Great Sui Guoshi

Not long after noon, the two people, one on a horse and one on a donkey, arrived in Fushui County. There were still people coming and going as before. Walking through the long street, Lu Liangsheng still felt a little bleak.

"Is it a little different in the city than when you came here last time?"

The fellow yamen servant looked at the passing crowd and stalls, and sighed: "It wasn't a while ago that Mr. Chen's family was haunted by a ghost. Zuo Butou thought it was the work of monks, so he checked the nearby temples. Checking the past monks, many dare not come here, and pilgrims dare not leave the city at will."

Lu Liangsheng nodded: "So that's the case." He was vigilant in his heart, that Zuo Butou must have noticed that Chen Yaoke was killed by a ghost.

Not long after, he found a stall outside to have some food, and found a place to practice the formula of "The Righteous Way of the Universe" facing the slightly slanting sun. After half a quarter, the master was free and invited someone over to invite him. But it's not the Yamen, but a small courtyard in the city.

Mainly for school knowledge.

.......

The afternoon sun slanted and shone on the foothills more than 50 miles southwest of Fushui County.

Spots of light cast on the thick fallen leaves on the ground, rustling footsteps passed through the trees, followed the familiar path, and headed up the stone steps halfway up the mountain.

Lu Erlai sat down and rested for a while.

"You all wait for me..."

After roughly saying a word, he got up and walked up again, turned around the road ahead, chose a hidden path at the fork, hurried into the mountain crevice where two or three people could pass, walked for a while, and passed a line of sky , the wide terrain ahead spread out in the field of vision.

It was a cottage surrounded by a row of wooden fences, and people could be seen walking inside from a distance.

Before he had passed, he was robbed by a hidden sentry buried nearby. If it wasn't for someone he knew well, it might have been the end of the knife.

With a smile on his face, Lu Erlai bowed and said, "Big brother, please let me go, Erlai is here to send money to the second master."

The secret whistle looked at him twice, it was difficult to hide any sharp weapon under the coarse linen clothes, so he backed away to let him pass, and said coldly: "After entering, don't look around."

"I know! I know!"

Laughed a few times, bypassed Bai Sensen's knife, and entered the gate of the cottage. There were not many bandits in this group, about 30 people. The leader was Liu Erlong, also called Erye, and there were still families in the city playing money. Occasionally, people would be taken down the mountain to rob the place. Although it was next to Fushui County, it was actually under the jurisdiction of Tongling County on the other side.

Liu Erlong, who had a big beard and a beard, was sitting on a big wolfskin chair, staring at Lu Erlai who came in from the door, chewing the fat in his mouth.

"I heard from the people below that you sent me money and thought you were going to run away these days."

Lu Erlai rubbed his hands, and smiled obsequiously: "What did the second master say, the money owed to you will definitely be paid back... No, the little one will be brought to you."

Someone came over from the side, stretched out his palm, and motioned for him to take it out.

Erlai looked at the outstretched hand, feeling quite embarrassed, and first made a bow, "Second Lord, this is too much money, I can't handle it by myself..."

In the first place, Liu Erlong wiped the grease from his mouth, rubbed against the wolf, and waved impatiently: "Drag out, cut off his tongue."

"Second Master, it's true!"

Lu Erlai was erected by the two, staring at his legs in mid-air, and shouted: "That's hundreds of taels of white money, I know where it is!!"

The hall fell silent, Liu Erlong stared at him for a while, took a sip of the wine on the table, and threw it aside with a bang, his wine-stained beard stretched out, and his big yellow teeth were cracked in his thick lips.

"Let him lead the way."

After a while, more than 30 people, including Lu Erlai, went down the mountain before it was dark.

Chapter 30 The night wind is slightly cold

As the sun sets, it dyes red clouds.

On the ground below where the flying birds passed, decayed grass was splashed with dust, and in the bleak autumn day that was gradually revealing, figures ran or rode silently forward.

The wind blew across the field, and someone saw the passing figure from a distance, and quickly squatted down to hide, watching the other person quickly pass by from the west of the village, dropped the hoe, and ran into the village.

As soon as they entered the village, they shouted: "The bandits have come down—"

All the households came out one after another, and the returned farmers also rushed over when they heard this sentence, their faces all turned pale.

"Everyone, don't panic!" A man named Chen Tai came over and put down his hoe, his voice trembling.

"Come here for our North Village?"

The man shook his head panting, and pointed to the entrance of the village in the south: "The bandits from Yazuiling in the north have come down, and I saw them go directly to Lujia Village."

Everyone in Beicun breathed a sigh of relief, but then they became noisy.

"The people in Lujia Village are about to suffer."

"...Today, I asked the matchmaker to help matchmaking, but she was kicked back. Now it's a good show."

"That's because your daughter is not very good..."

In the rush of talking, Chen Tai suddenly smashed the hoe, "Stop talking!!!"

The people around fell silent and looked at the man one after another.

"Old Chen, what do you mean?!" Someone asked.

Then Chen Tai squeezed his hoe tightly, glanced at the faces, and lowered his voice: "Here is taking pleasure in others' misfortunes, what if our village is next round?"

"Probably not... When those bandits have robbed enough, they will naturally go up the mountain."

"Just say scary things, don't worry about it!"

Chen Tai thought more than them, and he was a little nervous, and he trembled when he spoke his thoughts.

"It's true that we've gone up the mountain, what if next year? Besides, we don't forget the well digger when we drink water. A few days ago, people in Lujia Village even gave us half of their own rations for the winter. We can't just ignore death."

Although the people in Beicun are unruly and illiterate, they still understand the truth, and then fell silent, you look at me, I look at you.

Some people are also worried: "Even in the past, we have no weapons..."

"It's not the same with hoes and shoulder poles. Our village has a lot of people, and people from Lujia Village can scare them no matter what."

Then there Zheng also came over, and everyone had to watch him make up his mind. After a while, Li Zheng nodded: "Old Chen is right. Lu Liangsheng and the master have a teacher-student relationship, so it is appropriate to help."

"Since Lizheng said so, everyone go back and get the guy!"

"...be more vicious, at least scare off these bandits!"

"Go!"

After the matter was settled, more than 40 families in the village, nearly a hundred people, men, women, and children, came out in groups of three or four with hoes, poles, and hatchets. After gathering at the entrance of the village, they shouted and stormed past.

Five or six miles away from the people of Beicun, there is a bandit team of more than 30 people. Liu Erlong is riding on his horse, looking at the mountain village on the other side of the river, soaked in the sunlight.

He bent down and stroked the horse's mane, then turned his head to look at Lu Erlai: "This is it?"

In his whispered words, the errat over there nodded quickly, obsequiously leaned forward to hold the rein, and pointed in the direction of the village.

"Reporting to the second master, it is here that the several hundred taels of silver are all in Lu Liangsheng's house, and there are a few taels in other people's homes."

Liu Erlong swung his whip, and took the Lai Zi's hands off the reins, grinning ferociously with his big beard.

"It's really unlucky for eight generations of ancestors to have a number one person like you in Lujia Village." He raised his arm, pulled out the steel knife at his waist, and his voice was sharp.

The tip of the knife points to the mountain village.

"Scrape the whole village, take away food and valuables, if you don't give it! Just kill—"

More than 30 bandits quickly jumped over the river, rushing over with a murderous look, and the pile of stones in front of them, the figure that was spread away, stepped under their feet and loosened.

The magic power that cannot be seen by the naked eye is suddenly cut off...

In the distant county town, in a chic courtyard on the edge of the city, someone's eyelids twitched and looked to the south.

"...You can't follow your desires, you can't be satisfied with your ambitions, you can't be extremely happy..."

Under the camphor tree in the courtyard, the old man in plain green robe held the scroll with one hand, and his voice was vigorous and powerful. When the evening wind came, the fallen leaves floated on the pages of the book, interrupting his voice.

The old man raised his gaze, looked at the boy on the opposite stone bench, and tapped the boy on the head with a book. Lu Liangsheng turned his head, and quickly got up and cupped his hands.

"Master..."

On the opposite side, Wang Shuhua had a serious expression and passed his hand.

"Listen to the teachings of the sages, don't be distracted. It's getting late today, so stay in this small courtyard overnight, and go back early tomorrow morning."

Lu Liangsheng walked around the stone bench and took a step back: "Teacher, Liangsheng has something to do at home, and he has to rush back later, so I won't bother my teacher here."

"It's so late..." The old man was serious and upright at first, looked at the sky, and nodded: "Forget it, since you want to return home, hurry out of the city before it's dark, but after you go back, read more, if If you have any doubts, come to the city to find me at any time, and I will sign up for you as a teacher next year in the children's exam."

"Yes."

Lu Liangsheng bowed his hands respectfully, took the book and left the small courtyard, the expression on his face became indifferent as soon as he got out of the courtyard gate, he rode on the old donkey, and took out the toad from the cloth bag on the donkey's back side.

"Master, just now I felt that the magic circle at Lujia Village suddenly broke."

Daoist Toad, who was sleeping soundly, was held in his hand and woke up. He waved his frog webs, "Maybe it's a child playing...Go back and have a look and you'll know."

Lu Liangsheng felt uneasy, but the distance is too far away now, so this is the only way to go. Once he went out of the city gate, he found a remote place, drew a talisman, stuck it on the donkey's belly, pinched his fingers, and made the imperial envoy shrink into the ground. Inch alchemy.

The soldiers at the gate of the city felt dazed and rubbed their eyes. In the blink of an eye, the figure riding a donkey in front of him had gone more than ten feet away, and disappeared in the red sunset in an instant.

"This is... an expert..."

"No, the Zuo Butou of the county government seems to be looking for a Taoist who knows magic, hurry up and report!!"

The glow of the distant mountains in the west gradually sank into the mountains, and the night came, and the Lujia Village under Qixia Mountain, as usual, was filled with cooking smoke. While the cocks were crowing and the dogs were barking, Lu Xiaoxian yelled for the hens to return to their cages. Li Jinhua did not cook, and quietly He secretly observed the stove, saw no movement, gritted his teeth, and ran to his son's room.

After all, that night, Youlu's face was seen in Lu Liangsheng's room. The woman sneaked open the door and went in. There was no difference in the furnishings inside, except that it was a bit cold, probably because there was no one in the room. reason.

"It's no different. Even if I'm dazzled, the matchmaker wouldn't be so frightened for no reason..."

Whispering, Li Jinhua turned around and was about to leave when suddenly she stopped, turned her face tremblingly, her eyes slowly squinted at the wall, the hanging painting scroll and the face of the beauty waving her long sleeves were exactly the same as the ones she saw that night .

Suddenly, she realized that Li Jinhua's teeth were chattering in fright, and then... the beauty in the portrait curled up her lips and smiled.

The woman's eyes widened instantly.

Chapter 31 Ink Scale Painting Midstream

"Ghost....Ghost...."

The woman's eyes widened in an instant, and her knocked teeth were clenched. At the same time as she screamed "Ah!", a more miserable scream sounded in the village first.

"what--"

"Who are you!"

"The robbers are coming!"

After the shrill screams, a series of roars and shouts spread in the village. In a short while, a thatched house not far away burst into flames, illuminating the night sky.

People rushed out from house to house, and were blocked at the door by bandits armed with knives, threatening to squat to the corner, and scraped away the meat, rice, hidden silver and copper coins at home, and those who dared to resist would be killed with a knife Hack it.

The village became chaotic, and several houses were set on fire. Taigong Lu came out holding a cane, and reasoned with them. He was kicked down, didn't get up at one breath, and passed out.

Lu Pan led the men in the village to fight with several bandits with hoes, sickles and other agricultural tools. Someone was hacked and screamed while covering his shoulders. The men from his village took the opportunity to hit the bandits with a hoe On the head, blood spurted out.

On the other side, Lu Erlai rushed to Lu Liangsheng's house with a few bandits. Lu Xiaoxian's eyes showed panic, and he turned around and ran towards the house.

"Mom, dad!"

Li Jinhua came back to her senses, rushed out of the room, looked at the few people who had already run into the courtyard, and naturally recognized Lu Erlai who took the lead.

He picked up the wooden stick from the wall and protected his daughter behind his back: "You dare to come here, my mother will fight with you—"

Lu Laoshi also rushed out of the room. He was resting at first, but after hearing the noise, he took the hoe behind the door and hit a bandit over there.

With a bang, he was held back by the opponent's knife, and kicked directly on the stomach by that person, staggered back, and slammed into the wall with a bang.

Erlai jumped up and down in the yard: "The hundreds of taels are in that room, and there are many valuable things, all taken together."

Lu Erlai pointed to the open door behind the mother and daughter, and the four bandits didn't even look at the felled farmer, they pushed away Li Jinhua and the little girl who were calling and rushed in.

They rummaged through boxes and cabinets and searched for valuables. One of them looked at the scroll, and when he reached for it, his pupils suddenly tightened, and the eyes of the person in the painting turned. He was so frightened that he shouted: "There is..."

A plain white arm stretched out from the painting, five fingers spread out, the scarlet nails pinched the bandit's face, and the yin energy spread.

The other three bandits looked back with silver in their arms, only to see the companion who was facing the picture scroll, standing there shaking a few times, then fell down with a bang, his face was blue, his lips were purple, and blood flowed from his seven orifices.

In an instant, the oil lamp on the desk was suddenly lit, shining a dark green light.

The portrait of the beauty on the painting is foggy...

Just then.

"Don't take my brother's things!!"