Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Shadow of the Bandit
"The face of our six doors really has to fight with others. If you can't solve it yourself, tell me. I'll go to meet Sister Nahua Street to see if she can have more eyes to the point of drowning me. ”
The head of the dragon catcher also shared the hatred of his colleagues and said, "But this matter will be discussed when we come back from Tianzhu County." Now let's not talk about it, if I remember correctly, not far ahead, there is a Zhuangzi. Let's go where to rest and recuperate, have lunch, and then set off. Tianzhu Mountain is far away, and it takes several days to travel quickly, so when you rest, you must rest. ”
The crowd quickly said "yes". Wang Chuan also responded, and the warm current in his heart passed. In the end, he is a brother in the door, and when necessary, he will always stand by his own side, think about himself and share the burden. I only hope that when I get to Tianzhu County, the brothers can also share more things for themselves.
"Drive!"
The catchers rushed one after another, and the speed of the group increased again. Countless smoke and dust were raised from the sound of horses' hooves on the official road, which would appear in the sun's rays, and it was difficult to fall for a long time, as if to indicate the long journey of the fast catchers.
As the dragon catcher said, not far ahead, there is really a Zhuangzi. The group of people in the village also said that it was the bandits and bandits who came, and the gongs were sounded and shouted loudly, and the walls of Zhuangzi were already full of people for a while.
The dragon had no choice but to make Wang Chuan and the other subordinates stop, rode forward alone, signed up for the identity, and took out the head-catching brand issued by Jingzhong and showed it to a person from Zhuangzhong. The man confessed his guilt, took the sign into the Zhuangzi, and didn't know who he had said goodbye to, so he sent it out, and then confessed again and again, and opened the door of the Zhuangzi for the head of the dragon catcher. The dragon catcher turned around and shouted, and the people under his command got off the horse and stepped forward with the dragon catcher.
After knowing that Wang Chuan and Long Zhutou and their party were official errands, where did the people in Zhuangzhong dare to slack off? The owner personally came forward to greet him, made a sumptuous lunch, and warmly welcomed the group. After eating, he also invited the crowd to stay longer. Long Zhutou was concerned about the important affairs of Tianzhu Mountain, thanked the owner, and directly refused to keep the owner. The group didn't even stop long, and after eating lunch and resting for a while, they went directly out of Zhuangzi and continued on their way.
After walking until the evening, I came to a place where there was no shop in front of the village and no store in the back. The group camped directly, Wang Chuan also learned some camping-related things when he was in the Six Gates Martial Arts Academy, and he was once on the earth, he was not without camping experience, and he was unambiguous at the moment, sleeping in the open air with all his colleagues.
At dawn the next day, the group continued on their way. After walking for a day and a half, I left Gyeonggi and entered Chengzhou, and a heavy rain suddenly came. The dragon catcher didn't want to stop to avoid the rain, and with an order, everyone took out their hats and wore them, and walked in the rain. However, the heavy rain poured, and the roads were inevitably muddy, potholes, and rainwater, and it was difficult to see the depth. The crowd had to slow down.
The rain fell heavily for two days, and the group had to take a detour and walk a long distance west before they could continue to their destination. Walking to the border of Chengzhou in the west, at the foot of Chengliang Mountain, the heavy rain finally stopped.
Chengliang Mountain was not actually called Chengliang Mountain originally, because this mountain traverses the east and west, separating Xiliang and Chengzhou, so it has the name of Chengliang Mountain. But the meaning of this name, in the end, there is no smoothness to take the cool air, and over time, this has become a cool mountain, and it has been called a cool mountain.
The crowd quickly stopped at the foot of Chengliang Mountain, and took off their wet clothes and hats that had been beaten by the rain to clean up. Walking in the rain for two days in a row, only looking for a place to shelter from the rain when resting, everyone was tired, and the dragon catcher simply ordered to repair here, and everyone breathed a sigh, almost all of them were tired and paralyzed.
"Huh! Over there, don't rest here, it's dangerous here, get out of here! ”
A middle-aged man's voice suddenly sounded in the distance, but there was some leakage.
Wang Chuan looked for a sound, and saw a middle-aged man in the distance holding a stick with mottled bark, greeting them. Look at the direction of the middle-aged man's two legs, he should be walking east.
"Thank you for your kind reminder. I don't know what danger is here, and you want us to leave quickly? ”
The dragon catcher bowed his hand to the man from a distance, first thanked him, and then asked.
The big man opened his mouth, and sure enough, half of his front teeth were missing from his mouth, so it was no wonder that his speech was leaking. As if some kind of urging ghost was urging him, asking him to finish his words in a hurry, he said: "You don't know, in the past two or three years, a group of mountain bandits have come from nowhere on the cool mountain. This group of mountain bandits is cunning and ferocious, I don't know how many lives have been killed, and the Yamen of Chenggu County came here to suppress the bandits, but they were all escaped by their rabbit nests. Tell me, who can do anything with them now? Within a radius of 100 miles from Chengliang Mountain, only the Xiliang Dog King on the other side of the mountain in the boundary of Xiliangzhou dared to swagger here, and the others were afraid that if they saw those vicious bandits, they would lose their lives. I also encountered heavy rain, and I bet that those mountain bandits would not dare to go down the mountain at this time, so they dared to take shelter from the rain here. As soon as the rain stops at this time, I don't dare to stay longer, so let's go back to the county early. You can only be safe if you stay in the county. When he said that, he didn't wait for Wang Chuan, Long Zhu and others to reply, and walked away quickly with a stick.
It seems that the bandits in this mountain are indeed powerful, and the name alone can scare people into fleeing away. But I don't know what the result will be for these first-class masters under the command of Shanglong Catcher?
Wang Chuan secretly guessed in his heart, but he didn't ask this question to the people in front of him, but asked another question: "What is the origin of the Xiliang Dog King, isn't it amazing?" ”
Wang Chuan, who has been in Beijing for a long time, does not know much about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and the simple information is only known through the rumors in the mouths of merchants and storytellers. "Chasing the wind" and "catching shadows" have collected information on the characters in the rivers and lakes, but they are a small catcher, and they do not have the right to access the information explored by this department in the six doors. Listening to the words of the middle-aged man, the one called "Xiliang Dog King" is either a master who fights ten, or a strongman who leads the forces of one side. Such awesome characters, in the rivers and lakes, I don't know what kind of reputation they have?
However, Wang Chuan listened to the answer of Long Zhutou and his subordinates, and when he heard the answer in his ears, it was a very surprising answer.
"I don't know, I've never heard of this person."
When the dragon catcher said, he thought about it carefully, but he never thought of it, so he asked everyone under his command again, "Do any of you know?" ”
"I don't know."
The crowd shook their heads and said. There are so many senior catchers who have walked the rivers and lakes all year round, but none of them have any impression of this "Xiliang Dog King", which makes Wang Chuan more and more surprised.
Hearing these disappointing answers, the dragon catcher nodded and said, "You won't be impressed. I have seen the 'Catch Shadow' file in Beijing, and I have a spectrum in my heart about the characters in the rivers and lakes. I don't have the slightest impression of the name of 'Xiliang Dog King', how can you know? ”
Wang Chuan: "......"
Crowd Catch: "......"