I want to embrace the moon for nine days

Chapter 96 Three Thousand Eagles and Dogs are Restless

In the early morning, the mist drifts, the river is leisurely, and the green water faces east.

There is a village on the bank of the river. After someone in the village dies, they often choose to erect a grave in the wilderness near the river and insert willow sticks, and dozens of willow trees gradually grow.

Although the willow trees are not tall, they are quite old. The bark is as old as an old snake, but the willow branches are full of new ideas.

Some villagers came over with hatchets, selected those green and tender willow branches, chopped some off, and sent them to the new grave.

Relatives of the deceased were weeping beside the new grave, and some were wailing loudly. The cries spread across the river, and seemed to disperse a lot of the fog.

On the other side of the river, in the forest, Su Hanshan was sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding a clay pot in both hands, and turned to look at the graves on the other side.

There were actually seven or eight new graves. Most of the people in the village were helping near the graveyard. Some brought some paper money, and some brought linen and white cloth.

White rags were hung on the willow branches, like layers of spiritual flags fluttering.

"The third uncle's family is gone too, and they didn't make it through the morning?"

"Hey, Sanyao is only this age. What will he do in the future? His uncle will take care of him, right?"

"The daughter of his uncle's family also messed up the matter a few days ago. I don't know what to do. Let's help. Let's make more porridge for which family. Ask him to come in and have a meal. We can make do with it for a while."

While the villagers were helping with the burial, they kept talking in low voices.

Su Hanshan had been listening for a long time and pieced together the whole story in his mind.

About six or seven days ago, a small gang that often walked around here got government documents from unknown sources, and under the guise of searching, broke into the homes of these villagers, demanded property, and captured chickens and geese.

If there was a family with a handsome daughter-in-law, those people would take action. Any villagers who dared to protest against them would be pushed down directly by them, and some would be beaten up by them, and they would swallow them up in a few days. gas.

"Those people are also under Kuanggutang's command?"

Su Hanshan frowned, "Compared with the people who have been chasing us during this period, the difference seems too big?"

During this period of time, the people who were chasing the three of them were mainly horsemen in black, each with a long sword at his waist and capable of action.

Su Hanshan tested a few and was basically certain that each of them could at least strike out with a sword that was nearly ten feet long. Their swordsmanship was ruthless and precise, they were alert and fearless, and they also wore a very sharp iron whistle on their bodies. Whistle, very difficult to deal with.

However, despite their arrogant and arrogant behavior, those people would not deliberately bully the people in small villages and towns.

Even the gangsters who followed these black-clothed riders later, although their clothes were different, it could be seen from their behavior that they all had the aura of orderly orders and focused goals.

"Those black-clothed riders should be from the Third Hall of the Kuanggu Hall. The men and horses of the Gujian Hall are all elites who have been trained rigorously by the General Hall and selected from thousands. Of course, they don't see the little profit from bullying the villagers. "

Li Chaoyang was grinding the medicinal powder, looking at the graves on the other side, and explained, "The people who followed them later should be people from the seven sects of the Prime Minister's Mansion. They said they were seven sects, but in fact they were private individuals trained by Shi Miyuan over the years. Soldier, when the action is not achieved, you will not be too distracted."

"However, no matter whether it is the Third Hall or the Seven Factions of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the number of people who can go out for action will not be too many. I estimate that there will be no more than 800 people."

"Recently, we have encountered more and more signs of searches. I am afraid that it would take 5000 people to disperse in various places to achieve such a momentum. The extra manpower must be those peripheral gangs who are following the trend."

Although those small gangs really want to move closer to Kuang Gutang and Mr. Shi, they usually don't have much use for them. With their own strength, they don't dare to be too arrogant.

The recent actions of Kuang Gutang and Xiangfu have allowed them to see the great opportunity of pretending to be powerful. Of course, they must seize this opportunity and desperately make a fortune.

"We, Fuyao Mountain, could have used it as a deterrent to wandering people, but recently because the old man's news was leaked, those bastard sects that fish in troubled waters are moving closer to our inner territory, forcing us to withdraw our manpower. It’s of no use at all!”

When Li Chaoyang said the last word, his tone was full of anger, and he grinded the medicine with his hands a little harder, grinding the branch-like medicinal materials into fine residue, and wanted to throw it into the clay pot on Su Hanshan's side.

Zhang Shuwei quickly stopped him: "This cannot be added directly."

When Su Hanshan was observing the situation on the other side of the river, he did not forget to boil the medicine in the clay pot.

Zhang Shuwei opened it and took a look. The medicine in the pottery pot was as thick as ointment and bubbled hot, but there was almost no smell of medicine coming out. Knowing that it was hot, he took the pottery pot and went to work aside.

He used this time to wash and dry the sheep intestines as a membrane, first put the medicinal powder, then added a little ointment with bamboo slices, and quickly tied it tightly to form a small pill.

In the blink of an eye, he had already made three or four date-core-sized balls and placed them on a piece of linen next to him.

Su Hanshan sat there, seemingly lost in thought.

"Recently, we have indeed encountered more and more raids. In the early days, we were in a hurry and did not notice it. Now it seems that they are using a distant method to unknowingly limit the scope of our actions."

Su Hanshan whispered, "It's like an open bag, closing tighter and tighter, until finally, it completely blocks the way and surrounds us." Li Chaoyang took out a map from his arms that he had read many times recently. , said: "I think they are probably going to make a final ambush at Feilai Peak. If they go further, they will soon touch the area where they have the most dense manpower. They must try to break through today and penetrate horizontally until they can bypass them." surrounded."

Zhang Shuwei also nodded secretly to this conclusion.

The sky is vast, the land is vast, and there are many mountains and rivers. In many cases, it is difficult for the person being tracked to notice anything strange when he is in the middle of the situation.

But after all, Zhang Shuwei was old in the world, and he noticed something strange earlier than the two young people. Although he didn't have a clear answer in his heart, he had already made preparations for that strange premonition.

During this period, every town they passed through on the road would purchase a lot of medicinal materials and accumulate them.

At first, he still had the intention of treating Su Hanshan's injuries, but he didn't expect that Su Hanshan's injuries would heal so quickly, so he simply asked Su Hanshan to use his internal strength to cook medicine using the unique technique and internal strength training method mentioned above. Control the heat.

Li Chaoyang was responsible for grinding the medicine, and Zhang Shuwei mixed it himself.

Cooking, sifting, filtering and concentrating, repeating these similar but different steps, accumulating hundreds of kilograms of medicinal materials, and adding the elixirs Zhang Shuwei carried as a primer, finally came up with such an ointment in a clay pot.

When these ointments are made into pills, they are not used to treat people, but are used to break out!
The number of pills was piling up at a speed visible to the naked eye. While Zhang Shuwei was immersed in his work, he suddenly heard Su Hanshan exhale a heavy breath.

"We avoided conflict with them in the early stage because they all carry iron and bamboo whistles and have many hunting dogs. Once we fight, it is easy to fall into a long series of troubles."

Su Hanshan said slowly, "Now that we have gone deep enough, if we want to break out, we are more likely to encounter a series of tracking attacks, and there will be more masters."

"If we get together to break out, I'm afraid that in this process, our internal strength and energy will be repeatedly wasted until we are all captured."

Li Chaoyang understood immediately and said solemnly: "Do you want to split up?"

Zhang Shuwei raised his head and stared at Su Hanshan. After a while, he said: "What you said makes sense, but if you want to deliberately distract attention and allow me to take the opportunity to escape, not to mention how I feel, those pursuers, It may not be unnoticeable.”

Su Hanshan just smiled: "If I leave now, you two will not be able to stop me or change my mind."

"But the fact that you are talking to us means that you also know that this idea may not be that good and the risks are also high."

Li Chaoyang said quickly, "If we break out together or break out separately, there will be trouble. At least if we work together, we will have someone to take care of us."

Su Hanshan said gently: "I am talking to you because I hope you can agree. This way we can cooperate better."

Li Chaoyang was still persuading him, but Zhang Shuwei lowered his head and prepared the pills faster than before. The ointment would soon be used up, and the intestines would also be used up. It was just right.

When the last bit of ointment was scraped off, Zhang Shuwei said: "Xiao Su, you said at the tea shed that the fortune teller would not run there until there was an opportunity for you to improve your martial arts."

"I can feel that the purpose of your trip to the world is just to explore the spinal technique. In this regard, I and the collection of books in Fuyao Mountain can indeed help you. But..."

Uncle Zhang's thick eyebrows raised slightly, his white beard slightly raised, and he said solemnly, "If you are robbed first in this storm, even if I succeed in going to Fuyao Mountain, you will not get the reward you deserve."

Li Chaoyang fell silent when he heard this.

He never liked to say this kind of thing, as if everything we did, all our wisdom, perseverance, and hard work could only be for profit, and people seemed less like human beings and more like slaves of some invisible thing.

But after all, he is Li Qiumian's disciple. He has seen too many things since he was a child, and he has to understand in his heart that words like this are often more convincing, because this is the reality.

Selfish people are only interested in self-interest and do not care about ideas. People with feelings have to worry more about reality. Therefore, the principles of reality are applicable to all kinds of people and things in all directions, and they can make people surrender the most.

"When I was in my hometown, because of my worries, I couldn't do many things that I wanted to do. At most, I could only do part of them. I had to hide my head and look forward and backward."

Su Hanshan did not answer directly, but spoke some rambling words.

"At that time, even when facing inevitable risks, I had to think twice. I felt that just by putting myself in danger, I had let down the love of many people."

"But now, many things have improved. To put it bluntly, I also feel that I have repaid something, and I don't have as many worries as before."

"Although I still don't want to let down the people who treat me well, I don't want to let myself down either."

After Su Hanshan finished speaking, he smiled, stood up, and faced the running water. His gentle and smiling words revealed unshakable determination.

"Old man, your knowledge, injections, and Fuyao Mountain's collection of books have all been prepared for me. I will definitely get the reward I deserve."

"It's just that in addition to doing things for reward, I also have to do things that don't matter in return and are purely based on my pleasure!"

(End of this chapter)