Chapter 14: Shock
The entire Shangkouzhuang moved, so far Wu Xiao could be regarded as having seen the Salt Gang, there were people inside and outside the village, there were people who had traveled a long way to rest and drink here, some had received orders to carry a large number of materials to transport in and out, there were horse teams, there were bundles of weapons, there were people looking for people everywhere, and there were people who gathered to discuss, and Wu Xiao was like a bystander, watching these people busy, watching them come and go, watching them walk in and out, tall, short, fat and thin.
Wu Xiao only realized at this time that Hongyu's previous words were that his enemy was a figure bigger than the origin of Hangzhou Mansion, with the size of the Salt Gang, manpower, financial and material resources, and the relationship between black and white, it was still so difficult to rob a prisoner from Hangzhou Mansion, how could he achieve his own goal.
Just as he was distracted, he suddenly felt that someone behind him patted him on the shoulder, Wu Xiao looked back and saw that it was Ning Ning who was wearing a goose yellow shirt, Wu Xiao turned around and continued to look ahead, ignoring her. Ning Ning originally wanted to laugh a few words, but she couldn't say a word at this time, she blocked her breath and said next to Wu Xiao: "Why do you ignore people, it's so rude!"
Wu Xiao didn't answer her words, but asked, "What is the red fish doing?"
"Sister Hongyu is chatting with my mother, let me come to play with you by myself" Ning Ning looked at Wu Xiao and said, she seemed to forget and was angry.
"Brother Ximing, will you tell me about the rivers and lakes?"
"Jianghu? Your own home is the rivers and lakes, and what is happening in your family is the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and what do you want me to tell you about the rivers and lakes? ”
"Really, I don't feel it at all, I just think they're a bunch of stinking coolies."
"Most of the people in the rivers and lakes are such stinky coolies, otherwise who do you think they are?"
"This is different from what my mother told me, shouldn't it be a son on a white horse, a woman who comes and goes?"
Wu Xiao glanced at her and didn't speak again
"Are you lying to me, or are you not walking the rivers and lakes at all" Ning Ning was very unconvinced
"You're too much, you big liar" Seeing that Wu Xiao still ignored her, Ning Ning seemed to be really angry, but Wu Xiao still didn't react, and finally Ning Ning could only snort and ran away.
Ning Ning trotted all the way to her mother's room in the backyard, and as soon as she entered the door and saw that Hongyu and her mother were still chatting about some common things, she immediately felt very aggrieved, and cried when she threw herself into her mother's arms. While crying, he said: "Brother Ximing is so bad, he bullied me!"
Hongyu was shocked, and the owner's wife was also anxious, and Hongyu asked anxiously: "Brother, why did he bully you?"
Ning Ning raised his head and thought for a while and said: "I kindly went to play with him and talked to him, he ignored me like a stuffy gourd, and finally spoke, and lied to me that the rivers and lakes are all stinky bitter men, and there is no son riding a white horse." The owner's wife and Hongyu were relieved when they heard this, and sat down, Hongyu patted his chest and said: "Ning Ning, don't cry, it's my brother, I'll go back and punish him", Ning Ning heard the punishment and seemed to forget about being bullied, and immediately laughed and asked, "How will my sister punish him?" The owner's wife patted Ning Ning's ass and said angrily: "Ning Ning, don't mess around, play by yourself"
"No, I want to hear how my sister punishes Brother Ximing" Ning Ning seemed to be very interested in this matter.
"Miss Redfish smiled, Ning Ning has been pampered by me and her father since she was a child, don't take it seriously" The owner's wife smiled and said to Redfish.
"What did Madam say, Ning Ning is very cute, I liked it as soon as I saw it, but which of my younger brother is a master who can't speak, which makes Ning Ning unhappy. ”
The owner's wife and Ning Ning both laughed when they heard this.
The next day, the people of the Salt Gang in Shangkouzhuang basically left, leaving only a few people to wait here, and the whole manor seemed to be quiet all of a sudden, but Wu Xiao always felt that something was wrong, and he even rode around the manor on horseback, but he didn't find anything abnormal. On the afternoon of the third day, Wu Xiao was about to go to see the red fish, and when he walked to the school field, he saw a jujube red horse mixed with blood running from the front of Zhuangzi, and immediately took a person, and several Zhuang halls rushed forward to answer, Wu Xiao also rushed over, and several people carried the man off the horse, only to see that his face was full of blood, and he couldn't see who it was, until he wiped the blood on his face and found out which gambling money Zhang Yun, he also woke up slowly at this time, and immediately stood up after seeing everyone, grabbed the arms of the two people and said with difficulty:" You guys go quickly, there are chasing soldiers behind", this sentence seemed to have hollowed out all his strength, and there was no reaction after that, and his body slowly softened, and several Zhuang halls looked at each other and didn't know what to do.
A burly middle-aged black man dispatched: "You go and tell everyone to come out, you go and pull all the horses out of the village, I will go to the backyard to ask the female dependents, and go immediately" After several people nodded, he had galloped away.
When Wu Xiao and another Zhuang Ding led seven or eight horses back to the school field, there were no more than 50 people and 20 horses gathered on the school field, and an old man with a thin face and white hair but still in good spirits was standing in the middle and commanding Zhuang Ding.
The ladies had already come to the school field in a panic, and Hongyu and Ning Ning came behind everyone with the owner's wife.
The old man walked a high platform and looked at everyone, the school was silent, and the old man shouted: "Life and death, don't talk much, all the male and female servants are now disbanded and run for their lives, the officers and soldiers will not embarrass you, all the salt men who run the rivers and lakes have a horse and a knife, and they will protect the lady and the young lady to follow me", the men of the salt gang listened to the slight confusion for a while, and quickly prepared to stop according to the old man's wishes, which male and female servants did not know what to do, and made a mess in the same place, the old man shook his head and shouted: " Don't go quickly", they just went down in twos and threes.
Wu Xiao found two horses and pulled one for the red fish, the red fish took the reins, grabbed his hand and said, "Are you afraid", Wu Xiao smiled: "I'm not afraid, don't stay too far away from me for a while." The two turned over and got on the horse, and the owner and Ning Ning each had a Zhuang Ding to protect them and ride on the horse, but they saw that the old man Jiao jumped on the horse, threw away the jujube core, drew the glaive knife on the weapon rack, and brandished two tigers and tigers, and the breeze blew his white beard, full of pride. Which middle-aged black man said: "The old man is so imposing", the old man Jiao looked at everyone: "Although I am old, but a few officers and soldiers are not in the heels, let's take the black wind road and go to the Gorge Mountain", twenty horses galloped out, dust filled the entire manor, and Wu Xiao also drew an iron gun in his hand when he passed by an weapon rack.
The old man took the lead with a little arrangement and arrangement, everyone galloped all the way, the owner's wife Bi Jing is an elderly woman is a little unbearable, but she is gritting her teeth and enduring, life and death, she also knows the severity, Ning Ning is fine, on the contrary, she feels novel, not to pat the arm of the person who rode with him, he blocked the view, when she saw Wu Xiao and Hongyu were also not far away, she also waved to them, Hongyu responded, Wu Xiao did not see it.
It was slowly getting dark, and everyone ran all the way for two hours, and the people were sleepy and the horses were lacking, so the old man ordered to go into the forest on the side to rest for a pillar of incense time, and the people ate the horses and fed them. Someone broke the pine wood and lifted the fire to ride a horse in the dark sky, there is no lighting and it is easy to fold people and horses, after a while, everyone got on the horse again, the team of more than 20 people had more than a dozen torches at this time, the team galloped on the horse road on the side of the mountain like a fire dragon, Wu Xiao looked before and after, patted the horse to catch up with the old man Jiao and said: "Old man, we can't raise the fire when we are running for our lives", the old man Jiao glanced at the team behind, and said with a slight groan: "Everyone has turned off the fire, only Xiao Wuzi is alone in front of the team to raise the fire to lead the way, and the team speed slows down" The old man's words were very prestigious, and immediately a thin young man ran to the front of the line with a torch, and everyone behind him put out the torches.
"Xiao Wuzi be careful, I heard the sound of the wind and went under the horse" The old man advised, and Xiao Wuzi said: "Save it"
"Redfish has a good brother," the old man looked at Wu Xiaodao
"The old man has won the award, be careful in everything," Wu Xiao said
"It's just that you're tired of dying with us all the way, you brothers and sisters can leave, you don't have to go with us"
"The Salt Gang is righteous and saved my life"
"No matter what, what is a life, the Salt Gang owes thousands of lives to the Red Fish Master, we all remember it in our hearts, even my old life was saved by Mr. Xi back then, you are important, the Salt Gang will still be in the future, the Salt Gang will still want you, you leave the team and leave." ”
"Let's go with the old man to the Gorge Mountain" Wu Xiao didn't wait for the old man's words after speaking, and Lama went to find the red fish.
The old man looked at him sideways, sighed, and continued to run forward, although his body was still straight, but the old man of Bi Jing's eighties, his face was tired, and everyone had traveled sixty miles all the way.
"Enter the Black Wind Road in front" Xiao Wuzi felt in front, everyone cheered up after hearing it, the owner's wife and Ning Ning had long been unable to straighten their waists, and they all relied on the Zhuang Ding in the back to support, and the red fish was used to riding horses. Tonight there was only a crescent moon, hanging in the sky in front of it, and under the faint moonlight, the black wind channel was like a giant beast with its mouth wide open, waiting for everyone to enter its belly. On both sides of the Black Wind Tunnel are high cliffs, and in the middle there is a small path, the narrow place is only for one horse to pass, and the wide place is only two horses in parallel, and in the middle of the line only a dark sky can be seen overhead, and everyone slows down their horses and runs instead of walking.
Xiao Wuzi was still leading the way in front, and the torches flickered on and off, like a ghost fire fluttering. As the team was marching, he suddenly saw a horse walking forward quickly and catching up with Old Man Jiao's horse, but it was a black-faced man.
"Old man, I just secretly ordered someone, one less" The black-faced man whispered
The old man didn't speak for a while, "Who is it, when was it?"
"Wang Hammer, it is estimated that it is time to rest in the forest"
"Heizi, you catch up with Xiao Wuzi, let him be careful and continue to explore the way, you must be clever, I will stop the team" The old man immediately decided, Heizi didn't say anything, hit the horse and galloped forward, the old man raised his hand to signal the team to stop, and ordered the people to pass to the rear, everyone dismounted and horses, and pulled the horses to close to the cliff, these people have been walking on the rivers and lakes for many years, and they are quite experienced, and the whole process is very quiet. Kuroko quickly ran back, dismounted and climbed up the cliff to observe
"What's wrong, what's not leaving" Ning Ning seemed to wake up and asked Wu Xiao, who was sitting next to him
"Don't talk, it's dangerous," Wu Xiao glanced at her
"Ning Ning listens, this is the time to die" Hongyu also comforted her, and after speaking, she held Wu Xiao's hand tightly, Wu Xiao felt it, and also held her tightly.
After a while, I only heard a sharp sound of breaking the wind, and the spark in Xiao Wu's position in front of him was extinguished, followed by an arrow falling to Xiao Wu's position, and the whole canyon was quiet after only hearing a horse roar, only the sound of the wind shuttling in the canyon. After about half a sound, a fireball rolled down from the top of the cliff, illuminating the canyon below, and Xiao Wu's horse had fallen to the ground, and his body was stuck into a hedgehog by an arrow, but it seemed that Xiao Wu's body was not seen.
Old Man Jiao stood up, holding the Glaive Knife in his hand to signal everyone to prepare, and everyone agreed, each leaning against the cliff to find a hiding place, and blocking the horse in front of the people. Soon another fireball rolled down from the top of the cliff, and the third, and the fourth, when the enemy rolled down every half mile and rolled to the tenth, finally rolled to the hiding place of the people, and the horses neighed in fright, and the salt men tried to keep the horses from running away.
A rain of arrows rained down from the sky, and many of them hit the horses, and immediately a few horses fell to the ground, and the people who came to them immediately rushed out, pulling the dead horses together and stacking them to form a wall of flesh. After five showers of arrows, only three horses were still standing, and three people died. Instead of firing any more arrows, the enemy rolled down a volley of fireballs, which they pushed out of the horse's corpse with their long weapons, and in a moment the entire canyon was filled with the smell of burnt meat. Master Jiao stood up and said: "They have finished shooting arrows, let the live horses go, let them run forward, three people in a team, break forward, this is a hard battle, the other party is leading the troops is a veteran."
The old man's order was quickly executed, and everyone quickly rushed forward in a team of three, Heizi, Wu Xiao and another burly middle-aged man escorted the three women to walk in the middle, and walked ten miles, and from the canyon in front of them came a shout of killing, it seemed that the enemy had rushed in from the valley mouth to fight.