The morning fog cleared, and the earth was bright.

Before Qin Qiong could take a closer look at what the book Li Xuan had given him, he was carried a few feet away by the painful yellow horse.

After Li Xuan and Qin Qiong had a heart-to-heart conversation, when they saw him leave and leave, although they were reluctant, they were inexplicably relaxed. He didn't know if Qin Qiong would shine with this book in the future, but he knew that he would not live up to his good intentions.

He turned his horse's head and was about to run back to Zhushanhe Villa, but he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves rushing from the direction of the villa.

There was a sound of hooves, and it was Ling Long.

Ling Long galloped in front of Li Xuan and said in a low voice, "Brother Xuan, let's go." Li Xuan saw that her hair was slightly messy, her face was pale, and she seemed to have rushed to meet her before she got up and had not freshened up, and asked, "Has something happened to the villa?" Ling Long bit his lip and nodded: "I got up after hearing that you and Brother Qin Qiong rode away, and planned to freshen up and wait for you to come back, but I heard Li Mi and Zhu Shanhe arguing. Li Xuanqi said: "The two of them quarreled, but why?" Ling Long said: "Zhu Shanhe relied on his status as a patriarch and hated Qin Qiong for bumping into him, but Li Mi blamed Zhu Shanhe for taking you to the back hall without his consent. Li Mi said that you have a bad face and are an inauspicious person, he asked Zhu Shanhe to set up an ambush and poison you to arrest you, and also said that if you are handed over to the three Li brothers, not only can you resolve the grievances between Zhu Shanhe and Li Jiancheng, the holy lord of the flying camel, but also form a secret alliance with him, which is conducive to the world's plans!"

When Li Xuan heard this, he was not annoyed, but only sighed and said, "I am really not mistaken, Li Mi is indeed not a person who has achieved great things. It seems that he already knows what I have been doing in the rivers and lakes recently, which is why he has such a despicable and shameless plan. Could it be that Senior Zhu quarreled with him because of this?" Ling Long shook his head and said, "Zhu Shanhe neither agreed nor objected, only said that if he sacrificed you to the Flying Camel Holy Lord Li Jiancheng, I am afraid it would be a bad plan. If you are allowed to participate in the Taishan Conference, compete with the people sent by the gangs in the rivers and lakes, and lose both sides of the battle. Li Xuan was stunned and said curiously: "Then why are the two of them quarreling?" Ling Long suddenly twisted and sighed: "It's because of me that they quarreled." Li Xuan was puzzled and asked, "Because of you?" Ling Long gritted his teeth and said, "Li Mi said that if you can fight to the death with various gangs and factions, it is indeed a good way. But first, the enmity between you and the Flying Camel Lord will be stronger, and it is best to arrest me and frame me for the Flying Camel Lord. After Zhu Shanhe heard this, he didn't agree with him doing this, and ridiculed Li Mi for peeking at my beauty. As soon as you say a word to me, the two of them quarreled. ”

The two were talking when they heard someone in the distance chanting Li Xuan's name.

After Li Xuan heard Ling Long's words, although he was furious, his heart became more and more calm. He looked in the direction of Gao Zhi's name with a gloomy face, and said coldly: "It seems that they haven't noticed that you have left the villa, and they are in a hurry at this time, and they want to call me back to be hypocritical again." Alas, I didn't expect that Zhu's predecessors who have been in the rivers and lakes for a long time and have experience will be bewitched by Li Mi into an ungrateful person who values profit over friends. Well, if I pretend not to know at this time, it would be easy for me to return to the lodge and kill them, but if I do so, what difference will I make with them!"

Ling Long looked at Li Xuan quietly and asked, "Are we going to Mount Tai?"

Li Xuan said lightly: "Why don't you go! There are still Ah Ying, Brother Yao, Zhu Yezi, Bai Hanbing and his wife waiting for us!" After speaking, he sighed, looked at the direction of Mount Tai with a sad expression, and muttered: "People in the rivers and lakes, it is difficult to keep the same, as for becoming a good person or a wicked person, is it the will of God, the situation, and oneself? ”

The two left the villa of Zhushanhe, galloped on horseback, and did not arrive at Tai'an City until the evening of the next day. At this time, the soldiers were in chaos, the people were not living, in order to strictly prevent the thieves from gathering to attack the city, the city defense of Tai'an was extremely strict, so the city gate was closed when there was still light in the sky.

When Li Xuan and Ling Long arrived at the city, they saw that the gate was closed, and when they raised their eyes, they saw that the flags on the battlements were fierce, although there were dozens of soldiers patrolling back and forth, but there seemed to be hundreds of pairs of sharp and nervous eyes staring at the outside of the city behind the cold battlements. The two had no choice but to turn their horses' heads around looking for a place to stay. When I walked around for a while, I happened to meet an old farmer picking firewood, and after asking each other, I learned that thousands of bandits had attacked Tai'an City a few days ago, and now the imperial court is implementing the strategy of clearing the wilderness in order to prevent thieves from besieging the city. The old farmer couldn't help shaking his head and sighing when he saw that the two of them were thinly dressed, and said that there was an old temple village more than ten miles to the east, where there were many houses, and he might be able to find a place to stay. The two hurriedly thanked each other, and they didn't care about resting, so they rushed to Laomiao Village. Along the way, Ling Long saw that Li Xuan was driving without saying a word, and knew that he still couldn't let go of Zhu Shanhe and Li Mi's plot to kill them. If the life-saving favor is exchanged for the wolf's ambition, no matter who is in a bad mood.

Ling Long has been with Li Xuan for these days, and he is known to be a generous person, and he is also the most unkind and unjust to others.

But the rivers and lakes are a big dye vat that competes for fame and fortune and deceives, even if the chivalrous and loyal people are not contaminated with a different color. Therefore, if you are a smart person who can let go, it is rare to try to keep your beliefs while following the trend. But she also understands that a person like Li Xuan, who has lived and died a few times, but still attaches great importance to chivalrous beliefs, can not look back to Li Mi and Zhu Shanhe to settle accounts, which is already rare, but it is even more difficult for him to take advantage of the situation in a short period of time than to ascend to the sky. Ling Long didn't say a word, and followed Li Xuan tightly to beat the horse and gallop wildly.

Li Xuan galloped on his horse, and saw Ling Long following him silently, knowing that she wanted to comfort herself, but she didn't know where to comfort her, she couldn't help but apologize, and said in her heart: "Why did she look at me with melancholy in her eyes before? In fact, a calm and indifferent person like Ling Long could have lived a free and quiet life in Shaomu Mountain, but in order to break free from the shackles of Ling Juran's ancestors' legacy, she was willing to run around the rivers and lakes with me, how could I bear to let her bear my bad mood!"

He thought wildly, his mood was much soothed, and he wanted to apologize to Ling Long, but he didn't know how to speak, so he restrained his mount and held back for a long time before saying, "Are we looking in the wrong direction?" Ling Long saw that he was ashamed, and knew that he wanted to apologize to himself, so he smiled slightly: "It's wrong, it's wrong! Maybe if it's wrong, it's wrong!"

Li Xuan saw that she was as light as a chrysanthemum, and he already understood his thoughts in a shallow smile, so he couldn't help but be happy, let out a long howl, and continued to move forward. After walking for a few miles, turning over a mountain bag, Li Xuan saw that the sky was getting darker and darker, the north wind was blowing strongly, and I don't know when there were scattered snowflakes floating between the heavens and the earth. If we can't find a place to shelter from the wind and snow, do we really want to sleep in the cold land of the mountains? The two stood on the mountain and looked into the distance, and found that there were lights shining in the south pole.

The lights on a cold night are like the eyes of a lover gazing, full of longing and warmth.

Ling Long looked at the light and said happily, "Brother Xuan, we have a place to escape the cold tonight." Li Xuan nodded, seeing her happy appearance, he couldn't help but think of the excitement when he waved his arms when he promised to take Tang Bing to Zaoling on the riverside. After a flash of this thought, his heart tightened, and the ripples in his chest slowly rippled.

Li Xuan said: "Then let's go and bother and see if the owner there is willing to accept two people who are about to freeze into icicles." Ling Long nodded, and together with Li Xuan, he urged the horse down the mountain bag and galloped towards the place where the lights were on.

The two of them ran closer and closer, and only when they got closer did they realize that the place where the lights were lit was actually a thick wooden erection building. The building is about a dozen feet high, there is a wooden ladder that can be climbed, and there is a hut at the top, and the light shines from the hut.

In such a chaotic situation, who built the tower here? Was it for the needs of hope, or for the pastime of vassal elegance?

Li Xuan grabbed his mount and looked at the situation around him. At this time, there is no moon and no stars, the flying snow is confused, and the dark night is ambiguous, even if the two of them have practiced the superior mental method, their eyesight is excellent, but they can only see thirty or fifty zhang. Ling Long stared and searched, and found that there was a blue brick house more than thirty zhang away from the erection building, and said in a low voice: "Brother Xuan, there is someone here!" Li Xuan looked in the direction of her finger and also saw the blue brick house. At this time, the weather is freezing, although it is not necessary to drink and sing to ward off the cold, but people living in the house should at least pick up lamps and light fires to keep warm. But what is strange is that there is no light or sound in the blue brick house, except for the sound of the wind, it is quiet and terrible.

Ling Long stroked his long hair that was blown by the wind and said, "This place looks very weird, why do I feel uneasy in my heart?"

Li Xuan shook his hand, pointed to the light on the shelf, and said in a deep voice: "Is there no one here?" You must know that the sound of hooves in the dark night is the most difficult to hide, you and I came from afar before, if there were people here, they should have already noticed, but why didn't anyone come out to ask! Unless the people here avoided because of the war, why are there still lights burning on the shelf?"

He jumped off his mount lightly and whispered, "You wait here, I'll go up first." As he spoke, he jumped up four or five zhang from the ground, did not wait for his body to fall, put his left hand on the thick wood of the erection building, and his body took advantage of the momentum and swept up five or six zhang.

Li Xuan arrived at the staircase of the wooden house at the top of the erected building, did not dare to be careless, bowed down, leaned under the wooden window on the south side of the wooden house, listened attentively to the film, and noticed that there was no sound of snorting in the house, so he gently patted the wooden window, and in the squeak, the wooden window was opened at the same time, and his body shrank and entered the house. The furnishings of the house are very simple. A wooden table, two wooden chairs, and three bodies lying on the ground. Li Xuan saw that the three corpses were dressed extremely gorgeously, and each of them was wrapped in a bright red silk scarf on their heads. He was secretly surprised, and stepped forward to examine the three corpses briefly, and found that they had not only been cut off for a long time, but also had been locked in their throats by someone, and when they touched the corpses, it was known that these people had died not long ago.

Who killed them, and who were they?

Li Xuan jumped out of the wooden house and flew down, and briefly told Ling Long the scene in the wooden house. Ling Long was also puzzled when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Let's go to the blue brick house and have a look! Li Xuan nodded, took Ling Long's hand, and sighed softly: "Murder on a snowy night, one deadly, ruthless methods, and strange techniques, it is really rare! You are around me, but don't be too far away from me." Ling Long's hand was held by Li Xuan, and his heart became inexplicably nervous, and when he heard that he cared about himself, his cheeks couldn't help but be hot and surprised, but fortunately, at this time, the inky night could hide her flushed face. She gently withdrew the hand she was holding, and whispered, "I'm clumsy on your side, just don't involve you." When Li Xuan heard this, he was slightly stunned, and said with a light smile: "How can your ability affect me!"

The two of them flew up like birds, silently approaching the blue brick house. When I got closer, I realized that although this blue brick house was surrounded by a stone wall about a foot high, the original magnificent gate was shaken open by a strong palm, one hung on the door frame, and the other flew diagonally into the courtyard.

Li Xuan and Ling Long jumped into the courtyard, and saw that the surrounding area was lifeless, and the open doors were like the huge mouths of monsters, and they looked gloomy and desolate against the snow on the roof, corners, and stone steps. Li Xuanqian said in a deep voice: "I came from afar, passing through the treasure land, I wanted to spend the night, and I didn't mean to offend, if there is someone in the house, please respond." ”

Ling Long knew that Li Xuan was following the rules of the rivers and lakes, whether it was an enemy or a friend, he would say hello first, and if there was a response, he would make a plan again. How do you know that Li Xuan's voice has been down for a long time, and no one in the house or outside the house has responded at all except for the sound of the wind or the wind.

Seeing this, Li Xuan picked up a broken lantern that fell on the ground, lit it with a fire, and entered the main house with Ling Long, and found that the house was messy, with seven or eight corpses lying horizontally and vertically. Li Xuan stepped forward to inspect and found that these people were not only dressed in the same clothes as the humans on the shelf, but also killed by someone with a throat lock. The two of them did not stop, and successively inspected more than 20 rooms in the courtyard, and counted the 37 people who died in and out of the house.

It looks like this place has been wiped out!

When he returned to the main house where he first jumped into, Ling Long only felt extremely panicked. She looked at Li Xuan with a pale face, and said in a trembling voice: "Judging from the clothes of these people, it seems that they are the same sect, and they died at the hands of whom?"

Before Li Xuan could answer, he suddenly felt the sound of the call in the corner of the house. He was secretly surprised, pulled Ling Long behind him, shook his right hand, condensed into a claw, and used the compassionate tiger hand taught to him by Zen Master Zhixing, and grabbed it in the air.

Hearing Peng's sound, a floor-to-ceiling vase in the corner of the wall was scratched by him in the air, and at the same time, an emaciated figure rolled out of the broken bottle with a bang. Li Xuan shouted: "Why do you hide your head and tail!" Before he finished speaking, his figure rushed over like electricity, blocking in front of the man. The man rolled around a few times, and was about to take advantage of the situation to escape outside the door, but he felt the cold wind in front of him, looked up in a panic, and saw Li Xuan standing in front of him like a god, he couldn't help but sigh, prostrate on the ground, and said in his mouth: "The god of heaven spares his life, the god of heaven spares his life!"

Li Xuan saw that the person who was prostrate on the ground was gorgeously dressed, a red silk scarf was tied on his head, and a pair of triangular eyes were confused on his dark complexion, perhaps because of nervousness, when he peeked at Li Xuan, his trembling lips couldn't help but flow out of viscous phlegm.

Ling Long couldn't help but feel sick when he saw this man's frightened appearance.

Li Xuan finished looking at it, and said coldly: "Who are you, how can you hide in a vase?" Seeing this, Ling Long tested his pulse, shook his head and sighed: "This person's pulse seems to be slippery, and there are signs of damage to the heart vein, as if he was injured by someone with strong palm power. Brother Xuan, give him some internal strength, maybe delay some time. Li Xuan nodded, handed the lantern to Ling Long, and pressed his left palm against the black thin man's vest, slowly injecting warm inner breath into his hundred veins. But after a while, the black and thin man woke up with a sigh, and when he noticed that Li Xuan was injecting internal breath into his body, he couldn't help but smile miserably, and said, "Are you a god or a ghost?"

Ling Long didn't wait for Li Xuan to respond, and said lightly: "We just accidentally bumped into a passer-by passing here. What's going on here?"

The thin black man looked weakly at the flickering light and darkness in the room, coughed a few times, and sighed, "Please ask this girl to light the candles in the house." Alas, are they all dead" Ling Long didn't answer, found some candles that were still in good condition and lit them.

The room brightened up, and the messy scene looked even more terrifying.

The thin black man slowly glanced at the scene in the room, and said in a daze, "It's all dead!" ”

Li Xuan said: "What kind of gang are you, how can you suffer from this catastrophe?"

The black thin man muttered: "We are the Ludong Red Turban Gang, and this time we gathered at the foot of Mount Tai to participate in the Mount Tai Heroes Conference to be held the day after tomorrow. At noon this afternoon, we received a notice from the Heavenly God Gang Bai Hanbing Bai Right Envoy, saying that in the past few days, some people want to disturb the Heroes Conference, and often take advantage of the darkness to attack the heroes who come to participate in the Heroes Conference. ”

Li Xuan heard him mention the Heavenly God Gang and Bai Hanbing, and couldn't help but say awe-inspiringly: "Heavenly God Gang, Bai Hanbing, do you know this person?"

The thin black man said, "I don't recognize it." However, these days, the Tianshen Gang has been a well-known signboard in Shandong to fight chivalry and help the poor, even if we don't recognize the white right envoy, but we also believe in the message he brought. Unfortunately, we received a message, and the wicked came. Li Xuan heard the black thin man say that the Heavenly God Gang was here to fight chivalrous and help the needy, and he was overjoyed and asked, "What kind of person attacked you?" He struggled a few times, as if he had recalled the scene, and after a moment of respite, he muttered, "What kind of wicked people I only know that there are two people who came, each wearing a black and white robe." These two people came to the courtyard, and without saying a word, they began to kill people, alas, my poor gang! I knew that there was such an ending today, but it was better to happily promise Yan Wushu and join his Mo Gang. ”