Chapter 8: The Boy with the Knife

Chayu County was called 'plugged into the south of the Yangtze River' by later generations, which is really worthy of its name, the warm sun hangs high, but it does not show a trace of dryness.

From time to time, the breeze with the fragrance of flowers and plants blows in the mountains, with a little coolness, like a fairy veil blowing on the face, which is particularly refreshing.

At this time, on the tree-lined path behind Gao Laozhuang Mountain, a group of burly men wearing tight suits and leggings were walking towards the vast mountains in the distance at an unhurried speed.

Walking in the front is a young man with thin lips and long arms, who has thin lips and eagle eyes, and a slightly curved nose under the narrow eyes.

His slender arm, caged in his sleeves, grasped a long sword with a wooden handle, and the hilt was inlaid with a glittering emerald turquoise, and with the black and reddish snakeskin scabbard, it looked like a cold and poisonous snake.

The breath is very similar to that of youth.

The young man's narrow eyes have been keenly scanning the four directions, and his breath is long, which is out of place with the big man who talks and laughs behind him, holds a knife in one hand, and wipes sweat with his sleeves in the other.

Despite this, no one dared to despise this person, and there were even people who were good at flattery from time to time telling some interesting things in the back, and the young man often snorted, which could also make the speaker secretly happy.

There were more than a dozen people in the entire team, except for the black-shirted youth, the rest of them were all gray and linen, except for the petite figure at the end of the team, of course.

This young man is about seven or eight years old, with red lips and white teeth, clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a clean and refreshing green shirt.

But at this time, his face was flushed, it was a flush of exhaustion, and sweat slid down his fair little face, and soon wet his chest.

Just because he carried a knife on his shoulder, it was a narrow and heavy knife, the handle of the knife was the thickness of a boy's arm, and the wooden handle was wrapped around a gray and blackened cloth belt, and the mixed smell of blood with a strong smell of sweat and a particularly fishy smell made the boy almost want to gag.

In front of him was a six-foot-tall, stocky body topped by a large head, with a conspicuous rosacea on its face, and next to it, a thick mole with long black hair standing firmly.

This man was talking and laughing with a burly man with bulging tendons in front of him, not caring about the young man who was carrying the knife behind him, as if he had forgotten about it.

"Hey, I said, rotten wine nose, you guy is not so lazy, the guy who eats still has a yellow-mouthed child who hasn't grown his teeth yet to help you get it?"

It was the burly man who spoke, and there was a palpable disdain in his words, and it was evident that he looked down on rosacea.

Hearing this, rosacea suddenly stomped his feet, clenched his fists and roared:

"Brute, how many times have I said it, don't you stare at Lao Tzu's nose and won't let it go?"

Hearing this, the people in front of him all pouted and smiled, and they didn't speak, just watched the play quietly.

When the burly man called the wild tiger heard this, he turned around, straightened his sleeves seemingly casually, and looked at rosacea with an unkind face, and saw it suffocating, and bowed his back, so he whistled boringly, turned around and continued to walk.

"Hehe, rotten wine nose, you are the weakest here, don't pretend, otherwise the brothers will find you to practice!"

Hearing the joke in front of him, the nose of rosacea became even more angry, but he didn't dare to fight back, his eyes were dripping with hatred, and when he unintentionally glanced at the young man who bowed his head behind him, his breath suddenly rose.

"Hurry up, grinding, like a!"

Yuan Cheng didn't reply, he was grateful for rosacea, just because he went to look for the medicine collection team in the early morning, and found that it was all a bunch of burly men, and he suddenly had a bad premonition, but he still went to find sorghum, that is, the cold young man.

Who knew that the young man didn't answer, but as soon as he let go of his breath, he took three steps back and staggered to the ground, very embarrassed.

Seeing this, the young man smiled coldly and said disdainfully:

"Just like you, saying that you are a burden and lifting you up, go back, I don't care what you have with Gao Yun, my team doesn't need waste!"

Seeing this, instead of one of the big men around coming out to plead, they all showed wanton laughter, looking at Yuan Cheng's gaze, cold and ruthless.

Being intimidated by the young man, and hearing the ridicule of the people around him, Yuan Cheng was also furious, but at this time he had no choice but to look at the young man stubbornly to show his attitude.

Just when the young man couldn't bear it anymore and was about to take action to give Yuan Cheng a little pain, rosacea stood up and laughed:

"My lord, since it is the butler's order, we can't be too tough, how about letting him bring you a sword?"

Hearing this, the young man's narrow and cold curtain eyes glanced at rosacea, and snorted coldly:

"The sword is a murderous sword, if it is touched by waste, will it be invincible, if you are interested, give it to you!"

Hearing this, the rosacea thanked him repeatedly, and then glanced at Yuan Cheng up and down with bad intentions, and saw that his spine was cold, before he pushed out the knife in his hand, forcibly put it in Yuan Cheng's thin arms, and said coldly:

"You just help the uncle carry the knife, and the uncle will protect you if you have something!"

Although Yuan Cheng saw that this person did not mean to help him, Yuan Cheng was still grateful to him, without him, Yuan Ye was eager to break free from the cage of Gao Laozhuang at this time, and he was also eager to get rid of Gao Yun's control, as well as Gao Cai's sight.

Although the mountains and rivers here are beautiful, it is a hierarchical and cold-blooded and ruthless country, Yuan Cheng is anxious to seek support from the outside world, and he is even more anxious to seek his own opportunities.

Just because, the Gao Laozhuang he saw was not as quiet and peaceful as it seemed, and Gao Yun could throw himself into the demon-infested Fuling Mountain with a casual word, helpless and left to fend for himself.

Therefore, for rosacea's kindness, Yuan Cheng really gave him a knife all the way, although rosacea did not mean to protect him, Yuan Cheng himself could not give up.

Cultivating immortals is to change one's life against the sky, let alone call for life?

Earlier, the conversation continued.

I saw that the rosacea saw that Yuan Cheng's face did not change, did not show the slightest timidity, and his eyes rolled, and he thought about it.

I saw him pat the brute tiger on the shoulder, and deliberately said loudly:

"Brute Tiger, I heard that the bandits on the side of Wild Wolf Mountain have been raging recently, and the evil bandits eat young children to cultivate evil skills, is it true?"

Hearing this, Yuan Cheng paused, and his heart trembled, but he quickly suppressed the panic in his heart and listened patiently.

Hearing this, the brute tiger laughed and grinned:

"It's been a long time, and you still talk about it, and it's not too ugly!"

"That is, the county heard that a hundred guards have been sent to exterminate the evil bandits, and I believe that there should be news soon. ”

There was a person in front of the barbarian tiger who said this, this person seemed to be very well-informed, and he told a lot of secrets, so that Yuan Cheng listened to it with relish.

Rosacea had been silently paying attention to Yuan Gong, and found that his face had not changed, and he was still walking seriously, and he was suddenly a little unhappy, after all, he was not so calm when he heard the news.

Thinking of this, rosacea had an unconvincing mood at work, searched the intestines and scraped the belly, and after a long time, his eyes lit up, and he opened his mouth and said loudly:

"I heard that there are big demons in this Fuling Mountain, and they often come out to eat people, I don't know if it's true?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly stopped talking, and they also stopped moving forward, looking around, looking nervous and inexplicable.

Who knew that when Yuan Cheng heard this, his heart lifted, and he refused to let go of a word, ignoring the soreness of the shoulder pressed by the big knife on his shoulder.

If he guessed correctly, this big demon is probably the pig gang who recruited in the Yunzhan Cave.

Many people seemed to be secretive about the word big demon, and carefully pricked up their ears for a long time, and when they saw that there was no movement, they looked at rosacea unkindly, and one of them said:

"Hey, I said can you stop talking nonsense, we're in this mountain, what if...... Wouldn't it be hard to survive!"

"That's it, rotten wine nose, you are looking for death by yourself, don't take us with you!"

The accusations of the previous person didn't care about rosacea, and his words made these people who were usually bullish in front of him be so timid, and rosacea rose a sense of accomplishment from the bottom of his heart.

He looked around directly, pouted absently, and said:

"What are you afraid of, Fuling Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, traversing several counties in Minzhou, we have never entered the inner mountain, how can there be any danger, besides, we have rough skin and thick meat, and the big demon doesn't want it. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly looked at Yuan Cheng, wanting to scare Yuan Cheng again.

Yuan Cheng turned a blind eye, but he had a plan in his heart, and he had heard of this rosacea, and he had never seen any big demons at all, nor had he seen the scene of big demons eating people.

If you want to say that pigs just eat people, Yuan Cheng is a little unbelievable, people are people who are valued by Buddhism, if they are so cruel, how to get to the West Heaven, how to get the true scriptures?

Seeing that Yuan Cheng's face did not change, rosacea felt a deep frustration, and pouted depressedly:

"This kid can't be a fool, right, the big demon cannibalism doesn't know how to be afraid?"

Hearing this, the brute tiger in front glanced back at Yuan Cheng and said:

"Being able to work next to the prince and have a grudge against the housekeeper, can such a person be a fool?"

Thinking that Yuan Cheng was working next to the Taigong, his mind to play with Yuan Cheng was much weaker, and in order to eliminate his fear, he also thought that Fuling Mountain was sinister and abnormal, and it was difficult for Yuan Cheng to survive***.

Later, rosacea found an opportunity, so he put his knife back, and I don't know if he didn't want to be too involved with Yuan Cheng, or hoped that Yuan Cheng would die sooner.

Yuan Cheng was also happy to relax at this time, so he had the heart to look at the surrounding scene, as he went deeper, all kinds of ancient trees rose to the sky, and the giant trees surrounded by several people could be seen everywhere, on the trees, birds chirped, snakes and rats scurried, pedestrians passed by, startled pieces of birds.

Suddenly, the young man stopped, glanced back at everyone, but ignored Yuan Cheng, and immediately, a cold voice came out.

"It's already in the depths of the periphery, big insects and beasts are feeding, everyone pay attention to the formation, and find the elixir and call me!"

As soon as the words fell, two people spontaneously stepped forward to open the way, and everyone formed a large circular formation, all of them drew their swords outward, their eyes were solemn and murderous.

At this time, rosacea really abandoned Yuan Cheng and discarded it.

Yuan Cheng was not annoyed, and followed these people slowly, but he was mostly hidden in the shadow of the ancient tree, and not far from him, it was the man of the barbarian tiger.

It's not that this person is benevolent, but that Yuan Cheng found that this person's strength is one of the best among the crowd, and he is experienced enough, Yuan Cheng only hopes to use the other party to detect the danger in advance.

At this time, he had nothing in his hand except a wooden stick that he had just picked up.

Seeing this, Yuan Cheng laughed at himself, he really seemed to be here to die.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in Yuan Cheng's chest, and then a rabbit-headed and rat-eyed guy poked his head out, sniffing around with a very clever nose, and there was excitement in his eyes.

Seeing this, Yuan Cheng's heart warmed, and now he can accompany him, I'm afraid it will be Tubo.

Thinking of Tubo's performance last night, Yuan Cheng suddenly had a bold idea, and then he glanced at the young man faintly, but when he saw that the young man seemed to have a feeling, he hurriedly withdrew his gaze, and said secretly in his heart:

"Dare to bully uncle, let you see what despair is in a while!"

However, for the sake of insurance, Yuan Cheng first had to test Tubo, thinking of this, Yuan Cheng looked at Tubo, who couldn't help sniffing, and called in a low voice:

"Tobo, go!"

Immediately, a gray shadow flashed in Tubo, disappeared from the shade of the tree, and did not attract the slightest attention from everyone, seeing this, Yuan Cheng smiled secretly in his heart, it seems that some people are destined to return empty-handed today!