Chapter 113: Stranger
Almighty Cultivation Supreme
The wilderness seemed to turn green overnight, and the vegetation grew wildly, crowding the narrow country roads as if they were nothing.
Hu Guiyang rode a horse and didn't dare to run too fast, firstly, his body couldn't stand it, and secondly, he was worried about losing his way. An hour later, he found himself lost.
When looking out in the mountains, the road in the wilderness is clear at a glance, it seems that as long as you follow the road, after really getting on the road, Hu Guiyang found that there are forks in many places, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will go astray.
"I should have asked just now." Hu Guiyang regretted a little, he should have asked a few more words when he said goodbye to the people of Gaojia Village, but in front of Gao Hanying, he didn't want to ask a word.
Soon in the afternoon, Hu Guiyang finally saw a small shop on the side of the road, a few thatched houses, and a tree in front of the door with wine flags hanging from it.
Hu Guiyang breathed a sigh of relief, drove the horse to the front of the store, his arms were not good, so he had to lie on the horse's back first, and then slowly turned over and dismounted, and almost fell when he landed.
The owner of the shopkeeper is an old couple, the old man hurriedly stepped forward to support the customer, and when he found that there were blood stains on the customer's body, he hurriedly let go and retreated, with a panicked face.
"Don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, I'm a ...... passing by" Hu Guiyang smiled, hoping to gain the favor of the old couple, "Feed my horse, get me some food, and I'll pay now." ”
Hu Guiyang slowly raised his right hand, wanting to take the silver from his arms, but the old man waved his hand, "Don't worry, guest officer...... Please take a seat. ”
The old man led the horse, the old woman led the way, invited the guests into the pergola to sit down, the weather is warmer, and the general guests do not like to enter the house.
There is no good wine and good food in the small village shop, nothing more than a pot of tea, a bowl of brown rice, a few fresh vegetables and pickles, Hu Guiyang has no intention of being picky, he doesn't even care about the injuries on his palms and arms, he eats up a bowl of rice in a blink of an eye, and wants another bowl, but when he looks up, he sees the old couple standing side by side, still full of panic, as if they are receiving robbers who come to the door.
Hu Guiyang looked down at himself, except for the injuries on his body, there seemed to be nothing terrible, and his face may be a mess, but he didn't look like a bad person.
Could it be that Gao Hanying once led people to pass by here and robbed them along the way? Hu Guiyang glanced left and right, and sure enough, there were really a lot of horseshoe prints on the ground.
"I'm not a robber." Hu Guiyang explained.
The old couple nodded again and again, but the horror on their faces did not diminish at all.
Hu Guiyang took out a few things from his arms with difficulty, put the important things back in their places first, leaving only a small bag, opened it to reveal a few pieces of broken silver inside, pushed out a slightly larger one, and asked, "Is it enough?" ”
"We don't want money, we don't want money." The old man said.
Hu Guiyang became more and more confused, and glanced around a few more times, this time he saw more strangeness, there were many and messy hoof prints, and there were some footprints in between.
"I'll sit for a while, and when the horses are full, I'll go away at once, and you will take the money." Hu Guiyang didn't want to be nosy, so he didn't ask much.
The old man came tremblingly, stretched out his hands, quickly scooped up the silver in his hands, then stepped back, opened his hands, and glanced at the silver with his wife, with a slightly soothing expression on his face.
"What else do you want from the guest officer?"
Hu Guiyang shook his head, although he was not full, he had no appetite, put away the rest of the silver, and turned to look at his horse.
Seeing that the horse was almost finished, Hu Guiyang still couldn't hold back his curiosity, turned around and asked, "Who fought here?" ”
The husband and wife's faces changed suddenly, and they shook their heads at the same time, but they couldn't speak.
"I'm a messenger from the capital, you can be honest with me."
Hu Guiyang's current appearance is not like tolerance, the old couple still shook their heads, and retreated together.
Hu Guiyang couldn't help it, got up and smiled: "Okay, you guys are doing it yourself." ”
When he untied the reins, Hu Guiyang encountered a little trouble, but fortunately his fingers were flexible enough to take more time, but it was more difficult to tie the horse's belly belt tightly.
The old man was eager for the guests to leave quickly, so he ran to help.
Hu Guiyang stepped on the stake and got on the horse and asked, "How to get to Mojiazhuang?" ”
"I haven't heard of it." The old man said blankly.
"Where's Ximatun?"
"Go back by the way, it's still far away, the guest officer is going in the wrong direction."
Hu Guiyang was about to ride away when he was suddenly attracted by something.
Next to the manger was a large tree, the trunk of which was nearly a man high, revealing a small piece of velvet, which attracted Hu Guiyang's attention.
He jumped off his horse again.
"Guest officer......" The old man was puzzled.
Hu Guiyang walked to the tree to take a closer look, he guessed correctly, it was a thin line, like steel but not steel, like cotton but not cotton, trembling slightly, the incision was neat, obviously cut at once or cut off with a knife.
The hidden weapon in the receiver is extremely fast, Hu Guiyang has never seen the material of the thread, but he still recognizes it at a glance, this is the thread of the receiver, and there must be a hidden weapon in the tree that has not been pulled out.
Someone has used the Celestial Technique here, and it wasn't that long ago.
Hu Guiyang had to ask clearly, turned to the old man, and stared at him.
The old man was panicked when he saw it, and said with a dry smile: "Is there anything else to do with the guest officer?" ”
"I'm Jinyiwei."
"It turned out to be an official master, disrespectful and disrespectful." The old man hurriedly clenched his fists and bowed.
"You can tell me what happened here now, or you can wait for me to go to the local yamen and send someone to hook your husband and wife to reply and report your name."
The old man's face changed suddenly, ordinary people like him were most afraid of seeing officials, and as soon as his knees were weak, he would immediately kneel.
Hu Guiyang stretched out his hand to stop, "Simple, let's talk." ”
The old woman at the door of the store came running, and the husband and wife couldn't help it, and finally you talked about the strange things that happened here in a word.
Unfortunately, this small shop is located in a remote area, and there are usually few customers, but in the last two months, there are always unusual customers coming to the door.
The couple still remembers the first unusual guests.
It was more than a month ago, and the weather was still a little cold, and the shop welcomed two strange customers, one was a woman with a tight cover, and the other was a young lame man, who stayed for a short time, and left behind a corpse.
If you want to say that the corpse, it is also a strange person, with a wide robe and big sleeves, neither a Taoist priest nor a Confucian student, leading a donkey, speaking strangely, dying inexplicably, and even the luggage was "snatched" away.
After that, the guests came one after another, including officials, heroes, and unidentified strangers, all of whom came to inquire about the whereabouts of the two sisters and brothers.
The old couple's answer was the same every time, saying that they didn't know, they could only point in one direction, they were very afraid, but they were greedy for the occasional "lure", and they were reluctant to give up the small shop they relied on for their lives.
Yesterday afternoon, a large group of strangers came one after another, divided into several groups, hostile to each other, just in front of the small shop, shouting for a treasure competition, the old couple hid in the house and did not dare to come out, they didn't hear very clearly, they didn't know what the so-called "treasure" was, only that there was really a fight outside.
The contest did not last long, and all parties seemed to be unanimous, and at the same time, fifty or sixty people, drinking tea and throwing stools, did not pay.
The more Hu Guiyang listened, the more confused he became, the He sisters and brothers must be here if they couldn't hear it, but who came yesterday?
He walked under the tree, pointed to the thin thread and asked, "Who left this?" ”
The old couple walked together, squinted their eyes and looked at it for a long time, their faces puzzled, and at the same time they shook their heads, "I haven't seen it." "I don't know."
"Did any of yesterday's guests have a wide robe and big sleeves?"
"Nope." The old man affirmed.
"There is an old man with big sleeves." The old woman added.
"Old-fashioned? What names have you heard? ”
The two nodded, thought for a while, and then the old man said, "What's the back of the mountain...... Monster back. ”
"There are also 'Big Brother Tie' and 'Old Hero Mo'." The old woman also remembered two.
It was actually Mo Ai, the broken claw green dragon, and Yang Jiuwen, the old monster of the back mountain, and these people also used the receiver, Hu Guiyang became more and more curious, he was originally looking for these people, and this time he didn't have to run the wrong way.
"In which direction did they go?"
"Drop by this way, and then go south." The old man was pointing in the opposite direction to Ximatun.
"What's so special about the south?"
"No, it's just a swamp, and further south is Yongqing County."
Hu Guiyang got on the horse again, ran a few steps and turned back, took out all the silver in his arms, and wanted to keep a piece, but then he thought it was ridiculous, so he threw it to the old man, "Let's go to a relative's house for a few days first, it is estimated that it will take a while to be peaceful here." ”
The old man held the silver in his hand, his face full of surprise, these days, although there are people who take money to lure them, but no one has ever been so generous.
Seeing that the guests were about to leave, the old man and the old woman looked at each other and said in unison, "Wait a minute, my lord." ”
"Anything else?"
The old couple looked at each other again, the old woman took out a small cloth bag from her arms, stretched out her hand and handed it over, and the old man said, "We really have to avoid it, this thing...... It's left by a guest, we're useless, my lord is a brocade guard, I'll leave it to you. If you can find the original owner, you will return it to him, and if not, you will dispose of it. ”
Hu Guiyang stretched out his left hand and asked the old woman to put the small bag in the palm of her hand, and opened it with her right hand, and she couldn't help but be surprised.
It turned out to be a jade pendant with a red dot in the center.
He put the jade pendant away and asked flatly, "Do you remember what kind of guest it was?" ”
The old couple shook their heads at the same time.
Hu Guiyang stared coldly, and the old man showed a sudden expression, "It should be the guest with wide robes and big sleeves, after he died, someone came to collect the body, and after the person left, we picked up this jade pendant." ”
Stealing a thing or two from a corpse is probably not a big deal for a poor old couple.
Hu Guiyang didn't say anything, smiled, turned the horse's head, went along the way, and after a short time, turned south, and after a few miles, he stopped the horse and said to himself: "These guys, no one cares about my life or death?" ”
He took out the jade pendant from his arms and looked at it for a while, and then took out the receiver "Lingjiao", but he couldn't find a place to put the jade pendant at all.
He gave up and continued to ride his horse forward, thinking about it in his heart, and always felt that the treasure that Mo Ai and the others were fighting for was related to the Heavenly Machine.