Chapter 15 The night black mountain is five miles high and foggy
After all, it was just an infantry patrol in the county town, although he brought a dozen or so people, but even if it was that inspector, his skills had not yet entered the second-rate, Ning Xiaomeng was like a female tiger to kill among these people, it was like entering a no-man's land at all.
Where did these people think that a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, coquettish and charming, and weak, but at least she had first-class strength? If there is a county lord here, relying on the literary spirit, they may still be able to fight, at this moment against Shangning Xiaomeng, only to see that the cluster of sword flowers burst like a starfall, it is completely irresistible. One soldier grabbed the hilt of the knife, drew his knife and slashed it with a loud shout, his wrist flew up with the knife, and the other person picked up his baton and wanted to sweep, but his legs had already flown out from under his skirt and kicked him hard in the lower abdomen.
The inspector's face was red and white, he originally thought that it was just a weak sheep who was bullied, but he didn't expect it to be a female tiger out of the mountain, he shouted, left stick and right knife, wide open and closed with all his strength, the knife light and the stick shadow were staggered in an instant, like a coiling dragon, although it was just a second-rate martial artist, this move was a famous and decent atmosphere.
The sword had a mysterious, string-like trill, reflecting the bright moonlight, like an antelope hanging its horns, cutting between his knife and the stick without hindrance, and at this moment, he seemed to see the fairy under the laurel, dancing with the swirling clothes, so beautiful, so charming...... Then blood splattered.
On the other side, a red shadow had rushed past them without hesitation.
No matter!
For patience is actually "endure and don't beat the other party to death", Chun Jianli is actually a little speechless, but it doesn't matter, Mei's Gangyuan swordsmanship shot instantly, severely injured the three soldiers who wanted to attack them from the side, and stepped directly towards Zhao Yuansong, obviously it was just a step, but there seemed to be a flash of fire behind her, Zhao Yuansong only felt that the red shadow flashed in front of him, and the beautiful girl in red had already arrived in front of him.
"Do you know who I am? I'm the nephew of the herald......"
With a snap, the sheathed sword had already been slammed into his face, and a few teeth burst out at this moment, followed by a sharp pain in his abdomen, and the sound of bone cracking in the crooked leg followed, and his body fell to the ground unbalanced at the same time, he saw countless powder fists crashing down. When the magistrate finally arrived with troops, there was already a giant panda with a swollen body on the ground......
***
There was chaos in the county, and many soldiers searched everywhere with torches.
In the dim alley, the boy and the two girls were walking there, although there had been an incident, but they didn't really care so much.
After all, it is only a county seat, and the troops that can be mobilized are always limited, and the county officials who manage it are at most just lifting people, and the scope that can be covered by the culture of lifting people is only ten or twenty zhang at most, which can be said to be the difference between heaven and earth with Jinshi.
Of course, if it is really more civil, they are not afraid at all, but Ning Jiang really doesn't want to bully children.
After walking for a while, suddenly, in the courtyard ahead, someone poked his head out and beckoned to them.
They glanced at each other and walked over, only to find that it was Hu Man who was waving to them.
Entering the courtyard, there is also her sister here...... Uh, brother Hu Shuang.
It's just that Hu Shuang at this moment is dressed as a girl, weak and shy.
Hu Man looked at them and said, "What's wrong?" Why are you being chased by officers and soldiers? β
Ning Jiang shook his eyes and teary-eyed: "There is a Zhao Gongzi, who brought some soldiers, saw Miss Xiaochun and Miss Xiaomeng, and insisted that they were the ones who hurt him and wanted to arrest them." I told them to be patient and patient, and there is a way that the people do not fight with the officials, right? Even if you are caught in the government, there is always a place to reason, right? As a result, they actually said that they would do it, and beat up that Zhao Gongzi...... I told them to be patient, but they just didn't listen, what can I do? β
Jianli and Xiaomeng looked at him together.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I told you to be patient, didn't I? Did I tell you to be patient? β
Hu Man thought funny, it seems that this young man is also a useless talent who is stupid in reading, what kind of place does he think this is? Even in the Central Plains, the common people have no place to reason many times, let alone this kind of place, the handsome minister of the Xuanwei Division can be said to be the emperor of the soil here.
She smiled: "I'm sorry, those people originally came to arrest me and Brother Shuang, and they all said that they only sold their arts, not their bodies, and the one surnamed Zhao wanted to rely on his own background and move his hands and feet, so we beat him up, but in fact, he didn't do it ruthlessly." "I said sorry in my mouth, but in fact, I didn't mean sorry at all, the world is big, there are no surprises, what can't you encounter in the rivers and lakes? For them, where is this kind of thing a problem?
She said: "We'd better leave here overnight, one or two soldiers are nothing, but it would be bad if we really had to be surrounded by a large group of people, besides, there is still a magistrate, don't take the magistrate as a master." I know there's a place to leave, let's go first. β
Although this county town has a city wall, after all, it is only a small county town between poor mountains and bad waters, and the city wall is actually only one or two zhang of adobe, and in some places it has collapsed in half. Hu Man led them with ease, avoiding the officers and soldiers who were searching. When he arrived at a low city wall, looking back, Hu Man saw that those soldiers were still searching the whole city, so he thought, this movement is too big, right? Didn't you just beat up that Zhao Gongzi? Then he jumped off the wall.
Chun Jianli carried Ning Jiang on her back, and with a snap, she fell beside her. Behind them, Ning Xiaomeng also jumped down and said, "Will it affect Li Gongzi of the Wuzhen Sect?" β
Hu Man said casually: "Just rest assured, Wuzhen Sect is not a small sect in the rivers and lakes, and we have nothing to do with Wuzhen Sect, they can handle this matter." However, from here to Jianzhou, it is full of mountains and wild forests, and there are several cottages in between, and it is still a little inconvenient to not be able to take Li Hongyong's ride. But don't worry, as long as you get to the greasy water, that is the territory of our sister and brother, and the surrounding snakes are all familiar with each other, so you are safe and sound. β
Ning Jiang hurriedly said: "It's good to be safe, it's good to be safe......
Hu Man couldn't stop laughing, and took the time to pull Chun Jianli and Ning Xiaomeng aside: "How could you come to such a place with such a stupid hat?" β
Chun Jianli smiled: "Don't look at him like that...... He's a lot of money. β
Hu Man said: "Really? β
Ning Xiaomeng waved his hand: "The family has a lot of money." β
Hu Man looked at the bored stargazing teenager on the other side: "Wow...... You canβt judge a book by its cover. β
Chun Jianli said: "Do you know why we followed him now?" β
Hu Man said: "People are stupid and have a lot of money? β
Jianli and Xiaomeng grabbed her hand together and shook it vigorously...... That's right.
***
The sky was already bright, and a group of five people walked among the mountains and forests.
At this time, Hu Shuang had changed back into a teenager's outfit, two men and three women, and a donkey, walking through the mountains and forests.
The donkey was bought by them from a farmer early in the morning, and among the five people, only Ning Jiang did not know martial arts, since he was ready to cross the mountains and mountains to Jianzhou, the road was hard, and the donkey was naturally given to him to ride.
Along the way, Hu Man explained to Chun Jianli and Ning Xiaomeng about the rivers and lakes in the Yueling area, for this line of three, she was also funny in her heart, a person who is stupid and has a lot of money, and wants to abandon the way of literature and Taoism, plus two fledgling "chivalrous girls", especially last night, they actually directly revealed the foundation of this young man's "family wealth" and "stupid money", but fortunately they met her, and changed to other people with a darker heart, and if they didn't get it right, they would attack them in secret.
Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and this kind of "rivers and lakes" in foreign places are not comparable to the Central Plains.
This reminded her that when she first debuted, she was also innocent, and she really thought that with the word "chivalry", she could go all over the rivers and lakes.
That night, they spent the night in a mountain forest. In the middle of the night, Hu Shuang, who was keeping vigil, suddenly rushed back to the rock where they were resting, and woke his sister up first.
Hu Man was woken up by his younger brother, and immediately knew that something was wrong, considering that he heard that the ghost thieves in Rongzhou had fled to this area, although the world was big, and it was not necessarily such a fateful thing, he would be met by them, but he was still nervous, and woke up Xiaochun and Xiaomeng, and when he was about to call the scholar surnamed Ning, he saw that the scholar had already sat up.
"What happened?" Chun Jianli whispered.
"It's not clear," Hu Man said, "it seems that there are quite a few people passing by." β
Because it was still summer and the weather was hot, although they lit sandalwood to repel mosquitoes and insects, and sprinkled sulfur to drive away snakes around, they did not build a bonfire, and at this moment they extinguished the sandalwood and quietly moved it to a high place. The five of them lay on the stone together, looked at the foot of the mountain, and saw that under such a beautiful star and moon, there was a mist surging, and two lanterns fluttering strangely in front of the mist. Faintly, it seems that someone is jumping and jumping like a zombie in the inner fog.
"W-What is this...... "Little Dream asked in a trembling voice.
Hu Man laughed: "It turned out to be a corpse, it's really unlucky." β
Xiaomeng said: "Chase the corpse? β
Hu Man explained: "Some Jianghu people who died in foreign lands, or exiled prisoners, or poor people who died after being forcibly conscripted into forced labor, their families could not afford to pay too much, so they had to ask those corpse chasers to help drive away the corpses. Those corpse chasers, after first smearing these corpses with embalming potion, parked them in Yizhuang, and when the number increased, they were transported to their hometowns in batches. Some of these corpse chasers are really capable, they can get some rune paper of walking corpses, stick them on the corpses and drive away, and more of them are actually just pretending to be ghosts, using two long sticks to fix several corpses, and one person in front and one person in front and back to carry them, coupled with the pace of trickery, it looks similar to zombies jumping around. They rest during the day, and hurry at night, and do not enter the city, nor do they stay in inns. See those two lanterns in front of you? The one is called 'Death Lights Up', and the fog is called 'Wuli Fog', and the nocturnal Jianghu people will spontaneously avoid them when they see them, so as not to get into bad luck. β
Xiaomeng suddenly said: "It turns out to be like this." β
Hu Man said: "These guys who carry corpses down there should be He Chongmen, right?" In the past, this kind of business was done for the zombie door, and He Chongmen couldn't enter at all, some time ago, there was a big battle between the zombie door and He Chongmen, and the Hechong Gate fought back and destroyed the zombie door, and now, the dead corpse inn and Yizhuang in this area of Yueling seem to have all been merged by He Chongmen. I don't know what kind of origin is behind Hechong's door, I feel that there are people everywhere now. β
Then he smiled again: "Then again, although this kind of business is profitable, there is no one to rob them, one is unlucky, the other is troublesome, and in the final analysis, it is also the lower ninth rate of the lower nine streams." β
Xiaomeng said: "That's it......" She didn't know much about the things on the rivers and lakes, although she knew that He Chongmen was actually her brother and her subordinates, but she didn't take it to heart.
Chun Jianli turned her head to look at Ning Jiang beside her in surprise, of course, the origin behind He Chong's door was the Heaven and Earth Society, and the head of the Heaven and Earth Society was Qin Chuan Wuyi, and Qin Chuan Wuyi was all obeying the orders of Ning Jiang, the "invisible leader", of course she already knew this.
She just didn't expect that the power of the Heaven and Earth Society would expand to such a place so quickly?
Although the Righteous Qi Alliance has been disbanded, the more tightly organized Heaven and Earth Society has quietly risen on the soil of the original Righteous Qi Alliance, using the treasures in the palace of the Marquis of Xiao Sui as nutrients, and through the network of rivers and lakes that originally belonged to Hechongmen, she is of course already aware of this, but it has developed so quickly to Yueling, which still surprises her.
She knew that Hu Man said that "I feel that there are people from Hechongmen everywhere", which is actually just an illusion, many of these people do not actually belong to Hechongmen, but belong to a part of the Heaven and Earth Society, and they are using the network of Hechongmen to establish rudders belonging to the Heaven and Earth Society in various states and capitals, just like grafting, on the branches of Hechongmen, quickly bearing the fruits of the Heaven and Earth Society.
Although I know that this method may be feasible, it is also too efficient, right?
She turned her head to look at Ning Jiang in surprise, and at the same time remembered that in those days, Ning Jiang kept explaining something to Qin Chuan Wuyi, although she had heard it a few times, but because of incoherence, she only felt bored and confused later, and then she didn't listen to it again, but at that time, whether it was Qin Mo, Qin Ze, or Qin Kan, every time she heard him finish, she was as excited as if she had comprehended a new martial arts, and now that she thought about it, she began to regret that she didn't listen to what he said at that time.
How many mysterious methods is this guy hiding?
She didn't know that although she was already extremely shocked, the young man's heart was actually not so satisfied.
Because in his view, the Tiandihui at this moment still belongs to "extensive development", just like in another world, the industry when New China was just founded, although it has completed the process of "starting from scratch", but if it wants to meet the "high standards" of the modern organization he requires, it is still far away...... Although it is already good by the standards of this era, as a traverser, how can the standards be so low? (To be continued.) )