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Chapter 5 In distress again
Long Yuan's forehead originally had a striking oblique scar, which was also the most obvious feature on his face. Now, the oblique scar had an additional scar that crosses it and became an 'X' shape.
Liu Xiu asked subconsciously: "When did you scratch a scar on your forehead again?" He remembered that when he first saved Long Yuan, he didn't have this new scar on his head.
Long Yuan said, "Lord has a life-saving grace to me. I must not implicate you. Adding this scar can better hide the identity of me."
Liu Xiu secretly admired that Long Yuan was really a delicate person! Even so, he still tirelessly advised: "This trip is dangerous, Zhongbo must be careful."
Long Yuan bowed his hand, bowed to the ground, and moved: "I let lord care so much. It is my fault."
Liu Xiu held his arm and let him get up, and then he asked: "You have been teaching me to practice axe. Will I use the axe as a weapon in the future?"
He didn't want to hold an axe to fight against people. The idol in his mind was a big hero like Jing Ke. His ideal weapon was naturally a sword.
Long Yuan said: "The axe is heavy. Using the axe to do exercises is suitable for strengthening arm strength. When lord has practiced the axe, you can switch to the sword. When lord can use sword to easily cut trees," he said with a smile. Then, he drew the dagger from his lower back and handed it to Liu Xiu, saying, "Then you can use the dagger instead."
Liu Xiu surprised: "Can the dagger cut the trees?"
Long Yuan said rightly: "If it is strong enough, the leaf can also hurt people."
Liu Xiu sighed and said, "I'm afraid that even Jing Ke couldn't do that?"
Long Yuan said nothing but smiled.
After breakfast, Long Yuan resigned to Liu Xiu and went to Lantian County to find Long Zhun and Long Bo.
Liu Xiu continued to stay in Chongling village, and his life had hardly changed. He was still planting, practicing martial arts, and his life was simple and fulfilling.
At noon that day, Liu Xiu finished his farm work in the field and was preparing to go home for lunch. He walked not far away and came to meet two people.
The two are about thirty years old, of medium build, of average appearance, wearing some sloppy, linen trousers, and applying a lot of patches. It could not be seen how long they had not taken a shower.
There were many migrants now, and Liu Xiu did not pay much attention to these two people. As they passed by, a man suddenly said, "Liu Xiu!"
Hearing that the other party called out his own name, Liu Xiu couldn't help but stunned, subconsciously stopped and asked, "Do you know me?"
The two men first glanced at each other, and then looked at Liu Xiu deeply, and one of them said with a smile: "I heard that you have a lot of food in your hands and often get it at the market to sell. We can not have a decent meal in a few days. Liu Xiu, how about giving us your food? "
Liu Xiu almost laughed on the spot when he heard this. He was smiling because of anger. He had seen brazen persons, but he had never seen those who were as shameless as them.
He said: "I have some food in my house, but it is barely enough for my own use, and there is no extra food to give away."
Hearing Liu Xiu's refusal, the two men's expressions sank at the same time. The man who spoke raised his eyebrows and asked, "So, do you want to watch our brother starved to death?"
Liu Xiu frowned and said: "You two are young and strong with hands and feet. You can do either long-term or short-term jobs. Even if you can not be full, you will not starve to death!"
While talking, he shook his head, feeling that the two of them were really unreasonable, so he didn't want to talk more with them. He was going to move on.
There was a flash of coldness in the talking man's eyes. Suddenly, his right hand swiped backwards, and a dagger dazzled in his palm immediately. It aimed at Liu Xiu's back, and stabbed hard at him in silence.
Liu Xiu was not without precautions. Suddenly listening to the sound of wind behind him, he immediately realized that it was not good and jumped out sideways.
Rustle. The sharp edge of the dagger passed under his ribs, splitting his garment.
The man missed a dagger, and the other man immediately rushed forward. He also had a dagger in his hand. The dagger drew an electric light in the air and flew straight to Liu Xiu's neck.
The opponent's move was too fast, and Liu Xiu couldn't see clearly, but he was instinctively aware that it was not good, and he subconsciously leaned back.
Rustle! The dagger almost passed by his throat, and at that moment, the biting coldness hit the skin around Liu Xiu's neck, and a layer of goose bumps raised.
His face suddenly changed and he was startled: "You ..."
Without giving him a chance to speak, the two big men each held a dagger and attacked Liu Xiu again. Their movements were quick and fierce, and the were both crucial to Liu Xiu.
If it was more than a month ago, Liu Xiu might not be able to pass even one round in front of them, but this time under Long Yuan's instructions, his skill was improved a lot.
Watching the two daggers flying up and down assaulting himself, Liu Xiu slipped a step like a spinning top, and moved farther out.
Upon seeing this, the two big men frowned secretly and couldn't help whispering "strange"! According to their investigation, Liu Xiu was just a farming country boy. Why was he so fast and strange?
Looking at Liu Xiu flashing out a long way, one man chased him with a knife, the other man quickly put on a deerskin glove, took off a leather bag from the back waist, and opened the seal of the leather bag. His hand wearing the leather glove stretched in it.
Then he greeted his companion who was attacking Liu Xiu.
The big man suddenly gave up attacking and bent down. At this moment, the big man in the back pulled his hand out of his leather bag and grabbed a red and white flower snake in his hand.
He raised his arm outwards, the flower snake flew out, and went straight to Liu Xiu.
The two men cooperated adeptly, the former just bent down, and the latter threw out the flower snake.
Liu Xiu didn't see what was flying to him at all, but after more than a month of practice, his body instinctively rotated sideways and swept a hoe.
Snapped!
The hoe was unbiased and was hitting the head of the flower snake flying towards Liu Xiu. The flower snake landed, and the red and white body suddenly curled up in a ball.
When he saw clearly it was a snake, Liu Xiu's heart shook and his face changed.
The two men secretly gritted their teeth. The squatted big man stood up again and continued to attack Liu Xiu with a dagger. The other man rushed to the flower snake, picked it up from the ground, and stuffed it back into the leather bag, and then he took off the deerskin gloves, shouted, and attacked Liu Xiu with his companion.
Just when Liu Xiu was forced to retreat by the two of them, suddenly, he heard a roar from the country road: "Stop!"
This voice, like the thunder in the clear sky, even if the distance was far away, it made people leap a few heartbeats.
Hearing the sound, Liu Xiu and the two men looked at the origin of the voice in unison, and saw three people running quickly on the country road.
The one running ahead was a burly figure with a sturdy body. The bronzed skin was radiant, with thick eyebrows and tiger eyes, a straight nose, a cheeky beard, and a bold and bold spirit.
The comer was not someone else, but Liu Xiu's elder brother, Liu Yan. Behind Liu Yan were his two best friends, Zhang Ping and Zhu Yun.
Seeing his elder brother coming, Liu Xiu was surprised and shouted: "Elder Brother--"
Seeing that there were two gangsters striking his own younger brother, and both of them also used daggers, Liu Yan's hair erected because of anger, his eyes were staring like bronze bells, his hair was all hardened, and he seemed to want to eat men.
Zhang Ping and Zhu Yun also drew out the daggers they carried with them, and went straight to Liu Xiu's side.
Upon seeing this, the two men were shocked.it seemed that there was no chance to take Liu Xiu's life today.
They looked at each other, without saying a word, abandoned Liu Xiu, turned and ran.
Liu Yan, Zhang Ping and Zhu Yun would not let them go, and they chased after them. However, the two men had strong feet and ran fast. And after a while, they had already run a long way. The three of Liu Yan chased out for miles and saw that the distance between the two parties was not shortened, but was getting farther and farther. In the end, the three had to give up chasing.
They turned back to Liu Xiu and looked at him up and down. Liu Yan asked with concern: "A'Xiu, are you okay?"
Liu Xiu shook his head and gasped and said, "Elder Brother, I'm fine!"
Zhang Ping and Zhu Yun asked angrily: "A'Xiu, what's going on? Who are those two?"
Liu Xiu also didn't know the two men. He shook his head and said, "I don't know them, but they seem to know me. Not only can they call out my name at once, but they also know that I often go to the market to sell food."
Hearing this, Liu Yan's eyebrows were clenched. It sounded like they should be someone nearby, but in his own impression, he had never seen these two people.
Liu Xiu continued: "They asked me for food, I said no, and then they suddenly attacked me with daggers!"
Liu Yan frowned even more, if the other party wanted food, there was no need to kill Liu Xiu! If the other party was here to seek revenge, it was unreasonable. A'Xiu had always been loyal to farming at home, how can there be a hostile family?
After thinking about it, he said seriously: "In the future, you are not allowed to go to the market to sell food. Now there is a drought in the world. Many people can do everything for a bite!"
From Liu Yan's point of view, it was definitely the younger brother who often went to the market to sell food, which caused a lot of jealousy and hatred.
Instead, Liu Xiu felt that things were not that simple.
He didn't know the flower snake thrown by the other party just now, and he couldn't tell which breed it was, but he understood that the more colorful and beautiful the snake, the greater the toxicity.
If he were really bitten by the flower snake just now, the consequence would be disastrous.
It did not feel like that the other party was coming for his food, but it seemed more like that they came for his life. It was just an excuse to ask for food.
But he had never provoked others, and why did they want to kill him?
Seeing Liu Xiu lowered his head, and hadn't answered for a long time, Liu Yan didn't know what was in his head. Liu Yan said angrily: "A'Xiu, have you heard what I have said just now?"
Liu Xiu recovered and responded: "Brother, I know." After a moment, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "Brother, why are you here?"