Although I walked slowly, I still arrived at Yaobaji at noon the next day, this Yaobaji is an ancient town, also has a history of hundreds of years, was originally a place rich in food, but it has not escaped the disasters that have been encountered for thousands of years, but has become a place frequented by soldiers and bandits from all walks of life.

The market town was lifeless, with only a few dozen families left, most of them old, weak, sick and disabled.

The three of them walked along the ancient streets, the houses on both sides were dilapidated, and they looked very desolate, and finally met two old men, and only after asking did they know that the other end of Gulou Mountain was not far from this Yaoba, especially the big lake that Xie Mingzhou said, it was only one or twenty miles away, and the three of them were in high spirits and accelerated their pace.

The road here is not as difficult as the last time I went to Gulou Mountain, but it is not easy to walk, but with Xie Mingzhou here, the moat has also changed the way, as long as it is a narrow and difficult place or a steep place, he will carry Liu Yang and jump over.

Later, Liu Yang couldn't walk, Xie Mingzhou simply kept carrying her, so the speed increased sharply, and he reached the top of the mountain in less than an hour.

Looking at the beautiful lake at the bottom of the mountain, Liu Yang breathed a sigh of relief, Xie Mingzhou did not stop, and walked along the lake to the foot of the peak where the cave house was located before resting, and said to Liu Yang's mother and son: "The cave house is on the highest peak, you see." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the peak, "Let's find a place to live by this lake for a while, and then we can build a house when I go out and buy tools." ”

Liu Yang and Yizhen also felt that the scenery of this place was really good, there were mountains and water, and it was not difficult to open up the wasteland, mainly because the water source was sufficient, and it seemed to be good to live here, so their mood also improved.

The three of them found a high flat land, and cut down the bamboo and wood within a radius of ten zhang with a saber, just to build two shacks, anyway, they will be rebuilt in a few days, and they are not very particular.

Finally the construction was completed, Xie Mingzhou took out all the things in Qiankun Perry and placed them, Liu Yang went to the lake to fetch water to wash rice and cook, Yizhen looked at the clear lake water, and went down to the lake to touch a fish to make soup and rice.

However, this lake is different from the river, there are no stone crevices on the lake, and it is not easy to touch the fish.

Xie Mingzhou didn't care about him, just tossed him. Now he doesn't talk about meat, even the vegetarian rice is edible or not, so he doesn't bother to bother to touch the fish.

After a day of rest, Xie Mingzhou prepared to go out to buy food, and first settled Yizhen's mother and son, so that he could settle down and go to the cave to cultivate.

Now the question is which way to go, Tongchuan and Zunyi have no food, so they can only go to Chongqing to have a look.

Although he had never been to Chongqing, he knew that the Yangtze River would flow through Chongqing from Luzhou downward, and in this case, as long as he kept walking along the river, he would not be wrong.

When I arrived in Chongqing that day, I came into the city to take a look, and found that it seemed to be better than other places, all kinds of things had to be bought, but it was ridiculously expensive, and the grain was bought for fifty taels of silver and one stone, which was only a hundred catties, if it was not for the rich family, how could I afford to eat this kind of food?

Xie Mingzhou is not short of money, he spent 900 taels of silver to buy 20 stone of grain, and asked the store to send it outside the city, and the store sold so much grain at once, and he was also happy, you must know that in these years, the grain has been in his hands for a long time, which always makes people feel uneasy.

Two years ago, Sun Kewang took the remnants of the Great Western Army through Guiyang, to Kunming, and gradually stabilized, and later joined the Ming Army, sent Liu Wenxiu back to Sichuan, and now occupies Chongqing, but it is not like the original burning, killing and looting, so Chongqing is now quite stable.

Xie Mingzhou bought tools and sundries such as axes, saws, nails, etc., and was just about to go out of the city, when he suddenly remembered that he wanted to buy some yellow paper cinnabar, and was about to find someone to ask for directions, when he saw a team of horse troops coming from the other side of the street, and the leading one rode a yellow horse, wearing armor, a scar on his forehead, and a yellow beard under his chin, but it was the thief He Tianyun who killed the master!

At the beginning, it was this person who led the soldiers, broke through the Qin Zhenguan, killed dozens of people up and down the whole view, and only ran away with his own life!

Xie Mingzhou saw that his eyes were cracking, so he wanted to step forward and take this person's life, and thought that he would have to go outside the city to receive food later, so he forced himself to press it down, pretending to be nothing, and when he saw someone passing by, he pulled someone and asked where he could buy yellow paper cinnabar.

After the man told him, he pretended to be casual and said, "Those soldiers just now were so imposing, but I don't know what the name of the leading general in front of me is?"

The man said: "This is He Tianyun He's general soldier, this is the person who led the troops to attack Chongqing and drove away the original Ming army." ”

"Since they are all Ming troops, why are they attacking each other?"

"How do I know, over the years, a soldier, a thief, a moment you beat me, a moment I beat him, who knows who?"

Xie Mingzhou asked again: "Could it be that so many soldiers live in this city, how can they live so many?"

"Cut, except for General He who lives in the city's General Soldier's Mansion, those soldiers all live in the big camp outside the city. The man was impatient, and walked away with that.

After buying the yellow paper cinnabar, Xie Mingzhou inquired about the location of the general soldier's mansion again, and then walked out of the city, he was ready to collect the grain, and then entered the city after dark, and killed the dog thief to avenge the master and his classmates!

This He Tianyun was originally from Shaanxi, and in his early years, he followed Zhang Xianzhong to raise troops, and when Daxi was still alive, he was already the deputy commander-in-chief, and two years ago he followed Liu Wenxiu, Guiyang, Kunming, all the way down to kill generals, and was promoted to the chief military officer under Liu Wenxiu because of his meritorious work.

This person has great ambitions, and is not satisfied with the current position of the general army, and faintly wants to establish himself as the king, and even call himself the emperor in the south like Zhang Xianzhong.

For this reason, in the more than a year he spent in Yunnan, he recruited talents everywhere, and did not hesitate to lure them with heavy money, although the real hermit was unmoved, but there were always flies and dogs gathered under his tent.

Among them, there are three beautiful people, one of whom is Yunnan Tengchong Dengyunguan Taoist, named Tongshan, good at sonic attack technique cracking silk gong, it is rumored that practice to the extreme can make people's brains burst.

There is another person, a wizard from a Miao village in Yunnan, named Bao Hara, who plays a hand of Gu arts, and often makes people die in Gu inexplicably.

There is also a person named Qi Zhengwei, who was originally from the Central Plains, and fled to Yunnan after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, claiming to be a descendant of Qi Jiguang.

He Tianyun entered Sichuan this time, bringing three people from Tongshan and seven or eight martial arts people, ready to show their ambitions in this land of Bashu.

Xie Mingzhou didn't know anything about this, he was very confident in himself, and felt that like such an ordinary person, he could kill him three or four times in an instant, and he didn't rush into the general army's mansion to kill people directly during the day, and he just didn't want to kill more people, so he didn't have any preparations.