Unfortunately, there were very few pedestrians in Zhuangzi at this time. Even if they saw Fang Linyan and Xiang Hezhen, they simply ignored their existence. The Jinfan thieves were already notorious here, and no ordinary villagers dared to provoke them.
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So the three of them left Zhuangzi smoothly. They successfully avoided the watchtower's range after walking four or five miles, and successfully merged with the people with five buckets of rice. They didn't notice any unusual movement behind them.
The people on the Five Pecks of Rice Road saw from a distance that the inside of the oxcart seemed to be empty, and they felt cold at first. However, when the oxcart approached, they did not expect that Zhang Guo suddenly pushed away the straw station with his cane.
He stood up, chuckled and said:
"I didn't expect all fellow Taoists to be here. I'm so polite."
Fang Linyan was also shocked at this time. Zhang Guo had suffered severe injuries in which his hand tendons and hamstrings were severed, and several nails were driven in. How could he stand up from the bullock cart in less than ten minutes?
Already?
That can only mean one thing. The elixir he just took was not very powerful, so it was hidden with great care.
After Taoist Fu and others saw Zhang Guo's appearance, they were also surprised and said at the same time:
"Meet Master Zhang."
At the same time, they were secretly upset and regretted that they did not give Fang Linyan more trust at that time.
After all, the plans of these two people don’t sound very reliable! Do you really think that others are blind when you sneak in in broad daylight?
Besides, people like the Jinfan thieves are not dead. You can kill them with three jars of wine mixed with medicine. These Taoist priests always don't believe it, so they just think that their rescue operation will probably fail.
Is that so, this matter was actually accomplished by them?
Taoist Fu looked at Zhang Guo and saw that there were blood stains on his body and his clothes did not fit well, so he hurriedly said:
"Zhenzhen Zhang, this is still the territory of the Jinfan thieves. If they know that you have successfully escaped, they will definitely come to pursue you. Why don't you go to our place for a while?"
Zhang Guo laughed and said:
"Then it won't be troublesome. I still can't owe you the favor of Five Pecks of Rice. I heard that your Zhizhen Temple was burned down? Or was it burned by someone from Fang Yan's gang?"
Taoist Fu sighed and said angrily:
"Yes, Thief Wu is crazy. There are more than 200 people in Zhizhen Guan. They have never committed any crime, yet they are directly exterminated like this. We must seek justice in the future."
He said he was being righteous, but in fact Zhizhen Guan only had a cooperative relationship with them. In fact, there were many people inside who were opposed to dealing with Wu Dou Mi Dao.
Therefore, if most of the people who know the truth are still alive, then the Five Pecks of Rice Dao will save some of them, because doing this is valuable and can gather people for the Five Pecks of Rice Dao.
But seeking justice would definitely not be a gainless thing. What’s more, the enemy is still the Wu State, one of the most powerful three kingdoms in the world today? Don’t talk about them. Even Zhang Lu knew about this.
I will definitely stand by and watch.
Zhang Guo did not continue what Taoist Fu said, but said simply:
"Five years ago, Liu Xiangyun from Zhizhen Guan saved more than a hundred people from your five buckets of rice. Therefore, you owe Boss Fang Yan a favor in this matter."
Fang Linyan smiled and said:
"This kind of thing can be done easily with just a few fingers."
Unexpectedly, Zhang Guo immediately blew his beard and stared:
"If you don't take credit for doing good deeds, of course you have excellent character. But people in the world are so stupid. When they see you doing good deeds without getting anything in return, they will become slack, so your good intentions end up doing bad things!"
Fang Linyan had to rely on this old man to find Zhang Zhi. Besides, Zhang Guo seemed to be in his 80s. Being scolded by such an old man couldn't be said to be a loss of face, so he could only smile bitterly:
"Yes, yes, you are always right."
Zhang Guo stroked his beard with satisfaction, and then continued to say to Taoist Fu:
"Even if Fang Yan has no friendship with you before, just for his kindness in helping to bury people, you are not enough to repay him by helping him find Zhang Zhi, let alone just pointing out the whereabouts of me?"
"So, my rescue has nothing to do with your five buckets of rice. Little Taoist, you should remember it clearly."
Fang Linyan and Fu Daoshi listened to his long talk, and suddenly there was such a magical turn of events that they were shocked.
Fang Linyan didn't care. He rescued Zhang Guozhen from Longhu Mountain and allowed him to accept his love. This had already achieved his purpose before coming here.
However, Taoist Fu was obviously dissatisfied with this rhetoric and immediately said:
"Zhenzhen Zhang, although we did not come to pick up the driver, we were responsible for the ecstasy spell on Xiao Deng who was driving the driver and the drunken spirit in the wine."
Another Taoist priest immediately said:
"Besides, although Mr. Fang Yan has contributed a lot, he is not familiar with the place here. How could we find your whereabouts without our help?"
As a result, Zhang Guo made them speechless with just one sentence:
"That's how you are repaying someone's favor! Helping with the burial is a great favor, and you will have to repay it with your body in the next life. What happened to the children today? Don't they even want to have basic integrity?"
"Following the body and returning the favor" comes from a Taoist (or Buddhist) story, which is widely circulated and roughly means:
A girl fell into a romantic relationship. She dated Man A for three years (and slept with him for three years), but was finally redeemed by Man B and married to him. However, she was not happy, and then she went to have her fortune told.
The fortune teller said that in your last life, when your body was exposed in the wilderness, a man took off his clothes to cover the body, so in this life, you have to repay his kindness by transforming into a woman and accompanying him for three years.
However, the man B you married was the one who buried your bones in the previous life, so you have to repay the favor throughout your life.
What Zhang Guo meant by saying this was to emphasize Fang Linyan's deep kindness to them - that is, a typical moral kidnapping, saying that the Taoist priests were of low character and did not repay the kindness.
The Taoist priests who had one thousand and five buckets of rice looked at each other. They had never met him before, but they had only heard that Zhang Guo, a real man from Longhu Mountain, was very famous. Both friendly troops and enemies were afraid of him. It turned out that he was such an old man with a mean and venomous tongue.
Fortunately, at this time, there was finally something strange in the village in the distance, but it was because when Taoist Fu poured some immortal drunkenness into the wine, he was afraid of being tasted by others, so he really didn't dare to put much in it, and the effect of the medicine would only last for a long time.
limited.
In addition, Xiang Hezhen also directly killed people inside. The neighbor's dog got in after smelling the blood and started licking the blood on the ground.
Already.
Then this guy immediately poured cold water on a group of people to wake them up. They rushed out to ask questions and found that the ox cart had not been out for a long time, so they rushed out on horseback yelling.
These dozen of people are definitely not weaklings. At that time, Gan Ning was one of the few generals in Soochow. Of course, he left his son not only wealth, but also private soldiers and generals.
After Gan Ning's death, some people stayed in the army, while others followed Gan Gui. Among the people who came to pursue him at this time, five or six of them were Gan Ning's confidants.
Although these people are old, they are particularly experienced and their strength on the battlefield can definitely become elites such as gang leaders.
Fortunately, the Five Dou Mi Road gang had been operating here for so long, and their retreat must have been prepared long ago, so they directly motioned for Fang Linyan and others to follow them.
This place is also near the Yangtze River, with many water veins, so after only walking a few hundred meters, a river appeared in front of it. Taoist Fu pushed out a awning boat from the reeds next to it, took out a bamboo pole, picked it up, and headed directly towards the water flow.
The center floated over.
When the pursuers came from behind, they were already swimming down the river in the middle of the river. However, the dozen or so Jinfan thieves did not give up. They were all proficient in bows and horses, and they bent their bows directly on their horses.
The arrow shot straight over.
I saw clusters of arrows flying out one after another, and the accuracy was really good. In such a riding and shooting sports combat environment, the hit rate was actually 23 out of 10!
However, the person punting the boat outside is also not an ordinary person, but an elite member of the Five Pecks of Rice Sect, but the black-faced Taoist priest Lao Liu.
He was wearing a coir raincoat commonly used by fishermen and a bamboo hat. When he noticed an arrow coming, he turned his body sideways. The arrows hit the coir raincoat and bounced away. It was obvious that there was armor inside the coir raincoat.
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Therefore, the Jinfan thieves who were chasing them had no choice but to ride down the river and follow them all the way.
Xiang Hezhen suddenly said:
"There are three less people chasing us. Considering their identities, it is very likely that they have gone to recruit reinforcements."
Fang Linyan frowned slightly:
"Although this is no longer the Jinfan thief under Gan Xingba, but the centipede insect is dead but not stiff. I think we should approach the shore?"
"If we are caught up by the opponent's ship, it will be a big burden for us to fight on the water."
Taoist Fu smiled slightly at this time:
"It doesn't matter, we just want them to catch up."
***
Half an hour later,
Fang Linyan looked at a three-masted ship that was slowly sinking with smoke rising in the distance. He was really stunned.
Only now did he know that in a small-scale water battle, the Taoist masters of Wu Dou Mi Dao really had overwhelming strength. From the beginning to the end, Taoist Fu and others only lost a dozen talismans.
Then an absolute dimensionality reduction attack was formed. As soon as the water pirate ship approached with great momentum, it was blasted to pieces by fire talismans and the like! The people above just shot a few arrows and did not dare to take the lead at all.
, and finally jumped into the water to escape.
However, underwater is also not a good place! This time it was Zhang Guo who took action. On the surface, he looked calm and unconcerned, but this time he got a big meal in the hands of the Jinfan thieves.
How could it be possible to really just laugh it off?