After entering the Central Plains, more and more mountains appeared, so even though it was winter, it was still much warmer than the grasslands, and there was no longer strong winds like on the grasslands every day. The increase in temperature and the lack of wind made it relatively easy to

The humid air formed a thin layer of frost on the flowers, plants and trees on the surrounding mountains, making it look a unique sight.

At this time, riding a horse and walking slowly on the mountain road will make people feel very comfortable.

But Shao Xi was indifferent to this, because he was a northerner before crossing over, and he had seen a lot of these things. He looked at Old Wu with an intoxicated face, and what he was thinking was that this old guy was already so old, and he was still like this

I have no experience. It’s just rime, what’s so new about it?

"Old Wu, can you walk faster? How long will it take for us to arrive in Daliang City if we are dragging our feet like this?" Shao Xi said impatiently.

Lao Wu drank a small drink calmly and replied lazily: "Um, reminder, you've been urging me these past two days. Are you in a hurry to get married? You don't even know how to appreciate such a beautiful scenery."

"We both have very good physical skills, so there is no need to ride a horse. Riding it can't run faster than myself. It's really unnecessary."

The white horse under Shao Xi's butt sneezed and shook his head vigorously, as if to say, "Who are you looking down on?"

"Quickness is of no use, isn't it tiring? If you think it's slow, just let it ride you."

Shao Xi was choked by Lao Wu's words and muttered to himself, "I'm sorry you came up with such a wicked idea."

Old Wu suddenly said: "Young master, you performed well in the battle with the leader of the horse bandits a few days ago. Whether it was the timing of the sword or the control of the energy, you were just right. To be honest, I have not taught you for ten years.

Thinking that there will be such results, I hope that in the future, you will meet the guidance of experts to make you go further."

"You'd better not praise me, I'm afraid I'll float."

"Just float. When you practice to the point where you can float, you will become one."

Shao Xi was speechless for a while. This is obviously not the same thing at all, right?

While the two were walking and chatting like this, it started to snow, quite heavily. Not long after, a thick layer fell on both the man and the horse.

"It rained just yesterday, and it rains again today. It's really annoying. During the day, the road was muddy (meaning muddy in Northern dialect), and it froze into ice at night, making it impossible to walk at all." Shao Xi complained.

With.

Old Wu was no longer in the mood to enjoy the scenery, and kept mumbling, "Where is the inn? Where is the inn? I can't sleep on the ground anymore, my old waist can't bear it anymore."

As the two of them hurried forward, they suddenly saw several people lying on the roadside not far ahead. There were also the sounds of children crying, and there seemed to be vague sounds of fighting.

Shao Xi turned his head and glanced at Lao Wu. Lao Wu shook his head gently and signaled to mind his own business. When walking in the world, the trouble is to be as little as possible.

When the two came closer, they saw clearly that the people lying on the ground were two women and one man. Judging from their clothes, they should be from a well-off family. One of the two women looked quite young, about fifty, while the other

They looked about thirty years old; the man was probably in his thirties. There was a little girl of five or six years old kneeling on the ground next to them, crying and shaking their bodies one by one, and kept shouting "Dad!"

Mother! Grandma! You all wake up! You all wake up! What’s wrong with you!”

Shao Xi turned his head and looked at Old Wu again. Old Wu raised his chin forward and motioned for him to look ahead.

I saw five or six more people lying on the ground not far ahead. They looked like bandits from the area. There were various weapons scattered around the bodies. A tall and thin man wearing a cloak and a bamboo hat.

People are rummaging through them for something.

Hearing the sound of someone coming, the man straightened up, pulled out an iron sword stuck on the ground, and looked at Shao Xi and Lao Wu.

The iron sword was dilapidated and rusty. It hadn't been sharpened for an unknown period of time. It didn't have a proper hilt. It was just wrapped with a strip of cloth around the hilt. It was held in the man's hand and looked like it was nothing.

It's not like a sword, but like a rusty iron bar.

Shao Xi took a look at this man. He was less than thirty, and his appearance was very ordinary. You can't find a word to describe him. Except for the broken sword in his hand, the cloak on his body and the bamboo hat on his head were also very shabby. I don't know.

How long has he been using it?

"Did you kill them?" Shao Xi pointed to several people dressed as thieves lying on the road.

The man didn't reply and just nodded.

"Did you kill this too?" Shao Xi pointed at the two women and one man lying on the roadside.

The man still didn't reply, but he shook his head.

"Is that what they killed?" Shao Xi pointed at the people who fell on the road again.

The man still didn't speak, he just nodded.

He didn't say anything after asking three questions, which made Shao Xi very angry. He asked angrily, "Are you mute?"

The man actually didn't speak, and just shook his head.

"It's either that you're mute and you don't speak, or that there's something wrong in your heart. If you don't explain things clearly today, you won't be able to go anywhere." With that, Shao Xi jumped off the horse.

When the man saw Shao Xi dismounting and walking toward him, he raised the iron sword in his hand forward, pointing the tip of the sword at Shao Xi, signaling him not to move forward.

Shao Xi also became more energetic. The more you refused to let me move forward, the more I had to move forward, so I walked straight towards the man. Seeing that Shao Xi refused to stop, the man began to back away.

, until his feet touched the body on the ground.

Suddenly, the man lowered the sword in his hand to the lower left, and then swung his backhand to the upper right. A looming transparent sword energy flew towards Shao Xi as the tip of the sword slid past. The speed was very fast, and the energy looked very strong.

It's strong.

"Third grade! Peak!" Shao Xi quickly judged his opponent's strength.

Shao Xi did not draw his sword, but activated the vitality of the sea of ​​​​qi to be released outside his body to form a solid qi shield. He planned to try to take this blow forcefully.

Bang……

The opponent's sword energy hit Shao Xi's air shield and disappeared instantly. The air shield was also broken by the energy, and the attack failed.

Just when the man was stunned for a moment, Shao Xi quickly activated his body skills and rushed in front of the man at an extremely fast speed. Their faces were almost touching each other, and their eyes were wide open. The man was a little nervous at this moment.

I was dumbfounded, what the hell is this? It stuck to my face all of a sudden, with a devilish smile on my face.

Shao Xi pointed to the corpses of the thieves at their feet and asked, "Then why did you kill them?"

The man finally spoke, "Evil people should be killed. If you have money, you can use it to eat."

"Are you here to punish evildoers? Or are you here to steal their money?"

"Both."

"You can punish evildoers, why can't you save that family?"

"Don't expect others to protect what you can't protect yourself."

"What kind of chivalrous person are you?"

"Neither am I."

"If it's just to kill people and get goods, what's the difference between you and these thieves?"

"Yes, I won't kill them." As he said that, the man looked at the family lying on the roadside.

Shao Xi was unhappy when he heard this, "So you watched the thieves kill this family and steal the property, and then you killed the thieves and took the property for yourself?"

"Yes."

"Damn it, then you are just trying to take advantage of others! Why are you talking about punishing evildoers?"

"Aren't they evil people?" This man actually knew how to ask back!

"They are evil people, who are you?"

“The wicked punish the wicked.”

"Oh? Since you are also a villain, then who will punish you?"

"Sooner or later there will be someone."

"Is there any difference between refusing to save someone and killing someone?"

"Yes, they did not die by my hands."

Shao Xi was completely fooled by this guy. He didn't kill ordinary people, but when he saw thieves robbing ordinary people, he didn't save them. He then killed the thieves and robbed the property that the thieves had previously snatched from ordinary people.

.This is also called punishing evildoers? What kind of logic does he have?

"May I have your name?"

"No."

"nameless?"

The man may have thought Shao Xi was a bit verbose, so he ignored him at the moment, thrust the broken iron sword into the ground again, and turned back to continue searching for the belongings of the thieves.

Shao Xi felt like he had been punched in sticky glue. He didn't do anything to the other person, and it made him quite uncomfortable.

"Actually, he was not wrong."

At this time, Old Wu's voice came from behind, with some emotion in his tone.

"Oh? When traveling in the world, shouldn't we be chivalrous and help the weak?" Shao Xi was surprised that Old Wu would say this.

"That's just some people's wishful thinking. The real world of rivers and lakes is a life-and-death struggle, where the weak eat the strong. You can kill others today, and others can kill you tomorrow. There are not only pleasures and grudges in the rivers and lakes, but also a lot of dirty things that you can't see. He's okay

Well, despite being so depressed, he still sticks to the bottom line of not harming ordinary people, so he didn’t do anything wrong. We should also mind our own business and leave quickly!"

Shao Xi was speechless for a moment after what Lao Wu said. Indeed, in his mind, there were life-and-death battles and bloodshed in the world, but there were also grudges and righteousness. But now Lao Wu told him that there were many others like him in the world.

There are invisible dirty things, and there are many things more cruel than he imagined. Jianghu is not as simple and beautiful as imagined.

Seeing the man plundering the thief's belongings, making a cloth bag and putting it on his iron sword, he threw it on his shoulder and turned to leave. Shao Xi called out to him.
To be continued...