Synopsis of the book (main plot)
After observing the real appearance of Wu Bai, the master of Hu'an Mountain Zhou, he thought that in the current situation, this is a place to live, and Pu Xuemei and Ruyan agreed.
Xiang Zhen, Pu Xuemei, and Ruyan went to choose a grass house with a safe structure and slightly better hygiene, cleaned up, and returned to the simple furniture;
In the old lady's room, she sat down to rest and drank some water. The guard Tho Barbarian did not leave one step.
The room was cleaned up, and Park Xuemei came to greet and move in.
Meng Yu and Ruyan live in a room on the left, Pu Xuemei and Xiang Yuehong's mother and daughter live in a room on the right, and Xiang Zhen and Tho Manzi live in the middle, so as to take care of the security work on both sides.
Clothing, food, shelter, the elements of life. The problem of housing was solved, and the problem of food had to be solved, so Xiang Zhen and Tho Manzi searched all the empty houses in this village, and only found very few coarse grains and dried fruits.
After Xiang Zhen and Tho Manzi finished looting, the only old woman left in the village knew that these two were doing useless work, and came over to Xiang Zhen and said: "When the people in the village escaped, they took away some of the food, and if they couldn't take it away, they hid it nearby, enough for a few of us to eat for a month or two." ”
Xiang Zhen was overjoyed and said: "There are two months of surplus grain, which can be regarded as rich." ”
According to the old lady's suggestion, Xiangzhen and a few people partnered at her house.
Park Xuemei is a natural busy life, responsible for cooking, and Ruyan is responsible for taking care of the high fever.
Two days later, a Chu army of several hundred people came to the village.
It turned out that Qu Rongde, the commander of the Chu army, reported that the general Zhaoyun was assassinated by a Pakistani woman, and the assassin may have been disguised by Mu Mangzi, the general of Baguo Longsheng, who was shocked and furious, and ordered a careful search along the way, and caught the assassin's body broken into pieces.
Fortunately, just in case, Xiang Zhen had already found a hidden hiding place nearby with the old woman in advance, avoiding this large-scale search by the Chu army.
After living in this village called Yanjiao for half a month, Xiang Zhen and Tho Manzi's injuries have basically healed, and Yu Mengyu's condition has also improved slightly, but he is very weak.
Xiang Zhen ordered the Tho barbarians to stay in the village, in case the Chu army came again, they hid again, and went out to find out the news.
More than ten days later, Xiang Zhen came back and told Zhu Mengyu and others the news they had discovered: Hu'an Palace had been burned to ashes, and the Longteng General Fan Yuntong, the Longwei General Tu Tianqi and others had been killed in battle; his wife Ba Yongqiu had gone down the sinkhole, and the Chu army had also chased him into the sinkhole; Gongzi Menglong and Gongtaohua had been burned to death in the Wanfeng Forest; and the rest of Wucheng and others were still missing.
Yu Mengyu listened to one heartbreaking news after another, like a sharp knife cutting in the heart, the sick body had improved slightly, but he couldn't bear it anymore, fainted on the spot, and the illness was serious.
Yu Mengyu was ill, and there was no better place to go for a while, so Wu Baichang, the head of the Hu'an Mountain Boat Division, and Xiang Zhen, the leader of the Xiang clan, decided to live here for the time being.
This stay is more than two months.
In the meantime, villagers have come back one after another.
In view of the fact that the Chu army stationed in Hu'an Mountain was vulnerable to sneak attacks by the Ba people, Qu Rong, the commander of the Chu army, ordered all of them to withdraw to several major strongholds along the Danfu River: Xiamen, Panhukou, Longxikou, and Yushuikou.
I heard that the Chu army had evacuated Hu'an Mountain, and Xiang Mengyu wanted to go back to the Lao Zhai of the Hu Clan in the grassland of Hu'an Mountain, but Xiang Zhen thought that although the Chu army had withdrawn from the grassland, it could re-enter the grassland at any time, and it was not safe for Yu Mengyu to return to Lao Village, so it was better to go to the Pu clan in Tongxiang Mountain after a while, which was the safest;
In the end, he said that he would not go anywhere now, and would live in this village.
Xiangzhen and Tho Manzi swore to the gods and ghosts: No matter where the two troubled little masters of Dream Yu and Ruyan will go in the future, including going to Zongdu and Jiangzhou, they will always be guards and will never leave.
Due to the recurrence of Mengyu's illness and sometimes the symptoms of madness, Xiang Zhen sneaked to the Zheng clan, the only one that was not entered by the Chu army, and found Zheng Xi, the new patriarch and the younger brother of Zheng Ji, the secretary of the Hu'an Palace, Zheng Xi personally brought a witch doctor to Yanjiao Village, and secretly provided food, clothes and other things.
However, it was said that at this time, Long You, the centurion of the Hu'an Mountain tribe, followed Ruo Xiao, the second son of Ruo Chunpei, the Zhongqing of Hu'an Palace, and had already arrived at the Ruo clan.
It turned out that at the time of the decisive battle in the grassland of Hu'an Mountain, one of the "Ten Tigers" of the Tiger Ben, the centurion of the boat division, Long You, killed all the way, chased out of fifteen or sixteen miles, but was surrounded by the Chu army, desperately rushed out of the encirclement, fortunately the Longsheng general Mu Mangzi (Shui Yu) transferred to his treasure clothes, about the function of anti-stab, the chaos has not been injured in the viscera, save his life, with injuries on his body, was chased into the forest on the edge of the grassland, hidden.
While Long You was hiding, he happened to meet Ruo Chunpei's son Ruoxiao, who was also on the run.
The two hid in Tibet for several days, and learned from the refugees that the Hu'an Palace had been breached, and that Hu Anbo Yuyu, Gongzi Menglong, Longwei General Tu Tianqi, Longteng General Fan Yuntong, Mrs. Ba Yongqiu, Zhongqing Ruo Chunpei, and the old wizard Qi Rui were all dead.
Ruoxiao said to Long You: "Your wound is melting, if you don't treat it in time, you will have to worry about your life, you can't go back to the grassland of Hu'an Mountain, it's not as good as me, sneak back to my hometown to recuperate." ”
Long You thought about it, and there was no other good way, so he went to the hometown of Ruochun Pei in the Hu'an Palace, and the injury was healed after a few months, and the only reward he got was to leave a military medal that he couldn't take down.
Hearing that Longshui Gorge had also entered the Chu army, Long You knew that his clan must have also collapsed, so he settled in the Ruo clan.
In the winter of that year, Ruochunpei's wife said that one of her nieces was married to Long You, because the family had no children, Long You became a son-in-law and settled down.
The place where the hundred-year-old Longyou, the master of the Hu'an Mountain, settled was called "Dashiqing" (now in Fenglai Township, Wulong District), and belonged to a sub-tribe of the Ruo clan.
The scenery of the big stone is very beautiful, the arbor and the vines are lingering, such as the umbrella if the cover, the vine trees are lush, the boulders and the forest trees cover each other, the mountains are full of stones, and the stone trees are shining.
The Baguo warrior Long You did not forget the treasure map (臷宝) confessed by the lord of the Great Cave of Longshui Gorge (see Chapter 10 of this book "The Treasure Map of the Ancient Salt Country - Zangbao" and Chapter 230 "Ordered to Be in Danger"), and wanted to go to Longshui Gorge and Danfushui Longxikou Tho clan several times to find his clansmen.
One night, Long You tossed and turned on the couch again and couldn't sleep, the woman asked him what was the matter, he knew that women were very virtuous, and would not do bad things, so he told her about the treasure map, and asked her to find the treasure clothes and take the treasure map.
The Longyou woman didn't know that the treasure was a treasure map, folded the thread, and found that there was only a silk cloth bag in the treasure clothes, and when she took it out, it was not a treasure, but a piece of hair, and thought: Is this a treasure map? I think it should be a woman's hair.
No matter how virtuous a woman is, she will feel a little unhappy when she finds that her man treasures the things of other women.
The woman of Long You held the hair in the palm of her hand, and came over to her husband Long You and said, "I mean, you want to go to Danfushui from time to time, it turns out that you are going to meet women!"
Long You wondered, "What kind of woman will it be?"
The woman said: "In your treasure clothes, there is nothing except a woman's hair, do you think I don't understand?"
Long You didn't believe it, the woman stretched out her palm and said, "What is this?"
Long You pulled his wife's hand and looked at it, and sure enough, it was a hair, and sighed: "This must be the person in Brother Mu Mangzi's heart." ”
"You mean, this hair is from the dream language in Hu'an Palace?"
Long You said: "I don't dare to say this. This is General Longsheng's brother's thing, you quickly sew it back. ”
The Longyou woman smiled: "General Long Sheng, Mu Mangzi, has already done a ghost, naturally if there is anything bad, you will push it on him." ”
Long You said: "There are gods three feet on your head, you can't talk nonsense." This is indeed the stuff of General Long Sheng. I just don't know if it's Qihua's, or is it a dream's?" (See Chapter 311 of this book "Broken Hair").
The woman smiled: "Are you thinking about the eight flowers and nine flowers in Longshui Gorge again?"
Long You was silent.