Volume 1 The First Wade in the Lake Chapter 1 Picking up corpses in Surabaya
In the new calendar of the Wuyue Continent in 1783, the cold dew.
On the banks of the Surabaya River under the sunset, the cold wind is howling, the wolf smoke is billowing, the remnant sun is like blood, and the vast earth is shrouded in a layer of hazy blood, showing a poignant scene. Yanzhou, one of the ancient Kyushu, between the Yellow River and Jishui, has always been a battleground for soldiers. Today's Surabaya corpses are cross-waved, blood flows into the sea, and the calm and peaceful Surabaya once again witnesses a cannibalism of human beings.
It is a paradise for ravens and wild beasts.
Groups of ragged people entered the battlefield, and people from the surrounding areas who could not make a living rummaged through the land, and the cold corpses were turned over, and there was no peace in death. The corpse pickers are all the surrounding people, under the arrangement of the Yanzhou City Guard, they entered this place, eager to get food or something that can be exchanged for food from these corpses, such as iron armor or swords, but in fact, this battlefield has been cleaned once, this is a light cavalry, there are not many iron armor, most of the long swords and important personal things are taken away by the party responsible for cleaning up the battlefield, they are just hyenas, looking for things that may be lost in the battlefield.
As soon as you enter the place, there are fights, fights, and curses, which is another continuation of war, the most despicable of the war for human existence.
Her name is the first flower, or "the second flower" to be exact. With her black face, unkempt hair, and sloppy clothes, she has become a master of "disguise", and no one knows that she is a woman.
Any iron item is too luxurious for her, although a set of iron armor can go to the defenders in exchange for a small bucket of rice, and a long sword can get a bag of noodles, but she doesn't want to drag just one armor back, not to mention the corpse that is already cold, it is too difficult for her to remove the armor attached to the person.
And even so, there are some people who want to get something for nothing will wander around, snatching the armor that they "corpse pickers" have worked hard to collect, especially the long sword, and the most important thing is that she has just seen the thin intestines that have been pulled out by the halberd and pecked by the crows, she has vomited twice, she has no strength, she just wants to find a little dry food.
For her, food is the most important thing.
After two hours of rummaging, I was lucky enough to pick up a long sword, this is a Xilong sword, much longer than the sword of the Chinese people, almost to her jaw, the long sword is on a young man in Xilong, different from the handsome of the Chinese man, there are no scars on his face, but his stomach is trampled by the horse's hooves, obviously he was trampled to death by the horse after falling from the horse, maybe God likes his face too, and the handsome face full of fear and pain has no scars.
Dihua gently stroked the alien's face, soothed his stiff skin, made him look less "painful", and she even wiped it with a damp cloth that wrapped her mouth, her high nose, deep eyebrow bones, and light yellow hair.
"What a handsome offspring."
In the mouth of a Chinese storyteller: "There is a big wilderness in the west, called the western wilderness, dozens of tribes in the wild, called all the wilderness, some colored, some blonde, some white, some red, strong and fierce, specializing in weapon fighting, cannibalism all year round, endless years." The winner was able to come to the rich East. ”
The ancient Tang Dynasty, which was destroyed by the wild tribes, built one after another sky-like giant castles, they did not have a fixed name, and even the later savages were incompatible with each other with the savages who arrived first, which seemed to confirm the story of the storytellers, and the purpose of their survival was to kill.
In the days of contact with China, in order to better control the Chinese people they conquered, these savages gradually formed a new set of self-expressions, calling themselves the "Yanhuang Miao descendants" scattered in the West. As a result, the struggle between the Yanhuang tribe, who claimed to be from the West, and the old Chinese alliance in the Central Plains did not intensify because of this slight reconciliation, and this battle on the banks of the Surabaya River was only a small one in a protracted war.
"It's so good-looking, why is it so cruel?" The first flower had the audacity to open his eyelids, she wanted to see if their eyes were really lustful, she had seen the blue eyes of the Thor people before, and she thought they were so beautiful.
Turning his eyelids, it was indeed blue pupils, and the blue pupils were gray like morning frost, burning cold like ice. I let go of my hand, but my eyelids failed to close because of the cold frost, which startled the first flower, and sat down in the mud, and the first flower of "Amitabha" blinded it.
Dihua was not afraid of these savages, but what she felt the most was the viciousness and contempt of the Chinese nobles for her.
Maybe one day I will lie on this cold land, hoping that I will not be like this teenager, only accompanied by crows and hyenas.
The first flower picked up the soil and slowly sprinkled it on the young man's face, such a beautiful face should not be desecrated. Gaze as the cold moonlight flows over the longsword.
At that moment, Dihua really wanted to pick it up, pluck up the courage, and split the Huaxia gangster who had bullied her in half.
She had not experienced the invasion of the ochres, and those "slaughtering cities" and "shaving orders" were only mentioned in the trembling words of their ancestors, which were very strange and distant, and this time there were hundreds of ochre corpses lying on the riverside, why did they come? What to do? She had no way of knowing, only that their Yanzhou was still far away from the Guanzhong of the ochre people, could it be that the war had started again?
After burying it simply, he quietly buried the long sword in the mud not far from the riverbank, and hastily labeled it. She didn't know when the next time she would come here, if the mark was still there, and doing so was just reassuring her.
In the bloody river water, I washed my hands, picked up the naan I had collected from the corpse, and ate a beautiful bite of the river water that possessed the smell of blood, which was already the most satisfying bite I had eaten in half a year.
Looking at the starry sky, the time of the past two years is simply incredible. Two years ago, she was the maid of the lord of a prince's family, and her status was low, but she didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and in an instant, the country was ruined, and she became a wandering spirit in the dark night, a hyena in the wilderness.
She missed her home so much, although her home was poor, but under the encirclement of her mother, their brother and sister and the four sisters-in-law who had lost their husbands had sorrows and joys, grievances and surprises under one roof, and now she had nothing but hungry companionship, and all that was left was endless darkness.
Dihua is afraid, why is there a war in the world, destroying everything that can be destroyed, trust and glory are worthless in the face of war, humanity and warmth are nowhere to be found, she would rather crawl the bird's nest of the neighbor and be beaten than you eat bloody naan.
She wanted to roar, but she didn't dare, for fear of disturbing the souls of the dead on the battlefield, and her mother had said that in the next life, the Di family must live in a place with plenty of sun and cheese. She believed in the soul of the dead, she packed up the naan, which was her hope for the next few days, and hid it in a silk scarf and stuffed it into the thick wrap on her chest, so that she could hide her gender, avoid the coveting of bad people, and make herself appear more "strong".
Dihua knelt beside Surabaya, muttering in her mouth: "Heavenly Venerable is merciful, merciful nectar, I only wish to be able to purify the souls of the dead on the shore of the water......"