Chapter 67: The Heart of the Troubled World
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The young man turned his head away, and saw that the bald man had said this, but his head was lowered, revealing deep sadness and helplessness.
This young man is Li Chongjiu, and the bald man on the side is Tan Zong.
They came all the way from Shaomu Mountain, Dongdu, and Xijing, and everyone was devastated.
Last year, Yang Xuan rebelled, and there were more than 100,000 followers.
When Yang Xuangan besieged the eastern capital, he opened a warehouse to help the people in order to win the hearts of the people. As a result, after Yang Xuan was defeated, Yang Guang investigated afterwards and ordered that all those who received rice would be killed in the south of the capital.
The people in the center of the world in the eastern capital were panicked, and Xijing was not better, Zhai Rang's Wagang army repeatedly plundered the grain, and the news came that the price of rice in Xijing skyrocketed, and forty yuan could not buy a bucket of brown rice.
They were more and more frightened all the way, and after crossing the Yellow River from Pujin and coming to the boundary of Hedong, they learned that the eastern capital and Xijing were not the worst, and the people here couldn't even buy rice.
Along the way, I kept seeing people cooking meat on the roadside, cooking in a big pot, wafting the smell of meat, and greeting them hospitablely to come over to eat together.
This Hedong doesn't even have rice to eat, and there are people eating meat, this is self-evident, Li Chongjiu endured all the way, stomach acid surged, and he wanted to vomit.
I thought that this scene was only seen in history books, but I witnessed it vividly.
Along the way, there have been countless tragedies, and people have gradually become numb when they are used to such scenes. In this troubled world, the most terrible thing is not famine and disease, but the fall of people's hearts. The good are numb, and the despicable have a reason to do evil.
And now that the food of their group is also cut off, these more than 80 men are saving the last bit of rice grain.
Na Tan Zong glanced at the roe deer meat on the ground, couldn't help but move his index finger, and said: "Senior brother, I've been drinking water all day long, so I don't care if he has so much, let's fill my stomach first." ”
Li Chongjiu stopped his hand and said: "Wait a minute, there are many people in the forest here, if you roast this roe de deer meat, the smell of this meat will definitely attract hungry people everywhere." That person just now didn't have a good heart, just to see us in conflict. But don't be in vain, collect the roe deer first, and then open the meat later. ”
Tan Zong nodded, swallowed his saliva, reluctantly stared at the roe deer, and sat down again.
As the night deepened, the cold air came from all directions, seeping into people's bones, and making people shiver. The homeless people in the forest began to gather together, snuggling up to each other for warmth, relying on the heat of the crowd to resist the cold.
At night, everyone's thoughts were also germinating, and various voices came in the dark, many of which were rough intercourse between men and women, women cursed helplessly, and men were panting and scolding.
After hearing this, Li Chongjiu shook his head, and now he was more concerned about the way out of their seventy or eighty brothers.
These more than 70 brothers, more than 40 of them were brothers of the original Li Family Dart Bureau, and more than 30 people were lay disciples of Shaolin Temple, who voluntarily followed Li Chongjiu to Taiyuan County. Li Chongjiu has his own responsibility to take care of them, and now he is still hundreds of miles away from Taiyuan County, so he has no food, but it is a big headache for him.
And although the money bags with them have been fighting with the homeless people in the past few years, most of them are the money collected from the thieves, but in this realm, there is money but they can't buy rice.
Li Chongjiu sat in the forest for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of stepping on a dead branch.
With the faint starlight, he turned his head to see that it was a little girl of seven or eight years old. The little girl's face was pretty, her hands and feet were blue from the cold, but she was clutching a handful of elm coins at the bottom of her hand, and her fingers were clenched tightly.
It turned out that he came out in the middle of the night to look for food, Li Chongjiu saw that the little girl was very cute, he couldn't help but smile slightly, touched his body, took out the bag of dry food on his body, spread it on the ground, and tried to scrape it.
Seeing that something was scraped out, Li Chongjiu sighed, but glanced at it in a blink of an eye, but the roe deer that was placed aside shook his head.
Just then, the little girl screamed, and a big man hugged her from behind.
The little girl was so panicked that she kicked her feet wildly, the elm money in her hand was scattered all over the ground, and tears rolled down her cheeks in her eyes, but her mouth was so whimpering that she couldn't make a sound, as if she couldn't call for help.
But the big man laughed and said, "Great, I caught a two-legged sheep,"
This big man has deep eyebrows and high eyes, showing that he is of Hu blood, and there are several accomplices on the side, all of whom are holding long knives. One of them said: "It's really unfortunate to be dumb, but it's barely enough." ”
Tan Zong, who was beside Li Chongjiu, was furious, lifted the iron pestle in his hand and slammed it to the ground. Everyone on the other side was stunned when they heard the sound, and they were also a little timid after seeing the black pressure on the forest here.
The bearded man pinched the little girl at the moment and hid it behind him, but a boning knife was turned out from the bottom of his hand.
Seeing that the other party seemed to want to hold this little girl hostage, Li Chongjiu stopped Tan Zong with his hand, took a few steps forward, looked like a bargain, and said: "Okay, since we have found a two-legged sheep here, those who see it have a share, and we have to divide two-thirds of the more people here." ”
When the big man heard Li Chongjiu say this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, put the little girl aside, and said, "No, at most I will give you ......."
Before the words fell, Li Chongjiu suddenly burst out, only to see that the two were separated by more than three zhang distance, but Li Chongjiu's figure didn't know how to rise violently, and it was coming in the blink of an eye.
The big man couldn't react, and was knocked to the ground by Li Chongjiu with the next punch. Li Chongjiu then grabbed the boning knife in the other party's hand and snatched the little girl in his hand.
"Kill them all!" Li Chongjiu let out a loud sigh. All right! Tan Zong snatched the little girl by Li Chongjiu, immediately let go of his hands and feet, and opened a scoop for one person with an iron pestle, and the other brothers also took the Qi Mei stick and hugged it.
Such inhumane people, to kill is to kill.
Li Chongjiu held the little girl in his arms, did not let her be exposed to this bloody scene, and helped her pick up a few elm coins that were scattered on the ground and handed them over to the bottom of his hand.
Li Chongjiu saved the little girl for a while, but he couldn't save her life. Suddenly, he seemed to remember the little girl who had sacrificed his life from the traffickers in his previous life, and he couldn't help but think about whether the other party was okay now.
After a while, these five or six Hu people were all cut off, and as soon as Tan Zong collected the iron pestle stained with brains, he began to recite scriptures for the deceased with compassion.
The smell of blood in the forest was tangy, and there was occasionally a long series of incomprehensible chantings, and the atmosphere was strange.
Li Chongjiu let out a long sigh: "Okay, it's okay, it's just a group of beasts, when you grow up, you will understand." ”
When the little girl heard Li Chongjiu say this, she nodded as if she didn't understand.
At this moment, there was a sudden noise in the forest.
Li Chongjiu saw that there were torches shaking, and after a while, hundreds of people, holding all kinds of 'weapons', rushed over together.
"Pingping!"
A woman's heart-rending call sounded, and the little girl next to Li Chongjiu looked moved, and immediately rushed towards the woman.
Li Chongjiu saw that the woman was about twenty years old, and her appearance was a little pretty, and the big man next to the woman was very intimate with her, obviously the leader of this group of people, and at the same time the appearance of a family of three.
Under the torch, Li Chongjiu looked at it, this person had a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and there was a sad atmosphere of Yan Zhao Dahan in his eyes when he raised his head. The other party held a mace in his hand and shouted at Li Chongjiu: "Okay, you don't even let go of a little girl, do you still have humanity?" How different from beasts, today I will slay you all. ”
These words, Li Chongjiu said it immediately, and the good impression of this big man at the beginning fell to the bottom at the moment.
"What an idiot!"
Tan Zong immediately became angry, panting with anger, and said: "That's right, Lao Tzu, I'm just greedy, I want to eat the taste of human flesh, what's wrong?" ”
Li Chongjiu patted his head, he was really not afraid of enemies like wolves, but afraid of teammates like pigs.
And the little girl was mute, and would not defend them, but was so anxious that she burst into tears.