Chapter Eleven: There are many evildoers in the time of national chaos, and people who are kind and
Qian Yiqun finally took a breath after being driven out of the city gate by the hungry crowd, glad that these people did not eat, otherwise they would not have let them go so easily.
When people are in desperate situations, they will not consider other things at all, but will only stare at the life-saving straw in front of them. In the eyes of these hungry people, killing is nothing, they themselves live in the pile of dead people. And a penny represents half a steamed bun, representing their hope of living today.
This is instinct.
The escape of Qian Yiqun and others suddenly made the streets full of people feel much easier. The elder brother sat up slowly, coughed and vomited out the waste blood in his body. He turned his head and happened to see Goudan's body, and shouted hoarsely: "Go and bury him!"
Two people stepped forward, dragged Goudan's legs without saying a word, and walked out of the city.
"Buried deeper!" The elder brother took care of him again.
There has been a legend in the city that these hungry people would dig graves in the middle of the night and eat newly dead people. This makes people in the city uneasy because it is said that those who have eaten people will become addicted, and those who have eaten dead will steal children's food. Finally, their eyes turn red and they turn into madmen, and they will bite whoever they catch.
Therefore, Hongyang Sect and several wealthy families in the city took turns to hold porridge, hoping that the tragedy would not happen in their hometown.
"Senior Brother, what should I do now?" someone stepped forward and asked.
The eldest brother thought to himself: That Taoist is not a little bit stronger than me, what else can I do? I am the only one who has a big fist in this world. Do you want me to report to the official position? Moreover, Goudan is just a small leader who leads three or two minions, so he will die if he dies. Even if he doesn't die today, he might be killed inexplicably one day.
As the eldest senior brother, although he knew in his heart, he could not say that. Today's defeat has affected his reputation, and many fencemen may have the idea of surrendering to other senior brothers. If he bluntly said that he would ignore Gou Dan's murder, his brothers would be heartbroken.
"Goudan is a brother in the church all day, and he will be my Nie Tiansheng's brother for the rest of his life!" The elder brother deliberately hung blood on the corner of his mouth, not wiping it, and said firmly: "How can we stop when our brother was killed? From today on, Goudan's parents are my Nie Tiansheng's parents! His wife is my sister! His children are my nephew! He can't keep his eyes closed underground!"
These words were said passionately, and indeed won over the hearts of many brothers in the church.
Nie Tiansheng said again: "Hei Er, find me a horse, I want to go to Heifeng Village."
Everyone was cheered up, and a few of them shouted.
It turns out that in this northern Anhui area, Heifeng Village is a large village with a large number of green forests. Especially with the Hongyang Sect, many of the brothers in the village are religious brothers, so Nie Tiansheng has a lot of contact with Wei Gaofeng, the leader of Heifeng Village. Although the two have me and I have you, the general sphere of influence still needs to be clearly distinguished.
In this city, Hongyang Sect has the final say.
After leaving the city, it is the territory of Heifeng Village.
If Nie Tiansheng wants to chase and set up an ambush, he must work outside the city, so saying hello to Heifeng Village is a necessary rule. Moreover, this senior brother does not just want to say hello, but asks for help in real time and asks Heifeng Village to borrow troops.
Heifeng Village robbed a garrison before last year. He had several elderly, weak, sick and disabled garrison soldiers, and they did not say it, mainly because they had many bows and arrows. This can be regarded as a killer weapon in the world. As long as they are not the top knights in the world, they can only retreat under the cold light of the arrow clusters and kill them.
Nie Tiansheng rode a thin horse and finally tightened his saddle. He felt a little distressed and said to himself: Nowadays, there are almost no grass growing in the mountains outside, but where did the Taoist find food to feed the horse and the deer? He is so fat and strong!
If you want a horse to gain weight, it is not enough forage. You often have to add a lot of beans. Who has the spare food now? With these beans, you have already fed the stomachs of hungry people.
Riding this thin horse, Nie Tiansheng ran out of the city with the sound of tapping horse hooves, and dust rose more than one person high behind him.
The horse followed the official road and naturally turned into the mountains. It was obviously also a familiar old horse. At least there was more forage in the mountains, and it still remembers that there was an unknown salt spring nearby. It was a good thing for it to go on such a trip.
As soon as one man and one horse entered the mountain, he heard the cuckoos cry.
Nie Tiansheng heard from the old man that in the place of great disasters, birds, beasts, insects and snakes will naturally avoid it. At this moment, I don’t know how long I have seen birds and beasts in the mountains. Where did the cuckoo come from? It must be the secret whistle of Black Wind Village!
"The red sheep disaster has arrived and it has returned to the true emptiness. I have so much pity for me!" Nie Tiansheng said loudly.
"What incense did my friend burn?" A question came from the forest.
"One pillar of green incense respects the heaven and earth, two pillars of red incense worship gods and Buddhas, three pillars of white incense return to the people, I will burn the Ruyi incense myself!" Nie Tiansheng cut the incision, "Hongyang Sect Nie Tiansheng, ask to see the leader of Wei's village."
After the secret whistle was cut, he finally walked out of the hidden place, went up to see him, called "Senior Brother", and led Nie Tiansheng to the depths of the dense forest.
In previous years, the dense forest was fertile, and the ground was covered with black soil after the decay of plants and trees. The seeds could grow. Now the plants withered, and the severe drought since October last year made the soil here dry and cracked, turning into gray sand, and the people were filled with dust.
The two walked for a while, the terrain was getting higher and the pennant with red teeth and yellow bottoms could be seen between the shadows of the trees in the forest, stretching in the wind.
It is the camp of Heifeng Village.
Nie Tiansheng entered the door and threw the horse outside, allowing it to eat grass.
Wei Gaofeng got the signal and came out. He laughed twice: "What wind is blowing today? It actually blows Brother Nie."
"I'm asking for something, come and ask for my brother." Nie Tiansheng said with his fists.
"It's not okay to borrow someone to borrow a bow." Wei Gaofeng smiled and acted to invite Nie Tiansheng into it, but he blocked Nie Tiansheng's purpose from outside the village gate.
Nie Tiansheng tripped under his feet and said, "How did your brother know that I came to borrow someone to borrow a bow?"
"The green forest roads in Henan and Anhui provinces have spread all over the country. Brother, I am not a deaf person or a blind man." Wei Gaofeng's smile did not diminish, but his attitude was very firm.
Nie Tiansheng couldn't help feeling guilty and said, "What we are talking about is probably not the same thing."
He didn't believe it. He had just been defeated by the Taoist man and had now reached the Black Wind Village. How could there be such a fast wind in the world?
"Oh? Brother, why don't you talk about it first, what's the matter with borrowing someone or bow?" Wei Gaofeng asked with a smile.
Nie Tiansheng sighed before he could speak, saying, "There are too many hungry people in the city, so I taught him to open a porridge shed, thinking that he could save one. Who knew that a passing Taoist came today and rode a big horned deer. A brother bought it from him, but he was killed by his maid! Oh, I argued with him, but was beaten by him, which was really embarrassing."
Wei Gaofeng frowned slightly and said, "It turns out that this is just a Taoist riding a deer. I'm afraid the oil and water are not enough for the brothers to run errands."
"Actually, there are no need for many brothers..." Nie Tiansheng meant that as long as Heifeng Village sent some people, he would say that he would lose the Taoist man, and he would be able to save his face and nothing would happen.
To be honest, he knew that the Taoist was very good and might not be able to use mysterious techniques to directly take the head of his neck. It would be better not to provoke him.
Wei Gaofeng frowned, raised his chin and pulled out his hard black beard, pondered for a moment, and said, "Brother, logically speaking, I shouldn't refute your face. But now there are hundreds of villages in Henan and Anhui provinces, and they all have to do a big deal, so you should give up."
"Huh? It's He Da's business that actually alarmed a hundred villages?" Nie Tiansheng asked curiously, thinking in his mind: If I could also take my brothers to get a share of the pie, no one would mention the shame of defeat today.
"This matter starts from the past year..." Wei Gaofeng walked into the building built by the thatched tree with Nie Tiansheng's arm, telling a legend on the green forest road.
Just before the New Year, a young man suddenly came outside Fengyang Mansion City. The young man was fourteen or fifteen years old, very strange, wearing a brocade dress, sewn so hard that he couldn't even see a thread. It is said that even the vassal prince's mansion might not have such a good handmade tailor. However, this man's words and deeds were very vulgar, and he was definitely not a child of a wealthy family.
According to the strange young master, he was originally a Taoist boy in the Chenghuang Temple in Linhuai County. One day he went out to collect herbs, but he fell into the stream in the mountains and broke his legs. He thought he would die, but he encountered a beautiful woman.
When Nie Tiansheng heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt, "Where is the beautiful woman from the mountains? Isn't it a mountain spirit monster like the mandrille foxes?"
"Let me continue." Wei Gaofeng entered the house and signaled his followers to serve wine and food, and said while eating.
The Taoist boy had heard stories about mountain spirits and water monsters looking for "superman", but now his legs were broken, and even if he was not caught by the monster, he would never be able to get out of the mountain stream. When the Taoist in the temple came here, he might have died long ago. Thinking about the death of his left and right, it would be better to be happy, so he said to the woman: "Grandma, do you want to eat me?"
The woman laughed so hard that she leaned back and forth and said, "You have little black skin and flesh, I think it's not delicious."
The Taoist boy said repeatedly: "That's right, my meat is sour when I smell it. It's really hard to eat!"
"It's not just sour, it's even more smelly!" the beautiful woman smiled, "You are interesting. Let me ask you, are you a Quanzhen Daoist?"
"Quanzhen Dao..." The Taoist Tong was just a hardworking laborer in the City God Temple. Even his master was a wild Taoist priest who had no master. He wore a Taoist robe and made a living in the temple. He had never even heard of Quanzhen Dao, but only knew that there was a Longhu Mountain to the south, and there was a Zhengyi Master on the mountain, which was the official of the Taoist priests in the world.
"Yes! I am Quanzhen Dao!" The Taoist boy grasped the woman's tone and expression, and firmly recognized his ancestors, thinking: Whenever she asked any classics, she only said that I was short when I was in the beginning and never learned it.
Chapter completed!