Chapter 42: Burying
Woo!
At such a critical moment, a long black whip suddenly came into the air, and the thin whip swept from Zhao Rong's side from bottom to top, and the strong sound of breaking the air shook Zhao Rong's eardrums.
The knife net composed of several horse thieves was whipped slightly, and the encirclement immediately collapsed. With a few sounds, several sabers also fell to the ground.
Whining
The straight long whip suddenly swung left and right, snapping a few times, and the several horse thieves who were besieging Zhao Rong were pulled off their horses one after another.
"Chen Ruoping?" the leader of the horse thieves looked at the long black whip that looked like a spirit snake and said to himself. Looking back, I saw Chen Ruoping coming at a gallop on a solo ride.
"Oh, do you know me?" Chen Ruoping was stunned for a moment, and suddenly withdrew the long whip.
She was too far away when she shot just now, and she didn't see anything unusual, she just thought that a group of horse thieves were besieging Zhao Rong and them. When he got closer, the horse thief called out his name without replying, which surprised Chen Ruoping.
"Brothers, withdraw. The leader of the horse thieves saw that she was coming, and after a moment's thought, he ordered the people to retreat.
"Wait, who are you?" Chen Ruoping asked suspiciously, looking at the equipment of the horse thieves and the posture of controlling the horses.
"Nameless horse thief, of course Lord Chen doesn't know him. But I knew about Lord Chen's power for a long time. The leader of the horse thieves smiled sadly, and whipped his whip and leaped away.
"Wait, you're ......"
Chen Ruoping shouted again.
"Lord Chen, I just don't want my knife to get on my own... but your blood is not afraid of you. You see. The leader of the horse thieves grabbed the reins of his horse and turned back awe-inspiringly and said, "I am not as good as you, and if I die, I will die, if you want to kill me, come now." It is better to die in your hands than to die in the hands of Zhao Rong's dog. ”
Chen Ruoping looked at a group of skinny horse thieves under the sunset, and was silent.
"Catch them for me and kill these horse thieves. Dare to intercept the imperial court officials in broad daylight, it is really the opposite. As soon as Zhao Rong saw that Chen Ruoping was coming, his life was saved, and the other party also had the intention of retreating, so he immediately got up and shouted loudly to command the guards to attack.
The leader of the horse thieves suddenly turned around and slashed down one of the guards who were chasing him the most, and glanced back at Zhao Rong. The cold eyes made Zhao Rong's heart tremble. The other party didn't say much, and directly led a group of horse thieves into the dense forest and walked away.
"Why don't you chase it?" Zhao Rong roared at Chen Ruoping dissatisfiedly.
"Poor Kou Mo Chasing, haven't you heard of it?" Chen Ruoping didn't shake off Zhao Rong, but turned his head to look at Zhao Jinsong, who was dying, and said, "I advise you to take care of your subordinates first, this person's wound has collapsed, and if the blood flows like this, he will die immediately." ”
"Ah, Jinsong, oh, it's thanks to you today. You... How are you? Does it hurt?" Zhao Rong suddenly remembered that he should behave, and hurriedly ran over to support the crumbling Zhao Jinsong, with a grief-stricken face.
"My lord, I... It's okay. ”
Zhao Jinsong had four steel knives embedded in his body, covered in blood, like a ghost. He was struggling to support himself just now with a momentum that looked at death as if he were at home, and he was extremely powerful. Now that the crisis is resolved, the momentum that supports him has relaxed, and the whole person seems to be aggrieved, as if he will pass out at any time.
"Dodge the dot. Chen Ruoping really couldn't see Zhao Rong's fake look. She rode forward, took out a small medicine bottle from her arms, and carefully and stingily shook a little medicine powder on each knife edge of Zhao Jinsong.
"Hiss..." Zhao Jinsong took a breath of cold air, his body twitched slightly, and a hot feeling came from the wound.
"This medicine can only be used for a while, so we'd better get up and go to Oolong Town immediately and find the magistrate there to find a doctor. Otherwise, he probably won't survive tonight. Chen Ruoping put away the medicine bottle and glanced at Zhao Rong lightly.
"A few of you, are you okay?" Zhao Rong turned his head to look at the other guards, all of them were also injured, but they were not as seriously injured as Zhao Jinsong. In the entire team, except for Chen Ruoping, who had just arrived, only Zhao Rong was intact. In the sword light and sword shadow just now, he howled the most, but in the end, he didn't even scratch the skin, which has to be said to be a miracle.
"It's fine. ”
"It's okay..."
……
The guards replied sparsely, and their emotions were not very high.
They set off early in the morning, originally wanting to get rid of Chen Ruoping and follow Zhao Rong to the magistrate of Wulong Town first to get some filial piety silver and make a small fortune, but they encountered such an unlucky thing, and in the end, they relied on Chen Ruoping's rescue to save their lives, and they didn't know what it was like for a while, and they lowered their heads and looked at Chen Ruoping embarrassed.
"Hurry up and leave if it's okay, these damn horse thieves, it's really unlucky. Zhao Rong was not embarrassed, and turned around to leave.
"You... So you left?" Chen Ruoping said in surprise: "Why do you have to bury the dead guards first, right?" Besides, your subordinate is so badly injured that he can't stand the bumps at all, I'm afraid you have to cut a few branches to make a stretcher and carry it away, right?"
"Oh, yes, yes, yes. Zhao Rong suddenly turned around and pointed with his finger: "You, you, go and chop branches to make a stretcher, and the others are responsible for burying people...... What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and do it!" He saw that the guards didn't move much, so he took on the appearance of the commander and shouted loudly.
Seven or eight guards who had survived had no choice but to move slowly, chopping down trees, dragging corpses.
"Bury the corpses of those horse thieves too!" Chen Ruoping pulled out a three-edged feather arrow from the corpse of a guard, studied it carefully for a while in the afterglow of the fall, and suddenly left a sentence.
"These horse thieves are innocent, what is there to bury?" Zhao Rong couldn't help it, and roared at Chen Ruoping. He saw that it was getting dark, and that the departing horse thieves might go and return at any time, and he thought of the death-like gaze of the horse thief leader, and he was indescribably afraid.
"It's a shame that you're still the head of the house, and you still claim to be considerate of the people... What should you do if you leave these corpses on the official road and frighten the people passing by? But you killed them, and if you don't bury them, don't you necessarily keep them for the people to bury?" Chen Ruoping looked at the feather arrow in his hand for a long time, and said without raising his head.
"You ......"
Zhao Rong was speechless when he was refuted, and patted his chest and let out a sigh.
He looked at the severed head in front of him, smelled the thick smell of blood in the air, his stomach twitched for a while, and his body was very uncomfortable as if he had grown hair, and he just wanted to leave this hellish place as soon as possible. It's just that Chen Ruoping wants to be like this for a while, and he wants to be like that for a while, but the reason is particularly high-sounding.
"Hurry up, hurry up, it's going to get dark soon, what are you doing so slowly?" Zhao Rong had no choice but to take a group of guards to get angry.
The guards buried all the bodies with all their hands and covered the pool of blood on the ground with fine earth to restore everything to its original state.
The crowd was gone.
The sun slowly sets from the top of the mountain.
The crows, who had been on the treetops for a long time, saw that there were no corpses to eat, so they croaked and circled a few times, and flew away one by one......
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