Chapter Seventy-One: Escort

The official road from Chang'an to Luoyang was full of ragged people, who walked in pairs. The pen is in good condition, www.biquge.info carrying a wooden stick and carrying a shriveled burden, and in a bad condition, carrying a wooden stick and a broken bowl in his hand. Their hair was messy and their faces were covered in mud.

"These people are all refugees who fled from Chang'an, right?" Cao Shuang sat on the horse and looked at these people, feeling very uncomfortable.

"Yes, Childe. They were all people near Chang'an, and they were relocated to the vicinity of Luoyang by Lord Zhong. Xiahou Shan and his entourage all changed out of their military uniforms and wore cloth clothes, which were incompatible with the war horses under their crotch.

"Huzi, what's wrong with you? Huzi, don't scare your mother. With the anxious cry of a woman, Cao Shuang saw a child with a yellow face and thin muscles, lying in the woman's arms. Cao Shuang really couldn't bear it, so he asked Xiahou Shan to take some dry food for the child and his mother. At this time, all the surrounding refugees gathered around, "Okay, okay, okay, we haven't eaten for days." ”

Xiahou Shan finally took Cao Shuang out of the crowd, and under the leadership of a Chang'an soldier, he went down the official road to a secluded path. This trail was taken by the soldier's father when he was hunting, and it was very secretive. Seeing that Cao Shuang's expression was very bad, Xiahou Shan ordered to rest by a spring.

"Childe doesn't have to worry, when they return to their hometown, they will naturally receive relief from the government." Xiahou kindly persuaded that in order to prevent refugees from wandering around, the Prime Minister's Office had ordered that refugees could get relief from the government when they returned to their hometowns, and that rations, seeds and farm tools for the coming year were all provided by the government, but they must be repaid later.

Cao Shuang nodded and gave Xiahou Shan a kind smile, "Got it." ”

"Childe, drink some water to quench your thirst." A soldier handed Cao Shuang the vessel containing water in his hand. There are some brightly colored grasses growing next to the springs, and the grass bears small red fruits, which are very attractive.

While everyone was resting, twenty or thirty men rushed out from the hillsides on both sides, carrying all kinds of weapons in their hands. "This place is called Harrier Mountain, and Lao Tzu is the master of this Harrier Mountain, Zhang Biaozi." A man with a stubble on his face licked his chapped lips with his scarlet tongue, and looked at the war horses beside everyone, his eyes full of greed, as if he saw a beautiful woman stripped naked in front of his eyes.

"The spring water you drink belongs to Lao Tzu. Leave a thousand dollars and your horses for each of you, and go to each of you for your life. The leader, who claimed to be Zhang Biaozi, shouted loudly, very skilled, it seems that this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing.

Xiahou Shan and Cao Shuang looked at each other and smiled, they didn't need to be introduced to know that these people were the green forests that took advantage of the chaos to gather in the mountains and forests. The weapons in the hands of these bandits are varied, and there are also several government-standard weapons, most of which are handmade by themselves. It's okay for them to scare and scare the common people, but in the face of the battle-hardened Cao army, they can be regarded as hitting the muzzle of the gun.

"General Xiahou, you can play with them." Cao Shuang drank some more spring water, the entrance was sweet, and it slowly slid through his throat and flowed into his stomach, and his whole body felt a trace of coolness, is this the legendary heart-to-heart coldness.

Seeing Xiahou Shan, they took out their weapons from their horses, Zhang Biaozi clearly knew that he had kicked the iron plate today, judging from the quality of Xiahou Shan's weapons, they were not ordinary people, and the weapons in their hands were even better than the Chang'an soldiers who surrounded and suppressed the cottage a few days ago.

The more times like this, the more you can't admit it. "Brothers, give it to me! These are the only few people, not our opponents. Zhang Biaozi raised his voice a few times to embolden himself and his subordinates, and he saw that the legs of several of his subordinates had begun to tremble.

Under the command of Xiahou Shan, a soldier of Cao formed an attack formation. But they were not far from Cao Shuang, and they faintly protected Cao Shuang behind them. At the urging of Zhang Biaozi, several bandits began to attack tentatively, and they were cautious for fear of being attacked by Xiahou Shan. There were a few smacks of smack, the sound of sharp weapons entering flesh, and the lives of several bandits were drained, and their foreheads were filled with bright darts.

A black shadow was like a fallen leaf, gently falling between the bandit and Xiahou Shan. The black hood is blocked, and the face of the black shadow is not visible, and the black tight-fitting brocade coat makes the figure a little thin. The black shadow pulled out a crescent-shaped scimitar from his waist, and the cold light on the scimitar flashed, as if it could take people's souls in an instant. Xia Houshan felt that the hairs on his body stood up, and his back was cold.

"Boy, what are you? Don't get in the way of Uncle Ben's affairs, watch your head. Zhang Biaozi's body trembled unconsciously, and the murderous aura on the other party was a little uncontrollable. Following Cao Cao's side, Cao Shuang has never seen any kind of general, even Xiahou Dun, who is second to none in the Cao Group, does not have such a murderous aura on his body, and the murderous aura is so compelling that it makes people feel powerless to breathe.

The shadow didn't speak, and he didn't have anything to say, and the waning moon scimitar drew two strange arcs in his hand. The flash of the knife is faster than lightning and more terrifying than lightning. No one can describe his knife, it seems to have a power from hell, and no one has ever been able to dodge his knife. The three bandits who rushed in front watched their bodies slowly lie on the ground, but they couldn't do anything because their heads had risen into the air.

Didn't rush up to the bandit to see this, both legs kept calling on their own. In a moment, the eyes of several thieves also lost color, and they left this troubled world with regret, if they are given another chance, they will be against Zhang Biaozi, we will not go up the mountain.

The scimitar that flies up and down pulls out pieces of knife flowers. Except for Zhang Biaozi, who took advantage of the chaos to burrow into the forest on the hillside, none of the rest of the bandits survived, and the head and his body were not far away, but they could no longer get together.

Xiahou Shan clenched the spear in his hand, he knew that the black shadow in front of him was the master Xu Kun saw that night. Judging from the black shadow results and the bandits, he Xiahou Shan is definitely not the opponent of the black shadow. But they met on a narrow road and had to fight. The black shadow licked the blood from the back of his hand with his scarlet tongue, and swept up into thin air, as if blown up by a gust of wind, and disappeared into the dense forest.

"Childe, let's hurry up, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time." Xiahou Shan's close-fitting clothes were wet with sweat, and the black shadow's kung fu was far above them, and he didn't know whether he was a friend or an enemy. For the sake of Cao Shuang's safety, they hurriedly escorted Cao Shuang and hurried towards Luoyang.

In the hurry, no one paid attention to the grass in the strange eyes of the spring.