Fragrance on the Moon

Neither A Liu nor Hu Tiehua and Ji Bingyan paid much attention to the flower-picking robbery that Xiaoer said.

It's not that they are blindly confident, but that all the so-called Jianghu masters they have seen since they left the Great Wall are far inferior to them in martial arts.

Hu Tiehua: "I feel that before the master retired from the world, he should have lived alone in martial arts."

A Liu was about to second the proposal, but Ji Bingyan rolled her eyes and said, Master told us not to mention him when we go out, did you forget?

Hu Tiehua: "..." I'm sorry that I forgot in the moment of excitement.

A Liuye: "..." Fortunately, I didn't make it in time to speak!

"Hey, just pay attention in the future." She immediately smoothed things over for Hu Tiehua, "If you don't make an example, don't make an example. Old Ji, don't attack him."

Ji Bingyan also gave her face, and after a soft snort, she didn't say anything more.

A Liu also took advantage of the opportunity to change the subject, and said: "Should we stay in Jincheng for one night before leaving? The next station seems to be far away. If we leave now, we will definitely not be able to arrive before dark."

Hu Tiehua said that he doesn't care, it's not sleeping where he sleeps, he even slept on the sand when he didn't practice palm technique well before.

"However, if we stay in Jincheng for one night, we can try other wines in the evening." This is what this man pursued.

Ji Bingyan frowned, but finally agreed, and said that in order to avoid such an embarrassing situation again, they can buy a carriage first.

"We have horses." He calculated quickly, "Just buy a car, it can be much cheaper, and in this kind of uninhabited area, horses are definitely more expensive than cars, keep one for pulling the cart, and sell the other two. The price difference is enough for us to replenish dry food and wine for another half a month."

A Liu and Hu Tiehua were dumbfounded, is this okay?

Ji Bingyan: "What? What questions do you two have?"

"No, no." After Ah Liu answered, he remembered a very important thing, which is the difference between men and women, "No! Let's buy two cars and sell one horse..."

"Why?" Hu Tiehua did not turn the corner.

But Ji Bingyan instantly understood: "Oh, yes, I forgot."

Hu Tiehua: "Huh?"

A Liu couldn't help but roll her eyes: "In the future, when you can't go to the village or go to the store, you can't sleep all three of you in the carriage!"

"Then it would be better to buy a spacious one." He took it for granted, "Why buy another one, it would be nice to save the money and buy more wine."

"You..." Aliu was speechless.

Ji Bingyan couldn't stand it any longer, stopped and said, "Liu Xiang is not a man like you and me."

Hu Tiehua suddenly realized: "That's right..."

"But I really can't blame me." He deliberately argued, "The main reason is that she doesn't look like a girl at all."

After he finished speaking, he glanced meanly at A Liu's chest.

Ah Liu: "..." Damn, what do you mean?If I want to connotate my flat chest, I can be more direct!

She was very angry, but Ji Bingyan laughed uncharacteristically because of these words, which made her even angrier, "Roll, anyway, you two will squeeze into one car in the future, and I will have one by myself."

With Ji Bingyan around, the plan to buy cars and sell horses went smoothly.

Anyway, he was the one to negotiate the price, so A Liu and Hu Tiehua were responsible for standing behind him and listening to him talk to the car dealer.

In the end, not only did he trade one horse for two carts, but he also got a small sum of money as an extra.

"It's enough for us to drink and stay at the hotel tonight." Obviously, from the bargaining process just now, he has fully understood the price level of Jincheng, "Let's go..."

A Liu and Hu Tiehua walked behind, looked at each other, and were once again moved by Master's good intentions.

After resting overnight, the three of them set out on the road again in the early morning of the second day.

It didn't make much difference for them to switch from riding a horse to driving a car, and because there was very little luggage, the horse didn't feel tired, so it galloped all the way, and quickly left Jincheng behind.

At this speed, they should have arrived at the post station between Jincheng and the next city in the dark, but after leaving the city for more than a hundred miles, they found that the road ahead was blocked by an overturned carriage. Can slow down and stop, get out of the car to check the situation.

"Strange." Hu Tiehua was the first to say, "This car looks better than ours, why did it fall down here?"

"Looking at the overturned state, it should be overturned from the side." After studying martial arts for so many years, Aliu's use of strength has already reached a level beyond the reach of ordinary people, and he can see through how the car fell down at a glance." Maybe bandits blocked the road and robbed?"

"If it's a robbery, it doesn't make sense to let this car go." Ji Bingyan also got out of the car, "Jincheng is a lawless place. If such a carriage is sold for resale, the money you can get from the sale can be worth many robberies."

Hu Tiehua: "Then what else could be the reason?"

Ji Bingyan answered without hesitation: "Whatever the reason is, it's none of our business, just move on and keep going."

Hu Tiehua: "This...isn't that good?"

Ji Bingyan immediately asked back: "What's wrong?"

Just when the two of them stared at each other because of disagreement for countless times, Ah Liu heard a sound coming from the right side of the road.

It rustled, as if pushing aside the grass and trees vigorously, but when I listened closely, it seemed that there was a bit of human panting mixed in.

She made a waiting gesture to Hu Tiehua and Ji Bingyan to keep them quiet, and then continued to listen.

After about two more breaths, she was completely sure that there must be someone in the grass over there, and she must have been injured, otherwise the panting sound would not be this intermittent with a rapid rhythm.

"There are people over there." She whispered, "Do you want to go and see?"

"Someone?" Hu Tiehua didn't hear anything wrong.

"There must be someone." Ji Bingyan's tone was more determined than hers, and the conclusion was the same, "It's still a wounded person."

Ah Liu: "?" Are you good at hearing?

As if guessing what she was muttering in her heart, Ji Bingyan explained: "I smell blood."

Ah Liu: "..." This is an area beyond the reach of a person who suffers from rhinitis all year round!

In fact, not long after Ji Bingyan finished speaking, the voice from the right side of the road became louder and louder.

After a while, Hu Tiehua heard it too, and looked over there with horror on his face.

What came into view was a man in ragged clothes, with a hunched back and staggering steps. There were obvious bloodstains on the shoulders that were not covered by the ripped clothes, which looked shocking.

Ah Liu was the most surprised, because she was obviously a girl from the way she was dressed.

In the wilderness, the carriage was overturned, the girl was dressed in rags, and her posture was struggling like this, so what happened here before they arrived, no one could think about it.

As a woman, she really didn't want to see such a thing, so she rushed over to help him up immediately.

"Are you okay?" Considering that Ji Bingyan and Hu Tiehua were not far away, when she asked, she helped the girl pull up her clothes to cover her exposed shoulders.

"You...you are?" the girl opened her mouth, her voice trembling.

Ah Liu: "Don't worry, I'm just a passerby. When I saw the carriage overturned, I stopped to see what happened. I won't hurt you, so don't be nervous."

"I...I..." She couldn't speak, but it wasn't pure silence, at least Ah Liu, who was supporting her, could clearly feel that her whole body was shaking.

At the end of the shaking, she subconsciously grabbed Ah Liu's clothes, and then burst into tears.

A Liu panicked immediately, and hurriedly gave Hu Tiehua and Ji Bingyan a look for help.

Ji Bingyan frowned and didn't move, while Hu Tiehua trotted over immediately, trying to help her.

But the girl's mental state is quite unstable now, and she trembled even more when she saw a man approaching her.

A Liu had no choice but to hug her to his side, and at the same time comforted her in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, he is my companion, and he will not hurt you."

"Woooo..." The crying didn't stop.

Ah Liu was helpless, so he could only continue to comfort others.

About half an hour later, she finally ran out of words to comfort her, and the disheveled girl stopped crying, bit her lip and raised her head.

Ah Liu finally saw her face clearly.Although her makeup was stained by tears, she was still astonishingly beautiful, and one couldn't help but feel affection for her just by looking at her.

At least A Liu really felt sorry for her, so he found two more comforting words from Ci Poor's head to comfort her.

After a while, she seemed to have calmed down a bit, and began to explain.

It turned out that she was planning to go to Jincheng to seek refuge with relatives, but she didn't want to encounter thieves only a hundred miles away from Jincheng.

"That thief has extremely high martial arts skills. He killed my coachman and maid, and... also... Wuwuwu... Although I have learned some martial arts, I am no match for him at all..."

Ah Liu almost instantly thought of Xiao Er's reminder when he was in Jincheng: "Could it be that flower picker again?"

The girl shivered when she heard the words "Flower Picking Pirates": "What, what? He, didn't he just bully me?"

"It's not certain." A Liu said, "But Jincheng has indeed been infested by flower picking thieves recently, and families with daughters in the city dare not let their daughters go out again."

"Then...then if I want to go to my cousin, wouldn't it be—" She said this, her eyes were full of horror.

A Liu: "So it's better not to go."

Tears rolled down from her eyes immediately, and she said, "But, but I have nowhere to go..."

"My parents have both passed away, and now I am the only one left in the family. If I don't go to my cousin, I will lose even a place to stay."

A beauty covered in bruises showed such a sad appearance that no one could bear to see it.

Hu Tiehua saw it in his eyes, and for a moment his tongue was quick, and he blurted out just one sentence, or you can go with us, it's better than going to Jincheng.

"But I'm not related to you for any reason..." She hesitated.

If she agreed quickly, then Aliu would feel that something was wrong, but she hesitated so much that Aliu couldn't help but persuade: "Anyway, Jincheng is really too much for a girl like you." It's not safe anymore."

"That's right." Hu Tiehua said again, "If your cousin cares about you at all, he will tell you about the flower picking and robbery before you come, but he didn't mention it. Isn't this hurting you?"

After saying these words, the beauty's expression suddenly filled with loneliness.

Seeing her like this, Ah Liu simply changed the subject and said, "Let's not mention this, I'll take you to change clothes in the carriage over there first, how about it?"

"Thank you very much." She lowered her head and replied in a low voice, "My luggage is in my carriage."

A Liu: "Wait a minute..."

After speaking, he fetched the luggage from the carriage for her.

Afterwards, she entered Ah Liu's carriage to change clothes, and the three of them waited outside the carriage.

A Liu noticed that Ji Bingyan was frowning all the time, with a pensive look, and was a little concerned: "What's wrong with you, old Ji?"

Ji Bingyan glanced at the carriage beside her and said, "I don't think it's right."

Ah Liu wanted to ask what was wrong, and the door of the carriage next to him opened.

The beauty in clean clothes still had swollen eyes, but after tidying up her messy temple hair, she finally looked less embarrassed.

However, her expression was still a bit cramped, especially when her gaze fell on Ji Bingyan.

In order to prevent her from being frightened by Ji Bingyan's appearance as if the whole world owed him money, A Liu had no choice but to break the delicate atmosphere and said: "By the way, I haven't asked how to call you girl."

"My surname is Xiong." She said softly, "The single name is Zi, how about you?"