Chapter 135: Coming to Wucheng
Two days later, Ma Ning'er landed on a griffin beside a forest and took the griffin into the black ring. After walking fifty miles, I came to Wucheng, the largest city in Biansai.
Standing outside Wucheng, you can feel the seriousness and murderous atmosphere of this ancient border fortress.
The soldiers defending the city stood upright, with flags waving on the city's head, and hundreds of huge hard crossbows were neatly placed, and huge crossbow arrows specially aimed at the masters of the Qi Condensation Realm and the Transcendent Realm were brightly placed on the crossbow bed.
This kind of crossbow arrow is specially processed, if you encounter a master of the transcendent realm, dozens of crossbow arrows are fired at the same time, even a person at the peak of the transcendent realm has to fall here.
So this is also the reason why the Hejian Kingdom and the Luochuan Kingdom did not send the masters of the Transcendent Realm to attack hard, after all, the Transcendent Realm is a rare existence in all countries, and if one or two die on the battlefield, it will be a great loss for the country.
This is the city that the Ma family has guarded for generations.
Father! Mother! The children are back to see you!
Ma Ning'er suddenly felt a pain in her heart, and she had mixed feelings. He walked slowly with the people who had entered the city to the gates.
A group of soldiers at the gate of the city was on standby, carefully checking the way of the people entering the city.
Ma Ning'er put on her hood and lowered her head to think about how to get past the interrogation of the soldiers defending the city. Just then, a fast group of horses rushed towards the city gate.
"Get out of the way, urgent documents!"
The defenders of the city hurriedly dodged a way, and the people hurriedly retreated to both sides, for fear of being knocked down by the fast horses. Ma Ning'er took the opportunity to squat down, disappeared in place using the space magic power hidden in the crowd, and when she reappeared, she had already arrived in an uninhabited alley.
Ma Ning'er saw that there was no one around, pressed the hood and walked out of the alley.
Coming to the main road, the shops along the street are open for business, and the people are buying and selling, walking through the streets and alleys, there is no depression before the war that Ma Ning'er expected, but their faces are numb, and there is a thick anxiety between their eyebrows, giving people a feeling of depression.
There were many patrolling soldiers on the streets, as well as cultivators dressed in all kinds of clothes, carrying swords, and their faces were full of pride and disdain, which was in stark contrast to the common people.
Ma Ning'er wandered around like this, hoping to find the Ma family's old house, but after half a day, she had no clue, so she had no choice but to go into a teahouse and sit down, order some snacks, and ask for a pot of tea to quench her thirst.
At this time, the curtain of the door was lifted, and four soldiers came in, and Xiao Er hurriedly greeted them with a smile and let them sit down at a table by the window.
The soldier who led the team looked out the window worriedly and said, "It's the same old way." ”
Xiao Er agreed to go down and prepare, and after a while, he nodded and the tea was delivered, and the four of them didn't speak, and each of them ate stuffy.
Ma Ning'er was afraid of the soldiers' interrogation, so she moved her body slightly, turned her face away, and turned to the side of them.
I heard one of the soldiers say: "Brother Zhang, you won't let me say it, but I'm still angry, why!" What credit was taken away from those bastards. ”
"Shut up! Don't bring it up again. The soldier who led the team scolded in a low voice.
The soldier who had just spoken closed his mouth angrily and tilted his head to one side.
The leading soldier was silent for a moment and then said: "I know that everyone is dissatisfied, but now it is not more than before, the world has changed, we are just ordinary soldiers, we must know how to forbear, otherwise we will suffer in the end." ”
"Then we can't let them sit on our heads and and pee. When did our Ma Jiajun suffer such a bulliment. The soldier retorted unconvinced.
"Shut up!"
The soldier who led the team glared at the man fiercely, then looked around, and said in a low voice: "I will say it again in the end, there will be no Ma Jiajun in the future, if anyone says this again, you will not even know how to die." Do you understand?! ”
The other two nodded.
The leading soldier whispered to the puffed soldier: "Do you understand! ”
The man nodded indignantly, stopped talking, and bowed his head to eat.
After a while, I finished eating, settled the bill and walked out of the teahouse.
Ma Ning'er glanced at the two people who spoke just now, and the person who led the team was burly, with a red face and a murderous aura on his body.
And the other was a big black-faced man with a slightly chubby body, who followed sullenly. Ma Ning'er pondered for a while, settled the bill, and followed.
The four soldiers began the patrol mission, and Ma Ning'er locked their breath and followed them from a distance all the way. When it was getting late, after the four of them exchanged guards with the other soldiers and returned to the barracks, Ma Ning'er turned around and came to a restaurant.
I went up to the third floor to find a place by the window and sat down, ordered two simple dishes, and stared blankly at a desolate house in the distance.
The house is very large, indicating that the status of the owner of the house during his lifetime is a well-known figure in this Wucheng. As far as the eye can see, the houses in the courtyard have collapsed, the weeds are overgrown, and they are almost half a story high, and there are still burning buildings in some places, and the walls are ruined.
This is my home.
Ma Ning'er sighed for a while, I finally came back after more than ten years.
When the team of soldiers was patrolling just now, passing by this old mansion, Ma Ning'er saw that the four of them were all looking at the gate of the house, but immediately they looked away, accelerated the pace of patrol, and left there as if they were fleeing.
And when Ma Ning'er was following, she sensed from a distance that there was an aura in the dark scanning everyone who passed by the house.
There is no need to ask, it must be the eyeliner of the two old things in the Hanging Demon Hall, and I don't know if two months have passed, whether they have lost patience and left, if they leave, then there is no need to startle the snake.
Based on their conversation in the teahouse, coupled with these details, Ma Ning'er could preliminarily judge that this was Mafu, so he found a tallest restaurant nearby and observed it again to confirm his judgment.
Sure enough, what came into view was desolation, such a big mansion fell to this step, and there was no one to live and rest after so many years, it must be Ma Fu.
After hastily eating and checking out the bill, Ma Ning'er turned around and entered a no-man's alley, disappeared in an instant, and came to the courtyard of Mafu in a blink of an eye.
He sensed the surroundings and found that there were two breaths guarding outside the house, monitoring the passers-by, all of them were in the condensation realm.
Now with Ma Ning'er's cultivation, they can't find themselves at all, but Ma Ning'er doesn't want to expose himself, so he doesn't turn on the fire sickle lighting, and looks around with his eyes. The houses are dilapidated, overgrown with weeds, and desolate.
The mood of seeing from a distance and the mood of being in the scene are completely two feelings, Ma Ning'er felt a pain in her heart, and tears blurred her vision.
He wandered carefully around the old house, looking here and there, hoping to find a portrait of his parents, but there was nothing but shabby and broken furniture.
After a period of distraction, Ma Ning'er had no choice but to return to the open space in the main hall and kneel.
"Father, mother, the unfilial son Ma Ning'er is back to see you!"
Ma Ning'er said and kowtowed three times to the two Taishi chairs in front of her with tears.