The undulating Dark Sheath Mountains were like a dragon winding across the land, and everything around it was unusually small in front of it, even the scattered pine forests beneath the mountains, not to mention the horses running on the rolling meadows.

Dai Wang rode in front, his head and face wrapped in layers of linen, revealing only half of his forehead and deep eye sockets, and at this moment he was dressed completely like a ranger swordsman.

A woman with fluffy hair staggered after him behind him, shouting intermittently: "Engong! Eun Gong!"

Her voice was round but low, and the sound she made was blown away in the valley by the north wind, and even her breath was incoherent.

"Phew!"

Dai Wang pulled the reins of the horse to a halt, turned the horse's head and looked down: "What are you doing with me?"

The woman ran up to him and propped herself on her knees, gasping for breath and unable to speak, but her eyes were full of smiles.

"Engong, I can't catch up with you anymore."

Dai Wang turned his head to look behind him, and then looked back at her: "Don't follow me, now I am a murderer, and you will be guilty of following me."

The woman said irrationally: "The autumn moth has no home, I want to serve with Engong, and I can be a slave or a maid."

"I don't need slaves, besides, I'm not qualified to call slaves, so let's go."

But the woman was very stubborn, no matter how she was driven away, Dai Wang looked back and glared, and she raised her head and showed a clean smile.

Dai Wang ignored her and continued to move forward on his horse, the woman still panting and hurrying away. As he ran away, he looked back and saw a small dot running in the distance.

He had no choice but to slow down and let the woman follow slowly, but when she ran dozens of feet away from him, she fell to the ground, as if she was too tired to climb up anymore.

Dai Wang had no choice, so he led the horse over, picked up Qiu'e, who was limp on the ground, and pushed her to the horse.

He limped his horse and stepped into the hundred pine forests under the Wusheh Mountains. It had only recently fallen in a light snow, and the pine cover was covered with snow, and the tough grass stems emerged from the snow and were eaten by the horses.

The pine forest is very silent, only the snow rustles from the branches, giving people an eerie and solemn silence. Qiu'e was uneasy and wanted to speak to break the silence, but Dai Wang raised his fingers and shouted: "Don't make a sound, there should be big insects entrenched in this pine forest."

The woman suddenly closed her mouth, not daring to make a sound, and the deeper they went into the pine forest, it was like walking down a deep pit, and the slope was almost all the way down.

On the way, he found a few remnants of fires, presumably left by the hunters, who he crouched on the ground and played with pine branches, which contained unburned horse manure. There seemed to be something else in front of the fire, and he took a step forward and reached out to pick it up, it was a cowhide tube.

Suddenly, his feet tightened, and before he could dodge, a strong force had already pulled him down, pulling him along the snow, and Dai Wang hurriedly grabbed everything he could get his hands on, only weeds, weeds, bushes, and he waved his hands wildly.

"Eun Gong! Eun Gong!" Qiu'e rode on the horse and screamed in panic.

There was a tearing pain in his ankle, and he was pulled up into the air, hanging headfirst above the snow.

Four or five thieves pulled ropes together in the pine tree, and then tied them to a tree, and they dragged their rusty long and short knives to Dai Wang, who was hanging, and patted him on the cheek with the blade.

"Yo! The horizontal knife of the officers and soldiers! This guy is fat!"

They saw Qiu'e on horseback again.

"Yo, there's also a little lady who is very smart! Bring it back to the eldest brother as the wife of the village!"

"Yo, Horn Bow! And a longbow made of Zhemu! Ha! Get rich! This is the fattest goods of the year! Take them all back!"

……

The bandits' lair was a long series of dark caves, with torches planted in the walls every few feet, and at the end of the caves there was a large stone chamber, on which the so-called bandit leader sat on a bluestone, playing with two warbows seized from him.

The bandit leader pulled the longbow away, and then withdrew his hand stupidly: "This bow should have three stones, I will have no strength left when I pull it twice, you kid is holding it, it's here to hold garlic!"

Dai Wang was pressed by their shoulders, and four or five people were forced to kneel on the ground, and his eyes were just cold. The bandit leader tugged at his chin, stung by his indifferent gaze, and shouted in annoyance, "Tie him to the stone wall for me!"

They dragged Qiu'e over again, and the bandit leader reached out to touch her cheek, but she bit her teeth. The bandit leader gave her a backhand slap.

"The little lady is very fierce!" The bandit leader grabbed a few strands of sparse beard and smiled: So what!" I like to ride a fierce horse and play a fierce girl! I'll be in the cave tonight!"

Dai Wang, who was bound to the wall, said in a cold voice: "Let her go, everything else, horses, money, bows, crossbows, and knives are all yours."

The bandit leader laughed and said, "I want to fart!" fell into the hands of Lao Tzu, of course, all of them. ”

Suddenly, a rush of footsteps rushed towards the cave, and he said loudly with a frightened face: "Big brother! There are many officers and soldiers in the pine forest! It's all over the place!"

The bandit leader looked startled, as if he had been pierced by a scorpion and jumped up from the bluestone, and then said calmly: "What are you panicking about!" Cover the hole with pine branches!"

"Put out all the torches! No one is allowed to make a sound for me!"

After a fierce rush and chaos, the gang of bandits retreated to the stone chamber, clinging to the wall and even the sound of breathing was silent, only the sound of a pounding heartbeat.

It was as if the neighing of horses was coming from outside, and it was approaching, and even the sound of horses' hooves could be heard clearly, the officers simply giving orders coldly, and the sound of iron armor clapping as they walked.

Gradually, these voices gradually became smaller, and it seemed that the officers and troops had withdrawn from a distance, and the bandit leader breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly: "Quick, light the torch with the fire sickle saltpeter."

The two bandits groped their way together, and the scythe splashed sparks in the air, and a small flame jumped, and then the top of the torch was filled with flames, and they turned around, their eyes glazed over.

Dai Wang stood beside the bluestone, holding a horizontal knife against the neck of the bandit leader, and he didn't know when the hemp rope on his body had been loosened.

Several thieves rushed over with rusty knives in their hands, Qiu E hurriedly stuck to Dai Wang's side, grabbing his hand that was not holding a knife with both hands, Dai Wang struggled for a while and didn't break free, and it was up to her.

"Don't move!"

In the dark cavern, only the knife was shiny, and the sharp edge stabbed into the neck of the bandit leader, and several bandits hesitated and took half a step back.

The bandit leader was also calm at the moment, but his tone was half empty: "Hero, the officers and soldiers outside just now are here for you."

Dai Wang was silent.

"I heard that in Changsong County, under the Wusheling Mountains, there is a good man named Dai Wang, who got rid of the first evil Zhang Yujia in the county and killed the Changsong County Order, wouldn't it be you?"

Dai Liulang moved his lips, and finally spoke: "Yes, I am Dai Wang."

The expressions on the faces of several bandits in the firelight changed in shock, and they threw down the knives in their hands one after another, and the bandit leader took half a step back and fell to the ground with a plop: "It turned out to be Dai Yishi!" I don't know the face of the graceful father, and I offended for no reason, please forgive me!"

Several of the bandits fell to their knees.

……

"We are all the people of Changsong County, only because Zhang Yu, a wealthy man in the county, colluded with the county order to occupy the land and destroy the family, so we had to run to this deep mountain to become a mountain bandit. Engong killed the county order and punished the Zhang family, this kind of righteous act really makes us yearn for it and deeply admire it. ”

Dai Wang stood up from the bluestone with his hands on his knees, took two steps with a horizontal knife as a crutch, turned around and said, "Your story is finished, I should also go."

Several people hurriedly followed him, their eyes sad and asked: "Now that you are being hunted down everywhere outside, where can Engong go, it is better to stay at the bottom of this Wusheling pine forest, I am willing to worship you as the cave master, wouldn't it be happy to kill the rich and help the poor."

Dai Wang took two steps with difficulty, turned around and said: "I used to be a soldier, even if I fall into this step, I can't fall into the grass."

Qiu'e followed him closely, looking up at him proudly, and stars bloomed in her eyes.

"Engong, if it weren't for the helplessness, we wouldn't want to be bandits, it's just that the world has changed, honest people can't live, and good people don't have good rewards." The leopard turned his head to look around: "Right now, this cave was dug by us people who spent several years digging on the mountain wall, and the only advantage is that it is not easy to be discovered." If Engong really doesn't want to be a bandit, we won't rob it, follow you to hunt in the mountains, everyone will endure this hard life, and then think about the future, how about it"

Dai Wang stopped and turned around, looking at the group of mountain bandits behind him, smiling for the only time in these days.