Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-Eight

"This is it?" Ding Yuluo looked at everything in front of him in amazement. A low thatched house, the courtyard wall is made of gravel bricks.Outside the wall is a stinking ditch, which is full of filth, dead cats and dogs, vegetables and leaves, and yellow and white things, floating on the turbid and smelly water, slowly flowing into the distance.Although all the poor people lived here, the canal was too smelly, so the nearby shacks were already dilapidated and unoccupied. "That's right." The rogue smiled: "I recently moved here to rent, I have an injury on my leg, and I have a similar age and appearance. This is the only one in Wuni Lane who matches. I'll just ask" and dare not say anything else. Looking for someone Even if it is a mouse that just got into the hole, I can dig it out. As for whether it is the person you are looking for, I can't guarantee it."

Ding Yuluo shook his hand, and a bunch of heavy hanging coins fell into the hands of the man. The man weighed it and smiled on his face: "If I guessed correctly, the young master should be seeking revenge, right? I think that man looks like a Lian Jiazi, do you need my help, I am the best at stumbling and beating the shady people behind the back, the young master only needs to pay another sling, and I..." Ding Yuluo waved his hands coldly, the man shut up knowingly, smiled and bowed to her, then fled quickly. Ding Yuluo stood quietly for a while, then walked towards the courtyard. Just as he stepped into the courtyard, the door creaked open, and a crippled man in an oil-stained tattered robe came out of the room. The two bumped into each other. , his body froze there for a long while without moving.

Suddenly, the man turned around hastily and was about to flee into the room dragging his lame legs. Ding Yuluo scolded: "Where else can you escape?" The cripple stopped, trembling, and slowly turned around. Ding Yuluo approached step by step, clenched the hilt of his sword and said with a sneer, "It really is you, I just couldn't believe it, you are hiding in such a place , now, can you still escape?" Ding Chengye's cheeks twitched for a while, and suddenly he smiled sadly, stood firm and said: "Sister, it's really hard for you, I chased from Bazhou to Khitan, and from Khitan to Tang, traveling thousands of miles, now I'm hiding in this You can find the place, okay! I won’t run away, I don’t want to run away anymore, you can kill if you want, living like this now, it’s really better to die, dead……”

Ding Yuluo slowly drew his sword out of its sheath, and said coldly: "You murdered your father and brother, conspired to seize the head of the family, destroyed a good Ding family, and you also destroyed yourself. This is your own fault. You can live. You are self-inflicted, you can’t live. Ding Chengye, why did the Ding family produce such a wicked son like you who murdered his father and brother and lost his conscience?" The point of the sword had already reached Ding Chengye's chest, Ding Chengye did not avoid it, and said with a miserable smile: "Damn me, I didn't expect that I would end up in this situation. Actually... I don't have the ambition to be the head of the family at all. I did The only thing wrong is having an affair with my sister-in-law, and everything else was forced?"

Ding Yuluo was furious: "You still have to quibble now, who will force you to kill your father and brother?" She clenched the sword in her hand, and it was three-pointed into the flesh, and blood overflowed. Ding Chengye said in a hoarse voice: "I was willing to be a second young master who had no worries about food and clothing, and never thought of usurping the position of Patriarch. But... Then something happened to my eldest brother, who else is left in the Ding family besides me? I don't want to do it Gotta do it, it's what I deserve, and yet..." He sneered: "Brother doesn't like me, and neither does Daddy. They would rather try their best to help a domestic servant up. Who wouldn't laugh at me behind my back? My friends, even family members in the mansion, and even my sister-in-law, who wouldn't?" despise me?"

He suddenly hissed: "I don't want to be the head of the family who works hard, but when it should have fallen on my head, why should I give it up? Why should I give something that should belong to me to a wild man?" Seed! Big brother wants to support a bastard to overwhelm his own brother, he is not benevolent, and I am unrighteous!" "Beast! Give the Ding family to you? Don't say that you can carry forward the Ding family, even if you keep the business, are you that material? You have a reason to harm the eldest brother because of this? The eldest brother never thought of handing over the family business to the second brother Could it be that you are worthy of him before? At this point, you still have to quibble, everything is someone else's fault, you are always innocent, and you have no choice but to kill your father?"

Ding Chengye's complexion changed, and he avoided talking about it, but he smiled sadly: "Man, why do you want to grow up? When you grow up, you have many desires, such as sex, money, power, greed, jealousy, and hatred. When you grow up, Many things that were considered the most important when I was young will be regarded as worthless. People who used to be despised will become him, and they will harm others. Ding Yuluo said coldly: "Have you finished speaking? You can die after you finish speaking. No matter how clever you are now, you don't want me to spare you. Today, you must die!"

Ding Chengye's eyes wandered for a moment, and he looked straight out of the courtyard over Ding Yuluo's shoulder, and said in surprise, "I said, how did you find me? Did you ask those policemen to help?" "Huh?" Ding Yuluo turned his head subconsciously, his eyes only shifted slightly, Ding Chengye suddenly turned to one side, and punched Ding Yuluo on the shoulder.He had been accumulating this punch for a long time, but Ding Yuluo couldn't dodge it. He hit the shoulder bone with his punch, and the dagger fell to the ground amidst a cry of pain. Ding Chengye grabbed the sword in his hand, with a sinister smile on his face: "If you want to kill, kill, do you want to enumerate my sins?"

Ding Yuluo jumped away, his eyes flashed sharply, he searched for the available things in the courtyard, and said coldly: "If you take the sword, can you escape for your life?" Ding Chengye grinned and said: "Although I have a wound on my leg, you are unarmed. You and I have almost the same martial arts. Can you still kill me now? Your younger brother is sinister, cunning, shameless, and has already been full of evil. You can't stand it." Really? If you can’t stand it, then go to the Nine Springs to accompany that old thing!” Ding Chengye endured the pain in his leg, and leaped forward to stab Ding Yuluo with his sword. As soon as the sword in his hand moved, he heard a strange scream of "Woo", Ding Chengye let out a miserable cry, and the sword in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter. I took a walking stick.

Both of them looked towards the gate of the courtyard together, and saw an old man in Ge robe with a hunchback slowly walking into the courtyard, and said in a deep voice: "Although he said that a person is about to die, his words are good, but is he still a human being? If you want to kill, you can kill him, and you still expect him to repent before he dies, isn't it playing the piano to a cow?" Ding Yuluo looked at him in surprise, and said in a low voice: "Thank you for your generous help, senior, but I don't know your senior... your name?" Ding Chengye hastily raised his crutches, braced the side of his injured leg, picked up the dagger, and said with a sneer, "Everyone sweeps the snow in front of the door, and don't care about the frost on others' roofs. Old man, you are already half buried in the ground." Don’t you think your life is too long?”

Yang Hao sneered, and pushed towards him step by step. When he passed by Ding Yuluo's side, he suddenly reached out to touch her waist. Although Ding Yuluo didn't regard him as an enemy, the instinctive vigilance of a martial arts practitioner made her subconsciously back away, and slashed at the white-bearded old man's wrist with a single palm.Unexpectedly, the old man's skill was so fast that he would return his palm as soon as he poked it out. Ding Yuluo only felt a lightness on his belt. When he looked closely, the scabbard on the belt had already fallen into the hands of the white-bearded old man. The old man waved wildly with the hilt of his sword a few times, and suddenly stabbed Ding Chengye's throat with the sheath. Although the move was haphazard, it was as fast as lightning.Ding Chengye was taken aback, he hurriedly raised his sword to meet them, the two swords were back and forth, they fought for only seven or eight rounds, only heard a "crack", Ding Chengye's sword was inserted into the old man's scabbard. Ding Chengye was stunned, but before he could draw his sword, the old man had already twisted the scabbard, a strong force came, Ding Chengye couldn't hold the hilt, and the dagger was snatched away by splitting hands, the old man was still in the sheath, and the sword was thrown in the air with his fingers Turning, whistling and turning twice, the dagger flew out of his hand, swished, and was barely inserted back into Ding Yuluo's waist. This swordsmanship is so ingenious, Ding Chengye knew that the difference in skill between the two was too far, he couldn't help but his face changed drastically, he hurriedly raised his left crutch, the old man had already approached him while he was making a gesture, and snatched the crutch back with his hands, "Bang bang bang bang!" The shoulders, ribs, and calves were hit hard several times with a jujube stick, causing Ding Chengye to scream again and again, and fell to the ground with a bang, bent his body and held his head in his hands, and screamed: "I... ...I have no grievances or enmities with you, why... why did you harm me?" "Do we have no grievances?" Yang Hao smiled coldly, pulled off the false eyebrows and the beard under his jaw, and restored his original voice. When Ding Chengye saw his appearance clearly, he was stunned and said in a trembling voice, "You...you you...are you a human or a ghost?" Ding Yuluo saw Yang Hao's appearance clearly, and exclaimed in surprise and joy: "Second brother, you...are you still alive?" As he spoke, tears of joy welled up in his eyes.Yang Hao stared at Ding Chengye, but didn't turn his head to look at her, Ding Yuluo's eyes couldn't help but darken. "You...you're not dead?" Ding Chengye also understood at this time, seeing the murderous look in his eyes, he couldn't help being horrified, he ran away scrambling, and shouted angrily: "You...what do you want? Now that you have risen to the top and become a high-ranking official in the Song Kingdom, even the Lord of the South of the Yangtze River respects you three points, but I have ended up in this situation, isn't that miserable enough? Why don't you let me go?" Yang Hao said coldly: "You framed me, I don't have to take it to heart, but my mother's revenge, as a son of man, must be avenged. Dong'er's revenge, as a husband, must be avenged!" Ding Chengye hissed: "I just wanted to frame you. How could I have thought of harming others? Your mother was already seriously ill, and her condition worsened in anger. That's why she died. I didn't kill her, she wasn't me at all. killed." Yang Hao said in a deep voice: "That's right, you, Young Master Ding Er, killed someone, so you still need to get blood on your hands? According to your reasoning, Dong'er was certainly not killed by you." Ding Chengye yelled angrily: "Dong'er, I don't even want to kill. It is obvious that Liu Shishi and Dong Lishi are afraid of revealing the scandal between them, so they kill each other..." Speaking of this, his eyes flashed suddenly, and he said in a daze: "Dong'er...Dong'er?" A strange smile floated on his face, he slowly sat up straight, and calmly said: "Ding Hao, you can't kill me .” "Oh?" Yang Hao raised the jujube stick slowly, and Yang Hao sneered, "No one will save you today..." "Who said no one can save me?" Ding Chengye laughed loudly: "There is one person who can save me, and she will definitely be able to save me. She is Luo Dong'er." Yang Hao said noncommittally: "If so, with Dong'er's kindness, if she didn't die..." Before Yang Hao finished speaking, the jujube stick in his hand whizzed down Ding Chengye's forehead with a sharp sound of wind. Ding Chengye opened his eyes and shouted: "Luo Dong'er is not dead!" "Woo~~" The stick stopped abruptly three inches in front of his forehead, and a bead of sweat slowly rolled down from Ding Chengye's forehead, Yang Hao said in a calm voice, "What did you say?" Ding Chengye swallowed, and hurriedly said: "I said... Luo Donger, no, yes, dead!" Yang Hao stared at him for a while, his heart pounding, feeling unspeakably nervous, but he said: "I'm not your second sister, your rhetoric will have no effect on me, even if you call me a donkey, I just think you're a fart. Do you think I'll believe you?" Ding Chengye hurriedly said again: "There is also Machete Xiaoliu and Tietou, they are all together." "What?" Yang Hao finally changed color.Ding Chengye, who was in the countryside, didn't know about Machete Xiaoliu and Tietou's relationship with him. Even Dong'er had never seen the three sworn brothers. To connect Machete Xiaoliu with Dong'er, what kind of imagination can connect them? Yang Hao's heart was pounding, he stared at Ding Chengye for a while, and then said slowly: "You want to lie to me?" Looking at his expression, Ding Chengye knew that his life had been saved for the time being, and his demeanor became more calm: "I'll tell her whereabouts, how about you let me go?" Yang Hao stared at him without saying a word, Ding Chengye grinned: "I, Ding Chengye, is just a shameless villain, Luo Donger is your wife, Machete Xiaoliu and the others are your sworn brothers, if you would rather not let them die , then just kill me." There was a hint of cunning in his eyes: "Actually...you understand in your heart that I'm not lying, right?" Ding Yuluo opened his eyes wide and watched nervously, Yang Hao was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "Okay, If you tell them where they are, I won't kill you!" Ding Chengye looked at Ding Yuluo and asked, "What about her?" "If she wants to kill you, I will stop it!" Ding Chengye laughed bitterly: "Okay, I am a villain, but I know that you are a gentleman. A villain... also likes to deal with gentlemen, I believe in your promise." Ding Yuluo thought of revenge for killing his father, and was about to say something to stop him, but thinking of Yang Hao's suffering, he forced his words back.The Ding family, I'm sorry that Yang Hao has too many things to do, the dead are already dead, for the sake of the living, she can only bear with her father's hatred for the time being, hoping to get news of Luo Dong'er. Yang Hao said in a deep voice: "Stop talking nonsense, you said Dong'er is still alive, where is she?" In order to win his trust, Ding Chengye didn't dare to hide anything, he sat up and said, "At first I thought she was dead, but when I was in Qiqing Kingdom, I saw her with my own eyes." Yang Hao was shocked: "Khitan, why is she in Khitan?" Ding Chengye said: "I'm someone close to Lord Yeluwen, and I went up to Beijing Wufeng Building with Lord Yelu to meet her. At that time, she was standing beside Empress Xiao. I thought I was wrong, so I asked someone. It turned out that when the people in Lijiazhuang drowned Luo Donger in the river and soaked it in the pig cage, those sworn brothers of yours happened to come to the village to look for you. They passed by Lijiazhuang, and when they learned that she was your wife, they entered the water and waited. When you entered the water, they dragged you away and rescued you. They searched for you for a few days, but there was no whereabouts of you. They expected you to flee to Guangyuan, but at that time there were inspectors and soldiers everywhere, and there were the Liu family and the Li family. The people looking for your whereabouts everywhere, they had no choice but to find you from the ancient river road." Yang Hao's body trembled violently, and he had already believed his words eighty percent. Thinking about it now, it was indeed the time when he and Machete Xiaoliu met at Zhuangzhong Yiwu. , especially the three of Machete Xiaoliu did leave their hometown, precisely three days after he went to Guangyuan, this time corresponds to it, if Ding Chengye was talking nonsense, it would never be so complete. He took two steps forward hastily, and asked in a trembling voice: "Then... what happened afterwards, how did they go to Khitan?" Ding Chengye said: "They took the old ancient river road, which is an extremely difficult road. Fugitives and smugglers often come and go from that road, and there is no government check card. It was the safest thing. Who knows, they walked on the ancient river At that time, a large group of Khitan troops were killed on the ancient river channel where few people walked, and they were taken captive to Khitan." Yang Hao couldn't help being dumbfounded when he heard this. It turned out that he was walking in front and Dong'er was chasing after him. Unexpectedly, by mistake, he hurriedly got rid of the Khitan pursuers all the way, but he also got rid of her, and even made her be chased by the Khitan. people kidnapped. Ding Chengye said: "When I saw her on the Wufeng Tower, she was dressed in glamorous clothes, standing beside the emperor, as if she was the emperor's concubine. I was afraid that she would see me and make trouble for me, so I hurriedly hid Among the crowd, she didn't notice me." Yang Hao's face turned pale, and he lost his voice: "What did you say, she... she was accepted by the Khitan Emperor as a concubine?" Seeing his expression, Ding Chengye was afraid that he would repent and hit his head with a stick. He originally wanted to torture him viciously, but at this moment he didn't dare to show off again, and hurriedly said: "I thought so at the time, but I found out after inquiring. After she was taken captive to Khitan, she was appreciated by Empress Xiao and became the number one celebrity around Empress Xiao, ranking first among the female officials in the palace. With her, I... I only found out when I inquired about her origin." "Dong'er...Dong'er..." Yang Hao was so excited that he couldn't control himself. He never thought that Dong'er was still alive. Such a bizarre story couldn't be made up. He could see that what Ding Chengye said was indeed the truth Think about the Empress Dowager Xiao in history. Her lovers look for Han people, and her son-in-law also likes to look for Han people. She is cute and smart, and it is reasonable to be appreciated and reused by her. Dong'er is still alive, thinking of this, Yang Hao's chest will explode with joy, Dong'er will not let him down, the white is like snow on the mountain, and his daughter is like a pine tree, he has no doubts about Dong'er's feelings for him .Poor me thought she was already dead, but she missed me so much when she went to Beijing in Khitan. "Siro Visits His Mother" has a princess who steals an arrow, but it is even more difficult for Dong'er to escape. Yang Hao's hands trembled slightly, tears filled his eyes: "I...I must save her back! Save her and Xiao Liu and the others back." Ding Chengye observed his expression, and asked cautiously: "I... can I go?" Yang Hao waved his hand, Ding Chengye stood up happily, limped a few steps, looked at Ding Yuluo timidly, Yang Hao said flatly: "I'm looking at her." Ding Chengye was finally relieved, and ran out of the courtyard dragging his injured leg.Hearing his indifferent voice, Ding Yuluo finally couldn't hold back the tears and cried out, "Second brother, you...are you still unwilling to forgive my sister?" Yang Hao didn't answer, he walked forward a few steps silently, stretched out his hand, Ding Yuluo took his jujube cane foolishly, a little at a loss.Yang Hao stared at Ding Chengye's back, and muttered to himself: "I promise not to kill you, and I promise to stop that silly girl from killing you, but if she knocks me out with a sap, it's not because I broke my promise." Ding Yuluo was delighted to hear him call her a silly girl, and when he heard him say "sap", Yang Hao sighed, "That animal is about to run away." "Oh, good!" Ding Yuluo agreed in a panic, and smashed Yang Hao's head with a stick...