Chapter Seventy-Five: Coercion
Ye Lan'er thought that the people outside would flood in.
But beyond her imagination, there was a sudden silence outside the door, and only the sound of torrential rain pouring on the ground remained.
It's just that this quiet, like the brief peace before the disaster, only lasted for a short time. After a short time, I only heard a heavy object smashed into the temple.
Ye Lan'er poked her head out from behind the Buddha statue and found that there were more than a dozen packages of almost the same size in the ruined temple, each of which emitted smoke from the outside.
"What is this, poisonous, isn't it?" Ye Lan'er pointed to the small smoking baggage, and immediately thought of chemical weapons.
Without waiting for an answer, the pungent smell immediately rushed over, verifying Ye Lan'er's guess, and she quickly covered her mouth and nose with wet clothes.
Jing Haoyang scolded secretly.
He knew that these lackeys had followed him all the way, fought with him more than ten times, big and small, and suffered a big loss. I finally realized that I couldn't get any benefit from hard fighting, so I came up with such a solution.
They want to push themselves out with poisonous smoke.
And as soon as you walk out of this earthen temple, the archers who are already full of strings outside will be able to exert their power.
"Humph! Do you think this will succeed? Dream! ”
He reached out like Ye Lan'er and grabbed her arm: "Wait a minute, let's rush out!" You must follow me closely, pull tight, don't let go! ”
Xing Tian took his hand aside and pulled Ye Lan'er: "Lan'er has me to take care of it, you can be careful of your own life." ”
Jing Haoyang opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but finally swallowed the words back.
Xing Tian is responsible for Ye Lan'er's safety.
In this regard, Jing Haoyang can't have any objections even if he is awkward. After all, Xing Tian is a generation of evil king valley masters, and his martial arts cultivation is like entering the realm of transformation, and it is safer for Ye Lan'er to follow him than to follow him.
The three of them quickly walked out from behind the Buddha statue, came to the temple gate, and hid behind the earthen wall to observe the enemy's situation.
In the rainstorm, there were guards with spears in hand, and archers with bowstrings drawn.
The inner three layers and the outer three layers are surrounded, and none of them are weak, and there is no breakthrough at any point.
If you want to break through, you can only rely on speed and force to break through.
Fortunately, there was a lot of wind blowing at the gate of this temple, which diluted the concentration of the poison and gave them some time to plan and prepare.
In the end, it was decided that Jing Haoyang and Xing Tianbing would split into two roads and break through in two directions, one east and one west, at the same time.
Jing Haoyang stared ahead with his eyes and stretched out three fingers: "Three!" Two! One! ”
The three of them burst out of the rain, and almost at the same time, the archers' arrows came at them more densely than the raindrops.
Xing Tian waved the coat in his hand, as if holding a huge magnet, and grabbed all the arrows that pierced into his hand.
Taking advantage of the gap between the archers changing arrows and pulling the bow, he hit the arrows in his hands back with his backhand and shot more than a dozen guards.
In the next moment, he had already broken into the position of the sword and axe hand with Ye Lan'er, and the archer was useless from then on.
He snatched a red-tasseled spear and flipped it up and down in his hand, and in a moment there was a corpse at his feet.
Seeing Xing Tian's domineering kung fu, these guards began to hesitate, and they didn't dare to step forward for a while.
Xing Tian pulled Ye Lan'er to run, and turned around and shouted: "Jing Haoyang is here!" Wu Wei, you wagging your tail and begging for mercy, you are afraid, don't dare to chase it! ”
Ye Lan'er didn't arrive first Xing Tian was so righteous, wanting to pretend to be Jing Haoyang to attract the flames of war, it was extremely heroic.
His image in his mind suddenly became taller.
But when she heard the next sentence, she didn't know what to say.
Xing Tian used his internal strength and roared with full anger: "Wu Wei puppy, come quickly, you can't catch up with me, what can you take to find the master to ask for to eat!" ”
Wu Wei stood on the horse, so excited that he almost vomited blood.
"Jing Hao Yang! I want you to die without a place to be buried! Give me chase! The first assistant has an order, whoever gets the head of Jinghao Yang will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold! Capture Jing Haoyang alive, 20,000 taels of gold! ”
The soldiers who were beaten with chicken blood by 10,000 taels of gold were all red-eyed, and chased after Ye Lan'er and them desperately.
Xing Tian pulled Ye Lan'er and ran wildly.
The rain stopped and the sky dawned, and the tails behind were thrown off.
Ye Lan'er looked at Xing Tian's muddy water, embarrassed, and quipped: "Xing Tian, you are so powerful, stop fighting, why are you running?" ”
Xing Tian snorted, ignored her, and continued to walk towards the village in front of him.
Ye Lan'er actually knew that the reason why Xing Tian did this was to attract pursuers. If he stops and fights rashly, it is likely that someone will find out that he is not Jing Haoyang, so it will not be so easy for Jing Haoyang to get out easily.
Ye Lan'er trotted over, holding his arm like an adoptive father: "Xing Tian, I am really impressed by you. In the past, I thought you were a stubborn little old man, a maverick, who never cared about secular principles. Now, I just realized that you are the true hero with a great heart! ”
Xing Tian snorted again: "Don't say that, I'm not." ”
Ye Lan'er smiled: "Yes, yes, you are!" ”
The two visited a peasant family, gave them some money, asked for two clean coarse cloth clothes and coarse tea and light rice, and barely rested for a while.
After the pursuers, they didn't want to stay longer, so they bought a donkey cart for farm work at a high price and talked about transportation.
As soon as it was done, a tall man with a handsome face walked in the distance at the head of the village, it was none other than Jing Haoyang, the prince of Yunlan Kingdom.
Jing Haoyang saw Ye Lan'er and them at a glance, and ran a few steps over.
"So you're here, too!"
Xing Tian looked behind him: "Can there be pursuers?!" ”
Jing Haoyang waved his hand: "Just a few thieves, I have already killed them." It's strange to say, there are obviously three or four hundred people, but there are only a dozen chasing me. They can't get lost in the torrential rain. What a bunch of idiots! ”
Ye Lan'er just wanted to say that it was Xing Tian's suspicious soldiers, but was stopped by Xing Tian with his eyes.
This made Ye Lan'er's already suspicious fermentation even greater.
This Xing Tian, why is he so good to Jing Haoyang? It's still silently giving, without asking for anything in return. This is completely inconsistent with Xing Tian's character!
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, what kind of ghost is Xing Tian hiding?
The three of them had no choice but to return to the previous family again, and asked for clothes and meals for Jing Haoyang again.
When Ye Lan'er gave the woman silver, the woman refused to accept it very honestly: "The money the girl gave before is enough, and you must not accept it again." ”
Ye Lan'er felt embarrassed and had to let her accept it. The woman refused, so she took the money. As a result, he turned around and went out, boiled all the few eggs in the chicken coop at home, and stuffed them into Ye Lan'er's arms.
Ye Lan'er looked at Xing Tian with a wry smile: "The villagers here are really too simple and cute......
Jing Haoyang cleaned up the stoppage, and the gong sounded in the village.
Ye Lan'er saw that the woman had put down her work, as if she was going out.
"Eldest sister, where are you going?"
The woman smiled innocently: "This is the village chief beating the gong, there must be something important to announce, I will go back as soon as I go."
The sound of the gong came and went, and gradually stopped.
Suddenly, a terrible wail came from afar.
Then, it seems, hundreds of people began to cry.
Ye Lan'er was shocked, this was by no means a simple gathering of villagers. It's better to leave quickly.
Ye Lan'er was about to lead the donkey cart when she heard a sound mixed with this internal force resounding throughout the village.
"Jing Hao Yang! I know, you're in this village. I'll give you time to stick a stick of incense, tie your hands, and appear in front of me, or I will kill all the men, women, and children in this village!"
Jing Hao Yang! You have always been benevolent and righteous, and you have won the support of the people of Yunlan Country, and now you have come to this Great Xia Country, why? Prepare for the burial with these civilians you have always valued!
Jing Hao Yang! Time for a stick of incense! Don't forget! ”
Ye Lan'er didn't expect that lackey to come up with such a vicious method!
She gritted her teeth, eager to rush up and slaughter that Wu Wei's bastard with her own hands.
dilemma, how to choose.
Ye Lan'er felt uncomfortable, and cast a distressed glance at Jing Haoyang.
At this moment, Jing Haoyang was still sitting in place, his slender knife-like eyebrows were twisted together, and he punched the table, his eyes were scarlet.
"These crumbs!"
With that, he stood up and walked forward.
Ye Lan'er knew that he probably couldn't tolerate the ordinary people of a village dying for him.
In essence, he has always been a benevolent and righteous man.
Ye Lan'er admires such a man from the bottom of her heart.
It's just that since ancient times, he has been successful and his bones are dry, is he really suitable to be a king with such a temperament?
"Stop!" Xing Tian shouted coldly.
Jing Haoyang stopped when he heard this, but he didn't look back: "I know what I'm doing." A manly man stands up to the sky and has a clear conscience. I was asked to sacrifice the lives of a village to survive. I can't! ”
Xing Tian walked in front of him: "But if you survive and become the king of Yunlan Kingdom, you can use the power in your hands to repay more people!" Could it be that you just watched Xiao Qian usurp power, and watched your sixth brother who only knew cockfighting and lackeys scourge the world!? ”
Jing Haoyang's fists were clenched tightly, without saying a word, as if he was thinking and struggling.
Xing Tian patted him on the shoulder: "Go!" Save your life! One day, avenge the people of this village! ”
Jing Haoyang closed his eyes and raised his head.
Ye Lan'er knew that he must be suffering greatly in his heart. The pain of a war between the faith of life and the choice of reality.
Every choice makes sense, and every one doesn't seem wrong. And the question is, what kind of person you are and which choice you will not regret in your life.
"Hehe......" Jing Haoyang suddenly laughed.
"I have always admired the prestige of the Valley Lord of the Evil King Valley of the Great Xia Kingdom for a long time. Know that you are a deviant, who treats power like dung and tramples on the soles of your feet. But I didn't expect to hear your words with my own ears today. To be honest, I was disappointed......"
After that, Jing Haoyang stepped to the door in a few steps: "I have made up my mind, if anyone stops me, he will be my enemy!" ”
He didn't look back, for the sake of perseverance in his heart, he regarded death as home.
There was a muffled "bang-" sound.
Ye Lan'er never expected that Xing Tian would attack Jing Haoyang from behind and knock him unconscious.
Ye Lan'er didn't want Jing Haoyang to die, but thinking of the simple and honest face of the eldest sister of this family, she couldn't bear to let the people in this village die innocently.
Ye Lan'er didn't think she had the ability to make this decision for anyone, so she respected any decision made by Jing Haoyang.
However, Xing Tian not only spoke out to dissuade, but also interfered.
Xing Tian...... What are you doing here? Ye Lan'er asked, she couldn't understand.
Xing Tian was silent, but picked up Jing Haoyang and put him into the simple donkey cart.
"Lan'er, you take her away." Xing Tian ordered.
"What about you?" Ye Lan'er was puzzled.
"Me? Naturally, it was to exchange the lives of those villagers. ”