Li Wenyuan carried the burden on his shoulders and carefully walked on the difficult mountain road, which he had walked countless times, but often under the heavy rain, it became more and more difficult to walk, and no one paid attention to it for a long time, and the road into the mountain became narrower and narrower.

Li Wenyuan walked into the village step by step, and as soon as he walked to the entrance of the village, his brows suddenly wrinkled.

Today's village is very different from usual, although this is a small village in the mountains, but there are also more than 50 households, usually as soon as Li Wenyuan walks to the entrance of the village, someone will find him, and then the women in the village have already surrounded him, but today the village is quiet, not to mention people, not even the sound of livestock, this is very abnormal.

A breeze blew, Li Wenyuan's nose twitched slightly, and then his face became a little ugly.

He smelled a smell of blood, and in combination with the silence in the village today, there was a good chance that something was going on in the village, and someone should be dead.

Walking quickly into the village, all the eyes saw were a mess, the doors of every house were wide open, and even some doors had fallen to the ground, becoming dilapidated, scarlet blood flowed all over the ground, and the villagers fell to the ground one by one, and the corpses were already cold.

Li Wenyuan looked around, the village was miserable, the doors of every house were open, the valuable things inside had been taken away, and there were not even livestock among the insects, and all of them had been looted.

Seeing such a tragic situation, Li Wenyuan probed around, but found some clues, traces of a large number of people in the village, and also found a helmet left by a soldier, and some other traces, all of which told Li Wenyuan that this village may have experienced military disasters.

With a sigh, Li Wenyuan put down the burden on his shoulders, cleaned up the bones of the people in the village, dug a big pit at the entrance of the village, and buried everyone.

After doing this, Li Wenyuan picked up his burden, slowly walked out of the village, and walked for a long time, Li Wenyuan turned back again, almost out of sight of the village. There seemed to be an inexplicable touch in his heart, Li Wenyuan's eyes flashed, and he finally turned around and continued to walk outside.

Soon after Li Wenyuan returned to Huabei County, he heard a lot of people talking about the looting of several surrounding villages.

"Do you know, the small mountain village is so miserable, more than 100 families, all of them have been killed, that scene, tsk, it's really miserable!"

"Not only that, but Dawang Village too, there are no chickens and dogs left in the entire village, everyone is dead, these soldiers and bandits who kill a thousand knives!"

"Who said it wasn't, hey, I don't know what happened to my third uncle in Xiahe Village, I hope I won't be harmed by those soldiers and bandits!"

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Everyone talked about it, but from everyone's tone, there was a panic in their voices, and now the surrounding villages were looted, but who dared to guarantee that North China County would not be treated the same.

Along the way, Li Wenyuan found that there were many fewer stalls on the street today, and in the face of such a life-and-death problem, everyone had no intention of doing business, and they were all panicked and uneasy, lest these soldiers and bandits rush into Huabei County.

After returning home and resting for the night, the next morning, Li Wenyuan still picked up the burden, and under the surprised eyes of everyone on the street, he walked out of Huabei County and went out to do business as usual.

"Isn't this picker stupid, it's so chaotic outside, and he even goes out with a burden, he's really not afraid of death!"

"Who says it's not, but this can't be blamed on him, what can he do, if he doesn't do business, he won't have anything to eat, and sooner or later he will starve to death!"

On the rugged mountain road, Li Wenyuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked into a village gate. As soon as they entered, several young strong men surrounded them, and when they saw that it was Li Wenyuan, several people breathed a sigh of relief.

"Picker, why are you here at this time, there is a shortage of soldiers outside, and you are not afraid of anything happening to you!" Several big men in the village are very familiar with Li Wenyuan, they have changed things here with Li Wenyuan when they were young, and now their children still buy things from Li Wenyuan.

"There's no way, there's no shortage of war outside, but people have to eat, if I don't have this job, what will I eat?" Li Wenyuan said with a smile.

When he walked into the village with the goods, the women in the village surrounded him, and when it was chaotic outside, these things were particularly precious, especially the axes and kitchen knives that Li Wenyuan picked out in his burden, all of which were replaced by people. These things are rare now, and when you hold them in your hand, you can at least use them as weapons for self-defense.

Coming out of the village, Li Wenyuan's two boxes were already filled with grain and herbs, as well as some beast skins, which were already the best things that could be taken out in the village.

Carrying the burden on his shoulders, Li Wenyuan walked towards Huabei County, and when he was not far from the county seat, Li Wenyuan suddenly stopped and looked at the ground with his eyes.

The road leading from the village to the county seat is usually not walked by many people, so it is just a small road, but now this road seems to have been destroyed, and it has been widened several times.

The plants on both sides of the road have broken off and fallen to the ground, revealing a fairly flat road underneath. Li Wenyuan reached out and picked up a branch, and the fracture was very smooth, obviously cut by a sharp weapon.

Seeing these signs, Li Wenyuan still didn't know that at this time, in North China County, I am afraid that soldiers and bandits had already been recruited.

Standing in place and thinking about it, Li Wenyuan finally took the burden and continued to walk in the direction of the county seat, he didn't know if his decision was right, but deep in his heart, there was a voice telling him that he should go back at this time, there was his own opportunity.

As soon as he walked to the city gate, Li Wenyuan already smelled a pungent smell of blood. At this moment, the two city gates were wide open, and there were several corpses scattered at the doors, and in the city, there were screams from time to time, as if they all told the misery here.

Li Wenyuan's eyes showed a trace of unbearability, the most hurt by the war is still the ordinary people living at the bottom.

Seeing that there was no one around, Li Wenyuan cautiously walked into the city, specially selected a small alley where no one walked, and slowly walked towards his own place.

At this time, there was still the sound of fighting on the street, and as soon as Li Wenyuan walked to the back of a house, there was a sound of fighting overhead, and the tiles of the house fell one by one, and it was obvious that the battle above was very fierce.

Li Wenyuan looked up and saw that there were two innate masters fighting on it, one of whom Li Wenyuan knew, and he was the guard of the town in this North China County.

Li Wenyuan didn't pay attention to the two, but walked quickly through the alley, touched his small courtyard, walked in, closed the door, and then looked out through the window.