Chapter 145 The Old Man of the Rivers and Lakes
Li Xuanjian pulled the iron ring, and a rusty rope bridge slowly rose from the bottomless ravine. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe rope bridge is simple in structure and consists of two thick chains and some half-worn slippery wooden planks. The rope bridge rises, and the mountain wind that blows over the valley makes a 'creaking' sound, which makes people tremble at the bottom of their hearts and look away.
If you don't leave quickly, the situation will inevitably be unfavorable.
Li Xuan heard Han Zishan yelling a few times, knowing that if he hesitated any longer, the opportunity would disappear. He gritted his steel teeth and wanted to hug Sister Zhu who was lying across his arm, but he didn't expect Sister Zhu to suddenly open her eyes, twist her waist, and after breaking free, she turned over and fell on his back.
Sister Zhu didn't wait for Li Xuan to wake up from her shock, and said in a low voice: "Silly boy, what are you waiting for? ”
When Li Xuan heard this, he didn't have time to care why Sister Zhu suddenly woke up, and with both feet, she jumped onto the rickety and extremely slippery rope bridge. He knew that walking on such a dangerous rope bridge would not be able to take every step. If you take a solid step, maybe something unpredictable will happen. Therefore, he did not wait for his body to settle down, raised his feet and breathed inside, and ran towards the other side as if flying.
When he arrived on the other side, Li Xuan was worried that Aunt Shu and Han Zishan would chase him, so he jumped up and turned around, and unfolded the Divine Dance Blade in the air, and with two 'Zheng Zheng' sounds, he cut off the chains on the rope bridge. Although he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he still didn't dare to stop for a while, and ran along the road with Sister Zhu on his shoulder, until Sister Zhu kept beating his back, and asked with a smile: "Bastard boy, are you crazy, do you want to keep running like this for the rest of your life?" Li Xuan's face turned red when he heard this, and then he remembered that he still had a bamboo sister behind him. Turning his head, he saw Sister Zhu looking at herself with a smile, hurriedly put her down, and said in a strange voice: "I saw you tied to the sword washing table before, unconscious, but I don't know why you suddenly got better? Could it be that you deliberately pretended to look like that?" Sister Zhu saw that his face was full of surprise, and couldn't help but smile and said: "I really deliberately pretended to be unconscious! If not, how would you be anxious to save me!" When Li Xuan heard this, he suddenly felt like he was being played, but when he saw Sister Zhu's appearance, even though he was slightly displeased, he was relieved, and smiled slightly: "Even if you don't look unconscious, I plan to save you......!" Only I know when my wounds will recover, so how do you know that I will come to your rescue?"
Sister Zhu didn't expect Li Xuan to ask herself like this, she was stunned, blinked her eyes, and asked with a smile: "Are you badly injured?" Hehe, how did I know that you couldn't recover in a short time...... Since you asked me like this, I am also very strange, you have been seriously injured, why can you recover so quickly?" Li Xuan saw that she was strange, and asked himself, and couldn't help laughing: "I am a blessing in disguise, die but not die!" Haha...... Let's go, let's not gossip, the most important thing for now is to get out of here early. Sister Zhu saw that he diverted the topic, but she didn't want to talk deeply, so she pushed the boat down the river and said: "The rope bridge across the valley was cut by you, and it is estimated that it will take more than half a day to repair it." It seems that the people of the mountain villa will not be able to catch up for a while. Li Gongzi, where are you going to take me?"
Li Xuan was stunned when he heard this, and said secretly in his heart: "Yes, where am I going to take her? Since I strayed into the rivers and lakes, I can't help myself, and I have always been pushed away by inexplicable things." Now, although the world is big, where should I go!" He saved Sister Zhu this time, and the reason for his anger was asked by her at this moment, and he calmed down and thought about it repeatedly, but he was a little dazed. Sister Zhu saw Li Xuan stunned in place, pulled him, and said gloomily: "The Hidden Sword Villa is my home! My home can't go back now, can't you go back to your home? Even if you don't have a place to go, you can always go back to your own home! And now I have no one to take care of." As he spoke, his eyes turned red, and he couldn't help but cry.
The wind blew, stirring Sister Zhu's long black hair, and the messy hair swept over her sad face, which couldn't help but make people feel pity. Li Xuan saw that although she was older than herself, she was happy for a while and sad for a while, just like a child, she couldn't help but sigh secretly, and said in her heart: "Although she is a little childish, what she said is not unreasonable." Since I have saved her, I should save her to the end, how can I let her wander the rivers and lakes. Now she must go back, so she can only take her...... And I did be away from home for too long, so it's time to go back. So he smiled and said, "Don't cry." You walk around the rivers and lakes with me first, and after a few days, Miss Rou's anger is completely gone, and you come back to ask her for guilt. ”
When Sister Zhu heard Li Xuan say this, she burst into tears and smiled: "This is the best." But when the Rou girl's anger is gone, and she won't blame me anymore, I don't know how long it will take......" Before the words were finished, I suddenly heard a few high-pitched horse neighing in the distance ahead.
The two followed the prestige and saw that at the corner of the mountain, the fiery red maple leaves covered a pavilion, which was the Wenjian Pavilion that Li Xuan had passed by when he came. At this moment, there was no one in the Sword Pavilion, but there were two horses with black and red manes and four hooves as big as a sea bowl tied to the horse stake next to it. When Sister Zhu saw this, she was overjoyed, and ran over with a cry of joy, and couldn't help but hug the two horses and call, "How can you be here with the fire and the whirlwind?" She was curious, and when she hurriedly opened it, she saw that in addition to her daily change of clothes and jewelry and some gold and silver leaves, there was also an inkblot letter.
The letter was opened, and a line of Juanxiu handwriting was seen: Don't stay. It is estimated that there will be nothing to do in a year, and then I will return to the villa. Willow branch message. Li Xuan saw that Sister Zhu had tears in her eyes after reading the letter, and was about to comfort her, but she wiped her red eyes, stopped crying, slowly tidied up her messy hair, and said strongly: "Li Gongzi, let's go." So they got on their horses and walked along the mountain road out of the mountain. These two horses were indeed divine horses, and in a short time they had galloped to the edge of the mountain. Li Xuan followed Han Zishan earlier from the southwest of the mountain to enter the mountain villa, but at this time, Sister Zhu led Li Xuan along the northeast road to the outside of the vast mountain range. At this time, although the ridge presents the beauty of the late autumn season, the cold wind outside the ridge has already been stirred, and I don't know when a heavy snow will fall.
Although the heavy snow was a little thinner, the thin white snow still obscured the distant mountains, near the water, the trees, and the strange rocks.
It was almost noon, and the sun was shining on the snow, reflecting a white and bright light. The light shone brightly, a little dazzling, and a large area of branches in the distance that pointed to the sky flew down some birds and finches who did not know the hardships of the world, squeaking and screaming, but when they were disturbed by the sound of hooves, they flapped their wings one after another, and crossed the arc in twos and threes in the air, gently flying through the gloomy sky, and turned into black spots in a blink of an eye, adding a little bit of vitality to the lonely world.
Sister Zhu stopped her horse, tilted her head to look at the fork in the road ahead, and said infinitely sadly: "You must not have been to this road." ”
She muttered, as if she had forgotten to wait for Li Xuan's response, and looked into the distance and said slowly: "Actually, the villa is not completely isolated from the world, Miss Rou will arrange for Aunt Shu or Brother Shan to lead our eight sisters out for a walk every year. But Miss Rou is extremely careful, worried that we will be nostalgic for the world. Alas, or maybe it's for safety! ”
Li Xuan nodded, pointed to the fork in the road on the right and asked, "So, you are familiar with this road, but you haven't walked that road?"
Sister Zhu was silent, and only after a while did she say, "Yes." Li Xuan said: "What is the Liliji?" Sister Zhu sighed: "It's just an ordinary town." Because there are daily items such as rice, oil, tea, and salt, Aunt Shu and Brother Shan often go there. ”
Li Xuan nodded and said, "In that case, we can't go to that Lili set." Sister Zhu was puzzled and asked, "Why?" Li Xuan said: "If you arrive at the set, maybe within a few days, you will be found by Aunt Shu and Brother Shan." Well, the snow has left us with hoof prints and exposed tracks, and it might be better for us to go somewhere else that is relatively unfamiliar to them. Sister Zhu smiled slightly: "Makes sense." I can't see that your mind is so thoughtful. After finishing speaking, he sighed, pointed to the road on the left and said to Li Xuan: "After leaving the villa, for me, the whole world is a strange place...... By the way, if we go to your house, will we take this road?" Li Xuan laughed when he heard this: "You keep saying that you don't leave home, you are really a child who has just left home." It seems that if I don't take you to my house, you will continue to nag you...... Let's go! The rivers and lakes are actually very big!"
When Sister Zhu heard this, she smiled coquettishly: "We just walked together, do you think I am nagging! It seems that in a few days, you will definitely leave me and go to be at ease by yourself." In the midst of laughter, he whistled to the sky and rode forward. The horses' hooves splashed mud and snow and flew like flowers. Sister Zhu has a very high ability to control horses, and in a moment, Li Xuan fell behind in his thirties.
Although the red horse is a miracle horse, the dark horse whirlwind does not show weakness. Two horses of different colors one after the other, like wind and lightning, only two hours, have completely galloped away from the mountain. Sister Zhu saw that the mountains behind her were getting farther and farther away, and the feeling of dark pain in her heart became more and more difficult to control.
Li Xuan saw that Sister Zhu was running faster and faster, worried that she would get out of his sight, and shouted loudly from behind: "Hey, hey, don't run too fast, the horse will be tired." Sister Zhu looked back and smiled when she heard this: "This horse is the best among the Dawan horses, and it is not afraid to travel thousands of miles a day, not to mention that it has only run for this hour." After speaking, he suddenly turned around and said solemnly: "I'm not called 'Hey', and I'm not your sister." Won't you call me by my name?" Li Xuan laughed when he heard this: "It's me who is rude." I hear people call you sister or girl, and I don't know what your real name is for, so I can only call you like this. ”
Sister Zhu smiled and said, "My name is Bamboo Leaf, and the green bamboo leaf is me." Li Gongzi, you can call me Ye Zi in the future. ”
Li Xuan praised when he heard this: "Bamboo leaves...... Ha ha...... Good fresh name. Leaves, leaves, bamboo leaves are you!"
Hearing him call his name, Zhu Yezi was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "I've heard it for a long time." As he spoke, he turned back to Li Xuan and asked, "You called me so kind, did you like me?" Li Xuan didn't expect Zhu Yezi to ask such a question, and was stunned when he heard the words, and said: "I like you......" Zhu Yezi interrupted: "I don't need you to like it." Hee-hee...... The whole Tibetan Sword Villa thinks I like you, but in fact, it was me in the Villa, and now that I'm out of the Villa, I have to think about it. Li Gongzi, do you think I should think about it?"
Li Xuan didn't think about it, and said: "You definitely have to think about it, a stunning beautiful woman like you, if you don't think about it carefully, you will regret it when the time comes." Zhu Yezi nodded seriously and said, "I really should think about it!"
The two of them giggled and rode forward, and before they knew it, they had galloped into a valley.
The twilight was faint, and the snow reflected the reddish glow of the slanting sun, falling all over the valley. The valley is steep and deep, flanked by tall trees, and between the trees, weeds. A few tall and abrupt strange stones, like a mythical beast lying down and hunting, make people look at it and are faintly uneasy. Li Xuan stretched out his hand and grabbed the bamboo leaf that was still about to run forward, and said in a low voice: "Bamboo leaf, wait and go forward...... There were people shouting and fighting in the miscellaneous forest more than fifty zhang away in front of the left. ”
Zhu Yezi looked at Li Xuan in surprise, stuck out his tongue and said, "You are so powerful! You can hear someone shouting from more than fifty feet away?" After finishing speaking, he smiled again: "At such a time, who would sneakily hide in the jungle? Hmph, I dare to assert that they must be doing something unseemly...... Li Gongzi, how about we go and see?"
Li Xuan was about to stop it, but he saw that the bamboo leaves had already jumped down from the fire horse, and after only three ups and downs, they disappeared seven or eight feet away.
The wind shakes the trees, the light and shadow are blurred, and the earth is unwilling to be lonely. The bamboo leaves jumped on a tall black pine, and by the faint twilight, I saw that behind the bushes, in a small open space more than ten zhang away, three men holding steel whips, ghost axes, and three-pointed two-edged belly knives were surrounding a man and a woman, shouting and fighting. She saw the young man who was being surrounded, holding a simple knife, his body was thin, his expression was cold, and his anxious eyes faintly revealed despair and helplessness.
The young man seemed to be running out of strength, leaning on the boulder behind him tiredly, his bleeding right arm trembled slightly, and together with the woman in white beside him, he looked angrily at the three men in front of him, and only hissed for a long time asked: "The three monsters of Laoshan, you are also famous for many years." Although I have done few chivalrous deeds, I have not heard of any evil deeds from you. Now, there are no old grudges between us, let alone new enmities, so why are you so entangled?"
When the shortest of the three men heard this, he sneered, "Good eyesight." I didn't expect the three of us to make up as hillbillies, but you still recognized us. Hum...... We are indeed innocent, but people die for money, and birds die for food. I kindly advise the two of you to hand over the precious things on your body immediately, and we will immediately lift our feet and leave. ”
The woman in white had her hair scattered, and her clothes that were originally like snow were already stained, and she couldn't help but turn pale with anger after hearing this, and said hatefully: "What do you want...... Don't say I don't have it, and even if I do, I won't give it to a shameless person like you. The short man laughed and said, "You said no, you don......'t have it?" Hum...... It's better to have a hard mouth than to be hard. Listening to them talk like a dumb riddle, Zhu Yezi couldn't help but be more curious. Although she rarely walks the rivers and lakes and is simply ignorant of the world, she also knows the truth of waiting to see what happens, and she is busy bowing her body, lest she make a noise. She was watching wonderfully, only to feel the breeze around her move slightly, and she knew that Li Xuan had also jumped up the tree. Li Xuan saw that the bamboo leaves were fascinated, and he also jumped on the black pine to look at the open space behind the bushes, and couldn't help but be surprised. Because the man and woman who were surrounded by those three men were none other than Ah Ying and Yao Zikong, who had been away for a long time.
Yao Zikong listened to the arrogance and domineering of the short man's words, and said angrily: "Since you want to be a robber, don't be a mother-in-law." What do you want all the way here?" Hearing this, the dwarf man gave him a thumbs up and praised: "Yao Zikong, you want to be empty, the thief sees Yao Zikong, his hands are empty, and his life is empty...... Hahaha, our family is not a thief, so our life will not be empty. After a pause, he said, "Bring me the bead that can suck out the poison from your body...... Hey...... Don't tell Lao Tzu that you've lost that magical thing. ”
When Ah Ying heard this, she realized that the three monsters of Laoshan did not hesitate to use their physical strength to chase them here from hundreds of miles away, in order to get the dragon scale fish beads handed over to her by Li Xuan, she couldn't help but feel resentful in her heart, and said loudly: "I just lost the beads, what else can you do?"
Yao Zikong heard the short man say the purpose, and couldn't help but secretly say: "Except for the beads we took out and used in the Dustless Villa, there were no traces on the road...... Are they the people of Dustless Villa? It seems that he shouldn't have listened to Tang Bing's words and saved Ding Cangqiong with dragon scale fish beads. Now, Ah Ying and I have been cornered by them, and it is impossible to break through and get out of trouble. How can I think of a way to hold them back, let Ah Ying get out of danger, and get out of here?"
He was frowning when he heard the dwarf man laugh loudly, "You lost the beads, I think they are hidden in your clothes......!" Let the uncle search to see if it is hidden in his chest?" Li Xuan saw Ah Ying and Yao Zikong for the first time, and his joy in his heart can be imagined. At this time, listening to the short man's filthy words to Ah Ying, he couldn't help it anymore, and was about to fly and jump down, but he heard a burst of 'jingling' copper bells from the depths of the valley. The brass bell rings rhythmically, as if ringing in the ears. (To be continued.) )