Chapter Twenty-Nine: Overcoming Thorns
The green water is clear, the distant mountains are condensed, the reeds are green by the lake, the autumn wind rustles through the ears, and flocks of birds rush across the blue sky, looking forward to finding a place to shelter from the cold in another country before the early winter. In the midst of this picturesque scenery lurked a band of bandits, dressed in black and masked, with a glittering sword pinned to their waists, and they were hiding motionless in the reeds.
Say they're bandits, because they're about to rob a dart. But they are not only bandits, because their other identity is the official in the county.
There was a loud ...... in the distance Da ...... Da ...... The sound of horses' hooves, from far to near, neither fast nor slow, faintly visible is a flag shaving.
The bandits at the head glanced at their men, suggesting that they were ready to make a move.
Slowly the flag got closer and closer, and the word "Yuan" was clearly visible on the flag. The intelligence of the secret agent is indeed correct, and the dart to be robbed this time is the goods of the Yuan Family Dart Bureau.
The head of the dart was Yuan Yong, the chief butler of the Yuan family, and he looked around vigilantly, always feeling that there was something unspeakably strange around. It seemed too quiet, and even the rustle of the ears in the reeds by the wind was dull.
Yuan Yong's hand holding the knife became more and more nervous, and a hand of sweat broke out in his palm. He and Old Man Yuan have darts a lot of times, and they have seen all kinds of dangerous situations, and they have never delayed things with the old man's ability. But the old man has already washed his hands in a golden basin, and now there are old acquaintances who beg to ask the old man to dart, and the old man has to agree after several shirks, and when he sees that Yuan Yong is doing things firmly, he wants him to lead the team to dart alone.
Seeing that something was wrong with the situation, Yuan Yong beckoned the men and horses to stop.
"Everyone, take a break, I'll go to the front and take a look," Yuan Yong spoke.
He walked forward nervously, and when he approached the reeds, he saw the black pipe flashing quietly, and a poisonous needle shot out of the black pipe, Yuan Yong drew his knife to resist, and the crisp and faint sound of "poof" came out, and the poisonous needle was knocked down to the muddy ground.
Yuan Yong roared angrily: "Come out, don't be a shrunken turtle!"
Seeing this, the other party rushed out with a knife, and the masked man led by him made a gesture, and seven or eight masked men jumped up and slashed at Yuan Yong and the rest of the dart team with a knife to cut off the water.
According to Boss Yuan, although the employer bid highly, the darts were not valuable, so only five "old, weak, sick and disabled" were sent to accompany Yuan Yong. But Yuan Yong couldn't help but wonder, there are people who rob worthless things, looking at the situation, this group of thieves is afraid that they are already so poor that they are ringing, and they are red-eyed when they see everything, and they want to rob when they see darts.
The other party is large in number and all of them are powerful, Yuan Yong shouted while resisting: "Ladies and gentlemen, this dart is not worth a few dollars, and I hope to raise your noble hand to give us a way out."
As soon as Yuan Yong's words fell, he only heard a terrible scream of "ah", and an old, weak, sick and disabled person who was with him was cut off by the masked man who rushed up, and he rolled on the ground in pain. Seeing this, Yuan Yong's face turned blue, and he raised his knife to cut at the thief's shoulder, the thief had already prepared, and dodged a blow with a dodge on his shoulder, but the second move was not so lucky, Yuan Yong turned around, and the side knife slashed horizontally, "poof" muffled into his ears, the thief was cut off by the waist, and the blood and intestines flowed all over the ground. The smell of blood and feces is indefatigable.
The lineup of the two sides who were preparing for a fierce battle, seeing this, stopped fighting and retreated to the same place, and the leading masked man saw that Yuan Yong was decisive in killing and losing a general so quickly, so he made a gesture to his subordinates, signaling them to deal with Xiao Luo Luo, and he himself went out to meet Yuan Yong.
Yuan Yong estimated that the remaining four Yuan family dart bureau subordinates were not masked man's opponents at all, and he would have no chance of winning at that time. When the time comes, people can't keep it, and darts can't keep it. He glanced at the terrain around him, and to his right there was a large expanse of unfathomable woods that might be able to take shelter.
Before Yuan Yong went out, he carried the three "fire thunders" given to him by Boss Yuan in his arms, and he heard that the power is not small, and he can save his life at a critical moment. There was no time to think about life and death, so he took out a "fire thunder" ball the size of a bird's egg and threw it at the other party.
"Boom" There was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and thick smoke rose in the opponent's camp, and several limbs of people were scattered on the mud ground with a loud noise, Yuan Yong was rushed to his chest by the powerful air flow that rushed to his face, and he took two steps back before he fixed his body with internal force, he felt that his eardrums were shaking, and he looked back at the other subordinates who were all sitting on the ground at a loss.
Without saying a word, Yuan Yong ran to the dart cart to get the darts, picked up his subordinates who had been cut off and his left hand was already unconscious, and waved his hand to signal the others to hurry up and run to the woods. When his subordinates saw the opportunity, they got up and hugged their heads and ran away. Yuan Yong followed behind and looked at the funny appearance of those people, not at all like a dart master, more like an outlaw, he couldn't help but sigh, he didn't know why Boss Yuan would give so many "old, weak, sick and disabled" to escort him with him.
After running for a while, there was no movement of the pursuers behind him, everyone was tired of running, Yuan Yong was a little tired from running all the way with an unconscious adult man on his back, so he beckoned everyone to stop and rest for a while.
Yuan Yong gently leaned his unconscious men against a big tree.
The unlucky man had lost too much blood, his face was like ashes, his sleeves were stained with blood, and his left hand was chopped off at the wrist, revealing the terrifying white bones and bright red flesh. Yuan Yong sealed his meridians, tore a piece of fabric from his clothes, and thinly bandaged the broken wrist. With such a serious injury, it seems that it will be difficult to survive.
The depths of the woods are full of large trees that have lived for more than 100 years, and the branches and foliage are luxuriantly shrouded overhead, and it is difficult for the sunlight to shine in, so the light is a little dim, and everyone is patronizing and running, and they can't figure out how long they have been running, and what time it is now.
The dart masters under his command sat on the ground and shouted hungry when they were tired of running, Yuan Yong also felt that his stomach was empty for a while, and the food he carried was put on the dart cart, where was there food at this time. What is even more unacceptable is that there is not even a hare, wild birds and other small beasts that can be hunted and eaten around.
"Nothing, starvation," complained a tall, young lanky dart master.
In addition, the same thin and tall dart master held a white thing in his hand and said happily: "Look, there are mushrooms, let's roast mushrooms, roasted mushrooms in our hometown are delicious."
"Is this mushroom poisonous?"
"The old people in our hometown say that the mushrooms with bright colors are poisonous, and this kind of unattractive mushrooms can be eaten."
"Then roast, starve"
After saying that, the two young dart masters began to light a fire. Yuan Yong also followed to help.
Among the five people accompanying him, there were also two older dart masters, with vicissitudes of life and sallow faces, leaning against the tree and refusing to move. They are considered to be the old subordinates of Boss Yuan, and in previous years, they were all playing with each other, but now they are about to enter the year of the sixtieth year and follow the Yuan family's housekeeper to dart together, which is not easy.
Yuan Yong was collecting firewood while paying attention to the movements around him, and he was worried that the firelight would expose his target. Although he saw with his own eyes that the other party was blown up by the "fire thunder" and his limbs were scattered, and his flesh and blood flew everywhere, he was still afraid that there would be fish that would slip through the net, after all, he couldn't see the situation in the smoke at that time, and he didn't know if there were survivors.
Outside the woods, the masked men suffered heavy casualties, except for the leader and one of his men. The smoke dissipated, and the two of them were covered in scars and watched Yuan Yong's figure disappear into the woods, the leader was so angry that his blood was retrograde, his throat was hot, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.
"The intelligence said that this dart is only a little capable of the dart head, but I have no experience in the first dart, so I didn't expect us to be too underestimated......" The leader muttered to himself, annoyed.
"Boss, we can't chase it"
"Chase a fart, you dare to go into that woods?" The leader withdrew the knife in his hand and sneered: "They are afraid that they will have a life to go in and not to come out, and the Elysium is their burial place!"
"That's right, Boss, it's not too early, our mission has been successfully completed, is it time to go back to your life?"
"Let's go, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, take advantage of the dark to go back to the yamen to resume your life, I don't know why the master wants to come to toss the dart master, a few brothers have died, you have to find the master to ask for a settlement fee"。。。。。。
The two officials took off their clothes disguised as bandits and carried their knives all the way down the mountain. As soon as they reached the halfway point, a fresh breeze blew on their faces, and before the two of them had time to react, there were two muffled bangs, and two heads fell from their necks on the dirt road, blood sprayed out from their necks, and the ground around them was dyed red.
The lithe body fluttered like a feather, and the bare toes gracefully tapped on the branches, and it was easy to distinguish from the beautiful white and delicate toes that it was a young woman.
The woman put away the short dagger she carried with her and stood leisurely on a high place overlooking the bloody scene. In particular, the two heads that rolled down to the side, "inlaid" in a pool of blood, looked like two fake eyes on their strange red face from a distance.
Just when the woman was very proud of her "masterpiece", the two bodies fell down with a bang, directly destroying the complete appearance of the strange face. The woman was disappointed, she jumped off the tree, picked up her head from the ground and disappeared into thin air.
In the inner room of the county office, the county magistrate was teasing a cricket, and a snow-white cat jumped in, and it meowed at the county magistrate. Seeing this, the county commander didn't raise his head and said: "Snowball, good, the lord is not free now, you go while playing"
The white cat seemed to not understand the words of the county magistrate, so it jumped lightly onto the table, stretched out its paws and slapped the crickets in the bowl into mud.
When the county magistrate saw that General Changsheng, whom he had spent a lot of silver taels in exchange, was killed by a cat, he was furious, and he casually threw the teacup in his hand towards the white cat. The white cat dodged lightly, and instead of running away immediately, it lured the county magistrate to find the two heads. The county magistrate was taken aback by the head, he had been an official for so many years, and he had never seen a real beheaded head.
The white cat completes its mission and disappears into thin air. At that time, all the officials who went out to do business were dead, leaving only one county commander and two dead heads. The county order panicked, the matter was explained from above, and now I don't know if it has been completed, but his own people are dead.