This is a jungle with many tall trees, although there are few traces of human walking, but there are no fierce birds and beasts in the forest, and it is not like a dark place with ambush traps on the rivers and lakes, just an ordinary forest. The trees in the forest are very tall, but the leaves are not particularly dense, and the soft sunlight can still pass through the sparse branches and leaves, leaving dappled light and shadows on the yellow earth. At this time, it is winter, the weather is also a little cold, most of the leaves of the trees have long been sparse and fallen, occasionally fly a few winter birds that do not need to fly south to migrate, it can be regarded as bringing a little warmth to the cold winter when there is still sunshine......

Take Bianliang City as the sitting point, this forest trail is along the north, I don't know when a jujube red horse and a donkey cart came from the side of the path, and there were several people sitting on the jujube red horse and the cart.

Riding on the red horse was a girl of about eighteen years old who was dressed in red clothes, with a sword pinned to her waist and a long whip hanging in her hand. There were several people sitting on the donkey cart, the most striking of which was a strong boy with a somewhat dark skin, who was strong and strong and carried a long thing wrapped in a brown cloth curtain on his back, like a weapon, and his strong face showed an unyielding character.

The person who came was none other than Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and others who came out of Bianliang City and wanted to go north together to find Zhu Yuanzhang, and follow in the footsteps of Nangong Jun and Murong Fei. The girl in red riding on the jujube red horse is naturally the "Hibiscus Woman" Li Yuru, and the people sitting on the donkey cart covered with hay are Li Yuru's husband Zhao Zichuan. Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and Lu Jing's elder brother and younger brother, Lu Zhao and Lu Meng......

According to the previous plan, after their group left Bianliang City. They were supposed to head all the way north, but at this point they seemed to be in trouble. After walking for many days, they entered this tall wood jungle "in a daze", and now they seem to be a little lost, and they don't know how far they have to go out of this forest, and even the accommodation for tonight has become a problem.

To add insult to injury, the speed of the donkey cart is already slower than the horse-drawn cart. If this forest is unfathomable, they are afraid that they will not be able to leave this jungle for this day.

Every day, a few people are "curled up" on the board car, and everyone is bored. Lu Jing, who is impatient, can't help it the most. When she was in Bianliang City, she could still accompany Tang Zhan to talk and laugh every day, and she could do some interesting things such as the whole person, and she was naturally happy every day, but after leaving Bianliang City. Every day is just an endless journey. Although there were some jokes along the way, it was obviously not as fun as it used to be in Bianliang City.

"Oh, it's annoying, it's annoying......" Lu Jing finally couldn't help but say, "How far is this road? Not to mention being able to see Zhu Yuanzhang, at least you can't always stay in the jungle where no one is here, it's almost suffocated-" Actually, this is not the first time Lu Jing has complained on the road.

"Save it. Big-headed ghost-" Zhao Zichuan, who has always been Lu Jing's sworn friend, looked at Lu Jing's irritable appearance and teased. "Say it once a day, say it once a day, your mouth is not tired, our ears are tired......"

"Zhao Zichuan, what are you talking about?" Hearing that Zhao Zichuan took the initiative to find himself to "provoke", Lu Jing pouted and replied. In fact, Lu Jing was angry and quarreled with Zhao Zichuan on the surface, but in fact, she wanted to find something slightly more interesting than "bickering", which was better than being bored along the way.

And Tang Zhan is always stupid on the side, he is stupid by nature, except for being Lu Jing's "sandbag" every day, he himself is not too impatient, although he also wants to see Zhu Yuanzhang soon, but he is very calm every day. Seeing that Lu Jing was "bickering" with Zhao Zichuan again, Tang Zhan said to Lu Jing: "Jing'er, why do you quarrel with Brother Zichuan every day, let's settle down, if you want to laugh, the fool can accompany you......" Tang Zhan still looked very concerned about Lu Jing.

Lu Jing was very happy about Tang Zhan's concern, but she still couldn't stand the boredom of repeating the road like this every day, in order to make Tang Zhan happy, Lu Jing turned around, pinched Tang Zhan's face and said, "Stupid, you are so good...... But don't always look like a wooden man every day......"

Hearing Lu Jing describe Tang Zhan as a "wooden man", and seeing Lu Jing's stupid appearance of "teasing" Tang Zhan, Zhao Zichuan secretly laughed on the side.

Lu Jing heard Zhao Zichuan's somewhat "obscene" whisper, and turned her head again and said embarrassedly: "What are you laughing at, what's so funny?"

Zhao Zichuan restrained his smile slightly, and then propped his hands on the hay behind him and continued: "It's nothing, it's just that I thought that Sister Jing, before you left Bianliang City, you actually asked someone to get a donkey cart...... Hey, although the donkey has good stamina, but the speed is slow, and it is so boring every day, it is also your own ......"

Lu Jing knew that Zhao Zichuan was making fun of himself again, his eyes rolled, and then he glanced at Li Yuru, who was riding a jujube red horse at the front, and then said with a smile: "Don't talk about me first, some stupid people can't even ride their wife's horse, hey, it's really sad and sad......"

What Lu Jing said was naturally the relationship between Zhao Zichuan and Li Yuru. Although Li Yuru and Zhao Zichuan became husband and wife, Li Yuru said that as long as he lived for one day, he would resolutely not let Zhao Zichuan move his jujube red horse again. This was originally the place where Zhao Zichuan, who was a big man, was most ashamed of, but now that Lu Jing brought it up again, Zhao Zichuan was naturally "unhappy" in his heart.

Li Yuru heard Lu Jing behind her commenting on herself, and looked back with a smile from time to time, after all, in Li Yuru's eyes, as long as she could find a way to "ridicule" Zhao Zichuan, Li Yuru would have no objection.

But Zhao Zichuan couldn't bear it anymore, seeing that Lu Jing always laughed at himself with this "trouble", Zhao Zichuan shouted loudly: "You dominatrix, what did you just say?"

Seeing that Zhao Zichuan was angry, Lu Jing smiled mischievously, and then continued: "I said that you Zhao Zichuan is a big fool, and you can't even cure your own wife......"

"Believe it or not, I'll leave you in the car now?" Zhao Zichuan, who couldn't bear it, stood up from the board car, as if he was going to "do something" to Lu Jing.

"Zhao Zichuan. Big fool, Zhao Zichuan, big fool......" Lu Jing said with a smile. While using Tang Zhan as a shield, he hid around behind. The board car was already unstable, and Lu Jing was dangling behind Tang Zhan again, so Zhao Zichuan naturally couldn't catch Lu Jing immediately.

Lu Jing's elder brother Lu Zhao looked at the two of them making a fuss, shook his head and smiled, then looked at the sky, and interjected: "Okay." You two should stop making trouble, let's think about how to get out of here...... Look at the day, though there is still the sun. But the surroundings are getting a little wet and cold, and it will snow at night. Don't make a fuss here now, when the time comes, there will be no place to stay at night, and you will 'hibernate' in the snowy night. I see you can still laugh......"

"Hmm. My brother is right, when I find a place to stay, it's not too late to teach Zhao Zichuan a big idiot......" Lu Jing nodded, and didn't forget to say a word about Zhao Zichuan.

"You-" Zhao Zichuan is really a theoretical, but eccentric Lu Jing - the two of them have always been like this. There is no way, after all, it is just a joke, Zhao Zichuan had to calm down first, thinking of a way to leave here, but he kept muttering in his heart: "Hmph." This dominatrix made me catch your pigtails. I'm going to humiliate you......"

Including Li Yuru, who was at the forefront, everyone was thinking about how to leave this place as soon as possible at this time. At this time, Lu Jing's younger brother Lu Meng stood up from the cart, looked at the front and top of the forest, seemed to have found something, and then said: "There is smoke ......"

"What?" Lu Zhao heard his brother's voice, so he asked.

"I said I saw ......," Lu Meng echoed, "I saw smoke, just in front of the forest......"

"Is there smoke? Could it be that there is a fire in the forest......" Li Yuru, who was riding on the jujube red horse, also straightened up, looked ahead, and responded.

"This doesn't look like smoke on fire...... Lu Jing also crouched beside Tang Zhan, looked forward and upward, and after a careful observation, then said with a smile, "This smoke is very light in color and has an ethereal shape, so it doesn't look like smoke on fire, it's more like the smoke of a farmer's cooking......"

"Cooking smoke?" Zhao Zichuan listened and said a little excitedly, "Sister Jing, you said it's cooking smoke, so ...... it."

"In this way, we have already arrived at the house of a household, and we have a place to stay at night-" Tang Zhan couldn't help but say.

Lu Jing nodded slightly, she was already very sure that there was a place for people to gather in front of her.

Li Yuru, who was at the front, thought for a while, and then said violently: "I know the way, let's hurry over now, and by the way, I will also inquire about the situation...... After speaking, Li Yuru "drove -" and ordered his jujube red horse to run forward. The jujube red horse also listened to Li Yuru's words very much, and after Li Yuru's order, the hooves of the jujube red horse were like arrows off the string, speeding away, and suddenly threw Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and others away from each other.

Zhao Zichuan saw that Li Yuru was still such a pungent character, shook his head and said helplessly: "Hey, Yuru is still like this, so urgent...... She's fast, but what about us? It's boring for us to be able to walk with this donkey cart......"

"Don't be discouraged, when the accommodation is settled, I'll accompany Brother Zichuan, you can drink a few glasses of wine, and it can be regarded as warming up......" Tang Zhan looked like he was thinking about others, and said with a smile.

"Brother Tang, it's still your ......" Zhao Zichuan first responded with a smile, and then glanced at Lu Jing who was observing the situation behind Tang Zhan, and while Lu Jing was not paying attention with his back, Zhao Zichuan said to Tang Zhan again, "I said Brother Tang Zhan, you have to take care of Sister Jing at any time, you are the only one among us who can subdue her......" Zhao Zichuan said this, making a little "bad" look.

Although Tang Zhan was stupid, he had been with Zhao Zichuan and others for a long time, and he also knew a lot about the personalities, words and deeds of Zhao Zichuan and others, coupled with his relationship with Lu Jing, after Zhao Zichuan said this, Tang Zhan couldn't help blushing......

Li Yuru was the first to ride out of everyone's sight, and the others slowly walked in the direction of the cooking smoke, and it took a long time for them to catch up with Li Yuru. And Li Yuru didn't go any further, just tied the jujube red horse to a big tree behind him, and then squatted on a low slope by himself.

The place was open, and there were no tall trees from before—it seemed that they had stepped out of the woods. Further on, where the smoke rises, there is indeed a village. The area of the village is not small. Although it is not rich, it is enough to accommodate 1,000 people, and it is a typical large village.

Tang Zhan, Lu Jing and others were also late. Seeing Li Yuru crawling in front of the dirt slope for some inexplicable reasons, everyone's first reaction was whether something had happened in front of them.

So, everyone also got off the donkey cart, and then they all squatted beside Li Yuru. Zhao Zichuan and his wife Li Yuru are "endless" on weekdays, but seeing Li Yuru's serious expression, Zhao Zichuan will also care about Li Yuru and become equally serious. Forthwith. Zhao Zichuan asked Li Yuru: "It seems that there is indeed a village in front, and it is quite a small one...... What's wrong, what's going on up ahead?"

Li Yuru still looked at the front with a serious face. Then he pointed to the front and said, "Look at the ...... ahead."

After Li Yuru finished speaking, everyone's eyes looked ahead. However, the scene ahead was indeed a bit surprising - I saw that in front of me, similar to the entrance of the village, there were a dozen reckless men with knives and blindfolds on their heads, walking towards the village. And some people at the gate of the village saw it. Immediately rushed back home.

Look at the dress of these reckless men. If you think about the environment surrounded by mountains, they are undoubtedly bandits and bandits in this vicinity. However, what is puzzling is that the names of the nearby villages ran back to their homes, and these bandits did not trouble these village names, nor even rushed into the homes of civilians to loot and plunder like ordinary bandits. On the contrary, these bandits did not seem to have much interest in these villagers, and their eyes were fixed in one direction, more figuratively. They seem to have come here for some purpose in the first place.

And all this, Lu Jing, who was quite scheming, naturally felt a little strange. Then she said softly: "It's strange, these bandits don't seem to have any interest in coming to this village to plunder, they seem to have come here for some purpose, this is the first time I've seen such bandits......"

"It's not to rob money, but they're dressed as bandits, what are they here for?" Tang Zhan was also a little confused.

"Could it be that they are here to seek revenge?" Zhao Zichuan asked.

Lu Jing thought about it, shook her head slightly, and then said, "It's not like ...... Looking at the size of the village, although it is not rich, it is definitely a large population, and the relationship between the villagers must be very harmonious, and there should be some deep-rooted traditions in their village, so people are self-disciplined. If there really is someone in the village who has a grudge against these bandits, then he should leave alone so that the rest of the village is not harmed...... Moreover, even if these bandits are really here to seek revenge, if I am a bandit, instead of going into the village to find someone, it is better to take one or two innocent village names as hostages and force that person ......out."

"Then what are they here for, sister?" Lu Meng also wondered.

"I don't know what to do......," Lu Jing shook her head in response, "But one thing is certain, there must be something unusual in this village......

"Really, I finally have a place to stay, and now the atmosphere has become so weird, and I have encountered bandits and bandits, how unlucky is this luck......" Li Yuru couldn't help her pungent personality again, and complained a little, "It's not easy to find a place where there is a home, I don't want to just forget it." It's going to snow, and I don't want to freeze all night......"

"But we don't know anything about the situation now, and there are unknown people dressed as bandits and bandits in front of us, so let's go to the village rashly?" Zhao Zichuan said again.

Lu Jing closed her eyes and thought for a while, and then said, "Otherwise, let's just start first...... Anyway, these people are also bandits, and helping the people in the village expel them is also chivalrous and justified. Maybe if we catch them and figure out something, we'll know what is in this village, and in return, the villagers will be able to smoothly enter the village for the night, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone?"

"It's good to have a good method, but I don't want to fight now, and I don't want to get involved in some 'wild relations' on the rivers and lakes for no reason,......" Zhao Zichuan shook his head and refused.

Tang Zhan felt that what Lu Jing said was a good way, so he was about to pull out the pear blossom gun behind his back and said, "Or, I'll go, right?"

Who knows, Lu Jing seemed to have something in mind, and immediately stopped: "No need, let me deal with these little minions this time......"

When everyone heard this, they were a little surprised that Lu Jing, who was usually the most nosy, actually "took the initiative to fight" this time. Tang Zhan was also worried on the side: "Jing'er, are you a little too ...... alone?" Too dangerous?"

"What are you afraid of, it's just a few bandits, stupid, you underestimate me too much......" Lu Jing pouted, "Besides, after leaving Bianliang City, I was worried that there was no one to vent along the way." Let me catch a few alive today, I must torture and torture them......" After speaking, Lu Jing took a leap, left the dirt slope at once, and ran in the direction of those bandits.

"Hey, Jing'er......" Tang Zhan shouted anxiously behind him. But it was too late, and Lu Jing's figure had already flown towards the village gate...... (To be continued......)