Chapter 9: Attacked
Leaving Jiulipo, the road begins to be bumpy. Although it is an official road, it has been disrepaired and no one manages it. This is already very good.
As noon approached, Changfeng and others were resting on the roadside to eat dry food. Changfeng was sitting in the car with Lin Qimeng, eating exactly the same as Lin Qimeng's, and eating better than Lin Fu. Everyone envied him, and Changfeng was embarrassed, so he took the things down to share with everyone, winning everyone's favor.
It happened to rain last night, but today it was a sunny day. This is the weather in the south, so everyone was in a very comfortable mood. It was not that happy to attend the funeral.
Along the way, Changfeng said whatever he had in his heart, and did not treat himself as a higher level than the guards of the Lin Mansion at all. He was able to match almost everyone. Everyone talked and laughed. Even Lin Fu had to admit that Changfeng's affinity and charm had been recognized by most people. Seeing this scene, Lin Qimeng didn't know whether it was wrong or right to bring him by his side. I hope that his judgment was wrong.
During the break, after everyone finished eating dry food, Lin Fu conscientiously carried out the task assigned by Lin Qimeng, which was to ask their Mr. Xixi to ride a horse. To be honest, Changfeng himself was a very smart person. He caught a cold on horseback and could not grasp the center of gravity at the horse. He fell off the horse nine times ten times, and the other time he couldn't even get up. Mr. Xixi, who looked talented, couldn't even learn to ride a horse, and became a joke for everyone after dinner.
Just Changfeng stopped learning and stayed in the carriage honestly at Lin Qimeng, who was as cold as ice to him. Although it was a bit uncomfortable, it was better than falling off the horse's back again and again and falling all over. This was also a test of his own entry into the world. I wonder what Lin Qimeng knew about Changfeng's thoughts, and whether he would kick Changfeng out of his carriage with one kick.
Fortunately, Lin Qimeng never sarcastically sarcastic to him anymore, otherwise he would not even have the face to sit in the carriage, and there was a limit to the test. I'm afraid he would really have to ride with Lin Fu.
The carriages were bumping all the way, and they couldn't get up all the time. They came to Luoyan Gorge in the evening. Luoyan Gorge was a forest in the middle of a narrow mountain wall, all of which were unique to Jiangnan: maple trees. This layout seemed to have two huge door frames on both sides of the road, but the door was open. It was a huge canyon with only an official road in the middle, which was the only way to go west to Duanqingzhai. Because both sides of the road were primitive forests, there was no danger to guard. The deep forest and dense trees became the best place to kill people and rob people. Therefore, there were constant thieves here. The government had sent troops to encircle and suppress them. Unfortunately, the officers and soldiers could not patrol here every day.
Then, no one cares about it, and this place becomes the most reliable trading place for people in the Green Forest. Ordinary people dare to pass here only during the day, and they are brave enough to walk when it is not dark. The local people have a persuasion, "Walking in Luoyan Gorge at night, they will not live until midnight; when walking in Duanhun Ridge, they will not live until dawn." This means that even if you pass Luoyan Gorge before midnight, you will not live until dawn, and you will not pass before dawn. It sounds quite terrible. Changfeng has an impression that he has walked through both places, as if he was at night. He was there at that time, and it seemed that he could pass easily along the way, and he did not encounter any strange things. Therefore, Changfeng was also skeptical about this sentence.
The carriage stopped in front of Luoyan Gorge. Lin Fu was afraid of something, so he insisted on leaving early tomorrow morning and resting here for one night. Anyway, they all brought tents, and it was quite convenient to rest for one night in the open air. Lin Qimeng insisted on walking over and went to the town opposite to rest for a long time before rushing. The two had different opinions, and the maid stayed in the mansion to serve Zhen Ping'er, but she did not bring it out. Now the only one who could speak was Mr. Xixi Changfeng. Everyone looked at Changfeng, hoping to get the final answer from his mouth or not.
Changfeng felt that no one could offend Lin Fu at this time. It would be equivalent to offending all the men present. If he offended Lin Qimeng, he would offend his students and his master. The future would be even worse. So he moved on and suggested throwing the copper coins and let God decide, and leave with the front face up and the reverse face up tonight. He would rest here for one night and leave tomorrow.
This proposal was unanimously agreed, but who would throw it? In the end, the two reached an agreement, and who would throw it away who would throw it. It wasn’t Changfeng who shot himself in the foot with a rock. Who said that he had just joined the gang? No one spoke for him, and the only one was there.
Changfeng took out a copper coin from his body and gently pushed the copper coin into the air with his thumb. Everyone stared at the copper coin falling from the air. Everyone stared at the copper coin falling from the air. Everyone was staring at the big eyes, just Changfeng's eyes were closed tightly and he didn't look at the copper coin that fell to the ground. Anyway, the result had nothing to do with him, and it didn't matter whether he knew or not.
Suddenly, I heard a cheer, which was the excited voice of a woman. There was no other woman here. Changfeng knew that she would not have a good sleep tonight. She even suspected that Lin Qimeng had tampered with her own copper coins and deliberately slaughtered herself, because she didn't sleep well last night and was in a bad mood tonight. Of course, this idea just flashed by, which was impossible.
Looking at Lin Qimeng's excitement and the depressed expressions of others, Changfeng didn't know if he should comfort the depressed people, and was sad with them. He walked to the carriage, sat quietly in the carriage, and did his own thing, no matter them! Just bump a little, I can still sleep.
While he was stunned, Lin Qimeng's voice came to his ears and urged him to get on the car! Changfeng smiled helplessly at the others and jumped onto the carriage himself.
After having supper in a hurry in the car, the wheels began to rotate again, and the sound of horse hooves also sounded beside the carriage.
Lin Qimeng was in the shaking carriage and did not dare to sleep, but also had to keep a good mental monitoring. Changfeng was free at this time. He ignored everything. He wanted to sleep. When he woke up, he looked at the night outside the carriage. Anyway, don’t waste the torch when he was using it.
The car gradually drove deep into the forest, and he had to walk more and more with the help of torches. Therefore, he walked very slowly and became more stable. Changfeng and Lin Qimeng felt more comfortable sitting inside. Lin Qimeng had forgotten her mission and slowly fell asleep by herself.
It was almost at the deepest part of Luoyan Gorge. Lin Fu was alert and walked slowly forward. Changfeng felt that the car was getting slower and slower, and his alertness arises. This place is a bit unusual and ready to deal with emergencies at any time.
With a whoosh, all the birds in the forest seemed to be awakened by something, and all the birds flew in the forest, which scared all the horses screamed. Lin Fu hurriedly ordered calm down. The carriage was a veteran, and soon stabilized the mood of the carriage. The others took a lot of effort to calm the horses down.
When everyone and horses settled down, everyone was on the spot for a long time and intuition told the people present that they were just a false alarm, but they still tense up. A little negligence here would lead to the possibility of everyone present losing their lives.
"A false alarm, keep moving forward." Lin Fu made his final judgment, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They believed in Lin Fu because he was an old man. In their minds, the old man's words were credible.
Lin Fu waited slowly until the carriage reached his right head, lifted the curtain in the carriage and said to Lin Qimeng, "Meng girl, Master, I don't know how many times I have walked here. Even at night, I don't feel like this tonight. I feel a little up and down. I just don't know if there is something wrong. What do you think?"
"I also think it's a bit strange. Like my master, I don't know where the problem is, so we should be careful." Lin Qimeng thought for a while and said.
"Then should we go back and leave tomorrow morning?" Lin Fu asked Lin Qimeng for advice.
"I don't think it's necessary. With a master here, there shouldn't be too much trouble. Besides, it would be too late to withdraw at this time. If someone really wants to deal with us, he wouldn't let us retreat easily." Lin Qimeng trusted Lin Fu's martial arts and experience quite well. He listened to this and felt as if he had a piece of ice in summer. He felt comfortable to the end. Lin Fu patted his chest and said on the spot: "Don't worry, as long as his master here, he will definitely be able to protect you."
Lin Fu was relieved of the discomfort by one sentence, and rode his horse forward, urging everyone to speed up, act carefully, and move forward again.
"Why didn't you say a word just now?" Lin Qimeng turned her head and asked Changfeng.
"Miss hasn't asked me, how could it be too troublesome?" Changfeng replied.
"Okay, I didn't ask Mr., do you have no concern for the safety of our group at all? Or is there a ghost in your heart?" Lin Qimeng asked directly.
"I always feel that starting this morning, the lady seems to have something to say to me. What is the lady doubting me? Changfeng asked back in a tit-for-tat way.
Lin Qimeng was speechless. He could not tell Zhen Ping'er's true identity because she was useful. Zhen Ping'er's approach to him was the most effective way to find out the origin of Changfeng. At least he has no malicious intentions towards Zhen Ping'er now. Otherwise, he would not expose it for the cold poison for Zhen Ping'er last night.
"Sir, I'm so careful. Qimeng just asked casually." Lin Qimeng said silently. Since you didn't speak, Changfeng was lazy to speak. The carriage fell into silence again, and only the wheels pressed against the rustling sound of leaves on the official road.
It was almost midnight, and Changfeng knew that the cold poison he had forced to the "Sword Zhou point" was about to occur. At that time, someone pointed a sword at him and wanted to kill him, and he could not resist. His whole body's skills were only enough to deal with the cold poison in his body.
"Stop, we have passed Luoyan Gorge, and we are downstairs to Duanhun Ridge. We can take a rest before we can walk the mountain road." Lin Fu called in front, and more than a dozen people and the carriage stopped. Lin Qimeng got out of the car and said that he wanted to relax. Changfeng stayed in the car and did not go down. In fact, he wanted to go down, but it was almost time for midnight. It would be better for him to stay in the car and wait for the cold poison to occur quietly, so Lin Qimeng could not see anything.
"It's all because of my niece's lack of experience in the world. She wanted to draw his origin from his words, but she was suspected by him." Lin Qimeng got out of the carriage and grabbed Lin Fu, walked to the back far away from the carriage and said to Lin Fu.
"Meng Girl, you are too impatient. Didn't this matter be covered by Master Fu? Don't you worry. I don't think that Changfeng has no malice. Maybe you are too worried." Lin Fu comforted.
Lin Qimeng thought to herself, if you know the whole truth of the matter and you still say such things, that would be worrying.
Lin Qimeng returned to the car, glanced at Changfeng, and posed a big question mark in her head: Bad person? Good person? Or is it not a human at all?
Changfeng also noticed Lin Qimeng's glance. What was the relationship between Miss Lin and me before I arrived at Lin's mansion?
The carriage began to move forward. It seemed that everyone had almost rested, and Lin Fu ordered to set off again.
"Look, what's in front?" A servant following him shouted, and everyone else tightened the reins in shock and looked at the man who was calling.
Lin Fu ran towards the man and said, "What's going on? What's your name?"
"I, I, just saw a blood-red rabbit rushing towards me." The servant stammered and pointed at the pile of grass.
Lin Fu followed his finger to the grass and saw nothing. Lin Fu wondered if the servant was dazzled, or if he didn't look carefully, so he said, "There is no rabbit, you're dazzled."
The Ding Xin said in surprise: "It has run away."
"It's okay if you leave!" Lin Fu explained: "Continue to go on the road!"
He rode his horse forward and took the lead in walking in front. More than a dozen people from behind slowly moved forward around the carriage.
When he approached his son, it was the critical moment when Changfeng was preparing to use his power to resist the cold poison. He was indifferent to everything outside the car. He knew that Lin Qimeng in front of him could not threaten him, because except for feeling her amazing charm, the rest was a weak woman with no power to tie a chicken.
The carriage was walking quietly in the forest, with the wheels pressing against the leaves on the ground, rustling, and the sound of horse hooves could be heard far and far in the quiet night, two words: "Stern"
Once, birds were frightened in the forest, and blood-red rabbits were in danger. They held a torch and rode on the back of a horse and didn't dare to come out, fearing that they would encounter something strange.
It was even darker outside, and the carriage was filled with a ray of fire from the torch outside and was able to know who was sitting where he was.
It was very cold outside and there was no wind.
It was already here, and Changfeng was fighting the cold poison with all his might. Lin Qimeng sat in the carriage and stared at the seat where Changfeng was sitting. However, she couldn't see Changfeng's expression. Maybe with her intelligence, she could see Changfeng's disguise from Changfeng's face, but unfortunately Shi didn't have to do with her.
A strange mountain wind blew from somewhere, extinguishing all the torches. A gust of wind blew up the leaves on the ground. Everyone rolled up their sleeves in order to prevent them from being blown into their eyes by the sand. Except for the two sitting in the carriage, they didn't feel it.
"Hurry, have murderous aura, protect the carriage!" Lin Fu suddenly shouted loudly.
All the servants quickly dismounted and had to work hard for a night. Everyone was exhausted, but they were well-trained and soon formed a circle around the carriage and pulled out their knives to guard. Changfeng inside the car was suffering from cold and poison, and had no time to take care of the things outside, and still remained calm. Although Lin Qimeng seemed to know how to do martial arts, she sat in the center with affection and calmness, staring at the door curtain.
Lin Fu, who was walking in the front, was also affectionate and nervous, regardless of the maple leaves falling in front of him, staring at the front.
A black shadow appeared almost ten meters ahead of Lin Fu out of thin air. It was only a moment from the start to the formation of a line. It had already broken through Lin Fu's defense line and rushed to the front of that circle.
"Be careful Miss!" Before Lin Fu could finish calling the four words "Lin Fu", the second line of defense had been lost. Unlike Lin Fu, Lin Fu was only slightly injured, but they left behind two cold corpses. They penetrated their throats with a sword, and blood did not spew out, which shows how terrible the person was.
Now I can only hope that a miracle will appear or that Changfeng inside can take action. If they were in the same group, there would be no hope. Lin Fu really had the urge to pick up the sword and commit suicide. Fortunately, he did not commit suicide, otherwise it would be worth it. He did not die in the hands of the assassin. He would regret it if he died for a moment.
The door curtain is used for decoration, and it has no blocking effect. As the door curtain scattered, a sharp dagger had stabbed Lin Qimeng's heart. It was just a thread away. The dagger could stab in, but stopped in the air. Because the dagger was caught by a finger, Lin Qimeng was so scared that her face was pale, her eyes were closed, and she thought she was waiting to die.
The two fingers were Changfeng. He used his left hand. He tried to attack the heart with the danger of cold poison, gathered the cold poison to the two fingers, clamped the dagger that stabbed Lin Qimeng, and pulled out his soft sword from his waist with his right hand and cut it to the assassin's neck. Unfortunately, the assassin failed to hit a single blow, and the coldness from the dagger was used to pull back the dagger clamped in someone else's finger and broke through the top of the carriage. Changfeng's front strength had not faded, but the subsequent strength was not continued. In addition, the cold poison attack made the opponent break through the top of the carriage, leaving only a strand of hair, and he also sprayed blood on the door frame, unconscious. Lin Qimeng opened his eyes and saw Changfeng lying in the carriage and spitting a mouthful of blood.
Lin Fu saw the black shadow coming out, and quickly put down his sword that committed suicide and chased him. He had planned it in the morning, how could he chase it? In the end, he returned in vain.
Only then did Lin Fu realize that he forgot that Lin Qimeng's safety was the first. After turning back, he immediately got on the carriage and saw the situation inside. The coachman was dead. All the survivors in the firelight saw clearly the situation in the carriage.
A lady of the Lin family who was still very calm but nervous and a Mr. Xixi, who didn't know life and death.
Lin Fu reached out to explore Changfeng's breathing and found that he was still angry and was not dead. He let down his breath and saw that there was no trace of blood on Lin Qimeng's body. Then he looked at the blood on the door frame and knew that Changfeng stepped forward to save Lin Qimeng and was seriously injured. However, they didn't know that this injury was not caused by the rescue of Lin Qimeng, but by Changfeng's poisonous blood attacking the heart.
I cleaned up on the spot and buried the bodies of the two servants and coachmen. The roof of the carriage was gone and it was impossible to repair it now. I had to go to the town in front to change another one. Lin Fu personally became the coachmen and continued to move forward.
Strange, why did Lin Qimeng not say a word, just silently looking at Changfeng who was injured in the position where he was sitting. What kind of person was he? Did he be wrong from the beginning? Why did someone kill me, but the person who saved me was someone who suspected that he had intentions for his family? Is everything acting? But it doesn't look like it! I can't figure it out.
Lin Fu also knew that this was the first time Lin Qimeng had encountered such a situation. She needed time to calm her emotions, so she did not disturb her and went on like this.
After such an assassination storm, nothing special happened along the way and passed through the Broken Soul Ridge successfully.
Since then, people have extremely respected Changfeng. In addition to the martial arts reasons, they sacrificed their lives to save their ladies. Usually, they worship Lin Qimeng as a god. Changfeng saved their parents of food and clothing, so how could they not be grateful?
Before dawn, a very beautiful woman sat on a tattered carriage, and a man who could be her father lying inside was the biggest news in the town. For a moment, rumors spread everywhere, causing the whole town to be full of wind and rain.
Lin Fu and the others were exhausted, tired and hungry, so they had no time to deal with these things and were in a depressed mood. The most important thing now is to find an inn, wash up, and have a good sleep, which is what they want.
Finally, he stopped outside a small town inn called Yingbinlou. Lin Fu asked the shopkeeper to clean up a few rooms and added enough fodder to the horses. The shopkeeper seemed to know Lin Fu, and went down without asking anything and prepared.
Changfeng had also woken up and could walk around without help. Lin Qimeng was afraid that too many people would notice her, so she asked someone to prepare a hat and hang her gauze and no one could see her beauty.
It was already morning when we arrived in the town. We were anxious to travel at night and had no breakfast in the morning. Lin Fu told us to have a meal here, take a day off, recover our strength, prepare all dry food, and repair the carriage. In addition, they thought that Changfeng was injured and needed to find a doctor to take a look and rest, and decided to go on a journey tomorrow.
Changfeng knew his own family affairs, but he was not injured, but just poisonous blood attacked his heart. He had already vomited it out, so it was nothing. As for the cold poison in his body, it would be the same as a normal person, but he would have to suffer from two more days of cold poison attack. In this way, Changfeng would take eight days to completely drive away the cold poison in his body.
As a result, I found a doctor and couldn't see anything. I just thought it was because of excessive blood loss and opened a few houses to replenish blood and nourish qi. Lin Fu hurriedly ordered someone to go to the pharmacy in the town to get medicine.
Lin Fu first asked someone to repair the carriage. It turned out that Yingbin Building was also the Lin family's property, and everything was available. Lin Fu did not need Lin Fu's instructions at all. Since they moved in, Yingbin Building no longer opened to the public, making the other inns in the town happy. Lin Fu didn't want this, for fear of attracting the attention of other people in the world. However, Lin Qimeng liked quietness and even sent the original residents to other families. Lin Fu agreed. Changfeng knew that the Lin family was rich and powerful, so he enjoyed it happily. Wouldn't it be better if no one disturbed him?
From then on the next morning, except for eating and seeing Lin Qimeng, the doctor came. Lin Qimeng came to visit Changfeng once and said some gratitude, almost Lin Qimeng had never said more than three sentences to Changfeng.
Changfeng knew that those things had no effect on him, but Lin Fu's intentions were so he had to take them, so he drank the decocted medicinal soup.
Changfeng didn't understand why Lin Qimeng suddenly changed her temperament and was lazy to think about it. Anyway, it only took half a year to leave. If he was fired first, it would be better. There was no need to face this beautiful woman who was wary of him all day long.
Lin Qimeng actually locked herself in the room by herself. Except for when she came out during the meal, she spent the rest of her time in the room. She was also thinking about the same problem. She couldn't guess what kind of person Changfeng was. Did he really save himself or set up a trap to let him get into it? The previous useful methods in the shopping mall almost didn't work for him. What method should he use to face this difficult problem? If the person has no malice and he treats him as a villain, it will ruin the reputation of the Lin family if it spreads out. And if he is a bad person, how can he deal with it? Taking one step at a time is the final conclusion Lin Qimeng got.
Lin Fu wouldn’t think about anything as long as he had alcohol. He was tired all night and could easily rest for a day without drinking enough to sleep.
No one noticed that Changfeng cut off a strand of blue hair from the assassin with his sword, and was grabbed by Changfeng. Changfeng had never had the chance to say it. Since they didn't want to know, there was no need to say it. Let's talk about it when they asked. Anyway, the assassin did not succeed and would come again, but he didn't come tonight because the assassin was injured. Changfeng forced the cold poison to his fingers. Coincidentally, the two fingers clamped his dagger, so he was also disturbed by the cold poison, but it was not enough to be fatal. He would be fine if he used his power to regulate his breathing for two days, and only Changfeng knew about this.
Chapter completed!