The next morning, Qu Shun burned some dry grass and branches to pay tribute to his father, who had died not long ago. After Qu Shun cried for a while, Chen Dahua helped him up, and the group continued to walk towards Linjian County.

"Bottle, in this small county, no one should recognize you two as wanted criminals, right?" Qu Shun slid down a hillside, looked at the city of Linjian County from a distance and asked.

"I don't know." Yao Ping reflexively helped Li Jun, and after Li Jun walked down the hillside, he continued, "Anyway, Miss Li and I won't go into the city, I'll give you some silver taels, you can go there and buy more food." After all, we have to continue to walk through the area of Chongyun Ridge, and when we reach the mountains, it will be difficult to find food. ”

"Along the way, you spent all the hard-earned money you saved by running merchants in the Western Regions, so I'm embarrassed." Qu Shun smirked and said, "When we get to the south of Tianquan Prefecture, after you buy land there, I will give you a long job, give you a farmer, and repay you." ”

"Come on, you, we will share difficulties and blessings." Yao Ping said, "I hope we can get there safely, and then we can live a stable life." ”

Yoo Eun-jae smiled after hearing the conversation between the two.

"Well, what are you laughing at?" Seeing his expression, Qu Shun asked him, "Isn't what the bottle said wrong?" ”

"Oh? Am I laughing? Yoo asked.

"Of course you laughed, I saw it, you laughed eloquently." Qu Shun said.

"Junko, when did you learn to speak with idioms?" Yao Ping was stunned and asked.

"Oh? Am I laughing? Yoo Eun-jae said to Qu Shun, "If I laughed just now, I think it was because I envied you, so I laughed." ”

"Envy us?" Qu Shun asked curiously, "We two poor people, what is there to envy of you, the great swordsman of Cangmin?" ”

"Absolutely." Yoo Eun-jae crossed his hands and hugged the sharp knife to his chest and said, "You have your own goals, your own ideals in life, and you are also working hard for your ideal life, I am envious." ”

"What's there to envy about this, you have it too!" Qu Shun said, "Aren't you thinking about defeating that, the one who is called One, and challenging the Yingzhou master who is called the shadow." That's your goal. ”

Yoo Eun-jae smiled and said, "Yes, it is my pursuit and my goal to defeat all masters." ”

"Everyone has their own ambitions and reputations, so we just pursue differences." Qu Shun said, "Actually, it's all the same. ”

"Alright, Junko, I beg you, don't talk with idioms." Yao Ping said, "Let's go to the county seat." ”

Qu Shun walked for a while and leaned on Yao Ping's ear and whispered, "I think, as a Yiluo person, how can I not lose face in front of Liu Enzai, a Cangmin person." He said that he had killed sixteen mobs, and that he would have to kill three or four even if he bragged about discounts, and that I would definitely not be able to beat him in that contest, and that I could not lose to him again. ”

"Then you can't use idioms indiscriminately." Yao Ping said.

"I'm messing around with idioms." Qu Shun said, "Besides, even if I really use it indiscriminately, he may not be able to understand it." BottleYou have seen a lot of foreigners, you said that if a person speaks with idioms, does it seem to be uniquely cultured. ”

"I don't know if you seem to be educated, anyway, you don't need idioms, others really don't know that you are uneducated." Yao Ping said.

A few people chatted and walked out of the mountains, and the group walked in the flat field, gradually approaching the vicinity of Linjian County. At this time, Li Jun, who had been silent at the back of the line, suddenly spoke, "There is someone behind!" ”

Yao Ping looked back in a panic, only to see that many people with swords had run out of the mountain they had just come down to at this time.

"God, it's those mobs! It's them! Qu Shun fixed his eyes and looked at the mountain, and then shouted loudly, "Run, run." ”

While a few people were running, the people of the mountain also rushed down the hill at the command of their leader.

"Run to the county seat, quickly, before they have time to close the city gates." Yoo Eun-jae said urgently, "I'll cover you in the back." ”

Yao Ping pulled Li Jun and ran away, and while he looked back at Li Jun, he also saw those mobs rushing towards Linjian City. Obviously, they wanted to seize the guards on Linjian City to react and order them to attack the city before closing the city gates.

Yao Ping saw that the mob was fierce, he helped Li Jun lose his bag, and also lost his own backpack, Yao Ping held the "shadow cut" in one hand, and pulled Li Jun to run quickly towards the city with the other. Qu Shun and Chen Dahua also threw away their bags, and they quickened their pace and ran desperately towards Linjian.

"The guards of the city have seen the situation here, the people who are trading at the city gate are flocking to the city with goods, the city gate will be closed soon, you need to hurry up." Yoo Eun-jae said as she ran behind the four.

Yao Ping was amazed that Yoo Eun-jae could still speak so steadily under such a violent run.

"Leave it alone, us." Yao Ping shouted to Yoo Eun-jae as he ran, "The city gate, it's about to close, you go into the city." ”

"Yao Ping, Qingfu Prison, I remember your life-saving grace to me. Whatever you say, I will escort you all the way to Tianquan Prefecture. Yoo Eun-jae said as he ran, "I've only come here, how can I just leave you alone." ”

Yao Ping turned a corner at this time, why Liu Enzai was willing to go all the way to Tianquan Prefecture with them, it turned out that he wanted to repay himself for saving his life to him. "I, I didn't let you, you, repay." Yao Ping gasped violently and shouted, "You, go." ”

Yoo Eun-jae didn't respond, and after running for a while, he suddenly turned around and ran back. Yao Ping turned his head, but saw that Yoo Eun-jae met the two mobs who had caught up first, he sharpened his knife and slashed them instantly with a lightning bolt. Without waiting for Yao Ping to run a few dozen steps and look back, Liu Enzai had already put the knife into the sheath, turned around and returned to their side.

The five of them ran wildly. Not far from the city, Yao Ping looked up and saw that the heavy city gate had begun to close under the joint push of a group of soldiers.

When he was still fifty steps away from the city gate, Yao Ping watched as the two gates covered with copper nails closed tightly. He hurriedly shouted to the soldiers guarding the city gate, "Don't close the gate, let us in!" But no one paid attention.

"Keep running, don't stop, get under the gates." Yoo Eun-jae said to them.

Running all the way to the city gate, Qu Shun slapped the city gate hard, and he shouted hoarsely to the officers and soldiers inside the gate to let them open the city gate and let them in, but the officers and soldiers behind the gate did not give any response.

Li Jun and Chen Dahua leaned against the city gate, and when they looked out of the city, they saw a large number of mob rebels surging towards the city.

"Let's run to the side." Qu Shun turned around and saw the rushing mob rebels, and he said tremblingly, "Standing here, you are dead." ”

"It's okay Junko." Yao Ping said.

"How can it be okay!" Without waiting for Qu Shun's words to land, everyone could hear a string sound in the city. Then, Qu Shun saw a sparse rain of arrows flying out of his head.

It was an arrow fired by the guards on the walls of Linjian City, and the arrows that flew out immediately killed several mobs who rushed to the front of the line.

Although this rain of arrows killed a small number of people, it was very effective in deterring the surging mob. When the mob saw the city guards shoot the people who rushed to the front with arrows, they immediately stopped their efforts and retreated. The mob retreated beyond the range of the bow and arrow, where it was temporarily huddled together.

"What should I do?" Qu Shun asked nervously.

"Wait and see." Yao Ping said.

"Let's follow the base of the wall, slip to the other side and run away." Qu Shun said again after a while.

"Don't act rashly, Junko. Now that we are standing here, the soldiers of the city will be merciful enough to us if they do not kill us. "If we run around, they will probably shoot us as a mob at this critical moment." ”

"Yao Ping is right, we can only wait here now." Yoo Eun-jae looked up at the city and said, "It seems that I didn't kill those two mobs in vain. The guards in the city should know we're not with them. ”

When the mob rebels regrouped outside the city, a mob leader on horseback left the mob first and slowly approached Linjian City.

"There is him!" Qu Shun suddenly said angrily after seeing the man riding close to the city, "He was one of the people who captured the old father that day, and I will kill him!" ”

Yao Ping grabbed Qu Shun's arm tightly, and then said, "Shunzi, don't move, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, now is not the time, don't be impulsive." ”

Qu Shun looked fiercely at the man on horseback in the distance, and he only heard the man shouting at the city, "Listen to the dog officer of Linjian City, your city is surrounded by us on all sides!" Now obediently open the city gate and let us in, so that you can keep the old and the young in the city safe and sound. Otherwise! If we wait for us to enter the city, we will leave you chickens and dogs behind!" ”

No one in the city responded.

"Dog officer Xiaoer, open the door quickly, if we open the door, we will only take food, otherwise we will call you all..."

Yao Pingzheng listened to the mob leader scolding, but he never thought that with the sound of a string in the city, an arrow quickly crossed the blue sky and fell from the sky, hitting the door of this person's face, and he immediately fell off his horse and died.

"Dead, dead?" Qu Shun couldn't believe his eyes, he didn't expect to see the enemy so quickly, and he didn't expect this enemy to be killed so quickly, he said with surprise and joy, "The sky has eyes, the sky has eyes." ”

"What a sharpshooter." Yoo Eun-jae said after looking at the position of the arrows in the castle and the distance from the corpses.

Yao Ping was also amazed by the skill of the archer in the city, and he sighed, "With such an archer here, just this moment, I must scare the courage of these thugs." ”

As Yao Ping said, the mob was horrified to see their little leader killed by the city's people with an arrow from a long distance. Given the power of the arrow, some mobs even retreated in a hurry.

Seeing that the rebels retreated to the foot of the mountain in the distance, the city gate slowly opened a gap at this time. Through this crack in the door, two guards guarding the city stretched out their heads, and they beckoned to Yao Ping and others. Yao Ping and his entourage did not hesitate and immediately entered the city.

Walking into the city, Yao Ping and Li Jun, who were afraid of being recognized, hid behind Qu Shun and Chen Dahua. Yao Ping, who was hiding behind Qu Shun, found through the dense guards in the city that not far away, a young general wearing tiger stripe leather armor and a delicate face was walking down the city wall and walking towards them.

The person who walked towards them was Zhanye, the county magistrate of Linjian County.

Zhanye stopped Yoo Eun-jae, who was standing at the front, and asked him sharply, "Who are you?" ”

"It's just ordinary people." Liu Enzai held his knife in his arms, and then turned to look at Qu Shun and Chen Dahua behind him and said.

"Yes, my lord, we are the people who fled from Qingfu." Qu Shun took the opportunity to say to Zhanye, "My lord, those mobs just now, they occupied the county town of Qingfu before, and they also harmed my relatives, and even we were almost killed by them. Your Excellency, you have to call the shots for us, Your Excellency. ”

"You say you're ordinary people?" Zhanye's gaze quickly moved back to Yoo Eun-jae after catching a glimpse of Qu Shun, he stared at Yoo Eun-jae and said, "An ordinary person will use a Cangmin sharp knife?" And murder is still a sword to seal the throat, and a knife is fatal. ”

Without waiting for Yoo Eun-jae to answer, the soldiers who were originally standing beside everyone stepped forward with their swords in their hands and immediately surrounded Yoo Eun-jae and Yao Ping.

"The general doesn't know, I'm a Cangmin person, so naturally I want to use the Cangmin sharp knife. And this sharp knife was also given to my ancestors by the king of Cangmin, so I naturally want to use it to save my life. Yoo Eun-jae said unhurriedly.

"Are you from Cangmin?" Zhan Ye asked with some surprise.

"Yes." Yoo Eun-jae nodded and continued, "As for the murder just now, I had to kill those two mobs in order to protect my friends. ”

"Hmm. It's not indiscriminate killing. Zhanye looked at Liu Enzai for a while, and then continued to ask, "Cangminren, tell me what your name is?" ”

"In Shimoyanagi."

"Yoo Eun-jae...?" Zhan Ye thought for a moment, and then asked him, "Cangmin Jin Wei Liu family?" ”

"Exactly."

Zhan Ye suddenly smiled and said, "It turned out to be Cangmin's Jin Wei family, no wonder your sword skills are outstanding." I was fortunate to see it today, and Zhan admired it very much. ”

Liu Eunjae looked at the light quiver that could hold twelve arrows on his waist, and only contained eleven arrows at this time, so he also smiled lightly and said, "General Zhan's archery skills are even more admired below." ”

"It's a prize, in Xia Zhanye, it's not a general, it's a small county lieutenant in this county." Zhan Ye said.

"Thank you, Lord Zhan, for saving me." Yoo Eun-jae clenched his fists and saluted.

"No need to be polite, you are both Cangmin Jinwei, and the king of Cangmin is canonized by my Yiluo Heavenly Son. We can also be regarded as co-respecting the Lord of the world, that is, we can also be regarded as colleagues. ”

"If so, yes." Yoo Eun-jae said with a light smile.

Seeing that Yoo Eun-jae quickly climbed close to the county lieutenant guarding the city, Qu Shun couldn't help but step forward and said, "My lord, we were driven away by those mobs, and now they are stationed outside the city, we have nowhere to go, and I hope your lord will allow us to stay in the city." ”

"Guarding the safety of the people is my duty. When you take refuge in the city, I will naturally grant it. Zhan Ye looked at Qu Shun and Yao Ping behind him and said, "But at the moment, the mob is besieging the city, and the manpower in the city is limited, so you have to do something to defend the city." ”

"Definitely, definitely." Yao Ping said with a handful of sweat. Worried that Zhanye would recognize himself and Li Jun as Yao Ping, who was a wanted criminal. After seeing that Zhanye's gaze swept over him and Li Jun and didn't notice anything, he then let out a long sigh of relief.