35 The year of affliction
Before Han Jiangxue left, although she ordered the generals who were loyal to her to keep a low profile, she was still worried that she would leave, and those generals who were loyal to her in the past would be attacked and excluded, so she wanted to entrust Xianglan. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Because Xianglan is the most trusted person of the Empress Dowager Xiao, she was and still is, unlike herself because of her arrogant personality, Empress Dowager Xiao has always been suspicious of herself.
Xianglan saw that Han Jiangxue insisted on going south alone, and she didn't say more, but she still stuffed more than a dozen silver tickets into Han Jiangxue's hand, and said with a slight smile: "Go out thousands of miles, have money and do things, these are the silver tickets of Dayue Qianzhuang, Dayue Qianzhuang is the most time-honored money village in Dayue country, and it is also the money village with the most semicolons, you have these silver tickets, after finding your sweetheart, you can also wander the world and live happily",
Han Jiangxue took the silver tickets and saw that there were more than 100,000 taels at first glance, although people like her were not short of these silver tickets, but she still thanked her sincerely: "Thank you Sister Lan for your concern, Jiang Xue is leaving." "Note: Although the headquarters of Dayue Qianzhuang is in Nanyue, it has a semicolon in Chu, Liao, and Xiliang, and it is also the only one in this continent that has a semicolon in all five major countries"
At this time, Yuyan handed the sword in his hand to Han Jiangxue and said: "Master, give you a weapon, if you walk alone with your bare hands like this, it will make people suspicious, with a sword, you are like an ordinary child of the rivers and lakes."
Han Jiangxue smiled and took the sword, Swift's portable sword is not a precious treasure but a sharp weapon, but Han Jiangxue used it just right... In this way, others will not be suspicious when they see it, and it also means that Xiaoyanzi has a heart for herself. The long sword that Han Jiangxue herself originally carried belonged to the imperial sword, that is, the sword that the emperor gave you to command the army, similar to the Shang Fang sword, and now that Han Jiangxue has retired to the rivers and lakes, her imperial sword has also been returned to the Empress Dowager Xiao.
After Hanjiangxue and Xianglan and Swifts separated, Xianglan asked the defenders of Dingzhou City to raise their might to open the city gate, and Hanjiangxue followed the crowd out of the city gate, and rode south......
In order to find him in her heart, Han Jiangxue abandoned her peak power and glory and wealth. Prepare to be an ordinary person. The battle of attacking Chu was scolded by the people of Chu who were scolded by the people of Chu as a female butcher in Yanzhou, a female demon who was cut by thousands of knives. , The west wind is blowing, under the afterglow of the sunset, Hanjiang Xue is dressed in white and fluttering, riding a white horse, stunning beauty, standing tall, making her like a fairy descending to earth, but her heart is faintly aching, she rode a horse alone and walked in the vast wilderness, the purpose is to find the man in her heart, the little man who cried for her to hug and peed in her arms.........
Han Jiangxue's mind couldn't help but think of a scene from sixteen years ago ・・・・・・・.
In the state of Chu, a place under Xiangcheng, a village called Zhangcun is an ancient village, named because there is a huge camphor tree next to the entrance of the village.
Maybe it's ancient, the middle of the ancient camphor tree that needs to be hugged by five or six people has been rotten, revealing a huge hollow, this hollow is so big that it can squeeze into several adults, and what makes people feel terrifying is that many bare white bones are exposed in the hollow in the middle of the ancient camphor tree, but the ancient camphor tree is still lush and tenaciously surviving.
Compared with the tenacious vitality of the ancient camphor tree, the vitality of human beings is much more fragile. But what is incredible is that a little girl of six or seven years old was firmly chained under the big plum tree, and the little girl's thin feet were locked with thick iron chains, because of the continuous struggle, the little girl's ankles had been worn out with deep blood, but she could only struggle in vain, and the other end of the chain was deeply rooted in the middle of the camphor tree. According to the strength of the iron cable, even a big buffalo can't break free, let alone a weak little girl.
Maybe the little girl has felt the breath of death, maybe the little girl has been so hungry that she is weak, her long eyelashes have fallen, and when she occasionally opens her eyes, her originally bright eyes have already lost their luster. It is the instinctive expression of a life in its most desperate moments.
She hadn't eaten for three days and two nights, and the only thing that quenched her thirst was when the dew fell from the leaves of the camphor tree at night, she opened her little mouth to pick it up, and a little drop of dew was Qionglu jade liquid in her heart, but it was not easy to catch the dew with her mouth, and now she had no strength to catch the dew.
Maybe God also took pity on the little girl, the sky had been clear and suddenly it rained, and the rain hit the dying little girl's face, and the cool feeling made her refreshed slightly. She opened her eyes slightly, in fact, it was a very beautiful little girl with clear eyebrows, long eyelashes, round eyes, and a straight nose, but who was so vicious to lock such a small girl under the ancient camphor tree and let her bury those white bones.
The ancient camphor tree is the feng shui sacred tree of Zhangcun Village, and it is also the place where Zhangcun punishes those who violate the clan rules in the village. Zhangcun punishes those who violate the clan rules according to the size of the crime:
The first level is for those who have committed sins that cannot be redeemed, and the elders of Zhangcun will decide to lock that person in the ancient camphor tree and starve for nine days and nine nights, and if he does not die, he will be relieved of all his past sins. Let him be a man again, of course, no one can go hungry for nine days and nine nights.
The second class is for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, and the elders of Zhangcun will decide to lock that person in the ancient camphor tree and starve for seven days and seven nights, and if he does not die, he will be relieved of all his past sins. Let him be a new man, generally speaking, there are very few people who can survive after starving for seven days and seven nights. That's why there are so many white bones under the ancient camphor tree.
The third level is to punish those who have made great mistakes, and the elders of Zhangcun will decide to lock that person in an ancient camphor tree and starve for five days and five nights, and likewise if he does not die, he will be exempted from all past sins. Let him be a man again, generally speaking, half of the people can starve for five days and five nights. Xiangzhang Village called such a punishment by heaven, thinking that it was a matter of heaven's will, and if you could survive it, it would mean that you would not dare to die. Give you a chance to be a new person in the future.
The fourth level is to punish those who make small mistakes, the elders of Zhangcun generally decide to lock that person in the ancient camphor tree and starve for two days and two nights to educate him, of course, most people can survive two days and two nights.
What heinous crimes did the little girl violate and do? Let her accept such a cruel punishment at a young age.
What heinous crimes did the little girl violate and do? Let her accept such a cruel punishment at a young age. In fact, she did not do anything heinous, and the reason why she was locked in an ancient camphor tree was simply because she was a person who escaped from a plague-ridden place.
Because the little girl's original village was close to the area where the plague broke out, many villagers were infected with the plague, and many people had died. She escaped from the grave of the dead and fled to Zhangcun, where she thought she had escaped death, but the people of Zhangcun were afraid that she would bring the plague to other villagers. So she was forced to lock herself in the ancient camphor tree, and only survived three days and three nights. Zhangcun sent someone to feed her, and if the little girl could live for half a month locked in the ancient camphor tree, it meant that she did not have the plague on her, so she could be let go.
Although Elder Zhangcun's method is a bit cruel, it is also a helpless move, compared to the practice of the imperial court, Elder Zhangcun's approach is much kinder.
It turned out that the imperial court learned that there was an outbreak of plague in the place, and the emperor made a circle of life and death in his hand, so he made the area around the plague area 200 miles as a no-man's land, and everyone in it, regardless of whether they had the plague or not, was slaughtered with strong swords and rockets, and all the villages in the plague area were burned.