The mighty army of 1,000 people walked on the way to Kaga Province, Xiao Zhi rode in the center of the procession, and Egawa Hezi rode another slightly smaller horse to follow......

There are many mountains in the island country, and you can see them everywhere, but horses are very scarce and very simple, few people can eat enough, and who can manage the animals every day.

In order to fight the famine that could come at any time, a terrible tradition has developed in a remote mountain village that if an old man has not died at the age of 60, his son must carry him to the highest nearby mountain and fend for himself......

For the elderly, this practice is no different from sending them to death, because there are many poisonous insects and beasts on the mountain, and they can kill them if they come casually, and the same is true for wind, rain, ice and snow.

If the old man lives to be 60 years old and does not die, he will become a disgrace to the village, to be spurned, insulted, and called a rice worm that wastes food. When he was old enough to climb the mountain, the prestige of the village would force his son to tie the old man on his back and throw him down a steep cliff to his death.

In order to save food, the existence of such villages is not uncommon, and there are even other villages that are even more cruel, and if you continue to talk about it, you will have to 404 in the real world.

Egawa Zyko is a person born in such a sad era, she has lived a long time, she has seen a lot, she has more say than Cai Meow than everyone here, animals have always been animals, but people will not always be people......

In the process of the army's advance, in order to relieve Xiao Zhi's boredom, Jiang Chuan Zygote specially talked about what he saw and heard in this era, and Xiao Zhi's scalp was numb when he listened. Probably felt that Xiao Zhi didn't like this kind of information a little, and Egawa Zygoko consciously didn't continue......

Xiao Zhi grabbed the rope, his eyes fell on Egawa Zyko's face, it was no accident that this girl could live until now.

He suddenly felt a little dazed......

Egawa Hezi looked very serious on horseback, and she looked straight into the distance.

The wind blew the long hair fluttering in the air, and there was always a shallow smile on his face, but the light in the depths of those eyes made the people who saw it sigh lightly in their hearts, it couldn't be said that it was sadness or anything else, maybe it was just simple sympathy......

She turned her head as if she felt something, reached out and stroked her hair, and arranged it behind her ear: "What are you looking at?" Since Xiao Zhi forbade her and Cai Meow to call herself "Xiao Zhijun", she no longer has such a sense of distance when she speaks.

Xiao Zhi scratched his cheek and said, "It's nothing, I just feel that today's wind is unexpectedly very gentle......"

Egawa Zyko was stunned, Steel Xiaozhi would actually say such a thing, she tried to feel the "gentleness" in the wind, but she only smelled the grass, trees and soil...... And the smell of bones on the side of the road. At this time, Egawa Anseimaru, who was in swaddling clothes behind him, suddenly struggled, and the loud crying sound resounded through the wilderness, and it was endless.

She hurriedly took out the thin paste in the gourd and fed the child, because it was too small to eat many things, and even the rice cereal should not be too thick so as not to choke on the throat. Holding the child with a hint of warmth, she felt as if she had really become a mother, Xiao Zhi was a father and was taking care of her child......

In the ranks of the army, there were a few small soldiers chirping and whispering.

They knew that Xiao Zhi and the others were still with a child, but at first they were instinctively afraid of their superiors and didn't dare to talk nonsense, but after leaving the city for a few days, they slowly felt that Xiao Zhi was really a good leader. He spoke to everyone kindly, smiled, and not only that, but was also punctual, giving each soldier two copper coins every day as a reward for going on the expedition......

It's just very confusing, an army of thousands of people, two copper coins per person, then it adds up to two thousand copper coins, and this thing is piled up and put in a package to die, not a small amount.

But Xiao Zhi would always take out handfuls of copper coins from the cloth bag on his body every day and distribute them to everyone, as if they were inexhaustible......

Slowly, someone wanted to hit the idea of the package.

After all, if they had this endless amount of money, they would be able to live a life like a daimyo in no time, and they would eat today, and maybe die tomorrow, and whoever likes to go will go.

Now the loud crying of Egawa Anseimaru has given those light-footed soldiers with ghosts in their hearts the courage to take women and children to the battlefield, which person with brains would do this, it is estimated that this Egawa Xiaozhi is just a straw bag with good luck, and he wants to spend some money to live a general's addiction......

Cai Meow leaned on Xiao Zhi's shoulder and whispered: "Those bastards are spreading rumors again, do you think you should bury them, the wilderness here is very suitable for burial, a few fewer people are nothing, and there is less time to find food." ”

When the soldiers who got the money passed by the village or other territories, they could choose to buy dry food to eat, or they could go hunting to find other grass roots and bark to eat. But every time you stop to collect food, it takes at least two days, which does slow down the trip.

Xiao Zhi also wanted to shorten it, but he couldn't conjure up food, although those lords would sell grain, it was not unlimited, otherwise there was only money and no food in the warehouse, and it would be a dead end......

He patted Cai Meow's head gently: "It's okay, it's normal to be greedy, I need to use people now, they can get a chance to redeem if they can get lost a second before they start." "When it comes to redemption, he's done two-thirds of the way through this mission.

Because he accidentally saved the daimyo in the castle, it can be regarded as the redemption of a human who was sacrificed to youkai.

Xiao Zhi understands it literally, being sacrificed, these three words are more serious, the daimyo should not be counted in the "sacrificed", but the sound effect reminds him that he has completed an amount, which is really a bit puzzling. Maybe it's because of the fact that the identity of the daimyo is more important, otherwise he also rescued a few villagers who were chased by monsters along the way, and the task should have been completed a long time ago.

The team was huge, and the ordinary people and robbers passing by were like the plague gods, and such a large-scale army was estimated to be destroying which country it was going to destroy, and they didn't want to become ghosts on the way of the army.

It's morning time.

The sun was even more fierce near noon, and Xiao Zhi felt that Ansheng Pill might get sick and suffer from heat stroke under the scorching sun, so he specially ordered the army to find a shady place to rest, planning to wait for the afternoon when the sun was a little weaker before continuing to advance. He tied his horse to a big tree, took the map and compared it with the nearby mountains, and nodded, it was very close, and it should be the border of Kaga Province by now......

Cai Meow suddenly stood up and looked into the distance: "There is the breath of a monster, and it is approaching at a very fast speed!" ”

The wilderness is overgrown with grass and trees, and the weeds are even as high as people's waists, Xiao Zhi did not see the monster, but saw a long trace in the distance that was pushed away by something, and something walked through it......