Gu Shenwei pinched his thighs fiercely, driving the drowsiness that he couldn't give up, he had been driving the horse and galloping all night, sleepy and tired, dizzy, this was a deep realization of how hard it was to ride a horse, thinking that when he moved from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, he curled up in the arms of his family all the way, and almost did not feel the harshness of the Gobi Desert.

He stopped the horse, there were two roads in front of him, one was north and the other was south, and Master Yang only said that it was going west, but he didn't say how to choose north and south.

Luckily, there were pedestrians on the road, and unfortunately the first few groups of people couldn't speak Zhongyuan.

Gu Shenwei was very concerned about the task given to him by Master Yang Zheng, and couldn't stand waiting on the road, so he simply chose the northerly road, ran for a while, and finally met a group of herdsmen, one of whom actually spoke fluent Central Plains dialect, he told Gu Shenwei that he was on the wrong path, and he heard that the young man wanted to find "Marshal Yang", and couldn't help laughing.

"There is no Marshal Yang in the capital, and there is no Marshal Yang in the entire Shule country. ”

"Master Yang said that there is, there must be. Gu Shenwei said with great certainty that a herdsman had probably never seen any high-ranking officials and nobles.

"Haha, your master is really good at making jokes, we don't have a marshal in Shule Country, only generals and captains, even if there is a marshal, why use a Central Plains man surnamed Yang?"

The shepherds laughed and left, leaving Gu Shen alone.

Gu Shenwei is not a fool, he is just a little simpler, because he has never been deceived, and the biggest setback in his life is just being bullied by his two elder brothers, so it is easy to believe and accept the various statements of his father and master, once he starts to think about it carefully, he immediately finds that the whole thing is unusual from beginning to end.

A sense of foreboding welled up in the boy's heart.

Gu Shenwei turned the horse's head and galloped back to the original road, his face tightened, he found that he was excluded from family affairs, he felt very bad, he wanted to know how his father and Yang Zheng would explain all this when they said goodbye.

Until noon, Gu Shenwei didn't meet his sister and the other four people, a group of caravans came from the east, everyone looked panicked, as if they had just been robbed, one of them probably out of good intentions, shouted at the young man who was riding a horse alone:

"Turn back, turn back!"

Gu Shenwei ignored this kind reminder, his heart tightened, and the horse that stepped off was already foaming at the mouth, and he still urged it to run faster with his whip.

Half an hour later, he saw in the distance a spear standing straight on the side of the road, swaying slightly, like a flagpole that had lost its flag.

There was a human head stuck in the head of the gun, and white hair fluttered in a mess.

When he got closer, Gu Shenwei recognized that it was indeed his master, Yang Zheng, the old servant of the Gu family, his eyes were wide open, and he seemed to be very unconvinced by his death.

He once used a spear to pick three people in a row, but after a night, he ended up in a different place, and his killer must have stuck his head in the spear for demonstration, so that he showed it to passers-by.

Then, Gu Shenwei saw more than one corpse lying on the ground.

Yang Zheng's body was near the spear, there was not a single scar on his body, the person who killed him was clean and neat, and he took off the head with just one move, Gu Shenwei couldn't imagine how high this person's martial arts were.

There are also three corpses next to her, one is Yahuan Juxiang, with stab wounds on her chest and face, and her clothes are stained red with blood, she doesn't know martial arts at all, but the killer used a few more tricks, it seems that it was just to torture her.

The other is the little scholar Mingxiang's, he is still wearing the clothes of the little master, Gu Shenwei can only judge the identity of the corpse through the clothing, because Mingxiang's head is missing, not inserted in the head of the gun, and not lost nearby.

Gu Shenwei fell off his horse, knelt down on his knees, and couldn't help but vomit until there was nothing left in his stomach to vomit on, and he forced himself to look at the last corpse, because this corpse was very strange.

What made Gu Shenwei feel a little relieved was that this last corpse was not his sister, but a teenager, about the same age as himself, and his body was as scarred as Ju Xiang, but his appearance was unfamiliar, and he had never seen it.

Gu Shenwei jumped on the horse and continued to gallop eastward, he wanted to know his sister's whereabouts, and he had to go home to find out what was going on.

In his impression, the Gu family had no enemies, none in the Central Plains, and even less in the Western Regions.

At dusk, Gu Shenwei returned to the small village at the foot of the manor mountain, where more than a dozen villagers were tenant farmers of the Gu family.

Looking up the mountain, the Gu family's manor had turned into ashes.

Gu Shenwei came to the gate of his house, jumped off his horse, stood in a daze, and looked at the black ruins, as if he was trapped by a strange dream, and he couldn't wake up no matter how hard he tried.

Is there a family just gone?

Gu Shenwei stepped on the broken tiles and broken wood that still had residual warmth, and looked from room to room, as if the roof and walls were still there.

It was a massacre without resistance, and each body was left in place, burned beyond recognition, but according to the location, Gu Shenwei could still roughly determine which one the deceased was.

His father, Gu Lun, and his mother, Xu, were lying side by side, their heads decapitated, and Gu Shen had to effortlessly remove the bricks and wooden blocks covering them so that he could see the two thin skeletons. Gu Lun is a great hero in his son's eyes with martial arts, and he is unaware of foreign enemies.

The two elder brothers also lay in the same place, they were also beheaded, and they also died quietly, and they had not had the slightest chance to show their skills after more than ten years of hard work.

Both the servant and the Zhuang Ding are whole corpses, and the killer seems to be only interested in the master's head.

But her sister was still nowhere to be seen, and there were only three Yahuan's corpses in her room, although they were burned to the surface, Gu Shenwei could still recognize that none of them were her sister.

A boy who has lived a worry-free life since he was a child, and has been pampered since he was a child, suddenly fell into a situation where his family was ruined, and the initial feeling was just fear, his home was gone, who would protect him and guide him in the future?

He also wanted to wait for his sister to marry before officially entering the adult world, and in a blink of an eye, he found himself alone in a strange world, with an uncertain future, and a fog in front of him.

Slowly, anger takes over the young man's heart, he wants to get his sister back, he wants revenge, and he wants to kill all his enemies, no matter how many they are or where they come from.

Once he had the idea of revenge, Gu Shenwei suddenly regained his senses, he couldn't just go to the enemy empty-handed, he needed some capital.

The manor has been looted by the killers, and most of its belongings have been swept away, but there will always be fish that slip through the net.

Gu Shenwei had never cared about his family's finances, but at this moment, many details of his life flashed through his mind, and he deduced some little secrets from them.

Under the second brother's bed, he dug out a small bag of silver, and when he pushed away the corpse, he almost burst into tears, but he held back, what was the use of tears? When he was a child, this trick might have brought comfort and help, but now it only meant weakness and shame.

The road to revenge is long, and he doesn't even know who his enemies are now, and the most important thing at the moment is what to do with the bones of his family.

The owner of the Gu family didn't even leave the whole corpse, only the charred skeleton was burned by the fire, and it would break if he touched it lightly, Gu Shenwei carefully carried the remains of the two elder brothers to his parents' room, side by side with the other two remains.

It is said to be a "room", but in fact, there is no room, the roof has collapsed, the walls have fallen, and the ashes, bricks, charred wood, and copper and iron on the ground will not be long before this place will become a barren mound, and the ruins of the walls will be overgrown with grass.

Gu Shenwei had seen such a village before, with white bones in the grass, becoming a nest of reptiles, trampled by passing birds and beasts at will.

He could not allow his loved ones to suffer this torture after they had died mutilated.

Gu Shenwei suddenly hardened his heart, found a wall brick, knelt on the ground, and smashed the four bones to pieces, every time he smashed it so hard, as if he was treating the enemy, I don't know when he found that he had burst into tears.

"Heaven is unfair!"

Gu Shen said hatefully, picked up the ashes and scattered them into the air, the Gu family should not suffer such an end, although his father Gu Lun practiced martial arts, he never got involved in the grievances of the rivers and lakes, and he was even more cautious in the court, he always refused to offend people, insisted on the way of forbearance, and sometimes even to the point of weakness.

Maybe my father has an enemy in secret, but the Gu family has moved thousands of miles to the Western Regions, what knot is there that can't be untied and has to be pursued here?

Gu Shenwei couldn't figure it out, he blamed all this on the heavens, grabbed the wall brick, and threw it into the air.

After the heavens treated the Gu family cruelly, it seemed that they wanted to mock the little young master of the Gu family again, the wall tiles only rose a few feet high, and fell outside the "door" in an ironic arc, and smashed on the flower pot at the door.

The pomegranate tree in the pot had turned into a piece of black wood, and the pot was burned crisp and hard, and with that sound, it cracked into several pieces and fell to the ground.

Gu Shenwei's strength had long been exhausted, and after throwing the wall tiles, he involuntarily knelt on the ground, his hands on the ground, panting, and he didn't even have the strength to curse.

Just a moment later, the taunt of the heavens turned into a miracle, and Gu Shenwei raised his head, just in time to see the mass of soil that still maintained the shape of a flower pot, and he suddenly remembered something.

Then he ran outside like crazy, shook off the scorched earth with both hands, threw the flower roots aside, dug out a very small oilcloth bag from the bottom of the basin, pinched it lightly, and made sure that it was a book inside, and at last breathed a sigh of relief, carefully stuffed it into his bosom, put it behind the small bag of silver, and hid it close to his body.

He remembered a scene he had accidentally seen one night when he had just moved to the Western Regions: his father stuffed something in a flower pot. At that time, he was so sleepy, he only felt puzzled by his father's actions, but he did not seriously analyze it, and at the moment when the family was ruined, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he guessed what his father had hidden.

Hidden in the small oilcloth bag is a quick way to "harmony and strength".

"Harmony Jin" is divided into nine layers of yang and nine layers of yin energy, even Gu Lun, who has been practicing for the longest time, has only reached the fifth layer of yin and yang, but there is a quick method, which can greatly improve his skills in a short period of time, but the hidden danger is very large, and few people from the Gu family have practiced in the past generations.

The top-level "Harmony Strength" will be invincible in the world, Gu Shenwei is convinced of this, and suddenly, God is no longer the culprit of the Gu family's disaster, on the contrary, it shows Gu Shenwei a path of revenge.

Gu Shenwei had just cursed the heavens, so he preferred to call this miracle "divine will", he was only fourteen years old, he had always lived under the wings of his father and brother, and he never thought that one day he would have to bear the burden of revenge, he even faintly hoped that it was himself who died, and the two brothers were more suitable than him to avenge his family.

He needs a "divine will" to support his belief in revenge.

But the most important thing now is to find the last relative, the sister who doted on him the most, Cuilan, who may still be alive and suffering somewhere.

At this time, the "divine will" made another joke: a sharp whistle suddenly sounded outside the village, which was particularly thrilling in the silent night.