After the new rain in the empty mountain, the weather came late. The bright moon shines among the pines, and the clear spring stone is upstream.

In the middle of the silent night, in the dark mountains and old forests, after a precious spring rain, everything began to grow wildly.

The air at night has also become extremely fresh, and people can't help but feel a rare sense of clarity and immaculateness. However, everything that is so quiet around is as terrible as it seems to be quiet.

At this time, Ruoxi, who fell down the hill from the high mountain and had been in a coma for most of the day, was watered by a heavy rain, and her little body that was curled up moved slightly, and finally woke up slowly.

In his dazed consciousness, he seemed to hear a silence around him, and only the sound of "crackling" seemed to be a bonfire burning.

I tried to open my eyes slowly, only to find that the light that seemed to be extremely faint had returned. Side face looked over, yes, the "crackling" sound came out of a firelight.

So, she endured the pain all over her body and struggled to sit up slowly.

Suddenly, there was a very magnetic, rich middle-aged man's voice that seemed to be beside him, "Wake up!" ”

She couldn't help but be startled by this voice for a moment, and her heart chuckled, and at the same time, even her thin and thin body couldn't help but tremble, and then she was stunned for a moment, and then she hurriedly curled up as if instinctively, and for some reason, she carefully retreated in the direction opposite to her voice.

Obviously, this person's voice was completely foreign to her, and she didn't know whether it was good or evil. So, she hugged her knees tightly and shrunk in a corner, and timidly asked, "Who are you?" Where are we? ”

I saw a middle-aged man wearing a black cloak, half a bundle of black hair, with a calm bearing, holding a jar of daughter Hongzheng in one hand and gulping down, and holding a dry branch in the other hand to stir up the bonfire between the two of them, so that it could burn more vigorously and emit more warmth, and the middle-aged man sitting opposite Ruoxi with his legs crossed, only then did he raise his head and look around around, take a breath, and finally said in a deep voice, "This is a... It's still a cave that can shelter from the wind and rain. As for me... Coincidentally, passing through this place, you can call me Brother Long. ”

"Caves? Brother Long? ... You saved me? Ruoxi frowned slightly, as if only then did she slowly recall everything that happened in the mountains in the afternoon, and asked in surprise.

However, when the middle-aged man heard this, he suddenly snorted and laughed, and only said with some surprise to himself, "You girl, your life is very hard!" From a hillside as high as tens of meters, it was entangled with a pine tree that had been struck by lightning and caught fire and rolled down, but it turned out that he only suffered some extremely slight extracutaneous injuries. In this world, I am afraid there is no second person who can be so lucky as you! However, if it weren't for the fact that the heavy rain extinguished the fire burning on that tree in time, I don't know if you would have been so lucky. ... By the way, what's your name? ”

As soon as these words came out, listening to the hearty and gentle tone of the man's words, which seemed to be a little unruly, Ruoxi suddenly seemed to be less defensive of him than he was at the beginning. So, he slowly relaxed the arm that was holding in front of his knees, and secretly sighed

After thinking about it, he thanked him softly, "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the benefactor, the benefactor can call me to... Ruoxi. ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he poured another big sip of wine, and then repeated in a low voice and silently.

As soon as he looked up, he suddenly saw a bright moonlight outside, and after a thought, the middle-aged man asked again, "Miss Ruoxi, where does your family live?" I'll send you back when it's dawn, or... What about you going back yourself? This mountain forest is one after another, and it goes on and on, you shouldn't get lost, right? ”

Hearing this, for some reason, Ruoxi's mind suddenly went blank for a while, and it seemed that there was still a faint feeling of swelling in her head, and she muttered a little gloomily, "Where is home... Family... Brother Long, it's not a secret, in fact, Ruoxi is not only blind now because of some things... And I also have amnesia, so I accidentally slipped down the hillside. I don't know, what happened to Wang Er and that uncle......"

Hearing this, the middle-aged man suddenly looked at him with a pair of extremely deep eyes, and muttered to himself as if he was stunned, "How can this be?" ”

Ruoxi pursed her lips and continued, "Originally, Ruoxi was rescued by an old woman in a village and lived in her home. ... But at this moment, Ruoxi really can't remember at all. … Oh, by the way, there is also a little girl named Huan'er in her family, and the two of them seem to be the master and servant who depend on each other for their lives. ”

"In that case, you'll have to go back with me first. This deep mountain and old forest, which is rarely passed by, is a very dangerous place, and wild beasts often haunt it. When I go back, send more people to the nearby villages to find out who took you in, and then send you back, okay? The middle-aged man thought for a moment and suggested.

Although Ruoxi did not explicitly agree to go back with him, she is now drifting around like rootless duckweed, desperate and helpless to acquiesce. She couldn't just sit alone in this deep mountain and old forest, waiting to be sacrificed to those ferocious jackals and beasts.

So, the two of them slowly got acquainted around a bonfire, and after a long night in the dilapidated cave in the deep mountain forest, the next day when the sky was just slightly bright, the middle-aged man put Ruoxi on his horse's back, hugged it in his arms, and the two of them rode out of the cave together, shuttling into a mountain forest surrounded by clouds and mist, and trees were continuous.

After about an hour's journey, he finally got out of the mountain forest, and the middle-aged man took Ruoxi all the way south, flowing through a babbling river, and then through a dense wooded tree, and then arrived at the foot of a mountain, Ruoxi felt that the horse that had been galloping seemed to be slowing down.

Then, a majestic stone gate that seemed to be manned appeared faintly in front of it, and a golden plaque with three imposing characters of "Snapdragon Club" was hung on the stone gate.

The Snapdragon will stand next to the mountains, and the scale looks quite large. On both sides of the stone gate, a square banner with red edges on a black background stands tall, and in the center of the banner is embroidered a majestic golden dragon that seems to be about to rise into the sky.

The guard guarding the gate saw the person from a distance, and there were two of them

The men hurriedly opened the door wide, and when they entered, they hurriedly closed the door tightly.

At this time, a subordinate stepped forward and held the middle-aged man's horse steadily, and as soon as everyone stepped off the horse, they said in unison to the arch hand, "See the helper!" ”

"Helper?" Hearing the sound, Ruoxi, who was still on horseback, suddenly twitched in her heart and stopped.

Then, I heard the middle-aged man carefully instruct his subordinates who came forward to lead the horse, "Take this girl down to live and settle down, and send more people to the surrounding villages to carefully check and see who has lost this girl." ”

"Subordinates receive orders."

It wasn't until he stopped to watch with his own eyes, and when his subordinates took Ruoxi and the horses to the courtyard in the back row and disappeared, the middle-aged man seemed to be relieved, and hurriedly paced towards the main hall of the Snapdragon Hall in the east courtyard.

Unexpectedly, a few steps later, I saw two more men tied up two women, with black cloth covers on their heads, and rushed to the backyard with them sneaking into the backyard.

"What's the matter with these two women?" When the middle-aged man saw it, he didn't hesitate to paced over to stop him and asked.

"See the gang leader, when the brothers were patrolling the back mountain, they found these two girls looking good by the river, and the deputy gang leader asked us to take her to his house to serve...... "The two immediately stopped and saluted, and one of the black-faced strong men looked panicked and timidly reported to him.

"Let them go!" When the middle-aged man heard this, he immediately ordered him with a gloomy face.

Unexpectedly, the black-faced strong man still hesitated, and seemed to say to him with an embarrassed face, "Helper, but the deputy helper is ......."

"Slap" Unexpectedly, before he could finish the rest of his words, a heavy slap was steadily slapped on the face of the black-faced strong man.

Suddenly, he covered half of his face, and even the whole person circled in place several times before stopping, and then the two of them hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy, "Help the master spare his life, help the master spare his life, let the small one go, let him go." ”

In an instant, the ropes on the two young women were quickly loosened, their mouths were regained, and the black cloth cover on their heads was also removed. What are you doing here again? ”

As soon as the middle-aged man's voice fell, unexpectedly, the woman who seemed to be slightly older than the other woman and seemed to have some worldly experience stared, spat at the middle-aged man fiercely, and said angrily, "Bandits, robbers......"

"Bandits, robbers......" the middle-aged man repeated with interest.

Then, with a smile on his face, he slowly paced around the two women, and finally turned his back to them, and said sharply, "Do you want to see what a real bandit is, a robber?" ”

At this time, another younger woman next to her, who didn't know whether it was because she was scared or something, suddenly burst into tears, wiping her tears and choking up......