Chapter 20: The Beginning of the Killing

Ling'er hugged Xiang'er and kissed each other, kissed for a while and then walked slowly towards Hejia'ao, Xiang'er looked at Ling'er with a smile in Ling'er's arms, the two talked about love, and walked for an hour to reach Hejia'ao Mountain Pass. Ling'er stopped and wanted to put Xiang'er down, but Xiang'er hugged Ling'er's neck and kissed again, and after a while, Xiang'er let go of Ling'er and went down to the ground, and said with a smile: 'Brother Ling, let's go, Xiang'er is here watching you go.' Ling'er hugged Xiang'er and stroked her hair, kissed her on the forehead and smiled: "I'm leaving, wait for me, I'll come back." After saying that, he reluctantly walked away.

After just a few steps, he disappeared without a trace, and Xiang'er muttered: "Tell you to go, you are walking too fast, you can't even see your back, Brother Ling, don't forget Xiang'er." After speaking, he turned around and walked towards home silently, and faintly heard Ling'er's voice in his ears: "Sister Xiang, don't worry, Brother Ling will not forget you." Xiang'er hurriedly turned around, but she didn't even see a figure. He said, 'Is it my hallucination, but it doesn't look like it?' He smiled and shook his head, in fact, Ling'er hadn't left yet, he just flashed to the big tree, this sentence just now was what he said, it was not Xiang'er's hallucination at all, Ling'er saw that Xiang'er had gone back, so he left.

Ling'er will cross the jungle for a while, fly on the treetops, run on the winding mountain road, and suddenly roar a few times on the mountain peak, really do whatever I want, and the mood is very happy and happy. At eleven o'clock, he came to the head of the iron cable plank bridge, standing at the head of the bridge and remembered the scene of crossing the bridge when he was a child, and he couldn't help but feel sad from it, and soon thought of the scene where the bandits harmed his parents, and the most hateful thing was that handful of hair, which would definitely break his body into pieces. He was sad and angry for a while and crossed the chain bridge to the official road, there are pedestrians on the official road from time to time, Ling'er doesn't want to do any more light work for fear of shocking the world, he walks like an ordinary person, but he walks faster than ordinary people, he is now tall and young to walk faster is not abnormal.

At one o'clock, Ling'er arrived at the county seat of Wanshan County, entered the county seat, walked on the street for a while, and saw a noodle stall, he walked over and sat down and said: "Boss, give me a bowl of Yangchun noodles." The boss was a middle-aged man and said, "Haode, guest officer, you sit down first, and you will be fine immediately." So saying, I got busy. After a while, the boss brought the noodles and put them in front of Ling'er, and said, "Guest officer, the noodles are here, you can eat well." Ling'er responded and ate the noodles.

At this time, three big men and a thin man came over, and the four of them sat down in front of the noodle stall to ask for noodles to eat, while staring at Ling'er and the burden on his body, seeing that Ling'er didn't take off the burden when he ate noodles, I don't know what good things are inside. One of the bearded men secretly said: "Look at this kid who is so handsome and handsome, he must be the son and young master of a big family, but he is wearing coarse cloth clothes and hunter clothes, and it seems that there must be good things in the baggage, so he is covering it up, hum, how can you escape the eyes of this uncle." Thinking of this, there was a wicked smile on his face, and he and the three of them looked at each other and snickered. Soon, several people also ate noodles.

In fact, there are no good things in Ling'er's baggage, just a few changes of clothes, some pancakes and steamed dried bacon, and the good things are the Xuantie short sword and jasper flute. There are also some copper coins and five taels of broken silver he put in his arms, originally grandpa wanted to give more, Ling'er didn't ask for it, he thought that grandpa's savings were not easy to come by, since he wanted to go to the rivers and lakes, then he had to make a living on the rivers and lakes.

Ling'er has long seen the ugliness of those men in you, but she didn't take them to heart. Ling'er finished eating the noodles, paid the money and continued to hurry, leaving the east city gate and walking briskly along the official road by the river. There was a carriage with a shed walking by, just in front of Ling'er suddenly stopped, the car was driven by a middle-aged burly man, with a beard, he sat on the carriage and said in a rough voice: "Little brother, where are you going in such a hurry." Ling'er stopped and said, "I don't have a fixed goal, I just want to walk around and have a look." The driver smiled and said, "I know, you are going to travel the mountains and rivers and rivers and lakes, and it seems that you are also a person who practices martial arts." Ling'er said: "People who practice martial arts can't talk about it, and there will be three moves and five styles on the fists and feet, which are all fists and legs." The man who drove the car said: "I'm going to Ningguo County, or you can take my car to take you for a ride." Ling'er smiled and said, "I don't have the money to pay the fare." The driver smiled and said, "I'll take you for free, just as if I had a companion on the road." ’

Ling'er smiled: "How can there be a loss-making deal." The driver smiled and said: "Little brother is right, if I am asked to send you to you for free, I will never do it, I am sending people to Wanshan County, I have already earned the silver, this is the empty car home by the way, take you by the way, give the silver or not." Ling'er pondered: "To Qingzhou Mansion is to pass through Ningguo County, and it is also haode to take a ride." So he said, "Okay, let's take the car to Ningguo first, uncle, thank you in advance here." After Ling'er finished speaking, she lifted the curtain and entered the carriage, and her movements were very agile. The man who drove the car mused: "Although this young man is wearing a coarse cloth Orion suit, he can't hide his handsome and heroic bearing, and seeing that he is so agile when he gets into the car, he is not as sharp as he said, and I have seen many people who carry swords and swords are not as agile as him, and it seems that he must not be an idle person." The man who drove the car paused and said: "My name is Ma Rufeng, and I don't know the real name of the little brother." Ling'er said: "My surname is Zhang, and my double name is Lingyu." ’

Ma Rufeng chatted with Lingyu while driving the car, telling some interesting anecdotes about the rivers and lakes. Ma Rufeng drove the carriage for about two hours, and the official road was not along the east of the river, but turned north into a valley. After a little more march in the valley, suddenly four fast horses passed by the chariot, and after a short time they turned and lined up to stop the road. Seeing this, Ma Rufeng hurriedly grabbed the reins of the horse, and the horse raised its front hooves violently and roared a few times, and then took two steps forward on its hind legs before forcibly stopping. Ling'er said: 'Uncle, what's wrong. Ma Rufeng said: "Someone is blocking the way." When Ling'er heard this, she got out of the carriage and looked ahead.

I saw three big men and a small man in front of me riding a horse and looking this way, and Ling'er saw that it was the people she met in front of the noodle stall. Ma Rufeng parked the car steadily, got out of the car and walked to the front, hugged his fists at the people and said, "Why are a few heroes blocking our way, and ask the heroes to raise their noble hands and let us pass." The bearded man hahadaxiao said, "Our brother is specialized in trading without capital, so how can we raise our noble hands." Ma Rufeng said: "I have been running on this road for many years, and I have never heard of this place doing business without capital, and I dare to ask the name of a hero." The bearded man said: "It's no wonder that you haven't heard of our name, because the people you have heard of have all died, and besides, we are all big dealers, you can have a few silver in a handlebar style, and you will not imitate the Ming number, and you will die to understand, we are the four ghosts of ten thousand mountains." Ma Rufeng took a few steps back when he heard this, and said tremblingly: "You said that we don't have any silver in the handlebar style, why are you stopping us now?" The bearded man said, 'That's your fate, you shouldn't take this son on the road.' Ma Rufeng looked back at Ling'er, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Ling'er heard that she got out of the car with her burden on her back, walked to the front and said, "I said a few good men, I have no grievances with you, why do you want to harm me." The little man called himself a little ghost and said, "We have no enmity with anyone, but only with silver, and whoever has money will trouble whomever we want." Ling'er smiled and said, "I have a total of five taels of silver, and I will give it to you if I want." As he spoke, he took out a small cloth bag from his bosom. The little imp laughed and said, 'It's too late now, and you have to die with or without silver.' Ling'er said: "A few good men, you see that I am still so young, and there are still too many good times that have not passed, it is a pity to die like this, I will give you all the money and baggage, please let us live." The bearded man smiled coldly, "I'm sorry, this is our rule, boy, you just accept your fate." ’

Lingyu suddenly hahadaxiao said: "A few people don't know that they have a bloody disaster today, I have learned the appearance of Mai, as long as you let me go, I will crack it for you to save your lives." The big ghost even said: "It's a shame that you came up with such a solution, but it's a pity that our four ghosts never believe in fate." Lingyu said: "You really can't let us go." The little ghost said, "You're going to die of this heart." The big ghost laughed and said, "I think it's better to send you on the road early and reincarnate as soon as possible." After speaking, he jumped down from the horse and walked to Lingyu, waved the knife and slashed it down, Lingyu shook his body and the knife split into the air, the big ghost was stunned when he saw the knife going away, and hurriedly took two steps back and looked at Lingyu carefully, and said: "I can't see that your kid is still a practitioner, and the brothers cut him together." ’

When the three ghosts heard this, they all jumped down and surrounded Lingyu, and Lingyu said: "You can still live if you stop now, and if you don't understand it, you will die." The big ghost said, "You go and die first." As he spoke, he swung the knife and slashed at Lingyu's shoulder, Lingyu reached out and snatched the big ghost's knife away, kicked him out two feet away, and lay on the ground unable to get up. The three ghosts and three knives slashed towards Lingyu together, Lingyu waved the knife, and the knives of the three ghosts flew into the sky, and the three ghosts' arms were numb and the tiger's mouth was bleeding and frightened, and they all hurriedly fled, and before the two ghosts and three ghosts had time to take a step, the head was cut off by Lingyu. The little ghost ran away, just ran out of the three zhang away, Lingyu threw the knife out, the little ghost was running with the steel knife had been pierced from the back chest to the front chest, and ran forward two steps before lying on the ground. At this time, the big ghost was already sitting on the ground and bleeding from the corners of his mouth, watching Lingyu kill his three brothers in an instant, he was already frightened.

Lingyu walked slowly to the big ghost and said, "I said that you have a bloody disaster, you don't believe it, the time has passed and you can't solve it, so you can accept your fate." The big ghost cried and said with a sad face: "Dare to ask what sect the son is, and his surname is great." Lingyu said: "Tell you, otherwise you will die, I have no sect, I am a hunter in the mountains, my name is Zhang Lingyu, if you don't accept it, go to the king of Hades to sue me." The big ghost flashed with a resentful gaze and said, "It seems that you will not spare me." Lingyu said: "This is your life." The big ghost suddenly hahadaxiao said, "I have killed countless people, and I deserve this retribution today, so you can give me a good time." Lingyu said: "I don't want your life because you have killed countless people, but you have killed innocent people, and you cannot have good thoughts about wicked people like you." With that, he snapped a finger at his left chest, and the big ghost immediately spurted blood and fell to the ground.

Ma Rufeng saw that the thieves were dead, so he was relieved, and when he saw Lingyu coming over, he hurriedly greeted him: "Xiexie young man's life-saving grace." Lingyu smiled and said, "Where did the uncle say this, this disaster was originally brought by me, and the uncle should not be surprised when he was frightened." Ma Rufeng said: "It's too late to thank you, how can you be surprised." After a pause, he said, "Young man, please get in the car, let's hurry." Lingyu said, "I'd better go by myself, so as not to bring disaster to you again." Ma Rufeng said: "Don't say that, young man, there is no regret even if he dies with you." Lingyu said: "Okay then, it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate." ’

After Lingyu finished speaking, she looked at the corpses of the four ghosts, and when she saw that the horses were running away, she pondered for a moment and said, "These four ghosts don't know how many lives they have killed for the sake of silver, and now that they are dead, they will be left penniless on the road to be poor ghosts." Then he went over and dragged their bodies into the grass by the roadside, and took out the silver that was on them, and together they had more than ninety taels of silver. Lingyu carried the four money bags to the carriage and said, "Uncle, seeing that you have half of the wealth, I will give you two bags." Ma Rufeng said: "Absolutely not, no matter what it is, it will not be useless." Lingyu said: "Then it should be used as a carriage and horse fare." Ma Rufeng saw that it was not good not to take it at all, so he had to say: "Give me ten taels to pay for the carriage and horses." Lingyu forced a bag of more than twenty taels to Ma Rufeng, and he had no choice but to accept it.

Lingyu got into the car, Ma Rufeng shook the reins and said to drive, and the carriage ran forward again. At this time, it was already more than five o'clock, and seeing that it was getting late, Lingyu said: "Uncle, how far is there a place to stay. Ma Rufeng said: "There is a Liulin Town in front, the above can be reached before dark every time, today is delayed for a long time, may arrive at about nine o'clock in the evening, tonight must go to Liulin Town to rest, otherwise it will be delayed for another day if it is not in time for tomorrow morning." Lingyu said: "That's weishenme." Ma Rufeng said: "Because there is a wild wolf valley in front of Liulin Town, and there are strong men in the wild wolf valley, and someone must protect it before you can pass through." ’