Chapter 241: The Outskirts of Kaifeng

These villagers knew that Kaifeng was really a dangerous situation for people who practiced martial arts, and he was afraid that there would be more and less luck when he went this time, so they tried their best to keep him. Le Yiyang still insisted on leaving, and everyone had no choice but to send some dry food, and then silently watched him leave.

Le Yiyang came out of the sun of the water, walked more than 100 miles, and returned to his home outside the lonely valley. After months of not returning, the hut is overgrown with weeds. He lifted the weeds with his hands and walked straight home. The door was locked, and there was no sign of the little white horse in the stable. Seeing such a scene, his heart couldn't help but ache faintly. He leaned down to pick up a stone, smashed the lock with all his might, and gently pushed the door open, and the smell of dust hit him.

He covered his nose with his sleeve and walked towards the house. The utensils in the house were neatly furnished, and there were teapots and cups on the wooden table, exactly the same as when they left the house that day. He touched the scene, thinking that he had not been with his fiancée for months, and now her whereabouts were unknown, and his heart couldn't help but feel sad.

The stool was covered with a thick layer of dust, and instead of sitting down, he walked to the back room and took out a set of clothes from the closet to change into. He walked out of the back room in a daze, about to close the door and leave, but suddenly looked back, but saw the Qingyun Sword hanging on the wall.

He couldn't believe his eyes, and thought it was a hallucination, but when he looked closely, it was indeed the Qingyun Sword on the wall. He drove over to remove the sword, and found a white handkerchief on the hilt. Le Yiyang unfolded the handkerchief, and saw that it was Xiao Cuixin's handwriting, and the stone that had been hanging in his heart for many days had just landed.

Xiao Cuixin waited the edge of the cliff that day, but in the end she didn't expect her sweetheart to come back, so she agreed to return to Kaifeng with Du Chi to reunite with her relatives. Walking to the mountain road near the Lonely Valley, she still had a little luck, so she left Qingyun Sword at home, and wrote a message with her handkerchief, looking forward to meeting Le Yiyang in the capital. Before leaving, she came to the stable again, and saw that the little white horse looked gloomy, and could not bear to leave it alone in the mountains, so she sent it to the Lonely Valley, where she took care of it carefully.

Knowing the whereabouts of his fiancée, Le Yiyang galloped to the Valley of Silence to retrieve the little white horse, and then rode his horse south.

Ge Min Shan lives in seclusion in the valley and has heard a little about what is happening in the outside world. When Le Yiyang was leaving, he was instructed by him: "The emperor of Liao State implements the national policy of banning weapons in the world, and there must be someone behind him." You must find out this person and eliminate harm for the world's martial arts. He told all the ins and outs of the matter, and said uneasily at the end: "Senior, when he was fighting with Lu Zhicheng on the next day, he accidentally left the heirloom gold silk in the mountains and forests, and it is very likely that he will find it. I was worried that Lu Zhicheng would instigate the Liao lord to bring troops over. ”

Ge Minshan frowned after hearing this, and only said after a moment: "This matter is indeed a bit troublesome. But please rest assured, the old man has been running the Lonely Valley for decades, and it is still more than enough to deal with the Liao soldiers. Le Yiyang arched his hand and said: "Take care of your seniors, retire first." I would like to ask my seniors to say hello to my sisters and brothers in the valley on my behalf!"

He left the Silent Valley and rode a little white horse towards Kaifeng. The little white horse was originally a thousand miles horse, but recently he was taken care of by the disciples in the valley, and he ate the best water and grass in the lonely valley, and his physical strength grew extremely fast. Le Yiyang leaned on horseback, day and night, but in two days, he arrived in the countryside outside Kaifeng City.

It is only more than 100 miles away from the capital, but it does not have the vibrant scene of the past. The whole village is so sparsely populated that even the barking of dogs is hard to hear. But the foxes and jackals came in groups, and when they saw the meadows in the village, they all gathered around the little white horse, and their mouths showed sharp teeth. The little white horse has highly poisonous blood flowing from its body, and its whole body exudes a murderous aura. Although the beasts were hungry and thirsty, they did not dare to rush forward to die.

Le Yiyang walked slowly for several miles, but did not see a few people. He was indignant in his heart, and lamented: "The Liao people regard this place as the Khitan wilderness, and the people of my Central Plains as grass valleys. The people either died or fled, and a few were willing to stay here and die for nothing!"

After walking for more than ten miles, I saw that Kaifeng City was not far away, and then I saw the sparse crowd. These people were expressionless, as if they had just experienced a catastrophe.

When Le Yiyang passed by with his sword, those people were surprised. He immediately remembered the edict of "the world prohibits martial arts", and a wave of anger rose to his chest: "Yelude's heart of light is really vicious. If this order is implemented for a long time, few people in the Central Plains will be able to do martial arts. If the people were to encounter a large-scale slaughter, how could anyone dare to come forward!" He was thinking when he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him, and immediately reined in his horse to the side of the road to defend himself.

The people fled in all directions in fear. Before long, dozens of Liao soldiers rode fast horses, and each horse's horse was full of chickens and ducks. The leader immediately tied up a young girl. When the soldiers saw the fleeing people, they hurriedly opened their bows and shot sharp arrows. More than a dozen people did not have time to go far and were killed by arrows.

Those people laughed, talked a few words in Khitan dialect, and pointed their bows at the people a little farther away. Le Yiyang couldn't bear it anymore, quickly pulled out the Qingyun sword, and flew towards the Liao soldiers. Although those soldiers are domineering, they are just ordinary soldiers, where are his opponents. However, after a moment's effort, all of them died under the Qingyun Sword.

Le Yiyang's rope on the girl was untied, and after questioning, he learned that she was from Caozhou, which was more than two hundred miles away. Caozhou is not far from Kaifeng, most of the people in the city have fled, and only one or two thousand people are left to guard the ancestral industry and refuse to leave. These Liao soldiers belonged to Xiao Han's tent, and they failed to loot enough food, fearing that they would be punished when they returned, so they went to Caozhou to fight grass valleys. The rest of the people in Caozhou City were not on guard. When dozens of Liao soldiers suddenly entered, those people had no power to resist and were easily slaughtered!

The once prosperous suburbs of Kaifeng have long been in shambles, and now even the surrounding states and counties are not spared. Le Yiyang was deeply touched in his heart, and secretly vowed to expel the Liao people from the Central Plains.

Although the girl was rescued, her eyes were full of sorrow with a happy look. Le Yiyang remembered that she was bereavement, and comforted her softly while helping her up. The girl pushed his hand away and choked up, "I understand the kindness of the child." However, the little woman is no longer innocent, and she does not dare to defile the child's hands. She paused for a moment, and then said mournfully: "I was originally a young lady from a rich family, and I never thought that I would fall to this. Childe, please take care, the little woman is gone!" After speaking, he showed a painful face, and blood slowly flowed from the corners of his mouth.

She had bitten her tongue and killed herself.