More than ten miles outside Suzhou, there is a nameless hill, which is a remote place.

Although this Gusu land is a plain terrain and has a lot of water, there are also mountains, but they are not as reckless as the Beidi Mountains, just like this Suzhou and Hangzhou woman, less fierce and more delicate.

At sunset, Shen Qiu was walking in the mountains with a few tall men armed with sticks.

According to the mountain path that Shen Qiu walked on when he came to reconnoiter a few days ago, everyone wore a face towel and walked slowly without making too much noise.

"There's a cave down that hillside, and that's where the thieves are hiding."

Shen Qiu lay on the ridge, pointed to a river bay below, and said to a few men behind him:

"When the sun sets, you can sneak over from the side, don't get too close, wait a hundred feet away. When I got up to attack, you rushed into the cave and left with a few men, waiting for me outside the mountain. ”

"Brother Qiu, it's not that your brothers look down on you."

A man beside Shen Qiu was a little nervous, and he whispered to Shen Qiu:

"You also said that there are as many as 10 thieves, and you are only one person, do you want me to go with you?"

"You're not afraid?"

Shen Qiu looked back at this square-faced man, this is the guy in Old Man Liu's shop, with big shoulders and a round waist, and a brute force. He has courage, but he doesn't know martial arts.

Facing Shen Qiu's inquiry, the man was a little worried.

After all, he was born in a good family, and he has never done anything brave and ruthless, and it is normal to be nervous when he wants to fight the bandits head-on.

He clenched his stick and said to Shen Qiu:

"I... Unafraid! ”

"You still have your wife and parents at home, and the whole family depends on you to support you."

Shen Qiu shook his head, he touched the Yanling knife in his hand, and said:

"Even if you want to go with me, I won't take you, brothers, I am a person who practices martial arts, and I know the roots of those thieves. I asked the residents at the foot of the mountain, and the thieves were just beggars from outside, and when they saw the prosperity of this place, they were angry.

The only thing they can rely on is that they have more evil intentions than ordinary people, and when it comes to physique, I am afraid that they are not as strong as you, as long as they have courage in their hearts, why should they be afraid of them? ”

Shen Qiu chuckled lightly and said:

"My trip is to kill people, but you want to save people, everyone knows that saving people is much more difficult than killing people.

Brothers, I am leaving the difficult things to you, so just do your own thing. ”

The others chuckled at this.

The guys all knew that this was Shen Qiu relieving the tension in their hearts, but after this smile, the tension also dissipated a little, and seeing the sunset slipping, Shen Qiu grabbed the knife and walked towards the bottom of the ridge.

He said to the guys behind him:

"Save people, please leave it to you, today, I will let that gang of thieves take a look at the bravery of my Suzhou boy!"

The guys agreed in unison, and the group divided into two groups, approaching the valley below the mountain from two directions, Shen Qiu hid in the lush grass, and quickly approached the valley as the mountain ghost moved in the mountain.

The gang of thieves drank too much, and a few of them were still lying on the riverside and sleeping, and on the other side, a few thieves were molesting the captive women under the mountain.

The shouting and screaming are endless.

Not to mention that this gang of thieves is not comparable to the black-clothed guards in Taihang Mountain, and even the bandits in Funiu Mountain outside Luoyang City.

Shen Qiu sneaked into the valley of the river, and was only less than ten zhang away from the gang of thieves.

But it was getting late, and the thief had no guards to guard him, so he couldn't find any trace of Shen Qiu at all.

He grabbed a stalk of grass from his hand and held it in his mouth as if he were refusing chewing gum.

Shen Qiu hid under a tree, observing the gang of thieves in front of him, his eyes full of disdain.

"After all, it's the first business."

Shen Qiu put his hands on the handle of the axe at his waist, his fingers moved, he narrowed his eyes, and said softly:

"Then I will borrow your heads to make a name for my dart game. Alas, there are hands and feet, so why be a thief..."

"Wow"

Shen Qiu jumped out from the place where he was hiding, walked a few steps quickly, exhaled and opened his voice, his body rotated around, and his left hand axe roared out.

Breaking the Axe Law - Rescue Axe!

One of the thieves in front of him was just refreshed, and there was a woman crying in a low voice beside him, and he was about to lift his pants when he saw someone jumping out in front of him, and he instinctively felt bad.

I was about to shout, when I saw an axe spin and smash it.

The speed of the axe seems to be very slow, and this guy can even see the trajectory of the axe's rotation.

It seems that you can reach out and catch it.

So he held out his hand...

"Bang"

The sharp axe went straight into his heart, and the great force it carried pushed him off the ground, and he rolled in the air for a circle, smashing to the ground, blood splattering everywhere.

This scene stunned the bandits.

A clever guy grabbed a worn-out knife and was about to rush out, when another axe flew in front of him.

This time, Shen Qiu had good luck, and the flying axe cut off the guy's neck, and he rose to the sky with a good head.

The few guys who were sleeping were also alarmed, and they got up in a daze, and saw a person rushing over with a bright knife.

They also want to resist.

But Shen Qiu's eyes were like ice, and his heart was like iron stone, and he swept to the side of those people, and his hand was up and down.

Guiyan knife technique.

The sword light staggered out in the air, and Shen Qiu slashed out three times in a row, slashing the two panicked guys to the ground, and then waved his wrist to cut a large arc in front of him.

The blade slipped and slashed into the back of the fleeing guy, cutting through the flesh and severing the backbone, another human life.

In just a few moments, five people were killed in a row.

Shen Qiu's ferocity frightened the remaining bandits, and a few men lit torches on the other side, shouted to kill, and rushed into the cave, which also frightened the remaining bandits into a frenzy.

The snatched women also took the opportunity to flee with their heads in their hands, and they let out piercing screams that made the already chaotic night even more terrifying.

The remaining five hairy thieves got together.

They were dressed in tattered clothes, holding bamboo guns and sticks in their hands, and looked at Shen Qiu who came with knives in fear.

In the night, they couldn't see Shen Qiu's face, only the knife in his hand.

Blood dripped from the blade.

"Lay down your arms."

Shen Qiu said:

"Let it go, and I won't kill you."

No one answered him.

A scream came from the nearby cave, and the skinny little bandit who was guarding the captives rushed out of the cave, and the two men chased after him.

The companions were tortured by this gang of thieves, so they dealt very hard.

The club went down without a head, and the thief's screams grew deeper and lower, and after a moment there was silence.

"You'll be next."

Shen Qiu didn't look at the bandit who was killed, he looked at the five people in front of him who were still resisting, he raised his left hand, touched his chin, and said:

"Surrender, go with me to see the official, you didn't kill anyone, just squat in the cell for a few years, and it'll be fine. Why resist to the end? ”

Those people, you look at me, I look at you, no one speaks.

But Shen Qiu felt that their resistance was becoming more and more stubborn.

"Oh, I killed someone."

In the night, Shen Qiu chuckled, his voice became a little colder, and said:

"That's not innocent."

"Whoosh"

With the sound of the machine spring, a small black arrow stabbed out from Shen Qiu's left wrist and hit the chest of the bandit holding the bamboo gun in front of him, causing him to scream loudly in pain and retreat again and again, and the others were also startled.

They thought that Shen Qiu was going to fire a secret weapon in a row, so they hurriedly dispersed.

"Poof"

At the moment of dispersion, Shen Qiu's luck was really angry, he burst into it, slashed one by one, turned around and struck a wind and thunder finger, and pointed it at the temple of another bastard.

His fingers sank into the flesh, and the blood splattered everywhere, and the guy didn't snort, he turned over and fell.

The guy who was stabbed in the chest by the small black arrow was still wailing, and under the trembling gaze of the remaining two bandits, Shen Qiu stepped on his chest, held the knife in his backhand, and stabbed straight down.

The guy struggled violently for a moment, and then he was no longer alive.

The remaining two people were so frightened that they didn't dare to resist anymore, so they turned around and ran.

This reaction made Shen Qiu shake his head, he turned around a few steps, grabbed the axe on the ground, threw a blow, hit the leg of the fleeing guy, and threw the knife in his hand to the three guys who rushed to help.

He said:

"The thieves have lost their courage and dare not fight against their enemies, for they have killed people, and they are heinous criminals."

"Chase, chase them, kill them!"

The man was just when his blood was surging, and when he saw that there was only one thief left, he howled and pounced out, and the thief was already frightened, and his legs and feet were weak, how could he be the opponent of these strong fellows.

In a short time, the two escaped guys were caught.

Shen Qiu lit a bonfire in this bandit camp, and the few women who had escaped were also brought back.

Although this is a small mountain, there are also wild beasts in the mountain, so let them run so headlessly and brainlessly, which is also the fate of feeding the beasts.

The guys who were kidnapped were helped by their companions to sit by the campfire.

The thief wanted to use them to ask for ransom, but he didn't hurt them, but it was inevitable to be beaten by venting his anger, and a weaker one couldn't even walk, and his hands were discounted, so it was naturally impossible for the thief to treat him.

Shen Qiu helped him take a look, and in the future, he was afraid that he would be disabled.

Human life is like a mustard.

Shen Qiu secretly sighed, this rich land in the south of the Yangtze River is also indispensable to bandits and bandits, and the administrative ability of the government is not good, and it is a good hand to oppress the people and reap benefits.

Naturally, it is impossible for officers and soldiers to come to the mountains to suppress bandits for the sake of these guys.

If Shen Qiu hadn't arrived, the fate of these guys would probably not be too good.

The rescued guys were grateful to Shen Qiu, and even knelt down to thank them, but they were held by Shen Qiu, and he sent the weeping women to cook some food for everyone.

Seeing that it was getting late, he decided to spend the night in the mountains.

Seeing Shen Qiu's might, he killed 8 bandits by himself, and everyone naturally followed suit, and immediately went to prepare for the night.

Shen Qiu sat alone by the river, washed his knife and axe, and washed the blood-stained coat pulp, then held the sword jade and entered the dream.

Before he fell asleep, he heard the screams of a woman of hatred coming from the place where the two bandits were tied up behind him, and the screams of the bandits, like night owls.

It should be those bullied women who are taking revenge.

Shen Qiu sighed and didn't care about them.

It's just two thieves, and if you die, you're dead.

Those women are afraid that they also have a deep hatred, and they were plundered and bullied this time, even if they are rescued, with the atmosphere of this era, I am afraid that it will be difficult to return to normal life.

They definitely have more than enough reason to vent their anger.

In this era, the way of heaven is unfair, no one is controlled, and only by being harder can we live comfortably.

Shen Qiu fell into a dream, in the dream in front of him, the phantoms of the eight bandits were also impressively listed, Shen Qiu couldn't think of dealing with them, these people were too poor in their means, even if they were broken, it would be useless.

Leaving them in the way, Shen Qiu took the opportunity to fight, grabbed the neck of a phantom, and carried him to the edge of the dream.

The edge of this dream was a blurry, unclear, rolling area of quicksand, Shen Qiu had tried many times, but he couldn't step out, just like the boundary of a map.

He pushed the struggling bandit phantom in his hand out of the boundary, and the phantom's vague face was full of horror, but it was still like falling into the mud and sand, and it was swallowed up little by little in the struggle.

This is the first time Shen Qiu has done this kind of thing, those phantoms of the black-clothed guards are very cherished, and Shen Qiu still has to use them to practice martial arts, so naturally he can't consume them in this kind of nonsensical attempt.

After engulfing an illusion at the edge of the dream, Shen Qiu looked back and saw that the dream had not changed.

This disappointed him a little.

But when he returned to the center of the dream, he found that the light body of the phantom of Lei Ye, who had been challenged once, seemed to be condensed.

"It's... Recharge! ”

Shen Qiu's eyes widened.

Without saying a word, he threw the remaining 7 thief phantoms into the edge of the dream, and when he looked back, Lei Ye's phantom was already as solid as ever.

"Great goodness!"

Shen Qiu clapped his hands and raised his eyebrows.

He also discovered another use of kendama, which was gratifying.

This trip was not in vain!

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"Xiao Qiu'er, this thing is really beautiful!"

On the afternoon of the second day, Shen Qiu returned to Suzhou with the rescued guys, and immediately caused a small sensation in the Luoyue neighborhood, except for the happy visit of the old man Liu, who had a heart.

As soon as he entered the door, he gave Shen Qiu a thumbs up, and he said:

"You really got the true legend of the old road, I heard the guy say, killing several people in a row in a moment, it's really handsome kung fu."

"Uncle Liu praised it falsely, the means of killing people are not capable."

Shen Qiu invited the old man Liu to sit in the chair, and on a happy occasion, the refreshed old man said a few words of compliment, then took out two silver tickets from his sleeve and put them in front of Shen Qiu's eyes.

"This is two hundred taels of silver, one hundred taels is the money for saving the ticket, and the other hundred taels is the old man's thank-you gift."

"Uncle Liu, what is this for?"

Shen Qiu frowned and said:

"Everyone is a neighbor, when my master was alive, there were no such rules, you just give a hundred taels, this work is not very difficult, it is not in accordance with the rules to collect so much."

"Oh, Xiao Qiu'er, you're really an elm head."

Old man Liu smiled and said:

"You know, you said that it is not difficult, in the Yi Family Dart Bureau, how much do people have to charge?"

Shen Qiu lost an inquiring look, Old Man Liu stretched out two fingers, and he said in an exaggerated tone:

"Just out of people, you have to get 200 taels, if there is a loss of the dart master, you have to add extra money, and then count the hanging red reward and the like, there is no 300 taels that can't be done."

"So expensive?"

Shen Qiu asked rhetorically:

"This ordinary family in Suzhou, the cost of the whole year is only 20 taels of silver, just to save people, and the opponent is not a difficult person."

"Big, that's all."

Old man Liu was not dissatisfied, he shook his head and said:

"Although it is a little unkind, it is really fair, whether your opponent is a thief or a thief, it is all at this price.

A few years ago, outside Suzhou, there was a gang of thieves on Taihu Lake who committed unrighteous things, and the government ordered the Yijia Dart Bureau to deal with it.

I heard that the dart master alone lost more than 30 people, but in the end, it was still this price, just a funeral pension, and there was more red reward. ”

Old man Liu had a good impression of Shen Qiu, so he also persuaded him:

"Xiao Qiu'er, if you want to inherit the old road head family business and continue to do the dart game, you have to learn a thing or two from the Yijia dart game, the rules are the rules, and the rules can't be messed up."

"Your master is just too important, this dart game has been open for many years, and there is no future."

"Well, that's what Uncle Liu said."

Shen Qiu accepted the two silver tickets and handed them to the little shopkeeper Qingqing to put them away, he thought about it, and said to Old Man Liu:

"Uncle Liu, I'll entrust you with something."

"You say, Xiao Qiu'er, we are not outsiders, just say what you have to say."

Old man Liu agreed very simply.

"I want you to help me spread the word to the neighbors."

Shen Qiu rubbed his fingers and said softly:

"The dart business has just opened, and there are only two people in this shop, Qingqing and I, and we can't go to darts, so we can only find some other work. I mean, like this incident, there are neighbors who have been killed by bandits and want revenge. ”

"You will always do the next for me, as long as I am in this place of Suzhou, as long as I can deal with it, as long as it does not violate the ethics of heaven and earth, and does not go against the morality of the rivers and lakes, I will not refuse."

Old Man Liu's eyes widened, and he dissuaded:

"Xiao Qiu'er, this is a desperate business, you are still young, and you are not in a hurry to use money, the old man advises you not to do this. Isn't it good to recruit some people and walk the darts like your master? ”

"I'm measured, Uncle Liu."

Shen Qiu said softly:

"Now that I have entered the rivers and lakes, I can't avoid seeing blood, and when I set foot on this road, I have to go to the end."

"You always help me."