Wulin Xiaohui

When Xiuxiu woke up, Ye Zang and others had already lit a bonfire and set up camp.

Zhu Tang was sitting by the fire, roasting a hare with his clumsy hands.

Shen Yizhou held a grilled fish in his hand, seeing Xiuxiu got off the carriage and sat next to him, he stuffed the rest of the fish into the girl's hand.

Ye Zang watched from the side with a smile: "He looks like a father."

He made such jokes a lot along the way with a warm smile on his face, but he didn't get bored.

Zhu Tang leaned over, lifted the hare in front of Xiuxiu, and said courteously, "Xiuxiu, have a rabbit's leg."

Shen Yizhou reached out and broke off a rabbit leg and handed it to Xiuxiu: "Be careful it's hot."

Xiuxiu happily took the rabbit leg, and began to eat it carefully.

Zhu Tang was full of appreciation: "Looking at the beauty under this light, it really looks better the more you look at it..."

Before he finished speaking, he ate a bunch of chestnuts from Shen Yizhou: "Put away your little thoughts, and don't make up her mind."

Zhu Tang suddenly felt bored, and he was really tired from driving during the day, so he wandered around looking for a place to sleep.

Seeing Shen Yizhou staring at the fire, Ye Zang seemed to be lost in thought, not to be disturbed, looking around boredly.

Xiuxiu seemed to be really hungry. She grabbed the rabbit's leg and gnawed it intently, and sometimes pushed up her sleeves for fear of getting oily.When I was half full, I began to look around, gently releasing the beetles accidentally stuck in the crevices of the stones, and then waved away the mosquitoes around me.

Ye Zang picked up the fish in his hand, took a bite and then stopped.He reached out to take another fish that was about to be grilled from Shen Yizhou's hand, and said with a smile, "I'll do it."

Shen Yizhou handed over the speared fish, suddenly found something, and grabbed Xiuxiu's wrist.

"What's wrong?" Ye Zang asked suspiciously.

Shen Yizhou didn't reply right away, he held up Xiuxiu's hand to show Ye Zang: "There is a mark on her forearm."

Ye Zang took a closer look, and under the flickering light of the fire, an epiphyllum bloomed on the girl's lotus root arm.

Shen Yizhou spat out three words: "Youdu Gate."

The name of Youdumen is known to everyone in the world. As the number one fighter in the martial arts world, the existence of Youdumen is very mysterious.No one knows where the stronghold of Youdu Gate is, not even who the owner of the gate is.

Such a mysterious sect has always been the thing that makes the martial arts decent gnash their teeth.

"The people from the Shangqing faction did not lie."

Ye Zang looked at Shen Yizhou: "What should I do?"

"What do you mean?"

Ye Zang straightened up: "You saved the demon girl."

Shen Yizhou got up, walked to Ye Zang, and lowered his voice: "Such a silly girl, how do you think she looks like a witch?"

Xiuxiu didn't pay attention to the movement here at all, and was stretching out her hand to put the beetle on her back on a nearby grass, Ye Zang couldn't help smiling: "Brother Shen is chivalrous, Ye admires it."

"Don't just talk and don't do it, what are you going to do?"

Ye Zang said seriously: "Of course we are together with Brother Shen to protect this weak little girl."

Shen Yizhou patted his thigh with a palm, and smiled blissfully: "Brother Ye is a bodhisattva with a heart, and Shen admires him."

Ye Zang looked at Shen Yizhou and smiled for a while, then suddenly said: "That old friend of yours..."

Shen Yizhou smiled: "Well, maybe he is from the Youdu Sect, but I haven't seen his arm, so I can't confirm it."

"Do you want to find him and ask him to understand?"

"Since he didn't take the initiative to say it, he must not want me to know. I'll just escort this little girl. If I'm lucky enough to see him again, maybe I'll ask."

This night was unusually peaceful. In the early morning of the second day, the four of them woke up amidst the fragrance of birds and flowers.

It was so dark yesterday that I couldn't see clearly, but the scenery here is actually very beautiful under the daylight.

Zhu Tang picked a bouquet of flowers early in the morning with his clumsy hands and sent them to Xiuxiu. After being threatened by Shen Yizhou, he still had plausible arguments about what flowers match beautiful women, and why there is only one young woman in a radius of more than ten miles. His natural beauty can only rely on this. freed.

Xiuxiu was very happy, as if she had found a treasure, let everyone smell her flowers one by one.

After the carriage drove for half a day, the surrounding scenery gradually changed greatly.More and more sand and gravel were mixed into the original greenery, and finally turned into a stone city.

Shen Yizhou couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River actually has such a barren place."

Ye Zang also looked at the scenery outside the window seriously, and when he heard Ye Zang's words, he responded: "This place looks barren, but in fact it is a place where merchants are happy to make money."

Zhu Tang's voice came over: "Ahead is the quarry."

This is the boundary of Yonghua. Although Yonghua City is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it has a unique rocky landform. There are dozens of miles of stone piles and rocky mountains. These stones are excellent materials for laying floor tiles. They are picked by the quarry and transported. to everywhere.With this unique condition, Yonghua City has mastered the method of turning a stone into gold. Relying on the quarry, there are many stone households here.

There are raised stone piles on both sides of the road, and under the wheels are finely chiseled gravel, which makes a rustling sound when driving, but this sound is gradually covered by the clanging sound, Xiuxiu poked her head out curiously, Look in the direction of the sound.

The shape of the quarry is gradually revealed, and many quarry workers can be seen standing sparsely or densely on the light-colored stone hill.As the carriage passed by, no one looked back, they all concentrated on beating the stones under their hands.

In addition to people, you can also see several camps set up on the stone mountain. The walls are built of stones and the roof covered with black oilcloth. It should be a resting place for the workers.

Looking at the scene of quarrying in full swing, none of the four spoke, the sound of knocking was heard, and the quarry workers were sweating profusely, which made people feel awe and solemn.

After passing the quarry for another two hours, the stones gradually thinned out, and then returned to the tree-lined area before, presumably at the center of Yonghua City.

Sufficient supplies have been prepared in Liuzhou before, so they will not enter Yonghua City at this time, but take Yuanmen directly from the road outside the city.

However, there were already people waiting outside Yonghua City for a long time, and more than a dozen people dressed as Jianghu people stopped Ye Zang's carriage.

Shen Yizhou recognized the rosacea in the crowd at a glance, turned his head and told Ye Zang: "Tell Xiuxiu not to come out."

Rosacea stood in the crowd without speaking, this time the leader was a man with a goatee, and when he saw Shen Yizhou, he bowed: "Master Shen."

Shen Yizhou was also polite to him: "I don't dare to be a hero, what do you call your Excellency?"

"Qingcheng sent Tian Yingxu."

Shen Yizhou glanced at Jiuxuan: "Yo, I even called helpers from other hills."

Tian Yingxu seemed to be in his prime, but he didn't put on an attitude of relying on the old to sell the old. He was very polite when he spoke: "Our brothers heard from Brother Xu that they were worried that Brother Shen would be deceived by the devil's witch, so we came here to arrest the witch."

From the corner of his eyes, Shen Yizhou saw Ye Zang coming out of the carriage, he laughed dryly and said, "It sounds so sweet, but it's just a group of big men bullying a little girl."

Before Tian Yingxu could speak, the rosaceous nose surnamed Xu yelled, "What little girl, that's a demon girl!"

Shen Yizhou glared at him with raised eyebrows, his nose trembled in fright, his voice weakened: "I don't know what's good or bad."

"I just don't know what's going on, I say she's a little girl, she's a little girl!"

Rosacea: "The witch!"

Shen Yizhou: "Little girl!"

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Tian Yingxu: "Brother Shen, if this debate continues, there will be no results. Is that girl a witch or not? You might as well let me take her back first. If she is not a witch, our Qingcheng faction will naturally send the girl back intact. .”

"What if I say I don't agree?"

Ye Zang stood aside, looked at Shen Yizhou with admiring eyes, and said to Zhu Tang: "This is called chivalrous and gentle, with a style of romance."

Zhu Tang pouted helplessly and refused to comment.

Tian Yingxu still remained polite and courteous, but said without mercy: "Then don't blame me for being unreasonable."

As soon as he finished speaking, the people behind him stared at Shen Yizhou, looking eager to fight.

Shen Yizhou pulled out the rapier that he carried with him, and placed it in front of his body: "Let's fight together."

Those people were not polite, they rushed forward with weapons and surrounded Shen Yizhou.

Shen Yizhou pre-empted the attack, and charged in front of the nearest opponent in bunt attire, his long arms hooked around his neck, and instantly stuck to his back, and then he struck the back of his neck with the handle of his sword.

Shen Yizhou didn't even look at it, picked up the unconscious person, threw it sideways, and brought down another three or four.

Seeing that Shen Yizhou did not kill, the rest of the people still did not give up, they rushed forward neatly together, several swords attacked Shen Yizhou, there was no way to avoid it.

Shen Yizhou raised his sword to block, but was held back by more swords, so he had to short and back away.

That group of people pursued closely, pushing Shen Yizhou back.Shen Yizhou didn't stop on his feet, he looked around at the group of famous and decent families, and suddenly felt that his way was blocked, because he ran into a tree.

The group of people also stopped in their tracks, knowing that Shen Yizhou had nowhere to go, all of them stared nervously at his movements.

Shen Yizhou was at a loss, a look of helplessness flashed across his face, and everyone felt at ease.They had no intention of harming Shen Yizhou at all, they just wanted to capture him alive, so that he would not block them from catching that demon girl.

Tian Yingxu advised from the side: "Brother Shen, let's arrest him with nothing."

Shen Yizhou looked nervous at first, but he looked over after hearing his words, his chest heaving and falling.

Tian Yingxu looked at Shen Yizhou whose breathing was a little messy, and secretly sighed in his heart that a hero is sad for a beauty. Such a well-born swordsman was actually bewitched by the demon girl, not only thinking about the urgent plan to eradicate the demon sect.

Shen Yizhou looked at Tian Yingxu, his lips moved, but Tian Yingxu didn't hear what he was saying, so he took a step closer: "What?"

At this moment, there was a shout from behind!

Tian Yingxu turned around and was covered in white powder.The group of people surrounding Shen Yizhou was also affected, and they were all choked and coughing.

Everyone hurriedly looked at the person who came, and saw that it was the white-faced scholar.

"This is Meijianxue, sit down and adjust your breath for half an hour now, and you will survive."

As soon as the words fell, the group of martial arts practitioners couldn't hold on one by one, and they either sat or knelt on the ground.

Someone gritted their teeth and cursed: "Despicable!"

Zhu Tang walked around them cheerfully, took out the pill in his arms and stuffed it into Shen Yizhou's mouth: "A group of people hit one, you are really not mean, you are very stylish."

The group of people were so choked that they couldn't speak, so they had to close their eyes and concentrate on adjusting their breath.

Zhu Tang helped Shen Yizhou to walk towards the carriage, just when he saw Ye Zang leading Xiuxiu down.

Seeing Shen Yizhou's appearance, Ye Zang hurriedly said, "Are you injured?"

Shen Yizhou nudged backward with his chin: "I've been poisoned."

Zhu Tang explained the cause and effect on the side, and Ye Zang was relieved.

With such an episode, the three of them felt that it was too dangerous to go on the road like this, so Zhu Tang took the initiative to dress up Xiuxiu as a teenager, so as to save trouble.

"Don't say it, even if this beauty is wearing men's clothes, she can't stop her handsomeness." Zhu Tang walked around Xiuxiu and said with emotion.

No one ignored him.

Ye Zang leaned closer to Shen Yizhou's ear, and said worriedly: "Such a lustful person, I don't worry that he is too close to Xiuxiu."

Shen Yizhou smiled confidently, and whispered something in Ye Zang's ear. Ye Zang glanced at Zhu Tang, and then showed a relieved expression.

Zhu Tang couldn't hear what they were saying, but he knew there must be something bad to say, so he didn't pursue it, and walked away on his own.

After that, no one came to snatch people along the way, but it rained suddenly one afternoon, the road was muddy, and the wheels got stuck in the mud, making it difficult to move an inch.

He was worried about letting Xiuxiu stay in the carriage alone, so Shen Yizhou stayed with her.Ye Zang and Zhu Tang went to find shelter from the rain.

There was an unoccupied thatched hut nearby, and several people huddled in the thatched hut to wait for the rain to stop.

Zhu Tang is used to being glib, and as soon as he settles down, he teases Xiuxiu.

Shen Yizhou found a comfortable place, half lying down and warming himself by the fire, and didn't bother to tease him.

Seeing Ye Zang turning over the steaming clothes, he thought of his experience along the way, and asked casually, "Brother Ye, do you regret inviting me to go with you?"

Ye Zang didn't raise his head: "What do you regret?"

"I was chased and killed on the way, and it was raining again. Do you feel that being with me is very unlucky?"

Ye Zang smiled: "Unlucky? Isn't it all the trouble you caused yourself?"

From his tone, Shen Yizhou knew that he had never regretted it, and he was very happy to meet such a like-minded person.

Ye Zang asked suddenly: "Brother Shen, is this trouble-loving nature inborn?"

Shen Yizhou thought about it for a while, and said: "It is true that I have never been afraid of trouble since I was a child, but this time, apart from not being used to those people bullying a little girl, there is another reason."

"Oh? What's the matter?"

Shen Yizhou looked at Xiuxiu, she was carefully pulling out a hair from Zhu Tang's head.

"I want to know where the hairpin on this little girl's head came from."

Ye Zang squinted his eyes, watching the white jade hairpin on Xiuxiu's head emitting a soft light in the dark night.

"That old man is very important to Brother Shen?"

Shen Yizhou nodded: "If I can see him again, I have something to say to him."

Ye Zang lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes covered his eyes, and he spoke with envy in his voice: "If I could be so cared about by others, I would die without regret."

Shen Yizhou was a little surprised: "Brother Ye, why should you be so negative, let alone family members, with Brother Ye's character and appearance, friends in the world will also care about Brother Ye."

"how about you?"

Shen Yizhou thought he heard it wrong: "What?"

"Yizhou, will you miss me?"

Shen Yizhou said seriously: "Yes."

Under the shadowy firelight, Ye Zang lowered his head, unable to see his expression clearly.