Chapter 20: Ringing Horses
The rabbit leg in Fang Jinsheng's hand almost didn't fall, and then subconsciously looked at Chu Shannan beside him.
Lu Ying raised his eyebrows and followed her line of sight, but Chu Shannan consistently maintained his original posture, like a solidified iceberg, his misty gray clothes swayed slightly on the edge of the air flow brought by the flames, pouring out a nameless dust.
After a moment, Lu Ying smiled and said, "Don't say it, I was the same as you thought at first, but there should be more than one person named Chu Shannan in the world, not to mention-" He smiled and was silent for a while, his lowered eyelashes falling a faint shadow on his face.
Fang Jinsheng had almost guessed what he was going to say, and was about to stop it, but Lu Ying had already opened his mouth first: "I saw with my own eyes, he was trapped in the sea of fire, and I couldn't do anything. ”
Fang Jinsheng didn't know what to say, so he had to shut his mouth and wanted to pat Lu Ying's shoulder to comfort him, but he looked at the oil on his hand and gave up again.
"Later, the rumors of destroying the Fourteen Mountains gradually arose on the rivers and lakes, and I will participate in it every year, and I can't drive it away from the 'five lakes and four seas', you look at these people, whether they are decent or undignified, they are all stunned when they see me, for fear that I will entangle them, hahaha." Lu Ying's face changed like turning a book, and as he spoke, he suddenly swept away the haze, and said to Fang Jinsheng with a smile.
Fang Jinsheng finally understood why everyone had this attitude towards him, but when he suddenly understood, Lu Ying was still Lu Ying with a hippie smile, but Fang Jinsheng couldn't tell what it was like in his heart - she and Lu Ying were not related, not that she felt distressed, but when this fact was really placed in front of her, her heart seemed to be blocked by cotton, and she couldn't breathe, so she just felt powerless.
Perhaps sometimes the truth that one person knows is not the truth, and the one that most people choose to believe is. With a leisurely mouth, it is difficult to say yin and yang.
In the middle of the night, Fang Jinsheng was a weak chicken mixed with a group of people with ghosts and ghosts, and it was inevitable that he had some guilt in his heart, but in the end, he couldn't beat the upper and lower eyelids for 300 rounds, and collapsed on the edge of the stone wall and fell asleep.
Probably because she was too tired to travel during the day, she didn't wake up all night, and the next morning, she was woken up by a choking smell of alcohol.
The wine rested under Fang Jinsheng's nose, and she didn't have to think about it to know who it was, she frowned and took a few sips, and with sleepy eyes, she pulled the hand in front of her away, and said sullenly: "Go away." ”
Lu Ying not only didn't walk away, but brought the wine closer: "Still angry to get up?" You don't even know what time it is, get up, are you still addicted to sleep on the ground? ”
In fact, it was just dawn now, and some of the people outside had left, while others had stayed. Probably because Yun Qi hasn't left yet, some people haven't left either.
Fang Jinsheng was really sleepy, turned his back to Lu Ying, and rubbed his head with ashes.
For the first time, Lu Ying met someone who was a scoundrel than him and couldn't do anything with the other party, so he laughed and looked at Chu Shannan.
Chu Shannan's eyelids hidden under the soap veil didn't move, and he turned around and said, "Let's go." ”
Lu Ying immediately accepted the wine, and hung it on his waist with a smile: "Cheng." ”
Fang Jinsheng opened his eyes suddenly, sat up on the ground, crawled up with a roll, and shouted, "Wait for me!" ”
Chu Shannan, who was at the front, took a bamboo pole to poke here and there, and walked on his own, ignoring her at all. Lu Ying deliberately turned her head and smiled at her thoughtfully, as if she was sassy: "It turns out that the little lady likes this hexagram, no wonder the gentle ones don't work for you." ”
Fang Jinsheng was not sleepy in a hurry, but he was still in a state of zero IQ when he had just woken up, with a head of messy hair, he glared at him, his mouth was dry, and he didn't want to say anything.
Fang Jinsheng and Chu Shannan followed Lu Ying, and the others followed Mr. Yu, although these two groups of people followed the same route, but they had to be divided into two groups, as if this would make it clear that everyone was going their own way and had nothing to do with it.
Fang Jinsheng was disgusted with his dress as if he had rolled over the kennel, a water bladder and a squarely folded hand towel suddenly appeared in front of her, and when she looked up, it turned out to be Yun Qi.
"Miss Fang, wipe it."
Although this young man said that his purpose was impure at the beginning and he was proud of flirting with his sister, but now that he knows that Fang Jinsheng is a married woman, he still pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, but he is also a humble gentleman.
Fang Jinsheng happened to be in urgent need of this thing, so he hurriedly thanked him, drank a few sips of water to quench his thirst, poured some water to wet his hand towel, wiped his face, and cleaned himself up a little human.
Mr. Yu held the compass in his hand and stopped in place to observe the terrain, Lu Ying paced over with his hands behind his back, leaned over and took a look: "Do you see any eyebrows?" ”
The other glanced at him and ignored him.
Lu Ying smiled indifferently, hugged his arms, and looked at the dense forest in front of him.
"In my opinion, what has not been successful in the past may not be able to be done this time, so why bother so much? Even if the jackdaw can't arrange people in every corner of the Fourteen Mountains, but when the time comes, the security of the Fourteen Mountains will naturally begin, and if you want me to say, we might as well try to do whatever we want this time, anyway, the ones who should come will always come. ”
Mr. Yu must have heard about Lu Ying from Yun Qi's mouth, although there was no disgust with him on his face, he did not have a pleasant face, and said without saltiness: "What is the law?" ”
Lu Ying shrugged: "Do whatever you want, follow your feelings." ”
Mr. Yu showed an expression of "what kind of bullshit are you playing", glanced at him, turned his head and continued to study his compass.
Lu Ying succeeded in playing cheap, pulling the corners of his mouth and laughing secretly, and turned his head to see Chu Shannan standing outside the crowd, wearing gray clothes and swaying slightly, like the thinnest stroke after the ink was smudged.
The light in Lu Ying's pupils flickered slightly, and he was about to step forward to say something, when suddenly-
Shout!
With a clear sound, an arrow shuttled from the air, straight into the sky, and the sound of horses' hooves poured out from the depths of the dense forest, and everyone immediately became alert, but when they wanted to retreat, they found that the sound of horses' hooves came from all directions, surrounding everyone to the water.
Warning of the arrow and galloping the horse is the habit of the Qingzhou Ringing Horse.
Lu Ying glanced at the people who were like frightened birds, and he was still in the mood to play tricks: "But no, I said that I should come and always come, right?" ”
Mr. Yu took the compass without saying a word, and stepped aside, he doesn't know martial arts, just leave this kind of thing to others.
In contrast, Fang Jinsheng was not so lucky.
This group of mountain bandits is armed with a broad-backed broadsword or spear, after the arrow is fired, there is really no superfluous nonsense, and they go directly to the people who are surrounded in the middle.
Fang Jinsheng's legs were soft and palpitating, it was not a step back, it was not a step back. The mountain bandit is not better than the chivalrous, the most good at picking the old and weak women and children, she stands in the middle of the extremely conspicuous, soon, there is a sharp-eyed mountain bandit found her, the back of the knife shocked, towards her horse.
Fang Jinsheng realized it later, and when she sensed the danger, the other party had already run in front of her, and the front hooves of the tall horse were raised, and they were about to kick past her.
At this moment, a misty gray figure quickly flashed and scooped her over, Fang Jinsheng's figure was not thin, but Chu Shannan picked her up with just one arm, threw her on the back of the fallen horse, and then turned over on the horse and galloped away.
Half of the intruders were gathered here, and the number of ringing horses was naturally not less, and after Chu Shannan broke a road, someone immediately turned the horse's head and chased after him.
Fang Jinsheng felt that he was living in a dream, and the wind in his ears hit his face, which seemed a little unreal.
The mountain road was rough, and she was dizzy from being bumped, and she couldn't help but lean back. This leaning directly leaned on the thin silk on Chu Shannan's hat, and as soon as the thin silk was straightened, the outline of Chu Shannan's face was revealed, like a low-profile version of engraving printing.
"......" The corners of Chu Shannan's eyes twitched almost imperceptibly, and he pulled out the soap yarn from under her head, and with a pull of the reins, a strong wind blew in his face.
The horse ran for a long time, but did not escape, Chu Shannan did not seem to be familiar with the mountain roads here, under the fierce pursuit of the enemy, around the corner, there are cracks to drill, this drill does not know where to drill, there are many rocks, the trees are gradually fewer, and the wind whistles one after another.
Fang Jinsheng felt a wave of nausea in his abdomen, and suddenly heard Chu Shannan say in his ear: "Bow your head!" ”
Before she could react, her head was pressed down by a large hand, and her eyes suddenly fell into darkness, as if she had been led into a cave by a horse. After running for a while, because there was no light, the muffled sound of the galloping horse crashed into a stone wall, and it fell to the ground with a bang.
Fang Jinsheng's whole head was protected by Chu Shannan's big hand, and the two of them fell to the side, at this time, there was a strange movement outside the cave, and then, a faint smell of gunpowder wafted in from outside.
"It's not good—"
Chu Shannan's tone was low and dignified, as if he had expected something, but he didn't get up to stop it, thinking that it was so dark in this cave that he couldn't see his five fingers, and his eyes couldn't do it, so he didn't bother to do this senseless dispute at all.
Bang –
After a loud bang, there was a continuous sound of stones falling to the ground, rumbling for a long time before finally stopping. Fang Jinsheng's body was still trembling, and he looked outside for a long time before he muttered and said, "...... They plugged the hole? ”
Chu Shannan hummed very calmly, and then fished out a little fire fold from the horse that had passed out, lit it, and handed it to Fang Jinsheng.
"Go and see if there are candlesticks around this stone wall."
The root of Fang Jinsheng's thigh was still numb, but seeing that Chu Shannan was so strong and calm, he even cheered up, took the fire fold, and stood up tremblingly.
The faint light was like a small firefly in the cave, and the light range was extremely small, and the figure of Chu Shannan could not be seen without taking two steps. Fang Jinsheng relied on his senses, walked in one direction, and finally came to a stone wall, and actually found a candlestick on it.
"There really is!" Fang Jinsheng touched it, touched half of the candle that had not been burned, and immediately lit it, and the light was slightly more.
Chu Shannan said on the other side again: "Keep looking." ”
Fang Jinsheng followed his words, touched all the way, during which in addition to touching a few insects that scared ghosts and wolves, he also successfully found more than a dozen candlesticks, and after these candles were lit one by one, the scene in the entire cave was gradually clearly presented in front of the two of them.