From the west end of the village to the east end of the village, the road is not far and not close, but due to the small number of people in the town, there are almost no people on the street.

The horse thieves galloped on the main road of the town, and even if there were pedestrians, when they saw this group of fierce men on tall horses, they would immediately hide in the side path, not daring to stop them. So it actually took only a few moments for the thieves to reach the east end of the village that the boy had said.

"Boss, just now I ran all the way, and there were hardly any young men in this town, and it is said that this was the time when the young men came back from the fields, but there was not a single adult man on the way, except for a few old women carrying hoes. What are we going to do? Do we still need to investigate?" Lu You said with a smile.

"No need, it's still the old rule to carry a knife to do business tonight, arrest people, and don't kill people until life and death. Especially the six and seventh!" The leader said in a low voice.

"Yes, boss, we're all rules traders, hehe. Lu You said and led the horse out of the small courtyard occupied by the leader of the man.

"Wang Lin, what's wrong with you. The girl's fear comes and goes faster, the fate of suffering makes these children more endurable than ordinary people, Qin'er clasped her hands behind her back, went around to Wang Lin, bent down slightly, two small pigtails swayed in the wind behind the little head, although her face was still slightly pale, but the strength of the joked boy had recovered, "You won't be scared to cry by that horse gang, right?" Hehe, Wang Lin is a coward!"

Wang Lin wiped the tears on his face casually with his hand, "How can there be, the smoke and dust just now will shed tears, but you, who hid behind me just now?" Wang Lin rubbed his eyes and smiled.

"I... I.. I'm a girl, Wang Lin, you're the best one among us to fight, shouldn't you protect me?" said the girl with a straight and strong waist.

"Well, Qin'er, I promised you before, no matter when, I will do my best to protect you" The young man raised his right hand to touch the hair of the girl who was shorter than himself, but stopped when he was about to reach the top of his head, and the two of them remained motionless like this, as if time had suddenly stopped, and the girl's originally slightly pale face had already quietly become puffy, and both of them were breathing a little fast.

In the end, Qin'er suddenly and cleverly escaped from Wang Lin's big hand, pretending to be angry and said, "Don't pat me on the head, I won't grow tall!" and then ran back to the small courtyard without looking back. The girl's voice came from the small courtyard: "Wang Lin, see you at the market tomorrow morning, let's have breakfast together!" and then the laughter of several other girls who shared the house came from the courtyard.

Wang Lin stood outside the courtyard, habitually scratching his head, and smirking along.

By the time Wang Lin finally walked back to the dilapidated house where he lived, the sky had completely turned dark, and the crescent moon in the sky emitted a cold faint light, and the whole town was so quiet that even the barking of dogs could not be heard. When the boy walked into the house, Chen Shouli was already snoring on the bed, while Zhang Rui was sitting on a dirt bag in the courtyard looking at the stars and moon in the sky.

Wang Lin walked to Zhang Rui's side, sat down calmly next to him and looked at the stars together. "Why don't you go to bed?"

Zhang Rui waved his hand and said disgustedly: "I'm not Chen Shouli's slacker. ”

Wang Lin looked at Chen Shouli, who was sleeping soundly in the back room, "Shouli can really sleep soundly at any time."

"Boss, when I was a child, I heard the grandfathers in the village say that people will become stars in the sky when they die, so I carefully look at each one every night, I am guessing, my father and my mother are always quarrelling, and they must not want to be together, but my sister likes to be with my mother the most, and I am learning embroidery with my mother every day, so I should be next to my mother. Boss, do you think those two will be?" Zhang Rui pointed to the two little stars in the sky.

"It must be them, and the one next to the two stars must be Uncle Zhang, I still remember that every time Uncle Zhang wears a new dress woven by his aunt, he will swagger around the town several times, and everyone he sees will say that it is newly woven by his aunt, and ask if it is particularly good-looking, if the aunt is particularly virtuous, and ask them if they are envious. So although Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang quarreled, they had deep feelings. Wang Lin put one hand around Zhang Rui's shoulder.

When my sister saw her mother's newly knitted clothes, she clamored to knit one for my younger brother. It's a pity that the war started before the weaving was finished. ”

"Zhang Rui, everything is in the past. I'm sure my uncles and aunts are watching us from heaven and bless us. ”

The two teenagers looked at the starry sky like this, pointing at the sky

"Dad, mother, Wang Lin took good care of me, don't worry. Sister, I originally wanted Wang Lin to grow up and marry you, but you people have gone to heaven, and you are so irresponsible to me one by one, so I decided not to let Wang Lin marry you, you, just bless us in heaven!" Zhang Rui stood up, patted the dust on his buttocks, turned around and went back to the house, and said to Wang Lin casually: "Boss, I'll go back to sleep first, and then I may want to beat them down from the sky." ”

"Okay" The voice of the young man Wang Lin came out, he didn't look back, he didn't move his head at all, the two teenagers didn't say anything, but the moonlight sprinkled faintly, slightly illuminating the small courtyard, and there were two teenagers in it who quietly burst into tears.

I don't know how long it took, Wang Lin moved his stiff body, sat up slowly from the dirt bag, twisted his sore joints, and prepared to go back to the house to sleep, looking at the two teenagers in the house who had fallen into a deep sleep, Wang Lin smiled, five years, three orphans supported each other, in Wang Lin's heart, this is his own brother, one is his strong and honest brother, the other is a smart and clever brother, sometimes the young man will feel that although God made him an orphan but rewarded him with two brothers, oh yes, and Qin'er's girl, it is also fair.

Walked to the side of the bed that belonged to him, and was about to lie down, suddenly he heard a large number of horses' hooves galloping, the young man frowned, and walked out of the door of the small courtyard, and then a terrible scene appeared in front of his eyes, the east end of the village has been a sea of fire, and not far from the naked eye is not far away there are two swordsmen who have entered the town in the afternoon running in his direction, in the young man's field of vision, the qi of the two people in the body is concentrated in the right hand and feet holding the knife, when Wang Lin and the two people are closer, the young man's face suddenly turned white at first, and then faintly red in the white, and immediately turned around and ran back to the small courtyard。

Seeing this, the two swordsmen glanced at each other, and both laughed loudly: "I thought that kid was a bit of a species, it turned out that he was pretending to be in front of a woman in the afternoon." ”

"Go, arrest him, and then go to the center of the town, which is full of abandoned houses, and there is oil and water in the center of the town. Another said.

said that it was too late, and then it was fast, and the two ran into the small courtyard, and as soon as they entered the courtyard, there were two teenagers standing in front of them, it was Chen Shouli and Zhang Rui. The two of them turned pale, but surprisingly did not run away. "Yo, what about that kid just now? How did you become the two of you? What's the matter, I left you and ran away?"

"At a glance, I know that you are not a good thing, and I, Chen Shouli, will do the right thing for heaven today. Chen Shouli didn't answer the swordsman's question, but just wiped his hand on his neck: "Kill you!"

The two swordsmen looked at each other, were silent for a moment, and suddenly laughed: "Old Seven, did you hear, he said that he would kill us, it is really a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers."

The man named Lao Qi walked up to Chen Shouli and said with a playful smile: "Come, grandpa asked you to fight, don't fight back, come." ”

Chen Shouli clenched his fists with both hands, no longer spoke, his fists were like words, rushed towards Lao Qi, and slammed his fist at Lao Qi's face.

One punch, two punches, three punches, although the young man is young, his strength is not in vain, and every punch on Lao Qi's body can hear a lot of sound. But what made Chen Shouli feel terrible was that Lao Qi didn't move, and he didn't even take a step back. At this moment, he found that his fist was grasped by a hand, and then he felt a terrifying force enveloping his fist, and then the voice sounded, it was Lao Qi, "You have punched so much, it's time for me to punch it." With that, a fist bigger and stronger than Chen Shouli's fist hit Chen Shouli in the chest, and Chen Shouli crashed into the house like a kite with a broken string.

Zhang Rui hurriedly rushed into the house, Chen Shouli was already bleeding from his mouth, and it seemed that he had suffered internal injuries.

Zhang Rui helped Chen Shouli up and asked with concern, "How are you doing Chen Dali?"

"I can't die," Chen Shouli, who spit out a mouthful of blood, roared, "Seventh, yes, there is a kind of beating your grandfather to death, otherwise your grandfather will grow up and kill your whole family!"

Lao Qi had already walked into the house at this time, and said with a cruel smile: "The kid still has the strength to scold people, I'm afraid that you won't have a chance to grow up, come, grandpa will reward you with another punch." ”

Walking to Chen Shouli's side, he raised his fist and was about to hammer it down, when he suddenly felt a trace of palpitations, and then a huge firewood knife was already on Lao Qi's neck in the blink of an eye, making this fist freeze in the air and unable to fall. It turned out that Wang Lin had come behind Lao Qi at some point.

"How is this possible, I didn't even find you!And how can you get into the house, the sixth didn't even ......" The seventh said in horror, suddenly felt a trace of slippery feeling in his neck, and the life experience of licking blood from the knife directly told the seventh a news, this is blood, human blood, and it is hot.

"You killed the sixth!" shouted the seventh who was holding his neck with a huge firewood knife, "How is it possible!"

It turned out that not long ago, with the help of his eyes that could see through the operation of the human body's breath, Wang Lin found that at the moment when Lao Qi punched Chen Shouli into the inner room and followed him into the house, the battle spirit of Lao Liu, who was watching the play, was finally completely unloaded at the same time, and the five senses were in the most insensitive state at this time.

Wang Lin seized the opportunity to suddenly exert his strength from the firewood pile that had already been ambushed, jumped out, held a huge firewood knife in his hand, and slashed at Lao Liu's head. And Chen Shouli's yell, "Seventh, yes, there is a kind of killing your grandfather, otherwise Grandpa will grow up and kill your whole family!" also appropriately overshadowed the sound of killing, licking blood from the knife edge, and the sixth horse thief, who had been dead and dead several times, was hacked to death with a knife in this way, and he didn't even have time to make a sound.

"Boss, you have a good time, if you come a little later, I will die!" Chen Shouli grinned with a mouth full of blood.

"Don't, don't kill me, our boss said, don't kill people until you have to, after all, the Daxin border army is not a wreck, I just wanted to stun him, I have no killing intent, let go, let me go, I promise to go back and tell our boss that this side is all dilapidated houses, no one lives, you can escape quickly." Lao Qi broke out in a cold sweat and begged for mercy.

"What are you doing?" Wang Lin did not change his movements, holding a firewood knife in his hand and continuing to put it on Lao Qi's neck.

"We are traders, we are traders"

"Hmph, what kind of trader does this?"

"We ...... It is to rob some qualified children and sell them to some Taoist sects, Buddhist monasteries, or rich and noble families in the mainland, in exchange for some benefits, most of the children who were bought away have a good life after that, and it is not much better than living on the border and dying in a border conflict one day. We...... In fact, we have done good deeds. Leave me alone, I can send these two little brothers to the interior and find a rich family, and from then on I will have no worries about food and clothing. Lao Qi changed a set of words that he thought were more convincing, he knew that the two children in front of him were orphans, in fact, if he gave a little hope, he might be obedient, not to mention solving his life and death crisis, and bringing back two children with good qualifications, making sure that he would not lose money.

As for the sixth, the status of the horse thief is fought by fists, and if the sixth is dead, his seventh will naturally be the new sixth, and he can get a bigger reward when he goes back.

Now the most uncomfortable thing for Lao Qi is not the chai knife but the boy with the chai knife, oh no, the sixth no longer feels that he is a teenager behind him, because he can't understand how the sixth who is stronger than him was so inexplicably and easily hacked to death, which means that the knife-wielding young man behind him has a cultivation that he can't see through at all, and he feels even more powerful than their boss, Lao Qi feels that it is likely to be a Taoist immortal in a secluded town, don't look at this tender face, in fact, his grandfather may have to call him grandpa. The most terrifying thing is that whenever he wants to secretly make a punch and take advantage of the opportunity to speak, he will sneak attack the young man behind him, and the young man will always be terrible in the moment before he punches, and put the firewood knife closer to Lao Liu's own neck, which makes Lao Liu's aura break in his body again and again, and he can't say his suffering.

"That, if the seniors are not at ease, they can follow us together until they find a good family. Lao Qi said flatteringly.

"Boss, did you hear that? He called you senior. This man is scared silly. Chen Shouli laughed.

Lao Qi was surprised, did he think wrongly, there was just a child behind him? Then he finally made up his mind, he couldn't give up the child and couldn't trap the wolf, the idea was set, and the breath gathered more violently in the fist this time, just when he was about to swing a punch, the young man behind him frowned, took the knife and retreated to the left with his right hand, and then Lao Qi's whole body trembled, and the energy in his hand dispersed again, the difference is that this time it is not returned to all parts of the body, but directly dissipated.

Holding his neck, blood spilled from his fingers, Lao Qi's eyes widened in disbelief, and then he slowly collapsed, dying.

Chen Shouli looked at Wang Lin in front of him and took a step back, he was still a little afraid of the dead, but he was not surprised, because he clearly remembered that five years ago, Xiao Wang Lin, who was only twelve years old, also carried this firewood knife and hacked to death a Yilan soldier who was raping a girl in the town, and the little hand holding the knife did not tremble at all. It's just that in the next three months, Xiao Wanglin will vomit immediately when he sees the meat.

Wang Lin looked at the dead corpse on the ground, and said in a low voice: "I killed you because I saw blood on your knife, blood. ”

It's a pity that the old seven, who has become a corpse, can't hear it anymore.

"Ah Rui, Ah Li is injured, you take him to escape along the official road first, after all, our Xiushui Town is still a new country, if you meet the border army on the way, tell them that Xiushui Town was raided by Yilan, and let them send reinforcements as soon as possible. It's hard to say if you can come, but it's always good to try. ”

"Chief, what about you?" The two asked in unison.

"I'm going to save Qin'er and Aunt Chen. ”

After that, he turned around and ran out of the courtyard, the firewood knife was replaced by the young man's left hand, because it was too big, the tip of the knife rubbed against the ground, the sound of clattering and lala continued, and from time to time sparks jumped out, the young man's right hand clenched his fist trembled slightly, and he prayed silently in his heart: "Qin'er, Aunt Chen, you must not have anything to do!"