Yan Ling's face was full of grief and indignation, and she gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "They ...... It's a bunch of demons, a bunch of animals. ”

Qiao Youqing's question accidentally touched her nerves, and Yan Ling told the story of what happened to her.

It turned out that Yan Ling was originally a Tujia girl living in the mountains, and in addition to her parents, she also had a twin sister. However, when the younger sister was young, she was sold to the owner of a drama troupe. The wild cat had wanted to steal her chickens, but she fell for the trap and was caught in a trap made of a bamboo basket. Yan Ling didn't hurt it after she found out, and secretly fed it with food.

They also slowly became familiar with each other, Yan Ling was kind-hearted, and after raising it for a while, she decided to let it go, but she didn't expect that the wild cat would still be gone. So Yan Ling decided to keep it like that, which was not a big deal, but because the cat was a black cat, Yan Ling's parents resolutely disagreed, saying that the black cat was evil and unlucky.

For this reason, Yan Ling also argued with his parents for a few words, the wild cat was very psychic, and it watched Yan Ling fight for it at the door, so it barked there. Yan Ling looked back, and after it called at her again, it ran away without looking back.

Seeing this scene, Yan Ling's father pointed to the direction it left and said, "Look, you see, wild cats are wild cats, and if you can't feed them, you just run away." ”

Yan Ling was so anxious that she was about to cry, and shouted with a trill, "It's saying goodbye to me!" "After speaking, he also ran and chased out, and kept calling 'Lingling', because it was very psychic and very smart, and his name had the word 'Ling', so Yan Ling called it Lingling.

In the vicinity of the house, in the village, and on the mountain, after looking for a long time, there was no trace of the wild cat Lingling, and when Yan Ling was walking home in despair, outside the fence in front of her house, Lingling suddenly jumped out to stop her. Yan Ling happily shouted 'Lingling' and asked where it had gone?

But Lingling's appearance looked strange, it bared its teeth and mouth, and its claws kept waving, as if it was in a hurry. But Yan Ling was also the first time she had seen it like this, and she couldn't understand what it meant. At this time, a strange woman walked out of Yan Ling's house.

Lingling suddenly ran away again, and Yan Ling shouted: "Lingling, where are you going?" ”

This time, Yan Ling was not in such a hurry, so she didn't chase it, but turned around and asked the strange woman: "Which one are you?" How's it in my house? ”

The woman smiled and said, "Oops! Little girl, are you back? I'm your cousin, I came to your house to play when you were young, don't you remember? Let's go into the house and say! ”

The woman pulled Yan Ling into the house while talking, and seemed to be very happy when she looked like that, although Yan Ling was a little puzzled, but this was her own house after all, so she had to follow into the house with half a doubt.

As soon as he entered the house, the door was slammed shut, and it turned out that there was a man hiding behind the door, and after closing the door, he took out a bright short knife. Yan Ling felt that something was wrong, the woman grabbed her hand, and comforted her, "Don't be afraid, that's my friend." ”

Yan Ling's hand subconsciously struggled, not wanting that woman to be so strong that she couldn't break free. At this time, two more men came out of the back room, one was a middle-aged man, with a dark and rugged appearance and a sturdy body. One is an older young man, with a thin body and a fierce and decisive face. Both of them had a lot of blood on their faces, hands, and clothes.

Even the most stupid person can guess what happened? Yan Ling suddenly shook off the woman's hand vigorously, and rushed to the house while shouting, and as soon as she arrived at the door, she was slapped to the ground by the young man, and a trace of blood instantly overflowed from the corner of her mouth. She struggled to get up, but the young man kicked her back to the ground. Then he stepped on her weak body with his foot, and threatened viciously: "Little girl, if you scream again, I will kill you immediately."

Yan Ling turned her head sideways and stubbornly looked towards the back room, just in time to see her parents lying in a pool of blood. Tears kept streaming down the corners of her eyes, but she couldn't hold back. The young man squatted down and pinched her face, smiled evilly, and said, "That's right, as long as you are obedient, not only will I not hurt you, but I will also hurt you well." ”

Yan Ling spat on his face, and the man was instantly angry. After slapping again, he grabbed Yan Ling's clothes and began to tear them, only to hear the woman shout unhappily: "Enough!" Ah San! ”

The young man raised his head, wanting to be ruthless, but suddenly he seemed to think of something again, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he let go of Yan Ling without saying a word.

"Let's get out of here, she seems to be talking to another person when I open the door, and the other one has already run away when I get out!" The woman said to the middle-aged man.

As soon as he heard this, the young man stood up very reluctantly, and the woman stepped forward to help Yan Ling on the ground. The middle-aged man beckoned the young man to the back room to dispose of the blood stains on his body, and found Yan Ling's father's clothes to change into.

After they came out, the woman also found a wide coat for Yan Ling to wear. Just as they went out and walked a distance, Yan Ling's house was on fire, and billowing smoke could be seen rolling in the wind from afar.

By the time nearby villagers arrived, the fire was nearing its end......

The man who remained at the door with a knife that rarely spoke, knew without thinking that the fire was his masterpiece.

"So, they're supposed to be a bunch of gangsters, but why don't you run away?" Qiao Youqing asked thoughtfully.

"Run? Now that I'm homeless, where can I flee to? Besides......" she said, she raised her other hand on the square wooden table, and there was a soft 'bang'. An iron chain chained her to the flap of the square wooden table.

Qiao Youqing suddenly realized, no wonder the woman always held hands when she was with Yan Ling, it turned out that this was the real reason. He sighed softly, he had to do what he could to save people, and at the same time, he was really not sure about the four outlaws.

But when he met and knew about it, how could he ignore it? In the end, he discussed with Yan Ling and came up with a countermeasure, which was to move the rescue soldiers. What is the most convenient thing about a post shop? Of course, it's a message! Since there were no garrisons in the post shop where they stayed, there were only a few post men, so it could be said that they had no combat effectiveness, so they could only pass the news to the next post shop, so that the people in front of them would put their pockets and wait for the rabbit.

Yan Ling also had to pretend to be no different from before, it was naturally inappropriate for Lingling to stay with her, so Qiao Youqing took it out in his arms.

Qiao Youqing immediately went to see the postman on duty, and immediately repaired the book after explaining the situation, and one of the postmen took it and asked for the seal of the postmaster. As soon as a messenger passed by, they handed it to him, and Qiao Youqing and the rest of the postman sat down in the house and began to chat.

The postman looked a little older, with dark skin and wrinkles on his face, he looked at the spirit in Qiao Youqing's arms and said, "This is a rare cat?" This boy is in luck! ”

"May I ask you, sir, what is a black cat?" Qiao Youqing obviously didn't know the origin of this 'Xuan Mao'.

The postman said: "The black and red one is mysterious, and the black cat is the black and red civet, which is a spiritual creature that drives away evil spirits and repels disasters and avoids evil." Cats and dogs are psychic, but the psychic ability of the cat's psychic ability is stronger, and it will appear whenever it encounters a supernatural disaster, so most people think that it is a bad thing. The black cat does not only refer to the black cat, the black cat is easy to find, but the black cat is difficult to find. ”

Qiao Youqing stroked Lingling's black and shiny hair, and after careful observation, he saw clearly that there was really a pinch of dark red hair on Lingling's head, which was probably slightly larger than a broad bean. Lingling seemed to know that they were talking about it, and rubbed his little head against Qiao Youqing.

"Scourge of the supernatural? But what we have to face in front of us is only a man-made disaster, and the appearance of the spirit is definitely not because of this incident, that is, what else will happen? Qiao Youqing's brows furrowed slightly, thinking to himself.

The rain did not stop, and the night was uneventful.

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, the group hurried on their way, still two women on horseback, but this time it was the taciturn man who led the horse. Lingling is very sensible, it didn't make trouble at all, and it didn't stick to Yan Ling, maybe it knew that except for Yan Ling and Qiao Youqing, there were bad people around it......

After leaving the Pengshui territory, their group arrived at a post shop with post soldiers, named 'Tianfu Guanyi'. Tianfu Guanyi is located in the fortress, radially connecting Jingzhou, Kuizhou, Qianzhou, Fuzhou and other places. From afar, you can see the flag of the post station waving in the wind, the post station is a courtyard building with blue tile gray wall, wing horns and cornices, two gatekeepers stand crookedly, and they are talking and laughing locally.

Those thieves thought that they were accustomed to seeing the wind and waves, and they did not have the slightest fear of the post soldiers, and lived in the post station like ordinary people. As soon as it got dark, several fast horses galloped to the post house one after another, and they were all yamen catchers with knives. Qiao Youqing took the opportunity to find an excuse to go out of the room. It is said that women's intuition is more sensitive, and the woman in charge of taking care of Yan Ling felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, so she slipped into their house after Qiao Youqing went out and talked secretly with several men.

As soon as the woman left, Qiao Youqing quickly dodged into the room where Yan Ling and the others lived, and as before, Yan Ling was still locked on the table. He drew his dagger and began to sharpen it, and in a few moments he managed to free the chain. Since the other end was still on his wrist, Qiao Youqing simply wrapped the iron chain around Yan Ling's arm, and the wide sleeves covered it as soon as he put it down.

Just as he was about to leave, he was blocked back at the door, it was the woman and the silent man. Qiao Youqing smiled and said, "I'll take Sister Ling out for a walk, do you want to be together?" ”

The woman said, "Little brother is really joking, I wonder where little brother plans to take her?" ”

"As long as it's not locked here, anywhere!"

"So, you know all this, little brother?"

"God has eyes! The two of you are different from me, so please take care of yourself......"

"Leave her behind, we can act as if nothing happened, and you can leave unharmed!"