Chapter 52: Descending the Mountain
Early in the morning of the second day, Zhao Changfeng led the four of them to pack up and walked towards the bottom of the mountain.
This is the first time that the four of them have faced the rivers and lakes in a real sense.
What is Jianghu?
The sword light and sword shadow, the cold light and iron clothes, the three religions and nine streams, the cow ghosts and snake gods, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the rivers are rippling.
Someone has come in this place, and someone has left in this place.
All places about people are rivers and lakes!
Walking down the mountain step by step, the scenery along the way is the same as what he saw two years ago, but the mood is different at this moment, at that time, he wanted to go up step by step, but now, he can always walk down the mountain.
In front of Lin Chuyun's eyes, there was a high sky and a high ground. The remnants of the clouds are like all the things in the rivers and lakes that are surging in this world.
Zhao Changfeng first took Li Yixian, Feng Yichen, and Lin Chuyun to temper the iron swords in the hands of the three in a blacksmith shop in a small town not far from the mountain, opened the blade, and engraved their respective names.
Lin Chuyun picked up the polished sword, but saw that the blade was shining with cold light, extremely sharp, and the sword body was close to the gauntlet, engraved with the words "Lingyunmen" on one side, and "Lin Chuyun" on the other.
This is the weapon he uses to walk the rivers and lakes. What he thought in his heart: With this sword, he is the chivalrous Lin Shaoxia.
The mountains and rivers are wide and they know where they are, and the rivers and lakes are far away to ask the people.
The four of them traveled all the way to the south, and in less than a day's journey, they had already entered the land of Heluo Erzhou, which was the spring season, and what they saw was a barren place.
The so-called thousands of miles of red land is within the range of thousands of miles, except for the loess, not a single inch of grass grows. It was originally a place where thousands of villages were scattered, but it was already deserted.
The four of them are all knights with strong martial arts, and they naturally have a very fast foot journey, and in one day, they can travel a hundred miles, Lin Chuyun has been chasing after the ginseng since he began to chase after him, and the kung fu under his feet has improved with the growth of his internal strength. Although he is not a good skill at the moment, ordinary hurried roads are no longer difficult for him.
Until the sun set, they didn't see a single figure.
The remnant sun is like blood, the red glow in the sky dyes the entire yellow earth red, and the four souls who have the world's rivers and lakes but are lonely in the vast world walk slowly.
Lin Chuyun didn't expect that his first journey to the rivers and lakes would be so boring.
And under this boredom, what is hidden is the tragic situation of thousands of miles in radius, and the people in the land of Heluo do not survive in ten, and they are full of bones. This drought for several years shook the foundation of the entire Daning Dynasty.
A court that makes its people hungry, an emperor who starves his subjects, will choose to rebel and overthrow all this.
What happens after all this?
And no one thought about it.
Hunger can make people's souls humble, short-sighted, and devoid of the slightest bit of humanity.
Some people use this conveniently, those who are excluded from all sides on the rivers and lakes, those who are depressed, and those who have accumulated resentment against the world in their hearts for many years and gradually become perverted, have chosen to become a man-eating devil at this point in time when the world is like hell.
The leader of the Slaughtering City is such a person.
A crazy person, a perverted person, a person who has lost his humanity, kills like hemp, and is full of evil, just to satisfy the twisted desires in his heart.
Tu Anyi.
Before Zhao Changfeng went down the mountain, he told the three of them about the leader of this slaughtering city: Tu Anyi.
This person is fierce and brutal, strong in martial arts, a seven-blood serial knife in one hand, extremely fierce, this person does not know what stimulation he has received, he likes to eat people's hearts, especially the hearts of young girls, and the girls of poor families who died under his hands do not know how many. It is said that there are hundreds of people in the walled city, all of whom are vicious hooligans.
However, the four of them had nothing to fear in their hearts.
Lin Chuyun even took it as his responsibility to eradicate this chilling walled city. In his heart, such an evil thing is not allowed to exist.
They walked for five days in a row, either sleeping in a long-abandoned farmer's house or in a depression between the mountain bags.
It wasn't until after noon on the fifth day that I came to a ruined town.
In this town, there are still some residents, all of whom are as pale as vegetables, and they are weak and weak, and they look like people fleeing the famine.
There may still be some food in stock, and an inn is still open. The four people of Lingyunmen were all dressed in green cloth robes and had a long sword in their hands, and everyone in the inn saw it, and they all felt that these four people were dusty and unkind.
Zhao Changfeng and the four of them found a square wooden table and sat down, and the dust on the table was obviously uncleaned for a long time. When the four of them sat down, the eyes of everyone in the inn shot towards this side.
Lin Chuyun looked around, only to see that these people had a fierce look on their faces, and at a glance, he knew that they were not ordinary good people, if they were not Jiangyang thieves, they were unknown villains on the rivers and lakes, maybe there would be people in the walled city of slaughtering people here.
After a while, Xiao Er came over, his face was only haggard, and he said weakly: "What does the guest need?"
"What do you have here, let's just have some tea and dinner. Zhao Changfeng said.
"The guest laughed, it's been four years since the drought in Heluo, where is there still tea and rice?" Xiao Er said helplessly.
"Oh, what do you have here?" asked Li Yixian first.
"We have meat here. ”
"There's meat, what kind of meat?" said Li Yixian in surprise.
"The best-selling rat meat in the store is paired with the mash wine that was aged a few years ago, let's see if a few customers want to have some?"
"Bold, use rat meat to fool us and others, and dare to say it openly, isn't it here to entertain us?" Feng Yichen said angrily, and as he spoke, his right hand pressed on the hilt of the sword.
Xiao Er hurriedly said: "Oh, a few guests, a few heroes, how dare I entertain you, I see that you don't know anything about this drought, this year, rat meat is a rare and high-quality food." No matter how you say it, it's also meat, Heluo Erzhou has been in drought for four years, and the grain is extinct, and you can eat rat meat, which is extremely delicious. ”
"Rat meat is considered a first-class delicacy?shopkeeper, you still say that you are not entertaining us?" Feng Yichen said angrily. As he spoke, the internal strength in his body was transported, and a light blue aura faintly came towards the shopkeeper.
"Don't don't, this hero, I'm ...... We also have some of the best meat for you to taste, but this and this...... It's hard to say how much it will cost. ”
"What other high-quality meat do you have, tell me about it?" Li Yixian asked slowly.
The shopkeeper said: "In our store, there are medium wild dog meat, high-quality dead horse meat, and ......."
"What else?" Feng Yichen asked.
"And ...... When the word mutton ...... was spoken, the voice of the shopkeeper was unusually low.
"Mutton, since there is mutton, why don't you take it out?" asked Li Yixian again.
"This lamb ...... Mutton, he ......, "The shopkeeper can't speak."
"Forget it, pour us a glass of water, I'll wait until I bring dry food. Zhao Changfeng interrupted with a word, only to see that his brows were tightly locked, and he seemed to be thinking in his heart.
The shopkeeper said again: "A few guest officers, this year...... This...... Great drought...... As you know, this ...... Water is more expensive than wine!"
"Huh?" the four exclaimed.
Before he could reply, the door of the inn was pushed open with a thud.