Lingxian Zhenjun

Chapter 66
"Brother Chen, why didn't you leave before dawn?"

"Brother Hu didn't wait until dawn."

The pattering raindrops fell on the carriage and slid to one side, leaving the previous village on the water-logged ox cart, and after a detour of [-] miles, they found a stone bridge across the river. The two people on the carriage were talking and laughing like a charade.

Da Qingniu, who provoked the cart, looked back and let out a rough breath.

'Just tell me if you have something to say, I'm still waiting to hear it, are you tired? '

When the car drove up, Chen Yuan saw that the middle-aged scholar was holding a scroll in his hand, and when he had nothing to say, he flipped through it in his hand, and glanced slightly sideways.

"Brother Hu, what book are you reading?"

During the slight jolt, the scholar touched the page, and said with a smile: "Mountain monsters are all gossip, and the stories are quite interesting. Poor man, to promote the prosperity of his family business. But brother Chen is traveling around in a car, did you encounter any unusual things? You might as well tell me to listen to it, so that you can relieve your boredom along the way."

"Hehe, I came out of Qingshan County and only traveled a few hundred miles. How could I encounter so many strange things?"

This scholar was not simple at first glance, he was walking around with a bag alone, and he had no skills. Chen Yuan didn't believe it, but he couldn't feel any traces of mana on his body, and he didn't even have the slightest demonic or yin energy.

Moreover, the other party does not seem to be malicious.

"... But speaking of it, it is embarrassing to encounter one thing. A person who does a lot of evil, unexpectedly does evil for the sake of keeping more people alive. What would you do if you were Brother Hu?"

The scholar frowned and shook his head in thought.

"It's hard to say, but his behavior is evil, but his nature is inherently good. There is no absolute good or evil in the way of the world."

"Well, so there are good people among demons? Brother Hu, have you seen it?"

Hu Yong smiled and did not respond. He cast his eyes on the lead-green rain curtain outside, "Of course not. But there must not be only evil. There are also those who yearn for people in the mountains. They practice hard and become human beings to walk in the world and watch all kinds of fireworks. With the aura of a person, he casts spells to save people, accumulates good deeds, and hopes to attain the Dao and become an immortal, but how can he destroy the Dao fruit himself.”

"Of course, it's also like the vicious bird last night. It is ferocious and cannibalize people. It thinks that people are the spirit of all things. Eating them can supplement your cultivation, but it doesn't know that eating for a long time is entangled in evil and attracts evil results."

After listening to him, Chen Yuan nodded: "Although it is a vicious bird, it is better to say that it is not spiritually complete, and still preys."

"Oh?"

Hu Yong's eyes lit up, "Brother Chen seldom said anything like that in the journey I have traveled. It is ridiculous to say that the mountains and rivers, monsters, and monsters are harmful to people. As everyone knows, it takes hundreds of years for a monster to transform a person, which can be called cultivation. Difficult, how can it disturb people for no reason."

"How many miles did Brother Hu walk?"

"It's also hundreds of miles away."

The two looked at each other, and then laughed lightly.

When approaching the county town ahead, the large rain clouds had gone away, and the drizzle had just gradually subsided, when the scholar suddenly asked Chen Yuan to stop by the side of the road, probably because he was going to get off the car here.

"Afterwards, the journey will be different from Brother Chen's. I will get off here and walk alone. I don't know where Brother Chen is going?"

"I'm going to Luozhou at the invitation of a friend."

Chen Yuan patted the carriage and said with a smile: "By the way, let the people in the Central Plains see my southern woodcarving opera."

"It seems that this is a practice of Brother Chen." The scholar looked at the strange carriage and laughed: "It's not peaceful over there, the road is dangerous, Brother Chen must take care, if there is a destiny, I can go to Luozhou, I hope At that time, I can see Brother Chen's performance."

"There must be a chance! Brother Hu, leave!" Chen Yuan cupped her hands at the scholar beside the road.

Hu Yong smiled all over his face and arched his hands heavily: "Farewell."

The scholar watched the slightly bumpy ox cart go away, the cloudy sky above dispersed, the sun shone down, and reflected his figure and cast it on the ground, it was the shadow of a fluffy tail, which turned into five in a sway, and a fox sounded faintly .

"It's interesting to chat along the way, unlike the pedantic cultivators in Canglan River. If you don't have important things to do, you must go to Luozhou to see."

The sunlight made the scholar squint his eyes, muttered this sentence, turned around and walked in another direction with his burden on his shoulders, and his figure gradually faded in an instant.

……

The warm sun shone on the old city walls. After Chen Yuan drove a bullock cart into the city to perform two plays, he left and headed north, but nothing happened.

Two days later, we arrived at the border of Hezhou, which was already approaching the hinterland of the Central Plains. On the way we passed, the fields gradually became barren, and many villages and towns had very few people. After crossing the border, we arrived at Hezhou. There are many more people with mouths.

Chen Yuan inquired about the fleeing people, and learned that [-] Yue Hu soldiers marched through Qizhou, crossed the Rui River, bypassed the heavy defense line on the north bank of the Rui River, and made a detour from east to west to attack the capital Luozhou. The villages were all flattened, women and children were taken into the army, and men were bound and pushed to attack the city to defend against arrows.

The wind blew across the field, kicking up a vast amount of dust. Chen Yuan stood on the bullock cart, and in his field of vision, there were many figures like this crowding from the roads in the north, walking to the south in a panic.

He got out of the car and led the old cow through the crowd. Someone saw Chen Yuan heading north and couldn't help shouting at him: "I can't go, the barbarians are coming to kill me."

Some people also echoed: "Yes, go back quickly. Go south."

Chen Yuan had never experienced such a scene before, passing through the crowd, panicked, flustered, and terrified faces passed by him one by one.

I don't know how long I walked along this official road, and I can see a town in the distance, but at this time it is no longer as prosperous as imagined.

Black smoke rose from the houses in the town, and the flames licked the corners of the eaves. Some people escaped from the fire in a panic, rolled on the ground crazily, and died after screaming in pain; the old man sitting on the side of the road remained motionless. , the lower body and legs have been cut off all flesh and blood.

There are more and more corpses along the direction of the past.

"what--"

There was a scream, and a white figure rushed out of the house. The stripped woman seemed to see Chen Yuan. She opened her mouth and yelled, stumbling towards this direction with her bare feet. Behind her were several bearded men. Hu people catch up.

"save……"

Before the woman's words could be uttered, she fell to the ground with a terrified expression in Chen Yuan's sight, with a feathered arrow stuck in her back, and the bright red blood was slowly flowing over her white back to the ground.

Chen Yuan stared blankly at the silent woman on the ground, her heart seemed to be picked for some reason, and she felt a little painful.

View across.

The seven barbarians also saw Chen Yuan and the old cow pulling the cart, they laughed loudly, and returned to the town one after another. After a while, they rode their horses and raised their swords to come here.

'Yue Jie Hu people...'

Chen Yuan's gaze was still fixed on the woman, and her eyes gradually narrowed.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes galloping wildly, and the barbarians laughed harshly, and then, the moment they slashed out the blades in their hands, the blade bounced off their hands with a bang as if they had hit something, and the galloping horses also neighed mournfully in an instant. , rolled and fell to the ground and slid a foot away.

"It just so happens that I have to send some gifts to the Tianshi Mansion...[-], right...it's just you guys."

A circle of red threads appeared in Chen Yuan's eyes, watching the remaining six suddenly grinned, revealing their white teeth.

……

call out!
The whistle that flew into the sky rang.

A team of handsome horses was galloping along the road with the sound of rumbling hooves. When they heard the whistle arrow, they turned their horses' heads and ran towards the distant town in the direction of the sound.

It has just been robbed there, taking away many women and children, and some men who thought they were brave.

Could it be that the clansmen who swept over there met the difficult Jin army?
The leader of the barbarians thought so, but when he crossed the corner of the town, his vision expanded, his pupils shrank obviously, and he stopped his horse.

In front of the field of vision, there are several fallen horses, and several clansmen kneel on the ground like devout believers, and red silk threads are rising from them.

In a few breaths, the originally strong clansmen quickly shriveled up, and their robes fell off the ground, leaving only a skinny body in a kneeling position to die.

"Do you like cannibalism?"

Chen Yuan slowly opened her eyes and smiled ferociously.

Behind him, the carriage opened with a clatter, and dozens of small figures flew out, with red wooden eyes, floating behind Chen Yuan, densely packed.

"Eat them!"

Chen Yuan opened her mouth slightly and squeezed out a sound.

next moment.

Dozens of puppets flew over with their teeth and claws open.

　Sorry for the lateness.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)