Wei Chao arched his hand again, "Generals, what he said is true, I happened to see it on the side."

All the officers, look at me, I look at you, suddenly laughed together, and Zhang Tong shouted, "Okay! Ma Xiao was overwhelmed by their laughter, and looked up at Wei Chao beside him, but Wei Chao didn't look at him.

"Little doll, what's your name?" The squinting Han general, who came to the rescue from Suizhou City, asked.

"My name is Ma Xiao," Ma Xiao replied cautiously.

"Well, haha, Ma Xiao, do you know who this young man you killed today is. The squinting man asked again.

"No...... I don't know," Ma Xiao replied quieter.

"Hmph!" The squinting man snorted coldly, grabbed the belt, tore off a bronze medal on it, held it in his hand and showed it to the people around him, and suddenly said in a tone: "It's the descendant of Zheng Zhijie's family of Uncle Chu Guoguo!" He knew the words, but he hadn't heard of the Zheng family of Chuguo, and he didn't notice this bronze medal in the afternoon, but the weapons and armor used by the black-armored young man were obviously not used by ordinary soldiers, and it seemed that he was indeed a child of a family.

"The descendants of the Zheng family are so vulnerable, it seems that their Zheng family is not as good as the generation, hahahaha!" The squinting man put away the bronze medal and laughed, and the surrounding officers also laughed.

Zhang Tong stood up suddenly, "I didn't expect that my Shicheng party got two treasures, a woman helped me kill the thief Liu Weizhou, and a doll slaughtered Zheng Zhijie's descendants for me, hahahaha, hurry!

The generals hurriedly clapped their asses and shouted in unison, "Congratulations to General Zhang!"

"Record here!" Zhang Tong waved his hand, and a middle-aged reporter hurriedly stepped forward, "Record, reward each of these two people with ten taels of silver, a pot of wine and a pound of venison!" The middle-aged reporter hurriedly wrote it down, and retreated as soon as he gave it up.

"Okay, you guys go down, I want to talk to General Tong alone" Zhang Tong snapped twice, everyone retreated, and Ma Xiao also walked out under the leadership of Wei Chao.

"You go back to work, someone will give you a reward in a while," Wei Chao finished speaking, picked up the spear and left.

"Brother Wei, thank you for saving your life today" Ma Xiao reacted at this time, and people killed him today. Wei Chao didn't reply, and left without looking back.

Ma Xiao quickly returned to the place where he cleaned the battlefield, at this time it was almost the end, the corpses piled together were burning at the moment, a scorching smell spread, several Taoist people were chanting words in their mouths, opening the altar next to the cremated corpses, and finally everyone buried the cremated bodies together, and when everything was right, the sun had set, and the team continued to march towards Suizhou Chengguan, only half of the strong men captured on the way were left, Ma Xiao took a special look, and there were only a few people of his age left, and he couldn't help but sigh。

Shortly after departure, a captain came to the strong man's team. After a few glances in the team, he found Ma Xiao and beckoned to him, Ma Xiao knew that it was a reward, so he hurriedly ran over, and Wu Chang handed a jar in his hand to Ma Xiao and said ill-intentionedly, "Boy, General Zhang looks up to you, this is a reward for you, hurry up and eat."

Ma Xiao hurriedly took the jar and opened it, a smell of meat wafted out, so smoked that his saliva flowed out, and quickly reached out to grab it and eat it, and after a while, he ate all the meat in the jar, but he wondered in his heart, didn't he give two catties of meat, how did he feel that he didn't have half a catty, and after eating, he hugged the jar, stared at his eyes and asked, "Big brother, that's it, and what about silver and wine?"

As soon as the Wu Chang heard this, a slap was slapped, Ma Xiao quickly dodged it, and Wu Chang did not chase after him, "Grandma's, what do you want silver and wine for a doll with no hair" After speaking, he grabbed the jar and left, Ma Xiao understood, thinking that the silver and wine, as well as the more than a pound of meat, were left by the Wu Chang, but he didn't care, he was already satisfied with eating stew, and ran back to the team of Zhuang Ding to continue to follow.

After walking for a few hours, a group of people finally entered Suizhou City, that night, the new Zhuang Ding ate a full meal and was temporarily placed in several courtyards in the city, the ground in the courtyard was full of straw, these strong men were crawled out of the pile of dead people, even if there was no tile to cover the roof, they didn't care, even if they experienced a life and death today, they didn't care, they fell asleep after eating, and they snored after a while.

But Ma Xiao couldn't sleep, he was draped in a sack piece that he picked up from nowhere, leaning on the corner of the wall and looking at the blinking stars in the sky and the clouds that covered the moon like gauze, recalling today's scenes of escaping from death, and thinking of the later disposal of corpses and wounded soldiers, he had a lot of thoughts, and suddenly asked himself a question that his once small head had never thought about - what is a person, why is he born, and why is he dead?

He himself originally had a very good home, his father was kind and filial piety, the family was in harmony, the day before the village was destroyed, his parents were still discussing the matter of marrying the eldest brother and what to plant in the next season, but the village was destroyed, all the life of the whole family, all the plans for life became meaningless, and in the next days of escape, being able to eat a bite of food, not getting sick, and being able to persevere is the whole goal of life. After eating the forage that livestock eats, just to survive, but today half of the people died in an encounter, so what is the point of these people's persistence, those people eat what only animals eat and finally die, and there is a lot of difference from those cows, horses, and pigs.

Thinking about it, Ma Xiao suddenly sighed, the young age did not know where to go, just when he looked at the sky in a daze, a few older strong men suddenly got up, several people got together, sat around a porcelain statue of Jiutian Niangniang, took out the shriveled steamed bun and dried sweet potato from his arms and put it up, this porcelain statue is only the size of an adult's palm, there have been a few places to touch off the porcelain, but a few people are still very devout to worship, there are words in the mouth, some people around were woken up, not angry, some also joined the worship team, it seems that this porcelain statue is their important spiritual sustenance。

Ma Xiao is not surprised, this Nine Heavens Niangniang is the saint they have worshiped since childhood, there are Nine Heavens Niangniang Temple and the Four Great Boy Temples everywhere, Ma Xiao also grew up listening to the legend of the Nine Heavens Niangniang and the four big boys who sat down.

Legend has it that hundreds of millions of years ago, the world was born, this world was a barren land, Jiutian Niangniang created people at that time, but this world is not suitable for human survival, everywhere is poisonous miasma, burning endless fire, raging floods, and countless birds of prey and beasts, people are too small, it is difficult to survive in the world, the compassionate Nine Heavens Niangniang sent her to sit down the four boys to help mankind.

The Rahu boy transformed the heavens and the earth, turning the miasma into mist, sealing the fire with rocks, and turning the flood into a river; the Jidu boy swept away the fierce beasts and birds of prey in the world, so that people had a place to live; the Ziqi boy controlled the sun, moon and stars, gave birth to day and night and the four seasons, and taught people to plant spring and harvest in autumn, and rest day and night; and the moon boy served the son of the child, helping people to multiply, and continued from generation to generation.

Before the world chaos, everyone will go to worship the nine days of Niangniang and the four boys during the New Year's Festival, Ma Xiao also often follows his father and mother to the temple on the mountain, it was so lively at that time, there are men and women everywhere who come to ask for wishes, some people ask for peace, some people ask for wealth, some people ask for fame, some people ask for heirs, and there are temple fairs on the mountainside.

Since the beginning of the war, the people who worship the Nine Heavens Niangniang are more pious, every meridian, there are always people who grope out porcelain statues or wooden statues to pray, but Ma Xiao is no longer as convinced as before, if the Nine Heavens Niangniang is really compassionate, the four boys are really boundless, how can she let her people suffer so much, how can this world become purgatory, if people are born meaningless like those cows, horses and pigs, what was the Nine Heavens Niangniang created people for.

Ma Xiao continued to look at the sky, at this time, the black gauze-like clouds receded, revealing the moon that was not round enough, and the night suddenly became bright, at this moment, a streamer quickly crossed the sky, and obviously turned a corner in the air, Ma Xiao thought he was wrong, and quickly rubbed his eyes, and soon, another bright streamer swept by, chasing straight towards the streamer just now, and disappeared at the end of the night sky.

Ma Xiao was speechless in surprise, he lowered his head excitedly to find the answer from the eyes of the surrounding strong men, but the people in the courtyard were either sleeping or praying silently with their eyes closed, even if there were a few awake people, their eyes were dazed and empty, and no one noticed the streamer in the sky, Ma Xiaogang wanted to say it to remind everyone, but suddenly thought of something and didn't speak, just smiled and continued to stare at the night sky.

At this moment, the young man's heart seemed to have planted a seed - maybe the "people" were not all the "ants and pigs" he saw, maybe there were really legendary immortals who were immortal, they soared through the clouds and fog, traveled the sky, they got rid of reincarnation, no longer suffered from this human world, they could move mountains and reclaim the sea, they could call for wind and rain, they could understand the secrets of all things in this world, they might know why life came and why death went.

Imagining himself wearing a Taoist robe with a breeze on his sleeves, swimming between the mountains and the sea, Ma Xiao quickly fell asleep.

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"Oh oh ......" a few rooster crows sounded, the sky was just bright, the strong men in the yard were still sleeping on their backs, not long after, the courtyard gate opened, came in a team of relatively neatly dressed soldiers, one of the soldiers picked up the gong in his hand and knocked it up, the leader of the soldiers was a captain, and directly scolded "a group of lazy beasts who owe whips, all for Lao Tzu!"

The strong man here has given up the habit of getting up early since he fled, and has developed the problem of not waking up without his stomach screaming, and was woken up by the sound of the broken gong and the sound of the broken gong, and stood up reluctantly one by one, Ma Xiao also rubbed his eyes and stood up, his body was sore to death, it seems that the encounter yesterday afternoon completely made him physically active.