Chapter 55: A Thousand Miles to Find a Husband
Wang Wanting and Qiao'er dressed up in men's clothes and Xing Fei and the three of them galloped for a long time, since she finally decided to find Zhou Renyuan, Qiao'er had no choice but to follow her, fortunately, this Qiao'er thought thoughtfully, found Xing Fei, and asked him if he was willing to protect his young lady to go to the north to find the little prince. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Xing Fei admired Wang Wanting's father Li Xianling very much, Li Xianling treated him like a nephew, and it was Xing Fei's loyalty that he valued, otherwise he would not entrust his daughter to him to take care of before the city of Qingyuan was broken. In fact, Xing Fei has long admired Wang Wanting, and this thought has always been hidden in his heart and he dare not confess, first, Wang Wanting is the daughter of the county order, and she is just a fast catcher, and her identity is far from the same. Second, he also knew that Wang Wanting already had a sweetheart in his heart, and besides, this sweetheart was still the county king of the Ming Dynasty, and even the emperor had given him a marriage, so Xing Fei had to hide this thought in his heart and didn't dare to reveal it.
As soon as Xing Fei heard that Wang Wanting was going north to find her husband, the road was far away and dangerous, and he was worried about the safety of these two weak women, so he agreed. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Wang Wanting and Qiao'er to go to the street under the pretext, they brought two sets of men's clothes and three horses to meet at the agreed place. The three of them left Hengzhou City on horseback.
The three of them came to the town of Huaqiao, where there was a tea shed on the side. Xing Fei proposed, "Second brother, let's rest here for a while before leaving." β
Wang Wanting nodded and agreed, "Big brother, we have been traveling for half a day, and people are tired, so we will follow the will of the eldest brother." For the sake of safety on the road, Wang Wanting and Qiao'er are now pretending to be Xing Fei's second and third brothers, so that they can also hide people's eyes, after all, it is still very unsafe for a man to take two women in this troubled world.
The second child of the tea shed had already rushed forward, greeted the three of them into the tea shed, poured tea, and served some snacks.
The three of them were drinking tea and eating snacks, and Qiao'er asked, "Why don't we go north?" Instead heading east? β
Wang Wanting replied, "There are many thieves in the north, and it is very unsafe. We first went to JX to the east, then to AH, and then entered Nanzhili, and when we arrived at Nanzhili, we took a boat across the river to SD, and when we arrived at SD, we were very close to Jingshi. β
Qiao'er stuck out her tongue and said, "Miss is still smart, and even the route has been considered!" β
Wang Wanting glared at her and said, "Call me second brother!" Aren't you afraid of revealing the filling? β
Qiao'er hurriedly whispered, "It's the second brother, the little brother knows it's wrong!" β
Xing Fei smiled on the side and said, "Third brother, you have to pay attention next time, although this south is relatively peaceful, but maybe you will encounter bandits entrenched in the mountains and forests, if you reveal your identity, it will be bad!" β
The three of them were talking, and there was the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the two generals rode to the front of the tea shed, only to hear a military general say, "Xiao Er, quickly prepare some refreshments for the two of us, and prepare some forage for our horses, and we will hurry after eating!" β
Xiao Er didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly led the horse over to feed the horse forage. Xing Fei heard the crisp voice of this general, and then looked at the two generals with delicate faces, light eyebrows and red lips, where they looked like generals, but like girls from which family, they were a little fat. can see that the military general who spoke wants to hang his sword, but he is really a little heroic, and look at his posture of dismounting, at first glance, he is a person who practices martial arts, Xing Fei is a little confused, it seems that these two people are the sons of which general, with the merits of Lao Tzu Meng Feng official position.
These two people are actually Nie Zhiruo and her maid Xiaolan, although she was stopped by Nie Yunhai when she went out that day, Nie Zhiruo still took the opportunity to sneak out of the house with Xiaolan and went to find Zhou Renyuan. They also chose the same route as Wang Wanting and walked eastward. It just so happened that the two met Wang Wanting and the others in this tea shed.
But although Nie Zhiruo and Wang Wanting knew each other, they didn't know each other, and the two had never met.
Nie Zhiruo and Xiaolan entered the tea shed, and when they saw that there were three people sitting on the edge of the table, they sat down on the table next to them, and kept urging, "Boss, where are the refreshments?" Why don't you hurry up and bring it up, you're going to die of thirst? β
The owner of the tea shed hurriedly served the refreshments in person, and said with a smile, "The two generals use it slowly!" β
Nie Zhiruo picked up a piece of dim sum casually and tasted it, immediately spit it out, and shouted at the owner of the tea shed, "You dare to serve such an unpalatable refreshment?" Are you afraid that General Ben will not pay for this tea and deliberately give us bad snacks to eat? β
The owner of the tea shed was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing and said, "General, stop being angry!" The general is angry! The refreshments in the small shop are all the same, where do you dare to take the bad ones to the generals, and the small ones don't want to die? β
Xiaolan also persuaded, "Little-little general, don't be angry, this tea is unpalatable, don't we bring some dry food?" Eat dry food, eat dry food. β
Qiao'er at the other table couldn't look past it, and said coldly, "Flying!" β
When Nie Zhiruo heard this, her face turned cold, when she was originally in Hengzhou, she and Zhou Renyuan could be said to be walking sideways in Hengzhou, and in this world, it was Zhou Renyuan and her master who could control her. But Zhou Renyuan was often bullied by her before, and later felt that he liked Zhou Renyuan in his heart, and after Zhou Renyuan came back from HB, he seemed to have grown up all of a sudden, and when he was about to leave himself, he knew that this liking was a kind of love, and he became well-behaved in front of Zhou Renyuan.
But if someone else provoked her, she wouldn't buy it, and immediately slapped the table and said, "Who do you say?" β
Qiao'er listened to it and immediately replied: "Who is domineering, who knows!" β
Nie Zhiruo was about to have a seizure, Xing Fei hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "This little general, my third brother didn't cover his mouth, and please calm the general's anger, or your tea money will be mine, so as to make amends!" β
Here, Xiaolan also grabbed Nie Zhiruo and persuaded, "Little General, let's not make trouble outside, it's important to finish eating quickly and hurry." β
Nie Zhiruo took out a silver ingot and put it on the table, sneered at Xing Fei, "Don't think I don't pay, you have great silver!" I have money. Then he said to the frightened tea shack owner on the side, "You take this ingot of silver, even if you pay for this tea." β
The owner of the tea shed hurriedly waved his hand and said, "General, I don't dare to take this money, you better take it back." Just be a little general! β
Nie Zhiruo said impatiently, "If you are asked to take it, you will take it, where did you get so much nonsense?" β
The owner of the tea shed took the silver tremblingly, and kept thanking, "Thank you, General!" Thank you, General! β
Xing Fei shook his head with a wry smile and sat down, it seems that he is really the descendant of a spoiled military attachΓ©. It's just a little more domineering, and the heart is not bad.
After Wang Wanting watched this scene, she stood up and saluted Nie Zhiruo and said, "This general, the little brother's reckless words just now offended the general, and I hope the general will forgive me." But you've wronged the shopkeeper, don't you think our refreshments are the same as yours? Why don't you try it? β
Nie Zhiruo saw that Wang Wanting's words were modest, so she stepped forward and picked up Wang Wanting's table of refreshments and tasted it, her face turned red, this was really exactly the same as the taste she had just eaten. It seems that he wronged the owner of the tea shed. He muttered, "Even if I'm wrong!" After speaking, he said to Xiao Lan: "Don't go quickly!" β
Xiaolan was aggrieved with half a piece of snack in her mouth, and hurriedly went to the back to lead the horse out, and the two turned over and waved the horsewhip and left and ran forward.
Wang Wanting also smiled, which girl are these two girls clearly, and it seems that there is something urgent when they go out in armor? Because just now she noticed that there was a needle eye on Nie Zhiruo's ear, which was clearly a needle eye with earrings.
She lowered her head and whispered a few words to Xing Fei and Qiao'er, Xing Fei nodded and said, "No wonder I always feel that they have a fat powder on them, it turns out to be two girls!" β
Qiao'er stuck out her tongue and said, "These two girls are really bold, they actually went out wearing the armor of a military general, it seems that they are the son-in-law of a general!" β
Three days later, Wang Wanting and the three of them walked to the boundary of Z County, and were walking on the official road between the mountains, when they suddenly heard the sound of a fight in front of them. "Brother Xing, come forward and see what's going on in front of you?" Wang Wanting said.
Xing Fei hurriedly ran forward, and saw Nie Zhiruo and Xiao Lan fighting with twenty masked and strong men who were pretending to be military generals, Xiao Lan didn't know martial arts and hid behind Nie Zhiruo shivering, Nie Zhiruo was sweating profusely and waving a sword to protect Xiao Lan.
Seeing this, Xing Fei was furious and said, "Who are you? How dare you besiege the imperial generals on this official road? β
The masked man in the lead laughed strangely, "Today, you are short of money and want to find two money to spend, and you meet these two rabbits, why do you want to intervene, brother?" β
Nie Zhiruo heard him say that he was a rabbit Xianggong, and said hatefully, "Shut your stinky mouth!" If you dare to insult this general, you will not die well! β
When the masked man in the lead heard this, he laughed wildly and said, "Brothers, do you listen to this rabbit Xianggong's voice is so crisp, and he still calls himself a general? It's not a rabbit, is it still a bird? Haha---"
The companions on the side also laughed wildly, "Isn't it? Our county magistrate in Z County is the best one, you two won't be his face, right? Haha-"
Xing Fei frowned, listening to the words of these people becoming more and more presumptuous, he didn't take himself seriously at all, he was furious in his heart, he took out his sword and shouted, "You bandits are reckless, with me, none of you can escape!" β
"What a big breath!" The masked man in the lead said disdainfully, "There are more than 20 people on our side, and you are only alone, even if this rabbit is okay, but you can't withstand the siege of our brothers, I am still a full brother, you are not nosy!" As he spoke, seven or eight people surrounded Xing Fei.
Xing Fei decided to do it immediately, he was afraid that Wang Wanting and Qiao'er behind him would follow, so he would have to protect Wang Wanting and Qiao'er, which would delay time. He carried the sword in his hand, flew into the group of thieves, only to see the shadow of the sword pass by, and the thieves fell to the ground one after another, "It's not good, this idea is prickly!" One of the masked men who fell screamed.
The masked man in the lead was shocked, he didn't expect the martial arts of the person to be so strong, he looked away for a while, and shouted, "Leave three to deal with this rabbit Xianggong, and the rest will go up for me to deal with this nosy man." β
As he spoke, he raised the big knife in his hand and rushed towards Xing Fei, Xing Fei shouted, "It's good!" Lifting the sword and stabbing at the leader of the group, the leader also has brute strength, immediately raised the knife to meet Xing Fei's sword, listening to the sound of "dang", the swords slammed together, the leader's intuitive arm was numb, almost unable to hold the big knife in his hand, Xing Fei burst out, the sword pressed down, "bang", the leader's right shoulder was cut a long hole, blood gushed out.
The leader felt a great pain in his right shoulder, and the big knife in his hand fell to the ground, so he quickly rolled over and rolled backwards. Xing Fei was unforgiving, and stabbed with his sword. The rest of the masked thieves were anxious and frightened, and they raised their weapons to block them, trying to protect their leader. Everyone felt a flower in front of them, felt that their wrists hurt, and the weapons in their hands fell to the ground, and when they came back to their senses, they all had a sword wound on their wrists, and the meridians had been broken. Everyone held their wrists and kept jumping in pain, crying out in their mouths, "It hurts me!" β
Seeing that Xing Fei was so powerful, the leader hurriedly wanted to flee in a panic, Xing Fei shouted, "The thief is gone!" β
With that, he leaped three times, and with a sword stabbed the leader in the thigh.
The leader screamed and fell to the ground, screaming incessantly.
The three thieves who fought with Nie Zhiruo over there panicked, and were stabbed in the chest by Nie Zhiruo continuously, and immediately fell to the ground.
The injured thieves all wanted to escape, Xing Fei took his sword and said coldly to the throat of their leader, "If you want to escape, your leader will die under my sword, and then it will be your turn, you don't want to escape one by one!" If you don't believe me, try it! β
These thieves were afraid of Xing Fei, a god, and seeing that his martial arts were so strong, and being so intimidated by him, they also broke off the idea of running away, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "The heroes spare their lives, the little ones don't know Mount Tai with their eyes, and I hope that the heroes will spare our lives, we don't dare anymore." β
Nie Zhiruo and Xiaolan had already packed up their outfits and walked over, Nie Zhiruo flew up and kicked a thief and scolded, "You damned robbers, you dare to fight my idea and spare your lives, don't think about it!" So saying, he took up his sword and tried to stab the thief who fell to the ground.
"Stop!" Wang Wanting and Qiao'er appeared from the forest behind and shouted. The two of them had already arrived when Xing Fei was fighting with these thieves, but in order not to cause trouble to Xing Fei, the two cleverly hid in the forest on the side of the road, saw that Xing Fei had already controlled the situation, and then saw that Nie Zhi wanted to raise a sword to kill someone, and hurriedly came out to stop her.
Nie Zhiruo was stunned and asked angrily, "Why do you think these people shouldn't be killed?" β
Wang Wanting said, "It's not a question of whether they should be killed or not, even if they are innocent, you have to ask about the origin of these people, and it's not too late to kill them." General, do you think they dare to rob this official road in the sky? Wang Wanting did not reveal Nie Zhiruo's identity as a woman.
Nie Zhiruo felt that it made sense when she heard this, so she broke the masked scarves of these people with a sword, and Xing Fei also ripped off the masked scarf of the leader. I saw that these people were dark-faced, all in their twenties and thirties, and if you looked closely at the clothes of these people, some of them were still stained with dry mud.
"They're farming!" Xing Fei said loudly.
"What?" Nie Zhiruo kicked these people angrily, "You guys don't farm at home, and you actually do this robbery, it's really damned!" β
The kicked thief hugged his head and cried out, "We also want to subsidize some families, so we do this businessless business when the farm is not working." β
After hearing this, Nie Zhiruo's hatred retreated slightly, and scolded, "Then you shouldn't rob here, it's really a loss of conscience." General Ben will not kill you today, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped. Ben will escort you to the government and let the government convict! β
Wang Wanting also nodded in agreement, "These people have gone astray and let the government convict, I also think it is the best policy." β
At this time, Nie Zhiruo remembered that it was Xing Fei who saved them, and bowed to Xing Fei, saying, "Thank you for the strong man's rescue, I don't thank you for my great kindness, I will repay the strong man for saving his life today." β
Xing Fei hurriedly waved his hand and said, "When the road is uneven, it is my duty to draw my sword and help, and the little general doesn't have to take it to heart." β
Wang Wanting proposed, "Big brother, it's very inconvenient for me to see the two generals pressing so many people to go to the county government of Z County, so let's go with us." Wang Wanting was worried that these two girls who were actually women would not be able to hold back, and it would be troublesome if there was any accident, after all, she was also a woman, and she couldn't help but take care of Nie Zhiruo and the others.
Nie Zhiruo glanced at Wang Wanting gratefully, she was worried that she and Xiaolan were going to escort so many people, and when she heard Wang Wanting say this, she hurriedly said, "There are three strong men going together, I will be very grateful, thank you three for helping!" β
The leader who was lying on the ground was still lying on the ground and snorted in pain, Wang Wanting said to Xing Fei, "Look at this person's injuries, big brother, you go and tear some strips of cloth on those people, and I will take some herbs to stop bleeding and put them on him, otherwise he will bleed to death." There are also these injuries that also need to stop the bleeding. β
As he spoke, he walked to the side of the road to find herbs to stop the bleeding, and the rest of the injured thieves thanked him, "Thank you, Childe!" β
Nie Zhiruo muttered, "You are really kind!" β
After a while, Xing Fei took the herbs Wang Wanting found and put them on the shoulders and thighs of the leader, bandaged him with strips of cloth torn from his companions, and said while bandaging, "You don't farm at home and take care of your wives and children, if you have to do such a black-hearted thing, I really don't know what to say!" β
After the leader applied the herbs, the pain was greatly reduced, and after listening to Xing Fei's words, he felt a little ashamed, and opened his mouth to say something, but he still kept silent.
"In the past, the two of them helped your leader away, and the rest of the people tied themselves together. Don't try to run away, or I'm going to kill you one by one. Nie Zhiruo shouted as she rode on her horse.
Everyone didn't dare to disobey, so the two of them helped up the leader and moved forward slowly, and the rest of the people tied themselves with ropes made of tree strips, strung together with a bitter face, staggered forward, and walked towards the county seat of Z County.