The road is difficult and divergent

Xu Changan waited until Cui Wei left, then stood up and stretched. Wild Sand Literature Network

He thought about it, and had to go back to the fence so that he could know what the men were looking for.

Outside the fence, there was chaos, and Xu Changan took this opportunity to stay back in his original position.

Except for the two brothers, Meng Hai and Meng He, the rest of the people didn't notice that the bearded man ran out and ran back.

The two glanced at Xu Changan without squeaking, Xu Changan also smiled at the two, and then he thought about it, patted Meng Hai's shoulder, and said softly to the two, "Don't worry, they're fine." ”

When the two of them heard this, the worry on their faces also dissipated a little, and they owed slightly towards Xu Changan.

At this time, a new group of people came in.

At this time, it was the third day

Meng Yi was a little uncomfortable, he wore a mask and buried his head, and stood respectfully in the Hall of Loyalty.

The huge Zhongyi Hall is brightly lit, but there are only three people.

The man with the green oni fanged mask stood next to the chair, like a loyal servant.

And Meng Yi, who was the owner of Qingfeng Village, was like a subordinate who had made a mistake, standing respectfully below, not daring to look up at the young man on the big tiger skin chair that had sat him for a long time.

The young man was emaciated, his face was dark red, and his lips were red as if they were about to drip blood.

In the middle of his forehead, a blue moon is drawn, and the curved crescent moon looks like a sickle standing upright. The blue scythe contrasted sharply with his dark red skin.

At first glance, this young man was only in his weak crown, and he was wearing an aqua-blue robe, which was like sea water in the candlelight, and it was very beautiful.

He was emaciated, and if it weren't for his skin, he would have been a fair-skinned and delicate boy.

Although this young man's board is thin, it seems that the mountain wind on this Qingfeng Village can blow him away, but it is this thin board that makes the strong Meng Yi unable to raise his head.

"By the way, now three days have arrived, and the last group of people have already come, have you found that Sui Yuanxing?"

The young man asked slowly, slanting a glance at the old man wearing the mask of the green oni fangs who was standing aside like a slave, bringing news to himself and making a deal.

The young man's surname is Lan, and his name is Lan Yu. He naturally knew that the person here was an old man, and an extremely hypocritical old man.

"Nope. As the spokesperson of these three Lan Yu, this old man was naturally extremely respectful in front of Lan Yu.

"Explain" Lan Yu said coldly, and then looked at Meng Yi below, his eyes staring at Meng Yi's back with a chill.

"Whether someone doesn't cooperate, or you make a mistake, and you toss these few without any results, who should be responsible and who should be punished, you have to make it clear. Lan Yu reclined on the chair, playing with his slender fingers nonchalantly.

As soon as these words came out, the two of them felt a chill in their hearts.

Especially Meng Yi, he can sit on the ground in front of this old thing wearing a mask and raise the price, but in front of this Lan Yu, he doesn't dare to make a mistake if he is given ten dares.

They are water thieves in order to survive, but if they offend this young master, in a fit of anger, they can't even have "life", how can they talk about survival

The two of them lowered their heads, pursed their mouths tightly, and did not dare to speak.

"I, I'm contributing people and money, and I'm risking offending the Jingmen Prefecture Imperial Court and the Immortal Cultivation Sect in Jingmen Prefecture, that's the result."

Lan Yu let go of his hand and stood up from his chair, his blue robe rippling like water waves.

Meng Yi felt a trace of envy in his heart, this robe must be a cultivator's thing, no matter how good the silk was, how could it be so smooth and shiny.

He is a very urban person, otherwise he would not have been able to occupy the Cui family's cottage at the beginning, and he would have changed from the second boss to the boss.

My heart is full of greed, but my eyes reveal fear, fear of strength.

Water thieves are all people who want money and goods and don't want their lives, and they make a living with their heads pinned to their belts, how can they be afraid of strength and power, if this is the case, then they would have been honest and honest as a common man a long time ago.

Lan Yu glanced at Meng Yi, this burly man, as strong as a tiger, but his eyes were like a mouse. Lan Yu snorted coldly, looking at Meng Yi's eyes full of disdain.

What Lan Yu didn't know was that under the mask he couldn't see, there was a face that was smiling.

"Tell me, I heard you want to increase the price"

Lan Yu tilted his head and looked at Meng Yi.

"The villain doesn't dare, it's just that there are more people who come here, if there are more casualties, I'm afraid that I will annoy the state capital of Jingmen Prefecture, and when the time comes, the little one will have no way to live, so I complained to this adult. ”

Lan Yu looked at him and smiled, Meng Yi felt a chill in his heart, but he didn't dare to speak.

In the end, Lan Yu didn't say anything, returned to the chair, and said to the old man on the side, "You said that Sui Yuanxing brought that thing to the Qinglian Sect in Jingmen Prefecture, and said that it would pass through here in a few days, but what about people now?"

The old man wearing the mask of the green oni's fangs bowed his head.

"Sui Yuan is cautious about people, and I heard him say with my own ears that he was going to take the land route. ”

Hearing this, Lan Yu frowned, with a hint of anger in his eyes, as if he was a fool.

"Then what's the use of you letting me come to the water to intercept you, I'm a fool"

The old man wearing the green ghost fanged mask immediately lowered his head and arched his hand, "Blue Immortal Master, don't worry, listen to me." ”

Lan Yu stared at him, a burst of blue light rising from his palm.

"According to my understanding of Sui Yuanxing, he will definitely not take the land route, and if it is by land, with his footsteps, it will take five or six days to pass half of it. But the waterway is on these two sides, and we can intercept him here first, and if we can't intercept it, we will definitely be able to stop him on the land route with the footsteps of the first master. ”

"If we go to the land interception first, I'm afraid it won't be too late to catch the water. ”

Lan Yu glanced at him, the blue light on his palm also disappeared, and the old man wearing the green ghost fanged mask also breathed a sigh of relief.

"How much do you know about him," Lan Yu asked.

"Confidant. ”

Hearing this, Lan Yu shook his head and sneered.

"He is your confidant and old friend, what should you be to him"

The old man wearing the mask of the green oni's fangs smiled slightly, and his eyes radiated a light.

"A person can have many confidants and old friends in his life, but there is only one life. If I can help the immortal chief get the treasure this time, I have to teach the immortal chief the immortal method, and I can live for a while longer, and I can make more confidants, as for the old friend, since there is a old word, then go away safely."

Lan Yu stared at him closely, and there was no guilt in the eyes of the old man wearing the mask.

"I'm most afraid of rotten people who have read books, and if they say some crooked reasoning, there is no way to refute it. ”

The old man in the mask was ashamed and owed slightly towards Lan Yu.

"Thank you for the appreciation"

Lan Yu shook his head and said to the old man wearing a mask, "It's really miserable to be friends with you. ”

"But there are still many people who want to be friends with me. ”

Lan Yu smiled on his face, but an indescribable nausea appeared in his heart.

"Okay, you'll be able to pass the waterway interception. Then you explain, why didn't you search for them. ”

The old man wearing the mask was not flustered at all, slightly, and looked like a bamboo.

"Dare to ask the master, if you have a treasure that you don't need yourself, will you bring it with you at any time? And that treasure has aroused a lot of covetousness, will you show your true face?"

Lan Yu shook his head and said, "Since I can't use it myself, I will definitely hide it, and then negotiate with others in exchange for benefits, and after getting the benefits, let others take them." ”

The old man in the mask stood on a tiger skin chair and nodded.

"Immortal Master Gao Jian, that Sui Yuanxing is not a stupid person, so he can naturally think of this level. ”

"So, we have to catch him to have the capital to negotiate. What will a normal person do if someone is caught and has a treasure hidden?"

"Escape. Lan Yu already knew the meaning of this old thing, and said along his train of thought.

"Yes, so we surrounded and didn't search, and I asked the master of the village to tighten the outside and loosen the inside. The guards on the outside were weak, but there were a few people inside. If there is chaos in the fence, I am Sui Yuanxing, and I will definitely run out and hide. After all, this mountain is high and the forest is deep, and it is not easy to find someone. ”

Lan Yu nodded.

"But what if you really run away?"

"Rest assured, you can't run, although the guard fence is lax, there are a lot of people mixed in the people. Moreover, we still have a circle of arrangement on the periphery, as long as we arrest the people who want to escape while the chaos is in the chaos, as long as Sui Yuanxing is inside, I will definitely be able to recognize them. ”

Lan Yu nodded with satisfaction.

"What if no one runs?"

The old man wearing the mask leaned over Lan Yu's ear and whispered a few words, and Lan Yu nodded with satisfaction.

Meng Yi stood in place blankly, these two people spoke, he couldn't interject half a minute, and he couldn't hear what these two people said, so he could only stand in place and quietly clench his fists.

After the old man in the mask finished speaking, Lan Yu smiled with satisfaction.

This old thing and Lan Yu glanced at each other, and with Lan Yu's permission, he said to Meng Yi, "The ancestor has a plan, but it has to be cooperated by the master of the village. ”

Meng Yi looked sincerely frightened, and hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Only if you can do it, you must do your best." ”

The old man in the mask smiled, a cold glint emanating from his eyes, nodded and said, "That's the best." ”

"Your eldest brother's child, I'm afraid that he will make trouble when he moves tonight, after all, your position as the owner of the village is not right, and your words are not good. There are many brothers who are still towards him, in order to be foolproof"

The old man in the mask of the green oni fangs reached out and gestured around his neck

Meng Yi's face was full of embarrassment, and he could only say, "He is just a child, and he is the child of my eldest brother who I respect the most, the only child." ”

Before he finished speaking, Lan Yu's big sleeves waved, and three golden leaves flew out and were nailed to the pillar.

Meng Yi's face changed, and he looked at the three gold leaves and said in embarrassment, "That eldest brother is the eldest brother I respect the most, treat me like a brother, his son, even if I die, I will not move."

Lan Yu looked at him, and a cluster of blue flames appeared above his palm.

Seeing this, Meng Yi hurriedly said, "That's the eldest brother who treats me like a brother."

The blue flames above Lan Yu's palm were even worse.

"He brought me out of the ravine, gave me food and gave me the river, and laid such a great foundation. ”

Lan Yu waved his hand, and the blue flame broke away from his palm and hit towards Meng Yi.

Meng Yi knew that he couldn't resist the cultivator's methods, so he could only close his eyes, kneel on the ground with a puff, and shouted loudly, "You have to add money"

As soon as these three words came out, the blue flame disappeared out of thin air. Meng Yi opened his eyes, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead under the mask.

Lan Yu glanced at Meng Yi and at the old man on the side. I saw the two of them glance at each other, and there was a sense of pity for each other when a hero saw a hero.

Lan Yu just felt a little disgusting, but according to the old man's description, if it was really that thing, he would get it, and he would have the opportunity to enter the Huixi Realm in the form of a heavenly river. Thinking that for the sake of the future, I can only leave these two disgusting things for the time being.

With a wave of the big sleeve, there were more than a dozen gold leaves on the pillar.

"You don't have to kill, you just have to arrest it. ”

After Lan Yu finished giving the order, a gust of wind swept by, and he disappeared in place.

This night, although there was a brief period of chaos, nothing happened.

As soon as the day dawned, Meng Yi and several deputy village owners were discussing in the hall, and Lan Yu appeared with the old man.

Seeing this, Meng Yi immediately sent back several deputy village owners on the side, and after they left, he gave up the tiger skin chair and stood below respectfully.

"Did you catch it?" asked the old man in the mask.

"I caught it, I caught it quietly, and no one noticed. ”

The old man smiled, his eyes narrowing.

"You have thought it through and arrested him with great fanfare, I am afraid that it will affect your prestige among your brothers."

Meng Yi didn't answer his question, but Lan Yu said impatiently, "Okay, there wasn't much progress last night, so let's start according to our next plan."

The old man wearing the mask nodded, and said a few words into Meng Yi's ear, Meng Yi's face was embarrassed, and his eyes revealed that this day was in great difficulty.

Lan Yu knew that this person was insatiable, so he was the first to speak.

"My patience is limited, they are not your siblings"

As soon as these words came out, everything Meng Yi wanted to say was blocked.

He could only nod and say to Lan Yu, "Okay, let's do it for the little one."

In the grass shed, Zhou Zhiren woke up first, his face was pale, his lips were still skinned, and his eyes became a little cloudy.

Meng Jiang was serving on the side, but fortunately, Cui Wei helped find some herbs last night, so that Zhou Zhiren could barely sleep, otherwise, I really don't know how to survive this night.

But what is puzzling is that the child came back very late, but before dawn, Meng Jiang woke up, and the child's shadow was gone.

Meng Jiang could only stay up with some of the remaining medicine residues from last night, and let Zhou Lao last a little longer.

Similarly, in the fence, many people were dizzy with hunger, and some people had already begun to scuffle with each other.

After all, there are always people who travel far away, there are always those who bring dry food, and there are also those who are relatively close and do not bring them. Without the pig food sent by Cui Wei, hunger prompted these people to abandon all the courtesy, righteousness and shame, as long as they looked at the burden on their backs, they began to grab it.

Bursts of applause were heard, and the fence, which was gradually becoming chaotic, was silenced.

"I was going to let you go today, but the one surnamed Sui didn't come out, so in order for you to leave early, our cottage is also easier, so I invite everyone to play a game. ”

Before everyone could react, they were driven out like sheep by a group of water thieves with knives and green ghost fangs and masks.

The people were all driven to the open space of the square, where they had all been before, but this day was a little different, except for a very high shelf, on which were some gears and ropes.

These things are not uncommon, for the common people, when the government collects tax grain, those grains are piled up high, using this method, which can easily hang heavy objects up.

The people had a bad feeling in their hearts.

Sure enough, the lord of the Mengzhai village with the mask of the evil ghost's fangs was the first to speak.

"Let's make a little game, choose a lucky one, you see, we have a big guillotine under the rope, if the surname Sui does not come out after a quarter of an hour, we will put the lucky one under the guillotine. If the first pillar of incense does not come out, and the next pillar of incense, we will choose two lucky people to hang it. If not, pick four lucky winners next time, and so on. ”

The people listened to the words of the lord of Mengzhai easily, and a slight chill rose in their hearts.

They all understand that a lucky person represents a life.

At this time, the masks on the faces of the water thieves seemed to turn blood red.

Many people knelt down and begged for mercy, crying and shouting, but Mengyi was unmoved.

Although he is a man without faith, he has absolute strength for most things and wealth, but he is respectful and never breaks his word.

"It's not that I won't let you go, but the one surnamed Sui won't let us go. As long as you ask Sui Yuanxing or someone who knows Sui Yuanxing to come out, I guarantee that the rest will be released. ”

The sound of righteousness is like a bell, and it is like a sword that hangs on the necks of the people.

The people were just wailing, Sui Yuanxing didn't come out, and they didn't know Sui Yuanxing.

Meng Yi looked at it, and under the three big-character archways of "Qingfeng Village", there were two people standing, one of whom was Lan Yu in a blue robe.

Xu Changan naturally saw Lan Yu as well, but he only dared to take a cursory glance, after all, he had to be careful when acting in the dark.

Lan Yu saw Meng Yi turn his head, so he put his hands behind his back, closed his eyes gently, and nodded.

The first lucky winner was chosen, a child in his early school years.

The boy was hoisted, and in front of the knife and the rope was a table with an incense burner and a pillar of incense in the burner.

The people swallowed their saliva, and the child's mother fainted when she saw her child being hanged.

The people of the whole square suddenly fell silent, except for the cries of children.

Meng Yi looked at the pillar of incense, clapped his hands, and immediately two water thieves put away their knives and took out two fans to fan at the incense.

Soon, the last bit of ash fell, and the fire on the incense disappeared