Twenty-five miles north of Jianzhou, Boryeong Prefecture, there is Xiong Mountain, called Dajian Mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoDajian Mountain is a cliff, straight into the sky, the peaks and peaks lean against the sky like a sword; there is another mountain in the southwest, called Xiaojian Mountain, the cliff is broken, the two walls are opposite, like a swordsman facing each other, the momentum is majestic. The cliff at the cliff is thousands, such as a knife sharpening an axe, and like a heavenly sword interrupted, which is amazing.

I don't know if it is such a sword technique, which can leave such a sword momentum between heaven and earth, and it will be immortal.

I don't know what kind of power can actually cut off this heavenly sword that spans the earth.

Legend has it that the sword saint of Huashan traveled through here in the clear wind, suddenly realized the way of the sword, and created a realm where there are no tricks to win. Since then, I don't know how many swordsmen have come here to realize the Tao, hoping that they can get a glimpse of the supreme way of swordsmanship.

However, in the eyes of ordinary people, this place is just a cliff. Because one mountain and two broken like a door, it is called "sword gate".

Yuan Xiaoguan looked up at the Sword Gate Pass, and a strong feeling suddenly appeared in his heart-the legends are all lies. What swordsman confrontation, what slashing the heavenly sword, what no trick to win and what moves, he didn't find anything. It's just that the Xiongguan is dangerous, and the Shimu Pass of dozens of meters is extraordinary. At this time, it was freezing cold, and the defenders kept rubbing their hands and stomping their feet, and spit white gas from their mouths.

When entering the pass, I saw a lot of soldiers coming back from outside the pass, everyone brought a lot of horses, Zhou Jinfeng said that these are precious war horses, the cavalry died in the war and the horses were scattered, and after the war, they sent people out to try to find the horses to reduce losses.

Because it was a time of war, there was no distinction between soldiers and bandits, and when I entered the customs, I was told that I needed a paperwork. Yuan Xiaoguan was dumbfounded, and was about to explain, when Zhou Jinfeng walked up and took out a small cloth bag and put it in the hands of the officers and soldiers guarding the door. The officer and soldier shook it with his hand, and there was a noise in the cloth bag, he nodded with satisfaction, and said: "It's not been peaceful recently, try not to make trouble after entering the customs, and now the crime is increased by one degree, and when you pass through the village, go faster, don't stop, remember?"

After entering the customs, you can see a continuous military camp, and not far away is a market town, called Jianmen Town. The first thing that catches your eye when you enter the town is a straight official road, the bluestone avenue is flat and wide, enough for seven or eight horsemen to ride in parallel, and the houses on both sides are like that.

Yuan Xiaoguan's spirits were greatly lifted, thinking that this was the prosperous atmosphere of the Central Plains, much better than the poor countryside of Tubo. I was thinking about finding a luxurious inn to live in and have a good rest, but after walking for a while, I found that the houses on both sides of the official road were all empty, many doors and windows were crooked, and the houses were covered with cobwebs, and it seemed that no one had lived in them for a long time.

The more Yuan Xiaoguan looked at it, the more surprised he became, and turned around and asked Zhou Jinfeng: "Why are these rooms empty?"

Zhou Jinfeng said: "It has been empty for many years, since the defeat of the Western Expedition ten years ago, there are ten rooms and nine empty inside and outside this pass, and the originally prosperous Jianmen Town can no longer be seen, alas! And over there, the ruined restaurant used to sell game, which is famous far and wide, and many wealthy merchants in Yizhou have traveled thousands of miles just to have a taste......

"I know here, I've been here once before. Ye Jishi said with a look of nostalgia.

Listening to Zhou Jinfeng's words and looking at the scene in front of him, Yuan Xiaoguan's mood suddenly became heavy.

Passing through Jianmen Town, the scene in front of me is even more bleak, a large area of farmland is barren, the houses in the village are dilapidated, and there are no people in sight. After walking for a while, I finally heard the voices of people in front, and saw a group of officers and soldiers escorting a group of people on the way, this group of people, men, women, and children, crying and crying, were whipped by the officers and soldiers to move forward.

When Lian'er saw this scene, she seemed to be touched, and her whole body began to tremble, and she didn't know whether she was angry or afraid. Yuan Xiaoguan also thought that he had encountered an officer arresting people indiscriminately, so he gritted his teeth and said, "These dog officers and soldiers!" turned around and was about to open the package on horseback.

Seeing this, Zhou Jinfeng hurriedly dissuaded: "Don't be impulsive, these officers and soldiers are not arresting people indiscriminately, but arresting border people." ”

The rest of the people wondered: "Arrest the border people? What is that?"

Zhou Jinfeng said: "As you have seen along the way, the war has led to the withering of people's livelihood in the border areas and the loss of population. As a result, it became very difficult to build, defend, and supply the border passes, and the officers and soldiers captured these civilians in order to replenish the population of the border passes and make the border areas prosperous again. ”

Yuan Xiaoguan was silent. What a failure for a country to decay to the point that even its own citizens have no sense of security. What is the use of forced immigration? If you can't live in peace, how can you be happy?

Everyone was in a heavy mood and stopped talking along the way.

After that, it was all desolate and dilapidated, and although people began to appear a little far from the border pass, it was even more sad than empty villages and towns. Hungry villagers often sit on the ridges digging grass roots, digging into one and stuffing it into their mouths along with mud. After seeing Yuan Xiaoguan and the others, he ran to the side of the road with a rolling belt, lying on the ground panting and kowtowing, just begging for a little food.

At first, Yuan Xiaoguan and others were full of kindness to distribute food to the villagers, but later, there were more and more hungry people, and the food was not enough at all. Yuan Xiaoguan and the others even gave out their own rations, and their eyes were still full of hungry people rushing in.

In the end, there was really nothing to give, so I could only ignore them ruthlessly, but these hungry people began to pull the things on their bodies, and the packages on Yuan Xiaoguan's horse were almost snatched away. There were also people who opened their mouths to bite the horses, which frightened Lian'er and exclaimed. Yuan Xiaoguan had no doubt that if they were hungry a little harder, they would open their mouths and bite people.

Yuan Xiaoguan had to make a move, he shook off the hungry people around him, beat his horse and rushed out. There was a crying father and a voice of motherhood behind him, some people were crying, some people were injured, and some people were still kowtowing on the ground, knocking their heads and bleeding......

Only then did Yuan Xiaoguan know the reason why the soldiers guarding the pass had made them walk faster when they passed through the village.

Zhou Jinfeng and the two dart masters were silent, Lian'er cried, Ye Jishi's eyes were red, Yuan Xiaoguan couldn't help crying, he turned his head and looked at the package behind him, this package was left to him by the Blood Knife Ancestor, and after looking at it on the road, he realized that the Blood Knife Ancestor had really passed the mantle to him. The package contained a copy of the "Vajra Yoga Mother Fist Sutra", a copy of the "Snow Mountain Knife Technique", a copy of the "Basic Light Skills" and a "Blood Knife Cheats". In addition, there is a bottle of elixir and a token of the head of the Blood Knife Sect - the Blood Knife. At first glance, those martial arts cheats were newly written, some of the ink had not yet dried, and there were dense annotations and practice experiences on them. It turned out that in the past few days, in addition to messing with the women of the Dongnu clan, the Blood Knife Ancestor had been writing martial arts textbooks for him silently.

"Be supreme, so that there is no war in the world. Touching the package behind him, Yuan Xiaoguan had a feeling in his heart for the first time, and this feeling was called - mission!

The road after that was a little better. As we pass through the village, we begin to see the grain stacks left over from the harvest in the fields, the rice and chili peppers on the beams of the houses, and the smoke rises from the village in the morning and evening. Occasionally, children ran out of the village barefoot, pointing at Yuan Xiaoguan and others, with reserved, curious, and worried faces, but there was no smile.

After a day of starvation, Yuan Xiaoguan found a wealthy-looking farmer and wanted to buy some food. It is thought that the family is rich because of a piece of animal fur hanging on the outer wall.

The owner of the house was a middle-aged woman with a big belly, and after indicating her intentions, the woman hesitated for a while, but still introduced a few people into the house.

Yuan Xiaoguan saw the woman scoop out half a bowl of rice from the rice bowl, paused, added another handful, looked at the rice bowl, poured back a little, and finally gritted his teeth and simply poured all the rice in the rice bowl into the bowl - the bowl was not full.

The rice was delicious with pickles, and everyone was hungry, but the meal was still a little slow.

When helping to light the fire, Lian'er talked with the woman for a few words, and learned that the woman's name was Chen Shufen, her hometown was in Chenjiagou, five miles away, she married here three years ago, and her husband's family was Orion, named Wang Tianfu. Originally, the days of farming and hunting were not difficult, but just a month ago, a team of officers and soldiers suddenly came to the village, saying that they were going to requisition local hunters to do an errand, and after completing the errand, there was a reward of 5 taels of silver and a stone of grain, and her husband went to Guanwai with the officers and soldiers. The war broke out suddenly, and her husband has not returned. And she is 5 months pregnant, and she can't go out to find her husband.

After eating with a heavy heart, Yuan Xiaoguan took out a handful of silver and put it in Chen Shufen's hand, Chen Shufen resolutely refused, she said: "It's just a meal, you don't need to give money, besides, even if there is silver here, you can't buy anything." ”

Yuan Xiaoguan forcibly stuffed the silver, turned his head and said to Lian'er: "Lian'er, you help Sister Chen into the house." After saying that, he walked out the door, drew a blood knife from the package, and said to his mount, "I'm sorry buddy." "He raised his sword and slashed the horse to the ground.

Zhou Jinfeng and the others were taken aback at first, and then understood that Yuan Xiaoguan wanted to leave food for Chen Shufen's mother and son for the winter, so they called the two dart masters to help together. One of these two dart masters is Wu Dongsheng, 28 years old, and Liu Fuju, 29 years old, both of whom are Zhou Jinfeng's subordinates.

The four of them packed up the horses, skinned and gutted them, cut the meat into strips, hung some of them outside the house to dry, some of them hung in the house to dry, and the place on the top of the stove that could be smoked was also full.

Chen Shufen only then knew that the guest had killed the horse for her to eat, although she was very disgusted by the smell of blood during pregnancy, she still couldn't help but feel uncomfortable and couldn't stop thanking: "May I ask how many benefactors have a good name? If I can get through this with my child, after the child is born, I will definitely tell him the name of my benefactor, worship God with him every day, and ask the gods to bless a few benefactors." ”

Yuan Xiaoguan didn't want to leave his name, but finally thought about it, and said to Chen Shufen: "Down there are disciples of the Blood Knife Sect, and these people are from the Tianya Dart Bureau." ”

It was getting late after cleaning up, Chen Shufen tried his best to keep a few people to stay for one night, Zhou Jinfeng excused himself and said that it was not good for this woman's reputation for a few strange men to stay. In the end, Ye Jishi made a decision, he said that seeing that Chen Shufen's qi and blood were a little uncomfortable, he wanted to use a golden needle to help her dredge it. So a few men made some straw and laid the ground in the yard, and Ye Jishi and Lian'er treated Chen Shufen in the house.

Yuan Xiaoguan tossed and turned this night and couldn't sleep, he thought a lot. The things of the bounty order, the things of the martial arts, the things of the twelve stars, the things of the people...... I thought of Murong Xiaoxiao, Third Brother, Sambu, Master, Gu Mozhi, Gesang...... But what he thought about more was the hungry people he saw during the day and the struggling expressions of Chen Shufen when he scooped rice.

"Now I can't help the hungry people, but at least, I want to do my best to help this kind woman. ”