Chapter 31: Chenghe Town
Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing asked Hou Er about the whereabouts of Sai Jinhua and Duan Xuehong's bodies, but Ren Dao was on his neck, and he just cried and said that he didn't know.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and couldn't help but be annoyed, it seemed that Hou Er really didn't know, otherwise, with his obscene surname, there was no need to force, as long as he simply scared him, there would be nothing to say.
"Grandma, spare my life." Hou Er cried.
"It's not impossible ......to spare your life" Yuan Chen put away the knife and was just as he was talking, but Yuan Moqing, who was standing behind Hou Er, shouted: "Are you still harming people?" Saying that, the hand qi knife fell, and the blade instantly slashed into Hou Er's neck.
Due to fatigue and the fact that the blade was not sharp, this time it did not cut off its head, but cut it in half. Hou Er's neck was exposed with half a blade, his eyes were bursting out, and blood gushed out from the corners of his nose and mouth and wounds, looking terrifying.
Yuan Chen hurriedly went up, patted Hou Er's face and asked urgently, "Say it quickly!" In addition to going to Zhuji Town, where else did the defenders of Xiangyang send us to arrest us? β
People say that people are about to die, and their words are good. Hou Er seemed to be no exception, although he couldn't speak, he still raised his hand and shook it.
"You mean there are no pursuers elsewhere?" Yuan Chen asked again.
Hou Er nodded slightly and lost his breath.
Yuan Chen stood up, looked directly at Yuan Moqing and said, "Can't you wait for me to finish asking before killing him?" β
Yuan Moqing knew that she was too anxious, lowered her head, and muttered: "Yes, I know it's wrong, Sister Yuanyuan, I'm just revenge." β
Yes, revenge, why doesn't Yuan Chen want to take revenge, she understands Yuan Moqing's feelings, and Hou Erye is dead, so there is no need to count her down. The most important thing now is to escape from Zhuji Town as soon as possible, because after all, I don't know if Hou Er's statement that there are no pursuers elsewhere is true or false, and they are already on Li Zicheng's blacklist, as long as they stay in Li Zicheng's territory for a moment longer, it will be more dangerous, so they must go straight to their destination as soon as possible - Changzhou Mansion in Jiangsu.
After the two agreed, they quietly returned to Sai Jinhua's inn. Yuan Chen remembered that Sai Jinhua had a carriage, and if he could escape by carriage or on horseback, he would save a lot of effort.
However, when they reached the stable next to the inn, they found that the horses were gone, presumably by the soldiers.
If there is no horse, they have to walk on their feet, they did not dare to delay any longer, and left Zhuji Town overnight.
The two didn't close their eyes all night, and when the sky was slightly bright, they were already far away from Zhuji Town. There was another small town in front of them, and they looked at it for a long time, and saw that there were no traces of officers and soldiers in the town, so they relaxed slightly. It seems that what Hou Er said is true.
The two found a breakfast stall, had some breakfast, and then asked the stall owner about the situation.
Originally, this town was called Chenghe Town, and it used to be the same big town as Zhuji Town, but in the Battle of Xiangyang, it was attacked and killed by the righteous army because it was responsible for hoarding grain and grass for the Ming army, and burned most of the town, and the people also died to death, escaped, and lost most of the population, so it is now only the size of a small town.
"Is there a post house in this town?" Yuan Moqing asked.
"There is really one not far ahead, but because of the recent wars, there is no business to do, and it is almost closed." The stall owner said.
Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing paid the money and followed the stall owner's guidance to a dilapidated post house.
Although the inn is dilapidated, you can see the majesty of the first to take shape, and although the gate is mottled, it is still much taller than the faΓ§ade of other merchants in the town.
"Anyone?" Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing walked into the unlocked door and called.
No one answered.
"Anyone?" They asked aloud again.
"Yes." A voice that didn't seem to wake up came from the hallway, but no one came out.
Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing followed the voice into the foyer. Although it was nearly June, it was not too hot, and it was morning at this time, and it was a little cooler, but a man in the foyer was shirtless, barefoot, wearing only a pair of pants, lying on a rocking chair, shaking a large fan.
"Ahh Yuan Moqing saw that the man was naked, screamed in surprise, and turned around.
After all, Yuan Chen is a modern female surname, and he doesn't think there is anything wrong with a man being naked. So he looked straight and said, "Are you the owner of the post house?" β
"The curator?" The man leaned back vigorously, stood up with the strength of the rocking chair bouncing back, and said, "I am the owner, I am the one who cooks, I am the one who feeds the horses, and I am the one who cleans up the house." β
Yuan Chen looked at the man in front of him and was taken aback.
The man is in his twenties, with thick eyebrows and smiling eyes, a straight nose and a wide mouth, a height of two meters, a strong body, and plump muscles swelling under the skin, as if they are ready to come out at any time. However, Yuan Chen was not surprised by these, but that this man looked very much like Wu Ruojie's subordinate, Ah Jian, both in figure and appearance.
Yuan Chen looked at the man in front of him, and then looked back at Yuan Moqing, who looked like a little policewoman, as if he had returned to that nightclub trip. Oh, my God! Could there be such a coincidence in the world? Are the two people who have died in modern times crossed the shackles of space and time and returned to ancient times to reunite with themselves?
Just as she was stunned, the man laughed: "What? Haven't you ever seen such a good body? β
Yuan Chen blushed and lowered his head, although this man looked like Ah Jian, although he didn't know each other and joked nonsense, but he didn't know why, but he didn't hate it so much. No, didn't I often use Ah Jian to bear those crimes for Wu Ruojie in my heart? But now that "Ah Jian" is standing in front of him, how can he not hate him at all? This is a red flag. Yuan Chen thought and looked up at the man in front of him again.
Yuan Moqing saw that the man was joking, and he no longer ignored his shirtless body, turned his head and pointed at his nose and said loudly: "Less nonsense!" If it weren't for my sister Yuanyuan's good temper, you would have been bleeding from your nose and mouth a long time ago! Say! Do you rent a carriage here? β
The man didn't pay attention, and was startled by the cold roar, but then smiled again: "Hehe, your temper is too big." I don't rent a carriage here. β
"Why?" Yuan Moqing pointed to the stables in the courtyard and asked unreasonably, "Isn't there a carriage there?" β
"It's so unreasonable," the man still smiled, "where are you renting, it's a robbery." β
"Less nonsense, I'll ask you why you don't rent!" Yuan Moqing glared at the man angrily.
The man smiled, avoiding her gaze, but did not answer. There was more disdain in his expression.
Seeing this, Yuan Chen had no choice but to stop Yuan Moqing and asked softly, "Excuse me, why don't you rent it?" β
"Look, I didn't say that a long time ago?" The man looked at Yuan Moqing and said to Yuan Chen, "In the years of war and chaos, the things that were rented out were basically lost. So I don't rent the carriage here, I only sell it. β
"Makes sense," Yuan Chen nodded, "How much?" β
"That's the number." The man held out a slap in the face.
"Five taels of silver?" Yuan Moqing said happily, "Okay, let's buy one." β
"Miss!" The man smiled bitterly, "Have you ever seen a carriage sell for five taels of silver?" Shall I go for the acquisition? One of my fingers is ten taels, and one slap means fifty taels. β
"I'll give you ten taels and buy you a finger!" After Yuan Moqing heard this, he became angry again and wanted to rush forward to teach the other party a lesson. Yuan Chen hurriedly stopped.
"I'm not done yet!" The man did not flinch in the slightest, and said, "Fifty taels, a horse!" β
Yuan Chen frowned, "Fifty taels for a horse?" That carriage costs two horses and a cart, and it costs more than a hundred taels? β
More than one hundred taels, for them who were pampered in the Yuan Mansion, it was a dime. But on the way to escape, it was astronomical. Counting the few small silver tickets that Duan Xuehong left for them, plus the silver taels taken from the Saijin Flower Cabinet, they had a total of twenty or thirty taels.
"You bastard! I'll kill you, see if you still open your mouth!" Yuan Moqing said, pulling out the knife.
"Slow!" Yuan Chen grabbed her wrist, glanced at her, turned around and hugged the man, "But this is too expensive, we can't afford it." β
"Too expensive?" The man snorted, "Then I can't help it." With that, he lay back in his rocking chair.
Yuan Moqing was about to say something more, but was stopped by Yuan Chen, so he had to walk out of the post house angrily.
"Why don't you let me teach him a lesson?" As soon as he walked out of the gate, Yuan Moqing shook off Yuan Chen's hand and said angrily.
"We have no grievances or enmity with this person, and we can't treat everyone as Hou Er." Yuan Chen said.
"But look at his face, 'Miss, my slap is fifty taels!' What a wage! Yuan Moqing pouted and said.
Yuan Chen was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Did he call us 'Miss' just now?" β
"Huh?" Yuan Moqing was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Yes, it seems to be ...... It seems to be called. β
"That is, he recognized us as women."
"Well, so what?"
"Will he report it to the defenders of Xiangyang? When the two women buy a carriage, the Xiangyang side will definitely think of the two of us. β
"Will it? No way. Yuan Moqing also became nervous, "Besides, when he goes to Xiangyang Gaomi and comes back, we don't know where to go." β
"No!" Yuan Chen said, "We can't leave a trace of the Xiangyang garrison. In case this person is also a person like Hou Er, it can only cause us trouble. β
Yuan Moqing thought for a while, nodded and said, "Sister Yuanyuan, what do you mean?" β
"What I mean," a cold light flashed in Yuan Chen's eyes, "If you don't do it, you don't stop it, since the matter has come to this, let's just kill him and grab two horses." In this way, you can not only get on the road as soon as possible, but also eliminate future troubles. β
Yuan Chen did think so, although this "Ah Jian" was not hated by her, and she did not aim to kill this "Ah Jian" instead of that Ah Jian. She just felt that in such a chaotic era, there might be countless pursuers behind her, and her plan to find Wu Ruojie and return to modern times was difficult to realize at present. The most urgent task now is to settle down first, so that these unstable factors must be eliminated one by one.
At this time, Yuan Moqing hesitated a little, and pondered for a long time before saying, "That'...... That's all there is to it. β
"It's okay." Yuan Chen clapped her hand, "Go, go back!" β
The two turned around and came to the foyer of the post station again. I saw that the man had put the fan on his face, as if he had fallen asleep.
Yuan Chen glanced at Yuan Moqing, and the two of them slowly walked to the rocking chair with their knives, and raised their knives to slash downward.
"How?" The man under the pu fan suddenly spoke, "The two of them have discussed it, do you want to rob it openly?" β
Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing were taken aback, hesitated for a moment, but still slashed with their knives.
The man leaned back, the rocking chair was reversed, and both knives were slashed on the chair, and the man jumped from under the chair and stood on the corner in front of the foyer, laughing loudly.
"It's really 'the most poisonous woman's heart'! I just don't rent you a carriage, and you want my life? The man didn't seem to be angry that they were trying to kill him, but laughed.
"It's not the carriage, it's that you already recognize us as women, so you have to be killed!" Yuan Chen said loudly.
"Strange? Does this also count as homicide justification? The man scratched his head, feigning surprise.
"Say! How did you recognize us? Yuan Moqing took a step forward and raised his knife to point directly at the tip of the other party's nose.
"It's hard to recognize, you see me naked, one turns around embarrassedly, and the other blushes. Only women do. The man laughed.
"I'm not asking you this," Yuan Moqing raised his eyebrows, "I'm asking you, how did you recognize us as the ones who announced the reward?" β
Yuan Chen was startled and hurriedly reached out to cover her mouth, but it was too late, and their identities had already been exposed.
"Oh?" The man was stunned when he heard this, "You are wanted criminals?" β
At this point, Yuan Chen no longer concealed it, and said loudly: "Yes!" We are the wanted criminals in Xiangyang City, and we are the ones who killed Yu Yueting and Yuan Shangguang. It doesn't matter if you know, because you won't live long, so let's die. As he spoke, he slashed at the man with his sword.
The man hurriedly flashed to the side and shouted, "Slow! β
Yuan Chen stopped the knife and sneered, "What other last words?" Stay quickly. β
"It's not a last word, I want to confirm it," the man no longer smiled, but changed his serious expression and said, "You said you killed Yuan Shangguang?" β
"Yes!" Yuan Chen responded.
"With just the two of you, can you kill Yuan Shangguang?" The man looked the two of them up and down carefully, expressing suspicion.
Yuan Moqing hurriedly put on a posture with his knife and said, "You haven't fought with us, how do you know how our martial arts are?" β
"You don't have to fight, I can hear the footsteps from the footsteps you just entered the store, you just learned a little bit of martial arts, it's very rough, otherwise the footsteps won't be so messy." The man said, laughing again.
"Don't talk nonsense, we don't learn light skills." Yuan Moqing said, "It is good martial arts to be able to kill you, come, let's make a move." β
"Okay, wait for me to see if you really have two hits, if you really beat me, then I believe that Yuan Shangguang was killed by you." The man said, and also pulled his stance.
Yuan Moqing looked at the man's honest posture, pursed his lips, and said to Yuan Chen: "Sister Yuanyuan, you rest, I will meet him and let him look down on women!" β
"Be careful," Yuan Chen said, "Look at him just now, he has also practiced ......"
"No," the man interjected, "you two go together, one-on-one, and then others will find out, won't you say that I am bullying women?" It's not glorious to win. β
Yuan Moqing gritted her teeth and said: "You think far away, but I'm afraid that you won't be able to wait for the future, and my aunt and grandmother will send you on your way today!" As he spoke, he rushed forward with an arrow and stabbed with his sword.
Yuan Chen hesitated for a moment and rushed forward. can't fall for the man's agitation, they are just to kill this man and come back, since they want to kill each other, why do they care about fighting in a single group. Only by killing him will he not leak their whereabouts.
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, swung their knives and slashed. One slashes the left, one slashes the right, one cuts off the head, one cuts the foot, one stabs the upper body, and the other slashes the lower body. The two of them cooperated, and they slashed out six or seven knives in an instant. Such an offensive, if it were an ordinary person, would have become a blood gourd, but the man was not in a hurry, he just turned his body with his hands behind his back, and dodged the blades one by one. Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing were slightly stunned, slightly retracted, and were about to prepare for a new round of attack, but the man smiled and said, "Let you make a few moves, it's almost over, it's my turn next." β
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