Chapter 11: The Storm

In the early morning of the next day, Lu Ming dimly heard the sound of crackling and rain hitting the post station.

After brushing away the chaotic thoughts, I looked out the window, the dark clouds were still hovering in the sky, and the morning sun did not come to the world on time, and I could only see a few scattered rays of light through the dark clouds.

Stretching his waist slightly, rubbing his hazy and loose eyes, lighting the oil lamp, and getting up found that the ground was full of water stains, damp, and even Lu Ming's cloth shoes were completely wet. When I looked up, I saw drops of rain leaking from the roof.

The air was filled with water vapor, as if in a bath, which made people quite uncomfortable. Frowning, he pulled the moisture out of the room, condensed into a balloon, and threw it out of the window.

The rain did not stop, and the sound was smoother, only the rain and wind still played this moving symphony, and the disturbing quiet thunder was completely gone.

Wear dry clothes and shoes, and pump out some rainwater outside the window, this kind of direct water can avoid dust and soil, but bacteria or anything can't be completely filtered out, drinking it directly is definitely not good, and there is no problem at all with washing your face.

After a lot of effort, Lu Ming and Old Man Lu finally sat down at the dining table downstairs, and the fireplace in the post station was also lit, slightly dispersing the moisture in the room, and the warm firelight was reflected in everyone's eyes.

The meal didn't feel good, and the rain from outside was pouring in through the crack in the door, making the whole room damp and sticky.

The food is still a favorite home-cooked food, and it's not unpalatable, but in this nasty environment, even the full banquet of the Manchu and Han people is estimated to be unpalatable.

Lu Ming didn't have much appetite, just a small portion of porridge, and while drinking, he also used his soul power to strip the surrounding moisture out, and slowly transferred it to the door, and no one could notice the water in the room under the dim oil lamp retreating outside the house like a time rewind.

Old man Lu was not so pampered, he ate vigorously with a pair of dark circles, and muttered a few vague words while eating.

The mood of the female shopkeeper did not seem to be affected, sitting by the fire with the child in her arms, slowly patting the baby, and teasing the child with a few chopsticks and a few pieces of vegetables as toys.

"Grandpa, with such a heavy rain, can we walk today", although Lu Ming really wanted to go home and get into the warm and warm bed. But braving the rain to march on a muddy road, how to listen to how unsafe.

"It's okay, the pipe is not only covered with soil, but also some special sand and gravel, and the rain will not particularly affect the journey. We'll definitely be able to get home tonight", Old Man Lu ate something in his mouth and spit out a few words vaguely.

"And this damn ......", Old Man Lu's goatee twitched a few times, and then muttered a few words vaguely, which I couldn't hear clearly.

Before Lu Ming finished eating, a huge collision noise came from outside the door, disturbing people's leisure.

The mood that had been devastated by the humid environment became even more boring under this sound, and he frowned deeply, and the old man Lu muttered louder.

Lu Ming didn't have much appetite, so he naturally wanted to go out to find a lively scene, so he said hello to Old Man Lu.

Looking out, I saw a carriage parked in the middle of the official road, and several vague figures stood on the muddy ground next to it, one with teeth and claws, one squatting on the ground, and one figure may be lying on the ground hugging another person standing.

The gloomy and dim weather in the early morning, coupled with the non-stop rain, made his vision blurry, and Lu Ming naturally couldn't see anything lively here.

As he got closer, the intermittent sound passed through the sound of the rain, and the surrounding rain seemed to have life, far away from Lu Ming, like the whole person was put into a big glass cover.

At the end of the day, the muddy ground was dry again, and the footprint-shaped earth stood in the mud.

When I got closer, a few vague figures were revealed, these shabby clothes, trembling figures, this was clearly those refugees!

The old woman waved her arms and called out to her son. The woman sat on the ground, clutching the dirt in one hand and resting the other on her lap, whimpering and crying. The old man was holding a young man's legs, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, with a few muddy mats scattered around him.

"My lord, I beg you...... Please...... Leave us alone, Hai'er has just entered the earth......", the old man's trembling and staccato voice came from the rain, filled with desolation by the pouring rain.

The young man's face was hideous, and he kept kicking the old man, and a few slurred words popped out of his mouth as he kicked.

They saw that the grave of the man they had seen last night was beneath their feet, and after a night of rain, half of his shoes and a few corners of his clothes had leaked.

"Stop, stop", Lu Ming hurriedly ran over and called the young man, who was the entourage of the Marquis last night.

The young man didn't pay attention to it, and he didn't even look up, as if he was not in the same world as Lu Ming, but the range of movements on his body was greater, and even the hideous green tendons on his face.

"Didn't you hear me when I told you to stop", seeing that the old man couldn't make any sound, and his body was as stiff as a shrimp, Lu Ming's mood suddenly became irritable. Manipulating the surrounding airflow, it quickly slammed into the upper body of the young man, and at the same time condensed the water flow under his feet.

The young man had never been on guard against Lu Ming, and he was stumbled all of a sudden, the soles of his feet slipped, and he fell directly into the rain.

The young man suddenly became angry, and spat out a few dirty words in his mouth. The muscles are bulging, brown hair grows on his body, and four soul rings are around him, ready to go, looking around left and right and thinking that Lu Ming is the most suspicious.

"Alright, let's stop," a voice came from the carriage, sounding very casual. The window was slowly pushed open, leaking out half of his body, and it was the Marquis who sat inside.

As soon as the young man heard the voice, he accepted the martial spirit, stood beside the carriage, and did not speak, just stared at Lu Ming fiercely.

"It's you, it's you who killed my Hai'er, it's you," the old woman screamed loudly when she saw that face, and threw herself into the carriage with her teeth and claws.

Lu Ming hurriedly grabbed the old woman and used all his soul power to hold her in place.

"Lord Marquis, please forgive me, the old lady is delirious and has no intention of deliberately bumping into Lord Marquis", Lu Ming looked at the young man's hands that were about to move, and quickly bowed.

When Old Man Lu heard Lu Ming's voice outside, he also quickly rushed over, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes and some oil stains remaining on the corners of his mouth. The old man was quite clever, and when he arrived, he hurriedly saluted the marquis, and then carefully pulled the old man up.

The old man was like a paralyzed person, his legs and feet could not exert a little strength, the weight of his whole body was pressed on the old man Lu, and he could no longer say a word, his hair was messy and scattered, he had more air out and less air intake, and his muddy and shabby clothes were clinging to his body, revealing rows of skeletons and a few dented traces.

"It doesn't matter, I can't afford to hold on to such a trivial matter," the marquis frowned.

"Lord Marquis has a broad mind, as a nobleman of a country, there is no need to embarrass a few refugees from his own country", Lu Ming bit heavily on the words "country" and "refugee".

"Why should I be embarrassed for a few of them, I am also worried about the situation of a few of them, and the little brother should not be deceived by a few people's kind faces.

After a period of running, these people have been born from evil in their hearts, yesterday I passed by, and actually wanted to kill me and take money, fortunately I have guards with me, otherwise with my bones, maybe I will enter the belly of the beast last night.

I saw a few people pitiful, I originally wanted to spare their family, but who would have thought that the sword had no eyes, and inadvertently killed the leader of the thieves. When I was about to leave today, I found that there was a thief's corpse hidden on the side of the road.

No graves are allowed on both sides of the official road, and if everyone goes to the grave again, it will be a big trouble for the empire to maintain the official road in the future. So I wanted these family members to move somewhere, but I thought that a few people were so unreasonable, so the scene just happened just now.

Little brother, you must understand that poor people must have something to hate, and many things are not what you see", the marquis spit out a few words without hurrying, and after speaking, he took a careful look at the old man Lu.

The old woman still wanted to pounce on the marquis when she spoke, and she kept spitting out vague dirty words in her mouth, and seeing that the marquis's face did not change, she should not be able to hear clearly.

I saw the woman who was sitting on the ground, and when she heard this, she was immediately excited, and with red and swollen eyes, she wanted to pounce on the marquis like crazy.

Old man Lu was quick and hurriedly knocked the woman unconscious, afraid that she would give her life in vain.

At this point, Lu Ming also roughly sorted out what happened back and forth, and the marquis's remarks could just deceive six or seven-year-old children.

Lu Ming also had some guesses about the current situation, it was nothing more than that he didn't like to meet begging along the road yesterday, and after killing someone, he felt quite unlucky when he saw a corpse today, so the scene just now appeared.

Old man Lu took a closer look at the marquis, and just as he wanted to open his mouth, a fluttering word came out of the window and choked Old Man Lu.

"The old man's body is quite tough, and he goes out in the rain on rainy days", he squinted and stared at Old Man Lu as he said.

"The old man is old, just this child, I heard some movement outside, so I naturally wanted to come out to take a look", the old man Lu thought for a while, and squeezed out a smile.

"The Marquis is very rational and generous, it is better to pardon a few criminals, and he can have a good reputation when he returns. With such a heavy rain and a difficult journey, it's better to return to the imperial capital early", Lu Ming suppressed his anger, thought for a while, and came up with a few words of flattery.

"Little brother has a good heart, no matter what, I will follow you today, if you are free in the future, you must come to the Marquis's Mansion more often", the marquis stared at Lu Ming's face, saw Lu Ming with a smile on his face, and thought that these children of a few years old are very easy to deceive, and they still want to win over Lu Ming in the future, and they don't want to cause more trouble.

After that, he glanced at the entourage dressed in brown and covered in mud, his face did not change, and he saw that the entourage looked at the marquis cautiously, and trembled to the front of the carriage and set up the carriage.

As the heavy rain poured down, it slowly went away, and the old man was silent at this time, and the old man Lu's face was also unsightly gloomy, and the old woman was no longer excited, and returned to her numb expression.

Heavy and depressed emotions are poured into the brain like fuel, transforming into patches of anger.

"Damn, damn it", Lu Ming couldn't hold back the emotions in his heart anymore and scolded.

Seeing a respectable father fall into such a scene today, perhaps it is the sorrow of sympathy, or the surprise of the death of the person he saved.

Mixed emotions are entwined, ignited with anger like weeds. Some of the mechanisms of action of the brain seemed to promote something, and the automatic release of the martial soul appeared in Lu Ming's hands.

In the rainstorm, the Book of Truth rejoices, and the information enters the brain with some strange transmission route, either with joy or with anger.

Lu Ming drove the soul power, and all kinds of information were transmitted into the martial soul, and he was eager to release the first soul technique, and one by one the information hormones screamed and cheered in the cerebral cortex, urging him to act.

"Storm!"

He took a deep breath and slowly spat out two words, and the monstrous anger followed his will into the clouds, and the infinite malice was aimed at the people in the carriage.

Under the downpour, I saw a little boy, not dripping with water, not even a little mud on his shoes. His eyes turned dark blue, and from time to time a few flashes of lightning flashed, and he opened his arms as if to meet this manic storm.

A strange celestial phenomenon appeared around the Marquis's carriage, and the wind struck the carriage with all its might, trying to destroy it with all its might, and the carriage was like a magnet that constantly attracted the rain around it, and the violent breath in the clouds was about to move.

After a long time, a blinding light streaked across the sky and landed directly on the carriage, and the entire roof of the carriage was almost completely lifted, and a violent storm poured into it.

The wooden carriage also crumbled in the wind, and charred shards kept falling on the road.

I don't know if Lu Ming saw all this, but he laughed heartily, the glass cover shattered, the torrential rain poured down from the top of his head, his wet hair stuck to his face, and his feet appeared in patches of mud.

He staggered forward and shouted, "Lord Marquis, if you do too many bad things, you will be damned!" ”

The sound was drowned in the sound of rain, and a wave of weakness embraced Lu Ming's body, and his mind ushered in an explosive pain, the people and things in front of him gradually dimmed, and his consciousness gradually lost control of his body.

After shouting that sentence, it seemed that he had exhausted all his strength, his body was crooked, and he collapsed to the ground, covered in mud, and still had a smile on his face......

"Damn, this damn weather, don't grind, hurry up, enter the city from the small gate when you enter the city", the marquis in the carriage was soaking wet, his clothes were pulled down, strands of hair stuck to his face, and he shouted forward in a half-angry tone.

At the same time, he also noticed the unusual rainstorm, and was half surprised and half suspicious.

Could this be the little ghost's trick, after all, when I saw him just now, it was obvious that he had the power to manipulate the flow of water, but if he really made it, it would be too terrifying.

If he really made it, it's an undiscovered treasure, and this kind of person should work for me.

It's just a little kid of a few years old, and the only one who can stand in the way is the old man, but it's not a big problem......

"Go back and check the list of martial soul awakenings in recent years and the corresponding portraits, and check the origin of this old man and the child", the marquis narrowed his eyes, and several thoughts suddenly popped up in his mind.