In the blink of an eye, everything changes

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  In the blink of an eye, everything changes.

  The bandit leader danced with his steel knife, killing the two ghostly figures. Only to hear two mournful cries, followed by a burst of screams, and then the cave was filled with clouds and fog. The bandit leader saw various shapes of fierce ghosts in the fog, howling and pouncing on him. He was terrified, unable to restrain himself, and shouted as he turned and ran. Just running out of ten or so steps, a flame burst from the top of the cave, igniting the clothes on the thief's body. He wailed miserably, dancing with flames all over his body, and ran back to his accomplices, throwing himself onto their bodies. Suddenly, the fire spread and ignited his accomplices, and this group of evil grave robbers went together to the underworld, losing their lives in the Yellow Springs.

  In the gathering hall of Anmin Village, the village doctor sighed and shook his head, saying: "You'd better prepare for the worst. The wound has reached a vital spot, there's no saving him now. What a pity! Father and son... Alas!" After finishing speaking, he shook his head again and sighed as he left.

  Yun Xiang Tian asked in surprise: "Father and son, could it be that...?"

  The foolish monk nodded and said, "That's right, it was the Wang family father and son. Wang Yuenwai and his son were careless for a moment and fell into that scoundrel's trap. Alas." He let out a long sigh, and his eyes revealed boundless sorrow.

  At the time when he was admiring the clouds and sighing in wonder, a report came from the mountain gate that the Overlord of the Suspended Sword Cave, Ba Tian Long, had arrived to pay his respects.

  After everyone sat down, Yun Xiang Tian looked at Bao Tian Long and thought to himself: This guy seems to have a very deep mind, his face doesn't show any joy, anger, sadness or happiness. What is his purpose for coming here today?

  Hong Shangu was the first to speak up and said: "Dragon Lord's family, today visiting our humble village, what instructions do you have?"

  Ba Tian Long raised his teacup and took a light sip, looking extremely refined. He then gently put down the cup and spoke in a soft voice: "May I ask for your guidance? It's really not worthy of me, but today I came to visit and was thinking of inviting the Mountain Maiden Village Master to come to our village as a witness. Would the Mountain Maiden Village Master be willing to grant this request?"

  Hong Shan girl raised an eyebrow and said: "Be a witness. What witness?"

  Ba Tianlong chuckled and said, "It's not a big deal. Yesterday, my brothers in the village invited a guest who wants to do some business with me. So, I want to ask the owner of Shan Girl Village to be an intermediary and witness, so that others won't say that I'm cheating."

  Although he said it very lightly, Hong Shangu and Yun Xiangtian knew that this was absolutely not a trivial matter. So Hong Shangu readily agreed.

  Hong Shangu accompanied by Yun Xiangtian, walked into the main hall of Xuanjian Cave, she didn't stand on ceremony and directly pulled Yun Xiangtian to sit down at the guest seat, opening her mouth to say: "Dragon's big family head, what kind of guest is it? Let him come out, let everyone meet each other!"

  Ba Tian Long said slowly and calmly: "Don't worry, don't worry, Tiger will be here soon. After he arrives, we'll invite the guest out and talk slowly."

  As they spoke, Zhen Shantiger had already entered the hall. Seeing Hong Shangu Yun Xiangtian also there, he exclaimed, "Ah! Mountain Maiden Village Master and Cloud Virtuous Nephew are also here! What's going on? It's actually made Dragon Great Household so stirred up?"

  "Ha ha," said Ba Tian Long with a smile, "Oh, I didn't know that An Min Village and Hei Hu Village had formed an alliance. Why didn't you let old dragon me go offer congratulations and drink a cup of wedding wine?"

  His face turned cold and he said: "Come on, bring our guest up!"

  Yun Xiang Tian looked at the two people who were brought up and knelt on the ground, he didn't know what kind of medicine Ba Tian Long had bought in the gourd.

  Zhen Shantiger first asked: "Tiger's overlord, what do you mean? And who are these two people?"

  "They are who? Who are they, anyway? Let them speak for themselves." He slammed his hand on the table and thundered in a stern voice: "Speak! Who are you people? What have you done? Tell me the truth!"

  Zhen Shantiger was startled by the movement of Ba Tianlong, and he poured all the tea water on his mouth onto himself. He suddenly stood up, pulled up the collar of his chest and shook it, while roaring: "What's going on? Ah, ah, scalded to death! Quickly give Laozi a dry cloth, let Laozi pad it, ah, scalded to death!"

  Hong Shan Gu took the towel handed over by her brothers in the village, and while stuffing it into Zhen Shan Hu's arms, she coquettishly scolded: "What the heck, you're three years old, what are you doing? You spilled a cup of hot water on yourself."

  Yun Xiangtian looked at the two people kneeling on the ground, who seemed to be unaffected by Ba Tianlong's roar and even showed a hint of disdain on their faces. Yun Xiangtian thought to himself: These two people seem to have undergone special training, otherwise they wouldn't be so calm. Who are they? What did Ba Tianlong mean by inviting Hong Shangu and Zhen Shantiger today?

  Ba Tian Long saw Hong Shan Gu and Zhen Shan Hu laughing and scolding each other, and didn't care about the two people being captured. He felt somewhat surprised, and after clearing his throat twice, he said calmly: "Alright, you two stop making a ruckus. Let's take a look at who these two people are."

  Hong Shangu stopped laughing and said: "In your mountain stronghold, of course it's your people. Could it be that Hu Dajiang is the master, or perhaps my people?"

  The two people kneeling on the ground looked at each other, one kowtowed to Hong Shangu and the other to Zhen Shantai, shouting: "Mountain maiden village master save my life." "Tiger big house owner save me."

  The two of them stood there in a daze, and Hong Shangu was the first to react. He pointed at Ba Tianlong's nose and scolded loudly: "Ba Tianlong, you despicable person, using underhanded tactics to plot against me. Do you think that Miss will be afraid of you?"

  Ba Tian Long slapped the table and stood up, furious: "Hong Shan girl, I've been lenient with you because you're a woman, but now that we have both the person and the goods, do you still dare to be arrogant? Do you think I'm really afraid of you?"

  Yun Xiang Tian walked forward and bowed his hand to Ba Tian Long, saying: "Dragon Lord, please calm down. Let me ask them a few questions, okay?"

  Ba Tian Long sat down with a huff, and Chong Yun Shuang waved his hand impatiently, saying: "Ask away, ask away. I don't believe you can still come up with something new to ask."

  Zhen Shantiger, on the other hand, was not having it. He kicked away the person who called him "Boss" and cursed, "Damn you, trying to swindle me? I'll take care of you today!" He raised his fist, ready to strike.

  Yun Xiang Tian shouted loudly; "Uncle Hu, they are all our own brothers, don't fight anymore."

  Zhen Mountain Tiger held his fist in mid-air, his eyes flashing with confusion as he didn't understand what Yun Xiang Tian meant. Yun Xiang Tian ignored him and went straight to ask the man: "Brother, how many years have you been following Hu Da, the master of Hei Hu Zhai?" The man replied: "Seven years." Yun Xiang Tian asked again: "Do you still remember things about Hei Hu Zhai?" The man nodded his head and said: "Of course I do." Yun Xiang Tian smiled and nodded, saying: "It seems we are brothers from the same mountain stronghold. Brother, do you still remember what was written on our mountain stronghold's yellow flag?" The man paused for a moment, then raised his head and said: "Of course I do. The yellow flag had 'Replace Heaven and Punish Evil' written on it, right?" Ba Tian Long and Zhen Mountain Tiger were taken aback, just as they were about to speak, but heard Yun Xiang Tian burst out laughing and say: "Good, indeed not bad."

  Yun Xiang Tian walked up to another person and said, "Brother, you've also been in An Min Village for some years now, right? The two large flags of An Min Village are red. Brothers have been saying privately that the red flag doesn't look domineering. What do you think?"

  That man "heh heh" smiled and said: "Those few country bumpkins don't understand anything, our leader is a female knight, so the flag should naturally be red."

  Yun Xiang Tian charged at him with a big thumbs up and said: "Right, what you said is not wrong. On our two big flags, it's written 'Kill all corrupt officials, eliminate harm for the people'. Brothers say that it has something to do with An Min Village. Do you still remember?"

  That man let out a sigh and said: "It must be related, our village is called 'Anmin Village', we naturally want to kill corrupt officials and eliminate harm for the people."

  Yun Xiang Tian clapped his hands and said: "Good, good! These two people must be from Hei Hu Feng and An Min Village. Dragon Big House, you say is that right?"

  Ba Tian Long's face turned iron-green, and he was momentarily speechless. He knew that the Black Tiger Fort didn't have any yellow flags at all, and the Anmin Fort only had one apricot-yellow flag with the four characters "Replace Heaven and Punish Evil" written on it. The claims of "for the people to eliminate harm" and "killing corrupt officials" were all nonsense. He looked at Zhen Shan Hu sitting in a chair, narrowing his eyes, tapping his fingers on the armrest, humming a little tune. Hong Shan Gu was leisurely sipping tea, smiling as she watched him. For a moment, he didn't know what to do.

  Yun Xiangtian knew that Ba Tianlong wouldn't be so foolish as to use his own people to frame Hong Shangu and Zhen Shantiger, there must be another reason behind this. So he said to Ba Tianlong: "Dragon Lord, you've also been deceived by them in this matter. I think of Dragon Lord's heroic deeds, always upright and magnanimous, quick to reward kindness and avenge grievances, how could you do such a despicable thing? Can you tell me about the two of them?"

  Yun Xiang Tian's words unexpectedly helped Ba Tian Long out of a difficult situation and even greatly praised him, making Ba Tian Long extremely grateful to Yun Xiang Tian. When he heard Yun Xiang Tian ask about the two people, he spilled everything like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube.

  When Yezi Chun let him investigate, Wang Shan Gen's body was suddenly placed under the Suspended Sword Cave clue. He arranged for several trustworthy and clever people to secretly investigate, and last night they caught these two people and found bloodstained clothes and a sharp knife at their residence. After repeated interrogations, the two confessed to the fact of killing Wang Shan Gen without hesitation. They also admitted that they were informants for the Black Tiger Fort and Anmin Fort respectively, and according to the fort master's orders, killed Wang Shan Gen and placed his body under the Suspended Sword Cave, mainly to frame the Suspended Sword Cave and then destroy it, dividing everything in the Suspended Sword Cave. It wasn't until Yun Xiang Tian used words to trick them that they were not from Anmin Fort and Black Tiger Fort that Ba Tian Long realized he had been deceived.

  "How long have they been in the mountain village?"

  Ba Tian Long said: "In less than three months. They said they killed someone in Ling Feng City and were forced to flee, so they came up the mountain to surrender to me."

  Zhen Shantiger interrupted and said: "Yun Xian nephew, who are they?"

  Yun Xiangtian fell silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "Take off their shoes." Yun Xiangtian saw what he least wanted to see - between the big toe and second toe of those two people's feet, there was a thick layer of callus. Needless to say, this was left behind by Japanese people wearing wooden clogs. He let out a sigh and said: "They are little devils."

  Hong Shangu and the others were shocked after hearing this, Ba Tianlong still didn't dare to believe it: "What? They're Japanese, those little devils who've suffered a thousand cuts? What are they doing coming to Fengling Mountain?"

  Yun Xiang Tian shook his head and smiled: "Ask them what they're doing here, but I'm not as good as you few mountain kings."

  Only then did Zhen Shanyu stand up from his seat with a loud noise, roll up his sleeves and say: "Yun Xian nephew, let me do this, I'm good at it."

  Yun Xiang Tian smiled and said: "Thanks, Uncle Hu." Then he asked Ba Tian Long: "Dragon Lord, can I go for a walk around?"

  Ba Tian Long was taken aback for a moment, then laughed and said: "Yun Gongzi, you really have a Bodhisattva's heart. As long as you're willing, you can look around as you please. Oh, right, there's a calligraphy and painting in the side hall, would you like to take a look?"

  Yun Xiang Tian nodded slightly, turned around and walked away. In his heart, he thought: I made another mistake. Then he comforted himself: Originally, on someone else's turf, it should be their call, isn't that the natural order of things? Why do I need to look for trouble myself?

  After a while, one of the brothers in the village asked Yun Xiangtian to go over and said that the results had been investigated.

  When Yun Xiang Tian saw the two Japanese men again, he couldn't help but laugh. The two Japanese men had already been interrogated by Zhen Shan Hu and Ba Tian Long into two Japanese pigs. They lay on the ground, looking at Zhen Shan Hu with eyes that had already changed shape in terror.

  Zhen Shantiger saw Yun Xiangtian walk in and stroked his hands, saying: "These two little devils, their grandma's bones are really hard. They hit my hand so much it hurts."

  Yun Xiang Tian asked: "Uncle Hu, what did they all say?"

  Zhen Shantiger pointed at the Dragon Overlord and said, "Ask him to go, I'll take care of the trial, he'll take care of the questioning." He suddenly burst out laughing and said with great satisfaction, "Damn it, after all these years of not interacting with each other, who would have thought that I'd still be able to cooperate with this big dead snake. Refreshing."

  "Listen up, you mangy cat! I wouldn't bother cooperating with you if it weren't for Young Master Yun. Otherwise, I'd be too lazy to even acknowledge your existence."

  Yun Xiang Tian smiled and said: "Two uncles, stop messing around, quickly tell me, what is the purpose of these two little devils lurking in Fengling Mountain?"

  Ba Tian Long looked at Yun Xiang Tian and said seriously: "What did you call me?"

  Yun Xiang Tian loudly said to him: "Call you uncle, you and my Tiger Uncle are always fighting and making trouble, it's good that we have to wear a pair of pants together, at least I have to call you Dragon Uncle. Ah, Dragon Uncle, tell them." He pointed to the two Japanese people on the ground with his hand.

  Ba Tian Long's face lit up with a smile as he said repeatedly: "Alright, alright, I'll say it now."

  Yun Xiang was stunned after uncovering the true purpose of the Japanese people coming to Fengling Mountain, this intelligence was like a huge boulder that made him breathless.