Chapter 13 Niutouling
The catchers rushed into the tea shed, and the man's face suddenly changed drastically, and soon he heard a crackling sound from inside, and the couple didn't dare to say much. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
This tea shed is not big, and several catchers searched inside and out, and then came back and said to the leader: "There is no one inside." ”
The leader quickly looked around, then threw the piece of paper to the man, and said coldly: "This is a wanted notice, just stick it outside your tea shed, as long as you see this kid, whether he is dead or alive, he will be sent to the government, and he will be rewarded." Without saying much, he shook the reins of his horse and led a few fast flying horses away.
When the arrest was about to leave, the man hurriedly said to the woman: "That little beggar is a murderer, can you hear it?" Why don't you let me report it? The woman said lightly, "More is better than less." The man was a little annoyed, and he also looked inside and outside the tea shed, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "That kid is gone?" ”
The woman saw that the catch was about to go far away, so she went around to the back of the tea shed, and a few steps away there was a circle surrounded by bamboo, and at a glance she knew that it was a convenient place.
The man immediately understood, and when he saw that Yang Ning had already come out of it.
Although he searched the inside and outside of the tea shed, he didn't search this place.
"Uncle, aunt, I'm sorry." Yang Ning arched his hand and said, "I will leave immediately, and I will not affect you." Although he knew that Xiao Yishui's henchmen would find out about him sooner or later, he never expected that the efficiency of these people would be so fast, not only had the murderer been identified, but also began to search everywhere.
The man's face turned pale for a while, and there was still some doubt in his eyes, and he asked, "You..... Did you really kill someone? ”
Yang Ning didn't explain, took the gold leaf on his body, and said, "I don't have any broken silver on me, I don't know if I can exchange this gold leaf for a little broken silver." ”
When the man saw the gold leaf, he was taken aback, and immediately waved his hand and said, "We don't have so much broken silver to exchange, you.... Hurry up and go! But his eyes were fixed on the golden leaf.
Yang Ning hesitated, but still stuffed the gold leaf into the woman's hand, and walked quickly, the woman screamed a few times before Yang Ning stopped, and the woman stepped forward and asked, "Young man, where are you going?" Those officials are arresting you. ”
Yang Ning said with a smile: "I'm going to the capital to find a dart team, but the dart team left a few days earlier than me, and I don't know if I can catch up." ”
The man approached and said, "If the dart team you mentioned is walking along this official road, even if it is a few days earlier than you, it may not be able to catch up." Raising his hand and pointing to the southeast, "If you walk in that direction for a day, you should be able to see Niutouling, if you can pass through Niutouling, you will have to walk at least two days less than the official road, maybe you will be able to catch up." ”
"Niutouling?" Yang Ning's eyes lit up.
The woman hurriedly said: "Niutouling is a deep mountain and old forest, young man, it is very dangerous there, so I should dispel this idea." ”
The man said: "I have already pointed out the road, whether you dare to go depends on your guts." Hurry up, in case those officials turn back, but it will affect us. ”
Yang Ning's heart was slightly excited, he arched his hand, and said with a smile: "Thank you two." The woman wanted to return the gold leaf to Yang Ning, but Yang Ning had already flown away.
He followed the direction pointed out by the man, resting only for a moment, and in the evening of the next day he saw the outline of a mountain range in front of him, with two peaks slightly high, which at first glance looked a bit like the two horns of a cow.
In the evening, the sun sets in the west, the sunset afterglow shines on Niutouling, the whole Niutouling looks quite gloomy, although Niutouling seems to be in front of you, but you really want to walk, to the sun sets, but there is still some distance.
Approaching Niutouling, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, Yang Ning's heart tightened, and when he looked back, he saw that several horsemen were roaring from behind.
He clenched his fists, secretly thinking that it could be that the few catchers turned around quickly, and the tea shop man told a few people about his whereabouts?
In the wilderness, there was really no place to hide, and at this moment, those people had obviously discovered their figures, and it was too late to hide.
Five fast horses galloped like the wind, Yang Ning's expression was cold, although he knew that the strength was weak, he was still ready to fight.
But the five fast horses swept past him, and only one of them glanced at him.
Only then did Yang Ning see clearly that these five people were not chasing after him, they were all dressed in purple, and there seemed to be some marks on their eyebrows, but those people were too fast, and they didn't see it clearly for a while.
Yang Ning breathed a sigh of relief, the fast horses ran out of a short distance, suddenly stopped, and came back on the horse, and when they arrived at Yang Ning's side, they restrained the horse, and immediately the purple-clothed man looked Yang Ning up and down, and then asked coldly: "Did you see an old man in a gray robe?" ”
Yang Ning shook his head and said, "I didn't see it!" I thought to myself that these people were looking for an old man, but I didn't know who the old man was.
At this moment, Yang Ning suddenly heard a piercing sound coming from the direction of Niutouling, looked up, and saw a starlight soaring into the sky from the deep mountains of Niutouling.
The purple-clothed man naturally saw the light, his face changed slightly, and he immediately turned his horse's head and said to the other purple-clothed men: "It's in the mountains, let's go over quickly!" ”
The five purple-clothed men galloped towards Niutouling, and Yang Ning watched the five horses drift away, and his heart was even more puzzled.
Those purple-clothed people were menacing, and they didn't look good, but they didn't know where they came from, and a starlight burst out of the mountains, which was obviously a signal, that is, there were other people in the mountains at this time.
Yang Ning pondered whether he should avoid these people and find another way, just to catch up with the dart team, there was only this shortcut, only thought about it slightly, and then continued to go towards Niutouling.
After walking for half an hour, when I arrived at the foot of the mountain, I saw a few horses at the foot of the mountain from a distance, but I didn't see the purple-clothed people.
Yang Ning knew that it was inconvenient to ride horses on the mountain, so those people must have left their horses here and hiked up the mountain.
At this time, if you take a horse and leave quietly, you should not be discovered, and if you ride a horse and chase along the official road day and night, you will be able to catch up with the dart team.
It's just that if he runs a horse on the official road, maybe he will run into Xiao Yishui's henchmen, he has not forgotten that Xiao Yishui's henchmen have opened a big net in Huize County and are searching for themselves everywhere, black and white, and he really has to be careful.
Moreover, the words and deeds of those purple-clothed people also made Yang Ning curious.
After going up the mountain, the road became more and more rugged, and the mountains were full of dense forests, Yang Ning knew that those purple-clothed people must have followed the place where the light had just risen, but he also remembered the approximate location, while paying attention to the movements around him, while shuttling through the mountains and forests to touch in that direction.
Niutouling, as the name suggests, rises and falls, sometimes high and sometimes low, but it is not always climbing upwards.
The first moon rose, the moonlight was cold, when it was September, the weather began to get cooler, in this mountain forest, it was even more yin, and Yang Ning was quite cold.
From time to time, there was a wolf howling in the mountains, and before he knew it, Yang Ning had gone deep into the mountains, and he couldn't see a single figure in the surroundings, not even a road, and his eyes were dark, and it was a little terrifying, although Yang Ning was bold, he also felt a little chill down his back at this moment.
He was regretting breaking into the mountain, when he suddenly heard a shouting sound from the left front, Yang Ning was immediately alert, but the voice screamed a few times, and then there was no sound.
Yang Ning waited for a while, heard no movement, carefully followed the direction of the previous shout, the forest was dim, the scene in front of him was not very real, walked for a while, suddenly stumbled under his feet, stepped on a soft thing, and almost fell, fortunately, Yang Ning's reaction was extremely fast, and he grabbed a small tree next to him with one hand and stabilized his body.
The moonlight was faint, spilling down from the gaps in the branches, Yang Ning glanced down, his face changed suddenly, and he almost screamed.
There was a person lying horizontally at his feet, motionless, one of his feet was stepping on his lower abdomen, and under the cold moonlight, Yang Ning saw that the bare neck of this person had no head.
A strong smell of blood came to his nose, Yang Ning didn't care about this smell of blood, but when he saw this headless corpse, he was also shocked in his heart.
From this person's clothes, it can be seen that he seems to be one of the purple-clothed people he met before.
He raised his hand to cover his nose, and at this moment, he heard a miserable scream not far away, the scream was terrible, and it disappeared in an instant, Yang Ning's heart suddenly beat hard, and he groped and walked forward for more than ten steps, and saw a figure standing there in front of him, and hurriedly dodged and hid behind a big tree.
It's just that there was not the slightest movement over there, Yang Ning looked over and saw that the figure was standing upright, his head and arms were hanging down, motionless.
Yang Ning felt something wrong, walked out from behind the tree, but the person did not move, Yang Ning approached the past, gently "hey", and suddenly glimpsed the man's chest bulging, as if something was contained in it, at this time the person did not move, Yang Ning did not immediately approach, went around to the side, only then did it become clear that there was an arm-thick trunk behind the person, and the trunk was submerged into the body from the back of the person, and the place where the chest bulged was naturally because the trunk ran through the body to bulge.
The more Yang Ning looked at it, the more frightened he became, the two corpses he saw, the way they died were shocking and extremely tragic, but he didn't know who did it.
He approached the corpse, lowered his body slightly, looked at the man's face, and recognized at a glance that the man was the purple-clothed man who had asked him at the bottom of the mountain, and there was a tattoo in the center of this person's eyebrows, shaped like a spider.