Chapter 3: A Chance Encounter
At the age of six, Xiaoliu Xingxing's mental maturity was terrifyingly high, almost like that of a seventeen or eighteen year old. However, he was still in his youth, and young people are most fond of acting on impulse. Growing up beside Zheng Zhi and Fu Lao Shi, Xiaoliu Xingxing didn't dare to consider himself a champion of justice, but towards such blatant evil deeds, he had to take action. What Xiaoliu Xingxing didn't know at the time was that this impulsive act would lead to an extraordinary marriage that would be envied by all three realms in the future. This day would also be recorded by historians as "The Fateful Encounter".
"Stop!" A loud shout, Xiao Liuxing pushed through the crowd and rushed in. With one kick, he knocked away the evil slave's hand that was holding Xiaochuntian, freeing her from his clutches. Xiaochuntian was also quick-witted, as soon as she broke free, she burst into tears and ran quickly to her parents' side.
He tightly hugged the little Spring who had run over, and pulled Little Spring's mother behind him. With a grateful gaze at Little Flowing Star, he said to the lecherous young man: "Young Master, my family is lawfully doing business in the city, we never evade taxes. Why are you forcibly taking away my daughter? In broad daylight, aren't you afraid of the king's law?" "King's law? My family is the king's law! If you don't want to die, hand over your daughter! Kill that little brat for me!" The first sentence was directed at Spring's father, and the second sentence was directed at his underlings. The young man, who was used to acting tyrannically, was furious today because a little kid had ruined his good deed, and he directly ordered his underlings to kill him.
He wasn't intimidated by the villain's words, and Xiaoliu knew that this villain didn't deserve any mercy. He had already grasped the principle of "capturing the bandit and capturing the king." As soon as the villain shouted, he began to move closer, and by the time the villain finished speaking, he was already beside him. The dagger he had just bought today had been taken out of its cloth bag, and without hesitation, he inserted it into the villain's leg. In the instant that the villain fell to the ground in pain, Xiaoliu pressed the blood-stained dagger against his head.
"Let them all not move," said the cold-faced expression to the evil young man who was in pain, gritting his teeth. When he heard Xiaoliu Xing's words, the evil young man, who had originally wanted to say something vicious, felt a chill and pain coming from his forehead, and for the first time, he felt very afraid. He quickly swallowed back the vicious words that were about to come out of his throat, then shouted at his own underlings: "Let them all move, did you hear? Whoever moves, I'll go back and kill their whole family."
From the moment the young master shouted out his first sentence, to when he was injured and taken hostage, it all happened in the blink of an eye. Those followers who had been with him for many years in Tianjing City, doing evil deeds, had never encountered such a situation before, so they were momentarily stunned, unable to react. It wasn't until the young master ordered them not to move that they slowly came back to their senses. They didn't even bother to chase after Xiaochun Tian anymore, and instead hastily stood still on one side.
Looking at the effect he wanted, Xiaoliu Xing turned his head and said to the middle-aged man who was staring at him with an incredulous expression: "Uncle, knock those people out." As he spoke, Xiaoliu Xing gestured with his eyes towards the subordinates standing still. As a businessman, the middle-aged man would not be foolish, and the evil young master dared to come and snatch people openly, even if it was just a child. This place was definitely unbearable, and Xiaoliu Xing's firm gaze also gave him a lot of courage.
One side handed the little spring in his arms to her mother and whispered in her ear to hurry up and get some silver, preparing to run away. After taking a deep breath, he picked up a wooden stick on the ground, which was brought by those underlings. First, use the stick to swing at the surrounding crowd, scatter them, and prepare for the next escape. The onlookers were all ordinary people in this city, seeing the evil young master being stabbed by Little Liuxing, they knew that things had gotten out of hand, fearing being implicated, without needing to be chased, they would leave on their own.
The onlookers dispersed quickly, and Chun Tian's dad didn't say a word. He walked up to one of the henchmen and hit him on the back of the head with a wooden stick, knocking him out cold. The other henchmen were afraid of being beaten, but they feared the evil young master more, and they knew that the person who was knocked out wouldn't die, so they didn't move either, waiting for their turn to be hit. In total, there were seven people, and Uncle quickly took care of them.
At this time, Chun Tian hurriedly came out from inside with her mother's pulling, and there was a small package on her mother's shoulder. At this time, Chun Tian's mother and her own eyes were filled with panic and fear. The uncle threw the wooden stick in his hand, walked to the lady's side, patted her shoulder to let her not be afraid, and put the small package on his wife's shoulder onto his own shoulder, then hugged little Chun Tian, preparing to escape.
The little meteor was deeply impressed by the uncle's wisdom, with just one glance, the uncle had grasped all his thoughts. However, this wasn't the time for words of admiration. Seeing that Xia Chun Tian and his family were ready, he didn't say anything else. The dagger placed on the evil young master's head was thrust in directly, ending the life of a man who had been wreaking havoc for twenty years without even giving him a chance to beg for mercy. Without looking at the blood on his body, he turned around and rushed towards the nearest city gate.
Long before taking action, I had thought it through. First, subdue the evil young master, then have Uncle beat his henchmen unconscious so they can't go to the city lord's mansion to report. Although Little Flowing Star wanted to kill these evil slaves together with him, he was afraid that under threat of death, they would disregard the evil young master and counterattack instead, which would make it impossible to save anyone. After beating them unconscious, the evil young master had no more use value. In any case, killing or not killing him, this feud would definitely be formed, and the evil young master had been doing evil for many years, so he should have died long ago. Therefore, Little Flowing Star didn't show any hesitation, directly ending his life. Having started hunting with Grandfather at the age of three, he had seen a lot of bloodshed early on, and he also didn't think there was any difference between killing people and killing those animals. So the first time he killed someone, he didn't have any special feeling.
But Xiaochun's family was different, looking at the red and white stuff splattered on the young master's head, Xiaochun and her mother vomited directly. Her father was a bit better, only frowning and looking at Xiaoliuxing with surprised eyes for several times. Although he didn't know Xiaoliuxing's exact age, he also knew that Xiaoliuxing was still a child, a child who could kill someone without batting an eye, and after killing, he didn't have any feelings at all. He must have seen many killings and bloodshed since childhood. Moreover, connecting Xiaoliuxing's various performances before, it was hard for him to imagine what kind of things a child had to go through to become like this. Looking at Xiaoliuxing's big strides without hesitation, he knew that now was not the time to care about this. He took his wife's hand with one hand and Xiaochun's hand with the other, and quickly followed Xiaoliuxing. At this moment, Xiaoliuxing was no longer a child in his heart, but a calm, calm, decisive, and brave adult, an adult who had seen bloodshed many times.
Out of the city gate, Xiaoliu Xing directly took Chun Tian and his family to the Tianjing Mountain Range, about 5 kilometers away from Tianjing City. This was also a route that Xiaoliu Xing had planned ahead of time. Because none of them had any means of transportation, if the city master and others came out to chase them, they would definitely ride horses, and their two legs would not be able to outrun four legs. Moreover, on the main road, there were always pedestrians, and as long as the city master and others asked around a bit, they would know which direction they were running in, and soon they would catch up. Therefore, choosing the Tianjing Mountain Range closest to Tianjing City not only had no one inside who knew their direction of travel, but also once they entered the forest, the city master and others would not be able to ride horses even if they wanted to. As long as they entered the forest, Xiaoliu Xing was confident that he could lead them in escaping, having dealt with the forest for over three years, and was not inexperienced at all.
The Tianjing Mountains are a mountain range that stretches for thousands of miles, named after the city of Tianjing. This mountain range is not only long but also deep, and it's said that even now, no one knows exactly what's inside the Tianjing Mountains. The village of Fu Family is located on a mountain at the outer edge of this mountain range, but which side, Xiao Liuxing doesn't know.
Things went as expected. Not long after Xiaoliu ran out of the city gate, the patrol team in Tianjing City discovered the corpse of the young master and his subordinates who were still unconscious. The young master was dead, and he died so miserably that the captain almost fainted. On one hand, they quickly woke up the unconscious people to ask what happened, on the other hand, they sent someone to report the news to the city lord's mansion immediately. The situation was simple: the young master came out to do evil as usual, and everything went smoothly at first, but it was disrupted by a sudden appearance of a child. A child? The captain confirmed several times before believing that the child had taken the young master hostage and then let the owner of the shop use a stick to knock them unconscious.
Later events they didn't know, but they also don't need to know. As a team leader, he must have some brains and often contact with the city lord, deeply understanding the city lord's temper. He knew that if he didn't protect the young master well and let him die miserably, they would definitely not survive. Looking at the young master who died without closing his eyes, the team leader knew that the shopkeeper must have knocked out his slaves and then killed him directly. Although he knew that this situation was the best way to deal with it for the victim at that time, he still admired the little kid in the mouths of those slaves, but he also had a stronger desire to kill him.
Because today is his patrol, and this area is his responsibility, although the young master's death has nothing to do with him directly, but the city master only has one son, he will definitely be very angry, and it is inevitable that he will be implicated, now the only thing he can do is to go catch those four people back, let the city master deal with them, otherwise, with the city master's temper, he will also not escape death. He doesn't need to think to know that those four people must have run in the direction of Tianjing Mountain Range, because only this way they may be able to escape alive. Leave one person to wait for the city master and report the situation to him when he comes. He himself led his ten subordinates to rush towards the nearest city gate.
Almost there, the Tianjing Mountains are just ahead, only over a thousand meters left, seven minutes, just seven minutes and they'll be safe. If it weren't for those two women who had already run 4 kilometers, with Xiao Liuxing's physical strength, it would have taken only two minutes. Thinking about it now is useless, might as well hurry up and run. Hopefully they won't catch up this soon. But reality always disappoints, they hadn't run far when the sound of horseshoes echoed from behind, turning around to see about ten people riding horses quickly approaching, at this speed, it wouldn't take more than four minutes for them to catch up, while they still had five minutes left before reaching the mountains.
