Chapter 4: The Covenant of Life and Death

Holding his hands that were gradually getting colder, I saw this talented man of the Southern Han Dynasty leaving quietly, and I also felt irrepressible sadness when I had no relatives with him, and two lines of tears crossed my cheeks. I am not only sad about the loss of this life, but also lamenting my lonely and helpless journey in the future. The departure of life has always been silent, like a meteor in the sky passing by in an instant, and no one will remember it for a long time. How can it not be sad to think about this.

The deceased is gone, but what will I do in the future as a living person? Did you really go to Ningzhou to throw yourself into the net, let people cut off thousands of knives and show their heads to the public? Alas! It's hard! Traveling to this chaotic era, and making a solemn promise before someone else died, really made me a bit of a dilemma. However, after thinking about it, even if you don't go to Ningzhou, there is no place for yourself in this big world, so you just take one step at a time!

It's better to think about the good in everything, thinking that this Xuanfu envoy is also from the official rank of the fourth grade, the grade should not be low, at least it is much higher than his position as deputy general manager, and the feeling of being an official in ancient times may be very cool. If there is a real chance, of course, it is only right to recapture Ningzhou.

I found a natural pit in a more elegant place behind the stone house, and buried this great talent of the Southern Han Dynasty deep in it. In order to prevent the beast from biting the carcass, large stones were densely piled on it. When all this was done, I respectfully kowtowed three more times to the tomb, silently wishing him a speedy death, and praying that his spirit in heaven would bless me with all the best.

I dragged the bodies of the two killers out of the door, still in the rubble pile under the corner of the house, although these two people will kill themselves if they do many injustices, and they can't just go into the wilderness, and bury them tomorrow, which can be regarded as accumulating some yin virtue.

At this time, I suddenly remembered that there was a twenty-four history in my mobile phone, and if I hadn't deleted it, there should be some information in the history of the five dynasties that I would use in the future.

I hurriedly turned on my phone, but fortunately, the battery was still relatively sufficient, and the information such as the history of the five dynasties was there. I cheered, hurriedly found this paragraph of the history of the Southern Han Dynasty, and read it carefully.

I don't know if I don't see it, I was shocked when I saw it, the five generations are really not a place for people to stay, and the only theme for about a hundred years since the Huangchao Uprising was killing and conquest. One dynasty after another, this country perished, another country arose, the lifespan of the five dynasties did not exceed thirty years, the fate of the ten kingdoms was better, and the longest Wu Yue existed for seventy years, which was also obtained by constantly paying tribute to the central court and forming good neighbors with heavy money. Throughout the history of the past 100 years, what a word "chaos"!

And although the Southern Han Dynasty where he is located also has a national honor of fifty-four years, the cruelty and debauchery also run throughout, which is shocking to read. Alas! This so-called five-generation period is, in general, a chaotic era of countless warlords and dynasties changing at any time. Seeing these chaos, how can I have the word 'sorrow'!

As it began to darken, I closed the door and pressed against it with a stone pier. After eating a little, I got into my sleeping bag and carefully studied the history of the five dynasties. I saw some important events, the historical chronology and development of the war, especially the content about the Southern Han Dynasty, and recorded them in detail in my diary so that I could check them correctly in the future. There is no way for me to do this, although I still have a power bank with sufficient power in my hand, but there is always a time when the phone is out of battery, it is much safer to record it in the diary.

After studying for almost the whole night, the diary was full of memories, and I felt a little sleepy when I was extremely tired, so I fell asleep on my sleeping bag at will.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, I woke up early, and even I began to doubt that I had a good night's sleep and couldn't sleep, why did I wake up so early, it couldn't be a nervous breakdown.

Thinking that there were two more burdens on the stone bed, I hurriedly took them over and opened them to check, which was nothing more than some change of clothes and some scattered silver, and the other burden seemed to be carried by Li Yi, in addition to a moon-white robe and some scattered silver, there was also a book wrapped in yellow brocade silk that caught my attention. After unfolding, I found out that this was actually a letter of appointment from the Southern Han Dynasty, to the effect that Li Yi was appointed as 'Yunnan Xuanfu Envoy and Ningzhou Assassin History, plus Guide Zhonglang General, Yinqing Guanglu Doctor', and the inscription was 'The Seal of the Great Han Dynasty Officials', but this long list of titles is now worthless, and if you take this to Ningzhou, it is purely to find death.

I put the contents of my bag together in my travel bag, took off my dirty hiking clothes, and stuffed them into my bag. It took a lot of effort to put on the moon-white robe neatly, and I looked at it myself, except for the half-length and nondescript head, not to mention that it really had a little bit of the style of an ancient literati. After shaving my beard, I found that my appearance was more similar to that champion Li Yi, just by virtue of this dress, coupled with this similar face, ordinary people really can't tell the difference between it and that Li Yi.

I was picking up my luggage when I suddenly heard the neighing of horses outside the door, and it seemed that someone was coming. I nervously held the shotgun in my hand and looked out through the crack in the door, only to see a colorful tiger as big as a calf in the grass under the hillside dozens of meters away, staring at the four horses bolted to the tree, as if looking for an opportunity to strike.

I'm secretly frightened, damn it! This is a real tiger! I don't know if I can handle it. At this time, I remembered that the four horses under the hillside outside the door should have been left by Li Yi's master and servant and the two thieves, with these horses, not only can they ride on this rugged mountain road, but they can also sell some silver to subsidize the road expenses, if the tiger is eaten in vain, the loss will be great. Thinking of this, I mustered up my courage, quietly pushed open the door of the house, bowed down, and tiptoed down the hill with my shotgun.

When there were still more than ten meters away, I could see more clearly, this tiger was more than two meters long, the fur of the whole body was orange-yellow and covered with black horizontal stripes, the head was round and large, and the two tiger eyes with copper bells stared coldly at the horses, as if they were looking at the delicious food that was about to arrive.

Looking at the appearance of this guy, it is vaguely familiar, is this the legendary South China Tiger? You must know that in the 21st century, a so-called photo of the South China Tiger disturbed the whole country, but I didn't expect the real guy to let me see it with my own eyes. I secretly thought that I would kill this tiger later, but I would have to taste the South China tiger.

I nervously held my shotgun to my chest, concentrating on the best time to shoot. At this moment, the tiger seemed to have finally found a flaw in the horse, first staggered on its hind legs, and then rose to its feet with a 'brush', and pounced on one of the horses with astonishing might.

I was about to raise my gun to shoot, when suddenly I heard a 'whoosh', a sharp arrow broke through the air, and the tiger's body in mid-air suddenly stopped, as if it had been hit by a huge impact, and fell to the ground with a 'whoosh', twisted a few times and then quietly stopped.

I was shocked by this huge change, and I vaguely saw a feathered arrow stuck in the tiger's neck, and it seemed that someone had shot an arrow in advance, and hit the tiger's vital point accurately, so that it could be fatal in one blow. I quietly looked up, and saw in the distance a few young men dressed as hunters striding towards me.

I secretly counted the four people who came, all of them were dressed in sword-sleeved suits, and most of them were about seventeen or eighteen years old, and all of them carried steel forks and bows and arrows, looking like hunters who had come to hunt in the mountains. I wanted to hide, but when I saw that there was nowhere to hide, I had to slowly stand up.

Seeing me standing on the hill dressed as a scholar, those people all showed surprised expressions, and one of them, a young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a sturdy and well-proportioned figure, walked quickly to me, looked me up and down (probably looking at my weird head shape), and then said in surprise: "I don't know that Mr. is here, please forgive me, that tiger didn't hurt you just now, right?" ”

I saw that these people were polite and polite, and there should be no malicious intent, so I hurriedly put the shotgun behind my back, clenched my fists like the ancients and said: "In Xia Li Yi, thank you for your help, otherwise my horses will suffer, I don't know which strong man shot the tiger, so that I can express a little gratitude." ”

The big-eyed young man smiled innocently and said loudly: "It's a trivial matter, why worry about it, besides, we were about to go to the mountains to hunt a fierce tiger for sacrificial purposes, but I didn't expect your horse to lead it here, and it also saved us a lot of hardships in trekking." Supposedly, we should thank you. ”

I was about to say a few words of humility when the young man's companions suddenly exclaimed, and it turned out that they had seen the bodies of the two thieves who had fallen outside the stone house, and the others had also hula-la-la. The young man gave me a puzzled look, and slowly walked over to the two corpses.

When he saw the faces of the two people, a strange expression appeared on his face, and he immediately turned around, drew the machete he carried with him, and the others quickly showed their blades and pressed towards me in a semi-encircled posture.

When I saw this posture in front of me, my heart suddenly cooled half, damn it! It turned out that these hunters were very familiar with the two thieves, otherwise he would not have been able to distinguish the appearance of the two thieves at a glance. Now the situation is much more sinister, although he has a shotgun in his hand, but there are only many enemies, and a few people on the other side are good at a glance, even if they can get lucky to kill two, I am afraid that they will inevitably die.

I felt my heart in my throat, and I was even more nervous than I had just faced the tiger, and the shotgun I had just picked up was in my hand again.

At this time, the young man at the head frowned, and asked coldly: "Don't dare to ask Your Excellency, what is the relationship between these two people and you, and how did they die?" ”

"Huh! What's so incomprehensible about this, of course I killed it, do you see that there are other people around? "I also let it go, since these two thieves know each other well, there is nothing to hide. Let's die if we die, anyway, I've lived for more than a month, and I can't be a bad seed at this time, even if I die, it will make people laugh. Therefore, I pretended to be chic, but I involuntarily held the shotgun tighter in my hand.