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Chapter 9 The Abacus

"Rush over!"

"Do him!"

This is a path to the north of the water village, with jungles on both sides and lakes and rivers at the end of the path.

After shouting violently, She Ding and Shi Hui rushed towards Li Xia and the crossbowman with swift force.

It was a matter of life and death, and they looked particularly ferocious, like two beasts rushing out of the forest.

The crossbowman raised the crossbow in his hand.

He looked calm, but he didn't know which one to shoot first, because he needed Li Xia's cooperation to kill the other one.

There was a third shout.

"You left!"

Li Xia's shout was short and powerful, and his tone also imitated Nie Zhongyou's unquestionable command tone.

Although he was a prisoner on death row, this moment still made the crossbowman feel willing to obey.

"Whoosh!"

The crossbowmen reflexively pulled down the crossbow trigger, and a sharp arrow pierced out, heading straight for She Ding.

"what!"

She Ding let out a scream and threw herself forward.

The crossbowman was overjoyed.

However, She Ding didn't stop walking, bent over and continued to charge, charging towards him again like a reckless bull.

"Shoot again." Li Xia only had time to say something.

The crossbowman quickly took out a crossbow bolt to reload.

That's too late.

She Ding and Shi Hui had already arrived in front of them.

"puff!"

She Ding threw his saber like a thunderbolt, within this short distance, the single saber was faster than a sharp arrow, and it suddenly got used to the crossbowman's belly.

Li Xia's eyes blurred, and She Ding had already arrived in front of them, and a fist as big as a bowl slammed down on Li Xia.

Running wildly, throwing knives, sprinting, and punching, his whole set of movements is dizzyingly fast, swift and fierce.

This is not a competition, it is life and death.

"Your brother Osprey is dead, I smashed his head off!"

Li Xia suddenly roared, took a step back at the same time, and swung his knife to chop down.

"Ah! Go to hell!" She Ding was furious.

Li Xia's knife has been chopped off.

She Ding, who was furious, still avoided his blade rationally, and once again bullied him, punching Li Xia in the chest again.

Li Xia took another step back, retracted the knife, and stabbed.

He gave up chopping and slashed at She Ding with his best moves.

But it was too late, She Ding quickly retracted his fist, his hands shot out like lightning, and grabbed Li Xia's hand holding the knife.

This is a move to seize the blade with an empty hand.Li Xia didn't have enough experience in close combat, so she was caught by She Ding's false move, and the hand holding the single sword was caught by She Ding, causing severe pain.

At this moment, Li Xia's situation fell into a critical situation. A crossbowman died in the fight, and there were two more opponents, and he was about to lose his knife.

But what he is best at is this instant reaction ability.

"No, the crossbowman must have seriously injured him..."

She Ding's shoulder was indeed covered with blood, and his right arm was seriously injured, and he exerted all his strength, and it was almost useless.

What She Ding was trying to do was to kill two enemies in an instant.

And at this moment, Li Xia suddenly dropped the knife, reached out and grabbed the crossbow arrow on She Ding's shoulder, pulled it out, and stabbed it again.

"Pfft" sound.

She Ding had already snatched Li Xia's single knife, and even cut it off, the blade was less than half an inch away from Li Xia's neck.

But the crossbow in Li Xia's hand pierced She Ding's throat.

……

Li Xia turned her head and met Shi Hui's eyes.

At this time, Shi Hui had just slashed the crossbowman, holding the knife in his hand; while Li Xia had exhausted all his strength.

If Shi Hui slashed down with one knife, Li Xia could be killed immediately.

But this pair of eyes, perhaps frightened by Li Xia's sharp eyes, Shi Hui quickly turned around and ran towards the end of the path.

Shi Hui had already sketched out the image of Li Xia in his mind - the ruthless young man rescued from the prison by the imperial army, who stabbed the sixth child, Osprey, and She Ding to death with a single sword.

Shi Hui didn't want to fight desperately with this kind of person who might be very skilled in martial arts, he never did anything he was not sure about.

"Stop!" A voice called from behind.

Shi Hui kept walking, but soon, he heard the sound of the machine crossbow being pulled.

"If you don't stop, I'll shoot." Li Xia said again.

"do not."

Shi Hui turned his head and saw Li Xia pointing his crossbow at him.

"Little brother, please let me go. My aunt is over 80 years old this year. She is seriously ill and has no one to take care of her. I still have four children to support. I have no choice but to do this."

"I think you are only about 30 years old."

"Please let me go, your great kindness, I will remember it for the rest of my life."

"Your name is Miao Suan? You even miscalculated your mother's age."

"Little brother, it's useless for you to kill me, it's better to save some kindness..."

In fact, the two of them didn't think about it, they were just talking nonsense.

As Shi Hui spoke, his eyes quickly looked at Li Xia's eyes, hands, and the movement on the other side of the path.

Suddenly, he turned around and ran wildly again.

"Brother's great kindness and great virtue are unforgettable!"

Li Xia couldn't help but smiled, a little mockingly, but also seemed to find it funny.

With a "plop", Shi Hui jumped into the water.

The next moment, Nie Zhongyou rushed to Li Xia's side and shouted, "Why didn't you let go of the crossbow?!"

"Crack." Li Xia buckled the crossbow.

No crossbow arrows were fired.

"I'm using this for the first time. I don't know how to load it. I just want to scare him and wait for you to come over."

Nie Zhongyou didn't answer Li Xia's words, he snatched the crossbow from his hand and said, "Don't let it go, it will hurt the crossbow."

He knelt down, sniffed the breath of the dead crossbowman, closed his eyes, and let out a long sigh.

"That guy was called Miao Suan just now, which is a bit interesting." Li Xia said: "He saw that I was scaring him, and his last sentence..."

"I know, he did it on purpose. I won't doubt you because of this little trick."

"It's good to know..."

Li Xia glanced over and saw Nie Zhongyou rummaging carefully in She Ding's arms for a while, then pulled out a copper token and put it in his arms.

After a quick glance, I saw that the characters on the token were not Chinese characters, which was incomprehensible.

Presumably this brand was originally on Jiang Xing, the reason why Nie Zhongyou must find this water bandit is to get it back...

~~
Wu Dexian is dead, but Bai Mao is still alive.

Liu Jinsuo mentioned Bai Mao as soon as he mentioned a real mouse.

"White-haired rat, tell me, why did this group of water bandits kill Wu Dexian but not you?! Did you join them?!"

"I...I, I..." Bai Mao said: "They were going to kill me, but they were about to do it, so you came to save me."

"Really? I thought you were called the White-haired Rat, and you happened to be a group with the Eighteen Jiangpu Monsters." Liu Jinsuo said, "I can't kill you with a golden gun, unlike you, rats, snakes, and fish."

"They...they already have rats, and if they have rats, they don't...don't want me, brother, let me down, okay?"

Only when Liu Jinsuo wanted to let go, Nie Zhongyou strode forward, grabbed Bai Mao's neck, and lifted Bai Mao up again.

Bai Mao's face flushed red with pain.

"Did you know that leaking military information after being captured is a capital offense?" Nie Zhongyou said coldly.

Bai Mao was so pinched that he couldn't speak, and he looked like he was going to die.

Suddenly, someone said: "Can you let him undo my shackles first, and then you strangle him to death?"

Nie Zhongyou turned his head and glanced at Li Xia, seeming a little annoyed.

Li Xia took a wire in his hand, and said again: "I tried for a long time, but I couldn't open it. As you said, open it for me after crossing the Yangtze River."

"Haven't crossed the Yangtze River yet." Nie Zhongyou said, "We are still on the south bank."

Having said that, he still let go of his hand and shook Bai Mao off.

Bai Mao coughed for a long time, and then said aggrievedly: "The young one is not an official... I have never received a copper coin for military pay... Besides, these water bandits didn't ask about the military situation, they only asked me and Li Xia The thing about being in prison..."

Nie Zhongyou said coldly: "You are greedy for life and afraid of death. Next time, I will make your life worse than death."

Bai Mao covered his neckline, curled up and squatted on the ground, and replied in a low voice: "Don't dare, don't dare."

Li Xia knew that Nie Zhongyou didn't really want to kill Bai Mao.

In short, let me say one more word, not only to sell favors, but also to make Bai Mao suffer less, he is still willing to do things that benefit others and himself...

Over there, Nie Zhongyou ordered the soldiers to move all the goods back to the ship, while he himself took Liu Jinsuo out again.

Looking at Nie Zhongyou's back, Bai Mao breathed a long sigh of relief, moved to Li Xia's side, and asked in a low voice, "What are they going to do?"

"Never mind, undo my shackles."

"Okay..."

Li Xia looked at Bai Mao's movements very seriously, and asked again: "Can you teach me?"

"This……"

To be honest, Bai Mao doesn't really want to teach it. This is a cooking skill that he has passed down from generation to generation. How can he easily teach others?
But looking at Li Xia's sharp eyes, there seems to be a bit of studious spirit in that sharpness, and thinking that Lu Bingxiong and Pang Tian are gone, and only him and Li Xia are left as friends in prison together, Bai Mao was moved, Then he explained the main points of unlocking.

Li Xia pondered carefully, practiced for a while, and finally put away the chain.

After waiting for a long time, Nie Zhongyou and Liu Jinsuo came back.

From a distance, Liu Jinsuo's loud voice could be heard talking.

"Hey, that water bandit dares to claim that he is the descendant of Mrs. She? Even my master never dared to call himself the descendant of the Yang family spear, for fear of humiliating the ancestors..."

Then Bai Mao muttered in a low voice: "Isn't it? As for the eight beauties in spring that you embroidered on your body, if I were your master, I would beat you to death."

Soon, Nie Zhongyou and Liu Jinsuo entered the door.

I saw that Liu Jinsuo was holding a package in his hand, and there was blood under the package.

It was clearly a head...

~~
There were 32 people in this northward team when they set off, and nine people died when they reached the Yangtze River.

In addition to Wu Dexian and the crossbowmen who died today, the bodies of seven other people, including Jiang Xing, have been thrown into the Yangtze River by the water bandits.

Nie Zhongyou found some of their clothes and set up a grave behind the water village.

He also dug up the grave of the sixth son of the "water worm", and put together the heads of sixteen water bandits one by one.

Then, Liu Jinsuo opened the package brought back, and also took out a head.

"This is Wang Tai, the commander of the tax army. He colluded with the water bandits and killed you. My brother and I took his head and paid homage to you brothers..."

After hearing this, Li Xia couldn't help but look at Nie Zhongyou.

Nie Zhongyou was facing him with his back like a praying mantis.

But at this moment, Li Xia felt Nie Zhongyou's ruthlessness... After suffering a loss, he wanted to go back and take off the opponent's head. What kind of heart is this?
"Vicious."

……

That night, the riverboat sailed down the Cihu River, entered the Yangtze River, and rowed to the opposite bank.

Liu Jinsuo's loud voice sounded on the boat.

"If I want you to tell me, how nice it is for us to follow my elder brother to do things! Do great things vigorously! If we die, my elder brother will avenge us! Hahaha..."

But Bai Mao looked at the moon in the river, only feeling endless sorrow.

"Okay, your size is good..."

(End of this chapter)