Chapter 15: Flower thieves are called stealing incense
The moon hung coldly in the sky, spreading clear light.
In the cold moonlight, a long black shadow came from the moon.
I have to say that his light skills have reached a considerable level.
When Xiong Qiang saw this black shadow, he clenched the sword in his hand. With such a clever light skill, it is no wonder that he can snatch someone's little daughter-in-law in people's sleep.
The black shadow's figure was erratic, and he soon entered the Li Mansion compound, and Xiong Qiang also followed, because his light skills were not as good as the other party at all.
But it was precisely because of this that the thief seemed to be alarmed, and stopped in the Li Mansion for a while, and did not make a move against the people of the Li Mansion, but swept out and ran westward.
Xiong Qiang's steps quickened, this flower thief, he had to hold it tonight.
Xiong Qiang's foot strength was still not good, although he couldn't get as high as the thief, but at least he didn't lose him.
Until he reached a high hill, the man in black also stopped. Xiong Qiang followed, his chest rising and falling slightly, and the sword in his hand was already clenched.
Standing far away from the flower thief, his eyes stared coldly at the man in black who was shrouded in black robes.
At this distance, he was sure that he would be able to stab the opponent to death with a single sword. No matter how good he was, he couldn't escape from his sword.
"Hehe, I didn't expect another one to die. The man in black didn't turn around, put his hands behind his back, smiled coldly, and said.
"Are you a flower thief?" Xiong Qiang also smiled faintly.
"It doesn't take such a high means to deal with you, there were a few people like you who underestimated me in the past, but they all ended up miserable, either losing their lives or breaking their hands and feet. The man in black said, and in that tone he was also extremely conceited about his martial arts.
Xiong Qiang just smiled faintly at the intimidation of the man in black, how could he not be full of confidence in his swordsmanship? However, he still had a question in his heart, and said: "Listen to your voice, you should be a very young person, I am very curious, I don't know why you have such a lofty ideal of becoming a flower thief?"
was silent for a while, but the man in black didn't give Xiong Qiang an answer, just turned his head, looked at Xiong Qiang with a cold look, and said, "You have too many questions, I hate people who talk too much, so I want your life tonight." ”
"You're arrogant!"
"Because I have this capital!" The man in black said in a much more aggressive tone, and when he said this, he almost suddenly attacked, and the sword that he had already held in his hand "choked" out of its sheath, and suddenly stabbed out under Xiong Qiang's unpreparedness situation.
Xiong Qiang's eyes narrowed, a touch of coldness flashed in his eyes, when the sword of the man in black stabbed out, I saw his right foot take a step back, his feet rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, his waist twisted, and the hand holding the sword stabbed out flatly, and the sword stabbed out easily into the lower abdomen of the man in black, and the sword stabbed out by the man in black was from Xiong Qiang's ears and grazed it.
Blood flowed down the tip of the sword that pierced into the abdomen to the blade, and then dripped from the blade to the ground.
The man in black's eyes were filled with disbelief, and his hand holding the sword trembled slightly. He staggered back two steps, and Xiong Qiang didn't dig his sword deeper, because he didn't want to hurt the life of the flower thief, and he wanted to keep him to receive the reward.
The sword in the hand of the man in black fell to the ground with a "bang", stretched out a white and slender hand to cover the blood hole, and looked at Xiong Qiang in horror, the person in front of him was about the same age as him, but the swordsmanship was so clever that he had obviously stabbed out a sword first, and it was a sword like a surprise attack, in his expectation, this stunned young man almost didn't even have time to react, and he would die under his own sword.
But what Wan didn't expect was that this young man, who looked like he was stunned, reacted so quickly, not only dodging his sword, but stabbing the sword into his body.
"How can you have such a fast sword?" said the man in black, staggering back two steps.
"Is that fast? If I were to kill you, you would be dead by the time you grasped the hilt of your sword. Xiong Qiang said lightly.
Although his eyes were full of shock when he heard Xiong Qiang's words, he said with disdain: "Hmph! Although I was defeated by your sword, you said that I would die under your sword before I even had time to draw my sword, this is simply nonsense, do you think I will really believe it?"
The man in black naturally has his own reasons, although his sword is not fast, but if he can't even draw his sword, he will die under this person's sword, even his senior brother in Wudang Mountain may not be able to say such arrogant words, could this young man be more terrible than his senior brother who has practiced on the mountain for more than ten years? Obviously, this is impossible, he will never believe it!
Xiong Qiang didn't argue, he didn't want to argue about this kind of thing, it was meaningless, he just smiled playfully, and said: "Although I have just come out of the rivers and lakes, I have seen too many masters, originally I thought you were also a master, but I didn't expect that the flower thief in Xiaohe County who is so unpleasant is so unbearable." ”
Of course, what Xiong Qiang said was also the truth, such as Lian Fang, Ma Wenbin, Zhu Wenshan, Wang Bing, Ding Wanqi, and even the three Jinyi guards who assassinated Xia Yun at that time, these are indeed masters, but Xiong Qiang doesn't want to think about it, these people are all famous figures in the rivers and lakes for a long time, no matter which name is placed on the rivers and lakes, they are all big people who can shake a party.
Because Xiong Qiang only knows these characters, he is new to the rivers and lakes, thinking that only these characters in the rivers and lakes can be called masters, but he doesn't know that these masters are already masters among the masters in the rivers and lakes.
The man in black snorted coldly, feeling extremely disdainful in his heart, thinking that this kid was just after defeating himself, he deliberately said something to ridicule himself, although he was an outer disciple of Wudang Mountain, but among the outer disciples, he was already a leader, and he would soon be able to enter the inner gate and become the personal disciple of the elder of Wudang Mountain, and his name was also well-known in this area. was ridiculed by this young man like this, and he was also very angry in his heart. But after all, he was defeated by this person's sword, and he was angry in his heart, but he couldn't get out, so he just snorted coldly.
"Look at your expression, it looks like I'm bragging, right? It's okay, I don't mind. Say, what's your name, why do you want to be this flower thief?" said Xiong Qiang with a smile.
"Wait, let me take off your fig leaf first, if I'm not mistaken, you're the pretty young man who stopped me during the day. Xiong Qiang squinted his eyes and said.
Xiong Qiang said, a sword picked up the masked towel of the man in black, and sure enough, as Xiong Qiang guessed, the person in front of him had a face that looked like a beautiful woman, and it was a beautiful man during the day.
"Hehe, I really didn't expect that this flower thief was really you, it seems that my guess during the day was not wrong, but I was curious, you openly stood up when I unveiled the official list? Is it because you are too confident and think that no one can hold you? Or did you think you were too weak from the beginning to be my opponent? But now it seems that you should have this kind of thinking behind you. ”
Xiong Qiang didn't pay attention to the angry expression on the face of this beautiful man at this time, and just said to himself.
The beautiful man's face was very pale, cold sweat was dripping on his forehead, and he didn't know if he was choked by Xiong Qiang's words, or because he was stabbed by Xiong Qiang. However, Xiong Qiang knew very well that his sword did not pierce too deeply, and he would never kill this beautiful man.
"What's your name?" asked the pretty man, who had been caught by him, and couldn't he have known who he had planted himself in?
"It seems that our roles are reversed, this sentence should be me to ask you, you are my captive!" Xiong Qiang said with a smile.
The beautiful man glared at Xiong Qiang fiercely, feeling very aggrieved, and after being silent for a while, he said: "My name is stealing incense, stealing incense and stealing jade." ”
"Stealing incense, it's an interesting name, why don't you call it stealing jade?" Xiong Qiang asked jokingly.
"Because I don't pick yellow flowers, I don't count stealing jade!"
Xiong Qiang laughed out loud, although he knew that the so-called "stealing incense" was not the real name of this beautiful man, but he thought that this person was quite interesting, not to mention that these interrogations should be asked by the county magistrate, he was not interested in what this person's real name was, and after laughing, he gave a thumbs up to the beautiful man and said: "You have a lot of ideas! I admire you a little now." However, don't think that if I admire you, I will let you go, I am a poor man, and I will not get along with silver, so follow me to the county office!"
"You haven't told me yet, what's your name?" said Steal Xiang as she walked.
"My name is not as good as your name, and it is not so elegant, my name is Xiong Qiang!"
When Xiong Qiang beat the drum in the middle of the night and woke up the county magistrate and the officials from their sleep, everyone looked at him with surprise.
"Caught the flower thief so quickly? This person shouldn't be more than twenty years old, right?" At this time, the county magistrate, who saw Xiong Qiang during the day and was full of ridicule language, was also surprised.
"Hahahaha, it's really a hero out of a teenager!" The county magistrate also had to change his expression during the day at this time, the person had not yet appeared, but the words had already floated out, it seemed that the county magistrate was very happy when he heard that he had taken the flower thief who gave him a headache.
The county magistrate glared at his round little eyes and glanced at the injured flower thief beside Xiong Qiang.
The light of the night was dim, and he almost looked at it with the face of stealing incense, and when he carefully looked at it for a while, he hurriedly retracted his head, looked frightened, and said, "This ...... This...... This is the flower thief you caught?"
"I caught him at Li Yuanwai's house, and the interrogation is your business. Xiong Qiang said.
The county magistrate hugged his somewhat grown seven-grade official robe, stared at his little eyes, pointed at Xiong Qiang and said: "Fart, I thought you really took the flower thief? It turns out that you are a stunned young man, do you know who he is? He is the son of Zhao Yuanwai's family, but the five hundred taels of silver are still two hundred taels of Zhao Yuanwai's? Could it be that Zhao Yuanwai paid his own money to catch his son?"
Xiong Qiang was stunned, looked at Zhao Yuanwai's son, and said, "Zhao Stealxiang, you wolf in sheep's clothing, you even pit your father?"
"What Zhao steals incense, his name is Zhao Li, he is not only the son of Zhao Yuanwai, but also a disciple of the Wudang faction. Someone, someone, hurry up and call Lang Zhong to come over and show Young Master Zhao his injuries!" The county magistrate saw that Zhao Li's abdomen was bleeding nonstop, and immediately screamed.
When Xiong Qiang heard this, he also paid attention to half a point, not to pay attention to anything else, but to pay attention to the words of the disciple of the Wudang faction, he had heard Xiaoyaozi say that he had assassinated the head of the Wudang faction before, and he almost succeeded in assassination.
"County master, he didn't catch it wrong, I am a flower thief. Zhao Li's breath was already very heavy, and the sweat on his forehead was also falling down in large drops.
Xiong Qiang smiled slightly and said, "Even if you are a little bloody, dare to do it!"
The county master was speechless, and Zhao Li personally admitted that he was a flower thief, which made him both puzzled and shocked, and asked in a low voice again: "Zhao Gongzi, is the flower thief really you?"
Zhao Li raised his head and said, "Since I have been planted in his hands, then I can't say anything." ”
At this time, the lord Bo walked over from behind like a ghost, looking like he hated iron but not steel, looked at Zhao Li, sighed quietly, and said: "Zhao Gongzi, you are also an elegant person, not to mention Pan An, and you are also an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, you can be called a master among people, how could you do such a thing? If you want to be a woman, let your father Zhao Yuanwai marry you a three-room and four-room person, won't it be possible? Besides, if you want to find that yellow flower girl! How can you find that kind of ......?"
When he said this, the county master's small eyes glared fiercely at the lord, can you say this casually? You are from an official family, how can you instigate others to steal other people's daughters?
The master Bo also felt speechless at this time, patted his mouth lightly, and said: "In short, you did such a thing, which made your father and mother feel cold." Even if it's me, I feel sorry for you. ”
This classic history also came out at this time, and said loudly: "County master, since he himself has admitted that he is a flower thief, then the country has national laws, you still want to think about how to convict him, right?"
The county lord was also speechless for a while, Zhao Yuanwai has always been his close friend, no matter these, there are a lot of heavy gifts given to the county lord every year, and now his son has become a flower thief, how can this be good?
"Let's go to prison first! Find Lang Zhong to treat his injuries. ”
Xiong Qiang listened to the words of the master, and he was also suspicious, if this Zhao Li wanted a woman, with his appearance and family status, the people who went to his house to propose marriage could step on the threshold of his family, and he couldn't do such a shameless thing! Could it be that he just had this kind of habit?