Chapter 12
Chapter 12
The town is not big, surrounded by dilapidated and quaint courtyards, and there are very few inns. After wandering around, I only found a simple inn.
There are dozens of miles around, and there are few people. I am afraid that I can only rest here for one night tonight.
Xiao Er took the horses to the backyard to feed them, and the shopkeeper opened a room for them. The moment Jiang Lingke opened the door, dust rustled from the door, and Jiang Lingke subconsciously covered Bai Yu's face with her sleeve.
And the shopkeeper took several steps back.
Jiang Lingke coughed several times due to choking, held her breath, and when the dust was almost gone, she put down her sleeves and wrinkled her face and said, "Why is there so much dust, shopkeeper, is this the best room for you?"
Looking inside, there are dilapidated tables and chairs, mud walls with pits and hollows, the ground is dark, and the bedside quilt is so dirty that the original color cannot be seen, Bai Yu couldn't help frowning after seeing it.
The shopkeeper stepped forward and said with a flattering smile: "Please take care of me, the guest officer. I don't have many customers in this small shop for a year, and very few people live there. Most of the people who come here are vulgar people. The guest officer and his wife are so graceful and luxurious, it's still a small shop." It's the first time."
After all, he looked at the woman in front of him a few more times.
No matter how dissatisfied Jiang Lingke was, she had nothing to say, but seeing that his mischievous eyes were always fixed on his wife, she glared at him and said, "Shopkeeper, prepare the food, we will go down to eat later."
The shopkeeper nodded with an apologetic smile: "Okay, what do you want from the guest officer? Just say it."
Jiang Lingke said: "No more, you can go down."
But Bai Yu said: "Shopkeeper, bring a bucket of hot water up."
Jiang Lingke didn't know why, but seeing that the shopkeeper didn't intend to leave yet, she said in annoyance, "Why don't you go soon?"
She really doesn't like other men looking at her wife all the time.
After leading Bai Yu into the room, he closed the door, leaving the shopkeeper outside with a gloomy face, making fun of it, and went downstairs to ask Xiao Er to bring hot water up, and went to prepare meals.
"Why is my husband angry?" Bai Yu poured the hot water in the bucket into the washbasin, picked up the handkerchief, soaked it in the water, took it out, twisted it slightly, and walked towards Jiang Lingke who was sitting beside him, "You always have a bad temper Excellent."
Jiang Lingke sat on the rickety bench, feeling sullen in her heart. Seeing her coming over with the handkerchief, she said depressedly: "I don't know why, but I feel uncomfortable when I see the shopkeeper."
Bai Yu smiled, held up her chin, and wiped her face carefully. Jiang Lingke's skin was tender, her features were handsome, and her brows were full of heroism, but at this time she was ashamed and dejected.
Jiang Lingke closed her eyes, and simply enjoyed her rare tenderness. It turned out that the madam fetched water to wash her face, and the corners of her mouth curled up as if she had eaten honey.
After a while, Jiang Lingke opened his eyes and said, "Ma'am, my eyes suddenly twitched violently. The left eye twitched for money and the right eye twitched for disaster, but both eyes twitched. Is there something bad going to happen?"
The ensuing uneasiness invaded Jiang Lingke's heart, Bai Yu put down the veil, and comforted: "Maybe it's because my husband is tired, I just need to rest early at night, don't think about it so much."
Jiang Lingke also felt that it was reasonable, and she was afraid that she was too tired and had an illusion.
After tidying up briefly, Jiang Lingke and Bai Yu went downstairs, while all the people in Cucumber were waiting. When they saw the two of them, they all got up and saluted and sat down.
There were three tables of food and wine, one table for servants, one table for four people with cucumbers, one table for Jiang Lingke and Bai Yu, and the dishes were really unsatisfactory. Thinking of this barren mountains and wild mountains, it is not bad to have one or two meat dishes.
Jiang Lingke said to them: "Eat more, you have worked hard today, rest well at night, and continue on your way tomorrow morning."
After all, everyone said yes.
At this time, night fell.
Jiang Lingke put vegetables in her bowl: "Eat more too, don't starve and lose weight."
Bai Yu smiled: "Okay."
There is wine and food, a drink and a glass of wine, so leisurely.
At this moment, the sound of chaotic footsteps came from outside the inn. Hearing that there were a lot of people coming, the boys felt that something was wrong, and quickly got up and drew their knives: "No! We are surrounded!"
Bai Qi shrinks to Bai Yu's side in fright.
Cucumber Liu Mang all ran to Jiang Lingke, Jiang Lingke said nervously, "What's going on?"
The boys wanted to go out to investigate, but they were blocked back. They saw five fierce and burly men standing at the door. Even in such a dangerous moment, the boys still kept their expressions on and protected the people behind them with their knives.
The little servant Da Zhuang turned back and said: "Miss, the visitor is not friendly, there are more than a dozen people with knives outside, we have encountered a black shop!"
When Jiang Lingke saw it, his heart turned cold. Aren't these just those bandits?Jiang Lingke turned her head to look at Bai Qi, and happened to meet Bai Qi and Cucumber's eyes.
Jiang Lingke: You crow mouth!
Bai Qi: May I express my innocence?
Cucumber's eyes burst out with masculinity: Teacher, I will protect you.
Bai Qi rolled her eyes: You should protect yourself...
The bandit in the lead has a swollen face, a huge body, and a loud voice: "Boys! I can be regarded as intercepting you. Last time I dared to escape under my nose. This time I will see how you run. The outside of the inn is full of me. People, you can't fly with your wings, be obedient and don't move around, or don't blame grandpa for not having eyes with his sword!"
The bandit leader wanted to take a step forward, and the servants took a step forward with their knives in their hands, all of them glaring coldly. Regardless of how few people there are, the six thugs carefully selected by the White Mansion, one of them will fight two, and if they really work hard, whoever loses will win. It's not the same, if you take care of the people behind, it will be difficult.
Seeing this, the bandit leader snorted coldly: "You are dying, and you six still want to fight with a dozen of me!"
Mazi shouted from the side: "Boss!" Wiping his neck, "Kill him!"
Jiang Lingke saw that it was okay, and hurriedly stepped forward and cupped his hands: "Everyone is a hero."
"Xiaosheng brought his wife and children back to his hometown and passed by this place. If he robs money, I will give it to you. Harmony makes money. Why bother to fight and kill? I also hope that you can give me a way out with your noble hands."
The bandit leader sneered and said, "Stupid scholar, do you think you are still qualified to negotiate terms with me? Today, I want money and people too!"
Jiang Lingke, a weak scholar, was pushed so hard by him, and fell to the ground in embarrassment. The people behind exclaimed and wanted to step forward, but she stopped her with gestures. At this moment, she didn't want anyone to be hurt.
Da Zhuang hurriedly helped her up: "Uncle, are you okay!"
"It's okay." Jiang Lingke shook her head.
"Hmph, there are two ways for you, either the woman stays, the money stays, let you go! Or the woman robs, the money is robbed, and you are killed!"
"Don't even think about it!" Da Zhuang roared, no matter how insulted he was, he immediately started fighting with the bandit leader, and the rest of the bandits retreated one after another, Jiang Lingke and others retreated to the corner.
Before Jiang Lingke retreated, she glanced out of the window from the corner of her eye. Under the moonlight, she seemed to see something dimly. Suddenly, her eyes lit up with complicated doubts.
Bai Yu clung to Jiang Lingke tightly and grabbed her sleeve. Jiang Lingke felt her panic, stroked her shoulder, and whispered: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
The bandit leader and Da Zhuang wrestled with each other, and the small inn was messed up by the two. If there were not five people protecting them, they would have suffered disaster.
In desperation, the bandit leader took a gap and scolded his subordinates angrily: "Well, you are all stupid, right! You won't come to help!"
The four of them looked at each other in blank dismay, and then joined the fight, and the big and strong brothers helped each other without saying a word.Six people against five people, it is obvious that the situation is wrong, the bandit leader struggled to dodge the cold light of the blade, and roared with a ferocious face: "What's going on? Why don't the brothers outside come in? Let them in!"
Mazi's body had already been cut with several blood marks, his face was ashen ashes: "Boss! Our people are gone!"
The bandit leader was shocked: "What!"
The inn was originally narrow, so how could it accommodate so many people at once? Seeing this, Jiang Lingke looked around, pushed open the tattered window frame, looked outside, and said decisively: "Let's go out from here, cucumber, you go out first, Come one by one, hurry up! Hurry up and leave while they are not paying attention!"
Cucumber jumped up to the window according to her words, and pulled Bai Qi out together, and then Liu Mang and Bai Er also went out of the window, seeing this, Jiang Lingke broke away the hand holding her sleeve, and said anxiously: "Madam, get out quickly!" ,leave me alone."
Bai Qi was about to cry outside the window: "Miss, miss, can you come out first?"
Bai Yu bit her pale lips, stubbornly refusing to leave, Jiang Lingke's head was really big, seeing that pockmark was about to lean over, Jiang Lingke shouted: "Bai Qi, take care of your wife." She pushed towards the window, and Bai Qi pulled her out at the right time.
Mazi grimaced, held a long knife, and roared, "Where are you going?! I'm going to drag my back if I die!"
Hearing this, Jiang Lingke gasped, turned around indiscriminately, and just avoided the sharp point of the knife, sweating coldly and going straight.
"Husband, be careful!" Bai Yu's fingers gripping the window sill turned white.
Mazi laughed loudly: "See how many times you can hide!" After saying that, the knife was shining, Jiang Lingke hurriedly fell to the ground, trying to dodge, but her hand was pressed against a stool, and in a crisis, she picked it up and pointed at him Throw it hard.
Mazi was cut across the waist with a horizontal knife, and the servants wanted to come forward to rescue them, but those people seemed to be desperately entangled, Jiang Lingke was in a mess, and sat on the ground with his buttocks. Can't avoid it.
Jiang Lingke looked out the window and saw that Bai Yu was crying.
She smiled helplessly at the people outside the window, then closed her eyes.
In an instant, she thought of many ways to die, for example, her head was chopped off, blood was splattered three feet, and her brain and liver were smeared on the ground, or she was divided into two halves, with internal organs filthy and bloody.
But the pain did not come for a long time, Jiang Lingke squinted her eyes, and suddenly opened her eyes wide, only to see that Mazi's head was in a different place, her body was still twitching, the blood vessels were fresh and visible, and a round head was right next to her. Next to him, Mazi's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe that he died just like that.
Jiang Lingke's stomach turned upside down, and she couldn't bear the nausea anymore, turned over and vomited.
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