night

The stars in the sky,

The ground is blazing.

Three thousand miles west of Yueyang, it is Luoyang.

Eighty miles west of Luoyang, is a banyan forest.

The banyan forest is very large and very special. There is only a towering banyan tree in the forest, covering the sky and the sun, along the road that stretches for 48,000 miles.

But it's all small roads, no official roads...

Just because, there are 100,000 tigers resident in the forest, and the name is "resentment".

It is a green forest gang that dominates the soil and mountains and forests of the thirty-two cities in the Southern Regions. It is hidden in the mountains and forests all year round. Murder never asks where it comes from, regardless of whether officials or businessmen are old or weak. As long as it is a passer-by in the forest, if you meet it, you will only kill it...

And the government of the Southern Regions of the Tang Dynasty has always been cowardly.

Since the beginning of the Green Forest bandits, for decades, officials have never asked a word about this, let alone proposed to encircle and suppress them.

Therefore, from the officials and businessmen, down to the common people, there have been few people who have passed into the forest and patrolled for decades. Even if a cultivator who is greedy for a shortcut, if he wants to enter the forest, he must be accompanied in advance before he dares to move forward...

Therefore, since no one is leaving, there is no need to repair the official road in this banyan forest, which spans half of the thirty-two cities in the southern region.

And no one dared to fix it...

At this time, the southern section of the Banyan Forest, more than 500 miles west of Luoyang City.

In the dark forest, there was a little fire, and a few wisps of white smoke came out.

There's someone here...

And there are quite a few of them.

There were several acres of land lying horizontally and vertically.

Under the faint light of the fire, you can faintly see the blood stains flowing in the cracks of the gravel that have not yet dried...

On the bloodstains, between the wild grass and the newly fallen branches and leaves of the banyan tree, a piece of muddy flesh mixed with fresh minced meat, intestines or organs.

whereas

On top of the blood and soil, it is the real people who are paved.

It's a dead man...

But not exactly...

Because, they can't be considered a corpse anymore.

They either have no heads, or no hands or feet, or half of their bodies. All in all, they are all corpses that can't be crippled anymore.

The outward-turned flesh and fat, cemented with the yellow and white of the broken intestines, emitted a stream of fecal blood, which choked the listener.

Terror...

As far as the eye can see, there is a forest of hemolytic corpses.

From time to time, the forest wind blows, blowing the yin wind gusts, and occasionally blowing off some wreckage hanging between the banyan branches, rotten meat...

this

It's the real purgatory on earth...

The fire is burning,

More and more prosperous...

More than 20 wagons loaded with goods stopped aside.

The horses pulling the cart all looked a little flustered and impatient. Staring wide-eyed, looking in horror not far away, lying on the corpses of dozens of companions, and those who were raising butcher knives...

Their hooves, impatiently stomping back and forth on the ground with minced meat. The nose snorted white air rapidly...

how

The sturdy reins were firmly tied to the big banyan tree, and it was in vain for them to struggle...

There are not many people who slaughter horses.

Including those who were burning the fire and resting, there were fourteen people in all. Thirteen of them wore blue-edged white-clothed robes, and one was dressed in black.

All of them were injured, and none of them were light.

There are even a few who are already crippled.

The water is boiling,

A faint white mist rises.

A man whose face was half covered with a bandage and could not see his true face endured the pain of pulling the wound, shook off the lid of the pot, and threw a few pieces of cut horse's rump into it.

"Sand..."

When the meat is put into boiling water, the white mist is thicker by three points.

It doesn't take a moment for the red meat to wrinkle white and waft out a slight smell...

"Brother Nan, do you have salt and pepper?"

Sitting next to the fire, there was another wounded man, looking up slightly.

His face was also stained with blood, but it still couldn't hide the delicate white skin inside. The broken collar reveals a red thread, and half a piece of gold and white jade hangs, which should be a rich child...

"Niuzi, it's good if you can have something to eat... Plums, big flowers, they can't even smell the smell. ”

"You're still too light..."

The speaker, with some gloomy eyes and no resentment, seemed to be referring to Sang scolding Huai, and referring to something else. With difficulty, he rolled over and stood up, holding the palm of his hand, which had been wrapped in a ball and had only two fingers left:

"Everyone has said it, just to rob drugs, not to hurt people!"

"Let's just give it! It's a big deal that the medicine will come from the city in a few days, and I will ask my father to buy all the new medicines in Quan Yueyang and send them to the hospital..."

He glanced resentfully at the man in black who was meditating under the banyan tree not far away, and continued to say angrily:

"He's good, he won't say a word and fight!"

"That's nearly two thousand, half a yard of people!

As he spoke, he raised his other intact palm, raised four fingers, and mocked:

"Hehe, forty"

Niu Zi picked up the long spoon on the ground and wiped it on his body casually:

"Brother Nan, don't say it. It's always good to win..."

Then he put the long spoon in the pot and stirred carefully.

"Hehe, yes, won. ”

"It's so majestic! Forty dozen two thousand, and we won..."

The angry words followed, and the voice was three points louder.

It's resentment...

"Hehe, it's so majestic! Senior brother slashes thousands of people with a sword, and ten thousand people are invincible. ”

No matter how loud it was, it was a rage: "But what about us? Forty senior brothers, just the remnants of us are dead!"

"Just for that kid who has just been in the Seven Star Courtyard for less than half a year! How many people have we died in the past half month?"

"Who is he? What is he? He hasn't even been there to wash the marrow, and he hasn't even entered the outer gate of the Seven Stars. Why..."

"Poof!"

A sound came out of the sheath, and a cold light flashed. A figure swept through the crowd of horse-butchers...

“......”

The red rope is broken, and the white jade pendant is inlaid with gold.

A few drops of blood on the ground gradually appeared...

Angry breath,

A silver sword rested on the neck of the speaker.

"Shut up"

The sword-wielding man, in his early twenties, has a strong physique. The robe was stained with blood, his chest was bandaged, and two new scars were scratched on his face. At first glance, you can tell that he is a rough man.

“......”

The angry rich kid doesn't seem to be very afraid.

He just glared fiercely at the rough man with the sword, but did not speak again.

The cold wind in the forest blew away the broken half-red rope

The horse butchers, with the meat cut up, walked back one after another.

"Everybody's tired, take a good rest. I have to go tomorrow. ”

The rough man raised his sword for a while, and saw that the rich boy was not complaining. He said softly, and at the same time slowly put his sword back into its sheath and sat down on the spot at will...

The rich kid still didn't pay attention to him, but turned his back to the rough man without anger.

The pot of water in which the meat was boiled again, and the aroma of the meat gradually overshadowed the smell.

The long spoon is no longer stirring...

The cow opened the blood-stained tattered package and neatly took out fourteen large bowls from it.

They were filled with broth and served to the people who were sitting around the fire one by one.

Everyone was tired, as could be seen from the trembling palms of their hands as they took the bowls.

In the fierce battle just now, they fought too hard.

Forty against two thousand, the enemy has three layers inside and three layers outside, and it is surrounded by a radius of half a mile.

In this battle, their swords were dulled countless times, and they took their swords and fought again. They were wounded, and the latter came first. The wounded stopped bleeding and continued to rotate...

In this way, they fought from the city gate to the outside of the city, and from outside the city to the banyan forest, and finally hit here.

After a full day and a night, he retreated from the enemy.

Anyone will be exhausted.

The venue was dull and speechless, only choking on the bloody wind, and the sound of drinking soup and chewing meat lightly.

Not much,

The broth is finished.

The cow painfully wiped it off with his sleeve, and half of it leaked the sweat on his face.

Then, instead of sitting down, he carefully picked up the remaining bowl of broth. With small steps, I walked under the banyan tree on the side...

Maybe the broth was too full, and the boiling water that overflowed from time to time made his fingers red.

couldn't help but make him speed up a little...

"Senior brother, let's eat something first"

Niu Zi endured the pain, bent over, and slowly handed the broth to the black-clothed man in front of him.

The man is Mo Xian,

He didn't appear to have suffered much damage. It's just that the black clothes are a little broken, there are a few more fine marks on the face, and the simple heavy sword is stained with black blood, and it is stuck vertically behind him.

He opened his eyes slightly and took the broth. looked at the ten red fingers of the cow, faintly ashamed:

"I'm sorry. ”

Niu Zi hurriedly put his ten fingers into his robe and wiped it. He smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's a small thing." ”

Mo Xian shook his head: "I mean today's thing. ”

"Uh..."

Niu Zi scratched the dirt hair on the top indiscriminately, and thought for a while, before he could refer to today's vicious battle.

Niu Zi is in his early twenties this year, and he has been in the imperial god for many years, and he has not yet broken the realm, and his cultivation qualifications can only be regarded as inferior.

Therefore, he is in the Seven Star Courtyard, and he is mainly responsible for logistics affairs. In the past, he didn't need to interfere in ordinary martial arts. It's just that this time the situation is too urgent, and the original manpower of the Seven Stars is insufficient, and more than a thousand battle-ready disciples were buried ten days ago. Therefore, I had to disperse the logistics disciples who had never participated in the war.

And today's vicious battle really scared the cow out of the gall.

"I don't know why, but I believe you're doing the right thing," he said. ”

Mo Xian let out a rare playful smile: "Why?"

Niu Zi thought about it again before he said:

"My father died while I was in my mother's womb. Not long after I was born, several deans took me back to the courtyard to raise me.

Since that day, the yard has been my home. In the past 20 years, I have long regarded several deans and brothers as my relatives. ”

"Now that our family is being bullied, of course we have to do something for them. ”

The sound of the cow was not loud, but in the quiet forest, it could be heard far away...

These words, like a warm fire in winter, gradually melted the coldness in everyone's hearts.

Mo Xian was a little relieved, he drank all the soup in the big bowl in one gulp, grabbed the horse meat, and handed the bowl back to Liuzi at the same time:

"Thank you. ”

Niu Zihan smiled and took the big bowl.

Turn around and leave...

suddenly

As if remembering something, he stopped and turned around. There is a ray of tenacity in his eyes:

"Senior brother, can we avenge Li Zi's revenge in the future?"

The frost that had just melted seemed to begin to condense again as a word was written.

From Niu Zi's eyes, it can be seen that this issue is very important to him.

Perhaps, as he said, the yard is home, and the people in the yard are family. The blood debt of the family will have to be recovered one day...

"Yes"

“......”

The night fades away.

Fire, filled with firewood for the night.

Man, sitting or lying down, falls into a deep sleep.

In the banyan forest, the darkness of the fire and the moonlight does not shine.

One hundred and ten pairs of gloomy eyes are looking at this piece of purgatory on earth.

"Big brother, shall we go over now?"

“......”

"Don't disturb the guests when they sleep"

“......”