Volume 1 Chapter 24: Two thieves play a clown show before the nine songs
After saying that, Lin Longqing stared at the man in front of him. He was about thirty years old, with a tall and straight figure, fair skin, and a very handsome face. He was dressed as a Taoist priest, with a wide robe with big sleeves and fluttering clothes. He held a very gorgeous whisk in his hand, which was decorated with several jewels. The whisk silk was pure white and fluttered in the wind .
Yue Lingfeng's martial arts skills were already quite good in the gang. The man had fought for such a long time but his moves were still elegant. Seeing Lin Longqing blocking Yue Lingfeng, he was also startled. He looked at him carefully and smiled immediately: "If my guess is correct, the one who can see through the weapon held by Hebao at a glance must be Lin Longqing, the leader of the Kuangyi Gang!"
When Lin Longqing saw this man fighting with Yue Lingfeng, the others were watching solemnly beside him. He thought that this man must be the leader of the Yukou Division, so he said, "Yes, it is rumored that the head of the Yukou Division is a Taoist priest with a dignified appearance, who is trusted and favored by the current saint. You must be that Taoist priest? May I know your name?"
How could that person not hear the sarcasm in Lin Longqing's words? However, this was already considered polite. The rumors were even more unbearable to hear, but he didn't care. He just smiled and said, "I am Yunmeng Zhen, but I won't be using this name for long."
Lin Longqing secretly felt that this name was very familiar. He always felt that he had heard it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while. Then he heard the man say: "Today I am following orders. You and I are enemies. Why do you ask so carefully? Let me learn your tricks!" After that, he swept the whisk and was in front of Lin Longqing in an instant. Lin Longqing raised his hand and the long sword on his wrist just blocked the whisk. His long sword was passed down from his ancestors and it could cut iron like mud. It should be easy to cut the whisk, but he felt that the whisk silk had become very hard at this moment. Yun Mengzhen must have poured his internal force into it. Then he activated his internal energy, and the whisk threads all opened up with a "swish", and shot towards Lin Longqing like thousands of needles. Lin Longqing lowered his body and swept the long sword at the opponent's lower body, but he saw him step on the sole of his foot and rise into the air with a whistling sound. He rolled up the whisk and grasped the tip of the whisk with his other hand, and hit himself on the back with the handle of the whisk. Lin Longqing did not even look at it and threw the sword behind him, then quickly raised it upwards, only to hear a crisp "clang" sound. Lin Longqing turned around and looked back, only to see that the handle of the whisk had returned to Yun Mengzhen's hand, but the wide sleeve had been torn open by the long sword.
Yun Mengzhen's face flushed slightly, and he laughed angrily, "The leader of the Kuang Yi Gang is indeed worthy of his reputation. He has made progress in recent years." After that, he put two fingers of his left hand together, grasped the whisk in his right hand and pounced on him again. Although Lin Longqing had the upper hand with his previous move, the handle of the whisk was very powerful. The sword was originally tied to his wrist, which was already inconvenient, and now it was a little loose. With a thought, he crouched down to avoid the move of "Covering the Sky and the Sun", moved behind Yun Mengzhen, quickly untied the sword from his wrist and threw it to the side.
The sword made a "ding" sound and just stabbed into the collar of the man who was fighting against Lin Hongfeng. It was still vibrating and making a buzzing sound. The man was lying on the ground trying to sweep Lin Hongfeng's lower body. His collar fell to the ground and he was suddenly nailed to the ground by the sword. Seeing Lin Hongfeng's sword coming at him, his body was hindered and he couldn't move. He had to pull it to the side with force. With a "swish" sound, his collar was torn, but he had been hit by the sword on the shoulder. He looked very embarrassed.
Lin Longqing threw away the sword, put his fingers together, and pinched a cloth strip less than two feet long, which was what he usually used to bind the sword. He shook it hard and faced Yun Mengzhen's whisk.
Lin Jianlan was far away in the lobby, but he could faintly hear the occasional shouting and fighting outside . He listened carefully for a while, his face showing concern, unlike his usual cold look. He bit his lip again, hesitated for a moment, and walked out the door. Lin Jianlan hurriedly caught up with him and said, "It's very dangerous outside, let's not go out!"
Yin Yin glanced at Lin Jianlan and said, "I have lived in the Kuang Yi Gang all my life. I will inherit the great cause of the Kuang Yi Gang in the future. Naturally, you don't understand." After that, he still walked towards the door and turned back and said, "You have only learned martial arts for less than half a year. If you are afraid, just stay inside. We have many traps in the Kuang Yi Gang, and those dogs will not be able to get in." Then he turned around and left, with light steps, passing through flowers and willows, and disappeared in an instant.
Seeing that she seemed to look down on him, Lin Jianlan felt dissatisfied and said to himself, "Who said I'm afraid? I'm not afraid, even though I've only lived in the gang for a year. But this is Uncle Qing's home, how can I not care about it?" He also ran out of the door, and seeing that Yin Yin was a few feet away from him, he started to catch up with her. The two of them walked one after the other, and soon they were on the folding bridge.
Lin Jianlan looked up and saw that a circle of floating ladders had been set up inside the wall. All the gang members of the Kuangyi Gang were standing on the floating ladders and looking outside, very focused. Through the courtyard gate, he saw Doctor Cheng and others were all fighting with the enemy. In the distance, hundreds of officers and soldiers were very neat, holding bows and arrows and aiming at this side, as if waiting for orders. Lin Jianlan couldn't help but muttered: "No wonder they have to arrange people inside the courtyard wall to guard against it. If they light arrows and shoot them in, it will be very bad." But he heard Yin Yin answer beside him: "These people in the courtyard are all experts in hidden weapons in the main hall. They are only responsible for dealing with those officers and soldiers. If arrows are shot, their task is to use hidden weapons to stop the arrows outside the main hall. They don't care about anything else to avoid chaos."
The two walked slowly across the folding bridge. As soon as they looked out, they heard someone behind them shouting in a hurry: "Young Master, Young Lady, hey, come back, don't go out!" It sounded like Cao Quan's voice. The two ignored him and walked out of the yard, just watching the battle outside. Yin Yin was very worried about her mother. She stared at Lin Hongfeng and saw that the man who was fighting against Lin Hongfeng had blood on his shoulder. She felt relieved. Lin Jianlan saw Lin Longqing at once. He saw him holding a cloth belt with his two fingers and fighting against the opponent's whisk. The whisk was originally a relatively delicate and small weapon. At this moment, compared with this small cloth belt, it was very large. But the cloth belt was like a small snake fighting with a giant python. Although the giant python was powerful, it was not flexible in comparison, and could not get close to the ordinary cloth belt that was not strong.
Lin Jianlan looked at it carefully and thought to himself, "Both the whisk and the cloth are soft objects, but if you infuse your inner strength into them, the whisk will be like thousands of steel wires, and the cloth will be like a long sword. Both can be soft or hard, it just depends on whose moves are more clever." Seeing Lin Longqing's long sword nailed to the ground next to him, he said, "Uncle Qing abandoned the long sword and used a small cloth belt to fight the whisk. It was really clever."
The two were watching the fight when they saw two dark shadows standing in front of them. Upon closer inspection, they saw that they were two old men, one fat and one thin. They were the brothers Ding Lei and Ding Shui.
The two followed Lin Longqing to seek revenge but failed. They wanted to wait for a while to wait for an opportunity to attack him, but they saw the people from the Yukousi gathered here. The two of them thought that if they could get close to the court, they would definitely be very successful in the future. With the support of the Yukousi, would they be afraid of not being able to avenge the revenge of that day? They made up their minds and recommended themselves. Although Yunmeng Zhen accepted them, who knew that it was not a good feeling. The people in the Yukousi were all very secretive and self-righteous. They were quite rude to the two of them in their conversation, just like how they treated the martial arts guards of Xinjiazhuang that day. The zombie-like man called "Pouch" spoke even more sarcastically. Even in today's action, they had no role to play. They were naturally very frustrated and angry, but they did not dare to make trouble. Seeing that everyone was fighting but could not intervene, they just waited for an opportunity to move.
Just now, Lin Jianlan and Yin Yin were seen by Ding Shui as they walked out of the courtyard. After listening carefully, he heard someone inside shouting "young master" and "young lady". A sinister smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth. He poked Ding Lei, winked at Lin Jianlan and the others and said, "The opportunity has come. These two children may be the children of the leader of the Kuangyi Gang. If we can capture these two children, we can force them to surrender. This will be a great achievement. Who in the Yukou Division will dare to disobey us then?"
Ding Lei was overjoyed when he heard this, as if he had already captured the child, and said, "Brother, this is indeed a brilliant idea! Then even that stinky Taoist priest will have to show some courtesy to us!"
The two men flew up and came in front of Lin Jianlan and Yin Yin. Ding Lei thought to himself, "It seems that this little boy is a few years older than this girl. He must have learned martial arts first. I will catch this girl first." After thinking, he smiled sinisterly and said, "Two kids, come with us?" He did not use the stick, but just used his left hand like an iron hook to grab Yin Yin.
Lin Jianlan said anxiously, "Yin Yin!" But Yin Yin's face turned cold, and she waved her right arm towards the claw, with a cold light in her sleeve. Ding Lei's heart trembled, and he quickly retracted his hand, but felt a sharp pain. He opened his palm and saw that it had been cut with a thin blood mark. Although it was caused by his contempt for Yin Yin, after all, she was injured by a girl in her teens. He felt ashamed and annoyed, and in anger, he had already raised his right hand with a carved-head stick and swept it towards Yin Yin. Ding Shui saw that Ding Lei was already furious at this moment, and was afraid that he would not be careful and beat the two to death, so he said anxiously, "Brother! I want them alive!"
Ding Lei reduced his strength a bit after hearing this, but saw Yin Yin ducking her head and dodging, holding a small sword in each hand, but the sword was of different lengths, and the long sword swept towards Ding Lei's legs. Ding Lei hurriedly dodged and hit Yin Yin's shoulder with the staff. Yin Yin lifted the short sword upwards, and the long sword was still very sharp. Ding Lei reduced his strength, and the carved-head staff was easily deflected by Yin Yin. His lower body was in a tight spot, but he didn't dare to use heavy hands, and was struggling to cope with it.
Ding Shui didn't expect that catching these two children would be so difficult. Seeing Lin Jianlan looking at the girl anxiously but not helping, he understood the general idea in his mind, grinned and pounced on Lin Jianlan.
When Lin Jianlan saw the plump old man rushing towards him with a weapon like a scale beam in his hand, he suddenly panicked. Although he learned martial arts from Qin Tianxiong, it was just basic punches and kicks after all. What progress could he make in half a year? Moreover, he always raised objections and was not very serious about learning. Therefore, he could only parry repeatedly. His body was already in a very embarrassed state. He felt in his heart that he was just talking about it on paper.
He had no time to sigh at this moment. Seeing the fat old man's scale bar pointing towards his shoulders, he knew that the old man wanted to press his acupoints and then capture him alive to threaten Lin Longqing and the others, so he dodged. The scale bar was coming at him fiercely, and although he dodged it, the internal force had already cut Lin Jianlan's clothes on his shoulders.
Yin Yin was quite calm in dealing with Ding Lei, but when he looked at Lin Jianlan from the side, he saw that Lin Jianlan was trying to take risks and running around. He gritted his teeth and waved his sword to force Ding Lei away a few steps. He turned around and jumped in front of Lin Jianlan and held Ding Shui's scale. At this time, Ding Lei seemed to find that Lin Jianlan did not know any martial arts, so he jumped over and hit Lin Jianlan. These two people usually acted very meanly in the rivers and lakes, often using any means to achieve their goals, and were often despised by others, but they did not care at all. At this time, their true colors were even more prominent when they treated these two children. It was a bit tight for Yin Yin to deal with the two at the same time. He heard Lin Jianlan shouting behind him: "Let's retreat to the folding bridge!" Yin Yin knew what he meant. There was a hidden mechanism on the folding bridge, so they could fight and retreat at the same time to lead the two to the bridge.
The two retreated to the courtyard, Ding Lei and Ding Shui chased them closely behind, Yin Yin was the last one, fighting and retreating, but in fact they had already been seen by the people in the forest, Lin Longqing and Lin Hongfeng were distracted, and they also retreated to the courtyard while fighting. Yun Mengzhen saw that Lin Longqing's footwork was a little confused, and he saw everything clearly after a glance over there, thinking to himself: "I didn't expect that the Ding brothers were still useful. If I can capture those two children, this time I will win a great victory, and I can record a great achievement in front of the emperor, but I don't know what reward I will get." Thinking of this, he attacked more quickly like a storm, intending to stop Lin Longqing's retreat. Lin Hongfeng was anxious, and his attacks became more vicious and fierce, and each sword was faster than the other, hoping to quickly get rid of the opponent and turn around to save Yin Yin.
The four of them walked into the courtyard while fighting. Lin Jianlan sprinted back a few steps, and Yin Yin danced the two swords tightly, forcing Ding Lei and Ding Shui to take a step back. Then he flipped backwards and landed beside Lin Jianlan. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, but saw the two old men smiling at each other. The fat old man looked pleased, and pointed at Lin Jianlan with a scale and said, "Although you don't know martial arts, you are very smart. You want to lead us to this folding bridge, trigger the mechanism, let the poison water kill us, or let the arrows kill us, right?"
Lin Jianlan and Yin Yin were both shocked and asked, "How did he know about the mechanism on the bridge?" But they saw the two men walking towards them calmly and calmly, their footwork was not bad at all. They had to retreat again. Seeing that they would be out of the folding bridge if they retreated further, Lin Jianlan shouted "not good" and whispered to Yin Yin, "We can't retreat anymore. The folding bridge is narrow, so they can only attack one person in front. If they get on flat ground, it will be dangerous for two people to besiege them!" Yin Yin nodded, and her little hand tightened her sword, and she went forward to meet them. She stopped in the middle of the bridge and looked at Ding Lei and Ding Shui coldly.
Seeing Yin Yin stuck in the middle of the bridge and unable to move, Ding Shui became increasingly anxious and whispered to Ding Lei, "You fight with the girl first. I'll find a chance to catch her when she's not on guard and then I'll use my Qinggong to get over there and capture the boy. Then we'll be done."
