Chapter Twenty-Three: The Grass House is still empty of hatred
When it was almost dark, the three of them came to Loushan Town and found an inn to live in. In the lobby of the inn, the three of them sat together and talked while eating.
Zhu Fei asked, "Mrs. Lu, have you been to Peach Blossom Mountain before?" Li Xiaowan shook her head. Zhu Feiyu was a little anxious, "How do you know where this Peach Blossom Mountain is and how many roads are there from us if you haven't been there?"
Li Xiaowan looked at the night outside the door with stunned eyes, and sighed faintly, "That's from my late father, as long as you pass through Loushan Town, you can rush early the next day and arrive at Taohua Mountain at noon." ”
Guo Jinzhi looked around vigilantly, and when he saw that there were still a few diners in the restaurant, he whispered, "You guys, be careful that the wall has ears." Zhu Feiyu stuck out her tongue and smiled at Guo Jinzhi.
Li Xiaowan glanced at the store and whispered to the two, "Have you seen the old man sitting at the door?" and the two middle-aged people sitting under the window, it seems that they are both martial arts masters, could they be coming for us?"
Seeing Li Xiaowan's worried expression, Zhu Feiyu snorted coldly, "With us here, you can put a hundred hearts, and no one dares to touch you in front of us." ”
Guo Jinzhi became worried, "I'm not worried that someone will do something with us here, I'm worried about that person, whether the enemy will poison him." ”
At the mention of that person, Li Xiaowan also began to worry. "We were talking about that person just now, could it have been overheard? What should we do now?"
Zhu Feiyu was still so anxious, she stood up suddenly, "Then we will rush over overnight and stay ahead of the enemy." ”
Guo Jinzhi pulled her clothes, "Second Senior Sister, you sit down first, and we'll discuss it again." If we leave tonight, we will probably get lost because we haven't been there, and it will be more than worth the loss. Why don't we set out at dawn and let no one pay attention to us before dawn. ”
Li Xiaowan thought for a while, "It's still reasonable for Master Guo, when we get to the vicinity of Peach Blossom Mountain, we still have to find someone to inquire, if we go where in the middle of the night, who are we going to ask?"
Who knows, no matter how careful they are, they were still overheard talking, and the old man sitting at the door twitched slightly from the corner of his eyes when he heard the words "Peach Blossom Mountain", but unfortunately they didn't see it.
After eating, the three of them walked towards their room, and saw that the suspicious three were still sitting there chewing slowly. Back in the room, Li Xiaowan began to worry again. "Master Guo, did you say those three people came to assassinate us?"
Although Guo Jinzhi has little experience in the rivers and lakes, she is smart and has seen countless such scenes in many modern martial arts books, she smiled faintly at Li Xiaowan, "Mrs. Lu, you can put a hundred hearts, sleep peacefully, nourish your spirit, with me and my senior sister, hold you safe." ”
After Zhu Feiyu comforted her a few words, she urged her to rest early. Li Xiaowan slept, and Guo Jinzhi asked Zhu Feiyu to sleep too. Zhu Feiyu shook her head and said, "Master, you should rest first, I'm not tired." ”
Guo Jinzhi smiled at her, and sat there like an old monk practicing his skills. Zhu Feiyu also sat up quietly when she saw it.
On the fourth watch, Guo Jinzhi opened his eyes and saw that Zhu Feiyu was still in his meditation, so he stood up and stretched his waist, and with such a slight movement, Zhu Feiyu woke up. She glanced at Guo Jinzhi, "Jinzhi, is the time up?"
Guo Jinzhi nodded, "Second Senior Sister, it's already four days." Guo Jinzhi then woke up the sleeping Li Xiaowan, and the three jumped to the ground from the back window. Quietly led out the horse, and walked all the way to the outside of the town, before hitting the horse all the way to the official road.
The east gradually brightened, and the road slowly began to have pedestrians. On the way, they asked a vegetable farmer who was carrying a burden to the market, and they knew that it was not far from Peach Blossom Mountain, and there was still half an hour to go at most.
It was only at this time that the hanging hearts of the three of them were finally put down. Zhu Fei said, "Okay, the road is still peaceful, nothing happened, it seems that our worries are unnecessary." ”
Guo Jinzhi always felt a little apprehensive in her heart, but she didn't want to ruin everyone's interest, so she could only rush all the way to Taohua Mountain.
Running all the way, Li Xiaowan was a little physically exhausted. Zhu Feiyu could only slow down from time to time, waiting for Li Xiaowan to catch up. Gradually, Guo Jinzhi was already a peerless rider, leaving the two far behind.
At the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain, Guo Jin got off his horse and tied the reins, turned around and glanced at the back, and said to Zhu Feiyu who came over, "I'll wait for you above." After speaking, the person was like an arrow off the string, flying towards the "Peach Blossom House" halfway up the mountain.
In front of the "Peach Blossom House", Guo Jinzhi saw that the bamboo door was wide open, and it was quiet inside. She stood at the gate of the courtyard and shouted inside, "Is there anyone inside?"
It was silent, and there was not a single sound. She screamed again, only to hear a miserable scream coming from within.
Guo Jinzhi drew his sword and got up in one go, when she rushed into the door, she saw a figure jumping out of the window, Guo Jinzhi didn't think about it, and shook his hand is a handful of money, which entered the person's seven key points. Hearing only a "plop", the man fell outside the wall.
Guo Jinzhi didn't care about tracking down the man, she stepped over to the man lying on the ground. I saw a man in his fifties, with bright red blood flowing from the corners of his mouth, and his eyes were wide open looking at Guo Jinzhi.
Guo Jinyi took the old man's hand, and when he saw that his pulse was very weak, he lost his true strength. The old man looked at Guo Jinzhi with surprised eyes, and said softly, "My internal organs have been shattered, you don't have to waste your real strength, you have to ...... to save Wan's girl."
Halfway through his words, he tilted his head and lost his breath. Guo Jinzhi shouted a few times, "Old man, old man." But the miracle doctor Lu Caihe should have left the world because he was too injured.
It was only then that Zhu Feiyu broke into the door with Li Xiaowan. The two saw Guo Jinzhi squatting on the ground, holding the hand of the divine doctor Lu Caihe stupidly, but Lu Caihe had passed away suddenly.
Seeing this tragic scene, Li Xiaowan fell to her knees, put her knees on her feet, and walked towards Lu Caihe. "Uncle Lu, I hurt you, Xiaowan is sorry for you. ”
The mournful cry echoed in the mountainside, tear-jerking, and it was unbearable to hear. The mournful cry broke the hearts of Guo Jinzhi and Zhu Feiyu.
Guo Jinzhi's ninja came out of the window in grief, and there was no half figure on the ground except for a pool of blood. Guo Jinzhi frowned, but he still let the enemy run away, that person had obviously sealed a few big holes by himself, could he still run?
Then I thought, by the way, there must have been a companion of the enemy hiding outside the window at that time, and it must have been his companion who rescued him. Angry, she shook her hand and entered the house again.
At this moment, Li Xiaowan had stopped crying, she and Zhu Feiyu looked at the room full of medicines, shook their heads helplessly, and said in a desolate voice, "It's over, my life is destined to be over like this." As he spoke, he shed two lines of bitter tears.
"Gain and loss, sometimes it may be the arrangement of fate.
Zhu Feiyu looked at the shelves full of medicines and said in a panic, "Isn't there any medicine here to restore your strength?"
Li Xiaowan didn't seem to hear her talking, and still looked at Lu Caihe lying on the ground in a daze. Guo Jinzhi said, "Although these medicines are precious, they are no longer of any use to us, unless the divine doctor is resurrected." ”
Li Xiaowan took one last look at Lu Caihe and said to Guo Jinzhi and Zhu Feiyu, "Let's go and leave this sad place." ”
Guo Jinzhi looked at Lu Caihe's body on the ground, "We still buried him, can we bear to abandon him here like this?
Li Xiaowan raised her head, "Of course not, I'm going to set a fire so that Uncle Lu will live in mystery forever." Guo Jinzhi looked at the ancient books on the shelves, "Wouldn't it be a pity that these books are burned? ”
Li Xiaowan shook her head and said, "These are the crystallization of Uncle Lu's life's work, we can't take them away casually without his consent, otherwise Uncle Lu in the sky will be unhappy." ”
Zhu Feiyu also said, "We can't take what is here without the consent of the master, what is the difference between that and stealing? ”
Li Xiaowan lit a torch, looked at Lu Caihe lying on the ground again, and slowly stretched the torch to Lu Caihe's clothes lying on the ground. Suddenly, Guo Jin shouted, "Slow." ”
Guo Jinzhi's screams made the two of them look stunned, and Zhu Feiyu looked at her blankly and asked, "Master, what's wrong with you today?"
Li Xiaowan also looked at her with puzzled eyes. Guo Jinzhi slowly stepped forward, squatted down beside Lu Caihe, and picked up one of Lu Caihe's hands. Lu Caihe wears a string of copper bells on his wrist, isn't this thing worn on his feet?
Guo Jinzhi's mind came up with the words that Lu Caihe said at the last moment of his life, "... Save the girl to..."I remember that he once raised this hand with a brass bell when he said this, is there any secret in this bell?
Guo Jinzhi took down the string of copper bells, and Zhu Fei hurriedly said, "Master, you can't ask for dead people's things, otherwise it will be unlucky." ”
Li Xiaowan looked at Guo Jinzhi in surprise, "Master Guo, what do you mean by this?"
Guo Jinzhi stood up, playing with the string of copper bells in his hand, and said in a flat tone, "If you want to remove the poison in Mrs. Lu's body, maybe there is an antidote in this copper bell." ”
Zhu Feiyu suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Guo Jinzhi's hand with a sudden realization, "Master, I was wrong to blame you just now, please forgive me." ”
Li Xiaowan's eyes were shining with tears, and she pulled Guo Jinzhi's other arm excitedly, "Master Guo, is this true? My martial arts can be restored again?" After speaking, she looked at Lu Caihe's body and shed sad tears.
Guo Jinzhi said confidently, "If my guess is correct, Divine Doctor Lu should have hidden the holy medicine here. You see, this thing is only worn on the feet by others, but it is worn on the hands. Doctor Lu is an ethnic minority?" The last sentence was said by looking at Li Xiaowan.
Although Li Xiaowan didn't know the true meaning of ethnic minorities, she was smart enough to understand that it was Guo Jinzhi asking her, is Doctor Lu Han nationality?