Volume 1 Catechumens Chapter 6 Disaster Relief
"The big mountain in the south is Tianma Mountain. There have been Pegasus horses on Tianma Mountain before, they are golden, sweating like blood, they can gallop thousands of miles a day, and they can run down for thousands of miles just a little breath, and they can run another thousand miles after resting for a night, and the name "Pegasus" comes from this. In order to try to catch Tianma, the emperor of the Great Qi Kingdom didn't know how many strange people and strange people he recruited and how many ways he thought of it, but he never got his wish......
"And what about later? Did you catch the Pegasus? ”
"Nope. Then they tried their best to catch the Pegasus, but it happened that an immortal passed by, and said, 'It is so pitiful that the Pegasus has fallen into the mortal dust and been bullied by you vulgar people,' and flew away with the Pegasus on the mountain, leaving behind the stunned 'strange people', you look at me, I look at you, stupidly open mouth, like a flock of donkeys. ”
"Haha
Wu Xie wore Langzhong's usual long shirt and followed in the convoy, a little drowsy in the mid-autumn sunset, while listening to the stories of the old rivers and lakes in the convoy.
He hid his true identity and joined the disaster relief convoy as a young traveler. It was unanimously welcomed by the whole team.
He is a good doctor, and when he is away from home, doctors are always very scarce.
This convoy of nearly 200 people and more than 60 wagons, as the vanguard of the entire disaster relief team, they will take the lead in setting off to deliver the grain to Nanping County for distribution to help the victims survive the coming winter.
The flood came at an inopportune time, most of the food in Nanping County has not yet been harvested, and the victims are only afraid that they are hungry. Therefore, the convoy traveled in a hurry, sometimes even at night, so that most of the convoy was not energetic, and only some particularly energetic old oilmen were still energetic - for example, this dart master Lao Bai who was telling a story.
This old dart master is over half a hundred years old, but his spirit is better than that of a young man, especially the mouth, Balabala keeps talking, as if his saliva is dry. I don't know whether his job is to dart or storytelling, along the way, he has told dozens of stories, all of them are different.
Because of this, everyone called him "Mr. Storyteller Lao Bai", and Lao Bai was not angry, but said that when he finished this dart, he would wash his hands and withdraw from the rivers and lakes, and become a storyteller in Changning City.
With such an old Jianghu and pistachio in the team, the atmosphere of the team is also quite lively, so the two officers and a martial arts master who lead the team all acquiesce to this slightly oily and slippery behavior, which is not serious and formal enough.
The winter days soon came to an end, and as the sun went down, the convoy stopped less than five miles from Tianma Mountain to rest.
This rest is not primarily for people, but for horses. Although the convoy is full of hot-blooded men who can work tirelessly day and night for disaster relief, the horses have to rest. If they can't find a post station to change horses, no matter how anxious they are, they can only camp obediently.
In the case of impatience, the night seems to be very long, and tomorrow is less than an hour after dark, and someone is whispering, "Why hasn't it been dawn yet!" And it has been approved by many people.
Wu Xie was lying on a piece of hay, listening to the complaints one after another, and couldn't help but be a little funny. But in addition to being funny, he was also quite moved and gratified.
The human heart is available!
Before the crossing, he came from the country with the highest disaster relief efficiency on the earth, and in that country, whenever the disaster was rescued, whether it was soldiers or civilians, most of them were like this, regardless of fatigue and danger, and moved forward bravely one by one. Although there are occasionally one or two big-eyed, small-eyed, braggart-skinning flies buzzing and upsetting, it does not detract from the greatness of this country in the slightest.
Wu Xie also participated in flood relief back then, and once trekked in the muddy water with his trouser legs, making a mess of leather shoes and brand-name suits, and he was once exhausted and found a corner to lie down and fell asleep, completely ignoring the problem of comfort, and even forgetting to eat......
The current Eastern Chu Kingdom in the world realm naturally can't be compared with the hometown that haunts him, but the atmosphere of these people in the team makes him feel very kind and familiar.
This feeling is very comfortable.
About half an hour later, Wu Xie was in a daze and wanted to sleep, when he suddenly heard many hurried horses' hooves on the ground, and suddenly woke up.
He turned over and stood up, seeing that no one in the convoy had heard the sound of horses' hooves for the time being, he couldn't help frowning, and was about to speak, but saw a figure in the leader's position jump up suddenly.
"A lot of people are coming on horseback!" The one who shouted like this was the martial arts master on the face of the team, surnamed Shen, the famous contemporary head of the Nanhua Sword School in Changning City.
Nanhua Sword School is a famous martial arts family in the southeast, the ancestor Nanhua Gong was a young man who entered the mountains to seek Taoism, although he was not able to cultivate into an immortal after all, but he learned an earth-shattering skill, and established the Nanhua Sword School after returning to Hongchen. This Nanhua Duke left behind a set of swordsmanship, a unique mental method, a water-cutting sword, and the refining method of the elixir "Nanhua Dan" that can boost his strength.
After Nanhua Gong, the Nanhua Sword Sect did not have particularly outstanding figures, but relying on the shadow of Nanhua Gong, life was also good, and it was an influential sect in Changning City, and it was also a famous family in the entire southeastern countries. It's a pity that ten years ago, there was a criminal, who killed the elders of this sect, took away the cheats and swords left by Nanhua Gong, and swept away the Nanhua Dan that had been accumulated over the years, and he didn't know what to do.
The Nanhua Sword Sect lost the sword of the Zhen Sect, and the elder with strong martial arts died, and he was immediately hit hard. For a while, people's hearts were disheartened, and they were almost on the verge of dissolution. Fortunately, Shen Yi, the head of this generation, worked hard, practiced martial arts hard, and practiced chivalry and righteousness, and finally maintained the reputation of the Nanhua Sword School, so that this sect that was about to end went through the most difficult years, and it is gradually recovering in recent years.
Wu Xie has the information of several important people in the team, among which the information about Shen Yi is like this: his qualifications are extraordinary, his understanding is amazing, and he should have broken through the martial arts, but it is a pity that because of the perennial travel, the cultivation of internal strength is insufficient. If you can devote yourself to penance for three years and five years, you will definitely be able to enter the Tao with martial arts and become a new generation of martial arts masters!
I don't know if these materials belong to Bai Yulou or the Eastern Chu Royal, but his appreciation for Shen Yi is indeed overflowing, so that Wu Xie has always been a little curious about him.
"Judging from his reaction, he does deserve such praise." Du Ruo nodded, looking like a senior, "The young man is very clever and promising!" ”
"This Shen Zhangmen is just born with a baby face, in fact, he is already twenty-six years old. You're only seventeen years old, why do you think so about him? ”
"I'm better than him!" Du Ruo was so arrogant that he almost cocked his nose, "Old lady, I have already broken through the heavens and become a new generation of martial arts masters who have entered the Tao with martial arts, even if you have to let him be called Senior Du in person, what's wrong with calling him a young man?" ”
"Yes, yes, Senior Du, you are mighty and domineering...... But before you are mighty and domineering, can you put down that box of maple leaf cakes? You ate nine of the ten boxes, so you can leave me a little! And this box of maple leaf crisp was given to me by you at the beginning, won't it really hurt your martial arts master's face if you eat it secretly? ”
Du Ruo was speechless for a while, and after hesitating for a while, he decisively gave up the face of his predecessors and chose the box of maple leaf cakes.
"A martial arts grandmaster's face is worth a box ......of maple leaf crisp," Wu Xie sighed, deeply saddened by this situation where even foodies could become martial arts grandmasters.
"If you're not satisfied, you can also choose to break through now, it's not impossible." Du Ruo's mouth was stuffed with sweet maple leaf cakes, and even his voice was a little slurred.
Wu Xie shook his head secretly, he had already made up his mind that he must find a path that suits him and has a great future. It seems easy to enter the Tao with martial arts, but the future is too narrow, unless he has to do it, he will never choose to do so!
As he spoke, everyone in the convoy had already gotten up and looked at each other in the moonlight.
After a short while, the group of people on horseback appeared.
The moonlight is nice tonight, and you can see far away in the moonlight. Wu Xie clearly saw that many dotted fires were approaching this side from a distance, and secretly estimated that there were about hundreds. From a distance, it looked like a large number of fireflies were flying in the night, flying in a loose formation along the official road.
There was a very rhythmic sound in the night wind, and he could hear the sound of horses' hooves, but because the distance was too far, the sound of hooves was too chaotic, and he couldn't tell how many people and horses were coming!
"Moment! At least two hundred riders! And they are all healthy horses, the kind that can be used as war horses! A soldier who was lying on the ground and listening intently jumped up and cried out angrily, "What a bad comer! ”
"Do you still need to ask? Whose friends will run wildly on the road in the middle of the night? The leader of the convoy, Qian Zong Guan Xiong sneered, waved his customary long-handled broadsword in the air, paused heavily in front of him, and shouted at everyone, "What are you doing in a daze?" The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and we will see it under our hands later! ”
Infected by him, the people in the convoy, who were originally a little uneasy, gradually settled down, checked their weapons and armor, and prepared for the upcoming battle. And the other two leaders of the team, the swordsman Shen Yi and the hundred president Xu Hai, also put on a posture of being ready for battle.
"This formation is too big!" Wu Xie looked at it for a while and couldn't estimate how many robbers had come, so he couldn't help but complain, "Where did we get such a big face?" So many people were dispatched...... What exactly do they want to do? There are only some worthless grains here, and they run this trip in the middle of the night, aren't they afraid that they won't even be able to earn back the carriage and horse fare? ”
"They're definitely going to lose money!" Lao Bai, who usually tells stories with kind eyebrows, smiled heroically, and pulled the steel knife in his hand that had accompanied him for many years in the rivers and lakes, "Just use their blood to commemorate my withdrawal from the rivers and lakes!" ”
Uncle...... Do you think you didn't die fast enough? Before the war, what did you say about quitting the rivers and lakes...... I don't know if the predecessors of the rivers and lakes of Lu Dao often died in the last battle before quitting the rivers and lakes?
Wu Xie secretly complained in his heart, his hand was not slow at all, and he had already drawn a thick-backed knife from the spare weapon pile, although it was still a bit light for him, but I believe it was enough to cut those robbers into four pieces!
He will never be soft on the bastards who dare to rob the disaster relief convoy!