The clouds floated in large swaths in the sky, revealing dense stars between the gaps between the clouds, like the Milky Way hidden above the clouds, and sprinkling silver light dust from the breaches in the clouds. The night breeze of spring still carried the cold of the people, and the team of prisoner wagons walked on the ground, followed by a long column of prisoners with their hands tied, and around the queue, hundreds of fast soldiers followed.

Looking out of the railings of the prisoner cart, the silver and gray night sky has a breathtaking beauty. The night was beautiful anyway, because it was not human, and he used to like to see the sky at night, but now that he thinks about it, he hasn't seen it like this for a long time.

But now the body and mind are broken, the hands have been wasted, the legs have been discounted, the iron hook has passed through the pipa bone, and the martial arts of the body have been wasted. He was finally able to let go of the mundane and look up at the unearthly things again, because he might not be able to go any further because of the way of the world......

His name is Fang Qifo, and in the spring of the eleventh year of Jinghan, he was thirty-nine years old. As the second leader of the rebellion in the Wu Dynasty led by the Fang clan, even though the outside world regarded him as an omnipotent Zhiduoxing, he had never studied since he was a child.

The Fang family is a very big family near Qingxi, and the family was originally a decent family, with a house and land, and the parents worked diligently and without worrying about food and clothing. Since he was a child, because he and several brothers and sisters have good qualifications, he was accepted as a disciple by the people in the green forest and taken to practice martial arts in other places. When the martial arts were about to be completed, he went out to walk the rivers and lakes, and when he went home a year later, he found that the fields at home were gone.

This incident was due to an illness of his father a few years earlier. In order to cure the disease, the Fang family mortgaged the property. After recovering from the illness, Fang's father's health gradually deteriorated, and it became more and more difficult to farm, Fang's mother went to work in the workshop run by the landlord nearby.

The landlord was very concerned about the surroundings, and Fang Qifo was also grateful, even though his mother did not agree to sell the land. In order to give home. I saved more money for my child and even fainted from exhaustion in the workshop, but my father's health was better, which was a great blessing. In fact, the money was not available at the time. The truth of human affection has forced the Fang family to sell the land like a soft knife.

However, not long after. He learned that the doctor had taken money from the landlord's family. deliberately said that his father's condition was serious, and the medication was prolonged. The Fang family, who was embarrassed at that time, had to mortgage the land. He fought to the landlord's house, but his martial arts had not yet been completed at that time. First the landlord's family, and then the government's arrest, without evidence, the words of the people around him, and the coercion of the powerful made him have to bow his head.

But young people are already strong-blooded, as long as they identify things, where will they retreat. Cousin Fang La, cousin Fang Baihua and even a group of brothers gathered together and entered the big landlord's house, but the other party was also on guard, invited officers and soldiers to come over, and after a fight, they were finally forced to retreat.

Only the next day, they were convicted of murderous bandits, and some of their parents did not have time to leave...... Since then, they have been homeless and dying.

Carrying a blood feud on his body is indeed the best motivation for martial arts to improve. Soon after, Fang La, Fang Baihua and others successively made a great reputation in the rivers and lakes, and although he liked to lie on the roof at night and watch the stars, although his martial arts did not progress so fast, he was also an outstanding member of the Fang brothers, and they joined Manichaeism. A few years later, he returned to Qingxi and entered the landlord's house again. At that time, the landlord's family business had increased several times, and after defeating the master invited by the other party and destroying his family, he did not have much joy when he walked in a pool of blood.

He just didn't understand why his parents' diligence and trembling only made the family property less and less. And these landlords, who don't do anything on weekdays, just move their mouths, so that those masters who work hard to practice martial arts can be driven by them like dogs. Why did he have to pay such a big price for his own righteous revenge.

After another two years, he returned to Qingxi again. The land that was once taken away by the landlord did not return to the hands of the former villagers, and others divided the land of the landlord, and then expanded even more. Those who are as diligent as his parents are also the ones who believe in justice the most, and in this game, they have never had the right to speak.

Cousin Fang La is decisive, he has long realized this, since he has become a bandit, he wants to rebel, he is also a natural leader, a large crowd gathered around him, willing to listen to him. And Fang Qifo prefers to watch such and such things, thinking about the truth, he began to read and write, and he also understood more that if he hadn't been so irritable in the early years, his parents might not have died. The world is like a tide, and you should go with the water.

A few years later, they forced Sikong Nan to retreat. In that battle, there were still quite a few masters of the Manichaean Dharma Protector and Elder who had not been on their side, and the cousin's martial arts were also inferior to Sikong Nan at that time, but in that battle, which was originally expected to be in decline, it was Fang Qifo who went all out to defeat several masters in a row, pushing the balance of victory and defeat.

After figuring out some things, his martial arts, unconsciously, were able to stand side by side with Fang La.

Later, the slogan "The law is equal, no one is superior" was thought up by him and Fang La. For more than ten years, he planned the development of Manichaeism, like guiding the flow of water, and with the joint efforts of everyone, finally made all this converge into a tide of anger in the south of the Yangtze River. The people who had lost their constant property rose up and killed the landlords, and the people of the three mountains and five mountains rose up in response.

And then it all stopped...... The water of that river is dead, and they can't lead it......

Perhaps, as the guy named Ning Yi said, there is no ambition, and it will end there.

After the defeat of Hangzhou, the momentum of the Yongle Army began to change, and he who had been watching all this there could understand this matter best. The leaders of the peasants and bandits began to loot the gold and silver and divide the land. The method of fighting, which once allowed to rush to the top, lost its effect when it came to large cities and large armies. Everyone knows that this is not going to work, but everyone believes that everyone else is doing the same thing.

Spare your life and be short-sighted, after conquering Hangzhou. But the outlaws were gone. People who have been ruined by the rich people actually just want to be rich...... From this point of view, there is really no superiority between people.

He had walked a long way, watched it for a long time, and thought about it a lot, but he couldn't figure out how to go next.

Actually, people who think too much are not happy. He thought that he had been disappointed in this world, after thinking too much and seeing too much. It's starting to be disappointed in people. During the period from the breaking of Hangzhou to the death of my cousin. He kept wondering, is their success really meaningful? People are all the same, when they are planting in the field. They trembled. Just like my parents. With money and land, they were as cruel and cunning as those landlords and became officials. They are like those dog officials who oppress the good. Even if we really overthrow the Wu Dynasty, haven't we been able to change anything?

Fortunately, during this time, he didn't want to. Finally, he could have time to raise his head and look at that day, where he might be in the future. In his spare time, looking back on the people and things in the past, there are two people who occasionally flash in his heart, who are different from others.

His disciple Chen Fan. As his own disciple, this child is extremely gifted and very intelligent. But perhaps because he was too smart, he saw the contradictions of the world early on. There was a knot in his heart that he couldn't untie.

I had high hopes for him, but when it came to the future, I didn't expect him to do great things. A smart person is either snobbish or naïve, although he understands the world, but he is too naïve in his heart after all, and a naïve person cannot achieve great things.

Just like after the defeat of Hangzhou, my cousin retreated to Qingxi, in fact, anyone with brains can see that the general trend of the Yongle Dynasty has gone. In order to kill Bao Daoyi, he had already sold his life to the Badao Battalion, but when he had the opportunity to leave, he ran back and secretly lobbied himself and a small number of people to leave, so that Fang Baihua almost killed him. Then Qingxi was broken, he did not evacuate, this time he was arrested, but a few days ago he was robbed but ambushed in the green forest people, there is also his shadow.

Of course, such a person cannot achieve great things. But at the last moment, he hoped that he could find a place that the imperial court could not find and simply live this life. The most important thing is not to end up disappointed in people as you have always been.

And the other person is the little niece of Badaozhuang.

I have always felt that she is a really naïve person, even more innocent and fearless than Chen Fan. After Liu Dabiao died, she led Badaozhuang and always did some strange things. Everyone's tolerance for her is because Liu Dabiao's favor is too deep, and secondly, because Badaozhuang does have strong combat power.

She is ignorant, and reckless, when fighting will rush to the front, when retreating will fall behind, Badaozhuang in this uprising paid a very heavy price, has always regarded the dealer as a relative, she must be very uncomfortable in her heart. After breaking Hangzhou, because of the man named Ning Yi, she did something very strange in the city, and she felt at that time that as long as she was happy. But when the city of Hangzhou was broken, when he and everyone moved to Qingxi, his thoughts were a little different.

After leaving Hangzhou, she led the few remaining Badaozhuang villagers to choose a different path. I knew at the time that she went to Miaojiang. Later, when Chen Fan came back, he also told himself the whole process of everything. The man named Ning Yi couldn't see through him, but in the process of Qingxi's defeat later, he thought more than once that if he could figure it out in the morning, maybe he should leave more fresh troops for the Badao Battalion.

Qingxi was defeated, and everything was chaotic. He had thought that maybe he could send some people out to flee to Miao Jiang and increase the amount of power that Badaozhuang could use. But in fact, these people on his side, the little niece may not be needed, and in the process of guiding everyone to disperse, he only screened some children, who had studied in the academy of the Badao Camp, or who were younger, a total of dozens of people, and let them secretly go to Miaojiang to avoid trouble, which may be one of the things that he can do in the end.

In the process of the Qingxi melee, Chen Fan came back, but the Badao Battalion did not make any moves. Shi Bao and the others once mentioned that they had no righteousness, but they and Fang La, Shao Xianying and others knew how difficult it would be for the innocent and affectionate little niece to suppress the people in the village after the most difficult and let them be preserved.

But that's good.

When the sound of the killing of the prisoners came from the side of the official road, Fang Qifo looked up at the night sky and thought like this.

Maybe one day, the road that can't be walked by themselves, these naïve children, can walk them through......

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People fight on the earth, and the clouds walk in the sky.

After Tie Tianying, the chief catcher of the Criminal Department, wielded the giant sword in his hand, and led a group of headhunters and officers and soldiers to repel the sneak attack of a group of green forest people, the prisoners behind the prisoner car also became agitated, and the officers and soldiers on both sides began to suppress them with weapons. This time, in order to allow the leader of the Fang clan to enter Beijing to be tried, Fang Qifo was executed after showing it to the public with dignity, and with the prestige of the imperial court, the manpower arranged nearby was quite sufficient.

Fang Qifo sat in the prisoner cart and quietly looked up at the heavenly clouds. If it had been possible, he hoped that no one would come to his rescue, but now things were out of his control. The Criminal Department obviously also wants to use itself as bait to wipe out these rebellions. He could only be silent, and no longer thought about these things.

And just as far as the eye could see, among the nearby wooded mountains, several figures were walking among them, and just as the battle was going on below, they appeared on the nearby hillside, looking at this side from a distance.

There were more than a dozen figures, led by a woman dressed in a blue floral Miao costume, she had a face that looked a little baby fat, her eyes were clear and a little fearless, standing in the gap on the mountainside, looking down, she was carrying a long wooden box behind her back. By her side, the "Towering Knife" Du Kill, the "Ember Evil Knife" Luo Bingren, the "Yuanming Knife" Fang Shuchang, and the "Nine Death Knife" Zheng Qiming...... And so on and so forth.

They took one look and came downward...... (To be continued......)

PS: After making everyone wait for a long time, I'm back.