Jiangbei female bandits

Chapter 29
In the early morning of the second day, Feng Junyang received news that someone had found Chen Nian in the city. He hurried over, but saw that it was just a girl who looked similar to Chen Nian, looking at him in horror. , I was so scared that I couldn't even speak.Shunping went forward and patiently asked several times before he found out that she was from Qingzhou, a maid of a wealthy family, who secretly came out to deliver letters to his lover for his young lady.

However, in just a few days, Feng Junyang lost a lot of weight, and his brows became more and more stern.He sat on the horse, looked at the girl indifferently for a long time, then slowly closed his eyes, and said lightly: "Let it go."

After speaking, he turned the horse's head and walked back.Shunping didn't dare to say much, he waved his hand lightly to signal his subordinates to let the girl go, and hurriedly got on his horse and followed Feng Junyang to chase after her.When the group passed by the Chengshou Mansion, they happened to meet He Ze coming out of the mansion with Yun Sheng and Xue Xian'er.

He Ze saw Feng Junyang at a glance, patted his horse and greeted him with a smile, "Jun Yang, where are you going?"

Feng Junyang twitched the corners of his mouth, and replied: "I have nothing to do, come out for a while."

He Ze said happily after hearing the words: "That's just right, these two girls are also uncomfortable, and they insist on going out of the city for a while, you go with us."

Yun Sheng and Xue Xian'er were both wearing riding clothes and veiled caps on their heads. It seemed that they were indeed going to ride out of the city.Yun Sheng was still angry with Feng Junyang, Xian'er gently tugged at his sleeves, and then reluctantly came forward to greet him.Seeing him become like this because of another woman, Yun Sheng couldn't help feeling sore and unbearable, and remembering what Xian'er mentioned to her before about a female relative being humiliated at the city gate, his heart was even more bitter, and he couldn't help but sneer Said: "My lord, I heard that you ordered people to seal the gates of the city, and all people entering and leaving, regardless of men, women, old or young, will be interrogated, but is it true?"

"Yunsheng!" He Ze scolded when she heard her mentioning this, "Stop talking nonsense."

Feng Junyang smiled faintly, and answered Yunsheng: "It's true."

Yunsheng took a step forward, raised his head and looked at Feng Junyang who was on the horse through the tulle hanging from the veiled hat, and asked angrily, "Who are you trying to arrest, Shizi? You even want to investigate the family members, so why don't you?" Aren't you afraid of ruining your reputation? Could it be that I have to be checked by someone if I want to leave the city?"

Feng Junyang hadn't answered yet, but He Ze was in a hurry, and said angrily to Yun Sheng: "Enough! If you don't want to go out, just go back to the yard and stay honest!"

Yun Sheng glanced at He Ze, then at Feng Junyang, and after a cold snort, he actually turned around and walked into the mansion.Seeing her so angry, He Ze's expression turned extremely ugly.Seeing this, Xue Xian'er hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over and said, "Master, Brother Twelve, don't worry, I'll go and persuade Yunsheng to come back." After speaking, she hurried into the house to chase after Yunsheng.

Only Feng Junyang, He Ze, and some guards were left on the street. He Ze looked at the gate of the mansion silently for a moment, then turned back to look at Feng Junyang, seeing that his face was calm as usual, and he only slightly lowered his eyes to look at the ground , couldn't help laughing angrily, and sarcastically said: "Master, I really didn't realize that you are such a lover!"

Feng Junyang was still silent, and He Ze had nothing to do with him, so he waved his hand helplessly, signaling the guards to stay away, and then moved to Feng Junyang's side, suppressing his anger and whispering to him: "Feng Junyang, even if you want to marry someone else, Yunsheng is also your cousin who has loved you for many years. She has admired you since she was a child, and she has been waiting to grow up to marry you. What is wrong with her? What does she owe you? ?She ran all the way from Taixing to look for you. Have you ever spent a day with her? Have you ever talked to her well? She is the only daughter of your aunt. Can you let her go? It's just a play, can you coax her?"

The more He Ze said here, the more angry he became, and he seemed to be in a hurry, so Feng Junyang responded calmly: "Okay."

He Ze was stunned for a moment, then his anger turned into joy, he reached out and patted his shoulder vigorously, and said with a smile, "This is a good brother!"

While talking, Xue Xian'er had pulled Yun Sheng out of the mansion, He Ze waved to the two of them, and said, "Get on the horse quickly, Jun Yang will go with us."

But Yunsheng stood in front of the door and refused to move, Xue Xianer smiled softly, pushed Yunsheng to the front of the mount, and begged: "Good Yunsheng, don't be angry, get on the horse quickly, otherwise Soon the sun will be high."

Only then did Yunsheng step on the stirrup and get on the horse, but he avoided Feng Junyang from a distance and refused to go forward.She was wearing a veiled hat all the time, although she couldn't see the expression on her face, but just looking at her, one could tell that she must still be angry with Feng Junyang.

Feng Junyang looked at her, and said softly: "Yunsheng, it was my fault before, and I will apologize to you."

Yun Sheng didn't answer him, but turned his face away in anger.

Seeing this, He Ze hurriedly smiled and urged Feng Junyang to leave quickly, and said, "The little girl just likes to play with her temper, so ignore her, she will be fine in a while!"

But Feng Junyang turned around and called Shunping, and said: "I will go out of the city with the twelve sons, you don't have to go back, just wait for me here."

He Ze smiled when he heard the words, and guessed what Feng Junyang was thinking, so he smiled and said to Shunping: "Shunping, do you understand what your family's elder son said? He wants you to watch the city guard's mansion, please don't worry about it." Don't let anyone sneak away."

Shunping smirked twice, and said back to He Ze: "Master Twelfth, you just bully the little ones honestly, and always make fun of the little ones."

He Ze was about to say more, but Feng Junyang asked indifferently: "He Twelve, are you going or not?"

"Go, go, of course!" He Ze laughed.

At present, He Ze and Feng Jun Yang rode horses in front of each other, Yun Sheng and Xue Xian'er were slightly behind, and behind them were Shun Ping and others on horseback. A group of more than ten riders was led by He Ze and turned north at the intersection. , heading towards the north gate.He Ze introduced to everyone while walking: "It is very interesting to go out from the north gate to the valley to the east. There are two distinct seasons inside the valley and outside the valley. Don't look at the hot weather right now, but the climate in the valley is cool and pleasant. There are peach blossoms in bloom."

Although Feng Junyang was here, he was a little absent-minded. Yun Sheng and Xue Xian'er behind him didn't answer the conversation, and they only listened to He Ze talking along the way.He felt bored while talking, so he also kept his mouth shut.Fortunately, they arrived at the gate of the city in a short while, and this awkward silence was relieved.

Sure enough, there were soldiers and secret guards at the gate of the city checking the passers-by. Anything suspicious would be detained and brought to the side for those who knew Chen Nian to take a closer look.Because He Ze and the others came together with Feng Junyang, the guards at the city gate didn't feel suspicious at all, they just stepped forward to salute Feng Junyang and the others, and then let them go out of the city.

Unexpectedly, just a few miles out of the city, there were shadow guard flying cavalry chasing after them. They rushed forward and handed a dart to Feng Junyang, and said: "My lord, there are traces of assassins in the west of the city. Take people to chase, and order your subordinates to come and report to Shi Ziye."

Although the hidden guard said he was an assassin, everyone knew that he was referring to Xie Chennian.Feng Junyang saw that the dart was indeed used by Chen Nian, his expression changed slightly, he turned the horse's head and galloped back without thinking.Now that he had left, those Yunxi dark guards were busy following him.He Ze hurriedly called Feng Junyang twice, but he seemed to turn a deaf ear and went away after a while.

A smug smile appeared on He Ze's face, and Yun Sheng had been silent all this time, but at this moment he rushed forward and said to He Ze: "Young Master He, thanks to your help this time, even though you It's for ulterior motives, but I still remember your love, let's leave it alone, there will be a period later!"

That voice was not Yun Sheng's voice.

He Ze said with a smile: "Miss Xie, we two, it's better to have an indefinite future!"

The person who spoke was Chen Nian pretending to be Yunsheng. She tore off the veiled cap on her head and threw it on the side of the road. She bowed her hands to He Ze and Xue Xian'er, and rode her horse galloping towards the north.He Ze and Xue Xian'er stood in the same place, seeing Chen Nian's figure quickly disappearing at the end of the road, Xue Xian'er couldn't help but asked with some concern: "Brother Twelve, can this matter be kept secret? If the Elder Master finds out, it's fine to hate us, just don't let him annoy Yunsheng."

He Ze smiled, and suddenly asked Xue Xianer: "You said that Yun has such a temper, if she can't stand it for a while and makes her escape, what will she do first?"

Xue Xian'er thought for a while, and replied: "We knocked her unconscious, and then disguised Miss Xie as her to deceive the prince. She will definitely be annoyed, and I'm afraid she will come to settle accounts with us."

After hearing this, He Ze shook his head: "No, Yun Sheng won't bother to settle accounts with us first, she will report to Feng Junyang first."

Before Xue Xian'er could figure it out, He Ze laughed again and said, "Feng Junyang will be very angry when he comes back later, let's not run into his bad luck, why don't we go somewhere else to avoid the limelight , Wait until the limelight passes before going back."

As he spoke, he led the people down the avenue, and walked slowly eastward along a forest path.

Let's not talk about He Ze's leisure and contentment here, just talk about Feng Junyang's place, he galloped all the way back to the city, just passed the city gate, but saw Shunping running towards him on horseback, and when he saw him, he shouted anxiously: "My lord! Lord, I got caught!"

Feng Jun Yang reined in his horse, before he could ask, Shun Ping chased another horse, with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes, but it was the genuine He Yunsheng.She went back to the city guard's mansion in a fit of anger, but she was beaten unconscious in the alley. When she woke up, she realized that there was a "Yun Sheng" who followed Feng Junyang, He Ze and others out of the city.

Seeing Feng Junyang, Yun Sheng didn't bother to explain too much for a while, so he said anxiously: "Cousin, Miss Xie pretended to be me and went out of the city, you go and chase her!"

Feng Junyang froze for a moment, and immediately realized that he had been tricked by He Ze, his face was horribly ugly, and he turned his head and chased outside the city without saying a word.But it took a lot of time to go back and forth like this. Although his mount is a thousand-mile steed, Chen Nian rides a horse selected by He Ze thousands of times, how can he catch up in a short time.

Going north from Qingzhou City for more than forty miles is the Ziya River. Lu Xiao has been waiting by the river for many days. Seeing that the time is not coming, he is thinking of sneaking back to the city tomorrow to meet her. , but she arrived on horseback.Lu Xiao stood up from the lush grass by the river, waved to Chen Nian in the distance and shouted: "Xie Chen Nian, the boat is here."

Chen Nian heard the sound and looked over, and then saw Lu Xiao, hurriedly rode his horse down the embankment, and shouted loudly: "Go fast, Feng Junyang is behind."

Lu Xiao hurriedly pulled the boat out of the grass and pushed it into the river. Chen Nian also fell off the horse, jumped onto the boat with a few taps, picked up the poles on the boat, and pushed the boat away from the river bank.Lu Xiao didn't know how to swim, so he practiced diligently on the river for a few days, but he could barely handle the boat.After a lot of fuss, the two of them drove the boat across the middle of the river.

Feng Junyang, who was behind, had already chased to the shore. He was full of anger at the moment, and his mind was confused. Seeing Chen Nian's figure on the other side of the river, he jumped off his horse regardless, touched the water with his feet, and rushed towards the river. .It is said that if the lightness kungfu is practiced to the extreme, one can walk on the water surface, but this is just a legend after all, and there is no one in the huge martial arts world who can really practice this kungfu.

There are lush aquatic plants in the shallow part of the river, which can be used for some strength, but when you go deeper, the aquatic plants are gone.Feng Junyang took a breath of true energy and only rushed forward a few feet before falling into the water. The river water soaked his clothes and quickly calmed his mind.He didn't do anything useless anymore, he just stood in the waist-deep river water, silently looking at Chen Nian on the boat in the distance.

Right now it is Xia Xun, the water surface of Ziya River is extremely wide, Chen Nian is already very far away from him, so far away that he can hardly see her face clearly.She was standing at the bow of the boat, watching him quietly. Behind her, Lu Xiao, who should have returned to Mobei, was steering the boat. Although his movements were unfamiliar, he still took her away from him a little bit.

Feng Junyang suddenly smiled softly, the corners of his mouth were slightly curved, and there was an inexplicable ridicule and sarcasm.The smile was very faint at the beginning, but slowly he laughed out loud, and finally turned into a big laugh.

At that time, Chen Nian had jumped onto the other side. She stood on the bank and looked at Feng Junyang, who was laughing nonstop for a moment. Seeing that the hidden guards behind him were also chasing after him, she turned around cruelly. Go, followed Lu Xiao and sprinted towards the north without looking back.

Going north from Ziya River is Yanci Mountain, which roughly runs from east to west and stretches for more than [-] miles like a curved bow. It extends from the northern part of Qingzhou to the east to the coast of Bohai Sea. The natural barrier of the state, after crossing the Yanci Mountain, the north side is Xuanzhou, which used to belong to the Northern Desert. The customs and customs are quite different from those in the Central Plains.

It was the end of summer when Chen Nian and Lu Xiao arrived outside the city of Xuanzhou, and it was the time when the local climate was the best, so Lu Xiao asked her, "How many days do you want to play in Xuanzhou? They haven't sent anyone to chase us, so they probably won't come to Xuanzhou either."

Chen Nian lowered his head and silently gnawed on the dry food in his hand, and said after a while: "No, let's go as soon as possible."

With her listless appearance, Lu Xiao had almost watched her all the way, and now he couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, he stepped forward and snatched the steamed bun from her hand, and shouted: "Thank you Chennian!"

Chen Nian's movements paused, and he slowly raised his eyelids to look at him.

Lu Xiao was so angry that he pulled Chen Nian up from the bench, and wanted to find a mirror to take a look at himself with her, but this place was just a tea shed by the side of the road, where would there be any mirror.He turned around twice, then asked the owner of the tea shed in a bad voice, "Where is your water tank?"

Seeing his ferocious words and deeds, the boss pointed to the back of the shed in fright, and replied, "It's right behind."

Lu Xiao then forcibly carried Chen Nian to the back of the tea shed, lifted the lid of the water tank, pressed Chen Nian to look at the reflection in the water, and said, "See for yourself! See for yourself! You still Did I know Xie Chennian back then? With your virtue, I think you should go back and look for your A Ce honestly, so as not to be so half-dead! If you can bear it, go and be a child for him, anyway, in our Xianshi there are also It’s nothing for a man to marry multiple women! If you can’t bear it, then kill all the women he wants to marry, so that he can only marry you!”

At the beginning of Chen, she was still struggling, but when she heard the back, she suddenly stopped and looked into the water blankly, and saw that the person in the water had a sad face and gloomy brows, even she felt strange looking at it.She stared blankly for a moment, then closed her eyes suddenly, lowered her body and plunged into the water.

Lu Xiao was startled, and subconsciously wanted to pull her up, but stopped after thinking about it, and only let go of the hand holding her, took a step back, stood there and looked at her with his arms in his arms.

Chen Nian held his breath to the end, until his lungs began to hurt unbearably, his mind went blank, he couldn't think of any distracting thoughts, so he stood up straight by supporting the side of the water tank.Countless drops of water dripped from her head and face, smashing the figure on the water to pieces.Chen Nian gulped the fresh air greedily, and before he could catch his breath, he turned around and asked Lu Xiao with a smile, "Come here and try, but can you hold your breath longer than me?"

Lu Xiao glanced at her twice, and actually walked to the edge of the water tank. He first looked at the smiling Chen Nian, then probed into the tank, and bent down hesitantly, seeing that he was about to touch the water surface. , but the person suddenly straightened up again, and said disdainfully: "Xie Chennian, do you really think I'm stupid?"

Chen Nian really planned to wait for him to plunge into the water and make a trick, to overturn him, make him face down, and plunge into the water tank.Who knew that Lu Xiao could see through her thoughts!Chen Nian felt guilty in his heart, but his face was extremely innocent, he only asked in doubt: "What did you say? Where and where is this?"

Lu Xiao glanced at Heng Chennian indifferently, ignored her, turned around and walked out.Chen Nian smiled and followed them out, and saw the tea stall owner looking at them pitifully from the side, as if he wanted to go forward but didn't dare, she thought about it and understood the reason, Then he stretched out his hand and beckoned the boss to come forward, touched a piece of broken silver from his waist, handed it to him, and said with a smile: "Uncle, I'm really sorry, I ruined all your water, this silver is for you, right? .”

The tea stall owner suddenly turned from grief to joy, quickly took the money, said a few auspicious words in succession, and sent Chen Nian and Lu Xiao out of the tea shed.After getting out of the tea shed, we walked a few miles to the outside of Xuanzhou city.

Although Xuanzhou is located outside the customs, it is as rich as Jizhou. There are many shops and merchants in the city, and it is a very prosperous place.This city was originally populated by Xia people and Beimo people, but as the Xian clan continued to grow and moved southward, there were gradually more Xian clan people in the city.Most of these Xian clan people are tall, fair-skinned, with high noses and deep eyes, and their facial contours are very clear. They are very different from Xia people and Beimo people, and they can be recognized at a glance.

Chen Nian met a few members of the Xian clan one after another, seeing that they were all big and thick men, he couldn't help but whispered to Lu Xiao, "I used to think you were strong, but looking at it now, I realize that you belong to your clan." It's actually a smooth-looking one!"

The Xian clan is good at martial arts, and they like to worship Kong Wu's powerful heroes. Lu Xiao didn't like to hear Chen Nian's words, so he just gave her a sideways look from the corner of his eyes, and ignored him.Chen Nian was already familiar with his temper, so he didn't take it seriously at the moment, and turned around to look at her street scene.The two didn't stay in Xuanzhou too long, they only stayed for a day, bought some daily necessities, and then left Xuanzhou.

According to the original plan, they should continue northward from Xuanzhou to confuse Feng Junyang's pursuers, then sneak back secretly, cross Yanci Mountain and enter Jizhou, and then enter Taihang Mountain.Unexpectedly, Feng Junyang only chased Ziya River, and did not send anyone to continue chasing after him.That being the case, the two of Chen Nian didn't need to go north to go around in circles anymore, they simply went straight from Xuanzhou to the southeast, crossed Yanci Mountain from north to south to enter Jizhou, and traveled south for two days before they got into Taihang Mountain.

As soon as he entered Taihang, Chennian felt like a fish in water, and his whole person suddenly became alive.Lu Xiao was puzzled, and asked strangely: "Isn't this just Beitaihang? It's far away from Qingfengzhai, what are you so happy about?"

Chen Nian was in a good mood, so he explained to him after hearing the words: "Qingfengzhai has dominated the Taihang for hundreds of years, not only in the South Taihang, but also in the North Taihang, and most of the area is Qingfengzhai's sphere of influence. There are also several sub-rules here. Other villages with smaller names, although they do not belong to Qingfeng Village, can be regarded as disciples and grandchildren of Qingfeng Village in terms of seniority, and they have to respect Qingfeng Village."

Lu Xiao suddenly realized, nodded slowly and said: "Understood, to put it simply, this Qingfengzhai is the ancestor of bandits in Taihang."

Chen Nian said with a smile: "It's not too much difference. I think that when the northern desert invaded the south, Mai Shuai occupied the Qingzhou and Hebei provinces to resist the Tartars and protect the people. At that time, there were 36 registered villages in the Taihang Mountains. They jointly elected Qingfeng Village as the leader, and gathered the coalition forces to come out of the mountain to listen to Mai Shuai. After the Lintong World War, Tang Gong used our soldiers and horses from Qingfeng Village, in the number of 2 The [-] horses who fought against Beimo's general will last forever. Since then, Qingfeng Village has always been the leader among the northern and southern Taihang villages."

As a member of the Xian clan, Lu Xiao didn't know the history, so he listened with great interest, and sighed: "Qingfengzhai has such a beautiful past, it's really unexpected, I thought it was a bandit den in Taihang Mountain .”

He heard Chen Nian's unintentional words, but he suddenly fell silent when he heard Chen Nian, thinking to himself: If Qingfengzhai had not had such a glorious past, maybe even Zhang Kuisu would not have had such great ambitions, thinking of getting mixed up in it. The world war came, but it ended in a dismal end, and even the cottage was breached.

From this point of view, it may not be possible to stand out in troubled times.At the beginning, Qingfengzhai sent troops out of the mountain to resist the invasion of foreigners. They occupied the word "morality" and were led by heroes like Mai Shuai and Tang Gong, so they won the praise of the people.Although the world is in chaos right now, it's just my own family who fights back and forth. It doesn't matter who is right and who is not.Qingfengzhai's emergence at this time has nothing to do with the word "morality".

Chen Nian thought a lot for a while, but there was no movement for a while.

Lu Xiao glanced at her and asked, "What's the matter? Why didn't you speak again?"

Chen Nian came back to his senses, and answered him: "I was thinking about the word 'Dao Yi', which also means sending out troops. With this word, Qingfengzhai is the volunteer army, but if not, the same people are bandit soldiers."

Although Lu Xiao is of a different race, he is not just a reckless man with nothing but force. After hearing this, he couldn't help asking Chen Nian: "Daoyi, Daoyi, what is Dao? What is righteousness?"

Chen Nian was stunned by this question for a moment, she hadn't fully figured it out yet, so how could she answer Lu Xiao.She thought about it carefully, and then said: "I don't know the word 'Tao', but the word 'righteousness' is the most important thing for martial arts practitioners. Everyone says that the word 'chivalry' has no distinction. Righteousness cannot become a hero, righteousness is righteousness, and it is the foundation of our martial arts practitioners. Otherwise, even if your martial arts is the best in the world, everyone will only fear you and fear you, and will not respect you at all."

Lu Xiao was dazed by her, and said with disdain: "You Xia people are troublesome, I just want to say a word, if you want to be good with me, then we will be brothers, even if I die for you, I will be willing." But if you are not kind to me, then don't blame me for showing the knife to you."

Chen Nian shook his head when he heard this, and said, "How can that be done? If there is a villain who is bad to everyone, but he is very good to you, will you be a brother to him, or a knife? According to what you said, as long as he treats you well, you can live and die with him, but if you help him in this way, wouldn't it mean that you are harming those good people who were harmed by him? Besides, if there is someone who treats everyone well If you don’t like someone, you just don’t like it, will you kill him or not? How can you judge whether a person is good or not based on your own likes and dislikes.”

Lu Xiao thought for a while and felt that what she said made sense, so he nodded unconsciously.Seeing that he had argued with him, Chen Nian didn't feel satisfied and said: "Look, it's not that we Xia people are troublesome, but that you Xian people are too simple, and you have a clear distinction between what you like and what you hate. .”

Lu Xiao paused for a while, but asked strangely: "Why does such a treacherous and evil person treat me well?"

"I'm just making an analogy." Chen Nian explained while cutting down the thorny and miscellaneous trees in front of him with a knife.Lu Xiao saw how hard she was chopping, and muttered "It's useless" in a low voice, but pulled her behind him, went up to clear the way with a few knives, then turned around and pulled her up, and asked, "What if there is a big knife?" The treacherous villain treats you very well, what should you do?"

Chen Nian suddenly thought of Feng Junyang, and felt a little lost.When we were together, I only felt that he was good at everything, and everything was within his calculations.Looking back now, although his words and deeds are not good or bad, they have nothing to do with the word "morality".

Seeing that Chen Nian didn't speak, Lu Xiao couldn't help poking her: "Speak."

Chen Nian thought for a while and replied softly: "I don't know either. If he is really such a person, I would not be with him. Go far away, out of sight and out of mind."

Lu Xiao paused, then asked again: "Then if you are good to others, what about the one who treats you badly? How do you treat him?"

Chen Nian couldn't help laughing this time, and replied: "It's easy to handle, let's see how he treats me, if he just rolls his eyes at me, I will bear him, if he still comes to provoke me, I will Just beat him with a bruised nose and a swollen face!"

Lu Xiao couldn't help but also smiled and said: "This is a good idea, I will write it down."

As the two talked and walked, the mountain road didn't feel difficult.Chen Nian took Lu Xiao around the mountains for a few days, and finally found a sub-rudder in Qingfeng Village, but he didn't want to go to the empty house, and there was no one.Lu Xiao couldn't help but asked Chen Nian, "Did you find the wrong place?"

Chen Nian shook her head, if she was looking elsewhere, she might have found the wrong place, but here she came here with the people in the village, and she stayed there for one night, how could she remember wrongly?She asked Lu Xiao to stay where she was, and went around by herself. When she came back, she looked even more surprised, and said: "It seems that there have been many people staying here before, and there should be people from outside. Why? No one is missing? What's going on here?"

She didn't understand, so Lu Xiao was puzzled. After thinking for a while, he could only ask, "Do you know other places where the helm is divided?"

Chen Nian shook his head and said: "In the past, my adoptive father was very strict with me, forbidding me to run around, and I would sneak out to play when he was not in the village. I only went to this sub-helm, and he found out after I went back. If you want to find another rudder, you can only ask and look for it."

The two left here to look for other places, but the mountains are no better than the towns outside, and they can't easily meet a village, so they can ask for the way.Chen Nian and Lu Xiao wandered around the North Taihang for several days before they found a small dilapidated cottage, but it was not under the jurisdiction of Qingfeng Village.

The owner of the village is also an interesting person. When he first saw Chen Nian and Lu Xiao, he thought it was a business and came to the door. He was very happy and was thinking about making a vote, but he didn't want Chen Nian to speak fluently. The slang words are not only peers, but also elites in the peers!
It stands to reason that since they are colleagues, they shouldn't do it again, but the village owner has only been angry with birds these days, so he did it on impulse.Unexpectedly, the man's skill is very powerful, and he knocked down several of his brothers. If the girl next to him kept telling him not to kill anyone, everyone might even die Lost on this deal.

The village owner sighed and regretted at the same time, as expected, the goods delivered to the door were not good!Since you can't beat it, let's admit it. The village owner immediately jumped back a few steps, clasped his fists to Lu Xiao, and said, "This strong man, we are the ones who collided with you because we didn't know Mount Tai. We apologize to you!" Make an apology, and you will spare us this time."

Hearing this, Lu Xiao looked at Chen Nian, waiting for her instructions.Chen Nian first asked Lu Xiao to release those mountain bandits to show his sincerity, and then said to the village owner: "It's easy to say if you want to release them, but I have to ask you a few words."

Seeing that there is no need to use money to redeem people, the village owner was surprised and happy, and hurriedly agreed: "Ask, ask, we will never hide anything we know."

Chen Nian asked him about the division of the Qingfeng Village. The village owner heard it and asked strangely: "This girl, from what you said, she should be from the Taihang Mountains. Why don't you know Qingfeng Village?" What about the village?"

Chen Nian smiled and replied: "To tell you the truth, my ancestors were from Qingfeng Village, but I went to Mobei to make a living a long time ago. I am here to find some old friends at the order of my elders. Before leaving, I learned some words of the Tao so that I can walk."

"I can't find it, I can't find it!" The village owner sighed again and again, and immediately told Chen Nian in detail how Qingfeng Village offended the Xue family of Jizhou and was encircled and suppressed by the Qing and Jizhou armies.

It turned out that the Qingfeng Village was destroyed by Xue Shengying's general Li Chong that day, and most of the people in the village were killed or injured. Zhang Kuisu, the head of the village, escaped with only a thousand elites from the village, and was chased all the way to North Taihang by the officers and soldiers. soldier.So far, only 800 people survived in Qingfeng Village. Fortunately, Qingfeng Village still has a few rudders in Beitaihang, and they all sent people to support them. A handful of Qingfengzhai.

People from all walks of life in the North Taihang gathered together, thinking about discussing how to join forces against the officers and soldiers in the future.In the end, before anything was discussed, the officers and soldiers attacked again.This time it was the Allied Army of Qinghai and Hebei who came. I heard that the Xue brothers had repaired again and joined forces to avenge their father.

The officers and soldiers came back in a fierce manner, and the people in each village did not dare to resist them head-on, so they had to flee separately.Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers didn't care whether you were a member of Qingfengzhai or not, they just flattened the hills when they encountered them. In just two months, they almost wiped out all the cottages in the North Taihang.

"It's thanks to the small name of our village and the remoteness of the place, that's why it slipped through the hands of the officers and soldiers." After speaking, the village owner couldn't help feeling sad, and sighed, "Oh, those many heroes, It's all in the hands of officers and soldiers, it's not fair!"

Chen Nian was speechless after listening for a while, she had already heard about the first half of the matter from Qiu San, but she only learned about the second half today.It turned out that Xue Shengying and Xue Shengxian had teamed up again. It turned out that the survivors of Qingfengzhai fled to Beitaihang and were hunted down by officers and soldiers.Based on the time, Xue Shengying should have done these things after occupying Qingzhou. She was in Qingzhou city at that time, beside Feng Junyang, but she never heard him say a word.

He just said that the collapse of Qingfengzhai had nothing to do with her, it was the result of Zhang Kuisu's overthinking.He also said that he would accompany her into the mountains to find Ye Xiaoqi and Xiao Liu in the future.

Chen Nian only felt that his heart was empty for a while, his legs were so weak that he had no strength, and he seemed a little unable to stand, so he could only sit down slowly while supporting the rock beside him.She wanted to ask the village owner something, but she opened her mouth but couldn't make any sound.

Lu Xiao glanced at her worriedly, and asked, "Are you okay?"

Chen Nian smiled wryly and shook his head, it took him a while to make a sound, and asked the village master, "What happened to the people in Qingfeng Village? Is there any news?"

The owner of the village saw that her complexion was not good, so he thought she was thinking about his old friend, so he comforted her and said, "It's not that she died, but counting the rudders, I heard that there are hundreds of people left. The brothers caused trouble, so they took people back to Nantaihang, saying that they wanted to lure the officers and soldiers back, and at worst, they would die together with them."

Chen Nian sat down in silence for a while again with his eyes down, and when his legs gained some strength, he stood up and said a few polite words to the village master before leaving.

After walking two steps, the village owner came up from behind again, looked at Chen Nian, then at Lu Xiao, and said to the two of them with a look of love: "Do you two intend to fall into the grass? Why don't you join us?" Zhaizi, don’t look at our small hills, but our brothers are all good brothers who care about each other with sincerity. We have the same blessings and share the same hardships. Personal ability, we will listen to whoever has the ability!"

Lu Xiao couldn't help interjecting and asked: "Really, you can listen to whoever has the ability? Then I am the most capable, so you all listen to me? Even you, the village owner, also listen?"

The village owner nodded quickly, and solemnly promised: "That's natural. If you two are willing to join us, I will give you the two masters."

Lu Xiao still wanted to talk, but Chen Nian took over the conversation and said, "Duo Meng is wrongly loved, but we still have something to do, so we can't stay here, let's say goodbye first, and see you later."

After she finished speaking, she politely bowed to the village owner, pulled Lu Xiao and left, who knew that she had gone a long way, and the village owner was still a little unwilling to give up, and asked loudly: "You two heroes, can't you stay here?" Stay, we can follow you!"

Chen Nian didn't even look back, he just pulled Lu Xiao forward without stopping.

The village owner watched the two of them disappear on the mountain path, and he couldn't help but sighed a long time. Just as he was feeling emotional, a big fellow came up to him and asked in a rough voice: "Boss, What shall we have for dinner? There is not enough rice left in the rice jar to make porridge!"

When the village owner heard this, he immediately became angry, and angrily threw his big knife to the ground, yelling and cursing: "Eat, eat, eat, you foodies, a group of people can't beat anyone, and you have the nerve to say eat!"

Several accomplices were a little embarrassed by his scolding, and they all explained: "Isn't it because they are all hungry and have no strength, and they can beat them when they are full."

"That's right, that's right, we haven't eaten dry food for several meals."

The village owner was stunned when he heard the words, and the anger in his chest was vented all at once, and he simply slapped himself on the ground like a fool, and shouted: "I don't have rice noodles for you to eat, if you want to eat, eat me!"

Just now the big man looked at the place where Chen Nian and the others disappeared with some regret, and murmured: "Those two people must have dry food on them, I wish I had known and asked them for some."

The village owner became even angrier when he heard the words, stepped forward and kicked the man's ass, and cursed: "Damn it, get out! I'm a bandit, not a beggar. If you want to beg for food, go yourself!"

(End of this chapter)