Chapter 143 The speed of life and death, one step too late?
Obviously, most people don’t use their brains in a life-and-death struggle.

It’s muscle memory and inertia.

Even the pain is mostly blocked by the brain spontaneously, only the soaring adrenaline hormone.

There is only one thought of killing the other party in my mind.

Ouyang Rong is like this.

The same is true for Liu Qi.

But it’s a pity.

Although Ouyang Rong had been naughty and escaped since he was a child in his previous life, he was much better at fighting than ordinary people.

But the slightly frail body inherited from this life is inferior to Liu Qiyi, who is five big and three thick in terms of physical fitness.

Even if it is the strength that erupts in the life and death struggle, it is the same.

In the pit.

Liu Qi roared angrily.

Ouyang Rong was silent.

Because of the narrow space, it is difficult to move around.

The person holding the white blade cannot be used at a distance, and is fought by the unarmed person.

slightly disadvantageous to the former.

The skirt knife in Ouyang Rong’s hand, which cuts iron like mud, and the advantage of cutting the opponent’s half palm first, are slowly disappearing.

It is all supported by the fierce force that burst out of his body.

The balance of death begins to maintain a balance of power with equal heights at both ends.

Only ten breaths of time passed.

But Ouyang Rong felt that he had been wrestling for a long time.

until…

boom!
There was a solid muffled sound.

Ouyang Rong stared at the wall with his legs, and flew up with his strength. With an elbow, he hit Liu Qi’s fleshy face hard.

The latter had nosebleeds, and his left hand, which was originally pressing Ouyang Rong’s knife-holding wrist, relaxed a little.

Ouyang Rong took the opportunity to withdraw his hand.

Holding the knife in both hands, he slashed towards Liu Qi!

The left and right are in the narrow earth wall space, this is the only posture suitable for accumulating energy.

But inadvertently exposed the facade.

In an instant, Liu Qi gave a headbutt.

Ouyang Rong fell back and hit the wall.

Liu Qi pressed forward in an instant, and the two of them were close to each other.

Liu Qi only had her left hand intact to grab Ouyang Rong’s right wrist holding the knife, and pressed down firmly.

The blade of the skirt knife in Ouyang Rong’s hand was slowly moving towards his own neck.

The original flexible fighting has been transformed into a physical wrestling.

Obviously, Liu Qi has the advantage.

Ouyang Rong’s whole body tensed up, his head was tilted back, away from the origin of the blade.

But the blade on the right hand that was pressed against the wrist was still like a magnet, approaching his neck tremblingly.

There were two bloody knife marks on Liu Qi’s face, and half of his face was stained red with blood.

A drop of blood fell from his nose and dripped on Ouyang Rong’s face.

Liu Qi had a ferocious expression, and she squeezed out the words that she hadn’t finished speaking not long ago:

“You are Ouyang Lianghan!”

Ouyang Rong raised his head and looked down at Liu Qi.

Liu Qi was furious, blue veins popped up on his burly arm like a bull’s thigh, and he tried his best to push down Ouyang Rong’s resisting wrist.

The snow-white blade of Xie Ling Jiang Qun Dao gradually magnified in front of Ouyang Rong’s eyes.

His pupils shrank.

Didn’t it mean that the villain died of talking too much?
Ouyang only found out now, and it doesn’t seem to be absolute.

But this discovery is about to taste like a bad joke from hell.

the next moment.

Ouyang Rong’s eyes, which were originally arrogant, suddenly changed, and he turned his head to look behind Liu Qi, with a look of surprise on his face.

“Cheat me again?”

Liu Qi laughed angrily and didn’t look back.

“Ah!” He growled, trying to use his last strength to push the snow-white blade into Ouyang Rong’s throat.

at this time.

There was a sound of “嗙”.

There was a heavy sound of iron tools hitting hard objects in the pit.

The back of his head began to bleed, Liu Qi turned around in a daze, his eyes were against the noon sun above his head, and he saw a small dark figure standing above the pit.

This thin figure was holding the wooden-handled shovel that Liu Qi had just dug a hole with both hands. Seeing the grim-faced latter staring at him, he took a timid step back.

Liu Qi was dizzy for a moment, mouthing, as if about to say something.

Available in the next second.

He suddenly felt that his body was empty, and a certain wrist that he was holding had slipped out.

Before the terrified Liu Qi could react, a line of blood slowly appeared on his neck.

It was like a bulging water sac, cut open by a knife.

Blood gushes out like water.

Liu Qi knelt down, covered her neck with her hands, and made a “ho ho” sound, staring at Ouyang Rong who stood up silently in front of her.

Ouyang Rong raised his foot, stepped on Liu Qi’s head, and pushed forward, the latter fell heavily to the ground with his eyes wide open, in the grave he dug himself.

Ouyang Rong’s mouth was dry, he climbed out of the pit and sat down on the ground.

I saw Xiufa trembling, looking at the corpse in the pit, the shovel in his hand fell to the ground with a “clang” sound, the little monk covered the two big bumps on the back of his head with both hands, baring his teeth in pain, it seemed like two It’s been a long time since I pretended to be dead.

“Excellent, well done.”

Ouyang Rong gave a thumbs up feebly, looked up at the sun, and boasted.It seems that this shiny little bald head is still quite useful, at least it is more resistant to knocks now, the average person in the temple has an iron head, right?
After the adrenaline drops, the senses are restored and fatigue sets in.

As the cold wind from the forest blows his sweaty head and neck, he immediately shivered and became much more awake.

In addition, Ouyang Rong realized something that seemed insignificant.

He didn’t lose his merit by killing two people today.

It seems that the killing karma also depends on the situation. Not everyone who kills will deduct merits. There may be a red name mechanism, and even some sinful people. If he kills, he may still gain merits… …

Ouyang Rong was panting, thinking wildly.

Xiufa’s eyes were a bit dazed. Just now he woke up suddenly for some reason. When he woke up, he felt that he was being blown by a strange breeze. Then he got up and saw that in the pit next to him, the county magistrate was entangled with gangsters. Fighting, so he helped.

“Master County, this… this… I…”

“You clean up here, go to the host first, and don’t go into the Beitian Jiyangyuan!” Before Xiufa finished speaking, Ouyang Rong immediately stood up, left a word, and immediately staggered out of the bamboo forest.

Ouyang Rong rushed to the waiting pavilion, picked up the red cloth and white sandalwood scabbard, wiped the skirt knife again, put the knife back into the sheath, and put it on his waist.

He didn’t stop for a moment, rushed out of the bamboo forest, and rushed to the main hall where the younger junior sister burned incense and asked for a fortune.

Master Shandao and his younger junior sister were both absent, so he asked an elderly monk who knew him for questioning.

The latter looked at him strangely.

“Two quarters of an hour ago, didn’t that female Bodhisattva go with you, the magistrate?”

Ouyang Rong’s heart trembled, he said goodbye and turned around.

He rushed to the gate of Donglin Temple without stopping.

Looking around, in the waiting pavilion not far from the gate, the figures of Yan Liulang and other arrests had long since disappeared, only ordinary pilgrims remained.

Sure enough.

Ouyang Rong took a deep breath, held the knife in his hand, and rushed down the mountain with his head buried.

He didn’t dare to stop for a moment, as if he was about to catch up with something.

Ouyang Rong looked serious.

Facing the mountain wind blowing from all directions, he shivered, and he became more awake. Some things in his mind and the conspiracy behind them gradually became clear in his heart like a string of beads.

All of this should be Liu Ziwen and the others playing tricks!

The “female” that the two Liu’s thugs called out just now must have been disguised as him through some strange trick!

This also explains why they mistook the real him for some kind of “female fairy”.

It’s just that the only thing that confused Ouyang Rong was.

According to the statements and reactions of the two Liu family thugs, there should be a powerful killer waiting for him in Beitian Jiyangyuan, and from what they said, he seems to be some kind of Chang’an swordsman.

If it was true, then why was he able to inspect the Beitian Ji Nursing Home unharmed?

The little junior sister happened to be not by his side, and Ouyang Rong felt that this was indeed the best time to make a move, and he didn’t have much defense.

Ouyang Rong had to admire that the Liu family was really good at finding the right timing, and this was before the ribbon-cutting ceremony, when his vigilance was relatively relaxed.

Liu Ziwen is ruthless enough to make this kind of out-of-the-box trick. His name can be regarded as being fed to the dogs.

Ouyang Rong frowned and was speechless.

But the result now is that not long ago, he was safe and sound, and he walked out of the Beitian Ji Nursing Home without even noticing anything strange.

This was even beyond the expectations of the two Liu’s thugs, otherwise he would not have smashed the conspiracy, murdered the two soldiers, and went down the mountain to chase people.

Ouyang Rong couldn’t figure it out.

Did the Chang’an swordsman repent halfway and didn’t come, or was there some force majeure that stopped him.

He suddenly had an idea, and said in his heart:

“Is there a blessing worth [-] merits that has not been redeemed before? Could it be that this is really a blessing for saving his life? Just like now?”

Ouyang Rong shook his head to dispel distracting thoughts.

For the time being, I didn’t hold on to this matter any more, and turned my attention to what was about to happen in front of me.

Liu Ziwen sent people to intercept and kill him, and asked a guy named “Fairy” to pretend to be him and lead people down the mountain.

What are you trying to do?
Simply want to kill him?
Then what to do with secretly transporting oil to the Digong gate to blow up the gate, wouldn’t it also kill him?

Wouldn’t it be superfluous.

In other words, using the baptismal ceremony to transport oil is actually just the tip of the iceberg of a conspiracy, which is a trick used to confuse him.

On the surface, the Liu family is on the first floor, and Ouyang Rong is on the second floor, but in fact, the Liu family is on the third floor?

Liu Ziwen actually knew that he already knew about the oil frying gate, and even knew that he was also preparing for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and wanted to attack Liu.

So it was a plan, and he first used the exposure of the fried oil gate to let him relax his vigilance.

And the current killing bureau of Donglin Temple wants to get rid of him, and then let that guy called “Fairy” pretend to be him, sneak down the mountain, and pick up Jiangzhou officials to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

After sorting out the clues, Ouyang Rong couldn’t help but have another question in his mind.

With Liu’s going around in circles with such a great fanfare, does it mean that she just wants to kill someone?

Ouyang Rong suddenly shook his head.

No.

He didn’t know the rest of the Liu family, but Ouyang Rong had a unique understanding of Liu Ziwen’s character.

From the first time Ouyang Rong saw the plain-looking Liu Ziwen in Yuanming Building, he knew that he had met someone of the same kind in a certain way.

Like him, Liu Ziwen would never be satisfied with simply killing people once he made a move.

What is murder?
Punishment is the top-level operation.

Then how to punish the heart?
On the mountain road, Ouyang Rong, who was trying to bring Liu Ziwen’s perspective, became quiet for a while.

The existing information and conclusions flowed and spliced ​​in his mind, and finally, like a jigsaw puzzle, he could faintly see a certain panorama.

He raised his eyes and sighed, whispering:
“I don’t know how many strategies Liu Ziwen has, but I have three strategies…”

The first policy.

Let that “female fairy” pretend to be him, blow up the gate in public at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Di Gong gate, and take the blame.

The second policy.

Still let the “female” pretend to be him to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony, but this time, the Liu family will publicly reveal “Ouyang Lianghan”‘s conspiracy to blow up the brakes, and throw all the personal and material evidence in the face of “Ouyang Lianghan” superior.

As for how the witnesses and physical evidence came from, there is a “female” who can pretend to be him. It is not difficult to prepare witnesses and physical evidence a few days in advance. Using the fake “Ouyang Rong Lianghan”, any dirty water can be poured on him .

The third policy.

Ouyang Rong felt that it was the simplest and rudest.

Didn’t the Jiangzhou Shangguan just come? I remember that this was the “little request” Liu Ziwen made at the apology banquet.

Just let Ouyang Lianghan in the disguise of a “female fairy” assassinate Jiangzhou Shangguan in full view, or kill all of them, or kill one of the important court officials.

Even if Ouyang Rong is a local parent official, even if he is a world-renowned upright gentleman, he will be finished. This basin of dirty water is enough to ruin his future.

These three strategies can all be used to stigmatize one’s heart.

If the information revealed by the two Liu family thugs not long ago is correct.

He who was beheaded at Donglin Temple will later be disguised as a ribbon-cutting ceremony and commit crimes by absconding and committing suicide.

In the end, all three strategies can use him as a “dead man”.

Moreover, once these three strategies are successfully implemented, after Ouyang Rong “suicide” by being splashed with dirty water, all disaster relief and water conservancy projects during his lifetime can be overthrown by the opportunity.

Liu’s porridge shed and nursery hall can be reopened, and the business is booming; Di Gongzha’s big business can also continue, making a fortune every year!
Ouyang Rong thought for a moment, nodded slightly, and shook his head again.

Among these three policies, the first policy is the worst policy, the least likely.

Because if Ouyang Rong had guessed correctly before, the Digong gate that collapsed in four years should be the core interest of the Liu family.

There is a better plan, there is no need to set up another expensive Digong gate for Ouyang Lianghan who has already been beheaded in advance.

As for the second and third strategies.

Ouyang Rong felt that the first strategy was better, but the effect was even.

The only difference is that the former is more literary and the latter is more martial.

Moreover, both of them do not need to explode the gate, which can save costs.

Wouldn’t it be nice to leave the Di Gong gate to be blown up when the time comes?

As for whether it is one of these three strategies, which one will Liu Ziwen choose…

If you believe that the name is correct, it is the one in Wen, which is the second strategy.

But is Liu Ziwen really literary?
Ouyang Rong pursed his lips.

He rushed all the way down the mountain. On the way, he only stopped by a certain mountain spring for a while, and drank a big mouthful of cold mountain spring water with his dry lips…

Finally, Ouyang Rong rushed to the foot of the mountain out of breath.

But at the foot of the mountain, all the carriages that had been parked had disappeared.

He still couldn’t catch the tail after all.

In other words, his original luck was also shattered—the fake “Ouyang Lianghan” didn’t stay at all, and took his junior sister and Yan Liulang directly down the mountain and left to pick up the Jiangzhou Shangguan.

Ouyang Rong frowned, he only has one pair of legs now, could it be possible to chase him on foot?

However, according to today’s schedule, the fake “Ouyang Rong” and his party will go straight to the ferry of Butterfly Creek after picking up the Jiangzhou officials, and take a fast boat downwind to the Yuenv Gorge camp to pick up the wind and wash away the dust, and then immediately Hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

“How can this catch up!”

Not to mention whether he could get the horse right away, even if he rushed to catch up, it was at least two quarters of an hour slower now.

Even if Ouyang Rong hurried to the ferry on the other side of the county, they had already boarded the boat and set off.

Even if he hires a boat to chase him, on the waterway, the speed of most boats in this era is almost equal, which is still not comparable.

Ouyang Rong was still two quarters to half an hour behind!
By the time he arrived at the Digong gate, the ribbon-cutting ceremony was probably almost over. Slow down, slow down!

How to do?
Ouyang Rong took a deep breath, tried to keep calm, and looked around.

Longcheng County is located on the west side of Dagu Mountain. The south side of Dagu Mountain is in the direction of Yunmengze, which is the direction of Yuenu Gorge. As for the north side, it is Dajiang.

Ouyang Rong looked towards the western county where the fake “Ouyang Lianghan” and his party might be picking up people for a boat.

Then he turned his head to the south and looked in the direction of Di Gong Gate.

In the end, they must be going to Yuenvxia to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Di Gongzha. How should they chase…

At this moment, a picture suddenly flashed in Ouyang Rong’s mind. It was the winding and complicated waterway of Butterfly Creek that he stopped briefly to look at when he was thirsty for spring water halfway up the mountain.

In the next second, Ouyang Rong turned his footsteps, and his body rushed out like an arrow off the string.

It’s just weird.

He didn’t run west to try to catch up with the fake “Ouyang Lianghan” and his party.

It’s not like running directly south, going straight to Yuenv Gorge.

Ouyang Rong ran north desperately.

There is the direction of the river.

But there is…the starting point of a new canal.

Songlin Ferry.

(End of this chapter)