Chapter 1: Don't panic

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At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes rose together, and the war was endless.

After the world is divided into three, the attack has been continuous for decades. The people of Kyushu, ten to six seven.

Under the rule of Eastern Wu, Yangxian, Wu County, which was famous for producing tea and making tea, was once prosperous and wealthy, but now it is also a withered population, and there are redundant old and weak women and children in the city.

Yangxian City, which has been defeated, is inexplicably filled with a festive atmosphere today, and people on the street are running to tell each other, as if there is some great joy to celebrate.

In the past year or two, the situation in the world has changed dramatically, last year the general Jiang Wei of Shu was executed, and Liu Chan, the lord of Shu, surrendered to Wei.

A few months ago, Sima Yan, the king of Jin, forced Emperor Cao Huan of Wei Yuan to take the throne, established the Jin Dynasty, and built the capital Luoyang.

Now that the Jin State has unified the mountains and rivers north of the Yangtze River, it is the time when the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and the army of Wu to the east is pressing, and the lord of Wu Sun Hao is addicted to wine, the famous generals in the country are withered, the soldiers are few and far between, and the fall of the Wu State seems to be only in the mist.

At this time, it is really unthinkable, what is there to celebrate the people of Yangxian?

Outside Yangxian City, a man of about twenty years old, dressed in short brown, carried several bundles of firewood behind him, and a broken-bladed machete was inserted in the firewood.

The machete is formed by the breaking of the ring-headed knife used in the army, rather than the inferior iron used by ordinary people.

Although this man is dressed ordinarily, his figure is handsome and straight, and there is a faint hint of bookish breath between his eyebrows, which makes people know at a glance that this person is not one of those people who can't eat in troubled times.

Before the young man entered the city, he also heard the noise coming from the city, and when he heard that it was different from the previous noise, the man was also curious, and couldn't help but speed up his steps.

"Brother Cheng..... Brother Makoto ..... You're back. As soon as the salaried man entered the city and walked out of the city, he was stopped by a boy of seven or eight years old on the side of the street.

The boy shouted the name of the salaried man, looking a little anxious and out of step with the festive appearance of the rest of the city.

"What's wrong with the dog baby? Looking at the appearance of the villagers, it seems that something happy has happened?" The man who was called Brother Cheng glanced at the dog baby, and then looked at the people around him and asked.

Just when the man stopped, the people who were not far away also spontaneously approached the salaried man, and before the dog baby could speak, there were already six or seven people around him.

"Zhou Cheng...... The people in the city cheered, because your lord had decided to go into Nanshan to kill the tiger and enter the Changshui to kill the dragon. If these three evils are eliminated, it will be the luck of Wu Jun, and ......" The puppy baby had not yet spoken, and a slightly old and majestic voice sounded behind the crowd, and the voice was getting closer and closer, which was said to Zhou Cheng, the salaried man.

Nanshan Tiger, Changshui Evil Jiao, Yangxian Around, these are the three evils in the eyes of the people of Wu County.

Zhou Cheng, a salary-paid man, is the brother of the same clan of Zhou, one of the three evils, but he has been raised by Zhou's father, Poyang Taishou Zhou, since he was a child, and he is a servant of the same clan. Because of the gratitude of Zhou Doi's nurturing, he was commensurate with the lord, and after Zhou Doi died early, he returned to Yangxian's hometown with Zhou to guard filial piety.

In his early years, Zhou Cheng was supported by Zhou Yi in Poyang, learned some military martial arts, and also dabbled in poetry and books, and was loyal and righteous. Even if the Zhou family became more and more defeated after Zhou Yi's death, Zhou Cheng still did not abandon Zhou, a gentleman.

Now the Zhou family business has been almost defeated by Zhou, and Zhou Cheng is still struggling to support the Zhou family, who only has such two people.

"Kill the tiger and kill the Jiao, confused....." Zhou Cheng suddenly put down the firewood on his back, pulled out the broken knife and shouted, and planned to go to Nanshan to find Zhou.

"Zhou Cheng, you are different from your father-in-law, and the villagers have also seen it in their eyes over the years. The Zhou family still has two mansions, twenty acres of fertile land, you are a relative of the Zhou family, as long as your father-in-law dies, the villagers can testify for you, you can rightfully inherit the Zhou family's farmhouse, so why not?" The old man who spoke just now had already approached Zhou Cheng, and when Zhou Cheng was about to leave, he said something unexpected.

Zhou Cheng has been like a character who wipes his ass for Zhou Cheng in the past few years, whenever Zhou Cheng tramples on the people's fertile land, or fights with people when he is drunk and injures people, or even catches someone's chicken and duck on a whim, these are all Zhou Cheng went to make amends one by one after the fact and compensated with money.

Therefore, in this Yangxian City, Zhou is a scourge that everyone avoids, but Zhou Cheng is friendly with others.

"Dog baby, what is going on?" Zhou Cheng was horrified in his heart, judging from the reactions of these people, they really wanted Zhou to be executed, and Zhou suddenly went to kill the tiger and kill Jiao, it seemed that there were many suspicions?

"Early this morning, a bald-headed monk came to the city, I don't know what he did to your father-in-law? Later, your father-in-law asked everyone why they were unhappy, and their uncles and aunts all said that it was because of the three evils...... Later, your lord went to Nanshan with a sword....." The dog baby said resignedly, and explained the cause and effect in a few words.

Whether it is the old man or the dog baby, they do not call Zhou by name, because although the Zhou family is down, they are still a scholar, and Zhou is a completely different class from the people like them.

"You ..... Words don't see blood, but they are murder knives..... If the lord dies..... You're all murderers!" Zhou Cheng had too many doubts in his heart, but he didn't care about it at the moment, so he just dropped a sentence and ran out of the city with the broken knife in his hand.

"Zhou Cheng, come back soon..... You go to Nanshan but send you to death....." There were unbearable people in the crowd who wanted to persuade Zhou Cheng, but Zhou Cheng ignored these people, and didn't say anything high-sounding and awe-inspiring, but his feet were fast, and he ran out of the city gate in a few breaths, and he was running towards Nanshan.

There are tigers infested in Nanshan, a few years ago, Yangxian County ordered to organize the township to eliminate tigers, but that time hundreds of people entered the mountain, and in the end only more than ten people fled in panic, and the others all died. Since then, in the past business travel, the neighboring people have avoided Nanshan and dare not take half a step into the mountain.

Zhou Cheng's physical fitness can be called excellent, and he is not much better than those soldiers in the army. Nanshan is only more than ten miles away from Yangxian County, and Zhou Cheng only took half an hour to reach the periphery of Nanshan under a wild run.

Running down all the way, Zhou Cheng was also a little out of breath.

He carried the broken knife, looked at the deep and dense woods, took a deep breath, and resolutely walked towards the depths of the mountain forest.

The range of Nanshan is quite large, and Zhou Cheng doesn't know where his lord Zhou is, so he can only walk along the mountain path.

After walking less than half a pillar of incense, Zhou Cheng suddenly stopped. I saw him squatting down, his palm gently brushing the grass on the ground, and comparing his palm horizontally and vertically on it, as if he was measuring something.

"This grass still has indentations, the size is similar to the footprints of the lord, it should have only been a long time, it must be ahead..... Don't let the lord meet the tiger....." Zhou Cheng muttered quietly, he deduced from the indentation of the grass that Zhou should have just passed from here. Because after these grasses are quickly trampled, it should not take long to recover, and now the indentation is still there, indicating that the time is not long.

At the same time, Zhou Cheng was also extremely worried about Zhou Chu, although Zhou Chu's natural strength was greater than that of ordinary people, and his martial arts were even more difficult to defeat than ten people, but the tiger was already beyond human resistance, and Zhou Cheng could only hope that Zhou Chu would not meet the tiger.

Zhou Cheng tightened his hand to break the knife, and his steps quickened a little, and he continued to look for the depths of the mountain forest.

"Whew....." seemed to be providential, and soon Zhou Cheng heard a tiger roar from the depths of the woods.

He stopped, immediately discerned his bearings, and still rushed in the direction from which the tiger roar came without the slightest hesitation.

Zhou Cheng's figure swept through the forest, and the sound of the tiger's roar became more and more obvious. Zhou Cheng became more and more anxious in his heart, because ordinary tigers would not keep howling, and the sound of the tiger roaring clearly made people feel the tense and urgent atmosphere, as if the tiger was also fighting something.

"Don't panic, lord, I'm here to help you....." Zhou Cheng shouted into the distance, he didn't know what was going on in the distance, he just hoped that shouting would distract the tiger's attention, and at the same time let Zhou know that he was coming.

When the words fell, Zhou Cheng had already crossed a few big trees, and then he suddenly felt that the field of vision in front of him was wide, and a relatively open place appeared.

A boulder stands in the middle here, and at this moment, a white tiger on the boulder is opening its bloody mouth, making a tiger roar into the distance, and the white tiger is standing opposite the iron sword in front of him.

However, the scene that caught his eyes at this moment made Zhou Cheng at a loss for a while, because everything he saw in front of him subverted his lifelong understanding.

The eyes of the white tiger on the boulder exuded a strange red glow, and those eyes were not the bloodthirsty and violent state of a beast, Zhou Cheng was sure that he saw the light of wisdom in the eyes of the white tiger, which was thinking, with a trace of disdain......

What made Zhou Cheng feel even more incredible was that every time the white tiger roared, it actually spewed out a solid gang wind from its mouth, and the gang wind was like a sharp blade, cutting all the stones on the ground into pieces wherever it passed.

And the gang wind blew around, and was blocked by the pale cyan light curtain emitted by the iron sword in front of him.

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