Zhang Dazhu and another girl, Juan'er, are neighbors, and their homes are in a dilapidated alley at the end of Yuwan Street, where there were originally five or six families, but now the rest have moved away, and only the two of them are left in one alley.

When Lu Yi came over with Duanmuyu, Zhang Dazhu's family of four was having dinner, and when he saw the two people standing at the door, Zhang Dazhu hurriedly got up and put down the bowl in his hand, wiped his hands, and invited the two into the house in a panic.

Zhang Dazhu's parents are actually not very old, they should only be in their thirties, but they seem to be a little rickety, and their shabby clothes are full of pudding, but the pulp is clean, and the stitches of the patches are fine and neat.

The husband and wife were happy and a little embarrassed when they saw a guest visiting, and the woman got up and hurriedly covered the corn paste and wild vegetable soup on the table with a cloth, but out of politeness and wanted to ask if they had had dinner, so they fell on the table at once, holding the tablecloth in both hands awkwardly.

Lu Yi took two steps into the house, smiled and whispered: "Auntie, you don't have to be polite, our brother and sister have already eaten, thanks to Brother Dazhu for helping to lead the way this afternoon, I saved a lot of trouble, and I came here to express my gratitude." ”

After finishing speaking, he put down the rice cake in his hand, and naturally sat down on the bench handed over by Zhang Dazhu.

As far as the eye can see, it is best to describe the four walls of the house, and the night sky can be faintly seen from the roof, but the whole room is clean and fresh, and it can be seen that the woman is a virtuous woman who is a good housekeeper.

When the woman heard Lu Yiyan, she hurriedly got up and went to the hall to bring out two cups of tea, and Wen Yan said: "Childe has a heart, they still let Childe break the bill today, it should be that we thank you." ”

Zhang Dazhu smiled honestly and said, "Mother, I'll just say that the eldest brother is a good person." ”

The woman glared at her son lovingly and said, "The child of the mountains and fields, I have never seen the world, and if my words are inappropriate, please don't blame the son." ”

Lu Yi shook his head: "Auntie doesn't want to call me son-in-law, my name is Lu Yi, and my family is also from the mountains." ”

Duanmu Yu saw a seven or eight-year-old girl with a yellow face and thin muscles squatting beside Zhang Dazhu, looking at her curiously with big eyes, and hurriedly squatted down with a smile and handed over the rice cake in her hand.

The little girl stared at the rice cake and swallowed her saliva, but her timid and weak eyes looked at her mother, and only after getting permission did she stretch out her trembling hands to catch it, wanting to share some with her parents and brother, and after being rejected, she began to gobble up her gulp, and she was a little choked when she ate too quickly, stretched her neck and took the tea handed over by Duanmu Yu with a red face and drank a big sip, only to smile at Duanmu Yu shyly, revealing two white little tiger teeth, very cute.

The woman's eyes were slightly red, and the man sighed and said angrily, "Thank you, Brother Lu." ”

Lu Yi shook his head, stared at the little girl lovingly, and asked softly, "Can you tell the big brother what your name is?"

The little girl plucked up her courage and said, "My name is Zhang Zhengyue. ”

As soon as you hear the name, you know that it is a child born in the first month of the year.

"Really sensible. ”

Lu Yi touched her little head and smiled: "Please let Xiao Zhengyue take her sister to distribute these rice cakes to the friends in the afternoon, okay?"

Zhang Zhengyue nodded, looking excited.

The woman said softly, "Brother Lu has let you break the bank." ”

Lu Yi shook his head, watching the two little girls walking out of the door with seven or eight bags of rice cakes in their hands, and suddenly felt that what they could do was too little help to give them, thinking of this, he turned his head and said to the woman: "Auntie, is everyone in the town in this situation?"

The woman was silent for a while and said: "It's all about the same, originally Hongmuji was also a famous and wealthy town, but since the Song King and they started to fight many years ago, everyone's life has become more and more difficult, and now many people have fled to Jiangnan Province, I heard that life there is much better, and the Shepherd King is a famous virtuous king." ”

The woman who saw the look on the side of the road continued: "We also want to escape, but no matter how good the days are, we will be uprooted from our homeland, and it is difficult to leave our homeland, so in the end, I still want to stay, always thinking that life will be better soon, and most of the people in the town who have not left have the same idea as us." ”

Lu nodded and said, "What happened to the officers and soldiers they said about the pillar in the afternoon?"

The woman said softly: "If the taxes are heavy, everyone can do some small business to supplement the family, in fact, they can live a long life, because after all, there are still some merchants here in Hongmuji, but there is a military camp of the King of Song stationed in Heishui Pass, more than fifty miles east of the town, and from time to time he will come to the town to rob people and grain, which is more fierce than those bandits, forcing everyone to have no choice." ”

Speaking of this, the man cursed viciously: "They are all a group of wolf-hearted soldiers and bandits! Under the guise of soldiers! Especially the fierce and cruel Wu Peel!"

Lu Yi asked, "Who is Wu Papi?"

The man looked at his wife, who gave him a look, and said angrily: "What else is there to be afraid of? If Wu Papi dares to grab the pillar, I will fight with him! Brother Lu is not a bad person, so he will say it." ”

Originally, about fifty miles east of the town was the Heishui Pass of Yannan Road, where there was a Wu Chiyan army under the command of King Song, about seven or eight hundred people, and the captain Wu Debao, known as Wu Papi.

In fact, most of the Wu Chiyan army under Wu Papi was an old and weak remnant soldier who had retreated from the battlefield, but because of the remote location of Heishui Pass, most of them were rugged mountain roads that could not be deployed by the army, and the geographical location was not important, and there was no war.

There are not too many towns nearby, and most of the towns under his jurisdiction are like Hongmuji, and he is mainly responsible for collecting food and grass for the superiors of the Chiyan Army, coupled with his own lustful nature, brutality and inhumanity, resulting in more and more township people living in poverty, the people dare not speak out, and the villagers who resist a little are killed.

Lu Yi felt very uncomfortable when he heard this, and said sullenly: "I have always heard that King Song is cruel, but I didn't expect that a captain in such a remote place would lose his conscience so much. ”

After chatting for a while, Lu Yi saw Duanmuyu and Zhang Zhengyue walking back hand in hand with a smile, so he got up to say goodbye, and when he left, he couldn't help but say that he left a silver ticket of fifty taels.

The couple knelt on the ground and thanked them for their kindness, Lu Yi hurriedly helped them up, and smiled at Zhang Dazhu: "It should be a congratulatory gift from the eldest brother to you! ”

It turned out that Zhang Dazhu and Juanzi next door had a baby kiss since they were children, and the two had no guesses, childhood sweethearts, just waiting for Zhang Dazhu to become an adult, and the two were going to get married.

After walking a few steps, he turned around and took out a set of cheats from the Dubei Fengwen shopkeeper, handed it to the pillar and said softly: "When the big brother leaves, I will go and let the shopkeeper Zhao teach you, with martial arts, I will not be afraid of being bullied by others in the future." ”

Zhang Dazhu was moved in his heart, but he didn't say anything, but knelt down and kowtowed three times in a row.

Lu Yi pulled Duanmu Yu into the night, turned around and waved goodbye to the family, and on the way back to the inn, he told Yu'er what he had heard from Zhuzi's house and asked:

"Yu'er, how about we say we're going to meet that Wu Peel for a while?"

Duanmu Yu applauded!

Lu Yi sighed and said: "Even if we kill that Wu Papi, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be a new Zhou Papi Li Papi, and their life in the town will still be sad after all." ”

Duanmu Yu tilted his little head and said, "Big brother, then find a good place for everyone to move over, so that everyone can be carefree every day!"

Lu Yi was slightly stunned, and suddenly felt that he was lucky to be able to grow up in a place like Lujia Village that was forgotten by the Fengtian Kingdom?

Although Yu'er's idea of this little girl is simple, it is not really impossible to realize, just like these children in the town, if they can really find a place like Lujia Village to escape from the world, wouldn't it be a kind of stable happiness?

Back at the inn, Duanmu Lengyue's room was still lit with candles, Lu Yi originally wanted to knock on the door and send a piece of rice cake to her to taste, but after raising her hand, she thought about it again, and just when she was about to go back to her room to sleep, the door creaked open.

Duanmu Lengyue was wearing a moon-white thin shirt, looking at Lu Yi who looked a little gloomy at the door, and for some reason suddenly felt that his heart, which usually looked lazy and carefree, seemed to be a little more inexplicably heavy tonight, and her heart hurt slightly for some reason.

"Come in, I'll talk to you for a while. ”

Lu nodded and walked into the house.

Duanmu Lengyue poured Lu Yi a cup of tea, sat on the bed by herself, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Lu Yi couldn't suppress the bitterness in his heart, and said what he saw and heard tonight like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, especially when he saw the food on the table at Zhang Dazhu's house, he couldn't help but let out a long breath of turbidity, and his hands holding the cup were a little trembling.

Duanmu Lengyue's expression was calm, and he waited until Lu Yi's mood was stable before he spoke: "Have you thought about it?" Now that the corn in the crop field has just been harvested, they still have corn paste to fill their stomachs, and what about the winter in a few months?"

Lu Yi was stunned, and his face was even more melancholy.

Duanmu Lengyue smiled and suddenly changed the topic: "All sentient beings, they are already bitter, the Slanting Moon Sect is called the Demon Dao Giant by the Central Plains Martial Arts, saying that we are demons who drink blood and kill people without blinking, do you believe it?"

Lu Yi shook his head without hesitation.

"That's because you've been in contact with our sisters and you've dealt with my three grandfathers, so you don't believe it. ”

"The most terrible thing about scandalizing something is human words. ”

Duanmu Leng Yue lowered his head, put his hands on his cheeks and sighed:

"In fact, the original tribes in our 100,000 mountains are divided, and you fight for each other every day, whether it is the Huangquan Sect that we just encountered a few days ago, or the current Leaning Moon Sect, the ultimate goal at the beginning of its establishment was just to unify the tens of thousands of scattered tribes in the 100,000 Great Mountains, so that everyone would no longer fight and shed blood. ”

"Because in the beginning, all the young and strong parts of the mountains died in the conflict between the tribes, and the women became the slaves of the victorious side, and the tribal patriarchs and elders who temporarily won every day vented their animal desires, and before long, this tribe may be defeated by other tribes in the next conflict, and their men will be killed and women will be reduced to slaves, and so on, and so on, and the conflict will continue for hundreds of years!"

"It should also be the darkest few hundred years of our 100,000 mountain people, bleeding every day, dying every day, and people from the outside world are not willing to accept us at all, those who escape are either killed, and women are reduced to playthings in the hands of the powerful. ”

Duanmu Leng Yue said thoughtfully: "So no matter how absurd and uninhibited Dongfang Biluo is, how many confidants he has, he is a hero to the thousands of people of our 100,000 mountains, and the first generation ancestor of the Duanmu family of the Leaning Moon Sect is also the same." ”

It was only later that those in power would unconsciously want to control a larger territory, gain more wealth, and even control the temple, which led to the abrupt end of the original power that was in full swing, and even eventually went to extinction, and the same is true for the temple. ”

"So the military disaster is the source of the displacement of the people, now the Central Plains princes are competing for hegemony, to put it bluntly, there are still a small number of people in order to meet their greater ambitions and desires, at present, in addition to the Shepherd King Mingzhe to protect himself, the rest of the family is even more reckless, and the bitter people are still the people, now you look at the Muwang, will you think that he chose a corner of peace for the so-called loyalty of his Li family, is a real virtuous king?"

Lu Yi was speechless, in fact, he had always respected the Shepherd King in his heart, but Duanmu Lengyue's words could not be refuted.

"Have you ever thought about it? If the princes of several roads break through Luoyang, there will be no eggs under the nest? Will Jiangnan Dao really be able to protect the peace? The heavy armor of the king of Mu and the armor-piercing pawns are very powerful, but when the time comes, what are the chances of winning in the face of the power of the whole country? Therefore, it is very reasonable to say that since ancient times, only the virtuous have lived in the heavy weapons of the country. ”

Lu Yi smiled bitterly: "We are all insignificant beings, and we can't control the pattern of the temple, but encountering this kind of thing really makes me feel related." ”

Duanmu Lengyue stood up and said: "Copper furnace in troubled times, it's useless to think too much, let's do what we can, for example, you must want to go to meet that Wu Papi for a while, I will accompany you." ”

I'll accompany you with three words, let Lu Yi be slightly stunned, and after being silent for a while, he regained a little bit of his original lazy smile, and his dull mood was much more relaxed, and he said: "Thank you, I feel much more comfortable." ”

Duanmu Lengyue waved his hand to drive people away.

The cold moon is clear, and the night is like water.

Lu Yiyi hung on his chest like an octopus and was sleeping Yu'er carefully put it on the bed and lay down, and carefully folded the quilt for her, got up and sat cross-legged on the bed and began to vomit.

Gradually, Lu Yi felt that the Shentai was clear and clear, and entered the realm of forgetting things and me.