The mountains and rivers are quiet and broad

To go from Qianzhou to Zhuozhou, one must pass through Xiaofeng Mountain, and after crossing the winding mountain road, one can reach the west gate of Zhuozhou City.

At this time, the sky was still bright, and a group of people walked and sang leisurely on the mountain road.They are gorgeously dressed and look a little weird. There are also many outsiders who speak languages ​​that Han people cannot understand, chatting and laughing like a flock of noisy birds.The man walking in the front was dressed in green, which was very eye-catching.

"Ah Lu..." Someone called him from behind, "How long do we have to go?"

The man in green named Ah Lu looked up at the sky, and said casually: "It's still early, when will you die? You're so vain."

"You're stupid!" The man behind retorted loudly without hesitation, which attracted the laughter of the people around him. The man didn't care, he laughed with everyone, and continued to ask after laughing: "Shall we enter Zhuozhou City? ?”

"Don't go in." Ah Lu didn't turn her head, her steps were relaxed, seemingly leisurely, but she kept paying attention to the surrounding scenery, and portrayed the surrounding appearance in her heart.

"Then where are we going? Where are we going to eat?" the man asked again.

Ah Lu is getting impatient, "I told you I want to rob food and pay, how can I rob you if you don't lie in ambush here? Hold it when you are hungry, and cut your mouth if you keep making noise."

The man didn't shut up because of this, but leaned in front of Ah Lu, "When will the money pass this way?"

"Hurry up." Ah Lu doesn't talk much, and her temper is not very good. A green dress may be very weird on others, but it looks very good on Ah Lu, like a male bird with beautiful feathers.

The man walked beside Ah Lu, watching him secretly.Ah Lu's facial features are clear, with the deep facial features of a foreigner, and the eyeballs are not black, but brown. Every time he looks at Ah Lu, the man thinks these eyes are beautiful.There is also Ah Lu's lips, which are bright red, with three-dimensional lip beads, they are more beautiful than women when they curl their lips and smile.

Knowing that the man was staring at him, Ah Lu gave the man a cold look: "Hu Ge, believe it or not, I gouged your eyes out?"

Hu Ge hurriedly smiled flatteringly, "I believe. But it hurt me, you expect to rely on these guys to help you grab food and salary?"

Ah Lu snorted, but didn't speak.Hu Ge is right, among this group of people, Hu Ge's force is one of the best, and there are not many others who can see it.

Thinking that there are more and more trash mixed into the Devil's Cult, Ah Lu felt unhappy, but those trash still regarded themselves as soldiers and crab generals.

Hu Ge thought about going with Ah Lv in his heart, but Hu Ge thought more deeply.

Hu Ge is also a Han Chinese who just joined the Demon Cult not long ago. He has traveled all over the world to many places, but there is no place more free and easy than Xiaoyao Township, and he has never seen a man who is more beautiful than Ah Lu.

But this Ah Lu is not simple - he is one of the ten elders of the Demon Cult, and even ranks seventh among the ten elders. He is young, but capable.

There are rumors in the Demon Cult that all the elders are descendants of the ancient Yangren. Hu Ge subconsciously glanced at Ah Lu's back, wondering if there would be a Chiwu symbol there.

Ah Lv didn't care about Hu Ge's thoughts, and went on her own, until the distant mountain road was coming to an end, and the west gate of Zhuozhou could be seen on the horizon, Ah Lv stopped and let everyone rest.

"Ambush here?" Hu Ge asked.

The matter of robbing food and pay was proposed by Lei Jing. They rescued Lei Jing a few days ago, and then Ah Lu and Lei Jing had a secret conversation for a while, and the rest of them stayed far away. Only Ah Lu knew the specific plan.

Ah Lu looked around, frowning tightly, answered Hu Ge vaguely, and found a shady place to rest by herself.

At this moment, more than a dozen people dispersed and hid in the woods beside the mountain road. They didn't make any loud noises, and the woods fell into a peaceful silence. Ah Lu looked at the treetops above her head in a trance.

Now there are nearly a thousand members of the Devil's Cult, and they have sneaked into the Central Plains in ten ways. Some of them set off half a year ago. Ah Lu's trip is not many, there are fifty people in total, and they left Xiaoyao Township only last month.

Because of Lei Jing's olive branch, they decided to have an interview with Lei Jing during the elders meeting, and this task fell to Ah Lu.

Therefore, after leaving Xiaoyao Township, he went straight to Qianzhou, but everything was out of control.

Take the matter of Shangfeng Town as an example, the demon cultists who destroyed Shangfeng Town are not superior in force. In Ah Lu's eyes, they are just a bunch of low-level scumbags, but this group of people killed hundreds of thousands of people and killed thousands of people. One town, for the sake of misfortune, caused the blockade of Qianzhou, trapping Ah Lu and his gang who had just entered the city of Qianzhou.

It was such a coincidence that they split into two groups, half of them went to Qianzhou, and the other half went to Dami Mountain to find the group of bastards who killed the bandits and occupied Dami Mountain.

Ah Lu had a simple idea, originally she wanted to gather a team of one hundred people and increase her bargaining chip with Lei Jing.

Unexpectedly, that group of Demon Cultists were all dead, and died that night in Shangfeng Town, while the other half of them were ambushed in Dami Mountain, and were besieged by the Qianzhou government.

At that time, it was rumored that the governor of Qianzhou was dead, and he never expected that there would be an ambush by the government, and half of the people were lost in this way, Ah Lu couldn't help but feel depressed, waiting to ask Lei Jing for an explanation, and the development of the matter again Turning point——Lei Jing was caught.

There were not many people in that group, and they detained Lei Jing and held them alone, while Lei Jing's subordinates were all slaughtered, their methods were neat, but people couldn't figure out their purpose.

Ah Lu didn't recognize this group of people, but Hu Ge recognized Guan Hongfeng, and King Ren was involved, and the situation became more complicated. Ah Lu decided to stand still and wait and see. Seeing that on the third day, Lei Jing's life was about to be lost. Ah Lu Lu Cai ordered the shot.

Thinking of Guan Hongfeng, Ah Lu suddenly felt irritable.That person has a good face, "a face of righteousness" refers to that kind of person, his eyes are burning, his eyes are sharp, and he looks good even with his mouth pursed. I don't know what he looks like when he smiles.

But... Ah Lu raised his hands to cover his face, he didn't know what happened to his eyes, at that time he only wanted to escape, but now he regretted it, the powder made from the honeydew grass is very harmful to the eyes.

"What are you thinking about?" Hu Ge walked up to Ah Lu and sat down, holding a lot of freshly picked fruits in his arms, the green fruits, just looking at them whetted the appetite.

Ah Lu opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was Hu Ge's rough face. He stared and said in a bad tone: "Bear-like!"

But Hu Ge laughed, wiped the fruit with his clothes, and handed it to Ah Lu. Ah Lu was not polite, took it and stuffed it into his mouth. There was a crisp "click" sound, and the sweet juice opened up the tired taste buds. Passing through the throat, moistens the heart and lungs that are steaming in the heat.

The sun is still very hot, and the driest time of summer is here.

Guan Hanzhong felt stuffy inside the house, and the heat outside was not weaker than that in the capital. It seemed that since it was the same sun, no matter where it shone, it was equally warm.

From far to near, there was a sound of light footsteps outside, and the rustling of skirts, and then the door was knocked, and a clear female voice sounded: "Master Guan, eat some fruits to relieve the heat."

The person outside the door is Xiaorou—Lin Mian's maid, to be precise, Lin Mian's maid before his death.

"Come in." Guan Hanzhong put down the letter in his hand, and waited for the woman to open the door and come in.

The arms deal by the crossing water now seems to be undoubtedly a trap. Guan Hanzhong lost a lot of troops that night, but he didn't let go of any of them.

Thinking of that night, the smell of blood seemed to still linger at the tip of his nose. The blood flowed into the river, stained with the turbidity of the crossing water, and rushed to the distance.

There were too many dead people, it took another day just to clean up the scene, and Xiaorou had been waiting for a long time for Guan Hanzhong to return to the inn in the city.

The chaos of crossing the water spread to the city, the bustling market in the past disappeared at night, the scattered lights fell on the stone road, Xiaorou stood in the shadow by the inn, her body was cold and white in the hot summer A face, when Guan Hanzhong appeared in sight, she stared at him firmly.

Those eyes were too sharp, Guan Hanzhong quickly spotted the woman standing in the shadow, wearing a veiled hat like Lin Mian's, it looked as if Lin Mian was standing there.

But Guan Hanzhong clearly knew that the other party was not Lin Mian, and earlier he had personally collected the body of that admirable woman.

Lin Mian's death was not beautiful at all, less than one ten-thousandth of what she had been when she was alive. Guan Hanzhong felt depressed when he thought of it. That Meng Peng was really cruel and hateful.

"My lord." When Guan Hanzhong came close, Xiaorou walked out of the shadows, and carefully lifted off the white gauze, revealing her face under the hood.

She still looked very young, with a pair of big eyes full of water, Guan Hanzhong didn't need to think too much, he remembered the girl he saw at the entrance of Yuehou Lane, eating candied haws with great relish, with a smile on her face. A little childish, but the eyes are clever and sly, completely different from the one in front of her eyes, full of sorrow, hatred and sadness.

"The maidservant is Miangu's maid." Xiaorou's voice trembled, she stared at Guan Hanzhong closely, with hope hidden in her eyes.

She didn't wait for Lin Mian to come back this morning, and then Xiao Rou understood that Lin Mian would not come back.But at this moment, Xiao Rou still holds on to her last hope.

However, Guan Hanzhong just nodded and did not speak again.

The hope in Xiaorou's eyes faded away again, and she slowly handed the cloth bag in her arms to Guan Hanzhong: "Guan Mian left a letter before she left, and I asked my servant to give these to you."

Guan Hanzhong took it and squeezed it hard. There should be a dozen letters inside.

"Miangu said that she tried her best, everything is inside, and you will deal with it when I leave it to you."

Guan Hanzhong accepted the cloth bag and said seriously, "Thank you..."

"My lord..." Guan Hanzhong heard Xiao Rou's voice in a crying voice: "Where is my Miangu?"

Hearing the girl's confused voice made him feel bored, Guan Hanzhong took out the chisel in his arms and handed it to Xiaorou: "I have already ordered someone to bury Miss Lin, this is Miss Lin's hairpin, it fell on the ground..."

Xiaorou took the familiar magnolia flower hairpin, and finally couldn't help crying out loud, almost fainting from crying, clutching the bloody hairpin tightly in her hand.

The girl's grief that day seems to be still in front of her eyes, but now Xiaorou seems to have resisted the most sad moment, holding a plate of green fruit in her hand, and the dark plate in her plain white hand, the emerald color of the fruit set off It made her hands very white.

Putting the fruit in Guan Hanzhong's hand, Xiaorou smiled slightly, "We should eat cold fruit in this season, it's the best way to relieve the heat."

Guan Hanzhong nodded, still serious and quiet, Xiaorou didn't mind, put down the fruit and said "excuse me", and went out, polite and distant.

At this time they were no longer in the inn, but in the hut in Yuehou Lane. Lei Jing returned to Zhuozhou City two days after crossing the water overnight. Menacing momentum.

The city is full of wind and rain outside, but Xiao Rou is very calm, unusually calm, and her confident appearance is exactly the same as Lin Mian, which makes Guan Hanzhong wonder: what exactly does she want to do.