"Three watches, safe and sound!"

The moonlight was dim and the cold was pressing, and the two husbands slowly walked on the old streets of the ancient city.

One holds a bang, the other holds a gong, and the two of them take a gear, knocking while walking.

"Tuk Tuk!"

"Boom!"

"Zi Shi San......" The middle-aged husband of Nabang walked in front, and stopped abruptly without shouting a word.

The husband who held the gong at the back was younger, and at this time, his pupils shrank, and he hurriedly took two steps forward, and shouted: "What person! Walking around the streets at this hour, aren't you afraid of being sent to the county government by us? ”

Not far in front of the two groomsmen, five men in thick leather jackets and big leather hats were walking in front of them, two of whom were carrying a barrel on their shoulders.

The head was a big fat man with a straight chest and belly, and he was wrapped in a woolen coat, and he looked like a bear.

He didn't care about the threat of the young husband, but laughed and said, "Two hard work! I waited for the mountain to come out of the mountains and go into the city to exchange some food and cloth, so that I could go home for the New Year. ”

The young husband immediately glared: "Who is it that you will get?" In this cold winter, several surrounding mountains have long been blocked by heavy snow, you ......"

As he was talking, he was suddenly pulled by the middle-aged husband on the side, and he couldn't say the next words.

The middle-aged husband stepped forward, and his tone was obviously much calmer: "There is a snake road for snakes, and there is a mouse road for rats, and each has its own number of roads." ”

"A few people were in a hurry in the middle of the night, thinking that there was something urgent, as long as there was no trouble...... Although the two of us were ordered to patrol the streets, we were not bad masters in the yamen after all, so we couldn't meddle in our affairs. ”

"It's just that the city has not been peaceful recently, and there have been a few evil murders, so I advise a few people not to walk around at night, so as not to collide with anything, and bring disaster to themselves and their families."

The big fat man, who claimed to be a mountain chaser, was stunned for a moment, and his footsteps kept moving: "Is there anything else?" Didn't you see a notice at the city gate? Dare to ask the two of you, what kind of evil law is those murders? ”

Seeing that he looked unconvinced, the young husband suddenly felt that his companion's kindness had been fed to the dog, and shouted angrily: "Can we still lie to you?" Those people died so miserably that they were all ......."

Before he could finish another sentence, the young man received a gavel on his head.

"What nonsense! Is it really good to talk to the poor men in the yamen? ”

The middle-aged husband scolded loudly and said to the big fat man and others who came closer: "You say that you are driving the mountain, you should know that some things are a disaster if you hear them, but you can't ask blindly." ”

The big fat man nodded again and again when he heard this, hugged his fist at him and said, "Thanks to my brother's advice!" Let's not ask, let's rush back to the inn, close the doors and windows and sleep! ”

Seeing that this man only thanked his companion, the young husband became more and more dissatisfied, and muttered: "Bad luck has come, and it is useless to close the doors and windows." The shopkeeper of Dafeng Qianzhuang slept in the silver cellar, and the iron fence was thicker than that of the county jail, and it was not a ......."

This time, he learned to be obedient, and he stopped his mouth without waiting for the beating.

The young man's eyes fell on the two wooden barrels carried by the mountain drivers, and he didn't think about it and asked, "What kind of mountain goods are in this bucket?" ”

Hearing this, the five mountain chasers stopped together.

After a short silence, the big fat man laughed and glanced at a companion carrying a wooden barrel: "In that case, you might as well let these two take the palm of our hands for us and see if we can sell it for a price!" ”

The middle-aged husband hurriedly shook his head: "Don't toss, we are just two poor people, what can we do?" ”

"Alas, if we didn't know how to make a living, we wouldn't have done this terrible errand! Don't delay here, it's better to hurry back to the inn! ”

But no one cared about his words.

A large heavy wooden barrel fell to the ground with a muffled sound, and the lid was jerked open.

The two husbands subconsciously looked at it and saw that the bucket was full of lime.

Seeing this, the middle-aged husband looked relieved, and the young one laughed out loud: "Look at you dressed like dogs, it turns out to be a few bitter people who burn lime in the mountains haha, what kind of mountain catcher is this?" ”

The big fat man smiled and didn't refute, just reached out and shaved it in the bucket.

A thick layer of lime was pulled aside by him, revealing half of his pale face.

The big fat man kept in his hands, and as more and more lime was cut open, more and more faces were revealed.

It's not a head, it's just a face, as if it was cut off from the skull, so well preserved that it hasn't even been stained with lime, and at first glance it seems to be just sleeping with its eyes closed, with an indescribable eerie solemnity.

The big fat man fished out a human face from the barrel and shook it in front of the two husbands, with a gloomy smile and a frighteningly white tooth.

"If I remember correctly, this face was peeled off in the silver cellar of Dafeng Qianzhuang!"

With a snap, the wooden bang fell to the ground.

The young husband's face was paler than the face of a dead man who was close at hand, his body trembled like chaff, and his lips trembled, but he could not spit out a word.

The middle-aged husband was also as earth-colored, and he raised the gong in his hand before he was about to ring, and he had been bullied by two so-called mountain chasers.

One of them swiped with his fingernails, and the hand in which he held the hammer of the gong was immediately severed at the wrist.

The other stretched out his hand to wipe his face, and the middle-aged husband's entire face immediately fell.

The man who shot it easily caught the face, and threw it into the cask beside it, where it was accompanied by the face of the young groom, and then covered with lime.

The two corpses were degraded and disrecognizable, leaving only the posterior occipital skull, which was unbearable to look at.

The barrel was sealed again, and it was carried on the shoulders again.

The five of them looked at each other, and the big fat man sighed: "Although the husband is a lowly servant, he can be regarded as eating yamen rice, and this place is becoming more and more unbearable!" ”

"Hmm...... It seems that a new army has been stationed in the south of the city, let's go from the north overnight! ”

Before the words fell, there was a sudden sound of fluttering wings above the heads of the five people.

When the big fat man looked up, he saw a bat as big as a goose flying straight over, and his eyes were full of blood.

"Phew! Wherever you go, you can follow it, it's really a fucking ghost, and you know how to pick up ready-made ones all day long! ”

The big fat man spat hatefully, waved his arms, pulled his legs and left.

The rest hurriedly followed, all of them walked like flying without touching the ground, and soon arrived under a city wall.

The five people went up to the wall, and they were like walking on the ground, and in just a few breaths, they climbed the not very towering walls of this small city.

The castle was empty and unmanned, and only in the direction of the gates could there be fire.

Without hesitation, the five jumped down and floated like feathers into the vast wilderness north of the city, and disappeared in an instant.

Today, my daughter-in-law was discharged from the hospital and went home to recuperate, cleaned up for a long time, only coded a small chapter, and resumed a big chapter tomorrow.

(End of chapter)