Chapter 688: Joy in Suffering

"Lu Yifan, if you know each other, let go of my general quickly, otherwise your life-saving benefactor will die because of you. Lewen Leng Wu turned around and pointed a knife at Liu Zitang. When Liu Zitang and Liu Jitang saw Lu Yifan holding Cheng Yi hostage, there were two completely different looks in their eyes. Liu Jitang looked expected, while Liu Zitang was stunned with disbelief.

"Dad!" Suddenly, they found Liu Tang who fell in blood, the eyes of the brother and sister were suddenly covered with a layer of tears, Liu Jitang struggled desperately forward like crazy regardless of the threat of the blade, if it weren't for the sergeants on both sides to suppress it with all their might, I was afraid that Liu Jitang would have broken free at this moment.

"What are you arguing about?" Leng Wu's face changed suddenly when he saw this, and the blade in his hand stabbed into Liu Jitang's shoulder mercilessly, and with a soft sound of "poof", a large stream of red blood gushed out along the blade. This scene had frightened Liu Zitang who was standing aside, she stood beside her expressionlessly and stared at Liu Tang in a daze, and two strings of tears were quietly dripping down. The severe pain made Liu Jitang's mouth can't help but let out a wail, and there is a hint of hatred in his eyes when he looks at Leng Wu.

"Lu Yifan, do you dare to say that you are not a disaster star?" Cheng Yi suddenly laughed, when Liu Er told him this afternoon, he had already told Liu Zitang and his sisters about saving Lu Yifan, so Cheng Yi saw that they were captured by Leng Wu, and a big stone hanging in his heart finally fell to the ground, "No matter who gets involved with you, there will be no good results, dead and injured." The Lu family is like this, the Han family is like this, and the Qi Yulou of the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce is like this, and now even these people who don't know each other have been implicated because of you. Originally, Chang Xu was still the governor of Northern Xinjiang this morning, and Liu Tang was still a high-ranking banner lord of the Frontier Guard Mansion yesterday, but now, because you have become two corpses on the ground. After that, Cheng Yi looked at Liu Zitang and Liu Jitang brothers and sisters with deep meaning, and said with a smile, "It is said that good people have good rewards, but I don't think that's the case." You worked hard to save Lu Yifan's life, but now the family that was killed is ruined, you should not have saved him in the first place. Haha......"

"Lu Yifan, let go of General Cheng, otherwise they will ......"

"Ridiculous!"

Without waiting for Leng Wu to threaten again, Lu Yifan's mouth suddenly let out a sneer, and then Cheng Yi only felt a light behind him, and then a gust of wind flashed from his side, but before he could open his mouth to remind Leng Wu to be careful, Leng Wu and the four sergeants who clamped Liu Zitang and Liu Jitang flew out upside down together, between the lightning and flint, Liu Zitang and Liu Jitang only felt a flower in front of them, and after the blink of an eye, their brother and sister had stood firmly behind Cheng Yi, and until this moment Cheng Yi failed to react in time.

"This ......"

Before Liu Jitang could speak, a black shadow appeared out of thin air between them and Cheng Yi, it was Lu Yifan, who had saved their brother and sister with lightning speed just now. It's just that all this happened too fast, Lu Yifan disappeared from behind Cheng Yi to him when he returned here, the whole process happened almost at the same time. As soon as Cheng Yi arrived, his neck was loosened, and then it was tightened, and the Shenyuan Sword was already pressed on his neck again.

"Can you still laugh now?" Lu Yifan asked in a condensed voice in Cheng Yi's ear. At this moment, where did Cheng Yi dare to have the slightest bit of joke, and now Lu Yifan's cultivation has made him shudder.

"Get out of the way, if you don't want him dead. Lu Yifan gave an order, Leng Wu and several people who had just gotten up from the ground hurriedly called the sergeants in the courtyard to withdraw, Xuan Fang and the others didn't want to give up, but under Leng Wu's order, hundreds of sergeants were waiting for them, and Xuan Fang and the others thought that there were still 20,000 troops outside and they couldn't get benefits, so they had to be forced to withdraw from the inner courtyard.

"They're all gone, so let's go!" Cheng Yi looked at the empty courtyard and said rather frustratedly, "Lu Yifan, I still underestimated you too much, I thought that no matter how good you were at it alone, it would be difficult to escape, but I never expected that in the end, I would fall into your hands." "The last time Cheng Yi met Lu Yifan was when he was at the Holy Soul Academy, although there was a gap between the two of them at that time, it would never be as different as it is today. Therefore, Cheng Yi was full of confidence when he mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses to kill the Frontier Guard Mansion, but he didn't expect that his 20,000 soldiers and horses didn't even play a role in front of Lu Yifan, and he was choked first.

"Cheng Yi, I advise you for the sake of a past acquaintance, you, the general of Northern Xinjiang, were asked for by Han Cheng, but today you found my traces and wanted to take credit for your own credit and ask the emperor for a reward. Do you know that if you do this, you will inevitably achieve great merit, and the result will be more miserable than you imagined. Lu Yifan and Cheng Yi actually did not have any mortal enmity, although there were contradictions in the past, but they would not put him to death, so Lu Yifan would "kindly" remind him a few words, "I know that you have always been pretentious, but I am sure that you are by no means Han Cheng's opponent, do you think that Han Cheng's ability to achieve today's status depends on the prestige of the Han family in the court? You are wrong, you don't know what a huge backer is standing behind Han Cheng now." Since you choose to follow him, don't play any more clever tricks, otherwise the final pain will definitely be suffered by yourself. Just like tonight, if you had informed Han Cheng early to send a master of Jinling City to help, then I would not have left so easily. ”

Lu Yifan's words made Cheng Yi's face hot for a while, and Cheng Yi was ashamed and annoyed by the small abacus in his heart, and said coldly: "You won today, but this doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with my thoughts." For the sake of your advice, I also kindly remind you that after leaving the northern Xinjiang, it is best not to go to Jinling City to kill yourself, and now that this Dingbei Town is ambushed on all sides today, then tomorrow's Jinling City must be a net of heaven and earth. Jinling City is not Dingbei Town, no one here is your opponent, but there are masters there. Hello for yourself. ”

"Thanks for the reminder. Lu Yifan replied lightly, and then with a flip of his wrist, he gently knocked the back of his hand on Cheng Yi's neck, and Cheng Yi only felt that the whole person passed out as soon as it was dark in front of him.

Lu Yifan turned his head to look at the Liu Jitang brothers and sisters who were still in a trance, and said quickly: "I didn't deceive you sincerely, I was really afraid that I would affect you, so I ......" Lu Yifan was halfway through his words, but saw that the Liu brothers and sisters had no intention of listening to themselves at all, and the two of them were still immersed in the grief of Liu Tang's tragic death, Lu Yifan sighed and asked helplessly, "What are your plans in the future?"

"Heavenly ......" Liu Zitang wanted to continue to call Lu Yifan "Brother Tian", but when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them back by herself, and the look on her face became much more distant than before, and she whispered absentmindedly, "Sect Master Lu, how did my father die?"

"Needless to ask, he must have ordered the killing. Liu Jitang gritted his teeth and raised his foot to rush to Cheng Yi, who had fainted on the ground, picked up Liu Tang's knife from the ground and wanted to cut off Cheng Yi's head, but was stopped by Lu Yifan, Lu Yifan said: "Brother Liu, you are simple and simple in nature, I don't want you to be involved in endless battles and killings in the future, so don't kill people!" Lu Yifan was very sincere when he said this, "Because once your hands are stained with blood, you will never be able to escape in this life." ”

"I'm not afraid ......"

"But Zitang is afraid!" Lu Yifan said urgently, "Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about your sister, I don't think she wants to have a brother who has killed people with her own hands." ”

Hearing Liu Zitang's name, Liu Jitang was immediately stunned, he looked back at Liu Zitang, who was crying with pear blossoms and rain, and then looked down at Liu Tang, who died tragically in a pool of blood, this eight-foot-tall man suddenly covered his face with his hands and cried.

"Northern Xinjiang can't stay any longer, I'll take you to Jinling City. Lu Yifan immediately decided, "After you arrive in Jinling City, you can go, the farther you go, the better, and from then on, find a place where no one knows you and start your life again." Let's go!" With that, Lu Yifan dragged Liu Jitang, who was choking, and Liu Zitang, who was ownerless, towards the depths of the inner courtyard.

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"Boom, click!"

In the middle of the night, the thunderstorm of Jinling City fell for three days and four nights, the water on the ground has not reached the ankles, the Jinling city wall in the distance in the dark night looks like a huge monster, two figures holding two bulging big pockets, stepping on the mud on the ground with one foot and one foot shallow, and walking quickly from the direction of Jinling City towards a broken temple here.

The ruined temple is pitch black, the rain hits the dilapidated doors and windows and makes a crisp sound, the tiles on the hall have long been stripped off, the hall is leaking wind and rain everywhere, the mud Buddha statue is also ruthlessly washed by the wind and rain to see the original appearance, the hall is full of turbid water and dead grass and sawdust floating on it.

"Da Da Da ......"

With a few noisy footsteps, two figures in the rainstorm quickly rushed into the ruined temple, and the two people who entered the hall first carefully placed the large bags they were holding on the broken offering table, and then dusted each other off the rainwater.

"It's us back, come out!" one of the men shouted in a rough voice into the darkness deep in the hall as he removed the wet hat from his head.

As soon as the words fell, several dim candles were lit up one after another from the hall, and then I saw a few vigorous figures walking forward quickly, and a few candles illuminated the face of the man who took off the hat, and in an instant, a face covered with scars was revealed in front of everyone, it was the Soul Sect Protector who returned to the Holy Domain from the Two Realms Forest, Liu Meng. And the person who just came back from outside with Liu Meng was Yin Xi. In addition to the two of them, the people standing in the hall at this moment were Ji Yuan, Xie Yun, Lan Chen, Zheng Xiaowu and Yulou.

When Ji Yuan discovered that it was not safe for them to hide in the tavern of Yin Xi in the Western Imperial City, the group decided to leave quickly, and with no way out, they finally chose to go to a place that no one would ever think of, and now it has become the hometown of Xie Yun, Wenyang City, which has become a dead city. On the way, they met Yulou, Mu Dan and Qingyangzi, who had absconded from the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce, and after converging, they went to Wenyang City together, and Ji Yuan temporarily settled Su Yingying, Ah Chang, Ji Yi'er, Yan Lingxuan, Xiao Fluttershy, Lu Sijun's mother and son, and Shen Yue'er's family in the city, and left Wu Mei, Mu Dan, and Qingyangzi to stay in the city to take care of them. As for the others, after discussion, they decided to go to Jinling City together, Ji Yuan's original words were: "No matter what the price is, you must rescue Han Ling'er, and swear to protect the integrity of Han Ling'er and the fetus in her womb." ”

Five days ago, Ji Yuan, Lan Chen, Xie Yun, Yin Xi and Yulou quietly sneaked into Jinling City, they heard early in the morning that Liu Sandao was lurking in the city to assassinate the enemies of the court, but they wanted to find Liu Sandao but they inadvertently met Liu Meng and Zheng Xiaowu who hurried from the forest of the two realms. The seven of them searched in the city for three whole days but there was still no news of Liu Sandao, Yulou had already guessed that the reason why Liu Sandao was not found for a long time was because Liu Sandao was deliberately avoiding them, Liu Sandao didn't want them to go to this troubled water again It was a good intention, but how could Ji Yuan and the others really stop there?

"How is it? Still no news from Brother Liu?" Ji Yuan frowned and asked in a low voice. Faced with Ji Yuan's doubts, Liu Meng and Yin Xi just shook their heads with a wry smile, and a sigh came out of everyone's mouths again.

"Have you bought all the things back?" Yulou walked to the offering table, stretched out his hand to untie the two big pockets at once, and suddenly the steamed buns that were still exuding heat rolled out of the big pockets, "How many are here?"

Yin Xi replied with a bitter face: "According to the instructions of the Jade Mansion Prince, we have exchanged all the money for steamed buns, and these two big pockets together are a total of three hundred steamed buns. ”

Now they are no longer the people they once were, and now they are fugitives who are hiding from pursuit, and they are even worse than beggars. After Xihuang Mountain was taken away, Ji Yuan, Lan Chen and others became destitute, and after that, they always relied on the help of the Shen family to have something to eat. And Yulou was even more miserable, because he escaped when he left the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce, so he didn't have much coiling on his body. As for Mu Dan, as the princess of the Spirit Domain, she has never been worried about money, and she has not had the habit of carrying gold and silver since she was a child, so the little money on her body was spent shortly after she escaped from the Qi Family Chamber of Commerce with Yulou, and then fortunately, she met Ji Yuan and others who went to Wenyang City, so she did not fall into the end of sleeping on the streets. Before leaving, they left all the valuable things on them in Wenyang City in case of emergency, while the few of them only carried a little dry food and a pitiful plate with a total of less than a hundred silver shells. Zheng Xiaowu and Liu Meng's situation is the best, they originally robbed a lot in the Two Realms Forest, but on the way from the Two Realms Forest all the way to Jinling City, these two people have never known how to save, and they have squandered eating and drinking almost all the way, so they also became poor and white soon after arriving in Jinling City.

In the past, they were so rich that they were rivaling the country, but who knew what money was? Now they are a hero who is hard pressed by a penny, and they are really at the point of exhaustion. Looking at the two large bags of steamed buns in front of him, Yin Xi's face couldn't help but flash a touch of anger, and shouted: "Who are we? When did you end up in such a field? Now I will go out with a knife and promise to come back with a large box of gold, silver and jewelry." ”

"Who do you think you are now?" Yu Lou said lightly, "The kind of method you said is robbery, if you do this, what's the difference between you and a robber?"

"What's wrong with robbers?" Liu Meng retorted unconvinced, "When a robber can at least eat and drink spicy food, when a robber at least doesn't have to fall into this ruined temple and suffer from wind and rain now." If we have the money now, we can sit in a warm and comfortable inn, order a table of delicious food, and eat and drink a lot!"

"Bastard!" Hearing Yin Xi and Liu Meng refute Yulou, Ji Yuan, who was already worried, couldn't help but turn pale and scolded angrily, "If you feel that you have been wronged now, then get out of me immediately, no one is forcing you to come to Jinling City with a knife." ”

"We ...... That's not what it means......" Liu Meng muttered in a low voice.

"Actually, Yulou didn't let you rob it, not all because it was a bandit. Lan Chen spoke, "But our current identity is really special, we are now in Jinling City, we can be described as ignorant of ghosts, if you fight the grass and startle the snake, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of Su Xie and Han Cheng and others, and then it will be difficult for us to rescue Madame." ”

"If you don't have Brother Liu's ability, don't learn from Brother Liu to do that kind of risky thing. Xie Yun nodded, "In case of a head-on encounter with Su Xie and his men, none of our group will be their opponents. ”

"Got it!" Yin Xi muttered, first inserting the Wuji knife into the scabbard, then reaching out to pick up a steamed bun and nibbling on it.

Yulou let out a long sigh at first, and then slowly spoke: "All our money in exchange for these three hundred steamed buns, you can eat as much as you can tonight, because after tonight, you don't know when you will be able to eat." Yulou handed the steamed buns to Ji Yuan, Lan Chen, and Xie Yun one by one as he spoke, "Now that Su Xie has released the words that the child in Miss Han's belly is his, his purpose in doing this is clearly to deliberately destroy the reputation of Yifan and Miss Han, so as to force Yifan to take the initiative to show up." ”

"That sect master ......" Liu Meng choked back with the steamed bun in his mouth halfway through his words, he immediately picked up a broken incense burner and quickly scooped it in a puddle of stagnant water on the ground, and then sent it to the mouth stuffed with steamed buns and drank it, swallowed it and then took a steamed bun and stuffed it again, muttering and asking, "Will the sect master show up?"

"I don't know. Yulou shook his head bluntly, "So we can't wait any longer, we must rescue Miss Han before something happens." I have already found out that tomorrow Su Shiyuan will have a banquet for the magnates of Jinling City in advance because of Su Xie's marriage, and then Su Xie and Han Cheng will show up in Su Mansion, at this time, the Han Mansion is relatively empty, it is a good opportunity for us to do it, and it is also our only chance to rescue Miss Han before the first day of the seventh month. ”

"That's why you broke the kettle and exchanged all the money for steamed buns, so that we could eat before we started. Zheng Xiaowu suddenly realized.

"We have nothing left now, after eating these steamed buns, there is only one rotten life left, whether we die or live tomorrow depends on the will of heaven!" Xie Yun nodded and said, after that, he stuffed half of the steamed bun in his hand directly into his mouth, then turned around and dragged a half-cut kettle full of rain from behind him, and resolutely raised the kettle in his hand to Ji Yuan and the others, and laughed, "It is also a blessing that our brothers can gather together tonight on this rainy night to break the temple, for the sake of the sect master, For the sake of the lady and the unborn young master, and for the sake of our dead brothers of the Soul Sect, we will fight tomorrow. Come, tonight, let's replace the wine with the rain, replace the cattle and sheep with steamed buns, and drink and eat......!

"The first cup is to salute the dead brothers of our Soul Sect. Ji Yuan splashed the rain in the broken bowl in his hand on the ground, and as soon as he said this, everyone's expressions once again appeared with a thick grief. Ji Yuan raised his head suddenly, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his big hand, and laughed proudly: "Second cup, respect this broken temple, pay tribute to it so that our brothers can have a chance to get together tonight." ”

"Then this third cup will respect Su Xie, and respect him for dying early without a place to be buried!" Haha......" Yin Xi hurriedly stood up and interjected, and after his words, he immediately broke the oppressive atmosphere in the hall, and several people laughed out loud.

"Well said, do it! haha......"

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