Chapter 22: The Knife Dance

More than 200 Yong'an Island people led by Shi Dewa and Hedang, after breaking up with Shi Fudi and Feng Dewa who were poisoned and unconscious in the southwest hills, marched towards Jiuhuangling, the residence of the Changyu clan.

There was no trade road in the hilly area, and the woods blocked it up and down the mountain, and then it was blocked by the woods up and down the mountain, and the rain at both ends of the three days made the mountain road slippery, and it was necessary to always beware of the harassment of the barbaric and fierce minority tribes, and Shi Dewa and his party trudged with difficulty.

After the hunger, physical exhaustion, poisonous fruit, poisonous snake disease, and the disease took the lives of several people, the two guides led Shi Dewa and his party to the southern end of the Nine Desolation Mountains.

The Nine Desolate Mountains are nine huge mountains between the two mountain ranges, with a radius of nearly 1,000 miles, and most of the hundreds of thousands of Changyu people are scattered in the Nine Desolate Mountains.

At noon, it was raining heavily, and someone found a cave and was about to go in to take shelter from the rain, but Shidwa stopped him and said, "I'll go inside first!"

Stonevar walked down the dimly lit cave, and after a few steps, the cave became wider, and a light appeared in front of it, and a dozen steps further, Stonevar saw several people roasting something around the fire.

Stonewa turned to leave, but accidentally stepped on a rock, and his body staggered and made a noise, and the people around the fire heard the noise and immediately ran over to find Stoneva.

Before Shi Dewa could speak, several people pounced on Shi Dewa and grabbed Shi Dewa.

Shi Dewa shook off the two people who grabbed him with a little force, and the rest of the people came up and grabbed Shi Dewa again, one holding his waist, one holding his legs, and two of them grabbed his arms, and several of them tried hard to fall Shi Dewa.

Shi Dewa was in a hurry, he made a dantian, his legs stood firmly, and at the same time, his arms threw the two out of a long distance, the two fell to the ground after hitting the stone wall, and the two people holding their waist and legs were also thrown to the ground by Shi Dewa.

Seeing that they couldn't beat Shi Dewa, they ran out of the cave one after another, and the people waiting outside the cave suddenly saw several people running out of the cave in embarrassment, and they retreated in shock, and at this time, Shi Dewa rushed out of the cave.

A group of people watched the men run away before they came over to ask Shidewa.

After explaining the situation, the guide said: "These people are from the Changyu tribe, they should be hunting in the nearby mountains and forests, and then sheltering from the rain in the caves. Shi Dewa, it is fortunate that you did not hurt these Changyu people, otherwise their revenge will make their people haunt us endlessly. The Changyu people, who have suffered losses from these people, will most likely have to find someone to help them regain their dignity. We must repay our grievances with virtue, not hurt them, and finally get forgiveness from the Changyu people. ”

Sure enough, after the time of the meal, those people led more than 300 people to the cave.

A man with high cheekbones and a beard at the head came out and said, "Drop the big man of our people, come out, let our wrestlers also throw you a few times!"

The leader pointed to a slightly taller middle-aged man beside him.

A Xiang Dewa who was fluent in the Changyu language explained what the leader meant, and Shi Dewa nodded and said, "That's very fast! I seem to be able to understand a little bit of what the man is saying." ”

After Shi Dewa finished speaking, he walked out, and the people of Yong'an Island stared at the more than 300 Changyu people on the opposite side uneasily.

The leader saw Shi Dewa come out, glanced back, and after getting the confirmation, patted the shoulder of the middle-aged man beside him.

The middle-aged man stood a meter away from Shi Dewa and nodded to Shi Dewa.

This middle-aged man was half a head shorter than Shi Dewa, his head was not big, his neck was short and thick, his waist was thin, and his shoulders were broad and thick, and he didn't look good, but Shi Dewa could see at a glance that this person was a rare martial arts master who was outstanding.

Shi Dewa smiled and nodded in return, secretly adding twelve points of caution.

As soon as the middle-aged man came up, he grabbed Shi Dewa's shoulder, Shi Dewa hadn't eaten much for a few days, and his strength was a little weak, and he met such a big master today, he wanted to come by surprise, and fell down the middle-aged man in one fell swoop, and fell down with him at the same time, which not only shocked the opponent but also saved face for the opponent.

Shi Dewa made up his mind, and the moment the middle-aged man's hands grabbed his shoulders, he used all his strength to use the "iron shoulder" to hit the middle-aged man's hands that he couldn't take back.

Shi Dewa used this "iron shoulder" to fall down all the people who fought against him on Yongan Island, in the Imperial Martial Academy, when he was a year-old, he used this trick to knock down Wang Xiao, the fourth year of the first martial artist of the Imperial Martial Academy, but today, Shi Dewa's collision did not hit the middle-aged man's hand.

In fact, Shi Dewa's collision made the middle-aged man's hands fail to grab his shoulders, but the middle-aged man seized the moment when Shi Dewa was stunned and grabbed Shi Dewa's shoulders for the second time.

After the middle-aged man who took the lead grabbed Shi Dewa's shoulder, he used his arms to pick up Shi Dewa and throw him to the ground, but he only shook Shi Dewa's shoulder twice, and Shi Dewa's body did not move half a minute.

Shi Dewa withstood the strength of the middle-aged man's arms, grabbed his shoulders and arms to pull him down, and the middle-aged man's legs were like nailed to the ground, not moving at all.

The two of you pulled me twice, I pulled you twice, and neither of them could pull anyone, and then the two stopped pulling, but they both pressed each other's shoulders hard, and when the other party relaxed, they overwhelmed each other in one fell swoop.

The people on both sides were puzzled, they saw that at the beginning, the shoulders of the two of you shook twice, and I shook twice, and soon after, the two of them bent over, put their hands on each other's shoulders, looked at each other, and remained motionless.

The rain gradually stopped, and the afternoon sun finally waited for the dark clouds around her to disperse, and she slowly transferred the heat, and walked slowly, from the south sky to the west sky and then down the horizon.

More than 500 people in an open field did not see the sun, and they stood still with the two people in the center of the field.

When it was almost dark, both people in the field fell at the same time.

That middle-aged man's name was Da Ran, he was the number one warrior of the Changyu clan, and his status was extremely high, and he deeply fell in love with Shi Dewa, who had been fighting with him for a long time, and the people of Yongan Island were treated very well because of this.

Shi Dewa and Daran were carried back to the cottage and lay down for two days before getting up.

This day is the last day of the Niugu Festival, the grandest festival of the Changyu people, Shi Dewa came to the square, and saw the most lively scene is the bullfight, the drum of a hundred faces sounded at the same time, the onlookers shouted out their throats, and in six days, the two of them eliminated the head of the cow of each village in a row

Black bulls are fighting for the title of the head cow of the year.

Most of the women are concentrated in another place, they wear the clothes and household accessories made of hand-weaving, dyeing and embroidery, and show their industriousness and ability in the form of dance, there are also some women who compete in songs, showing their wisdom, and some men who play the horns of the sheng pipe and sing and dance, and the Changyu people can sing and sing when they can talk, and they can sing when they walk.

What attracts Shi Dewa the most is the sword dance performed by dozens of sturdy men.

Dozens of long knives danced beautiful knife flowers in front of and behind the chests of dozens of people, and the knives should have been chopping as the main technical action, but the knives of these dozens of people were almost all stabbing movements, and the movements were strange and changeable, and the power was abnormal.

Shi Dewa was fascinated by it, and Daran came to him, but he didn't notice it.

Da Ran smiled and gently touched Shi Dewa's arm, and turned his head to Shi Dewa: "I'll take you to meet the clan chiefs, chiefs, and chiefs. ”

The chieftain, the chieftain, and the party were waiting in a spacious stone room for the soldiers Daran and Shi Dewa, who had already experienced a baptism of joy and sorrow in recognizing their ancestors and returning to their ancestors.

It turned out that the Hedang heard the singing of the Changyu tribesmen on the Niugu, and was surprised to find that most of the songs here were sung by him, so he sang along, and this song alarmed the chief on the sacrificial platform, and he came down to sing the old songs that he had never taught the people, and the Hedang took them all.

The chief took the party home and sang many mysterious old songs together.

Changyu is Miao, thousands of years ago, most of the tribes of Miu Miao after continuous migration to the south to the west, came to the area of the Nine Desolate Mountains in the Central and Southern Plateau, for safety they changed the name of the clan, and accidentally fled to Yong'an Island A very small part of the Miu people, living a paradise life almost isolated from the mainland, due to the backwardness of the shipping industry, it was not discovered until the Xurui Dynasty.

Daran led Shideva into the chief's stone house, and when Shideva knew what had happened, he was so excited that he burst into tears.

Da Ran said: "Brother Dewa, the party has told you about your experience, the Xurui Dynasty is clearly trying to forcibly occupy Yongan Island, and we will help you get it back and avenge the shame!"

The chief said, "Soldier masterβ€”β€”, don't be rash!"

The chief on the side said: "Yes! Our Changyu tribe has no more than 100,000 soldiers, and the Xurui Dynasty has 3 or 4 million troops; their weaponry, equipment, tactics, and command quality are even higher than ours; and we are even worse off in terms of food and silver to sustain the war." How are we going to fight this battle!"

Da Ran sighed and said: "Then you can't let others slaughter like this! Obviously, no, we are engaged in sneak attacks and assassinations, anyway, we can't let the beasts of the Xurui Dynasty have a good time, they occupied the land that was originally ours thousands of years ago, and now they are still bullying us, we can't bear it!"

The chief of the chieftain sighed and said: "The beacon fire of one or two thousand years ago has been extinguished for too long, and the dynasties in the Central Plains have changed frequently. The grudge of the Miu Miao clan has long been unable to be counted on the head of the Xurui Dynasty, not to mention that the Xurui Dynasty has a good reason to seal Yongan Island, and they did not kill a single person indiscriminately. Don't make trouble, master!"

Seeing that the annoyed Da Ran stopped talking, the chief turned to Shi Dewa and said, "You can't go back to Yong'an Island now, at least until the truth of the death of King Nanling is revealed, and it is confirmed that the Xurui Dynasty will not pursue Yong'an Island for the time before, you can't go back." You were not present at the time of the death of the King of Nanling, and unless they were deliberately conspiring, they would not have come to hunt you down. ”

The chief said: "No one in the Xurui Dynasty knows that they came to the Nine Desolate Mountains, and the only person who knows is that the Bodhisattva is wearing makeup and carrying the Xurui Dynasty to save people, which is absolutely credible." Therefore, the Hedang Shi Dewa is safe in Jiuhuangling, even if it is discovered, the eighteen bends of the nine-barren mountain road of nearly a thousand miles are overgrown with trees, and a large number of army cavalry cannot enter, and we will eat as much as a small army comes. ”