Chapter 4: Hide and Seek
Yanlan County, Tianzong Mansion, the most marginal mountainous area on the periphery of the Yanlan Mountains.
At this time, in a hidden underground, the bright light was divided into bundles through the branches and leaves on the roof of the cave, and fell into a waterhole, reflecting from the water surface, vaguely illuminating the surrounding stone walls covered with weeds and vines, which looked a little dim and damp.
It was such a place, a boy about fourteen or fifteen years old, but standing like a green pine on a bluestone at the edge of the pool, with two pekey-sized stones between his right fingers, the young man's sharp eyes stared at the pool, and two cyan fish were faintly visible slowly approaching him, when they were less than two meters away from the boy.
In his heart, he silently recited "a hundred steps through Yang;".
I saw that the muscles of the young man's hands tensed instantly, and he threw it violently, and a sound of breaking wind sounded, and in an instant, the stone had already shot into the water quickly, "Peng, Peng!" Two muffled sounds came out, and within a few seconds, I saw two fish turn over and float out of the water.
"Oh, it's finally a harvest again;" the boy's slightly immature voice echoed around him.
After speaking, he jumped lightly, and the whole person jumped into the pool, his footsteps were lightly on the surface of the water, and the water rippled in circles, and the young man quickly bent down and copied his hand, and the other foot quickly touched the water surface again.
One turned around and landed steadily back on the bluestone in a chic manner, and at this time the young man had two more blue and fat fish in his hands.
Herring fish, which is a specialty of Lianshan Town, the town where he lives, is famous for its extremely delicious and delicate taste, and has the effect of prolonging life for ordinary people.
Rare is expensive, the key is that the newcomer to the martial arts also has a certain effect of enhancing qi and blood, although the effect is very small, but this effect makes the herring fish every time it appears to be robbed madly, caught almost extinct.
If it weren't for the fact that there would be a tide of fish from the depths of the Yanlan Mountains along the Lianshan River every ten years to replenish to the periphery, it is estimated that it would have disappeared long ago, as for why there are herring fish coming out of the mountains, it is still very regular once every ten years, it is not known, there is no shortage of brave people who go deep into the mountains to look for it, but decades have passed, I have never heard of anyone who has come back alive after success, and over time people have only regarded this matter as a joke after dinner.
The young man's name is Lu Ling, this underground waterhole was also discovered by chance, only more than 20 miles away from the town, quite remote and hidden, he should also be one of those bold people, although he is one of the two major families in Lianshan Town, the son of the five elders of the Lu family, but there is no way, no longer self-reliance, relying on the subsidy given by his family to be deducted to the fast sticking to the floor, he and the two lovely maids are estimated to be starved to death.
Of course, although he was bold, he never dared to go deep into the mountains, and some of the powerful beasts in the mountains were not something he could deal with, but not necessarily next time.
This underground pool became his only source of income, and for the time being, he was able to squander it at will.
Looking at the two blue-striped fish in his hand, it was estimated that each had about ten catties, and there was a shallow depression on each of the fish's heads, and a trace of blood flowed out of it, which was obviously hit by the stone just now.
Lu Ling said with a little regret: "It's a pity, there is no problem with the crosshair, but the control of the strength is still not skilled enough, but compared to a month ago, the progress is already okay;"
Obviously, Lu Ling was quite satisfied with this result, casually threw the fish in the bamboo basket on the side, jumped on his back, grabbed a hanging vine and climbed up, a few borrowed strength, he easily climbed out of the hole nearly ten meters deep to the surface, the vines around the cave entrance are dense, the mountains and forests are tall, sparse and sparse, the vines were planted by Lu Ling when he first discovered this place, and now they have grown into a piece, which is a good cover for the existence here.
His thief's eyes hid in the green leaves and looked around, and after confirming that no one was there, he nimbly slipped out of it, and a few shuttles came to a large tree not far away.
Under the bright light, it can be seen that Lu Ling is dressed in gray coarse linen clothes, his appearance is not handsome, but there is an indescribable wisdom between his eyebrows, walking in the forest looks easy and fast, and his expression is calm.
After carefully checking again that there were no traces, he landed lightly and ran down the mountain.
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On the way back, Lu Ling has always been cautious, as long as he feels that there is a slight movement in any direction, he will immediately detour and never delay.
It's a pity that Baimi finally has a sparseness, when he just stepped out of the forest, came to the grassland, and crossed a small river, a pair of eyes motionless in the dense grass watched him leave, and with a bang, a person with a back full of grass quickly pulled off the grass and ran in the opposite direction.
Not long after, a team of six people emerged from the grass and chased in the direction where Lu Ling had left.
Led by a man in a gorgeous robe who was nearly thirty years old, although his body was stained with muddy water, it could be seen that he was white and clean, looking gentle and elegant, completely like a rich son, like a weak scholar.
I saw that he didn't look back and asked the five people dressed as domestic servants behind him: "Little Four, are you sure he has a harvest?"
A person approached with a smile and gasped and said: "Zheng Gongzi, the small, the small one is too sure, he is carrying a fish basket on his back, and he passed in front of his eyes from a young age, and when I walked on this grass, his feet were much heavier than ordinary people, and the harvest was definitely not small;"
It turned out that this was the person who saw Lu Ling going away from the grass, the grass had faded, his body was thin, his eyes were rolling from time to time, as if he had a bad idea, and he looked at Zheng Gongzi in front of him with a flattering expression.
Zheng Gongzi listened to it and smiled: "Very good, very good, if I can catch him this time, I will be rewarded;"
Then he raised his arms and said: "Hurry up and chase, if you catch Lu Ling, I will have a reward;"
After saying this, everyone ran harder and harder.
Soon after the group left, a man in a blue cloth shirt stepped on the grass, and a long sword hung from his waist, which fell here as if it were nothing, and he ripped off the messy hair with one hand, and his thick beard seemed to have not been repaired for a long time, and he was about to become a sloppy man.
I heard this person say gloomily: "Hmph, cunning loach, look where you are running this time;"
Then he looked around, and then chased in the direction where a few people left.
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In another place, a masked man in a black robe and a black felt hat, with a golden lion on his arm in a black coat, was flying through the tall forest, dozens of meters in an instant, only to see it land under a tree.
Kneeling on one knee and said in a deep voice: "Report to your lord, another high-level martial artist is approaching the target, please ask for instructions on how to deal with it;"
The breeze gently blew the surrounding branches and leaves, and the black-clothed man's robe was also lifted a little, and it didn't take long for a cold female voice to come from the tree in front of him.
Without the slightest emotion, he said: "Don't let him do bad things, I'd rather kill the wrong person, don't let it go, catch the torture, go down;"
"Yes;" replied the man in black with a calm face, and then left silently.
Here, the sloppy man saw that it would not take long to catch up, when suddenly he noticed movement around him and stopped.
Two black-clothed masked men holding long chains, with half-meter-long barbs tied to the other end, walked out one after the other, and the sloppy man shook his hair and drew his sword at each other.
At the same time, he asked proudly: "Friend, where you are mixed, do you know that blocking people's wealth is like killing your parents!"
The two black-clothed men slowly approached and did not speak, but the barb on their hands began to slowly emit bright golden light, and the barb seemed to have a sign of levitation.
Seeing this, the sloppy man fell to the ground with the long sword in his hand, swallowed a mouthful of saliva nervously, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead.
He clenched his fists tremblingly and said, "I... I.. I don't want it, give it to you, give it to you, and if you offend, please... Forgive the sins, I'll go first;"
After saying that, he jumped up and wanted to run to the side, only a few steps away, he only felt a tingling pain in his shoulders, two points of cold light penetrated his shoulder blades, and he vaguely saw the tip of the hook with cold light, without the slightest trace of blood, which showed the sharpness.
The sloppy man let out a painful scream, and was kicked in the back again, and the two men in black behind him pulled the barb, and the sloppy man's arms suddenly flew up, and they fell to the side, and the big man who fell to the ground was already unconscious.
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Here Lu Ling had already felt the people behind him, and he could see the swaying grass in the distance from a distance, and he was constantly looking for ways to avoid the other party in this lush field, but this time, no matter how he detoured, he couldn't shake off the people behind him.
"Damn, don't let me catch you next time;"
Lu Ling scolded secretly, he knew that the connoisseur had been invited from the other side, and he seemed to have made a lot of determination, and after a while, he finally saw a small stream, and there were many shoals next to it, he didn't hesitate to pick one and jump in, and his whole body was covered with mud before he came out.
He also took a lot of green leaves from the river, kneaded them and put them in the fish basket, and took out a small blue fish from the fish basket.
At the same time, he drew a dagger, disemboweled the fish without hesitation, threw it into the middle of the stream with a spare, let it flow with the stream, washed his hands, turned away from the stream and continued to run.
Not long after, Zheng Gongzi and his party ran here, and when they saw a stream in front of them, he hurriedly shouted: "Little Four, look which way he is running;"
The little four in the back hurriedly stood up, twitched his nose and sniffed around, pointed to the creek and said, "There is obviously a faint smell along the creek;"
Then he twitched his nose again and sniffed in the direction away from the creek.
Zheng Gongzi spoke: "Then what are you waiting for to chase;"
Then he ran out first, and the rest of the people hurriedly followed, Xiao Si wanted to say something in the back, but he saw that his son-in-law had run away, and he could only follow after a moment of doubt.
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On the bustling streets of Lianshan Town, Lu Ling finally got rid of those annoying guys and entered the city, and before entering the city, he found a place to take a bath.
I still thought proudly in my mind: "Hmph, play with me, you are still too tender, you are not allowed to use force when you enter the city, I see how you dare to do to me;"
He leisurely shuttled through the streets, and several half-aged people behind him were chattering all the way.
"Young Master Lu, you must have gained a lot this time, see if you can sell two to Yuan, and Yuan will buy them for you at a price of one hundred gold coins a catty;"
"Young Master Lu, I'll give one hundred, one hundred, you have to sell two to me this time, I didn't drink any soup last time;"
"Young Master Lu, I'll give one hundred and two;"
"And me;"
"I'm out one hundred and three;"