Chapter 44: Joy and Sorrow
The thieves who rushed into the hall all turned their backs to the hall door, but Xue Nianci, who was peeping through the sword eye on the back wall of the hall, saw everything that happened in the door of the house through the open hall door, and couldn't help but feel the cool air on his back, secretly glad that he had been careful in the past two days and had not been noticed by the people in the Sun Mansion, otherwise he might not even have the slightest chance of winning against Sun Zhong, who was moving fast and unpredictable.
The thieves in the hall didn't know that they had been blocked in the house, and more than a dozen people surrounded Sun Renshou, Yue Rongquan's heart settled down again, and asked Sun Renshou loudly: "Is Lu Xiufeng mixed in your family's team?"
"Not really. Sun Renshou shook his fat head and said truthfully: "Murong Nianhua has lived in my mansion for a while, and with his cautious character, he will definitely secretly understand my family, how can he let me mix in a few strangers?"
When Yue Rongquan heard this, he put his mind at ease, and said proudly: "So as long as you die, no one will know who Song Shoucheng and the others were killed? Or-" Yue Rongquan laughed and said, "Dig up your Heavenly Thief Companion: Holy Sword Villa!Haha, this is really a good accident!"
"I forgot to tell Murong Nianhua. Sun Renshou looked at Yue Rongquan with an idiotic look and said, "My hometown general who led the team also had a little nickname ten years ago, as if he was called the Murder King?"
"Kill-" Yue Rong Quancai said a word, and he was already gasping. The reason why he was chosen by Venerable Shengchuan to come to Shanxi with him was because he was originally from Taiyuan Mansion, so he knew the name of the Murder King very well.
"This is impossible!" Yue Rongquan exclaimed after taking a breath and shouted: "The murderous king Yue Linbing was besieged and killed by the masters of the Great Inner Ten years ago, you are talking nonsense!"
"Is there any need to talk nonsense to people like you?" Sun Renshou snorted lightly, and the wooden table in front of him suddenly burst open with a "bang", and when the splinters of wood dust shot into the house to hide their faces, the long swords on the table had magically fallen one by one. As soon as the hilt of the sword entered Sun Renshou's hand, the sword suddenly burst into a dazzling light, like pieces of flying silver needles, shooting into the throats of all thieves.
Seeing Sun Renshou's amazing momentum, Yue Rongquan lost the courage to make a move at the last moment, and was just about to flee when a knife flashed at the door.
It's just a knife, it's very simple, but it's so fast that there is no trace.
"Okay-knife-method!" Yue Rongquan sighed in heartfelt admiration, and his body was divided into two pieces, and he was pushed to the left and right by the spurting blood.
"It's swordsmanship, idiot. Sun Zhong's figure calmly and leisurely walked into the hall, threw away the knife casually, picked up a long sword, put it in his waist after returning to the sheath, shook his head and sighed: "I haven't used a sword for a long time, I have been accustomed to this kind of leisurely life, but I didn't expect to be inadvertently peeped into the sky by a kid surnamed Chai, and I had to re-emerge." ”
"What kind of thing is the kid surnamed Chai? Even if Murong Nianhua doesn't kill him tonight, he will definitely not be able to escape from the palm of Wu Linbing. Sun Renshou didn't mind losing his former wealth at all, but laughed proudly and said: "The old man and Yushan threaded the needle, and finally got results; Ling Son-in-law Taoguang kept obscure, and when the opportunity came, he would enter Hebei to assist the prince in conquering the world; now except for the eldest brother, there is no news coming, and the others are about to reunite, and then everyone can be happy again." Senior brother, your leisurely days have come to an end. ”
The two stood at the door of the hall, chatting and laughing while watching the rain line fly obliquely outside the door. Xue Nianci behind the house became more and more afraid the more she listened. What is the plot behind the Heavenly Thieves Gang, she can't know yet, but from these conversations on the other side, Xue Nianci has gradually sketched the outline of tonight's events.
Obviously, Mu Rong Nianhua designed a conspiracy to annihilate Song Shoucheng and others, but he wanted to use the relationship between Sun Renshou and Fengwu Villa to blame the Gu family. Unexpectedly, the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches were behind, and Sun Renshou was calculated, and after Murong Nianhua and others succeeded, the murderous king Wu Linbing would suddenly make a move, killing Murong Nianhua by surprise, killing two birds with one stone, and eliminating Song Shoucheng and Murong Nianhua's two groups!
Xue Nianci was so anxious that before Sun Zhong and Sun Renshou finished talking, she had already floated into the cliff behind the house, like a colorful phoenix volleying in the air, stepping on the branches and leaves, and rushing away in the rain in the direction of Beiping Town, which Chai Shaoning had told her.
However, Xue Nianci didn't expect that just after she left, a dense thorn bush under the cliff was suddenly separated from it, and a gray-clothed man with trembling legs quietly came out.
"Fortunately, Yue Rongquan didn't know that there was a secret passage in the house that led directly to the bottom of the cliff, otherwise Lao Tzu was afraid that he would also be killed. The man in gray muttered, ignoring the heavy rain, sat on the ground, and took a few breaths before he got up and quickly climbed the slower slope on the other side of the canyon to the top of the hill where the mountain village was located, and jumped into a small farm yard.
The small courtyard is not large, but there is a straw hut for tethered horses. The man in gray, apparently well aware of the peasant family's situation, went straight to the stable, untied the horse's reins from the wooden railing, and led him out of the door. Unexpectedly, when the heavy rain poured on him, the horse suddenly "smacked" and neighed dissatisfiedly.
"What person?" The lights soon turned on in the house, and when the alarmed owner hurriedly put on his clothes and rushed out, he saw two figures standing in the courtyard, one fat and one thin, but they couldn't see their faces clearly.
"There are thieves!" the master just shouted, and the two figures suddenly disappeared out of thin air. The courtyard was full of wind and rain, and the doorway was wide open, like a monster that had just devoured a horse.
"Hell!" the master shouted again, and returned to the house, closed the door and bolted it, and no longer cared whether the horses were dead or alive.
On the roof of the small courtyard, Sun Renshou glanced at his senior brother and said, "It seems that it is too late to catch up." ”
Sun Zhong looked at the dark and boundless rainy night and said, "Although I don't know which direction he fled to, he will definitely inform Xiao Xiaoyan in the end." ”
Sun Renshou nodded, and suddenly asked, "Senior brother thinks Wu Linbing or Xiao Xiaoyan, who is better?"
Sun Zhong showed a look of pity and said: "Although ten years have passed, the internal injuries suffered by Wu Linbing back then have never been completely healed, and he can now exert at most half of his strength, otherwise-" Sun Zhong faced the direction of Taiyuan Mansion, and a contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"I understand!" Sun Renshou also had to show weakness at this point: "Xiao Xiaoyan is extremely light and swordsmanlike, and his four envoys are also strong. We'd better set off immediately and intercept Wu Linbing on the road, lest he be arrogant and harm himself. ”
With Sun Zhong's ghostly skills, he didn't even object to Sun Renshou's evaluation of Xiao Xiaoyan, and the two of them shook their bodies, like two ghosts, and disappeared without a trace.
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The heavy rain had been raining for a full hour, and half of the pit where Murong Nianhua was squatting had already accumulated half of the water, submerging most of his body, especially the injured part, which was soaked in the rain and was in pain, but Murong Nianhua didn't snort and let the rain rise to his chest.
What is this bit of flooding compared to life? And what made Murong Nianhua even more fortunate was that just when he began to worry that the rain would rise further and force him to show up, suddenly the clouds stopped raining, and a bright moon came out of the side of the clouds that had become snow-white, shining brightly in the forest, countless dewdrops hung above his head, and the whole world was as beautiful as being studded with diamonds.
Murong Nianhua's heart was extremely excited, all of this came too coincidentally, as if the will of heaven would let him escape this catastrophe.
This is not the first time Murong Nianhua has felt this way, whenever things are bad to a certain extent, the turning point will appear in the wrong place, so clever that it seems that the god of luck is by his side, giving people the illusion that all disasters can be overcome.
Now Murong Nianhua is like this, as soon as this feeling appeared, his self-confidence suddenly swelled greatly, he could no longer bear the pain of flooding, he stood up from the water with a "bang", and crawled out of the pit with a limp.
However, before he could stand up, an extremely uncomfortable feeling had broken the perfect but fragile wishful cover in Murong Nianhua's heart, and he looked up in horror, seeing Chai Shaoning's cold and hateful gaze in the moonlight.
As if he had suddenly fallen back to reality from the fairyland, frustration filled Murong Nianhua's chest, and he hated the heavens why did he tease himself so much?
Chai Shaoning knew that he couldn't keep Murong Nianhua when Zuo Kun escorted Song Jiongming and Song Ke into the Song Mansion. Song Shoucheng's family can be said to be benevolent and righteous to the small people, but in the face of the powerful force that can crush their family at every turn, Song Shoucheng did not hesitate to stand on the side of the small people. This kind of kindness is as heavy as Mount Tai, and Chai Shaoning will never waver in the slightest idea of saving Song Jiongming and Song Ke because of his own reasons.
But Chai Shaoning is different from Sun Shaoyang. Sun Shaoyang's identity is detached, and the words he says are like spilled water, which is categorical and difficult to chase. But Chai Shaoning would never let Murong Nianhua go. If Murong Nianhua retreats in fear because of Sun Shaoyang's appearance and disappears from now on, Chai Shaoning will also lose the opportunity to rescue his senior sister Lin Zhimei.
Therefore, when everyone's eyes were all focused on the scene where the two sides exchanged hostages, Chai Shaoning had already quietly retreated, drilled into the back of the house from the hole smashed by Jiao Hu in the hall, followed all the way, and witnessed the whole process of the death of Venerable Shengchuan and others.
When the murderous king Wu Linbing showed his true form, Chai Shaoning recognized the other party at a glance as the terrifying old man who was chasing and killing him that night.
That night, under Wu Linbing's hands, Chai Shaoning could barely stand up to the opponent's sword, and the sense of shock and fear was still fresh in his memory. Chai Shaoning's heart jumped sharply, and just when he didn't know whether to risk his life to snatch Murong Nianhua, that thief had already sacrificed Bai Wenxiu, and miraculously escaped from the hands of the terrible Killer King with his own strength.
Chai Shaoning was both angry and happy, angry that Murong Nianhua was so vicious, and his senior sister had fallen into his hands for so long, and he didn't know how much unimaginable suffering he had suffered?