Chapter Eighty-Eight: Killing Intent
"Brother-in-law!" Guo Xiang hurriedly got up, called out in a coquettish voice, and stumbled Xiao Yuesheng's steps.
"Huh-?" Xiao Yuesheng turned his head to look back, pulling two wooden doors with both hands, the façade was carved with magpie plum branches, the red paint was restrained, and under the soft light, the luster was faint.
"I want to go and see it too, okay, brother-in-law?" Guo Xiang asked softly, biting his thin cherry lips.
Xiao Yuesheng's heart sank, the more he was afraid of something, he regretted it greatly, hated why he didn't leave in an instant, he had to come back to seriousness, and he had to leave from the pavilion door, so that his sister-in-law had a chance to speak.
The sister-in-law bit her lips lightly, and the eager look in her eyes was really unbearable to refuse, but Xiao Yuesheng was in a beautiful flower, after all, her concentration was outstanding, and she shook her head hurriedly, "You don't have to go, fight and kill, what is there to see!"
With that, he pulled the door and stepped forward, wanting to leave.
"Brother-in-law-!" Guo Xiang hurriedly pushed away the wooden chair, Lianbu took two quick steps, stepped forward and grabbed his sleeve, "Brother-in-law, take me there! I want to see the fate of those wicked people!"
She pleaded coquettishly, her watery eyes were pleading, gently shaking Xiao Yuesheng's sleeves, she was the youngest daughter at home, although she was not often coquettish, but she was also self-taught, and she knew a little bit about it.
Xiao Yuesheng wanted to refuse again, but the sister-in-law had already pulled the corners of his sleeves, but he couldn't force it to break away, but he didn't expect the sister-in-law to grind people, but she was also full of femininity and difficult to entangle.
"Alas-!" He shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, "Xiang'er, what's there to see in killing people, I heard your eldest sister say, you can't bear to kill even a fish, when you are on Peach Blossom Island, you have to put the fish back into the sea, and you will be soft-hearted when you see people!"
In order to resolve the disagreement between her sister and her husband, Guo Fu tried her best to praise the other person without a trace in front of the two, pick some ordinary small things, the little things that can best reflect their advantages, and inadvertently tell them to the other person.
"Eldest sister is really, why do you say everything?!"
Guo Xiang stomped on the deerskin boots, but his face was pretended to be deep and helpless and sighed, quite like the vicissitudes of maturity like an adult.
Then he smiled, as bright as the morning glow, and said with a smile: "...... Brother-in-law, don't worry, I will never be soft-hearted, I hate that they will die early!"
Later, there was a bit of a vicious expression on his face, but the smile had not faded yet, and this viciousness made people not afraid.
"Alright then!"
Xiao Yuesheng nodded, seeing that his aunt was very determined, he didn't care about himself, and opened his mouth to agree.
"What about you?"
Xiao Yuesheng's eyes turned to Guo Poyu, who was sitting precariously, and he also wanted to take him with him, so that Guo Poyu could see the blood, so that his heart would mature earlier.
"Brother-in-law...... I want to rest here for a while......"
Guo's family, Guo Poyu's courage is the least, when he heard that his brother-in-law was going to kill, he was very timid, although he didn't have manly dignity, but if he really saw the killing, I was afraid that he couldn't sleep, weighing the pros and cons, he could only sacrifice his manly dignity, and he couldn't care about his brother-in-law's jokes.
Although Xiao Yuesheng was a little disappointed in his heart, he was not annoyed, and smiled gently: "It's still smart and clever, and the situation of killing people, if you can not watch it, try not to watch it, it is not very good for yourself...... Xiang'er, why don't you stay here with Po Yu!?"
"Brother-in-law!" Guo Xiang was in a hurry, and hurriedly pulled his brother-in-law's long sleeves.
She didn't laugh at her brother, although she was still young, but for the sake of others, she did a very good job, and she joked with her brother in a good manner.
"Good ......" Xiao Yuesheng nodded hurriedly, and then smiled at Guo Poyu: "Then Poyu will stay, and when you are bored, you will go to the night market in the town, by the way, how much money do you have? Is it enough?"
Guo Xiang couldn't help but smile, his brother-in-law looks like a mother, although he is wordy, he is very amiable.
Xiao Yuesheng heard Guo Xiang's laughter, knowing that she laughed at her triviality, but she was helpless in her heart, who let herself be their brother-in-law!
Guo Poyu nodded and said that it was enough, he was not interested in spending money, he usually followed Guo Xiang's side, he listened to the advice of the second sister, and asked him to spend his own money, he was not very confident, and often after buying things back, he found that it was not quite what he wanted, and he regretted it.
Xiao Yuesheng nodded, didn't say more, suddenly closed the door again, turned around and walked to Xiao Xuan's window, and said with a smile: "Let's go out from here." ”
With that, he pushed open the window facing the street.
The cold wind suddenly entered, the lights flickered, the noisy and noisy sound went straight into the house, and then wafted in was the smell of bursts of fragrance and firewood burning, under the window is a north-south street, small stalls are lined up, steaming, people are in twos and threes, lively tightly, shouting, bargaining, laughter is endless, most of the snacks and snacks on this street are some snacks and snacks, provoking the children to pull their mothers to linger here.
"Let's go out?!" Xiao Yuesheng turned his head and looked at Guo Xiang beside him, her beautiful jade face was slightly flushed at this time, and she was delicate under the light of the two rows of air death wind lamps above the market.
He stopped talking, hugged her slender and soft delicate body, arched his waist slightly, fluttered out of the window, and fell to the street like the wind at the window frame, and entered the city.
The two came suddenly, appeared out of thin air, but people did not find it strange, people came and went, although not to rub shoulders, but also crowded, shuttling like a stream.
Xiao Yuesheng's feet are swift, like a fish swimming in the water, in the crowd is shuttling freely, in the blink of an eye, he bought a sugar noodle man, a few packs of kernel painting plum preserves, and some dough ring cakes, fried chicken and bacon.
This is actually Xiao Yuesheng's habit, when he goes to a prosperous place, he will get some unique things and put them in the mustard seed space, and go back to give them to the ladies to taste.
"Hehe, do you think your brother-in-law is too different from a man?" Xiao Yuesheng couldn't help but be amused when he saw his sister-in-law's unbelievable and round-eyed appearance.
His approach is indeed very different from that of secular men in society, and the buying and selling of these things is rarely done by men, but is the duty of women, and it has always been a tradition for gentlemen not to get close to cooking.
It's just that he doesn't care about other people's opinions, and he has the thoughts of a man in modern society, so he has no scruples about doing these things.
Guo Xiang shook his head, these trivial things, if they were done by other men, seemed to be unorthodox and not serious, but when my brother-in-law did it, it was very different, but with chic and gentleness, it seemed to stand out from the crowd, and there was a kind of outstanding demeanor.
Xiao Yuesheng handed the sugar-noodled man who was pinched into a white-faced Cao Ying into her hand, and the large bag and small bag in her hand disappeared suddenly, and she was sent to the mustard seed space, and she didn't hear the screams coming from the side, hugged Guo Xiang's slender waist lightly, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
There will naturally be some confusion on the street, an ordinary man takes a beautiful girl like a flower to buy snacks, which is already eye-catching, Guo Xiang's beauty, standing in the downtown area, has attracted the attention of countless people, so Xiao Yuesheng's actions are naturally inevitable into people's eyes, and the big bags of things in his hands suddenly disappeared, and then the two disappeared in an instant, and its strangeness made people feel that they had seen the appearance of immortals and reappeared in the world.
Excited discussions came and went, this said that it was the lotus fairy of the eight immortals of the Tang Dynasty, and that said that it was a fairy in the sky, and the argument was extremely fierce. People are the first to say that they have seen the scene, and the inaccuracies are inevitable, and the more they say, the more mysterious and commotionful.
Soon after, this street was named Yuxian Street.
For the prosperity of Taoism at this time, Yu Xian is really a big event, and it is big, and naturally someone is in it to add fuel to the fire, so the name of Yuxian Street, the fame, the prosperity of Zhouwang Town is more prosperous, and it ranks among the famous towns in the south of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop.
Although Xiao Yuesheng has countless magical powers, he can't know that his unintentional actions have brought great benefits to Zhou Wangzhen, he is hugging Guo Xiang at this time, resisting the void and the wind, his clothes are swinging, and he is fluttering.
At the beginning, Guo Xiangshang was still curious to look at the surrounding scenery, but Xiao Yue shrank into inches, the speed was extremely fast, after looking at it for a while, Guo Xiang felt that his eyes were dazzling, and he was in tears in the wind.
She had no choice but to close her eyes, snuggle up to her brother-in-law, and let him run with her.
After a short time, Xiao Yuesheng suddenly stopped.
Guo Xiang felt that the wind in his ears stopped, and the force of tearing and squeezing suddenly disappeared, and he hurriedly opened his eyes and saw that he was actually standing on the top of a mountain.
She turned her head and saw her brother-in-law beside her holding a single knife with a curly blade, his eyes slightly closed, and he was contemplative.
Although he didn't know what his brother-in-law was doing, he knew that it was not appropriate to disturb at this time, so he turned his head and looked at the place he was.
This is a towering boulder, except for its own three feet within a radius of smooth and snowless, the rest of the place, all the rest of the place, are covered with snow, thick snow, blown by the wind into a flowing cloud, extremely delicate and moving.
The white rocks under the feet, the dark brown stripes, tell the natural erosion of the years, the full moon in the sky hangs high, like a silver plate hanging in the air, bright and white, looking at this time, but it seems extraordinarily close, as if it is within reach, the stars are twinkling, and the sky is full of stars.
A cold wind blew, because of the hairpin protection of the god of the town, Guo Xiang only felt the breeze blowing on her face, but the wind was a little stronger, blowing her clothes to the sound of hunting, and the sugar man in her hand had been frozen into a popsicle, very strong.
She left her brother-in-law's side and took two steps forward, and at her feet were towering and precipitous peaks, sparsely wooded and covered with snow, as if a silver mountain was standing.
The mountain stood alone, flat all around, with no peaks and a village quietly located not far from the foot of the mountain, late at night, without a single light.
Standing on the top of the mountain, looking down on all beings, Guo Xiang had the urge to shout, but when she saw her brother-in-law's eyes closed, she could only hold back this impulse, let the wind gust, blow up her clothes, and just quietly watch the scenery under the moon.
"Huh-" A low exhalation woke up Guo Xiang, who was intoxicated by the melting moonlight, she turned her head to look back, only to see her brother-in-law's eyes slowly open, the golden light faintly flowed, in the silver glow of the moonlight, it looked solemn and awe-inspiring.
Guo Xiang was extremely curious, but he didn't ask questions, just looked at his brother-in-law's calm and deep eyes, waiting for him to speak.
Xiao Yuesheng's eyes were deeper and deeper, revealing a thoughtful look, his gaze swept over Guo Xiang's face, under the moonlight, his beautiful and holy face seemed to lose his color, unable to stop his gaze for a moment, his gaze swept over Guo Xiang, looking at the north under the night sky.
After a while, Xiao Yuesheng slowly retracted his gaze, and finally looked at Guo Xiang who was standing in a daze: "Let's go!"
His voice was quiet and flat, fluttering, but with a compelling majesty, which made people involuntarily obey.
"Oh. Guo Xiang only felt that his brother-in-law's eyes with a faint golden light were dazzling, and he seemed to be able to melt everything, and he couldn't bear it, so he could only hang his head and look at him, not daring to look at him.
Xiao Yuesheng stepped to the edge of the rock, hugged Guo Xiang lightly, and slowly floated up, like two flying cranes, staggering up, floating over the mountain peaks in the moonlight, flying over the village that Guo Xiang had just seen, fluttering clothes, under the bright moonlight, like a pair of immortals.
Guo Xiang closed his eyes again, leaned his head lightly on his brother-in-law's chest, in the whirring wind, Xiao Yuesheng's slow and powerful heartbeat was clearly audible, smelling the faint manly breath on his body, Guo Xiang did not feel cold at all, but was unusually warm, from the red face and hot ears gradually calmed down, in the slow and regular heartbeat, he was actually in a daze and fell asleep.
Tongxiang Town is a small town between Lin'an and Jiaxing, surrounded by dense woods, and there are many tung trees, so it is called Tongxiang.
Due to its location on an important road, the original town became more and more prosperous. Jiaxing City has been gradually prosperous in recent years, has been called a small Lin'an, Lin'an and Jiaxing between cars and horses, the crowd is endless, the towns along the way are contaminated with a bit of prosperous atmosphere.
Although Tongxiang Town is small, but there are a lot of inn restaurants, there are a lot of travelers on this road, the restaurant inn Dafa Li City, the most spacious east and west streets in the center of the town, five or six restaurants stand in a forest, high or short, large or small, different, but embroidered flags and exhibitions, are quite a bit of momentum.
In the northernmost part of the town, next to the tung forest, there is a rather large Guandi Temple, the incense is quite prosperous, it is the paradise of beggars and orphans in the town.
It's just tonight, these homeless people are very unlucky, a group of evil guests suddenly came to the temple of Emperor Guan, fierce and vicious, drove out the beggar orphans who originally settled here, and occupied this place alone, there is a beggar with a blood surname who stepped forward to theorize, but was cut off with a knife, cut off two fingers, and everyone was scattered, and no one dared to stay here.
#172;#172; The temple of Emperor Guan covered by the sycamore tree is quite spacious, in the main hall, Gong Guan has a bearded face, holding the green dragon glaive knife, mighty and solemn, the green dragon glaive knife is a real knife, under the light of the two cow candles in the hall, the cold light flickered.
At this time, on the futon in the hall, there were ten men with different appearances, or green shirts, thick cotton jackets, or mink coats, but they had one thing in common, their eyes were shining with cold light, with a fierce aura, like the cold light of a sword shining under the scorching voice.
"Haha, I didn't expect that Guan Erye's knife is actually a good knife, my old Zhao wants to use it!"
A big man with a rough face, a rosacea nose, sitting in the south was tickled by Guan Gong's glaive knife light, laughing, very cheerful, although the content of the speech was heroic, but the tone was dragged and tongued, quite weird, he supported his legs, and he had to get up to pick up the knife.
"Stop!" the old man sitting in the middle of the north head shouted angrily, he was dressed in a mink fur, his face was strange, his beard and eyebrows were white, but he was in good spirits, and his eyes were cold and shining, straight through people's hearts.
The big man was glared at by the old man, and suddenly became a little shorter, shrunk back, and sat back honestly.
"Zhao Degui, your guts are getting fatter and fatter, and you dare to move Master Guan's knife?!" The old man glared at Zhao Degui, his face was as heavy as ice, as if he could scrape off a layer of ice slag.
"Old man Chen, what are you afraid of? Anyway, with the blessing of the sea god Niangniang, my old Zhao is not uncommon, what is the second master!"
Although Zhao Degui was timid, he didn't want to lose face, so he pretended not to care on his rough face, and said with a hard mouth.
"Shut up!" Old Man Chen's eyes were cold and bright, and he shouted angrily, his voice was majestic and shocking, and the sycamore snowflakes outside the temple were shocked and fell, he was extremely respectful to Guan Gong, and he could not tolerate others blaspheming.
"Zhao Degui, where's your knife?" After drinking angrily, Master Chen also felt that his voice was too loud and too excited, so he lowered his voice and asked slowly.
"Throw...... Thrown. Zhao Degui snorted.
"Throw it away?!You threw away your blade, turned into empty-handed, and you started with people, you want to go into the white blade with your bare hands?"
Old Man Chen laughed angrily and sneered, Zhao Degui practiced the knife technique, and let him use the empty hand into the white blade, which was no different from sending him to death.
On the left side of Old Man Chen, there was a white-faced middle-aged man in a green shirt, Danfeng's slender eyes glared at Zhao Degui, arched his hand to Old Man Chen, and said with an elegant smile: "You are old and angry, don't be like this foolish person!"
"Yes, yes, Zhao Degui is a bad person, you don't have to be like him!"
Everyone echoed and persuaded the angry old man Chen.
"Old man Chen, it's all my fault!" said a big man sitting next to Zhao Degui with broad shoulders and thick eyebrows, "It was because I saw that Zhao Degui's broken knife was curled, so I persuaded him to throw it away and replace it with a good one, so as not to do it with others and suffer a big loss." ”
"That's it, my broken knife is really not angry, and before I killed a few people, it rolled up the blade, and I can't use it anymore, I can only throw it away!"
Zhao Degui nodded busily, he was both respectful and afraid of Old Man Chen, although his mouth was hard, as soon as the words came out, he already regretted it, and now that he has the opportunity to ease, he naturally has to seize it.
Old Man Chen's face was a little kind, and he also knew that it didn't make much sense to be angry with this muddy person.
"Zhao Degui, where did you throw that knife?" The elegant man suddenly moved, and hurriedly asked.
"Where did you throw it?" Zhao Degui's thick palm scratched his unkempt hair, and smiled, "I forgot where I threw it!
"Throw it in Wangjiazhuang, I saw it with my own eyes!" On Zhao Degui's other side, sitting was a thin middle-aged man, with small eyebrows and eyes, looking a little thief-eyed, but his voice did not match his figure, hoarse and low, quite majestic.
"Throw it in Wangjiazhuang?!" The man in the green shirt frowned, his face was a little calm, the light of the cow candle kept beating, and his complexion kept changing.
"What's the problem, Mr. Qi?" Old Man Chen couldn't help but be a little worried when he saw that Mr. Qi, who had always been calm, had changed his complexion.
Mr. Qi's contemplation was suddenly awakened, and he hurriedly regained his composure, and reluctantly smiled: "It should be fine, I'm just worried about the ...... of that knife."
"Mr. Qi, don't worry, that broken knife was just bought from the usual blacksmith shop, it's very ordinary!" The hoarse voice sounded, it was said by the thief-eyed man beside Zhao Degui.
Mr. Qi breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and smiled: "That's good, the name of Jiangnan General Capture has become more and more prominent in recent years, and there is no vanity under the so-called fame, we have to be careful in everything, don't make the right thing to be done, but plant ourselves in it!"
"Mr. Qi doesn't have to worry so much about it--every time we do it, we don't leave the chickens and dogs, and the fire is burned clean, and those headhunters want to find us, and we don't know how long it will take us! Haha-"
A black-faced man with half an arm and knotted muscles on Mr. Qi's side laughed loudly, very proud.
"That's it, even if those catchers find us and want to look for us on the sea, then they still don't have the intention to feed Wang Ba?
A person sitting in the middle of the west face has a bronze complexion, a piece of black cloth is wrapped around his head, and he is in the style of a Dongpo scarf, with a burly figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, which is very inconsistent with the Confucian shirt he wears.
Mr. Qi sighed, quite disapproving, although he had not seen the Jiangnan chief arrest Li Yuanling with his own eyes, but some of the Taoist giants who were rumored to have the ability to reach the sky were finally planted in his hands, it can be seen that this person is terrible, such a powerful person, if he despises it, he is just asking for his own death.
It's just that everyone around him is laughing, very proud, and he doesn't want to sweep everyone's interest, and it's not too late to show it badly later.
"Grandma, why hasn't that dead monkey come back yet? I'm starving to death!"
Zhao Degui touched his rosacea nose with one hand, patted his belly with the other, shouted loudly, turned around and looked back at the door, and shook his head in disappointment.
"Soon, I should be back soon!" the rough man next to him continued, and he also touched his belly, desperately wanting to hold a roast chicken and eat it.
"Old Man Chen, how about we do him again tonight?"
The man in the center of the right asked, tall and pale, very different from the sun-exposed skin of everyone around him.
When he saw that everyone's eyes were looking at him, he was very proud, shook his head, and sighed: "These rich people in Jiangnan are really fat, a small landlord, and the money in the family is more than our entire Guanyin Cave!"
There was an uproar, and they immediately scrambled to echo it, and they talked about it one after another, and they were elated, and the things of money and wealth were really moving.
"No—!" Mr. Qi shouted in a deep voice.
Although his voice was low, he suppressed everyone's gossip, revealing an extremely clever internal skill.
The crowd kept their mouths shut and stared at him, for he had always had great authority and could suppress these unruly men.
Mr. Qi's originally elegant face was solemn and heavy at this time, his eyes were like electricity, he slowly swept over everyone's faces, turned around, and arched his hand to Old Man Chen: "Old Man Chen, don't ...... If we loot again tonight, we will show our whereabouts to others, we all know that Jiaxing is very good at catching heads, this place is already within the scope of Jiaxing Mansion, we must not act rashly, lest we fall into a desperate situation——!"
Old Man Chen stroked his long silver-white hair and gently bowed his head.
The person who proposed just now was in a hurry, a trace of blush appeared on his pale face, and he sneered: "Hmph! Mr. Qi has some cup bow snake shadows, right?"
After that, he stopped looking at him, his pale face raised slightly, looked at Old Man Chen, arched his hand, and said respectfully: "Old Man Chen, our business will be solved tomorrow, and at that time, the head catchers in Jiaxing will not let us go, but what can we do? We have our own way to get out safely, tonight's vote, that is not to do in vain!"
After that, he glanced at Mr. Qi coldly and proudly, looked up at the thoughtful, frowning old man Chen, and waited for his decision.
"It's because we have to do the right thing tomorrow that we can't act recklessly tonight!"
Mr. Qi was very anxious when he saw that Mr. Chen seemed to be intended, but his expression was still calm: "Jiaxing's headcatcher reacts very quickly, if someone finds us tonight, I'm afraid we will be caught by Jiaxing's headcatchers before we can wait for the idea!"
"The old man decided to vote again tonight!"
As soon as Mr. Qi's words fell, he heard the voice of Old Man Chen, and then there was a cheer from everyone, people died for money, birds died for food, there is money to be taken, how can these rough people not be happy? Although one or two people looked hesitant, they could not affect everyone.
"Old man—!"
Mr. Qi was in a hurry, his calm expression was no longer goodbye, and his eyes were full of anxiety.
"Mr. Qi doesn't need to say any more, the old man has made up his mind!" Old Man Chen waved his vigorous hand to stop Mr. Qi's persuasion.
Seeing Mr. Qi's gloomy expression, he couldn't help but smile: "Mr. Qi is too worried, even if tonight's incident is discovered, although this place is within the scope of Jiaxing Mansion, it is at least three days away from Jiaxing City, and it is too late to rush over!"
Mr. Qi smiled bitterly, looked at the elated expressions of everyone, but his heart was heavy and abnormal, although he knew that once Old Man Chen made a decision, it would be extremely difficult for others to change his mind, but he was very worried in his heart, and the sense of foreboding became more and more strong.
Mr. Qi arched his hand and said slowly: "Old Man Chen, before we left, I carefully studied the headhunters in Jiaxing Mansion, and the results were surprising, and I felt terrible to think about. ”
Everyone stopped celebrating, Mr. Qi had great prestige in this group of people, and no one doubted his words.
"Mr. Qi, they are just some lackeys of the imperial court, what's so scary, you're too alarmist, aren't you?!" the pale-faced middle-aged man sneered.
Mr. Qi shook his head slightly, his face remained calm, and he arched his hand to the man: "Does Third Brother Zhong think that Qi is a timid and afraid person?"
The pale-faced Third Brother Zhong didn't say a word, Mr. Qi was bold and careful, and no one could say that he was timid.
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