Chapter 5: Staggering

Back in the village, it was time for breakfast, Zhou Heiya invited seven or eight people from the neighborhood to drink and laugh, and sat down around Leng Yuhu and the two, and a circle of servants stood behind him. After a while, a variety of dishes were served up one after another, piling up a large table.

Leng Yuhu said: "This is too rich!"

Zhou Heiya smiled: "Not rich, not rich." If it weren't for the help of the two heroes, the entire village would have been reduced to ashes, all the fields would have been returned to Cheng Kanban, and the whole village would have no fixed place to live and starve. The two heroes saved us, I can't thank enough!"

At this time, only the neighing of horses outside the door could be heard, and the domestic servant Wang Ji had just bought the overlord and came back drunk.

The bowl was filled with wine, and a dozen people began to eat meat and drink. The people in the room were all arrogant, talking and laughing loudly, drinking and eating, and after eating a meal for an hour, they were all so drunk that they found a bed and fell asleep.

It wasn't until late afternoon that the two woke up. Then another booze was followed until midnight.

At noon on the second day, the wine woke up, Leng Yuhu and the two said goodbye, and Zhou Heiya insisted on staying as a guest.

In this way, they ate and drank for two days in a row, and only waited until the afternoon of the third day that Zhou Heiya let Leng Yuhu and the two leave. When they separated, they gave them two more horses, and then took a package from Wang Jigang and handed it to Leng Yuhu. Leng Yuhu pinched it and knew that it was silver two, and knew that he was sincere, so he had to thank him.

Leng Yuhu asked, "Then Cheng Kanban wants to come again, what should I do?"

Zhou Heiya said: "I have already figured out a way. ”

Leng Yuhu and the others left with confidence and headed towards Sugu County.

After walking for more than 20 miles, you can already see the county seat of Sugu in the distance. This Sugu County is a large county in Hebei Province, with towering walls and pheasant moats. Leng Yuhu saw it and laughed unconsciously.

Chen Jihong hurriedly asked, "Brother Leng, what's so funny?"

Leng Yuhu couldn't help laughing and said, "Brother Chen, I think of a poem, I can't help laughing, I'll read it to you." Then he groaned:

From afar, it looks like a saw,

It looks like a saw up close.

The more you look at it, the more it looks like a saw,

It's a saw.

Both of them laughed loudly, whipped their horses, and hurried forward.

Suddenly, he saw a man with his hair scattered, running wildly with all his might, and a group of people chasing after him, catching up and pressing him to the ground, sticking to him, and he was about to be killed.

Leng Yuhu and the two rode their horses to the front and drank the group, and the group waved their hands and said, "Don't worry about it, he deserves to be killed." ”

Chen Jihong asked: "Why did you kill him, you have to ask clearly." ”

The gang gossiped and said: "This guy is a good gambler, he still gambles if he loses the house, his wife runs away with someone, he still gambles, he owes a lot of debt, he borrows money from our master, and he can't pay it back, he still runs away." Should he be killed?"

Chen Jihong persuaded: "You should kill him, but if you kill him, you can't repay your debts, so it's better to let him go and let him work to pay off his debts." ”

The gang laughed: "He can't quit gambling." ”

Chen Jihong asked the gambler: "You really can't quit?"

The gambler thought that his leg was broken, and he sat on the ground and could not get up, and said, "I can quit, I promise to quit." ”

A man stepped forward, took his hand, and said, "Look at his finger and ask him what is the matter?"

The man had to stretch out his left palm, and his left hand broke two fingers, thinking that he couldn't hide today, so he had to say honestly: "The house lost, quit gambling, chopped off a finger, my wife ran away with someone, quit gambling, chopped off a finger." The man begged with garlic, "You two good Samaritans, help me persuade them, don't beat me to death, I promise to quit gambling." ”

Chen Jihong smiled and said to the gang: "It's useless to kill him, you take him back, lock him in the mill, and grind." ”

The gang "boomed" and agreed.

Leng Yuhu and the two turned on their horses and headed towards Sugu County.

Chen Jihong said: "This person's gambling addiction is too big, hateful and pitiful. ”

Leng Yuhu thought for a while and said slowly: "In fact, people in the world are addicted people, they are addicted to saving money, they are addicted to spending money, they are addicted to striving for fame and profit, they are addicted to flattery, and they are addicted to harming others and benefiting themselves. How can we people who practice martial arts not be addicted? We are addicted to studying martial arts, we are addicted to chivalry and righteousness, and we are addicted to hoeing violence and peace and goodness. Now I've been chasing a masked man for several days, and I don't even have any clues, and I have to chase it down, which is also addictive. We laugh at the person who is good at gambling and goes bankrupt, but in fact, when we walk the rivers and lakes, how can we have a day of peace? We laugh at the person who is good at gambling and can't quit gambling, so how can we ever quit the addiction in our body?

Chen Jihong said: "Brother Leng is right. The two talked and laughed and entered Sugu County.

The houses in this Sugu county are neat, the shops are numerous, and the pedestrians on the street come and go, which is very lively. Leng Yuhu and the two found a big hotel, Yuanchun Restaurant, and stayed there. The owner of Yuanchun Restaurant is surnamed Liao, tall and thin, eagle-eyed beak, and also loves to gamble. He had this idea, and often ran out to gamble when he saw the opportunity, and his wife was watching over him in the restaurant.

Leng Yuhu and the two went in and out of the Qinlou Chu Pavilion and the tea shop gambling house every day to inquire about the whereabouts of the masked man, but this person seemed to have suddenly disappeared from the world, and there was no clue at all.

This night, Leng Yuhu got up, jumped out of the window, performed the light skills of the Wudang Sword Sect, and ran on the ridge of people's houses, like a puff of black smoke, ran to the east of the city, and jumped into a temple. There is a high tower in the temple, Leng Yuhu pushed open the tower door, quietly went up to the highest floor of the tower, stood on the tower, looked down on the whole city, the black fog was heavy, people were silent everywhere, only a few dogs barked. Leng Yuhu stood on the tower, looking around, not anxious.

After a meal, he suddenly saw a black shadow on the edge of the city, and quickly ran eastward, Leng Yuhu flew down from the top of the tower and chased eastward.

The black shadow climbed over the city wall, and Leng Yuhu followed behind, and also flew over the city wall. That night, the pedestrians did not watch out for someone following behind them, and kept running east. Leng Yuhu unleashed his Wudang light skills and followed from afar.

The man ran into the woods on the side of the mountain, and Leng Yuhu raised his vigilance, stepped silently, and followed in. The moon shone on the mountains and forests, the white mist gradually opened, and a thatched hut appeared in the forest, and a candle was lit inside, and the candlelight swayed with the wind. That night pedestrian slowed down, crept out the window, and peeked in with his eyes open.

Leng Yuhu hid in the distance, and saw a middle-aged man in the room looking intently at a thin yellowed book by candlelight. This is a hard-working scholar, I don't know what the intention of this night walker is running in the middle of the night?

The night pedestrian pulled out his sword, jumped in directly from the window, and said, "**Jun, are you reading the "Book of Immortals"?"

The scholar ** Jun was not afraid of the night walker, as if he had been waiting for him to come, put down the "Book of Immortals", and said: "Zhang Mouzi, we have been deceived, this is a fake "Book of Immortals", you can take a look." "Let's just pick up the "Book of Immortals" and hand it to Zhang Mouzi.

Zhang Mouzi didn't answer the book, pointed at ** Jun with his sword, and said, "You put it on the table." ”

**Jun Yiyan put the "Book of Immortals" on the table, Zhang Mouzi held the sword in his right hand, turned the first page with his left hand, looked at it, and asked: "Don't lie to me, why do you say that it is fake?"

The ** gentleman laughed and said, "Why, just with this book, you can take it." ”

Zhang Mouzi really rolled up the book with his left hand and put it on his chest, **Jun smiled and said, "You can believe that this book is fake, right?"

Zhang Mouzi casually asked, "What about really?"

Jun said: "How do I know? We were all deceived by this kid Gong Xian. ”

"But Gong Xian has been killed by us. ”

Jun said: "Such a precious thing, something that only appears once in hundreds of years, how can it be easily obtained, it must be hidden by Gong Xian somewhere." ”

Zhang Mouzi said: "Let's go to him and search." ”

"Okay, let's go. ”

Jun picked up the long sword from the table, and the two walked out of the hut.

"You're ahead of the curve. ”

"Why am I in front, I'm in front, you stab a sword from behind, right? ”

"Okay, okay, let's go side by side. ”

So, the two walked side by side, staring at each other, and suddenly the two of them faced each other, and at the same time drew their swords, as fast as lightning, and inserted them into each other's chests, and both of them fell down without humming.

Leng Yuhu hid in the shadows, it was too late to save each other, and thought: "What is the "Book of Immortals", causing the two to be wary of each other, killing each other, and both of them are dead, according to me, this "Book of Immortals" is a harmful book." ”

Leng Yuhu walked out of the darkness and came to the two of them, both of them had wide eyes, and they were already certain to die.

Leng Yuhu took out the harmful "Book of Immortals" from Zhang Mouzi's chest, and thought: "This book has killed a lot of people, but I still burned it, so that it will not continue to harm people." ”

Leng Yuhu made up his mind and came to the thatched hut, but he was surprised to find an old farmer in the corner of the wall lying in a pool of blood, thinking: "This old farmer must be the owner of the thatched hut, it seems that he was killed by **Jun." They killed Gong Xian, it seems that these two people are not a good thing, they are innocent of death, and there is nothing to sympathize with. ”

Leng Yuhu held the book on top of the candle and burned it to see it burn out before leaving.

Leng Yuhu started his light work and ran back to the city, the city was dark and dark, and no one knew what Leng Yuhu had been through. Leng Yuhu gently pushed open the window, walked to the bed, and continued to sleep.

On the second day, Leng Yuhu didn't tell Chen Jihong about last night, so as not to cause trouble, so he still looked for a masked man first.

After another day of searching, but finding nothing, the two looked depressed and listless. One night, Leng Yuhu said: "Cheng Kan's half house is a place to hide filth and dirt, maybe the masked man who killed the loyal ministers will hide in his house." Let's go to his house tonight and make some trouble, and see if we can lure the masked man out? Besides, this Cheng Kanban is also a wicked person who has done all kinds of bad things, so we will punish him by the way. ”

Chen Jihong said: "Okay, I've put up with him for a long time. ”

Late at night, the two were covered and sneaked all the way to Cheng Kanban's house. There are many houses in the courtyard, zigzag corridors, servants come and go, and the family patrols the night, but there are many flowers and trees, and the two of them take advantage of the shape to come to the front hall of the front yard.

The hall is brightly lit, sitting Cheng Kanban, and there are "Wolverine", "Spider-Man" and other people on both sides. On a tree outside the hall, a man was tied to his body, and he had been beaten all over his body.

At this time, an evil servant came out of the hall, holding a horsewhip in his hand, walked up to the kidnapper, and scolded: "You kid has strange bones, I have been fighting for a long time, I am tired, and you are still so tired." As he spoke, he raised his whip and jerked it.

Tired and panting, gritting his teeth in anger, the beater said: "You stinky boy is really, you have been fighting for a long time, and you don't say a word, you are really angry with me." After saying that, he crackled and jerked.

Tired of beating, the beater simply sat on the ground to rest, and couldn't help but say: "What a blessing my lord has taken a fancy to your wife! ”

The beater was so tired that he gasped, and then he said again, out of breath, and after a long rest, he said: "What is so good about your wife following you? If you don't eat well, you can't dress well, how good it is to follow your master! Eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, wearing silk and satin, a large group of maids are waiting, and even I have to call her grandma." Alas, I'll be angry just thinking about it, I'll kill you, alas, I'm tired to death, I'll rest for a while. ”

The two hid among the flowers, and Leng Yuhu said to Chen Jihong: "We can't let Cheng Kan recognize us, lest he find trouble with the owner of Zhouzhuang." I'll go in and make trouble for him, you hide here and watch the wind, beware of the masked man secretly shooting arrows to hurt people,"

Leng Yuhu drew his sword, rushed to the courtyard, stabbed the runner with a sword, cut the rope with the sword, saved the beaten man, learned the Hebei dialect, and said in a low voice: "You run quickly." ”

The family members gathered around, and "Wolverine" wanted to behave in front of his master, waving his knife to meet him. Leng Yuhu has been investigating in the past few days, knowing that this "Wolverine" is a giant in the northwest, and he is ruthless, and he came to Sugu County to fight for the tiger and harm the party.

Leng Yuhu changed to a sword technique, called the Heavenly Thunder Sword Technique, usually just practiced hard in secret, and only used it for the first time tonight, he didn't want to show his true face, so as not to blame the owner of Zhou Zhuang after half a year. Leng Yuhu made a move: "Thunder in the sky", a sword swung away, and there was a sound of wind and thunder in the sword light, "Wolverine" heard the sound of "dang", and when he lowered his head, the iron claw of his left hand fell to the ground at some point, and the blood on his left arm was dripping. The "Wolverine" knew that it was powerful, but he also saw the opportunity, grabbed the iron claw with his right hand, turned around and escaped.

Listen carefully, there is no sound of arrows breaking through the sky.

Leng Yuhu rushed forward, and "Spider-Man" drew his sword to meet him. The two fought fiercely, and after two moves, Leng Yuhu used a move "lightning and thunder", a flash of light, and the poisonous claw of "Spider-Man" on his left hand had been cut off. This "Spider-Man" is also interesting, knowing that the other party is sparing, he quickly stepped aside. Although "Spider-Man" has done a lot of evil, after all, there is still a word "chivalry" in his nickname, Leng Yuhu cut off his poisonous claws and showed a little punishment.

No masked men have appeared.

The other family members didn't know whether they were alive or dead, so they surrounded them together, and Leng Yuhu used a trick "Thunderbolt on a Sunny Day", like a goshawk and a rabbit, to break up these families. Leng Yuhu rushed towards "Spider-Man" again with his sword, and "Spider-Man" knew that it was not his opponent, so he turned around and fled. "Spider-Man" did a good job, and Leng Yuhu Wudang did not show weakness, and the two ran to the backyard one after the other. Leng Yuhu stopped and shouted, "Friend, I have something to say." ”

"Spider-Man" heard the word "friend" and fell lightly from the roof. Leng Yuhu asked him directly: "Is there still a person in this Cheng family who uses a sword and a bow and arrow?"

"Nope. ”

Leng Yuhu didn't give up: "Is there still a master?"

"Spider-Man" shook his head: "No." ”

Leng Yuhu turned around and wanted to leave, and "Spider-Man" asked, "May I ask your surname?"

"My surname is Leng. The mountains are high and the waters are long, and we will have the opportunity to meet in the future. ”

Leng Yuhu came to the front yard, Cheng Kan saw it halfway, and suddenly sat down on the ground, his body was like sifting chaff, and he couldn't get up, Leng Yuhu rushed to blind him in the right eye with a sword, which was regarded as eliminating harm for the people.

Leng Yuhu made a big fuss, and left the Cheng family with Chen Jihong in the flowers.

Early the next morning, Leng Yuhu and the others left Sugu County, galloped all the way north, galloped for more than 50 miles, and came to Miaotan Town. This Miaotan town used to be called Wang Jiangji, because the town surnamed Wang, surnamed Jiang is the majority, hence the name, there is a flash flood one year, a small temple on the high post washed to the river beach, so now it is called Miaotan Town.

Leng Yuhu and the two ate shredded meat noodles in the rice shop, then asked for a bowl of tea to drink, and sat in the rice shop to rest. Pedestrians walked warmly in the late summer sun, and a few cicadas hissed in the tall willows.

At this time, I suddenly saw a girl leading a horse slowly walking in front of the restaurant, she was brightly dressed, and she was particularly eye-catching in this simple place in Hebei.

Leng Yuhu saw it, his heart was shocked, and he blurted out: "Ye Mucui." ”

The girl heard it in a trance, and turned her face back with a hesitant expression, searching for the sound. She was of moderate stature, with a duck egg face and bright eyes, a very beautiful girl, but now her face was stained with the dust of the north.

Leng Yuhu made a move with his hand and shouted, "Ye Mucui." ”

Ye Mucui was overjoyed when he saw that it was Leng Yuhu, let go of the horse's reins, and walked into the restaurant quickly, shouting: "Brother Yuhu......" seemed to have a thousand words, but he was so excited that he was speechless for a while, and suddenly there were thousands of grievances in his heart, his nose was sour, Ye Mucui sat on the stool, his head was on the table, his shoulders were bent together, and he sobbed softly.