Qing'an Road connects the third-line battlefield, which is also the most rugged and rough place in the southern country, and you can see strong men with open chests and backs from time to time when you walk on the street, and even the women are less delicate and more indescribable pride than the other two.

The five of them got off the boat and went all the way to the north, stopping for a while in this place called White Horse County, as the name suggests, this place is rich in military horses, and there are 32 horse farms of all sizes around this county town, which is different from the delicate scenery of Jiangnan Road, from the moment he stepped on the land of Qing'an Road, Ji Jiu felt a completely different atmosphere.

"The city of 32 horse farms of all sizes is full of horse urine, and it is a bowl of noodles that is very delicious, and I can't eat it. Liu Zijin put down his chopsticks weakly, and was so alive by the smell that he died.

"The five sons are from Jiangnan Province, right?" The uncle of the stall had kind eyebrows, but there was a scar on his face, and he looked quite fierce and vicious at a sudden glance.

"yes, I'm going to the Northland for business. ”

The old man said with envy, "It's really good, but the five sons, you must go from the eastern route, where is the commonly known trade road between the north and the south." ”

Ji Jiu responded with a smile, he looked at the old man's somewhat lame steps, and said curiously, "The old man joined the army before?"

When it comes to the word joining the army, the old man seems to have come to be ambitious, his rickety back is a lot straighter, and he smiled boldly, "Childe is really good eyesight, old man, I did join the army before, and the general had just taken office at that time, and when he came to Baima County to recruit soldiers, he followed with a hot head." It's been so many years, at the beginning, the general took us with a real momentum and a majestic style, and then the imperial court seized power and many people left disappointed, including me, and now I think about it, I'm sorry for the general. ”

A farce seizure of power more than ten years ago completely ruined the military prestige that the southern border army had just played.

The old man was still talking, "I just heard that prince disliked the smell of Hakuba County, and I know that this son is not intentional, but it reminds me of a senior official who came here to inspect half a year ago, and he said a sentence at that time, which I will never forget in my life." He said that Qing'an Road is a place where a group of rough people stay, and the emperor should build a big wall and simply leave Qing'an Road alone. At that time, I only felt very uncomfortable in my heart, thinking that the young sons and daughters of Hakuba County had followed the general for more than half of the time, and only a few hundred people had returned, so I wondered if the general had forgotten us. Old man, I don't know the righteousness, but I feel a little sorry for these white horse erlangs who are still not afraid of death and go to the border pass, they are all at the age when they should marry a wife and have children, why do they have to die one by one?"

The old man patted the table as he spoke, and his voice raised a few points, "I have to let Jiang Yun's officials know that Qing'an Dao is not a group of rough people who don't understand the customs, the twelve counties of Qing'an Dao have been in the twelve counties for so many years, how many sons and daughters are willing to die for the country, this kind of righteousness, I, a rough person who has never read a book, understands, why don't they understand!?"

The five of them were silent, and Liu Zijin lowered his head even more, and his hand holding the chopsticks folded with a single effort.

"Someday, they'll understand. Ji Jiu got up, his eyes slightly red.

When the five of them were leaving, they put an extra four or five taels of silver on the table, not because they didn't want to give more, but because they really couldn't give too much money. The entanglement is limited, and they still have to travel for four or five days, so they don't necessarily starve to death on the streets, right?

Out of the city, Li Changnian couldn't help but sigh, "I suddenly feel that the smell of horse urine is not so bad, it smells much more comfortable than the blood on the battlefield." ”

Ji Jiu, who was sitting behind Yun Fan, looked back at Baima County, with mixed tastes in his heart, and there was an indescribable taste.

Liu Zijin sneered and said, "I suddenly remembered a very interesting thing, it is said that a few years ago, the son of a northern court official came to Baima County, and he fell in love with a woman and wanted to overlord the bow, but who knew that he was beaten by the woman and ran all over the street." ”

Li Changnian's face was ugly, and he said in a deep voice, "Then do you know the ending of this real person and real thing?"

Several people looked at each other and looked at Li Changnian in unison.

Li Changnian tilted his head to the side and said, "That's the son of the official of the Northern Imperial Court, the Taishou of Baima County at that time imprisoned that woman indiscriminately, you should be able to guess what happened afterwards, that woman is crazy, and it is said that she is still running around Baima County, like a lonely ghost." ”

Everyone followed Li Changnian's line of sight, and in the field in the distance, a tattered woman with unkempt hair and face squatted on the ridge, looking at the sky and smirking.

Li Changnian pointed to where and said, "Right there, where her father and mother were beheaded and executed, a woman who was supposed to marry her sweetheart and teach her husband and children for a lifetime ended up with such a sad end." ”

The woman seemed to notice that Li Changnian was pointing at her, and ran all the way to the five-man horse, and she tripped several times along the way, and she didn't know how many times she fell, and her already dirty face was stained with a lot of blood.

She hugged Ji Jiu's thighs and laughed in return.

Ji Jiu turned over and dismounted, reached out to wipe the blood on her face for her, and said in a choked voice, "It's good to look at, really." ”

On the ridge, three or four gangster-looking young men stood on it with impatient eyes, she pointed at them in horror, and gestured silently in horror.

Ji Jiu didn't know how sad it was to make a person cry alive, but he knew what to do now.

"Ji Jiu, that's also the people of the southern country!" Lin Hongxing caught a glimpse of his hand holding the sword, and said in a deep voice.

Ji Jiu looked at the blue and red pinch marks on the woman's wrist and the clearly visible lip marks on her neck, and said coldly, "Not anymore." ”

Lin Hongxing also wanted to dissuade Li Changnian from holding his arm, and the latter shook his head slightly, obviously acquiescing to such an act.

Yun Fan and Liu Zijin were also silent, and Liu Zijin even said, "Ji Jiu, do you want to be together?"

The young man brushed the dirt from the woman's hair, got up and drew his sword, and said with a bright smile, "Okay, then let's go together!"

The fist is like a tiger, and the sword is like thunder.

Lin Hongxing couldn't bear to look at the tragic deaths of those gangsters, in his opinion, this was definitely not the best solution, but he couldn't stand Ji Jiu, so he could only let him do it.

Ji Jiu, who returned from the sword, seemed to think of something, and asked a few people to wait in place, and he turned over and returned to Baima County alone.

After about half an hour, his expression was a little more relaxed, Ji Jiu looked around and asked, "What about the woman?"

"She ran away after you left, what are you going to do?"

The young man shook his head and said, "I went to the dark line shop of bad people in White Horse County, and asked them to protect the woman secretly. ”

Li Changnian, who has always been poisonous, said unprecedentedly, "Yes, this may be the best ending for her." ”

Ji Jiu looked forward and said leisurely, "This will definitely not be the end of the southern kingdom......"