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Chapter 15 The Peaceful Thief

Liu Sheng got off the horse and put the horse material bag on the horse's mouth, not letting the horse's belly belt loose, so as not to get off the horse and run away when things were about to come. Looking back, Xue Liangyu lying on the ground, chewing a grass root in his mouth, looking depressed and unsuccessful. He knew that the other party was still angry about what had happened just now. He smiled slightly, walked to Xue Liangyu and sat down, patted Xue Liangyu on the shoulder, and smiled, "Xue Laosi, are you still playing a childish temper for what happened just now?"

"Who is a child-like temper?" Xue Liangyu sat up suddenly and said angrily: "I just don't accept it, why should my second brother favor outsiders!"

"Okay, okay!" Liu Sheng smiled and said, "You should also think about your second brother. His patrol seat is not hot yet. If you use your brothers to do everything, even if those from other countries don't say anything, they will not be convinced. What should you do if you don't fight hard? It depends on the people of the Xue family? The fourth brother, you can count your archery and horse skills in Anyang. You can kill a few more heads in this battle, and be the head of the team in a beautiful position? At that time, can your second brother not give it to you?"

"So that's the case. I'm wrong about my second brother!" Xue Liangyu slapped his thigh and said fiercely: "That thief is named Yang Wu, I have to twist his head off and show everyone!"

"That's right!" Liu Sheng stood up and laughed inwardly, "After all, I'm a child!" Just now, a cry for help came from afar. The two people who had just inquired about the situation in the village ran towards this side. There were five thieves behind them, waving swords and guns fiercely, and they watched as they chased them closer and closer.

"Brother Liu Sheng, just stay here and see me deal with these guys!" Xue Liangyu bowed to Liu Sheng, turned over and jumped on the war horse, leaned on the horse's back, and walked along the mound under the back, and walked around from the side. The dense thatched grass blocked the thieves' vision. Soon Xue Liangyu turned around behind the thieves, sat upright, kicked the horse's belly hard, and rushed towards the thief closest to him.

While using his spear to clear the thatch, Yu Er chased the two men not far away with breathlessly. He was only ten steps away from the man at the end, and he could even see the patch on the man's back. Suddenly, a rapid sound of horse hooves came from his ear. Yu Er turned his head in surprise and saw a horse rushing from the side. What caught his eye was the long sword held high in the knight's hand.

"ah!"

With a shrill scream, Xue Liangyu shook his wrist suddenly, shaking off the blood on the blade, and driving the mount to pounce on the second thief. The thief turned around when he heard the scream. Before he could raise the weapon in his hand, Xue Liangyu crossed the blade and cut off the thief's throat with the help of horse speed, strangled the scream into the trachea. His body fell to the ground like a broken pocket.

"There are cavalry, cavalry!" The remaining thieves shouted in horror, instinctively approached together, forming a small square array back to back, aiming the spear at Xue Liangyu on the periphery. Xue Liangyu did not drive the war horses to disperse the small square array, but instead put the knife into the sheath, took out the bow and arrow on the right, pulled the bow and aimed at the only thief in the square array with a bow and arrow.

"Ah!" This was the third scream. The thief who was still busy taking the arrow fell to the ground. An arrow shot into his mouth. The snow-white goose feather was straight towards the sky, still shaking slightly.

"Escape quickly!" The two thieves who were still alive immediately understood their harsh situation. The enemy in front of them was a good rider and shooting skillful man. Without the protection of the archer, they were just the targets of each other. They threw down their weapons and ran wildly in both directions - hoping that one of them could escape alive!

Xue Liangyu did not hesitate. The reason was very simple. One of them ran away in a panic and was heading towards the small mound where Liu Sheng was. He kicked the horse's belly twice, easily caught up with another thief, cut off the other party's head with one knife, and searched for spoils on the corpse without getting off the horse, so he carried the head to the mound. He happened to see the two Liu Sheng's subordinates questioning the thief lying on the ground fiercely.

"Good skills!" Liu Sheng raised his thumbs up: "This is the right time, brother, I travel around the north, even the Khitans in the north are rare. This time I will definitely be yours for the thief's first merit!

"Just a few little thieves!" Xue Liangyu smiled reservedly, threw the bloody head to the ground, scaring the captive to curl up.

"If my second brother hadn't stopped me last time, I would have taken down the thieves alone!" After killing the four people, Xue Liangyu felt a little better and asked, "Brother Liu Sheng, what should we do next?"

"The situation in the village has been asked clearly. I will send someone to report the situation to your second brother immediately. Let's change the place and continue to monitor the thieves in the village. Don't let them run away!"

About an hour after the cavalry team led by Liu Sheng set off, the team led by Xue Liangchen walked out of the north gate of Anyang County. In the ranks, Zhou Ping looked at Zhishan awkwardly, and saw him wearing a straight brown wing, covering one with one, covering sixty or seventy percent of the new black leather armor, carrying a ring knife and a bent bow on his waist, and there were twenty-four black carved feather arrows in the quiver behind him, holding a smooth iron stick in his hand. If it weren't for the nine ring scars on his head, he would have been a monk, and he would have been a murderer who was about to go into battle.

"Zhou Tanyue, is there anything ugly on my face?" Zhishan felt Zhou Ping's flashing gaze and turned his head and smiled.

"That's not!" Zhou Ping smiled: "It's just the first time I've seen a Zen master dress up like this, so--"

"Oh!" Zhishan smiled slightly: "Although I entered the Buddhist family at a young age, I didn't spend much time reciting scriptures and chanting Buddha's name, and I had a lot of skill in dancing a knife and stick. Do you know why?"

"Xiao Ke doesn't know, so please give me advice!"

"Oh!" At this time, Zhishan's face showed a look of recalling the past: "I was originally from Linyao, Xizhou. I have been a soldier of the Western Army for generations. There are countless elder brothers in the clan who have been infected with the king's affairs. I am the youngest in this generation. According to the customs of the clan, each generation will have to become a monk and pray for the tribesmen who died on the battlefield. It is my turn!" At this point, Zhishan sighed.

"The master still never forgets the state affairs when he becomes a monk. I am impressed by it!" Zhou Ping hurriedly said.

"You are wrong!" Zhishan shook his head: "Tan Yue, you shouldn't have been to Guanxi? I ​​don't know the situation of my hometown. My hometown was named Didao. Since ancient times, it has been a famous town in the northwest and an important town in Longyou. It is a strategic location that controls Longshu. For thousands of years, Han people and Hu people, Hu people, Hu people, Han people and Han people have fought there, and they have almost never subsided. Even old women and old men can hold bows and hold scepters and fight with Hu cavalry. Although I am a monk, how can I do my best to protect the safety of the countryside? I will give birth to this man in vain!"

After hearing Zhishan's words, Zhou Ping couldn't help but feel silent. He couldn't help asking himself, the monk in front of him went out to the frontier many times for the sake of safety in the countryside, and did not fear difficulties. Although he was not a person in this life, the Xue family had been doing well for two years, but he was thinking all day long about how to save enough money and escaped the terrible disaster several years later. Compared to the actions of the heroic monk in front of him, what he did was far worse. Thinking of this, Zhou Ping couldn't help but feel thrilled.

Seeing Zhou Ping lowering his head and silent, Zhishan asked quickly, "Zhou Tanyue, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, I just remembered a past event!" Zhou Ping hurriedly smiled, concealed his thoughts, and asked carefully: "But after Tong Shumi pioneered Qing Tang, the enemy's power was very weak. I guess the situation in Guixiang would be much better, right?"

"Well, I lost the danger of Hengshan Mountain, and I, the Song Dynasty, have spread the border and the Qingtang again. The summer thieves are far less rampant than in previous years." Zhishan nodded, but his face was still solemn, which contrasted with the content of his words.

Seeing this, Zhou Ping hurriedly asked carefully: "Looking at the face of the Zen master, is there any hidden worries?"

Zhishan nodded: "Yes, my Song Dynasty established its capital in Bianjing, and the Xia thieves were far away in the western frontier. It was just the fifth route in Shaanxi. Even if the troubles were so strong during the Zhenzong period, it was just spending more money. Ma Zheng was a little trouble, but it did not threaten my Song Dynasty's confidant. But this time, I was invited by a high monk in Goryeo and went to Goryeo, and I found that my Song Dynasty's confidant was not in the west, but in the east!"

"Ah!" Zhou Ping couldn't help but scream when he heard this.

"Zhou Tanyue, why are you doing this? Could it be that you know something?" Zhishan asked quickly when he saw this. Zhou Ping hurriedly smiled and said, "Xiaoke heard from the Zen Master talk about the disasters of the Song Dynasty. He looked like this. I would like to forgive the master for losing his composure!"

As a latecomer, Zhou Ping naturally knew that the biggest threat to the Song Dynasty at this time was not the Western Xia in the west, nor the giant Liao Kingdom in the north, but the Jurchens who had just passed from the white mountains and black waters in the northeast, and were unknown to the Song Dynasty. It was this small force with only hundreds of thousands of people who had only been in the current tens of thousands of people. In the next few decades, they galloped across the two largest empires at that time and became undisputed overlords. But he knew it was the same thing, and in front of him, he knew it was the same thing.

A monk knew that it was another matter, which shows his long-term vision and his keen observation. However, this brave and knowledgeable monk left no trace in history. It can be seen that his fate is not very good. Maybe he died in the great disaster a few years later. His brothers and nephews were probably buried in the defeats of the Western Army during the Jingkang period. Thinking of this, Zhou Ping couldn't help but sigh that his personal power was too small in the tide of history.
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