Fifteen days after Wang Lin followed the carriage out of Ngee Ann City.

In the Broken Mountain Camp, Cao Yuanpeng's face was pale, and Ji Xiaofang in a powder blue skirt stood in front of him, with slightly wheat-colored skin that looked very healthy, and his short black and beautiful hair was neatly tied behind his head, his face was flushed at the moment, his hands were crossed behind his waist, and he didn't dare to look at Cao Yuanpeng with a little weakness.

"You told Xie An about Wang Lin, right?" Cao Yuanpeng said solemnly

Ji Xiaofang's eyes dodged, her hands behind her back, shook her head vigorously, pretended to be innocent, and said to Cao Yuanpeng with a smile: "Hehe, father-in-law, what are you talking about, I don't understand, why tell Xie An about Wang Lin, what?"

"Hmph, what's your name father-in-law, this is the Broken Mountain Camp, not your home!" Cao Yuanpeng said angrily.

Ji Xiaofang trembled in fright, and immediately stood up straight and said seriously: "Marshal Qiyu, my subordinates don't know!

"Hmph, you didn't do it, so how does Xie An know! Could it be that I said it?"

Ji Xiaofang stuck out her tongue, and then whispered: "At that time, your loud roar was heard by half of Xixia Prefecture."

Cao Yuanpeng froze, and he couldn't hold back in the blink of an eye before his seriousness, so he had to say a little softly: "Xiaofang, do you know that Xie An's kid used all the financial and material resources of the Xie family in Xixia Prefecture to block the trade and commercial goods of Yi'an City, and now that half a month has passed, Yi'an City has collapsed in half, and many people have begun to flee to other cities like deserts. If this continues, within a month, the city will be finished. “

Ji Xiaofang's eyes widened, her mouth opened wide, and she stammered: "Marshal, do you mean that all this is Xie An's fight for Wang Lin?" Then he stuck out his tongue and whispered: "I didn't expect this guy's temper to be so violent, but he was really angry." “

No matter how whispered these words were, Cao Yuanpeng cultivated to the heavens and was in the same big tent, he heard it clearly, and snorted angrily: "Admit it?"

Ji Xiaofang looked at Cao Yuanpeng's appearance, and Ji Xiaofang, who was already well aware of Marshal Cao's temper, suddenly became hippie and smiled: "Father-in-law~ I just feel wronged for Wang Lin, so I told Xie An, who Cheng wants him to be so short-tempered, I won't talk about it in the future." “

Cao Yuanpeng shook his head helplessly, and said: "It is estimated that Xie An has other considerations for doing this, but his doing so is equivalent to making the Xie family branch in Xixia Prefecture cut off his arm, I don't know what this kid thinks." After a pause, he said: "But no matter what you think, our Xixia border army will not participate in this matter, let it be clear, do you understand Xiaofang?"

Ji Xiaofang said softly: "I know!"

After a while, Ji Xiaofang suddenly asked, "Father-in-law, who is that Lord Qin Tianjian who came to our Xixia Prefecture Yi'an City this time?"

Cao Yuanpeng pondered for a moment and said, "It's Lord Zhang Zhaozhang." “

Ji Xiaofang was surprised: "Is that Zhang Zhao who relied on the Heavenly Machine Technique to cultivate into the Heavenly Realm?"

Cao Yuanpeng nodded, "Being able to enter the Heavenly Scripture without relying on the cultivation of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, can be regarded as the number one person, he was originally sent to the Northern Cold Realm Prefecture Qin Tianjian Lord, but for some reason he was chased and killed by the Shamanism of the Northern Cold Realm Prefecture, and was seriously injured and fled to my Xixia Prefecture, two hundred years ago I was helped by Lord Zhang, so this time I let him into Xixia Prefecture, and the killers of the Shamanism naturally did not dare to enter Xixia Prefecture because of their scruples. ”

Ji Xiaofang suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked: "Then this time with Wang Lin and Zheng Qin'er, who has the emperor's destiny, will there be this seriously injured Lord Zhang." ”

Cao Yuanpeng thought for a while, nodded slowly, and said: "It should be, I can feel the breath of all the Heaven Ascending Realm cultivators in Xixia Prefecture who are lower than me, just yesterday, the breath belonging to Zhang Zhao disappeared, and it should have entered Zhongzhou." ”

A cold sweat broke out on Ji Xiaofang's forehead, and she asked a little weakly: "The situation in Zhongzhou is mixed, will there be a shamanic killer to assassinate Master Zhang?"

Cao Yuanpeng pondered for a moment, "There is such a possibility, but I only promised him to protect him in Xixia Prefecture, as for leaving Xixia Prefecture, I don't care." I don't really care if he's dead or alive. ”

Ji Xiaofang was completely confused at the moment, and without saying anything, she was about to retire and leave. Ji Xiaofang was a little at a loss and said, "I'm a little uncomfortable, so I'll go back and rest first." “

Cao Yuanpeng looked at Ji Xiaofang, whose face was a little pale, nodded, and let her leave to rest. Looking at the departing Ji Xiaofang, Cao Yuanpeng's voice suddenly sounded from behind Ji Xiaofang: "Xiaofang, Broken Mountain is not a place where you should stay as a girl, if you want to choose Wang Lin, I have no objection." “

Ji Xiaofang's body trembled, then turned her head a little stiffly, squeezed out a not-so-good-looking smile and said to Cao Yuanpeng: "Father-in-law, what do you say? You forgot that on the day Yehua died in battle, I swore that I would never marry for life, and besides, what is there about Wang Lin that I like, I am just a little worried about Wang Lin, the little brother I just adopted, afraid that something will happen to him, as his boss, it is normal to worry about him." Well, that's normal. He nodded to himself as he spoke.

Cao Yuanpeng didn't say anything, just watched Ji Xiaofang leave.

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Qinggu Mountain, the state border between Xixia Prefecture and Zhongzhou

Mrs. Taishou, Qin'er and the old man in the carriage who had been in a coma and rarely woke up had crossed Xixia Prefecture for two days, but they were still on Qinggu Mountain, because Qin'er was unaccustomed to water and soil, vomiting and diarrhea, and then launched a high fever, and the planned trip had to be temporarily stopped to wait for Qin'er's condition to ease slightly.

Night

The carriage stopped on a wide road, and the coachman lit a fire, and sat by the carriage and watched carefully, for fear that if he was not careful, some outlaw or wild beast of the mountains would suddenly attack. Qin'er and the unconscious Lord Qin Tianjian were both lying in the carriage, one unconscious and the other with a high fever. But Mrs. Taishou was not in the car.

At this time, Mrs. Taishou was wearing a gauze robe, and slowly walked into the dense forest about five or six hundred meters away from the carriage, and walked about two or three hundred meters, when the carriage had already flickered in her sight, she suddenly stopped and said softly: "Wang Lin?"

After a while, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy came out of the shadows, dressed in black, holding a bag in his hand, and his breath was very disordered, obviously after a long run.

"This is according to your request to catch the medicine, I ran around four or five villages and finally got it, you order, and then quickly take it to Qin'er to decoct the medicine. The boy gasped.

Mrs. Taishou opened the baggage, checked the medicines one by one, and did not delay after making sure that it was correct, and said: "I will decoct the medicine now, you don't change the position, wait for Qin'er to sleep late at night, I will come over again, I have to tell you something." ”

Wang Lin looked at the woman in front of him, his face was expressionless, he nodded slightly, and then disappeared into the darkness again, as if he no longer existed. It's just that Mrs. Taishou knows that the young man's eyes never leave the carriage in the slightest.

The lady walked back briskly with her baggage, and soon reappeared by the carriage, and instructed the groom to fetch the pot for decoction of the medicine, while she was running the cultivation, and doing some special treatment on the medicine that Wang Lin could not understand.

For half a month, everything was very calm, and Wang Lin always kept a distance of about seven or eight hundred meters from the carriage that he could not hope for, and did not advance the slightest, except for the young man who changed into a set of black clothes according to the request of Mrs. Taishou, the only extra thing was that there was an extra gourd on his waist, which was filled with cheap sorghum wine that could be bought everywhere.

Every time the carriage stopped, Mrs. Taishou took Qin'er's hand and got out of the car, and when she was resting and walking, Wang Lin would hide in the distance, take off the wine gourd from his waist, and the lid of the gourd mouth "popped" on the ground, which was skillfully flicked away by his fingers, and then raised his head, drank a large sip of strong sorghum wine, and then held it in his mouth, wantonly let the pungency of the wine churn in his mouth, and waited until the whole mouth was numb, and then swallowed it in one gulp, and covered his chest with the other hand, feeling the pain of the knife twisting. After that, he will enter a dizzy realm, and his mind will be calm, and he will not think about many things, just blink his blurred eyes, and look at the beautiful shadow he thinks about day and night in the distance.

"Mother, what are you doing?" asked Jean, who was dressed in a quilt, faintly stepping down from the carriage and whispering.

"Qin'er, why did you come out, you still have a fever, this night wind is very thief, don't suffer from the wind chill anymore. My mother is decocting the medicine for you, take the medicine in a while, sleep well, and feel better tomorrow morning. When Mrs. Taishou said this, her eyes were staring at the Chinese medicine, and her hands were not idle, and she kept using her cultivation that was about to reach the top realm to break up these herbs and medicinal fruits one by one, and then mix them little by little with internal force, and then put them into the pot.

After a while, a strong smell of medicine emanated from all around the carriage, and Mrs. Taishou took a bowl of still bubbling soup, walked to Qin'er, who was squatting on the ground and looking up at the bright starry sky, and personally fed the medicine into Qin'er's mouth one bite at a time. Qin'er just opened her mouth mechanically, closed her mouth, swallowed, and opened her mouth again. But the attention is in heaven.

After Mrs. Taishou finished feeding Qin'er, she gently wiped Qin'er's small mouth with a handkerchief, and said softly, "Are you counting the stars again?"

"Well, today's stars ... It's nice that it hasn't gotten more. Qin'er looked at the sky with some cheerfulness.

Mrs. Taishou didn't understand a little, but she still touched Qin'er's head dotingly, and said, "Okay, don't look at it, listen to my mother's words, go back to sleep in the car first, and when you get better, you can see it at any time." “

"Okay, Mother," Qin'er's cold voice sounded.

Mrs. Taishou and Qin'er entered the carriage together, and after about a stick of incense, Mrs. Taishou walked out alone, gave a few words to the coachman who was roasting the fire, and walked again to the dense forest about five or six hundred meters away from the carriage.

Mrs. Taishou easily found Wang Lin, who was lying on the ground, holding the wine gourd, taking a big sip from time to time, and then puffing out his cheeks for a long time before swallowing slowly, and his eyes looked at the starry sky like a piano.

Seeing Mrs. Taishou approaching, Wang Lin put away the wine gourd, pinned it to his waist again, and stood up to look at the middle-aged beauty who was getting closer and closer.

"Is there anything you can say now?" Wang Lin said with a blank face.

"We have been staying in Qinggu Mountain for more than two days, so it is estimated that the news of our entry into Zhongzhou has been received by those who are interested and are ready to start. Originally, if Qin'er hadn't been sick, we had been changing directions, and maybe we would have been able to walk peacefully for a while, but now due to the long stay, some people who have mastered the Heavenly Machine Technique can already determine our approximate location, not surprisingly, in the second half of tonight, the first batch of killers should arrive at Qinggu Mountain, but it is estimated that tonight's one is just here to test, and it will not be too powerful, so what I need you to do is to dispose of them before they can confirm our exact location, and leave no one behind. ”

After that, he handed over a beast-shaped mask, a bow and a dozen arrows to Wang Lin, and said: "From tonight onwards, our trip will not be peaceful, without the protection of Marshal Cao in Xixia Prefecture, we may be in danger at any time and anywhere, what you have to do is that in the future, you have to approach the carriage to protect Qin'er, I hope you will wear a mask, and never let Qin'er know who you are." ”

Wang Lin took the mask and bow and arrow, and nodded silently. Then he turned around and walked deeper into the forest. Mrs. Taishou's voice came from behind him: "Because of your medicine, Qin'er's condition should be stable tomorrow, we will go down the mountain tomorrow morning, and then rest in Qinggu Town under Qinggu Mountain for one night, if you don't have time to come back tomorrow, you will go directly to Qinggu Town to find us." Wang Lin... If you die, I won't save you, take care of yourself. ”

Wang Lin didn't look back, his figure had completely disappeared into the darkness, only a hoarse voice came out: "You don't have to save me, you'd better protect Qin'er, otherwise I won't let you go." ”

Mrs. Taishou watched Wang Lin disappear into the boundless darkness, and also turned back to the carriage.

Wang Lin has been living in the dense forest of Qinggu Mountain for more than two days because of Qin'er's illness, collecting medicinal materials for Qin'er, and basically running all over the mountain.

At this time, Wang Lin was hiding in the tree, and as expected by Mrs. Taishou, there happened to be a group of eight people sneaking into the dense forest from a rural road in the distance, and leaning in the direction where he was resting Qin'er behind him, everyone was carrying weapons, and Wang Lin looked at them with extremely cold eyes.

Among these eight people, there were three cultivators, five mortal martial artists, and the one who took the lead was a man in the middle of the mountain climbing realm. This is thanks to the technique of discerning the realm taught to Wang Lin by Mrs. Taishou in the past half a month.

Wang Lin took advantage of the dense woods to hide in the trees, controlling his breath without making a sound, and watched the eight people get closer and closer to him little by little.

"Boss, is this the direction?"

"Be quiet! That's right, it's in this direction, the intelligence mentions that if you walk about ten miles through the dense forest, you can see the carriage, and then we will confirm their exact location, and we will confirm the specific direction of their future trip." You don't need to fight with that woman in the late stage of the mountain climbing realm, we are only responsible for confirming the location, and after that, there are more powerful people in charge, you know!" The man at the head looked obscene and said in a low voice.

The seven people around him nodded one after another, and then continued to move forward, Wang Lin was above their heads, gently took out his bow and arrow, put an arrow on the bow, and aimed at the mortal martial artist at the back. After aiming for a while, until the eight people were out of range, Wang Lin didn't shoot the arrow.

Wang Lin put down the rounded bow and smiled self-deprecatingly, Wang Lin didn't know how to use a bow and arrows at all, so he was completely unconfident that he would be able to hit with one blow and successfully shoot the mortal martial artist who was walking last.

Wang Lin thought for a while, shook his head, put the bow into his Sumeru mustard seed, but took out two arrows, held one in each hand, and walked silently through the branches of the tree in the dense forest in the middle of the night, like a cheetah preparing to hunt.

The eight of them thought they were quite clean, and they walked through the dense forest without making too much noise, and before they could think of it, Wang Lin had already begun to stare at them before they entered the dense forest.

Seeing that Wang Lin was getting closer and closer to those eight people

Finding the right moment, all the muscles in his body suddenly tensed in the next moment.

I saw Wang Lin suddenly fall straight down from under the giant tree above the last person's head, his legs bent, and with a direct "ping" sound, his knees smashed on the left and right shoulders of the eighth person, and then a crisp bone cracking sound appeared in the silent dense forest, startling away a burst of birds. The shoulder blades on both sides of the eighth man were instantly crushed by Wang Lin at the same time, and then Wang Lin took advantage of the momentum, and the two legs that were still on the shoulders of the eighth man clamped the man's head hard, and then turned his waist hard, and with a gack, the man who had not yet had time to scream broke his neck in the blink of an eye, and died with a whimper.

Wang Lin did not stop, but before the man with the broken neck fell, his leg was forced on the man's broken shoulder blades, and it bounced towards the nearest person, and the arrow in his right hand showed the cold glow in the moonlight, and stabbed at the man's throat, only to hear a poof, the man's throat was pierced very neatly, and blood spurted out like a spring, and the man covered his neck with his hand in an incredible way, and fell down unwillingly.

At this time, the remaining six people also relieved their strength, and they all prepared for battle, staring at Wang Lin, Wang Lin did not hesitate at all, and the arrow in his left hand was thrown by him with all his strength towards the third mortal martial artist opposite him, and then stabbed into the man's thigh. The man wailed and fell to his knees, powerless. Wang Lin had no weapon in his hand at the moment, and without delay, he flew backwards, fell into the darkness, and disappeared. The remaining five people were left to greet each other and a wailing wounded man.

The man in the middle of the mountain climbing realm led by him walked to the wailing man who was kneeling on the ground, turned his palm into a knife, and slashed at the back of the man's neck, the wailing stopped suddenly, and the injured man quickly fainted.

The man in the middle of the mountain climbing realm led by him said to the two mortal martial artists and a thin man in the early stage of the mountain climbing realm beside him: "You stay, watch him, and take him down the mountain, this attack means that the carriage is basically in this direction." Then he said to another martial artist at the beginning of the mountain climbing realm: "Zhang Heng, you and I continue to go up the mountain and look for it in this direction." “

Zhang Heng nodded and said, "Okay!"

After that, the squad of two dead and one wounded split into two, the remaining two went up the mountain, and the remaining three went down the mountain with the wounded.