It was a hot summer afternoon, and the sun was scorching.

However, the surroundings of the Poison Dragon Pond are extremely cool, the dense fog in the sky shades the sun, and the shore is cloudy and windy, which is also mixed with a faint fragrance.

On the east bank, next to a bare stone cliff with a high terrain, this is a temporary resting place chosen by Li Li.

This place occupies the upper hand, and there is no hidden murderous fragrance in the air, so a group of six people does not have to cover their faces.

"Fortunately, my brother found out in time, otherwise I would have been afraid that I would have been poisoned by this time, and I would have no power to resist except to be captured!"

Standing on the cliff rock, Lu Su casually took off the cloth towel on his face and shouted luck.

Then he said angrily: "The Ganning thief is extremely vicious, knowing that there is a poison hidden in the fragrance, but he didn't say a word, and almost let me die in vain!" I, Lu Su, really looked away before, but I didn't expect that this thief seemed to be bold and magnificent, but in fact he was a sinister and despicable villain, and the viciousness of his heart was rare in ancient times! ”

Li Li's face was gloomy and silent when he heard this, staring down at the abyss and cold pool below the mountain, his eyes were full of solemnity.

Looking down at the dozens of Jinfan thieves who were foaming at the mouth and dying of black and blue convulsions at the bottom of the mountain, Zhou Yu also had palpitations and was afraid. Fortunately, he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Li Li's side face, his face full of admiration, and his eyes full of gratitude.

Until this time, Zhou Yu realized that the reason why Li Li was able to achieve today's achievements was not a fluke, let alone the favor of God, but a combination of wisdom and bravery, which was well deserved. Under the command of such a wise and wise hero, Zhou Yu was faintly unconvinced, but he was forced to be loyal to Li Li because of his form and favors. But now he is truly convinced, without a trace of distractions, and is willing to follow Li Li all his life and let him be driven.

Meanwhile. Zhou Yu firmly believed that Li Li would definitely be able to defeat Gan Ning this time, and lead his group to get out of the entanglement of the Jinfan thieves safely, and leave the dead and silent place such as Poison Dragon Pond.

As soon as he thought of this, when Lu Su scolded Gan Ning for being vicious and insidious, Zhou Yu said softly: "Zijing doesn't have to be angry. The Gan Ning thief intends to kill us this time, if he can poison us to death with the help of the poisonous gas around the Poison Dragon Pool, then he will naturally be happy to see it. What's more, since the two sides are enemies, how can we expect Gan Ning to tell the secret of the Poison Dragon Pool in advance? Fortunately, the elder brother was observant and witty, and discovered the hidden poisonous gas on the Poison Dragon Pool in time. So that we can survive this catastrophe. ”

Lu Su was stunned when he heard this, nodded slightly after thinking about it for a while, and gradually relieved in his heart, no longer complaining.

The two sisters, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, were quite frightened this time, so that they were still trembling at this moment. Trembling and looking at the cold abyss and cold pool under the mountain, his face was frightened. His eyes were full of gloom.

When Zhou Yu, Lu Su and Li Li were silent. Xiao Qiao walked lightly to Li Li's side, lightly held the man's arm, and said softly: "It's gloomy and scary here, it is the time when the flowers are blooming in midsummer, but the mountains and forests on both sides of the river are not a single grass, which shows how powerful the poisonous gas on the water surface of the Poison Dragon Pond is." The poisonous gas around the surface of the water is so powerful. Isn't the poison in the deep pool even more terrifying, if you touch it, you will die, if you inhale it, you will die, and how can people survive in the water? ”

After a pause. Xiao Qiao persuaded softly: "Husband, the concubine won't let you go into the water, it's too dangerous!" The grass and trees can't grow, the beasts and birds don't dare to stay here, but the husband has to dive into the deep pool with Gan Ning to fight for his life. Even if the husband wins the gambling contract, he will inevitably be highly poisoned, and it will be difficult to save his life in the end. Instead of this, why should the husband have to fight, why don't we kill from the mountain? Even though my sister and I can't get away and die only, as long as my husband and his party can return to Xiliang safely, the concubine and my sister will die as they deserve, although there is no regret in death! ”

After Xiao Qiao finished speaking, he was already in tears, and the touching tears and delicate face were enough to melt the heart of the iron, and his heart was not inferior to that of a man, and his heart of sacrificing his life for righteousness was overflowing.

After Xiao Qiao finished speaking, Da Qiao stepped forward slowly, took out a handkerchief to dry Xiao Qiao's tears. Immediately, she echoed with a resolute expression: "What my sister said is exactly what I want." Wenchang is in danger of millions of people in Xiliang, and there are hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops behind him who entrust their lives to you, can An be compared to water thieves like Gan Ning? If he died in the cold pool, he deserved it, and the sky had eyes, and he should have died a long time ago! But Wenchang can't have an accident, let alone die, and even the slightest mistake will lead to unimaginable consequences. If Wenchang encounters an accident, this troubled world will become more and more chaotic, and countless people at dawn will be tragically devastated, starving all over the place, and their corpses will be like mountains.

Therefore, my little sister and I have already discussed it. You go straight up the mountain and escape from the mountains and forests, and my sister and I can go, if we can't get out, we can only die, and we must not fall into the hands of thieves, tarnish your innocence, and shame Gongjin and Wenchang! ”

The words of the two Qiao sisters moved Li Li, Zhou Yu, Lu Su and Huan Fei, and the four men glanced at each other in unison, their expressions were solemn and resolute, and they nodded lightly tacitly.

Then Li Li stroked Xiao Qiao's fragrant shoulder, shook his head at Da Qiao and said, "Your sisters can say this, which is enough to make me and Gong Jin very happy." In this life, I can marry a virtuous and virtuous peerless beauty like you, and it is not in vain for me to wait for a man to come to the world for a walk, which is enough to comfort my life!

However, as a man, if he can't even protect his own woman, what face does he have to live in the world, and is he still worthy of being called a man? So, you two don't have to think too much, and you don't have to worry, we are all in the way. If the heavens doom us to be unable to retreat with our whole body, then it must be that we are all killed in battle, and we can no longer protect you, and then you will have the opportunity to die. Otherwise, Hugh will mention the word death again, but the four of us have one breath left, we will not leave your sisters alone, let alone let you have an accident! ”

"What the lord said is very true. We are all eight-foot-tall men, and it will not be your turn to sacrifice your lives to protect you at any time! Huan Fei continued.

However, when he finished speaking, he saw Li Li, Zhou Yu and others looking at him with gloomy faces, and the two sisters of Er Qiao were even more angry.

Suddenly, Huan Fei was excited, and hurriedly changed his words: "This 、、、 is not a girl, it should be a lady." As soon as I was excited just now, I couldn't take care of anything, the two ladies were not strange, a slip of the tongue for a while, just a slip of the tongue! Hey, hey, hey! ”

"Hehehe!" Seeing Huan Fei so embarrassed, Li Li and the others laughed heartily, and Er Qiao was not a stingy person. The same smile. In this way, the melancholy and depressing atmosphere just now suddenly swept away, and the expressions on the faces of the six people were not as heavy as before, and the gloom gradually disappeared.

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Sixty steps away from the stone cliff where Li Li and the others were, Gan Ning and a group of cronies also gathered together to whisper at this moment, making the final arrangements before entering the water in advance.

That's right, it's the final arrangement, that is, leaving a will and arranging the future.

Compared with Li Li and the others, who don't know anything about the Poison Dragon Pool, the fearless optimism of the ignorant people. Gan Ning and the others know a lot about Poison Dragon Pond, such as a few treasures. However, it is precisely because they know too much that their hearts are becoming more and more bottomless and their hearts are extremely heavy. Not yet in the water. They were already sure that this sneak into the cold pool was a life of nine deaths, and there was almost no chance of survival. Dead!

"Big brother. Or forget it, right? It's too dangerous, going into the water is equivalent to sending you to death, for the sake of that little property that doesn't know whether it's true or not, we can't take this risk! ”

At this moment, there are a total of eight cronies around Gan Ning, all of whom are burly and sturdy men, and two of them are sitting next to Gan Ning. These two are Gan Ning's brothers. A scar about five inches long on the left side of his face, with a rough and vicious face, big shoulders and a round waist, this person is called Gan Wu. The other had an equally ugly face. The bridge of the nose, the beard, a pair of extremely protruding leopard eyes, a big nose and a big mouth, the lower jaw is turned outward, revealing two big buck teeth, making people unable to eat for three days at a glance, this person's name is Ganwen.

Gan Wu and Gan Wen are a pair of brothers, known as "Wenlong Wuhu". They are not only Gan Ning's cousins, but also his most relied on right-hand men, and on weekdays, it is the two brothers who are responsible for managing the more than 1,000 brothers of the Jinfan Thief.

At this time, the person who persuaded Gan Ning to quit was Gan Wu. He is the second leader with the highest martial arts in the Jinfan thieves except for Gan Ning, a spear makes him superb, has the mid-level combat power of a first-class general, and dares to fight hard when fighting people, half crazy and half crazy and indomitable, which is terrifying. Therefore, he has a lot of prestige among the Jinfan thieves, and his personality is the same as that of Gan Ning, he likes gorgeous clothes, good pomp, and responds to every call, and he is majestic wherever he goes. However, in front of Gan Ning, he was as well-behaved as a kitten, not daring to speak loudly, let alone dancing and shouting, and being careful everywhere, for fear that Gan Ning would beat him.

"Xiao Wu, now that the matter is over, what's the use of saying these backsliding?" After hearing Gan Wu's words, Gan Ning raised his eyes and glared at him, his face showing displeasure.

Then Gan Ning looked down at the cold pool under the mountain with a solemn expression, and said in a deep voice: "I have been staring at the Poison Dragon Pond for a day or two, but for three years!" For this reason, in the past three years, we have taken the lives of hundreds of brothers, and finally found out that there is indeed a considerable amount of treasure piled up at the bottom of the cold pool. Over the years, the brothers squandered good wine and meat every day, and most of the money was exchanged for the lives of the dead brothers, and they repeatedly sneaked into the cold pool to steal the treasure, so that we have a good life today.

However, now that the belongings on the edge of the cold pool have been salvaged by us, there is no other way to obtain the treasure than to dive to the bottom of the pool. However, the bottom of the pond is the lair of the poisonous dragon, and if you want to salvage the treasure, you will inevitably alarm the poisonous dragon. We have led our troops here three times before, not to mention that each time we returned empty-handed, just to say that hundreds of brothers have died tragically under the claws of the poisonous dragon, we will not give up, and vow to avenge the dead brothers and get rid of the poisonous dragon! ”

After a pause in his tone, Gan Ning turned his head to look at Li Li who was standing on the cliff rock, and said in a deep voice: "It just so happens that when I meet a ruthless character like Li Li this time, if we don't make good use of it, then our brother will not have a good life in the future." If we don't have money, who will follow us as water thieves, who will be willing to work for me, and what will we do to help the poor people? ”

"This 、、、 brother, we can rob ships and get money!" Bucktooth Ganwen continued.

"Smack!" Gan Ning's color changed when he heard this, and he raised his hand to slap Gan Wen's head, which made Gan Wen's cheeks twitch and grinned in pain, but he didn't dare to scream in pain.

"Rob? Well said! In these years, there are wars everywhere, how many ferries are there on both sides of the river from day to night? I couldn't meet a fat sheep for ten days and a half months, and finally met someone crossing the river by boat, most of them were refugees, and the poor jingle sounded, and there was no oil or water at all. We have encountered few poor and sour robberies like this, and if we expect to live by robbery, I am afraid that we will starve to death long ago! ”

Speaking of this, Gan Ning took a breath of relief, calmed down his anger, and continued: "Over the years, the brothers have eaten big shoulders and round waists, spent money like dirt, and are used to living a good life, but they can't live a poor life at all. If we suddenly lack money and cut off our salary, maybe the brothers will scatter in a hurry, and then we will be exterminated and swallowed by Zhou Heizi and Jiang Poison Worm, and become poor worms under the fence! ”

"This 、、、、、、" Gan Wu wanted to answer, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them back, for fear that if Gan Ning was unhappy with one sentence, he would be beaten like Gan Wen.

"If you have something to say, you can do nothing!" Gan Ning was displeased when he saw it, but he didn't make a move, and said in a deep voice: "Say, whether it's right or wrong, I won't beat you, it's all right!" ”

Gan Wu hesitated when he heard this: "Big brother's words count, don't regret it?" ”

Emphasizing what Gan Ning said, after seeing Gan Ning nodding slightly, Gan Wu said boldly with confidence: "Big brother just said that there is no oil and water to be fished for robbery along the river, so where can we go ashore and rob the surrounding villages and towns?" There are countless villages and towns on both sides of the river, not 3,000, but 800. With so many towns there, why don't the brothers worry about living a good life! ”

"Bang!" Before Gan Wu's words fell, he was kicked by Gan Ning and turned over, and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and his face was covered with mud.

"Big brother, why did you go back on your word and say in advance that you wouldn't do it?" Gan Wu rolled over and got up, and whispered.

Gan Ning glared at Gan Wu angrily and said coldly: "You're right, I did promise you not to do it, but I didn't say that you can't use your feet!" ”

After relieving his breath, Gan Ning looked at Gan Wu with disdain, and said in a deep voice: "What else can you fool do except drink wine, eat meat, and sleep with women, you don't have a brain?" Over the years, why did Lao Tzu help the people along the river, just to get a good reputation!

We people guard the Yangtze River all the year round to make a living, and most of our brothers are young and strong along the river, and it is precisely because we have a good reputation as a thief who robs the rich and helps the poor that there is a steady stream of young people who are willing to defect to us. Over the years, the government has repeatedly sent troops to encircle and suppress us, if it weren't for the people along the river to take care of them and report in advance, would we still be able to stay here?

Lao Tzu said that you are a fool, don't be unconvinced! Rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, don't you understand such a simple truth? ”

"Ugh! What the eldest brother said was very true, but the younger brother knew that he was wrong. Although the two brothers Gan Wu and Gan Wen were beaten, they did not resent Gan Ning, but bowed their heads and admitted their mistakes with sincerity.

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