Chapter 8: Distress in the Woods

The words are divided into two ends, and the second little er of the Yiyue Lou shop, Ah Ling, saw that someone died downstairs, and he was really shocked. I thought it was over, there was a murderer in the waiter area on the second floor I was in charge of, and today's business was bad, and the shopkeeper Hu would definitely be angry with me, and I couldn't escape from a beating, and my job couldn't be guaranteed. Thinking of this, Ah Ling's whole person was stunned for an instant, and the teapot in his hand fell to the ground, completely unsure of what to do.

Ah Ling remembered that he had always been careful in his daily life, but people were not as good as the sky, and he really couldn't escape if he was unlucky.

When the customers in the building saw the murder, they shouted and ran away, and the big and small guys were also panicking, for fear of being involved in the incident. Ah Ling stood for a while, and finally came back to his senses, and hurriedly told himself to run, such a disaster today, the shopkeeper Hu must have broken his leg to vent his anger.

Since he was sensible, he remembered that his father had always been addicted to gambling, making the family poor, and he relied on the neighbors around him to get by. Later, the creditor came to collect the debt, so that the father and son could only leave their hometown to escape debts and wander, relying on casual labor and begging to survive. But as long as Dad has spare money in his hands, he will go headlong into the gambling house and lose everything. Such a young environment forced Ah Ling to start standing on his own very early, picking wild vegetables today, begging for steamed buns tomorrow, doing odd jobs in the morning, and stealing something in the afternoon, so as to barely survive.

Later, the two went to the capital and built a straw hut in the slums in the east of the city. Ah Ling relied on his hands and feet to be diligent, smart and clever, and found a livelihood in Yiyue Building. originally hoped that the life of father and son would improve, but who would have expected that within a few months, such a thing would happen. Thinking of the situation where Shopkeeper Hu started a fire to beat the other guys, Ah Ling couldn't help but shiver, and his feet began to tremble, as if he had been crippled.

Ah Ling looked at the chaos inside and outside the building, no longer delayed, quickly touched some softness, and did not go to the east of the city to go home, but panicked and rushed out of the city, afraid that the shopkeeper would send someone to chase him, and did not dare to take the official road, so he went to the suburbs in a panic.

Ah Ling wanted to spend a night in the forest for a while, and wait until tomorrow to make plans. Anyway, I have been wandering since I was a child, I am not very old, but I am not afraid to wander alone, and I am not afraid to go into the woods at night, thinking that my father has not returned for several days after taking away his salary last month, and I don't know where I went, so I am not in a hurry to go home, I plan to sleep in the forest tonight, and wait a few days to find my father, and leave the capital together to make a living elsewhere.

Ah Ling was afraid that he would be found by the shopkeeper, so he went deep into the forest, hiking for a long time, seeing a big tree with dense branches, and planning to climb up and sleep beautifully. When I got up the tree, I looked far away, but I saw that there seemed to be a clearing in the forest in front of the left, in which the fire flickered, and many people gathered here. After today's big event, Ah Ling was afraid that everything would have something to do with him, so he didn't dare to gasp for breath, and secretly paced forward, hiding in the nearby grass to look inside.

I saw an open space in front of me, bustling with hundreds of people from the rivers and lakes. In the innermost, I saw that the core was the "culprit" swordsman who had lost his livelihood today. As soon as Ah Ling saw that man, he was very angry, and he was angry and tried to crush the weeds around him. Hmph! It's all your fault for being a stinky sick ghost, causing Lao Tzu to lose his livelihood, and he can only come to this ghost place to sleep in the middle of the night. If Lao Tzu starves to death without food, he will go to hell and promise to become a starving ghost and eat you to take revenge! Ah Ling is mixed in the market on weekdays, and the slang in the countryside is not too much. As for calling himself "Lao Tzu" at the age of twelve or thirteen, it was a common thing among his playmates.

Who would have thought that in less than half a pillar of incense, the surrounding crowd would start to fight with the swordsman without saying a word, and the battle in the field was full of exclamations. Ah Ling doesn't know kung fu, but he thinks it's good-looking, and flying sand and rocks is particularly fun. After all, Ah Ling is a young man's heart, and when he sees such a novelty, he can't help but forget where he is, and his eyes are all attracted for a while, and his heart begins to cheer for both sides.

After a while, the swordsman had the upper hand. Zero muttered: I didn't expect this swordsman to be so powerful. The monk, the old man, and so many others were not his opponents. Not to mention that he is a big devil who kills people without blinking, there are so many enemies, everyone in this scene wants his life. Ah Ling was excited, and suddenly there was a sharp pain in his lower back, and his eyes suddenly went black, and he immediately fell to the ground. Ah Ling was so painful that he just wanted to shout, but he found that his mouth and tongue were sore, he couldn't make a sound, and his limbs couldn't exert force, and it seemed that he had been clicked on the acupoints. I can see only with my eyes.

Ah Ling panicked: Could it be that the shopkeeper finally found me and killed me. Thinking of this, my heart immediately felt a sourness: Ah Ling, Ah Ling, you still haven't escaped their clutches after all. It's a pity that you have to die in Huangquan at a young age, and you die like this before you can experience a good life. You are a nonsense shopkeeper, saying that today you Yiyuelou is dead, and someone is reasonable, what is the matter with Lao Tzu, I am a zero to give you a hard job here, there is no merit and hard work. As for hunting me down here. Lao Tzu cursed you to be covered with rotten sores and suffer enough for 7749 days to die!

While he was thinking wildly, a whisper came from his ear. Ah Ling looked at it and saw two figures dressed as Taoist priests muttering in a low voice beside him. It was too dark to see their faces. However, according to their figures, Ah Ling immediately recognized that these two were the two bullnoses he had entertained in the restaurant earlier.

"These two people and the shopkeeper Hu shouldn't know each other, so it's not the shopkeeper who sent me to kill me. Ah Ling speculated. But he didn't understand why these two Taoist priests wanted to attack him, could it be that the two of them were obviously Taoist priests and were actually robbers?

The two Taoist priests discussed it properly, and the tall Taoist priest turned his head and leaned over to Ah Ling and said, "Boy, you are a tiger and should have killed you right now." But this time the stakes are very high, that sword is strong in martial arts, and now I can only exchange you for the treasure of my view. I can't say that we can't come according to the rules of the rivers and lakes this time. After speaking, he picked up Ah Ling and jumped into the house with the short Taoist priest.

Who would have thought that the tall man would not be able to coerce him, and he would be crippled by the viewer. And Ah Ling was caught in the sword light and sword shadows of the two masters, flying around, tossing and turning, and every minute could be poked out of a hole, which was really a unique experience in the world. Ah Ling was already frightened, and he was disgusted several times, thinking that it was better to let the shopkeeper kill him than to toss like this.

In a trance, the person was suddenly thrown by the sword, and Ah Ling landed safely after a few tosses in the air, moved his slightly paralyzed hands and feet, and found that the acupoint had been unlocked. Ah Ling felt that there was a cold internal breath in his body wandering around, and he washed away several stagnant acupoints on his back, and the place where the internal breath passed through only felt extremely comfortable, and he felt that people were also refreshed, and the feeling of tossing and dying before was like a world of earth.

Ah Ling shook his head and recalled before and after the incident, just now the tall Taoist priest kept using himself to blackmail the sick ghost, just in exchange for what treasure they watched, before Lao Tzu just wanted to shout that it had nothing to do with this matter, but unfortunately he couldn't speak, so Lao Tzu took this trip to the troubled water by mistake.

In fact, even if Bai Ling could speak, who would listen to a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy in this situation. Fortunately, the retribution of the present world came quickly, Ah Ling glanced at the tall man, and snorted lightly, let you hurt me to suffer, you deserve to be crippled. But today, I have encountered all the bad things, and I can be regarded as having fallen into eight lifetimes of blood mold, and now I am in danger, and I have no time to take care of anything else, so it is important to seek a way out.

Zero turned his head and was about to find his way away. Suddenly, five or six people appeared and stopped in front of him.

"Little thing, you don't want to leave until you're done today?" a horse-faced man stepped forward with a knife.

Another scar man also shouted in a rough voice, "Stinky boy, you colluded with this thief and swordsman and injured so many of our heroes, how do you say this account should be calculated." ”

Ah Ling saw that the horse's face and the scarred man were covered in scars, and several other people even had missing arms and legs, and knew that they had suffered a loss in the fight with Jian Cao just now, and now they saw that they were young and weak, and they came to take revenge on themselves. At this time, Jian Ke and Chengde are fighting in full swing, and they have no time to take care of themselves again, and these Jianghu men kill people without blinking an eye on weekdays, they are all outlaws who lick blood on the knife edge, they regard themselves as Jian Ke's comrades, and they will not let go of themselves easily, this is really just out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's mouth.

Ah Ling reluctantly smiled and replied, "Ladies and gentlemen, the younger one is the second child of Yiyuelou, and today is a pure misunderstanding." I don't know the sick swordsman. I just happened to be passing by, but don't be mistaken for the good guys. After saying that, I wanted to stab and slip away.

Hearing Ah Ling say this, the horse-faced man was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had been to Yiyue Tower today, but vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a shopkeeper. But the scarred man's face changed, and his blade was raised horizontally to block Ah Ling's way, and he sneered, "This little brother, we don't care if what you say is true or not, but with the moon and the dark wind tonight, Yiyuelou's junior second will appear here, who are you fooling? Look at this meeting tonight, I can't say that I have to sacrifice your blood to so many of our dead and injured brothers, so I can't be angry with everyone." ”

Ah Ling hurriedly said, "I'm really the shopkeeper of Yiyue Building, how can you be unreasonable." ”

The scar man said with an unreasonable look, "If you really die in vain, little brother, it's a big deal, brother, I'll burn you more paper money next year to make amends." Several people around, especially the injured ones, echoed in unison, each with evil fire in their hearts, and it seemed that they could only relieve their hatred by dismantling Ah Ling in eight pieces.

Seeing that the horse's face was no longer speechless, and the rest of the people no longer had any objections, he stepped forward and said, "Little brother, you are the helper of the thief swordsman, or not, and the brothers are not in charge." However, that sick ghost has too much blood on his hands, and we must give an explanation to our brothers underground. Don't blame us for being ruthless, if you want to blame, blame you for being unlucky today. ”

Ah Ling is clever, but in the face of so many fierce and unreasonable martial arts people, even if he is anxious, he can't use it at all. Seeing that Ah Ling was stunned, the scar man no longer spoke out, sneered, raised his knife and slashed at Ah Ling's head.

Seeing that the scar man insisted on making a move, Ah Ling scolded angrily, "Okay, good, I can't hide after all." A few of you kill innocents indiscriminately, and when Lao Tzu goes to hell and becomes a powerful ghost, he bites you to death. ”

Ah Ling shouted happily after scolding, just waiting to close his eyes and wait for death, when suddenly a person jumped out from behind him, and knocked the scar man away with a loud roar. The man yelled, "Aren't you ashamed that so many big men bully a child! ”

Ah Ling has escaped death several times, and his feet are already weak, and his heart is like a flat boat in the waves. I saw that the man was on a rampage, punching and kicking, knocking the horse's face and the scar man straight over a few times, and I heard him cross his waist and say angrily, "Lao Tzu can't beat that sword, can't I clean it up yet?" This little brother is my brother, and he is undoubtedly the second child of Yiyuelou, and it has nothing to do with that swordsman. If the fuck wants to move him, let me down first. ”

Ah Ling was a little familiar when he heard this voice, and he saw that this person was actually the bearded man who broke the siege for him today. Although this person is reckless by nature, vulgar and unwise, he is very righteous, and today he helped him out of the siege, and he also saved his life at a critical moment.

"Qianjimen Yang Gu smiled, do you have to protect this thief boy today?" the scarred man wiped the dust on his face, turned over and asked angrily.

"Hmph, Liang Teng, what the hell is bullying the weak here? Don't think that your Shadow Knife Sect can do anything wrong if you are famous in the rivers and lakes, even if your "Shadow Absolute Three Knives" comes, can we be afraid of you?" The man who called Yang Gu smiled struck both palms, which shook the ears of everyone around.

Liang Teng knew that he was not Yang Guxiao's opponent, but when he saw his insulting sect, he couldn't bear it, "Yang Guxiao, you are just a watchdog in the Thousand Machine Gate, what is arrogant." Although our Shadow Knife Sect is not as powerful as your Thousand Machine Sect, it is not to be bullied. If you are determined to protect this sword accomplice today, you will be the enemy of all factions in the rivers and lakes. ”

"There is nothing good about Qianjimen, but I can't see the injustice in the world. If you reverse right and wrong like this, we have to take care of it. Yang Gu's muscles twitched on his face and said fiercely.

"Great, great, I Liang Teng can't beat you alone, but we have so many brothers here, how many do you think you can beat?" Liang Teng waved his hand, and seven or eight people behind him, including the horse-faced man, immediately surrounded him.

"Hmph! Today, Lao Tzu was humiliated by the sword and was having no place to vent, this is good, someone sent it to the door, I, Yang Guxiao, will let you taste the anger of justice today!" Yang Gu laughed, turned his head and whispered to Ah Ling, "Later, I will go up to block them, you will rush out to the southeast corner, don't look back, I will follow in a while." Zero nodded silently.

Damn, there are so many people on Lao Tzu's side who can't beat you? Liang Teng thought viciously, his face was gloomy, and as soon as he made a secret gesture, several people outflanked him from behind, trying to block Yang Guxiao's retreat.

Seeing this, Yang Guxiao didn't wait for them to fall into position, roared, rushed forward, and slashed at Liang Teng with one palm, Liang Teng jumped away from it after fearing the power of his palm, but several people around him bullied him from the left and right at the same time, pinching Yang Guxiao.

Yang Guxiao is also good at martial arts, and he is born with brute strength. Two palms forced back two Shadow Knife Sect members, and a whirlwind side kick kicked over several people. In a short time, no one could come close to him.

Seeing Yang Guxiao alone blocking the people opposite, Ah Ling took the opportunity to run towards the southeast corner. At the moment of life and death, Ah Ling couldn't care about anything else, all the way to the southeast and just wanted to escape from the forest quickly, he was thin and small, plus Yang Gu smiled and flew with his fists on the side, and the people around him couldn't hold him for a while.

Ah Ling panicked, only knew that he ran straight away, ran for a long time, and finally lost his physical strength, fell to the ground, gasping for breath, and turned around to see that no one was chasing, so he simply lay on the ground and didn't get up.

After lying down for a while, my strength has recovered, and I am ready to get up and walk again. Suddenly, a figure ran from the road. Ah Ling was a little scared, and just wanted to hide in the grass beside the road, but when he saw that the person who came was Yang Gu Xiao. Ah Ling was overjoyed, and shouted "Brother Yang!" Yang Guxiao also found Ah Ling and ran over.

"Little brother, are you okay, those guys are bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and they want to turn their hatred on the defenseless you, it's really infuriating, Lao Tzu just gave them a good stinky beating. Yang Gu said with a smile.

"Brother Xie Yang is angry for his younger brother, those people are indeed too tight, and the sick ghost swordsman should cut them down thoroughly, lest they come over and mess with me. Bai Ling said with a huff.

"The sword is strict and the martial arts are high, but the heroes can't stand the crowd, and there are so many martial arts sects here today, and he can't get out easily. Yang Guxiao pondered slightly.

Bai Ling recalled the battle situation in the field just now, and it was really unknown who would win or lose, and Brother Yang was reasonable.

"Don't say anything else, they won't let us go easily, they will definitely chase after us, this place is not suitable for a long time, let's go." As he spoke, Yang Guxiao held one hand under Ah Ling's coercion, lifted his breath and led him to continue to run to the southeast.

Ah Ling only felt that there was wind under his feet, and he ran effortlessly, and he shouted in his heart that it was funny, he never knew that he could run so fast, but when he turned his head to look at Yang Guxiao, he found that he had multiple knife wounds. If you want to be outnumbered in front, it is not easy to get out.

Seeing that Yang Guxiao was injured and came over, he was concerned about whether he was okay first, and he was quite moved in his heart, and said, "Brother Yang, thanks to you today, otherwise the little brother would really be dead here, and there is no way to repay the great kindness." ”

"What kind words to say, those who practice martial arts, when the road is uneven, they must draw their swords to help, otherwise Lao Tzu has been a living dog for so many years. Yang Guxiao spoke loudly, but Lang Lang's vernacular showed chivalrous ways, and in his opinion, chivalry was a matter of course.

Bai Ling didn't know what it meant to be chivalrous, he only knew that it was this rough man who saved him today, thinking of what happened in Yiyue Tower, and said, "Brother Yang doesn't have to offend those people in order to save his younger brother, today is in the restaurant during the day, it is just my duty to be the second child, there is no need to hurt you to almost give up your life for this." ”

"Little brother, today's events are not all about repaying you for relieving me of the siege earlier. To tell you the truth, I originally came with the so-called righteous people of various factions to crusade against the public enemy of the martial arts, but I never thought that what I saw and heard was not consistent with the rumors. Those martial arts righteous paths are obviously not the harsh opponents of the sword when they fight a group, and they will use your kid to blackmail him. Their bad deeds are really contrary to our martial arts chivalry. Just now, I saw those heroes of the rivers and lakes looking for revenge on you, how is this shameless act different from the evil way? You don't need to say more, I am in charge of today's affairs. Yang Gu smiled and endured the knife wound and continued, "But today the enemy is outnumbered, let's avoid the limelight first, and when I go back and invite rescuers, my mother will make sure that the Shadow Knife Sect will do the shit." ”

Ah Ling felt that although Yang Guxiao's speech and demeanor were vulgar, he was reasonable, hundreds of times better than many villains with good manners, and his personality and stomach were very compatible with him. And he is strong in martial arts, with him, he can keep himself safe for the time being, and the heart that has been hanging tonight has finally settled a lot.

"Little brother, I don't know what your name is?" Yang Gu asked with a smile.

"Brother Yang, I haven't had a mother since I was a child, my father just calls me "Ah Ling", anyway, we are used to wandering, we just want to live to have something to eat, no matter what his surname is, in the future, you call me Ah Ling. Ah Zero smiled at Yang Gu, who saved his life, and felt close to him.

Yang Gu smiled, "Okay, Brother Ah Ling, where do you live and what relatives do you have in your family?" ”

"I don't have any home, so I just build a straw hut in the slums east of the city to make ends meet. I'm just a daddy, my dad is addicted to gambling, often nowhere to go, I haven't returned for a few days, but it's been like this for so many years, I'm used to it. ”

Yang Gu smiled, "Brother Ah Ling, your Brother Yang is a rough person, and he acts straightforwardly. Forcibly saved your life today, and formed a bond with the Shadow Knife Sect, they will not give up. There are many eyes and ears from all walks of life near the capital, and I am afraid of many accidents when I take you back to the capital with such a big smile. Now that I hear you say that, it's better to follow your big brother Yang's calculations. ”

Bai Ling nodded and said, "Little brother, I don't have anything long, so I listen to Brother Yang's arrangement." ”

Yang Guxiao raised his hand to the southeast, "Out of the forest to the southeast, there is a small temple less than a hundred miles." The abbot is my friend, and you can stay with him for a while. As for your hut, I will call on my men to help you keep an eye on it, and if your father returns, I will have someone bring him over to join you, and in the short term, don't go back to the capital. ”

But whether it is meat or vegetarian, it is better than being hungry and full now, Ah Ling immediately agreed, "Then thank you Brother Yang." ”

Yang Gu smiled and talked to Ah Ling, did not dare to stop at his feet, and rushed to the southeast with Ah Ling's full strength. The two went out of the woods overnight and came to the outskirts of the capital, where they saw a resting pavilion next to the official road. Ah Ling saw that the knife wound on Yang Guxiao's body was getting worse, and he was running quickly, the wound was cracked open, bleeding nonstop, and he couldn't bear it, so he said, "Brother Yang, your injury is not light, we might as well stop at the rest pavilion in front of us for a while, bandage the wound, and then it's not too late to go." ”

Yang Gu smiled and said, "Okay, there is still a long way to go, why don't you wait for me to bandage it, we can walk faster." ”