Twelve, the first time to enter the rivers and lakes
Meng Xiaoli's cry tortured Jin Xiaodao, who couldn't close his eyes all night, Jin Xiaodao sat up in the dark, no matter how he covered his ears, this cry was there, as if this cry was not outside, but in his heart, lingering, stirring up the five internal organs, Jin Xiaodao only knew at this moment that there was an invisible internal organ on the body, called conscience.
Jin Xiaodao also wanted to cry, cry and cry herself, and wanted to exchange her past with Meng Xiaoli, if Meng Xiaoli faced such a life, what would she do, how to choose, Jin Xiaodao wanted to get understanding and recognition from it, she even hoped that after Meng Xiaoli understood, she would nod and say: "Well, you should kill my daughter, you did the right thing." ”
Jin Xiaodao smiled, laughed heartily, and then screamed sadly in his heart: "I am also a poor person, I also want to live, I don't kill her, and your wives will be separated, how can I get Long Ye, how can I live in the world with confidence and boldness, do you want me to go back and feed those lowly dirty mouths?" Do you want me to starve to death on the streets? ”
Jin Xiaodao smiled dismally, and sighed in his heart: "This world is very crowded, if I want to live, someone has to die, so whoever lives and who dies has to rely on ability, I live by ability, what's wrong." Jin Xiaodao persuaded himself, and tried to be calm in his heart, Rao is like this, he still can't sleep at night, and he has a pair of bright eyes in the dark.
Early the next morning, Jin Xiaodao got up as usual, pretending that nothing had happened, and Long Ye came out to inform Meng Xiaoli that he was unwell, and the two had dinner together.
Meng Xiaoli sat alone in the room, after losing his daughter, and did not get Long Ye's empathy, that is, all thoughts were discouraged, extremely sad, so he wanted to leave a letter for Long Ye, picked up the pen, had thousands of thoughts, faced with a blank paper, I didn't know where to start, I was extremely disappointed in Long Ye, and it was useless to say anything, so I put the pen on the table, left a blank piece of paper, wrapped it, carried a sword, and thought that leaving would make Long Ye reflect, so he left home alone.
When Long Ye found the white paper on the table and the ink-filled brush, his heart was half cold, and in the face of a blank letter, Long Ye knew how desperate Meng Xiaoli was for himself when he left, and Long Ye was also broken.
So he also laid the package, put a sword on his back, called Jin Xiaodao, and explained: "Xiaoli has left, it is the end of the world, I will definitely go to find her, whether to go or stay is up to you, let's say goodbye." ”
Jin Xiaodao was willing to give up, and said firmly: "Where else do I have to go, that is, where you go, where I go, at the ends of the earth, I will also go with you." ”
Long Ye ignored himself and went on the road, Jin Xiaodao followed, or the fate of Long Meng and his wife was over, and the two of them went in the opposite direction to Meng Xiaoli.
Long Ye and Jin Xiaodao embarked on the road to find Meng Xiaoli, and they thought that a single woman leaving home would inevitably go to the rich land in the south, so they went south without looking back.
But I didn't know that Meng Xiaoli wanted to stay away from Longye, so he went the opposite way, going north, one person, one sword, one cold heart, looking at the vast road ahead, I don't know where my heart is going, let the sky be high and the sea is wide, and it is difficult to understand the hatred in my heart.
Meng Xiaoli went all the way to the north, the further north he went, the more desolate he became, although he met some provocative people on the way, seeing that Meng Xiaoli knew some martial arts, they all retreated in a hurry.
Passing through a town, he found a noodle restaurant, asked for a bowl of noodles to satisfy his hunger, and ate noodles on the street in a different place, his eyes were full of strangeness, Meng Xiaoli suddenly felt unprecedented loneliness, even if he was lonely, he did not look back.
After the meal, Meng Xiaoli bought a horse instead of the footsteps, and after riding for an unknown amount of time, he went out of the customs.
One person and one horse walked to a mountain col, and saw a group of Mongolian men in the distance, thick and strong tigers with bears' waists, each holding a sword in their hands, blocking the way, Meng Xiaoli did not get off the horse, bowed his head and asked vigilantly: "I don't know you knights, why are you blocking my way?" ”
The bearded man at the head carried a treasure knife on his shoulder, and when he heard Meng Xiaoli's style, he knew that he was not a person who often walked the mountain road, and he didn't know the rules and secret words, so he ordered a man to hold Meng Xiaoli's horse, and said to Meng Xiaoli in Guanzhong dialect: "Little girl, if you dare to walk the mountain road outside the Guan, you will either know first-class martial arts, or the money is too heavy, or you have the guts to live a long life, which kind of person are you?" ”
Meng Xiaoli became nervous, not knowing the details of this group of people, and did not dare to make a move easily, so he asked, "Which type am I?" Can I walk this path? ”
One sentence made this group of men laugh, and today I met a stunned man, and the bearded man led by him smiled and said: "Of course you can go, but you have to stay to buy the road money!" Meng Xiaoli knew that he was a bandit in the mountain, robbing passers-by, so he was angry in his heart, and wanted to drive a horse, but was strangled by a black-faced man, and then the black-faced man turned over and jumped, wanting to catch Meng Xiaoli off the horse, Meng Xiaoli lay down on the horse's back, and the general avoided it, and immediately drew his sword in his hand to make a defensive gesture.
The man at the head rubbed his beard on his chin and said angrily: "Heh, the little lady is not for face, right?" With that, a few men rushed up.
Meng Xiaoli didn't know that those who could walk the mountain road outside the pass were not mortals, and those who could rob the mountain road outside the pass were not rats, her martial arts were okay to deal with ordinary thieves, and she ran into this group of green forests, but she was pulled off the horse and pressed to the ground in a few moves.
The black-faced man pressed Meng Xiaoli's head and said sarcastically: "If you know how to order three-legged cat kung fu, you dare to be so rampant, I'm really tired of it!" ”
The bearded man untied Meng Xiaoli's package at the moment, in addition to clothes, bruise medicine, fire folds, and some scattered silver, and then picked up Meng Xiaoli's daughter Long Ze's small clothes with the tip of a knife, and said with a smile: "Yo, I'm still a cub, and the one with a cub is not at home to teach his husband and children, why did he come here to hang out, isn't it a man who ran away with others?" The men scoffed.
Meng Xiaoli saw him rummaging through the package, struggling and scolding on the ground, but he was helplessly held down by his limbs and head, unable to move, so these men took the opportunity to touch Meng Xiaoli's body.
The bearded man took the silver, ordered his subordinates to take away the horses, and then leaned over to Meng Xiaoli and said: "I have such a little silver on my body, and I dare to run around outside the customs, what about me, it's not that I don't talk about the morality of the rivers and lakes, I took your silver and horses, less is less, just when your transit money is gone, then I will let you live." So he motioned to his subordinates to let go of Meng Xiaoli, Meng Xiaoli knew that he was invincible, so he sat up and didn't dare to take it.
The black-faced man squatted behind Meng Xiaoli, hinted at the beard with his eyes, and said with a lewd and strange smile: "If you have less money, you can pay for it." The bearded man waved his hand and stopped: "Forget it." This man's casual "forget it" saved Meng Xiaoli's fate.
I only heard the bearded man continue: "Madam, outside the gate is not better than inside the gate, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, the wicked are everywhere, the geese have crossed the realm of plucking, my beard has a conscience, kindly remind you, pass a heavy pass, peel off a layer of skin, with your ability, to the next place, you can only send meat, persuade you to go back!" ”
"Boss, what are you talking nonsense about her," the black-faced man said impatiently: "She just won't fall into our hands today, she will have to cheapen others, just tie back to our brothers and enjoy it." All the men followed suit, but the bearded man insisted: "Let's go, let's go." ”
The bearded man urged the men to leave, Meng Xiaoli was still frightened, and after a while, he got up and packed the package, and did not mention a few bruises on his body, and now he was penniless.
I was a little tired and a little hungry, so I saw an inn that I had passed by before, and I was lucky to have an inn in this uninhabited place.
Although he wanted to go in, he was stretched thin and didn't dare to approach, so he looked Meng Xiaoli up and down in front of the door, and greeted: "What a woman, why don't you come in and rest?" Meng Xiaoli rubbed his fingers in embarrassment and replied, "My money was robbed and I am penniless." Trotting Tang nodded and said: "They are all children of the rivers and lakes, where the road is in trouble, there is no reason not to help, why not come in, my central shopkeeper will give you a bowl of noodles?" ”
Meng Xiaoli only felt that he had met a kind person, so he followed the trotting hall into the inn, although it was a sparsely populated place, there were a few tables of guests under the hall, looking at the dress, he knew that it was the Mongolian cavalry, and when he saw Meng Xiaoli coming in, he projected a disdainful gaze.
There were more than a dozen people at the other two tables, all dressed as ordinary people, one of the middle-aged people had a wound on his arm, and he was carrying a cloth bag on his back, shaped like a stick, and when he saw Meng Xiaoli only glanced at him, he continued to whisper something.
Meng Xiaoli picked up a square table and sat down, put down the package and waited, all he heard was the laughter of the group of Mongolians Uriwala, they ate a big bowl of wine and a large piece of meat, and the Mongolian tribes have always invaded the border of the DPRK from time to time, Meng Xiaoli has lived in the north since he was a child, and often faces the Mongolian tribes entering the customs and killing the people, and smashing and looting the city unscrupulously, so Meng Xiaoli has never had a good impression of the Mongolian tribes.
However, a few years ago, the Yongle Emperor personally drove a conquest against the Mongol Warat tribe and surrendered to Mahamu and returned victorious, and now Warat, like the Tatar tribe, began to pay tribute to the court every year. It's just that the Mongolian tribes are different from other countries, and every time they enter the customs and make offerings, they bring a group of envoys, which are actually caravans, and use their cattle, sheep, horses and other specialties to trade with the daily necessities of the dynasty.
Meng Xiaoli saw the rows of horses in the stables outside the inn, and the piles of fur goods, and guessed that these Mongols should be caravans that wanted to enter the customs to pay tribute.
Just thinking about it, Meng Xiaoli overheard a man in cloth at another table, calling the man who injured his arm: "Helper······" Then the voice was so thin that it was hard to hear clearly, and when the gang leader answered, he heard another person named "Guo Jian" in the accent of his speech······
Meng Xiaoli heard the clues, and speculated that there are thousands of people in the world who can be called gang leaders, but those who use sticks as weapons are probably only the beggar gang, although the weapon on the back of the man with the injured arm is covered with a cloth bag, but he can also guess seven or eight points, although Meng Xiaoli has never seen it, but he has also heard of it, I don't know how this famous beggar gang leader Liang Keyong will run away from the gate with his subordinates.