Beauty Jianghu

Chapter 42 The little sheep thief

Yang Shucheng and the others were walking forward when suddenly a short man jumped down from a tall tree in the distance, holding a single sword in his hand and shouting:

"Hurry up and leave the money for traveling."

Ni Chun smiled and said: "What a big man, but he also wants to rob Tao."

When the thin boy saw the fat man laughing at him, he couldn't help but get angry and shouted: "If you have the ability, come here and let's have a fight."

Ni Chun smiled and said: "Just do it, no one is afraid of you coming."

The skinny boy rushed forward and struck with a single sword. Ni Chun didn't want to look at him because he was fat. He was nicknamed "Fat Monkey" because he was so agile that he couldn't hit him. He twisted his body and used his big hand to attack him with a single sword.

When the thin boy saw the fat man reaching for the knife with his big hands, he quickly pointed the single knife to the right and slashed his waist.

Ni Chun reached down with his left hand to grab his single sword. Knowing how powerful he was, the thin boy quickly brought the single sword back and kicked Ni Chun in the waist.

When Ni Chun saw him kicking him, he shouted: "Good boy!" He didn't dodge. He took a step forward and grabbed the skinny boy's slender neck with his right hand. The skinny boy didn't allow him to catch it, so he hurriedly looked aside. Jump away.

The skinny boy knew that although the fat man was fat, his movements were as fast as lightning, so he didn't dare to be careless, so he raised his skinny body and kicked Ni Chun on the head. Ni Chun raised his hand to catch him.

The skinny boy took the knife back before he could reach it, and slashed it down. The fat man quickly ducked, and the skinny boy flew up again, aiming to kick Ni Chun in the head. Ni Chun tilted his head and wanted to grab his feet. The skinny boy was so nimble. He turned over in the air and fell far away.

Ni Chun strode forward to catch the thin boy. The skinny boy jumped up to the tree. Ni Chun was fat and couldn't climb the tree. He hugged the big tree with both hands and shook it vigorously.

The skinny boy couldn't survive, so he jumped out of the tree with a kite and struck at Ni Chun with a single sword. The two fought together again.

Seeing that both of them were very good at martial arts, Yang Shucheng shouted: "Two heroes, please stop fighting. Sit down and talk."

Ni Chun was obese and was afraid of long battles. Every fight was a quick one. Seeing Yang Shucheng speak, he stopped and shouted: "Good boy, it's not that I'm afraid of you, you're a big man and you can't learn well."

The skinny boy sneered, "What can you do to me?"

Yang Shucheng said: "You two should stop bickering and sit down and have a rest."

The two took advantage of the situation and sat down.

Yang Shucheng said to the skinny boy: "I think you have some abilities, why did you come to rob the Tao in the middle of the night?"

The skinny boy said: "We are forced to have no choice but to fight. There is chaos everywhere and there is nowhere to eat."

Yang Shucheng said: "We have food with us. Let's eat some together."

Ni Chun saw this skinny boy jumping around like a little monkey. If he continued to fight, he might not be able to win. If he was defeated, he would be laughed at. Thinking of this, he sat upright on the grass, took off the big baggage from his back, took out a cooked sheep head from it, and said:

"Boy, if you're hungry, just eat a sheep's head."

The skinny boy couldn't move his eyes away from the sheep's head when he saw the delicious meat. When the fat man handed him the sheep's head, he was not polite and started to eat it.

Fatty Ni Chun teased him: "Don't worry, I still have wine." He took out a black can of wine from the big bag.

The skinny boy was impatient, grabbed the wine can, opened the wooden lid, raised his head and drank several sips, just like drinking water. After drinking, he shouted: "Good wine. Thanks."

After that, the skinny boy sat on the grass and ate his sheep's head wholeheartedly.

It was already midnight, and everyone was hungry. Yang Shucheng and the four of them sat together. Ni Chun took out two cooked sheep heads from the bag, and several of them peeled off the skin with knives and started eating.

Ni Chun asked about the origin of that skinny boy? It turned out that the boy was a local named Zhao Wen.

A few people were enjoying themselves, drinking wine and eating meat.

In the distance, I saw an old man walking over step by step, leaning on a cane. When he saw four people chewing on sheep heads, he blew his goatee and said:

"Several boys dare to steal my sheep."

Zhao Wen stood up and cursed: "You old fool, this is our sheep's head. We are eating and drinking here, but you are the one who hates it."

The old man said nothing, walked up to Zhao Wen step by step, leaning on his cane, suddenly raised his hand, slapped Zhao Wen with a "slap" sound, and shouted: "Stealing my sheep, you are so arrogant. "

Zhao Wen was unexpectedly slapped in front of his new friends. He was so embarrassed that his face turned red and he shouted: "You old fool, let's see if I don't beat you to death." He raised his sword and struck out. Cut to the old man.

The old man's face was wrinkled and his hair was gray, and he was already in his old age. However, he moved quickly. He dodged the single sword and grabbed Zhao Wen's right wrist. Zhao Wen tilted his body, and his whole body He collapsed, unable to exert any strength, and the single sword in his hand fell to the ground.

When Ni Chun saw him, he knew that he was being restrained by a master. He flew up and wanted to catch the old man. The old man picked up the cane, waved his hand, and hit Ni Chun's fat face with the cane. There was a red mark on the round face, which was burning and painful.

Ni Chun covered his face with his hands and shouted: "Where did this old man come from to be so cruel?"

Yang Shucheng saw that both of them were defeated by the old man, so he had to help. Not to mention that he had eaten a cooked pig's head, and now he had eaten a cooked sheep's head and drank his wine. It would be unreasonable not to help, so he stood up The sword stabbed the old man.

The old man took Zhao Wen and dragged him aside. He ducked and drew a cane stick. Yang Shucheng knew that his cane was powerful, so he used his sword to cut his cane. Unexpectedly, the cane was like a long snake, brushing against the stick. With one blow, Yang Shucheng was hit on the wrist holding the sword.

Yang Shucheng immediately dropped his sword and jumped aside.

The old man defeated the three of them three times, five times, and two times, and cursed: "Just these two times, I still want to steal something." Then he said to Zhao Wen:

"A few days ago, I saw you wandering around in the mountains, and I knew you were going to steal my goat. But I arrived a step too late and the goat was eaten by you. Now go back and herd my goat."

After that, he dragged Zhao Wen away. Zhao Wen's wrist was grabbed by him and he couldn't move. He didn't have half the strength in his body, and he didn't dare to open his mouth to curse. He was dragged towards the mountain by the old man.

Yang Shucheng and Yang Shucheng watched helplessly as Zhao Wen was dragged away, not daring to step forward to rescue him.

When the old man walked away and disappeared, Ni Chun asked: "What should I do?"

Yang Shucheng said: "Follow him from a distance and wait for the opportunity to rescue him."

Yang Shucheng picked up Zhao Wen's single sword. The two of them did not dare to get close. They looked at the direction in which the old man was going and walked towards the mountain. After walking about ten miles, I saw the old man dragging Zhao Wen forward. Judging from the way he walked, he probably didn't notice anyone following him.

After walking forward for four or five miles, I saw lights in the col and three neat stone houses. The old man dragged Zhao Wen to the front of the house and said to the inside: "The sheep thief has been caught."

Zhao Wen defended himself: "I didn't steal the sheep."

The old man tightened his hand, and Zhao Wen bent over in pain, unable to open his mouth to speak.

"Have you brought the sheep back?" asked a rough, female voice in the room.

"The sheep were eaten by them."

"Okay, a group of sheep thieves came, why did they only catch one and come back?"

The old man continued to face the room: "One is too fat, I am afraid of eating too much, one is too thin, and cannot do any heavy work, and the other is a child, who cannot do much work and only knows how to eat. I only caught this thief The semen is here.”

The woman in the house said: "Lock him in the stone house and let him herd the sheep for a year."

"Yes." The old man took Zhao Wen into the stone house and locked it with a big iron lock from the outside.

Yang Shucheng and the others hid behind the big stone and watched the old man put the key under a stone on the windowsill.

The old man entered the house.

The lights are not out yet. Yang Shucheng and the others naturally did not dare to save people.

The three of them waited in the distance, not daring to get close. They just hoped that the old man would fall asleep soon, but the lights in the room were always on.

About a meal time, I saw two people walking up the mountain road. When I got closer, I recognized that these two people were the two Dongchang captains who were trying to stop Song Chao by the river.

The two men suffered a loss by the river and ran away, but they could not give up the credit for capturing Song Chao. They thought that Ni Chun and others did not dare to go to the plains and must be hiding in the mountains. Therefore, the two men were eager to do their best and wandered around in this poor ravine for most of the night.

Before I knew it, I came here. I saw the two Dongchang captains walking to the stone house, and one of them said: "I don't want to have these three rooms in this deep mountain and old forest. I have a place to stay tonight."

Another person said: "Didn't you see that the lights are still on in the house? Let them get up and cook for us. We have been running all day and we are still hungry."

"Look, there's a sheepfold over there, and I smell sheep."

The two men ran to the sheepfold and saw that there were twenty or thirty sheep inside. I feel so good, now I have mutton to eat.

"Hurry up and call them up."

The two of them ran to the door of the stone house and banged on the door with their hands.

Others were surprised when they heard the knocking on the door. Yang Shucheng and Ni Chun heard the urgent knocking on the door at night and thought that these two people were going to be in trouble.