Looking at the three corpses lying on the ground, Yan Liqiang held the meat hook in his hand and gasped violently.
He hadn't eaten since noon, and had just led three people to run for more than ten kilometers. In addition to the high-intensity physical exercise in a short period of time, killing three people in a row was already a huge consumption for a boy who was not yet a samurai.
The noise caused by the brutal and fierce fight just now seemed to scare all the insects in the woods. Within a short period of time, the sound of insects around Yan Liqiang disappeared instantly. Several birds perched on the trees were startled and flew away. The woods were completely silent.
When Yan Liqiang stole the meat hook from the barbecue stall in the market town, he had already chosen this place to send the people who were chasing him to hell.
He had seen this place when he came here by carriage a few hours ago. The forest on the side of the road was the most suitable place to kill someone, and the turbulent river not far away was just the right place to dump the body.
If Wu Tao and the other two had not chased him here, he certainly would not have been so ruthless. But if three people chased him here, then there was nothing to discuss. He didn't even need to think about the consequences of falling into the hands of people who made money by slutting the bodies of men. Therefore, the outcome of this chase was very clear in Yan Liqiang's mind from the beginning - it was either you die or I live.
Perhaps even Yan Liqiang himself did not realize that after this rebirth, he became even more cold-blooded and calculating.
After resting and catching his breath for two minutes, Yan Liqiang slowly recovered.
He turned Wu Tao's body over and began to search him.
Wu Tao was wearing a gold ring on his hand. Yan Liqiang just glanced at his hand and did not touch the gold ring. Rings were too personal. No matter whether he kept them or pawned them, there would be flaws and he would be recognized. Yan Liqiang did not want to become the second Guo Shan Feng.
Afterwards, Yan Liqiang found a dagger from Wu Tao's waist. Wu Tao had not even had time to take out the dagger just now. Perhaps Wu Tao felt that it was useless. Yan Li just looked at the dagger and stuffed it into Wu Tao's body. This thing was useless to Yan Liqiang now. What he needed most was money.
Finally, Yan Liqiang found a purse on Wu Tao. When he opened the purse, he found seven or eight taels of silver and dozens of copper coins in it.
There were no name marks on the silver and copper coins. Yan Liqiang poured the money out of the purse, put it on his body, and then stuffed the empty purse into Wu Tao's body.
After feeling around again and finding nothing else on Wu Tao's body, Yan Liqiang shifted his attention to the other two men in black.
Facts have proved that there may be some men who go out without their heads, but few who go out without their purses. The two men in black should be the thugs of Shengyue Tower, but they also carried purses.
The two men didn't have much money on them, only two or three pieces of silver and a few dozen copper coins each. Yan Liqiang, of course, put the money on himself without hesitation.
After looting the spoils, Yan Liqiang took a meat hook and dug it into the back of a man in black. He dragged the man in black to the riverside like a dead dog, then turned back and dragged Wu Tao and another man in black over with the meat hook.
The river in front of me is very wide, more than 50 meters, right at the edge of the forest. The water in the river is turbulent and makes a gurgling sound. When I was on the road today, the uncle who drove the car said that this river is called Bailang River, which is connected to Yilong Lake in Huzhou and is a tributary of Yilong Lake. After rushing through the mountains for more than 200 kilometers, the water of this river flows into Yilong Lake. The reason why Huzhou is Huzhou is because of Yilong Lake, because Yilong Lake is one of the largest lakes in the Han Empire...
There were stones by the river. Yan Liqiang picked up a stone as big as a dog's head and smashed the three men's faces several times. After smashing their faces beyond recognition, he threw the three men into the Bailang River one by one.
The three bodies just tumbled and floated in the rolling water of the Bailang River and then disappeared. From then on, the three people were either completely fed to fish and shrimp, or even if they were discovered, it would probably take many days. To confirm the identities of the three people, considering the efficiency of information dissemination and circulation in this era, it is basically impossible. As for solving the case, it is even more of a joke...
After doing all this, Yan Liqiang threw the meat hook in his hand into the river, then went to the shallow water by the river, washed the blood off his hands and face, ruffled his hair to cover his face, took some mud from the river bank, smeared it on his face and clothes, and then tore his clothes into several pieces, making them tattered. In a moment, Yan Liqiang turned into a real beggar.
Afterwards, Yan Liqiang broke off a meter-long stick in the woods and used it as a dog-beating stick. Then he walked out of the woods, returned to the road, and walked towards Huzhou City at a leisurely pace.
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Just a moment after Yan Liqiang left the woods, at the place where he had just fought with Wu Tao and the other three men, the light in the woods dimmed, and a figure appeared there silently, as if emerging from the thin air.
This person was none other than the old man in blue who paid the bill for Yan Liqiang when he ate a free meal today.
The old man in green looked around, a strange smile appeared on his face, and he muttered to himself, "You are really decisive and ruthless. You killed three people without hesitation. I saw you holding a meat hook in the market just now, but I didn't expect you to use it here. Are young people nowadays so fierce? Interesting, interesting..."
In the blink of an eye, the light in the forest moved, and the figure of the old man in green disappeared without a trace, as if he had never appeared.
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After leaving the forest, Yan Liqiang did not go directly to Huzhou City. After walking for five or six kilometers, he came to a small town not far from the road. He went directly to the town and bought two steamed buns for a few copper coins outside a steamed bun shop. After eating the steamed buns, he did not stay in the hotel. He found a sheltered eaves outside the firewood room behind an inn in the town, sat in a corner like a beggar, hugged his knees, and spent the night like this...
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Yan Liqiang's decision was correct, because less than an hour after he arrived at the town, three rhinoceros horses rushed into the town. Three burly men with swords on the horses asked as soon as they saw people if they had seen a handsome young man and three men passing by. After getting a negative answer, the three men left the town and came back to the road outside.
On the road outside, five fierce-looking men were waiting on rhinoceros horses.
"Brother, Wu Tao and the others have never been to town..."
"Then they must be in front, let's go..." A man with a scar between his eyebrows snorted coldly, whipped his horse whip, and rushed out with a group of people...
(End of this chapter)