Chapter 1 The Pearl of the Palm
June 28, the sky was sunny and the sun was scorching.
Noon approached.
There were more than two dozen horses, galloping through the trees and weeds.
The dusty air, mixed with more dust, sucked into the lungs, was extremely uncomfortable.
But these big men don't care about the dust at all. They have more important things to do. It's still imminent. Nothing is as important as something urgent.
The cry of "huh" came all the way.
Looking closely, the man in black was carrying a 5-year-old baby girl.
"Third brother, is this baby girl very valuable? Is it worth protecting more than 20 of our brothers with their lives? ”
"Yes!"
The baby girl was crying and hoarse.
"Lu Duoxun, later Zhou Jinshi, was a bachelor of Hanlin in the first year of Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty, and later the prime minister of the Northern Song Dynasty.
In the seventh year of Kaibao, Lu Duoxun implicated the Qin King Zhao Tingmei in the case of forming a party and running a private business, and was sentenced to punish the nine clans.
"Is this woman the jewel of Ludoson's palm?" The middle-aged man with a surprised skeleton and a hideous face asked: "Lu Duoxun, a bachelor of Hanlin, is a civil official and has made many contributions to the Northern Song Dynasty. As the prime minister, how can he collude with Zhao Yanmei, the king of Qin? ”
"How do we understand the affairs of the DPRK and China. We were ordered by General Huyanzan to learn that although Yazhou is overseas, the conditions of water and soil are okay, and the people who are sent there are basically harmless. Lu Duoxun, who was supposed to be assigned to Yazhou, was sent to Chunzhou after being discussed by Kaifeng Li Fu officials. They discussed, although Chunzhou is in the interior, but there are poor mountains and bad waters, I heard that the officials who were demoted to Chunzhou did not survive later, Lu Duoxun should be resent to Chunzhou, Song Taizong listened, nodded slightly. ”
"General Huyanzan, this man is known for his bravery, he does not want to die in battle, he has made many military exploits, and often tells people that he is willing to die on the battlefield. When Hu Yanzan was a straight guard, he said that he was too deeply favored by the country, and he was inseparable from the Khitan, and tattooed the words "Kill the Khitan with a naked heart" everywhere on his body, and also blackened these words. I don't know if these stories are true or not. We, the people of the rivers and lakes, only have a deep relationship with you Zhao Yijian, and it is also your face, so we came to rescue the hostages. ”
Zhao Yijian said: "Brother Li Jin, my face is really not small, I often follow General Huyanzan. He and the Khitan do not share the hatred of the sky, showing patriotic feelings! The girl's name was Lu Saiyu. General Huyanzan didn't have much ink in his belly, and he didn't understand the affairs of the court and China between the literati. Lu Duoson's crime was serious and heinous in nature, and he violated the criminal law, and he should have been put to death as a sign of state authority and the law of the country. Later, after many ministers' discussions, it was changed to a frontier. However, due to the fact that there were many enemies in the political circles of the DPRK and China, Lu Duoxun's home was assassinated. ”
Li Jin sighed and said: "In the rivers and lakes, there are enmities and enmities in the rivers and lakes, and in the court, there are naturally hooks in the court. My brother and I are chic and free in the rivers and lakes, come and go and decide for ourselves, and wander all our lives. ”
Zhao Yijian clenched the reins of the horse, and the green tendons were prominent. Horses neighed and barked. They ran for a day and a night, without a moment's rest, and even the horses began to go wild.
"Brother Li, our horses can't support it, shouldn't we find a place to let the horses drink water and eat grass. Feed them before heading out. We've run so far, and we're already some distance from Lu House. The enemy should not catch up with us. We're notoriously quick runners! "A middle-aged man with a pockmarked face, his cheekbones are higher than his face, his eyes are as small as a mouse, and his lower court is wide, and he looks very terrifying.
Zhao Yijian looked into the distance, and in the dust, he caught a glimpse of a liquor shop set up in a tent. The corners of his mouth lifted and he smiled, "There is a place to stop ahead." Let's go over there and take a break. After saying it in his heart, the smile raised went down in an instant. He couldn't help but guess in his heart: it was noon, the horses galloped all the way, and he didn't see any cottages, and there was a hotel with tents set up temporarily in this place where there was no village in front of the village and no shops behind the village. Although Lu Saiyu was rescued from Lu Mansion, we did run a hundred miles. On this 100-mile journey, we changed one horse after another, some of the horses ran away and vomited blood, and some of the horses changed from fat horses to thin horses. On the way, I met one after another different officers and soldiers chasing and killing. However, fortunately, Zhao Yijian and they succeeded in defeating the enemy. Some of the enemies were killed, some fled in panic, some were frightened, and some were crushed. General Hu Yanzan's subordinates, each brave and good at fighting, Li Jin is also known as the "Crazy Demon Sect Master" in the rivers and lakes, a meteor hammer in one hand, the use of a god, the meteor hammer is made of pure gold and silver, to say the least there are dozens of pounds of weight, but in his hands, when he throws it, it is as light as a feather. The Imperial Court General and the Mad Demon Sect Master teamed up to rescue Lu Saiyu, it was really easy, like a flower on your fingers. They were not afraid of any difficulties along the way, and they walked so far through mountains and rivers, although they were physically and mentally exhausted, they were still nervous.
The horses were tied to the stakes, and more than two dozen burly and wonderful people sat around the table of the Eight Immortals. Zhao Yijian's throat was hoarse, and he asked, "Shop, let's quench our thirst with a few large bowls of noodle soup first!" Then each person cooks a bowl of beef noodles with chopped green onions. ”
Out of the tent came a rickety old man with gray hair on his sideburns. Behind him was a young girl, dressed plainly and with a delicate baby face. When the old man saw so many people, he was sincerely frightened, and muttered in his heart: more than 20 people from the rivers and lakes, equipped with swords, saw that their expressions were gloomy, their faces were dry, and their lips were like dead ashes, but their foreheads were covered with beads of sweat, and the curvature of their robes was covered with dust. It's obviously a long way. Who are these people?
Glancing at a few more horses.
The horses tied to their stakes were all curled up on the ground, eating the grass beside them.
The old man smiled slightly and said, "Xiaowan, go and scoop a few big bowls of noodle soup from the pot." ”
Xiao Wan behind him sighed, turned and walked to an inner room with tattered cloth hanging. A few minutes later, the bowls of noodle soup were all served. The men drank it all, but fortunately the noodle soup was not hot and slightly hot. The old man said, "Officials, these soups have been left out for two hours, and you have just come just right, the soup is not hot, and there is no heat to drink." At this hour, the sun is hot, and it is definitely not good to drink hot soup, but seeing that you are tired from running around, it is good to drink some slightly hot soup. ”
As he spoke, he glanced at Lu Saiyu, it was okay not to look at it, but when he looked at it, his eyes were shining, as if he had found a treasure, and his face was full of joy. The old man lowered his head with a smile and said slowly: "Visiting officers, you are from far away, I don't know where you are going?" ”
With a bang, a porcelain bowl shattered.
The debris fell to the ground with a thud.
A man scolded: "Don't ask too much about things that have nothing to do with you." Knowing more is not necessarily a good thing! ”
They are always on the alert.
Anytime.
Lu Saiyu's eyes were as bright as stars. His eyes were moist and red from crying just now.
The old man wanted to ask about something specific, but after the man reprimanded him, he immediately stopped.
Without asking, he knew that this girl was the one he was waiting for. A girl to kill. He turned around and walked into the back room, his still kind eyes instantly became murderous, and his pupils became larger. His eyes were staring at the black-and-white portrait hanging in the room, on which the portrait was crooked, and the face of his daughter drawn with a brush was none other than Lu Saiyu. He looked at it for a while, and believed in his heart that this girl was going to kill Lu Saiyu.
His rickety body suddenly became straight and straight, and his waist was very straight, like a thick tree. In the yellow and white robe, his powerful arms were directly exposed, and because he bent down just now, his entire arms were also bent in the long sleeves. Now the long sleeves are exposed, and they are even longer than the long sleeves.
The blue tattoos on the arms are very attractive. It is in the shape of a tiger climbing a mountain. Anyone who knows this tiger knows that the old man is not an old man, but Feng Zibo, a famous "creeping tiger" in the rivers and lakes. Feng Zibo is not an old man, he is a forty-year-old man.
A month ago, Feng Zibo was working in Xiangyang, and his second brother Feng Zikai, the "snake out of the hole", introduced him to a business, which was a murderous business. Feng Zikai wrote to Feng Zibo: After receiving a secret report, I learned that Lu Duoxun's daughter was rescued by several unknown figures at night. The person who can rescue from the "Cave Snake" must have a certain skill, so now let you and your subordinates arrange for multiple people to intercept them on the road and bring Lu's daughter back! Blocker, kill. After the deed is done, there will be a great reward!
Feng Zibo, Feng Zikai is a person in the rivers and lakes, and the business he takes is to do things for others. Different things, the price is naturally different. This time it is the daughter of the prime minister, and the price must be 1,000 taels of gold.
"Brother Feng, my Mandarin Duck Meridian Yue is already shining, and I am ready to slaughter those dozen people. When they came in, I noticed that they were not ordinary. The weapons that everyone carries are famous. ”
"You can see that girl, that girl is the person we are looking for. The pearl of Lu Mansion, Lu Saiyu. However, the people around her are not simple. I saw that the person holding the long whip should be Chang Tiancheng, and the golden hook on the other person's table should be Xiang Shuai's hook heart scimitar, which specializes in taking people's hearts. ”
"Yes, I can see it too." Xiaowan's face is no longer a kind face.
Her age is not young, which is a spring onion girl? She is a woman in her thirties with rich social experience. Her name is Feng Zifeng, the "Transfiguration Flower Butterfly". She used her right finger to tear open a thin layer of skin on the corner of her right cheek, and a delicate thin skin was pulled away from her face, revealing a layer of vicissitudes of cheek. The face is uneven and the skin is loose.
After she had finished a few large bowls of noodle soup, she hid in the inner room, thinking about how to kidnap the girl. There were no white-pink noodles in her hands, no blood-red beef slices, but a butterfly knife, a butterfly-like knife. Her right arm is tattooed with a butterfly with its wings outstretched.
Will the two of them be able to rob Lu Saiyu? Just the two of them?
Many people didn't believe that the two of them were able to kill more than two dozen people with strong martial arts and then take Lu Saiyu away.
The Transfiguration Flower Butterfly Feng Zifeng and the Creeper Feng Zibo also didn't believe that they could kill them and take Lu Saiyu away.
But the two of them were able to take Lu Saiyu away. Before they came, they had carefully designed, planned and detailed plans.
Although it was the two of them who came, behind them were the entire imperial court and half of the rivers and lakes. The two of them are mere agents.
Heaven is beautiful again.
The time is right.
The sun is like fire. Scorched earth. Zhao Yijian, who drank the soup, said that they were in the tent, in the shadows, but they were sweating, and their clothes were close to their skin, sticky and uncomfortable.
They really wanted to find a spring of water, jump in and swim, and then find a large soft bed and sleep comfortably. Snoring took a nap.
Lu Saiyu had been immersed in sadness and pain on the road, how could she not be heartbroken? Why not tear your heart out?
Two days on the eve. She was asleep, and the moon was like a scimitar, and now on the ridge of the roof, it seemed that she could pluck it off with her hands. She slept on the second floor.
The moonlight poured in through the half-open window, and a warm current shone on her.
She had sweet dreams as usual.
Her muscles relaxed.
Suddenly, there was a sound of steel knives colliding in the courtyard. The fighting became louder and more intense. Shatter her dreams. She woke up.
Standing at the window and looking outside, a group of black-clothed people and Lu clan guards were fighting. The sword light and sword shadow, the blur.
She remembered a week ago. Daddy Ludosun returned home and sat in a tiger chair, his face as dead as ashes, his black beard trembling with anger. He said angrily: "The traitorous ministers of the court are in charge, and they actually say that I am a private party, which is a trumped-up crime. Zhao Pu revealed that I had a relationship with Zhao Tingmei, the king of Qin, and was guilty of depriving the official title, and his family was assigned to Yazhou, and died in Liusuo. ”
When the gentle woman heard this, she was terrified, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the sky was about to collapse. She said: "Master, the court and political circles are already muddy waters. ”