Chapter 13 - The Taoyuan Family (I)
The sunset sprinkled a little starlight afterglow, imprinted against the slowly rising moonlight, and the vitality sown everywhere in spring was also planted in the night on the Demon Spirit Continent, planting the splendor of starlight.
The faint moonlight envelops a looming city. The city is a vast city, surrounded on three sides by endless plains and backed by green hills on one side. This city is Zhongcheng, the capital city of the feudal kingdom on the Demon Spirit Continent. And beyond this loyal city, outlined by the indifferent moonlight, is an endless plain. The plain is inhabited by several villages of various sizes, inhabited by ordinary people. They were an adjunct of the city, and for generations they had lived on this plain with its shrub branches.
Most of the vegetation in this plain is dominated by low, dwarf, dense plants. It is rare to see tall trees growing on their own, and there are many and many kinds of animals living on this plain. The animals that live in this plain are closely guarded and protected, and even though they are very valuable species, no one dares to poach them for profit. So, under the brilliant snow and moon, the plains also began to emit the sound of bits and pieces of nocturnal action.
The plains are dominated by shrubs and plants, and ordinary people will inevitably become very conspicuous targets if they cross this plain. The people who have lived in the villages of this plain for generations have played a role in protecting the flora and fauna of this plain. As soon as they discover any poaching or misdeeds, these people will pick up their hoes or shovels to deal with the unscrupulous elements who want to make the fortune of the plains.
These ancestral ways of life have also influenced the lifestyle of this generation of people living on the plains. As long as you see people still walking on this plain at night, these simple and kind people will not hesitate to take them down and ask for their guilt.
At this time, in a small village not far from Zhongcheng, although it was already late at night, hundreds of people had already gathered, and each of them had an extremely angry look on their faces. Each of these people held in their hands the ploughs and shovels that their families usually used to plough the land, and they looked like the current enemy of the enemy.
Standing at the front of the crowd was an old man with gray temples, holding a sandalwood cane in his right hand, and he stood in front of hundreds of villagers. He had a very serious look on his face. Behind the old man, there were two strong men with torches in their hands. It was clear that the old man was the chief of this small village, and that he had just been about to rest today, but he was rewarded by the night watchmen, who were on regular duty at night, and they saw seven people who were still walking on the plain in the middle of the night. Although the seven men did not walk in the same way as they called "poachers", the night watchmen carried the news back to their village for safety reasons. Unexpectedly, their old village chief attached great importance to this, and immediately let his grandson, who was like a living monkey, go to find out.
The village chief took this matter so seriously, and the other people in the village naturally felt a trace of anger at it, and the plain they protected would not allow anyone from the outside world to pose a possible threat to it. So, almost all the people got up from their beds, carried their farming tools, and walked out of their homes to wait for the village chief's grandson to report the situation.
At this moment, a young man with a hoe in his hand jumped from outside the village, and a smoke appeared in front of the hundreds of people like a brisk wind.
The young man, who looked to be in his early teens, with a red and gold fur sweater around him, appeared in front of the old man standing at the front of the crowd. The boy chuckled and scratched his hair. smiled and said to the old man on crutches in front of him: "Grandpa, I can see that they don't look like poachers, and they look like they are looking for a place to stay."
The young man in his crimson fur was the grandson of the village chief. Since he was a child, he was nicknamed "a living monkey" by many people in the village, because this boy liked to be outside day and night since he was a child, and he would not return home until at least an hour after the meal time, and his parents and grandfather were heartbroken and there was nothing they could do. However, it was the habit of this young man, who was agile and became one of the best warriors in the village by hunting deer on the plains at a young age. Today, it was the young man who went out and found out that seven unidentified people had appeared on the plain where they lived today. This news naturally aroused the great attention of his grandfather, who was the head of the village. Now, the boy noticed once again that the seven outsiders of unknown origin were now slowly walking in the direction of their village.
As soon as the news was announced, it immediately aroused the anger of hundreds of villagers in the village. The village chief who was the leader naturally couldn't tolerate this scene, and he immediately gave a categorical order: "Who of the villagers, go out with my grandson to take them down?"
As soon as these words came out, hundreds of people immediately responded, and the young man in the red gold fur shirt also nodded deeply and said, "It's grandpa"
Dozens of strong young men shouldered the hoes and shovels they were holding in their hands, and quickened their pace to follow the fast young man running in front of them. Among them, two men who couldn't keep up with the pace were a little older, and shouted angrily: "Yan'er, you run slower, we can't catch up with you."
In a short time, the dozens of able-bodied men left the village under the leadership of the young man named "Yan'er", and came to the plain under the endless night in the middle of the night. They hadn't walked long before they had already spotted a few figures in the moonlight not far from them. The young man "Yan'er" immediately made a decision, and immediately asked the dozens of villagers behind him to squat down, leaning on the low bushes in front of him as cover. In this way, without revealing their identities, they can be dealt with by using some improvised animal traps placed outside the village to deal with the seven "trespassers" who came from nowhere.
After a few moments, the young man at the head could clearly see that the seven "intruders" were already walking briskly towards their village. The young man "Yan'er" immediately whispered to the dozens of fellow villagers behind him who were about to go up and take down the seven figures in one fell swoop: "Don't worry, let's wait a little longer, and in two minutes, they will step into the trap we have arranged to protect the village, and then we can take them down without much effort."
Although the image of this teenager "Yan'er" in the village is that of a stubborn child. But once the boy was up and running, his abilities and clever practices were very reliable. What "Yan'er" is focusing on at this moment is to deal with these seven people who make them feel "invaders" through the traps arranged outside his village.
The people walking on the plain in these seven moonlit nights were none other than Feng Yuchong, Gao Hanyue, Feng Shanshan, Shi Lanbo, Jiang Yuehan, Yu Fei and Nangong Yun, who had just come out of Zhongcheng and realized that they should not leave Zhongcheng like this at this moment. It's just that in the deep concern of the oppression of the Holy Emperor, Feng Yuchong, Gao Hanyue, Feng Shanshan, Shi Lanbo, Jiang Yuehan, Yu Fei and Nangong Yun still chose to leave Zhongcheng and came to this plain outside Zhongcheng.
It's just that Feng Yuchong, Gao Hanyue, Feng Shanshan, Shi Lanbo, Jiang Yuehan, Yu Fei and Nangong Yun all ignored a very important point, the road in the dark night of this plain was very dark, so they couldn't see the road clearly at all, and they really couldn't find the way forward. In desperation, they could only choose to find a place to stay on the current plain. After all, Jiang Yuehan is the princess of the feudal country, and she grew up in Zhongcheng, the capital of the feudal country, even though she has been away from her hometown for nearly five years, many changes in Zhongcheng make her unable to recognize the recent changes in the feudal country. Fortunately, however, she was not particularly unfamiliar with the plains. Along the way, Jiang Yuehan relied on his hazy memories to bring his companions here. Unbeknownst to them, of course, there were already some unwelcome civilians waiting here to catch them.
Continuing to walk, the seven people who passed through the bushes with apprehension and anxiety in their hearts, Feng Yuchong, Gao Hanyue, Feng Shanshan, Shi Lanbo, Jiang Yuehan, Yu Fei and Nangong Yun, came to a bush with two big trees growing around, and they didn't notice at all that a large dark net that swept down above their heads.
Walking at the back is the eldest sister Gao Hanyue, who is the oldest among the seven, and her observation is also the most acute among the seven. She keenly caught the nuanced sound, and when she looked up, she saw the large net falling overhead. Gao Hanyue hurriedly shouted, "Be careful!", but unfortunately it was too late. The sudden accident caught Feng Yuchong, Gao Hanyue, Feng Shanshan, Shi Lanbo, Jiang Yuehan, Yu Fei and Nangong Yun off guard, even though Gao Hanyue noticed it, it was really too late. All seven of them were enveloped in this supple net. At this moment, a figure as fast as lightning jumped from above the two towering trees around him. This figure was covered in red golden fur, and a red grass head ring was wrapped around its head, and when Feng Yuchong, Gao Hanyue, Feng Shanshan, Shi Lanbo, Jiang Yuehan, Yu Fei and Nangong Yun saw the true face of this figure clearly, they were shocked to find that the figure that appeared in front of them was just a young man of their age.