That night, on the outskirts of Changshu City, Yushan Pass.

Shen Qiu carried a torch, a burden, and a knife, and walked alone on the mountain road.

The firelight can only illuminate a place less than a foot away in front of you, and tonight it is also covered by clouds, no moon, no stars, no fire, it is pitch black.

This week is really a good day.

There was the sound of insects chirping in the sparse surrounding woods, and there were birds that didn't know what were chirping, and the voices were hoarse and unpleasant, which added a bit of fear to the night.

Normal people would not choose to enter the mountain at this time.

Even the most astute hunter will avoid wandering in the mountains at night, encountering wild beasts is one thing, and ramming the mountain gods is another.

Shen Qiu adjusted his breathing.

People's senses in the dark will become sharper, especially when the vision is blocked, which is the adjustment of the human body's instinct.

He operates his true qi, which flows throughout his body, making his five senses sharper.

But the more he practiced the Jianghu Mental Method, the more aware Shen Qiu was of the flaws of this Mental Method.

The enhancement it can bring to a martial artist is too little, no wonder the people in the rivers and lakes are eager for the best mental method, better than the best martial arts.

But there is no better choice at the moment, Lei Gong's heart method is domineering, but in fact, it is only better than the Jianghu heart method, and the penance of this half a year has also made Shen Qiu's true qi in his body a little thicker.

There is still a long way to go before qualitative change is formed.

"Tuesday! Come out! ”

Shen Qiu stood at the end of the forest, and he shouted at the night in front of him:

"I'm here to deliver the ransom, and I'm here to negotiate!"

"Whoosh"

A black shadow shot out, and Shen Qiu, who had been vigilant, put his left hand and two fingers together, probed in front of the torch in his hand, and caught the hidden weapon that was shooting.

The ointment smeared on the palm of his hand, and he cultivated the Wind and Thunder Fingers, which made Shen Qiu's fingers extremely flexible, and in the Wind and Thunder Fingers, there were also special methods for dealing with hidden weapons.

In addition, Zhou Qi's secret weapon, to be honest, is not very clever.

It was a throwing knife.

Swarthy, with an eerie glow in the firelight.

He put the knife under his nostrils and sniffed it, there was a strange fishy sweetness, which was obviously quenched poison.

Shen Qiu looked up in front of him, and in the dark night, there was a faint sound of singing.

"Stretch out your sister's hand~"

"Touch Yi Ya Sister~"

"Touch my sister's head, oh, oh~"

"Sister's head is fragrant with osmanthus flowers~"

Shen Qiu had heard this song.

In the flower street and willow lane of Suzhou City, there are always swingers singing this, as if it is called "Eighteen Touches" or something, but a good song, being sung by Zhou Qi's broken gong voice, is really unappetizing.

"Brother Zhou is really interested."

Shen Qiu said loudly:

"Show up, you have to take the silver, and you have to show up, right?"

"Put the money on the ground."

No more singing on Tuesday.

His voice seemed to come from several corners of the night, and the shadows and shadows could not be heard clearly, and I did not know what strange method was used.

He said to Shen Qiu:

"Then go back, tomorrow the meat ticket will go home, Hugh has to entangle again, if you make grandpa unhappy, you will take the girl tonight!"

Shen Qiu was not annoyed.

He dropped the package behind his feet, took a step back, and he exclaimed:

"You've got to let me meet my shopkeeper first, right? You are a person in the rivers and lakes, and you have to talk about morality. ”

"Morality?"

Zhou Qi laughed, and he said:

"That morality is not set by grandpa, why should grandpa abide by it? Get out of here! Your shopkeeper is fine. ”

This time, the voice was still faint, but Shen Qiu's ears moved, and this time it seemed to be closer and more real than the last time.

"If you don't let me see the shopkeeper, I can't explain when I go back."

Shen Qiu said:

"You have to hear the sound of money thrown into the water, right?"

This entanglement made Zhou Qi seem annoyed, and his words became unkind.

"What does your life and death have to do with grandpa and me? Am I your father? Do you have to care about your life, old age, sickness and death? ”

"You don't care, it's just..."

Shen Qiu held the handle of the axe behind him, he exhaled and shouted:

"Who are you scolding, turtle grandson!"

"Wow"

The heavy hand axe flew out with a roar and smashed in the direction where Zhou Qi's voice sounded.

The axe was fast and ruthless, and it hit the branch two feet away from Shen Qiu's left, startling the birds, and a figure also fell from the branch in embarrassment.

"How daring!"

The guy shouted, and in the sound of sharp weapons, he quickly rushed towards Shen Qiu.

This guy is really good at lifting the light skill, the distance of two zhang is almost in the blink of an eye, and the willow leaf short knife in his hand is cold, piercing Shen Qiu's eyes.

"Bell"

The short knife was blocked by the hand axe raised in Shen Qiu's right hand.

His empty left hand was raised, and a small arrow was shot in front of him, so fast and fast that he saw Zhou Qi's head tilted back in front of him, as if he had been hit.

But the next moment, the flower thief straightened his head.

With the light of the fires scattered around his hand, Shen Qiu could see this guy with a sinister face, holding the small black arrow in his mouth.

How fast did you react?

"Dirty or not! Poisonous, brother! ”

Shen Qiu shouted, slashed the hand axe forward, and was nimble by Zhou Qi, the thing pointed to the ground on tiptoe, took a few steps back, and hurriedly spit out the small arrow in his mouth to the ground.

This delayed effort, at this close range, another whistling life-seeking axe flew over.

Zhou Qi, who was about as tall as Shen Qiu, fell backwards, as if performing acrobatics, his waist bent back, his hands on the ground, and narrowly avoided the flying axe.

Shen Qiu slashed with a knife, and the guy propped up his body with his arms, and with the force of rolling, he kicked his feet forward and backward towards Shen Qiu.

"Bang, bang"

With two soft sounds, Shen Qiu was knocked back by a step, but Zhou Qi's left foot was also hit by the wind and thunder fingers, and after standing up again, the figure of the flower thief became staggering.

His left foot was so paralyzed that he couldn't exert his strength, and he could barely stand in place like a canoe.

"Are you still flying?"

Shen Qiu rubbed his chin that was kicked painfully, he picked up the knife, played a knife trick, and said to Zhou Qi in front of him:

"Here, say hello to my darling."

"Wow"

Practicing the knife light to chop forward, the knife style opens and closes, and the blade dances with a tiger and a tiger.

Zhou Qi was forced to keep retreating.

He didn't dare to use the short knife in his hand to regret the Yanling knife, so he could only use his strange and dexterous body to dodge the long knife in Shen Qiu's hand.

In front of him, Shen Qiu was ruthless, and his momentum was already achieved, just like a battlefield fight to the death, and he had great experience in fighting.

Zhou Qi was suppressed so hard that he didn't even have time to talk nonsense.

It's just that this flower-picking thief has a good skin, wears a cyan robe, and his black hair is also quite chic, but it is a pity that he has taken the evil road and his heart is black.

It is clear that today's things cannot be good.

Zhou Qi looked at the fierce young man in front of him, he gritted his teeth and said while retreating and slashing:

"You nosy bastard, you're not from that business at all! Why wade into these troubled waters? ”

"Grandpa is willing, but he can't get used to you being a big man, but he specializes in bullying women, can't he?"

Shen Qiu replied, waving the knife more urgently.

I have practiced the Guiyan knife for more than half a year, and I have fought countless times in my dreams, and I already have the demeanor of everyone, and the sword light is like a tide, wave after wave, which makes Zhou Qi feel like he can't breathe.

His left foot had not yet recovered, and he was not very caught by the knife between dodging, and most of the sleeve of his left hand was cut open.

"Do you know who I'm working for!"

Zhou Qi gritted his teeth, stepped on his left foot, jumped out, he staggered to the ground, and said to Shen Qiu:

"That's someone you can't afford to mess with!"

"Really?"

Shen Qiu put away his sword and stood, he looked at Zhou Qi, as if he was attracted to attention.

Zhou Qi saw Shen Qiu put away the knife, so he quietly raised his right hand, he calmed his tone, and said to Shen Qiu:

"I'm for..."

"Huh"

In the next second, the two people standing opposite each other threw out the hidden weapon in their hands at the same time.

What Zhou Qi threw out was a small blue and white snake, and what Shen Qiu threw out was the flying knife that Zhou Qi threw before.

These two people have a tacit understanding.

"Smack"

The little blue and white snake was cut off by Shen Qiu in the air, and the flying knife he threw out was also dodged by Zhou Qi, but this delay, Zhou Qi had already swept backwards.

He jumped up the branches like a bird, ran in the direction of the mountain, and cried out with hatred:

"Your shopkeeper is dead! His daughter, grandpa, I slept soundly! and his old wife, who is still charming, grandpa will suffer a loss today!

Remember, you killed them! ”

"Brother Zhou is so handsome! But do you know why I'm wasting time here with you? ”

Shen Qiu didn't chase either, he was really lucky, and shouted loudly:

"Heroes! Still hands-on? ”

"Whew, Whew, Whew"

During the time that Shen Qiu and Zhou Qi were fighting, the three big-shouldered and round-waisted dart masters who had already circled the Lin Zikou behind Zhou Qi exhaled and raised their hands.

Three large fishing nets spread out in the air, almost completely sealing the space that Zhou Qi flew by.

The flower thief was the most hated.

He has not been mended with fishing nets in the past, and he has his own way of coping.

Zhou Qi was covered in the air and pulled to the ground, and when he landed, he waved the short knife in his hand, which was also quite sharp, and easily cut through the covered fishing net.

But unfortunately, when the fishing net was thrown out, Shen Qiu also threw the torch in his hand into the sky.

The flames streaked through the air and finally landed at Zhou Qi's feet.

It also illuminated the dark night in front of Zhou Qi's eyes.

In front of this flower thief, more than a dozen dart masters with hatred on their faces held bows and crossbows, and the cold dozen arrows were already aimed at him.

He is not a hero of the rivers and lakes or a demon demon lord, where does the deep internal strength come from to block such a close range of bows and arrows?

In less than an instant, Zhou Qi, who was full of arrows, fell to the ground.

However, this bow and crossbow were all found temporarily, the hunting bows used by the hunters were weak and weak, and the crossbow machine was not very strong, Zhou Qi's body was full of arrows, which seemed terrible, but he couldn't die for a while.

He was still struggling, and the dart master, who hated him so much, rushed forward, raised his long stick with his eyebrows, and struck it on the calf of the flower thief.

The sound of bones cracking sounded in the night, and his legs were dismantled.

For those who raised the light skills last time, this means that the career of walking the rivers and lakes is completely ruined.

"Get up!"

The dart head of the dart board was full of anger, stepped forward and pulled the wailing Zhou Qi up, and with a slight effort on his chin, he removed Zhou Qi's chin, making him unable to speak.

I can only whimper like a defeated dog.

Shen Qiu stepped forward slowly, Zhou Qi was pressed by several dart masters to kneel there, and torches were lit around him, illuminating the embarrassed face.

Shen Qiu squatted down and looked at Zhou Qi with an angry face in front of him, and he saw the fear in this person's eyes that could not be concealed.

He stretched out his hand and helped Zhou Qi straighten his messy hair, and he said:

"What a good face, Brother Zhou, it's a pity that I took a fork in the road. I heard my sister say that there are many bandits in the rivers and lakes, but the most hated are the flower thieves.

Now that you have taken this path, you should know what kind of hospitality the flower thief will have when he is caught by the bitter master, right? ”

Shen Qiu looked at Zhou Qi with a smile, and the despair in Zhou Qi's eyes could no longer be concealed.

"Okay, looks like you do."

Shen Qiu patted his face, stood up, and said to the dart master beside him:

"He is yours according to our agreement. But don't forget that we said okay, the last cut, leave it to me! ”

"That's nature."

Holding the head of a bone-dissolving knife, he clenched his fists to Shen Qiu and said:

"Today's matter, if there is no help from young heroes, it will not go so smoothly. The young man has a great favor in my dart game, and he will be rewarded in the future. ”

He looked at Zhou Qi, he showed a touch of cruelty, rolled up his sleeves, like a butcher who wanted to kill pigs and sheep.

"It's just that the next scene, I'm afraid it will stain the eyes of the young man, please leave for a while."

"Hmm."

Shen Qiu glanced at Zhou Qi, who was struggling, and saw that the dart masters had taken off the pants of this flower thief, well, he was worthy of being a flower thief, and his capital was really strong.

Shen Qiu didn't want to see the scene of revenge of this bitter lord.

He and the men in the business carried torches and went into the mountains.

There were not many places to hide people in this Yushan Pass, and after half an hour of searching, they found the tied up shopkeeper and his wife and daughter.

The clever fellow hurriedly ran to report to Shen Qiu, and he whispered:

"Shaoxia, I have found the shopkeeper, but his daughter has been the flower thief..."

"Nonsense!"

Shen Qiu interrupted the guy coldly, he stretched out his hand and put it on the guy's shoulder, and said word by word:

"The shopkeeper's daughter is very lucky, I waited in time, she hasn't been ruined by Zhou Qi, she is still ready to get married, you say... Isn't it? ”

"Yes, yes, I'm in a daze."

The fellow had cold sweat on his forehead, and hurriedly said:

"The shopkeeper and his family are auspicious, everything is fine."

"Hmm."

Shen Qiu answered, and walked into the cave where the meat ticket was hidden in front of him with a knife, and the guy followed behind him, constantly wiping his sweat.

Although the constraints on women in this era are not as strict as in Shen Qiu's memory, a noble girl like Yaoqin can still serve as the shopkeeper of a big business and be respected.

But the feudal era was an era of cannibalism after all.

If the news of the shopkeeper's noble girl being ruined by flower thieves spreads, this girl will probably have to live in the gossip of others for the rest of her life.

However, to Shen Qiu's surprise, it was not just the shopkeeper's family tied up in this cave.

There were also more than a dozen crying women.

At first, Shen Qiu thought that Zhou Qi had a big appetite this week, and his taste was very heavy, and he liked to exercise in many people.

But after careful questioning, he found that these more than ten women were all taken from near Changshu by Zhou Qi, and there were only one or two of them he touched.

According to the women, Zhou Qi was going to give them to a big man in the rivers and lakes.

"This is..."

Shen Qiu remembered the threat that Zhou Qi had made to him during the grappling just now, and now it seemed that it was indeed a fact.

But that's not the most important thing.

Shen Qiu instructed the men who came with him to take care of the weeping women, and instructed them to send the shopkeeper's family down the mountain first, especially to keep it secret.

After finishing his work, Shen Qiu hurriedly returned to the forest below the mountain.

The dart masters were holding aside, setting up incense tables, lighting coarse incense, and worshipping their dead colleagues.

The flower thief fell to the ground behind him, his legs were covered with blood, and the work was forcibly ripped off, leaving only one breath left.

"Flower thief."

Shen Qiu took out the Yanling knife and looked at Zhou Qi at his feet, he said softly:

"Don't rush down to the Yellow Springs just yet."

"In the future, you and I will be closer and closer in the future."