Datang beauty walk

That part of the body has completely turned black.

This was clearly a hidden weapon. Judging by the color of the blood stains on it and the blackened and deteriorated wounds on the horse, the iron piece must have been pre-soaked in venom before being used.Obviously, the horse was frightened by the hidden weapon.

Ah Cai told Lu Xiaotian that her natal home was not far away, and she begged Lu Xiaotian to report to her natal parents.

With a chivalrous heart, Lu Xiaotian agreed to A Cai, and led A Cai and the child to climb out of the valley.His horse didn't know where it went at this time, and it was early in the morning, and there were no carriages and horses on the road for a while, so he had to walk Ah Cai's mother and son back to her natal home.After finding Ah Cai's mother's family, they helped them dispose of the remains in the valley.

☆, riverside

ten days later.

On the riverside, the water is rippling, and rows of ships of different sizes and shapes from all directions are moored next to each other on the wide water bank.

Among these ships from home and abroad, there are ordinary ships that are simple in appearance but durable.There are also large merchant ships with one, two, or even three or four floors of cabins, with tall masts and high sails.There are also tall and majestic official ships, with colorful flags fluttering on them, and the ships are majestic in the water.

Countless ships, large and small, high and low, gather here, which is really spectacular.

Men and women dressed in fancy clothes, with various accents, come and rush through.Some of them are foreigners who have just got off the boat and set foot on this strange land; some of them are about to start from here and go to other countries, big or small, that are connected to water.In particular, there are local or foreign businessmen who have crossed the ocean countless times, and their companions.

On the other side, there was a man with a strong body, carrying boxes of things, and was loading them onto a big boat on the shore.On the other side, there is a pile of cargo boxes that have just been unloaded from a long-distance ship. The boatmen are transferring the goods from the ship to the horse-drawn cart and bullock cart.

On other ships, what got off was not bundled goods or heavy boxes, but some rare and strange animals—elephants with long noses and thick legs, their white tusks bent straight in front of their heads; some Yellow lions with fluffy hair drooping down to the jaws and necks, with sharp claws clawing at the iron cages; there are also small animals, which are led by ropes, have very strange appearances, and many caged animals with nice sounds Like different birds, no one knows what kind of animal or bird they are.They either come from overseas or are just about to be shipped.

On the river in the distance, there are countless boats dotted around.The big boats, with their hulls sunk deeply into the water, are sailing towards the opposite bank; some fast boats floated lightly on the water, leaving long water marks behind them.

It's very lively here, but everything is in order.At this large ferry, merchants from various countries and their merchant ships who trade with the Kyushu in the Central Plains have gathered for a long time.There are also envoys sent by various countries to communicate with the Central Plains, as well as many young students, monks, etc., and their ships will stop here.

Many foreign merchants transported exquisite porcelain, silk, precious medicinal materials and tea from the Central Plains to all corners of the country.He also transported the country's products to the land of the Central Plains, to the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, and traded goods.

The hot scene during the day gradually receded. In the evening, a merchant ship moored at the shore had finished loading its cargo and was preparing to sail away at dawn in the near future.

As the night deepened, the ship was lit with lights, and the light from the cabin on the second floor shone on the deck and also on the dark first floor, and there was no one on the first and second decks.The row of lanterns hanging on the pole beside the cabin also shone dimly. When the river wind blew, a few lanterns shook slightly, and then stopped still.

The light quietly shone on the boat, and suddenly, a black shadow flashed, and a person landed lightly on the boat.Taking a closer look at this person with the help of the light, one can see that he is tall and tall, wearing a short warrior robe, the color of the clothes is black or blue, and it is not clear;Looking at his face, it was Qiqing's father - Lu Xiaotian.

Lu Xiaotian boarded the boat, hid behind the cabin, and listened quietly.There was no sound or light in the cabin on the first floor, so he sneaked up on the second deck.On the second floor, there are two cabins with lights on, and there is noise in one cabin. Looking through the broken window, several people are drinking and feasting.

After a while, the cabin door was opened, and the two men came out with dishes and went to another cabin.

Lu Xiaotian hid in the dark and waited quietly, he did not enter the low cabin.After a long time, a person came out from the cabin where the few people were eating and drinking.By the lights on the boat, I saw that the man was about forty years old, with bald hair on the front of his head, and his palm-length hair tied behind his head; his large coat was open and his chest was exposed, and he wore a pair of clogs on his feet. .When Lu Xiaotian saw this man, he followed him.

The man walked towards the stairs on the third deck, and just before the stairs, he suddenly saw a person standing in front of him, staring at him fiercely.The man yelled loudly in fright, and hastily pulled out the long knife hanging from his waist.

Lu Xiaotian was not in a hurry, and let him yell.At this time, five or six people in the cabin on the second floor heard the cry, rushed over with long knives in their hands, protected the man behind them and backed up a few steps together.Lu Xiaotian looked at them, and drew out his own sword, and those people raised their swords and rushed towards him angrily, but before reaching them, after a few clangs, they all fell to the ground.

Holding a long sword in his hand, Lu Xiaotian fixed his eyes on the thin-faced man with thinning hair opposite him.And that man, looking at the tall Lu Xiaotian, his legs trembling unceasingly.

Lu Xiaotian raised the sword in his hand, and just as he was about to end the man's life, suddenly, four men in black jumped out from nowhere and stood in four directions, surrounding Lu Xiaotian.

Lu Xiaotian looked at these four people, holding the same long scimitar, and also covered their heads and faces with black silk scarves, only showing a pair of dark eyes.

Lu Xiaotian observed the four masked men in black beside him, and the four warriors stared at him calmly.Suddenly, a man in black behind him on the left swung a knife to kill him first.Feeling the cold wind blowing from behind, Lu Xiaotian turned around quickly, and used his sword to block the long machete close to him.Just when his sword intersected with the man in black, the other three men in black jumped up and attacked him together.Lu Xiaotian changed his moves, parrying left and right.

The sound of swords colliding and clanging in the dark night, Lu Xiaotian's long sword was like a flash of lightning, swinging freely up and down, left and right.

Others on the ship heard the sound and ran from all over the ship, watching from afar, trying to figure out what was going on.On the neighboring ship, several people who heard the commotion on the neighboring ship all came out of their cabins with their clothes on, and stretched their heads to look this way.But like the other people watching on this boat, they quickly retracted their heads and hid in the shadows to watch.Only the bold one stood at the bow and looked at this side.

Lu Xiaotian fought with the four warriors, and after fighting for a while, the four men in black still couldn't win against him, but Lu Xiaotian began to win every step of the way, one move was faster than the other.Suddenly he stood still, his upper body suddenly leaned forward, and the sharp sword in his hand pierced the heart of the man in black in front of him.The man in black couldn't resist, and the long sword pierced his chest.However, the moment Lu Xiaotian's long sword was about to pierce his heart, the man in black disappeared.

Lu Xiaotian was quite surprised, but he didn't have time to distract himself, a carp turned over, and hurriedly used his sword to block the long knives of the three men in black flying from behind.

When he was fighting with the remaining three men in black, soon afterwards, he saw the man in black who had just disappeared for no reason.The man in black who disappeared just now reappeared in the queue of the other three night men, attacking him at the same time as them.

The next moment, when Lu Xiaotian stabbed the sword into the throat of a man in black again, the man in black disappeared suddenly just like the previous one, and then reappeared in another position very quickly.

After repeating this several times, a trace of anxiety gradually arose in Lu Xiaotian's heart.All of a sudden, he remembered that he had heard it said before: the Japanese have a kind of warrior, and they possess a mysterious martial art called ninjutsu, which is as unpredictable as illusion.One of them is that those warriors can turn their bodies into shadows. Their bodies can disappear instantly with their thoughts, and then they will appear in an instant.And the whereabouts of the samurai with this kind of ninjutsu are very strange, and ordinary people can't know.

It seems that these four people's kung fu is not very good, but they will always disappear suddenly at critical moments, disappear silently, and then reappear immediately, which makes Lu Xiaotian a little at a loss.

As Lu Xiaotian confronted the enemy with his sword, he wondered if what they were using was the same ninjutsu he had heard about.While he was thinking, a man in black disappeared in front of him again. Suddenly, he felt a pain in his right shoulder, and the disappearing man in black took the opportunity to stab him in the back.A moment later, he felt his chest kicked heavily in the air again.After being hit twice in a row, Lu Xiaotian couldn't stand upright and fell to the ground, with blood spurting out of his mouth. At this time, the black-clothed person who kicked him from above showed his figure.

The men in black surrounded Lu Xiaotian and put a knife on him. One of the men in black raised the knife and wanted to execute him.Lu Xiaotian looked at them with a serious face.

At this time, the man with the open chest who had been watching the battle from the sidelines for a long time, and not long ago, the man with the chest that Lu Xiaotian raised his sword to kill, walked over with the knife in his hand, let out two sharp laughs, and said in a strange accent:

"Let me deal with him!"

When the man came to him, the four men in black jumped aside to make room for him.The open-chested man walked into Lu Xiaotian, looked at him arrogantly for a while, sneered, and said to the people present in a language that was not fluent but Lu Xiaotian could understand: "This man is very good. Meddling other people's affairs, and not giving up, you actually chased here!" Then he said to Lu Xiaotian: "I ignored you before, and I almost died at your hands tonight! Now, let me send you to Lu Xiaotian. You go to the west to see the Buddha!"

There was no change on Lu Xiaotian's face, he just raised his eyes and stared at him.The man twisted his smile, showing fierce eyes, raised his knife and swung it at Lu Xiaotian.

☆, dark night

Qiqing's house is square and upright, occupying one-third of the land.In addition, there is a long and narrow yard, less than two centimeters in length, where some firewood and sundries are piled up. Not far from the wall, there are three wooden stakes one person tall, which were used by Lu Xiaotian to practice martial arts before. Practice swords here.

There is a piece of land outside the back wall of Lu's house. When Qiqing's grandparents were alive, they grew vegetables that they usually eat at home.There were still a few pepper trees in the vegetable field, but the year before Qiqing and the others came home, all the pepper trees died of frost.When Qiqing and the others first came back from Jingzhou, this vegetable field had been deserted.

Later, Qiqing raised a few chickens, and she loosened one-third of the vegetable field that had been left unused for two or three years, and planted vegetables for the chickens.And on the morning when she was sweating and working, her father Lu Xiaotian also dug up the remaining two-thirds of the land that she hadn't planted, divided it into several small pieces and planted peppers, cabbage, radishes, Onions, garlic, etc., the vegetables grown in this vegetable field are growing very vigorously.

Since Lu Xiaotian left home for Shou County, Qiqing and Danniang stayed at home quietly, not going anywhere. One was diligent in practicing swords, and the other was weaving and embroidering all day long. The time passed day by day between sunrise and sunset.

On this day, Qiqing was going to feed her chickens. When she was picking vegetables in the vegetable field behind her house, she met the widow Ergui.During these seven or eight days, Ergui's aunt did not visit her house, and she did not see Ergui's aunt for three or four days.

"Qiqing, is your father back?" Aunt Ergui came over from her vegetable field, stopped Qiqing and asked, her voice was not as relaxed as before.

Qiqing stopped in the vegetable field and said:

"Auntie, my father hasn't come back yet after going out."

"Haven't you come back yet?" Widow Wang was all regretful.

Qiqing looked at Aunt Ergui's slightly sad face, and felt uncomfortable in her heart.In the past two days, she has been inexplicably flustered, and she doesn't know why, and one eyelid on one side of her is always twitching.

"Is something bad going to happen? Why doesn't daddy come home?..." Qiqing realized that he was starting to think about it again, so he shook his head to calm himself down, and lowered down to grab the leaves he picked to go home.

The widow of the Wang family stood on the ground here, and spoke again:

"Qiqing, Cuizhu is getting married tomorrow, can you come over and help me with some work?"

"Cuizhu is getting married? Why haven't I heard of it?" Qi Qing asked in surprise.

"Hey! How can a family like ours recruit three times and nine hires like others? It's as simple as it can be!" said the widow of the Wang family with a sigh.

"Auntie, what do you want me to do?"

"Hey, it's nothing serious. I want you to help me go to the town to buy some rice wine and the like, and tomorrow, before they come to welcome the bride, paste a few happy symbols I cut on the road they passed by when they greeted the bride in the village." on the way."

"Okay! I'll take the vegetables back and feed the chickens, and then I'll go to your house."

Qi Qingqing agreed to Ergui's aunt, and after returning home, he fed the chickens, told Danniang, went to Cuizhu's house, asked Ergui's aunt about the number of things that Ergui wanted her to do in the town, and then went to Tunfang. went to town.

The next day, just after dawn in the morning, Qiqing went to Cuizhu's house to help again, until the person who greeted the relatives came, and took Cuizhu away again.After Cuizhu left with those welcoming the relatives, several villagers who came to congratulate her also went back to their own homes, and Ergui's aunt's home suddenly became quiet.When Qiqing helped Ergui finish everything and was about to go back to her own home, she saw Ergui crying alone in the house after sending off her daughter and leaving only one person at home.

Qiqing couldn't bear to leave the sad second noble aunt and leave directly, so she had to sit down and spend a long time with the widow Wang.

After Qiqing returned home, she couldn't settle down in her heart.She went in and out to fetch water a few times, boiled a large pot of water, poured it into the bathtub, took a bath, and arranged her clothes.When she was going to sleep, Tanniang had been resting for a long time.

Blow out the light, go to bed and lie down.At night, it was very quiet, and the barking of dogs in the village could no longer be heard.Qiqing was lying beside Danniang, and she could clearly hear Danniang's shallow breathing.

After lying down for a while, she still couldn't fall asleep, a knot in her heart couldn't be resolved at this moment.She turned over again, quietly looking at Tan Niang who was sleeping on her side.

"Tan Niang!" In the quiet night, a soft call came out.

Tanniang didn't answer her.

"Tan Niang!" The voice raised a little.

Danniang was woken up, she moved her body towards Qiqing, and replied lazily:

"Ok?"

"Cuizhu got married today!" Her voice was small, with exclamation.

"Ok, I know."

Danniang adjusted her sleeping position and tried to fall asleep again. She had been working as a female celebrity for a whole day, and she was already tired, but now that Qi Qing disturbed her, half of her sleepiness went away.Although she didn't go to Cuizhu's house today, the lively sound of gongs and drums reached her ears and rang for a long time.Now, Tanniang's ears seemed to be filled with the sound of daytime drums again.

"Cuizhu is only 15 years old this year!" Qi Qing still sighed in his voice.

"Oh." Dan Niang replied softly.

"Cuizhu married and moved to the city. She became a rich man's concubine."

"You told me yesterday," Tanniang said.

"The rich man didn't come today, and it was his family's butler who came to greet him!" Qi Qing continued.

Tanniang didn't speak aloud.

After a pause, Qi Qing called again:

"Tannie!"

"What?" It seemed that Qiqing didn't let her fall asleep.

"Will you marry in the future?"

The drowsy Danniang was stunned: "Marry? Maybe in a year or two, you will get married, can you not marry?"

Danniang was thinking in her heart, suddenly, Qiqing reached out from behind her and hugged her waist.Qiqing's movement made Danniang feel her own body stiffen suddenly.

"I don't want to get married, I just want to be with you forever!" Qi Qing said as if he had gathered his breath, "Danniang, can we be the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in this world?"

Danniang was astonished. If anyone else, she would think she was crazy.But after living with Qiqing for so long, she knows that Qiqing has always been very measured in what he says and does.But she never expected that Qiqing would say such nonsense tonight.

Although Danniang was very shocked, she thought about it again and thought that Qiqing was joking with her, so she said:

"Stop talking nonsense!"

But Qi Qing hugged her even tighter and said:

"I'm not talking nonsense, Danniang, we don't want to get married in the future, can we spend this life together?"

Danniang's heart was shaken, and it took her a lot of effort to recover.After a long time, she moved her arm to get rid of Qi Qing's holding her hand, moved her body forward, and said coldly:

"I'm sleepy, go to sleep!"

In the darkness, Qiqing couldn't see Tanniang's face sleeping with her back to her.A sense of loss and fear that she had never felt before hit her heart and permeated her whole body.She deeply felt that she had suddenly fallen into the ice cave of the cold winter, surrounded by icy cold, and could no longer climb out.

She slowly withdrew her hands and lay on her back on the couch, staring at the endless night with her eyes open.

The night is still so quiet, but her heart, in this dark night, is like the turbulent waves of a river, it is difficult to calm down.Soon, she began to blame herself:

"What's wrong with me? Why did you suddenly say such nondescript words?...Qiqing, Qiqing, how could you be such a person? How could you say such things?..."

Qiqing lay there stiffly, never turning over, and Danniang next to her was also in the same sleeping position, never moving.At some point, Danniang's soft sound of falling asleep came rhythmically from Qiqing's side - she probably fell asleep.

The night was flowing quietly, and Qiqing's inner self-blame became stronger, and she also regretted what she said to Danniang just now.

"What did I do just now?!...It turned out that I was just doing things according to my own preferences, but I didn't take her feelings or thoughts into account at all...

...I was too impulsive to say such stupid words, which scared Tanniang and made her feel uneasy.How could such an intelligent woman as Tanniang spend her life with someone like me? ...I can't even understand my own feelings, so how can I expect Danniang to accept them? ..."

She kept blaming herself and regretting in her heart.Gradually, her eyes were slowly closed by this powerful night, and her random thoughts gradually stopped.

☆, misfortune from the sky

The night moved away without prayer, and Qi Qing, who was sleeping drowsily, woke up suddenly.She turned her head to look out the window, the sky was slightly bright.

Gently got up and got out of bed, boiled water under the stove, washed in the yard, came to the house, saw Danniang was still sleeping face in, Qiqing walked a few steps closer to the bed, and said softly:

"Danniang, I drank too much at Cuizhu's house yesterday, and I may have said some nonsense when I came back. It's all nonsense because I'm not clear-headed. Don't take it to heart."

Words spoken are like water poured out, and it is hard to take them back.No matter how much she regrets, how much she wants to restore the relationship between her and Tanniang before she said those stupid things last night, but now, she feels extremely hard.

Seeing that Danniang was sleeping on the bed without moving a muscle, she said, "I went to Fushen Temple to offer incense. I will come back in the evening. Lock the door and do less work today." He took his sword and went out.

Danniang got up when she heard the sound of the door opening and closing.She didn't sleep well that night.Now, she was a little annoyed because she forgot that today was the anniversary of Qiqing's mother's death.She originally wanted to go to Fushen Temple to offer incense with Qiqing, but in the end she still didn't open her mouth. After what happened last night, she still couldn't face Qiqing as usual for a while. ——and Qiqing is not like this?

Tanniang cleaned the house, ate something, and fed the chickens.Then, I went into the house to get the needle and thread, and started to make the unfinished garment.

But for some reason, she always felt uneasy.After not working for a while, he dropped his clothes, sat down in front of the loom, and began to weave brocade.

Just when she was restless and unable to calm down, she suddenly heard noises from the village outside her house, and she didn't know what happened.

Danniang got up and went to the courtyard, only to hear a chaotic sound from outside - the neighing of donkeys and horses, the shouting of men and women, the crying and howling of old people and children; the dogs in the village were also barking frantically with.The noises grew louder, and she felt the shouts approaching here too.

Danniang turned pale with fright, her heart beating uncontrollably.

When she was at a loss, the door was slammed open.All of a sudden, more than a dozen burly men poured into the gate like water, all of them with hideous faces, holding bloody white knives in their hands, all of them stared at Danniang with greedy wolf-like gazes; Seeing this group of people, they were too scared to move.

"Haha, this little lady looks so tender," a square-faced, wide-mouthed, headed man in black clothes and a big black hat called out, "Brothers, bring me back, my king is missing one Mrs. Yazhai, this is really easy, haha..."

"Yes!" Two men in short clothes and black trousers walked towards Danniang with a knife in hand.

"What are you going to do?" Tanniang asked anxiously.

"I want you to be our Mrs. Yazhai, hehe..." The two who came over replied.

Danniang backed away quickly, facing the dozen or so robbers who broke into the house, how could she, a weak woman, have the strength to resist?It seemed that she was going to die today, she wanted to retreat to the room, get the scissors she used to cut the clothes, and kill herself.

However, before reaching the door, he was blocked by the two robbers.Two thieves grabbed Tanniang from left to right and tied her hands behind their backs with thin ropes. Then one of the robbers carried Tanniang on his shoulders and walked towards the gate. No matter how much Tanniang struggled and shouted, They don't bother.The robber went outside the gate and put Tanya on their horses, while the rest of the robbers searched in and out of their house and took away some valuable things in the house.

These bandits who descended from the sky ransacked Qixian Village and did not leave until around noon.In the past, the peaceful small village was devastated in an instant: thick black smoke mixed with the smell of burning, enveloped the entire small village, corpses were everywhere in the village, and blood was flowing; dead dogs, dead people, And people who were not dead but seriously injured, fell here and there in disorder; there were ruins and walls everywhere, and the miserable voices of crying children and daughters and fathers and mothers could be heard everywhere.

Today is the anniversary of Qiqing's mother's death.Qiqing's mother died of illness when Qiqing was young, and Qiqing could no longer remember her mother's face.But every year on the death day, she would go to the temple to burn incense and mourn with her father Lu Xiaotian.

Her mother died of illness in a foreign country, and she made a last wish before she died, asking Lu Xiaotian to bring her remains back to her hometown.Later, Lu Xiaotian complied with her last wish, brought her coffin back, and buried her next to Fushen Temple not far from her home.

Therefore, every time Qiqing and her father visit her mother's grave, they will also go to Fushen Temple to offer incense, because she and her father Lu Xiaotian believe that the soul of her mother who believes in Buddhism has become a god in Fushen Temple.

But this time, it was Qiqing who went to Fushen Temple alone to offer incense on the day of her mother's death. More than 20 days ago, her father Lu Xiaotian promised her that he would go to Fushen Temple with her on this day.But on this day, she has not seen her father return.

Qiqing was worried about her father who was away from home, and she was also worried about Danniang at home.After offering incense to my mother, she came back before the sun set.

As soon as she stepped into the village, she saw a scene of disastrous defeat—the houses in the village were tilted and collapsed, the walls were scorched, and the road was deserted; From time to time, there was a whimpering sound.Qiqing was startled by what she saw, and ran to her home.

Qiqing stood in a daze at her home, she couldn't believe that everything in front of her was real: the house at home was completely burnt down, only the scorched and collapsed earth wall was exposed; Heap of ashes.The home that was clean and comfortable this morning is now nothing but ruins.

"Tannie!"

She called out several times, but no one answered her.

"Tannie!"

Qiqing cried and yelled, crawled into the ruins, scraped away piles of ashes and rubble with his hands, and tried his best to find them.

However, she searched every corner of the ruins, but did not find Danniang's body.She knelt on the ground for a long time, tears streaming down her face.

In just over half a day, everything in the house disappeared—Tanniang disappeared, the chickens she raised disappeared, and the flowers, plants, fruit trees at home were destroyed.Moreover, her father has not returned yet.

"Father, where are you?"

"Tannie!"

……

Qi Qing, who had searched for a long time in the pile of ashes and knelt for a long time, suddenly got up and ran out. She was going to ask the villagers about Danniang's situation.She ran out a few steps, stood at the intersection and looked left and right, the houses of Aunt Ergui and Grandma Xin were on fire, and she couldn't see them when she entered there.

Qiqing turned around and ran to A Xiao's house again. She entered A Xiao's house and saw drops of blood left on the ground from outside the gate of A Xiao's house to the ground in the courtyard. , Some food grains were still scattered on the ground, the house was also silent, and no one knew where they had gone.Qiqing was heartbroken, she ran to the ruins of her own house, looked there for a while, she knelt down on the ground slowly with her legs, her eyes were extremely sad.

As the sky darkened, Qi Qing finally stood up slowly and walked out.She stood at the intersection for a long time, then staggered towards the south of the village.

Her lonely figure was walking in a daze in this miserable evening, the grief and despair in her heart almost choked her breath.The tears in her eyes kept flowing in the twilight, and she just walked like that unconsciously.

When she passed the door of a house, there was an old man crying from inside. Qi Qing turned her head and looked into the door, and saw that it was old man Fan from the same village crying under the tree in the courtyard of his house.

☆, Shangheilongzhai

There are two families surnamed Lu and Fan in Qixian Village. The old man Fan is an orphan in Qixian Village, and he is over 50 years old.In addition to working in the field every day, and going home to eat and sleep, he often sits under the old tree in front of his house, drinking tea slowly, chatting and laughing with the villagers who have been idle.Even if everyone is busy and no one chats with him, he will sit alone for a long time, and will not go home until dark.Old man Fan is easy-going and an old comedian in the village.

Now, with his feet on a small bench, he held up a noose with both hands raised, and the loop of rope was tied to a thick branch of the fruit tree.Humming and crying, the old man Fan stretched his neck and got into the knotted noose.

When Qiqing saw it, he took two steps and took one step, walked over and grabbed old man Fan and said:

"Old man, don't do this!"

"Let me die! My old man has nothing now, and even his only wife has been snatched away by them. I live by it. Without it, how can I live in the future!" Old man Fan cried speak.

"Don't be sad. Although your cow is gone. But I still have two taels of silver here. You can use this money to make ends meet. We will find another way to live in the future."

As Qiqing said, he pulled old man Fan off the stool and handed over the money.Old man Fan looked at the broken silver in Qiqing's hand and said:

"Qiqing, how can this work?"

"Old man, don't refuse, just take it!"

Qi Qing persuaded the old man to take her money, then turned around and untied the noose from the tree.Moved the small wooden bench aside, let the old man sit down and asked:

"Old man, have you seen Tanniang? Why did this place become like this?"

"Hey!" Old Man Fan sighed, and said, "This morning, a group of robbers came to the village. There were more than 100 of them. They rode horses with knives and sticks in their hands. They snatched it away, I don’t know where you went at that time?”

"Do you know where the robbers are from?" Qi Qing asked again.

"I seem to have heard them say that it is from Heilongzhai. Hey, the world is in such chaos, there are bandits everywhere, and even Qixian Village has suffered. God has no eyes!"

Old man Fan told Qiqing how the thieves robbed the village during the day.Qixian Village was almost wiped out. Many families were looted and their houses were destroyed.Seven out of ten villagers were killed or injured, and many women were looted away.Up to now, the officers and soldiers who caught the thief have not yet arrived.

It was completely dark, and Qi washed off the plaster on his hands and face.She didn't know where the Black Dragon Village was, it was dark, and she had nowhere to find out, and Qiqing was exhausted physically and mentally after a day's journey, so she had to sleep in the open under the wall of Old Man Fan's courtyard overnight, and decided to go to find out in the morning.

The next morning, when Qiqing left Uncle Fan's house and walked out of the village, she saw the villagers carrying the people who died yesterday with door panels, and then went to the wasteland to bury them.

When she walked out of Qixian Village, she realized that it was not only Qixian Village that was robbed yesterday, but also several nearby villages were robbed at the same time.

Qiqing walked and inquired all the way.But none of the people who were asked knew about Black Dragon Village.She thought that there were more people in Tunfang Town, so she went there.

Qiqing arrived in the desolate and deserted Tunfang Town, sat down in a restaurant by the roadside, and ordered a bowl of noodles. She asked the shop owner sitting on the stool in front:

"Shopkeeper, do you know where the Black Dragon Village is?"

The short and fat shopkeeper trembled when he heard this. He looked up at Qiqing, and then asked:

"Girl, why do you inquire about Black Dragon Village?"

"A relative of mine was kidnapped by the bandits in Black Dragon Village, and I want to save her!"

"I advise you to go back. There are many people in Heilongzhai, don't say you are going to save people, I am afraid that if you go, you will never return." The shopkeeper raised his eyebrows and said.

"Then why didn't the government go to wipe out the bandits and let them commit crimes again and again?" Qi Qing asked again.

"Government? Which government? Don't you know? The Great Sui Dynasty is gone. Li Tang's army, who had just established the country in Chang'an, is here with us in Luoyang..." The shopkeeper turned his head and looked around. Continued: "I am about to fight with Wang Shichong, who also wants to be the emperor, and the two families are busy fighting for the city. How can I have time to take care of these things?" After he finished speaking, he stood up, walked to the high cabinet, and fiddled with his Count the beads.

"That's what you said, how dare we small people provoke bandits? Please tell me where the Black Dragon Village is. If I accidentally pass by, I can take a detour."

"That's it. Let me tell you. Black Dragon Village is on Baiwa Mountain, thirty miles west of here. Remember, don't go on the wrong road. A few months ago, a relative of mine passed by there. It's gone, and I almost lost my life, and I managed to escape."

After Qiqing finished eating the noodles and gave him the money for the meal, he walked out of the restaurant and headed towards Baiwa Mountain.

She asked people along the way, and it was already afternoon when she came to Baiwa Mountain, and she was already very tired. She hid behind a huge rock and watched the mountain shape from a distance.

The mountain where the Black Dragon Village is located has a large area because there are several mountains around it that rise and fall.And Baiwa Mountain is the taller among these mountains. There are many trees and overgrown weeds on the mountain, which has played a good role as a cover for thieves.

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