Chapter 123: Strange People (2)
The little trader said, "Little brother, your inner strength is the best in the world. It will be easy for you to learn any superb martial arts. But I've seen little brothers who only know one set of swordsmanship. It seems that he has never learned any other martial arts, and when we meet, the little brother doesn't know how to open and accept. Why is that?"
"I really didn't learn much kung fu. ”
The small trader didn't understand why such a person with a strong true qi and superb swordsmanship couldn't start with basic skills.
This kind of swordsmanship has no other basic martial arts skills, if it weren't for his very thick true qi, as long as he meets an experienced opponent and evades the real attack, he will quickly defeat or hurt the leopard, and can't help but ask: "Little brother, when did you start learning swordsmanship?"
"Yes! This is even more against the general rules of martial artists! Does anyone practice martial arts like this? I'm afraid that there is no sect, no one is trained like this, there is no excellent foundation in martial arts, but there is no water source, no trees, no sand to build a castle in the air, and push it down, this is really a strange martial art. ”
How this mysterious little businessman knew about the leopard's experience and strange encounters is incomprehensible to nature.
He also asked curiously: "Little brother, why don't you learn fist and foot kung fu?"
"I, I don't know!"
"Is it inconvenient for little brother to say?"
"I- I don't know what to say. ”
"Since the little brother is embarrassed, don't say it! I'm just asking. ”
Then they turn to the topic of the day.
Leopard felt that since he left the temple, he had met many strange people: first the beggar without a shadow, then the fat and thin twins, and then the small trader who talked and laughed.
Their behavior is so strange that it is incomprehensible.
The leopard couldn't help but ask, "Uncle, can you tell me your name?"
"Little brother, my name is Consultation. ”
The leopard was surprised, is anyone called kind?
The little merchant smiled and said, "Little brother, are you surprised? My name is Shang, and I am a merchant, a good conscience, a good conscience. Because I do business, I have the most kind heart, the old and the young do not deceive, do real things, and do not lion open mouth and overpay, so I am called Shang Liang, which means a kind businessman.
Suddenly, a cold sword hung around his neck, and he smiled and said, "How can you speak without blushing?
The leopard was startled, it turned out to be Cuicui.
I don't know when Cuicui quietly went out.
He hurriedly said, "Xiaocui, don't mess around!"
Cuicui said, "Who told him to lie!"
Shang Liang didn't move, and shouted, "Hey, can you put this cold thing away?" aren't you afraid that I'll get dizzy?"
"You might as well cut off your head so you don't have to lie to anyone anymore. ”
"Hey, that's no joke, cutting the head of a leek is not the same as cutting it. The head of leeks will grow, will you be able to grow again?"
The leopard also hurriedly said: "Take it away!"
Cuicui smiled and put away her sword, and said to Shang Liang, "See if you dare to deceive people in the future?"
Shang Liang touched his neck: "Why are you making such a big joke?"
Cuicui sat down and asked with a smile, "Isn't it big enough for you to joke about us?"
"When did I joke with you?"
"You forgot so quickly today?"
"What did I forget?"
"Obviously a martial artist, but pretending to be a small trader walking around, nonsense, what about Guanyin appearing again, together with two male and female traffickers trying to poison us, is this joke big enough?
"How did you pile up these little things?"
"Is this a trifle?"
"Tell me, who are you?"
"I'm such a small businessman! Really, not at all. ”
"Yes, not at all!"
"Don't you believe it?"
"Why should I trust you?"
"Little trader!" Cuicui's cunning eyes flashed: "It's okay if you don't say it, I have a way to get you to say it." ”
Shang Liang was really a little afraid of this cunning Cuicui, and didn't know what he would do, so he asked anxiously, "What do you want to do?"
"What didn't I do?"
"Okay, I say, I say. ”
"Tell me! Do you want the truth or a lie?"
The leopard was amused to hear it, and of course he liked to hear the truth! Does anyone like to hear lies? But Cuicui's answer was beyond his surprise.
Cuicui said, "Whatever!"
Shang Liang was stunned: "Whatever, what do you mean by that?"
"It doesn't matter. I like to listen to true lies. Sometimes a lie is better than the truth. ”
"Yes, yes, there are many people in the world who like to listen to falsehoods, but they don't like to hear the truth, and even lose their temper. ”
Leopard couldn't help asking, "Uncle Shang, is there such a person?"
"Yes, why not? The first person who liked to listen to lies was the emperor. He knew that a man could only live a hundred years, but he just liked to be called a long man! ”
Cuicui smiled and asked him, "Haven't you finished your words yet?"
Shang Liang said, "I'm afraid I'm telling the truth, your cold thing is resting on my neck. Okay, let's stop kidding, let's be serious. ”
"Do you have anything to say?"
"Then say the wrong thing! I said, do you still want to save people?"
"Save whom?"
"Give them the little girl who snatched them and abducted them!"
Cuicui raised her eyebrows: "I searched the house of the Ma family's thieves' den, but I didn't find any place about the person, and I didn't know if I asked, the only handle was the manager of Liao, and he ran away!
"I don't know. ”
"Isn't that nonsense? How to save people?"
"There are two people who know. ”
"Oh! Who?"
"To you men and women traffickers, to hide in the back cabin. ”
Cuicui stood up: "Okay! I'll ask them." ”
Shang Liang shook his head: "It's useless to ask. ”
"They won't say?"
"They don't say, they don't know. ”
Cuicui opened her eyes wide: "Then why do you say they know? You're making fun of us again?"
"Ahh I mean, they don't know where the people are, but they know where the people are, they're just a little hooligan on the lake, how can they meet them outside? Besides, the Ma's yard is not a place to pick up girls who have been kidnapped. In this case, even the government will receive the attention of some martial arts knights. ”
"So where do they know about the lockdowns?"
"You're right this time!"
"Okay! I'm not afraid they won't say it. ”
"That being said, we don't know what to do. ”
"Can't you tell them to lead the way?"
"In that case, someone will notice us before we get there, and no one can save us. If that's the case, I wouldn't have deliberately colluded with these two traffickers to deceive you! I tried to trick them into taking me to their place, but this absurdity turned me over and turned me into a stone - useless. He had a knife in his hand. ”
Leopard couldn't help but apologize and said, "Uncle Shang, we're sorry. ”
Cuicui asked, "Then what should we do?"
"If you believe I can get them out, you'd better pretend to be asleep and know nothing. ”
Now that they know you're with us and talked to you, will they believe you?"
"Don't worry! They didn't see me, they didn't hear us. ”
Cuicui said, "They can't be deaf, right?"
"It's like being deaf. ”
The leopard was stunned: "How do they have something to do with being deaf?"
Shang Liang blinked his eyes and said, "Because as soon as I left them, I secretly lit their acupuncture points, and now they sleep like dead pigs, even if there is thunder, they don't know." Isn't that different from being deaf?"
Cuicui smiled: "You have a lot of ghost thoughts, is this the method that Guanyin Bodhisattva taught you?"
Shang Liang also smiled: "Of course she was taught by the old aunt who didn't get married in her dream!"
Cuicui laughed and scolded: "You still said how to worship Guanyin, she knows that you slandered her so much, it's no wonder if she doesn't beat you to the eighteenth layer of hell." ”
"I want her to send me to hell, where the ghosts have no clothes and I make a lot of money selling cloth!"
The leopard was amused to hear it. Ah Cui, Uncle Shang, the two are together, enough to sing a play, it's strange if they don't laugh until they die. He said, "Uncle Shang, let's do what you do." ”
"All right, go to bed, but speak to the boatmen first, and don't let them do our business badly. ”
Cuicui said, "I'll go and tell the boatman, you go and act!"
Shang Liang quietly entered the back cabin until Cuicui and Leopard were sleeping in the front cabin, and then clicked on the lifeless acupuncture points of the traffickers.
The couple, waking up in the dim light of an oil lamp the size of a bean, saw that the vendor had somehow loosened the rope.
The trafficker tried to make some noise, but he immediately quieted down and whispered, "Quiet, they're all asleep!"
The traffickers increase their hopes of escape. The traffickers have no tongue and cannot speak.
But Shang Liang whispered to the woman, "Let's go, let's all go." Loosen, loosen, let go of us, or we won't be able to run away!"
Shang Liang pretended to be helpless, so he had to loosen the rope and gently conditioned: "You move your lower limbs gently first, don't make a sound, otherwise, no one will really be able to walk!"
The couple stretched.
Shang Liang said, "Okay! Now let's touch the side of the ship, get into the bow, and then go ashore and escape." ”
First, he crawled out on his own.
The traffickers literally stood on tiptoe, touched the bow, and all three jumped ashore.
Shang Liang breathed a sigh of relief and said softly, "Let's go our separate ways." Don't let these three little devils come together again. ”
The trafficker seemed to like Shang Liang and asked, "Won't you run with us?" My husband and I can take you to a safe place and send someone to kill those three little bastards. ”
The heart of a trafficker is blacker than ink.
Unaware that their dragon head had been tamed, she still dreamed of revenge.
Shang Liang waved his hand again and again and said, "No! Although I cheated money, I didn't dare to hurt people's lives. Run for your life, I'm leaving!" ran straight to the hill to the northwest.
The female trafficker was startled, and the male trafficker pulled her and walked straight towards Wutongqiao Town.
They don't know.
Behind them, not only Shang Liang followed, but also Leopard and Cuicui.
Qingqing stayed on the boat because her leg was not healing.
At dawn, the couple, who had escaped from the net, rushed into the town and looked back, but there was no one behind them.
At this time, they felt that they had finally escaped death and saved another life.
The whole town had not yet woken up, only the lights and smoke from the houses selling flour and cakes.
The stone-paved streets are deserted and deserted, with no pedestrians.
They quickly turned into a narrow alley, turned left and right, and stopped in front of a door.
The trafficker patted the knocker with her hand, not knowing what the signal was.
After a while, a crack opened in the door, revealing a head. They were a little surprised to see the men and women, and he turned around and asked, "Is that you?"
The trafficker said, "Old Five, let us in, we have something urgent to tell the master." "The fifth opened the door and let them in.
Then he closed the door and asked, "Is he up?"
"I got up early and talked to Mr. Liao inside. ”
"Is Mr. Liao here?"
"Oh! Last night, Uncle Long had an accident!"
"Oh, what's wrong?"
"They said they had an urgent need to see you. ”
"Call them in!"
"Yes!"
Gao Wu said to the traffickers, "Go in!"
The men and women traffickers walked into the main hall, and they saw a famous person in the city, the chief steward of the Ma family's compound, sitting on the main hall. Mr. Zhang sat next to him.
The trafficker hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed and said, "Manager Liao." ”
Chief Manager Liao was lucky to escape last night, came here that night, and said to Zhang Er: "You quickly send someone to the Ma compound to inquire and see if the horse staff is dead." ”
Zhang Er was taken aback, his drunkenness disappeared, and he asked, "Master, what's the matter?"
"Ma's yard was destroyed! I managed to escape. Don't you see the fire?"
Ma Compound and Wutongqiao Town are separated by a mountain, and there is no sea of fire in sight, only a red horizon.
Don't say that Zhang Er got drunk when he drank too much, it's not that he can't see it when he's drunk, and he thinks that Ma Yuan has done something happy!
As for some villages near the vest compound, they do not dare to express opposition to the vest compound on weekdays.
When they went to the bazaar on the bazaar, they did not dare to cross the Ma family compound and wanted to take a detour.
The courtyard of the Ma family was set on fire, everyone applauded, and no one went to extinguish the fire.
So when Cuicui set fire to the courtyard of the Ma family, no one in the surrounding villages and Wutongqiao Town sounded the alarm and pretended not to see anything.
Zhang Er said in a panic: "I, I drank two more glasses of wine last night. ”
Steward Liao didn't have time to blame Zhang Er, in order to escape, he desperately left Ma Dayuan outside, worried that Ma Yuanwai was not dead, and if he died, the huge wealth of the Ma family would belong to him. Because he usually has a secret hand with the jade-faced rakshasa . Maybe it's because he did too many wrong things that he didn't have a son. So he wanted to know what happened to the Ma family. He drank Zhang Er: "Go quickly!"
Suddenly, a figure jumped from the tile.
Manager Liao and Zhang Eryi asked in surprise, "Who?"
Under the light, what appeared was the Yuhua Rakshasa with an injured arm. He was really surprised and delighted: "Madam, you also escaped?" and then he said, "Madam, are you hurt?"
Yuhua Rakshasa looked around and asked Manager Liao, "What about my husband?
"Ma'am, he didn't come. He's probably dead!"
"Send for him at once. ”
"Madam, I'll send Zhang Er to send someone. ”
"Send someone, ask Zhang Er to go in person. Zhang Er replied and left.
Manager Liao asked Yuhua Rakshasa again: "Madam, your injury ......?"
Yuhua Rakshasa said angrily: "Let the arm of the thousand knife killer be broken, you quickly stop the bleeding for me." ”
"Yes, ma'am. ”
Mr. Liao was secretly happy, eager to be able to get close to her skin. Then he asked, "Madame, where is the master?"
"They're all dead! I'm going to skin them to get rid of my hatred!"
"Madam, you take care of your injuries first!"
Mr. Liao boldly helped Yuhua Rakshasa into the inner room.
At dawn, Zhang Er came back to report that Ma Yuanwai was dead and that Ma's courtyard had been burned to the ground.
Steward Liao was overjoyed and heartbroken when he heard this, and the joy was that except for the death of the horseman, all the power was in his own hands; sadly, the courtyard of the Ma family was burned down, and not even the house was left.
Just as he and Zhang Er were discussing the future in the hall, a man and a woman broke in.
Manager Liao looked them up and down and asked, "Do you have any important reports?"
The male trafficker couldn't say a word.
Zhang Er was taken aback: "Your mouth?"
It turned out that the dealer's surname was Cao.
His wife, Cao Si, said, "Master, my husband's tongue was cut off by a little mongrel.
Manager Liao couldn't help but be surprised: "Little bastard?
When Cao Si talked about the leopard, Qingqing and Cuiqing, Cuiqing.
Manager Liao jumped up: "Where did you meet those three little devils?"
Finally she said, "Sir, when my wife and I fled, the three little bastards were still sleeping on the boat." Please send someone to arrest them. ”
Hearing the voice of the traffickers, they didn't know that the Ma family's yard had been razed to the ground, and hoped that Steward Liao would avenge them.
Manager Liao lowered his face, gritted his teeth and said, "Hell, you provoked three little evil stars, causing Ma Shuai to die, and the courtyard of the Ma family was also burned." As he spoke, he dropped with a knife in his hand, splitting the woman with the broken gong. Cao Si was so frightened that he walked over and stood there like a chicken. When he was uncomfortable and wanted to turn around and run away, Liao Zhi slashed him down with another knife.
Then he said to Zhang Er: "Send someone to inquire if the ship has left." Regardless of whether the boat is gone or not, send someone to dig the bottom of the boat in the middle of the river and let them feed the bastard. No, it's better to capture them alive and come to me. ”
"I'll come to see you now!" the voice fell, and Cuicui floated down from the beam.
Manager Liao opened his eyes wide for a while.
"Is that you?"
Cuicui smiled and asked, "Aren't you trying to capture me alive?"
"You, you, how did you get here?"
"Cao Si brought us here! How did you kill them all?"
Mr. Liao was silent and said to Zhang Er: "Kill him!"
Steward Liao knew that Zhang Er was not Cuicui's opponent, but in order to escape, he asked Zhang Er to go up and resist. In short, it is better for you to die than me, and my life is worth more than your Zhang.
Zhang Er had never seen Cuicui, thinking that such a child would be easy to catch, so he took a knife and cut it ruthlessly. Zhang Er's martial arts are worse than those in the nursing home, but they are only in the courtyard of the Ma family.
Cuicui gave the sword two moves and picked him!
Seeing that Mr. Liao, the fierce and cunning fox, had already slipped inside, and then jumped up to chase after him, who knew that as soon as he turned over the screen, Mr. Liao was like a bundle of weeds to be thrown out, and it happened to fall in front of Cuicui. The fox didn't know that the leopard was already waiting for him on the tiles.
Cui Cui put the tip of her sword against his throat and said, "You'd better not move!