Fu Shifeng

Chapter 5

Facing Cheng Sanwu's questioning gaze, Peng Ning thought twice, and finally chose to confess, and took out a black jade box from his arms: "This is what I want to escort on this trip."

Cheng Sanwu wanted to take a closer look, but Peng Ning quickly took it back, his whole body full of defense.

"Let me see, what exactly is this?" Cheng Sanwu said, "At any rate, let me know something, so as not to encounter other enemies and not know how to deal with it at all."

"This is... the Buddha bone relic." Peng Ning said.

"Ah? It's the ashes left after the monk's cremation?" Cheng Sanwu was puzzled.

Peng Ning explained tirelessly: "Ordinary monks, after being cremated, are just dead bones in the tomb. The eminent monks and great virtues have passed away and turned into rainbows, and the merits of a lifetime have been condensed into Buddha bone relics. If they are properly enshrined, there will be all kinds of miracles. If you have a pious heart Relic asked the Buddha for the Dharma, and you may get a profound enlightenment."

"I understand, it's the monks' magical secrets, right?" Cheng Sanwu rubbed his shoulders.

"Even if you don't mention this item, the Buddha bone relics are extremely precious in the hearts of people who worship the Buddha in the world, symbolizing that the Buddha Dharma guides the lost world." Peng Ning said.

Cheng Sanwu asked again: "But I saw that thing was hidden in the box, so you're not afraid of being replaced by someone?"

Peng Ning looked at the black jade box in his hand, shook his head and said, "The six-character mantra on it is the highest seal of Buddhism. Once a demon touches it, it will be like being burned by a raging fire."

"Demons can't stand it, but ordinary people don't get in the way." Cheng Sanwu lay down on the bed and said, "No wonder you have been intercepted and killed by horse thieves one after another. It seems that someone behind this has been plotting for a long time."

"That's why I don't want to go to Quzhi City." Peng Ning said, "In the Western Regions, someone who can command a large number of horse thieves is definitely not an ordinary person."

"Most of the horse thieves who intercepted and killed you before came from border town sergeants." Cheng Sanwu also felt that the situation was not good, and sat up: "It's okay if you just escape and become bandits, I'm afraid..."

"I'm afraid it's under the orders of the chief of the army town." Peng Ning continued.

"Fuck, is this necessary?" Cheng Sanwu scolded, he couldn't figure it out at all: "For a Buddha bone relic, wouldn't it be better if the imperial court directly sent troops to escort it? Arrow Rain greets you, do you really think there are no masters in the army?"

"You..." Peng Ning looked up at Cheng Sanwu, then shook his head lightly: "Chao Zhongbo is weird, many things are not that simple."

"It's these shitty things again." Cheng Sanwu was still angry: "Rest now, pack up and leave at dawn tomorrow!"

Peng Ning looked around, the guest room was in a mess, and even the door was kicked in two. It is conceivable that the battle was fierce just now, and he walked through the gate of hell again.

"I'm going to Chang'an, the imperial capital. As long as I deliver the Buddha bone relics, I can recommend you to the superior and ask for a job with a high-grade salary for you." Seeing Cheng Sanwu's face full of resentment, Peng Ning quickly promised : "In this way, you don't have to sleep in the open all day long and risk fighting."

"Stop doing this." Cheng Sanwu didn't appreciate it: "None of those officials can believe it, and what they say is all lies! It's still Chang'an, there are only two of us thousands of miles away , It would be great if you can walk to Yumen Pass alive. You might as well pay your respects to the Buddha bone relic, and ask it to bless you from encountering any more powerful monsters."

Peng Ning was speechless, and he also knew that it was useless to say more about the current situation, so he could only sleep with his clothes on.

The two of them didn't have a good rest in the middle of the night, Cheng Sanwu simply took a nap with the knife in his arms, in case the hagsha would attack again, but they didn't encounter any other situation until dawn.

When the sky was slightly bright, Cheng Sanwu found the inn owner, declared that there were burglars sneaking in last night, and also showed the condition of the guest room, insisting that the inn was in collusion with the thieves, and under the threat of notifying the officer, they let the other party waive the rent and offered a few dollars. A bowl of soup and cakes will fill your stomach.

But when Cheng Sanwu and the others had just prepared a batch of dry food and water, there was a sound of horseshoes outside the inn. Dozens of riders blocked the front door of the inn.

"Cheng Sanwu from Baochang Society, don't hide, we know you're inside, get out if you're sensible!" Outside the inn, a rider shouted loudly, and the voice penetrated into the stables in the backyard.

"Looking for me?" Cheng Sanwu frowned, he and Peng Ning looked at each other, put the bag on the camel's back and tied it up: "Don't come out, I'll deal with them. The inn has a back door, if we can't reach an agreement , you leave quietly with the camel team first, and I will soon catch up."

Peng Ning was a little worried: "There are quite a few of them, can you handle it?"

"Run if you can't beat it, or rush out of the open space outside the city and shoot them down one by one with one arrow." Cheng Sanwu hung his bow and arrow and Hu Lu on the side of the saddle, and patted the horse's neck: "Wait, if you really hit Get up, and then you rush out to scare them."

Claret Da Ma nodded like an ordinary person, and responded with a snort. Peng Ning, who was next to him, saw this scene and secretly paid attention to it, but didn't say much.

Cheng Sanwu, who was fully prepared, came to the front yard of the inn alone, pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, and looked around while yawning as if he had woken up in the morning.

"Hey, there are so many people in the early morning, are they rushing for breakfast? The mutton soup cakes in this store are really good, how about eating a bowl and talking?"

Although Cheng Sanwu's face was relaxed, his eyes were always paying attention to the surrounding situation.Outside the courtyard wall of the inn, there were thirty or forty riders crammed into the not-so-wide street, each of them carrying a bow and saber, and two warriors carrying a horse-cutting long sword nearly one person tall on their backs.

This kind of posture, in the past occasions where the two merchants played against each other, is a strong team that cannot be underestimated, which shows that the other party has invested a lot of capital.

"You are Cheng Sanwu?" The lead rider is a Han man with scars on his face. His mustache looks like it has been trimmed. Jade 銙 is expensive.

In the early years of the Great Xia, there were rules and regulations on what kind of belts should be used by officials of different ranks.However, in recent years, the regulations have been relaxed, and the common people will buy them if they have spare money. The literati, refined scholars, and heroes of the rivers and lakes show their status, and they do not hesitate to embellish them.

"That's right." Cheng Sanwu's eyes swept over the group of riders, observing their every move. Almost everyone was on alert, ready to use force at any time.

"Young Master Wu from the Maocai Society wants to see you, so come with us." The lead rider's words were not at all polite, not like inviting guests, but rather like being invited by the government.

"Maocai Society?" Cheng Sanwu laughed, glanced left and right, and found that officers and soldiers in the distance were driving away the people, and they were not allowed to watch nearby.

Seeing this situation, Cheng Sanwu felt that the situation was not good. The other party had already negotiated with the officers and soldiers of Hongsha Town, and they might have a government background.

"I'm just a thug in the Baochang Society, so I can't be invited by Mr. Wu sincerely." Cheng Sanwu replied loudly on purpose, just to remind Peng Ning in the backyard: "Besides, I'm troubled by trivial matters right now, why don't I wait until later when I'm free and come with my family?" Director Su said, how about visiting in person?"

The lead rider snorted coldly: "It's really a toast and no fine wine. Su Wangting and Baochang Society have been taken down by us, and you have to be buried with them!"

Hearing this, Cheng Sanwu frowned, but right now he couldn't allow him to think too much, the other party clearly wanted to kill, so he simply jumped ahead and leaped, drew his sword and charged at the leading rider.

The lead rider had been prepared for a long time, and also drew his sword out, and the two hit each other. He was shocked that the opponent's strength was like a mountain avalanche, and his strength was stronger than nine bulls.

Cheng Sanwu let out a deep cry, and swiped the knife horizontally, leaving a brand new scar on the face of the lead rider, and then kicked him violently off the horse's back.

"on!"

Seeing this, the riders around leaped forward one after another. Where did Cheng Sanwu give them a chance, they leapt up, stepped on the horses, and charged wildly among dozens of people and horses, making it difficult for them to shoot arrows.Several times of jumping up and down, he cut down several people easily, causing the horses to neigh in fright, disrupting the situation again.

When Cheng Sanwu saw the thirty or so riders from the Maocai Club crowded together, he had already thought of such a way to deal with it.

Sometimes when fighting, it is not always the side with more people that has the upper hand, especially in narrow and narrow places, where there is less room for maneuver, and it is easy to drag each other down.

Dozens of horses from the Maocai Club threatened together, although the scene is not small, but if it cannot be used, it is also a waste of effort.

"Disperse! Disperse!"

However, some people reacted quickly. The two warriors with long swords were the first to discern the situation. They dismounted and drew their swords. At the same time, they asked others to lead the horses away, which naturally exposed Cheng Sanwu.

Two longsword warriors came to kill together, Cheng Sanwu recognized at a glance that this was the longsword 24 posture passed down in the army. Hit fast, swords, lights and swords are intertwined like a net for a while, once idlers approach, they will be cut into dozens of pieces in an instant.

Seeing that Cheng Sanwu couldn't be defeated by a quick attack, one of the warriors took advantage of the situation to take a step back, lowered his waist and dropped his elbows, seemingly stabbing straight with a straight sword, but the tip of the sword came trembling in a circle.

Cheng Sanwu lifted the saber at a slant, shook his wrists and moved his strength to eliminate the opponent's three-point sharpness, then moved his body and swung the long sword away.

"Sword hidden spear power? Good skills!" Cheng Sanwu couldn't help but praise, these two sword warriors are really not bad, Maocai Society can invite them to come, it shows that the relationship in the army is extraordinary.

The two sword warriors didn't talk too much. While wiping off the sweat on their palms, they stared at Cheng Sanwu's steps and arms respectively, planning the next round of offensive.

Cheng Sanwu was also in high spirits, guessing that the two were going to attack the upper and lower sets respectively, it seemed that he was going to fight with them.

"Fire arrows!"

Just as the two sides were confronting each other, the leading rider covered the bloody wound on his face, gritted his teeth and gave orders to his subordinates, and the arrow immediately shot through the air.

Cheng Sanwu immediately bowed his head and shrank back, dodging several arrows, and used the inn's wall as a cover.And the two sword warriors also hurriedly dodged, tsk-tsk in dissatisfaction.

"Hey, it seems that Mr. Wu's subordinates don't regard you as human beings." Cheng Sanwu leaned against the wall and smiled.

"Stop talking nonsense!" The two warriors with long swords forced them to kill again, Cheng Sanwu changed his tactics, and the horizontal sword was heavy, like a steel whip and iron mace, which shocked the two men's tiger's jaws and made their swords unstable.

At this time, Cheng Sanwu blew a whistle, and the big bay red horse galloped out of the stable in the backyard. Taking advantage of the opening of one of the sword warriors retreating vigorously, it raised its front hooves high, and then smashed down on its head.

With a muffled sound, the samurai's head hit the ground heavily, his skull cracked and his brains splattered everywhere.

The other longsword warrior was startled when he saw this, Cheng Sanwu took this opportunity to step forward with a saber, splitting his head twice.

The bay red horse avoided the blood spattering in disgust, and was still digging its hooves on the rammed earth. Cheng Sanwu stepped forward and patted its neck to comfort it, then took a long sword, turned on the horse and charged out again.

Cheng Sanwu could also tell that among the group of Maocai Club, only two longsword warriors were able to take up the positions just now, and the rest were mediocre people. At this moment, he was like a warrior on the battlefield with his sword and sword. Human life is worthless, and blood stains the yellow sand.

After killing more than a dozen people in one go, Cheng Sanwu didn't bother to fight, and rode straight out of the city.Hongsha Town is only a small border town, and it came out of the city in a blink of an eye. Cheng Sanwu didn't have time to pay attention to the blood stains all over his body. He reined in his horse and turned around. He was about to join Peng Ning, but he didn't see the Maocai Society rider chasing him out of the city.

"Wait... that's not right!"

Cheng Sanwu was alone in the outskirts of the city, and immediately realized that he had been tricked again. The people from Maocai Club were probably here for Peng Ning from the very beginning!

As Cheng Sanwu expected, while he was fleeing on horseback, the lead rider secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately signaled to his subordinates, and the rest of the people lurking around immediately rushed into the inn.

"It seems that I made the right bet this time. You really didn't take the big road." The lead rider came to the stables in the backyard in a blink of an eye, and saw Peng Ning holding a long sword and leaning against the corner of the wall, with four or five corpses lying at his feet.

"You...did you lure Cheng Sanwu away on purpose?" Peng Ning's face was extremely gloomy. He just heard Cheng Sanwu's suggestion that he was leading the camel caravan towards the back door, but he bumped into the ambushing staff of the Maocai Club. After some fighting, he was forced back to the inn again.

"After all, he is the number one expert in Baochang Society, so he can't be too cautious." The lead rider didn't say much, and motioned to the left and right, and the archers released their arrows together.

Peng Ning managed to block several arrows, but he was outnumbered. In the end, he was hit by seven arrows in a row and sat down in the corner of the wall.

The lead rider stepped forward and kicked away the long sword, and searched directly on Peng Ning, and soon found the black jade box with the seal of the six-character Great Ming Mantra, showing a bit of ecstasy, and praised him again and again.

"Pack up your things and leave quickly!" The lead rider immediately put the black jade box into his arms.

At this time, someone came to report: "It's not good, that guy Cheng Sanwu is back!"

The lead rider made a decisive decision: "Don't get entangled with this mad dog, separate out of the city!"

In a blink of an eye, the people of Maocai Club left the inn like the tide was ebbing.When Cheng Sanwu arrived, he could only see the smoke and dust raised by the horseshoes.

Knowing that the situation was not good, Cheng Sanwu rushed into the stables of the inn, and saw Peng Ning lying in a pool of blood, his body still trembling slightly.

Cheng Sanwu stepped forward to look around, and saw that Peng Ning had seven arrows in his body, there was no medicine to save him, and he was dying at this moment.

Sensing the persistent look in Peng Ning's eyes, Cheng Sanwu asked in relief, "What do you want to say? I'll help you."

Peng Ning struggled to open his mouth, Cheng Sanwu leaned closer, and heard the other party spit out words intermittently: "Sheli, Chang'an...Minister of Internal Affairs..."

"You want me to snatch the relic back and send it to Chang'an Ministry of Internal Affairs?" Seeing that Peng Ning insisted on nodding, Cheng Sanwu said, "Okay, I promise you."

As soon as these words came out, Peng Ning's whole body relaxed, the light in his eyes dimmed, and he died.

Cheng Sanwu looked at Peng Ning's eyes, and looked at the blood stains all around. He could only cover Peng Ning's eyelids silently, and repeated to himself:

"Okay, I promise you."

(End of this chapter)