Volume 2: Fengtian Tour Chapter 7: The Copper Furnace in Troubled Times
A long and short banging sound sounded outside the window.
It's a second watch.
Lu Yi opened his eyes, felt the flow of true qi in his body, and felt very satisfied, Yu'er, who was sleeping soundly next to him, should have dreamed of something delicious and delicious, and was sleeping with a cute little mouth.
When I was about to sleep in my clothes, I heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves faintly, and I felt that there should be no less than 100 people listening to the sound.
As soon as the road turned over, he gently pushed open the window, and listened intently, the sound of horses' hooves should be coming from the east, and the sound should not have entered the town yet.
As soon as he jumped on the roof, he heard a soft sound next door, and Duanmu Leng Yue also flashed out of the room.
Duanmu Leng Yue said coldly: "If the expectation is good, it should be the Chiyan Army of Heishui Pass, and they are the only ones in this vicinity who have a horse team of this size." ”
Lu asked with suspicion, "But what are they doing at this time?"
"Grasp the source of young and strong soldiers. ”
Lu understood in an instant, the people of Hongmuji were afraid of the officers and soldiers like tigers, and they were even more worried that the young and strong men in the family would be arrested and sent to the army.
"I'll go to Zhang Dazhu's house to let you know. ”
Before the words fell, Lu Yi had already disappeared into the moonlight in a few vertical leaps.
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and the neighing of war horses and the noisy sound of horses were faintly heard.
The inn has a total of four floors, the roof is high, Duanmu Lengyue stood on the roof and saw the dense torches forming a fire dragon, and went straight to the town along the official road.
Lu Yi hurriedly knocked on the wooden door of Zhang Dazhu's house, and the sleepy-eyed Zhang Dazhu looked at Lu Yi at the door in surprise and asked, "Big brother, why are you here so late?"
"The officers and soldiers are coming!"
"Huh?"
The road is a little bit headed.
Zhang Dazhu was so frightened that he hurriedly ran back to the house to wake up his parents, and then ran to Juanzi's house next door and smashed the door.
As soon as Zhang Dazhu's mother got dressed, she heard the words of Lu Yi at the door! Hurriedly ran to the edge of the courtyard wall, put a wooden ladder on it, and beckoned Dazhu and Juanzi, who were tying their clothes while running, to flee along the ladder to the back mountain for refuge.
Zhang Dazhu stood on the ladder and hesitated for a moment, then turned around and got off the ladder and ran out of the alley, shouting as he ran: "I'll go and call Wu'er and them! Daddy Juanzi, you go first, I'll catch up later!"
Seeing that her son had not left, the woman was in a great hurry, and refused to go into the mountain.
Lu Yi looked at the woman and said, "It's still too late, Auntie, you should hurry up and enter the mountain first! ”
The woman nodded in thanks, took a small burden handed over by the man, and called out to Juanzi and her mother next door, and several people hurriedly climbed out of the wall, supporting each other to run towards the back mountain.
Lu Yi and the others had gone far away, moved the wooden ladder back to its original place and hid it, jumped on the roof and swept along the ridge of the house in the direction where the pillar had left, and as soon as he jumped over the cross street, he saw a large group of officers and soldiers, numbering no less than 100 people, rushing over with torches.
The leader was a middle-aged bearded man in his forties, with a striking black mole on his face, a pair of copper bells with big eyes and burning eyes, wearing armor, carrying a war knife at his waist, holding a torch in one hand and a horsewhip in the other.
The bearded man saw that the lights began to be lit one after another, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he turned around and ordered:
"Search me from house to house! Don't miss a single one!"
"Yes!"
More than 100 cavalry officers and soldiers clenched their fists in unison, then turned over and dismounted and divided into a team of five people, drew their knives in their hands and scattered.
Soon the town was filled with the sound of slamming doors, shouting, shouting, and scolding......
Zhang Dazhu took more than ten and a half teenagers and girls who were woken up by him, and slowly touched out of the town along a secluded alley on Gu'er Street, as long as they ran into the back mountain, the officers and soldiers had no way to take them, fortunately, the eldest brother notified them in advance, otherwise none of them might be able to run away this time!
Seeing the dense trees not far away, Zhang Dazhu and his party were just about to breathe a sigh of relief when they heard a loud shout from behind them:
"Stop!
Zhang Dazhu turned his head with difficulty and saw five officers and soldiers holding torches, and four of them had already bent their bows and arrows in their hands, aiming at his group from afar.
A short man with a roe deer looked at the more than a dozen teenagers on the opposite side and said, "Do you want to come by yourself or do you want Uncle Ben to arrest you?"
Zhang Dazhu was silent, looked at more than a dozen peers around him, and felt a little regretful, although he did not follow his parents directly into the mountain, but chose to turn around and wake everyone up, but he did not regret it, if these more than ten peers were found, they would be arrested, especially a few women, the end would be extremely miserable, and unfortunately they still did not escape.
Several of the girls were already crying.
When the short man heard the girl's cry, he was immediately overjoyed, of course he wanted a man to capture the source of the soldiers, but the girl in the flower season was not ready to be captured? The best thing to bring back to the barracks is of course to pay filial piety to General Wu first, and almost to the general soldiers.
At the moment, he shouted coldly: "Uncle Ben counts to three, if you don't come over obediently, I will release the arrow!"
Zhang Dazhu just wanted to take a step and lead everyone back, when an ethereal voice came from his ears: "Take your friends and just run into the mountain, don't look back." ”
"Big brother?!"
"Let's go!"
Zhang Dazhu didn't hesitate anymore, and shouted in a low voice: "Don't care about the officers and soldiers behind you, just run forward!"
After speaking, he pulled the boy next to him, led the cat waist and ran into the woods, and someone took the lead and the teenager who was originally a little stunned also ran up one by one.
The short man was taken aback, and said angrily: "Shoot me arrows! Shoot these monkey-like pariahs! Be careful not to hurt those women, and keep them to enjoy them slowly!"
Brush Brush Brush Brush!
Four feather arrows shot vigorously, the distance is less than thirty steps, it is the most suitable distance to exert the power of the bow and arrow, although the officers and soldiers of Heishui Pass are all old and weak soldiers, but after all, they have all been on the battlefield, and the bow and crossbow is a martial art that a soldier must be proficient in, so there is almost no possibility of missing at this distance.
The short man was already fantasizing about how to torture the girls who were trying to escape later.
Seeing that the feather arrow was about to pierce the waistcoats of several teenagers, it suddenly fell straight into the grass as if it had hit something, without making a single movement.
"Hmm, haven't you eaten?
The short man was furious, scolded and snatched a bow and arrow, bent his bow and arrows, aimed at the crowd farther and farther away, and shot an arrow from the ground, regardless of whether he would still hurt the girl!
Feathered arrows are as fast as shooting stars!
The short man was about to be triumphant, but he was surprised to find that one of the arrows he shot had dropped in the middle of the same as the first four feathered arrows.
"Hell!"
Seeing that more than a dozen teenagers had slowly disappeared into the dense forest, the short man stomped his feet angrily and shouted loudly: "You untouchables can't escape! Lao Tzu will take people to wait in the town tomorrow! See if you can't come back! Let me find out and kill all of you!"
Before the words fell, I suddenly felt a flower in front of me, and a strong wind was blowing in my face!
Immediately after that, his teeth shook, and a sharp pain came, and he saw that a feather arrow he shot out actually stuck into his mouth!
"Ho ho ...... Ho ......"
When the other four people saw the tragic situation of the leader, they finally realized that the situation was not right, and they drew their knives in their hands one after another, and shouted fiercely: "Where did the thief come from!
The mountain wind whimpered, and there was no movement except for the chickens and dogs jumping in the town.
The four of them looked at each other, their eyes full of fear.
At this moment, two more feather arrows were like meteors, directly penetrating the chests of the two people, bringing out a string of blood flowers, and the two screamed miserably, and fell to the ground motionless and breathless.
The remaining two could not care about anything else, and turned to run desperately towards the town, but before they could run out two steps, the other two feather arrows that came from behind pierced their necks accurately, and the huge penetrating force carried the bodies of the two people forward several steps before they stumbled to the ground and died.
Lu Yi got up from the grass, came to the five corpses, thought about dragging the corpses one by one to the grass and hid them, and then jumped on the roof of the house on tiptoe, and swept towards the cross street.
Passing through an alley, I suddenly heard a woman's hoarse cry for help, mixed with the unbridled laughter of several men.
Lu turned around and rushed straight away with a cry for help.
In a dilapidated courtyard, two officers and soldiers armed with steel knives were watching the wind at the door, and the steel knives in their hands were stained with blood, and one of them did not forget to turn his head and laugh and scolded: "Hu Laoer, can you three of you move as quickly as you fuck fast! Get it done and go to the next house! Lao Tzu hasn't opened meat tonight, and if it is delayed, it will be robbed by other brothers!"
In the courtyard, two officers and soldiers were pressing a young woman in her twenties to the bed, the other was tearing her clothes, and there were two corpses lying in the house, one was an old man and the other was a boy who looked to be only five or six years old.
The officers and soldiers tore off the woman's trousers with a few handfuls, untied the trouser belt with a cruel smile, and laughed in their mouths: "Beauty! Just scream! The more you scream, the more excited your Uncle Hu will be!"
The road is cracking!
Shouted angrily: "Stop!"
The two officers and soldiers in charge of watching the wind were startled, and when they saw that it was only a murderous young man who jumped off the roof, they laughed and said: "Where did the hairy boy come from?
After speaking, the two raised their knives and slashed over!
Lu Yi did not answer, when he pulled out the Huangquan knife with a loud voice, a horizontal knife, the unphased Brahma decided to pour the knife body, the two long knives were violently shaken and flew, without waiting for the two officers and soldiers to react, the tip of the knife turned, and the greed was broken, and the snowy blade drew a wonderful arc in the moonlight, and the two officers and soldiers with surprised faces were directly disemboweled, and blood and internal organs flowed all over the ground!
The three people in the house heard the movement at the door, let go of the woman on the bed, and hurriedly picked up the war knife and rushed out!
Hu Lao Er shouted: "Brothers, kill the thieves with me!"
Anti-thief, that's a very interesting word.
As long as you are labeled as an anti-thief, it is only natural for officers and soldiers to want to kill you 10,000 times!
Lu Yi stood at the door with a knife, looking at the three people in the room with cold eyes.
Hu Lao Er had just rushed out of half of his body when he was hit in the chest with a palm, and his chest cavity suddenly sunk in, blood gushed out of his mouth like a spring, and he couldn't live with a crooked head!
The remaining two people were heartbroken, threw their weapons, knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic, and begged for mercy one after another: "Shaoxia spares his life! Shaoxia spares his life! We are all forced!"
Lu Yi sneered: "Who the fuck isn't forced?"
After speaking, the Huangquan knife in his hand picked up a knife flower, and the two heads rolled to the ground.
The disheveled young woman curled up on the bed was completely frightened and stupefied, and when she saw Lu Yi looking at her, she stammered, "Male...... Childe, you, you, you killed, killed the officers and soldiers, run! Run!"
Lu Yi suddenly felt a sour nose, choked up and said, "Eldest sister, you mourn! I'll go somewhere else to see." ”
After that, he couldn't bear to look at the young woman who was stupidly looking at her son's body on the ground, and strode out of the room.
As soon as I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I was about to push the gate open, when I heard a "poof" sound behind me.
When I turned around, I saw the woman kneeling on the ground, holding the child's body in one hand, and cutting her throat with a steel knife with the other, blood gushing out of her mouth, but with a calm smile on her face, looking at Lu Yi, her eyes were gentle, her mouth opened with difficulty, and she made a ho-ho sound.
Lu Yi could clearly see what she said: Thank you!
Lu Yi tilted his head, tears slid down his face, was silent for a while, leaned over to salute, and walked out of the courtyard without looking back.
On the cross street, a middle-aged bearded man sat on horseback with his eyes closed, and several soldiers stood with swords in their hands, standing vigilantly around.
One after another, some officers and men escorted some younger men and women back from the streets and alleys, carrying burdens of different sizes on their backs, cursing and swearing in their mouths, brandishing steel knives in their hands, and constantly driving away the detained people with the back of their knives.
The bearded man opened his eyes and looked at it, frowned, and said, "That's it, how can I go back?"
An officer and soldier who was running and tying his trouser belt ran over with a grin, muttered in the ear of the bearded man on tiptoe, and stretched out his hand to point to an alley.
"Oh, and that kind of thing, a few of you go with my official to take a look!"
The bearded man took a few of his own soldiers and turned his horse's head and went straight to the Dashun Inn.
Duanmu Lengyue sat in the lobby of the inn with Duanmu Yu in her arms and drank tea slowly, there was a short knife out of the sheath on the table, and the shopkeeper Zhao stood not far behind the two of them, looking blank.
Forty or fifty officers and soldiers were densely packed around the courtyard of the inn, with swords unsheathed and feathered arrows wound.
At the door, there were more than a dozen corpses of officers and soldiers, all of which had been cut open by a knife in the throat, and blood was all on the ground, and the courtyard was like a Shura purgatory.
The bearded man came on horseback, and the officers and soldiers around him automatically got out of the way, and when he walked into the courtyard, he happened to see the woman in the lobby calmly holding a teacup, her eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, her skin was as white as jade in the candlelight, and her temperament was dusty, and she couldn't help but feel a little stupid.
Duanmu Yu looked at the bearded man's thick beard with interest, and wondered with some curiosity whether it would be troublesome for him to eat and drink?
The officers and soldiers who had just reported the news said in a low voice: "General Ma, that woman is a rouge horse, her kung fu is not weak, and she has killed more than ten of our brothers, hehe, but that figure and appearance are also a beautiful woman in a thousand miles! If you can be captured alive, hehe......"
"Capture alive! Capture alive! Must be captured alive! If anyone dares to hurt this pair of beauties, Lao Tzu will not be finished with him!"
Ma Zongbing came back to his senses, patted the shoulders of the officers and soldiers around him, and said: "Ergouzi, you have made a meritorious report this time, and when you take down a few people in this house, the reward is indispensable, and you will break more than ten brothers! That's because their skills are not good, and I still don't believe that the people of No. 100 can't take their sisters! You go and let those brothers who are still enjoying themselves come back! Lao Tzu will also open meat tonight!"
The second dog fart took the order upside down, and when he left, he didn't forget to scratch a glance at the two sisters in the hall, thinking that Lao Tzu's official position was too low, or he would try to hide this pair of stunning colors!
General Ma strode to the door without smiling, and said with a smile: "Listen, a few people in the house, you have plotted rebellion and rebelled, killed officers and soldiers, and you should have been punished by those ten thousand arrows piercing your heart! However, this official is kind-hearted and can't bear to kill again, so you should obediently tie up your hands and arrest you! Ma promises not to hurt you!"
Duanmu Yu asked with a smile, "Sister, what is the rebellion he said?"
Duanmu Lengyue said coldly: "He's just farting!"
Seeing the two whispering, Mr. Ma thought that he had been frightened by his own words, and he was even more complacent, and his mind was thinking about whether to take the eight or nine-year-old girl together and give it to General Wu.
Duanmu Lengyue saw that the person surnamed Ma was squinting at Yu'er, and he was furious, and the teacup lid in his hand shot out, and he went straight to the chin of Ma Zongbing!
Seeing more than a dozen corpses at the door, he knew that the woman in the house should be a master in the rivers and lakes, and he had been secretly paying attention, so he didn't seem flustered when he saw the teacup lid that came from the shot, and the steel knife in his hand swung and opened it with a ding.
Then he said with a smile: "That's all there is to it, it's better to tie your hands, the official pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, and I'm afraid that I will accidentally hurt your flower-like face, and it will be a fly in the ointment when I enjoy you for a while!"
The rest of the officers and soldiers saw that General Ma dissolved the woman's hidden weapon in the house with one move, and their spirits were greatly boosted, and they all burst into laughter and applause!
Duanmu Lengyue put Yu'er on the chair and sat down, and said without looking back: "I'm sorry for you to help take care of the housemate, if she is missing a hair, I will tear down this inn when I turn around!"
Shopkeeper Zhao, who looked blank, sighed helplessly: "Okay! Anyway, if you die, I guess I won't be able to live." ”
At this moment, Duanmu Lengyue saw a figure appear at the gate of the courtyard, a touching smile bloomed on his face, and he sat down again, Duanmu Yu shouted loudly with a smile on his face:
"Big brother!"
Lu Yiyao nodded at Yu'er, dragging a corpse in his hand, it was the second dog who went out to call people, and there was still blood dripping from the tip of the Huangquan knife in his hand.
Ma Zongbing turned his head suddenly, saw the corpse in the hand of the young man at the door, and shouted angrily: "That thief! What about the other brothers of this official?"
Lu Yi said coldly: "Don't worry! You're going to see them soon!"
Before the words fell, the figure flashed, and before the officers and soldiers had time to release arrows, they rushed into the crowd, and the Huangquan knife was like chopping melons and vegetables, bringing out strings of blood flowers.
The martial arts of the officers and soldiers were low, no one was the enemy of the road one by one, and after a few breaths, there were more than 20 corpses in the courtyard.
Ma Zongbing saw a slight sweat on his forehead, glanced at the four pro-soldiers, and slowly moved towards the courtyard gate.
Lu Yihuangquan knife moves did not stop, but the corner of his eye kept staring at the general soldier, seeing that he had retreated, he sneered in his heart, reached out and took out a willow leaf flying knife from his waist, and threw it on his thigh.
"Ouch!"
Seeing that he was approaching the door, Ma Zongbing was secretly happy in his heart, and just as he was about to step out, he felt a sharp pain in his right leg and then a sharp pain, and he sat on the ground weakly.
Lu Yi was covered in blood, dealt with the last personal soldier, looked at the corpses in the garden, and then pulled the placket of Ma Zongbing's clothes with an indifferent expression and sneered: "Do you want to go?"
General Ma said to himself: "You, you, what do you want to do? I am the chief soldier of the Chiyan Army! Killing me is tantamount to rebellion! You have to think about it!"
"Don't worry, you won't die now! I'll take you somewhere!"
After speaking, he lifted Ma Zongbing with one hand, and his figure disappeared in a flash.
Duanmu Yu stood up and just wanted to chase out, but Duanmu Lengyue stopped her and said in a low voice: "Let the eldest brother go alone, his heart must be very uncomfortable tonight." ”
Duanmu Yu nodded as if he didn't understand, his face full of worry.
Shopkeeper Zhao looked at the mountains of corpses of officers and soldiers piled up all over the courtyard, and said with a long sigh: "Have you thought about it? It is not difficult to kill them all, but what will happen to the people here after you leave?"
Duanmu Lengyue snorted and said, "Don't worry, we will solve the problem of the black water together, but I see that your martial arts are extremely good, and you must not be an unknown person in the rivers and lakes, how can you live in seclusion here with peace of mind?"
Shopkeeper Zhao smiled: "There's nothing wrong here, when you reach my age, you may understand, and I want to find such a place to open a tavern with that young man." ”
Duanmu Yu pouted and interjected: "Big brother is mine! Old man, don't mess with the mandarin duck score!"
Shopkeeper Zhao smiled and said a few times: "What a female tiger who hasn't grown up yet! ”
Duanmu Yu waved his small fist, and said with a smug bent index finger: "Nine years old! In a few years, you can wear a good-looking red dress and marry a big brother as a bride!"
Shopkeeper Zhao couldn't help laughing: "Feelings: You want to marry your eldest brother just to wear beautiful red clothes?"
Duanmu Lengyue glared at her sister and said, "It's a big girl, don't talk like this nonsense in the future." ”
Shopkeeper Zhao called out a child from the backyard, bowed his head to explain a few words, the child nodded again and again, and then took out a wind lamp from the back kitchen and lit it, strode out, but when he went out, he spat fiercely at the corpses on the ground without any fear.
Duanmu Yu gave the child a thumbs up, and the child also looked back and smiled, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
"Wu Papi inexplicably killed more than 100 officers and soldiers, this is not a trivial matter, if you want to go to Heishui Pass, you must remember to cut the grass and need to remove the roots, otherwise the mahogany set will not stop in this life. Shopkeeper Zhao said as if talking to himself.
"I can take the children to Liuyun Mountain, or you will teach them some martial arts, so that they can have some self-defense skills in the future. ”
At this moment, Lu Yi strode in from outside the door, his eyes still had a hint of murderous aura, and the blood dyed the cyan robe on his body dark red, which made Yu'er, who was happy to pounce, stop with some fear.
Shopkeeper Zhao thought for a while and said, "It's not something they want to leave their hometown after all, but I can teach them some ways to strengthen their bodies in the future." ”
Lu Yi hugged his fists, and then said to the two Duanmu sisters: "I'll go change my clothes and accompany me to Heishui Pass at night!"
Duanmu Leng Yue nodded.
When Lu Yi finished washing and changing his clothes and went downstairs, the corpses in the courtyard downstairs had been cleaned up, and there were many villagers standing in the yard, and they all showed gratitude and respect when they saw Lu downstairs.
Zhang Dazhu led Juanzi and several teenagers to bow down, choked up and said, "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the eldest brother of the Lu family!"
After speaking, several children kowtowed three times in unison.
Lu Yi just wanted to step forward to help the children, but Shopkeeper Zhao stretched out his hand to stop Lu Yi and shook his head.
Zhang Dazhu didn't get up, knelt on the ground and looked up and said with tears in his eyes: "Thank you brother again for helping the Shi family's sister-in-law and the whole family avenge the blood revenge!"
After speaking, the children who knelt down cried loudly, and the crowd also cried.
Lu Yi raised his hand weakly, unable to say a word, and after a while helped the children kneeling on the ground up, patted Zhang Dazhu on the shoulder and said, "Senior Zhao has promised to teach you martial arts, learn hard in the future, don't be lazy." ”
Then the children kowtowed to the shopkeeper Zhao with a resolute expression, as if overnight, they had all grown up.
"Let's all go back! Let Lu Shaoxia rest for a while!"
Everyone saluted and left, and went home to rest.
But tonight's mahogany set is destined to be sleepless.