Chapter 241: Heavy Snow Falls at Night
"I seem to have heard ...... just now" Lu Jing recalled the scene just now, and continued to whisper, "I heard what those bandits said, they seem to ...... It seems that the matter of the Huashan faction was mentioned......"
As soon as these words came out, everyone cast a surprised look at Lu Jing again.
"Is it true?" Zhao Zichuan heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What you said is true, they really talked about the Huashan faction?"
Seeing Zhao Zichuan's somewhat excited look, Lu Jing glanced at him and said, "Why are you so excited? The Huashan faction is the Huashan faction, and it doesn't have much to do with us...... Besides, I only vaguely heard them talk about the Huashan faction, and I didn't know the essence of their relationship with the Huashan faction. Even if it does, we can't get entangled with them, can we?"
Li Yuru thought for a while, and then asked, "By the way, Zichuan, are you really sure that the person who peeped just now is a disciple of the Huashan faction?"
Zhao Zichuan nodded lightly: "It shouldn't be wrong, his dress...... Of course, if for some reason, that person concealed his identity under the pretense of wearing the clothes of a disciple of the Huashan Sect, then it would be a different matter......
"You big fool really won't look away?" Lu Jing couldn't help but seize the opportunity to "black" Zhao Zichuan.
"Why do you even doubt me?" Zhao Zichuan heard Lu Jing retorting again, so he responded angrily, "Don't forget, my second brother is the hall master of the dignified Huashan Sect Xuanwu Hall, how can I say that the people of the Huashan Sect will not admit their mistakes-"
"However, why would the people of the Huashan Sect come here?" Lu Zhao pondered. He asked himself......
As everyone was talking, suddenly, countless silver-white pulsing spirits slowly descended around them. The air is getting colder......
"It's snowing......" Tang Zhan raised his head and said softly.
The climate in this northern province is really different from Bianliang, which has little snow, and everyone who has not seen snowflakes for a long time can't help but raise their heads when they hear Tang Zhan's soft muttering on the side. By this time it was almost dark, and the sky was also gloomy, and the air around them was getting colder and colder. And the snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger, and the crystal jade snow soon turns into catkins flying snow......
"This snow is quite small, it is estimated that it will accumulate at night......," Lu Zhao continued. "Luckily we found the village before dark, otherwise we'd all be snowmen in the wild after the night......"
Lu Meng looked sideways at the direction of the village where everyone was sitting, and said softly, "Who knows." This village seems to be quite simple. Not only did it attract inexplicable bandits, but even the people of the Huashan faction became interested in it......"
"I really don't understand, the bandit who behaves strangely, the disciple of the Huashan faction, what is the connection between this......" Li Yuru said with his hands on the side and closed his eyes.
Lu Jing also glanced sideways at the village, and said with a smile: "In this way, the village where we are going to stay tonight is the key to solving all the mysteries——"
Zhao Zichuan continued to circle around the village gate. Looks like he's looking for something. Finally, it didn't take long for Zhao Zichuan to stop in front of a stone tablet.
"Found it—" Zhao Zichuan said suddenly. It attracted everyone's attention. Sure enough, at the stone tablet where Zhao Zichuan was standing, there were words written on it.
"What did you find?" asked Li Yuru.
"That's it—" Zhao Zichuan said, pointing to the stone tablet, "The name of this village was originally called 'Wangjia Village'." ”
"Oh, that's the name of the village...... Li Yuru responded.
"Wangjiacun??It's just a very common name, why are those bandits and the disciples of the Huashan Sect so interested?" Lu Zhao asked himself again.
"Whatever, 'if you come, you will be safe', if there is anything to go into the village, unless you really want to become a snowman here......" Li Yuru said in a pungent tone, ready to enter the village.
"That's right, if you want to know the truth of the matter, you only need to go first...... Lu Jing held her chin, nodded slightly, and then said, "In any case, before understanding the truth of the matter, you have to solve the problem of night accommodation first, let's go first...... Let's go, stupid, what are you still doing in a daze......" Everyone stepped into the village, as long as Tang Zhan was still standing stupidly in place, as if he was thinking about something, Lu Jing saw it and added to Tang Zhan.
"Why do you feel like this......" Suddenly, Tang Zhan looked at the stone tablet engraved with the words "Wangjia Village", and said coldly, his tone was not like Tang Zhan's style on weekdays.
"What's wrong, stupid?" Lu Jing also heard something wrong with Tang Zhan's words, so she asked with concern.
"Why do you feel this way...... Tang Zhan continued to murmur alone, "Why do you have a ...... Why do you have a very familiar feeling......" Tang Zhan came to Wangjia Village, and his heart was inexplicably touched, and his eyes were also erratic.
"Huh?" Lu Jing felt very strange, Tang Zhan, who was stupid on weekdays, had never been so sentimental, so she walked behind Tang Zhan, pushed Tang Zhan and said, "What's the matter, stupid, why are you so grinding today, like a woman? When you were in Bianliang City, you have never been so grinding...... Okay, okay, let's talk about how you feel about going in, I don't want to freeze like a fool here-" As she spoke, Lu Jing pushed Tang Zhan in with both hands......
Although everyone entered Wangjia Village, they were not familiar with the roads inside. When everyone was at a loss, at this time, an old man and a young man came over from one end of the village, that is, directly in front of Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and others, and their target was Tang Zhan and them.
The young man pointed at Tang Zhan and the others, and then said to the old man: "Village chief, you see, it's their ......" Listening to the young man's tone, the old man should be the village chief of Wangjia Village.
Before everyone could figure out what was going on, the village chief had already walked in front of Tang Zhan and the others. I saw the old village chief's kind face, and asked Tang Zhan and the others kindly, "I took the liberty of asking, did you just drive away the bandits who came to Wangjia Village just now?"
"That's right......" Lu Zhao replied truthfully. Then he asked, "May I ask ...... old-timer?"
The old man smiled, and then replied politely. "Oh, Lao Su is Wang Yuming, the village chief of Wangjia Village, I heard from the people in the village just now that I drove away the thieves who came to invade the village, and Lao Suo thanked the people of the village up and down on behalf of the young heroes!" As he spoke, Wang Yuming bowed his head and bowed.
"Oh, I can't stand it. I can't stand it, senior-" Zhao Zichuan saw it and immediately went to help him.
"Don't call Lao Suo senior. Let's just call Lao Suo 'Uncle Wang', in front of the benefactor, the people of Wangjia Village never see the outside world......" Wang Yuming said with a kind smile.
"Yes, Uncle Wang......" Zhao Zichuan continued. "The juniors are passing by here. I saw a village here, and I just wanted to spend the night, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing......"
Wang Yuming listened to Zhao Zichuan's words, and continued to smile and said: "Do you want to stay for one night? Since you are the benefactor of Wangjia Village, this little thing is not enough to worry about, if you want to stay, come to Lao Suo's humble house...... There are a lot of empty beds in Lao Suo's house, which are usually used to receive guests from the neighborhood. Today is just the time to serve your benefactors......"
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, Uncle Wang, you are too polite......" Zhao Zichuan still replied politely.
Wang Yuming and Zhao Zichuan said a few words. Then he looked around at the people in front of him. When he saw Tang Zhan, Wang Yuming's eyes stopped, and he looked at it carefully a few more times, and then his eyes wrinkled slightly, as if he felt that there was something different about Tang Zhan.
Tang Zhan saw that Wang Yuming, the village chief, had been looking at him for the longest time, and the whole person was a little uncomfortable.
Immediately, Wang Yuming turned his head, and then said slowly: "Come with Lao Suo, Lao Suo will take all the benefactors to the cold house...... Then, he took the first step in front.
When everyone saw that the village chief had agreed to stay in the village for one night, they couldn't have forgotten how happy they were. Only Tang Zhan felt a little weird, just now Wang Yuming looked at his eyes, Tang Zhan had an indescribable feeling in his heart.
Who knew that this was not over, just now before he had taken a few steps, Wang Yuming suddenly stopped, and then looked back at Tang Zhan again. Tang Zhan and Lu Jing were walking behind the most, but when the village chief looked at it like this, Tang Zhan was stunned again.
This time it was not only Tang Zhan, but everyone next to him also found out that the village chief seemed to have other "meanings" to Tang Zhan, but what it was, everyone couldn't tell.
It didn't take long for Wang Yuming to look no further, and continued to turn his head and lead everyone in the direction of his house. Everyone continued to walk forward, but in the eyes of the village chief just now, Tang Zhan felt a wave of wonder again.
Lu Jing saw what Tang Zhan was thinking on the side, and thinking of the strange eyes of the village chief looking back at Tang Zhan just now, Lu Jing also felt incredible. Immediately, Lu Jing asked Tang Zhan beside her: "You also think it's strange, stupid, why is Village Chief Wang always looking at you......"
"I don't know what Lu Dao is for...... Tang Zhan muttered a little confused.
"Could it be that you have pockmarks on your face?" Lu Jing couldn't help but joke on the side, "Or are you stupid, you have a scar on your face like Brother Xiao Tian......?"
Tang Zhan didn't reply immediately, just lowered his head, looking at the snow slowly accumulating under his feet, and looked thoughtful.
Mentioning Xiao Tian, Lu Jing couldn't help but say sadly: "Hey, speaking of Brother Xiao Tian, I miss Sister Su and Brother Xiao a lot, we met Huang Ji before we left Bianliang...... Hey, I don't know what happened to Sister Lu Daosu, Brother Xiao and Brother Huang Ji now......"
Lu Jing recalled the happy days in Bianliang City again, obviously she didn't know that Huang Ji had been "expelled" from Bianliang City and followed her father-in-law, Ge Wei, the leader of the Beggar Gang. And the fate of Xiao Tian and Su Jia is even more twists and turns, just in Shenfeng Cliff, the two also staged a poignant love...... Compared to them, now that Tang Zhan and Lu Jing still have so many people by their side, they are already very happy......
"Also, since I entered this village, I have had a strange feeling, a familiar but vague feeling......" Tang Zhan thought of what he was thinking in front of the stone tablet just now, and muttered again.
"Well, here we go again......" Lu Jing looked at Tang Zhan's sad face and said angrily, "Okay, stupid, don't think about it." When the snow melts tomorrow and we get back on the road, I won't have so many ideas......"
Afterwards, Lu Jing told Tang Zhan a joke along the way, which barely made Tang Zhan happy. And it didn't take long. After passing through several paths in the village and walking to the innermost part of the village, everyone finally came to the house of the village chief Wang Yuming......
The village chief's home is really different. Although the furnishings inside are very simple, the area of the house is very large, and it is no wonder that Wang Yuming said just now that there are so many empty beds and empty rooms in the house.
Walking to the main hall, because it is a snowy winter night, there is a large brazier in the center of the hall to provide fire for heating. Around the brazier, there are also large and small chairs.
"Don't be polite, don't be polite, you have been standing outside for too long. Let's sit down......" Wang Yuming pointed to the chair in front of the brazier and said to everyone, "The cold house is not well entertained. I would also like to ask for your forgiveness—"
"No need, Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang can let the juniors stay in the village for one night, the juniors are already grateful...... Li Yuru also said with a smile. "Uncle Wang has found so many juniors. I'm tired too, so let's ask Uncle Wang to sit too......"
So, Wang Yuming sat on the upper seat, and the others sat down around the brazier. Wang Yuming also instructed his maid to prepare some tea for entertaining guests......
The group chatted in front of the brazier, and soon became much more harmonious as a family. Wang Yuming, as the village head of Wangjia Village, did not treat Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and others as outsiders. It still looks very hospitable. It seems that the people of Wangjia Village are very friendly to both the people in the village and those outside the village, and it is no wonder that so many people in the village can be so harmonious.
Soon. The topic is back to business. Zhao Zichuan was the first to ask: "By the way, Uncle Wang, I think the behavior of these bandits and bandits today is quite strange, although the villagers have run away when they see them, why do these bandits not rob the property of the villagers, as if their purpose is not to rob the property...... Uncle Wang, do you know the problem in this?"
Wang Yuming seemed to have thought of something, and did not answer immediately, but just frowned and looked at the brazier below him, thinking thoughtfully.
Lu Jing saw some of the sorrow of the village chief Wang Yuming, and then asked, "Those thieves said that they were the people of the 'Tang Ying Society', but we have never heard of it...... But when we first arrived, we saw that the villagers hid as soon as they saw them, and that reaction seemed to be that it was not the first time the villagers had seen these bandits, so it seemed that these bandits were not here for the first time...... If that's the case, you should also know about these bandits, and there are some things about the 'Tang Ying Society'......"
Wang Yuming thought about it for a long time, and seemed to be hesitating about something. Immediately, Wang Yuming closed his eyes and said calmly: "Okay, since you young heroes are the benefactors of Wangjia Village, it is not an ulterior secret anyway, and it doesn't hurt to talk about it......" After speaking, Wang Yuming raised his head and glanced at Tang Zhan with inscrutable eyes again.
When Tang Zhan saw it this time, he was uncomfortable for a while, he really couldn't think of why Village Chief Wang would always look at him, after all, he couldn't think of anything he would have to do with these thieves of the "Tangying Society" and Wangjia Village.
Wang Yuming paused, and after leaving Tang Zhan, he then said: "Wangjia Village can be regarded as a village for some years, most of the strong men in the village are surnamed Wang, and the people in the village have always been very harmonious...... But there is a gang of bandits who claim to be 'Tangyinghui', who live on the 'Wild Wolf Mountain' not far from Wangjia Village, and they will come to the village every once in a while to harass them. But one day, a daughter surnamed Wang came out of Wangjia Village at some point, and she was extremely smart. This girl was not only smart, but also very courageous, risking her own life to test her martial arts and strategy with Dou Jinshun, the leader of the 'Tangying Society' at the time. We don't know the details, but in the end, the girl from the Wang family won......"
"Wow, who is that girl from the Wang family, she is so powerful......" Lu Jing heard this, and couldn't help but praise on the side.
Wang Yuming continued: "After the Wang family girl won, Dou Jinshun, the leader of the 'Tangying Society', was also a person who valued righteousness, and swore in front of Miss Wang that he would never rob the money of the Wang family village again for the rest of his life...... But later Dou Jinshun died of illness, and his son Dou Deyong took over the leadership. Dou Deyong is different from his father, he is a wolf ambition, not only ruined the contract between his father and Wangjia Village during his lifetime, but also led the bandits to invade Wangjia Village on a large scale......"
"Then what about later, is there anything that Miss Wang can do?" Li Yuru also asked with interest.
"No matter how bold Miss Wang is, she won't be the opponent of so many bandits, but ......" Wang Yu Mingfeng turned around.
"But what......" Lu Zhao also asked.
"Maybe it's God's favor, a very powerful young man in the village actually defeated all the bandits of the 'Tangying Society' by himself and saved the ...... of Wangjia Village," Wang Yuming recalled, and when he said this, he was also a little relieved.
Everyone couldn't help but be surprised to hear that someone had single-handedly defeated all the bandits of the "Tang Ying Society...... (To be continued......)