Chapter Eighty-Six: Immortals
, the negative heart is mostly a reader.
Perhaps Tang Zhiyao never thought that when he was in prison and betrayed his relatives, the only one who helped him was the life-saving benefactor who he had plotted to assassinate.
After Chen An left with the little girl for a long time, the fleeing guards arrived with reinforcements from nearby counties, but in addition to the messy corpses at the scene, only the prisoner car holding Tang Zhiyao was left alone.
Some guards once viciously asked Chen An's whereabouts, but Tang Zhiyao asked sarcastically, even if you know his whereabouts, do you dare to catch up?
The soldier who questioned him was speechless on the spot, and the soldier who finally lost face could only vent his anger on Tang Zhiyao.
In fact, after fighting with Chen An personally, these guards who fled in embarrassment did not dare to face Chen An directly.
Because they were afraid.
Faced with an enemy who is extremely powerful and cannot be killed by any means, they are desperate and fearful from the bottom of their hearts.
With Tang Zhiyao escorted to Beijing, the imperial court unsurprisingly issued an edict to fully arrest Chen An, but the means of communication in the feudal era were quite backward, and when the edict was issued from various states and counties, Chen An had already lived in seclusion with the little girl in the Taoyuan mountain village specified by Tang Zhiyao.
This is an isolated mountain village, just like the paradise recorded in Tao Yuanming's masterpiece "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" in the Jin Dynasty, and no one knows how Tang Zhiyao discovered this wonderful and beautiful hidden mountain village.
There are hundreds of people in the mountain village, and the people are simple and hospitable, so it is easy for Chen An and the little girl to adapt to life here.
Because they didn't rescue Tang Zhiyao together, the little girl and Chen An inevitably fell into a state of cold war, and Chen An didn't care about it, he knew that time would slowly smooth out the relationship between the two.
In the days of seclusion, Chen An and the little girl borrowed to live in the idle thatched hut of the villagers, during the day he would go to the mountains to hunt in exchange for other food crops from the villagers, and the little girl was left in the village to play with children of the same age around her, although the little girl was in a bad mood at first and often locked herself in the house, over time, she couldn't bear the loneliness and slowly mingled with the other children, and even the relationship between her and Chen An was no longer as stiff as at the beginning, at least they usually chatted with each other during meals.
This mountain village listened to the old man said that when the world was in turmoil in the previous dynasty, the ancestors brought their families here to escape the war, and since then they have rarely communicated with the outside world, and once there were three or two people who strayed into the village, but they never came back after leaving.
The village has opened up a lot of fertile land, coupled with the surrounding mountains and forests, fruit trees, and sufficient water sources, which are basically enough for the people in the village to be self-sufficient, even if they encounter a famine year, they can easily survive, so these villagers have spent their lives here for a hundred years, and there are few who are willing to leave the village.
Tao Yuanming's Taoyuan Village is difficult to verify in history, but even if this village exists, it will inevitably die, and as long as the village continues to be isolated from the outside world, it will end up with the same fate.
Without him, the village would sooner or later collapse completely under the continued intermarriage.
After several months, the season has reached the cold winter, but because the village is close to the southern subtropics, the weather is not too cold, during which Chen An quietly left the village several times, and even sneaked into Guping County to listen to the outside world.
Tang Zhiyao is dead.
Charged with collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.
After all, he did not wash away his grievances.
The reason for this is that after the northern captives went south to break through Jiangzhou, the leader of the barbarian chieftains, Zeng Yan, thanks to Tang Zhiyao's secret help, once sent an envoy to ask Dali to release Tang Zhiyao, otherwise their iron hooves would step on the Jingshi.
As a result, it is conceivable how the Great Departure Dynasty will deal with Tang Zhiyao.
Now Da Li is sending troops around the starry night to Jiangzhou to fight a decisive battle with the Beiyu, and for a time the wanted people about Chen An have been snubbed, but everyone who knows Chen An and his people all feel that he is lawless and rebellious, and a few days ago, some officials proposed to recruit An Chen An, a peerless warrior, to deal with the Beiyu generals to atone for their crimes, but unfortunately there were few responders.
Chen An hesitated for a long time after learning of Tang Zhiyao's death, because he didn't know whether to tell the little girl about it.
The most important thing is that Chen An has a premonition in the dark recently.
He might be leaving this world.
The problem is that he doesn't know how to place the little girl's future.
She no longer has any family, and now she has the only one to rely on herself in the world, and if she is gone, what will she do in the rest of her life? Is he going to irresponsibly leave her in a mountain village and be raised by the villagers?
If he could, he would leave this world with the little girl.
But if he can do it, he won't be bothered by it.
One night, for the first time, he drank alone and drank alcohol.
The degree of the wine is very low, the taste is sweet, far less mellow and spicy than the modern wine, a jar of wine in the stomach, Chen An is only a little drunk.
"Uncle, are you drinking?"
At some point, the little girl who was lying on the bed suddenly appeared in front of him rubbing her sleepy eyes.
"Yes. ”
Under the faint candle flame, Chen An, who was gradually getting drunk, said softly.
“...... Is my uncle unhappy? Is it because of Yaoyao's relationship?"
The little girl silently walked to Chen An's side, reached out and pulled his shoulder and whispered.
Yaoyao...... Some time ago, the court executed your father. ”
Chen An drank the turbid wine in the bowl in one gulp, called the name of the little girl, and was silent for a long time, and he finally told the news of Tang Zhiyao's death.
Tears fell silently, and the little girl's hand holding Chen An began to tremble, after experiencing so many things, no one knew if she had already expected this result.
"Mother is dead, father is dead...... Uncle...... Yaoyao will never have a father or mother again......" the little girl choked up and said intermittently. “...... Why? Why did my father and mother leave me...... I'm so scared...... Yaoyao was really scared...... Uncle...... In the future, you won't leave me too, and leave Yaoyao alone in this world......"
“......”
Faced with the little girl's tearful questioning at the end, Chen An didn't know how to answer so as not to break her heart.
"Uncle, what are you talking about...... You speak......"
The little girl shook Chen An's hand and cried louder and louder.
"Yaoyao, do you believe that there are immortals in the world?"
Chen Anzhong picked up the last jar of wine and poured it into his mouth desperately, and when he drank all the wine in the jar, he suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the top of his head.
"Uncle......" The little girl didn't know what to mean.
"Uncle is the god sent by heaven to save you...... But...... Heaven is ready to take my uncle away......"