August, looking at the sun, after the rain, dusk.

At the beginning of the heavy rain, the dark clouds have not yet dispersed, and the hearts of those who are hanging low are dull.

In a sparse wood, covered in foliage, the surroundings appear even darker.

The three carriages moved slowly, the front one was a sedan chair with a seat, and the back two were flatbed carts full of goods.

The sound of footsteps in the mud and the wheezing of the horses echoed through the forest, startling the birds and insects that passed by.

There were no voices, as if everyone was preoccupied.

A young man in fancy clothes sat on a tree not far away and watched the carriage pass by, and he felt a chill in front of him envelop the carriage, mixed with fear in his heart and nightmares in his nightmare.

"The rivers and lakes are in trouble, the rivers and lakes are over. ”

He sighed in his heart, not planning to help, nor did he plan to remind him.

The convoy went farther and farther away, as if nothing had happened.

Suddenly, a family member in front of the convoy shuddered, fell straight down and made a "bang" sound, which frightened the maid next to him and let out a piercing scream.

However, immediately after that, she also fell straight down, and also made a "bang", and her mouth was still wide open.

The convoy suddenly became a pot of porridge, the maidservants screamed again and again, and the surrounding family members drew their swords and looked around, surrounding the subordinates and the first carriage in the middle.

After waiting for a long time, it gradually quieted down, only the chill hit, and there was no change.

Du Zhongnian came out of the carriage, shivered, and was shocked in his heart, this is not like the chill that should be in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

A man in the family said hatefully: "Master Du, I'm afraid this errand is not simple." ”

As for this, how could Du Zhongnian not know his thoughts, and replied: "Afterwards, I will add thirty percent to you." "In troubled times, there is no shortage of people who practice martial arts to work for others.

With Du Zhongnian's words, a burst of laughter sounded around him, and then a voice came: "I'm afraid that I won't have my life to take it." The sound was like the pounding of bones, and it was so terrifying that the maids hugged each other tightly and trembled.

A hoarse voice that hurt people's ears sounded: "It doesn't matter if you don't have a life, we can spend it for him." ”

Another person's voice was sharp and straight to his head: "The wife and children can be taken care of together, Du Zhongnian's wife and daughter are all fine-skinned and tender, remember to stay and let your grandfather and I take good care of it." ”

Another person's voice was very loud, and the ears of the people who shook it roared: "You still want two of the skinny ghosts, just don't die of exhaustion in bed." ”

......

The surrounding voices came clearly, one by one was ugly, and the words became more and more obscene and obscene, which was simply unbearable.

This Du Zhongnian is also a practitioner, and he took out a nine-ring steel knife from the carriage and raised it to the surroundings and shouted angrily: "Shut up, a group of shameless people, pretending to be gods and ghosts, have the ability to come out and teach the old man three hundred rounds!"

A fairly normal middle-aged man's voice faintly came: "Let's go together, whoever grabs it will belong to whom, and make a quick decision to go back to the business." ”

As soon as the words fell, a huge axe roared from the front, cutting several families in two along the way, even the horses were not spared, and blood splashed on the surrounding maids, causing another round of huge commotion, and all the maidservants screamed and fled regardless of the scattering.

Immediately following the mountain axe, a group of things sprang out all around, screaming and laughing wildly, one mader than the other, one ugly and the other, it was simply a living ghost crawling out of hell.

How could the maidservants escape, they were all caught and thrown aside, and those who dared to resist were beaten half to death with a punch or a kick and then thrown into a heap, while none of the men remained.

The living ghosts rushed into the crowd, and no one dared to fight them, one by one, they were terrified, or they fled for their lives or collapsed to the ground without a single enemy.

In fact, Du Zhongnian had already made plans when the axe flew in, and he had no intention of making a move with this group of people at all, and when the axe flew by, he pulled his wife and daughter in the carriage and chased after the axe.

The axe was huge, and the place it passed was unstoppable, even the group of living ghosts avoided it, and Du Zhongnian followed closely with his wife and daughter, and actually rushed out of the encirclement directly.

The giant axe fell to the ground, accompanied by a roar of a large piece of muddy water mixed with fallen leaves rushed straight towards Mrs. Du, Mrs. Du "ah" pounced in the mud, not far behind him a strong man with a scar on his face jumped up, and the landing point was where Mrs. Du was.

Du Zhongnian hesitated for a moment, looked back and pulled Mrs. Du up, but at this moment, the big man had already arrived, only to see him raise his leg and kick on the axe's right hand with a lift, and the mountain axe swept towards the three of them.

Du Zhongnian couldn't avoid it, but he was also a person who practiced martial arts, and pushed his wife and children away and raised his knife to block.

But how could a nine-ring knife block the huge mountain opening axe, the whole body was swept away, and a miserable snort was made in mid-air, and one left arm was already abolished.

"Dad!" The girl on the side hurriedly rushed over to help Du Zhongnian up.

The man with a scar on his face took two steps forward to lift up Mrs. Du, who was covered in mud, and said to Du Zhongnian in a hoarse and ugly voice: "Master Du, do you still want to run?"

Du Zhongnian's eyes were split, and he threw away the nine-ring knife in his hand in despair, but his right hand secretly grabbed his daughter's hand and turned around and ran.

"Mother!" Du Xi'er shouted in pain.

The big man was stunned, then laughed, and was not in a hurry to chase, raised his hand and pinched Mrs. Du's face to let her look at Du Zhongnian's back, and laughed: "Look, they ran away and left you alone, call for help, and ask Du Zhongnian to turn around and save you." ”

Mrs. Du's tears rained down, she clenched her teeth and didn't say a word, only roared in her heart: "Run, Xi'er, run!"

The man with a scar on his face felt bored, touched Mrs. Du's chest through his clothes, and then threw it with the maidservant.

Du Zhongnian ran in a direction that I don't know whether intentionally or unintentionally, it is where the boy is.

The young man in Chinese clothes snorted in his mouth, as if he felt extremely troublesome, but he didn't deliberately hide it.

The father and daughter are getting closer and closer, and Du Xi'er fell halfway, but her face is still clean, and she can see that she is a girl who is only a teenager, and she is crying like a tearful person at the moment.

I didn't see the boy lift his breath, and his body rose and fell down the tree, but his feet were standing in the dry place of the roots, and it was obvious that the boy loved to be clean.

Seeing the young man's hand, Du Zhongnian was overjoyed, and secretly saved, pulling Du Xi'er to the ground and bowing: "Young man help!"

The young man's eyes were disdainful, and he said coldly, "When did you find me?"

Du Zhongnian hurriedly replied: "When the carriage passed by, Shaoxia not only did not deliberately hide, but also looked around many times. ”

"Did you see me?" the boy was a little surprised.

"No, I didn't see it, it's just that the young man's breath is short, he doesn't look like a person who practices martial arts, it's very easy to notice, and he is extremely vigilant on the way, so he noticed it. ”

The young man said: "My short breath means that my internal breath is insufficient, and it is a manifestation of not practicing internal skills, you are looking for me to save my life?"

Du Zhongnian's face became more and more pale, and he replied: "At the end of the road, there is no other way but to bet that Shaoxia will be a person here alone." ”

The young man said coldly: "It's okay to bet right, but if you bet wrong, you will kill an innocent person." ”

"This ......" Du Zhongnian was stunned, in a hurry, he just tried his best to survive, how could he think about this.

The young man ignored him, turned his head to look at the girl on the side, only twelve or thirteen years old, petite and weak, obviously never practiced martial arts, and said secretly in his heart: "Confused, I am already ready to withdraw from the rivers and lakes, why should I participate in the affairs of the rivers and lakes again." ”

It turned out that the young man saw Du Zhongnian dressed as a businessman and never taught his daughter to practice martial arts, so he guessed that Du Zhongnian had retired to business for many years.

The young man looked into the distance, and only three people were casually walking this way with weapons, and it seemed that they had regarded the father and daughter as their own things, and they were not in a hurry to catch up.

The young man said to Du Zhongnian: "I don't want to get involved in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, you can run quickly, while they haven't chased after me." ”

Du Zhongnian was in a hurry: "Shaoxia, I didn't think about it carefully, I didn't think about Shaoxia's comfort, but it was all for the life of the little girl Xi'er, and I hope that Shaoxia ......"

"If you don't save it, you don't save it. The boy interrupted him impatiently.

"This ......," Du Zhongnian begged, "if the little old man has any offense, he is willing to accept the punishment and punish him, even if he wants this cheap life, he will not complain, he just asks the young man to raise his noble hand to save the little girl's life." ”

"Dad, don't!" Du Xi'er knelt on the side and cried.

"Is this Du Zhongnian in a hurry, do you really think that this hairy boy can save his life?" A sharp and piercing voice sounded, scaring Du Xi'er into a thrill.

It turned out that these three people had come to the front with all these efforts.

I saw a lame man on crutches with a face full of abscesses and a fierce light on his body, a smirking black-faced man, holding an arm that had just been cut off from a servant girl in his left hand and gnawing it in his mouth, and holding a ghost-headed knife in his right hand, and a thin man with a sharp beak and an oak root bamboo pole, with extremely long hands hanging down, each holding a judge's pen, and this thin man was speaking.

The young man shuddered when he saw the lame man, and suddenly laughed: "You think I can't save them?"

Du Zhongnian heard this, and secretly said in his heart that he was saved, and he was about to open his mouth to plead again, but he heard the young man say: "Let's go, although I don't participate in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, but you have delayed the opportunity to escape because of me, and I will return the delayed time to you." ”

Du Zhongnian stood up with the support of his daughter Du Xi'er, hugged his fists and said gratefully: "Thank you Shaoxia for your great kindness, I don't know ......" said and looked at the three people on the side, he wanted to ask the young man what to call him, but he was worried that he would be retaliated against for leaving his name.

The young man seemed to know what he was going to say, and said lightly: "Call me Xiaoqiu, let's go." Go over there, close to Tongping Town, and it is more likely to encounter people from the rivers and lakes. ”

Du Zhongnian said: "Thank you Qiu Shaoxia, the grace of saving your life will be reported every day." With that, he took his daughter and endured the pain of half of her body and went in the direction that Xiaoqiu pointed out.

Xiaoqiu looked at the backs of the father and daughter and couldn't help but remind again: "Go faster, I don't care when the delay comes." ”

Saying that the three people next to him, except for the thin man who used the judge's pen, the other two were all cold-eyed, and the thin man saw that the two of them didn't speak and endured until now, and finally couldn't help it, and scolded: "You are a nursing boy, you are not small, you just watched him let Du Zhongnian go?"

The lame man stared at Xiao Qiu and said coldly: "He can't run." ”

Xiaoqiu shivered again, and her eyes were not good: "I'm most afraid of the cold, don't force me." I'll let you go after him in a moment, but not now. ”

The lame man's eyes flashed without saying a word, and he didn't know what he was thinking, but the thin man couldn't help but suddenly attack.

I saw that the thin man suddenly flashed the first two steps, these two steps greatly shortened the distance between him and Xiaoqiu, and the judge pen in his right hand brought a string of cold light to Xiaoqiu's left temple. He only used a pen this time, and he could see that he had reservations, in order to test the other party's reality.

"You're ......," Xiaoqiu said angrily, "soiled my shoes." ”

As he spoke, he raised his left hand and pinched the judge's pen, only to see that the tip of the pen stopped at a distance of half an inch from his temple, and he still couldn't move an inch no matter how hard the thin man tried.

Frightened, the thin man let go and retreated, Xiao Qiu followed up and lifted his leg with a kick, kicking the thin man out, and the thin man spewed out a large piece of blood mist in mid-air and fell heavily several feet away.

Xiaoqiu didn't look at it, and threw the judge's pen to the side, and inserted it all into the tree on the side with a "poof". Then he crouched down and wiped his muddy boots.

This hand was so frightened that the lame man didn't dare to move, and the black-faced man kept smirking and didn't care whether the thin man lived or died, and the three of them were in a stalemate like this, until other people in the distance discovered the anomaly here and rushed over.

"What are you doing, Du Zhongnian?" The first to arrive was a middle-aged man with a pale face and an unpopular scholar, holding a folding fan in his hand, and asked out loud before he could get close.

Xiaoqiu was stunned, and looked at the group of "demons and monsters" who rushed in the distance in a little panic, really one game and one ugly, scratching his head and saying in a helpless way: "That...... It's almost time, you can go after Du Zhongnian. ”

After saying that, I didn't see any movement, and the figure bounced back, and when it fell, it was already a few zhang away, and it turned around in mid-air to carry out light work, and the body was like a light swallow, and the feet did not touch the ground, and a few ups and downs disappeared.

Leaving a group of demons and monsters looking at each other, they can't catch up.