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Chapter 170 Good Guys and Bad Guys
In this battle, the officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses, more than [-] people died, and more than [-] people were seriously injured... In this era, serious injuries and death can basically be equated.

Soldiers cleared the battlefield, collected the dead, and treated the wounded.The strong smell of blood in the air made Wang Xian nauseated, but he insisted on cleaning the injured policeman's wound and bandaging the bleeding. This was what he had to do, because he left the military doctor accompanying the team in the hut in the bamboo forest to take care of the idler. It's gone... Ling Xiao didn't understand at first, but as soon as Wang Xian explained it, she not only fought immediately, but also offered all the healing medicines from Wudang Mountain.

However, the first aid knowledge that Wang Xian learned when he was a volunteer in his previous life was really useless. He sewed up the wound in a mess and made people cry out in pain...but Zhou Yong and the others were already astonished.

"Can the wound be sewed?" Zhou Yong asked with wide-eyed eyes.

"Why not?" Wang Xian couldn't help but feel slightly complacent when he realized that he was crazy that he could use skin and flesh as clothes. "It helps the wound heal."

"So that's the case, can you sew it neatly?" Zhou Yong swallowed and said, Wang Xian sewed that, it was really horrible.

"It's ugly when it's tidy," Wang Xian said without blushing, "Like a centipede..."

"That's true..." Zhou Yong suddenly realized: "Your Excellency is brilliant!" When all the wounded heard it, they all expressed their reason, they had just been sewn together, and they also asked to take it apart and re-sewn it a little more messily.

"Let's play, don't make trouble!" Wang Xian naturally refused.

The arrester's martial arts is better, and the number of injuries is less. Only two were killed and eight were injured.Even so, by the time Wang Xian sewed and bandaged the wounded, it was already four o'clock. He was so tired that he collapsed on the ground and fell asleep.

Zhou Yong hastened to spread the quilt of the brother who died in battle, and put it on him...

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After daybreak, a letter came from the officers and soldiers, and Uncle Tang really didn't want the body, so he asked Wang Xian and the others to take it to Zhou Jiantai for disposal.

Wang Xian also obtained the information he needed from the officers and soldiers. It turned out that they were Uncle Tang's vanguard and were planning to survey the terrain for the army, but they bumped into those eight well-dressed men... It was these eight at the beginning. Personally, there are no such things as monks, Taoist priests, or literati.

"The purpose of these people is to distract us, but I didn't expect that the officers and soldiers would come in such a hurry." For breakfast, he ate dry food boiled in snow water, with some salt added, and Wang Xian was able to hold a bowl and eat with relish: "Looking at this posture, the initial judgment was correct. They did not go east, but returned to Pujiang County."

"What should we do?" Zhou Yong and others finally convinced Wang Xian.

"Return." Wang Xian pondered for a long time before Fang slowly said: "We are already enough to explain to adults in Taiwan."

"That's right." Seeing that his suggestion was so unconstructive, Zhou Yong and the others were a little disappointed, but they also had no good ideas, so they had to second the proposal.

After eating, the police made a stretcher, carried ten corpses and eight wounded companions, and set foot on the return journey.

Wang Xian and Ling Xiao walked in the front, and they didn't talk much along the way, until Ling Xiao finally couldn't hold back, and asked in a low voice: "Little Xianzi, why do I feel that we are doing something bad?"

"Why did you say that?" Wang Xian was leaning on a wooden stick. It didn't hurt his foot, but Zhou Yong prepared it for him in case he would fall.

"Those people don't look like bad guys." Ling Xiao said gloomily, "Bad guys can't sing that kind of song."

"I pity Jun Zhongxiaowu the most, a man who is as determined as iron, sees his hands, repairs the cracks in the sky..." Wang Xian groaned softly, his nose sore again.How long has it been since you were so moved?Or maybe there has been such a shock before... His seemingly warm but indifferent heart was hit hard by those eight strong men who regarded death as home and generously sacrificed their lives!
"Of course they are not bad people..." Wang Xian answered the little girl in a low voice, "They are loyal and nobler than all the dignitaries in this world."

"Then why did we kill them?" Ling Xiao said even more difficult to accept: "Are we bad people?"

"We... are not bad people." Wang Xian shook his head, looked at the vast sky and earth in the distance, and sighed: "Things in this world are not either good or bad. It's just that the public is right and the mother is right. Since we If we get involved, we can only be responsible for ourselves, our families, and our responsibilities. The rest... can’t be controlled that much.”

"Oh." Ling Xiao nodded half understanding, and asked in a low voice, "What kind of people are they loyal to?"

"I don't know." Wang Xian shook his head and said, "I don't want to know either. I hope that after this time, he can disappear from my world forever."

"I hear what you mean..." Ling Xiao's heart is like crystal, and he doesn't understand many things, but he can penetrate people's hearts: "It seems that I hope that person can escape."

"Nonsense!" Wang Xian glared at her and said, "You want my life!" But he didn't deny it... He didn't understand what kind of mood it was, he was trying hard to find that person, but he didn't want to really found him.Perhaps it was the eight righteous men who shocked him too much.

When it was dark, the team turned back to the thatched hut in the bamboo forest where Xian Yun was. The cleared footprints, like those found on the mountain, can be found when the snow layer is removed, and the traces left by the feet on the grass.

Those left behind told Wang Xian that Zhou Nedai had already taken people to track him down. Wang Xian and the others lived in the bamboo forest that night and planned to leave the next day to find Zhou Nedai.

Before dinner, Wang Xian came to the central room again, carefully checked the inside and outside, and he found something new...

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Early in the morning of the next day, the team set off again, following the mark left by Zhou Nengtai, the speed was naturally very fast, and finally caught up with Zhou Xin in the morning of the next day.After reporting the situation after the farewell to Zhou Jietai, Zhou Xin nodded slowly and said, "The Lord is on this road."

"What do adults in Taiwan gain?" Wang Xian asked.

"In the past few days, they have used many methods to get rid of me." Zhou Xin said coldly: "But I have seen through all of them. We have been chasing them closely, following them around in the mountains and forests." Pause Said: "Now we have to speed up the pursuit and force them to jump out of the forest!"

Zhou Xin gave an order, and the policemen threw away their burdens, and set off on the road lightly with only their weapons.Wang Xian couldn't help sweating secretly, what if he sleeps at night?
However, the effect of traveling lightly was obvious. The team's marching speed was doubled. Zhou Yantai was still not satisfied, and urged to speed up from time to time, and even ordered a night march.What is even more unbelievable is that Zhou Xin seems to be able to see things in the dark, leading the way calmly in front, and is not afraid of leading the team astray.

Although Wang Xian was surprised, he believed that Zhou Yantai must have a brilliant idea, so he put down his doubts and followed the team on their way.At five o'clock, Zhou Xin finally ordered to stop the advance, but only gave them some time to eat dry food, and ordered the torches to be extinguished.

After several days of running around, Ling Xiao had amazing physical strength and was a little tired. She couldn't eat dry food, and while rubbing her sore legs, she stared at the mountain in front of her, and said in surprise: "It's such a familiar mountain. .”

"This is Xianyun Peak, have you been here before?" Zhou Jietai's confidence comes from his familiarity with the terrain.With his prudent character, he naturally wouldn't pin all his hopes on a few brats.At the same time, he himself had secretly surveyed every mountain and valley here, so he was able to arrive here accurately overnight.

"So it's here!" Ling Xiao was surprised and said, "My eldest brother, Wei Que, and I have been there before, and we even had dinner at the Xianyun Temple above!"

"They were forced to sleep in the open air for several days in a row by us. That nobleman must not be able to bear it. He will probably live here tonight." Zhou Xin said lightly. "They didn't expect us to march quickly overnight, but at this moment, they should already know."

"So we're here?"

"Wait for them to go down the mountain." Zhou Xin squinted at Xianyun Peak, and suddenly said in a low voice, "Here we come!"

Wang Xian and Ling Xiao followed his gaze, and sure enough, they saw torches slowly descending from the mountain.

"Ambush!" Zhou Xin ordered in a low voice, and the police immediately dropped their dry rations and leaned down on both sides of the mountain road.

This is the case in mountainous areas, often it seems very close, but in fact it is very far away. After a meal, those people walked into the ambush circle.

"Don't move!" The policemen stormed up from both sides of the road and surrounded it. The sky was dimly bright, and Wang Xian could already see clearly that it was a group of big and small bull-nosed...

The Taoist priests were startled, some sat down on the ground, some trembled all over, and an old Taoist said in a trembling voice: "My lord, your lord, we are poor monks, we have no money..."

"You're the bandit! We're the policemen of the yamen in Zhejiang!" Zhou Yong shouted, "Don't talk nonsense, they're all lying on the ground, and anyone who moves will be killed!" His words made it clear that this guy is probably a bandit birth.

The Taoist priests were obedient, and they all lay obediently on the ground, and were tied up firmly by the arresters.

But a mile behind them, there was suddenly the crisp sound of tree branches snapping, which was very clear in the quiet night sky.

"It's broken, there are people behind!" It's not that Zhou Yong and the others didn't expect this, but because of the limited number of people, they didn't expect that they would be so far apart.

"Chase!" Zhou Xin ordered loudly, and Zhou Yong hurriedly led his men to follow the sound.

"My lord, it's likely to let them run away again!" Wang Xian asked Ling Xiao to look carefully at the group of Taoist priests, and found that they were all seen at Baiyun Temple that day, and there was no one he was looking for.

"Normal." Zhou Xin said indifferently: "They came to escape the golden cicada again. Our number is too small to seal off the whole mountain."

"It would be great if Uncle Tang's army came here." Wang Xian whispered.

"If the army comes, it's impossible to find people at the bottom of the mountain." Zhou Xin shook his head and said, "Besides, I didn't expect to catch him this time. Our only purpose is to drive him out of the forest!"

(End of this chapter)