"Is this here?" Ding Yuluo looked at everything in front of him in surprise.
A low thatched house with walls made of gravel and bricks. Outside the wall is a smelly ditch, which is full of filth, dead cats and dogs, vegetable leaves, and yellow and white things.
, floating on the turbid and smelly water, flowing slowly into the distance. Although there are poor people living here, the smell next to the canal is so bad that the nearby shacks have long been dilapidated and uninhabited.
"That's right." The rogue smiled and said: "I recently moved to rent a house. I have an injury on my leg. I'm of the same age and look. This is the only one in Wuni Alley who matches. I'm asking for information and I don't dare to say anything else. I'm looking for someone like this.
In terms of kung fu, even a hundred detectives can't compare with me. Even if it's a mouse that only got into the hole, I can dig it out. As for whether he is the person you are looking for, I can't guarantee it."
Ding Yu agreed, and a bunch of heavy coins fell into the hands of the man. The man weighed it with a smile on his face: "If I guessed correctly, the young master must be seeking revenge, right? I think that man looks like a
Lian Jiazi, do you need my help? I'm the best at beating up the sap behind the scenes. I only need to pay a small amount of money. I..."
Ding Yuluo waved her hand coldly, and the man shut up knowingly, smiled, cupped his hand to her, and fled quickly.
Ding Yuluo stood quietly for a while, then walked towards the courtyard. Just as he stepped into the courtyard, the door creaked open, and a lame man wearing oil-stained tattered robes came out of the room. The two of them bumped into each other.
, his body froze there without moving for a long time.
Suddenly, the man turned around sharply and dragged his lame leg to escape into the room. Ding Yuluo scolded him coldly: "Where else can you escape?"
The lame man stopped, trembling, and slowly turned around. Ding Yuluo approached step by step, clenched the hilt of his sword and sneered: "It's really you. I couldn't believe it just now that you would be hiding in a place like this."
, can you still escape now?"
Ding Chengye's cheeks twitched, and he suddenly smiled sadly, stood firm and said: "Sister, it's really hard for you. I chased you from Bazhou to Khitan, from Khitan to Tang Kingdom, and traveled thousands of miles. Now I'm hiding in this kind of place."
You can find the place, okay! I won’t run away. I don’t want to run away anymore. If you want to kill me, just kill me. Living like this is really worse than death. It would be better to die..."
Ding Yuluo slowly drew his sword out of its sheath and said coldly: "You killed your father and your brother, plotted to seize the head of the family, destroyed the good Ding family, and also destroyed yourself. You brought it upon yourself, and it was God who committed the evil."
You can live. You will not live if you commit your own sins. Ding Chengye, how could the Ding family have such an evil son like you who kills his father and harms his brother and loses all his conscience?"
The tip of the sword was already touching Ding Chengye's chest. Ding Chengye refused to avoid it and smiled miserably: "I deserve to die. I didn't expect that I would end up in this situation. In fact... I have no ambition to be the head of the family at all. What I did
The only wrong thing was that I had an affair with my sister-in-law, and everything else was not forced upon me?"
Ding Yuluo was furious: "Now that you are still arguing, who will force you to kill your father and harm your brother?" She tightened the sword in her hand, and it was already three-thirds of the way into her flesh, and blood spilled out.
Ding Chengye said hoarsely: "I was willing to be a second young master with no worries about food and clothing. I never thought about usurping the position of the head of the family. But...then something happened to my eldest brother. Who else was left in the Ding family besides me? I didn't want to do it.
I have to do it, I deserve it, but..."
He sneered: "My eldest brother doesn't like me, and my father doesn't like me either. They would rather go to all the trouble to help a house slave up. Who doesn't laugh at me behind my back? My friends, even family members in the house, and even my sister-in-law, who don't?
Despise me?"
He suddenly hissed: "I don't want to be the hard-working head of the family, but when it should fall on my head, why should I give it up? Why should I hand over what should belong to me to a wild man?
Damn it! Big brother wants to support a bastard to put pressure on his own brother. If he is unkind, I will be unjust!"
"Beast! Leave the Ding family to you? Don't talk about carrying forward the Ding family, even if you keep the business, are you the material? For this, you have a reason to harm the eldest brother? The eldest brother has never thought of handing the family business to the second brother.
Are you worthy of him before? Now, you are still arguing that everything is someone else's fault, you are always innocent, and you had no choice but to kill daddy? "
Ding Chengye's face changed, and he avoided talking, but he smiled sadly and said: "Why do people grow up? When you grow up, you have a lot of desires, women, money, power, greed, jealousy, and hatred. When you grow up,
Many things that were considered the most important when they were young will be regarded as worthless. The characters they once despised will become like him and will harm others. It would be great if they never grow up..."
Ding Yuluo said coldly: "Are you done? You can die now. No matter how sweet you talk, you can never let me spare you. Today, you must die!"
Ding Chengye's eyes wandered for a moment, he looked over Ding Yuluo's shoulder and looked straight out of the courtyard, and said with some surprise: "I said how could you find me? Did you ask those detectives to help?"
"Huh?" Ding Yuluo subconsciously turned his head, and his eyes only moved slightly. Ding Chengye suddenly leaned to the side and punched Ding Yuluo on the shoulder. He had been preparing this punch for a long time, but Ding Yuluo couldn't find it.
Avoiding it, he punched the shoulder bone, and with a cry of pain, the dagger fell to the ground.
Ding Chengye grabbed the sword in his hand, with a sinister smile on his face: "Kill if you want, do you still want to count my sins?"
Ding Yu jumped out of the way, his eyes flashing sharply, and he was looking for something useful in the courtyard. He said coldly: "Can you escape with your life if you take the sword?"
Ding Chengye said with a sinister smile: "Although I have injuries on my legs, you are bare-handed. You and I have almost the same martial arts skills, so can you still kill me now? This brother of yours is cunning, cunning, shameless, and has already done a lot of evil. You can't stand it anymore."
Really? If you can’t stand it anymore, then go under the Nine Springs to accompany that old guy!”
Ding Chengye endured the pain in his leg and jumped forward to stab Ding Yuluo with his sword. As soon as the sword in his hand moved, he heard a strange "Woo" sound. Ding Chengye let out a scream and the sword in his hand clattered to the ground. At the same time, there were more people on the ground.
Got a cane.
The two of them looked towards the courtyard door together, and saw a somewhat hunched old man in a ge robe walking slowly into the courtyard, and said in a deep voice: "Although he said that people are about to die, his words are good, but is he still a human being?
Just kill him if you want, and if you still expect him to feel remorse before he dies, isn't that just playing the harp to a cow?"
Ding Yuluo looked at him in surprise, and said calmly: "Thank you, senior, for your generous help. I wonder, senior...what's your surname?"
Ding Chengye hurriedly picked up his crutch, put it on the side of his injured leg, picked up his dagger, and sneered: "Everyone sweeps the snow in front of their own door, and don't worry about the frost on other people's tiles. Old guy, you are already half dead.
Now, do you think your life is too long?"
Yang Hao sneered and pushed towards him step by step. When he passed by Ding Yuluo, he suddenly reached out and touched her waist.
Although Ding Yuluo did not regard him as an enemy, the instinctive vigilance of a martial arts practitioner made her subconsciously step back and strike at the white-bearded old man's wrist with one palm. Unexpectedly, the old man was so quick that he returned his palm as soon as he touched it.
Ding Yuluo only felt a light touch on his belt. When he looked carefully, the scabbard on his belt had already fallen into the hands of the old man with white beard.
The old man held the hilt of the sword and danced wildly for a few times, then suddenly stabbed Ding Chengye's throat with a sheath. Although the move was unorganized, it was as fast as lightning. Ding Chengye was taken aback and hurriedly raised his sword to meet each other.
In the past, there were only seven or eight rounds of fighting, and there was only a "click" sound, and Ding Chengye's sword was inserted into the old man's scabbard.
Ding Chengye was stunned, but before he could draw the sword, the old man twisted the scabbard, and a strong force came. Ding Chengye couldn't hold the handle of the sword, and the dagger was snatched away by his hand. The old man was about to put it into the sheath, and held the sword in the air with his fingers.
Turning, whistling twice, the dagger flew away from his hand, and with a swish, it was inserted back into Ding Yuluo's waist.
This swordsmanship was so wonderful that Ding Chengye knew that there was a huge gap between their skills. He couldn't help but change his face and hurriedly raised his left hand crutch. The old man had already approached him when he was making a gesture and took the crutch back with his hands.
"Bang bang bang bang!" Several heavy blows to the shoulders, ribs, calves, and jujube sticks made Ding Chengye scream in agony. He fell to the ground with a thud, hunched over and hugged his head, shouting: "I...
...I have no enmity or enmity with you, why...why did you harm me?"
"Do we have no grievances?" Yang Hao smiled coldly, pulled off his false eyebrows and the beard under his chin, and restored his original pronunciation.
When Ding Chengye saw his appearance clearly, he was stunned and said in a trembling voice: "You...you...are you a human or a ghost?"
Ding Yuluo saw Yang Hao's appearance clearly, and shouted in surprise and joy: "Second brother, you...are you still alive?" As he spoke, tears of joy welled up in his eyes. Yang Hao stared at Ding Chengye, but did not turn his head.
Ding Yuluo's eyes couldn't help but darken.
"You... you're not dead?" Ding Chengye also understood at this time. Seeing the murderous look in his eyes, he couldn't help being horrified. He rolled away and ran away, shouting angrily: "You... what do you want?
Now that you have risen through the ranks and become a high-ranking official in the Song Dynasty, even the leader of the Jiangnan Kingdom respects you, but I have ended up in this situation. Isn't it miserable enough? Why don't you let me go?"
Yang Hao said coldly: "I don't mind if you frame me, but as a son of a man, I have to avenge my mother. As a husband, I have to avenge Dong'er!"
Ding Chengye screamed: "I just wanted to frame you, how could I ever think of harming others? Your mother was already suffering from severe illness, and her condition worsened in anger, and she died. I didn't kill her, she was not me at all.
Killed."
Yang Hao said in a deep voice: "Yes, Master Ding Er killed someone, so why did you need to stain your hands with blood? According to your logic, Dong'er was certainly not killed by you."
Ding Chengye shouted angrily: "Dong'er, I don't want to kill him anymore. It was obviously Liu Shiyi and Dong Li who were afraid that the scandal between them would be exposed, so they killed..."
Speaking of this, his eyes suddenly flashed and he said blankly: "Dong'er... Dong'er?" A strange smile appeared on his face. He slowly sat up straight and said calmly: "Ding Hao, you can't kill me.
.”
"Oh?" Yang Hao slowly raised the jujube walking stick, and Yang Hao sneered: "No one will save you today..."
"Who said no one can save me?" Ding Chengye laughed loudly: "There is one person who can save me, and she can definitely save me. She is Luo Dong'er."
Yang Hao said noncommittally: "I wish, with Dong'er's kindness, if she hadn't died..."
Before Yang Hao finished speaking, the jujube stick in his hand whizzed down towards Ding Chengye's forehead with a fierce sound of wind. Ding Chengye opened his eyes and shouted: "Luo Dong'er is not dead!"
"Woo~~" The stick stopped abruptly three inches in front of his forehead. A bead of sweat slowly crawled down Ding Chengye's forehead. Yang Hao said calmly: "What did you say?"
Ding Chengye swallowed his saliva and said hurriedly: "I said... Luo Donger, no, no, dead!"
Yang Hao stared at him for a long time, his heart pounding, and he felt unspeakable nervousness, but he said: "I am not your second sister, your sweet words have no effect on me, even if you bray like a donkey, I just thought you were farting. Do you think I will believe you?"
Ding Chengye said anxiously: "There are also Scimitar Xiaoliu and Tietou, they are all together."
"What?" Yang Hao's face finally changed color. Ding Chengye, who was in the countryside, didn't know about the relationship between Scimitar Xiaoliu and Tietou. Even Dong'er had never seen those three sworn brothers. If Ding Chengye If you want to deceive yourself, you will never be able to connect Scimitar Xiaoliu and Dong'er in an instant. What kind of imagination can connect them?
Yang Hao's heart was pounding. He stared at Ding Chengye for a long time and then said slowly: "You want to lie to me?"
Looking at his face, Ding Chengye knew that his life had been saved for the time being, and his expression became more calm: "How about I tell you her whereabouts and you let me go?"
Yang Hao stared at him without saying a word, and Ding Chengye grinned: "I, Ding Chengye, am just a shameless villain, Luo Donger is your wife, Scimitar Xiaoliu and the others are your sworn brothers. If you would rather not live or die, , then feel free to kill me."
There was a hint of cunning in his eyes: "Actually... you know in your heart that I didn't lie, right?" Ding Yuluo on the side opened his eyes wide and looked nervously, Yang Hao was silent for a while, and then said slowly: "Okay, If you tell them their whereabouts, I won't kill you!"
Ding Chengye looked at Ding Yuluo and asked, "Where is she?"
"If she wants to kill you, I will stop her!"
Ding Chengye chuckled: "Okay, I am a villain, but I know that you are a gentleman. Villains... also like to deal with gentlemen, and I believe in your promise."
Ding Yuluo thought of the revenge for killing his father, and wanted to say something to stop him, but thinking of Yang Hao's suffering, he suppressed his words. The Ding family has too many things to do to Yang Hao, and the deceased is already dead. , for the sake of the living, she could only tolerate her father's hatred for the time being, hoping to get news about Luo Dong'er.
Yang Hao said in a deep voice: "Stop talking nonsense, you said Dong'er is still alive, where is she?"
In order to gain his trust, Ding Chengye did not dare to hide anything. He sat up and said, "Originally, I thought she was dead, but I saw her with my own eyes when I was in Qiqing Kingdom."
Yang Hao was shocked: "Khitan, why is she in Khitan?"
Ding Chengye said: "I am a person close to Mr. Yelu Wen. I once followed Mr. Yelu to the Five Phoenix Tower in Beijing to meet him. At that time, she was standing next to Empress Xiao. I thought I had seen the wrong person, so I asked people about her. It turns out that when the people of Lijiazhuang immersed Luo Donger in the river and put her in a pig cage, your sworn brothers happened to come to the village to find you. Passing by Lijiazhuang, they learned that she was your wife, so they went into the water to wait. When you fell into the water, they dragged you away and rescued you. They searched for you for several days, but there was no whereabouts of you. They expected you to flee to Guangyuan, but there were patrol officers and soldiers everywhere at that time, as well as the Liu family and the Li family. People are looking for you everywhere, so they have no choice but to find you along the ancient river path."
Yang Hao's body shook violently, and he had already believed his words. Now that he thought about it, it was indeed the time when he and Scimitar Xiaoliu had made an appointment to go to the village. If they happened to bump into Dong'er at that time, it was indeed very possible.
, especially Scimitar Xiaoliu and the others did leave their hometown, exactly three days after he went to Guangyuan, which corresponds to the time. If Ding Chengye was just talking nonsense, he would never have made it up so perfectly.
He hurriedly took two steps forward and asked in a trembling voice: "What happened next...how did they go to Khitan?"
Ding Chengye said: "They took the old ancient river road, which is an extremely difficult road. Fugitives and smugglers often come in and out of that road. There is no government checkpoint. It is the safest thing to do. Who knows, they walked on the ancient river road.
At that time, a large group of Khitan troops were killed on the ancient river road that was rarely used by people. As a result, they were captured and taken to Khitan."
Yang Hao couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this. It turned out that he was walking in front, and Dong'er was chasing after him. Unexpectedly, by some strange combination of circumstances, he was rushing to get rid of the Khitan pursuers all the way, but he got rid of her too, and even caused her to be captured by the Khitan.
People were kidnapped.
Ding Chengye said: "When I saw her on the Wufeng Tower, she was all dressed up in Khitan women's clothes, standing next to the emperor, as if she was the Khitan emperor's concubine. I was afraid that she would see me and cause trouble for me, so I hurriedly hid in
Among the crowd, she didn't notice me."
Yang Hao's face turned pale and he lost his voice: "What are you talking about, she...she was adopted as the imperial concubine by the Khitan Emperor?"
Seeing his expression, Ding Chengye was afraid that he would go back on his word and hit his head with a stick. He originally wanted to torture him viciously, but now he didn't dare to show off any more and hurriedly said: "I thought so too at the time. I found out after asking about it later.
After she was taken captive to Khitan, she was appreciated by Empress Xiao and became the most popular person around Empress Xiao. She ranked first among the female officials in the palace. She was a senior official and was not the emperor's concubine. Scimitar Xiaoliu and others
When I was with her, I... I only found out about her origins."
"Dong'er... Dong'er..." Yang Hao was so excited that he couldn't help himself. He never thought that Dong'er was still alive. Such a bizarre story could not be made up. He could see that what Ding Chengye said was indeed the truth.
, think about the Empress Dowager Xiao in history. Her lover is a Han, and her son-in-law also likes to find a Han. Although there are some elements of joking, it is probably unmistakable that this Empress Xiao Chuo has some Han elements. Dong'er knows the book and is polite.
He is well-behaved and smart, and it makes sense for him to be appreciated and put to good use by her.
Dong'er is still alive. Thinking of this, Yang Hao's chest will explode with joy. Dong'er will not let him down. She is as white as the snow on the mountain and her daughter is as pine. He has no doubt about Dong'er's feelings for him.
.Pity that I thought she was dead long ago, but she went to Beijing in Khitan, but she didn't know how much she missed him. In "Silang Visits His Mother", there is a princess who steals the order's arrow, but Dong'er wants to escape, but it is even more difficult.
Yang Hao's hands trembled slightly and tears filled his eyes: "I...I must rescue her! Rescue her and Xiaoliu and the others."
Ding Chengye observed his expression and asked cautiously: "I...can I go?"
Yang Hao waved his hand, and Ding Chengye stood up happily, limped a few steps, and looked at Ding Yuluo timidly. Yang Hao said calmly: "I'm looking at her."
Ding Chengye finally felt relieved and ran out of the hospital dragging his injured leg. When Ding Yuluo heard his cold voice, she couldn't help but burst into tears and cried out: "Second brother, you...you still refuse to forgive my sister.
What?"
Yang Hao didn't answer, silently walked a few steps forward, stretched out his hand, and Ding Yuluo took the jujube stick from him stupidly, a little at a loss. Yang Hao stared at Ding Chengye's back and murmured to himself:
"I promised not to kill you, and I promised to stop that stupid girl from killing you, but if she knocks me out with a sap, I won't be breaking my promise."
Ding Yuluo heard him call her silly sister, and she was so happy. When she heard him say "sap" again, she couldn't help but be stunned. Yang Hao sighed: "That beast is about to run away."
"Oh, okay!" Ding Yuluo agreed in a panic, and hit Yang Hao's head with a stick...