Chapter 044: Endless Roads to the End of the World
After bidding farewell to Su Ningshuang and leaving the Luoxia Mountain Residence, Wang Yuelong and Hou Xiaohu turned their horses' heads and went all the way west.
The target of their trip is Yanmen County, which is located in Daizhou in the north of Central Continent, which is Hou Xiaohu's hometown.
I went more than 680 miles, almost along the line of the Great Wall. In this way, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and the people are sparsely populated, so naturally it will not be as smooth as the plain area in the Dongzhou region. In addition to the difficult roads, there are a lot more mountain and forest bandits in this generation compared to the land of Dongzhou.
After all, along the line of the Great Wall, the people living in this area will be infested by nomads from the northern highlands every year. In order to survive in this area, the people on the front line of the Great Wall have struggled against those vicious and brutal nomads for generations, so this fierce folk customs have been formed in this generational struggle.
It is said in the rivers and lakes that if you want to talk about which place has the most people and sects on the list of the five flowers, then you must be the first to recommend Dongzhou; and if you want to talk about which place has the most fierce, bloody, brave and most fearless death, then there is only the Great Wall of Zhongzhou.
The good players in the rivers and lakes here, although the ranking on the Hundred Flowers Five List may be very low, or they may not be among the Five Hundred Flowers List, but that kind of fierce blood and courage are not afraid of death, which is the temperament shared by those good players in the rivers and lakes.
Although Hou Xiaohu chose to retreat when facing Luo Ziyan before, this does not mean that he does not have the temperament of those people in this land. On the contrary, Hou Xiaohu, who has experienced the pain of family ruin, will have a lighter view of life and death, and naturally he will not be afraid of death.
If anything, Hou Xiaohu is more intelligent than the people in this land. Although he also has a temperament that is not afraid of death, he has a witty mind and will not be stupid and deliberately send him to death. After all, he is still burdened with the revenge of destroying his family without revenge, and before that, he must not lose his life in vain.
The topic is far away.
It is precisely because the people here are fierce and brave, and the natural environment here is not suitable for farming, and since the new monarch ascended the throne, the new monarch has been busy with the power struggle between the ministers and the ministers, and the jurisdiction of the officials below has weakened a lot, so in recent years, the rule of the officials in the court has deteriorated year by year, and there will be resistance from time to time in various places.
The situation will be even worse after reaching the front line of the Great Wall, and almost every prefecture, county, county, and town is surrounded by one or more powerful bandits from the mountains and forests.
Most of these bandits are local ordinary people who can't stand the infestation of nomads and the oppression of unscrupulous officials, so they gather in the mountains and forests and occupy the mountains as cowards.
The remaining small part is the gangsters and thieves who came to this area from nowhere, and they will be harmed by finding a hill at random.
Since most of the bandits in the first part were also poor people in the surrounding area, and they were forced to make a living, so when these people were plundering, they would not go to meet those peasants and small traders who also lived a hard life, and they would go to fight the large and medium-sized caravans that passed by, or to rob the landlords and gentry of those counties, towns, and villages.
The latter part of the bandits, because they themselves are the villains who have harmed one side in the rivers and lakes, almost all of them are people who have been on or are qualified to be on the three lists of the underworld, so these people will not care who will rob them when they start a crime. And the small towns and villages that have been plundered by these people will almost always become a mess.
In comparison, this latter kind of bandits will be more harmful to the surrounding state capitals, counties, towns, and villages.
No, Wang Yuelong and Hou Xiaohu had only left the capital realm for five days, and they had already encountered several bandits of large or small scales.
Among them, there are three bandits, which are the second type of bandits mentioned above.
One of the leaders of these three bandits is also the most evil god and demon list in the three lists of the underworld (the white way is called the sin list).
It's just that for these people, Wang Yuelong and Hou Xiaohu will not spare their hands, and they will kill all this kind of bandits every time.
As for the first part, who had to be forced to make a living because of the invasion of nomads and the oppression of local officials, Wang Yuelong will be moved by compassion. He usually beats up those who dare to invade and gives them a long lesson, and then takes out the silver taels on his body and divides a part of it to these people.
You must know that when Qi He was leaving, Wang Yuelong's sister Wang Yueqing stuffed a lot of silver taels into his package, and it was still very more than enough to take out some to relieve these poor and hateful people.
Later, when Wang Yuelong distributed more than 2,000 taels of silver, even Hou Xiaohu couldn't get used to seeing this rich kid being so wasteful, so the first kind of bandits he encountered later directly beat them away and it was over.
If Wang Yueqing knew that his precious brother would take out more than 2,000 taels of silver taels she prepared for him and go to be a bodhisattva great benevolent, I don't know if he would be angry and knock dozens of times on Wang Yuelong's head.
But Hou Xiaohu did the right thing. After all, Wang Yuelong's silver taels are limited, and it is impossible to help those poor people without limit. And if these coins are distributed to those who have fallen into the grass, who knows if these people will return to the land after receiving these coins, and be honest and responsible people from now on, instead of continuing to harm one party?
Although Wang Yuelong had some complaints about Hou Xiaohu's thoughts and practices at first, when they encountered the robbery of the same gang of bandits twice in one day, and this gang of bandits had received Wang Yuelong's favor during the first robbery, the young man completely ended his behavior as a good person.
However, due to the infestation of bandits along the way, Wang Yuelong and Hou Xiaohu walked less than 200 miles five days after leaving the capital. By this time, it was getting dark.
"Ah~~~~, Huzi, is there a village in front of here? Look at this barren mountain and wilderness, it will not be very comfortable to sleep here at night. ”
After walking for a short time, there is still no one in front of him, Wang Yuelong, who had just stabbed a group of evil bandits, was yawning again and again at this moment.
If you want to say that Wang Yuelong, he hates walking on the road for a long time the most in his life, as long as he walks a long way, he will want to sleep, unless he is in a hurry before Su Ningshuang and Hou Xiaohu, there are things that he devotes himself to along the way, so he will not feel bored.
However, in the past few days, they have faced those bandits together, and they have fought side by side a few times, which has brought the relationship between Wang Yuelong and Hou Xiaohu a lot closer. No, Wang Yuelong, this guy has already called Hou Xiaohu Huzi, and he doesn't care whether Hou Xiaohu protests or not. And Hou Xiaohu really protested a few times, but when the repeated protests were ineffective, he called Wang Yuelong Longzi as a retaliation.
"Longzi, you really love to sleep. But don't worry, if I'm not mistaken, five miles further on, there's a small village. We can spend the night there. "Hou Xiaohu, a guy with a cold face and a hot inside, will look very cool when he is not very familiar with people, but after getting acquainted with you, he will also be quite open-minded.
"I hope what you say is true. Wang Yuelong yawned again, and then his expression darkened a little, and his voice also deepened, "Sister Shuang, I don't know what I'm doing?"
"I ......" Hou Xiaohu couldn't help but scold in his heart. It's only been a few days since he left the capital, and this guy Wang Yuelong has already recited Su Ningshuang's name hundreds of times, so that Hou Xiaohu now wants to smoke Wang Yuelong as he hears the word frost or sister. It's just that his force value is worse than Wang Yuelong's, so this beating of him is destined to be only an idea.
Isn't it just that you and Miss Su are getting along, as for showing off so every day? Annoying, Lao Tzu also went to find someone who was not worse than Miss Su in terms of figure and personality, and then walked around in front of you every day.
Hou Xiaohu looked at Wang Yuelong's sometimes sweet and sometimes happy expression because he thought of Su Ningshuang, and thought of it with great grievance in his heart.
It's just that his body and personality can match or even surpass the "Frost Fairy" Su Ningshuang, looking at the entire rivers and lakes, he really can't find a hand.
In other words, Hou Xiaohu's wish is very likely to not be realized in this life.
It's just that everyone has his or her own happiness, so I won't speculate too much here.
Wang Yuelong and Hou Xiaohu are all thinking about their own thoughts, and once they concentrate their attention, time will pass unconsciously.
The two didn't know how long they had been walking, it seemed to be a short time and it seemed to be a long time, Hou Xiaohu just suddenly heard the faint sound of chickens crowing and dog barking, and suddenly woke up.
Not far ahead, at the corner of the road, between the trees, a little bit of green smoke rose straight up into the slightly dim air. The roof tiles are jagged, the fence is suddenly visible, and the occasional figure appears in front of him, and then hides behind the budding branches.
"Hey!hey!dragon!" Hou Xiaohu was very happy when he saw it, and hurriedly called Wang Yuelong, who was still thinking about Su Ningshuang in a daze, who raised his head in confusion, his eyes were scattered, and he said softly, "Huh?"
"There's a village in front of you, let's hurry up and go over, and then find a family to spend the night!" Hou Xiaohu saw Wang Yuelong's stunned appearance, and only felt angry, but at this moment it was not the time to be annoyed, so he hurriedly said it.
As soon as Wang Yuelong heard that there was a village, his eyes lit up, and he said urgently: "What do you have to say? ! Let's hurry up! Thunder God, let's go!" At that moment, it was actually a horse's belly, and he directly left Hou Xiaohu and went forward first.
"Damn!!You unrighteous bastard!!Wait for Lao Tzu!!" Hou Xiaohu was so angry by Wang Yuelong's behavior that he didn't delay at the moment, and chased after him with a scolding and scolding.
Ahead, a warm village is waiting for the two young men to visit.
To be continued......
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