Jin Xiaolou couldn't move, so he could only watch Zhou Shuli turn around the room with a candle.

Finding no one, Zhou Shuli put the candle on the shelf next to him, his face was depressed, and he suddenly looked up at Jin Xiaolou.

Jin Xiaolou immediately became excited, blinking his only eyelid that could move with all his might, hoping that Zhou Shuli could see him.

Who knew that Zhou Shuli's eyes were dim, he took two steps forward, and fell to his knees in front of Jin Xiaolou.

Jin Xiaolou was stunned, and after a closer look, he found that there were indeed two futons on the ground.

At this time, she realized that she was already in the Bogu Temple, and her current appearance seemed to be hidden in the clay sculpture of the Bodhisattva at the top of the main hall.

"The compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, if you can hear Xiaosheng's words, I hope you will manifest your spirit and bless Huang Guizhi, Xiaosheng is willing to exchange her life for her safety and soundness."

Zhou Shuli knelt on the futon, folded his hands, and after making a sincere wish, he leaned over and kowtowed respectfully three times.

Before he got up, there was already a lot of noise outside the hall, mixed with the cries of women.

The rotten wooden door, which was already shaky, was kicked down, and a group of five soldiers in armor broke into the door, looking like stray defeated soldiers.

The fighting along the Wuli River was tight, and there were many defeats.

Some soldiers who are greedy for life and fear death will become deserters in order to save their lives, and wander around in war-torn places with other deserters, often becoming outcasts.

Burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil along the way.

The soldier saw Zhou Shuli looking like a scholar, and with a long knife, he said viciously: "Get out." ”

Zhou Shuli was taken aback, these soldiers who escaped were all happy in time, and it was easy to kill people and set fires day by day.

He can't afford to mess with them.

With his head down, he was about to go out, but he hit his head with a leper.

The leper had no armor on his head, but he was holding a woman in his hand.

The woman rushed forward, her head facing outward, and she was hugged by the leper head, and she was struggling hard.

Zhou Shuli didn't raise his head, but when he heard the woman's voice so familiar, he raised his face in disbelief, and faced Shang Guizhi with tears streaming down his face.

Thinking that he was beaten before being caught, Guizhi's left cheek was high and swollen, and it was dark and blue.

The opening under the eye socket was also cracked, and blood mixed with tears flowed down vigorously.

Zhou Shuli was horrified, distressed and angry, almost without thinking about it, he raised his foot and kicked the leper head. It's a pity that Zhou Shuli has always only danced and inked, and he rarely even took a hoe, where did he get the strength, and when he stepped down, the leper head shook and didn't fall.

turned his face sideways, and scolded Zhou Shuli angrily: "His grandmother's, I think you are impatient!" ”

After speaking, he threw the cinnamon branch in his hand into the hall, and took out the knife on his waist to cut Zhou Shuli.

Zhou Shuli stumbled, rolling around on the ground in embarrassment, so he was not cut off, but just cut off a large piece of his robe.

Gui Zhi's face turned white in shock, turned over and grabbed the leg of the leper's trousers, and begged, "Don't ...... Please, don't hurt him! ”

"Yo-heh." The leper looked at the weak little scholar on the ground, then looked at the woman lying at his feet, put the knife away, and smiled with interest, "I said how can I catch such a smart girl in this war-torn place, it turns out that I eloped with this little Langjun!" ”

"It's a pity, you're white-skinned and white-faced, it's useless!" After the leper head finished speaking, he smiled and licked his lips, "Really...... How do you say that, what kind of wild mandarin duck is the stick hit......"

"Leper, you don't know a single big word, and you still miss poetry?" The soldiers in the hall laughed and sat on the futon to watch the excitement.

Gui Zhi saw that the leper raised his head and looked at the hall, gritted his teeth, pulled out the hairpin on his head and stabbed the leper thigh fiercely, heard the leper scream, immediately let go, rushed out to help Zhou Shuli and ran out.

The two of them held hands tightly, looked at each other, and ran away.

It's just that before he could take two steps, a long knife flew behind him, and the handle of the knife smashed heavily on Zhou Shuli's waist.

Zhou Shuli's legs weakened and he fell to the ground.

Gui Zhi hurriedly squatted down and tried to pull him up, but he couldn't pull him up.

Gui Zhi was anxious and red-eyed, and leaned forward to let Zhou Shuli lie on her back, but Zhou Shuli pushed Gui Zhi away with one hand: "You go quickly!" If I fall here, it's a big deal to die! ”

"Die and die together." Guizhi's tears flowed again, and this time she wasn't too afraid.

Behind him, the soldiers had already chased after him, one in each hand, and carried the two of them back to the temple.

The leper pulled off the hairpin, kicked the cinnamon branch out with one kick, and fell heavily in front of the Bodhisattva with a golden body of clay.

In the clay sculpture of the Bodhisattva with a golden body, Jin Xiaolou saw that his heart was broken.

The leper walked up to Zhou Shuli with a limp, lifted Zhou Shuli's collar, and slapped him twice: "Want to go together?" There are no doors! Want to die together? I tell you, it can't be either! ”

"I want to beat the mandarin ducks today, so that one of you will live and one will die, and both of you will be better off than dead!"

The leper head picked up a bundle of rope from the side, and several people tied Zhou Shuli to the pillar in the middle of the main hall.

He held down Huang Guizhi again, and then turned his head and asked Zhou Shuli, "Have you made your choice?" Which of the two of you lives and who dies? ”

"I'm dead!" Zhou Shuli did not hesitate, "Let her go, let her live!" ”

"No!" Gui Zhi screamed heartbreakingly.

The leper smiled again: "You can think about it, it is easy to die, but life is much more difficult!" ”

After speaking, he raised his hand, and with a poof, he tore Gui Zhi's shirt from his neck, and his snow-white shoulders were suddenly exposed, and the white was trembling.

Jin Xiaolou only felt that the blood was surging above her head, and she wanted to rush out and bite those people to death, but she just screamed fiercely, but she was imprisoned in this puppet-like body, which only shattered her own heart.

"What are you guys doing!" Zhou Shuli threw himself outward, and the rope strangled his hand on the blood-red mark, "I'm dead!" It's me who dies! Leave her alone! ”

"yes, you're dead." The leper smiled lewdly, "But before you die, it's cheap for you to feast your eyes!" ”

The laughter of the soldiers filled the hall.

Zhou Shuli's forehead was bruised: "You cowards, you don't dare to go into battle to kill the enemy, but you turn around and kill your own compatriots!" ”

There was a crisp snap, and a soldier slapped Zhou Shuli again.

Zhou Shuli took a sip and spit the blood in his mouth on the soldier's face, and his white teeth were full of piercing red: "Escaping from the battle is treason and disloyalty, burning, killing and looting is heartless and unjust, you disloyal and unrighteous rats, the Bodhisattva can see it clearly, and will never let you go!" ”

The soldier raised his eyebrows and grabbed Zhou Shuli's collar: "If you dare to talk nonsense, Lao Tzu will cut your tongue with a knife!" ”

Zhou Shuli's eyes widened, his head stretched forward, and he bit the soldier's neck with a bite.

Blood spurted out, nourishing Zhou Shuli's face all over his body, and the soldier didn't have time to react, and he writhed twice and was silent.

The leper head was shocked and furious, picked up the knife and walked towards Zhou Shuli.

Zhou Shuli saw that the soldiers were all surrounding him, let go of his voice and shouted: "Guizhi, run!" ”

The next moment, three long knives were inserted into Zhou Shuli's chest and abdomen.

Blood melted into his eyes, and the whole world was blood-red.

Through those hateful-looking soldiers, through the trance candle flames, and through the main hall only three meters away, Zhou Shuli watched Gui Zhi jump out of the palace gate.

Raising his eyebrows and smiling reassuringly, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, which was also the last breath of his short life.

The leper head threw the knife and cursed in a low voice.

The two soldiers ran out quickly, but in a matter of moments, they caught Guizhi again.

In the wilderness where no one is around, there is chaos everywhere, where can Guizhi escape.

grabbed it and threw it on the ground, and the leper pulled his belt: "Little girl, it's all because of you, Lao Tzu's leg is broken, and he broke a brother, you say, how do you want to compensate me?" ”

Amid the laughter of the soldiers, the leper untied Guizhi's ribbon and went to strip her underwear again.

Jin Xiaolou was grief-stricken, and with a sudden shock, the hemp core in his mouth was spit out, and there was a thud in his throat.

The people in the hall were startled, looked around, and saw that there was no one else, and their eyes moved to the Bodhisattva above.

The words of the book before his death still echoed in his ears.

The Bodhisattva is watching.

The leper's head trembled a little, and someone next to him hesitated and said, "This ...... This bodhisattva can't really manifest himself, right? ”

"Shut up!" The leper head was also a little afraid, and tied his belt, "I see that the sky is almost dawn, let's change places!" ”

After that, he picked up the yellow cinnamon branch on the ground and limped out.

Jin Xiaolou was about to stop shouting, when suddenly a cold fell on his neck, and a cold voice sounded from the side: "Don't move." ”

After finishing speaking, he picked up the fallen hemp core and stuffed it back into Jin Xiaolou's mouth.

Jin Xiaolou's cold hair stood on end, she didn't expect that there was another person beside her all the time.

I wanted to see who the person next to me was, but I couldn't even move my head.

I could only watch as a group of people outside took Guizhi and walked farther and farther.

The man beside him sneered softly, and then fell into a long silence.

Jin Xiaolou's mood couldn't be calmed down no matter what, he just opened his eyes and watched the sky brighten little by little, and the shadow of the sun cast a halo obliquely through the broken windows of the main hall.

Shine on Zhou Shuli's stiff and cold corpse, shine on the coagulated maroon blood.

For a long time, there were clattering horses' hooves from far and near.

The person next to him finally had another voice: "The fish I want to catch is hooked." ”

After saying that, jumping upward, Jin Xiaolou only felt that the side was empty, and in the blink of an eye, a figure stood on top of the main hall.

The sunlight drew his shadow into a slender silhouette, and he wore a jade-colored robe, wearing a fox fur with his back to Jin Xiaolou.

In front of him, a maroon horse crossed the gate of Bogu Temple and came to the front of the main hall.

The horse is an extraordinary Gao Lang.

"You're not stupid." The man with his back to Jin Xiaolou spoke softly, and his tone was very brisk, as if this was something he had already expected.

Gao Lang stood upright on his horse and looked at him condescendingly: "What about people? ”

The man avoided answering, but said to himself: "You knew when you were five years old that you can only live by pretending to be stupid, and now that you are not stupid, you will naturally not be able to live anymore." ”