Chapter XVIII
As soon as the sky was bright, a group of eight people galloped from south to east in the light mist of the early morning.
The first six people rode black horses with long and short weapons hanging from their waists; All of them are burly, with large shoulders and round waists; They wore black clothes, black pants and black cloaks, and a special black iron mask on their faces, revealing a pair of sparkling eyes, revealing a murderous aura
Behind them were a carriage, one driving the horse, and one sitting firmly in the carriage.
This group of people was the one who quietly left the courtyard and went to Wuthering Heights.
"Captain, in fact, you shouldn't have participated in this operation?" Yu Meng, who was driving the carriage, held the reins tightly, while remembering the advice of the eldest lady when she was leaving, and said intoxicated to the carriage.
Intoxicated and biting his lips, his face turned pale, his hands clenched the handlebars, the ancient carriage technology was backward, and the road was even more uneven and bumpy; It's like the cradle of sleep when I was a child, and it makes my head dizzy and my stomach is turbulent. He endured the discomfort and said, "Why, do you think that I won't be able to drag you back?" ”
Yu Meng is a real-hearted person, affectionate and righteous, intoxicated and not angry, and said to him lightly. Speaking of martial arts, he is in modern times, but he has watched a lot of martial arts novels and TV series, and he also envies the high and high of ancient heroes, and he also has enmity; It's a pity that those authors who write about martial arts don't write down the martial arts moves and practice routes in detail; Especially in Jin Yong's martial arts world, the nine yin and nine yang, that is an invincible existence, in this ancient time without guns and missiles, it is a generation of grandmasters, and they will not worry about the safety of their lives in this era.
Intoxicated and casual, Yu Meng was nervous in his heart, he blushed and said, "That....that ....."
Intoxicated waved his hand, and said leisurely: "I know my affairs, if the situation is not good, you don't care about me, although the rescue of the Guo family is the most important; Besides, I single-handedly contributed to this matter, and if we succeed, we will return together, and if we fail, we will die together, it is not a big deal. ”
Yu Meng's eyes turned red, closed his eyes tightly, and said without letting the tears in his eyes flow down: "Tao Gongzi, I'm sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn't have spoken to you like this." ”
Intoxicated nodded and said, "You have to remember that brothers work together to break gold." You want to treat me as your brother, not your teacher, your Tao Gongzi. ”
Yu Meng nodded, looking at the few horsemen in front of him, his heart was hot.
In front of the crowd, Gao Sheng and Gao Fei rode side by side.
"Big brother, the coach and the eight of us, can we really save the master's family?" High Flying Road.
"I think we can, Tao Gongzi once said that we are elites and can do things that others can't do." High Ascension Road
"Having said that, the drunken boy still says that we are rookies; This trip is full of Wuthering Heights, and my heart has never been able to let go. ”
Du Xing smiled: "You let go of a hundred hearts, Miss can hand over such an important matter to the coach, you must be completely sure; Don't look at the coach's youth and recklessness, he has his own fortune in his heart. ”
"That's right, Miss doesn't worry about what we're worried about." High Flying Road.
At this time, Zhu Yiqun rushed over and said: "Gao Sheng, it's boring to rush this way, tell me about Sister Yao in Yichun Courtyard." ”
"Yes, yes." Liu Ren dragged the empty horse road behind him. This horse was originally Yu Meng's mount, but because he had to catch up with Zhang Xiaogang's carriage, only some food and water were put on the horse's back.
Speaking of Sister Yao'er, Gao Sheng's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but think of the scene of playing intoxicated and Miss that day, and said with a smile: "Why don't you learn what Miss said goodbye to Tao Gongzi in the morning, do you want to listen to it?" ”
I don't know when, Yuan Hou came over and said: "I want it, when we came, you two went to the door and listened for a long time, but I didn't hear a word, but what did you miss?" ”
The crowd slowed down their horses and pricked up their ears to listen to Gao Sheng's slow words.
"Zhang Gongzi, when you go to Wuthering Mountain, it will be as dangerous as the Longtan Tiger's Den, be careful and careful; If you can't do anything, quickly return and find another way. A woman's crisp voice spat out of Gao Sheng's mouth.
"That's what I said." Goofy said.
"Don't interrupt, I'll listen to your brother." Liu Rendao.
"Miss, don't worry, in the lower province; Now that the other courtyard is in crisis, it is an eventful time, you and Jin Ju should be careful. A hoarse and thick man's voice sounded from Gao Sheng's mouth, and everyone was stunned, this was Tao Gongzi's voice.
"You have injuries on your body, you don't have to do everything yourself, Yu Meng is meticulous and meticulous, just leave the fight and killing to them!" Ma Xiuying's voice was a little choked.
"Wrong, wrong, Miss is saying that Yu Meng, everyone is brave, and the strategy is insufficient; Leave it to them to do the fighting, killing, and killing. Goofy said hurriedly.
Gao Sheng scratched his head and rolled his eyes and said, "It seems that the eldest brother said that." ”
"Size. The young lady has a heart, she is young and strong, and she can bear a little injury; Yu Meng, regardless of the danger, went to Wuthering Heights with me; It is my brother who is intoxicated with this life, of course, I can't distinguish between high and low, the master guards, and I will definitely live and die together, go and go back together. ”
Everyone was silent for a while, only the slight sound of horses snorting and hooves, spread far away on the quiet official road.
"Hey, why don't you say it, Gao Sheng continues." Ape Hou reacted first.
Gao Sheng looked at everyone and grinned, and then continued sadly: "You men's world, slaves don't understand; But don't worry, after you leave, the slave family will purify your body and worship the Buddha for you, and bless you to return safely. ”
"Head to head." High Flying Road
Everyone glared at Goofy and laughed.
"Go on...," Ape said
"I'm going to Wuthering Hills to rescue the master, no matter whether the rescue is successful or not, Jin Ju Xu and your affairs will remain the same."
"Sister, my little sister said that I would accompany you for the rest of my life." This is Jin Ju's voice coming from Gao Sheng's mouth.
Liu Ren laughed and interrupted Gao Sheng's words: "It's not simple, the young lady and the maid will take it together." ”
Everyone looked at Liu Ren with strange eyes, as if they were looking at aliens; He smiled and lowered his head, "I mean, when I go back this time, maybe I will have a happy wine to drink." ”
"Doesn't my sister like Childe?" Gao Sheng didn't care about everyone and continued.
"Since the little sister recognizes me as the eldest brother, the eldest lady can't be strong, the eldest lady is kind-hearted, and I am grateful!"
"It's a pity, it's a pity High Flying Road. When everyone heard this, they sighed!
"Originally, I had a meal of joy to drink when I went back, but it seems that it was empty joy." Liu Ren patted his head lightly and said.
Goofy ha: "Quiet, quiet. ”
"That's not the case, big brother... Tao Gongzi; I.. I.. I like you, I... Unless Childe.. If the son can marry a young lady, I can agree. ”
Gao Sheng said this, smiling and watching everyone silent.
"And then?" Liu Ren hurriedly asked.
Gao Sheng looked at the group of men and said, "If you want to listen, you have to prepare the wine when you go back." ”
Zhu Yiqun hurriedly said: "Wine is a trivial matter, you can't get off the table if you don't drink it..... Before he could finish speaking, a large rock appeared in front of him, and the front hooves of the horses passed to the side to avoid it; He must have listened too intoxicated, and fell from his horse's back to the ground with a clatter, and rolled twice; Because the front and rear horses are too close to each other, they are about to be stepped on by the front feet of the rear horses; Everyone was shocked, Liu Ren hurriedly pulled the reins of the horse, and the horse's nose was painful and its front feet stood upright; Zhu Yiqun took the opportunity to roll again, and only then did he escape the fate of being trampled by the horse.
Zhu Yiqun dodged it, kicked it on the horse's hooves angrily and scolded: "This damn brute, isn't it blind, such a good official way, just walking crookedly makes me out of the limelight." ”
Seeing Zhu Yiqun's disgraced appearance, everyone couldn't help laughing.
Gao Shensheng suppressed his laughter and continued: "It's not impossible to marry me, as long as you successfully rescue your uncle's family, relieve the Guo family's crisis, and return safely, I will go and ask my uncle to agree to our marriage; I'm afraid that my uncle will have an idea in his heart to get in the way, and I will have no other way. ”
"The eldest lady should believe that as long as you agree, no one in the world can stop you; In this way, the two ladies waited for my good news. ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be dumbfounded, Tao Gongzi is Tao Gongzi, really angry!
Zhu Yiqun said mysteriously: "Brothers, have you noticed that Miss has always been interested in Childe? As he spoke, he lowered the reins in his hands, clenched his hands into fists, and touched his thumbs against each other.
Gao Sheng turned around and glanced at Zhu Yiqun and said, "I can see it now, when I was teaching us in the back mountain, I let me see it; Otherwise, how dare Miss Xue and Tao Gongzi talk about Qinglou. ”
Everyone remembered the scene of the mountain behind that day, and they laughed again.
"Okay, you are a bunch of ruffians, you like to tell right and wrong when you have nothing to do, if you let the master know, you will be whipped." Yu's roar came from behind him.
It turned out that at some point, Yu Mengjia's carriage had already followed behind them, and he could hear the words just now clearly.
Everyone looked at the intoxicated, embarrassed and angry looks, and suddenly shrunk their necks, put away their voices, beat their horses and whipped away.
A fast horse rode from afar, passed the crowd in front of him, and in the blink of an eye came to the carriage; Immediately the knight took the reins and stopped the galloping horse steadily; He turned over and dismounted and hugged his fists and said, "I've seen the deputy team leader." ”
This man is fourteen or fifteen years old, thin and capable, his childish face is full of frost and tiredness, this is clearly a little boy, how did he become a guard?
Yu Meng stopped the carriage and nodded, "Thin monkey, what did you find?" ”
The guard said: "We have searched Wuthering Heights for dozens of miles, and have not found any second way up the mountain; However, there is a cliff not far from here, the slope is gentle, and with Liu Ren's skills, he should be able to climb it. ”
Intoxicated and secretly admired the vision of the bandits, a cottage and a road, easy to defend and difficult to attack; "How far is it from here?" ”
The little boy heard the intoxicated question, and looked at Yu Meng with a puzzled expression.
"This is Tao Gongzi, who is now the captain of our whistling and the commander-in-chief of our group." Yu Meng pointed at the little boy and said, "This is called Skinny Monkey, the scout of my class." He said to the skinny monkey again.
The thin monkey looked at Intoxication, looked surprised, and saluted with his fists: "I've seen the captain." ”
Intoxicated and secretly smiled bitterly, this is ancient times, troubled times. Nodding his head, he said, "Just now you said that there is a gentle slope there, how long will it take to pass?" ”
The thin monkey said, "From here, it will take about two hours and where you can go." ”
Now that time is pressing, there is a shortcut that is feasible, which is a good thing, so he said: "How about changing the route and going over there?" ”
Yu Mengdao nodded and said, "The thin monkey leads the way, so let's change the route." After saying that, he shouted to the people in front of him, and set up the carriage and followed the thin monkey wildly.
The people urged their horses on, and soon they came to the entrance of a valley; The mountain road ahead is rough and overgrown with weeds; The carriage had no way to go, so it had to abandon the carriage and hide somewhere else. Intoxicated and stretched a bitter gourd face, he had to ride with Yu Meng and continue to hurry.
After about two hours of walking, we came to the foot of a large mountain.
The people got down and looked around, and saw that the mountain was high and majestic, and it was unusually steep. This mountain cliff is located at the downwind outlet, perennial wind and rain, years of erosion, the cliff weathering; Pieces of rubble fell, piled up on top of the mountain, forming a gentle slope. Sure enough, as the skinny monkey said, this is the perfect place to climb the cliff.
Sitting on the horse intoxicated, looking at the mountain in front of me, I couldn't help but feel stunned, how can I climb it? This belly is hungry, and he looks up at the sun in the mountains, and it has passed the time; Then he asked everyone to unload the equipment on horseback, rest and eat, and take out special tools to prepare.
Intoxicated and endured the pains on both sides of his thighs, he was helped off the horse by Zhu Yiqun. As soon as he reached the ground, the restless heart finally became grounded. He smiled bitterly: "This horseback riding is really not a simple thing to enjoy. ”
Zhu Yiqun slapped on the shoulder of intoxication, looked at his pale face and said: "The captain is good, such a thin body can withstand a long journey, so that I admire it tightly in my heart." ”
Intoxicated Zhu Yiqun glanced at him, ignored him, and bent over to hammer his legs.
Everyone laughed and went their own way.
Yu Meng took off the equipment on horseback, came to sit down in front of Intoxication, and instructed all beings to boil water, and then burn cakes and dried meat, and eat some indiscriminately.
"How's it going, Mr. Tao? Can the body eat it? Yu Meng opened the bag of dry food, took out a piece of swarthy dried meat and handed it to Tao Intoxication.
Intoxicated took the jerky and took a bite, it was as hard as if he had bitten a stone, and his teeth hurt; I can't help but think of the dazzling array of fast food in modern supermarkets, he sighed in his heart, I don't know when I can taste that taste again, and said quietly: "Thank you for your concern, I'm still going on." ”
Listening to Yu Meng's sincere concern, he felt a warmth in his heart, this time he came to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and it was the third person other than Ma Xiuying and Jin Ju who sincerely cared about him.
Yu Meng nodded and said: "The first time I went out to do errands before, it was also like you, but after more times, my body slowly got used to it." ”
Everyone nodded their heads when they heard this, and after a quarter of an hour, everyone's strength was almost recovered
took out a handful of flying claws, put them on his body and said, "This is called flying claws, which are used for mountaineering." "I saw this flying claw, flat at one end, with a hole in the middle, through which a twine, the size of a child's wrist, was threaded; On the other end of the rod, four iron hooks stretched out and curved in four directions, like the horns of a buffalo.
Intoxicated took out a handful of small sheep's horn zirconium and said: "This is also used for mountaineering, called cross zirconium." Seeing that everyone's eyes were confused and their faces were dull, he must not know how to use these tools, so he demonstrated them in person, and then they all showed excited and excited looks. These tools have long had prototypes in ancient times, but they don't have his finesse and dexterity.
After resting for about half an hour, everyone put away their equipment and left the thin monkey to guard the camp; The rest were led by Gao Fei, followed by Yuan Hou, and the two of them relied on their abilities to fly, jump and climb.
Looking at the cautious and struggling backs of the two, I think of modern extreme sports, which are not worth mentioning in front of it. The weathering of the mountain has brought a disadvantage, that is, the loosening of the mountain rocks, which makes people unable to prevent it; The two alternately helped to avoid falling off the cliff. I was intoxicated and frightened, and I was dripping with cold sweat.
After about an hour's effort, the two of them reached the top of the mountain; Then two bowls of thick hemp rope were lowered from the top of the mountain.
Looking at the towering peaks, intoxicated with a heart; Seeing the people who jumped on the hemp rope quickly, they were intoxicated, excited, envious, and afraid and worried; I couldn't help but secretly make up my mind that after the rescue was successful, I must pester Gao Fei and learn his peerless ability to fly on the wall and use it to steal incense and jade, which will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
The cold wind blew like a knife from under the feet of the intoxicated body, lifting pieces of clothing; The rope that drives the vacant mountain cliff is fluttering, making people's hearts feel weak for a while; He grabbed the knot and climbed up step by step. Suddenly, the mountain rock that he was holding on to was suddenly loosened, and his body lost his balance when he landed, and he fell to the cliff; His heart tightened, his mind went blank, and in a trance, he remembered a strange word in his ears, like an ethereal song, drowned in the cold wind blowing through his ears. He saw his mother, who was far away from home. The figure that has been tired all the year round and has become rickety after the years have passed; is leaning on the side of the gate, looking forward to loving eyes, looking at the end of the jade-like cement road in the distance, as if there is a car coming quickly; Sitting inside was himself, waving his hands out of the window and shouting excitedly, "Mom, I'm back." As if hearing his shout, his father staggered out, his silver hair, with a pair of reading glasses, and the years were like knives, mercilessly carving vicissitudes on his forehead.
Suddenly, the picture turned, and the delicate Jin Ju and the eldest lady shook in their heads, their sad eyes were full of tears, and they murmured: "You said, let's wait for you to come back and marry me, you said..." Two silver-haired and white-haired old women sat under the peach blossoming peach trees and snuggled up to each other, looking at the mountain passes and whispering: "You said you were coming back, and told us to wait for you, where are you now?" The tone was poignant, sad and helpless.
Suddenly, his body stopped, his wrist seemed to be grabbed by others, and a fiery heat came, pulling Zhang Xiaogang out of the illusion. He opened his eyes and saw Goofy chasing after him at some point; He hooked a rope with his legs, grabbed his wrist like a monkey fishing for the moon, his face was swollen and red, and he smirked: "Captain, you said that if you are brothers, you will go out and go back together." ”
Intoxicated with cold sweat all over his body, a heart seems to jump out of his chest; He was shocked and said: "It's brothers, let's go out and go back together"
Intoxicated felt as if my heart was stuffed with something, and I was a little panicked; The joy of dying in a desperate situation made his heart full of blood, full of inexhaustible strength, with the help of Gao Fei's body to block the posture of blocking up, both hands tightly grasped the rope, and a heart finally fell to the ground.
Goofy turned around and said, "You go first, I'll be behind you." ”
Intoxicated knew his intentions, and he was not pretentious, he took a deep breath and climbed up.
A few frightened and joyful smiles leaked from the top of his head, and said, "Hurry up, we'll pull you up." After saying that, everyone grabbed the rope and pulled it up.
Goofy took a deep breath, grabbed the rope like a sit-up, and climbed up behind him.
By the time everyone climbed to the top of the mountain, the red sun was already slanting westward, and the sunset was all over the sky.