Chapter 195: Billowing Smoke
In Li Jie and his entourage, they either meditated or reclined down, and time passed like a white horse, fleeting. Soon the sky slowly revealed the white of the fish's belly, and at this time, the soldier called the chicken, although he usually doesn't talk much, is still very conscious of doing things.
Early this morning, he arrived at the Moon Lake, and a fierce man plunged down, ready to get a few live fish to make breakfast.
Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water will naturally only have to eat water.
As the saying goes, gold always shines, so this chicken usually doesn't show mountain dew, it seems to be honest, not of great use, in Li Jie and his group of five, only he seems to be redundant.
If you want to say that he is not as good as Xu Chu in terms of force, and he is not as good as Li Monkey in terms of shrewdness, he doesn't open his mouth when it comes to loyalty, and he claims that Xiao Fang's bald head Fang Da is so eye-catching, but he is such a person, but in the past few days, the meaning of his existence has been revealed everywhere.
If he hadn't offered chickens, Li Jie and their situation would have been even more embarrassing in the past few days, because they had caught many chickens in the water to fish, and the fish by the Yangtze River were extraordinarily fat, plus Li Ming's hand help, so in the past few days, it has almost formed a habit.
Xianji is responsible for fishing, Li Jie is responsible for cooking, Li Monkey and Fang Da are responsible for collecting firewood, and Xu Chu is responsible for building the stove.
As usual, Li Jie and the five of them lit fireworks, ate the breakfast of lake fish caught by offering chickens, and paid tribute to their respective temples of the five organs, Li Monkey shouted to Li Jie while extinguishing the embers:
"Master Jie! Wait for the little ones to find someone, Master Jie, you are resting here? ”
"As far as you talk a lot, this person is not familiar with the place, let's not separate!" Li Jie tidied up the shabby clothes on his body, and said without raising his head:
"Xu Chu, in your opinion, let's start from that direction to find Liu Xiang's family?"
"Lord, this Xu can't say it well." Xu Chu was nibbling on a big grass carp in his hand, and when he saw Li Jie asking, he threw away the grass carp that was almost finished in his hand, and wrapped most of the fish meat in his mouth, and replied vaguely.
"Master Jie! Master Jie! Xianji, who usually has few words, stood on the side and looked at Li Jie, seeing that Xu Chu couldn't answer Li Jie's words, his expression suddenly moved, and for the first time he took the initiative to walk in front of Li Jie and said:
"The little one also grew up by the water when he was young, if he is looking for someone by the water, if he believes in the small one, he might as well follow the small one, and the small one will not say anything else, but where the water lives, as long as the little one walks up, he will roughly know where the fishermen live by the water."
"Hey, that's fine!" Li Jie waited for Xianji to finish his words in one breath with a red face, and did not interrupt him, but finally glanced at him approvingly, and even said with encouragement in his tone:
"We're all our own people, what else do you believe or not, that's it, wait for you to lead the way, let's find the fishing village here as soon as possible, don't talk about anything else, it's up to you this time!"
"Great! Master Jie! Seeing Li Jie's words, Xianji was very polite, and his face was even redder at the moment, and after snorting a few times, he just pinched his hands together, and after the bone joints made a loud noise, he pointed his finger towards the east of Moon Lake and said:
"Wait a minute, go from here, the waterway here is vertical and horizontal, there is a confluence point in front, let's go downstream, not far ahead, there must be someone's house."
"Well, let's go!" Li Jie saw that Xianji pointed out the direction, so he nodded, and looked towards Fang Da and Li Monkey, only to see that the fire in the makeshift earthen stove had already been extinguished, and Li Jie opened his legs and headed towards the east.
The population of the entire late Han Dynasty can be said to be pitiful, and it can even be said that during the entire Lingdi period, especially in the second year of Zhongping, the whole world added up to the population of a city in later generations.
And the entire land of Shenzhou is vast, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the Eastern Han Dynasty at this moment is vast and sparsely populated.
This Jiangxia but Yuecheng is only because of the dangerous terrain, the Eastern Han Dynasty to guard the mouth, so it sent soldiers to build the Yanyue fortress to guard the key points of the rivers and lakes, and the population of the late Eastern Han Dynasty is more concentrated in the Central Plains, that is, the Jingshi area, so to say how many people are around the Yuecheng at the end of the Han Dynasty, it is naturally not much.
But Li Jie and his party walked towards the east for less than half an hour, when suddenly Li Jie's ears twitched, he waved his hand, and whispered to the chicken who was leading the way in the front:
"No, there's a situation ahead."
"Xu Chu, follow me!" As soon as Li Jie's words fell, he turned his head and said to Xu Chu, who was walking half a body behind him, and then quickened his pace, and suddenly stood at the front of the team:
"Fonda, you guys go to the back, there seems to be a fight in front."
"Ahh Someone fighting? Li Monkey was walking at the end of the line, and when he saw Li Jie speeding up his steps, he ran up in small steps, saying as he ran:
"Master Jie, as long as there are people, let's go up quickly."
"Don't talk, it's not good!" Li Jie was listening carefully with quiet bated breath at the moment, half of his body was on his side, and he tried his best to open his ears to listen, and suddenly shouted:
"Xu Chu, it's not good, there are robbers slaughtering the village in front, let's hurry up."
"Lord!" Xu Chu saw Li Jie's expression suddenly nervous before, so he walked a few steps quickly, and after getting close to Li Jie, he also learned from Li Jie to listen to his ears, but when Li Jie said that there were robbers slaughtering the village, Xu Chu's face changed greatly:
"Please stand back, and wait for Xu to meet them."
"Nope! There are many people on the other side, let's hurry! Li Jie said, the steps under his feet did not slow down, but even faster and faster, and when he reached the back, he even rushed towards the front like a breeze.
Soon, Xu Chu's face became more and more solemn, when Li Jie said that there were robbers slaughtering the village, Xu Chu really didn't hear anything, but when he ran for half a pillar of incense, Xu Chu heard it more clearly, not far in front of him, people and horses were noisy, and there were faint cries of children and women, as well as the sound of those iron handovers.
After running for a few more breaths, smoke suddenly rose in front of them, and at this time, not to mention that Xu Chu is Li Monkey, they also knew that there was indeed a situation ahead.
This is guided by black smoke, Li Jie and Xu Chu soon arrived at the location of the accident, in fact, it is not enough to say that the robbers slaughtered the village, but the murder and arson are completely in the past.
After Li Jie and Xu Chu turned a corner and crossed a small hill, Li Jie's eyes came into view from the black smoke that had risen to the sky, and in front of him was a small village with about ten dilapidated grass huts.