This is a path to the north of the water village, with jungles on both sides and a lake and river at the end of the path.
There were loud shouts, She stood still, and Shi Hui rushed towards Li Xia and the crossbowman with great speed.
It was a matter of life and death, and they looked particularly ferocious and terrifying, like two beasts rushing out of the forest.
The crossbowman raised his crossbow.
He seemed quite calm, but he didn't know which one to shoot first because he needed Li Xia's cooperation to kill the other one.
The third loud shout sounded.
"On your left!"
Li Xia's shout was short and powerful, and his tone also resembled Nie Zhongyou's unquestionable commanding tone.
Even though he was a prisoner on death row, the crossbowman still felt willing to obey at this moment.
"Whoosh!"
The crossbow soldier reflexively pulled off the crossbow machine, and a sharp arrow shot out, heading straight for She Ding.
"ah!"
She Ding screamed and threw himself.
The crossbowman was overjoyed.
However, She Ding kept walking, bent down and continued to rush forward, charging at him again like a wild bull.
"Cum again." Li Xia only had time to say one sentence.
The crossbowman quickly took out a crossbow and loaded it.
That's too late.
She Ding and Shi Hui had already arrived in front of them.
"puff!"
She Ding threw the sword with the force of thunder. The sword was faster than an arrow in this short distance, and it was suddenly thrust into the belly of the crossbowman.
Li Xia's eyes flashed, She Ding had already arrived in front of them, and his fist as big as a bowl suddenly hit Li Xia.
Running wildly, throwing knives, sprinting, and punching, his whole set of movements was dizzyingly fast, swift and fierce.
This is not a competition, it is a life and death fight.
"Your brother Osprey is dead and I smashed his head!"
Li Xia suddenly roared, took a step back, and struck down with his sword.
"Ah! Go to hell!" She Ding was furious.
Li Xia's knife has been chopped down.
In a rage, She Ding wisely avoided his blade, stepped forward again, and punched Li Xia in the chest.
Li Xia took another step back, sheathed the knife, and stabbed.
He gave up chopping and used his best moves to hit She Ding.
But it was too late, She Ding quickly retracted his fist, and his hands shot out like lightning, grabbing Li Xia's knife-holding hand.
This was a move to seize the sword with bare hands. Li Xia was inexperienced in fighting, so he was shaken by She Ding's feint, and the hand holding the single sword was caught by She Ding, causing severe pain.
At this moment, Li Xia's situation fell into a critical situation. A crossbow soldier died in the fight, and there were two more on the other side, and he was about to lose his sword as well.
But what he is best at is this split-second reaction ability.
"No, the crossbowman must have seriously injured him..."
She Ding's shoulder was indeed bloody. His right arm was seriously injured and he exerted all his strength, almost to the point of being crippled.
What She Ding is fighting for is to kill two enemies in one instant.
At this moment, Li Xia suddenly abandoned his sword, reached out and grasped the crossbow arrow on She Ding's shoulder, pulled it out, and stabbed it again.
There was a "pop" sound.
She Ding had already grabbed Li Xia's single sword and even cut it off. The blade was less than half an inch away from Li Xia's neck.
But the crossbow arrow in Li Xia's hand had pierced She Ding's throat.
…
Li Xia turned around and met Shi Hui's eyes.
At this time, Shi Hui had just given the crossbow soldier a blow and was holding the knife in his hand; but Li Xia had already exhausted all his strength.
If Shi Hui slashed him with his sword, he could kill Li Xia directly.
But perhaps because of Li Xia's sharp eyes, Shi Hui quickly turned around and ran towards the end of the path.
Shi Hui had already sketched out the image of Li Xia in his mind - a ruthless young man fished out of prison by the imperial army, who stabbed Lao Liu, Osprey and She Ding to death with one sword.
Shi Hui was unwilling to fight against such a person who might be very skilled in martial arts. He never did anything he was not sure of.
"Stop!" a voice sounded from behind.
Shi Hui kept walking, but soon he heard the sound of the crossbow being pulled.
"If you don't stop, I'll cum." Li Xia said again.
"Don't."
Shi Hui turned around and saw Li Xia holding the crossbow towards him.
"Little brother, please let me go. My mother-in-law is over 80 years old this year. She is seriously ill in bed and has no one to take care of her. I still have four children to raise, so I have no choice but to do this."
"I think you are only about thirty years old."
"Please let me go. Your great kindness will be remembered by me for the rest of my life."
"Your name is Miaobaanpan? You even calculated your mother's age wrongly."
"Little brother, it's useless for you to kill me, why don't you leave me a favor..."
In fact, neither of them thought about it carefully, they were just talking nonsense.
As Shi Hui spoke, he quickly looked at Li Xia's eyes, hands, and the movement at the other end of the path.
Suddenly, he turned around and started running wildly again.
"Brother's great kindness and wonderful calculation will never be forgotten!"
Li Xia couldn't help but smile, a little sarcastic, but also seemed to find it interesting.
With a "pop" sound, Shi Hui jumped into the water.
The next moment, Nie Zhongyou rushed to Li Xia and shouted: "Why don't you release the crossbow?!"
"Click." Li Xia clicked the crossbow.
No crossbow arrows were fired.
"This is my first time using this. I don't know how to fill it. I just want to scare him and wait for you to come over."
Nie Zhongyou didn't answer Li Xia's words, but snatched the crossbow from his hand and said, "Don't let go, it will damage the crossbow."
He knelt down, sniffed the dead crossbowman's breath, closed his eyes, and sighed.
"The guy's name just now was Miao Suanpan, which was interesting." Li Xia said, "He saw that I was trying to scare him, and his last words..."
"I know he did it on purpose. I won't doubt you because of this little trick."
"It's good to know..."
Li Xia looked around and saw Nie Zhongyou rummaging carefully in She Ding's arms for a while, taking out a copper token and putting it into his arms.
Don't take a glance, and you will see that the words on the token are not Chinese characters, which is incomprehensible.
Presumably, this brand originally belonged to Jiang Xing. The reason why Nie Zhongyou had to find this group of water bandits was to get it back...
~~
Wu Dexian is dead, but Bai Mao is still alive.
Liu Jinsuo mentioned Bai Mao as if he were mentioning a real mouse.
"White-haired rat, tell me, why did these water bandits kill Wu Dexian but not you?! Did you join them?!"
"I...I, I..." Bai Mao said: "They were going to kill me, but just as they were about to take action, you came to save me."
"Really? I thought your name was White-haired Rat, and you just happened to be in the same group as Jiangpu's Eighteen Monsters." Liu Jinsuo said: "I can't kill you with a golden gun, unlike you, rats, snakes, fish, etc."
"They... they already have rats. If there are rats, they don't... don't want me. Brother, please let me down, okay?"
Just when Liu Jinsuo wanted to let go, Nie Zhong strode over, grabbed Bai Mao's neck, and lifted Bai Mao up again.
Bai Mao's face turned red and full of pain.
"Did you know that leaking military information after being captured is a capital offense?" Nie Zhongyou said coldly.
Bai Mao was choked so hard that he couldn't speak and looked like he was going to die.
Suddenly, someone said: "Can you let him take off my shackles first, and then you strangle him to death?"
Nie Zhongyou turned to look at Li Xia, seeming a little annoyed.
Li Xia took a piece of wire in his hand and said, "I tried for a long time and couldn't open it. You said you'd open it for me after you cross the Yangtze River."
"We haven't crossed the Yangtze River yet." Nie Zhongyou said, "We are still on the south bank."
Having said that, he still let go of his hand and threw Bai Mao off.
Bai Mao coughed for a long time before he said aggrievedly: "Young man is not an official... I haven't received a single copper coin of military pay... Besides, these water bandits didn't ask anything about the military situation, they only asked me and Li Xia."
Things like being in jail..."
Nie Zhongyou said coldly: "If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, if you do it next time, I will make your life worse than death."
Bai Mao covered his collar, crouched down on the ground, and replied humbly: "I don't dare anymore, I don't dare anymore."
Li Xia knew that Nie Zhongyou never really wanted to kill Bai Mao.
In short, if you say one more word, it will not only sell your personal feelings, but also make Bai Mao suffer less. He is still willing to do things that benefit others and himself...
Over there, Nie Zhongyou ordered the soldiers to carry all the goods back to the ship, and he himself took Liu Jinsuo out again.
Bai Mao looked at Nie Zhongyou's back, breathed a long sigh of relief, moved closer to Li Xia, and asked in a low voice: "What are they going to do?"
"Don't worry, take off my shackles."
"Okay..."
Li Xia looked at Bai Mao's movements seriously and asked, "Can you teach me?"
"this……"
To be honest, Bai Mao didn't really want to teach him. This was a cooking skill passed down from generation to generation. How could he teach it to others so easily?
But looking at Li Xia's sharp eyes, there seems to be a bit of studiousness in the sharpness, and then thinking about Lu Bingxiong and Pang Tian? They are no longer there. He and Li Xia were the only friends who were in prison together back then. Bai Mao was moved.
, then explained the key points of unlocking.
Li Xia thought about it carefully, practiced for a while, and finally put away the iron chain.
After waiting for a long time, Nie Zhongyou and Liu Jinsuo came back.
From a distance, I could hear Liu Jinsuo's loud voice talking.
"Hey, does that water bandit dare to call himself a descendant of Mrs. She? Even my master never dared to call himself a descendant of the Yang Family Gun, for fear of humiliating his ancestors..."
Bai Mao then muttered in a low voice: "Isn't it true? Just the eight beauties of spring you embroidered on your body. If I were your master, I would beat you to death."
Soon, Nie Zhongyou and Liu Jinsuo entered the door.
I saw Liu Jinsuo holding a package in his hand, and there was blood underneath the package.
It was obviously a head...
~~
There were thirty-two people in this northbound team when they set out, but by the time they reached the Yangtze River, nine of them were already dead.
In addition to Wu Dexian and the crossbowman who died today, the bodies of seven others, including Jiang Xing, had been thrown into the Yangtze River by the water bandits.
Nie Zhongyou found some of their clothes and built a tomb behind the water village.
He also dug up the grave of "Waterworm" Lao Liu, and collected sixteen water bandit heads and placed them one by one.
Then, Liu Jinsuo opened the package he brought back and took out a head.
"This is Wang Tai, the commander of the tax army, who colluded with the water bandits to kill you. My brother and I took his head to pay homage to you brothers..."
After hearing this, Li Xia couldn't help but look at Nie Zhongyou.
Nie Zhongyou was facing away from him, and his back looked like a praying mantis.
But at this moment, Li Xia felt Nie Zhongyou's cruelty... After suffering a loss, he had to go back and take off the other person's head. What kind of character is this?
"Vicious."
…
That night, the river boat sailed down the Cihu River, entered the Yangtze River, and rowed towards the other bank.
Liu Jinsuo's loud voice sounded on the ship.
"I tell you, it would be great if we followed my brother to do things! Do great things with great vigor! If we die, my brother will avenge us! Hahaha..."
Bai Mao looked at the moon in the river and felt endless sadness.