Will Ming

Chapter 630 Fresh

This is not a story about gods and ghosts, so the faintly visible lights on the mountainside will not be magic weapons in the hands of gods, and naturally they will not be charming foxes who come out at night, let alone stick their tongues into people's stomachs The millennium tree spirit, Li Shimin is not Ning Caichen, so there is no Nie Xiaoqian either.It is not Lanruo Temple that is lit with soft lights in the mountains, but a row of wooden houses.

There are actually people living in this deep mountain and wild forest, which has to make people feel emotional.You must know that Li Shimin's team walked into the mountain from the north side for eight days before arriving here. Their marching speed is already considered fast compared to the difficult mountain road. After all, these are the most elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Killing the enemy did not kill them, and no matter how rough the mountain road was, it would not make them afraid.

As the saying goes, looking at the mountain runs to a dead horse, and if you see a light in the deep mountains in the dark night, you can rush there without blinking an eye.Li Shimin and the others had already exhausted their energy when they reached the top of the mountain. Relying on the excitement of seeing the lights, they ran over in one breath, and it took a full half an hour to get there.This distance is so far, if they hadn't stood on the top of the mountain and looked down, they wouldn't have been able to see it at all.

The soldiers were obviously taken aback when they found that a row of wooden houses appeared in front of them.In any case, it is always a little weird to see a residential house in the deepest part of the mountain, so when the soldiers walked to the door of the wooden house, they subconsciously clenched the handle of the horizontal knife.

Li Shimin waved his hand, signaling not to act rashly.He went to the wooden house to look around, then cleared his throat and shouted inside: "Is there anyone in the house? We are pedestrians who got lost in the past, can we come out and meet?"

His voice is not very loud, but it is enough to spread far in the quiet night.Not long after, the door of a wooden house was pushed open from the inside, and someone came out with a lantern. It was a little far away, so I couldn't see the age carefully, but the clothes on his body looked a little weird, as if they were not ordinary people's clothes, etc. It was only when the man brought up the lantern that he appeared in front of the crowd. It turned out that he was wearing a Taoist robe.

"Is it really a fairy?"

A soldier of the Liehu Camp took a step back subconsciously, and whispered to his colleagues, "It does look like a god..."

But Li Shimin looked carefully, this person is definitely not some kind of fairy.Because the man in the Taoist robe was obviously taken aback when he saw a group of soldiers who were in distress but armed with murder weapons.If he was really a god, how could he be intimidated by mortals, and how could he subconsciously back away as if he was ready to turn around and run away.

"This priest"

Li Shimin knew that these people must look like a group of refugees and bandits who robbed and murdered people, so he immediately took out his King Qin seal letter from his arms.

"I am the second son of His Majesty the Tang Emperor, Qin Wang Li Shimin. I led the army to hunt down the bandits and strayed into the mountains and couldn't find a way out. I saw a light on the top of the mountain so I rushed over here. It would be presumptuous to bother you late at night. Please ask the Taoist priest Forgive me."

"Da Tang?"

The middle-aged man in Taoist robe was stunned for a moment, then his face changed and he asked in surprise: "Da Sui has died? What replaced Da Sui is called Da Tang?"

This time it was Li Shimin's turn to be stunned. After thinking for a while, he replied seriously: "The violent Sui Dynasty is gone, the Yang family is gone, and the world is now the Tang Dynasty. I don't know when the Taoist priest entered this deep mountain. ? Now that we know about the Sui Dynasty, it will be the past three to twenty years.”

"It didn't take that long. When the world was in chaos for ten years, we hid in this mountain to avoid the war. There are seventeen people here, all of whom are disciples of the Sanqing Guande Tianjun outside Chang'an City. Unexpectedly, in this mountain It has been several years, and I still meet outsiders."

"Since Daye only entered the mountain ten years ago, the Taoist priest must also know my father's name."

The Taoist thought for a moment and asked, "Could it be Duke Tang of Longyou?"

"Exactly!"

Li Shimin nodded and said: "The Taoist priest was frightened, and the people of the world were terrified."

"The second prince is going to beat me to death, how dare I accept the gift from the second prince."

The Taoist turned to the side and refused to accept Li Shimin's gift, but turned around and said, "Brothers, come out. The person here is the second prince of His Majesty the current Emperor. The troubled times of the Sui Dynasty have ended, and the Tang Dynasty has been established... We don't need to Don’t hide anymore. Come out and meet the guests.”

After talking with those Taoist priests for a while, Li Shimin finally figured out the ins and outs of their seclusion in the mountains. It turned out that the world was at its most chaotic at the end of the tenth year of Daye. He died in a military disaster, so he simply brought his belongings and lost his money and food into this mountain.The seventeen brothers and sisters only thought that it would be safer to walk more into the mountain, but they actually went deep into this place in one breath before stopping.

After building a wooden house and planting some brought food on the nearby flat land, several years passed in a flash.

Hearing the word food, Shimin's eyes lit up.

"Master Daoist, I led my troops to chase the bandits and strayed into this mountain by mistake. To be honest, the food has already been eaten. The large group of people are still waiting outside the mountain to go back alone, but without food and grass, it is difficult for us hundreds of people to get out. The Taoist priest is willing to lend me some food, and when I return to Chang'an, I will build a new Sanqing temple in Chang'an city to repay today's kindness."

"food……"

The head Taoist shook his head in embarrassment and said: "It's not that I don't want to lend it to His Highness, it's just that in March, there is no harvest, and the food is only enough for a dozen of us to survive until the summer food is ripe. We have to go out to hunt some wild animals on weekdays, otherwise we still have to go out There's not enough to eat. So...don't blame your Highness."

"It's such a pity."

Li Shimin sighed and said, "Even the seventeen of you don't have enough food to last until summer. It seems that you really don't have much food in reserve."

He changed his tone suddenly, and a smile flashed in his eyes: "However, the food for seventeen people for a few months is almost enough for soldiers like me to eat for six or seven days. In six or seven days, we will be able to walk out of the mountains... ..."

"How can your highness be so difficult?"

The Taoist stood up and said with an ugly face: "If you take away all the food, what will we do? We respect the Sanqing, so don't you fear being punished by God for doing this evil thing? We serve the law with our body, but in fact Can you bully at will?"

Li Shimin smiled and said: "If you say that if there is a scourge, there will be a scourge. Do you still need to hide in this deep mountain to avoid the world? You said that you serve the law with your body... Then I don't think you should keep your body."

He stood up, glanced at Yu Chigong and asked, "Have you ever eaten human flesh?"

Yu Chigong's expression changed and he lowered his head, "I've never eaten it."

Li Shimin said with a smile: "I don't have one, so I want to try it."

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Li Shimin asked someone to count the food stored in the wooden house, and it was indeed too little, and 300 people could barely eat enough for seven or eight days, but it should be enough to get out of the mountains.So the soldiers don't need to eat human flesh to replenish their physical strength. It's not that eating fairy meat will make you immortal, it will only make you sick.

All the properties of the seventeen Taoist priests were looted, including clothes, shoes and socks.Li Shimin looked at the seventeen naked people, and walked over to salute them solemnly: "I will remember the kindness of today, if more than ten of you don't die, you will be honored guests when you arrive in Chang'an City in the future. If you die, Gu will also build a Sanqing Temple in the city as promised."

"Li Shimin!"

The Taoist cursed angrily: "You will not end well."

Li Shimin was not angry, but said calmly: "I don't kill you, it is because of the love of this food. The giant wild thief Zhang Jin said that eating people's hearts is the most delicious thing in the world. If you If you don’t know what’s good and what’s bad, I don’t mind trying to see if it’s really delicious.”

The Taoist priest didn't dare to speak any more, Li Shimin turned around and wanted to leave.At this time, the soldier with the least courage suddenly said in a low voice: "Although it is not fairy meat, it seems that some of them have fine skin and tender meat. It is not unpalatable. It will always be better than those stinky horse meat." ..."

Perhaps these words were too bloody and terrifying, even he himself was startled.Subconsciously looking at the comrades around him, he thought he would be despised and scolded by everyone, but who would have thought that none of the soldiers were surprised by this remark, but a few soldiers who were already extremely fierce stared at the dozen or so Taoist priests with flickering eyes Directory fierce.Even Li Shimin and Yu Chigong were taken aback by the soldiers' eyes, which were greedy and extremely eager to vent.

Yes……

Li Shimin sighed in his heart, vaguely guessing why these soldiers had such expressions.

They followed him all the way back to Chang'an from the eastern capital to rebel. The 3000 army was full of spirits. In the battle of Xuanwu Gate, less than [-] of the [-] people escaped.By the Fengshui River, in order to get rid of Li Xiaogong's pursuers, most of the [-] people were abandoned by Li Shimin.After entering the mountains, they ate unpalatable dead horse meat every day, and had to flee hard. The pressure on the surviving soldiers must have been enormous, and it was time to vent.And for soldiers like them, the best way to vent is to kill someone.

"Respect..."

Li Shimin yelled softly, looked at the red eyes of the soldiers and said in a low voice, "Let them kill, if they don't vent their resentment... I'm worried..."

"I understand."

Yu Chigong also thought of the key point, so he waved his hands and said, "King Qin is going over there to see if there is any food left. You all stay here and search carefully."

After speaking, he dragged Li Shimin out quickly, looking at his back as if he was running away, looking a little embarrassed.

Behind him came the excited cheers of the soldiers, as well as the wailing of someone dying.

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Just half a day after Li Shimin's team left the wooden house, an extremely haggard figure stumbled out of the woods