Chapter 41: The Life of a Ruiying Mortal (Part II) The fox did not die in Shouqiu
I heard that the army had signed a treaty in Rick City, and the country was going to change its name, but what did that matter to me? It was all a noble business, and what did it have to do with me.
After returning to Ruiying, I first went back to my former house, but unfortunately, my house has been occupied by another group of poor people, and this group of poor people are all strong and are at the peak of their lives, I am not sure if I can take them, you know, my cultivation has begun to decline in the past few years, after some thought, I did not do anything with them, and left here.
Anyway, after the chaos now, there will be more or less vacant land in the slums, and now I have enough to feed and the whole family is not hungry, plus I have looted materials, and it is still possible to maintain the gangsters for a while.
After a week of searching the streets, I finally got a job as one of the bodyguards of a caravan, and although I am now 53 years old, I have a lot of combat experience, and I am still an emerald class, so the caravan hired me.
For the next 2 years, I followed the caravan out of Ruiying - there was no one I knew about Ruiying anyway, and then I escorted the caravan as a guard to do trade in the Plains of Divine Grace.
In the past few years, the chaos has been decided, and the materials hoarded by this group of merchants can be sold in a big way, and I have made a small fortune.
Of course, on the way to the escort, sometimes I will have a vote with my previous counterparts, but they are not good at this group of people, all kinds of organizational skills, not to mention the thief leader who was killed by the Judgment Hall that I used to follow, even I can't compare, so it was easily solved.
And because of my rich experience in dealing with thieves, my reputation soon spread to the ears of the merchants, and I was promoted to teach them some experience in dealing with thieves.
In the past two years, I have also mixed up a nickname, the old man Zilde, the thief slayer Zilde, not enough, as for my original surname, Chengbei, no one calls me that.
In fact, I feel that even my employer has forgotten my surname and calls me a thief slayer every day.
These two years were the happiest two years since I was captured and sent to serve as a soldier, at least during these two years, the money I got was clean, and I no longer had to dirty my hands for looting.
But, as with most of my life, the ratio of good times is always negligible, and in the year 395 of the Great Calendar, the God of Light has returned.
Then, the Temple of Judgment will fight again, claiming to be under the leadership of the God of Light, to regain the territory.
And with the news of the war, the experience of the past ten years has already told all the Swiss people that every time there is a war, it will lead to large-scale thieves.
However, when they encounter thieves, they can still pray for help from above, and the most terrifying thing is the army.
Now there is a folk song in the lower echelons of Ruiying, "The bandits are coming, let us run, because they have plundered our wealth like combing our hair, and when the army comes, let us cry, because they are like grates, and they will plunder us cleanly."
I have done both professions, and I am also deeply touched by this.
When I became a thief group, I also knew that I had to leave a little ration for the villagers, so that the next time I came to rob, the villagers would not all starve to death and no one could rob them, but when I was a soldier, especially when I existed as a rout, it was really a complete robbery.
For example, three years ago in the Laishui Basin, the robbery of the surrounding countryside before the decisive battle can be said to be a devastating blow.
The Plains of Divine Grace is a well-known fertile land for our Ruiying people, but the Lai River valley is still barren when I pass through those places as a caravan escort.
According to my employer, it was mainly caused by the group of "god-killing soldiers" three years ago, and now there are no residents in that area, so when he passes by that area for business, he can't see a group of living people for more than ten miles.
"What the hell is the world!" said this, my employer felt the same way, and would agree with my words.
He told me that one of his sons, two older brothers, an uncle and his father were all killed by various robberies while they were on the road in the past few years.
Originally, the competition for his own business group by his family was an open and secret battle, which was quite tragic, but after the war started, let alone fighting, the rest of his family was so frightened that they withdrew their shares and left his business group with their own money.
Speaking of this, my employer pointed at himself with a wry smile, saying that he was his father's most hated son, because his mother had cheated on someone else, and his father had always suspected that he was not his species, and he originally thought that it was impossible for him to inherit the merchant group, but who knows, now no one is willing to accept the merchant group at all.
Even he can't maintain the merchant group, the reason why it has been booming in recent years is because his merchant group has been swallowed up by the bishop nobles, and he is now only working for higher employers.
"This world!" I chanted with him as he said this.
However, we still couldn't dodge, and we encountered a detachment of the Hall of Judgment halfway through, and the group took a fancy to the goods of my merchant group, and said that they had requisitioned it in the name of the Hall of Judgment.
My employer originally wanted to pull out his backstage to deter this army, but as I was familiar with the army, I knew that this army could not be dissuaded.
Sure enough, after learning that they had robbed the goods of the big man, this army simply did not stop and wanted to kill all the merchants.
As a result, only I had expected it early, coupled with the strength of the jade level, I barely escaped with my life in the end.
After escaping, my first thought was to go back to my old business, but after thinking about it, the God of Light has appeared, and if I do this knife floating business now, I will die, and I am 55 years old, so I really don't have that much energy.
It just so happened that because those bishops and nobles wanted to take refuge in the Hall of Judgment anyway, they expanded their army and prepared to go on an expedition with the Hall of Judgment.
Originally, the people who recruited the army didn't want me as an old man, but I started from the enemy pass, and little by little I exemplified my military career.
Now the man knew that I was a veteran with a lot of experience, and since I was only 55, this military operation would not last long, and finally I succeeded in joining the temporary expansion of the army of a bishop noble.
Following the huge army, I once again passed through my hometown, Ruiying City, and then crossed Ruiying City, to the destination of this battle, Qiu City.
I heard people in the army say that before this, the two biggest battles of this war, one was the Battle of Yuenemy Pass and the other was the Battle of Laishui River Crossing, and I was fortunate to participate in this battle and survived.
And the current Battle of Qiu Cheng will undoubtedly become the third large-scale battle in the past ten years, haha, I actually participated in all of them.
But in the previous two battles, I was avoiding the battle, just hoping that I could survive, because I still had concerns in my heart. And this time the battle is different, I am ready to do my best, it is better to let me die in this battle, and end my sad life here.
However, I didn't expect that my prayer would become an extravagant hope.
I fought to the death on the battlefield and finally fell to the ground from serious injuries. Originally, I was supposed to die from excessive blood loss and no one paid attention, but my superiors, seeing my bravery, actually arranged for someone to carry me down.
After the treatment, although I woke up, my cultivation was damaged because of this, and it seems that I will not be able to use too much spiritual power in the future.
To my surprise, I was promoted by the army as an advanced model who accepted the inspiration of the God of Light and fought bravely on the battlefield, and several nobles even came to comfort me and gave me some condolences.
Anyway, if you can live, it's still good, right?
Later, the god of light appeared, the goddess of wisdom appeared, and then an even more powerful being, called the ancestral god, appeared, although I don't know what they were talking about, but in short, the war was over, in the name of the gods.
Although the gods still say that the war can start again in 10 years, what do I care about so many things in 10 years? I guess by then, I will be dead.
After the war, I followed my team and was brought back to Rai by my superior, who, knowing that I could not fight, did not drive me away, but placed me in Rai's guard to guard the city gate, the north gate.
After forty years, I went back to my father's profession, haha...
In the following years, perhaps because of the injuries I suffered in the Battle of Qiu, or because of the sadness in my heart, my body deteriorated rapidly, and in just 3 years, I could no longer walk alone without the help of crutches.
In the 400th year of the Great Calendar, as the New Year's bell rang, there was a rule from above, saying that Ruiying was no longer the capital of Ruiying, and the capital was going to be relocated to Lai, and then it was said that in order to rectify Lai's style, people should be sent to review and see if there were any old, weak, sick and disabled in Lai's team.
So, having been forgotten, I was thrown out of the ranks, and I once went to the bishop nobleman who had arranged for me, but unfortunately I was driven away without even entering the door of his house.
Then, in the winter of the same year, it snowed heavily, and I had been evicted from my slum house and living in a haystack a month earlier because I had lost all my savings.
But a few days ago, the haystack I had worked so hard to build had been driven away by another gang of young and strong hooligans, and now I was lying on the cold ground with a high fever.
The bird flies against the hometown, and the fox will die.
After reading these words, the Chengbei Zilde, the old man Zilde, and the thief slayer Zilde, who had a tragic life, passed away like this, becoming one of the 11 corpses that fell to the ground and died on this snowy day.
After watching the cold game of his miserable life, he gently grabbed the soul of this old man and put his soul in the container of his own creation.
Ma Dan, just want to find a person who was born in 340 of the Great Calendar, died in 400 of the Great Calendar, and participated in the three major battles of the War of the Temple of Light at the same time, watch his life and relax, who knows that it has turned into a fright.
In short, after reading Zilde's life, Leng Yi's whole person was not good, and his heart was a little blocked, and after a long time, he sighed a sentence that he had seen but had no feelings, "One will be a success!"
But don't be too sad about this Zilde, I can tell you where your lost brother and grandson have gone.
Let's start with the bad news, your youngest son who was captured became the garrison of Ula, and died in that battle when the Temple of Light attacked Ula - after all, your son doesn't have the aura of the protagonist.
Also, after your mother went out, she lived with her in-laws, and later remarried, but she was not happy and died of depression early.
Your second brother started a family in the suburbs of Ruiying, but after the defeat in the Battle of Yuenemy Pass, his whole family was killed by your peers and routs.
Your little daughter, well, did something you know after being plundered by the rout, and then she killed herself.
Then I will say some bad news, your sister, who is living ordinary, fortunately did not suffer any hardships, and is still alive.
Your eldest daughter had to remarry because she lost her husband, and although she didn't live well, she made do with the past and is still alive.
Finally, I have good news, your third brother, Luo, after the death of your mother, became an adventure group, went everywhere to beg for a living, and finally met two people who said that they wanted to collect the seven things of the saints, so they followed them together.
That's right, your third brother met Athena and Hades, joined their team, and survived the rescue of Ruiying, the enemy pass, and the bloody battle of Qiu City, becoming the only character who has followed Athena until now.
Now your third brother takes your father's name, Gilph as his surname, and has become the top nobleman of Ruiying Maiqiu, and is rich and noble.
After your grandson left Ruiying, he has been begging for a living in the slums, and finally met Luo in the year 393 of the Great Calendar, and now under Luo's training, he must have a bright future, as your only surviving bloodline.
It's a pity, Zilde, if you hadn't hastily joined the caravan and left Ruiying out of frustration after Ruiying's recovery, maybe you would have stayed a little longer, and you could have met Luo too, so that you wouldn't have such a tragic ending.
But who can really say for sure what will happen in the future? After all, "this world!"