After leaving the county seat in the south, Wang Cheng, Liu Qingsheng and others sped up.

On the road, I saw a lot of pedestrians, many of whom were dragging their families, with cloth towels wrapped around their heads, and they looked like they had migrated from Liuzhou.

Liu Qingsheng sat on horseback, looked at the people who were walking east with them, and said, "In just ten days, I didn't expect the people of Liuzhou to have arrived here. ”

"Liuzhou has a population of nearly one million, and just one Nanli county is not enough to house them." Wang Cheng said.

Liu Qingsheng said: "Nanli and Xiqi counties have just suffered a catastrophe, and the population is not one out of ten, and now there are so many people moving over, it won't be long before the two counties will return to their former prosperity, and the plan left by the adults is really a miracle." ”

Wang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Secretly, I don't know how many people scold me!" ”

Liu Qingsheng thought to himself, it's good that you still know this, that strategy can be called a "desperate plan".

Wang Cheng didn't know what Liu Qingsheng was thinking, his legs were clamped, and the green thunder under his crotch turned into a gust of wind.

"Let's go! Let's go to Xiqi County and take a look! ”

A group of eight people rushed to Xiqi County non-stop, and they arrived in Xiqi County a few hours later.

This is the second time Wang Cheng has come here, the last time he came was at night, and he couldn't see anything, but now standing at the foot of Xiqi County, he felt something completely different.

The city wall is not high, only six or seven meters, and it is not even half of the county seat in the south.

But the walls reveal a unique atmosphere, which is the vicissitudes of time.

"Xiqi?!"

Wang Cheng thought of a place, more precisely, "Romance of the Gods".

Xiqi in "The Romance of the Gods" is the Wang Ji of the Zhou Dynasty and the place where the Zhou Dynasty made its fortune.

The dynasty in which Wang Cheng is now located is also called the Great Zhou, and the land under his feet is also called Xiqi.

Could there be some connection between the two?

At this time, Liu Qingsheng looked at the city and said: "I haven't seen you for many years, Xiqi still hasn't changed." ”

"Mr. Fei is from Xiqi County?" Wang Cheng asked curiously.

He knew that Liu Qingsheng was from Huangzhou, but he hadn't heard Liu Qingsheng say where he was from Huangzhou, and he didn't ask carefully.

"It's a lowly ancestral land! It was here that he was born, and later went to Ji County with his grandfather. Liu Qingsheng said abruptly.

Seeing that he was depressed, Wu Feilong pretended to be relaxed and said: "Then we can be regarded as having reached Mr.'s territory, and Mr. has to do his best to fulfill the friendship of the landlord." ”

Wang Cheng frowned, nearly 20 years have passed, Xiqi County has long been a matter of people, not to mention that it has only suffered from war here, Liu Qingsheng may not even be able to see an acquaintance.

However, after seeing Liu Qingsheng's eyes rejuvenated, he nodded and said: "Since it is the ancestral land of Mr., I should stay for a while, anyway, I am not in a hurry to return to Beijing for a while." ”

"Good!"

Liu Qingsheng took the lead, and Wang Cheng and others rushed to Xiqi County one step ahead.

The city is not as dead silent as you imagined, and it is full of busy figures.

Some people are opening restaurants, some are busy cleaning up dilapidated houses, and some people are shouting to buy children......

The county seat of Xiqi has just experienced a massacre, and only 10,000 or 20,000 of the city's original population of 100,000 have survived, and almost every household has been killed or injured.

There is basically nothing lost in the family's belongings, but when the people are gone, what is the use of having money?

There are also many poor people in Liuzhou, who have just migrated over, and they have to raise children on the one hand, but they can't support more children.

The city was noisy.

Although there are soldiers patrolling the streets, they don't pay attention to them, as long as there is no disturbance.

Wang Cheng had already turned over and dismounted, leading Qinglei, witnessing everything in the city, with an expressionless face.

"Adults are noisy?" Liu Qingsheng said.

Wang Cheng shook his head, and after a long time before he spoke: "I'm thinking...... War! ”

"War?!"

Liu Qingsheng didn't understand what Wang Cheng meant, and tried to say: "Fight!" There will definitely be casualties, unless there is no more war one day, this ...... Impossible. ”

"The world is unified." Wang Cheng said suddenly.

Liu Qingsheng was shocked, and looked at Wang Cheng walking beside him with a shocked expression.

How dare you think so, my lord!

Now there are many powerful enemies around the Great Zhou, although the Great Zhou is still the most powerful country, but if you want to destroy other countries and dominate the world, the possibility is extremely slim.

Unless the Great Zhou royal family can produce another martial arts supreme, there must be a male lord like King Xuan, so that this is possible. But the first one can't be realized, so it's basically impossible for Da Zhou to dominate the world.

Several people were tall and vertical, even Liu Qingsheng was a little taller than ordinary people, and they all brought weapons, and they didn't go far in the city before they were stopped by the armor soldiers patrolling the city.

Wu Feilong stepped forward to show his waist card to the patrolling soldier, and the soldier's pupils shrank and he hurriedly let him go.

It wasn't until Wang Cheng and his party walked away that another young armorer approached his companion and asked what he had just seen.

"The military supervisor of the defenders in the south!"

Hearing what his companion said, the young armor soldier suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly looked at the backs that were about to disappear, and exclaimed: "I heard that General Wang is going back to Beijing, it can't be General Wang just now, right?" ”

"It should be!"

Receiving an affirmative reply from his companion, the young soldier jumped up directly from the spot and said, "General Wang! O General Wang! Why did you just let him go? ”

"Don't let him go? Do you have the ability to fucking stop him and try it? ”

The young soldier's face instantly turned the color of pig liver, did he think he was impatient to live?

It's just that when he thought that he missed the world-famous general, he felt a sigh of regret.

"Don't be sad kid, I guess General Wang won't leave for a while, when you kid sees him."

Hearing what his companion said, the young soldier was in a better mood, but then he asked, "Why didn't General Wang leave?" ”

"I heard that the plane tree on the Qishan outside the city has bloomed, and many people from the rivers and lakes are rushing there these days, and it is estimated that there is something to be born."

The young armor soldier was stunned, remembered some legends, and said: "Those plane trees on Qishan have not bloomed for many years, and it is said that every time they bloom, they will attract phoenixes, is this true?" ”

"Who knows! Anyway, that's how it was rumored, and no one has ever seen what the phoenix looks like. ”

……

Just as the two soldiers were discussing, Wang Cheng and Liu Qingsheng came to the southeast corner of the county.

There is no prosperity and grandeur in the city, the houses are simple, the land is muddy, dirty and messy, livestock excrement can be seen everywhere, and the environment is worse than in the countryside.

However, there are people in every household here, and there is no case where a family has been wiped out.

When Wang Cheng and his party came here, several children were chasing and fighting in the alley barefoot.

"It's really a blessing and a blessing to rely on, and a blessing to be in waiting. The conditions in the city are so good, but they suffer the worst, and the conditions here are so bad, but they narrowly escaped the massacre. Wu Feilong sighed.

"Since ancient times, wars have always been the first to attack densely populated areas, such as a village only ten or twenty miles apart, often before the enemy army arrives, the people in the village have already run away, so the impact of war is smaller."

Wang Cheng explained the real reason in one sentence, and then looked at Liu Qingsheng on the side, and said, "Sir, which place is your ancestral home?" ”

Liu Qingsheng pointed to a plane tree not far away and said, "That plane tree has been planted in my yard since I can remember, so many years have passed, but I didn't expect it to be there." ”

Suddenly, his eyes froze, and he was extremely surprised: "This sycamore tree has bloomed!" ”

"It's the middle of July, isn't it normal for the plane trees to bloom? In other places, the plane trees bloom in May and June. Wang Cheng was puzzled.

"Adults don't know that the sycamore trees in Xiqi never bloom, so it is said that this is waiting for a phoenix." Liu Qingsheng explained.

Wang Cheng said in disbelief: "Is there really a phoenix in this world?" ”

He has seen demon beasts, crocodile dragons, and dragons, but he has not seen the legendary real dragon, whether the real dragon exists is still unknown, and the phoenix, which is as famous as the real dragon, naturally does not know whether it really exists.

"According to the older generation, some people have seen it, but there is no way to prove whether they have actually seen it." Liu Qingsheng said.

Wang Cheng said: "Let's not talk about whether there is a phoenix or not, there are people in your ancestral house." ”

"Huh??"

Liu Qingsheng sighed lightly, and then led Wang Cheng and the others towards the ancestral house.

As soon as they arrived at the door, an old man with white hair walked out of the courtyard.

The old man, dressed in a patched gown, hunched over and on crutches, paused for every two steps before taking the next step.

Liu Qingsheng looked at the old man for a while, and tried to shout, "Third master? ”

The old man tilted his head to look at Liu Qingsheng and said, "Which distinguished guest are you?" ”

"Third master, I'm a child! Birthday! Liu Qingsheng raised his voice and said.

"Having children? Didn't the Shengzi family all be killed by Xia Gou? The old man said.

Liu Qingsheng said: "I was not killed by Xia Gou. Third master, you forgot, I urinated in the wine you hid back then, and I was chased and beaten by you. ”

"Are you really a child?"

The old man looked at Liu Qingsheng with his cloudy eyes wide, and when he saw Liu Qingsheng nodding, he shook his head and said, "Hey! Even my son crawled out to find me, and it seems that my old bones are really going to be buried in the ground. ”

Then he walked slowly back to the yard on crutches, leaving Liu Qingsheng alone in the wind.

"Sir, is this old man really your third master? You can't recognize the wrong person, right? Yin Bo quipped.

"No, it won't!"

Liu Qingsheng didn't explain much, and walked towards the small courtyard where plane trees grew.

There was only one old man in the small courtyard, as well as an old yellow dog and a few local chickens.

After explaining for a while, the old man finally believed Liu Qingsheng's words.

It's no wonder that the old man treats Liu Qingsheng as a dead man, the old man once asked people to go to Ji County to investigate, but none of them came back alive, and the neighbors around the house told him that Liu Qingsheng's family must be gone, and even Ji County fell into the hands of the Xia people, and their family could not still be alive.

"Shengzi, you're not in a hurry to leave, are you? The sycamore tree in our yard is blooming, and I heard that the phoenix is coming. ”