Chapter Seventy-Five: The Game Between the Two Sides
There is a subspecies of the water snake in Sui country, mostly cruising in the tributaries near the Fat Lake, on this day, an adult water snake about half a zhang long swallowed a toad that lay on its nest late, satisfied, and was about to go to the nest to hibernate when Bai Jingze was passing by and pinched seven inches at will, until the old snake spit out the toad that had not been completely swallowed, Bai Jingze nodded contentedly, and threw the old snake out.
Then Bai Jingze stabbed the toad who didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out with a branch, and saw that he hadn't been suffocated to death by the snake, so he was relieved, and caught up with the team in three steps and two steps.
Zong Zi hurriedly handed over the warm hand towel, "The young master is really a bodhisattva. ”
"Xiaozong," Bai Jingze took the handkerchief and wiped the covered dough, and moistened his hands again, "The old snake will not starve to death because of eating less of this hibernation meal, but once this toad is in its stomach, it will be gone, you know?"
Zong Zi caught the handkerchief thrown by Bai Jingze, and replied with a smile: "Young master, you shouldn't say something from a child, even if that water snake doesn't eat that toad, it will go elsewhere to forage for food, and other vole loaches will inevitably enter the belly of this snake." And the toad that the young master rescued will be devoured by something else if he can't keep it, or tonight, or tomorrow. Therefore, it is a good thing that the young master has that compassion, but Wanfa emphasizes that it is natural, and life and death are up to heaven. What does the young master think? ”
Zong Zi was waiting for Bai Jingze's answer.
If the answer is satisfactory, not only will you not die the day after tomorrow, but you will also reunite with your Bai prisoners on Xiaoming Island and go to the dark water prison to survive.
This is the hidden question of the inscription. As soon as the hidden question comes out, it is a question, not only to sharpen the Taoist heart of the questioner, but also to open up the net for those who must die, and seek survival in death, which is the "benevolence" of the question.
Why was the mountain of Bailu Mountain smashed back then, the disciples died, and those who fled, and a second-rate sect worked hard for a few days to disperse? It was because after the death of the heir of the ancestor of the Title Mountain, another Jindan period patriarch who concealed his identity went to Bailu Mountain and released three hidden questions, and the two monks of the late stage of the title and a disciple of the Five Tricks who had high hopes on the mountain all answered incorrectly without exception.
Seeing that Zong Zi was so close to Bai Jingze, smiling playfully, Lao Jiang's heart was tense, and he clenched a pair of golden pestles in his sleeves.
But Bai Jingze laughed and patted Zong Zi on the shoulder, "Xiao Zong, when did you think so much?" Do you think, we are now doing a dart business with our heads pinned to the crotch of our pants, making a hard job, if we really meet a path cutter thief, and the enemy can't be beaten, that's called poor ability, scolding my mother before I die, shouting a few words and being a good man after 18 years, just do it, what does it have to do with God? ”
Zong Zi was naturally dissatisfied with this answer, but it was not the answer to "accept fate" that Zong Zi wanted, so Zong Zi continued to ask: "What if it is these path cutting thieves arranged by God?" ”
Bai Jingze took out the golden knife, gestured in the air, and said with a heroic smile: "Then go to him after he dies and tell him to leave his own affairs alone in the next life." ”
Zong Zi stopped asking, and already had the answer in his heart.
Since you are not a master who accepts fate, you Bai Jingze have passed my hidden question, and you can live.
Zong Zi wrung out the hand towel and put it on his shoulder casually, looking at the nearly twenty people in front of him with a smile.
As a price, then it would be good for everyone else to die, don't thank me, who said that this is all God's arrangement.
Huang Ming secretly hung ten miles away from the convoy, he had been running around for more than ten years, but there were really thieves from the nearby mountains who wanted to disrupt the situation and intercept the goods, anyway, the more accidents, the greater the chance, Huang Ming didn't stop him.
It's like, how to put it, like an ant that has only found a dying fighting insect that has fallen under a tree and comes to return the letter.
Those who can enter Huang Ming's eyes are only a man and a woman, or a group of male robbers and two women.
It's just that the two groups of people are not in the same group. The man is a good man who has been famous for many years near Jin Yuanshan, his real name is Gao Yuan, and then he went up the mountain and fell into the grass, and gave himself the nickname of Hunyuan General, and there are more than 20 people under his hands, all of whom can't control it, but this Gao Yuan suffered a lot of losses under a certain disciple of Jin Yuanshan a few days ago, and he has not opened for several years. As for the woman who is a little older, she looks like she is in her thirties, but in fact she is half a hundred years old... It's not a path cutter, but it's also a moody horn, with a very strange name, called Xu Zhen. Following the convoy, it is nothing more than to see if there is a rival in love with the disciples of the True Yimen who came to pick it up, after all, it is not ordinarily difficult to go to the True Yimen to intercept and kill the Sao woman, so Gao Yuan belongs to the red goods, and Xu Zhenzhi is not in the car, but he doesn't want the Gao Yuan people to do it in advance and spoil their own good deeds, so the frank and honest "heart-digging words" of both sides were heard by Huang Ming, who was standing higher.
The woman will help the man intercept the red goods, the premise is to do it when the person of the True Intention Gate goes down the mountain to pick up, the man is a little hesitant, if it is the outer disciple of the True Intention Gate to pick up, then he will add an opponent in the opening period, if there are many people, I am afraid that this car, then there will be a weak heart.
The woman snorted coldly, and laughed and said that Gao Yuan is not a gentleman at all, and he is still a Hun Yuan general, do you really think that she is the third general who is too green? Gao Yuan was not angry, and said in a deep voice: "Xu Dangjia, you and I have been neighbors for many years, although we have some enmity against each other, we have been safe and sound all these years, but this matter is related to the livelihood of my brothers on the mountain for the next ten years, and I can't help but be careless." ”
The reason why Gao Yuan called Xu Zhen the master is because this Xu Zhen is indeed not a lonely female ranger, and he also has people around him.
A boy with a sword, who is considered her Xu Xuan's disciple, followed her surname Xu and called Xu Changqing.
As for the other, the younger one was a little girl with two pigtails and a name called Forget Worries.
The boy is okay, Gao Yuan saw it a few years ago, and now he has grown from about twelve years old to fifteen years old, white and pure, and his head jumps quickly, and the little girl is very evil, and after three or four years of hard work, she has not changed.
It's strange to blame this little girl, Huang Ming looked from top to bottom and felt... Not very comfortable, with a clear eye to see her cultivation, although it is not very real, it can be regarded as having that level of talent.
You must know that Xu Yu is just a qi practitioner who has barely crossed the threshold of the earth, and he has been in this realm for more than 20 years.
If it weren't for the existence of this little girl, Huang Ming would have jumped down and reported his resounding reputation for eating Spicy Ridge and joined this army of thieves.
But how can you incite them to strike before Zhao Zi is in trouble?
"This friend, isn't it cold up there on this windy day?" It was the girl who said that she had forgotten her worries for the first time, her voice was crisp, and her head was raised.
Huang Ming deliberately pressed the branch and was discovered by the girl, and sure enough, the person who cultivated the highest here was this person.
Gao Yuan and Xu Zhen looked up at this time, only to see Huang Ming jumping off the tree unhurriedly, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, there are two martial artists in that dart, are you tired of being crooked?" ”
Immediately, someone stood up not to be outdone: "I'm in charge of the three-trick martial arts, and the immortals of Jinyuan Mountain can fight back and forth, and the two tricks are afraid of an egg, and we are all heroes on Niumiao Mountain, what is the difficulty of us fighting three of them in the martial arts hall?" ”
It's a half-grown child, probably not even ten years old.
"San Lang, shut up!" Gao Yuan glared at the child, and then he clenched his fists and said to Huang Ming: "The child is unscrupulous, and a good man must not be surprised." ”
"Don't blame it, don't blame it, what is the sin of the child's words? But you are really sure to win the red goods, what if there are still masters hidden in the team? Huang Ming didn't treat himself as an outsider at all, he had already found a broken stool in front of the table and sat down and knocked on the table.
Xu Zhen glanced at the girl, thought for a while and replied: "I was a few miles away when this team of people had not yet arrived at the foot of Jinyuan Mountain, and the leader behind the flag bearer was indeed a bit tricky, but looking at it, only the old man of the escort team was left, and it seemed that he was also a character, and other than that, I didn't see anything unusual." ”
Huang Ming looked at the child and said with a smile: "If it's just for a living, don't touch this ticket, if nothing else, it may be a little prickly." ”
Gao Yuan and Xu Zhen were both stunned, looking at this person who wanted to come to the gang, could it be that he came to break up the gang?
I only heard Huang Ming continue: "No accident, there will be another group of people coming to disrupt the situation, or tonight, or tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, but it will definitely not be lowered in the eyes of that true intention gate, you and I will join forces," Huang Ming pointed to the young man holding the sword again, "Plus this peerless master, or he can do that feat of snatching food, it is unknown." ”
The young man holding the sword had a childish face, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Good man, I am not a master, except for the master, I have never fought with anyone..."
Xu Yu snorted lightly, "I am not a person from the same road as this frightening senior brother, what I want, you must also listen to it in the tree, it is to avenge the old grudge, the one who is contacted by the true intention door is not the one I want, I will leave immediately." ”
"Don't delay, don't delay, as long as you help Brother Xu and me rob the red goods, I'm not afraid of offending any sincerity, I'm willing to help Xu Dangjia make a move, besides, even if Xu Dangjia doesn't seek to ascend, you have to think about the disciples and grandchildren, right?" After Huang Ming finished speaking, he wanted to ask for the wooden sword in the hand of the child who was called San Lang just now, but the child naturally regarded it as his life and refused to give it, and shouted: "The sword is here!" ”
"Awesome." Huang Ming turned around and pressed the head of the child who was still going to poke a hole in his buttocks, pushed it gently, and asked Gao Yuan with a smile: "What is the intention of Master Gao?" ”
"How do I split the bill?"
Huang Ming leaned forward slightly, and replied without thinking: "The two of them each get forty percent, and I only ask for two percent for the younger brother, but after the matter is completed, the younger brother will pick it first." ”
Gao Xu and the two glanced at each other, but it was Xu Yu who was the first to nod, which surprised Gao Yuan. You must know that Xu Yu thinks of himself as high on weekdays, and in this kind of thing, he disdains to share the account with himself, but when he sees that long love, he is a little surprised.
Lingzhu spirit coins, gold and silver treasures, are not blown by the wind, they are all just needed.
Seeing that the two agreed, Huang Ming blew himself up: "I am nominally from Eating Spicy Ridge, but in fact I am from the mountains and fields at the intersection of the two regions in the northeast, where there is a raccoon dog ditch, which is a boundary as famous as Crow Ridge here, and its reputation is relatively insignificant, just because the temple is too small over there, it will not be of much benefit to my practice, so I went out of the mountain to break through and loosen the bottleneck." ”
Gao Yuan naturally hadn't heard of any raccoon dogs, this was all made up by Huang Ming casually, but he still hugged his fists and asked, "Dare to ask the name of the hero, the realm?" ”
Huang Ming patted the quiver behind him, "Don't dare to be, in Xia Lu Bingwan." The three-body trick is a little lethal. ”
The man behind Gao Yuan who already had frost sideburns naturally didn't believe it, his cousin was talented, and he had been practicing for more than 30 years before he became a three-trick martial artist.
However, this person has a restrained expression and decent speech, and it seems that he is indeed so much better than himself. However, this young man is a little tall and thin, and his muscles and bones seem to be a little worse, and he can pull it away with such a big bow on his back?
So Gao Yuan's cousin said a word to Gao Yuan: "Bow." ”
Gao Yuan understood it at one point, and said to Huang Ming with a smile: "Brother Lu, this bow can have four stone tension?" Can I open the bow and wait for my palm? ”
Huang Ming said with a smile: "The reason why the fist is high, don't you understand it?" Since this bow is on me, there will be no reason why it can't be opened, once you enter, it is naturally you who take the lead, and you will know why Lu can share two percent of this red goods. ”
Gao Yuan was about to test again, and he didn't think that Xu Yu helped the "Lu Bingwan" beside him and said: "Since you can listen to the discussion between my two families for so long without being noticed, then I can trust you, when to do it, do you have a plan?" ”
"Another group of people are already on the way," Huang Ming sighed, "The two masters I came to find after the conversation with that wave of people collapsed, they thought I was a stinky boy, and the two were really big mouths, so it seems that we are a family." Right? ”
After speaking, Huang Ming looked at the little girl who didn't know what she was thinking, and forgot about her worries.
The little girl found that the outsider was looking at her, and she didn't shy away from it, staring straight at Huang Ming, and after a few breaths, she smiled back, and then the two of them looked away separately.
The middle-aged man behind Gao Yuan spoke again, "Those people? ”
Huang Ming said with a smile: "There are not many people, and the fists are quite hard, as for whether the two sides can sit down and talk about the deal after killing the dart, I don't think it's very likely, so the male apprentices of the Xu family and the ordinary children of Brother Gao, don't bring them, as for this big brother..."Huang Ming looked at the middle-aged man who took over the stubble.
"My name is High Window." The man responded, "I also have a second-level background, so naturally I want to accompany the head of the house." ”
Huang Ming nodded.
From beginning to end, Huang Ming didn't say a word to forget his worries.
At night, Lu Yao lived in six people, both men and women, not as close as the close, the shopkeeper Sun glanced at Yu Wu, who was in the old god, the latter did not react, and a few people settled upstairs, Yu Wu asked the shopkeeper Sun to go back and rest for a few days, don't come here these days, by the way, go far away, and light a fireworks-style thing.
Shopkeeper Sun went. After a while, Hu He came alone, with a copper-ring knife behind his back, and nodded to Yu Wu, who was wiping objects in the counter.
The latter laughed back.
Early the next morning, the six of them left in a hurry without breakfast, leaving Hu He, who had not slept all night, confused.
Yu Wu said lightly: "How can there be a reason to fish immediately after making a nest, there is fiction and reality, it is interesting, you say yes, Brother Huhe." ”
Hu He smiled honestly: "Our family only knows how to fight, kill, and kill, and we can't learn to bend our intestines." ”
Yu Wu followed with a smile: "Then don't learn." ”
Xiang Jing looked left and right after going down the mountain, but did not see the person mentioned in the letter, and when he was about to scold his mother, a man with flower arms walked out from behind the tree.
"Yo, who should I be, isn't this Brother Xie who shook the northwest of the three continents, Brother Zhao has a big face, since the elder brother is here, those brothers are all nearby, right?"
Xie Xun replied: "No, Zhao Xiaoyou invited me to wait for the mountain this time, the matter is not big, the road is not far, and the price is sufficient, but after making this ticket, I may have to go to Daqi to avoid the limelight, Brother Xiang, let's talk while walking." ”
"Where is Zhaozi?" Xiang Jing kept up with Xie Jing's pace and asked as he ran.
"I've been mixed in the team, I'll fight for a while, I don't need to stay alive, let's fight quickly, I still have to go to Rongcheng to sweep the formation."
"There's someone Zhaozi wants to kill over there?"
"Don't hide it from Brother Xiang, the three of them are all doing things over there, according to Zhaozi, most of the Taiqing disciples stationed in Rongcheng will help deal with us, I'm afraid that the three of them may not be able to eat."
Xiang Jing became interested: "Taiqing disciple who can't be eaten by the three of them? It can't be the Kui who shook the northern region to go to Beijing, right? ”
"Naturally not," Xie Xun saw that Xiang Jing had the intention of competing with him, so he raised his momentum a little, and quickened his pace: "I heard that it is an outer disciple who is quite capable of fighting, and there seems to be some formation hidden in their den, and shooting out the beam can make the one in Erguanling suffer some small losses, but Zhao Zi swore that how can such a powerful formation be easily arranged?" After more than half a year of searching, Brother Zhaozi did not find any traces, and it can basically be determined that this method is the killer weapon of that person, and it is gone after using it. It may even be related to a hermit master, Zhaozi said that there was a master who passed by Rongcheng, and the movement was not small, after the person left, the two people from Erguanling went to the Luyao Hotel, and a four-trick grandmaster next to him took action to teach him, even if the person reminded him, he never bargained from the Taiqing disciple named Huang Ming, so I concluded that this Taiqing Huang Ming must be at least a four-trick, or like me, a five-trick martial artist. Xie Xun looked at Xiang Jing, who was contemplating not far away, and added: "It may also be everyone who practices outside the same qi as Brother Xiang." ”
"That's scaring to death," Xiang Jing covered his chest, "Is the threshold of Taiqing so high now?" But over there in Rongcheng, it will definitely be more interesting than here, if it's done early, Brother Xie will take me over to play. ”
The two of them are as fast as thunder, and they climb mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground.