Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 887 Going North to Xingyang
Mi County is located in Xingyang, at the eastern foot of Songshan Mountain, and at the time of Yongjia, Sikong and Xunfan of the Chinese and Korean Dynasties once set up a platform here, which has been up and down, and there is no trace so far.

Today's Mi County does not belong to any side of the world, and there is no too strong side in the territory. The villagers live scattered among the mountains, rivers and rivers, without belonging to each other. Occasionally, some people who are impatient of loneliness The strong people couldn't bear the poor life, and they were called by the powerful and powerful people in the village to go out and go out, or they never came back, or they returned home in disgrace.

This place is neither an important city nor a famous city. Except for the occasional bandit intrusion passing through the border, it is able to retain some peace in this troubled world.

There is a low hill in the county, and the mountain stream flows down the hill, irrigated a piece of fertile soil that is not too big. There are some chickens, ducks and dogs scattered around the fence.

Some farmers in the farmland are mowing grass and watering seedlings. There are peasant women sitting on the ground on the ridges, weaving retting hemp silk with their hands flexibly. The sour juice flowed out after breaking, the child's immature facial features were wrinkled into a ball, and the thin body was so sore that it couldn't stop shaking, but when those bright red ripe berries appeared in the field of vision, I still couldn't bear it. Can't help but relapse into old ways, picking them and throwing them into the mouth.

However, under this peaceful appearance, there is an unusual throbbing brewing.The villagers chatted a lot in their spare time after working, and there was an unconcealable worry in their tone of voice.

"I don't know, last night, East Neighbor Ah Si went to the stream to take a shower, and actually fished out a swollen human head from the stream..."

"Yes, Ah Si also said that it was a mountain ghost who went out to eat people and was bumped into by him, and now he is too scared to go out."

"No wonder, no wonder, I was carrying water home last night, and I was always yelling non-stop. These days, it's so hot that my tongue hangs down, and I don't want to take a sip of the stream water. I'm almost dying of thirst..."

Amidst the discussion, everyone couldn't help looking at the stream that was diverted into the fields by the small canal, but still looked clear, feeling shuddering in their hearts.

"I'm afraid it may not be the mountain ghost..."

A farmer who looked to be in his 40s, with a tall frame and a wrinkled face with a look of sadness sighed, staring at the upstream of the stream in a daze.The person had two broken fingers on his left hand, and there was still a bulging scar on his chin, which seemed to be the mark left after the knife wound healed.

Hearing what this person said, everyone's faces changed, and they all came to the farmer's side, and asked in a low voice with anxiety on their faces: "Brother, could it be that you see something unusual?"

"That's right, Ah Shan, you are the only one in our village who has been out and about in the early years, and you have the most knowledge and experience. Could it be that something bad happened to you?"

What are the surnames of more than a dozen villagers in this village? He Shan, a farmer with scars, also went out for a living when he was young, and then returned with scars all over his body. He married a wife and had children in the village, and kept silent about foreign affairs.

At this time, seeing everyone gathered around him, his face showed a look of nostalgia, and gradually cold sweat broke out on his forehead. After a while, he sighed suddenly, pointed to the low hill and said, "It's hard to say, it's hard to say... There are a few days of slack in the fields, everyone should follow me up the mountain, let's find a place to hide first."

With that said, he carried the wooden pickaxe and headed home.

This answer is naturally unsatisfactory. The villagers have their own complaints, and there are many younger Ding Zhuang who can't help but sneer: "Uncle has encountered difficulties when he went out, and he has already lost his guts. I'm afraid what happened. He doesn't know either!"

At this time, an ox cart came to the north of the hill. There was an old farmer and two young and strong men on the cart.One of the young men pulled the old cow, waved to the villagers from a distance, and shouted in his mouth: "Big disaster, big disaster! We went to Beixi with my grandfather to exchange salt. Blood energy, the whole village seems to be dead..."

Not long after, more than a dozen households in the village gathered in the courtyard of the clan's old home, listening to the three people talking intermittently about what they saw when they went out.The Shangxi Liu's Fort is more than ten miles away to the north of the hill, and it is the largest settlement of living people in the surrounding area. There are over a hundred households, nearly a thousand people, men, women, and children, and they are all invisible. Everyone admired a castle. Only the traces left after the fire was burned all over the ground.

"Ah Shan, do you think what evil has happened?"

Although the signs were clear, the elderly grandfather still wanted to ask the middle-aged farmer He Shan out of luck.

Seeing that all the villagers were looking at him eagerly, He Shan's face became more worried, and he said in a trembling voice: "What evil can be done? They must have been killed and robbed! This should not be done by ordinary gangsters. , It should be a group of soldiers. It should be that the battle broke out in the village, and those soldiers had few people to use, so they plundered the villagers to supplement. Grandpa, let's go, Liu's Fort is only more than ten miles away from our Zhuangzi, and the Zhuang Xiao is not right now. If someone sees it, later on there may be remnants of the fort who will lead the army to rob our Zhuangzi..."

"how come……"

"Impossible, our Zhuangzi has no enmity with Liu's Fort..."

"It will take more than two months for the seedlings in the fields to mature..."

"If they dare to come, they will do their best!"

As soon as He Shan finished speaking, the villagers began to yell. Although the words were not the same, there was only one core, that is, they could not bear to abandon this poor home and leave their hometown.

"Shut up!"

The grandpa waved the bamboo stick in his hand and shouted loudly, the shouts inside and outside the house stopped, but before he opened his mouth to say anything, there was a strange noise outside the Zhuangzi, from far to near, it gradually became clearer.

"Yes, it's a horse...the sound of hooves...it's too late, it's too late!"

He Shan's face turned pale when he heard this sound.

"Well done, all the strength comes out with me, let's go fight these thieves!"

A young man yelled, and pulled out the rusty hatchet pinned to his ribs, his eyes flashed with excitement and madness.

"I'm going to die! You're going to kill everyone in the village..."

Seeing this scene, He Shan, who had been listless all this time, suddenly groaned, stood up and slapped the young man on the head, and then said with trembling lips, "Everything in the village is served in baskets. Pull up the young ones, and run to the back of the stream, how many people escaped. Men and women in their forties, and I will help grandpa to deliver food..."

The sudden eruption of He Shan made everyone in the village frightened, no one objected for a while, and there was a mess when going in and out.No matter how much He Shan yelled, he couldn't restrain these terrified villagers.At this time, a group of hundreds of knights had forded the stream and rushed into the village.

"Who is talking about the matter in the village? See you quickly!"

Hundreds of powerful soldiers reined in their horses in front of the village and settled down, shouting condescendingly.

Seeing those soldiers wearing armor, sabers, bows and guns, the villagers were even more terrified. The young people who had been clamoring for their lives before were also trembling with fright, hanging their heads and not daring to speak out.In the end, He Shan tremblingly stepped forward, knelt down and knelt down a few feet away from the knights, walked forward on his knees and said tremblingly: "Xiao, Xiaomin is the leader of the Zhuangmin, no, I don't know what the king will do? , If you take it for food, you must, you must spend your entire family to provide it, just ask the prince not to hurt the villagers..."

"This suzerain is interesting!"

Among the knights, there was a young knight who was in the [-]th or [-]th year, which was different from the rest in terms of armor and armor. He was obviously the leader of this team of knights. He Shan couldn't help but smile in surprise when he heard He Shan's reply. , but it is rare to be able to express the meaning clearly.

"So it's the head of the township here. Don't be alarmed. Get up and answer. If there is food for horses in the village, prepare it first. I will take a short rest and won't harm the villagers."

During the conversation, the knights divided up more than 20 riders and went around Zhuangzi to cruise in all directions. More than [-] people entered the village for a walk, and then walked out to say that there was no danger, so all the people got off their horses one after another.

Seeing that these knights did not start killing immediately, He Shan felt relieved. There was no hope of escape now, and fearing to anger these fierce soldiers, he hastily gathered young men and women to tidy up the houses and welcome these soldiers inside.

There are horses in the team to carry money. Since there are villagers who come forward to do it for them, the soldiers will assign several people to instruct these villagers to drink horses to sweat and feed them.The young soldier leader dragged He Shan to sit in front of the courtyard of the clan's old house, frowned and inquired about the rural conditions and the landscape, especially the matter of Liu's Fort in the north of the hill being plundered and burned.

"These thieves are really disgusting, even infants! If they can be tracked down and found, the thieves will be cut off to vent their anger!"

The soldiers sat on the ground and talked with each other, with a lot of indignation in their expressions.

After hearing these discussions, He Shan knew that these cavalrymen were not the group that slaughtered Liu's Fort, but he did not dare to relax. He had also left his hometown for a few years before, and he knew that there is no kindness in this world. , if offended even a little bit, their entire Zhuangzi would suffer disaster.

Therefore, he racked his brains and answered every question asked by the young soldier commander. After a while, he saw that the soldier commander's questions and answers were not lacking in kindness, so he boldly asked, "I don't know where the princes and others come from?"

"We are the master of the king under the command of Dudu Shen in Huainan. I wonder if the owner of the villa can hear about it?"

The young soldier replied with a smile, with a proud expression on his face.

"Master Huainan? Isn't it Huainan where the fields grow fat and the rivers flow rice? This, this is what the Liushibao people said, saying that Huainan is a paradise in the sky..."

Hearing what He Shan said, the soldiers around immediately burst into laughter. The young soldier commander patted He Shan on the shoulder and said with a smile, "What the owner said is right. We are Huainan from Paradise in Heaven. Commander Shen The king's army of [-] troops has already gone north to Xingyang, and several counties have been recovered, but there are still bandits fleeing to the countryside to cause harm, so they chased and wiped them out. If the villagers can provide traces of the bandits, the Dudu Mansion will reward them after they are wiped out. Since then The villagers can also return to the king's teaching, live and work in peace and contentment, and be good at raising the soil."

He Shan didn't feel much when he heard this, it's a great fortune for the villagers not to be killed by the army, so how dare they expect any reward.Just seeing that the soldier's armor is excellent and his saber is shining coldly, he is not ordinary, so he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The prince is full of good uses, he must be a famous general!"

Hearing the owner's cautious compliment, the soldier commander couldn't help laughing and said: "I dare not be called a prince, I'm just a soldier under the command of Shen Dudu."

Another soldier beside him said with a smile: "The owner of the village may not know the name of the soldier, but the commander of our army, Guo Song Guo Shijun, I wonder if the owner of the village has heard of it?"

"Guo, Guo Shijun?"

Hearing the words of the soldiers, not only He Shan himself, but also other nearby villagers who were building stoves to boil water stopped their movements and looked over. Some elderly people couldn't help trembling and said: "Everyone, everyone! Is Junhou really under General Guo? General Guo has led his army back to Xingyang?"

Before the words were finished, the old man burst into tears: "General Guo returns to the county, and the lives of the villagers can finally be protected..."

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