The big rivers and lakes that attack

Chapter 31 Die tragically
Seeing them leaving, Hong Ansheng looked at Ye Xiaochu who was standing at the gate, and beckoned her to come in.

Ye Xiaochu hesitated for a moment, but finally stepped into the gate.

Hong Ansheng scooped up a large bowl of noodles for her, which was the leftover dinner, and said, "Eat."

Ye Xiaochu was also not polite, and started to eat with a big mouthful.

Not long after, she ate up a large bowl of noodles. She put down the bowl with some unsatisfactory intentions, glanced at the remaining noodles in the pot, but immediately avoided her eyes.

Hong Ansheng questioned: "Why, haven't you eaten yet?"

Ye Xiaochu lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "I don't know why, my food intake has increased recently, and I'm always hungry."

Hong Ansheng hummed, didn't ask any more questions, picked up the bowl and scooped all the noodles in the pot, handed it to her again, and said, "If you're not full, keep eating."

Ye Xiaochu took the bowl with some embarrassment: "Actually, I'm already half full."

Hong Ansheng waved his hand, smiled and motioned her to continue eating, then sighed, and said, "Xiao Chu, do you know that Lao Liang is dead?"

Ye Xiaochu nodded while devouring the noodles.

Hong Ansheng said: "Actually, I don't like Lao Liang very much. Everyone I see looks like he doesn't answer, as if the whole world owes him, and his mouth and feet are smelly, but he suddenly I'm really not used to dying."

"But thinking about it, it seems like I shouldn't be unaccustomed to it. In this town of Juansha, when will people not die? My relationship with him is not particularly good, but I don't know why... Hey, why are you telling me this, by the way, save How much is it?"

Ye Xiaochu pulled the noodles into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Twenty Wen, recently a lot of foreigners have come to the town, they seem very rich, I kowtow to them, naturally they will ask for more."

Hong Ansheng smiled, took out the money bag from his pocket, carefully counted ten coins from it, and handed it to her, "I have a good income recently, you take these."

Ye Xiaochu was stunned, swallowed the last mouthful of noodles forcefully, shook his head and said, "Lingling finally figured it out, Brother Seven, you have given me seventeen cents in the past two months, without you, I wouldn't have bought it at all." No less than [-] Wen, you have helped me a lot, I can't ask for any more money from you."

Hong Ansheng stuffed the money into her hand, and said with a smile: "Take it, I'm not very skilled, I can't fight so many horse bandits alone, and the boss always talks about weird rules, so I can only do this Help you."

"In the past, I didn't have a lot of income, so I could only give you a little here and there. Recently, business has been booming, and I've almost collected enough money to enter the ruins. I guess I'll leave soon."

"There aren't many good people in Juansha Town. It's normal that you won't be able to get a single penny in more than ten days. You still have to buy water and food. Take it and save enough money early to avenge your parents."

Ye Xiaochu hesitated for a long time, but still put the money away. He really wanted to say "thank you", but when the words came to his lips, he felt that these two words were too light, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

Hong Ansheng patted her thin shoulders, and said with a sudden smile: "This is the desolation here. If it is in the Middle Earth, I will give you a reward, a few hundred taels of silver. Money?"

Ye Xiaochu was puzzled: "Yin Panzi? What is that?"

……

Wind Nest Castle is located thirty miles northeast of Juansha Town. There is no water source here, but there are mountains. On the mountainside, a semi-sunken basin like a bird's nest is formed, with many gaps on all sides.

When the wind blows in, it swirls in the basin, making a sound like a ghost howling.Someone used the terrain to build a stockade here, or a stone fortress, hence the name Windnest Castle.

Because it is very close to Juansha Town, people in the town often communicate with this place, and people in the fort also go to the town to do business all the time. Seriously speaking, this place actually belongs to the boundary of Juansha Town.

Some down-and-outs in the town have no money, so they often come here pretending to be horse bandits, robbing the passing merchants, and returning to the town to live half-dead if they get the money, or die if they can't get the money Here it is.

There was a wind blowing, and the yellow sand rolled up gently. Five miles away from the Wind Nest Fort, Li Dao found Liang Zhennan's body.

At this time, the blood on the corpse had already dried up. Liang Zhennan's body was half buried in the yellow sand, half of his neck was cut off, and he was twisted to the side. He lost a hand and a half foot, and his lifeless eyes. He was still half-opened, fine grains of sand fell into his eyelashes and eyeballs, and he died a miserable death.

Li Dao lifted his body out of the yellow sand, tore off the broken clothes, and carefully examined his wounds.

Bai Zhu asked in confusion: "Why don't you go directly to Wind Nest Castle, instead you have to go to great lengths to find his body?"

While checking, Li Dao said, "Because corpses can talk."

Baizhu asked: "Speak? Can a dead person speak?"

Li Dao nodded: "In my judgment, this task is not difficult for a veteran like Liang Zhennan. According to reliable sources, there are currently 63 people in Wind Nest Castle."

"The leader's name is Ma Ping. He is a disciple of a certain sect who wants to make quick money. I have introduced him to a job. He originally wanted to sell his ass to Aunt Hua, but unfortunately he looks a bit ugly. This business He can't do it."

"The buddy who worked under Duan Tang for a while, went to Xiangwangjian twice, but felt that the money was too slow, so he led a group of people to kill the original boss of Wind Nest Castle, and started here by himself. The work of a horse bandit."

"Seven days ago, a caravan passed by here. He planned to rob, but was repulsed, and many people died. The shopkeeper of the caravan was hacked by him in the scuffle, so I asked me to come forward and kill him. The price tag is 150 Wen."

"It stands to reason that it should be easy for Liang Zhennan to get rid of him, but he was hacked to death without thinking about it. This is a bit strange, so I plan to see how Liang Zhennan died and where his fatal wound is. .”

Baizhu frowned and said: "Does this need to be seen? Obviously, it is obvious at a glance. What killed him was the knife on his neck."

Li Dao shook his head: "No, this knife is just to end his life, but it is not the wound that killed him, nor is it the reason for the failure of his mission."

Bai Zhu was silent, watching Li Dao stretch out his fingers, and probe Liang Zhennan's body inch by inch.

Not long after, Li Dao's fingers suddenly stopped on Liang Zhennan's chest, stroking the two-inch-long, crescent-shaped wound.

Frowning and thinking for a moment, he said: "The one who gave him the fatal blow was a fourth-rank master, comparable to Liang Zhennan, or even stronger, and he was also a master of swords, and he was good at using left-handed swords."

(End of this chapter)