The early summer of the fifth year of Dahan Guanghe came later than the fourth year of Guanghe.

From Yique to the west, along the way, there are fewer and fewer wheat fields that have returned to green, and the already scarce Shuipi rice fields have simply disappeared. In some dry land that cannot be watered, only sparse green wheat is simply seen, like the stubble on the head of an old guy suffering from seborrheic alopecia.

It can be seen that it is another year that is not conducive to farming.

The Taiping Daomen people from the land of You, Yan, Qing and Ji occasionally appeared among the ridges of the fields, speaking the local dialect that was not very fluent, and talked to the villagers about the great epidemic in summer and the bitter cold in winter over the years. Occasionally, someone who arrives is lucky, and he can also get a bowl of runic water that is said to cure all kinds of diseases, mixed with ink and soil ashes, to drink.

For these Yellow Turban cultists who are gradually spreading to the twelve states of the world, it is not that no arrangements have been made for the local guards with a keen sense of smell. Some of them have been resettled by retiring the displaced people, some of them have expelled the followers and strictly arranged them, and some of them have even found some illiterate people who only know that "the Buddha is a great sage of the West" and have played with the means of driving away the tiger and devouring the wolf under the pretext of "using the floating slaughter to control the Huang Lao".

However, the efforts of these local vassals were all in vain with the shocking changes in Luoyang City in the spring. The Ten Standing Servants conspired against the king, and the officials of the Xiyuan Forbidden Army and the Luoyang Department were aware of it, and they punished the Ten Standing Servants not to mention, and some of the ministers who were notorious because of the Ten Standing Servants were also imprisoned together. And the edict issued in Beijing to abolish the party's prison and summon celebrities to return to the court, which made many scholars rejoice.

In the ecstasy of the people, those who have the heart to enter the center are all working hard to connect in all directions, and who can bear the attention of local details?

Therefore, he persuaded the nongsang to entrust all the things to the officials in the office, and as for how well the matter was done, the adults and gentlemen did not ask. As long as you don't make a big mess, you'll be finished!

From Gyeonggi to Samsuk, it is still a place of ointment, and the road is quite calm. However, further west from Hongnong County, there is gradually a smell of local instability. Pedestrians and travelers traveled in groups, and even if they were a large group of business travelers, they had to spend an extra amount of money, asking those rangers to carry bows and swords as guards.

On the post road, this is still the case, not to mention the ancient road of Kushan Mountain, which is dangerous everywhere and rarely visited except for business travel.

The ancient road of Kunshan is more than 400 miles, with dangerous mountains and rocks everywhere, and the corners are rugged, which was originally the way for soldiers to fight. However, several storage barracks in the mountains, thanks to the blessings of the officials in recent years, have either been abandoned or left empty for the division to eat. Except for one or two military inns left at both ends of the mountain road to serve as facades, they have all become the numbers on the book.

So the thieves who gathered in the mountains and forests, the doves occupied the magpie's nest, relying on the old site of the barracks, and robbing the merchants and travelers from time to time. The local guards went into the mountains to suppress bandits, and they even used the name of suppressing bandits to increase their salaries, and they were more ruthless than the brothers on the road. forced to travel back and forth, not a large team of 200 people, and did not dare to enter the mountain easily.

However, since ancient times, arrogance, death, stupidity and boldness have been the bad temperament of mortals that is difficult to erase. Those who refuse to partner with the caravan, or can't find a caravan partner, also have the luck mentality of "in case you can't meet the bandits", and wander on the mountain road alone.

For example, at this moment, the sun has slanted slightly, and the shadows of the mountain peaks have also been lengthened. This section of the mountain road back to Xihan is not more than four miles long, and it is not more than two zhang wide, but it is next to the cliff, and there is no road to ascend, which is the most dangerous. In the past, the Red Eyebrow Army and the New Mang Army fought fiercely here, and after 200 years, it seems that the sound of the golden drum in Hangami can still be heard.

A black donkey dragged a pallet cart, standing on this Han, the driver is not a handlebar, but a little girl with clear eyebrows. This girl in white clothes and scarlet hakama, with black hair like crow feathers, is curled into a bun on both sides, and then hangs down a pair of hair mustaches, which looks extremely delicate. How do you look at it, such a talented girl should be a giant family, raised in the high walls of the heavy gate, in the green building and the Zhu Pavilion, and the canary that entertains the eyes with her eyes. I don't know which vulgar village goods who don't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, let such a good-looking girl do the rough work of driving the car.

Even a group of bandits who stopped in front of the donkey cart had a deep sense of violence. If it weren't for the fact that there was an unpainted cedar coffin on this donkey cart, it would have been too unlucky. I couldn't say it, so I directly changed the robbery to rob Mrs. Zhai and returned to the mountain.

The girl faced a group of bandits, but her complexion did not change, she stood up with a smile, and bowed deeply to the bandits in front of her: "Uncle is here to rob? When he's done, I'll come and talk to you about how to pay for the toll money, okay?"

As she spoke, she also kicked the coffin behind her, intentionally or unintentionally.

This kind of pallet car, the back compartment is quite large, belongs to the Han Dynasty passenger and freight dual-purpose vehicle. However, apart from a coffin and two cages, there was nothing else. No matter how you look at it, the oil and water are not big, I can hear the girl's words, and there is the master behind. The first tall man was very satisfied with such a cooperative attitude, and said with a smile with the ring knife in his hand:

"The little lady is still interesting, like the head of your family, this kind of wreck that even has to be driven by a woman, how can you be worthy of such a good talent as the little lady? Little lady, you see that I look like a Zhou Zheng, alone, strong body, that money is also very good, isn't it much better than your waste master? If you are willing to go back to the mountains with me to live that peaceful life, all the money and food will be handed over to the little lady to take care of, I have nothing to say, just rely on the orders of the little lady!"

With this meaty word, there was a lot of laughter in the bandit team. The girl stood in the car, not annoyed, only nodded and smiled: "The eldest brother wants to come to the door to ask for marriage, but there are still elders around the slave family, even if you ask the media to hire them, the elders have to say something." The slave family is also the daughter of a scholarly family, eloping to Yehe, and she can't do anything without a name or a point. ”

While speaking, the girl also raised her sleeves to cover half of her face, looking as shy as water, and even more saw that the leader of the bandits was like a snow lion to the fire, and half of her body was melted. At that moment he could no longer suppress the urgency in his heart, and he laughed and ran to the donkey cart:

"Don't be afraid, little lady, your parents are naturally my elders, please go back to the village to send them to the end, it's all counted as me!

Seeing that the bandit leader was about to bully her, the girl didn't retreat or dodge, but just kicked the coffin again: "Uncle, it's not too late for you to identify equipment, study Taoist books and transfer money." It's not like watching thieves rob relatives in costume dramas, so get up and do the right thing first, okay?"

Under her kick, the coffin shook slightly, the coffin lid was pushed open from the inside, and a young man sighed faintly: "The girl is too big to stay, and these thieves can talk about entering the port." Your uncle, I thought you were really interested in the sub-profession of Mrs. Zhai, and wanted to experience the feeling of being a Liangshan female general, Hu Sanniang......"

The coffin shook, but it shocked the bandit leader. Waiting to hear the voice of a person in the coffin, but he was bold, and when he gave up the girl, he slashed towards the cedar coffin:

"What a bird feather thief, hiding in a coffin and pretending to be a ghost!"

The momentum of the ring head knife was inexhaustible, but he heard a clear cry in the coffin, and a red light burst out like lightning, only under the head of the bandits, it cut his throat!

However, until the thief's eyes were wide open and he fell to the ground, there was not a drop of blood coming out of the wound in his throat!

This dough flip was too fast, so that a group of bandits were dumbfounded. Until the red light approached, a bold and quick response thief raised his knife to cut, but unexpectedly, the red light flashed in front of him, and the heat wave burned people's necks, and there was a slight numbness in the throat. When the red light faded, he realized that he seemed to be flying, getting farther and farther away from the ground, and when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he saw a headless torso slowly falling to the ground, and his neck cavity was burned by fire, and not a drop of blood flowed out......

When the head hit the ground, this abnormal killing scene frightened the entire bandit team. The screams suddenly resounded in the sky. Those who survived under the red light had no other thoughts, only a human instinctive fear of the unknown. Except for the strange donkey cart, the girl with a strange origin, and the ghost in the coffin, all thoughts were thrown out of the nine heavens!

The sound of the miserable howl, the drums of the mountain tombs echoed in bursts, which added a sense of bad luck. However, this time, the terrain on the river is too dangerous, and the two-zhang mountain road can not allow them to scatter and run! At that moment, there were a few frightened bandits, who couldn't stand the run, and fell directly off the cliff, and the dying cry echoed up, and even gave this scene of the group of thieves scattering, with the background music of death.

The girl put up the pergola with one hand, looking at the bandits running in front of her, and couldn't help but sigh with pity: "Uncle, the magic you have cultivated recently has become more and more ferocious. ”

The person in the coffin had no intention of accepting such praise, climbed the coffin lid and sat up, looking at the scene he caused with one hand, and sighed: "Okay, it's all your uncle and my fault." Originally, I just wanted to unload a few arms and talk about deterrence...... I don't know what's wrong with me lately, what's so angry in my heart......"

As for her uncle's explanation, the girl didn't know everything, turned her head, and led the topic to the question she was more concerned about: "Has the valuation of the various raw materials and equipment that Feng Yue helped us receive completed?

The man in the coffin rolled his eyes before replying: "There are a lot of book assets, and the whole thing looks like more than 200,000." But after deducting those Taoist books, magic weapons, pills and heavenly treasures, just in terms of cash, the two of us combined are only more than 100,000 yuan. ”