Chapter 55: The Green Tribulation
Time is like an arrow, it is half a moon in a flash, the summer heat has just risen, and the spring has not yet disappeared.
On this day, the drizzle is beginning to be clear, the sun is bright, along the official road of Chenzhou to a cluster of people and horses, the people on the horse are mostly dressed as officers and soldiers, and there are more than a dozen carts of goods in the middle, each with a sandalwood box, but the horses go very easily.
The group gradually approached, and saw two people in the crowd, each in civilian clothes.
A snow-white curly horse sat down immediately, in his fifties, with a mustache under his chin, and a soap gauze corner scarf on his head, not tall, with a dark complexion, although he was dressed in brocade clothes, he did not have the momentum of being an official.
Beside this man sat an old man of seventy or eighty years old, wearing a black satin robe, with white beard and hair, a pair of bright eyes, and a five-foot-long wooden battle in his hand, which was black and shining, shining like metal in the sun.
There was also a young man of about thirty years of age sitting on a red horse, dressed in a military uniform, with light eyebrows and small eyes, and a mediocre appearance.
The group walked for several miles, only to see a village in front of them, and under dozens of locust trees next to the village, many people were leaning over to dig something. When I got closer, I saw dozens of people, old and young, all in ragged clothes and hungry faces, digging grass roots and tree bark.
In the wind, the sound of a baby crying can be heard from time to time.
The young man wondered, "What are they digging these things for? Is there another famine?"
The old man sighed, "Heaven is impermanent, drought and flood are not timely, I think the local farmers have no food in stock, so they are hungry and do not choose food." Alas, this is not far from the rock, but at the feet of the Son of Heaven. But that's what it looks like. ”
The young man said, "The people have no food and clothing, so why don't the officials give some money and food relief?"
The man in his fifties said, "This Li Hongfu himself only knows how to train the army every day, and his subordinates are only good at throwing themselves to the peak, who cares about the life and death of the people." ”
The old man said: "This kind of country thinks that the world is to be ruled by force, and now the people's livelihood is like this, as long as the first war is lost in the near future, the country will collapse." ”
The young man said, "No wonder we can walk here in a military uniform, no one cares." ”
The old man said, "It's better arranged by the palace master." ”
The fifty-something man just smiled.
The young man asked again, "Lord of the Palace, is this journey too peaceful?" ”
The palace lord still smiled and said, "We have the real military documents of Baishi City, as long as we arrive at Shiqiao Mountain in the afternoon, I have already arranged there." ”
As they walked through the village, the hungry people only looked at them from afar, and even the crying of the children was quiet.
Shiguo is now mainly military and political, and the food is heavy, and Shiguo itself is short of food, and the caravan of Yue has not come for half a month, and some villages have insufficient food.
The old man said again: "When I came out of Qingxuan this time, I heard that Shiguo had already gathered grain and grass, and it seems that it is really going to war. We must be extra careful not to let the trust of the head of the family be disappointed. ”
"Elder Ma rest assured. ”
Elder Ma turned back to the others and said, "Jian Yue, how far is this place from Rock City City?"
Behind him, a man dressed as an officer in the car replied, "Elder Hui, it's only a hundred miles away from the rock." ”
Elder Ma nodded and said: "The palace lord asked you to change into military uniforms, it has been too safe along the way, now everyone cheer up, don't make mistakes......" Before the words fell, there were more than a dozen people from Qingxuan behind him who respectfully agreed.
Elder Ma looked at the Qingxuan people around him, thinking in his heart that since Qingxuan entered the world for ten years, his power has increased greatly, but everyone in the faction is upset, and they all want to make contributions in the Yang Kingdom and achieve the great achievements of Zhao Changfeng back then, but as a result, there are also many disputes in the faction.
Now these people are the good hands he asked for from the Qingxuan faction, Pokong is the head of the new Seven Swords, and he has been in the Lingzhu Country for a while, although the opportunity is not enough, but the force is superior.
Although Wang Yongheng, the palace master of Xuanzhan Palace, is not an outstanding person in martial arts, he is delicate, and the Xuanzhan Palace led by him is also a department specially used to collect intelligence and arrange eyeliner.
In addition, there are ten heroes in the middle of the ten who are also gloomy and ruthless, and the ten people brought by the ten people brought by the Qing Xuan faction are the original investigators of the Qingxuan faction in the stone country, and the martial arts are poor, but they understand the geography and human feelings of the stone country, which is very beneficial to this mission. There are also ten people with clothes bulging on their backs, they are all masters of the Qingxuan Guiling Palace, and five of them have been able to control two flying swords.
After everyone entered the stone country from all over the country, the palace lord took the military document of Baishi City, and everyone could carry weapons openly and honestly, and they would not be checked, and there were many soldiers walking around along the way, and they were not conspicuous.
After they walked by, a villager pulled out a piece of paper behind them, and the paper was painted on the ordinary face of the broken sky.
The group walked out of the road for seven or eight miles, left the official road, and walked into the mountains. Everyone was in no one's place, took off their uniforms, put them in boxes, changed into the clothes of the dart game, and became dart walkers.
In several villages in the mountains, a year ago, the people of Qingxuan threw some poison, and many of the villagers were poisoned, so they thought that there was an epidemic, and everyone moved out, and now there is no one in the mountain.
After walking for another twenty or thirty miles, Elder Ma asked everyone to stop and sent a few people to take a look around.
Po Kong took out a piece of sauce meat and ate it with a pot of water, Elder Ma only took out a piece of soft cake and ate it carefully.
He is now nearly ninety, although he has a lot of kung fu, but he can't live forever, and now he often has discord in his blood and blood, his body is sad, and he has lost a lot of teeth, and the day of the end is not far away. Only at this time did he envy the masters of the Xuan Sect, who could live more than a hundred years and still be in good health, although there were too few such people.
"How old is it?"
Pokong was asked by Elder Ma's headache, "Father, I'm thirty-three, I want to start a family now, I'll find it when I go back, give birth to a daughter next year, and then give birth to a son, let my son not learn martial arts, but become a big official!"
These days, Elder Ma is persuading him to start a family and have children almost every day. Every day, the words are "Breaking the sky, how old are you?"
Twenty years ago, the Qingxuan faction was designed for outsiders, and there was a great civil strife, which took several months to subside, he grew up watching the people in his sect die, and he couldn't tolerate the death of Qingxuan people in his heart, but he didn't take the death of others as a thing.
only took the practice of peerless martial arts as the whole of his life, and he never thought about starting a family at all. And if you want to practice peerless martial arts, you must obey the master, you can kill anyone for the orders of the master, and killing has become a means of success, this kind of psychology was difficult to gain a foothold in the sect before, but now it has become the most popular mentality of the young Qingxuan faction.
"Uh-huh......" Of course, Elder Ma wouldn't just be blocked by him.
"You haven't practiced the exercises of the Xuan School. Didn't Zhang Changsheng, who had practiced the exercises of the Xuan School, betray Qingxuan for a woman twenty years ago? ”
When everyone heard this, they all burst into laughter, and the sky was a big red face.
"Uncle Shi, you have such a flowery heart, you can't call your father. ”
Elder Ma is really old enough to be his grandfather. Breaking the sky is a strange person in Qingxuan, Huang Kun saw that he was extraordinary when he was a child, and accepted him as a disciple, in Qingxuan, he is already higher than many people in their fifties and sixties.
The crowd was still laughing, and after an hour, the people who had gone out came back and said that there was nothing wrong with the neighborhood.
And they walked towards the hill not far away.
The mountains here are not high, and there are not many trees, but the grass grows tall and green. The mountains were quiet, and not even a single bird was seen.
Everyone entered an old temple on the hill, there was no one in the temple for a long time, but it was not too dilapidated, the houses were fine, but the grass and trees on the ground were everywhere, except for the main hall, the houses on both sides could be inhabited.
When they had settled, it was already dark, and they were ready to cook.
Wang Yongheng took a few steps forward and walked to Elder Ma's side, Elder Ma understood, and the two walked outside the house, Wang Yongheng whispered that this time the head of the family had made up his mind to get rid of Li Hongfu and Lin Fenghuo. Now that the Shi Country's naval army has gone upstream, it is estimated that it may attack the Yang Kingdom when the water rises in the summer. The Star Hanging Sword and the people from the Chaheng Hall are also rushing here, maybe they will arrive in a while.
Elder Ma didn't say anything after hearing this, he strongly supported Qing Xuan's entry into the matter back then, and now Qing Xuan is indeed much stronger, but he still doesn't know what the head of the family wants to do, but the friendship between the head of the family and him for decades, and he is ambitious, he must do a big thing that will make Qing Xuan pass down through the ages.
Now that the years are old, there are not many days to go, and I just want to return to Qingxuan Mountain to spend the rest of my years after solving the affairs abroad.
He didn't think deeply about Wang Yongheng's lack of mentioning "that thing", in fact, the matter of the jade pendant had been handed over to the Xinghui Sword by Nagato.
Elder Ma asked the palace master what arrangements he had made to solve the problem with the Emperor of Shiguo.
The palace master said, "Up to now, the people of Lei Huotang have always been by Li Hongfu's side, but Li Hongfu likes to hunt, and usually likes to fish by the lake, so we just need to seize the opportunity to hit our lives with one blow." ”
Elder Ma felt that what the palace master said was too simple, and there were no details, but there was plenty of time to study it carefully.
At this time, under the mountain, a rocket rushed into the sky, illuminating the air, Elder Ma and everyone in the house were shocked, Breaking the Sky and Jian Yue had already taken the lead outside the house, and the other Qingxuan faction people also followed
http://h5.17k.com/inc/fragment/0/3670.html
[Solve the book shortage] total click over one billion high-quality book collection to watch for free for a limited time!