Chapter Twenty-Four: Inquiry!
"Hehe~" Gao Wu looked at the arrogant and angry young man and couldn't help laughing. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info then slowly walked towards the place where the young man was lying.
Seeing Gao Wu constantly approaching him, the young man's face was a little uneasy. But he was immediately suppressed by the anger in his heart, and roared: "Are you deaf?!"
"Has anyone told you, boy, you're arrogant!" The faint words came out of Gao Wu's mouth and flowed into the young man's ears.
"Click~, click~" With his hands crossed, a crisp bone popping sound sounded from between Gao Wu's fingers.
"Ah~!"
"Ahhh~!"
"Ahh~!"
A miserable cry came from the cave where the lights flickered, and spread far and wide. The unknown insect in the tree flew away in panic, it had never heard such a terrifying roar after being an insect for so many years, and it was better to leave.
After some inquiry, the time has dragged on until midnight. The young man finally became friendly under Gao Wu's kind attention, and the two of them could be regarded as cooperating with each other with questions and answers.
This big mountain is called Qingshan, which is the back mountain of Qingjiazhai in front of the mountain, and it is also the forbidden place of Qingjiazhai, and no Qingjiazhai people are allowed to come here. As for the reason, it is rumored that there are very fierce alien beasts in the back mountain, and the people who come in are all dead.
By the way, this young man's name is Iron Leopard, and he is the younger brother of the current Iron Tiger Mountain Lord.
Tiehu Mountain was originally in charge of Tie Feng, the old mountain master, and he was not a good person. Usually he makes a living by plundering passing caravans and collecting capitation fees from nearby villages, killing countless people, and I don't know how resentful it is.
Tie Feng is also smart, and every caravan he robs is investigated in advance to find a suitable caravan to attack. Therefore, there is no force that cannot be provoked.
The surrounding villages had asked the imperial court to send troops to encircle and suppress them, but they did not expect the local officials to collude with Tiehushan. Not only did it not eliminate Tiehu Mountain, but it gave Tiehu Mountain a lot of reasons to do something to nearby villages.
After coming and going, people are afraid of the strength of Tiehu Mountain, and usually people dare not speak out, for fear that one will accidentally cause trouble.
In June of this year, the old mountain owner is said to have suddenly fallen ill and died. The nearby village was full of jubilation, and everyone thought that maybe life would be better in the future.
But Tie Feng's eldest son Tie Long sat in the position of the mountain master, and everyone didn't expect that after Tie Long took the throne, he intensified, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of evil.
Originally, each village only needed to pay a capitation fee once a year, and although the rest of the time was poor, it was able to live in peace. But I didn't expect that after this iron dragon took the throne, the capitation fee paid once a year became two payments a year. Not only that, but he also asked each village to send ten young and beautiful girls to the cottage every year to work.
Although it is workmanship, everyone knows what Tiehushan wants these girls to do. No one wants to send the yellow flower girl in their village to the cottage for others to spoil in vain.
Tiehushan undoubtedly committed public anger by doing this, and he only paid some capitation fees before. With less money, everyone can still get by. But now, Tiehushan not only wants money but also people, which is really too much, almost forcing people to a dead end.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and many nearby villages secretly gathered in Qingjiazhai to discuss countermeasures. Speaking of which, the overall strength of the nearby area is indeed stronger than that of Tiehu Mountain, but the combat power in the village is all the farmer or hunter in the village, and they are all the pillars of the family.
Even if the war with Iron Tiger Mountain is won, it can only be a miserable victory. There are so many widows and orphans left, and there is no way to live.
And the Iron Tiger Mountain is full of bandits, and the people who tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers all day long are all guys who go crazy and don't want to die.
Therefore, in the past, although many villages were stronger than Tiehu Mountain in terms of strength, they could still only obediently pay the capitation fee. And Tiehushan is so arrogant because these villages don't dare to go to war.
There are more than 1,000 bandits in Tiehu Mountain, and the mountain owner of Tiehu Mountain also practices martial arts. But many villages in a hurry decided to fight to the death. Otherwise, sooner or later, Tiehu Mountain will be forced to die.
Unexpectedly, when discussing countermeasures, Iron Leopard came to Qingjiazhai with more than a dozen guards from Tiehu Mountain. Tie Leopard heard from his subordinates that there was a Jing Shi Niang in Qingjiazhai who was very beautiful, and he was a greedy and lustful person, and asked the nearby village to present three young and beautiful girls every year.
Hearing that there is such a beauty in Qingjiazhai, he naturally will not let go of this good opportunity. But he was worried that Jing Shi Niang would be snatched away by his brother Tielong, so he secretly brought more than a dozen guards and wanted to take Jing Shi Niang away in advance. So, the iron leopard swaggered to this Qingjiazhai.
Iron Leopard thought that with his prestige in Iron Tiger Mountain, no one in the nearby villages would dare to disobey his orders. So the patriarch of Qingjiazhai, who waited at the gate of Qingjiazhai to greet him, put forward his own request, asking to hand over ten women, including Jing Shi Niang, to him and let him take them back to the cottage.
This sentence made the patriarch of Qingjiazhai tremble at that time, it turned out that this Jing Shi Niang was the daughter of Jing Wen. asked others to give his daughter to him in front of other people's fathers, and this iron leopard is really superb.
At that time, there were Jing Shi Niang and the village chiefs and patriarchs of the villages who were hidden in the shadows, and Jing Shi Niang was beautiful and had a very hot personality. When he heard the words of the iron leopard, he was furious on the spot, and he casually pulled up the bow and arrow in his hand and shot at the iron leopard. It was also the Iron Leopard's life that should not be extinguished, and he was pulled by the guard next to him and shot only the Iron Leopard's left shoulder.
Everyone present at that time was dumbfounded, and the Iron Leopard couldn't believe that someone dared to attack him. Qingjiazhai simply smiled bitterly, anyway, Tiehushan didn't want to give people a way to live. They no longer hesitated, and wanted to leave all the people brought by the Iron Leopard behind, so as not to leak the news in advance.
However, due to the lack of preparation in advance, the two sides were located at the gate of Qingjiazhai, and the guards of Tiehu Mountain were not afraid of death, and finally let the iron leopard escape.
The most unexpected thing was that in the end, the iron leopard was actually rescued by Gao Wu.
Gao Wu smiled wryly, this mountain was classified as a forbidden place by Qingjiazhai, probably because their ancestors had been to this place before, trapped or died in the fog. So in order to prevent another tragedy, Qingjiazhai forbade the clansmen to enter and leave the back mountain, it may be a long time, and the people of Qingjiazhai do not remember why the ancestors did not let the clansmen of Qingjiazhai enter and leave the back mountain, but only obeyed the rules of the ancestors. So much so that the Iron Leopard had a chance to escape.
What a tacit observance! Gao Wu sighed.
Of course, Gao Wu also got the answer he wanted and found his way out.
Gao Wu sat next to the fire, munching on the barbecue in his hand, and thinking slowly. The aroma of barbecue slowly wafted into the nostrils of the iron leopard.
"Gollum~!"
His stomach roared again, and Iron Leopard gritted his teeth secretly, he had never been so ashamed.
Gao Wu turned his head, looked at the iron leopard who was watching the barbecue, and smiled slightly. Looking at the iron leopard's blue nose and swollen face, he couldn't help but be a little amused. In his heart, he was a little curious about the martial arts that Iron Leopard had just mentioned.
I couldn't help but ask, "What kind of martial arts are you practicing?"
The Iron Leopard pouted, looking at Gao Wu's gaze with some hesitation.
"Don't you want to say it? Do you still want me to add a few more cuts to your already disgusting body?" Gao Wu flicked the silver scimitar with his left hand, making a crisp clanging sound.
A hint of panic flashed in Iron Leopard's eyes, and then he paused before he said, "We, cultivators... , is "Seven Knives". ”
"Oh? A glint of interest flashed in Gao Wu's eyes, he had not yet obtained this kind of martial arts using weapons. And he hasn't seen the martial arts of this world yet, is it the same as his own martial arts, or is there any difference?
"There are seven moves in the Seven Knife Duels, which are to the point, the boy welcomes, the golden dragon comes out of the hole, the flag opens to win, the green dragon explores the claws, and the heavenly maiden scatters flowers. Every move is a powerful killer move. Now that he has spoken, the Iron Leopard will no longer hesitate and save himself another lesson.
"What level of martial arts?" Gao Wu asked again.
"Don't enter the peak martial arts!" Speaking of this, a little proud look appeared in Iron Leopard's eyes.
"How are the levels of martial arts divided?" Gao Wu didn't understand why Iron Leopard would take pride in a set of non-mainstream martial arts.
In fact, Gao Wu didn't know how remote this area of Tiehu Mountain was. Poor mountains and bad waters, the vitality of heaven and earth is thin, and there are not many warriors at all. Even if there is, it is only a non-entry martial artist like Xiang Tiefeng, who has mastered a set of non-entry martial arts.
A non-streamed martial arts like "Seven Swords" can reach the peak of the non-streamed realm when you cultivate to the peak, which is already very powerful in this kind of place. A place like Qingjiazhai has at most a martial art that does not enter the stream, and it can't reach the level of "Seven Swords", otherwise there wouldn't be so many villages still oppressed by Tiehu Mountain to this point.
"I know these two kinds of things. I don't know about the rest. After Iron Leopard finished speaking, he quickly explained, he didn't want to cause Gao Wu's misunderstanding.
"Recite "Seven Swords" to me. Gao Wu said lightly.
"No, if my eldest brother knows, not only will you die, but I will also be killed. Iron Leopard became nervous, and his tone suddenly became excited. It seems that he disagrees with Gao Wu's request for him to recite "Seven Swords".
"No one will know that you die here!" Gao Wu was also unceremonious to the person of Iron Leopard, and bluntly threatened. Originally, when he saved the Iron Leopard, he saw that he was so miserable and had a little sympathy for him, but now that he has heard so much about the Iron Leopard, he has long lost any sympathy for the Iron Leopard.
"You~!" Iron Leopard seemed to be angry, although Gao Wu couldn't see his expression on the pig's head with a blue nose and swollen face, he could still see the angry flames in Iron Leopard's eyes, as well as that deep resentment and fear.
"Okay, I'll carry it. ”