The wind of the autumn night blew through the foothills, and the distant mountains only had gloomy outlines on the horizon, and the dim woods rustled...... The soft sound of falling leaves.

A small bulging bag stretched forward quickly against a thick fallen leaf, and the sound of horses' hooves galloped behind, crossing the gap between the two trees, and the figure above jumped up, flying forward, drawing a knife in mid-air, and kicking out, a big tree nearby was shaken.

"Demon Dao, look where you're going!"

At the same time as the loud shout sounded in the forest, the figure in front of him fell, a thin knife in his hand sank into the ground, Zuo Zhengyang's wrist twisted, the edge changed direction, and pulled a knife upwards towards the raised ground, and the mud and sand and fine stones splashed left and right.

Cracks spread rapidly through the ground that were cut.

Boom!

Ahead, the dirt bag exploded, and a figure broke through the ground, jumping directly to the branches above, Sun Yingxian hung below with a gray face, looking at the head.

"It's hard to chase..... The people of this way really haven't killed anyone. ”

Zuo Zhengyang swung the thin knife in his hand, hung down slightly, and said sharply: "Since you haven't killed it, then you can come down and arrest it, and follow me back to the yamen." ”

"I call you..... Phew!" The Taoist dropped the branch with both hands, and shook it twice: "This Taoist master has never killed anyone, why do you want to go to the yamen with you, if you go, won't you really become a murderer?!"

The shaking branch floated down a yellowing dead leaf, and the moment it fell to the ground, Zuo Zhengyang's was also ringing.

"Whether you kill or not, you have the county to decide!"

In an instant, the steps were taken away, and in a few steps, the whole figure turned into an afterimage, and the footsteps flew, colliding with the Taoist under the branches, Sun Yingxian let go of his hand, his body fell, and a palm suddenly pushed out.

The blade split the branches, the cold light tore through the air, and countless leaves flew like butterflies, but then the Daoist's palm was pushed out, and it was a loud bang.

The invisible energy in the air shook open, and the robe on Zuo Zhengyang's body rippled.

However, the power of the Taoist's palm was imprinted on the body of the tree, and he directly pushed his body back, dodging the blade that was splitting down, and turned around twice in mid-air before he landed, and turned around and raised his chin quite proudly.

"If you were a murderer, you would be dead by now. ”

Zuo Zhengyang's hind feet fell to the ground, and the slender blade slashed through the air, trembling out with a soft groan, "I'm afraid you're not much better." ”

There was a hissing sound in the air, and it was the sound of fabric tearing.

Sun Yingxian looked down at his chest, his eyelids jumped, and in front of his chest was a half-foot-long knife cut, if the other party made a dead hand, it was estimated that he would be cold at this time.

Hurriedly raised his hand and waved: "Then let's treat it as a tie!"

Then an arch: "Farewell!"

Cast his escape technique again and burrow into the ground, arching the dirt and fallen leaves and disappearing into the forest in the blink of an eye, and going into the distance.

Watching the other party leave, Zuo Zhengyang did not continue to chase down, and looked back at the big tree that was split into the treetops, and the palm that the Taoist made was clearly imprinted on it with five fingers.

"It's really not this man......" He frowned slightly, sheathed his knife, found the horse and turned over, and watched as the group of hunters caught up.

"Come with me to the cottage again. ”

After that, he led the people back on the same path, and at this time the eastern sky gradually turned white, the first rays of morning light in late autumn cast the clouds, and the distant villages resounded with the crowing of chickens and the noisy and boiling human voices

The golden morning light shone on the eyelids, which was red in color, and slowly waking up from his slumber, Lu Liangsheng smelled a smell of medicine.

The pain of tearing came from his body, so he couldn't get up, opened his eyes and saw his mother sitting under the eaves outside the door, watching the fire, Lu Xiaoxian held a pu fan next to him and shook it gently, opened the lid of the small jar, and there was a boiling sound of decoction inside, and he turned his head to see his brother who was also looking at the bed, and called out in surprise: "Mother, brother is awake." ”

The woman quickly got up and went into the house.

Lu Liangsheng still struggled a little, and was held by his mother against the head of the bed, and the scholar's robe on his body had been changed.

"Don't move. ”

Li Jinhua admonished, turned around and called to the little girl at the door: "Xiao Qian, quickly pour a bowl of warm water for my brother." ”

The little girl outside the door nodded, and ran to the stove quickly, and when she poured warm water, the woman also poured the medicine into the bowl, and gently shook it in her hand to make it cool faster.

He sat on the edge of the bed in silence and did not speak.

Lu Liangsheng looked at his mother, hesitated for a while, and still spoke: "Mother, in fact, I ......"

"Mother knows. Li Jinhua blew the heat rising from the decoction, "You were born by me, what do I don't know? I've never seen you learn words, why did you suddenly know? And that Lu Erlai, stealing our chickens during the day, and growing chicken feathers the next day, if the gods are so spiritual, there will be no one who suffers in this world." ”

Lu Liangsheng laughed a little embarrassedly: "It turns out that my mother already knew..... I thought I hid it well." ”

"What a fart. ”

Li Jinhua poked her son's head with her finger and said with a smile: "Only your honest father will believe it." ”

"Hey, hey. ”

"Still laughing, you look like this, how can you laugh out, listen to your Uncle Pan and they come back and say, the bandits are all dead......?

The woman's eyes glanced at the picture scroll on the wall, and Lu Liangsheng also looked at it, and the picture of the beautiful woman on it blinked to this side, and smiled at the corner of her lips.

No matter how pungent and smart Li Jinhua is, she is still quite taboo about this kind of thing.

"Mother gave you the medicine here. ”

After speaking, he hurriedly got up and left the room, but soon, he suddenly came over, took a shabby incense burner, inserted three incense sticks, and placed it in front of the scroll.

Seeing Lu Liangsheng's puzzled gaze on the bed, Li Jinhua walked out and said, "No matter how ghost it is, then you have to eat." ”

Although Lu Xiaoxian at the door was also a little timid, he still came in and waved at Nie Hong on the painting.

Then he looked at Lu Liangsheng, snorted, turned around and walked out, and said in his mother's tone: "Sister Ghost saved me, please say goodbye, and a lot of meat." ”

Lu Liangsheng watched his mother and sister leave, smiled and took the book on the bedside, anyway, he couldn't get off the ground, and he could pass the time by flipping through it.

As soon as I turned the page, the door closed without wind.

When the young man put down the book, Nie Honglian sat next to her with the medicine bowl on her face, with a smile on her face, probably because of what the mother and daughter did just now, which made her very happy.

"Actually, I stayed because of your mother and your sister, looking at them, I felt that I was still alive. ”

"You're still alive, otherwise, who am I talking to?"

Lu Liangsheng took the medicine bowl, took a sip, and frowned bitterly, "Who prescribed this medicine?" I don't seem to be injured..... but my mana is overused." ”

Seeing the expression of the young man's bitterness, Nie Hong smiled even brighter, she was only sixteen years old, and she still had the nature of a girl, so she blew hard into the bowl.

"It's cold, drink it all in one go. ”

"I'm not stupid. ”

Lu Liangsheng put the bowl aside, turned his head and swept around the room, but did not see a familiar figure.

"Honglian, the toad that is often in the house, have you seen it?"

"You call your master a toad?" Nie Honglian covered her mouth and chuckled: "I already knew, I saw your master when you came back from the night road that day." ”

Speaking of this, Nie Honglian raised her face, pointed her white fingertips on her chin, and groaned softly: "When you were carried back by your father, your master quietly checked your injuries, and then carried a gourd on his back and left without a sound." ”

"Gone?"

Lu Liangsheng was a little unconvinced, frowned and looked out the window, the noisy voices were still coming, and the golden morning light poured into the window lattice.

Far away to the west on Qixia Mountain, the mentioned toad Taoist was carrying a gourd on his back, with a special bag around his waist, searching inch by inch along the foot of the mountain, and the frog muttered softly in his mouth.

"How did the old man become like that stupid apprentice...... Became a rotten good person. ”

The frog flippers pushed away the weeds that were taller than him, and in the crack of the stone, there was a plant with small red fruits, which was pulled out by the roots, sat down on the stone, and turned the gourd on his back to the front, just about to stuff the unknown plant into the mouth of the gourd.

The dirt bag in front of him like a gopher arching the ground came quickly, and with a bang, it hit the rock under him, "Oops. The voice muffled under the dirt, and the next moment, a head covered in mud emerged.

On the stone, the toad Daoist was also startled by the sudden appearance of the human head, and jumped up reflexively.

"Hiss..... it hurts me. ”

Sun Yingxian covered his head, wiped the mud from his face, and saw a toad standing on one foot, holding a gourd with one hand, and lifting and spreading it with the other, standing on a stone.

One person and one toad looked at each other strangely.