Chapter 60: The Flames of War (I)
"By the way, uncle, where are we now?" Yang Yi sighed, looked around, and found that there was a cypress towering nearby, and in the distance, there was a partially frozen waterfall hanging between the steep mountain walls, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"It's called Banshan Ridge, which belongs to the boundary of Shanxi, and it's about 500 miles away from Cangzhou." Uncle Li's feet kept seeing patches of snow under his feet, and he responded with his mouth.
"Huh? Why did we come to Shanxi, just kidding? As soon as he heard Uncle Li say that this was Shanxi, Wei Ergou also shouted in surprise.
"What are you talking about, what are you talking about," Uncle Li glared at Yang Yi and Wei Ergou dissatisfiedly, "Whoever told you where you entered, you had to come out from, you should be opened by your own family, really." ”
"Then how are we going back to Cangzhou, is it difficult to go back?" This question was asked by Yang Yi, but it was also what Wei Ergou and the Taomu Demon were concerned about, so they looked at Li Shu'er and waited for the answer.
"There is a small village called Chiyu Village at the foot of this ridge, after we go down the mountain, we can go to that village and hire a few feet to send us to the border of Zhili, and then transfer back to Cangzhou." Uncle Li twisted a few mouse whiskers in his hand and replied confidently.
Seeing Uncle Li'er's calm appearance, Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and the Taomu Demon were also down-to-earth, the mountain road was far away, and when they were bored, Wei Ergou remembered the scene when he crossed the archway in the underworld just now, so he pestered the Taomu Demon and asked why he was willing to kneel down and smash Weng Zhong's stick.
Unable to endure Wei Ergou's entanglement, the peach wood demon told him that the three emperors of the earth mother is another name for Nuwa Niangniang, and there is a legend of Nuwa creating people since ancient times, so the memorial arch is actually a test of whether the people who go there know how to be grateful to the human mother, but anyone who understands this hint will take the initiative to kneel down and pass under the archway to show respect for Nuwa Niangniang. As for the two people who were holding sticks, Weng Zhong struck the people who walked through the archway with their knees, there was no malice, but they used the way of drinking the sticks to shake out a breath of yin qi that had accumulated in people's hearts, so as to restore their normal minds, which is why they felt very comfortable in their hearts after being beaten.
"Oh, my grass, my jade pendant fell on the stone table, it's over, it's a big loss this time, hey!" Yang Yi suddenly remembered that his piece of Pisces jade pendant had forgotten on the chessboard of the Yin and Yang Eight Arrays, and couldn't help frowning and stomping his feet in chagrin.
The peach wood demon looked at the dejected Yang Yi and smiled, raised his hand, and threw the jade pendant to Yang Yidao: "Don't worry, how can I leave such a precious thing behind and return it to you." ”
Yang Yi caught the Pisces jade pendant that was becoming more and more crystal clear in the sun, grinned as if it was crotch, and wore the jade on his neck with a smile.
Uncle Li walked over, pinched the jade pendant and looked at it a few times, and said with a smile: "Yes, this jade pendant has already been raised with a bit of spirituality, and in time, it will be of great benefit to you, uh, don't show it easily, remember, stupid?" ”
"Got it, uncle." Yang Yi carefully stuffed the jade pendant into his clothes and replied honestly.
"Uncle, let's take a few steps, I'm dying of hunger, but I can see the crowd, hehe" Wei Ergou saw that a gray village could be vaguely seen in front of him, and there was green smoke rising from many places, and he suddenly felt hungry, so he urged Li Shu'er and Yang Yi to go quickly, so that they could go down and eat and sacrifice to the five internal organs of the temple.
"Wait a while," Uncle Li squinted his eyes and looked at the village carefully for a while, then took a breath and said: "It seems that something is wrong, those cigarettes are not cooking smoke, but like black smoke from burning houses, not good, this village seems to have been ransacked by robbers, hurry, let's go down and save people!" ”
After speaking, Uncle Li, who was usually lazy, jumped up and stepped on the grass that had withered and yellowed and shivered in the cold winter wind. ”
Following Uncle Li, who was flying with big sleeves in front of him and a bit of fairy wind and bones, Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Taomu Demon rushed all the way, and ran to the foot of the mountain in a moment.
Uncle Li paused, pulled the three of them to hide behind a huge bluestone, and looked condescendingly into the village, and saw several brick and wood houses on fire, and several rows of caves built on the dirt slope were also on fire, and thick smoke was billowing out.
In front of the house where the fire broke out and on the loess road, there were lying corpses of men and women lying down everywhere, and the scarlet blood formed pools of blood one after another on the loess earth, which was shocking to watch.
At the same time, dozens of Qing soldiers wearing blue military uniforms with the word "soldier" printed on their chests and funnel-shaped leather warmers were holding waist knives and plundering from house to house.
Some middle-aged men were unwilling to be killed, and went to fight with those Qing soldiers with hoes, forks, axes and other farm tools, but they were helpless to defeat those soldiers, and fell to the ground one after another, dying in pain with their eyes wide open.
"Look at the uniforms, these Qing troops should be the green battalion soldiers composed of Han people, and then look at their unlucky virtues of unloading their armor and panicking like lost dogs, it can be concluded that they are the routed soldiers who were scattered by the Taiping army, they must have passed by this village on the way to escape, and then moved the evil idea of killing people and robbing money, and wanted to make a little windfall, it is really a loss of conscience! I said, do you have the courage to follow your uncle to fight for righteousness and do the right thing for heaven, eh? Uncle Li looked at the vicious green battalion soldiers who kept raising their butcher knives at the innocent people, and a layer of fierce murderous intent appeared on his face.
"I'll tell you the truth, I can't see bullying people, I can't hold it back for a long time, what, let's go and kill those grandsons who will harm the common people!" Wei Ergou's face turned red, and he panted as he looked at the murderous green battalion soldiers.
"Okay, bloody, like a gentleman, it's much better than your grandfather who pretended to faint when he saw a fight, hehe" Uncle Li looked at Wei Ergou and smiled approvingly.
"What's the matter, what are you doing?" Uncle Li turned around, looked at Yang Yi who was looking down for something, and asked.
"What so much nonsense to fight, I'm looking for a brick to shoot those eight calves!" Yang Yi was actually already angry in his heart, and at this time, he couldn't wait to fly over in one step and crush those green battalion soldiers who had no way to resist the enemy and had the skill to harm the people, and bleed one by one.
"What about me?" Seeing that Uncle Li didn't mean to bring her at all, the peach wood demon couldn't help but ask.
"You're a female streamer in this matter, so you can stay here honestly, ah." Uncle Li glanced at the Peach Wood Demon, and there was a hint of contempt in his words, but he didn't want to anger the Peach Wood Demon all of a sudden.