Chapter 36: The Confusion of the World (1)
It is said that after the fierce battle that night, the beggars Feng Shuai and Ling Xingnan walked with Princess Pinglan and others all the way. Later, it became known that two of Pinglan's ten men were killed and four or five were wounded in the fierce battle that night...... As a result, everyone went on the road with the wounded, which was naturally much slower.
Perhaps, in these troubled times, people are accustomed to walking together because everyone can take care of each other.
The border areas are even more uneasy! Strong men are rampant, and the two countries are about to exchange troops, and they have closed their doors to prepare for war and stepped up their defenses. In the past, the main routes for business and travel and customs clearance are now sparsely populated.
In the past, the official roads and commercial travel arteries could be seen everywhere, including human and animal animals......
The crows in the sky are hovering, and the beasts on the ground are terrified.
Along the way, the tragic scene was unbearable, and the wilderness was mournful.
As soon as I entered the border town of Datang 'Mole', everyone thought that it would be much better. Who knows, the border people in the small town of 'Mo'an' have almost fled, and the rest are empty houses and closed houses...... Occasionally, those who are not afraid of death are also old, weak, sick and disabled, and they will not live for a few years.
Wishes are often beautiful;
Reality is always cruel.
The crowd watched as they walked.
The rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty were once extremely prosperous, and when the prosperous era opened the Yuan Dynasty, it was such a frontier land, and it was also rich under the halo of the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty.
And now, where is there still a little bit of prosperity in the place where everyone has passed? Even when Princess Pinglan saw this situation, she only sighed in her heart.
The beggar Feng Shuai and Ling Xingnan are estimated to have seen a lot, and they no longer have any emotion.
Feng Shuai, along the way, kept talking, which won the favor of Princess Pinglan and others, and there was a lot of communication with each other, talking happily with each other, and laughing constantly.
Ling Xingnan, who is not good at talking and laughing, walked with Princess Pinglan and others not far away, but he looked a little rusty......
Maybe he was once fooled, he was afraid of being deceived, and he always had some thoughts about human accidents, right?
Princess Pinglan and the others didn't think it was strange when they saw him like this. After all, it wasn't the first time they'd seen him.
People have their own personalities and habits. This is very normal! The so-called: "The country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change." ”
As someone said: When you can't change the world, you can only choose to adapt, and when you can't change others, you can only start by improving yourself. That's it.
After the border town of 'Mo', it seems that the number of people on the official road is gradually increasing. However, most of them are border people and traveling merchants who have moved their families to the mainland......
Not far has passed, and there are more and more pedestrians on the road. Moreover, there is a strange phenomenon, many traveling merchants and border residents actually ran back from the end of the official road, looking flustered and hiding strange.
"Something must have happened up front...... "One of Princess Pinglan's subordinates said.
The crowd glanced at him, and he didn't need to say it, but they saw it.
Ling Xingnan walked at the forefront, and naturally this abnormal situation had already been seen. But he didn't ask, and still walked forward......
Maybe it's because of his personality that he doesn't want to ask too much......
What he thought in his heart was: if it was vague to ask passers-by, it was better to go up and see what was going on.
When the beggar Feng Shuai saw this, he was not in a hurry. Approaching a few turnaround merchants and hawkers, he asked, "Everyone, don't do anything, is there something going on here?"
One of the young vendors saw that Feng Shuai was dressed as a beggar, but he was handsome, and although his clothes were old, they were still clean, but he was a little less disgusted.
The peddler felt pity in his heart for a moment, and dissuaded: "Little beggar, run back quickly, there are a large number of officers and soldiers in front of them searching for spies, and the slightest suspect will be beheaded. ’”
When the beggar Feng Shuai heard this, he sneered: "Hehe, these officers and soldiers are so cruel...... But if I am a beggar, will I be like a spy? I will show them ......."
The peddler was stunned when he heard Feng Shuai's words. He thought that the beggar was probably insane, so he ignored him and followed the fleeing crowd that followed.
However, a maid named Xue Yan behind Princess Pinglan listened to his words and said with a smile: "Handsome guy, is the spy as good as you?"
When the beggar Feng Shuai heard this, he also smiled and said, "Hehe...... Little girl, do you have me as handsome?"
Xue Yan continued: "Can't a handsome person be a spy?"
Feng Shuai glanced at Xue Yan from head to toe, deliberately showed a squinting smile, and replied: "The little girl is also quite standard-looking, will those officials and soldiers think that you are also a spy after a while, and will conduct a big search on your whole body?"
Xue Yan couldn't help but be shocked when she heard this. She only snorted at the beggar Feng Shuai, and said coquettishly: "Do you think they are as bad as you?" Stinky beggars, lustful beggars, hooligans...... Hmph......"
Ha Lu Ha ...... The crowd roared.
After everyone finished laughing, they found that Ling Xingnan had reached the end of the official road at this time, and he was almost unable to see his lonely back.
At the end of the official road, there is a city pass, which is the Mole Pass.
Its terrain is dangerous, the front is slow and steep, the left side faces the mountain, the right side is by the river, it is the soldier's pass-shaped 'Qudi', you can rely on the steep terrain to strangle the troops to control the main crossing road, this is the Tang Dynasty Xichuan Mansion under the jurisdiction of the former Xiaowei battalion, they moved to prevent the soldiers and horses of the Nanzhao State newly set up the wartime city pass.
There are not many soldiers and horses here, only more than 2,000 people are stationed, mainly set up a beacon fortress, once there is an emergency situation can not resist the invasion of foreign enemies, it will cast a fireworks signal, and transmit it to the beacon tower on the hill 20 miles away, so that it can be transmitted in less than half an hour to Xichuan Mansion...... Therefore, this place is particularly important, and it is actually a place where the soldiers and horses of the Nanzhao Kingdom must pass.
Especially in the past few days, the Xichuan Fuzhong Festival has made an order to close the pass as much as possible to only enter and exit, and those who enter are closely inspected, and those who find the traitors of the Nanzhao State can be executed on the spot. So in the past few days, the officials and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have begun to closely inspect the people who have passed by, and what is even more unexpected is that the captain who guards the customs here is a powerful and fierce person. He saw that the world was about to be in chaos, and he was so chaotic, it was better not to fight today, and it was a question of whether he would be alive when the war started tomorrow. Therefore, he came up with these many bad ideas, and at this juncture he set up the rule of "three buts": those who pass by cannot live without silver and filial piety, and do not let go when they see beautiful girls; spies, Nanzhao people, people of different races, and people who do not like the eye are all allowed to pass.
No, those who didn't know just now have all gone back again. They were lucky, and the slightest person who stepped forward to argue a few words, who seemed to be spies, and the people of Nanzhao were all arrested and dragged to an unknown place to be killed. What is even more painful is that there are still beautiful girls, and they can't even go back? Naturally, they were captured by the sergeant and honored the captain......
Once such a situation arises, even if others are willing to help, how can they exert their strength? In this frontier area, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, who can control it? In the chaos of war, what can be counted as killing a few people?
Sad, painful......
For thousands of years, those in power have messed up the world, and those who have been officials have violated the normal way, so that the world is restless, and it is the ordinary people who suffer the most!
At the gate of the city, the troops on the towering city were laughing arbitrarily, and the laughter was very loud and spread far and wide.
At the head of the city, a group of Tang troops, numbering no less than forty or fifty, surrounded a young woman and a child: the young woman was about thirty years old, and she was full of dust and fatigue, but she could not hide her beauty, and although she was dressed in ordinary coarse leather clothes, she could not hide her beautiful figure. The child, thirteen or fourteen years old, was glaring angrily at the sergeants, and in his hand he was chasing an eyebrow-high stick, pointing straight at the sergeants.
It can be seen that although this little child faced so many sergeants' spears and short knives, he did not show the slightest panic...... However, he was already tired and sweating profusely at this time, and he had to protect the soldiers with a short stick and beat him, and also take care of the woman behind him.
Obviously, these sergeants did not intend to assassinate him, and deliberately stabbed him in both feet and arms with spears. What is even more strange is that this kid is extremely strong, and the spears of ordinary two or three soldiers cannot shake his short stick.
The beautiful woman behind him was slightly shocked when she saw this, and she was already in high spirits, and she looked like she had not recovered from a serious illness......
After a while, the spears in the hands of several sergeants cut through the children's legs and arms one after another, and blood seeped straight out.
The other sergeants who were smug and laughing all around seemed to be energetic, and kept stroking their palms and laughing more vigorously.
For a while, the child gradually lost his strength, and his movements became slower and slower, and he couldn't hold on for long.
At this moment, a loud voice came.
The words "stop ......" are very loud, and it is estimated that they can be heard from a distance of one or two miles.
The sergeants were shocked, only to feel a buzz in their ears.
So they immediately turned around and glared at the comer.
"What are so many big men doing to bully other women's women and children? Are you still human?" The person who said this was none other than Ling Xingnan.
When he saw the sergeants bullying the child and the woman, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and couldn't help but roar.
At this time, the sergeants immediately let go of the besieged children and women, and turned to Ling Xingnan, but instead surrounded Ling Xingnan.
Soon, a man who looked like an officer came out of the sergeants. Ling Xingnan looked Ling Xingnan up and down, and shouted loudly: "Where did you come from?
Ling Xingnan was very unhappy when he saw him foul language, but he ignored him for the time being.
When the officer saw him so rude, he was even more furious. Said to the left and right: "Go...... Take down this thing that doesn't know whether it's alive or dead. ”
Sure enough, four guards stepped out in response, shook out the rope and were about to tie up Ling Xingnan.
At this time, Ling Xingnan was already angry. How could he be easily tied, and in the past year, he has not been fighting against fate for a day...... If it is said to be death, I don't know how many times I have died if someone else has died. But he, which time didn't work hard, and survived from the hands of Lord Yama again and again.
It is not because of his natural life, but because of his spirit of never giving up and his will to never compromise.
In fact, that's how people should be. Have a little spirit and have some pursuits.
Otherwise, wasting life and killing time will end up with little fun.
Everyone has a mind and the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. As long as you think it's right, you insist on doing it, and why don't you be afraid of the strange eyes of others?
Ling Xingnan is such a person.
He wanted to save the child, perhaps because he was in the same situation.
And bullying the weak is a manifestation of heterogeneous weakness, and it is disdainful to mention it.
The four sergeants were about to tie up Ling Xingnan's body and tie him up. Before the rope could be touched, as soon as the palms of the four sergeants touched Ling Xingnan's body, they were shocked by him with the true power of the Buddha Sect......
The four sergeants tumbled upside down at least two or three feet away, and could not get up when they fell to the ground.
The sergeants were horrified, and the scene was in turmoil.
The officer was shocked when he saw this. He didn't expect this guy to come out of nowhere, and he still had this ability. But what is even more unexpected is that this lifeless guy dared to openly resist and injured his soldiers.
The officers were also annoyed, and saw the commotion among the sergeants. Hurriedly shouted: "Ge Laozi, what's the mess? Go up with Lao Tzu and take down this spy...... If you dare to resist, you will be killed. ”
When the sergeants heard this, the commotion stopped, and they all stabbed at Ling Xingnan with their spears......
This formation stunned the child and the woman. The little kid watched all this with wide eyes, and he was really worried about the man who was helping them in front of him...... Worried, he was about to pull out a short stick to help Ling Xingnan, but he was dragged by the woman behind him, preventing him from moving.
Ling Xingnan saw that these officers and soldiers were so arrogant, and he himself was even called a spy by the officer, he knew what the situation was in here and now...... Maybe it's worse than death.
He couldn't help but get even angrier.
Ling Xingnan raised his head to the sky and roared, like a tiger roaring and a dragon's groan, which shook everyone's ears.
The five sergeants who rushed forward first slashed their spears horizontally and stabbed Ling Xingnan fiercely. If you are stabbed in the waist with five shots, how can you still live?
Sure enough, Ling Xingnan jumped up and jumped over the heads of the five sergeants. At this time, the other four sergeants saw this and stabbed them in the air with their guns......
It all happened suddenly. The changes in the chaos were extremely fast, and Ling Xingnan couldn't care much about it, and at the same time as he jumped down, he grabbed a red cherry spear in his right hand, and kicked over the five sergeants who had not had time to turn around one after another...... In his right hand, he turned the handle of his gun upside down, and swept it sideways with the handle of his gun, and he had no intention of killing, and in this way he used this alone, at least a dozen or so sergeants fell......
All the sergeants fell to the ground one after another, and there were at least a dozen others who were knocked down by them and pressed on the other sergeants.
By this time, half of the forty or so sergeants who had besieged him had fallen......
When the sergeants saw him so brave, they were horrified and retreated. Only defended him with a spear, and he was really a little scared, and he had no intention of attacking again for the time being.