Chapter 40: Snatching Relatives [1/4]
'Whoosh...'
A sound of breaking wind sounded.
The natives of southern Xinjiang let out an exclamation, and the whole figure crawled on the ground.
In the previous night, he had seen countless people as close as he had approached the caravan pinned to the ground by such sounds.
It was useless to receive the expected severe pain.
Just as he was stunned, a foot appeared in his field of vision.
"I thought you weren't afraid of death, but it turns out that you also know how to be afraid?"
Hearing this, the Nanzhao people raised their heads.
What he saw was a handsome boy who seemed to have walked out of a painting.
'This man is so pretty, if he were to sell it in the city, it would be worth a lot of money, right?' ’
I thought so in my heart.
The Nanzhao wild man swallowed his saliva and touched his waist with one hand.
"Huh?"
Nanzhao Yemin's actions, Lan Li naturally saw it.
His brow furrowed slightly.
Then, a smile tugged at the corners of his mouth.
"What are you doing?"
"Walla dividends.... Ha! ”
As if startled by Lan Li's voice, this Nanzhao wild man suddenly sped up.
I saw him shake his hand.
A small cloth bag was thrown towards Lan Li's face.
The moment the cloth bag was taken off.
A triumphant smile appeared on his face, and his gaze was already looking through Lan Li to the iron bumps behind him that were aiming at him with 'strange bullets'.
'Smack...'
A crunch sounded.
Before he could turn around, Lan Li's voice appeared in his ears again.
"Inside, it's contained.... Centipede? ”
At the sound of the voice, he jerked his head back.
See.
It was a light that shone at the end of his life.....
With a yang finger, the strength penetrated the eyebrows of this Nanzhao wild man.
Lan Li stepped back, dodging the blood that burst out.
Afterwards.
After watching its body fall.
The big centipede, which had just emerged from the sack, crawled down the corpse into his mouth and nose......
"It's disgusting...... But what is the use of this method? ”
Lan Li's words have not yet fallen.
Distance.
In the grass, seven or eight colorful savages suddenly popped out.
The wildlings waved their messy cloth bags in their hands, and rushed at him with a whoa-wah-wah.
"Huh?"
Just as Lan Li's attention was on them, a wind blew through the jungle in the distance.
The next second.
Lan Li's body flashed with blue light.
Several hair-thick spikes fell to the ground.....
"Fishing in troubled waters?"
Being attacked by someone, Lan Li blinked.
His excellent eyesight led him to catch a glimpse of a figure in the grass in the distance.
How far away?
A hundred meters?
One finger was raised slightly, and then, the energy of a yang finger burst out.
'Whoosh.....'
Blessed by the fairly strong True Qi, this Yiyang Finger stepped past nearly half a meter and clicked on one of the figure's arms.
After a snap.
Lan Li's brow furrowed.
In his eyes, after the man was hit by a yang finger, he just rolled on the spot.
After that, they fled into the depths of the jungle.
'So.... I use a yang finger now, only 100 meters of killing? ’
'If you want to keep the head, this number will be reduced to 70 meters....'
This thought flashed through my mind.
Looking at the wild men who had already rushed to within ten meters, Lan Li waved his hand.
When he turned his head and heard the sound of the bowstring flicking, he stopped paying attention.
In a burst of screams, Lan Li returned to the carriage.
Dongfang Bai was leaning against the corner with his chest crossed.
Seeing that he was back, he just asked with a flat expression:
"Do you understand?"
Lan Li shook his head.
"Heh, it's your ability to be out of their hunting range.
Congenital, he is also a little master.
Of course.
If you continue to chase you, the traps they set up in the jungle will be enough to kill you. ”
"I don't care about that."
"Huh?"
"I just want to know, why are they living so miserably that they don't want to work hard?"
"Work?"
Dongfang Bai blinked, indicating that he didn't understand.
"Farming, logging, keeping livestock, mining, doing some small crafts to sell, or some snacks ....."
"yes, why?"
Hearing Lan Li say this, Dongfang Bai was also very cooperative, showing a look of curiosity.
Then, under Lan Li's gaze, he sneered and said:
"They are just a bunch of people who have no faith, they don't use the guidance of others, and there will be no one to guide them!"
"Huh?"
"Are you willing to abandon your life in Xiangyang and go to this desolate land to educate the people?"
“......。”
"You don't want to, why do you think anyone else is willing to risk their lives to come here and teach them?"
"Hiss ....."
Hearing this, Lan Li couldn't help but hold his forehead.
"So, what these wild people need is not work, they don't need food.
What they need..... Be..... Sage? ”
Lan Li had the heart to say that he was an educator, but after thinking about it, he finally spit out the word saint.
All right.
In these times, there is a great lack of education.
Except for the saints.
He really couldn't think of anyone else who could open their minds to the savages of these wild places!
"No!"
Lan Li thought very well.
But who would have thought, Dongfang Bai Que said another thing with an indifferent expression:
What they needed was not a saint who taught them morality, but a god who would force everything by force!
You saints among the Song people, I'm afraid you won't live for three days when you come here.
But God can!
Let them learn to fear with the shedding of blood.
They were forced to work by force.
Let them know the beauty of life through pain.
With death and reincarnation, they look forward to becoming human beings in the next life! ”
"If you want to be reborn as a superior person in the next life, you must listen to God's words."
"That's right!"
"You're talking about turning them into slaves....."
"You can think so."
The carriage was still moving forward, and the conversation between the two did not end.
How much Dongfang Bai, who came out of this mountain forest, loved the life of the Southern Song Dynasty, and how much Lan Li from the Southern Song Dynasty hated the barren 100,000 mountains of Nanzhao Kingdom!
It may be that the education they have received since childhood is different, resulting in a very different world view between the two.
It's like Lan Li wants to throw these people into factories, mines, and farmlands to work.
Dongfang Bai, on the other hand, hopes to arm these wild people to seize the ready-made land, city, and population.... and even the people.
There was a lot of conflict between the two.
But there is one thing that lacks a surprisingly similar look.
"So, we all feel that these people are hopeless......"
......
......
There is no large-scale universal education.
There is no need to press the pressure of their studies with a knife.
Even if there are books in front of them, they are not willing to study.
It was Nanzhao who invited a hundred masters from the Southern Song Dynasty to teach farming.
In a few years, it is estimated that there will be no more than 300 people willing to go.
This is still the result of the persecution of King Nanzhao by force.
And the grains and melons and fruits planted by these farmers.
I'm afraid that before it matures, it will already be cast out by other savages!
Nanzhao's road is easier to walk than Lan Li thought.
There are many woods here.
But the mountains are all small hills with low slopes.
The carriage can be easily climbed up.
In this way, it took three days for Lan Li and his party to come to Nanzhao City, the capital of Nanzhao Kingdom.
A small town.
In terms of the scale of architecture in the Southern Song Dynasty, this 'city', which was completely composed of mud and mountain rocks, was the size of Muhe City at the beginning.
The population does not exceed 10,000.
But it's okay.
At least the pedestrians in Nanzhao City are much more civilized than other savages.
The sour smell in the city is also more unpleasant.....
The wheels of the carriage were crushed on the gravel road paved with a layer of sand, which attracted many Nanzhao people on the street.
Curious.
Because they haven't seen a caravan come to Nanzhao for I don't know how many years.
Especially on the guards of the Lan family, the armor that shimmered faintly in the sunlight made the eyes of these Nanzhao people straight.
Some have already secretly pulled out daggers from behind.
What's more, they picked up the excrement-stained stones directly from the ground and walked away towards the convoy.
Before entering the city, Lan Li thought that there were any procedures required to enter and exit the Nanzhao Kingdom.
But after he saw those city defenders who were carrying a wooden robbery, they looked like the militia of the Southern Song Dynasty.
has completely dispelled all the illusions about Nanzhao in his mind.
"Just such a broken place, give the master five hundred armor, and the master can destroy the country!!"
A slap on the table.
Lan Li's face was full of anger!
Now he may have understood the feelings of Ban Chao with dozens of followers to destroy the 'Dozens of Countries in the Western Regions'.
Can this kind of place also be called a country?
Is it possible that there are one hundred and eighty people, dozens of knives, grabbing a hill and building a cottage, and then they can claim to be the king?
Zixuan lives in such a place?
How can it be?
How can it!
"Zuo Zhong! Regardless of anything else!
In the shortest possible time! The shortest distance!
I want to see the Temple of Our Lady appear in front of me!
Right now! Immediately! Right away!!! ”
Lan Li and Carriage Zhong let out an angry roar.
So that everyone who hears it can feel the anger in the heart of his son-in-law.
It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders.
This is especially true of the retainers of the ancients!
A sentence of humiliation and death of a king can sum up everything!
Not to mention, the head of the family is angry now, or because of the housemother.....
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
Ride the horse.
Zuo Zhong put down the long knife in his hand and rushed forward directly with his horse.
There is nothing in the way of the road.
Because of these Nanzhao people, they suddenly saw a 'huge' convoy entering the city, and they had already flashed to both sides of the road.
The convoy passed by, bringing up a large cloud of dust.
The pleasure of this galloping horse in the city made Zuo Zhong's eyes begin to redden!
"Get out of the way !!"
Bang.
The wild horses crashed into several shield-wielding Nanzhao soldiers.
I saw the strong Mongolian horse raising its hooves.
The next second.
Hit it down!
Rumble!!!
Open the way with cavalry.
As the arrow of the cavalry, Zuo Zhong didn't hear what those Nanzhao soldiers were shouting at all.
He only knew that the anger that his son-in-law had accumulated along the way needed an outlet to vent.
And for now.
The best way to vent is the city full of sin in front of you!
Of the sixty cavalrymen with arched horses, the weakest of them could go to serve as the commander of the Ten Commanders in the Bearer Army.
At this time, a group of cavalry, in Nanzhao City, can be said to be an invincible existence!
OK.
These cavalrymen still remembered in their minds that the purpose of coming to Nanzhao this time was to rob relatives rather than slaughter the city.
If not.
Maybe the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty will have an extra 'enclave'!
There were cavalry to open the way, and more than a dozen carriages moved quickly.
Like a wild bull, it drove as fast as possible to the center of the city, in front of a building that seemed to be quite 'solemn'.
"Boom, boom."
A thunderous sound rang out over the building.
Zuo Zhong looked up, and a trace of jealousy flashed in his eyes.
"Damn, you can lead thunder?"
"Vala is arrogant?"
Above the oval building.
A middle-aged man dressed in silk and wearing a crown on his head, guarded by more than a dozen guards, shouted angrily at Zuo Zhong.
"Ha fuck your fart! Tell me where the temple of Our Lady is! ”
As he spoke, Zuo Zhong had already raised his left hand.
on it.
The iron-armed crossbow filled with six bolts emitted a faint cold light.
Pointed at by dozens of iron-armed crossbows, the face of the middle-aged man wearing a crown above the building froze with an angry expression.
Then, tentatively, he asked:
"Cold... Cold? ”
"Nonsense!"
The bowstring was tight, and Zuo Zhong roared with a cruel smile:
"Give you another chance to say a word, either answer me or die!!"
......
......
Zuo Zhong made a lot of movement.
It is impossible for Lan Li, who stayed in the carriage, not to know.
But at this time.
Under Dongfang Bai's gaze, Lan Li was facing a mirror, arranging his hair.....
"Don't you care?"
"What's the matter? Let him go! ”
"You're not afraid of that saint of the last generation?"
"Afraid! I'm scared to death! ”
"Then you still ......"
As he spoke, Dongfang Bai pointed out the window, with a constipated expression on his face.
"Or else?"
Putting down the mirror in her hand, Lan Li turned her head to look at her:
"I'm afraid that she will die of fear, and I am afraid that she will stop me and Zixuan."
"If you do this, she won't stop it?"
Dongfang Bai was stunned, feeling that he couldn't understand Lan Li's brain circuit.
"I'm going to make a gesture,"
"What gesture?"
"Vicious gesture!"
“?”
"I want her to know that if she doesn't return Zixuan to me, then there will be no need for this Nanzhao City, including the entire Nanzhao Kingdom, to exist anymore."
said the above words in a flat tone, but Lan Li's heart kept beating drums.
He knew he was doing something wrong.
But it can't be helped.
He wasn't going to change anything!
After seeing what 'Nanzhao Kingdom' is, Lan Li no longer plans to let Zixuan come back to 'save relatives' in this life!
Zixuan is the holy daughter of Nanzhao.
How should Lan Li abandon Nanzhao?
Or, in the days to come, every once in a while, they will be disturbed by the people of Nanzhao who are 'begging for money', 'asking for food' and 'asking for weapons'.
agreed, Lan Li was aggrieved.
If she doesn't agree, Zixuan is estimated to wash her face with tears.
That being the case.
and quarreled with Zixuan in the future.
It's better to gag her mouth with the toughest gesture at the beginning!
looked through the window and looked at King Nanzhao who was still arguing with Zuo Zhong outside.
Lan Li's eyes dimmed for a moment, then brightened again.
"So this time, I'm rushing to grab my relatives......"