Sixty-sixth Episode Distress in the Forest
Hearing this, Wang Zhi and He Nanxu hurriedly took a closer look. I saw that in the place pointed by Wei Ying, there were more than a dozen stones listed according to the pattern of the shock hexagram in the Fuxi gossip.
"When the brocade guard tracked, it was marked by the shape of the hexagram, and it was not restricted to what it was. Seeing that Wang Zhi was puzzled, Wei Ying immediately explained, "This should be left by a huge number of people." ”
"Then what are you waiting for?" He Nanxu was a little anxious, "Let's follow the mark to find it!"
Wang Zhi nodded and said, "That's fine!Wei Ying, pay more attention to the side of the road!"
Let's say that Shen Yuan went out of the city, and he didn't know which direction Li Zilong and Pei Tong were going, so he asked when he met someone, Pei Tong's appearance was very easy to identify, especially if he was missing a hand, and he asked for the news before he could make tea.
He followed the instructions of the passers-by and walked northwest, asking questions all the way, until he reached a sparsely populated hill in the dense forest, and it was already dusk.
The cold wind destroys the trees, and the paths are faint and ghostly, and the birds are singing. Shen Yuan stood outside the forest, thinking secretly in his heart: "From leaving the city until here, no one has seen Pei Tong and Li Zilong again. With Pei Tong's martial arts, he would never dare to come alone, if he brought people and horses, there would be only one place to hide left and right!"
The so-called tiger who does not enter the tiger's den will get the tiger, and without hesitation at the moment, he entered the forest.
In Shen Yuan's heart, he came to pursue Li Zilong and the others, not entirely for a gambling contract with Lu Hong, this Li Zilong harmed people's lives for no reason and caused panic, his intentions were really hateful.
Killing Li Zilong is to eliminate harm for the people, even if Lu Hong is not arrogant and unreasonable, Shen Yuan will get rid of the thief. Now that he learned that this thief was involved with the evil Pei Tong, Shen Yuan wondered in his heart, what kind of collusion was there between these two.
Previously, he asked Pei Tong to take advantage of the chaos in Fenglingdu to slip away, and he already regretted it, but now that he has this opportunity, Shen Yuan is naturally happy to do the right thing for the sky. It's just that he put his mind on Pei Tong and Li Zilong, and he was negligent for a while, and he didn't realize that Pang Qing and Lu Hong were following far behind.
"It's getting late, this kid didn't go back to the city at this time, but he got into the woods, brother, what do you say is weird?" Lu Hong was suspicious in his heart, and hid in the dark and asked Pang Qing.
That Pang Qing left a mark on the side, got up and clapped his hands: "Maybe he has some clues, follow along!"
The two hurriedly chased after them, but as soon as they entered the forest, they found that Shen Yuan had disappeared without a trace.
"Damn, it's called this guy slipped!" Lu Hong hurriedly said, "Brother, how is this good?"
Lu Hong looked around, listened to Lu Hong's words, hurriedly raised a finger, signaled to stop, Pang Qing listened carefully, and grabbed a handful of dead leaves from the ground to take a look, only to see that the dead leaves were obviously trampled or broken, and said softly: "This forest is not small, go forward, there seems to be some movement ahead." ”
As the sky grew darker, the two of them walked slowly along the path up the hill, and after not going far, they saw two forks in the road. Lu Hong asked, "What should we do?"
Pang Qing frowned slightly, and was about to make up his mind, when he suddenly sniffed slightly, and then looked at Lu Hong, who was also aware of it. The two of them immediately caught up with the smoky smell wafting from the wind, and they abandoned the two forks in the road and walked directly through the forest.
After walking for about half a pillar of incense, Pang Qing raised his hand violently, and Lu Hong also stopped with him. I saw the faint light in front of me, and when I saw it, I knew that it was reflected by the bonfire. And the forest was silent in the winter night, and even the wild cats didn't bother to come out and call, and the two of them stood here, and they could clearly hear the sound of talking not far ahead.
Pang Qing listened carefully, but his brows became tighter and tighter, Lu Hong was puzzled, and wondered: "What, brother, do you think there is something wrong?"
"Listen, the sound of this voice coming from the front, I estimate that there are at least a dozen people!" Pang Qing stretched out his finger and pointed, "It's definitely not Shen Yuan!"
"Then isn't our brother wrong?"
"A mistake doesn't have to be a mistake......
"Brother is you saying, Li Zilong?" Although Lu Hong was reckless, he was not stupid, and he naturally understood the meaning of Pang Qing's words.
It's just that I heard Pang Qing say again: "I'm just speculating that Li Zilong dares to be so rebellious, if he doesn't have an accomplice, how can he be so confident?" ”
After that, he lifted his breath and jumped upward, grabbed a branch with both hands, swung it hard, and landed on the canopy with two or three strokes.
Ascending high and looking into the distance, Pang Qing saw three felt tents in a small open space in front of him, several bonfires were burning in front of the tent, two or three people were slaughtering two sheep on one side, and more than a dozen people with swords were trembling in front of the fire to keep warm, and there were about twenty fast horses tied to the other side!
Pang Qing's expression was solemn, and he said in his heart: "Where are these people coming from? I don't know if Li Zilong is among them!"
Li Zilong's face Pang Qing had never seen it, so he naturally couldn't tell it.
At this time, I saw three people coming out of the felt tent in the middle, one of them was ugly and hateful, but he was wearing a Tang scarf, a straight jacket, and foundation boots, and the mink was wide open on his body, which was really difficult for people to look at directly; there was another person wearing a mink fur and arrow coat, and his appearance was three points similar to the previous person, but he was a little younger, and he was quite arrogant; the last person had a warm face, three locks of black beard, and a Confucian dress with a square scarf and a straight scarf, which seemed incompatible with this group of people.
If Shen Yuan was here, he would recognize these three people. The Confucian is dressed as Li Zilong, and the one who is gangsterly is the thief Pei Tong, and the other one doesn't need to be said, just by that dress, he should know that it is Pei Yuanhai!
"Daochang Li, this time you pretended to use the hand of a demon fox to make the capital panic inside and outside, but you failed to assassinate the Ming Emperor, the Great Khan still wants the Taoist chief to explain it himself!" Pei Yuanhai patted Li Zilong on the shoulder, and his words were pertinent, "Presumably, for the sake of your dedication, I will say something good for you on the side, and it will be fine." ”
"How can it be so easy to assassinate the emperor of the dynasty?" Li Zilong was a little afraid, "I have noticed that something is wrong in the past few days, fortunately, there is a substitute for the dead ghost to enter the palace on my behalf, otherwise, how can I have the life to go back to see the Great Khan now?"
"Wang Zhi is really so shrewd?"
Hearing Pei Yuanhai's tone of disbelief, Li Zilong hurriedly said: "If it weren't for this little eunuch, how could I miscalculate?" However, I still found out some news about Datong's defense," Li Zilong took out a letter from his arms, "This is the key!"
"Oh?"
Pei Yuanhai was interested, and was about to get it, but he saw Li Zilong dodging his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Pei, don't take the credit of the poor road!"
Pang Qing heard these words clearly, and he was shocked in his heart: "This is really Li Zilong, those people are clearly Han Chinese, but the Great Khan in their mouths, could it be the Mandu Gul Khan of Tatar...... Tatars?
"Who are you?"
A deep voice suddenly came from below, which made Pang Qing startled! And Li Zilong, Pei Yuanhai, and the others instantly raised their weapons and heard the sound! Looking down again, they saw that four people suddenly appeared, forcing Lu Hong to the bottom of the tree, and there was no way to retreat, and he said in his heart: "Oh no!"
I saw that the leader of them was wearing a tiger skin and a seven-foot-long horse chopping knife across his shoulders, his eyes flashing, and his murderous aura was fully displayed! On the left stood a sturdy man, dressed in a cotton robe, silent, but his eyes were fierce, like a hungry wolf. Both of them looked like they were in their forties, but the tiger skin was bigger.
The person standing bent over on the right was an old man of his sixties, with an iron rod on the ground with a python head in his hand, a brocade hat on his head, and a mink fur on his body, but a big bag bulging out of his back! Look at the people around him, dressed all back and forth, fifty years old, with a strong figure, and an iron pen more than six feet long dragging on the ground!
Pang Qing also used a judge's pen, but it was the first time he had seen such a big judge's pen, and he couldn't help but take a few more looks.
Just about to jump off the tree, suddenly the cold wind rose, only to feel the scalp numb, looked back, only to see a person falling from the sky, like a goshawk flying by!
Pang Qing hurriedly flashed sideways, but as soon as his feet slipped, he was about to fall. In an instant, Pang Qing's waist twisted, and at the same time he pulled out an iron pen and poked at the trunk of the tree, and held the branch with the other hand, fixed his body, and jumped down.
Look at the person who sneaked up behind Fang Cai, holding a long sword, dressed in a green robe, with eyes like an eagle falcon, a glance at the mustache, and looked at Pang Qing and Lu Hong expressionlessly.
"Brother, these five people don't know where they came from, and their martial arts are not low!"
Even Lu Hong's reckless nature has to be cautious now, the pressure on him from these five people is extraordinary.
At this time, Pei Yuanhai and Li Zilong led people to arrive, and a group of people surrounded Pang Qing and Lu Hong.
"I'm asking you!" The tiger-skinned voice fell, and I saw the horse chopping knife in his hand pointing horizontally at Pang Qing with a "swish"!
The horse chopping knife must have thirty or fifty catties, but in the hands of this person, it is as if it is unmistakable, and Pang Qing can't help but be more cautious.
Before Pang Qing could speak, Li Zilong said to the man wearing a tiger skin: "Boss Xi, don't bother, if I guess correctly, these two are two of the four King Kongs of Jinyiwei, the master of the master!"
Pang Qing looked at Li Zilong, pretended to be calm, and smiled: "Daochang Li is very clear!"
That Li Zilong arched his hand with a smile, and looked at Pang Qing and the others as if they were looking at a turtle in an urn and smiled: "If you don't check it out, how dare you act lightly?"
"No need to talk nonsense, kill them!"
Pei Yuanhai was about to make a move, when he heard Boss Xi wave the horse slasher in his hand lightly, and said with a smile: "Brother Pei, slow down, I want to see how many catties and taels this brocade guard has!"
"You can try how many catties and taels you have!" Pang Qing smiled calmly, drew his weapon, and prepared to attack.
As soon as Lu Hong heard Pang Qing's words, he immediately scolded: "Thief, you come to eat grandpa's axe!"