Spring goes to autumn, time is like an arrow, in May of the eleventh year of Sui Daye, at this time Chu Mofeng has reached the year of dancing elephants, with the daily practice of martial arts, the original immature breath has long disappeared, replaced by broad and strong arms, slender figure, and a wise light flashed from time to time in his firm eyes.

On this day, Chu Mofeng got up early in the morning, packed his bags, came to the inner room to put on a stick of incense, bowed three times to the three tablets and said: "Father, father-in-law, grandfather, today I will temporarily leave Zhangye County and go to the northwest counties to experience a year, I hope you will bless these living people to be safe." Then he turned around and walked out of the house and walked towards the Yanyu Building.

Since the seventh year of the great cause, uprisings throughout the country have continued, but Emperor Yang sent generals to conquer while continuing to implement cruel rule, until May this year, the national uprising has become a peak, and at this time the attitude of the Turkic direction of the Shibi Khan to the court has long been not as good as before, and after Pei Ju killed Shi Shuxi, the attitude of the Shibi Khan to the court is becoming more and more cold, so the Turkic wolf cubs once again sometimes offend the border, and the people in the frontier are miserable.

At this time, in the guest room of Yanyu Building, Gu Zhen'er and Liu Feiyan had also packed their luggage and waited quietly for Chu Mofeng's arrival in the room. After a while, Chu Mofeng's voice came from outside the door: "Are you two up?" If you are ready, we can leave." ”

Gu Zhen'er opened the door and welcomed Chu Mofeng in, looked at Chu Mofeng's handsome face, and said with red cheeks: "My cousin and I got up early, and we are ready to leave at any time." ”

Chu Mofeng looked at Liu Feiyan and said, "Actually, I don't know if it's dangerous to go out this time, if you two don't want to go, I won't force you." ”

Liu Feiyan said: "I've been here for four years, and my life is too comfortable every day, even if I help in Yanyulou, I'm not very tired, I feel that my bones are going to be loose, and it's time to go out and take a look. ”

Immediately, Chu Mofeng nodded and said, "Then I'll go downstairs and wait for you first, the horses are in the backyard." When you're ready, let's go. Then Chu Mofeng went downstairs, at this time the fish intestine was standing behind the counter, saw Chu Mofeng coming down, casually threw a crossbow and a cloth bag to him and said: "The crossbow you want is ready for you, there are not many arrows, find a way to get it yourself, be careful on the road." ”

Saying goodbye to the fish intestines and going out, I saw that the second daughter had already led the horse to the door, and then the three of them turned over and got on the horse and walked towards the city gate.

Out of the city gate of Zhangye County, Gu Zhen'er lazily lay on the horseback, took a long dogtail grass in her mouth and asked, "Shaoxia, where are we going first?"

Chu Mofeng stretched out his hand and took out a simple map from his arms, glanced at it and said, "The first stop is Wuwei County." Then the whip whipped the horse's buttocks, and the horse galloped forward.

Seeing this, Gu Zhen'er and Liu Feiyan also hurriedly chased forward, and on the way, Gu Zhen'er didn't forget to slander Chu Mofeng to Liu Feiyan's belly and said: "Cousin, look, this person rode forward without saying a word in advance, what if he lost us? Cousin, you don't care about him." ”

Liu Feiyan's face turned red when he heard this, and said: "What crazy words are you talking about, why do I manage people's homes, he is not my person, but you, every time you see his eyes shine, you can't wait to eat him, why don't you care about him." ”

Gu Zhen'er's face turned red when she heard this, and she said shyly: "How can people see his eyes shine." ”

Looking at Gu Zhen'er looking like a little daughter, Liu Feiyan couldn't help laughing: "When will Gu Zhen'er, the thief of Hanyang, also be a little daughter, it's really a big funny thing." Then he raised his whip and whipped it back, and the horse was in pain in his crotch, and hurried forward and ran again.

At this time, Gu Zhen'er came back to her senses and hurriedly chased forward. The three of them rode horses all the way, because Wuwei County is not far from the Turks, so the Turkic wolf cubs will raid the border from time to time, along the way the three of them saw those houses destroyed by the Turks, as well as those who lost their homes, they couldn't help but feel deeply.

Every time Gu Zhen'er saw the homeless, she dismounted and gave them her dry food and money, Chu Mofeng and Liu Feiyan had no choice but to give all the way when they saw this, and when they arrived in Guzang County, the three of them had little dry food left, and most of them were consumed. After entering the county seat, the three of them found a small inn and settled down, and then Chu Mofeng went to the street to inquire about the news.

Wuwei County is the economic, political, cultural and religious center of ancient northwest. It is the key pass of the "Ancient Silk Road", the metropolis of Hexi, and was once the center of Buddhism in the north. The county of Guzang County belongs to the main road of Chinese and Western transportation, which belongs to the state of mixed ethnic groups, and you can not only see Han people, but also Qiang and Turkic people on the street.

When I came to the gate of the county guard's mansion, I saw many bounty orders with the same content posted on the walls on both sides of the gate, which read: Wanted Xiangzi Gang, charged with murder and extortion, kidnapping tickets for extortion, and rewarding 50 yuan. Seeing this, Chu Mofeng tore off a list and was about to leave, when the people who came and went on the street saw someone tearing up the reward, and they all stopped and looked at Chu Mofeng.

Chu Mofeng took the bounty in his arms and was about to turn around, when he suddenly felt that there were countless eyes watching him from behind, and he couldn't help but be alert, and then turned around and pulled out the other side of the Huangquan that was pinned to his waist, and put on a guarded posture to look at the people behind him.

I saw a little man holding a rope walk up to Chu Mofeng, and said to Chu Mofeng solemnly: "Please straighten your waist a little, I'll measure you." ”

Chu Mofeng asked puzzledly: "What size do you measure for me?" I don't buy clothes, I have them in my bag, and I don't need to buy new ones. ”

I saw that the little man said while measuring Chu Mo's air measurements: "Don't say that, this guest officer, you can't use it now, you will use it in a few days, and besides, if I don't measure it for you, how will you cut the material when you go back?" You must know that it is not good to make the shroud and coffin bigger, and it is not good to make it small. ”

When Chu Mofeng heard that it was a coffin and a shroud, he immediately held a dagger in his left hand in the form of a hammer, put it on the neck of the little man, and said angrily: "What kind of coffin shroud, are you cursing me to death?"

Seeing this, the youngest son hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Guest, let it go, it's not that I cursed you, it's you who have to send yourself to death, what can I do?"

Chu Mofeng asked suspiciously: "What do you mean to send yourself to death?" You hurry up and make it clear to me, otherwise I will cut your tendons with a knife, and then order a coffin for you as a gift. ”

When the little man heard Chu Mofeng say this, he hurriedly pointed to the reward order in Chu Mofeng's arms and said, "Guest officer, you took this off, didn't you send yourself to death or what?"

Looking at the bounty order in his hand, Chu Mofeng smiled and said, "What you are talking about is this, what is the big deal for me, since I have revealed this bounty order, it will definitely be completed." ”

At this time, there was a lot of discussion in the crowd, some said that Chu Mofeng was capable, some said that Chu Mofeng said big things, looking at the chattering crowd, Chu Mofeng held his breath and shouted: "Give me silence, pick someone to say what you want to say." ”

An old man about sixty years old walked out of the crowd, walked tremblingly in front of Chu Mofeng with a crutch, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Child, it's not that everyone doesn't believe you, it's just that this Xiangzi Gang is too cruel, everyone just doesn't want to see an innocent death of a young person like you." ”

"Trouble the old gentleman to point out, why is this Xiangzi Gang so scared?" Chu Mofeng shook at the old man, and then pulled the old man aside with a solemn face.

I saw the old man say slowly: "About three years ago, that is, in the eighth year of the Great Cause, there was an escape incident in the prison here, because of the negligence of the jailer, the thieves and the thieves who were imprisoned in the prison at that time and a murderous demon escaped together, and then there was a ringing gang near Wuwei County, killing people and doing all kinds of evil, the people of the surrounding four counties were miserable, and Lord Taishou also asked the court for soldiers to levy it, but in recent years, there have been continuous uprisings in various places, and the court has no time to take care of this. ”

Chu Mofeng looked at the old man in confusion and said, "Since the imperial court has no time to take care of it, isn't there a reward order, has it been since the reward notice was posted?"

The old man coughed a few times, and slowly told Chu Mofeng about what had happened over the years, it turned out that in the autumn of the ninth year of the Great Cause, Wuwei County Taishou posted a reward order, and on the second day, there was a middle-aged man who made a knife to unveil the list, at that time, the people and the government were full of joy, thinking that this man could eliminate the harm for Wuwei County, who knew that within a few days, the man's body was thrown on the wall where the notice was posted, his hands and feet were broken, and there were as many as seven or eight knife wounds on the body.

Seeing this, Taishou had no choice but to bury the body of the knifeman, but who would have thought that five days later, the Xiangzi Gang looted the Sogdian caravan passing through Changsong near Changsong County, and the Taishou Mansion received a report from Changsong County, and hurriedly brought people to the scene, and found that the entire caravan of more than 70 people had been killed, and all the accompanying goods were robbed, and a note was left at the scene, which said that because Taishou issued a reward order to the Xiangzi Gang, he deliberately committed the crime in order to retaliate.

Afterwards, the Sogdians still made trouble in the Taishou Mansion for a long time, and in view of the ferocity of the Xiangzi Gang, Lord Taishou kept the matter under control. In the past three years, countless people have unveiled the list to hunt down and kill the Xiangzi Gang, but basically they were all sent back to the corpse, until today Chu Mofeng unveiled the list.

After hearing this, Chu Mofeng bowed to the old man and said, "Old man, I already know what happened, don't worry, I have done this kind of thing in Hanyang County before, but if my body is sent back, please send my body back to Yanyu Tower in Zhangye County." Immediately, Chu Mofeng took out five hangings of money from his arms and handed them to the old man, turned around and left the Taishou Mansion.

On the way to the inn, Chu Mofeng found that there was a stall on the side of the road to buy face masks, his eyes rolled and he thought for a moment, and then bought three fierce face masks, and after returning to the inn, Liu Feiyan and Gu Zhen'er saw Chu Mofeng walking in with a heavy heart, and hurriedly asked what happened.

Chu Mofeng told the two of them about today's events, and the two of them were also very angry after hearing it, Liu Feiyan slapped the table and said: "The people who entered the mountain and joined the gang were all forced to make this decision, but we only robbed the rich and unkind, but this Xiangzi Gang is really too hateful, indiscriminately killing innocents and evil, if these people are not removed, it is not tolerated." ”

And Gu Zhen'er looked at Chu Mofeng with bright eyes and said, "Then we will do what you say, and we will listen to you." At this time, when Liu Feiyan saw Gu Zhen'er's state, he couldn't help but hold his forehead and muttered helplessly: "It's over, the disease has been committed again." ”

Chu Mofeng glanced at the two of them and said, "I know that since the two of you dare to be thieves and righteous thieves, you both have kung fu, so I hope you can help me eradicate those wicked people who are causing trouble to the people." Then he took out the three masks he bought and put them on the table and said, "If you are willing, then from today the three of us will be a whole, and each of us will guard each other's backs when facing the enemy, then there will be a trustworthy person guarding everyone's backs, and we will not show our true faces, and we will be the flowers of the other side after wearing the masks." ”

After listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Liu Feiyan and Gu Zhen'er stood in place in a daze, and didn't speak for a long time, after a while, Gu Zhen'er took the lead in picking up a mask and putting it on, only to see that this mask was painted with red palace makeup, but the smoky color at the corners of the eyes was rich black, which made the whole face a little hideous.

Immediately, Liu Feiyan also picked up a mask and put it on, only to see that the mask was white as a whole, except for the eyes and lips that were smeared with heavy red, and there were a few red traces scattered on the white mask, which looked like blood from a distance.

In the end, Chu Mofeng picked up the last mask and put it on, this mask is a mask of the image of the Yaksha in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", with raised sharp horns and long fangs, combined with a hideous face, it seems to kill all the evil in the world.

At this time, Chu Mofeng said in a solemn tone: "According to legend, the flowers on the other side only bloom in the Yellow Spring, and it is generally believed that they are the flowers that only bloom on the banks of the Santu River in the underworld and on the other side of the Lethe River. When the soul crosses the Lethe River, it forgets all the things that were in the past, and everything that was once left on the other side, and the deceased steps on the guidance of this flower to lead to the hell of the underworld. This is the purpose of the composition of the other side flower. ”

Then the three of them began to discuss the plan of how to deal with the Xiangzi Gang, and it was not until the end of the day that Chu Mofeng said goodbye to the second daughter and returned to his guest room to sleep.

At this time, the second daughter was still excited and couldn't sleep, lying on the bed and chatting with each other. I saw Gu Zhen'er's body slip into Liu Feiyan's quilt, leaning on Liu Feiyan's chest with a green silk draped, poking Liu Feiyan's delicate waist and saying, "Cousin, how can he see that our kung fu is not bad? ”

Liu Feiyan stretched out his hand to knock off the green jade fingers raging on his waist, and said with a smile: "Maybe you don't remember what you said to others when you were a nymphomaniac." ”

Gu Zhen'er turned around, put her smooth back on Liu Feiyan's side and said, "How can anyone be a nymphomaniac, but cousin, how long have you not used the soft sword on your belt?

Liu Feiyan also turned around when he heard this, put his back on Gu Zhen'er's back, and said with a little emotion: "I used to practice every day on the mountain, but you have been a thief for so long, and your light skills have always been good, but if you don't practice the Gu family's seven-style sword technique, you will be lost." ”

Gu Zhen'er sighed and said, "I know, let's rest early." Then there was no sound.