It is already March, but the spring is not so obvious in this land in the northwest, the swallows of spring carry the south wind of the breath of spring, and they are full of their murmuring sounds.

With the arrival of this spring swallow, the severe cold of winter gradually disappeared, the snow quietly melted, and the biting cold wind eased.

First of all, the snow on the slope of the rising sun is melting, slowly revealing the yellow-black ground, the snow water moistens the soil, soaking last year's hawthorn, and the grass roots that have been covered by the snow and hibernate wake up and come back to life, and gradually stubbornly push away the old hawthorn rotten leaves, and grow hard.

At the same time, the seeds of plants and trees that have been swept down by the wind in the autumn of previous years are also wrapped in wet soil, breeding roots and fighting for their lives. The land swept by the spring breeze revealed a piece of tender green spring buds.

Although it was still cold in the shade of the mountain, the power of the cold was gradually exhausted, and the warm snow water in the morning sun flowed down the sloping valley, melting the hard snow layer and breaking through the ice surface of the mountain stream.

Spring came, everything came back to life, and the hibernating animals gradually came out of their nests and began to look for food to feed them after a winter of hunger.

For a time, the mountains and forests were full of vitality, and more and more animals began to appear in the mountains and forests, beside the streams, enjoying the warmth brought by spring, and also bringing incomparable peace to this mountain forest.

"Whew-"

Suddenly, a terrible roar resounded throughout the mountains and forests, and the roar came from the king of beasts in the mountains and forests, the tiger.

After this roar of the tiger, it alarmed the entire mountain forest, and the birds and beasts in the mountain forest seemed to be frightened. They fled in all directions. Shivering, he hid in his lair.

"Whew-"

Followed by. Another tiger roar came, the sound was extremely miserable, as if suffering some great pain, so that the birds and beasts in the mountains and forests avoided the place where the tiger roar came.

Out of curiosity, a fiery fox ran in the direction from which the tiger's roar came, and kept shuttling through the grass, until finally ran to a small stream. Looking through the gap in the grass, I saw a huge tiger lying on a rock by the stream, its eyes seemed to be closed, as if it were not open, its eyelids drooped, and its eyes showed endless remorse.

The tiger's body was dotted with seven or eight arrows, scattered in several of its vital places, and blood continued to flow out of its body, staining the entire rock under its body red.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly. An arrow pierced the sky and flew towards the tiger. The tiger had long since lost its strength, and let the arrows come at him, but there was no way to dodge.

With a muffled "poof", the arrow hit the tiger's forehead directly, and the dying tiger was killed immediately.

When the fire fox saw such a scene, his face was as frightened as earth, and he looked in the direction where the arrow was flying, but he saw a man on a white horse standing in the distance, holding a big bow in his hand, and after seeing the tiger killed, a faint smile appeared on his face.

Suddenly, the man's sharp eyes swept away, and he saw the fire fox hiding in the grass, the man's eyes lit up, and he took out a feather arrow from the quiver bag, opened the bow and arrow, and shot it towards the fire fox, and the whole action was done in one go, without dragging the mud and water at all.

"Whoosh!"

The arrow shot quickly towards the fire fox, the fire fox was taken aback, hurriedly turned around and fled, but unfortunately it was still a step too late, and was pierced by the arrow through the throat, and fell directly to the ground weakly, allowing the huge pain to hit it one after another, so that it couldn't help but let out a wail.

Bleeding profusely, it struggled in the grass for a while, then stopped moving, and left this world forever.

At this time, a man in a strong suit ran over quickly, pushed aside the grass, and saw a fire fox that had been shot dead lying in the grass, and when he smiled, he stretched out a big hand, and picked up the body of the fire fox, held it high in the air, and shouted at the strong man who shot the arrow: "Young master, it's a fire fox!" ”

The man was swarthy, athletic, about thirty years old, and underneath two thick eyebrows were deep eyes. As he spoke, he walked over to the man who had shot the arrow, carrying the fire fox.

At this time, another man in a strong suit came over from the side, this person was slender and long, his complexion was sallow, and his appearance was somewhat similar to the person who shot the arrow, only to see him applaud happily: "Big brother is really a magic archery, today not only harvested a white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes, but also harvested a fire fox, I didn't expect this to be just spring, there is such a big harvest." ”

The man who was called "Young Master" and "Big Brother" was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a handsome face, a fair complexion, eyes like shooting stars, red lips and white teeth, a dignified appearance, a tall and mighty body, and a strong and strong physique.

This person is none other than General Anxi and the eldest son of Liangzhou Thorn Shi Ma Teng, called Ma Chao, whose name is Meng Qi.

The black-faced strong man is called Pang De, who is Ma Chao's subordinate and his confidant, who is also his teacher and friend, and the yellow-faced thin man is called Ma Dai, who is Ma Chao's cousin.

After Ma Chao heard Pang De and Ma Dai's praise, he just grinned and asked them to help him pick up the tiger skin.

After about a stick of incense, Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De had just stripped off the tiger skin, and after rinsing it by the stream, the three of them were about to leave the mountain forest with the tiger skin and fox skin, but suddenly heard a series of horses' hooves rushing towards them.

After a while, I saw a man wearing an iron helmet and iron armor riding a tall horse, with a group of soldiers in military uniforms appearing in the field of vision of Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De.

"Young master, it seems to be Han Sui's subordinate." Pound said softly in Ma Chao's ear.

As he spoke, the team came to Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De, led by a very strong person, with dark eyes, a high nose, a large mouth, and thick lips.

The man galloped over, hurriedly restrained the war horse under the seat, first looked at Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De, and then glanced at the tiger skin in Pang De's hand, as well as the body of the tiger skin that was stripped off on the rock next to the stream, and immediately became furious, raised the horse whip in his hand, and pointed at the three people: "You three are so bold!" Dare to trespass on the forbidden land, and openly hunt the beasts in the forbidden land, I just don't want to live! ”

Ma Teng and Han Sui are both in Liangzhou, but Ma Teng's power is not as big as Han Sui, Han Sui is a native of Jincheng, Liangzhou, and is quite famous in Liangzhou.

Ma Teng is mainly entrenched in Anding and Beidi, while Han Sui has Wuwei, Jincheng, Longxi, Hanyang, Wudu and other places, and this is Shangtai County of Hanyang County, Liangzhou, which belongs to the sphere of influence of Han Sui, the general of Zhenxi.

Without waiting for Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De to have the slightest chance to defend themselves, the man in armor immediately ordered: "Come on, these three people trespassed into the forbidden land, and hunted the beasts in the forbidden land, arrested them all, and broke their tendons, see if they dare to trespass into the forbidden land again!" ”

At the sound of an order, more than 20 soldiers who accompanied him jumped off their horses one after another and rushed towards Ma Chao, Ma Dai, and Pang De.

Seeing this, Pang De shook his body forward, and his huge body directly blocked in front of Ma Chao and Ma Dai, opened his arms, and shouted at the person opposite: "Bold!" Do you know who the young master of our family is? How dare you be so rude to my young master? ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, looked back at the leader on horseback, the leader looked at the three of them, and said with a smile: "I don't care who the fuck you are, when you get to Lao Tzu's territory, you have to plate it for me, if it's a tiger, you have to lie down for me, what Lao Tzu says is what it is!" ”

Then, the man shouted at the soldiers: "What are you doing there, hurry up and arrest them, pick the tendons for me, and pick the hamstrings for me together, Lao Tzu wants to see who will dare to spread wild on Lao Tzu's territory in the future." Lao Tzu's hard-working beast, he was not willing to shoot it, they shot it, Lao Tzu did not kill you is already your luck, provoked Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will break you into thousands of pieces! ”

The soldiers did not hesitate any longer, and rushed towards Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Pang De and others.

Seeing that this person didn't give face, Pang De was furious, threw the tiger skin in his hand back, and threw it directly to Ma Dai, and said to Ma Chao and Ma Dai: "Young master, you should take a few steps back!" ”

Ma Chao and Ma Dai quickly took a few steps back, and then stood there motionless, with expressionless faces, quietly looking at Yiqiqi in front of them.

"Bang bang ......"

A series of sounds rang out, followed by a scream of pain, and in an instant, the twenty-odd soldiers all fell to the ground, curled up, struggling on the ground, but could not get up again.

Pound clapped his hands with a sneer, looked at the leader on the opposite side riding on horseback, with a stunned face, and asked, "Aren't you going to break our tendons and hamstrings?" Come on! ”

The man's face twitched, and he didn't even see how his twenty or so men had fallen to the ground, but it felt as if in the blink of an eye, all of them were lying on the ground, howling miserably.

He saw Pound coming towards him, he didn't expect that he was not an opponent, turned the horse's head, and wanted to escape, but he didn't want Pound to move forward, stretched out his long arms, and threw him off the horse, and his body fell heavily to the ground, so painful that he grinned his teeth, and the helmet on his head also rolled to the side.

By the time he could react, Pound was already riding on top of him, clenching a fist the size of a bowl, and looking at him with a sinister smile. He immediately realized the danger and hurriedly begged for mercy: "A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life......" (To be continued......