step on mountains and rivers

After the four of Tang Qingfeng left the Beggars' Clan, they traveled for more than a month, and came to Yanbei Town in Yanbei during the winter solstice.

Tang Qingfeng was driving a carriage on the wasteland. He looked at the snowflakes falling in the sky, and said softly to Li Zhenwu beside him:

"Zhenwu, it's snowing."

Li Zhenwu looked up at the sky, and a few pieces of pure white ice crystals fell and landed on his cheeks. The cold snowflakes touched the warm face and quickly melted into snow water.

"Hmm." Li Zhenwu raised his hand to wipe off the snow on his face, thought for a while and said, "Today is the winter solstice, right?"

Tang Qingfeng thought for a moment and said, "Yes." He looked at the sky, and the snow seemed to be getting bigger.

He picked up the bamboo hat beside him and handed it to Li Zhenwu:

"Zhenwu, it's snowing heavily."

"Well, the town is a few miles ahead." Li Zhenwu said, and took the bamboo hat from Tang Qingfeng.

"Okay." Tang Qingfeng replied, waving his whip lightly, driving the horse to run forward quickly.

Jiang Ling and Lu Qing heard their conversation in the car, poked their heads out of the window, and saw large flakes of snow falling from the sky, landing on the withered yellow weeds, as if they were going to stain the vast world. Into a piece of silver.

"What a heavy snow." Jiang Ling said.

"Yeah." Lu Qing looked at the falling snowflakes, and stretched out his hand to catch one, and the snowflakes fell on his palm, feeling icy cold.

At this time, a gust of cold wind suddenly picked up, rolled down the snowflakes in the air, and blew towards the two of them.Snow fell all over Lu Qing.

After seeing Jiang Ling, he hastily closed the window to keep out the wind and snow, patted the remaining snow on Lu Qing's body and said:

"Be careful, don't freeze."

"En." Lu Qing nodded.

As the gust of wind came whistling, Tang Qingfeng gently raised his cloak to block the icy wind for Li Zhenwu, and the snowflakes that came with the wind fell on his hair, crystal clear.

Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu and said:

"Zhenwu, the wind is blowing."

"En." Li Zhenwu raised his arm and gently brushed the white snow from Tang Qingfeng's hair, but saw a group of barbarians not far from the north side rushing towards them.

"Brother Tang." Li Zhenwu withdrew his hand and looked at the north with a frown.

Tang Qingfeng turned his head away, and the team of barbarians even approached.

A group of more than a dozen of them, wearing cashmere robes, ferret felt hats, and holding three-foot-long knives, stood scattered in a circle and surrounded the carriage.

Seeing them surrounding the carriage, Tang Qingfeng stopped the carriage.

Seeing the carriage stop, Jiang Ling and Lu Qing gently opened the corner of the window and looked out.But they saw a group of barbarians holding big knives and surrounding them.

Jiang Ling looked at the people, and the leader was red-faced and blue-eyed. His broad face was covered with thick hair, and he looked at Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu fiercely.

He only heard him say to Tang Qingfeng in a rough voice:

"Hand over all the valuables!!"

Tang Qingfeng looked at him coldly and said:

"Rooters?"

Hearing that Tang Qingfeng said that he was a robber who robbed the way, the man replied very unhappy:

"What kind of robber, your grandfather, I am the subordinate of Khan Mo Chuu, Ashina Bear."

Tang Qingfeng glanced at Ashina Bear and said:

"Turkic, the name is good, it fits your temperament."

Ashina Bear was angry, seeing Tang Qingfeng boasted himself, so he withdrew his anger and said proudly:

"Assuming you have foresight, if you hand over the valuables, I may consider sparing your life."

"What about him?" Tang Qingfeng pointed to Li Zhenwu.

"What are you talking about! I just said let you go, he will kill him of course!" Ashina Xiong said impatiently.

"No." Tang Qingfeng said.

"What?" Seeing Tang Qingfeng's refusal of his kindness, Ashina Xiong said angrily, "I kindly spared your life, you don't want to toast or eat fine wine!"

"I don't want to drink, and I don't need your life!" Tang Qingfeng's eyes were sharp, he got up suddenly, and raised his fan to attack Ashina Bear.The moment Tang Qingfeng got up, Li Zhenwu suddenly stepped out, and in an instant, he chopped down all the Turkic soldiers surrounding the carriage.

Seeing Tang Qingfeng attacking, Ashina Bear slashed at him with a knife. With a crisp sound, the folding fan broke the sword, and the fan pierced his throat under Ashina Bear's terrified gaze.

Tang Qingfeng drew back the fan, flicked it, and threw the blood stains out of the blade, glanced at Ashina Bear on the ground, then turned around and got into the carriage.

He looked at Li Zhenwu beside him and said softly, "Zhenwu, it's getting dark, let's go."

"Well, good." Li Zhenwu replied, and the two drove away in the carriage after speaking.The corpses on the ground were gradually buried by heavy snow in the cold wind.

Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu galloped in the carriage and arrived at Yanbei Town when the night was getting dark.According to the map records, Yanbei Township is the traffic artery of Yanbei, extending in all directions, connecting the states of Yanbei.Due to years of fighting, the forces of all parties shuttle back and forth, and the Hu people and Han people live together in the town, which is very chaotic.

Tang Qingfeng drove into the town.He looked around, and saw that the old houses had been battered by years of war, as if they would collapse if they were pushed.At this time, the sky was just getting dark, but the town was empty, and there were no lights in the houses, and there was a dead silence.The town is like an abandoned city, standing on the vast plain, standing in the cold wind and snow.

Li Zhenwu looked at the desolate town, then at the blizzard in the sky, and said softly:

"Brother Tang."

"Yes." Tang Qingfeng stopped the carriage, and walked down with Li Zhenwu.

Jiang Ling was chatting with Lu Qing when he saw Tang Qingfeng stop the carriage, so he asked aloud:

"Old Tang, are you here?"

"Yeah." Tang Qingfeng replied.

After Jiang Ling heard Tang Qingfeng's words, he opened the car curtain and walked out.He looked at the dark town, and asked with an ugly expression:

"Old Tang, are you sure it's here?"

"If the map is correct, this is it." Tang Qingfeng replied.Then he looked at Li Zhenwu and said:

"Zhenwu, let's go over there and have a look."

"Okay." After Li Zhenwu finished speaking, the two walked towards a broken house by the road.

Seeing the two leaving, Jiang Ling quickly got back into the car.

Lu Qing was getting up to get out of the car, but seeing Jiang Ling turning around, he asked:

"what happened?"

"No, nothing." Jiang Ling said.

Lu Qing pushed Jiang Ling who was in the way suspiciously, and got out of the carriage.After looking at the dead and silent town, he walked towards Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu.

Seeing that Lu Qing was about to leave, Jiang Ling got out of the car and followed behind him.

Tang Qingfeng and Li Zhenwu walked to the broken house, opened the door and entered, and they checked their surroundings.

I saw a big hole in the corner of the house, and the wind and snow poured in, making it a bit cold.

Jiang Ling looked at the big hole in the corner and said worriedly:

"Old Tang, can people live in this dilapidated house? They won't be frozen to death in the middle of the night, right?"

Tang Qingfeng glanced at Jiang Ling and said:

"I think it's pretty good, at least you don't have to worry about being buried in the house when you sleep in the middle of the night."

"Well, this one is pretty good." Lu Qing said.

"Brother Jiang, let's just stay overnight." Li Zhenwu said.

Seeing that the three of them had said that, Jiang Ling nodded.

Seeing him nodding, Tang Qingfeng said to Jiang Ling:

"Let's get some blankets from the carriage."

"Okay." Jiang Ling replied.

After Jiang Ling finished speaking, Tang Qingfeng looked at Li Zhenwu and said:

"Zhenwu, you and Lu Qing stay here."

"Yes." Li Zhenwu replied.

Tang Qingfeng nodded and walked out with Jiang Ling.

After the two left, Li Zhenwu took out the flint, and Lu Qing found some firewood in the corner. The two lit the firewood, and the warm fire instantly lit up the night.

At this moment, a childish voice in the darkness stopped them and said, "Don't start a fire!"

When they heard the sound, they followed the source of the sound, only to see a ragged child shivering in the corner of the wall.

Li Zhenwu saw the child in the dark, and was about to get up to have a look, but was stopped by the child and said:

"Don't come here, who are you?"

Li Zhenwu sat on the spot, looked at the child and said:

"The poor Wudang Li Zhenwu."

Seeing Li Zhenwu's answer, the child looked at him suspiciously and asked:

"What Wudang? Are you a Taoist priest? You're lying, how can a Taoist priest be as good-looking as you! Are you from King Yanbei?"

Li Zhenwu listened to the child's answer and said doubtfully:

"Who is King Yanbei?"

Seeing his puzzled look, the child didn't seem to be pretending, so he tentatively asked:

"Aren't you really from King Yanbei?"

"No." Li Zhenwu shook his head.

Lu Qing looked at the child and said:

"We're just knight-errants, and it's a trivial matter to come to Yanbei."

After hearing Lu Qing's answer, the child looked at him and said:

"Are you from that Wudang too?"

"No, I'm from Immortal Medicine Valley, my name is Lu Qing, what's your name?"

Seeing the gentle tone of the two people and their kind faces, the child felt that they didn't look like bad people, so he said:

"My name is Aaron."

Li Zhenwu saw that Aaron's clothes were thin and had many holes, so he said:

"Aaron, it's cold, come over and enjoy the fire."

Aaron looked at Li Zhenwu, then at the fire, and finally couldn't bear the cold, and walked towards the two of them.

He sat down beside Li Zhenwu, looked at the fire, and said:

"You should put out the fire."

"Why?" Li Zhenwu asked.

Aaron glanced at Li Zhenwu, and said with a heavy expression:

"When you came in, did you see any lights in the town?"

"No." Li Zhenwu said.

"That's it." Aaron looked at Li Zhenwu and Lu Qing and continued:

"There are no lights because Turkic people often come to the town in the middle of the night to rob property. If you light up the lights, aren't you making them a target?"

"I see." Li Zhenwu said.

Seeing that he replied calmly after hearing what he said, Aaron said anxiously:

"Did you understand what I said? Hurry up and put out the fire, the Turkic soldiers will kill people when they come!"

As soon as Aaron finished speaking, Tang Qingfeng pushed the door in with a blanket in his arms and said, "No need."

Then he smiled and looked at Li Zhenwu and said, "Zhenwu, I'm back."

As he spoke, he walked in with the blanket in his arms, lifted Aaron away from Li Zhenwu, sat between the two, handed the blanket to Li Zhenwu and said, "Zhenwu."

Li Zhenwu took the blanket, Tang Qingfeng looked at Aaron and said:

"Aaron, right? I heard everything you said. You don't have to worry about it. You can enjoy the fire with peace of mind."

Aaron was shocked by Tang Qingfeng's series of operations, he looked at Tang Qingfeng and asked:

"Who are you guys? Why aren't you afraid of Turkic soldiers?"

Seeing Aaron's surprised expression, Tang Qingfeng smiled mysteriously and said, "We are masters of the rivers and lakes."

After listening to Tang Qingfeng's words, Aaron looked at him with wide-open eyes, and was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.

Seeing what Tang Qingfeng said, Li Zhenwu smiled at him, took out the steamed buns in the blanket, handed some to Lu Qing, then took out some and put them in the fire to roast.

At this moment, Jiang Ling also came in from the door. He saw Aaron, so he asked in surprise:

"Who is this kid?"

"Aaron." Lu Qing replied.

"A-Long?" Jiang Ling walked up to Lu Qing suspiciously, and handed him the blanket.