At dawn, the tall man who had fled banged on the door of the cottage with his hand. "Open the door! Open the door! "The mournful wail pierced the dawn of the stockade.

The doorkeeper who was napping woke up, and of course he could hear the voice of the second master.

However, this panicked cry was heard for the first time, something big must have happened, and the gatekeeper did not dare to delay and hurriedly opened the door.

In the hazy morning light, a smell of blood mixed with a foul smell came to my face. The tall man yelled at the gatekeeper, "Go and call the eldest brother, the master of the three villages has been killed." As soon as the gatekeeper heard that it was not trivial, he ran to report to the lord of the village.

Suddenly, there was a mess in the cottage, and I didn't mention it for the time being.

The sky was already bright, and in the Guan Gong Temple on the top of the mountain, Yu Xiang was still asleep, and what happened yesterday was too shocking for him, and this shock made him feel exhausted and at a loss.

He didn't want to face this reality and chose to sleep to escape, not wanting to wake himself up.

In the time and space where Yu Xiang lives, whenever he encounters trouble, he will choose to sleep and escape, stay at home, rest on his laurels, stay away from his relatives and friends, and thus he will become more and more homely. However, when he came to this plane, like what happened yesterday, did he still have room to escape?

The red lady had already woken up, and when she woke up, she found that she didn't know when to use his arm as a pillow, and she didn't know when to put it on at night.

However, this night was the most soundly slept she had in the past year. She is in her twenties this year, and in their time, she is an absolute old leftover girl.

But until she met Yu Xiang yesterday, she has been looking for the person who can bring her warmth and heartbeat, although Brother A Niu in the village has been with her since she was a child, caring about her and taking care of her, of course the red lady knows Ah Niu's thoughts, but, in her heart, Ah Niu is like a brother, not a husband in his mind.

And the person in front of him, as soon as they met, had a skin-to-skin relationship, and last night they spent the night together, and they still pillowed his arm, letting her red lady be a child of the rivers and lakes, and she couldn't help but have crimson cheeks and heartbeats.

The red lady enjoyed the feeling of sleeping on his arm, she did not rush to get up, but turned to the side, lying facing Yu Xiang, her beautiful black eyes stared curiously at the sleeping man, only to see that his skin was fair, with clear outlines, revealing a strong air of nobility and elegance.

In their time and space, ordinary people work hard and are malnourished, so men look black or thin, like Yu Xiang's complexion, absolutely only pampered princes and nobles have, but from yesterday to now, Yu Xiang did not reveal any bit of princes and nobles, but more amiable than other men in this era, without a little masculine habits, the more the red lady looked, the more she loved, her heart was like jumping into a deer, jumping wildly.

Although it is covered with a grass quilt, the two of them can be regarded as lying on the same quilt, in the heart of the red lady, the two of them have become a de facto husband and wife, and Yu Xiang is her father-in-law. She also thinks that Yu Xiang thinks the same way. The more she looks at Yu Xiang, the more she likes it, and the more she looks at it, the more she loves it!

Outside the temple, the sound of birds boiled, and the morning light crept in through the leaky roof.

The red lady got up carefully, walked out of the temple, and washed her face in a puddle next to the temple.

When she looked at the puddle again, a beautiful face appeared on the surface of the water, and that face was shy and astringent, like a peach blossom in March, what a beautiful beauty!

The red lady sat down on a bluestone by the pool, and thought about her thoughts while arranging her braids.

The acrobatic class of the Red Lady, also known as the Mu family acrobatic class, was an acrobatic artist surnamed Mu who fled the famine, and they gathered in the Mujia village deep in the mountains to make a living by playing acrobatics and farming.

In the spring, the people of the acrobatic class return to the countryside to farm, after the autumn harvest is completed, the young and strong men and women in the village go out to perform, the old and weak and the sick remain in the village, and the acrobatic class comes back to farm in the spring of the next year, so repeatedly, passed down from generation to generation.

The village is located in the depths of the mountains, there are few outsiders, and the income from farming and the money earned from acrobatics make the people in the village live quietly and richly.

Mu Hongniang's adoptive father Mu Xiangxiong is the owner of Mu Jiazhai, more than ten years ago when he went out to perform, passing through a small village, heard a dilapidated adobe house from a little girl crying, the little girl's cry made Mu Xiangxiong moved compassion, he pushed open the door and walked in, saw a little girl was lying on a dying woman crying mother, the woman entrusted the child to Mu Xiangxiong before she died, this girl is the red lady.

At that time, she was five years old, born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, smart and clever, and lovely, Mu Shixiong and his wife had no children, so they recognized her as a daughter and named Mu Hongniang.

The couple regarded the matchmaker as their own, and tried their best to teach him martial arts and skills, when the matchmaker was sixteen or seventeen years old, she had a light achievement, and her juggling skills were even more innocent, especially walking on the rope, which was a must, walking at a height of more than ten meters like walking on the ground, and turning his head on the rope, making a variety of difficult actions that made the audience exclaim.

In order to make it easier to walk the rivers and lakes, his father-in-law gave her the stage name Red Lady. The Red Lady is famous for her outstanding light skills and exquisite rope skills.

Two years ago, Mu Xiangxiong and his wife died of illness one after another, and the villagers elected Mu Hongniang as the owner of Mujiazhai and the owner of the acrobatic class.

As the saying goes, the tree is big, and the reputation of the red lady is too great, so it brings disaster to her.

Last year, as usual, the matchmaker led the village acrobatic class to go out to perform, despite the natural disasters of this year, the world is in chaos, but during the New Year's holidays, some high-ranking officials and rich people still like to recruit acrobatic class performances, Bo a lottery, after all, there are few entertainment activities in that year, the people are very fond of acrobatics and other entertainment activities, and the Mu family acrobatic class has earned a little money outside with its good reputation and superb acrobatic skills.

It's spring, and according to the convention, the Mu family's acrobatic class has to return to the countryside to farm.

The evening before yesterday, they passed through Dongshuanghe Town on their way home, and the acrobatic class was sleepy, so they found a small inn in Dongshuanghe Town, planning to rest for one night and continue to rush back to the village the next day.

The red lady has just settled everyone down, and the shopkeeper came over to say that someone was looking for the red lady, and the red lady followed the shopkeeper to the front hall. But I saw a sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, withered like firewood man to the matchmaker: "My name is Zhang Cijin, I am the master of the ancient family village, our big boss has heard the red lady's rope skills in the world, tonight I want to invite the heroes of the acrobatic class to show their skills, so that the brothers in the village can feast their eyes." Therefore, the special dispatch came to invite him. ”

Gujiazhai? The red lady is used to going to the rivers and lakes, of course, she has heard of the name of Gujiazhai, and the three brothers of Gujiazhai are bullies, and even the government has to be afraid of them.

The big boss is called Gu Batian, and the people in the rivers and lakes call it the fatal knife; The second child is called Gu Badi, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called the life-urging knife; The third child is called Gu Domineering, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called Hades Knife; Yu Xiang fell to his death last night, that is the ancient domineering known as the Hades Knife.

Since these three brothers were originally ** people in the rivers and lakes, they gathered some scum in the rivers and lakes, land bullies, occupied the mountains as kings, killed people and goods, and did all kinds of evil.

At the beginning of the previous prefect's tenure, he wanted to send officers and soldiers to exterminate them, but on the eve of the operation, for some reason, the news leaked, and the gang of bandits was not exterminated, and the prefect was cut off in the middle of the night.

After the new prefect took office, he also had the intention of arresting them, but he was afraid of finding no evidence, and he was afraid of their martial arts, and he was afraid that he would lose his head for no reason like the previous prefect, so he never dared to do anything to them. Moreover, the imperial treasury was empty, not only to suppress the uprising of the displaced people in Shaanxi, but also to resist the Manchu invasion. invaded, and urgently needed a large amount of silver taels, so collecting money and grain became the primary task of the magistrates.

Therefore, after the new prefect took office, he adopted a soft policy towards Gu Batian, and ignored him, and even had the intention of wooing him.

Gu Batian guessed through the government's thoughts, and he immediately announced that he would wash his hands of the golden basin and buy and annex a large amount of land in Dongshuanghe Town. He also paid a certain amount of grain and silver to the government every year, and had a good relationship with the government, and Gu Batian actually became a typical example of local donations.

He even took the initiative to ask for help from the government to collect the official grain, and their efficiency in collecting the official grain was much higher than that of the people in the government.

The government turned a blind eye to their actions, and some people contributed free of charge to help them pay money and food, and they had political achievements without much effort, so why not do it, as for what means they used, the government turned a deaf ear.

Gu Batian and they used all kinds of cruel means,* Those peasants paid for grain, and some peasants who couldn't pay for grain had to sell their sons and daughters, and their families were ruined. There is really no way, so he has to run away secretly, even if he escapes, he will be chased and killed by the Gu Batian Sect, once the escapee is chased, he will use all kinds of torture and torture him to death, and many people will be tortured to death by him.

As soon as the locals heard their names, they would look horrified, and if the children cried incessantly, the adults would use the name of Gu Batianlai to scare the children, and the children immediately stopped crying.

Some peasants who suffered from natural disasters and could not pay their money and grain were desperate, Gu Batian lent them usury, and within a year, the usury would roll over, so these peasants could not afford to repay, so they had to use the land to pay off their debts, and finally the whole family became Gu Batian's slaves.

Dongshuanghe Town is rich in tea, the local Maojian green tea is famous, Dongshuanghe Town has become a well-known rich town, but a few years ago, some tea merchants came to sell and buy tea, and then they all disappeared mysteriously, no one was seen alive, no body was dead, and slowly, no businessmen dared to come to Dongshuanghe Town to do tea business. Some tea farmers lost their livelihoods, and Gu Batian took the opportunity to take advantage of the looting and took some tea mountains into his own possession. Sold to the capital and earned a lot of silver.

Thinking of this, the red lady knew that Gu Batian invited them to go this time, and she must have bad intentions, so she politely refused: "We have something to do, and we are in a hurry to go home, and we will definitely come to the door in person another day to perform for your village for free." Please go back to the ancient master. ”

After that, he handed Zhang Cijin a tael of silver, "This little meaning, please buy some tea to drink, and please say a few kind words in front of the owner of the village." ”

Zhang Cijin turned his thief's eyes, put the tattooed silver into his sleeve, his eyes revealed a trace of imperceptible viciousness, he smiled, hugged his hands and said: "Since the red lady said so, then I will return to my family and leave." ”

After Zhang Cijin left, the red lady has always had an ominous feeling, she wanted to leave Dongshuanghe Town quickly, and told everyone to pack their luggage, finish dinner, rest early, and prepare to leave early tomorrow morning.