Chapter 514

These three old men are all highly respected people in Xiaozhu Village.

They are highly respected, not only because they are old, but also because they are the three most powerful masters in Xiaozhu Village, each of whom is the fifth layer of the Starlight Realm.

Among the nearby villages, Xiaozhu Village has the highest status and the strongest strength, and has always held the right to speak.

But now, these three old men are frowning and their faces are full of sorrow.

The first old man has white hair, crane hair and a childish face, his body is still burly, and his momentum is the most powerful, standing in the middle.

To the left of the old man was a man with age spots on his face, small and with an extraordinarily cold gaze.

The old man on the right is sitting on a chair, his face sallow and pale, and he looks very weak.

Three days ago, Xiaozhu Village, which had never been a bandit, was actually targeted by a gang of bandits, who not only injured more than 20 young people in Xiaozhu Village, but also robbed more than a dozen women.

This is an unbearable humiliation for Xiaozhu Village.

So, Zhu Zhiming, the old man sitting on the chair, personally came forward and confronted the bandits.

But among the bandits, there is a master of the seventh layer of the Starlight Realm.

Zhu Zhiming broke his legs on the spot and suffered serious internal injuries.

If it weren't for the other two old men who arrived in time, I was afraid that Zhu Zhiming would have lost his life.

But the reason why that bandit from the seventh layer of the Starlight Realm was willing to take people away was not because he couldn't defeat him.

With the strength of the seventh layer of his Starlight Realm, he would definitely be able to crush these three old men with ease.

The reason why the bandit left with the living bandit was because of Zhu Zhishan, the head of Xiaozhu Village, who was the burly old man with white hair at the scene.

Zhu Zhishan's daughter is the wife of the city lord of nearby Luo Fei City.

It is precisely with this relationship that Xiaozhu Village has been able to develop rapidly in the past few decades, with the most fertile land, the best crop seeds, and the crops grown can also be directly provided to the city lord's mansion without worrying about sales.

But the key is that Zhu Zhishan's daughter died of illness five years ago.

Since then, the communication between Xiaozhu Village and the City Lord's Mansion has been broken.

Even Zhu Zhishan is not his son-in-law who is the city lord, and will he stand up for Xiaozhu Village.

After all, the leader of the bandits, when he left, let go of cruel words.

He said he would come back in half a month.

If Xiaozhu Village can invite people from the City Lord's Mansion to come, he will never step into Xiaozhu Village again in the future without saying a word.

But if Xiaozhu Village can't invite people from the City Lord's Mansion, then it is necessary to prepare fifty young and beautiful girls, and let the gang of bandits take away the harvest of Xiaozhu Village for three years.

Zhu Zhishan personally went to Luo Fei City.

But he couldn't even enter the City Lord's Mansion.

He told the guards at the gate that his daughter was the wife of the lord of the castle.

But the guard said that the current wife of the city lord is surnamed Wang, and her surname is Zhu at all.

Only then did Zhu Zhishan know that it turned out that Luo Fei, the city lord, had already married another wife.

After returning to Xiaozhu Village, Zhu Zhishan immediately gathered the villagers of the entire Xiaozhu Village to discuss how to resolve the crisis.

At this time, the old man, who was short in stature and full of age spots, said coldly:

"Don't even speak, don't you want to be infamy?!"

"If you don't say it, I say!"

Zhu Zhihai glanced at Zhu Zhiming's broken legs, and snorted coldly:

"Otherwise, we will fight with them until we are killed in Xiaozhu Village!"

"But even if we die, they will still snatch the women of our Xiaozhu Village and take all our food."

"I wish Zhihai to put the words here, to resist, I will rush forward, I will not escape, anyway, I am a lot older, it doesn't hurt to die!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhihai looked at the more than 300 people in the ancestral hall and asked coldly, "But do you dare?"

As soon as this questioning sentence came out, except for a few sparse words of "dare".

, The other villagers all lowered their heads, not daring to meet Zhu Zhihai's gaze.

Zhu Zhihai seemed to have expected the reaction of the villagers, so he said coldly:

"Let's go the next day!"

"Prepare the women and food that the gang of bandits wanted, let them take them, and stabilize them first."

"Those bandits are insatiable people, and if they get a benefit from our Xiaozhu Village once, they will come to our Xiaozhu Village again and again."

"When we don't have the power to resist, whether it's five, ten, twenty or thirty years, we can only swallow our anger."

"Okay, I'm done," Zhu Zhihai glanced at Zhu Zhishan and Zhu Zhiming, and then his gaze swept over all the village names present:

"What do you think you should choose?"

A group of villagers still didn't speak.

Zhu Zhihai snorted coldly: "If you don't speak, that's the second option."

"Fifty young women who have not yet come out of the court, to be chosen from every house, and the food to be handed over is to be gathered from the other houses."

"If a daughter is born in the family, in the next three years, each family will receive an extra person's income."

"Now, those who have daughters in the family are out!"

The voice landed and echoed throughout the ancestral hall.

But none of them came out on the list.

Zhu Zhihai's expression became colder.

He looked at a man standing in the corner and scolded, "Zhu Shikuan, if I'm not mistaken, your family has two daughters, your eldest daughter married into the city last year, and the second daughter is only two years younger, right?"

The man named Zhu Shikuan instantly knelt on the ground and said timidly:

"Ancestor, I..."

"Shut up!" Zhu Zhihai said coldly: "This is not your family's business, you have no right to refuse!"

Zhu Zhiming, who had not spoken, patted his broken legs at this time, and said in a deep voice:

"Otherwise, let's take the whole village and leave Xiaozhu Village, I don't believe it, that gang of bandits can still chase us to the ends of the earth!"

"The girls in the village are all grown up by us, and no one is willing to do it."

Zhu Zhishan, who was the strongest, shook his head at this time:

"Leaving Xiaozhu Village, where our ancestors have relied for their survival, we can live, and the young people in the village can live."

"But the elderly and children in the village can't bear it."

Zhu Zhiming nodded: "Then let the young people take the children away, we old guys will be in the village, and if we die, we will die, it doesn't matter."

Zhu Zhishan still shook his head.

"I'll go to the City Lord's Mansion again, it is the duty of the City Lord's Mansion to eradicate bandits."

"If you really can't do it, just send all the food in our village to the City Lord's Mansion, there will always be a way."

The three most powerful elders in the village could not agree on their opinions, and the others in the ancestral hall did not know what to do.

They could only look at Zhu Zhishan and the three of them with anxious faces, and they could only be anxious.

At this moment, Zhu Zhiming, who was short-legged, suddenly said:

"Why don't we go to Hirayama and find the Izumo fairy who lives there?"

Hearing this, Zhu Zhishan and Zhu Zhihai both frowned.

Zhu Zhihai said in a deep voice, "Fairy Izumo does often act righteously, and when we were young, we heard about the deeds of Fairy Izumo."

"It's an age, Izumo Fairy is only afraid that she's old now, so I'm not sure if she's willing to help us or not, I'm not sure if she's still alive."

Zhu Zhishan frowned and pondered, nodded and said, "Then the soldiers will be divided into two ways."

"I'll go to Pingshan to find the Yun Fairy, Zhu Zhihai, you go to the people of the City Lord's Mansion and ask them to come forward again to quell the bandits."

Zhu Zhihai nodded.

"Zhu Zhiming," Zhu Zhishan looked at Zhu Zhiming who was sitting on the chair, and said in a deep voice: "The village will be handed over to you first, if the gang of bandits comes in advance before we come back, you will immediately organize the people in the village to escape, as for whether they are dead or alive in the future, they can only settle their own destiny."

After that, I wish

Zhishan glanced at the villagers gathered in the ancestral hall and said, "It's useless to be in a hurry, just go back to your own house, do your work in the fields, pack up your things, and be ready to withdraw at any time."

After speaking, Zhu Zhishan walked directly towards the door of the ancestral hall and quickly disappeared.

Zhu Zhihai glanced around coldly and walked away.

Zhu Zhiming, who was sitting in the chair, sighed.

"Alright, let's disperse."

All the villagers left the ancestral hall one after another.

Hirayama, thousands of miles away from Kotake Village.

It is said that a thousand years ago, it was the site of a cottage of bandits.

Later, the gang of bandits was killed by a master, and Hirayama became the dojo of the strong man.

The name and complete deeds of that master are no longer verified.

But the deeds of the Izumo fairy are well known.

It is said that the Izumo fairy is the apprentice grandson of the master on Hirayama, and he has been chivalrous and righteous all his life, and he is famous all over the world.

Although the Izumo fairy is not a peerless powerhouse, she is more praised than those peerless powerhouses.

After all, compared to ordinary people, peerless powerhouses only exist in legends, and they are existences that they cannot touch in their lifetime.

But the people Izumo Fairy has helped, and the villages he has helped, there are still many of them today.

Pingshan is just an ordinary mountain, with curling smoke.

From a distance, it is impossible to see that there are houses on the flat hill at all.

Zhuzhi Mountain, who came all the way, stepped out of a path in the forest, and finally approached the top of the mountain.

On the gentle slope of the mountaintop, a small vegetable patch has been carved out, in which some ordinary vegetables are grown, and occasionally you can see a few fruit trees full of fruit.

Under a lush fruit tree, there is a thatched hut, the thatch on the roof has been beaten by wind and rain all year round, and has turned black.

Zhu Zhishan stood in front of the thatched hut, and his eyes subconsciously looked at the several graves on the right.

The grave is not large, and there is no monument.

But in front of every grave, there are incense candles that are still burning.

At this time, a young woman was coming out of the thatched hut, and after seeing Zhu Zhishan, she was not surprised, but slowly spoke:

"Fairy Izumo, you've passed away, so go back."

Hearing this, Zhu Zhishan was stunned for a moment, and after a long time, he let out a long sigh.

He bowed to the young woman, bowed to the row of graves, and then turned around with a disappointed face.

The young woman frowned slightly.

"Is the old gentleman in trouble?"

"The little girl apprenticed to the Izumo fairy, although she is not good at learning, she can also solve some small troubles."

Hearing that this young woman was an apprentice of the Izumo Fairy, Zhu Zhishan's face turned straight, and he arched his hand again, "Since you are a disciple of the Izumo Fairy, I can't let you die."

"Thank you, little fairy, for your kindness."

In Zhu Zhishan's subconscious, the young woman in front of him, even if she was an apprentice of the Izumo Fairy, would not be stronger than himself.

After all, this girl is too young.

Seeing that Zhu Zhishan was still benevolent, the young woman slowly dispersed the momentum on her body.

Feeling this momentum, Zhu Zhishan was stunned for a moment, because he was shocked to find that this young woman, like him, was actually the fifth layer of the Starlight Realm.

But after a short period of stunned, Zhu Zhishan sighed.

Even if this woman was at the fifth layer of the Starlight Realm, she would not be the opponent of that gang of bandits, after all, the leader of that gang of bandits was the seventh layer of the Starlight Realm.

Seeing Zhu Zhishan's reaction, the young woman knew that her strength could not help, so she could only hold her fists:

"I'm sorry I couldn't help you."

Zhu Zhishan shook his head, "I appreciate the girl's kindness."

After speaking, Zhu Zhishan turned around and was about to walk down the mountain.

However, a man and a woman, two figures, suddenly appeared in his sight.

Not surprisingly, it was Xiao Zhan and Ye Wei who came.

When Zhu Zhishan passed by Xiao Zhan and Ye Wei, he slowly shook his head and said:

"You're here to ask Fairy Izumo for help, right?"

"The Izumo Fairy has passed away, and now on this flat mountain, there is only one disciple of the Izumo Fairy, who is the fifth layer of the Starlight Realm."

Hearing Zhu Zhishan's kind reminder, Xiao Zhan nodded with a smile, and then continued to walk towards the top of the mountain.

Zhu Shan watched Xiao Zhan and Ye Wei continue to go up the mountain, and guessed that Xiao Zhan was not in much trouble, and he could still laugh.

But just as Zhu Zhishan was about to leave, Xiao Zhan suddenly turned around and said with a smile:

"Where is the old gentleman from?"

Zhu Zhishan is not a person who can lie, and said casually, "Xiaozhu Village."

After speaking, Zhu Zhishan strode towards the foot of the mountain.

At the same time, Xiao Zhan and Ye Wei also came to the top of the mountain.

Looking at the young woman who was walking towards the hut, Xiao Zhan slowly smiled and said:

"Excuse me, fairy, are you the apprentice of fairy Izumo?"

The young woman turned her head slowly, still saying the same as before:

"Fairy Izumo has passed away, you go back..."

Before he could say anything, he stopped abruptly.

Shen Luoyan looked at Xiao Zhan and Ye Wei, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

"Brother Xiao, Ye Wei, why are you here?"

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