Chapter 16: Terror on a Moonlit Night
Tang Shiyao's delicate body trembled for a while, unsheathed her saber and held the hilt of the sword, and continued to move forward with courage.
"Truly!"
Tang Shiyao really hated the screams of the night owl, and reached out to find a flying locust stone from the dart bag, which was a secret weapon personally taught by his fourth uncle Xiao Wensheng.
She secretly said in her heart: Call again, call me again to send you back to the West with a stone!
Suddenly, a dark shadow flew from the darkness with the strange laughter of "Boom".
Tang Shiyao saw the opportunity to "swish", and the flying locusts went straight to the black shadow like a meteor.
"Oops, it almost hit me. This black shadow was already standing in front of Tang Shiyao's horse in a flash, and he couldn't see this person's face clearly in the moonlight, but he felt that his voice was a little harsh.
"You...... Who are you?" Tang Shiyao drew his sword in his hand, and his voice trembled slightly.
The black shadow laughed again, and slowly walked towards Tang Shiyao, throwing the flying locust stone that Tang Shiyao had just shot out as he walked.
Tang Shiyao finally saw the appearance of the person who came.
The man was less than six feet tall, skinny, and had deep, hollow eyes that gleamed with precision.
"Who do you ask me am?" the dark shadow monster laughed, "The surname of the contemptible person is Xiang, and the single name is a public character." ”
"Xianggong?" Tang Shiyao silently read these two words before she suddenly realized that she had been fooled.
"Phew!" Tang Shiyao couldn't help but smack him, and said angrily: "Where did the thief come from, what do you want to block the road in the middle of the night?"
"Haha" The black shadow laughed twice, and a pair of mouse eyes swept over Tang Shiyao's body and said, "I don't lack anything for your husband, just a wife." ”
Tang Shiyao's face turned red with shame when she heard this, and said secretly: I am obviously dressed as a man, how can this person see that I am a woman at a glance?
"Shameless!" Tang Shiyao had never been teased like this, she jumped up, her jade feet lightly touched the saddle, and the person followed the sword, and went straight to the door of the person and stabbed it!
The black shadow pulled out two snake-shaped short swords from behind him, and a "breeze blowing willows" swept away this sword, Tang Shiyao missed the lotus step under his feet, and flashed back to look back at a move "Rhino Looking at the Moon", the sword slashed at the man's right hand with the sound of the wind, and the man said "Huh", as if he didn't expect the other party's swordsmanship to be so good, he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, and retreated to avoid this sword.
Tang Shiyao made a series of moves, and a sword slashed into the air, and without waiting for the man's feet to stand still, a move "Han Xin's point soldier" stabbed him in the lower abdomen, only to hear the man's shout "Not good", his body fell to the ground crookedly, rolled out three feet away in a row, and struggled a few times before he stopped moving.
Tang Shiyao felt that the sword just now didn't seem to completely stab him, but the man did fall to the ground and didn't move.
After all, she still has little experience in the rivers and lakes, and she doesn't know what the plan is, just as she slowly moved forward to confirm whether her sword was really stabbed, she saw that the person turned over and flew out of his palm, and a hidden weapon flew out of his palm, which was the flying locust stone that Tang Shiyao had just shot by herself!
Tang Shiyao reacted too late in an instant, it was difficult to avoid such a close distance even if she was on guard, the flying locust stone had hit her right shoulder acupoint impartially, she only felt that half of her right body was numb for a while, she instantly lost consciousness, wanted to move but couldn't move, and the sword in her hand fell to the ground.
Seeing that Tang Shiyao's acupoint was lit with a flying locust stone, the man immediately let out a strange laugh, got up and dusted off his body, and said with a smile: "Little beauty, your swordsmanship is good, I almost hurt your husband." He walked up to Tang Shiyao with a lewd smile as he spoke, and as soon as he stretched out his hand to pull out the hosta that bound her hair, her black and translucent hair immediately spread out and draped over her shoulders, with bursts of refreshing fragrance.
This person closed his eyes and took a deep breath of the aroma, feeling that he was even crispy to the bones, and then carefully looked at Tang Shiyao's stunning appearance, he couldn't help but feel his heart ripple, closed his eyes and said to himself very enjoyably: "I didn't expect that my Shangguanquan would have such a beautiful fortune tonight, and I would meet such a peerless beauty as you." After that, his hands were about to touch Tang Shiyao's pair of jade peaks.
Although Tang Shiyao was pointed at the acupoint, she was still able to speak, and seeing that this person was about to forcibly insult herself, she shouted loudly: "Dog thief, if you dare to touch me, I ...... I want you to die without a place to bury!"
Shangguan Quan said with a smile: "There is no place to bury you, I can spend a good night with a great beauty like you, even if I die now, I have no regrets in this life." ”
After that, he couldn't wait any longer, and a pair of big hands like dead wood went straight to Tang Shiyao's sturdy jade peak and caught it!
"Whoa—"
At the sound of the hidden weapon breaking through the air, Shangguan Quan's shoulder suddenly had a sharp pain, and he retreated a few feet backwards with a "Ahh
This person didn't even bother to look at Shangguan Quan, and directly turned around and smiled at Tang Shiyao: "We meet again." ”
Tang Shiyao just saw that her innocent body was about to be defiled by the dog thief, she closed her eyes in despair, tears streaming down the corners of her eyes, who knew that she suddenly heard a familiar voice in her ears, so she opened her eyes, and immediately said with beautiful eyes: "Long Shiqiu!"
I saw Long Shiqiu stretch out his hand, unravel her acupoint, and smile: "What a coincidence." ”
Tang Shiyao gently shouldered, suddenly widened her eyes and shouted, "Be careful!"
It turned out that Shangguan Quan had already picked up the blade and silently pounced on Long Shiqiu's back and stabbed at it.
At the same time that Tang Shiyao shouted the word "be careful", Long Shiqiu gently picked up the sword that Tang Shiyao had dropped in his hand, and without even turning his head, he slashed down diagonally with a sword like lightning and flint in his backhand!
Only two "clanging" sounds were heard, and the pair of snake-shaped short swords of Shangguan Quan that splashed in the sparks had already flown out of his hands, and before he could recover his senses, the sword light flashed again, and the sword was already on his neck.
Only then did Long Shiqiu turn around, glanced at Shangguan Quan, and said lightly: "Shangguan Quan, the flower thief, has admired his name for a long time." ”
What kind of weird martial arts is this? Who is this person? Shangguan Quan continued to ask in his heart, since his debut in the rivers and lakes, he has encountered countless fierce opponents, but he has never seen such a superb swordsmanship, no, it is not exquisite, it is terrifying!
Shangguan Quan's eyes showed a look of fear, and he said in a trembling voice: "You...... Who are you?"
Long Shiqiu was in the mood to talk to him, stretched out his hand and pointed at his acupoint, then put away his sword in his hand and said: "From now on, you'd better start praying, I hope you won't meet an enemy in two hours." ”
turned around and returned the sword to Tang Shiyao, and said, "Let's go." ”
"Where are you going?" asked Tang Shiyao with an aggrieved expression.
"There's a place up ahead, let's go there for the night. After Long Shiqiu finished speaking, he turned around and walked to the dark place behind the tree on the side of the road to take out his mount, Tang Shiyao came to Shangguan Quan, glared at him fiercely, and followed quickly with palpitations.
At the foot of the mountain, a ruined temple was blazing.
Long Shiqiu brought a large bundle of hay out of nowhere and spread it in the corner, spread a layer of cotton cloth on the hay, glanced at Tang Shiyao, who was sitting in front of the fire in a daze, and said, "I will be here tonight if you are wronged." ”
Tang Shiyao's heart warmed, she glanced at him secretly out of the corner of her eyes, and said softly, "What about you?"
Long Shiqiu stood up, stretched his waist and said, "I'm still early." ”
"By the way, why are you here?" asked Tang Shiyao.
Long Shiqiu sighed and said, "I should ask you this question." ”
Tang Shiyao knew that she was almost in a catastrophe today, if Long Shiqiu hadn't appeared in time just now, if her innocent body was really tainted by that lewd thief, would she still be able to survive in this world?
"I ......" Tang Shiyao fiddled with the placket of her clothes, so ashamed that she didn't know how to speak.
Long Shiqiu couldn't bear to blame her pitiful appearance, and sighed: "The rivers and lakes are treacherous, the road is far away, you should go back to the dart game after dawn." ”
"I don't!" Tang Shiyao bit her lip and said, "I don't worry about my father's ......."
Long Shiqiu shook his head helplessly, took out an oiled paper bag from his baggage, and when he opened it, it turned out to be an oily roast duck.
As soon as Tang Shiyao smelled the aroma of roast duck, her stomach "growled".
"Hungry, right?" Long Shiqiu asked as he tore off a duck leg and handed it to her, Tang Shiyao nodded and reached out to take it.
Long Shiqiu cut his hands upside down and looked at the sky.
The moonlight shone on him, and the whole person seemed to merge with the quiet night.
"You're here to find me, right?" Tang Shiyao suddenly asked quietly.
As soon as Long Shiqiu turned around, Tang Shiyao stood behind him.
"You're worried about me, and you've already thought about accompanying me to my father, aren't you?"
Long Shiqiu was silent.
Silence is sometimes acquiescence.
He didn't dare to look her eyes again, and turned around and walked out of the temple with a dry cough: "I'll take care of the horses." ”
Tang Shiyao smiled slightly, turned around and walked to the fire to fall asleep sideways, and soon fell asleep.
With such a man by his side, what does it matter if he sleeps deeply?
The sun shone on Tang Shiyao's face through the window, and when she opened her eyes, she found herself lying alone in this dilapidated temple. She slept very sweetly this night, and the sun was shining outside the window, but Long Shiqiu was gone.
"Brother Long!" Tang Shiyao stood up, didn't care about tidying up her outfit, came to the door in a few steps, looked around, and chuckled in her heart.
Isn't this guy going to leave me here in the middle of the night and leave on his own?
"Brother Long!" Tang Shiyao ran out of the temple, and was at a loss, when he heard Long Shiqiu's voice behind him: "You are awake." As soon as Tang Shiyao turned around, she saw that Long Shiqiu had already packed her baggage and leaned on the door frame to look at herself.
"Why are you always elusive. Tang Shiyao walked up to him in a few steps and said coquettishly: "I thought it was ......"
Long Shiqiu sighed and said, "Let's go, there is Wanjiaji not far ahead, let's find a place to eat something to hurry." ”
The two rode side by side and walked out of more than 20 miles, and the three words "Wanjiaji" were clearly written on the boundary monument in front.
Tang Shiyao asked, "Let's walk from here to Yueyang for a few days, right?"
Long Shiqiu said: "Even if these two horses are exhausted, it will take half a month to arrive." ”
Tang Shiyao couldn't help frowning when she heard this: "My father doesn't know where they have gone." ”
Long Shiqiu comforted: "There are many of them, and they are carrying a dart cart, so it is estimated that they will be able to catch up with them soon." ”