More than half of the people in Hebian New Village died at the hands of the Mongols, including Zhu Da's parents, and Xiang Bo should have died under the saber of the Ming officials, and there was a fight before he died, and Li Zongqi's family was the same as Xiang Bo, after all, they were the children of the martial family, and they had to react quickly in case of trouble, perhaps because they were the martial artists of the Weisuo Institute, so they had a blind trust in the officials and soldiers, so they died here.

On the side of the riverside new village, the corpses were also piled up in a pile, with coal and firewood on top and below, and everything that could be robbed from the workshop was robbed, and everything else was also destroyed intentionally or unintentionally.

After finding the bodies of their parents and Xiang Bo, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun did not continue to carry and rummage, this is too tiring work, as for the body of Li Zongqi's family, it was found in this process, but Li Chunhua is missing, and the girl may not have time to dodge, maybe at the bottom of the corpse pile.

Zhou Qingyun was going to dig a pit and bury the bodies of the Zhu family's parents and Xiang Bo, but Zhu Da stopped this behavior, the two of them were already very tired, there were such and such dangers in the night, the Ming official army and the Mongolian horse team were not without the possibility of coming back, the dead were dead, and the living had to live.

The counter and the two places where the money was stored were naturally swept away, but the place where the money was hidden was still intact, and there were more than one hundred and fifty taels of silver here.

Before leaving the new village by the river with the silver, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun splashed the pile of corpses with the oil they found, then ignited the fire, and then rushed back to Baibao Village and set a fire to the same fire.

They brought out the mounts and weapons of the officers and soldiers, and they also brought as much food and pickles as they could in the village.

"We still have to live in the mountains for a few days, the Tartars and the officers and soldiers are heading to the southwest, there is an eighty percent chance of going back, we are now hiding in the safest in the mountains, let's prepare as many supplies as possible!"

Zhu Da muffled and Zhou Qingyun explained that the two sides usually have a tacit understanding, but at such a critical juncture, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun's reactions and emotions are very different, and he decided to say it thoroughly, so as not to have any misunderstanding or go his own way.

The two are close in age and are brothers who share life and death, but in fact, Zhu Da's psychological age is much more mature than Zhou Qingyun.

"We've been in the mountains and don't come out?"

"The Tartars and the officers and soldiers will leave sooner or later, but now the countryside is in chaos, there will be thieves everywhere in the next period of time, and the surviving people will also pick up knives and guns, it is difficult for the two of us to survive with Qin Qin, the only place we can rely on is the city, these officers and cavalry are the subordinates of the general army of Datong, then it is not safe for us to go to Datong City, and it is safest to go to Huairen County."

In the past few years, Zhu Da has learned from his elders, especially Qin Xiucai, that the laws and rules of the Ming Dynasty are only barely common in the city and the surrounding miles, and outside of that, they rely on the squires and local tyrants and even temples and green forests to maintain basic order.

But now, the invading Mongolian horse team and the crazy Ming officers and soldiers have destroyed this set of order and balance in the countryside, and everyone who remains will be lawless in order to live, to plunder, to live, to live for anything, this environment is too dangerous for Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun, the two of them can still run away if they can't beat them, if Qin Qin is added, then it's hard to say anything.

The city mentioned by Zhu Da is not a large-scale earthen enclosure such as Zheng Jiaji, but the city where the Ming Dynasty politics is located, that is, the city where the so-called "county and state capitals" are located at all levels.

Yuan Biao, Xiang Bo and Qin Xiucai have all talked about the ancients, saying that the Mongols have entered Datong not a small number of times, and they have touched the Shanxi border and even deeper many times, and the Ming official army has also suffered a fiasco in the field, but the Mongolian horse team can fight in the field, but it is not good at attacking the city, and several times the city is broken because of the spies in the city, in addition, basically there has been no success, and even the Mongols themselves will avoid attacking the city, especially in the various cities in the border towns of Datong, because this is the border town war zone, and the city's walls and defenses are particularly important.

"What if Huairen County is also defeated by the Tartars or the official army?"

"Then continue to flee south."

Zhou Qingyun put forward a relatively extreme possibility, but Zhu Da didn't care too much, the Mongolian horse team's action this time is obviously the meaning of fast in and out, and it is unlikely to be entangled under the fortified city, if it is Huairen County under the official army, it is tantamount to rebellion, Datong is in chaos, and it is meaningless to stay in Datong at that time.

The six horses that had captured the cavalry of the official army were all loaded with burdens, and when they were done with all this, the sky was already white, with the help of coal and firewood, and the fires in the new villages and Baibao villages by the river were burning more and more, and Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun kowtowed nine heads to each of the two villages.

"Juda, can we take revenge?"

"We are fifteen years old this year, and we have at least a few decades to live, as long as we don't forget, we can report it!"

After kowtowing, the two got on their horses and left, when they were about to enter the mountain pass, the sky was already very bright, Zhu Da looked back, but found that not only Baibao Village and Hebian New Village had thick smoke rising, but several places were the same.

After tying up the horses in a familiar place in the mountains, Zhu Da and Zhou Qingyun walked up the hillside quickly, and they looked at the place where they observed in the past few days.

Not only did Baibao Village and Hebian New Village catch fire and smoke, but in Xiama Village in the distance, several villages in the distance, and in the direction of Zhengjiaji, there are pillars of smoke rising, they don't know what happened in other villages, but thinking about what they saw in their own village last night, these burns make people's hearts chill.

"What the hell are these brutes, these brutes, these dog mongrels going to do?" Zhou Qingyun was stunned and muttered to himself, all this happening in front of him was too shocking, and it had already made him incoherent.

Zhu Da also looked at all this blankly, and after being stunned for a while, he walked towards the top of the mountain, Zhou Qingyun reacted and hurriedly followed.

At the top of the mountain, you can indeed look farther, here you can see the outline of Datong City, you can also see more pillars of smoke, there are many villages around Datong are burning, and the beacon fire in the sky does not know when it began to rise again, more dense than before.

After seeing all this, Zhu Da didn't speak, just walked down the mountain in silence, Zhou Qingyun followed again, and when he was about to go down the mountain, Zhu Da, who was walking in front, suddenly laughed wildly, this abnormal behavior startled Zhou Qingyun behind him.

"We still have revenge, don't go crazy, hold on!" Zhou Qingyun hurriedly shouted a few words, but Zhu Da in front of him still kept laughing, not at all the usual laughter.

Zhou Qingyun thought of Yuan Biao's statement, some people are happy and sad and easy to go crazy, at this time it is useless to persuade people with good words, it is best to knock people unconscious, and they can calm down a lot after waking up, thinking of this, Zhou Qingyun clenched his fists and approached the past, he was sure that he would knock people unconscious with one punch.

He threw his fist over, but he didn't expect Zhu Da to bow his head suddenly, turn around and grab his arm, and press it downward.

In an instant, Zhou Qingyun felt that his right arm seemed to be cut, and his body knelt down uncontrollably, only to hear Zhu Da ask, "What are you going to do?" ”

"You're not crazy...... Lighter! Zhou Qingyun was puzzled and couldn't bear the pain, but he stopped after half a sentence, he saw that Zhu Da's face was full of tears, but wasn't he laughing wildly just now? Why are you crying?

Controlled by the attack and counterattack, this set of actions was already a subconscious reaction, Zhu Da immediately let go of his hand, and Zhou Qingyun said curtly: "I thought you were crazy, I wanted to knock you unconscious, are you okay, I heard you laughing wildly just now, why is it the same as crying." ”

"Crazy what, I just figured out something." Zhu Da said in a hoarse voice.

"What's the matter?"

"This world is a jungle, there may be some rules on the face, but in fact, it is the law of the jungle, the strong are respected, who has great strength, who has a knife in his hand, who has more knives, this is whose world."

Hearing Zhu Da's words, Zhou Qingyun scratched his head and said with some irritability: "It's messy, I don't understand." ”

"Let's go, Qin Qin should be in a hurry." Juda didn't explain anything, but regained his composure and said a few words.

With this episode, the mood of the two people stabilized a little, so they walked down the mountain in silence and led the horse towards the salt cave courtyard.

For Zhu Da, the life of more than 20 years is real, and the life of more than ten years is a little incredible and illusory, which also makes him have a calmness and subtle sense of alienation that others cannot understand in his daily life, which is why when Zhou Qingyun broke down, he would angrily accuse him of not being born to his parents or having worshipped his teacher.

These unrealities and alienation were shattered by this catastrophe, seeing the corpses of his parents and masters, seeing familiar faces, the heart-rending pain, the hatred of eating flesh and drinking blood, made Zhu Da realize that he was real, everything was true, but he didn't realize it earlier, didn't cherish it earlier, and now, most of the rest is hatred and indifference.

In those more than 20 years of life, there is great power to maintain stability and rules, education and food and clothing also make most people willing to abide by it, although there are more and more scoundrels who want to make money by not following the rules, but the overall is stable and orderly, but in this era, the court and the government can not do this at all, and can only rely on the power of the gentry and local tyrants to barely maintain decency.

In such a world, letting yourself be trapped by rules and order is equivalent to treating yourself as a fish on a chopping board, slaughtered by others, Zhu Da is willing to think that he has figured it out, but in the past few years, he has unconsciously done things according to the rules, just exploiting some loopholes, until just now, Zhu Da understood what he was going to do, for himself, for the people close to him, smash everything, unscrupulous means!