Chapter 14 Finding Out the Truth and the Truth

Everyone quickly agreed that without further ado, at midnight that night, Cheng Bin and Zhang Jingting set off with Li Hansheng all the way, and Lin Hu's master and apprentice were to secretly follow behind to be responsible for answering, and Lu Deng arranged a meal for the six people to have a full meal, and then they would go down from the southern city wall as soon as the time came.

Wei Qing stood on the city wall and leaned on the battlements looking at the silent night in the distance, the cool autumn wind blew on his face, which calmed his restless and apprehensive mood a lot. Cao Lu walked behind him and asked, "Brother Qing, what weapon do you want to bring", Wei Qing hesitated: "I won't use the blade...... Let's just take my sword with you...... By the way, I can bring another pair of bows and arrows." Cao Lu smiled: "Your sword is black, which saves trouble, you don't need to take it to the fire to blacken it so as not to reflect it."

At this time, a figure suddenly ran quickly from the city, and immediately threw himself into Cheng Bin's arms next to him and cried, but it was Cheng Qian who rushed to see him off after hearing the message. Wei Qing saw her crying sadly, the appearance of pear blossoms with rain made people feel pity, Wei Qing wanted to step forward and hug Cheng Qian into his arms and Wen Yan said a few words of comfort, but how could it be like this in front of everyone's eyes.

Cheng Qian and her father whispered for a while before they gradually stopped crying, but the tears still flowed, she walked to Zhang Jingting's side and shook hands with each other, she couldn't hear what they were talking about, only to see Cheng Qian take out a butterfly jade pendant from her arms and hand it to Zhang Jingting's hand, and then turned around and walked away with a red face.

Cheng Qian turned around and happened to meet Wei Qingsi's eyes, she was slightly stunned and then walked over and forced a little smile and said: "Brother Wei, in my heart, you are a young chivalrous warrior who stands up to the sky, and I also ask you to take care of my father for Qian'er along the way, in case of danger, you can't stand by and watch, after you come back from this meritorious service, Qian'er will definitely cook a few small dishes in person, please come over to the house for a few drinks, and I hope you don't have to refuse", she paused, and said hesitantly: "There is still ...... and also for Senior Brother Zhang...... It's the same."

Wei Qing was quite jealous when he saw Cheng Qian getting close to Zhang Jingting before, but at this moment, when he saw his sweetheart pleading with him, his chest couldn't help jumping, and he hurriedly said earnestly: "Miss Cheng, don't worry, even if I fight to death, I will protect the safety of Master Cheng Helm, I'm right...... I'm doing the same to Senior Brother Zhang."

Cheng Qian heard Wei Qing's sincerity, and immediately turned her grief into joy, raised her pretty face that was still stained with tears and said with a smile: "I have long known that Brother Wei is a hero, no matter how dangerous it is, he will definitely stand up to save my father and senior brother back, only a young man like Brother Wei can be called me...... It's the dream of the girls' families."

When Wei Qing heard this, he couldn't wait to pull out his heart immediately, but Cao Lu snorted coldly beside him: "Your father and Zhang Jingting's martial arts are much more powerful than Brother Qing'er, if they don't succeed, we will rush back at most to report your death, so that you won't find a place to collect the corpse by then."

Wei Qing hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover Cao Lu's mouth, and while dragging him away, he said to Cheng Qian: "Miss Cheng, my junior brother has a stinky mouth, you don't have to go to your heart, if you encounter a crisis, I will never escape alone."

After Cao Lu was dragged out of the road for a while, he pulled off Wei Qing's hand and said: "Don't be stunned by this stinky little lady's ecstasy soup, his father is nicknamed 'Buddha-faced snake', then she is 'beautiful snake', there will be no place for a woman like her to put you in her heart, she was just provoking you to send his master and brother to death."

Wei Qing also vaguely felt that Cheng Qian treated Zhang Jingting far more kindly than himself, but he was still a crush for the first time in this life, how could he accept this reality, but he deceived himself in his heart that Cheng and Zhang were brothers and sisters, so they were naturally more intimate than others.

As soon as the time came, the two groups of people changed their night clothes, and were successively dropped from the city with ropes, and soon disappeared into the night, heading straight to the south of Lu'an City, Wei Qing and Cao Lu followed closely behind Lin Hu, and followed Cheng Bin and his party. Li Hansheng probably had a sneak into the city before, and he was quite familiar with the outpost of the Jin soldiers, although he encountered several waves of bright or dark ambush soldiers on the road, he led the way and cleverly avoided them.

After traveling for about three miles, Cao Lu whispered to Wei Qing: "Brother Qing, it seems that this trip is quite smooth, and if you go further, there will probably not be so many ambush soldiers in Jinren, at most there are still some exploration horses on the main road." Wei Qing nodded and was about to answer, but saw that the three people in front of him suddenly fell to the ground and hid in the grass, and the three of them also hurriedly found a place to hide, but saw that there were about ten horsemen in a group of Jin troops, and they swaggered slowly from the main road next to them. Everyone didn't dare to make a sound, just waited for the enemy to leave on their own, and the Jin cavalry did not notice the abnormality, and slowly walked farther and farther, and finally disappeared into the night.

After the enemy had passed, Li Hansheng beckoned Cheng Bin and Zhang Jingting to show their figures from the grass where they were hiding and continued to move forward, while Wei Qing and the three of them continued to watch the movement in front of them, waiting for them to walk out for a while before following them. At this moment, a cold arrow suddenly shot out from a big tree on the other side of the road, only to see Li Hansheng wave the long knife in his hand, and the arrow fell to the ground, and then leaned forward and swung his hands back, and rushed to the big tree with a very fast small step, and a few arrows fell down on the tree, but they were all avoided by Li Hansheng, he jumped high under the tree, and then dived forward in mid-air, pounced on the treetops like a big bird, and cut down a golden soldier hidden in the tree with a knife.

There was a shout in the grass under the trees, and several Jin Army soldiers came out, and Cheng Bin and Zhang Jingting also stepped forward to fight with their long knives. Although the Jin soldiers were brave and invincible on the battlefield of fighting in formation, they were not the opponents of the three martial arts masters at all in the situation of fighting between these people, and most of them were soon killed on the spot. Seeing that the momentum was not good, the remaining two Jin soldiers immediately divided into two directions and fled, Li Hansheng shouted to Cheng Bin's master and apprentice: "I chase the east, you chase the west, don't let them run", and then hurriedly pursued to the east, and Cheng Bin also took Zhang Jingting to the west to pursue.

Wei Qing's body moved slightly, and he wanted to step forward to help, but Lin Hu stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Don't move, they can handle it, and we will continue to secretly respond in case of accidents."

After a while, Cheng Bin's master and apprentice and Li Hansheng returned to their original places respectively, Cheng Bin asked: "Our dog has been slaughtered, how about your side", Li Hansheng replied with a wipe of blood stained on the blade of his sleeve: "How can he let him escape, quickly hide the corpse, lest the passing Jin soldiers find out and chase down, and not far ahead will be the distance of the gold man's ambush road, don't go wrong at this juncture." The three of them immediately started dragging Jin Bing's body into the grass and hid it, and then set off to continue walking.

Wei Qing's master and apprentice waited until the three people in front of him set off before they came out of the hiding place to follow, Lin Hu sighed: "I don't want Zhang Taishou to have such a martial arts expert by his side, this Li Hansheng is never under me in terms of swordsmanship or light skills, but for some reason he is unknown in the rivers and lakes."

Cao Lu said: "His kung fu is really rare, the moment he pounced on the tree just now was like a bird, it should be the exclusive secret of his martial arts school." Wei Qing listened to the conversation between Lin Hu and Cao Lu, and always felt that something was wrong, and there was a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart, but he couldn't think of what the problem was.

In order to avoid the Jurchen detectives, the two groups walked around and around under the guidance of Li Hansheng, until they finally came to a dense maple forest when the sky was white, Li Hansheng turned back and shouted loudly: "Come over together, this is far away from the Jurchen camp, I don't think there will be any more Jin soldiers sentry, Zhang Taishou's army is temporarily stationed behind this forest, come and go to see Zhang Taishou together." Cheng Bin also shouted: "Brother Lin, I'm hungry and tired after walking for most of the night, now that I'm out of danger, let's go and see Master Zhang together."

Lin Hu, as the helmsman of the beggar gang's righteous rudder, has always been steady in doing things for people, although he has relaxed his heart at this time, but after all, he has not seen Zhang Shuye himself and the army he brought, he still waved his hand and refused: "Brother Cheng, it is better for you and Brother Li to go to see Zhang Taishou, I will follow you behind, and when you meet Zhang Taishou in person, I will go over to meet you." Li Hansheng and Cheng Bin stopped persuading when they heard this, and went straight forward through the maple forest.

The closer he got to his destination, the stronger the uneasiness that burst out of Wei Qing's heart became, and he said to Lin Hu: "Master, I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't tell you what is going on, I think you still have to be careful, as the saying goes, those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety, but don't have any stubble at the last moment." Lin Hu nodded and said, "Yes, although there is nothing abnormal about this Li Hansheng all the way, it will not be wrong to be careful."

The three of them walked to the edge of the maple forest and did not continue to move forward, looking forward, there was an open flat land in front of them, and there was a large camp not far from the woods, and soldiers wearing armor and holding weapons were faintly visible in the camp. Lin Hu took a long breath and said: "Finally the matter is done, you sit down and rest for a while, and when Master Cheng Helm and them come out to call us, we will go into the camp to fill our stomachs first." Wei Qing and Cao Lu were both sneaking into dangerous places with their master for the first time, and at this time, the destination was in front of them, and their curiosity made the two teenagers forget the fatigue and hunger caused by walking all night, and they both looked around the military camp in front with their eyes wide open.

After watching it for a long time, Cao Lu suddenly said to himself: "The soldiers under the command of this Taishou are all strong soldiers, all of them are strong soldiers, but he himself seems to be not a person who knows the soldiers as rumored, after all, a civilian official is still a civilian official, how can he know how to lead the troops to fight, I see that there is no flag in this battalion, how can you command it when it comes to fighting, the army has no banner to guide it, wouldn't it be a mess to fight separately", he looked at it and said: "This camp is not equipped with antlers, Trenches and other precautions must be the reason why they hurriedly came to camp temporarily, fortunately the Jin army did not find them, otherwise a sneak attack would have been successful, and this Li Hansheng is also a person full of words, there are only 3,000 people here at most, where is the 80,000 army."

At this moment, I saw Cheng Bin, Zhang Jingting and Li Hansheng walking out of the camp gate with more than a dozen people and coming straight to the maple forest.