Chapter 70: The Spring Festival
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The land route is not as simple as the waterway, you only need to go down the river, cliffs, rocky mountains, cliffs, dense forests, wilderness, and even streams, in the long journey, it is quite difficult to deal with and very physically demanding.
Although Jing's words were listened to, he was still a little disappreciative in his heart, and he felt that in the face of determination, nothing was a problem.
But when Chengli really embarked on the journey, after spending the passion in his heart during the two-day journey, and feeling deep fatigue from the inside out, he took Jing's words for granted.
Just when Chengli put down Ah Shou for the third time today and sat down to rest, he heard a series of "hooves clattering hooves" sounds.
"It's the sound of horses' hooves. After listening carefully for a while, he finally heard the voice, which made Chengli a little speechless, he had already heard it, and he was on guard.
Horses were not common in ancient Japan, and even when the emperor of Japan traveled, he could only use ox carts, and horses could only be used in war.
But speaking of which, there are still a few horses in the cottage, which are the property of Yan Shouli Kawada, but now I don't know where to go, after all, even the stables have collapsed in the earthquake, and those horses have already fled.
And the horses in the cottage are all sick, and they can't run with such a cheerful rhythm, and the people who come must be outsiders, who can ride horses, and their status will definitely not be lower than that of ordinary generals.
"Hoofs and hoove......s and hooves" was getting closer and closer, and Chengli motioned to Hezi to help Ah Shou back a little, and pinched the handle of the bloody knife.
Although Chengli was already very careful when he walked, Ah Shou was still bumped a lot, but after two days of rest, Ah Shou was able to move normally, but his body still couldn't support it after a long journey.
"Hoof-clatter, hoof-clatter. The horse jumped out of the bushes in front of him, huh, this kind of costume? Chengli squinted, and unlike Chengli imagined, it was not a person of honorable status like the general who sat on the horse, but a person who was dressed very strangely.
This person's whole body is wrapped in strips of cloth, and he can't tell whether it's a man or a woman at all, Chengli carefully observed this person's chest - most of the women in this era are poor breasts, and among the people Chengli has seen, except for the maid in the cottage, only the previous princess Abhi's breasts are plump.
But what Cheng Li cares about the most is that those strips of cloth are wrapped very tightly, and even the mouth, nose, ears and eyes are wrapped, which makes people feel hairy.
"Stop!" Seeing this, Jing hurriedly rushed forward and stopped the horses.
"Okay!" Although it feels weird, after all, Jing is a mage and has a lot of knowledge, so he should know what this thing is, and with a horse, Amoru can also be more comfortable and recover faster.
The horse was frightened and stopped suddenly, but the person sitting on it did not react for a moment, and fell down at once, not grasping the center of gravity properly, and fell down with a "ah-" sound.
But Chengli finally knew the gender of this person, and it was a girl.
Jing hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, but she was thrown away at once, and just sat on the ground and moved backwards with the support of her hands, "Woo!
"Don't worry, we won't hurt you. "Knowing that this is a girl, Chengli's attitude is much better.
"Woo woo! Uh-huh!" But the girl ignored Cheng Li, and continued to move backwards until she hit the tree, and just when Cheng Li thought she was going to stop like this, she found that she was crying hysterically, letting out a scream of "ah-" and her voice was full of panic and helplessness.
"Don't worry—" Cheng Li didn't finish when Jing interrupted him.
"It's useless," Jing seemed to sigh, but when Chengli paid attention, she couldn't hear anything but her words: "This should be a spring festival." ”
"Spring Festival?" Cheng Li didn't understand.
"It's a sacrifice," Jing stepped forward, "a gift from the foolish people to the mountain gods, praying that there would be no floods when summer comes." ”
"Mountain God?" When Chengli still wanted to ask, he saw Jing pull out the long knife at his waist and walked to the girl, who had curled up tightly, hugged her knees and screamed sadly, although it was separated by a layer of cloth, but the voice sounded pity.
"What are you going to do?" Cheng Li hurriedly stepped forward and pressed her knife-wielding arm.
"Kill her. Jing said flatly, as if he was saying that he wanted to drink water.
"Why?" Cheng Li frowned, he didn't think Jing was a murderer, after all, there were enough murderers with nine senses.
"Because for them, this is the best outcome," Jing twisted away Chengli's hand, "Before they were tied with these white cloths, they had their tongues, noses, ears and ears cut off, and their eyes gouged out, how do you let them live?"
Cut off her tongue, nose, ears, gouged out her eyes? Looking at the girl who was holding her knees and whimpering, she shuddered in the middle of her life.
Before Chengli could turn around from his distraction, Jing "brushed!" and directly cut off the girl's head, "poof-" There was a long leaking sound, and blood sprayed all over the ground in an instant.
Just when Chengli came to consciousness, the girl's head had already rolled off to the side, the cloth was scattered, and in a blur, Chengli noticed the ear with only thin holes......
"Gross-" Chengli quickly clenched his mouth and turned his head away.
Jing didn't say anything, just glanced at Chengli and left.
"Wait, don't you bury her?" Chengli hurriedly followed, and the smell of blood had already filled the air.
"You go by yourself. Jing thrust the knife back into its sheath.
“…… Why are you just cutting off your head, isn't it good to use other methods?" asked Chengli after a moment of silence.
"Not good. Jing walked over to the horse that had lowered its head to graze there and patted it on the back.
"Hmph—suck yo-yo-yo......" The horse shook his head and snorted.
"Ga, Kasaku-sama, then, where?" Kazuko's voice trembled, she never imagined that this mage sister, who looked very kind, would directly cut off a person's head.
Chengli scratched his head, and decided that it would be better not to tell Kazuko the truth, he himself was a little unacceptable, cut off his facial features to make a sacrifice or something, in fact, he could accept it as a sacrifice, many things would mention living sacrifices or something, but the facial features had to be cut off......
As soon as he thought of the scene where there were no ears and only fine holes left, Chengli couldn't help but feel numb on his scalp.
"That's a monster, a monster pretending to be a human," Chengli thought about it, but decided to tell a white lie: "You think, for no reason, how can someone appear in the wilderness?"
"But doesn't she say she's almost to the village? Maybe she's just walking a little far......
"But is that kind of costume that ordinary people wear? This is because the youkai is not too powerful, so his grimace has not changed, so he has to wrap his face in strips of cloth, so that he can deceive those who are more kind or curious, and once he relaxes his vigilance, the youkai will turn into its original form and eat people in one bite. ”
"I see," Kazuko looked scared, "If it weren't for Master Jing, wouldn't we all be eaten?"
Seongli noticed that Ashou seemed to pout.
"That's it, so you have to have a good relationship with Master Jing," Illusion, Chengli patted Kazuko's head and looked at Mamoru "Okay, now that the youkai have been killed, we have a horse, Amori, you can ride a horse now, it will be much easier." ”
Ah Shou moved his lips a few times, pursed his lips, and finally agreed softly: "Hmm." ”
This little episode didn't affect Chengli much, after all, he was just a person he didn't know, and Chengli was not a virgin, and he still had a slim future, so he naturally wouldn't care much about other people's affairs.
After all, in this era, human life is very low, and what happened to the girl is just another reminder that if there is no strength to protect oneself in this world, it will be miserable.
Kazuko still followed closely behind Chengli as always, Ashou sat on the horse and frowned slightly, she had never ridden a horse before, and she still needed a process of adaptation, although she walked very slowly, she still needed to hold down the horse's back to maintain balance, and the whole person was bumped along with the horse's back, so that Chengli was a little worried.
In contrast, Jing's behavior was a little abnormal, she became silent, and seemed to feel a little depressed, but Seungli didn't pay much attention to it, he was thinking back to the scene when he held Jing's arm before.
It seems that there was no plum blossom pattern on her arm at that time......
Could it be that only when the plum demon controls the body, the pattern will be revealed, so when she sees the cherry blossoms in her palm, she thinks that she is controlled?
As he got closer and closer to the village, Chengli also began to think about his own way out, whether to follow Jing or leave her?
If you walk more quietly, it will definitely be easier to get in touch with all kinds of things about youkai, and your strength should also improve quickly, maybe you can steal a few tricks, but there is an unstable factor here, that is, the plum demon lurking in the static body, which is a time bomb.
But if you leave Jing, where should you go? What can you do? Jiu Daoyi that guy started killing people when he was ten years old, Cheng Li felt that this kind of person would definitely not be less in this world, after all, it was also a kind of power that could be obtained, Cheng Li remembered the sword qi that Jiu Daoyi cut out.
"There is a situation. Jing suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Li stepped forward, followed Jing's gaze, and saw those black things in the distance at a glance, and couldn't help but squint his eyes: "What is that?"
"Just check it out. Jing's tone was a little stiff, and Chengli was a little confused, not knowing where he had done wrong.
As the distance approached, the four of them realized that this was a burned village.
"Princess Abhi. Glancing at the ruins of charcoal ash and vaguely dried corpses, Jing said affirmatively.
"Really?" Chengli actually thought about it, and now that she thinks about it, she went to the cottage from this direction.
There was still a choking smell in the air, and from time to time black fines fell from the scorched wood, looking at the uncomfortable and depressing scene in front of him, Cheng Li made a decision in his heart.
At this moment, there was a boiling noise in the distance, and Cheng Li couldn't help but look over.
What a dozen people look like, surviving villagers?
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