The Frontier Years Chapter 23 The West Sea
Looking at the somewhat crazy crowd, Lei Shaoxuan couldn't help but shudder.
Lei Shaoxuan didn't eat a bun, but he didn't feel happy at all, he only felt tight and chilly all over his body. The beautiful, generous and playful proprietress in her mind can't be connected with the murderer no matter what.
The proprietress smiled and insisted on not letting Lei Shaoxuan take the buns, but it turned out that the buns were .......
Thinking of this, Lei Shaoxuan felt uncomfortable for a while, his stomach turned over, and he finally couldn't help vomiting.
Looking at the sun hanging high in the sky, Lei Shaoxuan had no warmth on his body, only felt that the clouds rolling in the sky were like the distorted reflection of the dead.
The road ahead is long, the canyon is cloudy, the heart is sad, and the steps are staggering.
Bamen Town has gone away, thinking of the proprietress smiling, coquettish, and quiet, but she is a demon who kills people without blinking, thinking of these, everyone shudders.
Fear and anger gradually turned into speechlessness, and the group was silent, bowing their heads and hurrying away.
The canyon gradually became shallower, the riverbed was raised, and the grass on both sides of the road increased, at first sparsely green, and finally turned into patches of light green.
Two days later, the team finally walked out of the canyon, and the scenery suddenly opened up, and there were endless grasslands and mountains in front of them.
The crowd became excited, and the sight of the mountains and grasslands meant that the end of the Saikaido was near.
In the early spring season, the grassland is tender and green, dotted with dotted wildflowers, the soil exudes fragrance, the mountains in the distance contain dai, the blue sky is thousands of miles, and the eyes are far away, which can't help but make people feel refreshed and happy, and the mood that has been suppressed for a long time suddenly relaxes, and the team begins to laugh.
The dried water, gradually with water, exposed to the sun, looked from a distance, like a glowing silver necklace, disappeared into the depths of the grassland.
"Someone. Someone shouted.
Lei Shaoxuan looked ahead, and not far from the front of the road, there was a figure, wearing a black brown leather coat and hat, with his back to Lei Shaoxuan and his party, walking unhurriedly.
Supposedly, the terrain was open, and he should have felt the arrival of the team, but this person didn't seem to feel it, or felt it, but ignored it.
Suddenly, the man moved his hands away from his chest, ran parallel to the ground, threw his palms downward, tapped his forehead on the ground, and then got up, folded his hands, raised them above his head, and then walked one step and three steps, and then acted as before.
"Why is this so sparsely populated, when someone does such a boring thing?"
"This is the gift of the moon people kneeling and pilgrimage, the moon people believe in the youth religion, go to the holy land for pilgrimage, and bow down all the way. ”
"This place is desolate and populated within a radius of thousands of miles, where did it come from?" asked Ma Shaoteng.
"Ma Xun School doesn't know that the Holy Land of Qingjiao is thousands of miles away. This man began in his own house and bowed down all the way to the Holy Land. ”
"Doesn't that mean that it will take months to get there?" Lei Shaoxuan couldn't help but ask: "Our group of people has a good idea, and after walking for several months, several people have died on the way;
"The hearts of the people are as strong as iron, no matter how windy, frequent, open, cold or hot, a mouthful of bread, a mouthful of water, and a mouthful of snow can get by. When there is no food or water, they do not eat for several days. Because of hunger and cold, sickness and exhaustion abounded on the way, all of which could not stop the pilgrimage of the moon people. ”
Yu Zheng showed an expression of admiration on his face and sighed, "We have traveled thousands of miles and felt extremely hard, and it was forced. They really set their own feet on the road to heaven for the faith of their hearts. The so-called difficulty is as difficult as climbing to the sky, which means that the road to heaven is the most difficult, and if people have a heart, they can also climb the sky. ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be in awe.
Walking like this, naturally slowly, the team quickly overtook this person.
Passing by this person's side, Lei Shaoxuan found that this person was a middle-aged man, with a wrinkled face and reddish-brown skin, obviously caused by perennial sun exposure, wearing a crude leather coat, holding two wooden planks in his hands, rough fingers, cracked skin, and a simple skin bag on his body, nothing else.
As the procession passed, the person ignored it, his eyes were firm and focused, he recited the scriptures in his mouth, and bowed down all the way, as if the sky was falling and the earth could not affect the bowing ceremony in the slightest.
Lei Shaoxuan's heart was shocked.
Since he was imprisoned, he has experienced many hesitations, resentment and even despair, experienced arduous treks all the way, and was accustomed to life and death, because he felt innocent, Lei Shaoxuan felt self-pity from time to time. At this moment, Lei Shaoxuan suddenly felt that his grievances were a little ridiculous, his so-called innocence was just an excuse, even if there was no so-called innocent in prison, there would be other tribulations on the long road of fate, so why bother with the past, facing the future is what he really has to do.
Lei Shaoxuan secretly decided to get rid of all meaningless self-pity and make his heart strong, and the strength of his heart is the foundation that supports everything.
The Buddha said cause and effect, in fact, why bother looking at the cause, just take the effect. Or to say, regardless of the thousands of causes of his past lives, I only take the results of today.
Lao Tzu's fruit today is to live, who blocks my fruit today, Lao Tzu will cut off his head, so that he will have no fruit in the next life. Lei Shaoxuan thought a little viciously.
What about cannibalism? It's not about living. This thought jumped out inexplicably, and Lei Shaoxuan couldn't help but be startled.
Unconsciously, Lei Shaoxuan's heart changed subtly and became ruthless.
After walking for half a day, a great lake suddenly appeared between heaven and earth.
Blue sky and white clouds, clear water and green mountains, the lake is vast, and the blue waves are rippling, stretching all the way to the horizon and disappearing into the distant sky.
"The West Sea has arrived. Yu Zheng shouted excitedly.
Everyone cheered, dragged their tired bodies, ran to the lake, and threw themselves into the water, as if to wash away the fatigue and bad luck on their bodies.
Days of trekking and worrying make everyone tired, and coming to rest in such a beautiful place makes everyone elated.
In the evening, the West Sea is like a blue mirror, reflecting the blue sky, and in the middle of the lake stands a huge stone cliff, the stone cliff is like a pillar, piercing the sky.
Under the sunset, the egret passes through the sunset, the water and sky are the same color, the lake surface is calm, the lake water is clear and bright, the aquatic plants and pebbles at the bottom of the lake are clearly visible, and the swimming fish are wandering.
A pillar of stone peak in the lake, like a sword standing in the lake, is quite magical.
"This place is called Tianfeng in Longya Town, and it is only half a day's journey away from Nanping Station. Legend has it that there was a dragon in the lake who did evil, and was nailed to the lake by a sword flying from outside the sky, and the stone pillars in the lake were transformed by the dragon's teeth. Yu Zheng pointed at Shi Feng and said.
Nature is a marvel at everyone.
"It's getting late, let's get to Nanping Station as soon as possible. ”
Ma Shaoteng saw that everyone's fatigue was a little slow, and decided to hurry away.
A sergeant ran and said that there was a death row prisoner who would rather die than move forward.
"Is it the other way around?" Yu Zheng said angrily.
Ma Shaoteng and Yu Zheng came to the prisoner with calm faces.
"What's going on?"
The prisoner, about fifty years of age, was half-lying on the ground, with a calm face and a distant gaze.
As a result of the long walk, the man had left numerous scars on the chains of his hands and feet, some of which were new and old wounds, which were quite hideous, and some of the wounds were broken and soaked in blood, and his face was quite clean, his face was pale, and his body was trembling.
Only then did Lei Shaoxuan notice that this person was soaking wet, his hair had just been combed, quite neat, as if he had taken a bath, and even his clothes had just been washed.
In the early spring of the grassland, the weather is still cold, and the lake water is even colder, so he has no scruples about going into the lake to freshen up, what is he going to do?
Seeing Ma Shaoteng coming over, this person smiled at Ma Shaoteng and said, "I've seen Ma Patrol School." ”
"What the hell is going on?" Ma Shaoteng was a little impatient.
"Xiaomin's name is Luo Xueliang, and he is a Xiucai in Nanxing County, Beichuan. Although he has never been stained with blood, he has helped to abuse, and he has died innocently, and he is destined to have no face to see his ancestors after death. Originally, he had the intention of going to the border of the bitter sea to kill the enemy for the country and atone for his sins, but he was helpless and injured, and he was destined not to reach the bitter sea. The scenery here is beautiful, just burying the bones, but begging for a death, begging for the completion of the horse patrol school. ”
Ma Shaoteng looked at this Luo Xueliang with a somewhat complicated expression, this person is also a little famous in Beichuan.
Luo Xueliang was originally a showman, but after being taken captive into the mountains, he became a bandit military advisor and gave advice to him, which made the bandit officers and soldiers suffer a lot at that time. However, the bandits in Phoenix Ridge were ferocious, but Luo Xueliang always showed kindness and rescued the people who were taken captive into the mountains, so that after being captured, some people interceded for them. It can be seen that this person has not completely lost the wolf, and he is quite popular.
"It's not far from the sea of suffering, why bother to take it lightly?" Ma Shaoteng softened his tone.
Luo Xueliang smiled bitterly: "I have no strength to walk, and for the last ten miles, I rely on my companions. ”
As he spoke, Luo Xueliang lifted his prison pants, revealing his thighs, and sure enough, all below the knees were eroded, blackened, and suppurated, and the calf bones were broken, revealing white bones.
The road to the bitter sea is bumpy and rugged, and if you can't walk alone, you will die on the road sooner or later. The road is long, it is not easy to walk alone, and no one has the ability to help others until they reach the sea of suffering.
Lei Shaoxuan is an exception, despite this, Lei Shaoxuan also walks mostly on his own, if he loses his ability to move, he can't do anything, I believe that Ma Shaoteng will not hesitate to abandon himself, and the only one who does not give up on himself may be Hu Youde.
"I am a soldier, not an executioner, it is my duty to take care of prisoners, and it is a felony to kill prisoners. Ma Shaoteng stared at Luo Xueliang and said meaningfully.
Luo Xue's conscience is exquisite, where do you not understand the meaning of these words?
"Tell my lord, Xiaomin must untie the flail and iron chain to heal the wound due to injury, and also need a knife to scrape the bones and remove pus, please ask the chief for permission. ”
Ma Shaoteng nodded at a sergeant beside Luo Xueliang, and then walked away quickly.
The sergeant untied Luo Xueliang's wooden shackles and chains, and threw a knife in front of Luo Xueliang.
Along the way, Domeng was taken care of by the brothers and reported back in the next life. ”
Luo Xueliang smiled, picked up the knife, and killed himself horizontally.