After returning to Hengshan, Liu Qingzhou settled Tang San'er and his party in a house at the foot of the mountain, and sent people to send clothes and food. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info He stayed alone in the study for a while, and then called Dugu Jian in.

"Jian'er, it has been five years since the bandits rebelled in Dongting Lake, and now General Yue has sent troops to suppress them, breaking the thieves, and seeing the victory one after another, these thieves are bound to be defeated. But Master has one thing for you to do at this moment. ”

"Please Master's orders!" Dugu Jian replied with a bowed hand.

"Okay, Jian'er, I'll tell you one thing first: about twenty years ago, when I was ordered by your master to go to Jiangling to investigate a murder case. In the meantime, I stayed in the Kaiyuan Temple of Gangneung City, and there happened to be a wandering monk who also stayed here, and the two of us lived in the same room, and the conversation was very speculative, so I made this friend. Later, when I heard that he had joined Manichaeism, I didn't really care. But three years ago, he sent me a letter inviting me to Dongting Lake to seek great things. I know that at that time, they succeeded in doing things and defeated the official army many times of encirclement and suppression, and it was the time when they were in high spirits. When I received the letter, I politely declined his invitation, and we never kept in touch again. ”

"Master, you don't want to say that this person is the 'Monk Lu' in Tang San'er's mouth in the morning, right?" Dugu Jian asked in surprise.

Liu Qingzhou nodded and looked at Dugu Jian: "Yes, it's this Lu monk, his original name is Lu Guangyuan, and he is a monk who shaves his own degree, but he has many teachers, and his kung fu is also very strong, and it is estimated that he is three points more powerful than his teacher." Therefore, I am worried that if he really intends to be unfavorable to General Yue, I am afraid that he will ......"

"So, Master wants to persuade him to turn around and leave Manichaeism, right?"

"Yes, I want to persuade him, but it's not me who goes, it's you!" Liu Qingzhou looked directly at Dugu Jian, "Jian'er, I plan to sneak into the military camp secretly to protect General Yue." And you, give this letter I wrote to Lu Guangyuan, I have done him a favor, and he will understand what I mean when he sees this letter. As he spoke, he pulled out a letter. Dugu Jian took the letter and nodded, "I understand, Master, you are also planning to let me find out about their situation?"

"Jian'er, you are young, and you are on my orders to deliver the letter, they will definitely not be suspicious of you, so you can carefully inspect the situation inside, and then you can also help General Yue break the thief. “

"Master, isn't this Master Lu?"

"With his kung fu, if he wants to run out, no one can stop him, even if he misses, I will definitely ask General Yue to take it lightly. Jian'er, you have to remember that the Manichaean people are not in trouble at all, but just to satisfy their own selfish desires, they are more to oppress the people, and they also collude with the golden dogs in the north to be traitors, these people are really hateful!" Liu Qingzhou said this, and slapped the table with his palm, only to see that the four table legs were broken together, and the table top was also smashed.

Dugu Jian replied: "Yes, Master, Jian'er understands." If you encounter someone who harms the people, you will not let it go!"

"Well, Jian'er, you always remember that the people of our Hengshan faction are righteous and chivalrous, and they must not do evil or oppress the good. Okay, you go and explain to Qing'er and the others, without further ado, we'll leave in a while. ”

Dugu Jian agreed and turned around. Liu Qingzhou looked at the table that was smashed by himself, shook his head, and walked out of the study.

Here, Dugu Jian told a few junior brothers and sisters that he was going to go down the mountain with his master, and let them stay at home, practice hard, and take care of their family. A few people guessed that there must be something important, so they asked to go with them. Dugu Jian told everyone that he just followed the master to deliver the letter, and he would meet old friends for a while. Fang calmed down a few of them.

After that, Liu Qingzhou quietly went down the mountain with the Dugu sword, and after a night of galloping, he came to Tanzhou. Five years ago, the Jin Wushu broke through Tanzhou, and the Jin soldiers and the Song Dynasty general Kong Yanzhou successively slaughtered and plundered here, and Tanzhou has not been restored so far. In April, Yue Fei marched into the army and suppressed the rebels and thieves in Dongting Lake.

Liu Qingzhou inquired and found out that Yue Fei had already led his troops to Dingzhou, but he had only put the grain and grass here. Therefore, he and Dugu Jian hurried to Dingzhou again. One day and one night, the two of them did not stop, and finally arrived.

At this time, most of the lake bandits had been disintegrated, and Yue Fei led the army to surround the water village, waiting for the final blow. Liu Qingzhou infiltrated the camp alone and secretly monitored. Dugu Jian came to the lake and prepared to go to the water village.

He searched for the lake for half the night, but could not find a boat, so he had to wait slowly. When the sky was bright, Dugu Jian was sleepy and tired, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

In the morning, a burst of people neighed and shouted, waking Dugu Jian up, he crouched in the grass to observe, and found that a group of Song soldiers were chasing a group of women, children, old and young, from time to time some fell to the ground and were hacked to death by random knives. At this moment, another woman with a baby in her arms threw herself to the ground, was overtaken by the pursuers behind, and was killed by the soldiers along with the baby.

Dugu Jian's eyes were torn apart, and he couldn't bear it anymore. He jumped out of the grass and shouted, "Stop!" I saw a sergeant on horseback laugh and said, "Another one is sent to death." Brothers, go up together, cut down this thief, and report to Zhang Dudu!"

I saw that this group of Song soldiers each held spears and stabbed over. Here Dugu Jian was extremely angry in his chest, and with a little tiptoe, he pulled out his long sword, jumped over the heads of several soldiers, jumped directly behind the sergeant on horseback, and put the sword around the man's neck. He knew that this group of soldiers were all under the command of this person, and he could not kill the killer, so he planned to capture this person first and force them to retreat.

Dugu Jian shouted to the sergeants: "Stop, or I'll kill him!" The man also shouted: "Stop, stop the!" Seeing this, the group of sergeants did not dare to move, and looked at Dugu Jian one after another.

"This young man, you see I've asked them to stop, don't you let the little ones go?" the sergeant begged for mercy. Dugu Jian held the sword around his neck with one hand, and pinched his shoulder with the other: "Don't talk nonsense! You were ordered to quell the rebellion, and you actually killed good people here, it's really hateful! Tell your people not to chase those people anymore, go to the east immediately, hurry up!"

"Yes, yes, small ones. The sergeant immediately agreed, "Didn't you hear, are they all deaf? Hurry up, everyone who listens to this young man is going east, hurry!" A group of Song soldiers listened, looked at each other, and ran towards the east in a swarm.

After a short time, he ran away without a trace. "Shaoxia, look, they are all gone, don't you also let the little ones leave?" Dugu Jian removed his long sword, jumped off the horse, and said, "You can get out too!" "Thank you Shaoxia, thank you Shaoxia!" The sergeant hurriedly turned his horse's head and ran eastward.

Dugu Jian waited until the group of soldiers ran away without a trace, and then chased in the direction where the group of people had fled. In less than two miles, they saw a group of Song soldiers surrounding them, and saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, holding a long sword, struggling to resist the double skills of a black-faced man with a leopard's head and eyes, swallow jaws and tiger whiskers, and wearing battle armor. "I thought that General Yue's soldiers and horses were strictly disciplined and did not commit any offence against the people, but what is the difference between what I see today and the Jin people?" Dugu Jian was even more annoyed, seeing that the girl couldn't resist, he let out a long roar, the long sword shook, and flew into the battle circle, separating the black-faced man's double fist.

The girl had been fighting for so long, she was already exhausted, and after being saved by Dugu Jian, her legs weakened and she fell to the ground. Dugu Jian thought that she had been injured by the black-faced man, and while holding the double gong with his sword, he shouted angrily: "It turns out that General Yue Fei's soldiers and horses are like this, slaughtering the people, and risking the army's military exploits, how are you different from beasts?"

The black-faced man was about to win, and he was about to take down this girl. But suddenly he killed Cheng to bite the gold, not only did he not catch the girl, but he was also scolded by Dugu Jian, and he was also very angry. Wow yelled: "Where did the little thing come from! Dare to block your grandfather Niu's tiger might, you are impatient, right?" The soldiers behind him were also very angry, and shouted loudly: "Grandma, dare to scold us 'Yue Jiajun', this kid is looking for death!"

Dugu Jian was not afraid at all, and shouted loudly: "It turns out that it is really General Yue's soldiers and horses, you don't go to suppress the thieves, but you embarrass these women and children here, isn't it a beast?"

"Boy, I don't care who you are, I'll give you a chance, quickly take back what you just said, and then get out of here. Otherwise, your Grandpa Niu will even clean up with you!" said the black-faced man loudly.

"Hmph, I heard that General Yue Fei is extremely strict, but I never thought that there would be such a shameless scum as you. Today, I will take you all down and ask General Yue what is going on!" Dugu Jian said, the strength in his hand increased by three points, and the black-faced man gritted his teeth to resist, and replied: "Boy, who are you? Grandpa Niu warns you again, you are obstructing us from arresting the thief, you have good kung fu, don't go along with the thief!"

At this time, the girl on the ground slowly stood up and said softly: "This Niu General, we are all fishermen and boat ladies in this area, and the general keeps saying that we are the daughters of the thieves, and it seems that he must want to take us to receive credit." This young man, your high righteousness, we understand it, and ask the young man to leave now, and let the general take us. ”

When Dugu Jian heard this, he became more and more annoyed: "Since I was a child, my master taught me to be chivalrous and righteous, and now when I encounter this kind of thing, I will definitely take care of it." Don't say that you are the daughters of the boat family, even if you are really a family member of the thief family, you should not be slaughtered!"

The black-faced man hurriedly withdrew his double sword, withdrew from the battle circle, looked at the girl carefully, and asked, "Stop, are you really not the daughter of the thief?" Dugu Jian saw that he was no longer fighting, so he did not pursue, but just held a sword in front of the girl.

"General Niu, early this morning, we met a group of soldiers, they wanted to take us to receive merit, and they killed several of us. happened to meet this young man and blocked those soldiers. We ran out again, but you stopped us again, and somehow decided that we were the family members of the thieves. If you don't believe me, you can check it out. The girl looked directly at the black-faced man and stopped talking.

He looked around, looked back at his soldiers, smiled, and said, "That may be my mistake, my old cow is here to compensate you." As he spoke, he took his hammer and bowed.

Dugu Jian was very puzzled, and drank: "What trick are you going to play?" The black-faced man looked at Dugu Jian and said, "This young man, I made a mistake." This morning, my men reported that a group of thieves were coming to shore from the lake. Later, Governor Zhang's people also came to tell each other, saying that they had found a group of female dependents of the thieves who were disembarking from the ship and asked me to bring troops over to help, so I thought that these people were thieves. I'm sorry, I think I was mistaken. ”

"So, that group of soldiers just now is the soldier and horse of the Governor Zhang you mentioned?" Dugu Jian asked. The black-faced man nodded, "It shouldn't be wrong, these thieves and birds under Zhang Jun, relying on Zhang Jun to be the governor of this bandit, actually deceived Grandpa Niu's head, and when I go back, I will definitely explain the truth of the matter to Brother Yue and treat them well." This young man, thanks to you this time, otherwise my old cow would have almost done something bad. Shaoxia, I don't know what your name is?"

Dugu Jian put away his long sword and replied: "General Niu, the surname is Dugu in the next year, and his single name is a sword character, and he is taught by Liu Qingzhou, the head of the Hengshan faction." I haven't consulted the shogun's daimyo yet. ”

"Hahaha, what's the big name, my name is Niu Gao. Dugu Shaoxia, speaking of which, your master is also a friend of my brother, I don't know if your master is here?"

"Since that's the case, General Niu, I have something I want to tell the general privately. Dugu Jian's heart moved, and he did not answer Niu Gao positively.

"Alright, let's come over here. As he spoke, Niu Gao pulled the Dugu sword, and the soldiers got out of the way, and the two walked under a tree. Dugu Jian said softly: "General Niu, my master is also very happy to learn that General Yue came to suppress the bandits, but there are many Manichaean masters among these lake bandits, and my master is afraid that they will be unfavorable to General Yue, so he sneaked into the camp alone, secretly protected General Yue, and ordered me to investigate the truth of these bandits. Therefore, after the general goes back, he also tells General Yue to be more vigilant. ”

It turned out that Dugu Jian was also worried that his master would not be able to deal with the master of Manichaeism alone, and he happened to meet Niu Gao again, so he naturally asked him to inform Yue Fei and take more precautions.

Niu Gao nodded and said, "Okay, Dugu Shaoxia, then thank you, I'll go back and tell Brother Mingyue about the matter." Please come back as soon as possible. After saying that, he waved his hand and withdrew with his soldiers and horses.

Dugu Jian walked up to the girl and looked at it carefully, only then did he see the girl's appearance clearly, a pair of big watery eyes, and a very fair complexion. He bowed his hand: "I haven't asked the girl's name yet." The girl made a blessing and replied: "Dugu Shaoxia, the little woman's surname is Mu, the single name is a Ying character, and there are more Shaoxia life-saving graces." ”

"That's not necessary, Miss Mu is polite. It's just that there is one more thing in the next place, and I want to ask Miss Mu. Dugu Jian waved his hand and asked again.

"Dugu Shaoxia, please speak, the little woman knows everything. ”

"Dare to ask Miss Mu, the girl's kung fu is also very good, I don't know where the teacher is?"

"This, oh, the little woman just learned a few kung fu skills from the masters of the martial arts hall, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to get into the eyes of the lonely young man. ”

"It seems that Ling Zun must also be a master. Forgive me for being rude, Miss Mu, are you really not the daughter of this lake bandit? Now that the officers and soldiers have left, please tell Miss Mu the truth. ”

Dugu Shaoxia laughed, we are all fishermen and boat ladies by the lake, and we have nothing to do with the lake bandits. It has not been peaceful in the past few years, so my father sent me to the martial arts hall in the city to learn some boxing and kicking. ”

At this time, I saw a monk coming to the east, with long eyebrows and big ears, and a very strange appearance. As he walked, he shouted: "Young master, young master!" Seeing these women and children, his eyes were full of joy, and he hurriedly asked, "Have you seen the young master?" Mu Ying hurriedly walked over and said, "This master, I don't know who you are looking for?"

When the monk saw Mu Ying, he was very happy, and opened his mouth to say: "Young ......." Mu Ying happened to have his back to Dugu Jian, and hurriedly gave the monk a look, the monk understood, and changed his words: "Female donor, I don't know if you have seen my young master?" Mu Ying shook his head and said: "Master, we are all women here, and there is no young master you said, I'm really sorry." ”

Dugu Jian stared at the monk carefully for a long time, and suddenly realized: "Isn't this monk exactly the Lu Guangyuan that the master wants me to find?" He hurriedly stepped forward, folded his hands, and asked, "Dare to ask the master, but the name of the layman is Lu Guangyuan?" The monk stared at Dugu Jian for a long time before replying: "Who are you? How do you know my name?"

"Master, the younger Hengshan Dugu Sword, on the orders of the family teacher Liu Qingzhou, there is a letter to be handed over to the master. With that, Dugu Jian took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Lu Guangyuan.

Lu Guangyuan took the letter, looked at Dugu Jian and said, "You said you are Liu Qingzhou's apprentice?

"Everything is fine with the family teacher, but I just remember the master, and I want to invite the master to Hengshan to talk about it. Dugu Jian replied respectfully.

"Hehe, will he remember me as a thief? Your master is a decent family and boasts of being high, how could he invite me, an evil demon, to go to Hengshan?" Lu Guangyuan said as he opened the letter and looked at it.

After a while, he finished reading the letter, and asked Dugu Jian again: "Boy, do you know what is written in your master's letter?" ”

"Well, I still have something to do, so I won't reply. You go back and tell your master, Yue Fei led the troops to kill so many of our brothers, this revenge is not shared, even if I don't revenge, there will be other brothers to do it. I'll promise you here, Master, that I won't go. He wanted me to quit the religion, but it was impossible. From now on, you and your master will not owe each other. If you go, I will go to find the young master of my family. Lu Guangyuan rubbed his hands, crumpled the letter to pieces, turned around and left.

Dugu Jian looked at Lu Guangyuan's figure in a daze, and didn't speak for a long time. Mu Ying shouted softly: "Dugu Shaoxia, Dugu Shaoxia?" At this time, Dugu Jian came to his senses, looked at Mu Ying, and said, "Miss Mu smiled." Let's leave it at that, Miss Mu has been pacified by General Yue along this road, you can go there and settle down and take your leave!"

Mu Yingfang was about to open his mouth to speak, but Dugu Jian jumped forward and hurried westward, and after a while, he disappeared......