burning nations

Chapter 7

Time is like water, passing by year after year, flattering the spring of Zhangwu 38, Qizhou Qingcheng Mountain, Zhang Yaya still lives here, but she is more lonely than last year.

Zhang Yaya is already a 15-year-old girl this year. When she was 8 years old, that is, 31 years after flattering Zhangwu, Uncle Aji went hunting in the mountains and never came back.When Zhang Yaya searched deep into Mount Qingcheng, there was only a mutilated corpse with bloody flesh and internal organs exposed.

Zhang Yaya carried the body back for burial, that day she cried very sadly, the tears never stopped flowing from her cheeks for the whole day, her heart ached, her heart felt like a knife was twisted, she felt extremely uncomfortable!
The only family member, gone.

Cry, cry all the time, cry until you can't cry.Since then, Zhang Yaya began to regard herself as a helpless orphan.

The Zhang family later learned of the tragedy and felt sorry for the loss of an excellent hunter. At the same time, the patriarch Zhang Kuang ordered his father Zhang Hong to take Zhang Yaya home.

Zhang Kuang knew about Zhang Yaya's evil deeds, but from a humane point of view, he couldn't let a child who hadn't grown up be allowed to fend for himself.

But it is a pity that Zhang Yaya refused Zhang Kuang's kindness. She didn't want to go back to the place called "home" but actually a "prison cell". She thought that with the death of Uncle Aji, she was no longer Zhang's family.So before Zhang Huan came to pick her up, he hid in the mountain. Zhang Huan naturally followed into the mountain to bring his daughter out, Zhang Yaya sneered and walked into Qingcheng Mountain.In the end Zhang Huan got scared, and the sound of a tiger barking and a bear crowing made Zhang Huan's hair stand on end, and he turned his head and left as if he didn't have a daughter.

And in the shade of the mountain forest, Zhang Yaya was watching her, the hunting bow in her hand had been drawn, the arrowhead was already on the string, and she was staring intently at Zhang Hong's back.

After confirming that Zhang Huan really left and that Zhang’s family would never come again, Zhang Yaya returned to live in the hut. She was self-reliant, and gradually changed from washing vegetables and cooking to hunting and farming, from roof patching to female needlework, from distinguishing plants to Prescribing the right medicine can be said to be perfect in everything.

Especially in house repairing, archery, medicine and cooking, Zhang Yaya considers herself the best architect, archer, doctor and cook in Qizhou.

Keeping in mind Uncle Aji's teachings, go hunting in the mountains every day, and practice day after day, year after year. Zhang Yaya's archery skills are not only perfect, but there is no problem.

And because Zhang Yaya has absorbed enough animal fat from hunting all year round, although Zhang Yaya is as thin as ever, her size and strength are no longer in the category of women. Her muscles, strength, body skills, and explosive power can even make many men feel ashamed.

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On this day, Zhang Yaya returned to the hut with her prey and berries as usual. After eating the roasted wild pork, the sky was already gloomy. It rained heavily in an instant, and the air was unusually humid and cool.

Zhang Yaya put the bow and arrow beside the bed, took off her clothes, wrapped herself in the animal skin quilt she got from hunting, and went to sleep without praying.

It was raining heavily outside, but the girl inside was sleeping soundly.
I don't know how long it took, Zhang Yaya heard voices outside the door while she was half asleep and half awake. The rain was too heavy and she couldn't hear what she was saying, but she was no longer sleepy. But he got up very quickly, drew out an arrowhead and wound it up, stretched the bowstring into a full moon shape and aimed at the door.

The people outside were knocking on the door, and Zhang Yaya held her breath; when the people outside pushed the door in, Zhang Yaya immediately let go of the string, and then quickly took out the arrows and shot them out, shooting all 20 arrows in the quiver, and then turned back Rolling sideways into a corner with a dagger in hand, it turned out to be the kitchen.Picking up the kitchen knife on the chopping board with the other hand, he waited like a poisonous snake.

Boom!

Whoa whoa whoa.
On the mountain road of Mount Qingcheng, seven or eight strong men are supporting an old man to move up the mountain.The lightning flashed across the night sky and illuminated the group's target - a small house on the mountain.

"Everyone work hard, and you can rest in that little house!" The old man looked very old, but his white hair couldn't hide his radiance, and he spoke with confidence and dignity After hearing this, the seven strong men quickened their pace.

The old man is Qi Qi, Qi Qi Pingbo, former marshal of the Zhagu Empire.

Since Qi Qi left the imperial capital, he planned to enjoy himself for a while and relax at the same time, so he went out of Tongguan to visit famous mountains and rivers in the world, and visit places of interest.When we reached Qizhou, Henan Province, we wanted to climb Mount Tai, but the weather was not good, and it was raining not long after we left Licheng, so we had to find a shelter from the rain first.

Qingcheng Mountain is just a dirt bag, Qi Qi and his party quickly came up to the door of the hut.

A man stepped forward and knocked on the door politely.

Dangdangdang~~~
"Is there anyone in there? We are traveling merchants going south. We missed our place because we were greedy for the journey, so we borrowed an expensive place to shelter from the rain and stay overnight. I will pay for it and it will not be in vain. I wonder if the master can do it?"

no response.

The strong man looked at Qi Qi, Qi Qi signaled him to continue.

The strong man tried harder: "Is there anyone inside? We are here to shelter from the rain and stay overnight!"

"Hey! Is there anyone in there? Squeak!"

"Okay, stop knocking." Qi Qi stopped, "This should be an empty house, push the door and go in. Check it out, don't break the door."

"It's my lord."

The strong man responded, stretching out his hand to gently push the door open, but he didn't expect that just as the door opened, an arrow suddenly hit him. The strong man couldn't dodge and hit the door in front of him, so he fell backwards, clutching his nose with a groan.

"Qi Shisan!!!"

The two strong men rushed forward to rescue them, but two more arrows flew out of the house, one hit the center of the hole, the other hit the cheek, and they fell to the ground.

"Qi Six! Qi Seventeen!!!"

"Don't go there! There are eagle shooters in the room!" Qi Qi stopped the remaining four people.

Everyone was horrified that there would be a prairie eagle shooter in the heart of the empire? !

"Six! Thirteen! Seventeen! How are you three?"

"I'm fine!"

"I'm fine!"

"It's okay, the opponent's arrow is a bone arrow."

As he spoke, Qi Shiqi tried to pull the arrowhead out of his face.

Qi Qi breathed a long sigh of relief: "It's good that it's okay, it looks like there should be a hunter in the house."

Before he finished speaking, he saw arrows flying out of the room non-stop, one after another, one after another, almost like a string of arrows, and everyone hurriedly avoided.

"What a fast arrow!" Qi Qi's old eyes were bright, and he praised him regardless of the rain. "There is no archery in the empire that can surpass it, and there is no one better than Huangfu Yizhen in the Northwest."

"Master, the arrow stopped." Qi Da said beside him.

Qi Qi slightly poked his head out and looked inside the door, it was so dark that he couldn't see anything.The old man retracted his neck and said calmly to the crowd: "Qi San and Qi Ba lead the battle! Qi Da and Qi Shi follow up! Qi Liu, Qi Shisan and Qi Shiqi cover!"

"Order!"

Just like in the army, the seven ordered to attack and took out their self-defense daggers. Qi San and Qi Ba jumped into the house, Qi Da and Qi Shi quickly followed, and then there were three screams and the sound of metal clashing.

"Not good! Enter the house to save people!" As he said, Qi Qi rushed into the house with the other three people.

There was a flash of lightning, and Qi Qi happened to see Qi Da fighting with a small figure.

Back to Zhang Yaya, she was hiding in the kitchen, when she heard a movement suddenly, she saw two strong men in the room through the flash of lightning, and another two strong men came in with a knife. Then the room plunged into darkness.

[The four robbers all have knives, two in front and two behind. 】

Zhang Yaya said to herself in her heart, closed her beautiful eyes, pricked up her ears to listen to the voices in the room.

The steady breathing of the four men let Zhang Yaya know that they were formidable enemies. She judged the direction calmly by the sound of footsteps, knowing that they were searching for herself, and gradually merged with the house layout in her brain.

[One, come to the kitchen. 】

Zhang Yaya held her breath, gently pushed a bamboo basket to the front, tiptoedly moved to the stove on the right, put her hands on the ground and landed on all fours, lurking like a beast.

The footsteps gradually approached, and the bamboo basket was kicked away suddenly. Zhang Yaya's upper and lower muscles tensed instantly, and she jumped up and down like a leopard. After San turned over, the kitchen knife in his left hand quickly chopped out, cutting across a mass of flesh.

"what!!!!"

Qi San let out a miserable scream, fell to the ground and pressed his cut calf, but the blood couldn't stop flowing out.

"three!"

"three!"

"three!"

The remaining three people quickly approached Qi San, and Zhang Yaya continued to roll twice with the back of the forward flip after hearing the sound, and touched Qi Ba's legs.

"what!!!!"

Zhang Yaya stabbed the dagger into Qi Ba's walking right leg, just piercing the aorta, pulled out the dagger by turning forward, and the scarlet blood gushed out, Qi Ba fell down and wailed.

"eight?!"

"Eight!"

"The thief is powerful! Ten! Get closer!!"

Qi Da shouted loudly, Qi Shi was about to get closer, when he suddenly felt something on his foot, and when he was about to swing the knife, he felt a sharp pain in the hollow of his knee, and he lost all strength in one leg and couldn't stand up.While Qi Shi was kneeling on the ground, Zhang Yaya, who had just cut open the hollow of her knee with a kitchen knife, stabbed Qi Shi's throat with a dagger in her right hand.But the room was so dark that Zhang Yaya could only rely on her feeling. She thought it was her throat, but it was actually inserted into Qi Shishi's arm.

"Ahhhh!!!"

"ten!"

Qi was furious, the three brothers all wailed within less than a minute from the start of the fight, and three brothers were shot by arrows at the door, maybe a monster was sealed in this room—the Great Demon King Sargeras!

When Qi was furious, Zhang Yaya pulled out the dagger vigorously, but it was too deep and she couldn't pull it out.

Qi Shi reluctantly hugged Zhang Yaya and shouted to Qi Da: "Big! I caught it! Come on!!!"

When Qi Da heard the news, he stepped forward with a knife. Zhang Yaya kicked Qi Shi very hard when he heard the news, and just kicked Qi Shi's face to break free.After listening to the sound, he retreated, leaped sideways, and moved forward, moving to Qi Da's back and swinging the kitchen knife.

Qi Da also heard the movement, and was keenly aware of what was behind him, so he swung his knife back and slashed away.

Clang~~~
The kitchen knife and the dagger collided.

Zhang Yaya suddenly grabbed Qi Da's wrist holding the knife, and slashed down with the kitchen knife, but unexpectedly, Qi Da was so powerful that he broke free and held the short knife horizontally.Then Qi Da held Zhang Yaya's arm tightly with one hand, and cut it down with a short knife.Zhang Yaya couldn't break free, so she kicked her feet with Qi Da's strength, turned up and jumped over Qi Da's head, and gave Qi Da's head a blow with a powder fist.

"what!"

Qi Da staggered in pain, Zhang Yaya took the opportunity to swing the kitchen knife horizontally, Qi Da felt a crisis and stopped him with the knife.

Just at this moment, a voice came from the door: "Qi Da retreat!!!"

As soon as the words fell, Qi Qi had already jumped steadily in front of Zhang Yaya, separated Qi Da, and confronted Zhang Yaya with fists and feet.

Zhang Yaya didn't know that the person in front of her was Qi Qi Pingbo, the former marshal of the empire, she just regarded it as an ordinary old man.Even if she knew it was Qi Qi, with Zhang Yaya's character, she might still fight Qi Qi.

Zhang Yaya swung the knife and slashed at the head, Qi Qi narrowed his old eyes, and his two arms were half-empty in an "X" shape to block Zhang Yaya's kitchen knife, and then he grabbed, shook and knocked with his right hand, and the kitchen knife fell out of his hand instantly.

Zhang Yaya was astonished, Qi Qi punched Zhang Yaya's heart with another fist, Zhang Yaya stretched out her hand to resist but flew out in pain, Qi Qi stepped forward vigorously and cast her locking claw hand, grabbing Zhang Yaya and knocking her down .

Qi Qi, Qi Shishi, and Qi Shisan at the door had already entered, and together with Qi Da, they supported Qi Shi, and protected Qi Ba and Qi Shi who were seriously injured and almost unconscious.

"People have caught it! Qi Da holds the lamp!"

Qi Dawenyu took out a torch from his pocket, played it very hard, and ignited it after 5 minutes. He stretched it out in front of Zhang Yaya's face to illuminate her face, which was bleeding from the corners of her mouth, and her complexion was unwilling but unyielding. of beauty.Although Qi Da could not lose his mind, it was enough to startle his eyes.

Even Qi Qi on Zhang Yaya's back, the old man was so shocked that his old eyes widened.

Such a sharp archer turned out to be a woman? !

The four of us can't beat a weak woman? !
Taking advantage of Qi Qi's slack opportunity, Zhang Yaya kicked Qi Qi on the back of her head with her leg, and Ze Roll broke free and pressed her hands to the ground, and stood up again with two backflips, and the dropped kitchen knife returned to her hand.

Zhang Yaya stood in front of Qi Qi and his party with a knife in one hand, and Zhang Yaya's cheeks were flushed (tired) under the light.Qi Qi felt the woman's murderous intent, he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Cough~ girl, don't be afraid, I'm just here to shelter from the rain, we are not bad people."

What Qi Qi said didn't have enough confidence.

"Get lost!" Zhang Yaya said roughly.

(End of this chapter)