Chapter 270: Return to Yang County
Xia Houen has already made up his mind, his dream is hard to find, and when he has the same strength as Zhang Xiao, he will come to reunite with his family and tell them everything, believing that he will be able to use spells to help his family complete the great cause in his heart at that time, so he no longer thinks about family affairs, and when he succeeds in cultivating immortals, everything will be fine. Copy URL access
When Xia Houen first received the news of Xinye's defeat, Zhang Xiao had already traveled for ten days with Hao Zhong and Zou Tao in the direction of Beiyuan County, but they didn't know how much more they still had to go, and they weren't sure if they were going in the right direction.
According to the current situation of the Han Dynasty, Xianbei has been harassing the border for I don't know how many years, burning, killing and looting are all evil, so that almost all the residents living on the border have moved away, so many border towns are gradually forgotten, and almost all the soldiers who live there are stationed there.
It is precisely for this reason that although Beiyuan County is a county, not many people know that the population inhabited is not even comparable to a county, and its geographical location and relationship with the imperial court provided Yuan Li with the best conditions for recovering the country, which was the best starting point for his own power, and at the same time caused trouble for Zhang Xiao.
Hao Zhong is younger than Xia Houen, and naturally he has not participated in many wars, that is, fighting yellow turban thieves and some grass bandits, and he knows nothing about the border, while Zou Tao is almost forty years old, but he has also never been to the border and does not know anything about the border.
Zhang Xiao's last hope was placed on Zhu Pinhang, he naturally went to many places as an earth immortal cultivator, maybe he had heard of Beiyuan County, but the result also disappointed Zhang Xiao, although the earth immortal cultivator traveled all year round, but also went to those places where there were spiritual objects or sufficient spiritual energy, Xianbei grassland was a wilderness, how could there be any spiritual energy, Zhu Pinhang naturally would not go there, and he couldn't understand the language of the people there, so even if there were traces of spiritual objects over there, he would not necessarily go.
Zhang Xiao had a headache now, so he could only move in the direction that Gao Zhan had pointed out, hoping that the direction would not be wrong, and it was precisely for this reason that Zhang Xiao rode a war horse and slowly advanced with a cavalry team of more than 200 people, asking about the location of Beiyuan County as he went, hoping that someone here would know, but it had been ten days, and he still hadn't gotten any useful clues, and it seemed that he was still very far away from Beiyuan County.
However, these ten days are not a complete waste of time, Zhang Xiao's injury has fully recovered under the conditioning of Zhu Pinhang's Forgetful Immortal Technique, which made Zhang Xiao a little unexpected, in his eyes, the Forgetful Immortal Technique can only complete the change of appearance, but he didn't expect that it could be used in other aspects.
Zhu Pinhang can not only change the appearance into any form, but also turn the aura into anything, including the medicine to treat immortal cultivators, only to see Zhu Pinhang's ascertained Zhang Xiao's injury, so he used the medicine collected in other towns to make a few pills, and then used his own aura to imitate, and as a result, countless identical pills were conjured, as long as his aura was still there, it could be infinitely made, making Zhang Xiao speechless.
It is precisely in this way that Zhang Xiao does not need to take any substantial medicine with impurities, and he has also healed his injuries, even if he meets Yuan Li now, I believe that he will have the ability to defeat it.
When everyone advanced to the area close to the hills, there was no way forward, and the villagers of one of the villages they met at the end also said that if they followed the road any longer, they would turn back to Bingzhou, which made Zhang Xiao no longer able to find the right way.
Although there is no way to Beiyuan County now, Zhang Xiao still remembers that Gao Zhan said that the specific location of Beiyuan County is at the junction of hills and grasslands, which must refer to the hills here.
Now Zhang Xiao's location is quite remote, the population is rare, so the vegetation here is well preserved, there is no trace of artificial destruction, like a primitive jungle, I believe that even the elite infantry is difficult to move, let alone cavalry, so there is no way, more than 200 people have to leave their horses and continue to move forward on foot.
Originally, everyone thought that it might take a long time to cross this jungle, but after half a day of crossing, a dilapidated town appeared in front of everyone's eyes, which made people's eyes shine, remembering that the nearby residents had said that there was no place to live here, but how could there still be a town? Could this be the North Plains County that was so hard to find?
Zhang Xiao habitually observed around, and felt that this should not be like Beiyuan County, only to see that this town was completely surrounded by primeval jungle, and there were no fields and roads around, and he felt that something was wrong, how could there be a city without roads in the world?
However, this is not the only place where Zhang Yao has doubts, judging from the nearby terrain, this is at the bottom of a hilly slope, and the slope peak behind is at least more than 200 zhang, and it can be speculated that there must be a long section of hills in the rear, so this is definitely not Beiyuan County.
And what puzzled Zhang Xiao the most was that the walls of this town were still brand new, and there were no traces of damage and filth on them, which could be explained if it was in a crowded place, but in this place where there was no transportation, how did you get the materials?
I saw that there were some pendants hanging everywhere on the walls of this town, as if they were celebrating a festival, which suddenly made Zhang Xiao very curious, and asked Hao Zhong and Zou Tao behind him: "You have come here all the way, have you heard what festival it is today?"
Hao Zhong and Zou Tao didn't think about it, and replied sharply: "No, there will be no festivals and sacrifices in this area in the next month, this is confirmed. ”
Zhang Xiao thought carefully to see if he had any impression of this place in his memory, but he was only confused and didn't know anything about this place, so he asked Zhu Pinhang again: "Ping'an, you have traveled a lot, what do you think of this place?"
Zhu Pinhang also had a strong interest in this place at this time, and raised the corners of his mouth to Zhang Xiao and replied: "I have never been to this place, nor have I heard of this place, but I feel that this place is a little strange, maybe it is an out-of-this-world place, and there may be things in it that you have not seen." ”
It seems that if you want to know about this place, you can only go in and check, Zhang Xiao broke away from the team and ran towards the front of this town, came to the gate of the town, and saw the three big characters written on it: Return to Yang County, and was a little surprised, I thought this was just a town, but I didn't expect it to be a county, it seems that I underestimated it.
Zhu Pinhang saw Zhang Xiao running to the gate of Huiyang County, and also followed, and smiled unexpectedly after seeing the name of the county, and said: "I thought that this small place was a big town, but I didn't expect it to be a county. ”
Zhang Xiao looked inside with great interest, but he didn't see anything, so he turned his face to Hao Zhong and Zou Tao, who also followed, and said: "You take your brothers to rest outside first, and I will go in with Zhu Pin to check, and if there is no problem, I will notify you to come in." ”
Hao Zhong and Zou Tao immediately agreed, so Zhang Xiao and Zhu Pinhang slowly walked in, and found that the inside was smaller than they imagined, and the part near the city gate was a large open space, which was very flat, not even a single weed, and only the middle area of the county could see the houses.
This situation makes Zhang Xiao and Zhu Pinhang feel even more strange, how can there be such a county, even if the people here are full, it is estimated that the number of households will not be more than 100, and it is not even as good as an administrative village.
Zhang Xiao and Zhu Pinhang walked straight forward, walked into the place where the houses were concentrated, and found that the houses here were built in a zigzag, and there was a large assembly land in the middle, because there were still a large number of props and decorations, but the most surprising thing for Zhang Xiao and Zhu Pinhang was that there were still many villagers living here, and they didn't seem to be troubled by life.
Zhu Pinhang wanted to find the officials here first, asked the location of Beiyuan County, and after saying it to Zhang Xiao, he walked up to an old woman with a porridge stall and asked, "Auntie, I don't know where your county magistrate is now?"
When the old woman saw Zhu Pinhang coming to her stall, she was very happy, and hurriedly picked up a bowl of white porridge and handed it to Zhu Pinhang, and said with a smile: "Young man, returning to the county is in a remote area, you must be tired when you come here, hurry up and drink some porridge to replenish your strength." ”