man's horn bow is rounded, the momentum is strong and heavy, and the arrow is shot out, like lightning, and the arrow flies past the Lanziyi bun after a crisp sound of "ding", and the red tassel at the end of the hosta of the Lanziyi bun falls in response.
The vigorous skills of the person who came made Yueshanjian feel miserable, and what made Yueshanjian even more sad and incomprehensible was that Lan Ziyi actually stopped his horse at this critical moment, as if he wanted to meet the horse thief who caught up.
Seeing this scene, Yueshan didn't have time to scold Lan Ziyi for being stupid, she hurriedly reined in her horse and blocked in front of Lan Ziyi's horse, drew her knife and pointed at the shirtless man who stepped forward on the horse and said:
"Daring horse thief, do you know who is behind me?"
The shirtless man reined in his horse after letting go of the arrow, his tendons covered with a thin layer of sweat, which looked thick and almost glowing in the midday sun. The visitor stopped in front of the horse in the moon mountain, his blazing eyes staring at the moon mountain through his unadorned messy hair, and he said:
"Little Nizi, I know who is behind you, if I don't know who he is, how can I greet him like this?"
When Lan Ziyi heard this, he laughed and said:
"Anda, if you greet me like this every time, I'm afraid we will both die."