The young man found a long knife out of nowhere, cut the rope on his hand in the chaos, and when the Cai soldier raised the long knife high and was about to cut it down, his mother, who had been shot in the back by an arrow, suddenly woke up and crashed into Cai Bing desperately, and Cai Bing's long knife also failed.

The boy didn't know that he was afraid at the time, he just wanted to take revenge, to avenge his dead father. When he watched the long knife in his hand stab into Cai Bing's body, blood splashed on his face, he froze, he didn't expect so much blood to spurt out of the human body.

It seems that the Cai Bing who killed him was not an ordinary soldier, and the surrounding Cai soldiers panicked, and all rushed here to hack the young man to death. After being hit by several arrows, the mother, who should have died a long time ago, did not know where the strength came from, blocked in front of the young man, and shouted, "Run." “

Hearing his mother's words, the boy finally moved, he ran desperately, the hot pain in his back, it could be a knife wound, or an arrow wound, but the boy couldn't care so much, he only knew how to escape, and his back was completely chaotic.

The desperate Zheng people burst out with the fighting power of trapped beasts, and they entangled with Cai Bing with their bare hands, blood spilling all over the land and stretching all the way to the river in Sai Wan.

The well-trained Cai soldiers encountered the Zheng people, who were not afraid of death, and after a brief panic, they rearranged their formation and began a bloody massacre. When the last Zheng man fell in a pool of blood, Cai Bing still refused to give up, because one person died.

In fact, there was far more than one person who died, but Cai Bing only cared about which one, the one who was stabbed to death by the teenager.

He is Zhuang Ke's youngest son Zhuang Bin, originally he was only responsible for the massacre in Xiwan, but for some reason, the scene suddenly fell into chaos, and no one saw how Zhuang Bin walked into the crowd of Zheng people, and how he was stabbed to death by the teenager.

However, Zhuang Bin did die, this is a big deal, so big that all the Cai soldiers present will be angry with Zhuang Ke, not to mention the loss of their official positions, I am afraid that they will have to pay for the lives of a few soldiers.

And all this was caused by this teenager, and Cai Bing would not let him go.

Several horsemen chased after the boy wrapped in smoke and dust.

The Sai Wan river beach was full of rocks, and the war horses ran and stumbled, so that the boy escaped like this.

Lying on the bed, the young man thought back to this frightening day, the pain and exhaustion hit his heart again, Wu Ye's gentle smile gave him a great sense of security, and he fell into a deep sleep again.

Outside the house, the old man rubbed his calloused palms in embarrassment, and in his heart he was very sympathetic to the young man's plight, these days he heard the rumors of Cai Guo's massacre of Zheng people, but he still didn't believe in the fact that people would throw themselves into the river, but the escaped teenager vaguely confirmed the truth of the rumors.

The old man remembered his son, the furnace river is at the junction of Zheng and Cai, the ownership is not clear, the old man's son was conscripted into the army by Cai Guo, and there was no news, the daughter-in-law was unwilling, and ran to Zhuma City to find her husband alone, but there was no return, the two of them disappeared completely as if they had never existed in this world, leaving only the granddaughter Cuicui, who had just turned one year old, and the old man depended on each other.

The old man on the ferryman even moved the idea of looking for his son and daughter-in-law, but his granddaughter was too young to take her with him. In addition, the old man is also worried that he will be like his son and daughter-in-law, never returning, leaving Cuicui who can't live independently, he feels too sorry for this hard-working granddaughter, and before he starts to be sensible, the two closest people in the world are not around.

The old man took his granddaughter to live on the edge of the furnace river, and did not dare to move, in case his son and daughter-in-law were still alive and came back one day, he could still find them.

Wu Ye took out a letter and handed it to the old man, and said, "Old man, please send this letter to Yanling, find someone named Bi Kun, and he will arrange you and this young man." ”

The old man said his situation in embarrassment, Wu Ye thought for a moment, and said: "Zheng and Cai are about to go to war, it is very unsafe for you to take your granddaughter here, and I will help you inquire about your son and daughter-in-law in Cai Guo." ”

The old man looked through the window and saw his lovely granddaughter sleeping on the table, he was hesitant, but he finally nodded and agreed to Wu Ye's arrangement.

The son and daughter-in-law have not heard from him for five years, although the old man has been persuading himself to believe that they are still alive, when he told his granddaughter about them, he also told Cuicui, your parents are in the army in Macheng, and things are too busy to come back for the time being. But there has been no news for five years, and the old man has no hope for this, but he can't bear to let his granddaughter face this cruel truth.

Wu Ye understood the old man's embarrassment and embarrassment, and said with a light sigh: "Things will always pass, you can't hide it from her for the rest of your life." ”

The ferryman nodded.

In the night, Wu Ye flew to the opposite bank like a waterfowl on the furnace river and disappeared.

The old man looked at the back of this powerful young man, sighed, and said to himself: "I have drunk river water all my life, and I don't know if I will not be used to it if I leave suddenly." ”

When the first rays of sunlight bloomed from the darkness in the morning, Wu Ye stood not far from Shangcai City, quietly watching the city wake up. There is a huge bronze sword hanging on the gate of Shangcai City, the tip of the sword is facing down, and the sword body is wrapped around an evil red viper, which is carved from a whole piece of red flame stone, bathed in the morning light, the red flame stone shines brightly, and the red viper seems to come to life, looking at the creatures below viciously.

Intelligence said that Cai Pinghou, the monarch of Cai Guo, was a fanatical war lover, he admired the rise of Qin very much, and fully implemented military management in Cai Guo, and all the people were soldiers. However, it is very difficult to sustain this kind of reckless militarism that deviates from the normal method of development.

Cai Pinghou also understands this truth, and only by continuously waging war can this state apparatus maintain its vitality. All people are soldiers, and they are of the right age to enlist, and Cai Guo's military service system has also led to another result, Wu Ye's underground intelligence work cannot be carried out normally, because in Cai Guo, except for soldiers, they are still soldiers, and no outsider can integrate into Cai Guo's society.

Only very few merchants from other countries who sell weapons occasionally appear in Xincai, the capital of Cai State, and the Zheng people, Chen people, and Chu people who used to live in Cai State are all found out, and the Chu people who can't afford to be provoked are driven away, such as Zheng people and Chen people, and the fate of Zheng people and Chen people is more tragic, and it is basically impossible to escape death.