The trail runs through the mountains, and is rarely walked except by hunters, and there are few villages along the way.

After walking for more than an hour, we should have caught up with the old man and them at the speed of the two of us, but there was no one on the path. Because we were worried about the old man and them, we were very fast.

"Brother Li, how long does it take for this path to reach the capital, and is there any other fork in the road?"

said: "I have also walked this road a few times, I don't know if there is a fork in the road, but I remember that at our speed, we can get to the capital in 4 hours." You have been in the village for an hour, and now we have been walking for an hour, and your friends must have been on the road for two hours, and they are not as fast as us. Supposedly, we're almost catching up, or we're going to hurry up and take a look. ”

"Okay, then it's going to trouble Brother Li."

You're welcome, he has also practiced, and he directly performed light skills in front, and now he is not leaving, it is the same as running a normal person. I followed and ran to the front.

After another hour of running, we were both covered in sweat. I stopped, called ***, and sat down on the rocks on the side of the road to rest. The sky in the east was already shining, and they still hadn't touched the old man. I have a bad feeling in my heart, I know Wei Zihan's speed, we should have met them a long time ago with such a speed, could it be that the people of the Yin Demon Sect discovered it.

"Brother Li, we can't go forward, there is a woman among my friends, she can't go fast, I think something must have happened on the way. Or maybe you're tired and looking for a place to rest. Now that it's getting light, I think we'll walk back and see if we can find any clues. ”

After resting for a while, we got up and went back, this time we didn't walk fast, observing the side of the road for any clues as we went.

After walking for more than ten miles, he didn't find anything, and he didn't find any traces of anyone walking on the path, *** is a hunter, and his perennial hunting career has made him very good at tracking, and he didn't find anyone walking. I said, "Brother Li, did they go from the small road to the official road, do you know how far it is from here to the official road?" ”

"There are more than 20 miles from here to the official road, there is also this possibility, if it doesn't work, we will go to the official road, there is a hill in front, I have hunted there before, the mountain is not high and very steep, there are steep cliffs on both sides, and there is a valley in the middle, and few people usually go there. There are also some villages around, as if my father used to say that it was called Hulu Valley. During the Yuan Dynasty, it was occupied by a group of strongmen and made a cottage. The official army did not enter the encirclement and suppression many times, and later heard from my father that he was exterminated by the Yuan army by burning the mountain with fire. Now where are the remnants of the broken houses, we will pass through the mountain, it is not early now, you should be hungry, by the way, I will hunt a prey, we will roast and eat. ”

Leaving the path, it is more difficult to walk, all are wilderness, grass and trees, we walked while opening the road, it took more than an hour to walk for five or six miles, now the sun is shining, not far in front of a hill, the hill is more than five hundred meters high, on both sides is a steep cliff, the top of the mountain is full of all kinds of miscellaneous trees, are not very tall.

"Brother Lei, that's what I said about Hulu Valley, it's fifteen or sixteen miles away from our village, let's go to the foot of the mountain to rest." After saying that, I quickened my pace in front, and I followed him closely down the mountain.

After a while, when we came to the foot of the mountain, we did not enter the valley, but stopped here at the mouth of the valley outside the valley, only to hear the sound of an arrow, and more than 20 people flashed out of the bushes in front of us, all dressed in ordinary people's clothes, and holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, with knives and guns and a few sticks in their hands, and the leader was a young man in his twenties, with a knife in his hand, and the man shouted, "Stop." ”

I glanced at *** and saw that he was not panicked, so he said: "Rank hero, we are going to the capital, because we got lost and strayed into Guishan, I don't know what is stopping us." "Actually, we're not afraid, there shouldn't be any big problem for the two of us to deal with these rabble.

The young man in the lead took two steps forward and said, "Hey, don't be a layman, don't you have eyes, but you have to ask why, of course, the uncle is here to eat a robbery meal, no matter where you go, you have to borrow a few taels of silver." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have the silver, but I have earned it with great hard work, and I will drink the northwest wind for you, so it is not easy to give, but since I am passing by Guishan, then I will take out two taels of silver to make a pot of wine for you to drink, how, it is also considered to buy road money, and it does not break your rules."

As soon as I finished speaking, the young man in the lead was not happy, "Two taels of silver, you send the one who asks for food, since you don't know how to lift, then stay together." As he spoke, he swung his knife at me, and I dodged it on one side, jumped up, and slashed at his neck with my palm, and the man fell to the ground and fell like a dog eating. Before he could get up, the *** behind him stepped on his back with his foot, snatched the knife in his hand, and put it on his neck.

The dozens of robbers, seeing that the leader had been caught, screamed and waved their weapons at us, and pointed their knives at the gang and said, "You guys come forward, I will kill him first and set an example." When the group heard *** say this, they all stopped in fright, didn't dare to move forward, and went backwards.

I only heard the young man who was trampled under the feet of *** say: "Brothers Hugh forward, don't do this hero, they are all good citizens." If you don't have anything to eat, you can kill me and let them go, I, Wang Jianying, am not a person who is afraid of death, and I have no complaints about dying in your hands today. Please cut off your head, no need to say more. ”

I saw that the young man was also speaking very righteously, so I said: "In this way, we will not kill you, nor will we touch your brother, we are just passing by, listening to your accent as if you are a foreigner, can you tell me how you came here to fall into the grass." ”

The man also let go of the man, but the knife was not given to him, and the man stood up and said: "Two uncles, my name is Wang Jianying, we were originally all outsiders, because the Tartars killed our family, robbed our food, and burned our houses, forcing the rest of our village to enter the customs to make a living." Who knows that when you come to the capital, it is more difficult, it is not enough to fill your stomach after a day's work, we still have a lot of old people, women and children, there is no way to discuss continuing to go south, come here, the old people are really unwilling to go again, we see that this mountain is steep, and there are a few idle broken houses to live in, and there are no people around, so they settled here. The land here is barren and unsuitable for farming, so the young people go out to hunt, and usually do business, but we all go far away to rob large families, and we have not harmed our lives. Today is also a coincidence, on the mountain, I saw the two masters coming, and I felt that those who walked the path were doing shady things, and I wanted to rob you. ”

After Wang Jianying finished speaking, the group of people also threw down their knives, guns and sticks, knelt down and said together: "Please let the two masters release our leader, we are willing to serve the two as leaders." ”

I said to them, "We have no intention of harming your leaders, so get up." ”

Wang Jianying came to me and said, "Two uncles, please go with me to sit in our village, I see that the two of you are in the dust, and you haven't eaten breakfast."

I asked***: "Brother Li, what do you think, why don't we go in and sit down." ”

"Alright, let's go in and sit down and go." After speaking, he handed the knife to Wang Jianying.