The mountain road is continuous, and he walks alone without a smile.

At this moment, his mood is also the same as the road in front of him, which is a little complicated.

A few days ago, the battle between him and Haicang Peak did not decide the winner, but ...... But there is a distinction between the "high and the low".

He originally thought that most of those so-called heroes were exaggerated, so he didn't take Haicang Peak very seriously at first.

However, as soon as they met, he realized that he could not win.

At least...... Not with a knife.

It didn't take too long for Hai Cangfeng to see through the secret of Xiao Wuji's sword technique, and he knew that it would be meaningless to fight any longer, so he stopped in time and said, "Your martial arts are good." And he walked away.

After the other party left, Xiao Wujian stood alone in the bamboo forest for a long time, until the sweat on his hands was dry, and then he put the knife back into the sheath.

"Is it just 'not bad'......" At that moment, he couldn't help but look up at the sky and muttered to himself.

Xiao Wujian has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is talented, he can be said to be surrounded by evaluations such as "Tianzhong Genius" and "Ancient and Modern" all the year round - "good" is similar to scolding for him before.

But now it sounds, he seems to be able to accept it.

Because he would rather be a "good" swordsman than be a "genius" swordsman.

He would rather be his bandit than admit that he is the young owner of Wujian Villa, the son of the sword master Xiao Zhun, Xiao Xuan.

............

After walking the long mountain road, Xiao Wujian finally returned to his cottage.

"Open the door!

He was still far away, and he heard the minions in charge of watching the wind shouting at the village.

This shout also brought Xiao Wujian back to reality from his cranky thoughts about the past.

"yes...... I'm just a bandit leader now, isn't this kind of martial arts enough?"

He thought as he walked through the door of the cottage.

However, as soon as I entered the village, I felt that something was wrong.

He looked over and found that all the minions under his command were all in a state of exhaustion, yawning in broad daylight, and there were inexplicably placed in the courtyard with a lot of shields that looked like they were made in a hurry, and dozens of sandbags and a dozen water tanks full of water were piled up.

"Hey, what's going on?" Xiao Wujian looked at one of the minions who came forward to greet him, pointed to the things in the courtyard, and asked casually.

"Oh, you don't know, these days when you're away, something big has happened, you go and talk to the second and third masters. "That minion looked anxious and worried.

Xiao Wujian saw it, but he was a little happy in his heart, and he said in his heart: "As soon as the cottage is broken, what big thing can happen?"

Obviously, Xiao Wujian didn't really care about the situation of this cottage, so after seeing this situation, he was more curious than nervous.

To make a long story short, after a short time, the "second sister" and the "third sister" also heard the news of Xiao Wuji's return, and both came out to greet each other;

After the three of them sat down, they said a few clichés, and the second sister began to get to the point: "Big brother, I won't tell you, something has indeed happened in the past few days." ”

The third child also added: "Alas...... We're going to have a big deal this time!"

"What the hell is scaring you two like this?" Xiao Wuji wondered.

It is implied in the book here that the "second sister" and the "third sister", one is called Yuan Zhan'er and the other is called Guisan, and the two are the top brands and turtle slaves in a not very famous brothel in Jinling.

One day four years ago, on a whim, Xiao Wujian used some silver, ransomed the two together, and taught them some martial arts, and became three brothers and sisters with them, and then fell into the grass together and became a bandit.

For Xiao Wuji, this is a "play", he just wants to fall, so he keeps doing these ridiculous things.

However, for Yuan Zhan'er and Guisan, this is a major turning point in their lives, and the two regard Xiao Wuji, the eldest brother, as recreating their parents, and cherish the promising job of the bandit leader very much.

On weekdays, Yuan Zhan'er and Gui Sanping practice martial arts very hard, plus their master is a master like Xiao Wuji, who has only practiced superior martial arts since childhood, so in just a few years, the two have touched the threshold of the second-rate rivers and lakes.

Of course, compared with Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu, who came up the mountain a few days ago, they are still inferior.

"Big brother, this matter has to start seven days ago. "Yuan Zhan'er used to be the top brand, even if she wasn't very famous, but she was definitely much stronger than the turtle three, and she told her about killing Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu with a trick.

"Oh......" Xiao Wujian listened to it, groaned, and continued, "Then you have got the news in this battle now...... Someone wants to go up the mountain to seek revenge for these two people?"

"Harm! isn't it!" Gui San couldn't help but reply at this time, "Who would have thought that we had just killed the 'Tiger Arm Ming King' and the 'One Knife Zhenguanzhong', and before two days had passed, there were two more people called 'East Harmony and West Poison'." ”

"Huh?" The shadow of the name tree of the person, as soon as these four words came out, even the face changed slightly, "The names of these two people...... I seem to be a little impressed. ”

Just when Xiao Wujian searched his stomach and thought about why he had a strong impression of these two people......

"There is a legend on the rivers and lakes that there is a young man who likes 'dung pit killing'...... You know this, right?" Gui San took the opportunity to say the source of his biggest fear of Shuanghuan, "It's the 'Western Poison' Huang Donglai." ”

"Oh!" laughed at the keyword, "yes, no wonder I feel familiar." He paused for half a second, "What? These two people want to go up the mountain to avenge that Liu Zou?"

"They don't just want revenge, they can threaten to ...... All of us have to die, and we have to throw away our ashes. Yuan Zhan'er said this in a tone that was a little afraid in anger, and there was still a look of resentment on her face.

"Heh......" Xiao Wujian was not afraid, he still smiled very easily, "Then when will they come, do you know?"

As soon as this sentence came out, the faces of Yuan Zhan'er and Gui San were crooked.

"Alas...... Sensei. "Turtle Sandao," these two grandsons, since five days ago, have said that they want to come every day, but they haven't come every day, so that we are worried all day long, and we are ...... at night What's going on at night?"

"I can't sleep at night!" Yuan Zhan'er replied with a look of disgust.

"Yes, yes, I can't sleep at night. "Guisan's culture is still very bad, and he often needs his second sister to remind him to use the idiom neatly.

When he heard this, he still didn't understand: "Isn't there our eyeliner in the village? Why is this not yet accurate?"

"Big brother, don't you know something...... Yuan Zhan'er replied at this time, "The earliest time was five days ago, around dusk, our spies came with news, saying that these two people bought a large amount of saltpeter, sulfur, soaphorn, and messy medicinal materials and iron in several villages below the mountain, and also wrapped up the blacksmith shop in Gengjia Village, saying that Huang Donglai was going to make a kind of 'mechanism' for attacking the village, what is it called 'Flying Fire Meteor'...... They also said that it would only take one night to make it, and that they would use it to raze our stockade to the ground the next morning.

"At that time, I thought that the reputation of this Eastern Harmony and Western Poison was far above that of Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu, and that martial arts would not be lower than those two, even if we took advantage of his 'Flying Fire Meteor' to go down the mountain to attack the village before it was finished, we might not be able to bargain for anything, it was better to stay in the village and lay down a clever game like the last time...... The odds are better that way.

"Then I thought again, judging from the name and the material, the eight achievements of the 'Flying Fire Meteor' were fire arrows and gunpowder and the like, so I ordered the brothers to prepare sandbags overnight, to carry out all the water tanks in the village and fill them with water, and to find all kinds of objects, or tie or nails, and make shields for the next day. ”

As a digression here, why do these people make shields instead of armor?

Shields and armor can also resist stray arrows and fire, but shields are basically not used during robbery, but armor can be used at any time in the future, so it stands to reason that there should always be in the cottage.

Here I will explain by the way a thing that may also be used in later texts - in ancient times, whether you raised customers or collected weapons, even if there were hundreds or thousands, you could get away with it...... But the matter of "private armor" is absolutely not okay.

In the large-scale battles of the Cold Weapon Age, the role of armor was extremely huge, and 300 "armor soldiers" could kill more than 1,000 people without armor, and 5,000 armor soldiers could scatter tens of thousands of unarmored soldiers.

You secretly hide weapons and raise customers, the court is not afraid, I don't believe that you pull out to fight with the regular army, you have to win, Guo Jing and Huang Rong worship you as a teacher; however, if you make armor privately, it must be treated as a rebellion, there is no other explanation, once discovered, you will be strangled in the cradle.

Of course, there are still exceptions, such as Brother Sun's "talisman armor", which belongs to soft armor, a total of one, and he wears it himself, so no one will pursue it;

However, in the homes of ordinary people, if there are no soldiers in your family, but there is a secret armor, even if it is only one set, it is a crime of treason; not to mention the sect organizations on the Green Forest Road or Jianghu Road, if it is found that there are more than ten or twenty sets of armor in the door, it will be directly regarded as a "rebel" and should be exterminated with all its might.

To sum up, in those days, it was impossible for ordinary bandit villages to consider such a thing as armor, which was greater than their crime and risk of robbery and murder.

"Then ......" The book returned to the right words, and Xiao Wujian listened to Yuan Zhan'er's countermeasures, and also nodded, as if to indicate that the latter's response was quite correct: "What is the result?"

"The result...... The next day we waited until noon and they didn't come. Kamesan interjected angrily.

Yuan Zhan'er also answered: "So we sent spies to investigate...... After an hour, the spy reported that the two men had slept until noon, and told the villagers, 'I was too tired from working last night and overslept, so I might as well wait until I had dinner before I went, and I could take advantage of the cover of the night.' She pursed her lips viciously, "Big brother, when we received the report, it was already Shen Shi, and the brothers hadn't closed their eyes for almost two days and one night, so we could only take advantage of the two hours before the sun set to close our eyes for a while, and then get up again to be on guard...... Speaking of this, she frowned again, "I didn't think about it...... They didn't come the next night. ”

Xiao Wuji said: "Then why is it this time?"

"We waited all night, and let the spies check it out at dawn the next day......," Gui San said in due course, "The spies reported that Huang Donglai ate unclean things for dinner, and he had diarrhea, and he rested in the second half of the night when he was better, and decided to come back in the afternoon." ”

"Huh?" At this time, Xiao Wuji suddenly thought of a possibility, "These two can't be liars, right? ”

"We started to doubt it then...... Could these two be under the banner of 'East Harmony and West Poison'? Yuan Zhan'er said, "But I didn't expect that on the third day, before it was afternoon, they suddenly came." ”

"Oh?" laughed at the more he listened, the more interested he became, "Did you fight them?"

"What a hand? Gui San's face was depressed, "We stayed up all night with our brothers, wanting to sleep a little more before the afternoon, but not long after lying down, these two goods ran to the gate of the village and threw several 'flying fire meteors' into our village." ”

"What the hell is that?" Xiao Wujian asked.

"We don't know. "Before that thing hits the ground, it looks like a small black ball, and when it hits the ground, it explodes, and when it is blown up, it is a puddle of oil, accompanied by some iron pieces that are scattered and exploded; at that time, the brothers in the village were all sleepy, tired, and relatively lax, so they flew in a few and let us kill and injure seven or eight people." ”

"And what about later?" said with a smile.

"Then of course we rose up to meet the enemy. Yuan Zhan'er said, "But when all the brothers in our village got up and put out the fire, the two killed a thousand knives and didn't come in, but just shouted outside, saying that they just took a few firefire meteor shells to test the power at this time, and when they went back to the village to push the 'fort' up, they didn't throw a few in with their hands, but 'seventeen rounds a second' to blast into our village." ”

"What do you mean by 'seconds'?" asked Xiao Wujian again.

"Who knows, but listen to what they mean, it's probably just a blink of an eye. "Turtle Sandao.

When asked this, Xiao Wuji had basically guessed what the hell Shuang Harmonic was doing, so his next sentence was: "If nothing else, you haven't slept in the afternoon and evening of the third day, right?"

"Nope. "Gui Sandao," by the fourth day, we felt that there was no way to go on like this, so the second sister came up with an idea, and let the brothers divide into two shifts and take turns to sleep; ”

Xiao Wujian listened to this arrangement, and couldn't help but sneer secretly in his heart: "Hmph...... If these minions in the village are not lazy and lazy, how can they be thieves? Now you let them do these things in reverse shifts? If they can do it seriously, will they still come to be thieves? Isn't it better to be a soldier than this?"

Yuan Zhan'er's next words also responded to Xiao Wuji's thoughts, she continued: "Alas, it's a pity that all these wastes in our village are lazy and slippery, this big enemy is current, and there are a bunch of lazy people, I found out and scolded them a few words, and dared to talk back to me, saying that I was tired a few days ago, and I haven't recovered yet, so I really can't do any work."

"This makes me angry, I think that none of these eight grandsons are tired when they lie on the women, and when it is their turn to do something serious, it is as if they didn't give them food...... In a fit of rage, I killed a few of them on the spot, and I thought I was killing chickens to show the monkeys.

"And guess what, big brother, that night, these grandchildren actually escaped twenty or so in one go, what a fucking ......"

"Oh...... In this way, remove those who were killed by the Spitfire Meteor, those who were killed by you, and those who escaped on their own...... Now there are only about 30 brothers left in the village. Xiao Wujian estimated it and asked.

"Not really. Yuan Zhan'er replied in a helpless tone, but when she said the next sentence, a little brightness appeared on her face, "However, now that you are back, big brother, then we have nothing to fear, we don't have to be so trembling in the village anymore, as long as you give an order, the two of us can immediately go down the mountain with you, and peel Sun Huang's two children and cramp them, and dismantle them!"

"Yes, big brother, I'm just waiting for your words!" Gui San also echoed, "You have not been here for ten days, just in time for so many things, the brothers have not gone down the mountain to hunt for food for more than ten days, and the women caught in the village have all died, you see......"

"I see, heh......" Xiao Wujian smiled, although his face had been smiling, but at the moment he really felt ridiculous, and laughed, "I see...... You two are already dying, and if I come back a day later, I'm afraid I'll only have time to collect your bodies. ”

When Yuan Zhan'er and Gui San heard this, they looked at each other.

Kamesan's brain is dull, and he can't think of anything to do.

Although Yuan Zhan'er was smarter than Guisan, she couldn't see the overall situation of this matter, so she asked, "Big brother, how can you say this?"

"You have fallen for the suspicion of others...... "If I guessed correctly, that 'Spitfire Meteor' is simply a bluff, and they only made those seven or eight fire bombs from the beginning to the end, and they have thought of using our eyeliner and spies to create all kinds of illusions for you, deceiving you again and again, leaving you overwhelmed and exhausted......

"This ...... "......Even if they know that they are using our spies to deceive us, how can they be sure that we will be in the stronghold and will not be killed?"

"That's right. Gui San also asked, "They don't know that the surname Liu and the surname Zou were killed by us, is it possible that they think ...... Even if there is someone with higher martial arts skills than those two people leading a large group of people to kill, they will definitely be able to retreat with their whole body?"

"Heh......" Xiao Wujian chuckled again, "If their martial arts are really so high, why are they still doing these things? He paused, "Those two have been tossing you for so many days, firstly, because they are not completely sure of the strong attack, and secondly, because they probably deduced that Liu Zou and the others may not have died because their martial arts were not high enough...... The two of you also rely on trickery, and your heart is also very empty, so you can only achieve miraculous results by using suspicious tactics. ”

Xiao Wujian said this, raised his eyes and gestured in the direction of the door: "You look back and think about it, seven days ago, you cleaned up characters like Liu Wusheng and Zou Baiqiu without a single soldier, and the brothers all knew that they would soon go down the mountain to make a big profit on the grounds of 'settling accounts with the villagers'...... And what did Sun and Huang do? It's just that they live in the village below the mountain to eat, sleep, and sleep, and from time to time put some false news and cruel words to scare and scare you...... Oh, their methods of attacking the heart are not clever. ”

When Yuan Zhan'er and Gui San heard this, they were both annoyed in their hearts, and they were also a little complaining about the eldest brother, how could they still laugh at them in such a relaxed tone.

At this moment, suddenly......

A minion rushed to the door, stood at the door and shouted: "Oh no! ”

When Yuan Zhan'er and Gui San heard this, they immediately became angry from their hearts, and evil was born to the side of their hearts.

They said in their hearts: Okay, there is a road in heaven that you will not go, and there is no door to hell, you will come to vote! A few days ago, our eldest brother was not here, so let the two of you play us around, and now the eldest brother is back, see what tricks you can play! Today we want you to die without a place to be buried!

And the smile was not in a hurry, and he got up calmly: "Oh, it's good to come, I was also thinking about meeting these two." ”