Chapter 21: Twenty-Three: Murder and Death

Dujia Village is in the east of Wanting County, out of the village on the road to the west, half an hour, it is also to the county seat, the middle was originally a flat road, but in five years the Yellow River seized the Huai into the sea, leaving a tributary here, before the Yellow River and the Huai River were not effectively governed, such river tributaries, in Henan, Shandong boundaries are still a lot, and such tributaries, some are harming one party, some are for the benefit of water and soil, and Dujia Village's is the latter.

It is precisely because of this tributary that Dujia Village has convenient access to water, and there will be a bumper harvest of grain in recent years, but it is also because of this that it will be favored by Xicheng.

This tributary, the Dujia village is enclosed, from the back of the road out of the village, the tributary there is closer to the village, the water flow is relatively slow, a small stone bridge was built, the villagers called the small stone bridge, from the main road out of the village, the tributary is far away from the village, the water flow is more rapid, built a big stone bridge, called the big stone bridge.

Shen Lin was afraid that he would go from the small road and meet the man and woman who came to seek revenge, the Jiangyang thief, so he took people to walk from the main road, they walked too quickly, and they didn't have time to concoct Han Bolong, so Han Bolong's arms and thighs were still intact, but his face was punched a few times, bruised and swollen, and it looked scary.

Shen Lin was afraid of Han Bolong shouting, so he not only tied him up, but also gambled on his mouth, eight errands, twelve splashes were divided into two groups, the front was four errands and six splashes, and the back were four errands and six splashes, the messengers all carried iron rulers, chains, waist knives, and splashes were all holding wooden sticks, Shen Lin was carrying Wang Yong's long knife, and a pair of iron rulers were pinned to his waist, just in the middle, behind him were Shao Er and Du Liu, who were holding Han Bolong, Shen Lin also made up his mind, as long as someone came to rob people, he was by Han Bolong's side, He could kill Han Bolong immediately.

When the group arrived at the big stone bridge, the errand officer in front was just about to cross the bridge, Shen Lin shouted in a deep voice, and carefully observed for a while to see that there was no movement, so they were allowed to cross the bridge.

The first team walked up to the big stone bridge, and the four officers all carried knives and patrolled carefully, but until they crossed the bridge, there was no movement, Shen Lin couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and said in his heart: "Sure enough, they went to find helpers, so they didn't come back to rob people." "Shen Lin has not been dealing with the people in the green forest for a day, knowing that these people are extremely righteous, and few of them abandon their companions, and the Jiangyang thief of a man and a woman still left his luggage here, look at it, it is all gold and silver (Sun Erniang's fine softness), how can he not come back to find it, so he does not dare to be careless at all.

After the first team passed, they all arrived on the opposite side of the bridge, and according to Shen Lin's instructions, they spread out to protect it, Shen Lin then let Shao Er escort Han Bolong, Du Liu opened the road in front, he was behind, and they all went to the bridge together, and the third team also hurriedly followed.

They walked very fast, and they arrived in the middle of the stone bridge in the blink of an eye, at this time the team was a little disjointed, the reason was that Du Liu was afraid and walked a little faster, and Shao Er unconsciously pulled Han Bolong to go fast, Shen Lin was a few steps behind, but he looked at it, the front was the past errand of the first team, and there were people from him and the third team behind, so he didn't care too much, and he didn't stop Du Liu and Shao Er.

Almost when the bridge was about three-thirds of the way crossed, there was a sudden roar under the bridge, and Wang Yong flew over the bridge deck, and the dragon ring knife in his hand slashed towards Shen Lin's face with a cold wind.

Shen Lin had already prepared and shouted, "Good come!" With a hook of both hands, a pair of iron rulers arrived, cross fork flowers, and greeted the knife, at this time Wang Yong sneered and shouted: "Lime powder is coming!" As he spoke, he raised his left hand, and a puff of gray powder flew down, Shen Lin was shocked and angry, he didn't care about fighting with Wang Yong, closed his eyes and retreated, Wang Yong followed and pounced down, and the people behind him, who were also afraid of being blinded by lime powder, also retreated, and the formation was chaotic.

Sun Erniang jumped out, waved the dog leg of her left hand, roared out, and threw it towards Shao Er, Shao Er has also practiced for a few days, subconsciously turned his head, and the knife flew over against his face, cutting his left cheek and even his chin, and followed the knife straight away, and it pierced into Du Liu's back of the heart, Du Liu screamed and fell to the ground.

Han Bolong seized the opportunity, kicked sideways, kicked Shao Er into the air, and fell off the bridge, Sun Erniang took a step forward, and with a swing of the knife, the rope on Han Bolong's body was cut open.

Han Bolong broke the open rope a few times, flew forward, and pulled out the dog-legged knife from Du Liu's body, just as the first team of people came back, Han Bolong was in front, Sun Erniang was behind, and they rushed towards them together, and the two people were a little unaccustomed to the use of the dog-legged knife, which would all be smashed down with the back of the knife, and the two errand officers who ran over first hurriedly greeted them with the knife in their hands.

The dogleg knife is a curved ruler type, when the blade is cut out, it is like a big axe splitting people, with a certain bonus, and this strange knife type, under the same material, is better than other knives, two big dog legs smashed on the two errand knives, the two errand servants are also useless, and at the same time was smashed to the hand numb, the knife in the hand couldn't help jumping, Sun Erniang stepped forward, took out a dagger from his arms, poked into the heart of the errand officer, and then pulled it out and waved it, The dagger hit the eyes of the third messenger, the third messenger hurriedly dodged back, Sun Erniang threw his hand, and the dog-legged knife in his hand flew out, cutting off half of the fourth officer's head.

Han Bolong saw that a woman had already killed two people first, and in a hurry, he roared forward, the dog-legged knife in his hand waved away, and kept smashing towards the errand in front of him, the errand was smashed into an unbalanced hand, and a waist knife was smashed like a curved ruler, Han Bolong took the opportunity to flash over, stretched out his hand and grabbed his neck, pressed him on the bridge, roared viciously in his mouth, his eyes were round, and he came out with one hand with all his strength, and with a bang, the neck of the errand was broken.

Sun Erniang will pick up the waist knife that she killed the errand with a dagger, and fight with the third errand, and the six splashes have never seen such blood, this leg is weak, and they don't dare to move forward.

Han Bolong shouted and rushed over, those who were pranky and said that they were still a little bold to Sun Erniang and a woman, but they knew about Han Bolong, where they dared to do it, and immediately dispersed the birds and beasts, Han Bolong went over and fought with Sun Erniang on that errand.

Just when Sun Erniang and Han Bolong were killing people, Shen Lin found that Wang Yong threw away not lime powder at all, but soil powder, he couldn't help but be angry and angry, dodged forward, and a pair of iron rulers stabbed towards Wang Yong, and the four errand soldiers and six splashes also rushed over together.

Wang Yong danced away with a knife, like a mountain of knives, protecting his whole body, fighting everyone alone, he relied on the limited width of the bridge, and these people could not come together to do the benefits, blocking them all alive.

But there were more than a dozen people on the other side, both long and short weapons, and after fighting for a long time, Wang Yong gradually fell into the wind, and he was about to suffer, when suddenly a miserable scream sounded, followed by Han Bolong snorted coldly, and said: "Shen Lin, I'm here!" ”

With the words, Han Bolong flashed over, raised his hand and stabbed it, but it was on their side, and the last errand officer was also killed.

Han Bolong flew in, took the knife of the errand snatcher, and slashed towards Shen Lin, Shen Lin twisted the blade of the knife with both feet, and the two of them used force at the same time, both wanted to press down the other party's weapon, and the body was closer, looking at each other, their eyes were on fire, and they couldn't wait to swallow each other with a mouthful of water.

Wang Yong would dodge and retreat, and when he retreated seven or eight steps, he took out his soft bow, raised his hand and raised three arrows, and two splashes and one errand immediately fell to the ground, both of them were arrows in the throat.

Sun Erniang will throw a pair of dog-legged knives at Wang Yong's feet, and change to the dragon ring knife to fight, her usual weapons in hand, adding to the majesty, but in three moves, she will split a splash.

Wang Yong saw that those splashes were already timid, so he took another arrow and shouted: "If you don't want to die, get out!" As he spoke, another arrow was shot, passing through the ears of the officers in front of him, and in the eyes of the officers behind, the two officers threw their knives at the same time and screamed, Sun Erniang seized the opportunity, rushed over and swung two knives in a row, and slashed the two injured officers.

The remaining one of the messengers was so frightened that he turned around and ran, Wang Yong shot another arrow on his vest, and the person ran forward and fell to the ground, and the two splashes behind him didn't dare to stay, and ran away as if dead.

Wang Yong put on the arrow again, and pointed towards Shen Lin with a smile, Shen Lin had to share half of his heart on his body, and Sun Erniang also came over with the dragon ring knife, Shen Lin had to divide half of his heart, on Sun Erniang's body, the iron ruler of both hands was a little unable to parry Han Bolong's knife.

Shen Lin secretly hated in his heart, but he knew that if he continued to fight, his life would be gone, thinking of this, he slashed with two feet, forcing Han Bolong to retreat, he turned around and jumped onto the bridge, but before he could jump up, the bowstring sounded, and Wang Yong's arrow arrived.

Shen Lin didn't look back, shouted, flew down and jumped down, Wang Yong's arrow hit the bun above his head, and Shen Lin rushed into the water.

Han Bolong said coldly: "Where to go!" "Then I jumped off the bridge, and saw two people into the water together, it will be winter, it is the dry season, the water under the bridge has just reached the waist, and the two people are dripping with water.

Wang Yong flashed over, and it was another arrow, this time from top to bottom, right in the back of Shen Lin's head, but Shen Lin was wearing a hat on his head, and there was a piece of iron hidden in it, and the arrow was shot on it, making a bang, and then the arrow bounced off, Shen Lin was just dizzy, but Han Bolong just seized the opportunity, and with a knife over, it was attached to the shoulder bone, and split on Shen Lin's neck, the blade was blocked by Shen Lin's shoulder bone, and it failed to split Shen Lin's neck, Han Bolong roared angrily, and took the knife hard, and Shen Lin's body turned with his knife, The neck was licked open by the blade.

Shen Lin lost his feet, covered his neck, widened his eyes, looked at Han Bolong, and let out a muffled cry in his throat, Han Bolong shouted loudly: "Good wife, I have avenged you here!" After Shen Lin kicked Du Shi, although he didn't see that Du Shi was dead, but when he beat Han Bolong, in order to stimulate Han Bolong, he told him that he was already one corpse and two lives, so Han Bolong hated Shen Lin very much.

Seeing Shen Lin fall at his feet, Han Bolong stood for a while, then took off the sword that Shen Lin was carrying, Wang Yong's knife and the burden of Wang Yong and Sun Erniang, beckoned to Wang Yong and Sun Erniang, and then flowed towards the other side of the river, and Wang Yong and Sun Erniang also followed across the bridge.

The three of them met again, and Han Bolong bowed to Wang Yong and Sun Erniang, and said: "If Han hadn't been saved by the virtuous couple, this life would have been gone, but I asked the virtuous couple to accept my worship." ”

Wang Yong hurriedly helped Han Bolong up and said, "Brother Han, we are not busy with the ceremony, but let's leave here first, there are so many people dead here, and those splashes have run away, I am afraid that someone will come over in a while." ”

Han Bolong thought so, he went to the bridge, picked up a good knife and brought it to his body, and then changed into dry clothes, and the three of them didn't dare to stay any longer, so they left in a hurry.

Wang Yong said as he walked: "Brother Han, sister-in-law, we can't save it, but Miss Xia is waiting for you in front." ”

Han Bolong exclaimed in surprise: "What? Xia'er is still there? ”

Wang Yong nodded and said, "Yes, when we came out, we carried my sister-in-law out, and we also took Miss Xia with us." "It turned out that when Wang Yong and the others came out of the small stone bridge, they saw Shao Er hiding behind the tree, and at that time Wang Yong deliberately let him go, so he guessed that after he went back to tell Shen Lin, Shen Lin would not dare to stay in the village anymore, so he set up an ambush on this big stone bridge, and as for Han Xia, he asked him to arrange to a village in front and wait for them.

The three of them hurried to the village in front, picked up Han Xia, took Du's body, and walked north, and after walking out for a day, they dared to pick up a deserted place and stop.

Han Bolong picked up some dry branches, cremated Du's body, and packed it in a white porcelain jar that Wang Yong brought halfway, and took it with him.

Wang Yong caught a few hares on the side of the road, which would be roasted, and a few of them would be eaten as dinner.

After eating, Wang Yongcai said to Han Bolong: "Brother Han, our husband and wife are going to Chengshi County to send Jiayue back to his hometown for burial, where is Brother Han going?" ”

Han Bolong smiled bitterly and said, "After I provoke this lawsuit now, I am afraid that the original lawsuit on my body will also be found out, the world is big, and I have nowhere to go ......." Speaking of this, he glanced at Han Xia, his eyes were full of pity, and said softly: "It's just that I have this daughter by my side, but I can't abandon her." ”

"Daddy!" Han Xia screamed softly, Han Bolong reached out and stroked her head: "I have a good friend, named Zhu Gui, who is nicknamed 'Dry Land Hulu' from Yishui County, I was going to send my daughter to him, but I hid and then ...... I'll be left to fend for myself! ”

Wang Yong thought for a while and said, "Brother Han has never thought about finding a place with high mountains and deep forests, and then make a move?" ”

Han Bolong said in embarrassment: "I have such thoughts, but ...... We don't have manpower, and if we find something ready, we have no way. ”

Wang Yong pondered for a moment and said: "If Brother Han believes me, just go with me, don't hide it, I have already had the intention of falling into the grass, if Brother Han is willing to follow me all the way, our brothers will work together, and we will not be able to make a career." ”

Wang Yong has made up his mind, he wants to become the founder of Liangshan, defeat Song Jiang, and take Brother Liangshan to the bright road, so naturally he needs his own henchmen.

Han Bolong listened to Wang Yong's words, and couldn't help but think deeply, Wang Yong didn't bother him, but just said to Sun Erniang: "We killed the people from the Taiwei Mansion, but we were afraid that we wouldn't be able to get rid of it, so I fell into the grass, but I didn't discuss it with you, I don't know what you mean." ”

Sun Erniang said disapprerovitically: "Our family was originally born in the green forest, there is no difference between opening a black shop and occupying the mountain as the king, since I promised you, naturally what you want, I will follow you, just ......." ”

Sun Erniang stopped halfway through her words, and Wang Yong said a little strangely: "Just what?" Sun Erniang smiled faintly and said, "It's just that your fiancΓ©e can tolerate you to be the king of the mountain?" ”

Wang Yong laughed and said, "Don't worry, if she refuses to follow me, I naturally only need you." ”

Sun Erniang's face turned red when Wang Yong said it, and she couldn't help but glance at Wang Yong, but she didn't pay attention to him anymore.

Han Bolong made up his mind and said to Wang Yong: "Brother Wang, if you think about it, I will be with you all the way, anyway, you can save your brother's life, so I will sell it to you!" ”

Wang Yong smiled and said: "Don't worry, big brother, I will never let my eldest brother sell it wrong." ”

The four of them rested in the field for a night, and then set off the next day, for convenience, Sun Erniang and Han Xia changed into men's clothes, went all the way north, and walked straight to the edge of Chengshi County, only then did they hear the news, and saw the sea fishing documents that captured them on the wall of Chengshi County.

The four people didn't dare to enter the city, and went directly to Chengshi County, Nanqiao Village, which is the ancestral land of the Sun family, after arriving, the four of them waited outside the village until midnight, and then they touched the ancestral grave of the Sun family.

Sun Erniang looked at this, couldn't help shedding tears, and said to Wang Yong: "This is pitch black, how can I bury it?" ”

Wang Yong also felt that he couldn't speak, and said: "It's better to go back first, tomorrow we will spend some silver, ask someone to bury the old man in your name, and then we will leave, what do you think?" ”

Sun Erniang knew that they were not going to be able to get ahead now, so she nodded and said, "It's just like this." ”

After they discussed, they wanted to come out of the cemetery, but suddenly Sun Erniang stretched out her hand and grabbed Wang Yong, and said in a trembling voice: "You...... You see what that is? ”

Wang Yong looked forward along Sun Erniang's hand, and saw a white pointed hat across a few grave bags, jumping and jumping, due to the barrier of the grave bag, I couldn't see whether it was a person or not, I could only see a hat, and it kept jumping with the ghost fire.

Although Sun Erniang is bold, it is a woman's nature to be afraid of ghosts, so she will tremble and say, "That...... That's not a ghost, is it? ”

Han Bolong looked a little scared, Wang Yong is a child under the red flag of the new era, he is okay with this, and said: "I'm afraid it's not a ghost, it's not known if it's an upside down!" After speaking, he grabbed Sun Erniang's hand away and said, "You stand here, I'll go over and take a look." ”

When Sun Erniang was about to be arrested, Wang Yong's feet were almost over, and she was about to shout, Han Bolong hurriedly said: "You can't call it, if it's a ghost, as soon as you shout, he will see Brother Wang!" ”

This is terrible, Sun Erniang hurriedly covered her mouth, and Han Xia not only closed it, but even plugged her ears.

Wang Yong cautiously passed, and then he went to the back of the grave bag, and when he looked out, he saw a person wearing a big white-pointed hat, squatting at a grave bag, digging it, Wang Yong pinched his nose and shouted: "If you want to enter the house, just knock on the door, why do you want to destroy my house." ”

The man wearing a pointed hat stiffened and turned back slowly, but Wang Yong shrank his head after speaking, it was already dark here, the ghost fire could not shine on things, and there was a grave bag blocking it, and nothing could be seen, the man looked for it, there was nothing, his heart was frightened suddenly, at this time, the voice rose again: "Look at it, a good house, let you dig out a big hole, it will rain for a while, and I am also afraid of leakage!" ”

The hat wore a snort, and jumped out from behind the grave bag, Sun Erniang and Han Xia on the opposite side screamed in fright at the same time, and Han Bolong was also scared, but he was finally calm, and when he saw the big white-pointed hat, he guessed that it was upside down, and couldn't help but scold angrily, pulled out the knife in his hand, and shouted: "Miss Sun, it's a tomb robber, you don't have to be afraid, guard Xia'er, I'll go over and take people with Brother Wang." After speaking, he pounced forward with the knife, but before he could come, the upside-down fighter ran to this side without his life, and it turned out that Wang Yong was standing behind him, blowing cool air on his neck, and this person's courage was about to be frightened.

Han Bolong saw the tomb robber coming, and shouted with a horizontal knife: "Junior, don't go!" As soon as he saw Han Bolong, he guessed that someone was making a ghost, snorted coldly, pulled out a crocodile tail whip with his hand, and pulled it down towards Han Bolong's head, Han Bolong knocked it with a single knife, the whip folded in the air, and then bent in the middle, and the front end hung down to the top of Han Bolong's head and swept over, Han Bolong exclaimed, shouting: "Is it Brother Zhu Guizhu?" ”

The man hurriedly put away the whip, and with a wave of his hand, he lit up a fire fold, and the fire shadow flashed like lightning, illuminating Han Bolong's face, and the man exclaimed, "Brother Han Xian! ”

Wang Yong also came over, and said in disbelief: "Brother Han, ...... this?" ”

Han Bolong hurriedly said: "Brother Wang, this is the 'Dry Land Sudden Law' I talked to you about Brother Zhu Guizhu. Then he introduced Zhu Gui to Wang Yong, and then Han Bolong said funny: "Brother Zhu, how did you do this?" ”

Zhu Gui smiled bitterly: "It's hard to say, I came out to do business with an old customer in Yishui, but I didn't expect to lose a clean one, the old guest went back to his hometown, I have no entanglement here, and I can't return home, in desperation, I just remembered to borrow some money from the dead." ”

Zhu Gui also felt that doing this kind of thing was really not a face-showing thing, so he explained and said, "Brother Han, why are you here?" ”

Han Bolong sighed and said, "It's hard to say, big brother has a place to stay, let's rest first?" ”

Zhu Gui saw that they were all a little tired, and hurriedly said, "I have a room in the village, you just have to come with me." Then he led them towards the village. The dragon is in the water