There were a total of seven people in front of Xu Yan and the others, each of whom held a weapon in their hands, but it was not a weapon from the regular army, but from a farmer in the market such as hoes, firewood knives, iron rakes, and even a man who looked like he was about the age of sixtieth birthday, and even held a chainsaw, but there was no doubt that they all looked hideous and fierce, and it was obviously not the first time they came out to do such a roadblock robbery.

Xu Yan and Gu Xueqing just sat down from the two stones on the side of the road, and they didn't even have time to take out the water bag to quench their thirst, and then they heard the leader of the seven people take a step forward, and shouted coldly to the two of them: "This road is for me to open, even the two stones sitting under your buttocks are also the ones I spent a lot of effort from the side of the mountain to move here for you to rest, if you know each other, leave all your money as soon as possible, otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless." ”

When Xu Yan heard the other party's words, he couldn't help but glance at Gu Xueqing, and when he saw that the latter immediately cast a resentful expression of "I am a little woman", he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.

Ignoring the intimidation of this farmer, who was obviously from the countryside in the market, Xu Yan took a sip of water first, and then wiped the water stains remaining on the corners of his mouth by the way, then turned his head and glanced at him, and replied in a calm tone: " Don't dare to deceive all the heroes, my sisters and brothers are really born in poor families like you, this trip to the north, originally to go to the county town to study, but with dozens of dollars of money, this money is my sister and brother in order to stay overnight and add food on the way, if it is handed over to you, then we will not be able to go to the county, so Xiaosheng implores you heroes, let our sisters and brothers go. ”

When this man heard this, he was willing to obey Xu Yan's wishes, and immediately said coldly: "Don't think, since you fell into my hands today, if you don't leave those silver coins, don't think about passing through here." ”

When Xu Yan heard this, he couldn't help but sigh, and asked again: "This good man, is there really no discussion?"

The man didn't answer, but his eyes narrowed slightly, and then he raised the firewood knife in his hand and snorted coldly, the threat couldn't be more obvious.

Seeing him like this, Xu Yan's patience in his heart was gradually lost, he raised his head and glanced at the other six men behind him, and found that they were all staring at him, so he sighed helplessly, and then said slowly: "I see that all of you are holding some ordinary and visible farm tools, presumably you are farmers from a nearby village, but since you all have the ability to go down to the land and enter the mountains, even if you are poor, why do you want to learn from those bandits to do this kind of robbery?"

Hearing the scholar man in front of him speak like this, these crop men who didn't know a few big characters were disdainful of his persuasion. However, the old man with the iron saw took the initiative to reply: "Young man, you are just a poor scholar who has not studied for a few years, and you can only mention the pen on morality. Besides, if life can be as smooth as you scholars think, then it is true that we only need to guard one acre and three points of land in front of the door, and we will be happy to be self-sufficient, but you will not understand our suffering, if it is really to the point of desperation, who wants to do the inferior act of hijacking the money of passers-by?"

After hearing this, Xu Yan hesitated for a moment before his face became cold and said: "Although I don't know how many encounters you have faced in your life, shouldn't you bear your own suffering, and what does it have to do with us passers-by?

When the old man heard this, he couldn't help but sigh leisurely, among the people present, there was no doubt that he was the oldest, and naturally the deeper his experience, therefore, as Xu Yan said, he completely understood these truths, but compared to the next thing in his heart that affected the lives of the entire village, he had to choose to sacrifice passers-by like Xu Yan to fill the so-called morality in his heart.

But before the old man could explain anything, the youngest man in the team had already stood up, walked slowly towards Xu Yan, and then said coldly: "Old Zhangtou, don't talk about that useless nonsense with this descendant, our time is not enough for you to talk about those benevolence and morality, if you can't get enough silver taels before tomorrow, will you be responsible for the consequences?" Since this descendant is so ignorant, then let me solve him, anyway, after he dies, all the money on his body is ours." ”

When the old man heard that it was this person who spoke, his face couldn't help but be shocked, and he opened his mouth and shouted, "Zhang Hu, don't really ......."

However, before the word "hurting" could come out of Lao Zhangtou's mouth, the axe in Zhang Hu's hand had already slashed at Xu Yan.

It was all the people who were born in the nearby Zhangjia Village, and when they saw this scene, they undoubtedly closed their eyes a little unbearably.

It is indeed not the first time that they have come out to rob pedestrians on the road, and even in this short period of more than a month, it has been the thirteenth, but without exception, in all the previous actions, they have not really moved on the pedestrians passing by, the reason is naturally because they themselves are farmers, not like those outlaws in the Danxia Sect, they can kill the pedestrians in the past without scruples, the reason why they want to pretend to be fierce is nothing more than to scare and scare these passers-by, if they are lucky enough to meet some timid and afraid people, in the face of their pretentious intimidation, they naturally take out everything they can, and after they achieve their goal, they will naturally let them go, and even don't forget to remind these "acquaintances" that after leaving here and going north for about ten miles, remember to turn from the fork in the road to the official road, otherwise if you continue to enter the haunted Danxia Mountain, you can pass them alive, but you can't escape those evil ghosts to ask for your life.

Of course, since they started robbing more than a month ago, there is one thing that has to be mentioned, that is, they are actually quite particular about choosing the targets of the robbery.

For example, passers-by who are dressed as practitioners will not show up, and if they are the kind of people who are dressed in noble clothes and accompanied by a large number of guards, they will not act rashly, because in the following two cases, they will only hit the stone with an egg and kill themselves.

Therefore, in most cases, the objects of their robberies are basically placed on the same people as Xu Yan and Gu Xueqing now, who seem to be very ordinary people, although most of them have little oil and water, but they add up a lot, and they have been busy surviving for more than a month, and they are not too far from the ultimate goal.

It's just that tomorrow is the deadline for that matter, and if they can't make up more than five hundred taels of silver, the end will be ......

"Bang"!

The sound didn't sound like an axe slashing into the body, but rather like the sound of a human fist hitting the body.

Then, Zhang Hu, who came to this road for the first time to rob and had a history of human life in his hands, was directly knocked out by Xu Yan's punch, and flew out directly upside down like a cannon battle, and when he landed, he was already dead and couldn't die anymore.

Xu Yan was expressionless about this, but just reached out to catch the little short axe that was thrown into the air but had fallen at this moment.

When everyone in Zhangjia Village saw this scene, they were instantly stunned, and they couldn't imagine that the scholar in front of them had killed one of the few villains in the village with one punch.

After a while, the middle-aged man led by one of them came back to his senses from surprise, he glanced at Xu Yan, and said in disbelief: "You...... How dare you commit murder?"

After Xu Yan heard this, his deep eyes became even colder, and he replied bluntly: "Why, should I just stand in place and be hacked to death by him with an axe?"

"You ......" The man was speechless, but then he said forcefully: "You scholar, you are simply reading the book of saints in vain, Zhang Hu is just a civilian, at most, he is holding a short axe to scare you, how can he really kill you like you!"

Although there is a rule in the Great Zhou Dynasty that cultivators are not allowed to indiscriminately kill innocent people in the market, but for the Diao people in front of him, who do not distinguish between right and wrong and only stand on their own position to judge right and wrong, Xu Yan does not feel that it is too much of a burden to kill them, and besides, the killing intent that Zhang Hu has just exposed is genuine, and he does not have the slightest hand at all, if Xu Yan did not realize that the other party was really ruthless, he would not have killed the other party so neatly and with one punch.

Xu Yan didn't want to argue with these people about the rights and wrongs, because there was no excuse for the crime he wanted to add, and besides, they had already completely torn their faces with each other now, and he didn't mind cleaning them all up.

Feeling that Xu Yan's body was full of murderous aura, Gu Xueqing, who was sitting on the sidelines and watching, finally stood up, and said in a voice to dissuade him: "Little junior brother, don't kill these ordinary people anymore, they really don't have any reason at all, but the rest of these people are not villains like Zhang Hu, just let them go separately." ”

Xu Yan heard the other party's transmission, and was already about to raise his feet to kill them, so he stopped suddenly, but his tone was indeed extremely cold and replied: "These people gather so much to rob passers-by, if I don't get rid of them today, they will continue to do this kind of evil in the future, instead of keeping them to harm others, it is better for me to stop the future trouble as soon as possible and completely cut off their evil intentions." ”

After Gu Xueqing heard this, she smiled bitterly, the cold temperament shown on Xu Yan at this moment was definitely something she had never seen, but she really couldn't just watch these people who had no power to resist die tragically in front of her, after all, her own background was not the same as them, even if she had gone farther and farther on the path of cultivation now, but from the conscience and sympathy in her heart, she couldn't help but want to save their lives.

Gu Xueqing took a deep breath before she said slowly: "Little junior brother, don't do it again, why don't you let me ask them why they are doing these things, if they are really just doing evil, then then the little junior brother will kill them again, I will not stop it, I don't even need you to make a move, I will solve them with my own hands, how about it?"

Xu Yan's face was still very indifferent when he saw her say this, but he finally acquiesced to what she said, and immediately threw the axe in his hand to the side of the road.

Seeing the scholar in front of him lose his axe, the six people from Zhangjia Village couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, for some reason, at that moment, they all felt a breath on each other's body that made them dare not move at all, as if they had become lambs to be slaughtered.

After Xu Yan threw the axe, he ignored the six people in front of him, and directly gave up his position to Gu Xueqing, and then sat back on the stone on the side of the road, then took out the dry food from the storage bag and began to chew it slowly.

However, seeing that the other party was conjuring something to eat like a trick, the old man finally came to his senses, and it turned out that the other party was not a scholar at all, but a "mountain man" who was high up.

Without waiting for them to speak, the woman who followed the scholar and called herself her sister walked up to them again, and then the woman said straight to the point: "It's not a secret, we are not ordinary people, the reason why we want to pretend to be like this is that we just want to have a convenient way to travel, but I didn't think about it, but I was stared at by you again, heh, it seems that walking in the world is much more difficult than I imagined, and since things have reached this point, there are some things I have to figure out, otherwise none of you want to leave alive today." ”

Gu Xueqing didn't give them any time to argue and think, and then asked: "Let me ask you, why do you peasant farmers come out to do this kind of roadblock robbery when you have a good birthday? Although I have heard a few words from your mouths before, but if you can't give me a more satisfactory answer in the future, you will weigh the consequences yourself." ”

Among the people present, except for Lao Zhangtou, who was relatively careful, the other five people hadn't actually discovered that the two people in front of them were cultivators, so they still didn't care about the non-ordinary people in this woman's mouth, and one of them even wanted to go back again.

But in the end, the old Zhang Tou on the side saw the opportunity to act, and took the lead in snatching the words and replied: " Don't dare to deceive the two little immortals from the mountain, we are waiting to do this kind of deed, it is really out of necessity, but the old man can swear to the sky, before the arrival of the two, we have never harmed the life of any passerby, the dead Zhang Hu, this is the first time to follow us to do this kind of dirty thing, originally the old man did not plan to take him, because he knew that his temperament was very impatient, now that I think about it, it is indeed the mistake of the old man who was soft-hearted for a while, and killed him. ”

Gu Xueqing didn't want to listen to the other party's explanations, so she replied in a cold tone: "You have to figure it out, I don't have extra time to listen to your nagging, I'll give you another chance to tell the real reason why you came out to block the road and rob, otherwise, you will leave all your heads behind." ”

Lao Zhangtou smiled bitterly when he heard this, and after sighing, he replied bluntly: " The origin of the whole thing is that a girl in my Zhangjia Village, in order to treat the stubborn illness of the village chief of our village, had to use a large amount of silver to buy medicinal materials from the Luo family, a large family in Jingning Town, but now the deadline for repayment is about to come, but all the silver money of all the families in our Zhangjia Village is far from being able to repay the money, so the Luo family sent someone to my Zhangjia Village to forcibly take away the girl as a debt, but the girl was the only doctor in our village, not to mention that she has been working hard to treat our village chief all these years, and at the same time, for the people of our entire Zhangjia Village, they all have a life-saving graceTherefore, in desperation, we can only bite the bullet and come out to do this kind of deed, just to be able to scrape together enough money to repay the Luo family as soon as possible. ”

When Gu Xueqing heard this, she was furious in her heart, and immediately scolded: "Could it be that the people of your Zhangjia Village are people, and these passers-by are not people?"

Lao Zhangtou was speechless, and replied heartbrokenly: "But we really have no choice, and we are only doing this with the intention of trying to make people money, and never harm others, how could we have thought that this Zhang Hu would really lose his mind for this money and kill this son." ”

Gu Xueqing trembled with anger, and then turned her head to Xu Yan behind her and said, "Little junior brother, it seems that you are right, leaving these people will only harm more innocent people in the future." ”

She withdrew her gaze and stared coldly at the six croppers from Zhangjia Village in front of her, and said indifferently with murderous aura: "Since this is the case, then you should die!"

As soon as the words fell, Gu Xueqing took out the saber she had put into the storage bag, and then rose up with her sword, wanting to kill all the six people in front of her. The six people on the opposite side, seeing with their own eyes that the other party could actually control the flying sword to kill people in the air, were undoubtedly shocked by the other party's fairy-like means, and they couldn't help but look behind and retreat.

However, the speed of the flying swords, how can their footsteps be compared?

A sword light flashed from the sky, and it was close in the blink of an eye.

Looking at the flight trajectory of the sword light, Gu Xueqing's first killer was the old man named Old Disrespectful in front of him, but just as the flying sword was about to pierce the old man's back, the flying sword stopped abruptly.

Gu Xueqing looked at Xu Yan behind him with a puzzled expression, and asked, "Why did the junior brother stop me?"

It was Xu Yan, who stopped Gu Xueqing at the last moment, did not choose to answer her question, but said to the old man in front of him who was rescued by himself: "Take me to your village to see, if there is half a lie in what you say, Zhangjia Village does not need to exist." ”