Chapter 249: Greed for Money Causes Trouble
After running out for more than ten miles in one go, Li Hu grabbed the reins and stopped.
It's really not going to stop, those two old horses have never run like this, and they have done their best for more than ten miles. At the moment they were drenched, as if they had been fished out of the water. If you run any longer, you can stand it, but the horse is probably useless. Although the two horses are very old, and the hair on their bodies has fallen out a lot, they look extremely ugly. But without these two old horses, they wouldn't be able to carry much wine on their own, so Li Hu cherished these two old horses very much on weekdays, not to mention running like this, even the whip was not willing to fall on them.
Li Hu looked at the curling smoke in the distance and seemed to wake up all of a sudden, just now his mind was full of the ingots, and he just wanted to escape from that place quickly, completely ignoring everything around him.
He patted the old horses on the back with some distress, got up and fed them two handfuls of beans, and said to himself, "I guess we will be in town in another hour, and we will rest for a while before we leave." When you hand over the wine, I will buy you good beans and let you have a good meal. But don't be envious, when the time comes, Brother Huzi will take you to have a good meal, and then find an inn to sleep and recuperate, Ming'er will play in the town for a day, and then return to the village the day after tomorrow. He seemed pleased with his arrangement, and a smile appeared on his face.
However, he waited for a long time, and instead of the expected cheer, he heard a vague moan. Turning his head to look, he saw a young man with a painful face supporting his waist, lying on the wheel in a strange posture, and couldn't help but wonder: "Erzhu, what's wrong with you?"
When Li Erzhu heard the inquiry, he pointed to his ass with a trembling hand, and said with a sad face: "Brother Huzi, you didn't say that it was going to suffer when you came." Blooming!
Li Hu was stunned at first, and then couldn't help laughing. He forgot that Li Erzhu had run so far for the first time, and this was not an easy job, not to mention physical strength and other issues, just sitting posture was exquisite. Li Erzhu just put his ass on the plank so realistically, and it was strange that it would not be turned upside down. You must not sit firmly, but you have to stick loosely to the planks and shake rhythmically with the jolting of the carriage in order to dampen the vibration. Otherwise, if you go down for dozens of miles, you will be crippled just by going upside down.
"It's no wonder I didn't make it clear to you!" Li Hu scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly, "You have to sit like this, you see me." After saying that, he sat in the right position.
Li Erzhu waved his hand and said, "It's too late to say anything now, in short, my ass is a waste today." No, I got to lie down in the back and go. I can't stand it anymore!" After saying that, he struggled to roll off the wheel, touched the car behind him and climbed up.
Li Hu smiled and didn't stop it, but just advised: "Don't bump the wine jar in a careless way." ”
"Oh no!" Li Erzhu's head popped up between the wine jars, with a worried face: "That girl is gone!"
"What's wrong again?" Hearing Li Erzhu's exclamation, Li Hu hurriedly looked back, and was even more shocked when he heard his words, "What?
In the end, he was a thief, and his first reaction at this moment was that he was seen when he was picking up gold. Before, his heart was full of the yellow and clear gold, but he forgot about the girl who hitched the car. And he was too nervous when he picked up the gold, and he only thought about avoiding Li Erzhu's gaze, and he didn't even remember that there was someone in the carriage.
The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt, so he hurriedly stood up and said, "If you look carefully, I'm afraid it's not on the road." ”
Hearing this, Li Erzhu buried his head again and searched for the gap between the wine jars, but the place was only so big, and he swept it all over in just a few eyes, straightened up again and shook his head: "No!"
Li Hu frowned and said, "That girl is not lightly ill, if she really falls on the road, she must be taken away by a jackal." ”
When Li Erzhu heard this, he jumped out of the car and climbed onto the wheel, urging: "What are you waiting for, let's hurry back and look for it!" I remember hearing a sound just now, and it is estimated that it was turned upside down at that moment. ”
Li Hu was about to raise the whip, but his elbow accidentally touched the hard object in his arms, and he suddenly stopped moving. It was not easy for him to run so far, what if he listened to Li Erzhu's words and went back to find the girl he didn't know, and was caught by the owner? He didn't want to be twisted and sent to the official mansion.
Thinking of this, he tentatively said: "It doesn't have to be upside down, maybe she woke up and left by herself." Later, he also felt that it was unlikely, so he smiled reluctantly, and changed the conversation, "It's not early, let's go to the town early and hand in the wine." ”
Li Erzhu looked at him in amazement, as if he was looking at a stranger. At this moment, the young man's heart was collapsed, and he didn't expect that Brother Huzi, who was standing up to the sky in his heart, would say such a thing, the embarrassed appearance of the girl was seen by the two of them with their own eyes, how could it be possible to return to normal in a short period of time, and jump out of the car by himself without saying a word. This is definitely not the Li Hu he knows.
Thinking of this, he stared at Li Hu and slowly said, "Brother Huzi, do you have something to hide from me?"
Unexpectedly, this crooked hit was right, and it just happened to hit the other party's heart. Li Hu was suddenly a little annoyed and angry, and shouted angrily: "Is she your mother or your daughter-in-law, it doesn't matter what you do." Anyway, the car was given to her and the cake was given to her, so why don't you have to take her back to make offerings?"
"Brother Huzi!" Li Erzhu screamed in disappointment and hung his head silently.
Li Hu actually regretted his words after roaring, seeing Li Erzhu's wilted head and brain, he was a little unbearable, his mouth squirmed a few times and wanted to explain a few words, but he found that it was so difficult.
At this moment, a rapid sound of horses' hooves sounded from behind, Li Hu looked back and saw that dust was rolling up behind him, and there were obviously a lot of people coming. Immediately ignoring anything else, he hurriedly said: "I'll talk about this later, let's drive the carriage to the side first." ”
"Stand up!"
Li Hu was driving the old horse to make way, and when he heard this, he felt a sigh in his heart, and forcibly turned the horsewhip in mid-air and whipped it heavily on the old horse's back.
The old horse, who had never been whipped before, suddenly shuddered and galloped wildly. Li Erzhu, who was sitting next to him, didn't expect the carriage to suddenly rush forward, and one of the unsteady members fell off the carriage, rolled into the grass with bones, and knocked his head on the stone and fainted.
Here, Li Hu didn't notice that Li Erzhu had rolled out of the carriage and was concentrating on whipping the old horses, hoping that they would suddenly escape with him.
Unfortunately, it backfired, and the two tired old horses were no match for those shiny horses, and they didn't go far before they were overtaken by the group. Not only were the two old horses slashed to the ground with a knife, but Li Hu also barely knocked down two people, and after being kicked in the chest, he turned over and fell to the ground, and then four powerful arms lifted him up. Before he could come to his senses, he received another kick in the chest.
After kicking Li Hu five or six times in a row, the short man with a fierce face stopped and scolded: "Did Lao Tzu tell you to stop, are you deaf?"
Li Hu had already been beaten to the ground at this time, and he wanted to explain a few words, but unexpectedly, as soon as he opened his mouth, he vomited, and the filth with a sour smell suddenly sprayed the dwarf.
"Look for death!" The dwarf was furious and kicked Li Hu in the chest, instantly kicking him out of the air. It hit a tree trunk not far away and bounced back, landing on a dusty mountain road. This kick was obviously not comparable to the previous kicks, and Li Hu foamed at the mouth and fainted on the spot.
The dwarf gestured, and immediately a small minion trotted over, put his hand under Li Hu's nose, and ran back after a while: "I'm not dead, I'm just fainting." ”
The dwarf was obviously still angry, and snorted coldly: "Since they appeared on this road, the second child and their killing must have nothing to do with them, so bring them all back to me." ”
"Big brother!" a little minion suddenly came up, "This is already the boundary of the Black Tiger Village, the Black Tiger Village has been in the limelight recently, and today is the wedding of their village owner, do you want to go up and say hello?"
"What kind of greeting?" the dwarf stared, and said, "My brother died on their ground, and it would be polite not to settle accounts with them, so why don't you want me to make amends in a low voice?"
"Yes, yes, yes!" the little minion saw that he was angry, and hurriedly retreated.
The group came and went quickly, and soon disappeared on the mountain road with the Li brothers, leaving only two skinny old horses and a broken wine jar in place.
Not long after everyone left, a hobbled figure appeared at the end of the road, it was none other than Tang Zixi, who the Li brothers thought had been taken by a jackal.
She was indeed thrown out of the carriage by the speeding carriage, but it was not far away. When she awoke and found that she was not in the carriage, but in the grass by the side of the road, she forced herself to climb up and chased after her along the winding mountain road.
At this moment, her cheeks were flushed, and her eyes were also blank, obviously not fully conscious, and she moved forward mechanically with a sense of perseverance. Fortunately, the terrain is flat, so I don't have to worry about the danger of rolling down the cliff.
When she walked to the front, she regained a trace of consciousness when she saw the broken wine jar, shook her head as if she remembered something, and began to look around, not seeing the two figures in her memory, but seeing the two old horses lying in a pool of blood, she was suddenly full of excitement, and her brain was instantly sober.
It was eerily quiet, except for the sound of the wind and her own breathing.
Gradually, her heart beat faster and faster, and a profuse sweat broke out on her forehead. She didn't care about thinking about anything else, and hurriedly walked forward around the mess of a place, at the moment she had no other thoughts in her heart, and only wanted to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible.
Who knows, she only took two steps before she heard a broken shout: "Who is it?" followed by the sound of fluttering clothes, obviously the martial arts of the person who came was not low.
She quickly quickened her pace, but she didn't pay attention in a daze, accidentally stepped on the stone, and suddenly fell forward with an unstable center of gravity. The gravel and potholes on the ground quickly magnified in front of her, and she was about to fall to the ground, but someone grabbed her arm and pulled her up in time.
She was dragged to the Venus in front of her, and she closed her sour eyes hard and then opened them, before she could see the appearance of the person in front of her, she only had time to say the word 'I', and her eyes rolled and fainted.