Seeing that Niu Dawa and Zhang Xiaopaw didn't believe it, the thin monkey glanced at the two of them contemptuously, and said, "Otherwise, do you think that the people in so many villages will be manipulated to death by the people of several major families, and they will be like obedient rabbits, and they dare not move?"

"We weren't here just now, we just went to Taniguchi to watch the people of the big families clean up the battlefield. ”

"The people of several major families are tyrannical and cruel, maybe the people of the three villages took away the bodies of the seven people who died in the battle, but hung the seven corpses at the mouth of the valley with hemp rope to shock the four directions. It's just that the weather is too hot, and they are afraid that the corpse will rot, so just now, they dug a big pit and buried the corpse on the spot. ”

"We just secretly counted them at the mouth of the valley, there are twenty-one of them, five to two hundred, they can fight eight hundred, so even if all the people from our village join forces, it will not be enough for them to fight. ”

The thin monkeys said everything you said, so that Niu Dawa and Zhang Xiaopaw had to believe that this was true.

"How can they be so powerful?!" Zhang Xiaopaw muttered in amazement. He couldn't imagine what kind of battle it was in his mind, five people fighting two hundred people, an average of forty people per person, forty people rushed up, arms and legs, how one person could parry, not to mention that these forty people were not barehanded, but holding steel forks, hunting knives and other weapons.

"It's martial arts, they are cultivators who practice martial arts. Champion said.

"Cultivator?" Zhang Xiaopu was confused for a moment, this was the first time he had heard this word.

"It's the chivalrous man Mr. Storyteller talked about, killing one person in ten steps, and not leaving a line for a thousand miles. Champion said.

Zhang Xiaopaw immediately understood, it was the first time he had heard of "cultivators", but the word "chivalrous" had not heard the champion tell legendary stories about them.

"Hmph!" Niu Dawa snorted coldly and said: "What kind of chivalrous are they, chivalrous are heroes who rob the rich and help the poor, and they are not worthy of carrying shoes for chivalrous people." ”

"Yes. They're bullies, they're shit!"

"Sooner or later, he was wiped on the neck by a chivalrous sword, and he eliminated harm for the people!"

Zhang Xiaopaw did not curse with them, but raised his eyes in the direction of Taniguchi, and his heart couldn't help but feel empty, it was a pity that he couldn't witness this battle with his own eyes.

Before this, he had always felt that "chivalry", "Jiangyang thief", "flying away", "killing one person in ten steps", "not popular for thousands of miles", etc., were all things in the stories told by the champion, all of which were fictional and unreal, but now he suddenly found that all this was real and had been very close to him. There is a sixty-mile road from Liujia Village to the county seat, and he is only sixty miles away from all this.

Zhang Xiaopaw's heart was restless, he suddenly couldn't wait to go to the county seat, not to follow the uncle in the village to the noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of beef noodles and go home satisfied, as usual, but to take a walk, see and listen, to understand and contact the completely different world sixty miles away.

"Hey, pawn, why are you stunned?" Niu Dawa was angry for a long time and didn't see Zhang Xiaopaw say a word to him, and when he turned his head to look, he found that the latter was not listening at all, and couldn't help but push him angrily.

"I want to go out into the world and see it. Zhang Xiaopaw looked at Niu Dawa and the thin monkey, his eyes were burning, and finally fixed on the champion, and said: "The words that the champion hangs on his lips every day are right, the world is so big, if you don't go out for a walk, you will come to the world in vain." ”

"Wow!" Champion jumped up happily, rushed to Zhang Xiaopaw in two steps, grabbed his shoulder with one hand, and beat his chest hard with the other, and said: "Bosom friend, bosom friend! Good brother, when the time comes, let's go together, go and take a look at the angry river, take a look at the towering peak, take a walk around the dragon imperial capital, and break through the martial arts rivers and lakes!"

The reason why he is so excited and happy is because when they play together on weekdays, he always says that he wants to go to the outside world to have a look, but Zhang Xiaopaw and they are not interested at all, and sometimes even say that he is insane, what is beautiful in the outside world, it is not mountains, rivers, fields, and villages, at most the house is bigger, the road is wider, and there are more people. How can there be a peaceful and stable farming, building a house, marrying a wife, and having children to live a nourishing life, I feel beautiful when I think about it. But now, Zhang Xiaopaw not only suddenly agreed with his life ideals, but also said that he also wanted to go out to have a look.

Surprisingly, this time no one spoke out against it, and everyone was silent. The mountains, rivers, plants, cattle and sheep, fields, villages, the simple and simple world that belonged to them were torn apart, and a door appeared in front of them, and they could see a new big world as long as they stepped through this door.

"Lao Tzu will accompany you two!" Niu Dawa finally couldn't resist the temptation of the big world, grinned and climbed on the shoulder of Zhang Xiaopai, and said with a smile: "Anyway, the pawn is going to look for relatives, let's take a look at this big world by the way." ”

Everyone knows that Zhang Xiaopu is an orphan, so everyone is not surprised to hear Niu Dawa say that he is going to look for relatives.

"Count me in. The thin monkey also wavered, "Champion, didn't you say that there is that kind of martial arts like floating on water, I'm going to learn from my teacher." ”

"I—I won't go with you, my eldest brother is too weak to do heavy work, and my parents are old, if I'm not at home, I'm afraid I won't be able to do much at home. ”

"I'm not going either. I still like to live quietly. ”

"I'll go, I'm going, I'm going to the best tavern in the Shenlong Emperor Capital to have a big meal, no, eat him for three days and three nights!"

"Go to whatever you want, don't worry about home, I'll stay at home and help you take care of it. ”

"I'm not going. However, you will have to write down all the anecdotes you have seen outside, and tell them to us when you return. ”

"That's it. ”

"Don't worry, when we return from the tour, I will set up a bench and table under the old willow tree in Liujia Village and tell you about the dark world. The champion patted his chest and reassured.

"Hey, you boys, stop talking, hurry up and get your dry food, and get ready to go. "The dry food has been distributed, and they are being called to go and get it.

Three hard corn tortillas, this is the dry food that Zhang Xiaopaw received, and the six catties of fragrant wheat cakes he handed over, disappointed but not complaining, because everyone only received one day's rations. And good dry food is naturally given priority to strong and strong players with rich hunting experience, like him, Niu Dawa, thin monkey and other young cubs, can get as much dry food as adults is already very good.

Zhang Xiaopaw put the corn tortillas into the dry food bag, tied them around his waist, looked at the valley mouth, and couldn't help frowning. Each person only has one day's ration, and the situation is very serious, and it can only be expected that the Black Forest will be abundant and let them harvest a lot, otherwise, it is difficult to say whether their group of people will have the strength to get out of this mountain forest again.

One hundred and twenty people, each with five catties, a total of six hundred catties, filled with four sacks.

Niu Yao instructed the four strong men to carry a sack each, and ordered all the remaining people to show their weapons and guard them around to prevent anyone from attacking and robbing them.

"Let's go!" At the sound of an order, the team headed for the valley mouth.

"Look, the people of Zhangjia Village and Liujia Village are ready to hand over grain and enter the grain!"

"Let's go, go over and have a look. ”

"Boss, what are we going to do?

"That's it, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, so let's cheapen these beasts. Let's go, let's also hand over the grain into the grain. ”

As soon as the people of Zhangjia Village and Liujia Village moved, the people of other villages noticed it, some wanted to see the situation before making a decision, some were anxious and had to succumb to the obscenity of the big family, and some stared at the four hemp bags that were moving slowly in the crowd and had bad intentions, but when they saw the posture of more than 100 people in Zhangjia Village and Liujia Village with weapons in their hands, they didn't dare to make a mistake, so they could only watch dryly.

The mouth of the canyon is a meadow, but the grass on the grassland is dry now, the valley is more than 30 zhang wide, if twenty or thirty people pass side by side, the width is sufficient, compared with the cliffs on both sides of the canyon that go straight into the sky, and the long road that can not be seen at a glance, the width of more than 30 zhang seems to be as thin as a crack.

The people of several major families did not set up obstacles at the mouth of the valley, but simply built a few grass huts, and people sat on the grass to drink tea and chat. It can be seen that they don't take these mountain villagers in Taniguchi seriously at all, and they are confident enough not to let anyone pass.

"I saw that there was no mound over there, and the seven men they killed yesterday were buried in it. Look at the grass over there, stained with blood. Smell it closely, the smell of blood in the air is still there. The thin monkey pointed to the newly turned mound under the cliff in the distance and told Niu Dawa and Zhang Xiaopaw, his voice was very low, for fear that people from several major families would hear it.

Zhang Xiaopu looked at the mound in the distance, and mourned in silence for the seven people who died in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. In troubled times, life is as cheap as grass, and the words of the village chief's grandfather are not alarmist. He looked at the people of several major families under the grass shed in front of him, all dressed in black power suits, with strong muscles and well-proportioned bodies, although they were all sitting there casually, they gave people an inexplicable sense of oppression.

Zhang Xiaopaw couldn't help but tighten his heart, this sense of oppression he had only felt in Niu Yao and Li Dashan, but the degree was far less than these people under the grass shed, it can be seen that these people are really strong.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have gathered dry food, please check it and allow us to enter the valley. Zhang Daqiang, the leader of Zhangjia Village, stepped forward with his fists clenched, bent over and smiling, and put his posture very low, for fear of angering these evil people.

"That's right, it's reasonable to pay grain into the grain, go into the Black Forest a day earlier and harvest earlier, I really don't know what your mother-in-law is, and I'm not afraid that I'll go in late, everything I can eat will be plundered by other villagers. ”

A person walked out from under the grass shed, stretched his waist, and laughed slowly. Giving grain into grain was a reasonable thing in his eyes, as if the Black Forest was the private domain of several of their families.

This person's name is Jiang Siping, and he is the leader of this group. Around forty years old, rat-eyed, garlic-nosed, mustache, oily head and flour. As the saying goes, the first impression of this person's face is not that they are loyal and kind.

The four bulging hemp bags were placed in front of Jiang Siping in turn, Jiang Siping smiled and nodded, his mouse eyes narrowed into a slit, and said, "Look at your numbers, these dry foods are only a lot more, very good." ”

As he spoke, he untied a sack, the smile on his face stopped abruptly, and then untied the other three sacks, his face was gloomy and terrible, he raised his head, his eyes were full of gloom, and he looked at Zhang Daqiang with a sneer.

Zhang Daqiang and everyone in the two villages chuckled in their hearts, Jiang Siping's mood was clearly written on his face, and it was obvious that Jiang Siping was very dissatisfied with the dry food they handed over.

"I don't know why the adults are angry?" Zhang Daqiang hurriedly lowered his posture and asked cautiously. In fact, he already had the answer in his heart, the dry food in the sack was of poor quality, and most of them were moldy.

"Dog guts!" Jiang Siping suddenly screamed, only to see him smash his fist into a sack, which was like paper paste, and exploded with a bang, and the bread and other dry food contained in it were scattered all over the ground.

"Open your dogs' eyes and see, they are all moldy pickles, and they don't eat the dogs, do you dare to use them to fool the uncles and find death?!" Jiang Siping was furious, scolded on his lips, and crushed the dry food on the ground with one foot at a time.

"My lord, I can't help it, I can't help it!" Zhang Daqiang's eyes suddenly turned red, and he threw himself on the ground to protect the dry food, "This is all life-saving food, it is squeezed out little by little between the teeth of more than 1,000 people in the two villages." It's just a little moldy, it's edible, it's edible!"

The eyes of the people in the two villages were bloodshot in an instant, staring at Jiang Siping, their eyes were about to split, and the weapons in their hands tightened again and again.

"My lord—" Niu Yao took a step forward and said, "In this year of drought, every family is starving, and seeing that the grain tank is at the bottom and there is nothing to eat, so I have to go into the mountains to hunt in the mountains against the admonition of the ancestors 'don't hunt in spring', just to hunt a little bit and survive this famine." The mold under your feet, my lord, is a delicious mountain and sea delicacies for us poor mountain people. My lord, I and other poor mountain people are starving and struggling, and there are still thousands of mouths in the village waiting to eat and live. ”

After saying this, he knelt down and waved his hand to signal the people of the two villages to do the same.

Obviously gritted his teeth with hatred, but he had to kneel and beg for mercy, and praise and flatter with a clear conscience, this kind of taste Zhang Xiaopaw tasted for the first time, and this time alone will be unforgettable for life. He pressed the cow baby to the death, not letting this thing run rampant.

"That's it. Jiang Siping waved his hand, his face softened a lot, and said, "Thinking that your life is not easy, Lord Ben will not embarrass you." As long as you open the bag of dry food on your waist and show it to your lord, if it is also moldy dry food, then it proves that you did not deliberately pick it out to tease and humiliate us, and your lord will allow you to enter the valley. ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Xiaoshu couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, knowing that something was wrong.