The north wind howled, the sky was overcast, and the trees beside the road were tilted by the wind, and the leaves fluttered and flew into the colder sky.

There are not many pedestrians on the road, and occasionally I see a team dragging families and mouths, pulling livestock to go forward against the cold wind. This year was not a good year, the crop harvest was not good, many farmers left their hometowns to make a living elsewhere, and then there were fires in the mountains, which caused panic and urged people to flee elsewhere.

There was a depression along the way. Often, a few soldiers galloped away on horseback, kicking up a puff of dust, choking on the mouths and noses of the people on the roadside, and coughing on their faces. Niu Ren and the three of them were also on this road, and the passers-by were very strange to see them, a young man with an ugly face riding a mule, and the other two Taoist priests dressed as riding two high-headed horses, walking slowly on the road, the wind and sand came to them, and people couldn't raise their heads.

The big horse was the leader of the cottage, humming white gas, leaving the master, carrying these two strangers, facing the annoying wind and sand, as if he was still a little annoyed, snorting twice from time to time, not stopping, the person on the horse only added two more whips, and then fluttered and walked again.

At noon, the three of them sat down at a small shop and asked for some food. The shop was dilapidated, the windows were gone, and the wind and sand swept in unscrupulously from outside, staining the food. "How can this make people eat?" Qi Yingying complained, her coquettish tone and soft voice were heard by the passers-by at the table next to her, and she couldn't help but feel strange, and looked here a few more times. Qi Yingying also noticed it and hurriedly shut her mouth.

Niu Renhe took away the food that was stained by the wind and sand, "I'll eat these." He put it in his mouth.

"Hey, how can you eat so dirty?" Qi Yingying pouted.

Niu Renhe smiled, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

When Qi Yingying saw him like that, she didn't care about it, she ate it in a big gulp, she was already hungry after a bumpy ride, and she ate deliciously. Yin Longyang joked with her on the side, "The sand dust also looks delicious." ”

"You said lightly, you can also taste it, and always eat that broken cake by yourself!" Qi Yingying glared at him angrily.

"I'd really like to try it, we don't have wind and sand there. Yin Longyang also took chopsticks to eat the rice that was stained on the surface, "It's delicious, it's different here, this wind and sand must have seen a lot of things from afar!

Qi Yingying burst into laughter, "This son, you really have never been serious. ”

While laughing, there were more voices outside, and the sound of horses' hooves was also chaotic. Niu Renhe looked outside, "Hurry up and eat, I don't know what's going on, there are many rights and wrongs on the road, let's go quickly after eating." After a moment, the chaotic voice faded away.

"Xiao Er, bring some good wine and meat!" Three sword-wielding people walked in from the door, looking at the dress that was not an ordinary family, the people who ate were secretly watching, and the conversation was lowered.

Niu Renhe looked up and saw that it was Sima Weiguang, the son of the assassin Shi, and behind him was the follower Zhao Wang who had seen before, but the other had not seen it, he looked very burly and strong, and his skills were also extraordinary. Sima Weiguang looked around the store and also saw Niu Renhe, "It turned out to be Dr. Niu!" As soon as he arched his hand at him, he chose a place next to Niu Renhe and the three people to sit down, and the two of them also sat down with him. Yin Longyang looked at this person carefully, saw that it was familiar, and remembered that it was the one he met the demon that night, and just wanted to greet him, and thought that he was no longer wearing that mask, and he couldn't recognize it.

Niu Renhe smiled at the three of them, "Hello everyone, Sima Gongzi, I didn't expect to meet here, where are you going?"

Sima Weiguang said, "Go to Yulong Pass, there are some official business. Zhao Wang, the attendant next to him, coughed, probably reminding him not to say where to go casually.

Niu Renhe said, "The son is going to get married this month, and he has to go out on business by himself, which is really hard work." ”

"Whereever, the doctor is also well-informed. ”

"Who in this state city doesn't know that Sima Gongzi wants to win the general's only daughter. ”

Qi Yingying listened to it next to her and couldn't help but shudder. Yin Longyang asked her, "What's wrong with you?" Qi Yingying shook her head and said nothing.

Only then did Sima Weiguang notice Niu Ren and the two people next to him, looking at Qi Yingying very much like the Taoist who had ridden a mule into the air, and remembered that when he entered the door just now, he saw that the mule at the door was familiar, so he thought that it must be him. I was very happy, "Hello Taoist, I didn't expect to see you here!"

Qi Yingying panicked for a while, not wanting her fiancé to talk to herself, and he said to himself, "Hello Taoist", which also made him puzzled. Niu Renhe was also confused all of a sudden. Yin Longyang's mind was bright, and he suddenly understood, and said to Sima Weiguang first, "Childe, I don't know, my Daoist brother is a mute, where have you seen it?"

Sima Gongzi told all the things that he had witnessed the Taoist priest rise into the air, the mule was injured, and the demon was encountered.

Niu Renhe also understood when he heard it, Sima Weiguang must have met Yin Longyang, not Qi Yingying, who was now wearing a mask and misidentified him. Niu Renhe said, "This Taoist priest is a friend, come to me to do something, and leave in a few days, I didn't expect that you also had a relationship with Gongzi." ”

Qi Yingying listened to "karma" as "marriage", thinking that Niu Renhe had already known her identity as the general's daughter, and she panicked again, and after a while, she realized that she had made a mistake. Yin Longyang asked her in a low voice, "What's wrong with you?" Qi Yingying shook her head. Yin Longyang felt strange, his mind was very agile, and he thought in his heart that Qi Yingying must have something to do with the son in front of him.

While a few people were talking, they heard another noise outside, more horses' hooves, and many people were shouting, "The fugitive is over there!

Qi Yingying was startled when she heard this, and Sima Weiguang suddenly got up and looked outside, "I'll take a look!" and went out as he spoke, and the two people who came with him also went out. Qi Yingying whispered, "I'm going to go out and have a look!"

"This meal is also non-stop. Niu Renhe put the money on the table, and the three of them went outside to watch together.

The yellow sand is long, it is bigger than just now, overwhelming, and it is not a few feet away. The three of them went around to the back of the house, and walked along to the clashing of weapons and shouts, and saw many shadows on the road ahead. A group of farmers with livestock came back from the dust, and Niu Renhe stopped one of them to ask. "Who knows, I just saw a few people being chased by officers and soldiers, and now it's fighting!"

"How many people are there? Isn't Huang Zichi alone?" Niu Renhe asked Qi Yingying. Qi Yingying shook her head and said, "I don't know. ”

Suddenly, a horse ran over from the fighting array, followed by two or three officers and soldiers, and Sima Weiguang and the strong and sturdy entourage. Qi Yingying stared at the person who came on horseback, and when he got closer, he suddenly shouted and fainted, Yin Longyang hurriedly stepped forward to help her, and stopped her in his arms, only to feel that her whole body was soft and boneless, and there was a question in her heart, and she felt that there was always some secret behind this Qi Yingying.

The man on horseback heard the crisp shout, stopped beside the three of them, looked at them a few more times, and the men behind him caught up with him, and surrounded him.

"Whew, you bastards, you will die by my sword!" the man said, raising his twin knives and fighting them, the momentum was extraordinary, the left and right broadswords were wielded very majestic, and the horses under him were also extremely agile, protruding left and right, like swimming fish in water. Several officers and soldiers were cut off their horses by him, and blood came out, and only Sima Weiguang and his entourage fought against them, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser in a few rounds.

Niu Ren and the three of them retreated one after another, hiding behind the bushes on the side of the road, watching the fight ahead. Niu Ren and the person who wanted to make the big knife must be Huang Zichi, seventeen or eighteen years old young, with a delicate face, quite a scholarly face, and in the fight was extremely fierce, his face was hideous, and he made people tremble with his shouts, like a devil crying god descending to earth, I had never seen it before. That Sima Weiguang and the two of them couldn't parry, and it was difficult to separate from the other side of the fight.

I only heard a majestic roar in the distance, and the momentum was overwhelming, which made people feel intimidated. Niu Renhe thought to himself, but what an extraordinary person has come? I didn't expect to encounter such a majestic scene today, it is really rare.

After a while, I saw another group of soldiers on horseback coming from the yellow sand, but when they approached, they were only four or five ordinary soldiers, which could not help but disappoint. And behind the soldiers, there were still a few people who came on foot, and the formation was also majestic, and when they got closer, they saw the seven monks Niu Ren and the mountain of Master Hongjia!