Chapter Twenty-Four: Rivals or Robbers

After practicing occult arts as usual last night, Tang Jiusheng lay down in his clothes, and in the middle of the night he had a fever and talked nonsense, which scared the two girls very much, and hurriedly found the doctor in the town overnight, and the doctor shook his head after taking the pulse, refusing to prescribe medicine, because this is not an ordinary disease, and it is not a medicine that can be cured.

At this time, Tang Jiusheng's qi in his body was churning, his meridians were seriously damaged, Shui Ruyue and Ximen Yushuang were helpless, and he didn't know what to do in a hurry.

Later, Shui Ruyue took the risk of injecting the Xuan Ice Qi she had cultivated into Tang Jiusheng's body and forcibly helped him cool down, and Tang Jiusheng only improved slightly. When she got up in the morning, Shui Ruyue fed Tang Jiusheng a little porridge, and after Tang Jiusheng ate the porridge, she told Shui Ruyue not to worry too much, she should be fine after more than half a month, and fell asleep again.

The single dart received by the Fushun Dart Bureau is half a month, and now it has been ten days, and if you want to arrive at Huzhou Mansion within five days, you can no longer delay on the road. Tang Jiusheng's condition was not the kind that could be seen on bed rest, so Shui Ruyue simply spent five taels of silver to hire a carriage in the town, carried the sleeping Tang Jiusheng into the carriage, and rushed to Huzhou Mansion with the dart team.

Shui Ruyue rode a horse, with Lingnan Shuangxiong and several people outside the car to guard and protect, and Ximen Yushuang stayed in the carriage to take care of Tang Jiusheng. Tang Jiusheng, who was groggy and asleep in the carriage, dimly felt that someone was stroking his hair, and Tang Jiusheng, who was pale, slowly opened his eyes, it turned out to be Ximen Yushuang looking at him with a concerned face.

Ximen Yushuang was overjoyed when she saw Tang Jiusheng wake up, leaned over and picked up Tang Jiusheng and pillowed it on her lap, lowered her head and gently kissed his left cheek, Tang Jiusheng struggled to twist his right cheek, and smiled reluctantly, "Yao, there is still this side." ”

Ximen Yushuang couldn't cry or laugh, "Oh, this person is really messing around, and he's still in the mood to joke after being like this!" But he still obediently kissed him on the right cheek, Tang Jiusheng smiled with satisfaction, and said weakly, "Well, really, it's really good, my daughter-in-law is so fragrant." ”

Ximen Yushuang shook his head and said, "What is still fragrant? I haven't taken a bath for four or five days." Tang Jiusheng just wanted to speak, he couldn't help coughing, Ximen Yushuang hurriedly patted him on the back in a panic, Tang Jiusheng gasped for a while, and then said intermittently: "Daughter-in-law, you, you are really fragrant, I smelled it from the first time you drew your sword and cut me." ”

Ximen Yushuang's face turned red, and the snow-white soft wattle slowly stroked Tang Jiusheng's face, "Xianggong, you better have a good rest, don't talk yet, keep your sweet words, and when you are better, tell me every day, I, I like it very much." ”

Tang Jiusheng gasped and smiled: "Okay, I'll listen to the little daughter-in-law, hey, what about my eldest daughter-in-law?" Ximen Yushuang hugged Tang Jiusheng tighter, and said softly, "Her martial arts are better than mine, so she is responsible for protecting you outside the car, and when you get better, you can protect the two of us, okay?"

Tang Jiusheng smiled hard and nodded: "Okay, little daughter-in-law, listen to you today." After saying this, he fell asleep again, Ximen Yushuang lowered his head, kissed his forehead, and muttered: "Xianggong, you have to get better quickly, don't let us worry." ”

Dozens of miles away from Tianchang Town, there is a black pine forest on the side of the official road to Huzhou. When the sun was about to go west, thirteen men in black came out of the pine forest, ranging in height, short, fat and thin, carrying various weapons such as knives, guns, clubs, etc., looking in the direction of Tianchang Town, as if they were waiting for someone.

A short, thin man with a knife was probably a little impatient, walked to the front, and asked the man standing at the front with a silver gun, "Han Laosan, is this news accurate? Are you sure they will take the official road?"

The man who was known as Han Laosan with the silver gun nodded in affirmation, "The news given by Qiankun Tang is like this, this dart team has been taking the official road. There can be no mistake, just be patient and wait. ”

The short and thin man scolded fiercely: "Damn, if they don't take this official road, Lao Tzu will not finish with you, and Lao Tzu has been waiting here for a whole day, there are really many mosquitoes in this woods, and Lao Tzu is about to be eaten by mosquitoes." ”

A man carrying a hammer sneered: "Ma Lao Wu, don't shout, just the little bit of meat on your body, you don't have three or five catties when you cut it, mosquitoes bite you and you are disgusted!" The masked men in black laughed together.

Ma Lao Wu turned around and said viciously, "Zhao Tiedan, it's none of your business for Lao Tzu to speak, don't talk nonsense with Lao Tzu! Okay, no one is allowed to rob me!"

Zhao Tiedan, who was carrying the hammer, said with a smile, "Ma Lao Wu, you just have no interest, you grabbed the gold and silver treasures, and your mother is worried that there are no women?"

Ma Lao Wu rolled his eyes and scolded: "Fuck you, hurry up and go home, play with the big pig girl in your pigsty, the song that sings is better, play and hum." ”

Zhao Tiedan smiled obscenely: "Look, look, I'll just say that Ma Lao Wu, this kid has played with the sow in the pigsty, listening to what he said, he is quite experienced, and he has summed it up when he plays." A group of men in black smiled and leaned back together, and Ma Lao came over angrily and wanted to kick Zhao Tiedan, but Zhao Tiedan ran away with a hammer and a smile.

At this moment, I saw a team of people on the official road slowly walking towards the direction of the black pine forest, and vaguely saw the dart flag of "Fushun" on the car. Han Laosan, who was in the lead, hurriedly turned around and shouted, "Don't make trouble, copy guys, they're coming!"

The two executioners of the Fushun Dart Bureau opened the way in front of them, and when they saw a black pine forest in front of them, they were a little nervous. At this time, the sun has been in the west, and it will be dark in a while, and the dart is the most likely to have an accident at night, and the executioner hurriedly shouted the dart: "Fushun Dart Bureau, Shun to the Bafang, friends from all over the Bafang to borrow a light!"

Half a cup of tea, the dart team has walked to the edge of the black pine forest, only to see dozens of steps away, there are more than a dozen men with weapons blocked on the official road, the dart bureau is responsible for opening the road of the two trips in the palm of the hand, over, and encountered the robbery again. I scolded in my heart, what kind of bird dart is this dart that the dart bureau picked up this time, how many times have you been robbed along the way?!

A runner went back to find Wen Tianlong, and another executioner hurriedly shouted darts, "Fushun Dart Bureau, Shun to the Bafang, friends from all over the world borrow a light!", if the other party hears the name of the dart game, and has some friendship with the dart board in the past, then you can buy a road with some money, and spending money to eliminate disasters is better than everyone pulling out a knife to play with their lives!

Wen Tianlong, the deputy head of the dart, got the report of the executioner, and his heart trembled, thinking that this dart was really too difficult, and quickly urged the horse to come to the front and stop the dart team moving forward. At this time, Wen Tianlong was only a dozen steps away from this group of robbers, and counted in his heart, there were thirteen people on the opposite side, but he didn't know if there were any ambushes in the black pine forest.

Han Laosan, the leader of the robbers, stood in the middle of the road with a silver gun and a golden knife, "I planted this tree, I opened this road, if you want to cross it from here, leave it to buy road money!"

Ma Lao Wu said disdainfully in the back: "It's really fucking vulgar, what year, robbing a road and saying those bullshit, go up and grab it directly, if you don't give it to us, just cut it, isn't it?"

Wen Tianlong turned over and dismounted, with a smile on his face, and bowed his hands, "Friends, hard work, under is Wen Tianlong, the deputy general manager of the Fushun Dart Bureau in Nanyanzhou, today's dart passed by your place, I don't know where the battlement kiln of the ligature is, so I couldn't post to worship the mountain, Wen someone is here to apologize to all the heroes." ”

Han Laosan smiled coldly: "Is it the Fushun Dart Bureau in Nanyanzhou?" Hmph, if your big boss Yu Desheng or the chief dart head Ji Wushuang personally bet on the dart, Lao Tzu may give him three points of face, as for your dart head surnamed Wen, I'm sorry, Lao Tzu really hasn't heard of you on the road. Hand over the darts and spare you a dog's life. ”

Wen Tianlong's black face turned into a purple face, as the saying goes, you don't hit people in the face, but this face makes people snap! Before Wen Tianlong could speak, Ma Lao Wu behind Han Laosan jumped forward with a knife on his back, "The surname is Wen, you just send the dart white, and the Lao Tzu don't want it, because the Lao Tzu is going to use it today!"

Is it tolerable or unbearable? Wen Tianlong looked angry and said in a cold voice, "Very good, mixed with the green forest, there must be a name, people don't leave a name, I don't know Zhang San and Li Si, just trouble you to report it......"

Han Laosan said with a smile: "Friends on the rivers and lakes gave me the next nickname 'Rampant Ten States', and I am ranked third, known as Han Laosan." ”

Wen Tianlong was just about to speak, but a sneer from Shui Ruyue came from behind him, "What 'rampant ten states' Han Laosan? I'm sorry, I really haven't heard of such a character in the rivers and lakes." ”

Shui Ruyue spoke, and had already walked to the front of the team, and Ma Lao Wu on the opposite side saw that she was a very beautiful girl, and the bones in her body were a few pounds lighter, and she smiled cheaply: "Oh, this chick is so good, no one is allowed to rob me of this girl for a while!"

Shui Ruyue took a sip of Ma Lao Wu, turned her head and smiled at Wen Tianlong, "Wen Darthead, kill chickens with a knife, it's just a few thieves, leave it to me to send it away." ”

Wen Tianlong had seen Shui Ruyue's methods, which were much higher than his own, and if Shui Ruyue couldn't beat him, he would definitely not be able to, so he nodded and said with a smile: "Then Shui Girl must be more careful, I will give you a sneak in behind." ”

Shui Ruyue looked at the other side, his face covered with frost, "I have a sword, you try it, who can next." ”

Ma Lao Wu took two steps forward, and said with a sly smile: "Little beauty, Ma Wuye is willing to take it, but Ma Wuye also has a sword, I don't know if you can go next, little beauty?"

Shui Ruyue saw that he was talking frivolously and shamelessly, sneered, and suddenly pulled out the sword from the scabbard, and as soon as he raised his hand, he was slashed by his own smugness, and in an instant, the sword qi was vertical and horizontal, and the ground was instantly split into cracks dozens of zhang long, and the dust was flying, and the momentum was really terrifying.

Wen Tianlong stood behind and secretly raised his thumb, this hand is really strong, and he can't scare these robbers to death?

The strange thing is that there is no change on the faces of these robbers on the other side, and Ma Lao Wu is even more proud, "Little beauty, we already know your trick of splitting the ground, but it looks quite scary, and the actual power is not too big, and in less than half an hour, the ground will close by itself." Do you have any new tricks to show Fifth Master Ma?"

Shui Ruyue couldn't help but be taken aback in her heart, this trick is indeed terrifying, but the actual power is not great, I learned it from Shi Niang at that time, it was specially used to scare people, how could these people know?!

But Shui Ruyue's face didn't show any surprise, but said calmly, "Okay, then you can take a look at Grandma's other sword." Before the words fell, he handed a sword forward like lightning, cutting off Ma Lao Wu's left ear.

Ma Lao Wu felt a flower in front of him, looked down and saw his ears fall to the ground, and then reacted, "Ouch my god, this chick is so fucking ruthless!" Ma Lao Wu covered the bloody wound and jumped on the ground in pain, turned around and scolded: "My day your ancestor's Lu Jinqi, didn't you say that this chick's swordsmanship is up to you to deal with?"

A long dog-like man walked over with a sword, kicked Ma Lao Wu aside, and said gloomily: "Ma Lao Wu, you useless waste, you don't have the ability to dare to be so close to that girl? This is what you found yourself, what does it have to do with your Uncle Lu?"

Ma Lao Wu was naturally not Lu Jinqi's opponent, so he only jumped to the side and scolded, "You turtle son, you promised us, you will also shoot this chick, you ...... without credit"

Lu Jinqi said coldly: "The surname is Ma, if you dare to fart again, Lao Tzu's sword will take your head first!"

Ma Lao Wu froze there, covering his wounds, not daring to speak again, but the eyes that looked at Lu Jinqi were extremely vicious, and he must have had the intention of eating Lu Jinqi. Han Laosan hurriedly took out the knife wound medicine and applied it to Ma Lao Wu, and then bandaged the wound, and the robbers were busy making a mess.

Shui Ruyue saw Lu Jinqi who came over with a sword, and sneered: "The surname is Lu, aren't you also a waste?"

This man named Lu Jinqi is the senior of Tang Jiusheng and Shui Ruyue in the Heyue School Palace, two years ago, he frantically pursued Shui Ruyue and failed, and angrily looked for Tang Jiusheng to duel, was defeated by Tang Jiusheng in two moves, and left the Heyue School Palace with hatred, vowing to take revenge on Shui Ruyue and Tang Jiusheng, practicing martial arts diligently, and finally found an opportunity to retaliate today.

Lu Jinqi laughed loudly: "Slut surnamed Shui, don't look down on people, don't be impressed in three days." I'm here today to take Tang Jiusheng's life, and let you know that you were blind to refuse me at the beginning!"

Shui Ruyue smiled slightly, and deliberately stimulated him: "People like you are not worthy of lifting shoes for my father-in-law!"

Lu Jinqi looked up to the sky and laughed, "Hahahahaha, I don't know where you got your confidence." You're just close to the strength of the second grade, but I'm already in the realm of the second grade, why are you fighting with me? With that Tang Jiusheng who no longer knows life and death, it's just a joke!"

Shui Ruyue's heart sank, and she blurted out, "How did you know that my father-in-law was injured?"

Lu Jinqi said triumphantly: "Tell you, now that Tang Jiusheng is injured, the whole river and lakes know about it, and the Divine Sword Sect has already offered a reward of thousands of gold to buy his head." I heard that this Minglong Sword Master was newly promoted to the First Rank Realm, but unfortunately he was seriously injured and died. Now I don't know how many people are waiting to kill him, fame and fortune!ahahaha......"

At this time, it was already dark, the dart masters and robbers of the dart team had already lit their self-made torches, Wen Tianlong's heart also cooled a little bit with the lowered temperature, the other party was obviously prepared, Tang Jiusheng was seriously injured again, it is estimated that this dart really can't be saved.

Shui Ruyue was very angry, lifted the qi machine, the sword flashed, and a sword stabbed at Lu Jinqi, Lu Jinqi flashed to the side, and shouted: "You think you can hurt me with your Jingxuan swordsmanship? Lu is no longer the Wuxia Ameng of the past!"

Lu Jinqi was lucky, and the sword on the blade of the sword skyrocketed, slashing at the moon in the water again and again, and the sound of breaking the wind was roaring, and the momentum was terrifying. No matter how good the martial arts of the moon in the water are, she is just a young girl, in the face of Lu Jinqi, whose martial arts realm and strength are far more than herself, she can only walk lightly with her sword, and fight and retreat, Wen Tianlong stomped her feet anxiously on the side, and she couldn't control it for a while, so she wanted to draw her sword and come up to help.

I heard someone behind me say loudly: "What if you are seriously injured and die? Isn't it easy to kill an animal like you who bullies women? cough cough cough ...... "

Shui Ruyue suddenly heard Tang Jiusheng's voice, her heart was shocked and she had no intention of fighting, she hurriedly shook her sword and jumped out of the circle, and when she turned around, she saw that Ximen Yushuang had already walked over with Tang Jiusheng in her arms, and said distressedly: "Xianggong, you are not in the car to recuperate, what are you doing when you come down?"

Tang Jiusheng barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Everyone has bullied my eldest wife, what kind of words is Xianggong still hiding in the car?"

Lu Jinqi couldn't walk anymore when he saw that Tang Jiusheng couldn't walk, and he had to be supported by others, so he couldn't help laughing wildly: "You, a waste who has to rely on women's support when you walk, dare to say such big things?"

After Lu Jinqi scolded Tang Jiusheng, he pointed at Shui Ruyue and said: "If you are willing to follow me now, I will treat it as if it never happened when you cruelly rejected me two years ago, I swear that I will only be good to you alone, and I will never show mercy everywhere like this kid, hook up with three or four!"

Shui Ruyue sneered when she heard this, and said: "Shut your stinky mouth, my aunt and grandmother are not uncommon, you are good to me, I have such a good husband, even if he marries another hundred wives, I am willing to follow her, can you control it?"

Ximen Yushuang helped Tang Jiusheng and said softly: "Sister Shui said well! Our family is handsome and chic, martial arts, strong in punishing evil, promoting good, chivalrous and righteous, everyone loves flowers and flowers blooming, even if he marries a hundred wives, we are willing, a rotten person like you who takes advantage of people's danger, hurry up and get away, don't dirty our eyes!"

The two women looked at each other and smiled, Lu Jinqi gritted his teeth angrily, and said with a hideous face, "You two sluts, get out of the way!" Lao Tzu first killed this famous first-class master Tang Jiusheng, the master of the Dragon Sword, and then slowly tortured you! Master Tang, don't say I didn't give you a chance, please!"

Tang Jiusheng's eyes were calm, and he asked calmly, "Do you think that if I kill you, I must use the Minglong Knife?" You also underestimate me too much. Wen Darthead, excuse me, I'm going to borrow your sword for a while. ”

Wen Tianlong hurriedly leaned over and said in a low voice: "Tang Gongzi, can you do it? If not, don't be reckless, it's a big deal, let's go together, and if we fight in a group, we may not lose to them." If you really lose, then you will accept your fate. ”

Tang Jiusheng shook his head, "It's okay, it's not difficult to kill such a beast, just lend me your sword to use." Wen Tianlong had no choice but to pull out his sword and hand it to Tang Jiusheng.

Tang Jiusheng held the sword in his hand, and said with a reluctant smile: "The surname is Lu, I am pretending to be sick, do you believe it?" Do you believe that I cut off your head with a sword?"

Lu Jinqi sneered, "I've given you a chance to use the sword, the master of the Minglong Sword of the First Rank realm, the master of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Tang Jiusheng laughed softly: "Okay, then I thank you a lot, Lu Da!" As he spoke, he raised his sword tremblingly, and then instructed: "Then I'm going to kill you, look at it, Lu Da." ”

Lu Jinqi saw that Tang Jiusheng was struggling to hold the sword, and couldn't help laughing contemptuously, and was about to say sarcastic, only to see Tang Jiusheng suddenly swing his sword and slash, the momentum was majestic, the sword aura was cold, this sword faintly revealed the supreme sword intent, and it was impossible to resist.

Lu Jinqi was shocked, and hurriedly rolled on the spot, although he avoided the sword, his clothes had been torn by the sword qi, and he was embarrassed. Tang Jiusheng strengthened the qi machine, slashed in the air with the sword, the sword qi skyrocketed, the second sword and the third sword came one after another, Lu Jinqi barely dodged the second sword, but did not dodge the third sword, and the sword qi had already passed under his ribs.

Lu Jinqi, who was seriously injured by Tang Jiusheng's move, screamed miserably, took a strong breath, turned around and fled.

The robbers looked at each other, their faces were full of fear, Tang Jiusheng slammed his sword on the ground, and gasped: "Little junior sister, you quickly kill these robbers, they have no masters anymore!" After speaking, he couldn't hold the sword anymore, threw the sword on the ground casually, and held Ximen Yushuang with one hand, almost collapsing.

Shui Ruyue agreed, and rushed over with Lingnan Shuangxiong, and the robbers saw that the invited master Lu Jinqi had fled, so they immediately scattered as birds and beasts, and fled in all directions, Shui Ruyue and the others took a lot of effort to only capture Han Laosan alive.

Tang Jiusheng, who was already at the end of the crossbow, was just holding on to his hand just now, but he couldn't support it at this time, and said hurriedly: "Hurry up, go to the county seat in front to rest!" By the way, interrogate this Han Laosan and ask him what his origin is!"