In the hands of the horse dealers who sold on the roadside before dawn, the jujube red thin horses they bought were really unbearable to ride, and they didn't ride for a few miles, humming and panting, swaying, as if they were falling apart the next moment.

Zhao Que lowered his head and looked at the thin horse, and said with a smile, Zhao is a waste man whose life is hanging by a thread, Brother Ma is a skinny bad horse, you and I partner to go to Meitang Prefecture, but it can be regarded as a waste general with an inferior horse, complement each other, no one should laugh at anyone.

I don't know if the thin horse understands, humming, running crookedly.

Simply holding on to the reins, he turned over and dismounted, leading his brother to walk together.

"Brother Ma, Brother Ma, I am very kind, I don't want to work on you, let's be a companion, you should understand what Zhao said, and relieve Zhao's loneliness. ”

The thin horse snorted, and Zhao Que patted his horse's head: "Brother Ma understands, in the future, I say, listen, in order to repay Brother Ma for his company, if you encounter good horse material in the inn, you will definitely relieve Brother Ma's hunger." ”

Seems to really understand.

There was a scream.

The funny Zhao Que laughed, laughed halfway, coughed a few times, suddenly felt a fishy sweet throat, and spit out a mouthful of blood on the side of the road, still the black handkerchief, wiping the blood from the corners of his mouth.

"Brother Ma, don't be afraid, this trip is far away, Zhao is not going to die on the road, but to go to Wutai Valley to find Shen Shen, hoping that he can save Zhao's injuries!"

The fog is lost on the platform, and the moon is lost.

Zhao Que said secretly, purely literally, the word fog platform is not a good word.

I walked about ten miles.

Except for the people who had just left Jinlu City and met the people who had received money and food, Zhao Que did not meet anyone else.

Neither did the victims.

It can be seen that he gave the flesh and blood of the family to the people, and from the side, the people in the vicinity all went to Jinlu City to receive money and food, and if they had something to eat, they would be able to pass the approaching New Year.

The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year.

After going through so many things, I don't know if the people who are reunited together will be the same as in previous years.

Zhao Que smiled.

There are indeed many things that have not been done in Nanyangzhou, just as he came to Nanyangzhou to plan a good thing, but the time left for him is not enough, as if there is a thorny thread, always spurring behind him, walking slowly, slapping on his body, throwing flesh and blood flying.

Last night, Nalan Changhui also complained about why Yun Xuan Yuanjun didn't help him survive the curse, if he didn't use the aftermath of cold-blooded Zen, the backlash of the eight-phase dragon python might have lasted for a while.

Zhao Que replied, after his repeated battles in Jinlu City, no matter how big the opportunity is, it is not enough for him to squander, Yun Xuan Yuanjun or kindness, let the heavenly punishment neutralize the pain caused by the backlash.

When he and Li Mujin returned to Bluestone City, they rebelled, and Rao was a great mess in his heart after experiencing countless battles, and he was also tortured.

Ordinary people can't bear that kind of pain at all.

The thin horse neighed, pulling Zhao Que back from his memories.

Two women walked on the official road and supported each other.

When he met Zhao Que, he smiled, the teeth in his mouth were about to fall out, and he spoke the local dialect and asked, "Little brother, how far is it to get to Jinlu City?!"

He struggled to understand and replied with a smile.

Another woman, who was more than a dozen years younger than her, perhaps the old woman's daughter-in-law, said, "Little brother, you see that my parents have difficulty moving, can you give me the horse? ”

Zhao Que lowered his head and thought about it for a while, hesitating in his heart, in the past, he gave this skinny jujube red thin horse to the two of them.

This is no longer the case.

He went to Meitang Prefecture, but his body was like this, and he was counting on the thin horse to support him for a few miles, and rest on horseback.

"I'm sorry, but skinny horses are just as important to Zaixia. ”

Zhao Que's face was pale, and between his words, he could still see the unfinished blood in his mouth.

The eight-phase dragon python plus the curse, and then the accumulated injuries left by the battle, add it up, and the iron body will also collapse, not to mention that Zhao Que is only a mortal fetus.

The middle-aged woman's face changed.

The old woman lowered her face and looked at Zhao Que's face, gloomy and unhappy.

Zhao Que was reluctant to get involved with the two.

Pulling the reins, I wanted to get around them.

The human heart is the most unpredictable.

Especially in troubled times.

Human life is like grass mustard, falling with the wind, a little bit of morality, if it can be eaten?

Zhao Que understood this truth, and he didn't mind the two of them asking for directions, and after he kindly replied, he still had to inch in.

Who would have thought.

He didn't take a few steps with his horse.

The middle-aged woman suddenly pounced and grabbed the reins in Zhao Que's hand.

Zhao Que really didn't expect her move.

However, even if he fell to such a point, after calming down, he measured his current martial arts, and he should still have the strength of Xiao Yin's lower realm.

There is more than enough self-preservation, and no matter what, like Bluestone City and Jinlu City, fight with the human demi-immortals in the three realms of the mid-mountain, no matter what.

"This sister-in-law, how can you steal my horse?"

Zhao Que asked.

After the middle-aged woman saw that Zhao Que was a sick man, she had already had this plan in her heart.

"Hey, you little brother, young and strong, why don't you give us the horse? Little brother didn't see that his mother-in-law was old and frail? After walking down such a long way, even if he arrived in Jinlu City, he only had half a life left, could it be that his conscience was eaten by dogs?

Zhao Que held back his anger and tried his best to explain: "Sister-in-law doesn't know, my body is sick, and I have to go to a far place, if I don't have this thin horse, I'm afraid there will be a lot of delay on the road!"

The middle-aged woman pretended not to hear, and said forcefully: "Look at you, why are you so ruthless? Respecting the old and loving the young is what young people should do, you happen to have a horse instead of foot strength, and your mother-in-law is old and can't walk, how good is it for you to give us the horse?!"

During the tearing of the middle-aged woman, she threw off the headband that tied her hair, and suddenly her hair was scattered, like a crazy woman.

Her strength was not small, and she tugged at the reins and stepped back.

Even if he was seriously injured, Zhao Que still stood still, like a towering tree with deep roots.

But it hurt the thin horse, and the horse's hooves rose and fell, neighing, and the horse's mouth was crooked by the reins.

Zhao Que didn't scold or scold, he could only say: "Sister-in-law, don't rob it, you let it go, let's talk about it, I still have some money here, leave the horse to me, and I will give you the money." ”

As soon as the money was mentioned, the middle-aged woman stopped grabbing it for a moment, immediately let go of her hand, and took half a step back.

His eyes were firmly fixed on Zhao Que, for fear that he would take advantage of this opportunity to turn over and run away.

Zhao Que felt extremely uncomfortable.

He was willing to take such a big risk to let the family cut his flesh and bleed, and he was dedicated to the people, how could the people treat him like this?

Even if it's someone else, you should always talk a little bit about the rules, and you can't be so snobbish!!

"How much? Give less money, I won't let you go!"

The middle-aged woman looked back at the old woman, the old woman understood, walked directly to the front of Zhao Que, blocked the road, and there was no result, it seemed that he was determined to be.

Zhao Que saw that the old woman walked without hindrance, and the two of them just now, thinking, the two should have found him, discussed doing so, and blackmailed him.

The old woman said at the right time: "Look at you are a scholar who has read books, and the reader will not deceive us bitter people, saying that you have to give us a sum of money, you have to take it out, say in advance, the money must be interesting enough, if it is too little, you don't want to go over here!"

The middle-aged woman was empowered, and secretly said, it was still thoughtful for her mother-in-law, and there were many ideas for reading ghosts, and she was almost tricked by him.

Zhao Que sighed and asked, "Why are there only the two of you, the man?"

"Hey, hey, of course the man left enough food for us, and went out to beg for food, and he didn't come back for so many days, who knows where he went!" The middle-aged woman was indifferent, as if the person she was talking about had nothing to do with her.

Speaking of this, the old woman looked at her with disdain: "If your stomach fights for some anger and gives birth to a big fat boy, you won't let my hard-working son go outside to fight for food." ”

"How many times has my mother-in-law said it, it's not that my stomach is not angry, but your son is not angry, if it was the same as Brother Li next door, my daughter-in-law would have been pregnant a long time ago, and you are not unheard at night, how loud Brother Li's daughter-in-law screams, it seems that she can lift the roof. ”

"Okay, okay, I'll talk about this when my son comes back, and now let this young man hand over the money!"

The old woman's face is not good, and she says that her family is ugly in front of outsiders, no matter how thick-skinned she is, she also feels ashamed.

Zhao Que took out more than a dozen copper coins, and the silver coins he was carrying were not much.

The middle-aged woman glanced at her, sneered, and said disdainfully, "It's not as valuable as this horse!"

Zhao Que said: "I really only have this little money on my body, by the way, such a big snow disaster, why don't you two suffer from hunger and cold?"

The middle-aged woman didn't have a door on her lips, stepped into Zhao Que's trap, and said in a 1510 voice: "Of course, the land in our village is good, what is planted, it is far away from Jinlu City, unlike the people who are nearby, and the land is all deceived by the big men in the city." ”

The old woman couldn't help but correct: "You know a fart, it's obvious that the village chief has a way in the city, and he dots up and down, so he didn't let the old man find out about us!"

None of what the two said was reliable, and Zhao Que also knew that they really didn't understand the real way.

turned around and handed more than a dozen copper coins to the old woman, and said with a smile: "Mother-in-law, you see that I have this amount of money, you can accept it when you see it, and let me go." ”

The old woman took the money as it should have been, and put it close to her, but her eyes were fixed on him.

"What else?"

"Huh?

"Yes, a dozen coins is too little, if not, give me your horse. The old woman's face was not red and her heart was not beating, and she said as if Zhao Que's horse was originally hers.

Zhao Que choked up, and asked with a little anger: "Please stop in moderation, too much greed is not good for you." ”

The old woman glanced at her daughter-in-law unhurriedly, and the middle-aged woman moved her arms and reached out to grab the reins in Zhao Que's hand.

Zhao Que couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped it in the middle-aged woman's face.

Syllable.

It took a lot of effort on his part.

Don't look at him sick, there is still a lot of residual strength.

The middle-aged woman felt lightheaded, and her body flew involuntarily.

Oops screamed in pain and fell to the ground.

The right side of his face suddenly swelled.

She covered her right cheek, struggled to get up, pointed at Zhao Que and scolded angrily: "You, a scholar, dare to beat me?

The clothes Zhao Que wears do look like a scholar.

The two threatened him with this, there was a Xiucai in their village, who read a belly of sage books and was kind to others, but the villagers felt that he was a bully, occupied his family's land, and robbed his family's food.

This kind of bullying by people in the same village is the most helpless and chilling.

Zhao Que stretched out his hand and grabbed the big sound Xisheng.

The middle-aged woman immediately shut up, took a few steps back, and looked at him dumbfounded.

I thought he was a weak reader, but I didn't expect that the reader still had the ability to conjure a knife out of thin air.

"You keep talking!"

Zhao Que looked at the middle-aged woman.

The middle-aged woman's frightened face was even paler than his, how could she dare to say anything, she just stepped back.

The old woman saw that Zhao Que took out a knife, and she was not far from Zhao Que, and her heart suddenly became cold.

The old woman had lived all her life, and she had never seen anything, thinking that she was close at hand to this young man, she was a lot older, and her body was not as good as before, and she would definitely not be able to run.

Immediately, pretending as if nothing had happened, he quietly walked past Zhao Que, and didn't greet her daughter-in-law, and walked towards Jinlu City alone.

How dare the middle-aged woman play a scoundrel anymore, covered her face, walked a few steps, caught up with her mother-in-law, and the two of them supported each other and went to Jinlu City to receive money and food.

They really disgusted Zhao Que.

The ghosts of the human heart are the most tempting, and this year of disaster has brought out the evil thoughts that are usually covered up.

Zhao Que pulled the jujube red thin horse, and they laughed angrily: "Brother Ma, it is not as effective as taking out a knife to say all kinds of good things." ”

The jujube red thin horse, who is called Brother Ma, hummed again.

He smiled: "Okay, I know that you are also angry, after all, this kind of people in the world are only a small part, what we do, not only for them, but also for those people who live honestly, besides, know etiquette and know honor and disgrace when you have enough food and clothing." ”

"If you are not in a hurry, you are not in a hurry, when everyone in the world is living a good life, you will naturally want to learn the principles of the sages, know how to abide by the rules, and abide by morality. ”

After this episode.

One person and one horse walked along the official road, and when the strength was enough, they walked faster, and when they were tired, they rested for a while and then walked.

Zhao Que was reluctant to ride a horse brother anymore, one person and one horse, and accompanied each other until the willow tops on the moon.

Sleeping in the wilderness, there is no shop in front of the village and no store, Zhao Que doesn't care, he found a concave hillside, and then found some hay, spread it under his body, and went on the spot, the rest of the hay was covered on his body, looking at the thin horse tied to the tree not far away, Zhao Que hummed a little song, and unconsciously fell asleep.

He was awakened by the cold.

Take a look.

It's still a starry sky.

Turning his head to look at Brother Ma, the thin horse snorted and neighed at him.

Zhao Que closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

In the early morning in Nanyangzhou, the dew is heavy.

Plus the cold wind.

His clothes were half wet, and he shivered from the cold.

He led Brother Ma to find some hay to eat, and then got on the horse, and ordered Brother Ma to carry him for four or five miles.

The mountain in front of you is spectacular.

It's just that in winter, there is a black and brown color, but there are a few evergreen ones set up in the middle of the mountainside, which only adds a little scenery that is easy to ignore.

The official road has long been gone, and the so-called Wangshan ran a dead horse, and Zhao Que also dismounted halfway and led it to the foot of the mountain.

"Brother Ma, after turning over this mountain, you should be out of Nanyangzhou, you and I work hard, it's just a small mountain, it's nothing. ”

The jujube red thin horse neighed a few times, let Zhao Que lead him, and one person and one horse slowly climbed the mountain.

But in the recent part of Nanyangzhou, there is not only a mountain with rocks and hibernating animals.

A man and a horse had just crossed a mountain, and when they were about to go down the mountain, more than a dozen "heroes" rushed out on both sides.

The reason why he is a hero, not a mountain bandit, is what Zhao Que said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you adults have a lot, I only have this horse, and I have no property, can you let me go down the mountain?" Zhao Que looked like a scholar who was traveling to study, begging the mountain bandits who blocked the road and robbed him to let him live.

Later, he counted the number of people, fifteen mountain bandits.

It is not like those serious mountain bandits, but like the victims who have no hope of survival and go up the mountain and fall into the grass.

One of them had three scars on his face, and he looked fierce and vicious, "What's the matter? Just let you go so easily? So many of our brothers, waiting for so many days, just waiting for you to come alone, if we let you go in a few words? Wouldn't our brothers want to drink the northwest wind?!"

The other person held a big knife with a rusty back and a sharp blade, took a few steps forward, and touched the jujube red thin horse: "Although this horse has lost a little weight, kill it, and more than a dozen of our brothers should be able to get some meat." ”

"Hey, let's just kill him too, the skin is tender and the meat is handsome, and the meat on his body must be delicious!!"

"What Brother Eleven said is that I have eaten human flesh, I remember that the man was originally a son-in-law, he looked good, and he fascinated my sister, and then killed him, boiled a big pot of meat, oops, that meat, melted in the mouth, it was delicious!"

Zhao Que smiled bitterly and hugged his fists and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am here from Jinlu City, where disaster relief is being carried out, and the government distributes money and food, if you go now, everyone will definitely get a share of money and food, which is enough to settle down and live a good life." If you have a good life, you don't have to continue to fall into the grass and endure all kinds of suffering. ”

"Fart, can the government be kind enough to provide disaster relief? It's all rumors, I don't think you are a good person, are you an official in Jinlu City?!" one of them suddenly asked angrily.

"The second brother is right, this person's words are quite orderly, he must have read a lot of things, he has fine skin and tender meat, he is suave, he can't tell which big family's son, those big families who have lost their conscience, they have already put all the people in the family into the official mansion, in ordinary times, the people break the law and are directly killed, and the people in the big clan have broken the law and pretend that nothing has happened!"

"It's so annoying, brothers, you guys are watching, I'll go up and give him a knife, horse meat and human flesh stew together, let's taste what it tastes like!"

"Good!"

The scarface kept looking at Zhao Que: "Fourth, you go down, I see that this kid is lying, he must have money on him, I will kill him!"

"That's right! Big brother is here to kill! Big brother is the fairest, get the money, everyone share!!"

Scarface said kill and rounded his arms.

It's just that before he could slash at Zhao Que, Zhao Que grabbed Da Yin Xisheng and cut off Scarface's head with a knife first.

The head fell to his feet, and he rolled down the cliff, all the way down, and then, Scarface's body popped and rolled down as well.

Blood was dripping on the stones, shocking.

Few of the dozen or so mountain bandits have actually killed anyone.

Seeing Zhao Que easily kill his eldest brother, they all trembled with fright, and they could barely hold the weapon in their hands.

Zhao Que sighed and repeated: "Jinlu City is distributing money and food, you go to collect it now, it is enough for you to live in peace, licking blood on the knife edge, refreshing is refreshing, no one knows, when you will meet the hard stubble, I will kill you all." ”

The man who was called the second brother by the mountain bandits gritted his teeth and shouted: "Brothers, don't be deceived by him, it's just an opportunistic trick to kill the eldest brother when the eldest brother is not paying attention, I will be your eldest brother from now on, follow me!"

"Yes, look at him is a sick seedling, he started to pant after a knife, let's follow the second brother together, and make sure that there will be meat to eat later!"

"Fight!"

"One piece!"

These people's brains were hot, and they rushed to kill Zhao Que.

At this point, there was no other way but to kill them all.

Zhao Que then clenched the sound of the big sound, one counts as one, and the head of the killing person is rolling, and blood is splashed all over the stone.

One of the mountain bandits wanted to cut down the thin horse, but before the knife could reach the horse, the big sound of the light knife cut his weapon in two, and cut off his head.

"Brother Ma, let's go down the mountain. ”

The blood was under his feet, the road was very slippery, and Zhao Que, who was accustomed to seeing big scenes, calmly re-found a way down the mountain, led Brother Ma, and stumbled to the foot of the mountain.

More than ten miles.

There is an inn.

Outside the inn, a big banner was erected.

The flag dropped its color and said Taiping Inn.

The handwriting is new, and it should have been written not long ago.

led the horse into the inn courtyard.

Hearing that someone was coming, the two young men rushed out and rushed to lead the horse for Zhao Que.

"Is there any good horse feed?"

"Some guest officers, guest officers, some of them!"

"Don't worry, our inn only has good horse material, and there is no bad horse material! Your horse will definitely be able to feed a few catties of fat in our inn!"

Out of the door came a plump and beautiful woman wearing a big red cotton jacket, her skin was like congealed fat, as if she could pinch out a few catties of water.

The beautiful woman twisted her waist, she was fat where she should be fat, thin where she should be thin, and she was put in Jinlu City, and she was also a beauty liked by the lords of the family.

"Where did the guest come from?"

The beautiful woman was not disgusted, and affectionately grabbed Zhao Que's arm and pulled him into the inn.

Zhao Que pulled out his arm without leaving a trace: "From Jinlu City." ”

"Oh, from our state city, where are the guest officers going?"

Zhao Que replied: "Go to Meitang Prefecture." ”

"Meitang Prefecture, my distant aunt is there, or I met a ranger in my hometown, although the ranger is not as graceful as the guest officer, it can be regarded as a peugeot character, my distant aunt was lost by the ranger and couldn't walk, and later, hiding from my father and mother, I went to Meitang Prefecture with the ranger. After all these years, I don't know how my distant aunt is doing, and how does the ranger treat her?

Entered the door of the inn.

There was a sturdy man behind the counter, knocking on the plate, looking up at Zhao Que, and sighed: "What's wrong with the guest officer?

Zhao Que said with a smile: "I was infected with some wind and cold on the road, and my body bones were already weak, so I was suddenly terrible." ”

"Oh, my herbs for curing wind and cold ran out a few days ago, and it's really a coincidence that the guest officer came. ”