Li Zicheng was awakened by the sound of birdsong in the early morning, he subconsciously clenched his right hand, the fullness brought by the handle of the knife brought him a sense of security, he got up from the ground, staggered to the horse corpse, cut a piece of meat from the horse's leg, and wanted to roast it for his breakfast, but last night's rain made everything wet, he had no way to find the ignition object, and finally he had to cut the horse meat into pieces and swallow it raw.

Something went down, his physical strength recovered a lot, Li Zicheng was about to think about what he should do next, when he suddenly heard a burst of singing in the distance. His body immediately stiffened, whether it was an officer or soldier, a thief, or a local villager. He hurriedly stood up and looked left and right to find a place to hide, but except for a few locust trees and jujube trees that grew crookedly, it was all annoying open land, and the only thing that could hide people was a big stone more than half a person high.

"The moon is high, and I can't see my good kiss. Looking out the window, I saw the shadows of the flowers and branches swaying, and whispered as if calling me by my name. Push the window with both hands to look, and the wind swings the flowers. Joy changes to be ashamed, shame and annoyance. “

As the song got closer and closer, Li Zicheng also heard more and more clearly, although he didn't read much, but he also heard that this was one of the popular folk songs in Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, about a girl in love waiting for her lover anxious and restless mood, it was a famous sour song at that time, singing a man, but he clenched his voice and disguised himself as a female voice, which sounded quite strange. Suddenly, a sharp voice interrupted the song: "Big brother, how come there is a dead horse here?" “

"Well, seeing that this horse meat is not completely stiff, it must not have been dead for long, hurry up and search around, maybe you can catch the owner of the horse!"

"Oops!" When Li Zicheng heard this, he couldn't help but secretly scream badly, turned around and wanted to escape, but touched a few stones on the boulder next to him. It fell to the ground and made a noise. It immediately attracted the attention of the visitor.

"Do you hear that?" The singing voice just now shouted: "There must be someone behind the stone, give it out quickly, otherwise you will look good!" “

Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and had to stand up, only to see a dozen or so men standing opposite, all of them on foot, with mud spots on their bodies, dusty and dusty, some wearing coarse cloth clothes, and some simply wrapped in unmixed sheepskin. The hair was also disheveled, almost indistinguishable from that of the wildlings, and their weapons were clubs, bones, rusty axes, and long-handled scythes, led by a tall man, a head taller than his tallest companions, with sideburns and beards, and a fat jacket worn by soldiers, with a saber and dagger hanging from his belt, and iron armor exposed from the torn parts of the fat jacket. He wears an iron helmet on his head and carries a long stick wrapped in iron at both ends. The most valuable thing on his body was probably the hooded woolen cloak, thick and warm, and the tail was stained with green juice and blood from the grass. With his slender legs, he looks like a big bird. He glanced at Li Zicheng unhurriedly, and said with a lazy smile: "Quickly drop the broken knife in your hand, or I will whistle." Just make you like the horse on the ground. ”

The leader's threat caused a burst of laughter among his men behind him, and a freckled face with a horned bow plucked the bowstring, as if to confirm the reality of the leader's threat. Li Zicheng slightly estimated the strength comparison between the two sides. His left arm was already injured when he fell off the horse, and he was missing a shoe, which would reduce his strength by at least half, and there were more than a dozen people on the other side, even if most of them didn't look very good, but after all, there were more than a dozen people! “

"Still not putting it down?" There was an impatient look in the leader's voice: "My patience is not very good, Walnut shoots him an arrow, don't shoot him to death!" “

The freckled archer answered, and immediately pulled the bow full, Li Zicheng gritted his teeth, threw the saber in his hand to the ground, raised his hands above his head, and said with a smile: "I just put it down, they are all brothers on the road, why hurt the harmony!" “

"Brother on the road?" The leader smiled: "Just by your mouth? Little ones, go up and search for something on him? “

"Yes, the one in charge!" A boy who was only about fifteen or sixteen years old rushed up and began to search his body from head to toe, Li Zicheng forced the other party to restrain him as a hostage, and said with a smile: "I don't know which family this brother belongs to, don't let the water wash the Dragon King Temple, the family doesn't know the family!" “

The leader smiled and said, "You don't want to be close to me, we are not any of them, whoever has passed through us, we will eat him!" ”

Hearing this, Li Zicheng couldn't help but secretly complain, obviously this group of people should be a small group of thieves and poles nearby, and what they want is to benefit, and they don't have any property on themselves at this time, and this kind of thieves is extremely exclusive, and generally does not absorb external members, even if they want to save their lives by joining, it is difficult.

"The one in charge, this guy is a poor ghost, and he doesn't have anything of value on his body!" The young man searched Li Zicheng from head to toe, and shouted at the leader in disappointment.

"Rabbit cub, with your eyesight, you still want to follow Lao Tzu to be a thief?" The leader laughed and scolded, "Isn't that boot on his right foot very good?" Don't you always shout that your feet are cold? This time it's cheaper for you! ”

"That's what Big Brother Bai said!" The young man was overjoyed when he heard this, and in three and two strokes, he took off his boots from Li Zicheng's feet, put them on for himself, and proudly showed off twice in front of everyone. Li Zicheng forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest and said: "This big brother, you have searched and searched now, it is better to have a good fate, let me go and see each other in the future!" “

"Let you go?" The leader's eyes rolled: "It's beautiful, the donkey in the stockade just happened to be grinding, so it's good to pull you back to grind, tie me up!" Everyone couldn't help but say, rushed up, and tied up Li Zicheng, he didn't dare to resist and had to say loudly: "How much is a donkey worth?" If you let me go, I'll keep you ten donkeys' money. “

"Ten donkeys?" The leader smiled and said, "I can't see that you are a rich lord, why don't you have half a penny on you!" ”

Li Zicheng saw that things had taken a turn for the better, and hurriedly agitated: "Although I don't have money, I have a rich friend, and he will pay for me." ”

"Really?" The leader suddenly smiled and said: "If you hadn't seen the bounty earlier, you would have almost deceived you, you are the leader of the thieves who was defeated by the official army in Dunzhou, the government has already issued a reward notice, as long as you take the thief leader Li Zicheng." The reward of 2,000 taels of silver, to clear the previous sin, is to take the little leader, and there are always some benefits. The master is a trustworthy man, I caught a small boss and sent it to him, so I was rewarded with a cloak, and I was warm! Look at you like this, no matter how you look at it, you are also a big boss, how can the brothers each mix a cloak, right? ”

Hearing this, Li Zicheng's heart was cold. Knowing that it was useless to defend any longer, he sneered: "So what? You are obviously on the green forest road, but you betray your brother for profit, what kind of hero are you? “

The leader stretched out his hand to stop his subordinates who wanted to step forward to give Li Zicheng a little bit of power, and said with a smile: "Presumably you are the leader of the official mansion to reward you, seeing that the official government spent so much money on you, you must be a hero." It's a pity that heroes don't live long, traitors and villains have been more than a hundred years, and I, Bai Wang, have no interest in being a hero. only likes good wine and meat, three wives and four concubines, high-ranking officials and Houlu, this short-lived hero. Let's let you do it! Speaking of this, Bai Wang shouted: "Come on, skin this horse and take the meat away." Let's go back to the village tonight and have a good time, and tomorrow we will send this guy to the city to receive the reward!" ”

Juzhou, Reed Valley. It is located in the south of Yanzhou for 30 miles, there is a stream in the valley that flows southeast, merges in the water of Sanchuan, and is named because there are many reeds next to the water in the valley.

It was already the time of the valley rain, the cold northwest wind had been replaced by the soft southeast wind, the fine rain fell to the ground, almost overnight, the yellow-brown land was covered with a layer of green, on both sides of the valley water, it was overgrown with dense reeds and all kinds of wild vegetables, the animals that had endured hunger and cold in the mountains for a winter went to the water to forage and drink, and the air was full of life.

Knock knock!

The silence was broken by the sound of a fine drum, and a group of knights swept across the reeds by the water, and while beating the reeds with spears or clubs, they shouted loudly or hung a wooden whistle, making a loud noise, and the frightened beasts fled in terror from the dense reeds, and came to the sparse meadows, where deer, wolves, foxes, roe deer, hares, and other wild beasts mingled and fled towards the woods at the foot of the mountain. Then the rhythm of the drums suddenly changed, and a group of knights hidden at the edge of the woods rushed out, and drove the beasts back again, and the two teams of knights were like two huge arms, driving the beasts towards the middle of the meadow.

On the hill, Liu Cheng was dressed in a cyan armor, wearing a folded horned head, a bow bag and Hu Lu hanging from his waist, riding on a horse, dressed as a hunter, and there were more than a dozen good riding attendants beside him, looking at everything under the hill with great interest. Min Min, on the other hand, was dressed in a troll, with a horse-faced pleat, a purple scarf wrapped around his head, and a drumstick in his hand, standing next to a sheepskin drum, directing the actions of the two teams of knights below with the sound of the drum. Due to the excitement, a fine layer of sweat was already showing on her beautiful cheeks.

"Shot!"

There was a burst of cheers from the bottom of the hill, and after a while, a fierce Mongolian knight rushed to the bottom of the hill, jumped off the horse, held a muntjac with both hands up the hill, knelt down in front of Minmin, raised the prey with both hands above his head, and sang loudly: "The first prey laid down by the warriors is dedicated to the most beautiful Beji on the steppe, the descendants of Batur, as majestic as a snow-capped mountain, as beautiful as a snow-loving lotus!" “

Min Min laughed: "Okay, good, Gesang, you not only run the fastest, but also shoot the prey the fastest, but today you found the wrong person, the owner of today's hunting ground is not me, but this Liu Shen General!" “

Na Gesang hurriedly turned around and bowed to Liu Cheng, Liu Cheng jumped off the war horse and walked to the prey, only to see that the place where the muntjac was hit by the arrow turned out to be the right eye, which penetrated from the left eye, without hurting a little skin, and had good eyesight and good wrists. Liu Cheng secretly thought that it would be okay to do anything else, this riding and archery technique is indeed not comparable to the pride of the sky on the grassland, he thought about it, took off the saber on his waist and handed it to Na Gesang, and said with a smile: "Today you shoot the prey for me, and tomorrow on the battlefield you will use this knife to kill the enemy for me!" “

Na Gesang gratefully knotted the saber, secretly glanced at Min Min, saw Min Min nodded slightly before tying it around his waist, and sang: "I am willing to be an eagle dog for adults, cross black water, smash rocks, conquer foreign enemies, and dig out hearts and livers!" “

Liu Cheng nodded, motioned to Gesang to stand aside, with the continuation of time, from time to time there were knights on the hill to offer prey to the two, Liu Cheng rewarded according to the size of the prey and the difficulty of shooting, all the knights were very happy, after about a meal, there was only a very strong male deer left in the hunting ground, Liu Cheng also saw that the hunters who were hunting intentionally or unintentionally let it go, then Min Min suddenly threw the drumstick to the side, and said with a smile: "Liu Cheng, it's your turn and me." “

"You and me?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, his current riding skills were naturally heaven and earth compared to when he had just crossed, but there was still a considerable distance from riding and shooting, not to mention shooting the galloping wild deer on horseback, which was more difficult than shooting infantry on the battlefield that could almost be regarded as a fixed target.

"Yes!" Min Min smiled: "That stag is the biggest prey, that is, the soldiers left it to the leader, you and I are their leader, so naturally we have to be the last to appear." “

"How can I do this!" Liu Cheng smiled bitterly: "It's good to be able to keep up with this deer on horseback, not to mention bending the bow to shoot and hunting, aren't you embarrassed?" ”

"If you can't shoot with a bow or arrow, you can use a bird's gun! I'll hunt the wild deer later, and if not, you'll use a bird's gun!" “

"That's fine!" Liu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, he knew that anything could happen in the troubled times, and he had put a lot of effort into riding and various cold weapons and hot weapons, but due to his talent and cultivation time, he was still relatively prominent in the bird gun, and he could use a selected bird gun to seven or eight out of ten within fifty steps, which was enough in the hunting ground.

The two men got on their horses and headed for the hunting ground. When the two knights saw that the leader himself had come to hunt, they waved their weapons above their heads and cheered loudly. The deer was the most timid of all, and the stag looked around in disbelief, bowing his head slightly, his nostrils spewing hot air, and scraping the dirt on the ground with his hooves, and his beautiful antlers reflected a metallic sheen in the sunlight. (To be continued.) )

PS: I want a monthly pass, I want a monthly pass! The discovery has fallen far behind!