Late Tang

Those flickering lights in the forest made Li Jing's heart tremble.

Li Jing studied writing since childhood, and later practiced martial arts with his elder brother. In his spare time, he also accompanied his elder brother to go hunting in the mountains with a bow on his back.He has quick reflexes and a keen eye.He recognized the flickering light just now as the light reflected from the tip of the blade.And what is very strange is that the light is not a point, but a number of points.

That was not a person, let alone Orion.

It wasn't Orion and there were more than one of them, and they were hiding in the woods behind Congren with weapons. Li Jing had already come to a conclusion in his mind who they were.

Bandits, horse thieves!

Qingning Township has always been relatively wealthy because it is close to the sea and has an excellent seaport like Chishanpu.Not only are the local people richer than other places in the Central Plains, but because of Chishanpu, there are constant businessmen from all over the place here all the year round.There is a prosperous seaport, the people are rich, and there are more merchants, which naturally attracts those horse thieves and bandits.

Although the imperial court built the Chishan Army Town in Chishanpu, it still couldn't stop those desperate people who took risks.Although the area around Qingning Township was garrisoned by the Chishan Army Town, there were no large groups of bandits nearby.But there are still many gangsters who often flee to commit crimes. Most of them set up villages in the mountains and forests of other counties and towns, and then flee to commit crimes from time to time.Kidnapping and robbery also happen from time to time.

It is precisely because of this that, like Wangli Village, the village wall was built as the village gate, and the village guards took turns to defend it.Li Jing had heard many stories about these bandits in the past, but he unexpectedly encountered them today.What's worse, the visitor was not kind.There were twelve of them, as well as several horses and donkeys, but the other party dared to make a move, which showed that this group of people had a lot of background.

Li Jing guessed in his heart that the other party might have regarded them as a caravan.Of the 12 of them, Li Jing and Wang Xiaowei both had horses, and Wang Zuoli and Wang Liang each had a mule.In addition to five donkeys, more than 200 horses of silk that the villagers pooled in for equipment, and some local products, the five donkeys were fully loaded.As for the twelve of them, except for Wang Xiaowei and Li Jing, who had a horizontal knife hanging from their waists, the others were all empty-handed, which could easily be mistaken for the caravan's packers.

Li Jing immediately judged that the opponent was a bandit, but he was not 100% sure.He didn't yell out, because he was afraid of misreading.But he threw Xiaoshitou and Qiusheng down immediately, and it is always right to be careful when sailing for thousands of years.As for the others, Li Jing couldn't care about them for the time being.

In the forest opposite, there were indeed about a dozen people hiding.Everyone is dressed in a short brown beard, carrying knives, guns, sticks and various weapons, all of them are vicious.

"Boss, they seem to have discovered us. Look, the white-faced one and the other two got down."

"Damn it!" The guy called the head of the family is extremely tall and thin, with protruding cheekbones and a monkey cheek.What's even more strange is that this man is obviously a man in his forties, but he is wearing a set of blue wedding dress for women. As a result, he is not only extremely ugly, but also nondescript.

"Boss, grab them. This is a group of fat sheep. You see, they have two horses, two mules, and six donkeys, and six loads of goods." A bandit with a scar face said softly. , eyes full of greedy color.

The monkey-cheeked master in women's clothes hesitated, shook his head and said: "We are not here to catch sheep this time, but we need the hero stickers from 'Zhen Donghai' to help. This is something out of the ordinary. We can't afford to ruin the matter of 'Zhendonghai'." The head of the family also wanted to rob this group of fat sheep, but he was a little worried about other things.

The scarred face was obviously a little unwilling, his eyes rolled, and he immediately thought of a plan: "Of course I also know that Zhendonghai's matter is important, but you see that the fat man has found us now, if we let them go, just I’m afraid they will go to Chishan Town to report the news. That would be a really bad thing. Let’s go down and kill these people, it’s not considered robbery, but it’s to avoid leaking the news about Zhen Donghai’s big event.”

Monkey-cheeked face moved when he heard the words, his sharp mouth couldn't help but grinned, and he patted Scarface's shoulder heavily with his big hand, "The second master is right, our Xihuo village doesn't have to do this business, I was really worried about leaking the news, so I had to do it. Hahaha, brothers, it’s open.”

Li Jing's heart was ups and downs. At this moment, he felt that he was shaking suddenly and couldn't help it.

He thought of the worst outcome, would he die here?Is he really going to die?Or was it just a dream, and now it's finally time to wake up from the dream?

The heart was beating violently, lying on the ground, Li Jing could even hear the beating sound of his chest.

Suddenly, he thought of the Han family, his widowed eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, his two younger sisters, fourth sister and fifth sister, and also Guiniang and Wan'er who had become his wives and concubines.Originally, although he respected the Hans and the others on the surface, but in his heart he thought it was his duty to replace this body.Until now at this moment, he suddenly felt that he couldn't bear to part with everyone in the Li family, he couldn't bear to part with Guiniang and Wan'er, he didn't want to die like this, or he didn't want to wake up from this dream.

Qiusheng and Xiaoshitou were still struggling in confusion, and the other juniors who were packing their things and preparing to go on the road also turned their heads, not understanding what happened.Wang Liang couldn't help but sneer when he saw Li Jing and the three lying on the ground in ugly postures.Just as he was about to say bad things about Li Jing to Xiaowei Wang and Zhang Zuoli, he suddenly found that Xiaowei Wang, who had been languid all the way, suddenly opened his eyes wide and sparkling.The whole person is like a leopard that suddenly wakes up, and the whole body collapses and tenses up.

Clang!Captain Wang suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist, and shouted: "Get down!"

Wang Liang turned his head, just in time to see a woman in a green wedding dress running out of the forest.

No, no, that woman was holding a knife in her hand, and she was so ugly, as if she had a beard.Which family's daughter is this? How could someone marry her so ugly? Countless messy thoughts suddenly flashed through Wang Liang's mind.

Then, more people ran out of the forest.A man with a large and hideous scar on his face suddenly opened his bow and set an arrow, the bow was pulled away, and then...

At this time, Wang Liang finally understood the meaning of Captain Wang's sudden yelling to get down, and finally understood the reason for Li Jing's strange action earlier.

"Damn it, they ran into a bandit." Wang Liang just came and cursed in his heart, and then he felt a sudden force hit his left shoulder, and he fell to the ground like a wild goose on the ground. .

The buttocks came into close contact with the earth, and the hard ground barely made his buttocks blossom.But at this moment, a more severe pain came from his shoulder, and when he turned his head, he saw a shining feather arrow stuck in his shoulder.The arrow pierced deeply into the flesh, and a line of bright red had already flowed out, dyeing the gray round-neck robe he wore for the first time today red.

Suddenly hit by an arrow, the severe pain caused Wang Liang's brain to explode suddenly. At this moment, he was extremely frightened and completely at a loss.Lying on the ground, he screamed in horror like a hunter.

"Help! Help me! Help me..."