Chapter 4 Luoxiazhuang
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"When autumn comes, September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom. The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor. "Writing all the ambitions of Huang Chao, a scholar who has been selling illicit salt for three generations, and a leader of the salt gang who has no ambitions, it is hard to imagine that he was so absurd and cruel after the establishment of the Great Qi regime. He not only burned, killed and looted, but also allowed the Qi army to use the killing tools of the village to smash and grind the victims and prisoners of war, and hundreds of thousands of people lived by cannibalism.
The leader of the Salt Gang has had the custom of cannibalism since the Yellow Nest, and there was a famine in the war years, and it is not new to take people for food, if he says that he eats people, he is noncommittal, these living or dead objects are called two-legged sheep, which eats with peace of mind and eats happily.
Since the Huangchao, the salt gang has gone through three masters, and Liu Dingchan, the son of the Yellow Nest, is located in the righteous son Dong Xiao, all of whom take the revival of Daqi as their own responsibility, but they are no longer in the grand occasion of the year. The various bandits of the Salt Gang have been post-processed by the mad blind man to the point of nearing mythology. Especially the gang leader Dong Xiao, legend has it that he only has one eye, an arm and a heel of fingers, he is good at making poison Gu, nicknamed the human skin puppet, he kills people day and day, sings every night, once sat on the dragon chair in the palace hall, teased the female monkey on Mount Emei, and can still walk like the wind with one finger. Of course, this is all learned from the mouth of a crazy blind man, and the truth is half false.
In this year, taking the head to the government can be exchanged for some silver taels, and it will be punished for practicing martial arts and disrupting the party. Therefore, the human head has become a rare object, and the king of the mountain is the king, and he mostly looks for refugees in the surrounding villages, looting and looting, and hunting two-legged sheep. Headless floating corpses filled the Qingshui River, and the scarlet scarlet poured into the Yellow River Valley, and the stench of decay lingered for months. Occasionally, refugees search for corpses and eat them, or exchange children to cook them, just because their own flesh and blood are difficult to eat.
Feng Blind Man twisted his beard and raised his eyes to look at the sky, and pretended to say in a deep voice, "Xiao Yanzi, you have practiced martial arts for many years, but you have never fought with anyone, this head sacrifice is a big test for you when you first enter the rivers and lakes." My mountain is a glimmer of heaven, you ask for more blessings. ”
The sky is known for its steepness, and there are very few pedestrians coming and going, so I don't know what the crazy blind man wants. Forced by the trend of curiosity, I had to come. Xiao Mo has longed for the rivers and lakes since he was a child, and in his outlook on life, the rivers and lakes are not chivalrous and righteous people who fight the sword world, nor are they chivalrous people who serve the country and the people, but bully the weak, drink white wine and eat beef, rob the rich but not help the poor. In this day when people are not like people and are full of bones, it is not easy to live to stand and pee. Killing one's father and son for the sake of food and clothing, betraying one's relatives and leaving for the sake of survival, the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species have become a topic of conversation after dinner. Xiao Mo lives in it, he knows that when the water is clear, there are no fish, he doesn't want to be a good person, he just wants to be a person.
Xiao Mo lazily fiddled with his proud forehead with his hair, still flowing in the turbulent wind and rain, chic as a fairy wind bone, but the body was a little muddy, slightly shabby. Legend in the market Liu Hai is a fairy child, the forehead is always covered with a column of short hair, Xiao Mo will follow the rules, love this wisp of green silk, nicknamed it Bangs, with its name for his own thing, the degree of narcissism can be seen.
Dark clouds cover the top, I don't know when the rain will fall, the rain on the official road is collected, and it is slightly muddy. A group of seven or eight people pushed the carriage forward, and the wheels were deeply sunk, which showed the heaviness of the goods on the carriage. The so-called "100 miles do not sell wood, thousands of miles do not sell millet", I don't know what valuable objects it is. The boy followed in another carriage, and the carport shook so badly that there must have been no one inside. There is a small flag erected at one end of the carriage, the gold wire is outlined, the handwriting is solemn, the word "Luoxia" is written on it, just from this posture, it must be Yunzhuang undoubtedly.
Yunzhuang, also known as running, is an emerging industry in recent years, is the predecessor of the Qing Dynasty dart bureau, mainly for private transportation of silver and jewelry, divided into two kinds of transport. In addition to the relationship between the imperial court and the green forest, the business of Yunzhuang must also be remarkable, so it can be seen that the people who do this business are not easy to mess with.
The jujube red horses, not like the Central Plains, have strong muscles, but they are also tired and sweaty, raising their heads and neighing, and this road is rushing to the dust. The two or three people at the head were all wearing hats, dark faces, leather boots and jade belts, and brocade dresses, and they could see that they were born with unique skills, but they were followed by a thin figure, which looked out of place.
Xiao Mo refreshed himself, raised his hand and looked at it fixedly. I saw a white robe, which was suspected of being a tribute to soft satin, and it was worth a lot of money. With crown hair and a lupine scarf, picturesque eyebrows and lips like a baby, he does not look like a man, but he dresses as a man, and he recognizes this person at a glance as a man.
In this troubled world, chivalrous women travel the rivers and lakes to dress up as men, and Xiao Mo is not surprised, but it is rare for a woman to be as handsome as this. Xiao Mo's eyes kept wandering over the person's body, and he couldn't help but be stunned, watching her go for a long, long time, from far to near.
There are indeed a few girls in the village who can go up to the hall and go down to the kitchen, but most of them are rustic, and it is expected that they will basically live in the kitchen in the future. Xiao Mo has never seen such a graceful and temperamental figure, like a wisp of fragrance, curling and melodious.
Suddenly, she stopped, standing in the wind, the corners of her clothes dancing with the wind, and the folding fan in her hand was like a sword like a rainbow. She looked up at the mountains around her, ignoring the rain lapping on her face, as if admiring the wonders of nature. "Uncle Xu, where is this, the scenery is so magnificent?" Her voice was slightly hoarse, not as beautiful as she imagined, I don't know if it was her voice, or if she was deliberately imitating a male voice.
A middle-aged man with a beard looked unusually burly, and instructed: "This is a line of heaven in my mountain, the terrain is extremely steep, Wan'er must be careful of falling rocks." "This one is called Uncle Xu, and it is the double-gun Xu Rong. Xu Rong is the worship of Yanzhou Luoxiazhuang, the beard is angry, and the person also looks majestic, and he is good at using two hook and sickle guns, the handle is docked, and the length of the gun can reach seven feet and two inches, and he wields it to hunt and hunt. Although he acted resolutely, he only had pity for Wan'er, and continued: "It has been raining for days, and the mountain may be unstable, but fortunately the mountain fog is dispersed, otherwise you will be ambushed and you don't know it." ”
"Uncle Xu is suspicious, although Luoxiazhuang is not famous, but it is by no means a wasted name, even if the rivers and lakes are small, even if they eat bear heart and leopard gall, they will not offend me. This woman called Wan'er raised her willow eyebrows, with a rebellious look on her face, it is not difficult to guess that she is Xu Wanqiu, the youngest daughter of Xu Changfeng, the owner of Luoxia Village.
Speaking of this Luoxiazhuang, I have to give people a thumbs up. Xu Changfeng was once a general under the command of the founding marquis Wang Yanzhang, who was good at using the axe, and the two armies must be the vanguard in the confrontation, and Wang Yanzhang was called a brother and brother, and Zhu Wen was also a friend in trouble. He has a strong temperament, known as the axe of opening the sky, and was squeezed out by the traitorous minister Zhao Yan and others, and his career was not smooth, so he resolutely abandoned the official and did not do it, and started to make a living in Yunzhuang. Because he was under Zhu Wen's account, he has accumulated countless fortunes over the years, his family is quite rich, and he has a bold shot, which is popular in the rivers and lakes. Later, he met a good match, a middle-aged woman, regarded as a pearl in the palm of his hand, dressed as a man since he was a child, and wanted to inherit the family business.
"Miss, go slowly, how can Lian'er have your foot strength?" I saw a light blue plain dress wrapped in a thorn lotus gauze dress, simple and elegant. The long hair is pulled up and the temples are not combed, the butterfly hairpin is slanted upward, the jade holds an umbrella and follows closely, smiling as if there is a pear vortex, "The rain is so heavy, I am cold, I am sick, how do you want me to explain to my aunt, so that Zhao Gongzi is so distressed!" Although Lian'er is a slave, because her mother is friendly with Xu Changfeng's wife Li, she entrusts Lian'er to the Xu family after her death, and the Li family treats her as her own. Lian'er is knowledgeable, Mei Ying is on the outside and beautiful in the middle, gentle in nature, fun-loving, and at this time she is squinting at Zhao Gongzi, who is squinting at the embarrassed Zhao Gongzi on the side.
Zhao Li is a guest of Xu Changfeng and serves as the deputy head of the village. He grew up in a poor family, and tried to cling to the walls of the private school and eavesdropping, although he couldn't talk about being rich and rich, but he was full of books and angry, not like a person who practiced martial arts. Xu Changfeng has no children under his knees, and has high hopes for Zhao Li, who is also a younger brother among the old guests, and those who have no talent and no virtue have enough food and clothing.