That Xiao Er did not deceive people, sure enough, it rained for another four or five days, and the water in Hanoi was still high, several times more turbulent than in the past, and the boat could not work, but the official road was actually opened, and only one of them needed to climb a mountain.

Gu Yanzhang was going to wait a few more days, and then set off when the rain stopped, not wanting the store to come to him the next day, so he persuaded him to leave early.

The shopkeeper said: "Jinghu's Xiangjun will fight this tomorrow, and the inn and restaurant will be requisitioned, so I got the letter first, and hurried to tell the guest officer, otherwise I really have nowhere to live, so I can only go to find a private house." He added, "I see that your party is also in a hurry, if you don't set off early, when this group of van troops is gone, the rain will not stop, and the official road will be closed again, it is better to leave early, otherwise I don't know if you will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey." ”

At this time, it was not yet noon, the rain was temporarily collected, Gu Yanzhang thought about the distance of the next stop for a while, and felt that if he hurried up, he would still be able to meet Sutou, so as not to collide with the Xiang army - these soldiers on the road, but not all of them are disciplined, if there is a bad one, with Ji Qingling, God will not be able to ask for regret medicine.

As soon as he gave the order, everyone gathered their things together, and hurried on the road.

At this time, it is early winter, this official road is worthy of being a "people's road", the maintenance is very sparse, and because of the heavy rain for a long time, although there are people to tidy up, but it is still potholes, it is easy to walk for more than an hour of road, the front suddenly crossed a card, and there are many people in the road to fill the road and scoop water - it turned out that this place in front of the rain has been watered these days, and has turned into a small pond, enough to reach the crotch deep, running horses or can pass, the carriage must not work, not to mention that they also carry a lot of luggage.

When he saw them coming, he looked at the hour, and then pointed to the fork in the road beside him, and said, "Go over the mountain from here, go faster, and after passing this mountain, there will be a place to stay in the journey of seventeen or eighteen miles." He saw that the beginning of this line was a young man, so he instructed two more words, "There are a few groups of people in front of you who left early, you should hurry, don't leave yourself alone, there are often big insects in the mountains in the past, if it is a moment later, I will not let you pass." ”

Gu Yanzhang thanked him, and sure enough, everyone sped up their way forward.

Halfway up the mountain, not far from the top of the mountain, the sky gradually became overcast, and the mountain rain was about to come.

The dart masters went south and north, although they had never traveled to this place, but they were also quite experienced, and the first person said to Gu Yanzhang: "Young Master of the Gu family, let's go faster, this day looks bad, but the rain will take a while to come down, hurry up, cross this cloud, and it won't rain." ”

Gu Yanzhang nodded, turned around, said hello to Ji Qingling, and urged the car to drive carefully, not to fall.

Although this place is a mountain road, there are often horse teams pulling goods when you want to go back and forth, the mountain road is not narrow, two carriages can barely do it side by side, but there are many mountains and rocks, it is easy to bump when driving, and it is easy to get stuck between the stones, so you need to be very careful.

The people had done a cup of tea, and although the rain had not come down, they could not go any further—as soon as they had turned the corner, a large number of people and several carriages were gathered at a pass in front of them, and the road was blocked tightly, and the situation ahead could not be seen clearly.

Ji Qingling noticed that the car had stopped, opened the curtain and looked ahead, asked once, but got no answer, so he jumped out of the car to breathe.

Gu Yanzhang sent two dart masters to go to see the situation, and he came back from beating the horse and asked, "Are you tired, do you want to change horses?" ”

Ji Qingling nodded and said, "Wei Shi's legs are a little sore." ”

Gu Yanzhang summoned a dart master and asked the other party to lead a horse over, while he turned over and dismounted, and was about to take a few steps loose with Ji Qingling, when he suddenly heard a scream behind him, he turned his head and saw that the crowd in front of him had dispersed, many people panicked and hid on the carriage, and there were several middle-aged men who had nowhere to hide, but they were running this way.

Exclamations, screams, and chaos here, as well as women's cries for help, and the hoarse voice of an old man: "Help!!" Help me!! Whoever comes to save people will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!! ”

Wealth touches people's hearts.

As soon as these words were spoken, the middle-aged men who were running back all stood up and turned back hesitantly.

It turned out that there was a carriage parked at the pass, and the left wheel was stuck between two stone cracks, obviously there was no manpower and could not get out for the time being, and what was even more terrifying was that there was a white-fronted tiger lying on the left and right sides of the carriage, and they were all opening their mouths to drill into it from the curtain.

The men turned around and saw the big female worm on the right biting out of the curtain of the car with an arm dripping with blood, and inside was the woman's cries and screams, and the old man shouted, "Save your life!! People come !! Fifty taels of silver and twenty pieces of silk!! ”

As soon as he had finished speaking, another great insect pulled its head out of the window lattice, raised its head to the sky, whined, took a few steps back, and rushed forward, almost overturning the carriage.

It is said that the clouds are from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, this is not a wasted name, there is no wind on the mountain, the tiger screams, there are only a few leaves left from the trees near the left, and they all fall down. There was a cold wind again, and people standing flat felt that the ridged cold air rose from the ground, not to mention fifty taels, even five hundred taels, and no one dared to ask for it.

Those strong men turned around and ran, only hating their father and mother for not giving birth to two more legs.

Seeing this scene, Gu Yanzhang hurriedly blocked Ji Qingling behind him, reached out to take off the bow and arrow on the horseback, and pulled the whip out of his waist as a precaution.

The dart master who led the horse next to him also hurriedly called another companion over, and each of them held a heavy wooden long stick in front of the master's house.

Gu Yanzhang glanced at the situation in the field, there were forty or fifty people in this place, among which there were only about ten strong men plus his own side, and the rest were useless.

He had never fought a big worm, he didn't know the situation, and he didn't dare to move without permission, so he only called a dart master and asked, "If you disperse the tiger, are you sure?" ”

The dart master glanced ahead and said, "It's not difficult, it's just that big insects don't usually come out during the day, it's too early at this time, there are so many people here, and it dares to come, it's really strange......"

He and his companions glanced at each other, and the two of them stepped forward with sticks, and the other two dart masters were already standing in front of them, both with arrows in their waists and longbows on their backs.

Seeing this, the few strong men who had fled all stood still, stood behind them, and no longer ran, nor did they move forward, but only hid in one place.

When the first two dart masters drew arrows from their waists, they did not shoot the big worm, but only the horses kneeling on the ground in front of them.

The horse was hit by two arrows in the buttocks, neighed, pouted its hooves and stood up, because the carriage was tied to its body, and the wheels of the carriage were stuck in the ground by the stone cracks, and it could not run away if it wanted to, but let the blood flow.

The smell of blood was so strong that it was reasonable to attract the attention of the big worm at that time, but strangely, these two not only ignored it, but were enraged, and even fought hard to pounce on the carriage.