Thirty miles away in the wilderness, there is a nameless mountain, which is continuous and steep.

There is a village in this mountain, where the villagers have been rooted for hundreds of years to escape the war, and there are steep mountain roads near the village, and it is easy for people who are not particularly familiar with the village to fall down.

Thanks to its rugged terrain, the village has been spared decades of war. Even because of the lack of information, I still don't even know about the war in the wilderness. However, this small mountain village is backed by a big mountain, and it is quite wealthy.

In recent decades, there have been few wars in Youzhou, and the village has gradually become in contact with the outside world. The only bridge between this mountain village and the outside world is the merchants who come and go.

A merchant who specializes in collecting timber!

The mountain is famous for its tough wood, and most of the timber merchants come to the village once a month.

It's not that they don't want to mine it themselves, it's because the mountains are too steep...... Only villagers who are very familiar with every plant and tree can cut it down.

Therefore, most of them are exchanged for materials and silver from the outside world, which has created the current situation of relatively wealthy life in mountain villages. 、

At this time, the night hangs with a full moon.

On the mountain road, a group of people were dressed in coarse linen clothes, and even several of them were directly wrapped in animal skins to cover up, holding torches and shuttling between the mountains and forests.

Each one carried a large package on their backs.

The steep mountain path did not stop the group of people at all, and they walked on the ground as if they were walking on the ground.

It's a bit like the native dialect of the wilderness resounding through the crowd.

Brother Slippery ...... Are you okay. Worried words came out of the mouth of a young man dressed in animal skin.

is known as Brother Slippery is a man who is much older, and he looks like he is about twenty-five or sixteen.

"It's okay...... Let's hurry up. ”

There was a blood stain on the collar of the man's shirt, which was injured by slipping on the road in the dark just now and falling down.

When one person heard this, he quipped: "Hahahaha...... I'm afraid I'm thinking about Yaya. ”

That's right...... I just miss my girl. The man smiled heartily.

This time, we exchanged a lot of materials and silver, and each family was tired for a month and finally got a lot of harvest, and this winter should be able to pass. ”

Hey, Brother Slipper, I haven't been to Yuanye County yet. The young man's face was longing: "Brother Slipper, you followed the businessman surnamed Zhang into the wilderness this time, what is the wilderness like, is it fun?"

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"What do you want to think...... Don't ask, something should have happened in the wilderness, otherwise those businessmen wouldn't have been silent. ”

One of the eldest gave the young man a shudder, his face covered with wind and frost, and the folds on his face were like those carved out of a knife.

"Hmph......"

The young man who was beaten in a violent slap didn't care, but snorted coldly, anyway, he got used to it after knocking too much.

"But Brother Slippery has a lot of good timber this time...... This winter should be a lot better. ”

Speaking of this, Brother Slippery's eyes flashed with excitement.

The weather-covered man began to remind, "Okay...... Don't talk, you still have to walk a mile to get to the village. ”

The towering trees around them were as terrifying as ghosts in the light of the torches. However, the people present have lived in this mountain forest since childhood, and such eerie scenes have long been commonplace.

After a stick of incense, the outline of a village in the distance loomed in the moonlight.

Everyone exhaled in unison.

The village is surrounded by a wooden fence, and the top is sharpened, and a gate is specially made to come out. This is to prevent wild beasts, wolves, and ill-intentioned people in the mountains.

Several people came to the door, the young man took a breath, covered his mouth with his hands, and the voice of the night owl suddenly sounded.

Cuckoo...... Cuckoo

Soon the cries of night owls also sounded on the gate.

The firelight rose and creaked, and the huge wooden door was slowly opened.

In the past 100 years, the village has lived a life of 'no quarrel with the world', why is it described as this? Because there is a positive situation in the village, it means that this place seems to be indisputable and closed to the world, but in fact it is only for ordinary villagers.

For the village elders and Li Zheng, it is not necessarily, in fact...... The really old people in the village know it, so it's okay not to talk about it.

After entering the village, the joy on everyone's faces became stronger and stronger, and every inch of folds was stretching outward. After saying goodbye to each other, they all walked home.

Occasionally, a dog barks can be heard.

The road on the ground is a bit difficult to walk and full of potholes, but it is much easier than the mountain road.

And some shit......

However, the slippers were very keen to avoid it.

Come to a hut and gently push open the courtyard door.

There was a big yellow dog in the kennel who poked his head out when he heard the sound, sniffed subconsciously, opened his eyes sleepily, and returned to the kennel after confirming that it was his owner who returned.

It's just that in the next second, it suddenly jumped out again, and it smelled a very faint smell of blood.

The man just gently put the package down.

A yellow shadow pounced on it, and the man hugged it at once, covering its mouth to prevent it from screaming.

It seemed to have touched a wound, his face was suddenly sweating, and the corners of his mouth twitched, but he gritted his teeth and endured it without making a sound.

"Wang—" A muffled dog barking sounded in the slipper's arms.

Alright...... All right...... It's okay, it's okay! Don't worry, don't be nervous!"

The man hugged the head of the big yellow dog and comforted.

Go for it...... Go ahead...... Go to sleep. “

The slipper stood up and looked around and forced a smile from the corner of his mouth.

Take out all the firewood from the firewood room.

Click,

The axe cleaved along the grain of the wood, and the firewood on the ground piled up little by little.

Time passed little by little, and the big yellow dog had been squatting on the side and quietly accompanying the man.

The man wiped the sweat stains on his face with the linen cloth on his body, and then moved all the firewood to the firewood room, and after a while, the not small firewood room was piled up.

Looking at the fruits of his labor, a smile appeared on the man's face:

"Winter is coming...... This firewood should be enough. ”

He fetched a basin of water from the well, cleaned his cheeks, and simply brushed his hair and tidied up his clothes.

He could swear he hadn't cleaned his face so seriously since he was a child.

Pushing open the door, tiptoeing to light the wick on the oil lamp,

The dim candle flame lit up the room, and on the bed lay a little girl no more than five or six years old, salivating at the corners of her mouth, sleeping sweetly.

With a loving smile on her face, she stepped forward cautiously and sat on the edge of the bed looking at her daughter.

Conditions in the village are hard...... Giving birth to a child is even more so, which depends on whether life is hard or not.

It's a pity...... Yaya's mother's life was not hard enough, but she worked hard to give birth to the little girl...... She loves her very much and can be said to have given her the best conditions.

Looking at Yaya's freckled cheeks, her eyes were flowing with warmth, and her rough hands slowly touched her daughter's hair.

"Yaya...... Daddy shouldn't see you grow up. ”

I can't imagine that my maid's life is so hard...... I didn't have a mother since I was a child, and I don't know what my mother looks like, and now my father is leaving you......"

The man muttered.

As if awakened by whispering, the girl opened her eyes sleepily, and the dim candle flame illuminated the figure beside the bed.

Joy instantly bloomed from the innocent eyes.

"Daddy!"

Yaya hugged the man's neck at once, burying her little face in the man's scattered hair.

Hey...... Daddy is here, Daddy is here. ”

Daddy left the village for anything interesting. Although the drowsiness was still very heavy, it still couldn't stop the little girl's strong curiosity.

The slipper patted the girl's head lightly, and seemed to be angry and asked, "Is that guy Wang Er always talking about what's going on outside in front of you?" ”

"Hee-hee-hee......"

The girl showed a playful cheek, and small dimples loomed.

"I'll know as soon as I see you like this!"

The slipper went to scratch the squeaky nest of the girl,

"Daddy......"

Hahahaha......"

The two laughed and played for a while, Yaya was already young, and it was the middle of the night, and after some fighting, she lay in her father's arms, and sleepiness swept up again.

A tear dripped down the sleeve of the girl's face in a string.

Even if...... He didn't cry even when he was so badly injured. But when he thought of his child and wanting to live alone in this world in the future, he was so reluctant in his heart......

He had never felt so bad, his eyes were red, and his round eyes burst open the blood vessels around his sockets, and his rough cheeks flushed with a dark red.

In a voice that only he could hear, he muttered to himself, "Yaya...... In the future, if you don't have your father by your side, you must ...... well."

"Don't be afraid, be strong, the children of the mountains will never cry. ”

I don't know how long I said it, but he smelled a burning smell, and he knew his time was up.

Glancing nostalgically at his child, he tiptoed to extinguish the candle on the table and gently closed the door.

With a slight creak, the door slammed shut.

"Is this fatherly love?" whispered.

In the void, there is a hidden figure of nine palace gossip.

Slipper turned his head and found that there was already a man in black standing in the courtyard whose face was not clear, and Slipper even felt that he would forget his height and size as long as he looked away.

The big yellow dog is sleeping in his kennel.

Now it's time for you to say it. ”

A helpless voice came out of the mouth of the man in black.

With such an ending, the slipper was very satisfied, and slowly spoke: "There are five people who collect timber this time, three are merchants from Guyuan County, one is Yuanye County, and one is a businessman surnamed Zhang from Shangdang, but this businessman seems to have a little friendship with the businessman in Yuanye. ”

You shouldn't be hard to find out this, the merchants who trade with our village are very fixed, and it's not difficult to find out. ”

The man in black nodded...

Now, there is no need for the young man in front of him to lie to himself anymore.

After finishing speaking, the burning sensation in the body of the slipper became more and more intense, and a stronger burning smell faintly rose from his body, and he stumbled and fell to the ground unsupportively.

Sweat soaked the hair on his forehead at once, and an indescribable pain welled up in his heart, and his lips kept trembling: "Hurt me...... Three...... I listen to the voice...... Two went to Tanibara and the last one went to Harano County. ”

The man in black nodded.

The slipper struggled to turn over and kneel down for the man in black, and forced the pain to kowtow to the man in black three times, leaving blood stains on his forehead.

At this move, the burning sensation made him can't help but let out a low roar, and the slipper looked as if he was a little shorter out of thin air.

This ...... Why do you bother? We just take what we need. ”

The man in black wanted to reach out his hand, as if he remembered something or it was instinctive, and forcibly stopped him.

I am a dead person, my husband saved my life, and let me see my daughter again, Such a great kindness, the slipper can only repay the kindness of the next life as a cow and a horse. ”

Hearing this, the man in black couldn't help but think of the scene when he rescued the man at that time.

Messy wilderness,

Under the steep hillside, a man has been destroyed by dark energy all the bones in his body, this kind of killing method relying on strength alone can undoubtedly give people the greatest pain and the most hidden hidden.

Even with such a painful injury...... The man still struggled not to die, his eyes filled with a longing for life, a longing that came from his attachment.

trample

The slipper struggled to raise his head...... I saw a man who seemed to be shrouded in darkness all over his body.

The figure glanced at him and was about to turn away.

Do you also want to know the whereabouts of that batch of wood?" The bruises on the neck of the slipper flare, the spit in his mouth kept splashing out, and he struggled to say, "Help me...... I'll tell you where those people went. ”

The figure stopped and looked at the dying man in front of him with interest: "You have been injured and cannot recover...... Even if I save you, you won't survive. ”

I think you're following those three men...... They disappeared very quickly when they got the information...... And it's still a separate operation, and you're afraid it's not easy to track it now. ”

"I'll just go back and see my daughter. “

The figure stepped forward and crouched down slightly, looking into the slipper's eyes.

If you look closely, you can find that the man in black is supported by an invisible Qi under his feet, and he does not touch a single grass or tree at all.

"You should be the smartest of the mountain people...... It's a pity that you're the only one who is unlucky. ”

If you don't know how to speak, I'll probably turn around and leave, because I don't understand what you're saying, but luckily you will. ”

The figure looked around, quiet, silent, withered.

Thankfully...... This place is very close to the wilderness, and a lot of things have happened in the wilderness recently, and many people's eyes are focused here, which is why those three people dare not be cruel to you group. ”

The corners of the slipper's mouth pulled out a silent mockery.

After a while,

The figure seems to be calculating the pros and cons of this.

The people of the mountains and wilderness are really hard, okay, I'll help you. ”

took two steps back,

He took something out of his bosom and began to tinker......

'I can't die!I can't die!'

The slipper is dying...... His internal organs have been shattered into a mass of flesh, and it is already his limit to be able to say so many words!

So he didn't see that tiny white paper figures were forming on the hands of the black-clothed people, and the tiny paper figures jumped down from the black-clothed people's hands, and each paper-figure had a faint Qi to support its body so that it did not touch the ground.

The lips were opened by an invisible force, and the paper figure jumped down his throat like a long dragon.

meanwhile

The body of the slipper has undergone earth-shaking changes, and there are miniature paper figures supporting each broken bone, and the power born out of thin air suddenly triggers the man's will, and he wakes up from his coma.

"Ahh

"Whew-whew-" gasped.

Go for it...... Don't forget what you promised. ”

The man looked around, and the man in black was gone.

At this moment,

"Slipper......"

“...... Brother Slipper. ”

Shouts could be heard from the hillside in the distance, and the light of torches loomed in the mountain forest.

He wanted to sort out the blood stains on his body, but found that as the man said just now, he was extremely clever, shattering his bones and internal organs with dark energy, and only the collar had his own blood spitting out.

"I'm here! I'm here!"

time change,

"Engong, I am willing to give alms to let the villain live a little longer, such kindness, this head must be knocked on!"

The man in black looked at the slippery kowtow and sighed faintly.

That's why he's so cautious...... This worldly disaster is the eternal main theme, and only by working hard to improve one's strength can one avoid flying disasters.

It's because you don't have the strength that when disaster suddenly befalls you one day, you don't have the power to resist at all.

Your time is up. ”

As soon as the voice fell,

The whole person collapsed to the ground, and the tiny paper figures in his body were all burned up, and the embers mixed into the blood, and it was no longer possible to distinguish between them.

Even if the paper man supported his body before, and forcibly chopped a large pile of firewood with an unimaginably powerful will,

But now,

He really ......

It's true...... There was no strength left to support him to continue to stand up.

The slipper no longer felt the pain at this point, and a sleepiness like water swept through his mind.

'Yaya, as a child of the mountain, you have to live strongly. ’

Consciousness is plunged into boundless darkness.

The shadow man took one last look at the man on the ground, and carefully examined the surroundings of the courtyard. Then he pinched his fingers and looked at the starlight in the sky.

muttered to himself: "The hexagram shows that the wilderness is the most likely place, but it is also the most dangerous place...... With my strength, there is only an 8 percent chance of success, and there are still two variables in this......"

But there are also possibilities in Tanibara Prefecture. ”

"The deity goes to the valley, and the paper man goes to the wilderness to see......"

The Nine Palaces Gossip in the void turned into pure white Qi, and sank into the body of the man in black like a fish entering the sea.

Checked the surroundings again......

The figure is gone!

'Where the hell are you hiding?'

The whispers faded with the wind......

PS: (I'm quite satisfied with what I've written in this chapter, and it feels like I'm writing it.) ）

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