The mountain road is very difficult to walk, and after walking through the mountains all day, Liu Wei and others went down the hillside and went on another mountain path.

Liu Wei has already made a decision, the journey to Tiger Prison Pass is too dangerous, and taking Tang Ji with him is too risky after all, and the most important thing at the moment is to hurry to Woniu Mountain and find Pei Yuanshao. As long as Zhou Cang can persuade Pei Yuanshao to surrender, there are more people, and the chances of success in going to Tiger Prison will be much greater.

As long as he arrived at the Tiger Prison Pass and saw Yuan Shao and the others, Tang Ji's safety naturally didn't have to worry about him.

"Yuanfu is familiar with this place?" Out of the mountain, Liu Wei raised his hand and pointed to the road in front of him, and asked Zhou Cang.

Zhou Cang shook his head and said to Liu Wei: "I haven't been here, but looking at the direction of the path, it should be good to go to the Yellow River." ”

Liu Wei looked up at the cliffs on both sides, didn't speak again, just pulled Tang Ji and walked forward along the path.

After walking for more than ten miles, the sky gradually darkened, and just when Liu Wei was about to find another shelter to sleep in, Zhou Cang pointed to the front and said to him: "Sir, there seems to be a village ahead. ”

I looked in the direction of Zhou Cang's finger, and sure enough, hundreds of steps ahead, the outlines of several houses faintly appeared.

As the sun set, the houses were covered with an orange halo under the reflection of the residual glow.

"Let's see if we can borrow a nightstay." Seeing the house, Liu Wei pulled Tang Ji to walk faster, and said to Zhou Cang beside him: "This is already the other side of the mountain, Yan Zheng should not catch up soon." ”

"Let's go explore the way first." Zhou Cang answered, and ran quickly towards the houses.

"You can get a good night's sleep tonight." Pulling Tang Ji to follow behind Zhou Cang towards the few houses that appeared in the distance, Liu Wei turned his head and smiled at Tang Ji and said, "As long as you get to the Tiger Prison Pass, you don't have to work so hard anymore." ”

"Follow the husband, the concubine doesn't feel bitter." Tang Ji smiled back at Liu Wei and said softly: "Even if it is the end of the world, the concubine is willing to accompany her husband." ”

Liu Wei didn't speak, just smiled and nodded, pulling Tang Ji away faster and faster.

The houses got closer and closer, until they were only fifty or sixty steps away from the houses, and Liu Wei saw that this was not a village, but just a few lonely houses.

Zhou Cang walked quickly, and had already arrived at the door of those houses, talking to an old man, and from time to time he turned back to point to Liu Wei and Tang Ji.

Liu Wei and Tang Ji walked quickly to the front of the house, and the old man who was talking to Zhou Cang turned around, arched his hand towards him and Tang Ji and said: "In the mountains and wild people, it is rare to have guests coming to the door, the house is rough, and a few guests should not be disgusted." ”

"My husband is polite!" Together with Tang Ji, he gave the old man a salute, and Liu Wei said to the old man: "We are the guests passing through here, because it is late, and I am afraid that the tigers and leopards in the mountains and forests will infestation the old man in the middle of the night, and I hope to forgive the sins." ”

"A few guests, please." After a few words with Liu Bian, the old man withdrew and stood aside, made a gesture of invitation to him, and welcomed the servants into the house.

Entering the room, Liu Wei looked at the four corners of the room.

The house of the old Weng's family is made of bluestone, and the gap between the bluestone is filled with yellow mud, which is not only warm in winter and cool in summer, but also much stronger than those houses built purely with yellow mud in Taojiazhuang.

There are two low tables facing each other in the room, and behind the low tables are two new straw mats. Seeing the two low tables and the straw mats on the ground, Liu Bian's eyelids drooped downward, but he didn't say anything.

"These two rooms are lived in by the little old man on weekdays." led Liu Wei and the others into the house, and the old man said to them with a smile: "The three guests just stay, and the little old man will go to the outer room to rest tonight." ”

"My husband is so polite." Liu Wei bowed slightly, clasped his fists with both hands and saluted the old man and said: "I will only stay for one night, and I don't dare to occupy my father-in-law's residence, so my husband can give a room at will!" ”

"Guests come from afar, so it's just hospitality. The guests don't have to make excuses again, and the old man will prepare the meal. The old man arched his hand towards Liu Wei and the others, turned around and retreated.

"This old man is a sincere man." After the old man came out, Zhou Cang smiled and muttered a sentence in his mouth.

"It's good if it's really honest." Liu Wei pursed his lips, snorted softly, and whispered to Zhou Cang and Tang Ji: "It's quite strange here, I'd better be careful." ”

Tang Ji lowered his head slightly, answered softly, stood aside, and didn't even ask more than half a sentence. Zhou Cang looked at Liu Wei with a puzzled expression, but he still didn't understand why he said such a thing.

"Don't you think it's strange?" The corners of Liu Wei's mouth twitched, and he said to Zhou Cang: "You can get stones everywhere in the mountains, and it's nothing to build a bluestone house, but how can he, an old man, build so many houses?" In addition, don't you think it's a bit strange for an old man in the mountains to know so much etiquette? ”

After Liu Wei said this, Zhou Cangcai's face was abrupt, and he said with a blank look in his eyes: "Sir, do you mean that this old man wants to be unfavorable to us?" ”

Liu Wei looked at the two low tables in the room, and said lightly: "Yuanfu and don't be excited, these are just my guesses, and I still need to continue to observe." ”

Zhou Cang nodded and didn't say anything more, but Tang Ji on the side was a little nervous, pursed his lips, and looked at Liu Wei timidly.

Not long after the old man went out, he walked in again with a clay pot full of meat in his hand, and said to Liu Wei and the others with a smile: "A few guests are hungry if they want to come, Xiao Lao'er got some meat today, and the guests are also considered to be blessed, hurry up and eat while it's hot." ”

Liu Wei stretched out his hand to take the meat handed by the old man, thanked him and said: "The old man is so kind, I can't wait to repay it, I am really ashamed." ”

"Let's eat!" handed the clay pot to Liu Wei, the old man arched at him with both hands in fists, turned around and walked out.

"Won't my husband eat it?" As soon as the old man walked to the door, Liu Wei said to him: "There is so much meat, I will definitely not be able to finish it, why don't you sit down and eat some of it?" ”

"The little old man has already eaten, the guests just have to eat!" The old man turned his head, smiled at Liu Wei, answered, and then walked out of the house with his feet raised.

When the old man left, Liu Wei glanced at Zhou Cang, Zhou Cang nodded knowingly, turned around and went into the inner room.

Zhou Cang didn't stay in the inner room for too long, and then walked out again, bowing his head and glancing at Liu Wei.

Liu Wei nodded, Zhou Cang reached out to the clay pot, tore off a piece of meat, handed it to Liu Wei, and said to him: "The meat is still hot, sir, please eat." ”

Taking the meat from Zhou Cang's hand, Liu Wei didn't say much, opened his mouth and bit down a large piece and chewed it vigorously.

They sat at the same low table, eating the meat in small gulps, and after a while, a piece of meat was wiped out by them, but there was still a lot left in the clay pot.

"I'm a little dizzy!" After eating the meat, Tang Ji was about to get up, and suddenly sat back with his forehead in his hands, and fell to the ground softly and fell unconscious.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Tang Ji faint to the ground, Liu Wei hurriedly turned over and threw himself beside her, holding her shoulders with both hands and shaking her lightly twice.

Just shook Tang Ji twice, he also felt a dizziness in his head, his eyes were black, and he also fainted.

Liu Wei and Tang Ji fainted one after another, Zhou Cang's eyes widened, and he stood up with a "Teng", and said with a curse in his mouth: "What kind of bird meat is this?" Eating it is like drinking wine! ”

As he spoke, he stumbled twice on his feet, fell straight backwards, and fell heavily to the ground.

"It's over, it's all over." After Zhou Cang fell, the old man shouted loudly and beckoned to the side.

In another room not far away, five men heard the old man's shout and hurriedly ran out with long swords.

"How?" When he got to the old man, one of the men asked in a low voice, "How about the medicine you got from the miracle doctor?" ”

"The medicine of the miracle doctor is extraordinary." The old man smacked his lips, pointed to the room, and said to the five men: "That man is quite respectful to the young man, I think the young man is not an ordinary person, but you have to be careful, in case you hurt someone who shouldn't be harmed, Qu Shuai will be angry, you and I can't afford it." ”

"Don't worry!" The man who looked like the leader said to the old man: "I have waited to go out on errands many times, and it is not the first time, Qu Shuai still knows how to deal with it." ”

The old man still wanted to speak, but the five men were not interested in listening any longer, and had already raised their feet and walked towards the room where Liu Wei and the others were.

Seeing that they were abrupt, the old man was still a little uneasy, and hurriedly ran towards the room after him.

When the five men arrived at the door, without the slightest delay, they rushed straight into the house.

"This little girl's skin is born with a good body of flesh." Entering the house, the leading man saw Tang Ji who was in a coma at a glance, and said to a few men on the side with a wicked smile: "Before you get rid of them, if the brothers are not happy to live, they will spoil such a handsome woman." ”

"That's what Big Brother said." One of the men held a long sword, and while walking towards Tang Ji, he said to the leading man: "This little lady brother will be brought to the house to be happy first, and I will deal with the two men later." ”

As he spoke, he had arrived in front of Tang Ji, bent down and stretched out his hand to pull Tang Ji up. But at the moment when he stretched out his hand, a sharp wood knife was placed on his neck.

The sudden change surprised these men, and the man who was held by the firewood knife on his neck was even more wide-eyed, his expression was full of disbelief, but he didn't dare to move more.

Before a few men woke up from the shock, Zhou Cang, who was lying on the side, jumped up and jumped to the door, grabbed the old man who was about to escape, picked him up like a chicken, threw him into the house, and pulled out his long sword to block the door like a door god.