The snow slowly melted, and the dirt road in the mountains became more and more muddy, and people walking on it would not take a while to get covered in mud.

Pi Erdan is a native of Daxing Village in the suburbs of Xuan County, Baoning Prefecture, Hubei Province, he grew up eating hundreds of meals when his parents died, and the poor family only had a soil kang and a bunch of hay left, so he is still a single person who is twenty years old this year, and in the countryside, a man who has not married a daughter-in-law at the age of twenty is already considered a late marriage, so Pi Erdan has not been looked down upon.

Although Pi Erdan is poor, he has been practicing martial arts with people since he was a child, but he has practiced a good skill, and three or four men can't beat him, so several ringing horses around him have tried to pull him into the gang several times, but he refused, because he always remembered what his father said to him before he died, that is, he would rather starve to death than do things that insult his ancestors. Therefore, the second egg who listened to his father very much was miserable, so miserable that he couldn't even eat enough.

While walking, Pi Erdan tightened the cloth bag on his back to his shoulders, feeling the contents inside, Pi Erdan was very happy, there were two pheasants in the cloth bag, which he hunted in the mountains yesterday, and today he was going to rush to the county seat to change more than a dozen catties of brown rice, which could be eaten for several days.

As soon as he thought that he could have food for more than ten days in the future, Pi Erdan was very happy, for him, it was already the best thing to be able to eat a full meal, as for the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law that others often said, he didn't think about it at all.

Walking on the road Pi Erdan heart because of the joy in his heart, while walking also sang a mountain song, Xuan County is located in the north of Hubei Province, and Shaanxi is adjacent, so the mountain song here also has some Shaanxi flavor.

"The camellia of Shandandan is blooming, my brother is walking on the hillside, sister, where are you singing mountain songs, my brother is panicking when he sings"

Don't say it, don't look at Pi Erdan's poverty, but his voice is very loud, and he sings good mountain songs, and his voice is quite melodious and beautiful.

Just as Pi Erdan was singing happily, there was a sudden rumbling sound in front, this rumble was getting closer and closer, and after a while, even the ground seemed to be trembling slightly, and soon, a team of knights wearing brown leather armor appeared in front of Pi Erdan.

The cavalry quickly galloped to Pi Erdan's side, only to see the cavalry in the lead make a loud whistle.

"Phew"

There was a sound of reining horses, and the pair of cavalrymen quickly stopped in front of Pi Erdan, less than seven or eight paces away, seeing this situation, even Pi Erdan, a person who didn't know how to ride a horse, knew that the other party's riding skills must be very remarkable.

When they stopped, Pi Erdan saw that the knight at the head was about thirty years old, with a weathered face, like everyone else, this knight carried a scimitar around his waist, and a longbow and a bag of arrows on his back, the knight stopped and asked Pi Erdan: "Boy, come here, the uncle asks you, is this the boundary of Xuan County?" ”

This was asked very politely, and Pi Erdan was also very unhappy in his heart, but the situation was stronger than people, and he couldn't say anything, so he had to nod and say, "Yes, this is already the boundary of Xuan County." ”

The knight asked, "How far is the county seat?" ”

Pi Erdan shook his head: "You have already walked, just more than ten miles behind you." ”

"You're talking nonsense." The knight was furious, and the whip in his hand was raised high and was about to be drawn, and he shouted sharply: "If there is a county seat, why didn't Lao Tzu see it, are so many people blind?" ”

Facing the horse whip raised high on the opposite side, Rao is Pi Erdan was also a little scared after practicing martial arts, and hurriedly said: "That's naturally not, that's because you just took a fork in the road, and the county should be from that side to the right way." ”

The knight, who was so angry that his face turned blue, shouted: "Bastard, that damn bastard dares to lie to Lao Tzu, brothers, let's hurry back and slaughter that bastard who dares to deceive us!" ”

After saying that, the knight was about to drive back as soon as he turned the horse's head, but then he thought about it and turned the horse's head back, and after carefully examining the second egg, he said, "Say, what is you carrying behind you?" Could it be that the murder weapon failed! ”

Pi Erdan hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, these are two pheasants that the little one hunted in the mountains, and they were about to take to the county seat to exchange for some brown rice to make a living." After saying that, Pi Erdan took down the cloth bag, untied it, and took out the pheasant and gave it to the knight quietly.

The knight looked at it and said with a smile: "Damn, the old men have been on the road for a long time, and they were deceived by a mud leg, it just so happens that I accepted your two pheasants, and it is considered that your boy is filial to the uncle, so hurry up and present it." ”

Pi Erdan was shocked, and hugged the two pheasants tightly in his arms, "Uncle, this is the villain's life-saving food, the villain can count on him for more than ten days in the future, you can do well, just let the villain go." ”

When the knight saw it, his face suddenly changed, "You bastard, you dare to talk back?" With that, the knight whipped his horse.

"Smack!" A purple-red whip mark suddenly appeared on Pi Erdan's hands, which quickly swelled, and then a sharp pain came from the back of his hand.

As soon as the hands were loosened, the two pheasants fell to the ground, rolled several times on the muddy road, and their bodies were covered with mud, and they couldn't eat them.

When the knight saw this, he became even more angry and shouted: "Bastard, you dare to get Lao Tzu's pheasant to the ground, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you." ”

After speaking, the leather whip in his hand was pumped towards Pi Erdan's body without a head, and he kept scolding while whipping Pi Erdan.

There is only one reason why he whipped Pi Erdan, Pi Erdan stained the pheasant he fancied, and it is estimated that in his opinion, Pi Erdan, a living person, is not as valuable as two pheasants.

"Bang Bang Bang"

Pi Erdan, who had been whipped several times, only felt the pain all over his body as if he was cut by a knife, but he didn't dare to show even the slightest resentment on the surface, so he could only roll on the ground with his head in his hands. Because he secretly looked around during the gap between his draws, he found that although the number of cavalry was not large, only more than twenty horsemen, but at this time they had already faintly formed a situation of encirclement around him. And judging by the cold-blooded and ruthless look they had when they looked at themselves, if they had made even the slightest gesture of resistance, they would immediately chop themselves into pulp.

"Your mother, you dare to still be the uncle's pheasant, do you know who the uncle is, the uncle is the rebel army under the command of King Chuang, if you resist the uncle, you are against the king and the rebel army, then you are against the poor people, damn mud legs, see if the uncle doesn't kill you."

"Bang"

Just when the knight was just trying to whip the skin egg because of a little thing, suddenly a dull voice sounded behind him, and a knight who was watching the excitement shook his body, slowly fell off the horse, and fell into the mud pile on the side of the road, his mouth kept spitting blood blisters, and made a "ho-ho" sound, and the eyes of the boss who were originally staring quickly closed, until this time, the surrounding companions stepped on and found that a cup-sized blood hole appeared in his chest.

"It's not good, there's an enemy!"

The knight at the head of the knight had no longer bothered to whip the second egg, and a terrible cry came out of his mouth, and he quickly took out his longbow and was about to turn his horse and gallop away, for he could hear that the dull voice was sounding from behind them.

The reaction of this group of cavalry was very quick, from the sound of the gun to the fall of one of their cavalrymen was only half a cup of tea, and more than twenty people immediately held the longbow behind their backs, and the arrows were also put on the bowstring, and turned their horses to prepare to charge forward.

It stands to reason that they should have reacted quickly like this, but unfortunately, their luck was not very good today, and as a series of gunshots rang out, more than a dozen cavalrymen who were stretching their bows fell off their horses one after another.

The companions fell off their horses one after another, and finally the remaining dozen or so knights who were rushing forward were finally frightened, and I don't know who took the lead in mobilizing the horse's head and ran backwards, and during this time there were still several cavalrymen who were killed on horseback.

And Pi Erdan, who was still whipped and bruised all over his body, knelt on the side of the road, watching a cavalryman who had not been able to die before roll off his horse one after another like birds hit by a hunter's bow and arrow, and the horror in his heart can be imagined.

At this time, his heart was already blank, for him not to mention that he had never seen such a situation, he didn't even dare to think about it, although he had a lot of fights with his neighbors in the countryside, but it was just punches and kicks, at most a blue nose and swollen face were over, how could he have seen such a tragic fight, dozens of lives disappeared in front of him, even a person like him who pretended to be bold couldn't stand it for a while.

"Bumper" was another burst of gunfire.

At this time, a knight who ran at the end of the shoulder burst out of blood, and even the man and the horse fell to the ground, and a knight was crushed under the horse after being thrown heavily to the ground, only half of his body was exposed, and he screamed in pain, and Pi Erdan could see that this person was the bastard who had just whipped himself with a horsewhip.

Seeing the enemy less than three or four steps away from him, Pi Erdan forgot for a moment that he was injured, and he also forgot that there were some objects flying over his head. At this moment, he had only one thought, that is, to avenge the whip that had just been whipped, he endured the pain and pounced, picked up the horsewhip he dropped aside, limped over, gasped for breath, and whipped it down without saying a word.

"Smack"

With the sound of the whip, a miserable cry also resounded on the side of the road

(To be continued)