Chapter 27: Desperate Survival
The candle flame danced ominously lightly, blood spreading from under Devil Cry to Cat Xiao's hand.
Liu Junyi sighed softly, "If she begged me to kill her, she wouldn't have to suffer so much." β
Yu Xiaoyao said: "Maybe she shouldn't have believed you in the first place." β
"Believe me?" Liu Junyi smiled, "When a woman is tired of her man, and at this time a younger, more handsome, not only very rich, but also more powerful man than her man appears, do you think this woman will refuse?"
Liu Junyi looked at the corpse of the cat smile, "No, she won't refuse, in fact, she didn't refuse." It's all her own fault for coming to this point. β
Yu Xiaoyao looked at Liu Junyi, as if he had just met this man, "Is this how you excuse yourself?"
Liu Junyi said: "Sanren, you are wrong again, why should I excuse myself? I just need to tell the world that I killed the ghost crying cat laugh, do you think someone will find out how I killed them?"
Yu Yaoyao said: "But I saw it." β
Liu Junyi shook his head and said, "Sanren, I always thought you were very smart, but I didn't expect you to be a fool." β
"Oh?" Yu Yaoyao looked at him.
Liu Junyi said: "Here's the thing, the ghost crying cat killed you with a smile, and then I rushed to save my friends, but it was too late, so I killed them to avenge you." β
Yu Xiaoyao continued: "In this way, you have avenged me, you have a chivalrous name, kill the ghost and cry the cat, you will have the prestige of the rivers and lakes, and you can secretly go to receive the bounty of the Tang Gate." β
He sighed: "Three birds with one stone, you really have no last resort." β
Liu Junyi smiled happily, and he said, "Is this a brilliant plan?"
Yu Xiaoyao could only admit: "Yes, this is indeed a brilliant strategy. But I have one more question, I don't know if I can ask it. β
Liu Junyi said in a victorious tone: "Of course, we are friends after all." β
Yu Xiaoyao said: "Is this five thousand taels of silver really that heavy for you?"
Liu Junyi said: "If you asked me this question a year ago, I would definitely tell you that money is a bastard, and if you don't spend it, you are a bastard." β
Yu Xiaoyao asked, "What about now?"
Liu Junyi said faintly: "Now, money is still a bastard, but it is a bastard that I can't get." When you get used to living with money, you will find that not having money is really a terrible thing, so scary that it takes great courage to even live. β
He paused and said, "So, yes, those five thousand taels are important to me. β
Yu Xiaoyao nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then you can do it." β
Liu Junyi put the sword around his neck.
"Wait a minute!" Yu Xiaoyao said suddenly.
Liu Junyi said: "What, do you have anything else to say?"
Yu Xiaoyao smiled: "I suddenly found out that you made a fatal mistake. β
Liu Junyi sneered: "You'd better not want to delay time. β
Yu Xiaoyao said: "How come, we are friends, I just want to advise you not to make mistakes." β
Liu Junyi asked, "What is wrong?"
Yu Xiaoyao took down his chin and nodded at the two corpses lying on the ground, "Let me ask you, how did Ghost Cry and Cat Laugh kill people?"
"What's this..." Liu Junyi's face suddenly sank, "You mean?"
Yu Xiaoyao nodded and said, "Ghosts cry cats laugh and kill people, they always tear people's heads off their bodies, but they never use swords. β
Liu Junyi's face became even more ugly.
Yu Xiaoyao showed a pleasant smile: "So if you kill me with a sword, how do you explain it to others?"
Liu Junyi gritted his teeth and said, "Do I need to explain to others?!"
"Of course," Jade said, "I have a few very bastard friends, but they are not as bastards as you after all, and after I die, they will definitely find you." β
Liu Junyi said: "So what?"
Yu Xiaoyao said: "Unfortunately, there are people among my friends who happened to have a fight with Ghost Crying Cat, and if they happen to find out that you killed me, they will probably not mind using your head to make a name for themselves." β
Liu Junyi's face was cloudy, and the sword was already on Yu Xiaoyao's neck, but he didn't dare to cut it down.
Yu Xiaoyao smiled: "So if you are willing to let me go, I will naturally tell others that you got rid of the ghost crying cat laugh, and at that time you will have a great reputation in the rivers and lakes." And without losing my friend, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? β
Liu Junyi returned the sword into the sheath, and pondered there with a gloomy face.
Yu Xiaoyao said: "If you don't mind, you might as well pour a glass of wine and think about it while drinking." β
Liu Junyi really sat down, poured himself a glass of wine, drank it all, then another glass, two glasses, three glasses, until the whole pot of wine was drunk by him.
Yu Xiaoyao sighed: "You are really not a qualified friend, you should bring me a cup too." β
"Shut up!" Liu Junyi put the wine glass on the table, he looked at the two corpses on the ground, and then at Yu Xiaoyao, his face changed and he hesitated.
Then he gritted his teeth and stood up.
"Have you figured it out?" asked Yu Yao.
"Not bad. Liu Junyi said, "I figured it out." β
He stared at Yu Xiaoyao tightly and said with a smile: "I have thought of another way. β
The carriage swayed bumping along the mountain road, and the axles made a tooth-aching creaking sound, making Yu Xiaoyao wonder if the carriage would suddenly disperse.
Liu Junyi didn't know where to get the carriage, there was no roof on it, it was probably used to carry goods, and the wood on it had begun to rot and tattered, so dilapidated that it was too much trouble to even split it to make firewood. The old horse pulling the cart was even more skinny, and he couldn't pick out three taels of good meat from top to bottom.
Liu Junyi changed into coarse cloth clothes, his face was smeared with mud, he wore a hat on his head, covering most of his face, his sword was hidden under the carriage, at first glance, he was a coachman who was driving a car, where was there still half a shadow of the eldest son of the Liu family in Jiangnan.
Yu Xiaoyao was lying on the carriage, and he also changed his appearance, his complexion was sallow by Liu Junyi with some kind of juice, his face was sticky with a beard, and he was covered with pockmarks, and his clothes were also patched with patches. According to Liu Junyi's words, he was a sick mute, unable to move or speak.
Yu Xiaoyao lay on the carriage, and there was a layer of straw under him, and the erection of the straw stabbed his neck, making him feel very uncomfortable. Branches stretched out above him on both sides of the road, shadows and sunlight alternately running over his face.
Although he is very smart, Liu Junyi is not stupid, and even he admires the method that Liu Junyi came up with.
"I can hand you over to the Tang Sect alive, so that those who want to avenge you can't find me. β
"Although the great credit of killing the ghost crying cat laughs can't be credited to me, at least I have money and can leave a small life, which is not a loss. β
Yu Xiaoyao admits that Liu Junyi is really a very smart person and very shameless.
Smart and shameless people can often mix well in this Jianghu.
He only felt like a pig to be slaughtered, tied up and on his way to the slaughterhouse. He suddenly thought it was funny, because he had eaten a lot of pork, but he never thought that he would one day go down the same path as them.
The carriage creaked to a halt, and it was noon now, and Yu Xiaoyao could hear her stomach growling. Of course, Liu Junyi was also hungry, and it happened that there was a teahouse on the side of the road, and business seemed to be good, so he stopped the carriage and planned to eat something to cushion his stomach.
"Don't worry, I'll bring you two loaves back. Liu Junyi patted the edge of the carriage and said.
Yu Xiaoyao smelled the aroma of the cooking cakes, and he felt even more hungry, and with all his strength, he tilted his head, and through the cracked cracks in the carriage, he could just see the cauldron of the pancakes.
Liu Junyi walked over, bought a few flatbreads, bought a bowl of soup, and hurriedly walked back, he was afraid that something would happen if he was not by the carriage. He sat back in the carriage and nibbled on the flatbread and drank the soup, but the way he bared his teeth and frowned was that the coarse food was clearly not to his taste.
When he is hungry, he will be even hungrier when he sees others eating, and Yu Xiaoyao naturally understands this truth, so he simply turned his head and looked at the scenery on the side.
A person suddenly appeared in his sight, a middle-aged man with a scar on his face, the man looked down at him, and then looked up at Liu Junyi sitting in the carriage.
Liu Junyi smiled and said with a naΓ―ve look: "Uncle, do you want to eat cakes too?"
The man didn't answer, just looked him up and down with cold eyes, turned around and walked away without saying a word.
Liu Junyi lowered his head and nibbled on his cake again, without panicking at all.
Yu Xiaoyao sighed secretly in his heart, he never thought that the dignified young master of the Liu family could pretend to be so similar to a coachman, it seems that the rivers and lakes can really change a person.
Liu Junyi finished nibbling the cake in his hand, stretched his waist again, raised the horsewhip in his hand, shouted in his mouth, and drove the carriage out of the teahouse.
Yu Xiaoyao listened to the gurgling sound in his stomach and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
The car had not gone far when he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and the sound of horses' hooves was very urgent, and in a blink of an eye he was close to the front.
"Ahead, stop the car!"
When the shout sounded, the horses were still behind them, and when the sound fell, several knights had already surrounded them with their horses, and Yu Xiaoyao looked through the carriage, and there was one in the middle of the scar.
Liu Junyi had no choice but to stop the car, nodded and said, "Uncles, is there anything wrong?"
Scarface glanced at him, nodded to his companions, and said, "That's right, it's him." β
"Who are you carrying in your car?" asked one of the men in a deep voice.
Liu Junyi said: "If you return to my grandfather, it is a relative of mine, who is mute, and he is sick, so I took him to see a doctor." β
The person who asked said, "You don't need to take him to the doctor, I am the doctor." β
Liu Junyi forced a smile and said: "This master, you are really joking, we are still in a hurry to see the doctor, if you have nothing to do, we will leave." β
"Huh. The man sneered and asked sharply, "I'm here to ask you, who are you?!"
Liu Junyi pretended to be startled, and said nonoly: "I'm just a coachman, a coachman." β
"Coachman?" Scarface sneered, "The coachman has a pair of tender hands like yours, and you underestimate us too much!"
Liu Junyi was debunked by him, and he didn't panic, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be a good man who killed the door with iron, and I couldn't imagine that I could see through the disguise at a glance, I really admire it." I wonder why you stopped my car?"
"Hmph. The man in the lead said, "What are you doing?" It's nothing, I just want to know who you're transporting here?"
Liu Junyi smiled: "Who is he, does it have anything to do with you?"
The man said: "It has a lot to do with it, our brother of the Iron Killing Gate got the news in Yiling City that the Jade Xiaoyao that the Tang Men wanted to capture was captured by the Ghost Crying Cat Xiao yesterday, and early this morning, the Ghost Crying Cat Xiao was found dead, but the Jade Xiaoyao was gone." I suspect that what you are transporting behind here is Jade Xiaoyao, isn't it?!"
Liu Junyi said: "I see, then you guys are really mistaken." β
As soon as the words fell, he had already figured out the long sword hidden under the carriage. With the sword in hand, the other person had already jumped up, and the blade of the sword was pointed directly at the man who took the lead.
He was not a weak hand, his swordsmanship was not bad, and it was a sudden attack, and the leader tried to dodge sideways, but he was still stabbed in the shoulder by his sword, screamed, and fell off the horse.
"It's him, brothers, kill him!" the scarface shouted when he saw the boss fall to the ground.
"What a gut!" Liu Junyi shouted angrily, and the long sword in his hand danced. I saw that the sword light was cold, blood was splashed, and two more people were stabbed by him, screaming and falling off the horse.
But the two fists are invincible to the four hands, the good tiger is difficult to fight the wolves, the opponent has the advantage in numbers, although the martial arts are worse than Liu Junyi, but it is not impossible to pass a move, fighting to hurt four or five people, under the leadership of Scarface, they finally pressed Liu Junyi to the ground.
The Scarface went over to help the leader of the man, the two supported each other, panting and walked to the side of the carriage, Scarface took out a portrait from his arms, looked at Yu Xiaoyao's face carefully, nodded and said: "Boss, it's him, he's Yu Xiaoyao." β
The one who took the lead covered his shoulder with one hand and said loudly: "Then what are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and unlock the acupoint for the Jade Hero." β
"Yes, yes. Scarface hurriedly stretched out his hand and massaged a few times on several acupoints of Yu Xiaoyao.
Yu Xiaoyao took a big breath, sat up from the carriage, arched his hand to the leader, and said: "This brother of the Iron Killing Gate, I don't thank you for my great kindness, this kindness, Yu has written it down." β
The man wiped the cold sweat from his head and said, "Jade Daxia doesn't have to be polite, this is what we should do." β
"Oh?" Yu looked at the man suspiciously, "Yu doesn't remember seeing Brother Tai before?
"Hehe," the man laughed, "The Jade Hero doesn't know, I am in the next revenge, my master is none other than Master Huiyuan of the Little Maitreya Temple!"