...... a day before

The second day of the first month, dawn. On the border of Tangzhou, a carriage galloped north day and night, heading towards Luoyang.

Thirty miles away from Tangzhou, the carriage traveled to a canyon, which was called "Halberd Valley".

According to legend, when "Duanping entered Luo" and returned, Xu Minzi defeated Luodong, led the troops to flee here, encountered an ambush by the Mongolian army, and finally the Song army suffered countless casualties, and the general Xu Minzi only took 300 deserters to fight out of the encirclement, which can be described as extremely tragic. Since then, this place has been called the "Valley of the Halberd", which means that this is the place where the Song army fell into the sand.

The valley is a place of ambush given by God, the dirt road in the middle is only two zhang wide, and there are steep mountain walls on both sides, once you enter the valley, you can only go straight through, or advance or retreat, there is no third way to go. The valley stretches for nearly a kilometer from north to south, and the road in the valley is rugged and full of potholes.

On the eve of dawn, it was the darkest time of the day, the sky was as black as ink, the clouds were dense, the sun and the moon were lightless, and the vast world was extremely dark.

The carriage came in a hurry, and when it reached the valley of the broken halberd, it couldn't help but slow down. First, the road in the valley is rough, and it is difficult for horse-drawn carriages to travel. Second, the sky is dark, the valley is narrow, and the carriage goes a little faster, and there is a danger of hitting the mountain. Therefore, motorists have to be cautious and move slowly in order to be safe.

There were five people in the carriage, two of whom drove and the other three sat in the carriage. Among the five people, there were four men with swords, all of whom were disciples of the Xian Wangfu, and they were ordered by Jiang Yiwei to arrest Cheng Qiu, the third master of Fan Humen. Therefore, the short and thin man who was tied up by five flowers in the carriage was Cheng Qiu, who had left his hometown and remained incognito.

Because Jiang Yiwei had strictly ordered them to rush to Los Angeles as soon as possible, they did not stop on the way, day and night, in order to bring Cheng Qiu back to King Xian's mansion as soon as possible to resume his life.

"This valley is deep and gloomy, and it is not suitable to stay for a long time, so we will move forward carefully and slowly get out of the valley. The driver was a red-faced man with eyes like torches and a face like jujubes, he carefully looked at the cliffs and mountains around the valley with a cautious gaze, and said in a deep voice, "When you leave the boundary of Tangzhou, you can return to Luoyang after another day and night." ”

"It's finally time to make a difference. The young disciple next to him smiled bitterly, "Sect Master, we haven't had a good night's sleep for several days, and we must be tired to death if we continue like this." ”

"Don't complain! The third master said that this person is extremely important, even the lord of the mansion is waiting to see him, how dare you and I delay?" The man who is called the "master of the door" is named "Xu Heng", and he is currently the master of the three doors of the Xianwang Mansion, and he has served in the Xianwang Mansion for many years, and he is very loyal to Luo Tianjin.

Arresting Cheng Qiu was the errand that Jiang Yiwei handed over to Xu Heng. The other three are all shocking disciples, so they obey Xu Heng's orders, and the horse is the first to look forward.

I said...... A few uncles ......"

A slightly trembling hoarse voice quietly came from inside the carriage, and the tone was cowardly, even a little panicked. It was Cheng Qiu who spoke, and after several days of running, he was already exhausted and exhausted.

"What's the matter with you?" Xu Heng asked angrily, "You either want to eat and drink this way, or you want to shit and pee, is there anyone in the world who is more troublesome than you?" I really can't imagine that a fool like you was once the third leader of a gang. ”

Cheng Qiu begged with grievances: "I have long since quit the rivers and lakes, I have been doing my duty for so many years, and I have never done anything hurtful to heaven and reason, I beg you, let me go? I can give you money, you can do as much as you want!"

Xu Heng said coldly: "Let you go, how will we explain when we go back?"

"That'...... Is there any benefit for me to go to Luoyang?" Cheng Qiu saw that there was no hope of escape, so he simply showed his greedy nature and said with a sneer, "I came to Luoyang with you all the way, and when I go back, I have to give me some carriages and horses, right......?"

"Go back?" Xu Heng couldn't help but let out a cold snort, and said with a smile, "Let's wait until you can really go back!"

"What do you mean? Do you have to cross the river and tear down the bridge, unload the mill and kill the donkey?" Cheng Qiu wailed loudly like a mourner, "Luo Tianjin is the king of the Northern Sage, the king of the sage will not kill people indiscriminately, you can't kill me, I have an eighty old mother and a child under the age of ......."

"Shut up!"

The two disciples in the car really couldn't hear Cheng Qiu's nonsense, so they couldn't help but shout in unison, and then punched him hard, and there was a scream like killing a pig in the car again. Cheng Qiu's cry was extremely loud in the lonely Halberd Valley, and there were even echoes from afar.

"If you dare to scream again, I will cut your tongue!" Xu Heng looked around cautiously, and ordered the disciples in the car angrily, "Why don't you cover his mouth quickly, if it attracts ......"

"Whoosh!"

Before the words fell, a burst of arrows suddenly sounded in mid-air. Immediately after, dozens of sharp arrows flew down around the carriage like black lightning. With a soft "clanging" sound, a rain of arrows was already densely planted on the gravel road around the carriage.

"There's an ambush!"

Xu Heng hurriedly grabbed the reins, and at the same time shouted violently, his right hand quickly pulled the knife out of the sheath, and his left hand gently pulled the curtain of the car behind him, and his figure rose to the sky, jumping onto the roof of the car like a rabbit, holding the steel knife in front of his chest, and a pair of tiger eyes looked around, careful beware.

"Phew!"

There was a sudden shout on the mountainside, and then on the mountains on both sides, dozens of masked black-clothed people holding torches suddenly appeared, and the appearance of these uninvited guests made Xu Heng's face change suddenly.

The leader was masked in green clothes, he slowly walked out of a group of black-clothed people, stepped on a rock beside him quite casually, and while playing with the short knife in his hand that emitted a faint cold light, he joked to Xu Heng and others in the Halberd Valley: "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you pass by here, stay ...... Leave ......"

The man in Tsing Yi was speechless for a moment, and then turned his suspicious gaze to the man in black beside him. Seeing this, the man in black hurriedly reminded in a low voice: "Leave the money to buy the road." The man in Tsing Yi suddenly realized and shouted loudly to the carriage: "Ah yes!

Hearing this, Xu Heng and the others, who were waiting for the battle, couldn't help but be stunned, and a disciple muttered in a low voice: "This guy doesn't even know the words, but he dares to come out and rob the Tao? ”

Xu Heng looked at the black-clothed people on the mountainsides on both sides, especially when he saw the bows and arrows in their hands ready to fire, his eyes couldn't help but flash a solemn look. He knew very well that he had been surrounded by these "bandits", and he was ambushed in a place like the Halberd Valley, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and with only the four of them, he was afraid that it would be difficult to get out.

After thinking about it, Xu Heng looked very serious, arched his hand towards the man in Tsing Yi on the mountainside, and said loudly: "This friend, I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding. We are not profiteers and corrupt officials, passing by here today, please make it convenient for you!"

The man in Tsing Yi took the money bag, weighed it a few times, and sneered: "So many of our brothers, in the cold winter and the lunar New Year, let the wives and children go to the barren mountains and mountains to earn some hard-earned money, and you will give us such a little bit of broken silver?"

Xu Heng's face changed color, but he still held back his anger, and said again: "This friend, do you know who we are? I am the master of the Xianwang Mansion, Xu Heng." Today, I came out on an errand on the order of the lord of the house, if you know each other, then accept the money, let us go, and we should make friends. If not......"

"Otherwise?" the man in Tsing Yi didn't seem to be afraid of the name of the Xian Wangfu, and sneered, "Lao Tzu doesn't recognize you as a 'Xianwang Mansion' or a 'Sweet Wangfu', in short, if you want to pass by from now on, you have to leave the money to buy the road!"

"Then how much do you want?" Xu Heng said angrily.

"How much?" the man in Tsing Yi was stunned for a moment, and pondered, "10,000 taels of gold!"

"Poof!" The words of the man in Tsing Yi almost made Xu Heng vomit blood, don't say that he is not a profiteer and a corrupt official, even if he is, I am afraid he will not carry 10,000 taels of gold with him. Where is this robbery, it is clearly to find fault.

"It's your master sitting in the car, right?" The man in Tsing Yi suddenly waved his knife and pointed at the carriage, and sneered, "I don't think you have much money as a groom, so let your master come out and talk!"

"No!" Xu Heng saw that the man in Tsing Yi hit Cheng Qiu's head with the idea, his face changed, and he shouted, "You don't want to gain an inch, if you dare to offend the Xianwang Mansion, you dogs will die without a place to be buried......"

"Whoosh!

Before the words fell, another round of arrow rain came overwhelmingly.

Seeing this, Xu Heng and the other three disciples hurriedly waved their swords to resist, but even so, some of them were still wounded by arrows. And the carriage was even more miserable, the horses were shot alive by sharp arrows, and more than a dozen arrow feathers were inserted horizontally and vertically on the carriage, and Cheng Qiu, who was frightened, was a hoarse wail in the car.

"You ......"

"If you dare to resist, you will be shot into hedgehogs!" the man in Tsing Yi sneered. With that, he waved his hand at several black-clothed people beside him, and the black-clothed men understood and slid down the mountainside one after another.

Several black-clothed people walked quickly to the carriage, and under the nervous attention of Xu Heng and the three disciples of the Xianwang Mansion, they ignored Xu Heng and went straight to Cheng Qiu in the carriage.

Xu Heng wanted to step forward to stop him, but halfway up the mountain, he shot a few sharp arrows again, trapping him in place, and he could only watch as several black-clothed men approached the carriage with knives, and two of them quickly got into the carriage without thinking.

"Let your people not mess around, the price is negotiable......" Xu Heng hurriedly shouted at the man in Tsing Yi.

"Rest assured, if you have money, you will die, and if you don't have money, you will die. The man in Tsing Yi sneered, "Although we are robbing the road, we can also talk about the rules of the rivers and lakes." Hey hey ......"

"You ...... What are you going to do! I don't have any money...... No...... Please don't kill me......"

Suddenly, Cheng Qiu's frightened cry came from inside the carriage, and then under the surprised eyes of Xu Heng and the three disciples of the Xianwang Mansion, several soft sounds of "poof" came from the carriage one after another. Immediately afterwards, Cheng Qiu's screams gradually turned into desperate screams, and then into weak wails, and finally all the voices were completely drowned in silence.

When the two men in black came out of the carriage again, they were covered in blood.

"It seems that your lord has no money!" the man in Tsing Yi shook his head helplessly and sighed, "Then he can only be blamed for deserving it." ”

"You killed him?" Xu Heng exclaimed in disbelief, "You actually killed him? you fucking ......"

"Shoot the arrows!"

Without waiting for Xu Heng to scold angrily, the man in Tsing Yi suddenly changed his previous banter, a cold light appeared in his eyes, and he gave a shout. Suddenly, the rain of arrows in the sky was already shooting towards Xu Heng and a few people.

In a hurry, Xu Heng couldn't think much about it, so he could only take the other three to kill desperately towards Gukou. Along the way, two people were killed on the spot by a rain of arrows, and the remaining two were also hit by several arrows and fled in panic after being wounded.

When a group of black-clothed people on the mountain wanted to chase and kill, the people in Tsing Yi suddenly waved their hands to stop everyone, and at the same time, a touch of cunning appeared in their eyes.

The man in Tsing Yi slowly tore off the black scarf in front of him, instantly revealing a young and handsome face.

This person turned out to be Liu Xunyi's best friend of life and death, Dongfu Tianji Pavilion Shaobao, Qin Wei.

"Your Excellency. ”

A group of black-clothed people also took off their black scarves one after another, and they were all the Golden Sword Captains of Tianji Pavilion. A lieutenant asked suspiciously, "Why did Master Hou let us rob and kill these people?" That Cheng Qiu...... What's so special about it?"

"Hou Ye is clever, how can you and I understand?" Qin Wei replied casually, "Don't you still understand the rules of Tianji Pavilion? ”

"Subordinate convicted!"

"You go down and clean up, cut off Cheng Qiu's head, and bring it back to Lin'an. ”

"Yes!"

A group of Golden Sword Captains were busy in the Halberd Valley, cleaning up the mess. Qin Wei on the mountainside had deep eyes, looking at the direction of Xu Heng's escape, and a touch of thought couldn't help but appear between his eyebrows.

"Xianwangfu? They call themselves disciples of Xianwangfu, and Brother Liu is also in Xianwangfu now, could it be ...... What does this have to do with him?"

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