Chapter 2: Deserters Like Bandits

The lower reaches of the Wujiang River, here is 800 miles away from Lingyundu, although the river is wide, the water flow is soothing, but the two sides are mostly deep mountains and dense forests, so although this is the border between the Great Zhou and the Great Chu, there is no war, and there are not many soldiers here. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the beach by the river, three tangled corpses were washed to the shore by the current, and a wild dog seemed to be hungry for a long time.

Suddenly, one of the corpses in the middle moved, and the wild dog was frightened, his fur exploded, and he bared his teeth and roared at the corpse threateningly.

After a while, the corpse in the middle did not move in the slightest, and the wild dog cautiously walked up to the corpse and put his nose on the corpse's face to smell it. As soon as the dog's nose leaned over, a big hand grabbed the wild dog's neck, and the wild dog writhed wildly, but it couldn't break free at all!

Li Hao sat up, pushed away the two corpses pressed on his body, bit the neck of the wild dog, and drank a good meal of blood, which regained some vitality and strength. Looking at the quiet and peaceful mountains and forests and the Wujiang River around him, Li Hao was overjoyed and secretly excited: "I finally escaped!"

Putting the wild dog aside, he took off his tattered military uniform, pulled out the two short blades inserted in his body, untied the two layers of cowhide on his waist and abdomen, and went into the river to wash it well. If it weren't for these two layers of cowhide, the short blade of Chu Babing would have been deeply rooted in Li Hao's chest and abdomen, how could it be like now, just two shallow wounds. Li Hao had three terrifying wounds on his shoulders and abdomen, and the flesh at the wound turned outward, swollen and white, obviously infected and inflamed!

cleaned the wound well, and then stripped the bodies of the two Chu Ba soldiers and threw them into the Wujiang River. Then he took a steel knife and disposed of the dead dog, found some dry wood and ignited it, and skewered the wild dog and roasted it.

The sun is setting in the west, the bonfires are blazing, and the dingos have been roasted and give off a strong fragrance. The hungry Li Hao was not afraid of being hot at all, so he grabbed the dog meat and gnawed it, regardless of the fact that the dog meat had no salt and there were many burnt places. After all, it is a wild dog, and there is not much meat on its body in total, but in a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen catties of dog meat entered Li Hao's stomach, and the dog bones were gnawed clean, full of tooth marks.

After eating these dozen catties of dog meat, Li Hao, who had been soaking in the river water for a day, really recovered a little of the breath of a living person! He threw the dog bones in his hand, bit a short stick in his mouth, and roasted a short blade found from Chu Babing on the fire, and cut off a few pieces of rotten meat on his shoulder! "Hmm!" Li Hao was sweating profusely, his body was shaking, and his mouth let out a painful moan!

After a few more knives, Li Hao actually cut off all the rotten flesh on his body! How many people can do it without boiling and cutting it by himself? Li Hao's smooth body was already covered with sweat, and his pale face was full of weakness and haggardness!

However, this is not the end! Li Hao rested for a while, regained a little strength, and picked up a piece of reddish charcoal with two branches! "Huh!" The charcoal touched the wound, snorted, a light smoke rose, and a tempting fragrance was emitted, Li Hao actually used the burning charcoal to heal the wound together, and use this to prevent infection.

With a "snort" sound, Li Hao burned all the wounds on his body with charcoal! The meridians all over his body bulged, his teeth were biting the wooden stick, and his sweat was like running water, as if someone had poured water on the top of his head! The "click" wooden stick was bitten off by him, but there was no sound in his throat, and he couldn't make any sound in pain!

After a long time, when the moon rose, he recovered a little, slowly got up from the ground, walked to the river, drank some water, and then carefully washed his body. Only then did he return to the campfire with only a little ember, wash the uniform of a Chu Ba soldier, tear it into strips of cloth, and wrap it around the wound.

In the end, he tied the cowhide that had been broken several times to his body and put on the uniform of another Chu Babing. Scattering his hair to cover the sin mark on the left side of his face, he chose one of the two steel knives to straddle his waist intact, and two short blades to hide on his waist.

This time, this Li Hao is completely the appearance of a Chu soldier. There are still some things on the ground, there are a few taels of broken silver, and there are two waist cards, the silver and the waist cards are all on the Chu Babing, Li Hao looked at it, stuffed the silver into his arms, and only took one waist card.

Only three miles downstream from the place where Li Hao was washed ashore, there is a fishing village with only a few dozen households, and this fishing village is all surnamed Chen, so it is called Chenjia Village. Chenjia Village is all fishing for a living, get up early in the morning to fish, and rush to a county town not far away at noon to sell, but life can also live, but it is only food and clothing.

However, there is a wealthy family in this Chenjia Village, which is the village head of Chenjia Village, and he is also the patriarch, who has studied in a private school for several years, and is barely admitted to a child, but he is also a master in the countryside. There is an ancestral breath-holding method in this Chenjia Village, which has been passed down from the patriarch in one line, this Wujiang mussel, the pearl produced is called Wuzhu, which is a rare black pearl, the output is scarce, and one has been used as a tribute for thousands of years.

The patriarch of Chenjia Village relied on the ancestral breath-holding method, went deep into the Wujiang River, risked his life to pick a good black bead, and offered it to the government, and the officials of the government were praised by the above, which gave him the identity of a child, otherwise he only studied in a private school for a few years, how could he be admitted to the child.

But even so, the patriarch's family is a hundred times richer than other villagers, the family has a few tiled houses, and there is no need to get up early and fish in the dark every day, as long as you go down to the river to pick a black pearl every month, you can sell a lot of money.

The courtyard of the patriarch's house was built at the head of the village, and there was no one living in the surrounding area for seven or eight hundred meters. In the dead of night, a dark shadow tumbled into the courtyard of the patriarch's house. The dark shadow sneaked through the courtyard by the bright moonlight and with a short blade in his hand.

"Wang!" A dog barked from somewhere in the yard, "Brush!" A knife light lit up, and the dog's neck was pierced by a short blade! The black shadow silently pulled out the short blade and cut off the dog's head, so that it was completely dead! This figure was none other than Li Hao, he had suffered a big loss that had not died thoroughly, and now even a dog had to be completely killed, so as to eliminate the possibility of still breathing!

However, these two dog barks still woke up the owner of the house, the main room was lit by candlelight, an old man of forty or fifty years old was dressed in clothes, holding a candle and pulling the door open to look out, the yard was lit by moonlight, the ground was bright, a dead dog with a separate head was lying quietly in the yard, and the blood all over the ground was extremely dazzling!

The old man was shocked, as the village leader of Chenjia Village and the patriarch of the Chen family, he was not someone who had never seen the world, he knew that someone had sneaked into his house, and he was just about to shout, when a bright short blade was put against his neck, and the words that Patriarch Chen was about to shout swallowed back!

Patriarch Chen begged in a low voice: "This good man has something to say, as long as it doesn't hurt people, the old man is willing to give away all his family wealth!"

Hearing this, Li Hao withdrew the short blade a little, and Patriarch Chen breathed a sigh of relief, "Poof!" Li Hao suddenly reached out and plunged the short blade into Patriarch Chen's chest! Patriarch Chen opened his mouth and was about to shout, but Li Hao's hand covered his mouth tightly, and his body wrapped around him, holding him tightly in his arms, making him unable to move!

After just a few breaths, Patriarch Chen softened and lost his breath. Li Hao let go of his hand, helped Patriarch Chen's body and slowly fell to the ground, made two stabs in his heart and neck, pierced his heart, cut his throat, and made him completely dead, this is the end of the matter. Then he crept to the bed, covered the woman's mouth, slashed him in the neck with a short blade, and stabbed him in the heart, and when the woman was silent, he let go.

Dragging the two to the ground, Li Hao held the candle and began to rummage. Although the furnishings in this house are not very expensive, they are not ordinary people's decorations, they must have some money, and they searched the house, and only then did they find a few valuable objects and a few taels of broken silver, so Li Hao is more and more sure that there must be a place to hide things in this house!