Chapter 6 The Eight Lambs of the King with a Thousand Cuts
In the north of Peiguo, there is a small city called Stone City, said to be a city, in fact, it is just a larger village, located in the mountains, there is only one mountain road in and out, rugged and difficult to walk, because there are countless pebbles near this city, so it is called Stone City, listen to the teacher who teaches, this pebble is a river with torrents and the seaside, there are pebbles in the depths of this mountain to prove that once this was the sea, but after countless years, the sea has changed the mulberry field, the villagers and hunters who have lived here for generations are stunned after listening, they all say that the teacher has read too much, I am afraid that he is not losing his mind, saying such nonsense, if this is really the sea before, how the old man in the village has never mentioned it, it's just nonsense.
This stone city used to have only a few families of woodcutters and hunters to live, and then there was a person who knew jade traveled here, found gems in these countless pebbles, as soon as the news spread, a group of outsiders began to gather here, even the generations of people living here did not have the heart to chop wood and hunt, all learn from those outsiders, every day with the lens from outside to look at the stone in the sun, it seems that these small pebbles hide treasures in general, Huang Tian pays off, there are really people who have made a fortune here one after another, and then this has become the main place to produce gems in the north of Peiguo, and slowly the small city has a scale, restaurantIn order to prevent the bandits from coming to visit, they also built a city wall that is not high or low, set up a city guard, and set up a group exercise to protect the township, everything was originally in order, and the sound was impressive.
However, fifteen years ago, the world began to be in turmoil, the world only recognized gold and silver as hard currency, jade gradually no longer cared about, the town has since broken its foundation, the gem trade began to plummet, the business people left the town, the population followed the decline year after year, and it looked like it was about to become a ghost town.
But feng shui takes turns, and this war is getting worse and worse year by year, and there are wars and famines everywhere. Plague, this small town in the mountains that no one cares about has become a good place to flee, at the beginning it was only the people from the north of Peiguo fled here, and then the people from the south also came, not long after, the surrounding Dai Guo and Chen Guo also fled here, for a time the small town became lively, the population was more than before the war, the problem of more people came, the food in the small town was not enough to eat, the streets were full of dead people crawling out of the hungry ghosts, every day there were people to grab a bite to eat, there were several large-scale fights, many people died。
On this day, it was the dog days of summer, there was a rancid smell floating in the whole town, and there were groups of homeless people lying sideways on the side of the street, all of them were ragged and dish-faced, and there were some people with slightly better faces walking on the street, but they all covered their mouths and noses, and they were in a hurry, for fear of intersecting with these homeless people. The dark-skinned woman, covered in fat, contrasted sharply with the skinny hungry people on the street, was sweating profusely and rolling out her dough in front of the shop, while a young man next to her shouted "Cake ...... Cake ...... Freshly out of the pot alkaline wheat cake, three dollars a ......"
There was a group of people around the side, all looking at the big cake in the bamboo basket and swallowing saliva, but no one came forward to buy it, because this boss is a famous woman, known as the Black Yaksha, it is rumored that a cow was hammered to death with one hand, and there were a few bold homeless people who did not know Mount Tai who wanted to rob the dough cake, and were beaten by a rolling pin in the dark night fork all over the street begging for mercy, shouting the screams of the father and mother, and finally either crippled or seriously injured, and died in a few days, these hungry people who had no money were afraid of the boss's "cruelty" so they could only drool around the cake shop.
"What are you looking at here" Dark Yaksha was tired of the stench on these people, raised his rolling pin and roared at the homeless people, "If you want to buy it, buy it, if you don't buy it, get out, don't delay the old lady to do business here", she was so frightened that everyone hurriedly retreated, for fear that they would break their legs if they retreated slowly.
At this moment, a dirty little hand stretched out from the crowd, grabbed two large cakes and was about to recycle, the young man who was shouting was also quick-eyed, grabbed the two cakes and dragged them back, who knew that the dirty little hand was loosened, the young man sat on the ground, and a thin monkey-like teenager poked his head out of the crowd, holding the bamboo basket containing the cake with both hands and shouting to the young man on the ground, "Tell you to grab it from me!"
As soon as the dark yaksha saw someone grabbing the cake, he picked up the rolling pin and threw it out, but the "thin monkey" was very flexible, he didn't even look at it, and he dodged it with a cat's waist, and with a "bang", a hungry man who didn't have time to dodge was knocked to the ground, holding his arm and shouting, this pin hit too suddenly, and the people around him didn't react.
Seeing that a blow missed, Yaksha suddenly became angry, grabbed the bench next to him and chased after him, don't look at her full of fat, running is extremely fast, "Skinny Monkey" didn't run two steps to feel a dark behind him, as if there is a mountain blocking the hot sun, looking back, it is a "meat mountain" is fiercely rolling towards himself, frightened to speed up his pace, but before the mountain arrived, a bench flew over, the "thin monkey" body crooked, the bench wiped his ears and flew out, "Oops! Mom!" There were two screams, and two more hungry people were killed in front of them.
Seeing that he couldn't run, the "thin monkey" rolled his eyes, grabbed two cakes and stuffed them into his arms, and then threw the bamboo basket into the sky, and the bamboo basket spread out in the sky with dozens of cakes.
The surprise is short-lived, these are ghosts who don't know how long they have been hungry, and they reacted quickly and immediately picked up the people around them to grab the cake, and in an instant the originally lifeless street staged a cake grabbing battle, and a large group of people rushed in, quite a life-and-death momentum, "skinny monkey" Taking this opportunity to drill out from under the crowd, the yaksha yelled and beat the surrounding homeless, one arm can knock down three or five people, but unfortunately more and more people rushed over, just grabbed the cake was torn off most of the half, some people simply went directly to the mouth to bite, some people even picked other people's mouths to pull out the cake, for a while everyone became a mad dog.
When the "Black Yaksha" trapped in the crowd came back to his senses, the "thin monkey" had already drilled out of the crowd, and the "Black Yaksha" punched down several more, ready to chase, but suddenly his arm was bitten, but the original "mad dog" on the ground grabbed the cake and grabbed the red eye, and wanted to eat human flesh raw, and grabbed the person's hair in a fit of rage, and lifted it with a kick, the man vomited blood on the spot and died, and then saw that the "thin monkey" had slipped to the mouth of the alley, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"The king and the eight lambs who have suffered a thousand cuts, if you let the old lady catch you, you have to be chopped alive!" A lioness-like roar resounded throughout the town, echoing for a long time.
The riot soon spread, and the countless displaced people on the periphery did not know what was going on, and thought that they were fighting again, and the timid ones quickly dodged, and the bold ones took advantage of the chaos to rob the shops on the street, and even directly smashed open the gate and rushed into the homes of the residents of the small city to burn and kill and rob, and for a time the small city was on fire everywhere, shouting and shouting everywhere, and even some homeless people began to rape the women of good families, chasing and slaughtering the livestock, and the whole small city became a pot of porridge.
Besides, the boy who stole the cake slipped into the alley, turned left and right, ran desperately, I was afraid that he would be caught by the dark yaksha, and finally ran to a place where there was no one, hiding behind a low wall and secretly looking back, after a long time no one chased him, he took a long breath, thinking that he had finally escaped, who knew that when he turned around, there were seven or eight teenagers who surrounded him, these people were much older than him, and the leader was a young man with a leper on his head, about fifteen or sixteen years old, the thin monkey boy knew this Reilly head, this person was also a homeless person, and he specialized in smashing and robbing in the small town with a ruthless force, and after a long time, there were a few more thugs under his hands, and his arrogance was even more arrogant, and he had robbed him several times。
"Take out the bread," said Reilly, pointing to the skinny monkey boy, "do you want to be beaten or do you want your cake!"
As soon as he said this, several thugs on the side leaned over, one of the tall thugs went directly to grab the cake, the thin monkey boy dodged with a flash, the tall thug pounced and almost fell, this time it angered him, and he hit the thin monkey with a punch, and the thin monkey boy dodged the punch in a flash, and rolled out directly from under the crotch of the high thug.