In this world, it is difficult for honest people to mix with the disadvantaged. Having spent the first 14 years www.biquge.info of her life in the countryside, Rose spent the first 14 years of her life in the countryside, and she knew very well what it was like to be a farmer. A peasant has to deal not only with an endless stream of natural disasters and locusts, but also with a wolf-like servant landlord who works all day long, rising at sunrise and resting at dusk, and may not be enough to feed his family, let alone have any savings, for a year of hard work. In this way, the days of barely surviving are already the "prosperous age" in the eyes of those sour scholars, as if as long as they do not starve to death, they are a great benevolent government -- while they themselves have fine clothes and fine food, beautiful wives and concubines, and their grain and rice would rather rot in the granary than be distributed to the poor, and once there is a flood and drought and locust plague, the peasants rise up, but they will spit on these people as "anti-thieves and bandits"!

In this world, ordinary people can't get along and have to be thieves.

Rose didn't have the heart to criticize these boring readers, she didn't know how to read, and she didn't want to deal with these people, but her life experience in the countryside allowed her to successfully fool the guards of the Black Wind Village and become a member of the Black Wind Village.

She was young and looked thin and weak, so no one took her seriously, and they probably thought she might not live for a few months, so they were happy to have a free laborer to serve them tea and water, sweep the floor and cook, and they only had to pay for enough food to survive.

It's a good deal, Rose serves them, and they trade their lives for it.

It seems that the village has been built for more than a few years, and many of the wooden buildings have gradually decayed from the long wind and rain, and the thieves obviously do not hire carpenters to repair them, so these buildings are getting dilapidated. The Black Wind Village is not big, only the size of four or five acres of land, and there are dozens of large and small wooden houses in it, even if it is the residence of the thieves here. It is said that Elder Li of the White Lotus Sect wanted to ask someone to restore these houses and renovate the place as the "foundation of the great cause" of Maitreya's incarnation.

Rose scoffed at this idea, the government might turn a blind eye to the small gang of the White Lotus Sect, lest they lose the battle and lose their officials, but if they make a big fuss, the government will definitely not sit idly by. Although the official army of the Ming Dynasty was repeatedly defeated in front of Jiannu, and finally won a battle and still defended the city, these people were still easy to deal with some White Lotus Sects who did not even have iron armor.

Rose was assigned to work in the room, saying that it was a room, but in fact it was just a few old and smoke-covered clay stoves, on which were set up with a few large iron pots, and things such as cabbage, bracken, and winter melon were thrown into it to stew, and it was considered a pot of vegetables. This method of cooking is very simple, so simple that anyone like Rose who is not very good at cooking can do it. Her ability made the old man Zhang in charge of the room very happy, and praised Rose as a "genius" again and again, and then handed over all the stir-fry tasks to her in a grand manner, and went to cook rice and steam steamed buns by herself.

The White Lotus Sect would have a meal of meat every once in a while, and the materials they robbed and looted from the house had a lot of livestock in addition to real money and silver, and they kept the livestock in a fence on the south side of the house, and usually fed them with hay and coarse grains, and when they ate them, they pulled them out and killed them. Although they keep saying that they want to "eat vegetables to help the Buddha", no one will insist on their beliefs at present. A "little thief" like Rose is said to not be able to eat meat like a veteran "old thief", but she is a husband, and this job opportunity gives her the opportunity to be close to the water, so she still has a good supply of food even in the enemy's territory.

Rose had tried to wander around the village to collect information about the Black Wind Village, but these cultists were very vigilant in this regard, and as soon as they saw Rose coming to an important territory, they shouted loudly, and Rose had to hurry back, facing the suspicion of these people.

Late at night, Rose slept on the floor of the room, and under her was a pile of hay covered with a piece of leather from an unknown animal, which was her little bed. And it was this skin that she had exchanged for a bowl of meat and a cultist, otherwise she would have slept on hay. She didn't have a quilt, and when she asked the old man to ask for a quilt, she was sprayed by the latter: "The little rabbit cub can stir-fry and kick his nose in the face?" How can there be a quilt! Sleep hay go! ”

Rose touched her dagger, and the hard, sharp feeling was still there, so it gave her infinite confidence and tolerance. Rose smiled, didn't wipe the spit from her face, and turned away.

As long as the dagger is on her side, anyone is dead to her, so why rush sooner or later.

She got up like a ghost, took the dagger in her hand, and left the room gently, the old man Zhang slept in a storage room outside the room, he had his own independent bed, which was the highest treatment among the servants of the Black Wind Village, so he often did not leave his small bed when he spoke.

A bed is all he is proud of.

Old man Zhang snored like thunder, and he didn't notice Rose's departure at all. Rose gently opened the door, turning the rapid and loud "squeak" sound of opening the door into a long, low "squeak-squeak" sound, which successfully did not attract the attention of Old Man Zhang.

She walked out of the room, and the moon had risen almost to the center of the sky, casting a glow on the ground, similar to the scene of Rose at home, but she knew that she would never be able to go back to her old life.

It doesn't matter if you can't go back, you can go back, people always have to continue to live, as long as they live, that's fine.

Rose slowly left the house, this area is the living area of the stockade, there are houses, stables, granaries and some servants' residences, there is nothing valuable in it except for some grain, so there is no White Lotus Sect guard, most of them are concentrated in the main area north of the stockade, which is also the destination of Rose.

She walked gently on the road, which was muddy and difficult to walk on rainy days, and it was easy to expose her steps. Fortunately, it has been sunny for the past few days, and she just took this opportunity to investigate. She hid herself from the shadows cast on the ground by the eaves and walls, like a cat walking in the shadows, with brisk steps and speed like the wind, and soon reached the main area.

Two torches were lit in front of them, made of wood wrapped in cloth and soaked in grease and pine resin, which could continue to light for nearly an hour, and although they did not provide much light, they were enough for the two men to find themselves.

They wore a leather cuirass, the armor often worn by hunters, which made use of their abundant hides and provided the most basic protection. Although this kind of armor may not even be able to block the bow and arrow, it still has a certain protection ability against sword slashing, and wearing it will at least have a little psychological comfort.

"All armor can't wrap the whole body, and armor can't always block a dagger." Rose thought sarcastically, slowly thinking about how to get through the two men's defenses.

They don't look particularly strong, and their strength won't be very strong, but it's not surprising that many people were honest farmers or small citizens before joining the White Lotus Sect, and their economic conditions are not good, so how can they have money to eat well, and it is inevitable that they will be thin. They have bright swords hanging from their waists, which look like ordinary waist knives, but looking at their posture in battle, it seems that they have no martial arts foundation, this kind of person can make a head on the battlefield at best, and the combat effectiveness is really vulnerable.

"But it's not surprising that the high-ranking and high-ranking warriors of the White Lotus Sect are hiding in the house and playing with women, and those who are sentry outside must be lower-level disciples." Thinking like this, Rose slowly felt for a stone, her skill in throwing stones was very high, and she would never hit her nose if she hit her eyes dozens of steps away.

A stone flew out, and the edge of the stone was smooth after being polished by the rose, so it didn't suffer much resistance, and landed lightly on the ground in the distance, successfully attracting the attention of the two.

"Lao Li, what's going on? Check it out! ”

"Why do you let Lao Tzu go, why don't you go?"

"If you want to go, you will go, and you will come when you are pushing!"

"What if there is an enemy? If I walk over, won't I die? ”

"The wall of our village is so high, and there are people sentry on it, why do people come in!"

"What if it's a ghost! I've heard that this Elder Li originally released a million Yin soldiers to slaughter this Black Wind Village, maybe there are still old friends who are still haunting and gone! ”

"To tell you this, I really think it's a bit yin! Maybe there's a ghost! ”

"Then you still let Lao Tzu pass!"

"Let's go together, shall we? The two of us are yang, and we are definitely not afraid! ”

"Okay, let's go together, no one wants to run!"

"There's no ghost here, just a killer." With this in mind, Rose slowly crept through the darkness where the torches could not illuminate, her back slightly arched as she moved, but her limbs drooped slowly, like a black cat walking through the night.

Turning around is a large open space, which may have been the place where the thieves had formed a formation in the past, but now it has been converted into an altar by the White Lotus Sect.

In the middle of the altar is a disc about one zhang wide, which may be dirt or wood inside, but the outside is wrapped in a thick layer of yellow cloth, so it is impossible to see the material inside. On the side of the disc facing the rose is engraved a cyan dragon, which has always been the Eastern Green Dragon, according to this statement, the other sides should be the Northern Xuanwu, the Southern Vermilion Bird and the Western White Tiger. This green dragon is not well carved, the scales and whiskers on it do not have any sense of layering, even the color of the dragon's body is half blue, but it is barely enough for people to see that this is a dragon, and it is reluctant for people to separate him from the caterpillar.

In the center of the disc is an altar made of wood, painted with red lacquer, reflecting a dim light from the torches around it, on which a white statue is enshrined. The rose is facing the back of the statue, so the face of the statue is not visible, but judging by the statue's slender stature, it should be a childless old mother. There were many sacrifices in front of her, such as the head of a pig, a sheep, and a cow, as well as ghee, snacks, incense, and so on, which are used in Buddhism, and they seemed to have put all the sacrifices together and offered them all to the deity. There are also various flags and patterns around the altar, which are engraved with the five elements of gossip and the twenty-eight constellations, which seem to have added some Taoist elements.

"Mother once said that the teachings of this White Lotus Sect are varied, but now it seems that it is not wrong at all, the offerings of this White Lotus Sect are the same as the dishes they eat, all of them are one pot of stew!" With that in mind, Rose cautiously walked around the darkness beside the altar. Although worshipping the childless old mother, it is obvious that no one wants to guard their gods at night, according to Rose's understanding and the results of her eavesdropping, almost all the high-ranking disciples of the White Lotus Sect are enjoying the women left by the previous master of the Black Wind Village, and even the daily homework has been claimed to be sick.