The people around him looked like they had seen a ghost, and they all took a few steps back around him, and some people almost couldn't hold the sword in their hands, so they had to tremble.

Qu Tao looked around, and all the people he was looking at stepped back, looked at the house again, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"The houses here are so dilapidated, and these people are all looking at each other, and life must be difficult. ”

When he saw that everyone was afraid of him, he didn't care, so he said, "Don't be afraid, I'm just passing by, and I want to borrow a place to rest at night, so don't worry." ”

At this time, an old man walked out of the crowd, holding a wooden cane, his body was very stiff, and his age was at least ancient, and he was followed by a little girl of eight or nine years old, who also had a vegetable, and her small body looked much older than a girl who was not five or six years old.

"My lord, are you really from that Nine Creek Town?" said the old man with a trembling bend.

Qu Tao's figure flashed, and he appeared in front of the old man, and said: "Don't be like this, my name is Qu Tao, and my name is my real name, so I can't do it." ”

"I'm really from Jiuxi Town, and I've been on the road for a few days, but I just met people today, so I'm a lot of disturbance. ”

Everyone just felt that there was a flower in front of them, and they couldn't help but be surprised when they saw him appear in front of the village chief.

The old man was not afraid, but smiled on his face, "It's easy to say, if Brother Qu doesn't dislike it, go to the old man's house and make room for you to rest." ”

"Thank you, sir. Qu Tao thanked him, and he had no choice but to thank him.

The old man let everyone disperse, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then took Qu Tao to a small courtyard.

The house was low, two rooms and a hall, not very large, and the old man and the little girl cleaned up the other room for him, and asked him if he had eaten, and if he had not eaten, there were still a few leftovers in the pot.

Qu Tao was busy refusing and didn't bother the old man again.

"Do you know where else is there any more people around this place?" he asked the old man later.

The old man pondered for a moment and said, "More than thirty miles north from here, there is a bandit's lair, which is the mountain bandits, and they have been plagued by them for more than 100 miles. In addition, there is a village more than 100 miles away, and further away, I heard that there is a town hundreds of miles away. ”

"Brother Qu, if you want to travel far, it's better to avoid the mountain bandits, and you can find the nearest town after walking three or four hundred miles to the east. ”

Qu Tao asked again: "I have just heard the people in the village talk about the mountain bandits, but what do you say?"

The old man sighed and said: "Even the mountain bandits have been in trouble here for more than ten years, and the village, which was originally quite rich, has to give offerings to the bandits' nest every year, and now it is even more ruined, my poor son and daughter-in-law were killed by that group of beasts, leaving me with this old bone and this girl to rely on each other, bitter." ”

At the end of the day, I was about to cry.

Qu Tao listened from the sidelines, frowning and silent.

Speaking of this, the old man was already in tears, "I hate the original thousands of people in my village, these beasts collect people into the mountains every year to hunt for treasure, one by one like herding sheep into the mountains, the slightest unconvincing is killed, this year's stubble, next year's stubble, these more than ten years, there are some old and weak left in the village, young and strong are not much." ”

The little girl snuggled up to the old man, looked at Qu Tao a little timidly, he looked sad, took out all the jerky in the backpack, and put it in the little girl's hand.

"Ah, jerky. The little girl cheered, obviously very greedy, and wanted to pick it up and eat it, but suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly took a piece for the old man.

"Grandpa, you eat. ”

"Eat well, grandpa is not hungry. The old man wiped away his tears and stuffed the jerky into the little girl's mouth.

The little girl ate sweetly with her mouth, and the dried meat was soft and soft, which was specially made for him by the Shen family before Qu Tao left, and it was half a backpack.

"The old man just said that the mountain bandits went into the mountains to hunt for treasures, what kind of treasure are they looking for?" Qu Tao asked.

The old man was silent, and sighed again, "No one knows what treasure those beasts are looking for, it's just that this person's life is filled in year after year, and I think they haven't found it yet, but this year, I don't know when this mountain bandit will come, and how many people will be taken away by then." ”

Qu Tao could hear the heaviness and worry in his words, but he didn't know how to comfort him, he would leave tomorrow and didn't plan to stay here for long.

"Alas, little brother, rest early. As he spoke, he pulled the little girl to leave, and the latter looked at the half-rucksack jerky and was greedy, obviously wanting to eat it.

Qu Tao smiled, opened the backpack, poured all the jerky inside on the table next to him, and said, "Eat, eat slowly, remember to drink water and don't choke." ”

Looking at this little girl, he thought of Qu Chan, and was inexplicably a little sad.

It was night, Qu Tao was lying on the bed, his hands pillowed behind his head, looking at the beams of the room, his mind was chaotic and he didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't know where his thoughts had drifted.

After the night, he slept very lightly, and the movement in the morning woke him up, and he woke up when the gong sounded outside.

Turned over and got up, opened the door and went out, and saw that the open space in the small village was already full of people, old and young, but there were few young and strong, and as far as the eye could see, the strongest was only a martial artist of the forging level, about forty years old.

Everyone looked nervous, and most of them were lying on the side of the fence and looking cautiously.

"The mountain bandits are coming!" exclaimed someone here.

In an instant, the crowd was in a tumult, the little baby shrunk in her mother's arms and shivered, the women were also terrified, and the men were holding sticks, knives and guns, and gathered around the wall.

Qu Tao took out the firewood knife, wiped it behind him, and turned it into a spear, and was about to step forward to check, when he saw the square door of the wall explode open, and the two men who were by the door couldn't dodge, and were knocked away by the splashing energy, and coughed up blood when they fell.

"Ah!" the women screamed, and the men exclaimed.

Through the smoke and dust, I saw a person riding a red horse, holding a copper hammer into the door, and three people riding horses and falling behind, each with a fierce aura, sharp eyes, you can see at a glance that it is a fierce person.

"Why did the bandits come so early this year?" someone exclaimed.

Qu Tao pulled the little girl who came out from behind him, stuffed her into the room, and saw the village chief standing in the open space, his body trembling and exclaiming: "Big ...... My lord, what are you here for today?"

The leader glanced around with cold eyes, and when he saw that everyone was terrified, he smiled and said, "Old thing, why am I here for, you dare to pretend to be confused with me?"

"Big ...... My lord!"

The old man was frightened, and before he could say anything, the man had already raised the copper hammer in his hand and smashed it at the old man.

"Forging Steps?" Qu Tao frowned.

The next moment.

"Dang!"

The sound of the tremor resounded all around, and the man only felt a shock in his palm, and when he looked again, he realized that his hammer had been blocked.

Qu Tao took a few steps back, and his face flushed with a little luck, looking like he was overly forced.

"Huh!"

The man snorted, and then laughed maniacally.

"You old thing, you dare to hide such a good hand in the village, it seems that you really can't keep you today. ”

He waved his hand and said to the three people behind him: "Go arrest people, arrest more women." ”

"Hah!"

"Roar. ”

The three screamed and rode into the crowd, reaching out to grab the nearest woman.

The leader stretched out his hand and pointed at Qu Tao: "You, and you, you, you, these people are all coming with me." ”

The people he pointed at were all terrified, except for Qu Tao, and the crowd scattered and fled, with the screams of women, the cries of children, and the cries of men begging for mercy.

(This book has the first alliance leader.,syyyyyy boss.,It's the vest of the hall master of this book"Little Dirty Paper.,Congratulations.,Thank you very much.,In addition, today's ten chapters look hanging.,But I'll continue to do more.,It's not enough today.,Tomorrow will continue to break out.。 ）