Chapter 67: Horse Thieves
The colorful tiger, which was bigger than a calf, was knocked to the ground by Dian Wei a few times, not only the four men squatting behind Liu Wei saw a chill in their hearts, but even Liu Wei was secretly taken aback.
"Your Highness, a certain big cat was killed!" Holding the top melon skin of the tiger with one hand, and crackling dozens of punches with the other hand on the top of the tiger's head, until the tiger's brains burst out, Dian Wei stood up straight, raised his hand stained with tiger blood and shook it at Liu Wei and the others, and shouted a little smugly.
"Don't spoil tiger meat! Carry it back to the village and give it a tooth sacrifice to the brothers and the villagers tonight! Coming out of the grass and walking to Dian Wei's side, Liu Wei raised his foot and stepped on the tiger's corpse, and gave an order to the four men who followed behind him.
The four men answered, two of them found a stick nearby, and the other tied up the tiger's carcass with the ropes they had with them.
The stick ran through the rope tied to the tiger corpse, and the four men stood aside, their eyes on Liu Wei in unison.
Pressing his hand towards the four men, Liu Wei instructed them: "You wait and stay here, and Dian Wei and I will go to the front to take a look." ”
The four men answered, and Liu Weicai took Dian Wei towards the flowing stream.
The stream that flows down the hillside is about the width of an adult's step, and the water is so clear that you can see the stones at the bottom of the water at a glance when you stand on the edge of the stream.
After walking a few steps along the stream, and then looking up at the mountain stream where the tiger appeared, Liu Wei said to Dian Wei: "Go!" I'll wait to go down the mountain! ”
"Your Highness doesn't look for Pei Yuanshao and others?" Liu Wei said that he wanted to go down the mountain, and Dian Wei felt very puzzled, and hurriedly reminded him of the real purpose of going up the mountain.
"There are tigers here!" Liu Wei turned his head to Dian Wei and smiled slightly: "Not everyone can kill tigers like you, Pei Yuanshao and the others know that there are tigers nearby, and they will not set up a camp here." Even if I waited to look for it, it would be in vain, and if I went down the mountain and walked along the foot of the mountain for a while, I might find clues. ”
Dian Wei didn't say anything more, and walked behind Liu Wei towards the four men standing next to the tiger's corpse.
The tiger that was killed by Dian Wei was four or five hundred catties, Liu Wei beckoned the four men to go down the mountain, and the four of them lifted the dead tiger with great difficulty, followed Liu Wei and Dian Wei, and went along the hillside to find their horses.
Before going up the mountain, Liu Wei had made markers along the way, and the group followed the markers towards the place where they were tied to the horses, until they passed the last mark, and they did not see the horses that were tied to the forest before.
There was no blood on the ground or trees nearby, and the fallen leaves at the tethered place were trampled by the horses' hooves.
Standing next to a large tree where the horse had been tethered earlier, Liu Wei carefully examined the traces of friction on the tree's body. After a long while, he said to Dian Wei and a few men who had already put down the dead tiger and were looking for horses: "Don't look for it, the horse has been stolen." ”
Dian Wei and the four men couldn't believe that the horses were stolen, in their opinion, if the horses were tethered to the foot of the mountain, it was still understandable that they were stolen, but they were tethered to the top of the mountain, Liu Wei and the others went down the mountain to find the way It was a lot of trouble, and it was even more difficult for others to find the horses tethered here.
"It may have been done by Pei Yuanshao's subordinates!" After inspecting the traces left by the stolen horses, Liu Wei furrowed his brows slightly, and said to Dian Wei and the four men: "The stolen horses also show that there is a force on this mountain that is not an official army, if there is no accident, Pei Yuanshao and the others should still be on the mountain!" ”
"How does Your Highness know that it is not an official army?" Liu Wei insisted that it was not the officers and soldiers who stole the horse, and Dian Wei was even more puzzled, and asked again.
"If the officers and soldiers find a few horses with complete saddles in the forest, how can they not suspect that they are ridden by a strong man?" Squatting next to a pile of fallen leaves trampled by the horse's hooves, Liu Wei raised his head, looked at Dian Wei and said: "Even if they are not here to wait to capture the strongman, with the consistent style of the official army, it must be blatant to take away the horses." Never sneaky. ”
"Look here!" Liu Wei lowered his head, pointed to the messy fallen leaves on the ground, and said to Dian Wei and the men on the side: "The fallen leaves on the ground are messy, and the horse thieves are somewhat panicked, so it can be seen that they must not be officers and soldiers." Along the way, we did not see the village, if it is said that the nearby villagers stole it, it is obviously more unreasonable, and the villagers go up the mountain, unless they hunt, most of them are in groups of three or five, it is impossible for dozens of people to go up the mountain together, and it is not easy to take away six horses. ”
At this point, Liu Wei stood up and walked towards a clump of severed thorns not far away. He bent down and picked up a small strand of cloth hanging on the thorns, shook it at Dian Wei and the others, and said, "The blue linen, we are not wearing this kind of clothing, it must have been left by horse thieves." In addition, the shrubs were cut neatly, which should be the traces of weapons such as long swords, so how could the villagers hide long swords in their homes? ”
Liu Wei's analysis stunned Dian Wei and others. Several people glanced at each other, they didn't expect that in this small area, Liu Wei could find so many clues.
"That's it! Let's go down the mountain! Turning his head to look at the forest in the east, Liu Wei frowned slightly, and said to everyone: "In the mountains and forests, I am not familiar with their paths, even if we catch up, we will suffer a lot of losses, and it is not worth it to take risks with my brothers for a few horses!" ”
"Your Highness, is that just that?" Hearing from Liu Wei's words, he didn't want to find the horse, and Dian Wei said a little unwillingly: "If you can find them, you will definitely kill them one by one!" ”
"What if they are Pei Yuanshao's subordinates?" There was a faint smile on the corner of Liu Wei's mouth, and he said to Dian Wei: "Maybe in the future, we will all be our brothers, in order to avoid trouble, I will go down the mountain as soon as possible and bring the dead tiger back to the village, and the brothers will fight at night, and tomorrow morning, I will go up the mountain with Yuanfu to find Pei Yuanshao." ”
Liu Wei decided like this, and Dian Wei couldn't say anything, so he had to beckon to the four men and said, "I'll go down the mountain with His Highness!" ”
The four men wanted to find the horses, and dragged the dead tiger down the mountain with the power of the horses, but they didn't expect that the horses would be stolen, so they had no choice but to carry the tiger corpse, which was four or five hundred pounds, and followed Liu Wei and Dian Wei down the mountain.
From Woniu Mountain to the village where Liu Wei and others were stationed, it was more than ten miles. Because they were carrying a heavy dead tiger, they walked around and rested, and after half an hour, they only walked two or three miles.
"Sit down, brothers!" After walking forward for a while, Liu Wei saw that the four men who carried the tiger had no strength, so he waved his hand at them and let everyone rest on the side of the road.
"Your Highness, please look!" As soon as his buttocks touched the ground, Dian Wei pointed in the direction of Woniu Mountain and said to Liu Wei: "That horse looks so familiar. ”
Looking in the direction of Dian Wei's finger, Liu Wei saw a healthy horse galloping towards them, and from a distance, the horse was indeed very familiar.
The fast horse that galloped over got closer and closer, and seeing that it was only thirty or forty steps away from Liu Wei and the others, Liu Wei stood up suddenly and shouted: "That horse is my mount!" ”
"Put the dead tiger in the middle of the road!" Seeing that the galloping horse was his previous mount, Liu Wei shouted at the four men standing on the side of the road.
At Liu Wei's orders, the four men hurriedly carried the tiger's corpse and threw it in the middle of the road.
The tiger is the king of the mountains, the beast of beasts. Ordinary beasts smell tigers, and their legs are already weak, let alone see a tiger lying on the road.
The men threw the dead tiger into the middle of the road, and the galloping horses found that there was suddenly an extra tiger on the road in front of them, and the two front hooves were weak, and under the impact of inertia, they rolled forward and rolled out of the road.
The man who was riding on horseback galloped on horseback, and when he saw that someone had lost the corpse of a colorful tiger on the road, he was already shocked in his heart, and hurriedly pulled the reins, but there was no time.
The horse rolled and planted out, and at the moment when the horse's body just tossed up, the rider pressed the horse's back with both hands to prop it up, and the whole person flew up in the air, and the horse screamed and planted on the ground, raising a cloud of smoke and dust, kicking his legs a few times, and lying there without moving.
The rider tied up his horse and landed firmly on the ground.
As soon as his feet hit the ground, the man pressed the hilt of the sword with one hand and shouted to Liu Wei and the others: "Where are the thieves?" How dare you secretly attack this girl? ”
When they found the stolen mount, Liu Wei and the others only noticed the horse, but ignored the person riding the horse. It wasn't until they jumped off their horses and shouted at them that they noticed that the knight was a woman.
The woman was wearing a black dark coat, the cuffs and trousers were tightly wrapped in linen, and she jumped off the horse, she frowned slightly, her eyes were like apricot kernels, and she coldly stared at Liu Wei and the others who were blocking the road.
In terms of appearance, this woman is also extremely beautiful. The curved crescent eyebrows were slightly raised, and there was a few different charms in the thin anger. The big eyes of the water spirit are angry and round, not only not violent, but a little more wild and glamorous.
The most soul-seducing thing is the cherry mouth, although it is not smeared with Danzhu, but it is moist and red, ordinary men just look at it, I am afraid that the three souls will have to be hooked away two and a half souls.
The woman's dismounting movements were chic and coherent and a little elegant, and seeing her skillful movements, Liu Wei couldn't help but secretly exclaim in his heart.
"I'll make you a horse thief!" Before Liu Wei could speak, Dian Wei had already pulled out two halberds and strode towards the woman.
was almost thrown out of the horse, the woman's mood was already very irritable, and she was scolded by Dian Wei as a "horse thief", and her anger was suddenly ignited, and she didn't answer, she shouted, drew her long sword, and rushed forward towards Dian Wei.
"Don't hurt her!" Liu Wei's original intention was to catch a live mouth, not to mention that the other party was a woman, and when he saw Dian Wei rushing towards the woman, he hurriedly shouted.