The Qinling Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, the north and south are also wide for hundreds of miles, there are dangerous peaks and mountains stretching and undulating, and it is the southern barrier of Guanzhong Tianfu.

The mountains and forests in this realm are vast, and there are many inaccessible deep valleys, or passers-by mistakenly enter the ditches, and they can't get out, or die of famine, or die under the minions of fierce beasts in the mountains and forests.

But everything has its own good and bad, and these dangers, which are beyond the reach of others, sometimes become the fate of some desperate people. The so-called harsh government is fiercer than the tiger, compared with all kinds of dangers in the world, the deep mountains and old forests are full of the danger of poisonous miasma beasts, but for some people, it is more reassuring than the outside world.

Kushuigou is an inconspicuous ditch near Taibai Peak, there is a spring of living water to form a mountain stream, and a narrow grassy slope is washed out at the bottom of the ditch. The grass slope has long been reclaimed, planted with some cereals and the like, there is living water irrigation, humus fertile raising, the growth is not bad, but the scale is too small, even if the harvest is prosperous, the income is limited.

On both sides of the mountain range, between the hills and ravines, there are some simple shacks covered with turf, and there are some relatively dry cave dwellings on the slopes on the sunny side. Above and below the ridge, there are scattered some ragged people, either turning over firewood, or kneading and weaving, each busy in their own way.

It wasn't until three o'clock in the morning that Li Guang, who was curled up on the grass couch, woke up, rubbed his sleepy eyes a little irritably, walked out of the shed and kicked away a few children who were playing outside his shack: "Vicious wild slaves, go and make noise." ”

The children cried and ran away, while Li Guang sat cross-legged on the smooth rocks, his thick nails scratching a thick red scar on the left side of his face.

A woman who was in charge of eating and drinking brought a bamboo tube of dried rice with a few smoky and antiseptic strips of dried meat on it, and Li Guang chewed the dry rice in large gulps, picked out a few sticks of dried meat and threw them to the two naughty boys who had come forward to sell them with slanderous faces.

The naughty boy is like a treasure, holding it in his hand and chewing and tasting it carefully. In fact, the meat strips are dry and hard, tough as tree roots, and what kind of taste can be tasted, but the children are still delicious.

There was a cry of sorrow on the slope, and Li Guang raised his foot to look at it, and it turned out to be a sick man who had been wounded in a hunt a few days ago and had died this morning. He took a deep breath, the dampness in his eyes came and went as fast as he could, and ordered the two of them to move the already scrawny corpse out and bury it.

"Let go of me, Ayah, let him go...... Woo, blame me for stealing Aya's rations, Aya's starvation will ......"

A teenager, the orphan of the deceased, cried to retrieve Aya's body, but the emaciated body was lifted aside by Li Guang.

Li Guang rummaged through the grass couch for a while, and found a horizontal knife with a dense gap like a jagged tooth and stuffed it into the young man's hand: "Live with your heart, if you are gone, you Aya is really dead!" ”

The young man seemed to understand whether he understood or not, holding the horizontal knife and staring at the empty grass couch after the corpse was removed, and only after a while did he lie on the side of Li Guang's feet and cry with sorrow: "Aya is dying and wants me to follow the captain Ah Gong, saying that Ah Gong can save us ......."

When Li Guang heard this, his body froze in place, seeing that his companion was still dead, he was sad and loud at this time, tears came out of his eyes, and the scratches on his face were even more painful, he raised his hand and slapped himself twice, bent down and grabbed the young man, turned his head and walked out of this cave, and went to the south slope to dig and bury his companion.

This small settlement has a population of 100 people, and Li Guang is their leader.

This is a Jingzhao military household, a young man from the army, first conquered Goryeo, re-fought the Turks, traveled east and west for more than ten years without returning to the homeland, awarded the Shangzhu country, I thought I could return to my hometown, the old mother has died first, the old father is also seriously ill and will die, the brother has no governing industry, and the family has been broken for a long time.

Fortunately, after a year of marriage, he was recruited to Heyuan to prepare for the war, leaving his wife and children to live in the countryside. During the Yifeng period, he followed the chief manager Li Jingxuan to attack Tibet, and Huangchuan was defeated, leaving a life by luck.

Because of the concern for the family, summoned dozens of people from the defeated army to abscond back to Guanzhong, but found that the field was requisitioned as the mausoleum, the new relocation of the field was delayed, the wife died of poverty and illness, although the children lived for a few years, but it coincided with the great famine in Guanzhong, the people were not enough to eat, and they fled the famine to eat, the child was left at home, gnawing on the half-collared pu mat, after Li Guang returned home, no one picked up the bones, and there was a ball of pu silk in the tooth pass!

The defeated army fled back, the military government Guo Yi came to arrest him, Li Guang hated to kill the officer, and dozens of broken military families fled into the Qinling Mountains, and never went out again.

After the pit was dug, Li Guang personally put the corpse of the comrade into the pit, and was about to be buried with soil, and on the other side of the slope rushed up a dozen but burly and strong people who were disheveled, among them a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, with a haircut of grass rings, rushed over with a bloody deer leg in his hand, looking at the corpse in the pit and feeling a little lost: "Why did you die?" I didn't hold back for a moment......"

The young man burst into tears, raised his hand and threw the deer's leg into the pit, and cried and scolded in his mouth: "Zhu Shisan doesn't pay attention to faithfulness, and said that when I get a horse, he will teach me the stunt of returning to the horse and shooting continuously......"

Li Guang glared at the young man, tore off a piece of meat from the deer leg and stuffed it into the corpse's mouth, and then threw the whole deer leg to the person next to him: "Simmer and add food." ”

"How can this be! This is my ......."

The young man was still about to argue, but Li Guang raised his hand and gave him a slap: "Let you guard the sentry, who will allow you to go out hunting?" ”

"Aya is just afraid that the Xiling thieves will find out about us, they dare to come and plunder the mouth, we also have bows and knives, and we are not afraid to fight to the death!"

The young man looked angry, and the young people behind him also nodded in agreement: "I just want to live, nest in this cold and desolate ditch, life is better than death!" Lao Tzu has grown to twenty years, and the woman has never touched her hands and feet, and anyone who can see it is either an aunt or an aunt! ”

When it comes to the topic of meat, sadness is diluted a little. It is really used to life and death, and it is rare to be sad about these things anymore, and the mourning of the deceased today may lie in the grave tomorrow.

"Keep your life and it will always get better......"

Li Guang looked at the peaks of the Qinling Mountains and muttered in his mouth, but he couldn't see where the turning point was.

After burying the dead, the group descended into a ditch, and some people were already skinning and cleaning the prey brought by the young people by the mountain stream.

Although it is cold and hard to live in seclusion, there is no shortage of mountain treasures and wild things in the Qinling Mountains, Li Guangyi and many military veterans, and then brought out a group of half-grown teenagers, hunting wood, can barely survive.

The Qinling Mountains stretch out, and there are not a few military households who have fled to this place to live in seclusion to avoid military service, including those like Li Guang who are cold and self-defending, and there are also those who are vicious by nature and gather crowds to be thieves.

This kind of man-made disaster in the mountains and wilderness is more ferocious than the wandering beasts, who go in and out of the mountains and plains, plundering for a living, and at the same time seeking and annexing other small groups of refugees who have lost their lives, and taking their youth and strength to increase their strength.

Li Guang suffered from the devastation of the world, but he was unwilling to bully others and inflict misfortune on more people by force. The bandit leaders had invited Li Guang to join him, but he was unwilling to contain the old and weak around him, so Li Guang stayed away from them.

The young people seemed to be gossiping about the complaints, Li Guang was also worried in his heart, and while others were busy cooking their prey, he called aside the young man who had just reprimanded him, who was also his adopted son, and frowned: "You tell me honestly, have you ever had anything to do with the Xiling thieves?" ”

The young man's name is Li Ge, scratching the itch on his body and laughing: "Aya can't believe me, but others can't believe me?" I'm ......."

"And deceive!"

Before the adopted son could finish speaking, Li Guang was already furious, and he pulled the young man to the ground, ripped off the saber at his waist, shook off the rough and ugly scabbard, and revealed the blade of the blade: "Where did the blade come from?" Recently, a few of you have been on duty, but you have disappeared in the night, when I don't know! ”

"Aya is really alert and powerful......"

The young man still wanted to laugh and be confused, but when he saw Li Guang's expression became more and more angry, he retracted his description and turned solemnly to say: "How dare my son deceive Aye, bee rob my home, without Aye's rescue, my son would have been unable to live a long time ......."

"Then you are also, alas, the way of heaven is already cruel, and people can't live, even if you can live happily for a few years with ferocity, you will lose the blessings of the ancestors of Huangquan and do those ugly things that are inferior to beasts?"

Hearing Li Guang's sad voice, the young man Li Ge was also in tears: "I don't know how blessed the ancestors are, but Aya is close in front of him, whether he is stupid or stupid, if it weren't for Aya suffering from these drags around him, we wouldn't have lived, but Aya could live happily...... There was absolutely no collusion with the bee thieves, but Aya didn't dare to tell me because I was tired of interacting with outsiders. Has Aye ever heard of the Old Clothes Society? ”

"What's that?"

Li Guang frowned again after hearing this.

Li Ge's eyes were shining: "How can you say that you have no clothes?" Fellow with the Son! Therefore, the clothing society is a big company in Xijing City, and it is the righteous ...... of our military households and powerful big men donating money to help the dead people of the government."

Li Guang heard this, his body trembled faintly, although he didn't know big characters, but he had heard similar slogans, at this time from the mouth of his adopted son, his mind was flooded with the magnificent picture of the early years of robes and orders, and bravely went to the side, but then there was a miserable picture of the deceased son's mouth full of pusi, and his expression turned to pathos: "Ha, fellow, comrade? We are just serving the cheap life of hemp, how can we have the honor of Zhang Zi's comrades......"

"Therefore, the clothing club just donates hemp to the society, and the robe helps each other!"

Li Ge said again: "They are not greedy for people's money, they are not poor in life, as long as they donate a few taels of hemp, they will give new clothes." ”

Li Guang has experienced the misery of the world, and naturally he is not as naïve and easily bewitched as Li Ge, so he flicked the back of the knife with his fingers: "Then what is going on with this knife?" ”

"Righteousness has severity, those who are righteous are sad and cry, those who are righteous are self-righteous and do not abuse, those who are righteous are benevolent, and those who are righteous dare to fight! Aya is already the choice of righteousness, the son cannot insult his father's name, he must dare to fight in the Tao, and he has recommended himself as a righteous warrior, leading this righteous blade, and pursuing injustice! ”

When Li Ge said this, he had a proud face: "I won't hide it from Aye, I will respond to the righteous act the day after tomorrow and besiege and kill the Xiling bee thieves!" Tonight, the volunteer envoy of the Former Clothing Society will give me volunteer resources to support my family. If Aya doesn't believe it, when I get my righteous money back, it's not too late for you to punish you! ”