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Chapter 66
The young man turned his head, only to see that the bald man said so, but his head was lowered, showing deep sadness and helplessness.

This young man is Li Chongjiu, and the bald man beside him is Tanzong.

After Li Chongjiu left Queen Qi, he returned to Shaoshi Mountain, trained his subordinates for several months, and after receiving a letter from Li Hu, he decided to return to Yanmen.

They came all the way from Shaoshi Mountain, Dongdu, and Xijing, and everyone was devastated.Yang Xuangan rebelled, with more than [-] followers.

When Yang Xuangan besieged the Eastern Capital, he once opened a warehouse to help the people in order to win the hearts of the people.As a result, after Yang Xuangan's defeat, Yang Guang pursued the matter afterwards and ordered that all those who received rice should be killed in the south of the capital.

People in the Eastern Capital were in panic, but Xijing was not doing well. Zhai Rang's Wagang Army repeatedly plundered grain. The news caused the price of rice in Xijing to skyrocket, and even [-] Wen could not buy a bucket of brown rice.

The more they walked along the way, the more frightened they became. After crossing the Yellow River from Pujin and arriving at the border of Hedong, they realized that the Eastern Capital and Xijing were not the worst, and the people here couldn't even buy rice.

Along the way, I saw people cooking meat on the side of the road, cooking in a big pot, and the smell of meat wafted, and they were hospitablely invited to eat together.

There is no rice to eat in this river, and it is self-evident that someone is eating meat. Li Chongjiu endured the journey, his stomach was sour, and he wanted to vomit.

I thought this scene was only seen in history books, but I witnessed it vividly before my eyes.

Along the way, there have been countless tragedies, and people who are used to seeing such scenes gradually become numb.In this troubled world, the most frightening thing is not famine and disease, but the fall of people's hearts.The kind-hearted are numb, and the despicable have a reason to do evil openly.

And right now the food for their group is also running out, these more than 80 men are saving the last bit of rice.

That Tanzong glanced at the roe deer meat on the ground, couldn't help but move his index finger, and said: "Senior brother, it's been a day since he drank clean water, don't worry about him so much, let's fill his stomach first."

Li Chongjiu stopped his hands and said: "Wait a minute, there are many people in the forest here. If you roast this roe deer meat, the smell of the meat will definitely attract hungry people from all over the place. That person just wanted to see us. Conflict. But don’t give up for nothing, first collect the roe deer, and then eat meat later.”

Tan Zong nodded, swallowed his saliva, stared at the roe deer reluctantly, and sat down again.

The night was getting darker, and as soon as night fell, cold air came from nowhere and penetrated into the bones of people, making people shiver with cold.The refugees in the forest began to gather together, cuddling each other for warmth, relying on the heat of the crowd to resist the cold.

At night, everyone's thoughts were also sprouting, and various voices came from the darkness, many of them were rough intercourse between men and women, the woman was cursing and choking helplessly, while the man was panting and cursing.

Li Chongjiu shook his head after listening for a while. Right now, he is more concerned about the future of their [-] or [-] brothers.

Of these seventy brothers, more than 40 of them were brothers from the original bodyguard bureau of Li's family, and more than 30 were lay disciples of Shaolin Temple. They voluntarily followed Li Chongjiu to Taiyuan County.Li Chongjiu had the responsibility to take care of them, and he was still a few hundred miles away from Taiyuan County, so he had no food, but it was a big headache for him.

As for the purse, it is true that in the past few years of fighting with the refugees, most of them were collected from the thieves, but in this land, there is money but no rice.

Li Chongjiu sat in the woods for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of trampling dead branches aside.

With the faint starlight, he turned his head and saw that it was a seven or eight-year-old girl.The little girl had a pretty face, and her hands and feet were blue from the cold, but she was holding a handful of elm coins tightly in her hands, her five fingers clenched tightly.

It turned out that she came out to look for food in the middle of the night. Seeing that the little girl was very cute, Li Chongjiu couldn't help smiling, touched her body, took out the dry food bag on her body, spread a cloth on the ground, and tried to scrape it away.

Li Chongjiu sighed when he saw what had been scraped out, but took a look at it in the blink of an eye, and the roe deer, who was put aside, shook his head.

Just at this moment, suddenly the little girl screamed, and a big man hugged her from behind.

The little girl kicked her feet in panic, spilled the elm money in her hand, tears rolled down her cheeks, but her mouth was soothed that she couldn't make a sound, as if she couldn't ask for help.

But the big man laughed and said: "That's great, I caught a two-legged sheep."

This big man has deep eyebrows and high eyes, obviously of Hu people's blood, and there are several accomplices beside him all holding long knives.One of them said: "It's really unlucky to be dumb, but it's barely enough."

Tan Zong beside Li Chongjiu was furious, and smashed the iron pestle in his hand heavily to the ground.Everyone on the other side was stunned when they heard the sound, and they were also a little timid after seeing the darkness in the forest here.

The barbarian grabbed the little girl and hid it behind him, but he pulled out a boning knife from the bottom of his hand.

Seeing that the other party seemed to intend to hold the little girl hostage, Li Chongjiu stopped Tanzong with his hand, stepped forward a few steps, and said with a look of bargaining, "Okay, since I found the two-legged sheep here, the one who saw it If there is a share, we have to divide the number of people here by two-thirds."

Hearing Li Chongjiu's words, the big barbarian breathed a sigh of relief, put the little girl aside, and said, "No, at most I'll give it to you..."

As soon as the words fell, Li Chongjiu suddenly rose up, and there was a distance of more than three feet between the two of them, but Li Chongjiu's figure suddenly rose up somehow, and he arrived in the blink of an eye.

The big man couldn't react in time, and was knocked to the ground by Li Chongjiu with a punch.Li Chongjiu then grabbed the boning knife in the opponent's hand and grabbed the little girl in his hand.

"Kill them all!" Li Chongjiu shouted.OK!Tan Zong snatched the little girl away by Li Chongjiu, he let go of his hands and feet immediately, and opened a ladle for one person with a single iron pestle, as for the other brothers, they also rushed forward with eyebrow-level sticks.

Killing such inhuman people is killing them.

Li Chongjiu held the little girl in his arms, not letting her witness the bloody fight, and helped her pick up a few elm coins scattered on the ground, and put them in his hands.

Li Chongjiu thought that he saved the little girl for a while, but he couldn't save her life.Suddenly, he seemed to recall the little girl who sacrificed his life to save from a human trafficker in his previous life, and couldn't help but think about whether the other person is safe now.

Not long after, these five or six barbarians were all killed, and Tan Zong took away the iron pestle with his brains, but began to chant sutras for the dead with a compassionate heart.

The smell of blood in the forest was pungent, and there was a long series of incomprehensible chanting sounds from time to time, and the atmosphere was weird.

Li Chongjiu took a long breath: "Okay, it's okay, it's just a group of wild beasts, you will understand when you grow up."

Hearing what Li Chongjiu said, the little girl nodded with a vague understanding.

Just at this moment, there was a sudden noise in the forest.

When Li Chongjiu looked, there were torches shaking, and after a while, hundreds of people, armed with various 'weapons', rushed over together.

"mediocre!"

A woman's heart-piercing call sounded, and the little girl next to Li Chongjiu's expression changed, and she immediately ran towards the woman.

Li Chongjiu saw that the woman was about 20 years old, but she was quite pretty, and the big man next to the woman was very close to her, obviously the leader of the group, and at the same time, he looked like a family of three.

Under the torch, Li Chongjiu saw that this man had a hulking back, and when he raised his head and looked up, he had the tragic air of a Yanzhao man.Holding a mace, the other party yelled at Li Chongjiu: "Okay, you don't even let a little girl go, do you still have humanity? It's no different from **, I will kill you all today."

These words, as soon as Li Chongjiu said it, brought the good impression of the Han Dynasty to the end now.

"What a fool!"

Tan Zong was out of breath immediately, panting with anger, and said: "That's right, I'm just greedy, I want to eat human flesh, what's the matter?"

Li Chongjiu slapped his head, he was really not afraid of enemies like wolves, but teammates like pigs.

And the little girl was dumb, she couldn't defend them, but she was so anxious that she shed tears.

(End of this chapter)