Liu Bi gave people to Gao Chongwen for a full reason, but his intentions were very sinister.

Gao Chongwen was very dissatisfied with Li Kang's capture of the city by Liu Pi without firing an arrow, and after Li Kang was captured, the court and the central government passed on the table to dredge up and exonerate him, but Gao Chongwen asked at this time to treat Li Kang's crime of losing land and defeating the army, and cut off his official title.

At the same time, Li Mao was asked by his relatives to protect Li Kang.

Li Kang became a poisonous arrow, Lu Wenruo and Liu Bi hoped to use this poisonous arrow to kill two birds with one stone, one end with Li Mao, and the other with Gao Chongwen.

Li Mao soon got the news that Liu Pi had sent Li Kang to Zizhou, and was shocked, so he hurriedly set off with Qin Mo, Zhang Qi, Han Yi, and Hu Chuan.

Hurried overnight, walking too quickly, at dawn five people at the same time found that they were in an unknown deep mountain valley, the valley is deep, the mountains are high, the forest is dense, there is no way forward, there is no way back, the whole child is isolated from the world.

Li Mao exclaimed: "Zhang Qi, how did you lead the way?" ”

The night was hard, and everyone took turns to lead the way, and the last one to lead the way was Zhang Qi.

Zhang Qi was sweating profusely, the stars and moon were hazy last night, and he was in too much of a hurry, and he didn't know how to lead people to a dead end.

Qin Mo turned over and dismounted, and said leisurely: "I'm lost, it seems that Li Honglu's life is in this fate." ”

Li Kang once worked as Hongluqing, known as Honglu.

After walking all night, people were sleepy and tired, Li Mao beckoned everyone to dismount, whether they could find the way or not, they would rest first. There is an oval-shaped lake at the bottom of the valley, with green grass and clear water. Han Yi and Hu Chuan led the horses to drink, Zhang Qi wanted to say nothing, and his face was as red as a monkey's ass.

Li Mao waved his hand and said, "I don't blame you, go get something to eat." ”

Zhang Qi hurriedly took out dry food and a pot stove from his bag and went to the lake to prepare breakfast.

Li Mao and Qin Mo walked towards a high mountain nearby, standing high and seeing far away, in this foggy valley, if they don't stand high, they can't see anything.

The valley floor and the slopes of the mountain were filled with a mist rarely seen in the Northland, and the two of them walked and stopped, when suddenly a cold wind blew, and the whole mountain was wrapped in fog, and no one could be seen three or five paces away.

Li Mao frowned, in this kind of weather, even if you go to the top of the mountain, you can't see the way you want to find it, so you should wait for the sun to come out.

While chatting, a terrible scream suddenly sounded in his ears.

Li Mao was shocked and squatted on guard.

A clump of arrows and bamboos three or five feet away from him suddenly trembled, and before he could figure out what was going on, a bamboo crossbow flew past his sideburns.

Li Mao fell into the ice cave, standing and did not dare to move, this bamboo crossbow is full of strength, the crossbow man is not far away, this arrow is likely to be just a warning, if it moves recklessly, it will not cause death.

"Get on your knees!" Someone in the arrow bamboo bush shouted loudly, his voice was a little immature, and his speech was a little slurred.

Li Mao gave Qin Mo a look, raised his hands, and slowly knelt down.

The surroundings were quiet, the water mist was stirred by the morning wind, rolling like the waves of the sea, the arrows and bamboo bushes shook again, and Li Mao suddenly jumped up and pounced without warning.

He threw down a man, a thin man with a soft waist, a boy of thirteen or fourteen years old.

The young man was wearing a bark mask, and after being ridden by Li Mao, he desperately resisted, and after being sealed by Li Mao's arms, he opened his mouth and bit it. Li Mao smiled slightly, ripped off his mask, and inside was a very delicate face.

This face looked at Li Mao in horror, she couldn't bite it when she opened her mouth, she turned the tip of her tongue dexterously, and turned out a delicate bamboo whistle from under the root of her tongue, pursed her lips and was about to blow it, but she was knocked unconscious by Qin Mo's punch.

After succeeding, the two made a silent gesture at the same time, Qin Mo picked up the girl, carried it on his shoulders, and hid into a bamboo forest nearby.

As soon as the two of them hid their figures, a chaotic sound of footsteps sounded in the white mist, and seven or eight people with extremely strong bodies rushed towards the arrow bamboo forest.

There was a wail, then a punch and a kick, and after a fierce quarrel, the crowd ran down the hill.

The surroundings were quiet again, but Li Mao and Qin Mo remained silent until a gust of wind blew away the thick morning mist, and the yellow morning sun in the eastern sky was faintly visible.

The bottom of the valley can already be seen with the naked eye, and the oval lakeside is quiet, no one without horses, nothing.

"Did the savages do it?"

Li Mao nodded, there were many barbarian tribes scattered in the lofty mountains between Jianzhou and Zizhou, which the locals called savages. The name of the government is a certain cave barbarian.

Li Mao judged that they had probably stepped into the territory of some savage tribe and were treated as invaders, and that the scream was most likely caused by one of the three people, Zhang Qi, Han Yi, or Hu Chuan—they were not very lucky, and they did not meet a fledgling chick.

Luckily, they managed to catch a living.

Their captives were a savage maiden, malnourished, dark, thin, and short, looking to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, or older, dressed in a washed and fluffy linen garment, with a string of colorful shell necklaces around her neck, the savage did not brush her teeth, and the maiden's teeth were blue-gray, but very neat.

Her breasts are almost negligible, which creates a lot of obstacles for Li Mao to judge her real age.

The little girl looks quite delicate, but on the battlefield, Qin Mo didn't have the heart to pity the jade, he rudely pulled out the delicate bamboo whistle she hid under the tip of her tongue, and then tied her hands behind her with a hemp rope, and in order to prevent her from shouting and screaming, he put a hemp rope in her mouth.

Qin Mo's punch was not heavy, Qin Mo tossed, the little girl woke up quickly, but she was full of scheming, but she was not in a hurry to open her eyes, she was pretending to be asleep.

Qin Mo was not very patient, after the person was tied, he patted the girl's face with his hand, and the girl opened her eyes and glared angrily.

Qin Mo pulled out his sharp dagger and shook it twice in front of her eyes, and said with a strange smile: "Tell me who you are?" ”

The girl's eyes widened, she shook her head, indicating that she didn't understand Qin Mo's words, Qin Mo held up a washed white embroidered shoe, and said coldly: "I've seen a lot of savages, there are few people who know how to wear shoes, and those who know how to wear such beautiful embroidered shoes are even rarer, just say, don't force me to lose patience." ”

The interrogation of the girl lasted a whole morning, and the girl first pretended to be stupid, lied that she could not understand the language, refused to answer any questions, and then said something inexplicable, and asked some childish and ridiculous questions.

When she realized that Qin Mo was just bluffing and would not really hit her, she pretended to be pitiful again and looked at Qin Mo with tears in her eyes.

Li Mao was a little impatient, and said to Qin Mo: "I can't ask anything, let's find a way." ”

Qin Mo exclaimed: "Stinky boy, they don't care?" ”

Li Mao had already stood up, glanced at the girl, sighed and said, "If she doesn't say it, what can she do." It's just a waste of time. ”

After Li Mao finished speaking, he strode away, Qin Mo asked a few times what to do with people, but Li Mao did not respond. Qin Mo turned his head, pouted at the girl, and said helplessly: "I can't complain about others, you asked for it." ”

After saying that, he turned the dagger and waved his hand, and the blood flew sideways, and the girl fell in a pool of blood.

At dusk on this day, a *** memorial ceremony was held in the Hongyan Cave in the depths of Daliang Mountain, the cave owner Hong Shayan was wearing a hundred feathers, wearing a peacock crown, holding a rattan wood wrapped gold scepter on behalf of the authority of the cave owner, announcing to his people that he wanted to ask the fire god to sentence three Han murderers who brutally killed the daughter of the former cave owner.

These three Han people are named Zhang Qi, one is called Han Yi, and the other is called Hu Chuan, since they were captured this morning, the three of them have been tortured, and at this moment they were stripped naked and tied to the water prison against the mountain wall.

The time of execution is approaching day by day, and the cave people of Hongyan Cave are gathered in the open space in front of the mountain wall, where the *** ritual of asking the gods will be held, and the three Han murderers who have done evil will be executed with divine power, and at the same time, they will also pray for Hong Ermu, the only daughter of the former cave master Hong Dengshan, whose soul has ascended to heaven.

The eloquence of the cave master Hong Xiaoyan is excellent, he can talk endlessly for the last day, his voice is loud, his speech is clear, and he does not need to enter a grain of rice except for drinking water.

The cave dwellers knelt on the ground in fear, listening to the fairy voice of the cave master, and praying for the poor child.

An old woman with messy hair and a rickety figure sat in a stone niche against the mountain wall, looking blankly at the gate in the distance with her eyes full of vicissitudes, as if she was waiting for something.

She is the former witch doctor of this cottage, named Hongzhu, the witch doctor is proficient in witchcraft and healing, and is the highest authority in the cave except for the cave master. In the era when her elder brother and former Dadong lord Huang Shanshan was in power, she was the most powerful woman in the entire cottage.

And now she could only sit alone on the stone wall, looking down at the farce beneath her feet, and the night wind poured the sound of the broken rock into her ears, and the person who made the sound was the one she despised the most.

Two months ago, it was also a gust of night wind that brought news from outside the mountain to her ears. In order to compete for power and profit, the Han people outside the mountain are killing each other with thousands of soldiers, and the battle is only less than a hundred miles away from their cave village.

The vast majority of the people in the cave village are still confused and do not know that the catastrophe is around them, they still work at sunrise and rest at sunset, living a monotonous and peaceful life for generations, thousands of years.

Sensing a catastrophe to come, Hong Zhu broke her guard and walked out of the stone niche to confront her nephew, Hong Yanyan, who had sworn to die and the current owner of the cave, and warned him to send a patrol to regularly search the nearby valley in case of an invasion by the Han Chinese army.

Although Hong Shayan has long been reluctant to talk to his aunt, he can't ignore her warning, he once went to Jianzhou twenty years ago, and the strong combat power of the Han army left an indelible impression on him.

If any of them, even a small group of men, broke into his territory, it would be a mortal threat to him, and the dispatch of the patrol as scheduled seemed necessary.

This morning, his patrol encountered three Han soldiers on the shore of the Moon Lake in Qiangu, and after a fierce battle, they captured three Han soldiers, three of them were slightly injured and one was seriously injured, but no one died, which is a very good record. Of course, if Hong Ermu is not on patrol or captured. The only daughter of the former cave owner went out on patrol with the patrol team and was captured or killed by Han Chinese soldiers, what adverse effect this had on the current cave owner Huang Yanyan, only he and his aunt Hong Zhu knew best. Hong Shayan instinctively thought of concealing it.