Chapter 35: Copycats
The cry of a baby came from a grass house.
In an ordinary family, the baby who was sleeping at night suddenly woke up, and the baby's mother immediately sat up and held the baby in her arms. This woman had not slept soundly since she gave birth.
Soon the light of the hut came on, and it was the baby's father who got up and lit the candle. This man was an ordinary peasant, and he was so happy that he had a son, and he felt that it was his happiest time.
The man asked, "What's wrong with the child?"
The woman said, "You are so stupid, it's been almost a month since you had a child, why do you still ask? Of course you're hungry." ”
The man laughed: "Hey, hey, I'm stupid, I'm stupid." ”
"Knock knock..."
There were three polite knocks at the door.
The woman was slightly nervous and asked, "Who is knocking on the door so late?"
The man said, "I'll take a look." ”
The woman said, "Hey, don't open the door just yet!"
The man said, "I know." ”
The man looked out with a candle at the door, but today the moon was dim, and it was pitch black outside the door, so he couldn't see anything clearly.
The man asked, "Who?"
The man outside the door: "I'm in a hurry, and I have no place to live late at night, I wonder if I can spend the night at my eldest brother's house?"
The man looked at his wife, who shook her head.
The man said, "There is another room next to it, the door is not locked, but it is a little shabby, you can go to that room and sleep." ”
The man outside the door: "Thank you so much." ”
The man was about to return to the kang when the door rang again.
The man outside the door: "I'm really sorry, the weather in May in the mountains is still very cold at night, can you lend me a blanket?"
The man looked at the woman again, and saw that she had come out of the kang with a blanket.
The man said, "Wait a minute. ”
The man turned back and fetched the blanket, opened the door, and saw a tall and burly young man standing outside the door, holding a milky white sword in his hand.
It turned out that Ouyang Yuting had already come.
The man handed the blanket out and said, "That's all, you can make up for the night!" and said that he wanted to close the door.
But the door was pushed shut out.
The man asked, "What more do you want?"
Ouyang Yuting said: "I'm really sorry, I still need to borrow something." ”
The man asked, "What is it?"
Ouyang Yuting said: "To be exact, there are three things, I need to borrow the hearts of your family of three." ”
The man heard Ouyang Yuting's voice wrong, and wanted to close the door, but in a hurry, he had already been hit in the lower abdomen and flew straight into the house.
Ouyang Yuting stepped into the room and glanced at the frightened couple and the crying baby in the room, his gaze became colder and colder, and the murderous aura became heavier and heavier.
A few cold lights flickered, and blood had splashed the windows and walls in speckled spots, as if the house was full of plum blossoms...
In the blink of an eye, it was close to dawn, and the sky already had a hint of brightness, Ouyang Yuting carried three fresh hearts, and followed the two short hexagram bandits all the way to the main village of Tianlong Mountain.
The rugged trail spirals upwards and only allows one person to pass on the road. After walking the trail, there are 100 single and 8 stone steps, and at the end of the stone steps is a strange rocky cliff. If you want to get to the cottage, you have to climb over this cliff.
Ouyang Yuting used his hands and feet at the same time, pedaling the stone ridge, and when he crossed the cliff, he was already sweating.
Ouyang Yuting raised his eyes and couldn't help but be shocked by the appearance of the bandit village in Tianlong Mountain, a bandit village was built like a small castle. Huge boulders formed a solid enclosure wall, more than two people high, revealing a thick foundation.
At each of the four corners of the enclosure is a small parapet protruding from the wall, which is used for observation and defense.
The gate of the village is closed, there is a gatehouse on the gate of the wall, two yellow flags are inserted on the gatehouse, and the big flag is inlaid with two big black characters of 'Tianlong'. On the gatehouse, dozens of bandits were on duty with spears or knives.
A bandit soldier on the gatehouse saw that someone had come down from the mountain, so he exchanged the secret code on Tianlong Mountain with the bandits at the bottom of the mountain.
The bandits on the gatehouse took the lead and said: "The land occupies a high post, and the stone mountains are beautiful through the ages." ”
The short-hexagram bandit continued: "Straight to the point, a hundred miles of forests and seas are evergreen." ”
The two bandits faced each other, and the gate of the village "squeaked" and slowly opened to both sides.
When I entered the stockade, it was an open school field, a cave where the bandits lived in the west, and a house made of bluestone. Further east, separated from the school yard by a fence, is a shooting range, where bandits come and go.
The gate of the village is facing the hall of Tianlong cottage, the momentum is no less than the palace, a huge plaque is hung in the middle, and the three words of "Juyi Hall" are sonorous and powerful. There are also couplets on the left and right of the main entrance of the hall. Shanglian book: "The world is out of my generation, and the years of entering the rivers and lakes are urging." The following link is: "In the talk and laughter of the emperor's hegemony, it is better than a drunk." ”
Entering the hall, it is the place where the bandits deliberate, and there are nearly 100 chairs on the east and west sides of the hall. There is a sitting platform in the north, and there are three big chairs on it, a chair in the middle is draped with tiger skin, and the chairs on both sides are covered with leopard skin and bear skin respectively, which must be the seat of the boy and the owl and the mantis beak of Longshan that day.
Behind the three chairs is a big wall, on which are crooked and written two lines of big characters: "God obeys me and I am long, and God is against me and I die!"
The bandit who reported the news went to report the news for a long time, and Ouyang Yuting had been standing in the center of the hall, and there was no sunlight in the hall all year round, and the yin atmosphere was pressing. Ouyang Yuting only felt that the cold chill penetrated his chest.
Finally, from behind the curtain on the east side of the hall came a big fat man of nine feet tall, with a round and large head, limbs as thick as a barrel, and the flesh on his face shook back and forth as he walked, and his round belly seemed to have the sea stirring up waves.
This big fat man sat on the chair covered with tiger skin and said nothing, presumably this was the boy of Longshan that day. A pair of apricot eyes of the Tianlong Mountain boy stared straight at Ouyang Yuting, and Ouyang Yuting's scalp was numb.
A bandit soldier carried a wooden plate and handed it to the boy of Tianlong Mountain, on which was a freshly cooked pig's head. The boy of Tianlong Mountain threw away the plate, picked up the pig's head, ate a pig's ear in one bite, and half of the pig's nose was lost in another bite.
The boy of Tianlong Mountain was eating, and two more people came in from outside the hall, it was the owl and the mantis beak.
The owl saw that Ouyang Yuting had returned to the cottage, carrying a bloody package in his hand, and said, "Hehehaha, the kid is vicious enough, the thing is done?"
Ouyang Yuting said: "It's done, what's so difficult about this?"
The owl looked at the package in Ouyang Yuting's hand, went up to the platform due north, and crawled in the ear of the boy of Tianlong Mountain and muttered a few words, presumably explaining what happened at night to the real lord of Tianlong Mountain.
The boy of Tianlong Mountain listened to the owl's words and let out a loud laugh. The voice echoed in the empty hall for a long time: "Hahaha, the third brother has a good way, just let him go." ”
The owl got the instructions of the Tianlong Mountain boy, so he said to Ouyang Yuting in the audience: "You kid is lucky, my eldest brother Tianlong Mountain boy saw that you were a little ruthless, and decided to give you a chance to make meritorious contributions." ”
Ouyang Yuting said: "I have already dug up the hearts of the three heroes who want them, and I hope to fulfill my promise and return the people to me before saying anything else." ”
The owl said, "Hmph, how can you be untrustworthy in your words on the green forest road?" Your little lady is fine, I'll take you to see him later." ”
Ouyang Yuting said: "I'm going to see her now!"
The owl said, "What's the hurry? Bring that person's heart first, it won't be fresh after a while." ”
Ouyang Yuting took a few steps forward and handed over the three hearts.
The owl recognized at a glance which branch was a woman's heart, grabbed it, put it to his mouth and tore it greedily, and red blood flowed down the corner of his mouth.
The owl chewed and said, "Delicious!"
Ouyang Yuting asked, "Can the hero take me to meet someone?"
The owl said: "Don't worry, I'll ask you a question first, if you agree, we will be brothers in the future." ”
Ouyang Yuting didn't understand what the owl meant, so he asked, "What's the problem?
The owl said: "My eldest brother sees that you are ruthless, and intends to keep you in this cottage to plant rice (black language: into the house) to sit in the fourth position, but you need to do one thing for us first." ”