After docking, Zou Run left the boat back to resume his life as usual, and he took people and horses to the shore in a small boat to find the nearest market town.

After all, the boundary of Dengzhou is still quite large, and he has been going around the coastline for so long that he doesn't know where he is staying, so he has to go to find someone to ask about the way to Dengyun Mountain. In addition, he went out in the morning, and now it was afternoon, and in the middle of it, he only cared about finding a suitable island and didn't use any dry food, and his stomach was already rumbling with hunger.

The idea was good, but he walked along the country road for half an hour with three or five retinues, and he didn't even see a single ordinary farmer, let alone go to the hotel in the market town to have some wine and meat.

Just when Zou Run secretly shouted bad luck in his heart, an entourage behind him suddenly stood up from the horseback, and after looking at it from a distance, he pointed to a forest in the distance and said:

"The owner of the village, there is a big forest in front! There is still smoke rising from the back of the forest, thinking that someone is there. ”

Zou Run's spirits perked up, and he was anxious to ask for directions back to the mountain, so he ordered to speed up immediately.

The clock ticked a few hours.

In Zhaoyuan County, Laizhou, next to a village road hotel close to the dense forest, two groups of poor men escorted two prisoners, and they happened to collide together.

From the beginning of the sword on guard against each other, to the later mutual disclosure of official documents to verify their identities, the two groups of messengers let down their guard and communicated with each other.

It turned out that one of them came from Kaifeng Mansion and the other from Jingzhao Mansion (in present-day Xi'an), and one of the prisoners escorted was named Ling Zhen and the other was Pei Xuan.

The assassination location of these two people is also the prison camp of Salmon Island, which is known as the Nine Deaths!

Now the two groups of poor people looked at each other, and they had never been so fateful.

Since they are all so fateful, it is said that they are all out of tolerance, and the hotel is close at hand, there is no reason not to have a drink together, and then make an appointment to move forward to take care of each other.

But these two groups of poor people tacitly chose to pass through the hotel and not enter, saying that they wanted to go to the big forest in front of them to rest, and they also had a very tacit understanding to diverge from one after the other.

In February, the earth is purple and red, the trees have new branches, the flowers are new, the spring is melting, people are sleepy, there is a way to see the mountains and run dead horses, in fact, it is difficult to walk in the forest.

Looking close, but in fact it is far away, hurry up and hurry, when they walked into the forest, the two messengers were already sweating profusely, their tongues were smoking, and even the escorted messengers had reached this point, how to talk about the prisoners walking with flails?

As a martial artist, Ling Zhen originally had a martial arts foundation, and he could go from Kaifeng to Laizhou, along the way, the two messengers who escorted him tortured him in a different way, not only did he not eat enough food, he did not drink enough water, but also woke people up coldly in the middle of the night, so that he could not sleep steadily, and a soft knife that killed people without seeing blood pierced down, which simply wiped Ling Zhen from a big man in Tibet to the appearance of today's bones.

Finally arrived in the forest, Ling Zhen only felt a softness under his feet, and suddenly fell to the ground, his eyes were dizzy for a while, and there seemed to be a string of Venus around his head, he couldn't help but lament:

"The villain really can't walk, he just passed by the hotel and didn't use some food, he is tired and thirsty now, he wants to faint, it's convenient to go up and down, please save me."

One of the poor men with a black face and evil face was furious when he saw this, and scolded: "Hurry up, hurry up! If you don't go, the big stick will be clenched! ”

And the kinder companion came out to persuade, "What do you do directly, even if I am also tired, and I am about to arrive at Dengzhou to deliver, so I will sleep in this forest for a while, and rest for a while, I can't see him die here, and you and I must not be able to go on a bad errand." ”

Even with the persuasion of his peers, the poor man was still a little reluctant.

"Hugh said, this guy was originally a military attaché, if I wait for him to fall asleep, let him run away, it will affect you and me to eat lawsuits, it's not appropriate, it's better to get up and hurry up."

Seeing that one of the two wanted to rest, and the other was afraid that he would escape, Ling Zhen struggled to get up, and hurriedly said, "The villain is a good man, the lawsuit has been eaten, and he will not leave for the rest of his life, since the eldest brother is not at ease, he can tie me up with a rope, and he will take a break and then go on the road, and the villain will definitely not dare to delay and delay." ”

Hearing Ling Zhen say this, the kind-faced duke smiled and said, "Listen, this guy is sensible, so tie him up?" ”

Another messenger also laughed, "Since he wants to tie up, let's tie it up." ”

As the two spoke, they untied the rope from their waists, found a pine tree half the thickness of a person, and tied Ling Zhen's flail tightly to the tree.

Who knew that the two of them jumped away violently, picked up the water and fire sticks from the ground, and slowly approached, their faces changed their faces, and they said hideously:

"There is a debtor and a debtor, Deputy Envoy Ling, you must know that your family is evil to Captain Gao, I will escort you all the way to this Laizhou, so that you can live for a long time, and it is already benevolent and righteous. Helplessly, someone came to Taiwei's Mansion yesterday to spread the word, Gao Taiwei will die today as long as you die, don't blame my two brothers! ”

"That's it, anyway, you will die when you arrive on Salmon Island, it is better to die today, and it can be regarded as a good deed to fulfill our brothers! Ling Zhen, close your eyes! Next year today will be your anniversary! ”

After speaking, Ling Zhen couldn't help but beg for mercy, so the two of them raised the water and fire stick high, and after accumulating enough strength, they smashed it down on Ling Zhen's head.

Seeing that the thunder was killed in an instant, it was too late to say that it was too fast, but only a few muffled sounds of "boom boom" were heard, and four featherless crossbow arrows shot out silently in the grass, hitting the backs of two poor people.

The two officials from Kaifeng Mansion only felt a shock to their bodies, and their hands suddenly lost their strength, and the two water and fire sticks fell off respectively, and their bodies fell to the ground, and they lost their breath in a moment, and they didn't know who was behind the black hand until they died.

Those who harm people, people will always harm them, Zou Run was speechless and excited to step over the two corpses on the ground, he didn't expect that he was just passing through a forest, and he actually broke through a scene similar to a wild boar forest, thanks to his entourage carrying small bows and crossbows all year round, otherwise he would not be able to save Ling Zhen's life in such a timely manner.

However, what made Zou Run curious was why Ling Zhenhao, a deputy envoy of the Jiazhan Treasury, had become a felony prisoner assigned to Salmon Island without seeing him for a month?

Until Zou Run walked in front of Ling Zhen, Ling Zhen still maintained the appearance of closing his eyes and waiting helplessly for death.

After being woken up by Zou Run, Ling Zhen was still at a loss, thinking that he had returned to the underworld.

"Brother Zhou? It's you! I never thought that you and I met again under these nine springs, I saw that you were young, why did you die so early? ”

Good guy, Ling Zhen's little mouth is like smeared with honey, Zou Run rubbed his nose helplessly, and for the sake of Ling Zhen who had not recovered from the stimulation, he chose not to answer for the time being.

stepped forward and swung his knife to cut the rope on Ling Zhen's body, just as Zou Run was looking for the key on the ground and was about to open the shackles around Ling Zhen's neck.

I only heard a familiar line next to a big tree not far away.

"The two of us are about to sleep, and there is no lock here, I'm afraid you're gone. If we want our hearts to be stable, we must bind them. ”

Boy...... Is the entire line of the Great Song Dynasty escorting prisoners uniformly trained?