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Chapter 1017 A place that no one ever thought of

The topic seemed to arouse Fang Jie's interest, and he leaned down to look at the map, looking at it carefully.

The shape of the Great Sui resembles an irregular square, with the south side slightly wider than the north side. Most of the southern border is coastline, and the other half is surrounded by the wolf milk mountains tens of thousands of miles from north to south. The border line in the north, the border in the northwest is also the Wolf Milk Mountain, and the northeast is bounded by the White Mountain.

On the whole, even though the Great Sui is vast, the difference between the northwest and other places is too great. You must know that although it is also cold on the side of the White Mountain in the northeast of the road, there is a lot of grain that is harvested every year on the fertile black soil. This is also the reason why when Gao Kaitai negotiated with Fang Jie, he wanted Fang Xie to give up the Northeast Roads to him.

Northwest and northeast, transversely in a line.

Fang Xie didn't know anything about geology, and the memories of his past life didn't help at all.

"By the way, what does that Han man in your tribe do on weekdays?"

Fang Xie asked Yan Yunshu.

Wanyan Yunshu thought for a while and said: "This person's origin is mysterious, Father Khan once asked him, he only said that he came from the Central Plains, because he didn't want to live in the Central Plains that had been dirty, so he went to the 100,000 mountains. He said that although the 100,000 mountains are bitter and cold, they are pure, and the people of our Northern Liao tribe are also simple. ”

Sang Sasa smiled and said, "In this case, there is no way to distinguish the true from the fake." ”

Wanyan Yunshu continued: "On weekdays, he basically teaches his brother knowledge, and his father Khan often asks him some questions. My brother's earliest understanding of the Central Plains was obtained from that person. So my brother longed for the Central Plains very much, so he had the idea of going to the Central Plains to live for a while. Father Khan actually allowed him, and he left with only a few guards. But...... My brother seems to have said it later......"

Wanyan Yunshu rubbed his head and recalled vigorously. Such details seem to be really difficult for an unruly woman like her.

"I remember, my brother said that the Central Plains he saw seemed to be a little different from the Central Plains that the person said. It's basically the same, but it's different in many details. ”

She pouted that she had done her best, and it was remarkable to think about it.

Fang Xie couldn't help but smile and said, "What you remember in your little head are all other things, it's good to remember these things." ”

Wanyan Yunshu pulled Fang Jie's arm and hugged it: "I didn't know you at that time, and I didn't yearn for the Central Plains like my brother, and I haven't talked to that Han gentleman many times, so naturally I won't remember." If I had known that I wanted to know you, I would have asked him more. ”

Fang Xie smiled and shook his head: "But the strangeness is here." ”

He looked at Sang Sasa.

Sang Sasa nodded: "That's right, the strangeness is here...... A Han person who traveled from the Central Plains to the 100,000 mountains may not have traveled all over the Central Plains, so he does not know much about the customs of various places, and the general things may not be right. But where he himself lives, the details he will never be mistaken. ”

Wanyan Yunshu was stunned: "It turns out that Father Khan is wrong...... I remember when he mentioned it to his father Khan, his father Khan said that the plains are vast, and there is no need to delve into the details. It turns out that you can be wrong in general, but you can't be wrong too much in details. ”

Fang Xie smiled and said, "So, now it looks more and more like what Sasa speculated." What is the purpose of that person going to your tribe, maybe this purpose is not aimed at your tribe, the Northern Liao tribe lives on the edge of the 100,000 mountains, whether he wants to enter the mountains or come out of the mountains, your tribe is the best place to stay. ”

Sang Sassa said: "Before he went to your tribe, he must have prepared." But he didn't leave the Central Plains and went to the 100,000 Great Mountain, but came out of it. Therefore, the things he prepared were all taught to him by others, and even he himself did not know whether it was right or wrong. Perhaps, he has never been to the Central Plains. ”

Wanyan Yunshu rubbed the corners of his eyebrows: "It's so complicated, I better don't think about it." ”

Fang Xie pondered for a while and said, "Now think about it according to your thoughts, if he came out of the mountains at that time, and he was sent out by someone, and he specially prepared some things to deal with the Northern Liao tribe, then what was his purpose?" Just don't want to cut off contact with the outside world? ”

"What else?"

Sang Sasa was silent for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "It is extremely difficult to enter the 100,000 mountains, and the Northern Liao tribe is the best place to stay, this must be true." What we had been thinking about before was that the people inside didn't want to be isolated, and they wanted to know about the things outside, so they sent someone to be a sentinel. But I didn't think about it, is this person settling in the Northern Liao tribe, waiting for some contact with the outside? ”

Fang Xie thought for a while and nodded: "This is probably ......"

This conversation was just a boring topic for a few people, because they suddenly thought of it, so whether it was Fang Xie or Sang Sasa, or Wanyan Yunshu, who had lived in the 100,000 mountains, did not continue to speculate on anything in the depths. For one, it has nothing to do with them. Second, they can surmise that these are already very good, because they don't know much about the Tao in the first place.

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northwest

Fan Gucheng

Now there are only a few wanderers living in the city. Their homes have been destroyed, and they have been fleeing the war since they fled, and their news is too closed to know if the war is over, so they dare not go home. So he could only walk aimlessly, like the walking dead.

They huddled in the corner, huddled with each other to keep warm.

When Fang Xie returned to Fangu City, he had repaired this place, but after a few years, it seemed to have become a lot more dilapidated. The laughter and laughter that once roamed the city have disappeared, and now only the children of the refugees cry with hunger.

Mr. Jiu, dressed in a moon-white Confucian shirt, walked slowly into Fan Gucheng and glanced at the dusty and dirty streets. In the distance, a few refugees curled up in the corner, and when they saw someone coming, they subconsciously leaned back.

Mr. Nine shook his head, and seemed a little bored between his eyebrows.

"People should be strong when they go through pain, otherwise the pain they experience will be meaningless. Living like the walking dead like these people, the suffering of those years has completely crushed them, and even if they are sent to a paradise in the future, their spirit is gone. They will live in painful memories and tell people how hard they have lived in the past few years to win sympathy...... For such a person, there is no point in living. ”

Behind him was a child who looked to be only eight or nine years old.

The boy was not pretty, his face was too long, his nose was too high, his eyelids were very thin, his cheekbones were slightly protruding, and his face was a little freckled. Even wearing clean clothes that fit well can't make him pretty. His hair was a little yellow and split up, and it fell down like a handful of straw.

"Master, are you trying to tell me not to be afraid of suffering, to regard suffering as an experience of tempering myself, and not to be passive and slack...... Is that right? ”

"You're really not smart enough."

Mr. Nine sighed slightly, really speechless for his apprentice's comprehension in these aspects. However, what he values is not the child's comprehension in terms of human sophistication, but in another aspect, very important and very important.

"Master, it's been a long time since we've been here, what are we going to pick up this time?"

The teenager asked.

He didn't seem to be able to hear the slightest disappointment in his master's tone.

"There's nothing to be desired anymore."

Mr. Nine shook his head: "I have taken away the things that can be used here, and the rest are the things that I can't understand." This time, I didn't take anything away, but left something behind. ”

"What is left?"

The teenager asked.

Mr. Nine sighed heavily this time, because this kid was really not smart: "I only brought you here, so naturally I want to keep you." ”

"Oh"

The boy nodded, not asking what it was this time.

"The rules of our Moon Shadow Hall have never been that the previous Ninth Master designates his own heir, but whoever is strong is Mr. Nine. But when the rules are set, there will be a time to break them. I plan to train you and make you Mr. Nine in the future. So you have to work hard, if someone comes to rob you in the future, you have to have the ability to kill him. ”

"Oh"

The boy sighed again, but still didn't react in any way.

Mr. Nine didn't bother to say anything more, and pointed to the refugees who were sneaking out to peep here: "Kill them all." ”

"For what?"

"Didn't do anything for it, I let you do it."

The boy was silent for a moment, then reluctantly turned and walked towards the refugees. An hour later, the boy returned, still dripping with blood from the dagger in his hand. Mr. Nine seemed dissatisfied with his killing speed. But he appreciates the kind of non-hesitation when the teenager kills. The refugees couldn't escape because the city gate was blocked by Mr. Nine's men. However, these people did not kill anyone, because Mr. Nine's order was ...... Let this boy kill them all.

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Mr. Nine led the boy across a street and into a dilapidated shop. The wine flag fluttering in the wind at the door of the shop was only less than one-fifth of its original size, covered with dirt, and only the cloud characters of most of the white clouds could be faintly seen. Walk into this shop, walk through the vestibule and kitchen, and behind it is a small courtyard.

There is a well in the yard, and this well has never produced water when Fan Gu was still full of people, so the honest man of this shop always has to carry the burden to the well on the street in the distance to fetch water. Once, the hostess of this shop accidentally dropped the wooden basin for washing clothes into the dry well, and she did not hear the sound of the wooden basin breaking for a long time, so she sealed the dry well, but she did not think much about it, what would be so deep in a well.

"Why did you build a well out there? If you can't get water, won't you be suspected? ”

The teenager asked.

Mr. Nine shook his head: "The well was dug later, and it must have been able to produce water at that time." But then something may have happened, the well collapsed, and the water was cut off. It's just that no one would have thought that there would be so many secrets hidden in the collapse of the well. ”

"Master, you've been living underground before?"

"No"

Mr. Nine said: "I have always lived in this city, and I am one of the people in this city, but I am the most inconspicuous one. When it's time for me to go back, I'll go down this well. The owners of this shop used to be a husband and wife, and both of them were pretty good, but they didn't notice me. When I had nothing to do, I sometimes sat on the edge of the well and watched the two of them bickering, and it was always the woman who won, but in the evening she would make special amends to him. ”

"What is special compensation?"

The teenager asked.

Mr. Nine smiled and did not answer.

"I am the most inconspicuous person in Fangu City, and then the most conspicuous one in Fangu City attracted disaster, and Fangu City was slaughtered and everyone died. Naturally, I wouldn't be discovered by the murderer, and I didn't stop it, I just watched quietly, watching those familiar people die one by one. ”

"Later, the most conspicuous person came back, so to speak...... He is here to pay tribute to those who have died, and I am watching him from a dark place. ”

Mr. Nine smiled and said, "He is really an idiot, he actually sacrificed a group of dead people." If it were useful to pay tribute to the dead, then the Moon Shadow Hall would have reappeared long ago. Because there are too many dead people in the Moon Shadow Hall that need to be memorialized. ”