Chapter 2: Xiucai Encounters Soldiers

The villagers were alarmed when they saw a dead body lying in the coffin. Yang Shucheng told the story of the incident, and the villagers picked up the dead bodies, swept them with grass, and buried them in mass graves.

Put Daddy Yang in a coffin. Mrs. Yang said to Yang Shucheng: "Your uncle is in Luoyang City, you rush and tell him to let him come to see your father for the last time." In addition, the robber said that he would come to you, so you will stay at your uncle's house, and do not come back. ”

Yang Shucheng tearfully agreed. Yang's uncle was doing business in Luoyang City, and his family moved there, and the distance was long, and it took several days to go back and forth.

Yang Shucheng returned to the bookstore, checked the books, and prepared to take a few books to the city. Picked up the book "Tao Yuan Ming Collection", opened it, and an old piece of paper fell out of it, picked it up and saw that it was a map, with mountains and rivers and roads painted in zigzags, and a map of the hidden treasures of the Nehexagram Sect written on the left side.

Sure enough, it's the treasure of the town!

For this treasure map, tired of his father being killed, Yang Shucheng hated in his heart, so he wanted to tear up this map, and after thinking about it, he folded this treasure map, stuffed it into the crack of the wall, and then filled the gap with loess, and it was not easy to find that there was a map hidden here from the outside.

On the morning of the second day, Yang Shucheng carried a package on his back, rented a horse, said goodbye to his mother and sister, and rode north.

At this time, it was the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the government was expropriating violently, coupled with the drought for many years, the people were struggling to make a living, thieves were swarming, and beacons were everywhere.

There were several bands of thieves who were very powerful, gathering hundreds of men and horses, wandering from place to place, robbing for a living, and every time they went to a village, the villagers fled in all directions.

Yang Shu became safe and chose the main road. Along the way, I have been eating and sleeping in the open, and I have been walking for three days.

On this day, walking on the road, I saw a group of mountains in front of me, reckless and green, and the forests were luxuriant. Yang Shucheng knew that he couldn't bypass it, so he had to ride a horse and walk forward.

After walking for more than an hour, I have walked into the mountains, but I saw the thousands of peaks on both sides, ancient trees and strange stones, springs and waterfalls contending, but there are some wild interests, if usually, Yang Shucheng will shake his head and chant some verses, at this time, he passed in fear.

Just as he was frightened, suddenly, more than a dozen heroes poured out from the side of the road, armed with knives and sticks, blocking the way.

"Mom, ......", Yang Shucheng turned the horse's head and ran back. As soon as he ran a few steps, he was surrounded by this group of strong men, some of whom were holding the horse's head, and some were pulling the saddle, and they could no longer escape.

A strong man stretched out his hand and ripped Yang Shucheng off the horse, pulled the package on his back, opened it, and there were a few pieces of clothes inside, as well as more than one or two pieces of idle silver.

All the strong people shouted, all of them were happy, this mountain is far and near, the hungry people are all over the wilderness, every time they rob, it is just a rags, and today they finally grabbed a fat sheep.

Yang Shu was scared, but saving his life was important, so he had to beg for mercy: "Package, take it from the heroes, just let me go." "I'm still thinking about it, and I'm going to Luoyang City.

"I can't spare you." A strongman raised the knife in his hand and slashed at Yang Shucheng's head.

"Wait." A strongman who looked like a leader shouted, "Boy, you're a scholar, aren't you?" ”

"I've been reading poetry for a few years. Heroes, just spare me. ”

The leader said, "I admire the reader the most. We were originally good citizens, but the officials forced the people to rebel, but now there is a famine every year, and if we don't go to Liangshan, where is there a way to live. ”

"Yes, yes......" Yang Shucheng echoed him vigorously.

The leader said: "I see that you are also weak, it is a pity to kill you, you can follow us up the mountain." ”

"My father is dead, I will go to Luoyang City to inform my uncle, and when I come back, I will come to see you again." Yang Shucheng begged for mercy.

The leader laughed and said, "Now that there is a famine every year, no one will die one day, and someone in your family will die, what's the big deal." If you don't go up the mountain, you will have to kill you, and you will be killed. ”

Yang Shucheng saw that they were all fierce and killed people without blinking, so he had to agree, wait for the mountain, and then find an opportunity to escape from the mountain.

This group of strongmen led the horses, asked the leader to get on the horse and sit, escorted Yang Shucheng, and the group walked along the rugged mountain road towards the deep mountains to the west.

The leader sat on the horse, seemed very interested in Yang Shucheng, and asked, "Boy, what's your name?" Where are the people? ”

Yang Shucheng had no choice but to tell the truth.

"I don't change my name, I don't change my surname, my name is Zou Cheng, and I have the same word as you Xiucai, you remember it." This strongman is also bold.

After walking westward for more than an hour, it was already deep in the mountains. I saw heavy rocks stacked on top of each other, deep ravines, dense ancient trees, monsters roaring, once entered, I don't know when I can get out of the mountains.

Yang Shucheng was panicking. "Here we are." The leader, Zou Cheng, pointed to the sky with his hand on the horse, only to see a mountain peak rising from the ground and towering above the mountains. "This mountain is called Laojun Mountain, and the legend is that it is Lao Tzu's practice pill place. Readers, do you know? ”

Yang Shucheng said: "It's the first time I've passed by, but I really don't know. But I still know about Lao Tzu and his people. ”

The leader, Zou Cheng, laughed and led everyone to walk towards the mountain step by step. After walking for half an hour, I came to the foot of Laojun Mountain, and walked along the sheep intestine path towards the mountain. Finally walked up to Laojun Mountain, only to see a broken wall and a temple on the mountain, which had fallen and now become a thief's cave.

A group of strong men walked into the temple, and they had been walking for two hours, all of them were tired and sore backs, hungry, and sat on broken grass mats to rest. Two more strongmen cook on fire.

Soon the rice was ready, nothing more than wild vegetables boiled gruel. The leader, Zou Cheng, also gave Yang Shucheng a bowl and folded two branches as chopsticks. When Yang Shucheng came here, he had to follow the local customs, pull the wild vegetable soup with a branch, and eat it.

At night, Yang Shucheng was in the temple, mixed with all the strong men, and fell asleep on the straw mat.

The strong people have done Yang Shucheng's business, and they are also satisfied, and they haven't gone down the mountain to do business for several days.

The strong men sat outside the temple, basking in the autumn sun, and felt that life was comfortable.

In the afternoon of that day, there was a sudden shout, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed up the mountain. The strongman hurriedly picked up the knife and stick and killed with the officers and soldiers, where was the opponent of the officers and soldiers, and they were killed in pieces.

"Retreat towards the mountain." The leader, Zou Cheng, led everyone to run towards the back of the mountain. Yang Shucheng was also coerced and ran to the back of the mountain, where the victorious officers and soldiers were willing to give up, and chased after him closely.

The leader Zou Cheng couldn't, so he had to lead everyone up to another mountain peak and resist the danger.

The officers and men of that group were outnumbered, and when they saw that the strong men were resisting, they shot their bows and arrows up the mountain, only to hear the sound of "whooshing ......" incessantly, and then heard the screams of "ahhhh......hh More than half of the strongman's side is dead.

Seeing that the situation was critical, the leader Zou Cheng hurriedly ran towards the mountain peak with the rest of the people. Those officers and soldiers chased after them like shadows, and in the end, only the leaders Zou Cheng and Yang Shucheng were left.

The leader, Zou Cheng, picked up Yang Shucheng and ran towards the top of the mountain. Running to the top of the mountain, because of the panic of the road, this is already a desperate situation, surrounded by cliffs, only one mountain road leads to the bottom of the mountain, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed to the mountain, it is really impossible to escape.

"Help, I'm not a robber." Yang Shucheng raised his hands and ran towards the officers and soldiers.

An arrow of "whoosh" was shot at Yang Shucheng.

The leader, Zou Cheng, pulled Yang Shucheng and dodged the fatal arrow.

"Do you think, will they spare you?" The leader, Zou Cheng, roared.

Yang Shucheng still didn't believe Zou Cheng's words, and then a burst of feather arrows shot over, really good or bad.

The leader, Zou Cheng, pulled Yang Shucheng and dodged those feather arrows.

"What should I do?" Yang Shucheng couldn't help asking.

"What good result is in their hands. My brothers are dead," he paused, and added, "I have to go to my brothers, and I can't take care of you." ”

Yang Shucheng didn't understand, but he saw Zou Cheng turn over and jump off the cliff.

Yang Shucheng was hesitating, a burst of feather arrows covered the sky, he had to shoot him into a hedgehog, where could he open his mouth to argue? Instinctively turning around to dodge, he stepped into the air and rolled over and fell off the cliff.

The person was in mid-air, already unconscious, and he felt that his body was blocked for a while, and he was unconscious.

After a while, he woke up, Yang Shucheng only felt that his body was wandering, could it be that he was already a soul? Hurriedly looked sideways, frightened, in mid-air, surrounded by clouds and mist, it turned out that his body was hanging on a pine tree.

This pine tree saved Yang Shucheng's life.

Yang Shucheng slowly turned sideways, the pine tree clicked, as if it was about to break, where could Yang Shucheng move again.

Yang Shucheng looked sideways, and the pine tree grew in the crevice of the cliff, and the roots were exposed outside the rock.

Yang Shucheng slowly climbed to the root of the pine tree, and then he felt safer. Only then did I find that there seemed to be a cave in the gap, and the entrance of the cave was plugged with gravel.

Yang Shucheng picked up the gravel with his hands, and sure enough, a big hole was revealed. Yang Shucheng climbed into the hole.

As soon as he climbed into the cave, Yang Shucheng was frightened again.

There was a skeleton of bones lying in the cave.

Yang Shucheng was stunned for a while, and then began to observe the situation of the surrounding stone walls.

On the stone wall on the right, there is a line of words engraved, carefully identified, and it is written as "the place where the treasure is buried".

Did you meet the treasure map again?

On the right side of the handwriting, there is a wall color that is different from the surrounding area. Yang Shucheng used his fingers to cut open the stone wall, there was a small hole inside, and there was an oilcloth bag, and when he opened the bag, there was a thin book inside.

Yang Shucheng picked up the book and flipped through it, and the first side said "Sword of Immortality".

Yang Shucheng couldn't help but think, what is the sword of immortality, now that the world is famine, the officials are corrupt and the officials are cool, the mourning is everywhere, the people are precarious, where is there any sword of immortality?

I didn't look at the sword book, and turned it over a few times, but it was written "Taiqing Qigong". Yang Shucheng was not interested in it, put the cloth bag into the coffin again, turned to look at the pile of white bones, and thought that he was the owner of the sword book.

At this point, Yang Shucheng's family has a treasure map of the Hexagram Sect and a swordsmanship cheat, but he is in a small stone cave in mid-air, not touching the sky or touching the ground, I don't know how to escape from the mountain?

Yang Shucheng climbed at the entrance of the cave, the clouds flew outside the cave, the wind hunted, looking down, the canyon was deep, the peak was like a wall, and he was scared for a while.