Nine Lion Mountain is more than 20 miles north of Luzhou City, and when the two arrived at the bottom of the mountain, more than an hour had passed, and they first searched for it at the bottom of the mountain, but they didn't even find a wild vegetable that could be eaten.

It's July, and many of the wild vegetables on the mountain are too old to eat, and there are too many people who come out to pick wild vegetables. It is estimated that there should be still in the mountains, but because there are tigers and wild boars on this mountain, no one dares to go.

The two of them went straight to the depths of the mountains and forests, and Xie Mingzhou was not afraid of the tiger and wild boar, if there was really one, it would be good.

He walked lightly in front, while Du Qi followed far behind, looking for wild vegetables, and after a while, he had a harvest, picking a lot of bracken, dandelions, gray cabbage, and digging a few wild celery roots.

Xie Mingzhou nailed the bamboo in his hand, and also shot three rabbits, at this time the rabbits were not very fat, but there were two or three catties each.

Suddenly, when he looked up, he saw a strong goat grazing on a meadow near the top of the mountain, which was a good thing!

Xie Mingzhou gently brushed aside the weeds and branches in front of him, and tiptoed towards the goat.

Seeing that it was not far away, Xie Mingzhou took out three bamboo nails and clamped them in his hand, and was about to send them out, but saw the sheep raise his head and listen for a while, let go of his four hooves and ran towards the mountain.

Xie Mingzhou saw that the sneak attack failed, so he hurriedly raised his breath and chased him up the mountain, the goat ran fast, but he was not slow to practice qi and martial arts since he was a child.

In a blink of an eye, Xie Mingzhou really lucked to Yongquan Point, kicked his feet on the tree behind him, flew away, and shot out of three bamboo nails in his hand, "Whoosh" hit the goat's back and abdomen, but the goat had not fallen to the ground, "Baa" screamed and struggled to run forward.

Xie Mingzhou lifted the broken knife in his hand, jumped over in a few steps, reversed the broken knife, knocked the goat to death with a knife back, and took a closer look, but it was a big ram, weighing about seventy or eighty pounds.

Turning the mountain recess, turning over the mountain, he was just about to rush down the mountain in one go, but he heard a few children's calls faintly, Xie Mingzhou didn't have time to think about it, and threw the goat on the ground with a "snap", and tore off the three hares on his waist and threw them off, and jumped away to the place where the call came.

In a blink of an eye, he came to the front, but saw Du Qi being hung on a big tree, still scolding himself, four or five six people, except for one dressed in armor, the rest were wearing gray clothes, and there was a money rat tail on the back of the head, but the surroundings were shaved green.

They all had a top-of-the-line iron helmet in their hands, and a few horses tied to the trees next to them, and they all looked extremely strong. One of the gray-clothed men was beating Du Qi hanging from a tree with a horsewhip.

Seeing this, Xie Mingzhou was furious, flew down, grabbed a handful of bamboo nails from his waist, and shot at several people with all his strength, and he didn't stop under his feet, and ran straight under the tree.

Those people were suddenly attacked, and before they could react, one of them was hit by two nails, turned over and fell to the ground, groaning endlessly, only the armored man was not injured, and pulled the bow from behind with his backhand, and shot with the bow.

Xie Mingzhou heard the sound of the bow, and he didn't stop, and with a flash of steps under his feet, he had avoided the feather arrow that rushed in his face, and was about to continue walking, but he saw that the armored man took out another arrow and put it on the bow, pointed at Du Qi and said stiffly: "If you move again, I will shoot!" Listening to the accent, it turned out that he was not from the Central Plains.

Du Qi scolded loudly: "Dog Tartar, you will shoot if you have a kind!"

The armor man was furious, and wanted to shoot an arrow, but he was afraid that the other young man would pounce on him, looking at the strength of his dart just now and the way he jumped out, he could not resist the enemy.

Xie Mingzhou held a broken knife in his left hand, and stood there not daring to move again, his heart was already full of regret: it was clear that his Wuji Sword and Mixed Yuan Yiqi Taijiquan were all proficient, and it was okay to deal with these people, so he could wait until he got close before suddenly subduing the enemy, but he launched an attack from afar.

Now if you let the Tartar get away today, you will definitely attract the Tartar to attack Luzhou in the future, even if you can take Du Qiyi away, but if you hurt Aunt Liu and other villagers, how can you bear it?

The Tartar pointed the bow and arrow at Du Qi, but his eyes stared at Xie Mingzhou without blinking, and he said to him after a while: "I take five steps back, you take five steps back." ”

Xie Mingzhou was helpless, he only nodded slightly, expressing his agreement, the upper body of the tartar did not move, and his feet took five steps back, but the direction was towards the horse, and Xie Mingzhou also took five steps back.

The tartar said, "Five more steps." After speaking, he took five steps back, and at this time he was already close to the horse, but the bow and arrow in his hand were still firmly facing Du Qi, urging: "Retreat!"

Xie Mingzhou had to take another five steps back.

The upper body of the tartar still did not move, but his right foot had already stepped on the horse's pedal, and then slowly mounted the horse, and said coldly: "If you retreat into the forest again, I will not kill anyone, but go immediately." ”

When Xie Mingzhou saw him get on the horse, he was determined that this Tartar had made up his mind to escape, and he would not kill Du Qi in the future.

Besides, how fast can you run on a horse in the woods, no matter how good your riding skills are? When the time comes, you will catch up with it, and you will not be slashed with a knife? So she silently retreated into the forest.

The tartar quickly unreined the horse, clamped his leg, and the horse began to run.

Xie Mingzhou stepped in front of the tree in a few steps, flew and cut the rope on the tree, and then cut the rope in Du Qi's hand with a knife, turned around and chased wildly in the direction where the Tartar left, shouting as he ran: "Tie them all up." ”

I thought that the Tartar could not run fast in the forest on a horse, but I didn't expect to run so far in a few breaths, only to see the yellow horse in the forest flashing and flashing, and then disappeared.

Xie Mingzhou settled down, lucked his feet, stepped on the Big Dipper, and recited the magic in his mouth: "The Big Dipper, the essence of flying, the spirit of luck, the truth of transporting people, the combination of three talents and virtue, and the ...... of nine qi together"

He saw that his figure seemed to be blown by a strong wind, and he only turned a few times in the woods, and then he went out of the woods, but in front of him was a gentle grassy slope, and the tartar was also running very quickly, and he was about to enter the grove opposite.

Xie Mingzhou was anxious, because this seven-star step was extremely consuming of true qi, and it was not suitable to use it to chase the enemy, but it was used to set up the altar when doing a large-scale Zhaijiao ceremony, and now he was afraid of leaving trouble, and there was no other way to think about it, so he took it to try, but he never thought that the tartar could run so fast.

Xie Mingzhou's thoughts turned a few times, his true qi was more urgent, his feet were getting faster and faster, and when he entered the grove, he only felt that he was already powerless, and his heart was ruthless, and he forced all the true qi of his whole body to his right arm, and handed the knife to his right hand, and threw the knife in his hand to the tartar vest with a "whew".

As soon as the knife was taken off, he felt that the whole body was empty, and it softened like a boiled noodle, and he was powerless to see if he had hit the tartar, so he sat down against the big tree next to him, closed his eyes and calmed down, and silently recited the Void Qi Induction Technique to try his best to carry the true qi.