The fat man smiled and said: "That's right! Most of my Qingcheng sect brothers are now in Fuzhou Prefecture, and even the master and the old man are condescending to stay. Normally, we would never think that the thieves would dare to go back and throw themselves into a trap!"
The short man nodded: "As the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place. Often people at the end of their rope love to be so self-righteous. It's a pity that they forget that this is something that everyone wants to do. Everyone can think of it, so how can they do it?
safest?"
The fat man said deeply: "Junior brother, you are right. Everyone knows it, and the thief naturally knows it too. He deliberately erased the traces to make us mistakenly think that he returned to Fuzhou, but in fact..."
The fat man pointed to the east and sneered: "I bet that the traitor will continue to the east. The so-called reality is false and the false is true, which is exactly the way of a crafty soldier! From then on, he was with Senior Brother Hou and Li
From the fact that the sword was mended on the body of my junior brother, it can be seen that this person must be a good soldier who retired from the frontier army. It is not surprising that he has such a military strategy."
The short man suddenly understood, stroking his palms and smiling: "It makes sense, this thief can be considered treacherous. It's a pity that when he meets you, senior brother, he is destined to be unable to escape."
The fat man laughed loudly and said energetically: "Let's go, junior brother, let's continue chasing eastward, kill this thief, and avenge the two senior brothers!"
The two riders quickly galloped away to the east. What they didn't know was that the target they were pursuing was getting farther and farther away from them, but getting closer and closer to Fuzhou Prefecture.
He Xie walked very cautiously along the way, always paying attention to whether there were pursuers behind him. In fact, his previous measures did not fully expect the enemy to be fooled. In his opinion, the enemy was more likely to divide their troops into two groups, and then regardless of
Whoever spots the target sends a signal immediately. In this way, He Xie's whereabouts will be immediately exposed.
But now two hours have passed, and it is obvious that he overestimated the enemy.
This was a good thing, and it also made He Xie feel relieved.
At this moment, with hundreds of taels of silver in his pocket and a sword in his hand, he finally had the minimum equipment of a knight-errant.
He had checked before and found that the words "Qingcheng Hou Renying" were engraved on the spine of the sword. This surprised him a little. He actually killed the first of the four heroes in Qingcheng.
Although it was a trick and cheating, a win is a win. This is enough to prove that as long as he does not meet Yu Canghai and is not besieged by Qingcheng disciples, he is fully capable of handling it in a one-on-one situation!
However, He Xie is self-aware and will never take the initiative to provoke the Qingcheng faction. With his current strength, if he is surrounded, he will die.
At noon, He Xie picked some wild fruits in the mountains and forests to satisfy his hunger. Although he had the ability to hunt and eat better, starting a fire in the mountains and forests was too big a target, so he did not dare to do so.
After taking a short rest, He Xie continued on his way and arrived outside Fuzhou City in the afternoon when the scorching sun was shining brightly.
He did not dare to get close and lurked quietly one mile away from the city gate, observing the city gate.
At first, he didn't notice anything unusual. Except for the officers and soldiers collecting the city gate tax, there were no obstacles for pedestrians to enter and exit, and there was no suspicious person staying at the city gate.
But He Xie was very patient. He observed it for an hour, and finally he discovered something was wrong!
Every tea time, two people would come out of the city gate together. They didn't go far, they just walked around outside the city gate, and then entered the city again.
The two people who came out each time were different from the two people last time. What was strange was that the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate turned a blind eye to them.
They must be people from the Qingcheng faction, they have been patrolling the city in batches!
If that's all, that's it. The most important thing is that they have obviously bribed the government, and Lin Pingzhi was originally the young master of the Fuwei Escort Agency. Who in the entire Fuzhou City doesn't recognize him?
As soon as He Xie appears at the city gate, someone will probably notify the Qingcheng Sect immediately. And with their frequency of patrolling for a week, it will be extremely difficult for He Xie to escape once his whereabouts are exposed.
His face looked a little uncertain.
In fact, during this journey, He Xie has completely given up the idea of going to West Lake to obtain the star-absorbing technique of Ren Wo Xing, because not to mention that it is extremely difficult to operate, but that the journey will take several months, so we have to wait.
No matter how long it takes, no matter how long it takes, Lin Zhennan and his wife will be in the cold.
He Xie will not risk his own life to save Lin Zhennan and his wife, but he will never give up on the matter.
Therefore, when he has decided that no one else can be relied on and can only rely on himself, if he wants to quickly improve his strength, his only choice is the evil-proofing sword manual.
The sword manual to ward off evil is in the old house of the Lin family in Xiangyang Lane, Fuzhou City.
But now, let alone being unable to enter Fuzhou City, even if he could, would he dare to go to the old house to get the sword manual now?
Yu Canghai of the Qingcheng sect is in Fuzhou. He was rescued by Yue Lingshan today. Yue Buqun must have arrived as well. As for the Songshan sect, who knows if there are anyone else lurking in the dark besides the young man like Lao Denuo?
He Xie stared at the city gate for a long time, and finally retreated in disappointment.
He couldn't afford to take this risk, but he was sure that neither Yu Canghai nor Yue Buqun had the patience to stay in Fuzhou City for too long.
Because firstly, if they can't find the sword manual to ward off evil everywhere, they will definitely turn their attention to the three members of the Lin family; secondly, according to the plot, the day when Liu Zhengfeng, the head of the Nanyue Hengshan Sect, washes his hands in the golden basin is not far away.
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He Xie decided to hibernate temporarily and wait for the enemies to retreat before he went to get the anti-evil sword manual.
But during this period, we can't just wait...
That night, a village outside Fuzhou was attacked by thieves. A lot of grain, bacon, wine, pots and other miscellaneous things were lost. The only doctor in the village also lost a lot of medicinal materials at his home. Widow Cai at the head of the village even cursed, saying:
Even her needlework was not spared, and it was the only gold ornament left to her by her late husband.
There used to be a village in a barren mountain dozens of miles away from this village, but due to a plague, everyone in the village died.
This place is located in a remote place and is inaccessible to people. In addition, because of the plague, even hunters and woodcutter are not willing to come here and would rather take a detour.
He Xie learned about this place from Lin Pingzhi's memory. In this deserted village, he found a four-story courtyard suspected to be a landlord's house. The courtyard was connected from front to back, and there was a canal leading directly to the river in the back mountain. He Xie
Decided that this would be his habitat for the next period of time.
He used the stolen things to set up many traps and simple and effective alarm devices around his residence, even on the roof. Then he obtained enough firewood for many days, made a bed, and boiled water.
Overnight, he made enough dry food for him to eat for several days, found a water tank, washed it, and filled it with water.
He rested until noon the next day and then got up. He went to the back mountain to hunt a rabbit and had a good meal. Then he took out his sword, gold needle, and silk thread, put all these things in boiling water, and started to prepare.
Herbs.
In the afternoon, he had everything ready and checked again to make sure that nothing was missing. Then he uneasily upgraded his Chinese medicine level to level 3 at the cost of 30 yuan. A lot of knowledge about Chinese medicine suddenly flooded into his mind.
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He Xie carefully pondered for two hours, and then he went out. When he came back in the evening, he had another batch of herbs in his hand. He didn't stop, and directly boiled and crushed the batch of herbs.
of mashed.
Night, slightly cool.
Under the blazing fire, He Xie looked solemn and slowly took off his pants.