Chapter 630: Fresh

This is not a story about fairies and ghosts, so the faintly visible lights in the middle of the mountain will not be a magic weapon in the hands of the gods, and naturally it will not be a charming fox demon who comes out at night, let alone a thousand-year-old tree spirit that can stick its tongue into a person's stomach, Li Shimin is not Ning Caichen, so there is no Nie Xiaoqian. The soft light in the mountains and fields is not Lanruo Temple, but a row of wooden houses.

There are people living in this deep mountain and wild forest, which has to make people sigh. You must know that Li Shimin's team entered the mountain from the north side and walked for eight days before arriving here, and their marching speed was already very fast compared to the difficulty of this mountain road, after all, these were the most elite soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, and the enemy on the battlefield did not kill them, and no matter how rugged the mountain road was, it would not make them afraid and afraid.

As the saying goes, looking at the mountains and running dead horses, in the dark night, when you see a little light in the mountains, you rush over to that side, and it is not a blink of an eye. Li Shimin and the others had exhausted their physical strength when they reached the top of the mountain, and they ran over in one breath with the excitement of seeing the lights, and they also walked for half an hour before they arrived. It was so far away that they wouldn't have been able to see it if they hadn't stood on the top of the hill and looked down.

When they found out that what appeared in front of them was a row of wooden houses, the soldiers were obviously taken aback. In any case, it always seemed a little strange to see a dwelling in the deepest part of the mountain, so when the soldiers walked to the door of the wooden house, they subconsciously clenched the hilt of the horizontal knife.

Li Shimin waved his hand and signaled not to act rashly. He walked to the cabin and looked at it, then cleared his throat and shouted inside, "Is there anyone in the house?" We are lost pedestrians in the past, can we come out and see us? ”

He wasn't very loud, but it was enough to travel far in the stillness of the night. After a while, the door of a wooden house was pushed open from the inside, and someone came out with a lantern, a little far away, so I didn't look carefully at the age, but the clothes on his body looked a little weird, and it didn't seem to be the clothes of ordinary people, and when this person carried the lantern to everyone, he saw clearly, it turned out that he was wearing a Taoist robe.

"Is it really a fairy?"

A pro-soldier of the Split Tiger Battalion subconsciously took a step back and whispered to his comrades: "It does look like a fairy ......."

Li Shimin looked carefully, this person would never be an immortal. Because the man in the Taoist robe was obviously startled after seeing clearly that there was a group of soldiers in front of him who were embarrassed but armed with murder weapons. If he was really an immortal, how could he be intimidated by mortals, and how could he subconsciously retreat, as if he was ready to turn around and run.

"This Taoist Chief"

Li Shimin knew that these people must look like a group of homeless bandits who robbed and killed people, so he took out his Qin King Seal Letter from his arms as soon as possible.

"I am the second son of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, King of Qin. Led the army to chase and kill the remnants of the bandits into the deep mountains and could not find a way out, just at the top of the mountain saw that there were lights here, so they rushed over, and it was presumptuous to disturb them late at night, and asked the Taoist to forgive them. ”

"Datang?"

The middle-aged man in the robe was stunned for a moment, and then his face changed and he asked with some surprise: "Da Sui is dead?" The one that replaced the Great Sui is called the Tang Dynasty? ”

This time it was Li Shimin's turn to be stunned, he thought about it and replied seriously: "The Violent Sui is dead, the Yang family is gone, if today is the world of the Tang Dynasty, I don't know when the Taoist entered this deep mountain?" Since I know the Great Sui, I think it will be these three or twenty years. ”

"How can it be so long, when the world was in turmoil in the tenth year of the great cause, we hid in this deep mountain in order to avoid the military disaster. There are a total of seventeen people here, all of whom are disciples of the Sanqingguan Daodaotianjun outside Chang'an City. I didn't expect that after a few years in this mountain, I would meet outsiders. ”

"Since it took ten years to enter the mountain, then presumably the Taoist should also know the name of my father."

The Taoist priest pondered for a moment and asked, "Could it be that you are the Tang Gong of Longyou?" ”

"Exactly!"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Let the Taoist chief be frightened, and the people of the world are terrified." ”

"The second prince is going to torture me to death, how dare I accept the gift of the second prince."

The Taoist priest flashed to the side and refused to accept Li Shimin's salute, but turned around and beckoned, "Senior brothers, come out." The person who came is the second prince of His Majesty the current emperor, the troubled times of the Great Sui have ended, and the Tang Dynasty has been established...... We don't need to hide anymore. Come out and meet the guests. ”

Li Shimin talked with those Taoist priests for a while, and finally figured out the ins and outs of their seclusion in the mountains, it turned out that the end of the ten years of the great cause was the most chaotic time in the world, and these Taoist priests in the Sanqing Temple in the thirty miles outside Chang'an City were afraid of dying in the war, so they simply took their belongings and lost their money and food into this mountain. The seventeen brothers only thought that it would be safer to go into the mountain and walk more, so they went deep into this place in one breath before stopping.

He built a wooden house and planted some of the food he had brought with him on the nearby flat land, but years passed in a flash.

Hearing the word grain, the eyes of the people of the world lit up.

"Dao Chief, Lone led the soldiers to pursue the remnants of the bandits into this mountain by mistake, and it is not a secret that the food has been eaten. The brigade is still waiting outside the mountain for the lonely to return, but there is no food and grass, and we are afraid that it will be difficult for us to get out. If the Taoist chief is willing to lend me some food, after I return to Chang'an, he will build a new Sanqing Temple in Chang'an City to repay today's kindness. ”

"Food ......"

The Taoist priest at the head shook his head in embarrassment and said, "It's not that he refuses to lend it to His Highness, it's just that there is no harvest in March, and the grain is only enough for a dozen of us to barely maintain until the summer grain is ripe." On weekdays, I have to go out to hunt some wild things and come back, otherwise there will still be not enough to eat. So...... Your Highness is no wonder. ”

"It's a shame."

Li Shimin sighed and said, "Even the seventeen of you are not enough to eat until the summer, it seems that your food reserves are indeed not much." ”

His tone suddenly changed, and a smile flashed in his eyes: "But seventeen people eat food for a few months, which is almost enough for my soldiers to eat for six or seven days, and in six or seven days, we will be able to go out of the mountains......

"How can Your Highness be so strong?"

The Taoist priest stood up and said with an ugly face: "If you snatch all the food, what will we do?" We respect the three Qings, aren't Your Highness afraid of being punished by God when you do this evil thing? I'm waiting to serve the law by example, but in fact, you can bully at will? ”

Li Shimin smiled and said: "If you say that there is a curse, there will be a curse, do you still need to hide in this deep mountain to escape the world?" You say you serve the Dharma by yourself...... Then I don't think you should keep this body. ”

He stood up, glanced at Wei Chigong and asked, "Have you ever eaten human flesh?" ”

Wei Chigong's face changed and he lowered his head and said, "I haven't eaten it." ”

Li Shimin said with a smile: "There is no lone, so lone wants to try it." ”

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Li Shimin asked people to count the grain stored in this wooden house, it was indeed too little, and it was barely enough for seven or eight days for three hundred people to save food, but it should be enough to get out of the mountains. Therefore, the soldiers do not need to eat human flesh to replenish their physical strength, and this is not immortal meat that can be eaten by immortals, it will only make people nauseous and want to vomit.

All the property of the seventeen Taoist priests was looted, including clothes, shoes and socks. Li Shimin looked at the seventeen red-striped people, and actually walked over and solemnly saluted: "Today's grace is remembered in my heart, if more than ten of you don't die, he will be a lonely guest when he arrives in Chang'an City." If you die, Lone will also build a Sanqing Temple in the city as promised. ”

"Li Shimin!"

The Taoist priest scolded angrily, "You won't end well. ”

Li Shimin was not angry, but said indifferently: "If I don't kill you, I think of this food." The giant thief Zhang Jin said that he took pleasure in eating people's hearts, and once said that this is the most delicious thing in the world. If you don't know what to do, you don't mind if you taste it or not. ”

The Taoist priest didn't dare to speak again, and Li Shimin turned around and wanted to leave. At this time, the most courageous soldier suddenly whispered: "Although it is not fairy meat, it is not unpalatable to see that there are a few people with fine skin and tender meat." It's always better than those stinky horse meat......"

Maybe it was so bloody and terrifying that even he was startled. Subconsciously looked at his comrades around him, thinking that he would be despised and scolded by everyone, who would have thought that none of the soldiers was surprised by these words, but a few soldiers who were already extremely fierce stared at the dozen or so Taoist priests with fierce eyes flashing with fierce light. Even Li Shimin and Wei Chigong were also startled by the eyes of the soldiers, which were greedy and desperate to vent.

That's it......

Li Shimin sighed in his heart, vaguely guessing why these soldiers had such expressions.

They followed themselves all the way from the eastern capital to Chang'an to rebel, the 50,000 army was in high spirits, and the battle of Xuanwumen was a battle, and more than 50,000 people escaped less than 3,000. On the banks of the Fengshui River, in order to get rid of Li Xiaogong's pursuers, most of the 3,000 people were abandoned by Li Shimin. After entering the mountains, they ate some unpalatable dead horse meat every day, and had to flee hard, and the pressure on the hearts of the remaining soldiers must have been extremely great, and it was time to vent. And for these soldiers, there is no better outlet than to kill.

"Jingde ......"

Li Shimin screamed softly, looked at the soldiers' eyes that were gradually turning red, and said in a low voice: "Let them kill, if they don't vent their grievances in their hearts...... Lonely worries ......"

"I understand."

Wei Chigong also thought of the key to it, so he waved his hand and said, "King Qin is going over there to see if there is any food, you all stay here and search carefully." ”

After speaking, he pulled Li Shimin and walked out quickly, looking at the back, it seemed as if he was running away, and he looked a little embarrassed.

Behind him, there were the excited and perverted cheers of the soldiers, and the wails of people before they died.

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Just when Li Shimin's team left the wooden house for only half a day, an extremely haggard figure stumbled out of the woods, her clothes were completely unrecognizable, and her face could not see a human color, except for the eyes that were still a little angry.

Dugu Yirou staggered forward, and after walking out of the dense forest, his eyes suddenly lit up. It was the beginning of the morning sun, and the dense forest was still wrapped in darkness, but the view from outside the forest had become extremely clear. In a daze, Dugu Yirou looked at the several wooden houses that appeared in front of her, and her eyes immediately flashed with great excitement, and then rushed forward quickly. But she was so weak that she barely had any strength, and she tripped over something, fell to the ground, and fainted.

Her clothes barely covered her body, and the wound on her shoulder had actually healed a little, and she had applied a layer of herbs on it, because she saw a wounded wolf find a bush of herbs to chew and spit on the wound, so she did the same after the wolf left. The herb was so effective that the wound was no longer rotting and there were signs of scarring.

The sun's rays shone on her, and she didn't know how long she woke up after she had been unconscious. Struggling to sit up, he rubbed his forehead and remembered that he had fallen. Looking back to see what had tripped over her, she exclaimed in fright. He crawled back with his hands and feet and retreated far away, his eyes full of horror.

It was a pile of minced meat, barely recognizable as a human corpse.

"Huh?"

When she saw that it was human flesh, she was obviously relieved, and slowly crawled back to carefully identify it, and when she found the minced head, the messy hair still mixed in the minced meat, she sat down, and used a small wooden stick to flick back and forth in the minced flesh a few times, and found fingers, intestines, and half of the heart that could be vaguely recognized. She gasped for a moment, as if thinking of something, and then her eyes lit up.

She reached out and grabbed the half of her heart and put it under her nose to smell it, and couldn't help but be a little happy: "It's still a little fresh...... Good luck. ”

Then she began to eat, very slowly and seriously.