In the early spring, the market swept away the depression of winter, and in addition to merchants from all over the world, there were also many farmers who carried grain on their backs to exchange goods. When we arrived, we exchanged a pot of corn and a three-foot fine arrowroot cloth, and we wanted to give them to the dumb woman with the coins, but we only found her son Xi in front of the pulp water stall.

Xi took the thing and knelt on the ground, thanking him again and again. It turned out that the dumb woman had been sick for a long time, and because the family couldn't get the extra rations to ask for a witch doctor, it has been delayed until now. Now that we have what we have given, the mute woman's illness may be saved.

After saying goodbye to Xi and walking on the way home, Si'er kept smiling, with two pear vortices on the corners of his mouth, and he was in a particularly good mood. And I was very heavy because of Xi's words.

"Ah Shi, we did a great thing today, why do you still look unhappy?" Si'er shook my hand and asked with a smile.

"Didn't you hear Xi say that the dumb woman couldn't eat yesterday? The Master was like this on his deathbed......"

Si'er's face was suffocated, he sighed, rubbed my face with his hand, and said softly: "I've been crying for so many days, and my face has lost a lot of weight." Okay, don't be sad, we should think about the good, right? ”

I felt so uncomfortable that I could barely squeeze out a smile and nod to her.

At this time, a ranger with a sword came in front of me, and I subconsciously pulled Si'er to the side and flashed to let him pass first. But he suddenly tightened his reins and stopped, and rode around Si'er and me twice.

The tall, yellow-brown horse snorted and paced beside me, the hot breath from its mouth and the smell of sour rot all on my face, and I frowned and felt a little unhappy.

Ranger raised my chin with his sword and teased, "I didn't expect there to be such a beauty in Qindi. Can children have names? Where do you live? ”

I suppressed the anger in my heart, pulled away his sword with his hand with a blue face, and said to Si'er who was hiding behind me, "Let's go!" ”

Before I could take two steps, the ranger actually dismounted and chased after me, grabbed my hand and said with a smile: "I have twenty coins for your father and brother, you can go with me!" ”

"You let go!"

I tried desperately to shake off his hand, but he clenched it tightly and sneered, "Pretending to be reserved, but you want to ask for a few more coins for your father?" Then he jerked my right hand and lifted me up by the waist and put him on his horse.

At this time, people came and went on the street, and when they saw a ranger and a woman entangled together, they all gathered around and laughed and watched the excitement. In the spring, you can see this scene every few days.

"The shaft is unreasonable! You put me down! "I screamed like a fish suddenly thrown ashore, and struggled to no avail, and his arm was clasped around my waist like a brass hoop.

Si'er was stunned at first, but now she reacted and hurriedly rushed up to break his hand: "She doesn't want to go with you, you let her go!" ”

"Go away!" Ranger swung her to the ground with his sword.

"Si'er—" I yelled, thumping his arm desperately, "bastard, you let go!" ”

"Hahaha, let go? Among the women I have seen, the child is the most beautiful and fierce, so deep in my heart, how can I let go? After he finished speaking, he took a bite on my back through his clothes.

Under the shame and indignation, the grief that was originally blocked in my heart turned into anger at this moment.

I grabbed the ranger's crown with my backhand and pulled it forward. He immediately put me down in pain, covered his messy hair with both hands, and kept screaming and scolding.

I threw away a handful of hair from his head, picked up a thick branch of a roadside salarycutter, and swung it down at the side of his face at eye level.

From the time I can remember until I was eight years old, I have beaten many people and been beaten by many people, and I know very well which one hurts the most and which one hurts the most.

Seeing the ranger being beaten, the onlookers began to laugh and coax. Before the man could react, I quickly picked up Si'er, who was sitting on the ground stupid, and escaped through the crowd.

"You stop! Ah-"The ranger walks the world with a sword, he always has some real skills, he was attacked by me just now because he was defenseless against me, and now he reacted, and quickly raised his sword and roared after him.

Seeing that the ranger behind me was less than two feet away from me, I hurriedly said to Si'er: "Quick, you run to the left and go to the house to find someone to save me!" After saying that, he turned to the right, got into an alley, and relied on his body to maneuver with the ranger.

However, women's physical strength is not as good as that of men after all, plus I have been sitting with my master every day for the past four years to discuss learning, and I have taught to learn female red and brewing, where is the previous stamina, I ran for a quarter of an hour, and I was about to be caught up, and at this time there was a big tree on the side of the road, and I climbed up without thinking about it.

The Ranger ran under the tree, panting and staring at me viciously, and it was only then that I could see his appearance.

He was dressed in a coarse tunic of arrowroot, with a beard covering most of his face, and his eyes were as wide as cowbells, and half an inch below his eyes had been shaved off by a tree branch, and he was bleeding and looking terrible.

"Child, you come down for me!" He roared, threw his sword, and said viciously as he climbed up the tree, "You have made me lose face today, and I will chop off your hand!" ”

What to do? Is it too late to reason with him now?

Seeing that he was about to be grabbed by the ankle, I simply took off my shoes and hit his hand.

"Who's making a fuss outside?" Just as I was anxious, the door of the courtyard under the tree opened, and out of it came a man with a heavy sword, a tiger's back, and a height of nine feet.

As soon as I saw him, tears almost didn't flow, and I lay on the branch and called out miserably: "Uncle, save me!" ”

I said how can this tree look so familiar, it turned out to be the one outside the Qin family's courtyard.

Qin Meng is a retainer in the general's mansion, with infinite strength and superb swordsmanship, because he has good wine on weekdays, the general will often send me to send him some good roasted wine to satisfy his hunger. Today I walked around and ran to his door.

"Ah Shi, why did you go up the tree?" Qin Meng looked up at me in surprise.

I knew that my appearance at the moment was more than 10 million different from the gentle and polite appearance in normal days, so I had no choice but to pretend to be pitiful with a cheeky face: "Uncle, this person is going to kidnap me in the market, and if I don't obey, I will cut off my arm to vent my anger." ”

The first half of what I said was true, but the second half of the sentence was half false, because I really didn't have the face to say that I had beaten someone by myself. When Qin Meng came out, the ranger had already jumped off the trunk. As soon as he heard what I said, he was angry, and Qin Meng was also angry when he heard it, and the two of them drew their swords without saying a word.

Qin Meng gave a swordsman contest salute, and the ranger also saluted with a dignified appearance.

When people fought swords, most of them were at banquets and between retainers, and even so, it was common to be bloodied and injured.

Now in the alley, two people have gone back and forth several times. Although Qin Meng temporarily has the upper hand, before the end of the competition, the outcome is still undecided.

I lay on the tree and looked terrified, terrified that someone would be hurt by me.

"Qiang-" There was a loud sound under the tree, the two swords intersected, sparks burst out, the ranger's body shook and couldn't help but take two steps back, he immediately used a sword on the ground, barely stabilized his body, and then shouted wildly, flew up, and took Qin Meng's chest with an extremely powerful sword momentum.

Qin Meng took a step back, and the ranger's sword fell, narrowly piercing the cloth belt around Qin Meng's waist.

Between life and death, Qin Meng's wrist flipped, and with a heavy move, the sword stabbed at his waist was slammed open, and the ranger's right hand shook, and the long sword immediately came out of his hand, and flew towards me, I turned my head sideways to avoid it, and the sword was dangerously hung by the branch.

At this moment, the ranger's face was completely devoid of the playfulness and teasing of the market just now, and he looked at the long sword hanging on the tree, his expression was extremely solemn. I'm afraid that he won't be able to think about it for a while, and he will rush up and fight with Qin Meng.

The only way to do this is for me to give in first.

I leaned out and took the sword, climbed down from the tree, knelt down on the ground with a good appearance, raised the long sword high above my head with both hands, and said: "The gentleman is more virtuous than the jade, and the warrior is more virtuous than the sword. ”

Ranger was obviously stunned when he heard my words, he took the sword, put it back on his waist, and said with a long sigh of relief: "Get up!" The little woman was able to say things like a sword, and it seems that the rumors about the rudeness of the Qin people are really nonsense. After he finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Qin Meng, "Candle Chu lost, dare to ask the name of the warrior." ”

Qin Meng accepted the sword and replied: "Qin Meng, a retainer of the Wu clan in the Lower Qin State, it is very enjoyable to compete with the warrior with a sword, if the warrior is interested, Qin can recommend the head of the family on his behalf." ”

"Brother Qin's swordsmanship is outstanding, how can I compare to it. The good intentions are in my heart, but I am not here, and I am used to being free. ”

Qin Meng saw that he didn't force his resignation, and said with a heroic smile: "If the warrior is not in a hurry, why don't you go into the house with me and have a few bowls, how about it?" ”

Candle Chu touched his beard and said with a smile: "Wine, sword, beauty, I like it too." Today, the sword was knocked away, and the woman couldn't ask for it, so naturally she couldn't help but drink this wine. ”

After hearing this, Qin Meng laughed, put the heavy sword on his shoulder, and said loudly: "Warrior, please!" ”

"Please!" Ranger turned around and glared at me, smiled and entered the house with Qin Meng.

The two of them were better than you and me just now, but now they have become friends who cherish each other, I smiled, bowed and left silently.