【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

Looking at Yuan Zhongxin who was suddenly thrown in, Zhao Jian exclaimed, "Yuan Zhongxin? How did you get here?!"

The appearance of Yuan Zhongxin made the five people feel more at ease for no reason.

It was very inconvenient for Yuan Zhongxin to move while lying on Wang Kuan's body. He tilted his head with difficulty, but his tone was extremely relaxed: "I was also caught by the bandits."

Wei Yanei's eyes lit up, and he bowed to Yuan Zhongxin's side: "Those outside are really bandits?"

Yuan Zhongxin paused for a moment with Wei Yanei's excited expression, this idiot is so happy to be robbed?He thought about it carefully: "It should be, I saw your carriage, it's just outside."

"What about you? Didn't you recuperate in the secret pavilion?" Wang Kuan's head was slightly tilted back, and his body was rather stiff.

Yuan Zhongxin suddenly raised his head to look at Wang Kuan, who looked slightly tense, and said with a smile: "I'm not worried that you can't complete the task, so I chased you out, how is it, are you moved?"

Wang Kuan had never been in such close contact with Yuan Zhongxin before, his breathing was stagnant, his eyes dodged, the young man's smile made his heart beat wildly, but he still had to suppress the joy in his chest, it was really embarrassing for him up.

Wei Yanei glanced at Yuan Zhongxin, not quite believing his words: "Are you so kind?"

Yuan Zhongxin threw a sharp eye, Wei Yanei immediately fell silent, and shrank back to Xue Ying.

Because of Yuan Zhongxin's sudden appearance, Zhao Jian's mind was even more confused, she sighed: "Don't talk about it, let's break the rope first——Xiaojing, find out where the short blade is."

Yuan Zhongxin smacked his lips: "Why use a knife to cut." He pulled his hands suddenly, and the rope binding his hands behind his back automatically loosened.

Wei Yanei exclaimed: "Yuan Zhongxin, do you know this stuff?"

Yuan Zhongxin got up from Wang Kuan's body, twisted his wrist, and first helped Wang Kuan relax: "It's always right to know more about things when you walk in the rivers and lakes."

In less than half a moment, the six regained their freedom.

Yuan Zhongxin rubbed his chest and abdomen, and frowned slightly. Although Xiaojing's medicine was very effective, he would still experience a sharp throbbing pain from time to time.

Wang Kuan looked at Yuan Zhongxin with a worried expression: "How is your injury?"

Yuan Zhongxin waved his hand: "It's okay, I can bear it."

The six people sat together, Zhao Jian straightened out his thoughts, and then asked Yuan Zhongxin: "How did you get arrested?"

Yuan Zhongxin went to the inn where Wang Kuan and the others stayed last night at about [-]:[-] this morning. He thought that Wang Kuan and the others had already entered Qinghe Town, so Yuan Zhongxin wanted to go to Qinghe Town to find them. It was stopped by a dozen people.

"At first, I thought they were just looking for a passing money, but when they knew that I was going to Qinghe Town, they knocked me out, and when I woke up, I found myself thrown into the woodshed , and then I saw you."

Wei Yanei was puzzled: "Are you so easily stunned by them? Why don't you fight them hard?"

"Brother, I have no chance of winning against more than a dozen of them alone. What's more, I am still injured, and I still resist? I don't want to die?"

This is true.

Zhao Jian looked towards the door: "Then where are we now?"

Yuan Zhongxin twisted the chain around his neck habitually with his fingers, and thought carefully: "I was arrested near the end of Si hour. Before entering the woodshed, the sun was at its strongest and the shadows were very small. It should be noon—grab My group of people walked for nearly an hour, so it means that we are about an hour away from the station."

"And when I was tied in, I heard the sound of water flowing. The sound was not loud. It should be a small stream. The direction of the water flow was roughly from southeast to northwest."

"We should be on the side road of Qinghe Town." After listening to Yuan Zhongxin's analysis, Wang Kuan said suddenly.

"Crossing the road at the edge of the town?"

Wang Kuan stared and nodded: "At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in order to facilitate the connection between cities, the first emperor set up two rolling roads in each village, one land road and one water road, whether long or short, and the distance depends on the terrain where the village is located. It is decided that no matter where this rolling road goes, it can smoothly reach the axis city closest to this village, so as to speed up the transmission of information."

In other words, rolling the track is a shortcut.

"However, the current Great Song Dynasty has stood for a long time, and its national power has gradually developed. The method of transmitting information has changed from rolling roads to post stations. Therefore, most of the rolling roads in the Great Song Dynasty have been abandoned and have not been used for a long time. You don't know, it's normal. "

Xue Ying: "So we are now on the waterway in Qinghe Town?"

Wei Yanei was stunned: "Have we entered Qinghe Town?"

Yuan Zhongxin shook his head: "No, we should be at the downstream of the waterway now, and it will take another stick of incense to reach the entrance of Qinghe Town."

Yuan Zhongxin turned his head to look at Wang Kuan, and suddenly asked after a while, "What about you? Wang Kuan, Zhao Jian and Xue Ying are so good at martial arts, they can't beat those dozen bandits?"

The five of them looked at each other, remembering all the weird and weird things that happened last night, and the expressions on their faces gradually became subtle.

Yuan Zhongxin turned his head to look at Wang Kuan, and then at Zhao Jian. The curiosity in his heart could hardly be suppressed: "Hey, you guys are talking."

Wang Kuan took a deep breath and spent a quarter of an hour telling Yuan Zhongxin about his experience last night in detail.

However, when Yuan Zhongxin finished listening, he was surprisingly quiet, with a strange and dull expression, as if he had lost his soul.

Wei Yanei shook his hand in front of Yuan Zhongxin, and suddenly, Yuan Zhongxin grabbed his hand. Wei Yanei felt that Yuan Zhongxin's hand was extremely cold at this moment, and even made him shiver inexplicably. Wei Yanei swallowed, and asked cautiously, "Yuan Zhongxin, what's wrong with you?"

The rest of the eyes are also on Yuan Zhongxin.

Only then did Yuan Zhongxin speak with difficulty: "You said, you went to a small village to rest, and the village chief there entertained you?"

The five nodded.

Yuan Zhongxin's throat tightened for a while: "Besides, the village is still fine before nightfall, and there are still people there. After nightfall, they disappear?"

The five hesitated and nodded again.

Zhao Jian felt more and more that Yuan Zhongxin's reaction was not right, she frowned: "Yuan Zhongxin, what are you trying to say? Don't be so creepy, okay?"

Yuan Zhongxin frowned tightly, with a very serious expression: "I didn't see it."

Wei Yanei had already withdrawn his hand at this time, Yuan Zhongxin's endless words left everyone at a loss.

"I mean, I didn't see that village at all. You said that the village is not far from the post station, and it's easy to see—but when I looked over from the post station, what I saw was a piece of flat land."

In an instant, there was a dead silence in the firewood room.

After a long time, Zhao Jian said with a trembling voice: "Yuan Zhongxin, what are you talking about? Last night we clearly..."

Yuan Zhongxin glanced at her, and Zhao Jian suddenly felt chills. She knew that Yuan Zhongxin was not talking nonsense, he really didn't see the village.

Wei Yanei cried and said with a mournful face: "No way! We really... saw... the ghost?" Remembering that he not only talked to the ghost last night, but also almost ate the meal cooked by the ghost, Wei Yanei was so frightened. There was a big meal.

Wang Kuan frowned: "So, it was those bandits who brought us out..."

Yuan Zhongxin glanced at the pale-faced people: "Do you really believe in these crazy things?"

Xiao Jing's voice was choked up, obviously frightened: "We all saw it with our own eyes..."

Wang Kuan looked at Yuan Zhongxin: "Is this the bad rumor you told me that day?"

Yuan Zhongxin nodded silently.

Xue Ying suddenly said: "Does Zhang Yuan know about the rumor that Qinghe Town is haunted?"

Probably, I don't know... Otherwise, I wouldn't have sent them to deal with these matters.

Yuan Zhongxin smiled mockingly, and naturally understood what Xue Ying meant, but he bowed his head and remained silent.

Wang Kuan took a deep breath and calmed his mind: "Regardless of whether the haunting last night is true or not, what we have to do now is to find a way to escape from here first."

As soon as Wang Kuan finished speaking, a thick white smoke came in from the crack of the door. Zhao Jian had sharp eyes and immediately noticed something was wrong. She shouted: "Hold your breath! There is misty smoke!"

Everyone's expressions were serious, but they still couldn't react. Wei Yanei and Xue Ying were the first to suffer. Before he had strength, he supported Yuan Zhongxin and let him lean on him.

It was said to be smoke, but Yuan Zhongxin and his group did not fall into a coma except for the weakness of their hands and feet, and the body was weak. The next second, the door of the firewood room was kicked open, and three tall robbers came in. They were rude. He quickly dragged the six people up, and lifted them out of the woodshed one by two.

After leaving the firewood room, the six people saw everything in front of them clearly: countless bandits stood on both sides of the road, looking coldly at the six people being dragged, all holding steel knives and long swords, with fierce faces, like It looked like a prisoner being dragged to beheaded.

After walking for about half a minute, they arrived at a relatively spacious open space. The three big men stopped and let go of Yuan Zhongxin and the others. Without support, the six of them leaned together, looking at everything here. , looked calm and indifferent on the surface, but in fact they were terrified. The six of them really couldn't guess what these bandits wanted.

Wang Kuan glanced around, and for some reason, a strange idea gradually came to his mind. These bandits looked fierce and fierce, but they remained motionless, and never thought of harming them.

Yuan Zhongxin's eyes dimmed, he cleared his throat, and shouted loudly: "I don't know where the gods kidnapped the six of us here, if you just want money, as long as you let us go, everything will be fine!"

The robbers looked at each other, but no one responded.

Wang Kuan whispered secretly: "Something is wrong..."

Yuan Zhongxin tilted his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Wang Kuan squinted his eyes, and looked to his right front. There was a tall and thin bandit standing there. Wang Kuan stared at him for a long time, and for some reason, he felt a sense of familiarity. He seemed to have seen this person somewhere.

Wang Kuan told Yuan Zhongxin, who was leaning behind him, what he wanted in his heart. Yuan Zhongxin turned his head as hard as he could to see the bandit Wang Kuan was talking about.

Oh, it's over.