Chapter 37: After the Village Chief's Self-Determination (Seeking Follow-up)
The little boy continued to cry and pointed in the direction of the mountain.
"It's the evil spirits in the mountains, they came down last night."
"They killed a lot of people, they took a lot of people, and these demons come once a month."
"My aunt was caught up the mountain by them, and my grandmother was also killed by them, they are evil ghosts."
"I saw the evil spirit, riding a tall horse, and he smiled at me and threw me at the foot of the wall."
Last night, just last night, perhaps when those Qiang soldiers were slaughtered, the village of Liusha, dozens of miles away, was experiencing the worst torture in the world.
Thinking of the sack like hell on earth, Jiang Changan's heart felt like oil was rolling through.
In the bones of the Chinese people, the concept of hoeing the strong and helping the weak has been deeply imprinted in the genes, and Jiang Changan is no exception.
How unsatisfactory is my own life, when I see the plight of others, I will still be unable to stop empathy, which is the innate blood inheritance of Chinese children.
If I wanted to raze the quicksand village before, I wanted to quickly improve my strength, but now Jiang Changan looked at the thin child in front of him, and the quicksand village was already on the blacklist in Jiang Changan's heart.
"Come with us, kid, you can eat all-you-can-eat corn."
A simple sentence is like a warm sun shining into the boy's heart, and the boy seems to have grasped a life-saving straw.
If Jiang Changan hadn't come to Liusha Village today, maybe there would have been a small corpse in Liusha Village two or three days later, which is too normal in this absurd world.
Walking to the village immediately after the children arrived at Chen Ran, the doors of every house were closed, the broken fence walls and broken wooden beams could be seen everywhere, and the quicksand village was in ruins.
"Nuwazi, is there anyone left in the village?"
The boy shook his head and said he didn't know, and only pointed out the way to the village chief's house for Jiang Changan.
The gate of the village chief's house was closed, and the courtyard was full of potholes, and there were faint traces of blood.
Jiang Changan stepped forward and knocked on the door for a long time, but there was no movement in the house, the wooden door was not fastened firmly, and Jiang Changan pushed the door open with a forceful push.
The body of this man was displayed on the couch in the hall, covered in knife wounds and blood, and had been dead for a long time.
And on the bed in the room, there was an old man who was about to die, and he was as angry as a gossamer.
When the slave saw the old man, she began to cry again, and cried out with sorrow in her mouth.
"The village chief, it's the village chief."
Jiang Changan hurriedly went to probe the village chief's snort, and hurriedly helped him up and fed some water, and the village chief slowly eased up.
The village chief opened his eyes and saw Jiang Changan and the others, and squinted at the corpse of the man on the table, his face was full of wrinkles and trembling, and sorrow came from it.
"I am Chang'an Chang'an, the village leader of Chang'an Village, what happened last night? How did the village come to this! ”
The village chief saw that Jiang Changan and a few people were carrying slaves, holding water bags in their hands, and he also understood that Jiang Changan had saved him, so he struggled to sit up and said weakly.
"Zhao Chongliu, the head of Liusha Village, thank you."
Zhao Chongliu told Jiang Changan about last night's events, and Jiang Chang listened quietly to the old man's story.
There is a rule in the quicksand village, once a month to go down the mountain to smash the kiln, the first is the quicksand village, radiating the surrounding villages.
The villagers of Liusha Village live in misery under the obscenity of Liusha Village.
In the past, the people of the quicksand village went down the mountain to grab some money, grain and livestock, and they could still live.
In such a world, there are many people who want to go to Quicksand Village and starve to death in the middle of the road.
They also tried to go to Wuwei County to report to the official, but the next day after each report, the people of Liusha Village would go down the mountain again to loot.
But just yesterday, the rogues of the quicksand village went down the mountain again, this time it was no longer as gentle as before, burning, smashing and looting, like evil ghosts preying.
Quicksand Village is like a dead tree under the residual sun, and the impact of this night has cut off the last vitality of the entire village.
Young men and women were captured and killed on the spot in defiance, and the food and materials in the village were swept away.
What a good village can turn into a living hell overnight.
After speaking, Zhao Chongliu had tears in his eyes, tremblingly climbed out of bed and came to the corpse on the couch, touched his cheek and cried loudly.
"Son, it's because my father is useless and can't protect your life, so I'm here to accompany you."
After Zhao Chongliu finished speaking, he turned around and said to Jiang Changan sadly.
"My lord, you are an alien and a good person."
"There are still some old and young people left in the village, they are all lonely people, I can't stand them, I beg the adults to save them, and the old people will die without regrets."
With that, the village chief used the last of his strength, and his forehead slammed into the corner of the table, and blood flowed on the ground.
"No!"
Jiang Changan found that there was something wrong in the old man's words, and hurriedly prepared to step forward to stop him, but it was still too late, and he watched Zhao Chongliu die in front of him.
Maybe this kind of thing often happens in the land of China, but when it appeared in front of him, Jiang Changan realized how heartbroken and disgusted he was for such a bad act.
Jiang Changan is not a saint, but there is still a bottom line.
He can go to war, he can go to expand his territory, but he must not accept the unarmed opponent raising a butcher's knife.
This is also one of the reasons why he won the hearts of the people when he was in Yizhou in his previous life.
Other aliens often slaughter the city in order to quickly accumulate resources, but Jiang Chang'an has not had it, not once.
Zhao Chongliu's initiative to seek death made Jiang Changan's killing intent towards the quicksand village stronger and stronger.
These demons must be killed!
Jiang Changan made up his mind, his eyes changed from sad to cold, just as he said to Zhang Juzheng before, stop the war with war, and the war can be done.
sent someone to inform Zhang Juzheng to come and pick up the people in the village to return to the village, and Jiang Changan continued to run towards the foot of the mountain with the rest of the people.
After about an hour, the terrain of the quicksand village was clearly felt by Jiang Chang'an.
The road to the north side of the quicksand village is not steep or even very gentle, and the slope of the slope climbs up, and it will not be long before you can come to the quicksand village in the clearing on the top of the mountain.
Afraid of startling the snakes, Jiang Chang'an did not get too close, and after noting down the terrain distribution and water system, he withdrew to Chang'an Village.
After Zhang Juzheng received the news, he accepted all the survivors of Liusha Village into the village, and received a thousand thanks from Liusha Village.
When he returned to Chang'an Village, it was almost noon, Jiang Changan sat in the house and carefully recalled the mountains and rivers he had walked through today, and every bit of it gradually appeared in Jiang Changan's mind.
Col, steep slope to the south, mountain road to the north, underground stream......
Every corner was completely searched by Jiang Changan, and when he thought of a place, Jiang Changan suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Underground streams!
According to the villagers, there is a self-used well in the quicksand village, and the well leads directly to the underground stream.
Jiang Changan took out a package of things from his arms, which was the laxative that he bought out of boredom at Zhang Haoxiu's house at that time!
If you attack the village tonight and sprinkle the laxative from the underground stream in advance, the underground stream will flow slowly, as long as you control the time and wait for the water to be used in the pot to cook in the village, then the laxative can play a miraculous effect.
The combat effectiveness of Liusha Village has dropped by at least half, which is good news for the capture of Chang'an Village.
While he was thinking, there was a knock at the door.
Jiang Changan opened the door, and Zhang Juzheng bowed respectfully and said.
"Lord, General Huang's family is here!"
Jiang Changan raised his eyebrows, sorted out his clothes and walked out of the village.