Volume 2 The Remnant of Time Chapter 16 We Are Thieves

Two days.

The gate of the goshawk village.

Chu Qingxiao and a team of more than a dozen people stood there.

The leader is the man with a negative sword with a pit on his face - Huang Quxiang.

Today is the first time that Chu Qingxiao went to the bottom of the mountain to rob goods as a thief after joining Goshawk Village.

Most of the family members of the people who went down the mountain were present, the wife told her husband to be careful on the road, and the child pulled the father to say goodbye reluctantly.

Chu Zhaozhao also walked up to Chu Qingxiao, handed over the water bladder he had sewn, and stuffed the prepared meatloaf into Chu Qingxiao's arms.

Then while tidying up his clothes for him, he chattered.

"When you get to the clever point at the bottom of the mountain, don't think that you have the Shura Realm body, so you rush to the front."

"If you encounter hard stubble, you can go."

"Also, did you bring the red blood worms? Your condition has deteriorated a little in the past two days, and one red blood worm a day is a bit reluctant, so bring two more just in case. ”

"Xiao Su'er helped me with some kind things, and took five more from the witch woman, don't think about saving money, we will find a way to solve this trouble."

It has been four days since he came to this goshawk village, because of the relationship between joining the village, Chu Qingxiao took a lot of red blood insects from the witch before and after, but it is always bad to take things for nothing, Chu Qingxiao intends to save, which is why Chu Zhaozhao told him.

Chu Qingxiao, who heard this, looked down at the chattering girl like a little old woman, and quipped: "Other people's wives and husbands are instructed to eat more when they go out, so it's good for me to bring more insects." ”

"Who told you to be different from them, I'm not here for your good!" Chu Zhaozhao glanced at him and said angrily, but as soon as the words came out, he felt that it was wrong.

Wouldn't such a response be a tacit acquiescence to that relationship?

Her heart was filled with shame, but there was sweetness in the shame.

She glanced up at the boy in a bit of a panic, but saw that his face was as usual, and he didn't seem to realize that there was anything wrong with such words.

Chu Zhaozhao also made the gods send a god to not correct it at that time.

"Be careful on the road." She just whispered, and then lowered her head, not daring to look into the boy's eyes again.

……

After noon.

Chu Qingxiao, who was squatting in the grass, felt that his feet were a little numb.

He's been crouching here for over an hour.

The abscesses on his face also made his cheeks itch a little, but he didn't dare to scratch it, it took him a lot of effort to stick to this thing, he couldn't help scratching it before, it fell, and it wasted a lot of time to re-attach it.

He looked up at the sky, the sun was shining, although it was spring, but the noon sun was already a little summery.

He reached out and touched the sweat stains on his forehead, his lips were a little dry, but the water bladder given by Chu Zhaozhao had been drunk by him.

At this moment, a water bladder was suddenly handed over.

Chu Qingxiao looked up stunned for a moment, and saw a man with a long sword on his back and his face covered with notches wounded by sharp weapons looking down at him.

"Let's have a drink!" He said.

The man's name is Huang Quxiang, and he is the commander of the Purple Eagle Army of Goshawk Village, of course, he is the commander, but in fact, he is the eleventh person.

"Thank you." Chu Qingxiao said so, stretched out his hand to take the water bladder and drank it in a big gulp.

Huang Quxiang sat beside him, and looked at Chu Qingxiao with meaningful eyes: "I see that you are so soft and weak, not like Xu Blind said, what kind of corpse crawled out of the sea of blood?" ”

Chu Qingxiao handed the water bladder back, wiped the water stains on the corner of his mouth, and then shrugged his shoulders and said, "I think Brother Huang and the people in the Goshawk Village don't look like bandits." ”

Huang Quxiang was stunned when he heard this, and a rare smile appeared on his stiff face.

Then, he pointed to the disguised objects on the faces of the many companions behind him, and said, "Tsukimi thinks so too, that's why we have to bring these things." ”

Chu Qingxiao also smiled, and also looked behind him: "Before going down the mountain, wasn't the entire Goshawk Army dispatched together?" Why are only these few people sent today? ”

Huang Quxiang said: "I robbed a batch of goods last month, and it has been almost a month to this day, so Da Zhuang and Guan Zijin took people to send this batch of goods to the bottom of the mountain to see if they could sell them at a good price." ”

"Only they can do this, after all, my face is too dazzling."

Huang Quxiang said, stretching out his hand and pointing at his face.

Chu Qingxiao nodded, at first he thought that Huang Quxiang was like Da Zhuang and others, and that hideous face was a disguise brought by the disguise technique, but later he heard Fang Xu'er say that he was born like this.

As for how this is done.

But no one knows.

"Then if this batch of goods is successfully sold, won't you and the girl Yuejian have to go to the death arena this month?" Chu Qingxiao asked.

Huang Quxiang was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Chu Qingxiao's gaze a little strangely: "Then Pang Fat Man and Guan Monkey dare to tell you anything?" ”

Chu Qingxiao hesitated for a while when he heard this, but still said: "Brother Pangda and Brother Guan have the heart to share their worries with you and Miss Yuejian, and want to go to the death arena instead of you when necessary, so they asked me yesterday to teach them the methods of the Shura Realm......"

"It's a pity that this method is not considered a method, and it can't be taught in a normal way."

But Huang Quxiang, who heard this, did not show the worry that Chu Qingxiao imagined, but sneered, and said: "Death arena? With the kung fu of the two of them, it is better to go to the death arena and sell themselves as cattle to the ghost crow village, at least in exchange for some silver. ”

Chu Qingxiao frowned, a little displeased: "No matter what, they are always thinking about the goshawk village." ”

"Then you have to have that ability." Huang Quxiang scoffed at this.

After saying this, he glanced at Chu Qingxiao again: "You also know that the ability of the Shura Realm is not something that can be taught by words and deeds, but you still taught it by words. ”

"If you don't teach, those two guys can't say that they still have scruples, thinking about being heroes, and whether they will retreat when they come to the end."

"But you just want to teach, they reported the luck mentality, and they really went to the death arena and died there."

"When the time comes, do you think you are an accomplice in killing them?"

Chu Qingxiao's face changed when he heard this, although Huang Quxiang's words were a little too conjectural, but if such a thing really happened......

"Think I'm exaggerating and alarmist?" Huang Quxiang squinted his eyes and continued.

"Boy, doing good deeds within one's own ability is called good deeds, doing things outside one's ability, sometimes, even if you have enthusiasm, it will only harm others and yourself!"

"That's what you are, and so are those two self-righteous fools."

Chu Qingxiao was a little annoyed, his brows furrowed a little deeper, he could feel that the man in front of him seemed to be different from most people in Goshawk Village, he had a hostility towards himself, but Chu Qingxiao didn't understand where this hostility came from.

"Do you know what happened in Goshawk Village in the past few years before this?" Huang Quxiang continued to ask.

Chu Qingxiao shook his head blankly.

"About three years ago, at that time, there was no goshawk village on the Crescent Peak, and the witch woman lived there with a few dolls that no one wanted."

"Have you seen those Gu worms in her hands? It's very weird, and there are few living people, and the ghost crow village doesn't want to provoke it. ”

"Later, Yuejian brought Xu Blind to Crescent Peak, and I don't know how to convince the strange-tempered witch, anyway, I built a goshawk village there."

"At that time, although Yuejian was only fourteen or fifteen years old, he had some skills, and he was so ruthless that he didn't look like a child of that age at all, plus a hidden Xu blind man, he also had some reputation in this Taixuan Mountain."

"They are also particular about doing things, not as impersonal as other cottages, and soon many people came to join them."

"But the human touch of this thing, of course it's a good thing, there are too many, but some people are not satisfied."

Chu Qingxiao frowned when he heard this, and wondered: "What does this mean?" ”

Huang Quxiang smiled and said: "Look at today's Goshawk Village, there are more than 500 people, and there are only 300 people who go out, and half of the 300 people have to be guys with missing arms and legs who don't want in other cottages, and the remaining 150 or 60 people are the people who are doing the work." ”

"Is it equivalent to these 150 or 60 people who feed the Goshawk Village? Of course, this is a bit absolute, after all, the rest of the people are also doing what they can do, but the things that can be brought to Goshawk Village together, I'm afraid it is not half of the more than 100 people. ”

"It's like we're robbing the road here now, and if we meet a big fish, maybe we can catch a hundred taels of silver, and put it in other cottages, and the money will be handed over to the top at most, and the rest will be shared by our brothers, but in the goshawk village, one hundred taels of silver, it's good that our brothers can leave twenty taels, and the rest must be handed over, otherwise what will those old, weak, sick and disabled people do?"

"Goshawk Village has prospered for a period of time by word of mouth, and there can be more than 2,000 people at most, but after a long time, some people don't deal with it in their hearts, and there have been conflicts and infighting."

"At the most powerful time, there were nearly two or three hundred elites who were clamoring to drive away some of the old, weak, sick and disabled people in the village, but the child was a bodhisattva and didn't agree to anything."

"If the two sides can't talk, then we can only fight."

"In a stockade, swords face each other, and in the end, although Yuejian won, many people died in the village, and it will take longer than the people she saved to die."

"From that day on, the goshawk village began to decay, walking, scattering, and becoming the current dying appearance."

"You see, if she had thought of this earlier, and taken in fewer of the old, weak, sick and disabled, probably there would not have been those troubles, and so many people would not have died."

"Isn't it?"

Chu Qingxiao silently listened to Huang Quxiang's words, his heart also sank, and he lowered his head gloomily.

Huang Quxiang glanced at him again, and then said, "So, boy." ”

"Don't bring your set of theories of people's kindness to the Goshawk Village, it will only harm the Goshawk Village."

These words were originally beaten, but Chu Qingxiao, who heard these words, suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Huang Quxiang frowned.

"I laugh at Brother Huang for knowing that he is such a person, but he wants to teach others not to be such a person, isn't it funny?"

Huang Quxiang's face was not good, and he said in a low voice: "I'm not a good person......"

Chu Qingxiao interrupted Huang Quxiang's words and said, "Then why does Brother Huang want to stay in Goying Village?" With Brother Huang's ability, wouldn't it be better to go to other cottages? So why stay in Goshawk Village to take care of these so-called burdens? ”

Guan Zijin was about to say something.

"It's on board!" But at this moment, a thief not far away suddenly shouted.

Chu Qingxiao and Huang Quxiang hurriedly stepped forward to look, only to see a thirteen or fourteen child supporting an old man who looked seventy miles away walking slowly on the narrow mountain road.

Chu Qingxiao's brows furrowed.

The child's face was yellow and thin, and the old man was also faltering, and the clothes he was wearing were patched, like a refugee.

"Brother Huang...... This ......" Chu Qingxiao looked at Huang Quxiang, a little hesitant.

Huang Quxiang stood up without hesitation, lifted his steel fork and said, "Go!" ”

A group of people rushed out of the mountains and forests on both sides, surrounding the old and the young.

……

More than a dozen hideous-looking strong men rushed up to kill, and the grandfather and grandson who were obviously ordinary people had never seen such a scene, and they were immediately frightened and turned pale.

The two hugged each other and retreated, and their bodies kept shaking.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... Ladies and gentlemen, our grandfather and grandson fled from Duzhou, and there are no valuable objects on them, all the heroes are good, let our grandfather and grandson go! The old man's voice trembled.

And how could the child have been stupid by this scene, holding his grandfather so tightly that he didn't dare to look at everyone in front of him.

"Old man, our rule is to pass this way, keep half of the wealth, and people will be fine."

"If you want to survive, how much money you have, take it out." Huang Quxiang squinted his eyes and said in a cold voice.

The old man's face was pale and hesitant, but after looking at the people around him with bright swords, he didn't dare to say anything more, so he took out a handkerchief from his bosom and opened it with trembling hands.

There were a few pieces of broken silver the size of a grain of rice, and a dozen copper plates, which were so full that I am afraid that there were not even three or four coins of silver.

Seeing this, a strong man beside him was about to reach out and take the few grains of silver, but at this time, the old man knew that he trembled and knelt on the ground with a thud.

"Heroes, our grandfather and grandson were killed by the gentry in Duzhou, the child and his father were beaten to death, there is nowhere to redress grievances, the family's land and houses have been seized, we have such a little money, with it is to go to Quzhou to join relatives, the road is far away, this child is big and weak, can you raise your noble hand and let us go......"

The old man threw himself on the ground with both hands and kowtowed vigorously.

His body trembled violently, and he was obviously terrified to the extreme.

But Rao is like this, he still mustered up the courage to keep the only money, probably in his opinion, if this money is gone, maybe he and his grandson really can't go to Quzhou......

Chu Qingxiao's nose was a little sour.

He finally couldn't help but look at Huang Quxiang and said, "Brother Huang, it won't help us to take this money from our cottage, but it's life-saving money for them, or forget it?" ”

"Think they're pitiful?" Huang Quxiang heard this, but he sneered.

"Nine out of ten people who have passed on this road have their own difficulties, so let's let them go?"

"Isn't this thief right?"

"Can't you pay the money in the ghost crow village?"

"The hundreds of people in Goshawk Village still can't eat?"

Huang Quxiang's voice was wrapped with a chill, and he asked at that time.

"But you can't hurt others for this, right!?" Chu Qingxiao was unwilling to back down, he stopped in front of Huang Quxiang and said so.

"Boy!" Huang Quxiang burst into a shout, interrupting Chu Qingxiao's words.

"This kind of high-sounding truth, you should tell it to the scholars in the academy, to those fat-headed and big-eared officials, and to those famous and decent knights in Tianhang Mountain."

"They love to hear that, and if you speak well, they might even reward you with a few copper plates." Huang Quxiang's complexion gradually became hideous at that time, and there was a faint surge of murderous intent around him.

"But you shouldn't tell me."

"I told you, we're not good people."

"We ......"

"It's a thief!"