Chapter 245: The Boy Who Sings Mountain Songs
A touch of morning light penetrates the woods and is projected on the small village on the edge of Jundu Mountain.
Liu Wei and Guan Qing rode on the same horse and slowly walked towards the outside of the village. Deng Zhan and Dong Niang rode another horse and followed closely behind them.
Deng Zhan's face was indifferent, but Dong Niang, who was sitting on horseback in front of him, was a little more in a trance.
The four of them slowly walked out of the village, and a group of village women followed them out of the village, looking at their backs as they gradually moved away, many of whom were still waving to them. If Liu Wei turned back at this time, he would definitely be able to see the faces of this group of village women, with strong expectations.
"Did Mr. Deng sleep well last night?" tossed with Guan Qing for a little half of the night, but never saw Deng Zhan and Dong Niang appear, Liu Wei already had a guess in his heart about what Deng Zhan did last night.
When he asked Deng Zhan about this, Dong Niang turned her head and glanced at Deng Zhan, who was sitting on horseback with her. Looking at Deng Zhan, her delicate face showed a little loss, and there were faint tears in her eyes.
"How about staying overnight in the village and having a village girl with you at night?" Deng Zhan smiled slightly, and asked Liu Wei, who was riding a horse with Guan Qing, and asked, "There was a commotion in the village last night, and His Royal Highness must not have slept very well. ”
"The village aunt is the ......" Liu Wei turned his head, smiled at Deng Zhan, and said to him: "Mr. travels the world, but he can not be informal, but this king must not be like this. If this king slept with the village girl last night, once this matter spreads in the future, won't he be laughed at by the heroes of the world? ”
"Men love women, they should be!" Deng Zhan shook his head slowly, and said to Liu Wei: "The heroes of the world, who hasn't raised a few family concubines?" Yesterday evening, the woman who slept with a certain person was not ugly, and even a little enchanting, how could a certain man let go of such a good thing. It's a pity that the villagers are so generous, and His Royal Highness doesn't accept it. Even if His Highness really did it, no one in the world would be able to say anything! ”
"Raising a family is not the same as planting for people in the village!" Liu Wei waved his hand, clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, and said to Deng Zhan and the others: "It is reported that there are no other villages within dozens of miles, and it will take some twists and turns to find Lu Shangshu. ”
Everyone answered, and no longer mentioned what happened in the village, Liu Wei and Deng Zhan both shook the reins, urging the horses to go faster again.
War horses walked through the forest, their hooves rustling through the thick fallen leaves.
Leaving the small village, walking non-stop for dozens of miles, Liu Wei suddenly raised his arm, stopped everyone's advance, and listened carefully to the movements around him with his ears sideways.
Deng Zhan, who was following behind, also reined in his steed, and put his ears up like Liu Wei, as if he was listening to something.
"Your Highness, what's wrong?" Guan Qing, who was riding with Liu Wei, turned his head, looked at him without blinking, and asked softly.
"It's like someone singing in the mountains." Waving his hand at Guan Qing, Liu Wei furrowed his brows slightly, and asked Deng Zhan, who was standing on horseback, "Sir, did you hear that?" ”
"I heard you!" Deng Zhan nodded, looked at the deeper mountains and forests with a solemn face, and said to Liu Wei: "I just don't know why there is no sound at the moment." ”
While the two were talking, there was a burst of loud mountain songs in the mountains that were still a little childish.
Although the song was far away from them, the crowd heard it clearly, and it was a child who had not yet reached adulthood.
Hearing the sound of mountain songs, Liu Wei and Deng Zhan turned over and jumped off their horses and jumped towards the depths of the forest.
As soon as Guan Qing and Dong Niang jumped off the horses, Liu Wei, who had already run a few steps, turned around and pointed to them and shouted: "You two are watching the horses here, waiting for this king and Mr. Deng to return!" ”
After getting off the horse, Guan Qing and Dong Niang, who were about to follow Liu Wei towards the forest, heard him say this, and stopped their feet with some hesitation, seeing that the figures of the two quickly disappeared into the mountains and forests.
When he entered the forest, every ten or twenty steps he ran, Liu Wei would use his long sword to cut a long notch on the trunk of a passing tree.
Deng Zhan, who was following him, saw him do this, and didn't ask much, but just ran with him in the direction where the sound of mountain songs came.
The two of them ran hundreds of steps in one breath, and the sound of the mountain song became clearer and clearer, but at this moment, the child who sang the mountain song suddenly let out an exclamation, and the mountain song also stopped abruptly.
Hearing the exclamation, Liu Wei and Deng Zhan glanced at each other, and the speed under their feet accelerated a lot.
After running dozens of steps, Liu Wei suddenly smelled a fishy smell, he hurriedly raised his arm, stopped Deng Zhan, who was rushing forward with him, and whispered: "Not good!" That kid is probably surrounded by wild beasts in the mountains! ”
"It's so fishy, there are a lot of beasts!" Deng Zhan nodded, holding a long sword in his hand, and looked around vigilantly.
Looking around to make sure that the beast was still some distance away from them, Liu Wei beckoned his hand again, and jumped forward with Deng Zhan.
The peculiar fishy smell of the beast became heavier and heavier, and after running more than twenty steps, the two faintly heard a low "whining" sound of the beast.
Following the low roar of the beast, Liu Wei looked forward, and saw that not far from them, a boy about ten years old with two round buns on his head was standing against a big tree with a firewood knife in his hand, and on the ground in front of the boy, he was still throwing a bundle of dry firewood that had just been cut not long ago.
More than a dozen sturdy wolves were surrounding the boy, surrounding him, with green eyes shining brightly, staring at the meal in front of them as long as they opened their mouths.
With his back against the tree, the boy trembled, and his hands holding the firewood knife trembled.
"Whew!" With a low roar, a wild wolf leaped into the air and pounced on the boy who was standing with his back against the tree.
As soon as its body jumped up in the air, Deng Zhan, who was squatting beside Liu Wei, suddenly got up and threw the long sword in his hand forward.
The long sword rolled like a vertical propeller with the sound of the "whirring" wind, and flew towards the wild wolf that jumped up, and the sharp tip of the sword "poofed" and pierced deep into the wolf's back.
As soon as he threw the long sword out of the void, Deng Zhan suddenly roared "not good", hurriedly turned around, and reached out to grab the void to the side.
After Liu Wei and Deng Zhan approached the boy, the wild wolf that had been staring at them in the bushes jumped up and jumped towards Deng Zhan, who threw out his long sword.
Deng Zhan grabbed the void, just grabbed the neck of the wild wolf, and lifted the wild wolf with dozens of pounds in his hand.
The wolf's body swayed back and forth on Deng Zhan's arm a few times, and when Deng Zhan let go of the fingers that were holding its throat, its throat bone had been crushed rawly. As Deng Zhan let go of his palm, the wolf's body fell to the ground covered with dead leaves, and after a few kicks on its hind legs, it was silent.
Deng Zhan raised his hand and killed two wolves in a row, Liu Wei held a long sword, and also shouted, and rushed towards the wolves surrounding the boy.
Born as a swordsman, without the long sword in his hand, Deng Zhan was lacking in confidence after all, and at the same time as Liu Wei rushed forward, he also followed closely behind and rushed to the boy who was leaning against the big tree, but his goal was not to save the boy like Liu Bian, but to retrieve the long sword.
The two of them rushed up to the big tree against the boy's back, surrounding the boy's group of wolves, but they didn't expect the two humans to dare to rush towards them, and without reacting to what was happening, they dodged to the side, and actually made a gap for the two.
Rushing in front of the boy, Liu Wei turned around sharply with a long sword in his hand, protecting the boy behind him. Deng Zhan, who rushed over with him, pulled out the long sword that was deeply pierced into the wolf's back, and stood beside Liu Wei with the sword.
As soon as the two men who had rushed to the edge of the tree took their positions, twenty or thirty wolves sprang out of the bushes.
The group of wolves that had just jumped out were of different sizes, and after jumping out of the bushes, they surrounded Liu Wei and the others step by step, and surrounded them under the big tree against the boy's back.
"Come up!" Holding a long sword in one hand, Liu Wei slashed at the armpit of the boy who was standing behind him and was still trembling with the other, dragged him to him, and said to him very quickly: "Step on my shoulders and go to the tree!" ”
Dragged by Liu Bian's armpits, the boy's whole body was rounded, Liu Biao said that he wanted him to step on the tree on his shoulders, he trembled all over, and his two feet went straight to Liu Bian's slightly bent legs, wanting to climb on him with the help of Liu Bian. may have been too nervous, he tried several times, but he failed to climb on Liu Wei's shoulder.
"His Royal Highness pumped him up the tree, and a certain support!" Deng Zhan, who was on the side, saw that the boy did not succeed in climbing onto Liu Bian's shoulder, holding a long sword, blocking in front of Liu Bian, confronting the wolves, and shouting to Liu Bian.
Deng Zhan stood in front of him, Liu Bian's heart suddenly relaxed, he thrust his long sword into the ground, grabbed the boy's shoulder blades with both hands, turned around and pulled him towards the tree.
At the moment when Liu Wei turned around, the two wild wolves let out a low roar and pounced on Deng Zhan who was blocking him.
The wild wolf jumped up in the air, and just pounced in front of Deng Zhan, Deng Zhan shouted, and the long sword in his hand slashed forward, and with a bright arc light, the long sword slashed in front of the two wild wolves.
The heads of the two wild wolves that jumped up were split by the long sword at the same time, and a long hole was spurted out, and a puddle of hot wolf blood was splashed, and the momentum of the forward rush suddenly subsided, and they all fell to the ground, twitched and kicked a few times, and then never moved again, and the ground full of fallen leaves was soon red by the wolf blood.
With a sword slashing to kill two sturdy wolves, Deng Zhan held the long sword in his hand, protected the long sword in front of him, and stared coldly at the wolves surrounding them.
Holding the boy's armpits with both hands, Liu Wei jerked him towards the branch, and when the boy's hand grabbed the branch, he pushed the boy's ass with one hand and pushed the boy onto the branch.
"Get on your stomach!" Looking up at the boy lying on the branch, Liu Wei explained to him, then turned around, pulled out the long sword stuck in the ground, took a step forward, and exchanged glances with Deng Zhan.
The two nodded to each other, shouted in unison, and pounced on the wolves around them with their swords, holding their long swords.
The wolves retreated a little more the moment they pounced. As predators, if these wolves had the same thinking as humans, they would definitely think that Liu Wei and Deng Zhan were looking for death.
The number of wolves is far more than them, and the physical strength of wolves is much stronger than that of people, and two people with two long swords, they take the initiative to rush out and fight with the wolves, which is tantamount to suicide in anyone's eyes.