The Rise of the Black Dragon Chapter Seventy-Six: The Abyss
The two of them quietly went out the back door, without alerting anyone.
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On the corner of a street and alley, Ding Qing was carrying a package and saw Li Xian and Li Zhao coming from a distance, and hurriedly stepped forward.
seemed to be greeting Li Zhao with a fist, but in fact, he looked at Li Xian.
Lord. ”
"Let's go......"
The voice sounded from the bottom of Ding Qing's heart. Ding Qing and Li Zhao walked ahead, while Li Xian was one position behind.
After about a cup of tea, Ding Qing took Li Xian and Li Zhao to the most notorious slum lane in the west of the city and even in Wujun.
Walking in, it seems that the sun has divided the place, the outside world is bright and the sun is shining, and the inside is boundless darkness, without a trace of temperature.
The streets and alleys along the way were polarized, dirty, dark dirt roads, sewage flowed sideways, thatched huts crowded one by one, and when they heard footsteps, some people squeezed their heads out of the low thatched huts to look at the visitors, and quickly shrank back again.
Skinny, ragged, hungry green eyes, cheeks showing skin and bones, and dull eyes without brilliance, this is the people who live here, like walking corpses.
It's hard to imagine that there is such a poor and terrible place as prosperous as Wujun.
It is conceivable that Ding Qing, who has lived here since he was a child, went through a lot of hardships to get out of hell step by step, with such ambitions, he will naturally not be willing to live at a glance, and following Li Xian is also an inevitable result to a certain extent.
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"In fact, several Wujun governors want to deal with the problem of slum lanes, but in fact, it is difficult to solve the root cause. ”
"In recent years, the barbarians will invade the north, and the scale of the invasion has begun to get bigger and bigger, how can there be immortals in this war, all the villages in Youzhou have lived here for generations, and they have been fighting with the barbarians for hundreds of years, where will they leave their homes.
Every year, the government mobilizes, but it refuses to leave, doesn't want to go......" Ding Qing walked ahead, and said with a helpless sigh.
Hearing this, Li Xian didn't know what to say, the hatred between the barbarians and the Great Jin Dynasty was no longer as simple as land grabbing and invasion, and yearning for the Huahua world in the Central Plains.
The relationship between the two has risen to the point of racial hatred, and there will be no resignation or concession.
This also leads to a large number of people displaced by the war in Youzhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou every winter, and in the case of Wujun alone, a large number of refugees pour into Wujun and Shangdang every year.
Unless the barbarian problem is completely solved, it will be a dead circle, and it seems that something has changed within the barbarians in the last hundred years, and there is a momentum of re-emergence, and the action is getting bigger and bigger.
At the beginning of March, the newly appointed Wang Fu Wang County Guard of Youzhou led the Netherworld Iron Cavalry to fight the endless grassland, burning the flames of war to many barbarian tribes.
In fact, Wu Jun and even the reckless gangs of the Shangdang are actually local reserves, and when the officers and soldiers are not enough to resist, the 49 of our low-level gangs will have to go up, to be honest, this kind of thing has not happened in recent years. “
All the way to a slightly clean, low thatched house.
Ding Qing handed the package on his back to Li Xian and slapped his palms vigorously.
Soon more than a dozen children came out of the thatched hut and saw Ding Qing, a glimmer of light flashed in his green eyes.
Li Xian's eyes swept over, these children were even thinner than Xiaoshan and Xiaohu at that time, dry and thin, but their eyes were very good, with a hint of ruthlessness, they were a good group of wolf cubs.
With a gentle smile on his face, like a big brother next door, he handed the steamed buns in the package and some air-dried meat pieces to these yellow-faced and skinny children one by one.
Wen Sheng: "Eat slowly, there are many more, don't be in a hurry......"
The kid looked at Li Xian fixedly, as if he wanted to remember his appearance, and then began to gobble it up.
A brighter smile appeared on his face, and he was more satisfied with Ding Qing's ability to do things.
After a while, all the food in the package was dispersed, Li Xian walked to Li Zhao's side, looked at the group of children gobbling up, and said in a low voice: "In the future, let Ding Qing choose the right children here, preferably without father and mother, or with a relationship of brother and sister, all of them will be adopted."
Do what I told you, brainwash and indoctrinate them every day, let them know who allowed them to live, who gave them a new life, and who they should be loyal to, and you must do this well. “
"Raise their bodies first, it is completely enough to do these things with the financial resources of the two gangs, and do three rounds of screening, these children are very precocious in their hearts, so as not to raise a guy with a backbone in the back of their heads......"
This is a long-term job, take your time, and you can always do it well step by step. Li Xian said lightly.
Li Zhao listened carefully, nodded and said, "Then young master, let's take a name......
A certain picture flashed through Li Xian's mind.
"Let's call it the abyss...... When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is staring at you. ”
"Good name, this means good......" Li Zhaonian muttered a few sentences and said with a smile.
"By the way, I heard that Hao Nan's injury is not yet healed, go back and tell the name, take a little meat from my practice room and give it to Hao Nan, so that he can recover quickly. ”
Li Xian glanced at the sun in the sky, the sun in July was just right, very comfortable.
"Let's take the mountain and the lake back to the village today, there are some things to tell the princess. “
After almost two years in Dajin, he can finally do something for the village.
Ding Qing ...... “
"The Lord ......" Ding Qing hurriedly walked over and hugged his fists.
You arrange an ox cart...... Waiting for us at the gates. ”
"Good ......"
Now that the purpose of this trip has been achieved, there is no need to continue here, and the group of three began to go back.
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Push open the courtyard door.
And he saw a hill and a lake in the courtyard, writing on the ground with a branch.
After a while, Xiaoshan's two brothers and sisters finally looked like a rich family, and their complexions gradually became rosy. His hands and feet were strengthened, and he wore new clothes.
Hearing the sound, the two looked towards the courtyard gate, threw away the branch in their hands, and respectfully shouted towards the courtyard gate: "Uncle...... Brother Zhao. “
Hahahaha...... "It's really a long-lost title, Li Xian basically spent this month in Wufu, and rarely had time to go back."
"Let's go...... I'm going to take you guys to a good place today. Li Xian touched Xiaohu's hair.
Hearing this, Xiaohu clapped his palms very happily, after they came here, they rarely went out, the range of activities is in this small yard, now life is not hungry, can eat well, energy is naturally enough, want to go out to play, see, is the nature of children.
There was some curiosity in Xiao Shan's eyes, but he quickly relented.
On the way, they bought some roast chicken and good wine, and bought enough groceries in one go, and the four of them walked straight to the city gate.
Ding Qing put on a hat and made an ox cart to wait at the city gate.
As soon as he saw him, Li Xian was puzzled: "It's not that you just want to send a little brother, why did you go into battle yourself." ”
Being able to drive for the Lord is a blessing for Ding Qing. Ding Qing smiled and patted a little fart.
Li Xian shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly, beckoning the three of them to hurry up and get into the ox cart.
Smack-
The whip flung into the air with a crunch.
The five of them rode out of Wujun Mansion in a slow ox cart.
Xiaohu turned her head curiously on the ox cart, this was the first time she had seriously seen through the world outside the temple, although the avenue was basically full of caravans, ox carts, and some livestock dung, but everything was so new to her.
Xiaoshan's eyes also sparkled with novelty.
The lord ...... The subordinates went back first. ”
Stay safe on the road. “
"Go ......"
When the ox cart was about to arrive in Wanxi Village, the four of them got off the ox cart, Ding Qing threw up the whip, and made a crisp sound in the air, allowing the ox cart to go back.
A group of four people entered Wanxi Village along the path like this, you must know that in the village, Li Xian is still running with Uncle Qingshan on the side of the party, so it is really not good to come in from the entrance of the village with Li Zhaojia two small oil bottles.
But taking the trail is really out of experience, and there really is a word that practice makes perfect in everything.
Li Xian planned to go to Master's small courtyard first.
Soon I saw the familiar fenced courtyard, the creeper had covered the entire courtyard wall after this time, and there were more weeds and wild flowers outside, which looked a little messy.
Li Xian and Li Zhao glanced at each other, and had some bad premonitions in their hearts.
A stride forward.
Click-
Click-
There was a knock on the courtyard door.
The power of the mind swept away...... Push open the courtyard door directly.
The two chickens in the yard were also gone, and Li Xian called Master, but there was no response.
"Come in first......" Li Xian shouted back and walked into the room where the master slept.
Push open the door and squeak.
The room was already covered with dust and cobwebs, and it seemed that the master had really been away for a while, so he looked around the room a little and his eyes were slightly condensed.
Whew-
Picked up two letters from the bedside and shook the dust.
In vain...... Master has returned to the army. ”
Well, it's easy to stay. But think about it, it is most normal to leave such words with Zhang Zheng's temper and temperament.
As for the other letter, Li Xian fell into deep thought.
"Dog, you take Xiaoshan and Xiaohu to Uncle Dashan first...... I'll go find Taigong. Li Zhao nodded.
Li Xian walked straight out of the house.
Walked all the way to the center of the village along the path, looked at the sky, and at this time the prince should have finished basking in the sun and walked home.
"Let's go to the house and wait for my grandfather." ’
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Mrs. Zhang shook the pu fan and slowly got up from under the paulownia tree and walked home.
At his age, many things are already very regular, and after lunch he goes to bask in the sun under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, and closes his eyes slightly to rest.
Listening to the sound of children playing in the village, the sound of adults and women working on both sides of the paddy fields, Wanxi Village is his home, as the village of the Zheng, but also the longest.
He spent his whole life in this small village.
Everyone in the village respectfully called him a prince, and he really regarded everyone in the village as his own relatives.
In the distance, I could see the outline of my yard.