As the sun sets, it turns red.

On the ground below where the birds passed, the withered grass splashed with the dust, and in the dewy autumn sun, figures ran or rode silently.

The wind blew through the scene in the fields, and someone saw the figure from a distance, and hurriedly squatted down and hid, watching the other party quickly pass from the west of the village, drop the hoe, and run towards the village.

When he entered the village, he shouted: "The mountain bandits have come down—"

All the families came out one after another, and the returning peasants also rushed to hear this, and their faces turned pale.

"Don't panic, everyone!" one of them, a man named Chen Tai, walked over, put down his hoe, and his voice trembled a little.

"Coming to our North Village?"

The man panted and shook his head, pointing to the entrance of the village to the south: "The mountain bandits from Yazui Ridge in the north have come down, and I saw them go directly to Lujia Village." ”

One by one, the people in the North Village breathed a sigh of relief, but then there was an uproar.

"The people of Lujia Village are going to suffer now. ”

"..... asked the matchmaker to help the matchmaker today, and was kicked back, so there's a good show to watch. ”

"That's your daughter's daughter, it's not very good......"

In the midst of his rambling words, Chen Tai slammed the hoe abruptly, "Don't talk about it!!"

The people around quieted down and looked at the man.

"Old Chen, what do you mean by that?!" someone asked.

Chen Tai clenched his hoe, his eyes swept over the faces, and he lowered his voice: "Gloating here, what if our village is in the next round?"

"Probably not...... When those mountain bandits have robbed enough, they will naturally go up the mountain. ”

"Say something scary, and be uneasy!"

Chen Tai thought more than them, and he was a little nervous, and he was a little trembling when he said his thoughts.

A few days ago, the people of Lujia Village also gave us half of their own rations for the winter, and we can't die without help. ”

Although the people in Beicun are rude and illiterate, they still understand the truth, and then they fell silent, you look at me, I look at you.

Some people are also worried: "Even if we pass, we don't have weapons ......"

"It's the same with hoes and flat poles, there are a lot of people in our village, plus the people in Lujia Village, how can we scare them. ”

Then there was also a comeover, and everyone had to look at him to make up his mind, and after a while, Li Zheng nodded: "What Lao Chen said makes sense, Lu Liangsheng has a teacher-student friendship with the master bookkeeper, and he should help." ”

"Since Li Zheng said so, let's go back and get the guy!"

“...... It looks like a murderous point, so I can bluff this gang of bandits!"

"Let's go!"

When the matter was settled, more than 40 households in the village, nearly 100 men, women, and children, came out in groups of three or five from their homes with hoes, flat poles, and firewood knives.

Five or six miles away from the people of Beicun, there was a team of more than 30 mountain bandits, Liu Erlong rode on his horse, looking at the mountain village on the other side of the river, immersed in the glow.

Leaned down and stroked the horse's mane, and turned his head to look at Lu Erlai: "This is it?"

In his whispered words, Erlai over there nodded hurriedly, flatteringly leaned up to hold the reins, and pointed in the direction of the village.

"Back to the second master, this is here, the hundreds of taels of silver are in Lu Liangsheng's house, and there are also one or two in other people's homes. ”

Liu Erlong waved his whip, opened Laizi's hand from the reins, grinned his beard, and smiled hideously.

"There is such a number one person in Lujia Village, it is really unlucky for eight generations of ancestors. He raised his arm and pulled out the steel knife at his waist, his voice sharpened.

The tip of the knife pointed to the mountain village.

"Collect the whole village, take away the grain and value, and kill if you don't give it!"

More than thirty mountain bandits quickly jumped over the river and surged over with murderous aura, and a pile of stones placed in front of them, the figures that were spread away, trampled under their feet, loosened.

The mana, which was invisible to the naked eye, suddenly disconnected......

In the distant county town, in a chic courtyard on the edge of the city, someone's eyelids jumped and looked south.

"...... desires cannot be followed, ambitions cannot be satisfied, and happiness cannot be ....."

Under the camphor tree in the courtyard, the old man in a simple green robe held the scroll in one hand, and his voice was vigorous and powerful, and the evening breeze blew, and the fallen leaves floated on the pages, interrupting his voice.

The old man raised his gaze, looked at the young man on the stone bench opposite, took the book and tapped it on the top of the other party's head, Lu Liangsheng turned his head, and hurriedly got up and gave his hand.

"Mentor ....."

On the other side, Wang Shuhua looked serious and took his hands.

"Listen to the teachings of the sages, don't be half-hearted, it's getting late today, stay in this small courtyard for the night, and go back early tomorrow. ”

Lu Liangsheng walked around the stone bench and took a step back: "Teacher, Liangsheng has something at home, and he will rush back later, so he won't bother with his teacher." ”

"It's so late...... the old man was serious and upright, looked at the sky, and nodded: "Well, since you are like an arrow, while the sky is not yet dark, hurry out of the city, but after you go back, read more, if you have any questions, come to the city at any time to find me, next year's children's exam, as a teacher, I will sign you up." ”

"Yes. ”

Lu Liangsheng bowed his hand respectfully, took the book and left the small courtyard, and as soon as he left the courtyard, the expression on his face became indifferent, and he rode the old donkey and turned out the toad in the cloth bag on the back of the donkey.

"Master, just now I felt that the magic circle over there in Lujia Village suddenly broke. ”

The sleeping toad was woken up by the flipper in his hand, and waved the frog flippers, "Maybe a child playing...... Let's go back and see. ”

Lu Liangsheng was uneasy, but now it was too far away, and it could only be like this, as soon as he got out of the city gate, he found a remote place, drew a talisman, pasted it on the belly of the old donkey, pinched his fingers, and used the magic of shrinking the ground into inches.

The soldiers at the gate of the city were dazzled, rubbed their eyes, and the figure of the donkey in front of him had gone more than ten zhang away in the blink of an eye, and disappeared at the end of the red sunset in an instant.

"It's ...... Masters......"

"No, the left catcher of the county government seems to be searching for a Taoist who knows magic, hurry up and report it!!"

The glow of the distant mountains in the west gradually sank into the mountains, and the night hit, Lujia Village under Qixia Mountain, as usual, rose the smoke of cooking, the chickens and dogs barked, Lu Xiaoxian shouted and drank the hens back to the cage, Li Jinhua did not cook, quietly observed the stove room, saw that there was no movement, gritted his teeth, and ran to his son's room.

After all, that night, the green face was seen in Lu Liangsheng's room, the woman sneakily pushed open the door and went in, the furnishings inside were not any different, except that it was a little cold, probably because there was no one in the house.

"It's no different, even if I'm dazzled, the matchmaker won't be scared like that for no reason......"

In the murmur, Li Jinhua turned around and was about to leave, when her body suddenly stopped, she turned her face tremblingly, her eyes slowly squinted at the wall, the hanging scroll, and the face of the beauty waving in her long sleeves were exactly the same as what she saw that night.

Suddenly discovered, Li Jinhua's teeth were clattering, and then ..... the beauty on the portrait, the corners of her lips curled, revealing a smile.

The woman's eyes widened instantly.