Chapter 17: Prelude II
"It's a shift change, Jade Wolf Fang."
"Yo, why is the Jiangbei swordsman so red today?"
"Hmph, it's not like I've been teased by a little girl."
"Wu Yue Aya?"
"Who else but that little lady."
"This little woman is not simple, she knows kung fu, I can see that she is still a newcomer."
"Nine times out of ten, newcomers in the rivers and lakes will not be able to get out of the rivers and lakes, so we have to take care of it as seniors."
"Also, where are you going in such a hurry?"
"Hey, Red Silk Building, half price."
"Tsk, no wonder the shift changes so early."
"Hey, that's..."
Tian Qing, a first-class master, known as Qingyu Wolf Tooth in the rivers and lakes, is now Gu Yi's guard and Gu Yi's servant. In order to repay the life-saving grace of the year, he was committed to being Gu Yi's servant. Gu Yi traveled south and north in his early years, relying on this Tian Qing to protect his safety. As for Gu Yi asking about Tian Qing's past, Tian Qing only said that he had a master, but for some reasons, he was forced to leave the master.
The genius was bright, Wu Yueya got up early, and practiced boxing in the open space in front of her house, even if the cold wind was freezing, she would not flinch. After half an hour, she stood with her fists closed, and exhaled a turbid breath, Wu Yueya was suddenly refreshed, and her body was no longer so afraid of the cold.
Coming to the well in the village and fetching water, Wu Yueya looked around, and there were blackened broken walls everywhere, and the place was no longer as lively as it was today, except for the birds crying in the cold wind, almost nothing could be heard.
Boil water, wash your face, wait for the sun to come out, pour some hot water, and wash your hair. Her hair had grown long again, barely shoulder-length, but now it hung down to her back, her thick black hair exuding vitality and vitality in the hot water.
After washing, sit in front of the fire pit and bake the fire to dry and wet your hair little by little, take a hairband to coil up your hair, tie it into a man's hairstyle, then insert a hairpin, change into a clean green coat skirt, and go to Jingzhou City.
When I came to Jingzhou City, I bought a Hu cake first, and went in the direction of the Water Jing Dart Bureau while eating.
When she came to the Water Jing Dart Bureau, Wu Yueya first pulled the door knocker, and then notified the servants in the Dart Bureau of her identity, and then went in. Since there is no business at the moment, most of the staff are idle in the board.
The dart people in the dart game are used to getting up late, the sun has already risen, and they have just finished breakfast, and Wu Yueya has rubbed a bowl of dumplings here.
Wu Yueya finished eating the dumplings and drank them together with the green onion soup inside, to be honest, she really missed the knife-cut noodles in the school cafeteria, the taste was much better than this dumpling.
Walking towards the lobby, seeing the Iron Pear Flower and the Iron Tiger who were facing Wu in the open space outside the lobby, Wu Yueya stopped and watched. Needless to say, Tie Dahu is forceful between his punches and palms, showing the masculinity of a man, opening and closing his fists, attacking up and down, forcing Tie Lihua to retreat step by step.
Tie Lihua is obviously a woman, when she was forced to retreat by her brother Tie Dahu, there was no disorder in her steps, one step at a time, one punch and one palm or strong shock or skillful block, and her black hair danced in the air, so she was not chic, and she was looking for the other party's flaws while defending.
However, when the two of them noticed Wu Yueya's arrival, they both tightened their fists and dispersed their anger and stopped fighting.
Wu Yueya saw that the two of them were looking at her in unison, so she clapped her hands, "The two masters are really powerful, they dazzle the little woman, admire and admire!" ”
"Ha, what is your little lady doing in our dart game, do you want to think clearly about being the wife of our Iron Tiger or do you want to be the wife of our Iron Tiger and join our dart game." Tie Dahu smiled and joked.
Tie Lihua rolled her eyes and raised her leg and stomped on the soles of Tie Dahu's feet, stepping on the other party to jump up and jump, and then hugged her fist at Wu Yueya, "I heard that Shili Village was in trouble, and I couldn't look for you in those days, and I don't know where the little lady went, thinking that the little lady was unfortunately dead." I inquired with the government, and when I went to Gu's house to ask, I found out that you were fine. It's just that the whereabouts of those days are uncertain, and I'm quite curious where the little lady went? ”
"Ha, I'm going to collect information about the bandits." Wu Yueya covered up, and then diverted the topic, "I'm not here today to be your Iron Tiger wife, nor to join the dart game, I'm here to ask for information." ”
Seeing that Wu Yueya deliberately skipped the topic, Tie Lihua didn't ask any more questions, and took Wu Yueya into the lobby to sit on the couch.
Mr. Tie took a sip of warm wine and put down the wine bowl, "I don't know what information the little lady of the moon wants?" ”
"My map of the Tang Dynasty."
"Oh?" The head of the iron dart was slightly surprised. Not only him, but even Tie Dahu and Tie Lihua looked at Wu Yueya with some incredulity, what does this mean.
Mr. Tie frowned, and after pondering for a moment, "Our dart bureau has traveled from south to north, and there is such a thing as a map, but what does the little lady want to do with the map?" ”
"I want to go to the Yiju Village in Sanligang." Wu Yueya no longer hid it from each other and told the truth.
"This..."Tie Zong's dart head stared at Wu Yueya tightly, wanting to see the meaning of joke in her eyes, but Wu Yueyan's eyes were sincere and not perfunctory at all.
The old face of the head of the iron dart was wrinkled, and he exhaled lightly, "Is the little lady going to take revenge?" ”
"That's right," Wu Yueya's eyes flashed with a cold light, and she replied affirmatively.
"That little lady knows that there are more than 3,000 people in the village, including more than 2,000 mountain bandits, and their three masters are all quasi-first-class masters. Mr. Tie shook his head, disagreeing with Wu Yueya's idea very much.
"I want to follow the Jingzhou army, I am not familiar with the ram captain, I can't blend into the barracks, I can only follow along the way, at least I want to watch them capture Sanligang." Wu Yueya explained.
"Oh? In this way, the little lady is not only here to ask for a map, but also to ask for people. Tie Zong's dart head blinked and looked at Wu Yueya.
"That's right," Wu Yueya took out the gold nugget from the money bag around her waist and put it on the case, "This is a deposit, I don't know if I can please use the iron old dart." ”
Iron Chief Dart Head and Iron Tiger glanced at each other, and Iron Tiger got up and accepted the gold nugget.
"No problem, Rika, go get the map." Mr. Tie looked at Wu Yueya and accepted it happily.
"Yes," Tie Lihua hesitated for a moment, looked at Wu Yueya, and got up.
After the discussion, as soon as there is news from the Jingzhou army, the head of the iron dart will notify Wu Yueya, and now let Wu Yueya rest assured to wait for the news. After Wu Yueya left, Tie Lihua spit out the doubts in her heart thinking about her father, "Dad, where did she get so much money?" ”
"Don't ask about that."
"Dad, you're always resting at home, I'll go for you!" Tie Dahu smiled and flatteringly brought a bowl of warm wine to his father.
"Well," Tie Zhuangniu took the wine bowl, drank it all, and returned the wine bowl to Tie Dahu, "No, the old man must go to this matter!" ”
"Could it be—" Tie Lihua frowned and stared out the door.
"Well, you guessed it! So Big Tiger, stay at home! ”
That night, several masked men were walking in the darkness of the street, one of them carrying a long sword with the word 'righteousness' engraved on the hilt. They dodged Wuhou, who was patrolling at night, climbed over the outer wall of the Assassin's Mansion, and went straight to the residence of Liu Assassin and his children.
After five days, the captain of the ram led the order of the Jingzhou Thorn and the Captain, and led more than 10,000 sergeants of the Jingzhou Army to set off from the West Gate. The people sent the army out of the city to a hundred miles at the west gate, shouting that the ram captain would return victorious, and Mrs. Lu also wore a white scarf on her head and a sackcloth on her shoulders, and marched into the army.
Wu Yueya, together with the iron chief dart head and the iron pear flower, rode a horse behind the army. Wu Yueya carried the little lynx in her arms, and in the past few days, she had become accustomed to the bumps on horseback. Sleeping outside, the hardships could not shake her determination.
Over the mountains, the dead trees on the slopes begin to show new leaves, and a piece of vitality has begun to quietly grow at the end of winter.
Jingzhou army stops and goes, it is not fast, three days out of the army, noon, they have arrived in Jiangling, came to a narrow valley, the ram captain looked up at the canyon in front, took out the map to inspect, and found that this place is called gourd valley, the middle is large, the two ends are small, like a half gourd, so it is called the gourd valley.
The ram captain asked hundreds of recruited Wuhou to step forward to explore the way, and after a while, Wuhou reported the situation.
Captain Ram looked carefully at the map, and it was far away from Sanligang, at least more than three hundred miles away. After the gourd valley, after traveling 200 miles, it was to reach Fangcun Mountain, Fangcun Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the mountain bandits must have set up ambushes there. It is a long way to come here to set up an ambush, after all, it is a long journey, the mountain road is steep, and it is difficult to ask for effort. On the contrary, their Jingzhou army had discussed the strategy of marching before, and taking this shortcut could reduce the resentment of the soldiers, and it was convenient for the cavalry to walk the mountain road, and they could also repair it first.
So the banner was unfurled, and the Ram Captain led the Jingzhou army into the canyon.
Dozens of miles behind the Jingzhou army, Wu Yueya and his party first pretended to walk forward, and then ambushed between the mountains and fields, waiting for the people who followed them to appear.
Wu Yue Aya prostrate herself and stuck to the cold grass, staring at the road they had come from with Tie Zong's dart head and Tie Lihua.
Wu Yueya wondered, how could someone follow her, she didn't find it at all, this person is too terrifying, maybe it was because there were two martial arts masters around her, so she was spared? So who is following him, and when is he following, isn't it the Jiangbei swordsman of the Gu family? But people shouldn't follow them out of the city so far, and they know that they have a dart bureau to protect their safety, so they shouldn't worry, and they have explained this matter to the shopkeeper.
While Wu Yueya was thinking hard, the person had already appeared in the sight of the three of them. Just one glance at Wu Yueya recognized it, that person seemed to be called Tian Qing, a servant of the Gu family, but at this time, looking at him as light as a swallow and stepping on the grass to stagnate, he could be regarded as a master, Wu Yueya couldn't help but be surprised, this Gu family is different from the Cui family, there is such a master.
It seems that the Gu family is showing weakness to the Cui family who are in the limelight outside, but they are actually recuperating and waiting for an opportunity, and they have made the Cui family upside down, and the opportunity for the Gu family to die as soon as Cui Lie dies came.
The rest of the family businesses in Jingzhou City are not as big as the Gu family and the Cui family, even if they want to compete, they will be suppressed by the Gu family, and now the number one businessman in Jingzhou City has safely fallen on the Gu family.
Tian Qing stopped his pace, glanced around, and then hugged his fists and said, "Two, please show up, you don't have to hide anymore." ”
Tie Lihua snorted coldly, jumped out from the side, opened the black box, took out a blunt-looking big iron knife, dragged the knife and slashed, the sound of breaking the wind stabbed up, this slash was a full moon round, down to the top, slashing towards Tian Qing.
Tian Qing saw that it was the Iron Lady and shouted for mercy, the big knife slashed domineeringly, and he didn't dare to hit his blade directly, so he hurriedly retreated, but he still gave the knife a blade to cut through the cyan sleeve robe.
In desperation, he had to pull out the knife, but the knife was pulled out, and the Iron Lady had already taken a few fierce steps, coming closely, and the knife returned to the moon and slashed from top to bottom. Tian Qing complained bitterly, the title of the Iron Lady is really true, no matter what is three, seven or twenty, those who can do it will never be right, and they will not move their mouths after they finish moving.
Tian Qing's horizontal knife blocked it, and he was shocked backwards, the blade of the knife buzzed non-stop, the tiger's mouth was numb, and he shouted, "Slow!" ”
Tie Pear Flower cares so much, idle at home, and has not fought with anyone for a long time, this breath is raised, just cut it out of order, no matter who you are.
Tian Qing saw that the other party was unwilling to listen to him, so he took a deep breath in desperation, swung his knife and slashed, this time it was a comparable fight. Tie Lihua was also a little surprised, this person was really the same as herself, a first-class master, if she was higher than herself, I am afraid that she would have discovered her father lurking over there.
However, fighting like this, the qi that had been silent for several months walked more and more freely in the dantian, and the Iron Lady brandished a big knife to seal its four roads, and each knife was more fierce than the other. Tian Qing also noticed that the Iron Lady's knife was more fierce than the other, and it seemed that he was practicing the knife, so he used all his strength, and his dexterous knife technique broke through the opponent's blockade every time, trying to break the opponent's rhythm, but was forced back by his big knife.
Tian Qing sighed in admiration, I didn't think this iron lady was so powerful before, I thought that the female stream was not worth paying attention to, but now this battle is really worthy of its reputation.
And the iron lady's forehead was dripping with sweat, and she waved the big knife so much, and the hearty feeling poured into her whole body, and with a roar, she slashed it with all her strength.
Tian Qing's body was dexterously avoided, and the big knife slashed on the ground, and the ground was full of earth and stones, and a long knife mark came out. And Tie Lihua also stood with a knife, exhaling a hot breath between the ups and downs of her chest and abdomen, and she took another small step in the martial arts.
After watching the wonderful battle between the two sides, Wu Yueya couldn't help but admire, although Tian Qing has been defending, he has not seen a trace of disorder, and he has never been chaotic when he walks his own rules.
"Little lady Moon, oh, and the iron darthead, I was too close last night, so I alarmed the iron dart." Tian Qing put away his knife and clenched his fists towards Wu Yueya and Tie Zong's dart.
"Well, the kid's kung fu is good, and he can be on par with Pear Blossom, where is the teacher?" Tie Zhuang Niu crossed his arms and looked at Tian Qing.
"I can't say this, I was ordered to protect the little lady of Yueya, but I didn't want the little lady to go out of the city, so I had to follow." Tian Qing clenched his fists again, "If you offend, please forgive the head of the iron dart and the little lady of Yueya." ”
Chatting like this, there was an earth-shattering shout of killing in front of him.
In Hulu Valley, more than 13,000 people of the Jingzhou army were attacked by rolling wood and flowing stones, and 2,000 bandits from Yiju Village had set up an ambush above the Hulu Valley for a long time, just waiting for the Jingzhou army to fall into the trap. Now the Jingzhou army has suffered heavy losses, the captain of the ram is also seriously injured, the dragons are leaderless, and the Jingzhou army is already tired, and it collapsed directly after being killed by the mountain bandits.