The barren mountain is lonely, and it is a dust.

Xu Shaofeng rode a white horse and tracked all the way. After the substitution, Hakuba immediately became energetic. It spreads its hooves and gallops like the wind. Xu Shaofeng has superb riding skills and is familiar with the temperament of the white horse, and the white horse is several times faster than when Mo Xiaoyu is riding.

After walking for most of the day, when it was getting dark, he came to a dense forest on the side of a mountain. At this place, there is no trace of the horse team's indistinguishable imprints.

Seeing that it was getting late, he thought that the white horse had not stopped, so he caressed the white horse's mane lovingly and let it graze on the edge of the forest. And he himself, he went around to look around.

In the past, he was either ordered by his master or as a bounty, and he had hunted down Jiangyang thieves and martial arts scum many times. He has a strong personality and never gives up, and over time, he has developed an excellent tracking skill.

However, he looked around the edge of the forest, but found no sign of the horse team. He frowned, feeling strange: a team of horses couldn't disappear into thin air, unless they were deliberately removing the traces.

But why should they go to the trouble of erasing the traces?

It was late at night, the mountains were silent, and there was something unusual in the air that was blown by the mountain wind.

Xu Shaofeng looked for the feeling and carefully distinguished. Eventually, he discovered that the unusual smell came from the smell wafting through his nose.

The smell is very light and faint. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't see in the middle of the night, his sense of smell would have played a greater role, and if it hadn't been for the fact that he had restrained the poison of tears and absorbed the incense of the soul, which greatly increased his sensory potential, he would not have been able to detect it.

Where exactly does this strange smell come from?

He stood tall on the mountain road, closing his eyes and discerning. After a moment, he opened his eyes, his gaze as sharp as lightning, and swept diagonally towards the boulder on the mountainside.

The mountains here are relatively gentle, full of large and small stones, and the withered weeds are blown down by the mountain wind. Except for this boulder, which is slightly abrupt, there are rocks and dead grass here, which is no different from other places.

Xu Shaofeng was keenly aware that the smell here was stronger than that on the mountain road just now.

He leaned over and picked up a small handful of dirt from the boulder, put it to his nose and sniffed it. It was immediately confirmed: the strange smell was coming from under the stone.

Could it be that there is something strange hidden under this boulder?

He circled the boulder and examined it closely.

This boulder is a foot high, and it takes several people to hug it to enclose it. The lower part of it is buried obliquely in the earth, surrounded by scattered stones.

At least it has to weigh more than 10,000 catties. After he weighed, he stood still, moved with both palms, and pushed violently.

The boulder does not move.

After pondering for a while, he retrieved an arm-thick stick from the dense forest, and brought a flat boulder from the side and placed it under the stick. After many of his exercises, the boulder thuded and was pry aside.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, he crouched down and looked into the pit under the boulder. The pit was covered with a layer of loose stones and earth. He swept them away with a stick, revealing what was hidden in the pit. It was a bunch of strange things, long and round, combined into an extremely strange shape. After seeing the things under the pit clearly, even after experiencing the tragic fighting in the rivers and lakes, he still couldn't help but gasp.

The dim moonlight casts an eerie gray over the objects in the pit. The things in the pit are not special at all, and they can even be said to be common, because they are not objects, but various parts of the human body! round heads, long limbs, square torso...... None of the corpses were fully humanoid, piled up in such a way that it was impossible to distinguish them at a glance. And those corpses, unknown to what was hidden from the blood, emitted a strange smell that seemed to be stinky but not smelly.

Xu Shaofeng silently threw away the stick, and a rag with handwriting was hooked out by the stick. After he recognized the meaning of the words, his pupils couldn't help but shrink suddenly: This is the banner of the government!

He has always been cold, and an inexplicable impatience suddenly rose in his chest: I heard the little junior sister say that the group of people reported that they were the Taishan Mingkong faction. But judging by what it did, it was no ordinary gang. What is the origin of those people, and who is Lu Xiaohua in the hands of?

He anxiously searched around the mountain road, and finally found a few heavy rut marks on a path miles away.

He immediately turned back and mounted his white horse, and pursued him again.

......

After dinner and a short rest, under Shang Tianhua's order, everyone began to rush overnight.

I don't know if I slept too much during the day, Lu Xiaohua didn't feel sleepy. She leaned open the window and looked out.

The night breeze was blowing, and it was dark on all sides, and you couldn't see anything clearly from a distance. By the dim moonlight, Lu Xiaohua could only vaguely see the carriage in front of her. She counted the people in boredom, and suddenly noticed a strange thing: walking in front, two people were riding on each side of the carriage for the wounded!

After coming out of Kunlun, Jiang Tao hired two carriages for the wounded to ride. There were eight people in a group, three of them were driving, four of the wounded, plus Shang Tianhua and himself were also sitting in the carriage, and no one was riding at all. How could there suddenly be four more people on horseback at this time? Looking out of the car with a blind light in the black light, Lu Xiaohua's heart moved, and she almost screamed.

She immediately covered her mouth and swallowed the voice back. Reaching out and stabbing Shang Tianhua, who was practicing with her eyes closed, she whispered: "Wake up, there's something strange outside following the carriage!"

Shang Tianhua heard her unusual tone, so he opened his eyes, only to see Lu Xiaohua pointing out the window with a blue face.

He lifted the curtain and looked out, but there was nothing unusual, and he couldn't help asking, "What is it?"

Lu Xiao swallowed hard, "It's the kind of thing that you only encounter when you walk at night." ”

Shang Tianhua glanced out again for unknown reasons, but still didn't find anything. He asked impatiently, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Don't you see?" Lu Xiaohua's voice trembled, "There are two horsemen on each side of the carriage in front. ”

"So what?"

"We don't have any horseback, and the extra people riding horses now must be those unclean things......"

"That's Sun Mulei, them. Shang Tianhua interrupted her, secretly amused in his heart. This woman dares to sing and laugh with her fierce subordinates, and she is actually afraid of ghosts. He ignored her and continued to practice with his eyes closed.

After he said it, Lu Xiaohua carefully identified it and saw that the figure was really them. Thinking of the last time Ding Tingjie refused to take the car, she was finally relieved. It turned out that these people, like Ding Tingjie, don't like to ride in cars and like to ride horses. She shook her head secretly, the habits of these Jianghu people are really bad, they just ride horses during the day, and at night they don't sit in a comfortable carriage, and they prefer to ride horses, so that they are afraid in vain.

Thinking that everyone else was riding horses, Lu Xiaohua felt that she was sitting in the car, and she couldn't help but be a little upset, so she said to Shang Tianhua: "Don't you tell them to rest for a while?"

After a few shouts, the person on the other side did not move. Lu Xiaohua sighed helplessly, and said in her heart, this person always looks like this as soon as he gets in the carriage. The posture looks like he is practicing, but who knows if he is secretly sleeping. Looking out of the carriage, she thought again: No wonder this person likes to stay in the carriage so much, the carriage is really a good thing to hurry. I just don't know why they're in such a hurry.

......

After walking non-stop for three days in a row, it was only on the evening of the fourth day that Shang Tianhua was allowed to stay in a remote mountain village.

The mountain village is very small, but there are only a few families and dozens of people. Liu Hai picked the largest family to spend the night.

The head of the household is an old man over half a hundred years old, named Liu Tianshou. He and his wife have two sons and a daughter. The eldest son, Liu Fu, has married a daughter-in-law and has a son. The little grandson's name is Liu Shun, who has just passed the age of six years old, and is very smart and cute. The second son Liu Gui and the youngest daughter Liu Xi are both unmarried.

Bangs pretended to be a passing caravan and missed the accommodation because he got lost. The family had no doubts about it.

Xu is a perennial visitor who rarely sees outsiders, and the family is very enthusiastic about the arrival of the horse team. The old man Liu Tian's two sons went to kill chickens and pigs, and the eldest daughter-in-law and the girl Liu Xi went to cook on the fire. Although his wife was not very good at his legs, he also rushed to the stove to add firewood. The family was very busy because of the arrival of Shang Tianhua and his party.

Lu Xiaohua couldn't see others busy with her work, so she also went to help on the stove. Shang Tianhua did not stop him.

At the beginning of the meal, the old man Liu Tianshou specially took a few jars of treasured wine and invited everyone to taste it. As soon as the mud seal of the wine jar was opened, the aroma of the wine was overflowing. Because Shang Tianhua had issued a ban on alcohol, everyone looked at him with blank eyes.

Probably thinking that everyone had worked hard for several days, Shang Tianhua nodded in agreement.

Liu Haishu also happily took the wine and food from home, and let everyone drink freely.

After three rounds of drinking, everyone was a little drunk, and they gave orders with their fists, so it was not lively. Shang Tianhua never drank alcohol, and the host persuaded him several times, but he was politely pushed back, so he stopped persuading. Others know that he is used to it, and they don't say much.

He sat alone, picked some vegetarian dishes and ate them slowly, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Lu Xiaohua sneakily getting up and leaving. His eyes sank and he quietly followed.

I saw Lu Xiaohua humming a little song into the backyard kitchen, and she didn't return for a long time. A puff of smoke came out of the kitchen chimney.

The meal has already been prepared, what does she want to do now? Shang Tianhua frowned, and stepped forward, wanting to find out.

He stretched out his hand and pushed the door, but it bolted from the inside. The more suspicious he became, he immediately pushed the door down with the force of his hand.

The kitchen was hazy, and Lu Xiaohua was bathing in a large wooden barrel. Seeing Shang Tianhua come in, she splashed him with water angrily, "Go away, go away!" I have the door closed, and you still want to come in." ”

Shang Tianhua's body stiffened, and he was splashed with water. He subconsciously bowed his head and withdrew, and casually lifted the door.

Standing outside the door, listening to the sound of water in the room, the embarrassment in his heart suddenly turned into anger: how could she be like this, without the consciousness of a prisoner at all!

"Hall Master, what are you doing here?" Sun Mulei walked crookedly, and when he saw Shang Tianhua staring at the wooden door of the kitchen with a strange face, he was about to push the door in.

Shang Tianhua stopped him and said stiffly, "She is taking a bath inside, don't go in." ”

"She?" Sun Mulei snorted his wine, and then suddenly realized, "Is that the little girl......?

"Nothing!" Shang Tianhua's face suddenly turned cold and turned to leave.

Sun Mulei's body shook a little, and he shouted after him, "Hall Master, if you are not interested, you might as well reward her to me." ”

"She's still useful, don't mistake me. Shang Tianhua stopped and turned his back to him.

Sun Mulei continued to entangle with the strength of the wine, "Anyway, I will be killed in the end, so it's not a waste to let the brothers play." ”

Shang Tianhua suddenly turned his head, and said in a cold voice: "Shi Ke can not be humiliated." It's one thing to kill her, it's another to insult her. If you want to follow me, keep my rules. "This Sun Mulei was originally a Jiangyang thief. Shang Tianhua took a fancy to his martial arts and rescued him from death row. He usually obeys Shang Tianhua's orders, but as soon as he drinks, his true form is revealed.

"It's just a little girl, what's the big deal. Sun Mulei muttered dissatisfied.

Shang Tianhua's eyes were as sharp as knives, and he said coldly: "It seems that you still haven't understood what I said. Well, you'll be on duty tonight!"

Sun Mulei suddenly felt his strength pressing, and suddenly sobered up most of the time, and retreated in a gloomy manner.

As soon as the wooden door rang, Lu Xiaohua had already dressed and walked out. She came to Shang Tianhua and lowered her head to say thank you.

Shang Tianhua looked at her viciously, "You will sleep with that girl tonight, don't try to play any tricks." ”

Lu Xiaohua raised her face and smiled at him, "Don't worry, I won't run away tonight." ”

Shang Tianhua snorted coldly and left proudly.

Lu Xiaohua blinked and grimaced at his back: This person is actually a bit similar to Brother Feng, who doesn't care about people but likes to bluff people very much. But his heart is not too bad.

Thinking of Xu Shaofeng, she suddenly felt a tightness in her heart: he went to find Sister Ai, but he never came back, he should have been with Sister Ai, right? I hope they can be happy for a long time......