Chapter 40: Duguji
Ma Xiao held the dagger and hesitated in his heart, not sure who to pay attention to, not far away a figure slowly approached, the three of them invariably looked at the comer, the person who came was dressed in a cyan Taoist robe and wore a small hat, it was another little Taoist priest who came with the long beard Taoist.
When the long-bearded Taoist saw that it was a little Taoist, he shouted, "Ji'er, help me kill these two people and avenge your brother Yu."
Ma Xiaoyi saw the little Taoist priest walking towards this side, seeing that his figure should not be a few years older than himself, he decided to strike first, holding a dagger and enduring the arrow wound on his leg and rushed towards the little Taoist, his eyes wandered in several critical places on his body, and he just reached the front dagger and slashed upward, originally wanted to sell a false trick and then choose the opportunity to stab his vital point, who knew that the little Taoist was very fast, and grabbed Ma Xiao's wrist with one hand, and the other hand clenched his fingers into a fist and hit Ma Xiao's stomach, and a spiral rushed in, "Bang" Ma Xiao was like a straw bale thrown out, spinning in the air and flying a few feet away and falling to the ground, clutching his stomach and screaming in pain.
After cleaning up the horse, the little Taoist strode towards the old king, the old king had already prepared, puffed up his cheeks and spit out two black stones and flew in, but after all, he was seriously injured, these two stones were not strong enough, and the little Taoist easily flashed, a foot collapsed in the chest of the old king, and the left hand punched out, directly hitting the old king's door, the horse lying not far away saw clearly, the punch did not really hit the old king's face at all, but the old king seemed to have been hit hard, red marks appeared on the face, and he did not move after a few convulsions on the ground, and after a while, the eyes, nose, mouth and ears were bleeding.
Seeing that Lao Wang was killed, Ma Xiao's heart was cold, and I am afraid that I will not be able to see the sun today.
After cleaning up Lao Wang, the little Taoist priest ignored Ma Xiao who was lying on the ground, came to the side of the long-bearded Taoist chief, and gently helped the Taoist chief to sit down.
"Ji'er, it's good that you came in time, otherwise we would be separated forever today" The Taoist weakly held the little Taoist's hand and said softly, Ma Xiao, who struggled to sit up, suddenly felt that the atmosphere of the scene was not right, what is the relationship between these two people, before Ma Xiao could figure it out, he saw that the little Taoist suddenly grabbed the neck of the Taoist with both hands and made a fierce effort, the old Taoist priest obviously did not expect this scene, stretched out his right hand and slapped it desperately, the little Taoist squeezed more and more fiercely, obviously to the death of the old Taoist, after a while, the Taoist finally stopped struggling, but the little Taoist priest did not have the intention of stopping, and continued to choke the old Taoist's neck desperately.
Ma Xiao didn't know what to see on the side, so he took this opportunity to quickly pick up the dagger on the ground, vigilantly dodged the strange two, came to Lao Wang's side, touched Lao Wang's neck with his hand, and was sure that he was dead, so he breathed a sigh of relief, at this moment, a warm yellow light shot out from the eastern sky on Ma Xiao's face, and a round of golden sun slowly rose on the horizon, Ma Xiao finally let down his guard and sat down under the old willow tree, enjoying the calm of the winter morning.
When the two horses on the haystack saw the sun rise, they ignored the corpses on the ground, and ran merrily to the open area near the stone monument and the old willow tree to enjoy the sunshine, as if all the grievances here had nothing to do with them. The little Taoist priest under the stone tablet opposite had already let go of his hands at some point, and sat in the backlit corner in a daze.
After a long time, a cold wind blew, the little Taoist stood up, took out a brown cloth bag from the arms of the long-bearded Taoist and stuffed it into his arms, and then got on the elegiac horse, and was about to leave with a shake of the reins, Ma Xiao quickly stood up, "Brother Xiaodao, slow down!"
The little Taoist priest grabbed the reins and turned over, "What?"
Under this sunshine, Ma Xiaocai finally saw clearly, the little Taoist priest in front of him was extremely handsome, about thirteen or fourteen years old, with fair skin and a slender body, Ma Xiao was stunned, speechless for a while, thinking that this is the prince and grandson of the king who does not eat the fireworks of the world.
The little Taoist priest seemed impatient, raised his voice and asked again, "What?"
"Oh!" Feeling his gaffe, Ma Xiao quickly smiled and said, "Thank you Brother Xiaodao for showing mercy to his subordinates just now" Just now Ma Xiao took a look at Lao Wang's injury, knowing that this little Taoist fist is powerful, he actually killed Lao Wang with only one punch, and he obviously felt a spiral of energy when he was punched by this little Taoist.
The little Taoist priest replied: "I just look at you pitiful, the two of us are the same, we are the foundation of the two people on this earth, if they don't die today, it won't be long before the two of us die."
Ma Xiao understood why the little Taoist priest would strangle the long bearded Taoist at this time, "Thank you Brother Xiaodao, you saved my life today, my name is Ma Xiao, please tell Brother Dao your name, maybe there will be a chance to repay in the future."
"Hmph, my name is Duguji, you'd better forget about today's events, Hugh mentioned to people that he had seen me," the little Taoist priest replied with a sneer.
As soon as he heard the other party's name, and then compared it with his own name, Ma Xiao immediately regretted that he had notified the family first, and he should make up a better name to tell him, which was also the first time that Ma Xiao felt that he could be inferior just by listening to his name.
"Do you have anything else" Seeing that Ma Xiao didn't answer for a long time, and didn't know what he was thinking, Duguji asked urgingly.
"Oh, just now Brother Xiaodao made the boxing technique very powerful, I don't know what the boxing technique is?" Ma Xiao asked cautiously, and he wanted to learn other people's boxing techniques, but he was afraid that others would not want to, so he was angry that he had to make inches.
"Oh! you stopped me just to ask this" Dugu Ji didn't care, "The two people I killed on the ground are senior brothers, and they are out of Laojunmen, this set of boxing methods is their Laojunmen's boxing method, I have finished learning, you can take it if you want to learn" He said and took out a scripture book from his arms and handed it out.
Ma Xiao hurriedly ran to the front, took it with both hands, there were four seals written on the book cover, he didn't know any of them, and he opened the inside was also densely packed with seals.
Seeing Ma Xiao's embarrassment, Duguji laughed, "This is called "Ear Fist Sutra", if you don't know the seal, I can't help it" After speaking, his legs clamped the horse's back, "Hey!" rode away.
Ma Xiaojian was lonely and far away, and shouted, "Where is Brother Xiaodao going?"
Lonely Ji didn't look back and shouted the same "Go for revenge!" But it was far away, and the northwest wind blew again, and Ma Xiao didn't hear it clearly.
Looking at the lonely and distant back, Ma Xiao muttered, "It's really my own opinion, and I will ride the elegy horse away without asking, one horse is worth hundreds of taels of silver, hey!" Ma Xiao shook his head helplessly, turned his head to look at the remaining long-haired horse, just as the long-haired horse also turned his head to look at him, a person and a horse stared at the small eyes, as if the person in front of him was very boring, the long-haired horse got up and was about to chase the elegiac horse, Ma Xiao quickly grabbed the reins, and was dragged out for a long distance before stopping.
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It's night, Pei Guojing, Taizhou City.
In the corner of the towering city wall, several night vigil soldiers gathered around the charcoal brazier to roast quietly, several people looked out of the city from time to time in shifts, a young man wearing a woolen coat went up to the city wall, and the night vigil soldiers hurried up to greet him: "Counselor Xue, how can you come up on such a cold day, here are our brothers staring at you, rest assured, everyone is in good spirits." ”
"Haha, I have nothing to do at night, and I always remember the brothers who are guarding the city, so I come out and go around, this time is different from the past, everyone should keep an eye on it, don't let the thieves and grass locks take advantage of the loopholes" Counselor Xue couldn't hear the tone of the order in his words, and he looked very concerned about his subordinates.
"Counselor Xue, we are all veterans of Taizhou City, how many battles have we fought with Taizhou City, don't you still believe us?" the soldiers all echoed.
"Okay, I can trust you, no, I also personally scalded a pot of hot wine and took it to warm up the brothers" Saying that, Counselor Xue untied a backpack and handed it over, and the soldiers who were on the night vigil saw that there was wine, and quickly took it, all thanking this Counselor Xue for his compassion for his subordinates.
"You go to the city tower and divide the wine, don't make a noise, don't be seen by other people upstairs, I'll keep an eye on you for a while, go! Go!" A few people thanked Counselor Xue again and couldn't wait to enter the city tower.
Counselor Xue smiled at the night watchmen who were sharing wine in the city tower, took out a bag from his other sleeve, threw down the city wall while people were not paying attention, and continued to talk with the soldiers familiarly.
Not long after, a figure in a white cloak outside the city quietly came to the city wall, picked up the brocade bag that fell in the snow nest, and quietly stayed away from the city wall under the cover of night, and stopped by an old carriage after walking a few miles, untied the brocade bag, a stone and a note fell out, the man in white picked up the note, took out a tightly wrapped bird cage from the carriage, opened the package, and a white snow eagle jumped out, the man in white twisted the note into a column, inserted it into an iron ring on the snow eagle's talons, fed the snow eagle a black pill, and threw it upward, the snow eagle flew in one direction, and soon disappeared into the night。
Not long after the snow eagle flew out, it was caught by the big brown bird and sent to the ground, a foreign woman wearing a white mink jacket and a darker complexion took the snow eagle, it was the woman who appeared in the outer Jianmao Mountain during the siege war that day, the alien woman took the note from the snow eagle's feet, read it and put it back untouched, and also fed the snow eagle a pill and let it go, the snow eagle got out of trouble and fled quickly.
In the early morning of the next day, Peiguo bordered Anhui City.
At this time, the city of Anhui has been occupied by the Chu army, and in a well-preserved mansion in the city, a white-haired old man covered in armor is looking at the note in his hand at the sunlight outside the window, and after reading it, he asked a young man dressed as a Confucian student standing next to him: "Is this information certain?"
The Confucian man looked a little similar to Counselor Xue in Taizhou City, and returned as soon as he arched his hand, "General, very reliable, my brother has been a counselor in Taizhou City, and he can get the core information, and he can't fake it."
"Well, you do things safely, without further ado, notify the lieutenants under your account, and order three thousand military horses to follow me out of the city as soon as possible, there must be no mistake!"
"Obey!" Confucius clenched his fists and hurried out to order troops.
The white-haired old man glanced at the clear sky outside the window, and muttered, "Parenting, it's your turn to appear this time," and after speaking, he stepped on the sword and went out.