In the early winter of the second year of the Apocalypse (1622), there was still a severe drought, and this year's winter sowing has been completely lost, and next year will be another year of famine.

The evening breeze is dry and cold, and the face is like a knife.

In order not to alarm outsiders, Xiong Chu, Miao Sanguan, Lan'er, Zhang Rulian, and Han Bingru had dinner and waited until Dingjian left Jiudao Villa.

Xiong Kaishan led the town camp of two hundred and forty people to follow, and the gate of Jiudao Villa was closed again, never to be opened again until the large army returned.

All the way over the mountains and mountains, take the remote paths. Originally, it was only seventy miles from Jiudao Mountain Villa to Qinglong Village, but now it has become more than ninety miles.

On the morning of the next day, the large army finally arrived at Ludian, twenty miles southwest of Qinglongzhai.

This is the last market town before entering the mountain.

It is said to be a market town, but in fact there are less than 20 households, and the two shops are not usually open, and only on the first and fifteenth days of the new year will there be mountain people who come out of the mountains to patronize.

The army was about to enter the mountains, and after a night's journey, it was difficult to see that people were tired and tired, and they had to eat something. Especially with more than two hundred horses, this is a big problem.

I brought all the dry food, but I couldn't swallow it in the bitter cold. Now these people are not really an army, and there is no such thing as a marching pot for the time being, so it is troublesome.

Lan'er, Zhang Rulian, Han Bingru and Xiong Kaishan had no choice but to go from house to house and began to knock on the doors of the market town. If nothing else, just ask someone to help boil the water and raise forage.

Xiong Chu asked Miao Sanguan to go down, and each household gave twenty taels of silver forage money.

Twenty taels of silver, put in an ordinary farmhouse, this is the cost of a family of three for half a year, naturally not a small amount. So the whole market town suddenly burst into laughter and enthusiasm.

Han Bingru was born in a poor family and knew the hardships of silver. As soon as Xiong Chu opened his mouth, he was more than 500 taels of silver to spend, and he was immediately a little dissatisfied.

"Miss Han, Childe's order is correct. Miao Sanguan, as a military advisor, needs to explain: "We have entered the territory of Yanshi, which is deeply influenced by the Shaolin Temple in Songshan. Childe's meaning is very clear, that is, to use his own practical actions to tell everyone that the Buddha is unreliable, and it is his own people who can be relied on. ”

Although Han Bingru hasn't read much, she has been walking around outside since she was a child, and she is inciting people to rebel.

"I understand! When ordinary people go to the temple to worship the Buddha, they still need to spend 50 yuan to buy incense paper candles, but the money is spent and they get nothing in the end. But Childe told everyone that as long as you put in the work, you will get a higher pay, thus changing your destiny. I'm going to tell the folks about this!"

Xiong Chu smiled bitterly and shook his head, he really admired Miao Sanguan's level of nonsense, and at the same time admired Han Bingru's ability to draw inferences.

In fact, Xiong Chu didn't think about it so much at all, he felt that Qinglongzhai was now under his jurisdiction, and his money was very easy to come by, so let these ordinary people take advantage of it and improve their lives. That's all, nothing else.

As a result, after Miao Sanguan and Han Bingru's explanation, it turned into a premeditated act, and it could even rise to the far-sighted Cheng Dù.

Alas, the literati are guilty, but they have not been wronged.

When something comes into their mouths, they will definitely be able to find a high-sounding reason, and tell the truth about things that have not been seen at all.

Of course, the literati are guilty, not that Miao Sanguan is also guilty.

In Xiong Chu's view, Miao Sanguan is not only innocent, but also has made a great contribution.

Now and the Shaolin Temple is about to start, and it is within the influence of the Shaolin Temple.

There is much help for the righteous, and little help for the unjust, this is the most basic truth.

Win the hearts and minds of the people, compete for public opinion, and don't be misled by the nonsense of the Shaolin Temple, which will be beneficial to the future development and will not do any harm.

At the very least, it is also necessary to convince some local people that Tianlong Village is not the original Qinglong Village.

Because Tianlongzhai will definitely not harm the people, but for the common people, it is not what the Shaolin Temple said that there is no evil, and everyone should not be punished.

The power of the common people is invincible, and Prince Xiong has seen the terrible consequences of this with his own eyes in Runan.

The emperors, ministers, and officials in the court all thought that the common people were afraid of death, and as long as they kept killing people, killing more people could make the people obey.

In the past, Xiong Chu also thought so. But after the trip to Runan, Xiong Chu has completely changed this view.

Water can carry a boat, or it can capsize a boat. The people are the most important, the monarch is light, and the community is secondary.

The ancients really did not make mistakes, and the people who made mistakes were those who now thought they were very smart.

People will insult themselves, and then the world will abandon them. Pretend to be smart, but be clever and be mistaken by smart.

This is a lesson of history, and it is a bloody lesson, because Prince Xiong always dreams of those white bones in the wilderness of Runan, and the cry of his mother tearing his liver and lungs.

Xiong Chu was full of thoughts for a while, and he was outside the spirit, but Xiong Kaishan cheered him to wake up: "Dad, my mother is here!"

The mother in Xiong Kaishankou is naturally Yan Erniang, this is the first woman of Xiong Chu and the first lady of the current Xiong Jiajun.

Wearing a white cape, with a purple power suit inside, and two water-splitting thorns inserted in the double-ribbed belt, this was Yan Erniang's most standard dress before.

Yan Erniang came from the street east of the market town, and walked towards Xiong Chu with a spring breeze on her face: "Childe, why are you staying here?"

"The brothers are tired, and the horses need to rest, of course, to stay here for a while. Oh, you wait a minute. Xiong Chu also smiled, and then shouted to Miao Sanguan on the other side of the street: "You lead everyone to go first, I will deal with some personal matters here." ”

Miao Sanguan didn't speak, but nodded very vaguely, and then shouted: "Sanzi, the whole team is leaving!"

Yan Erniang smiled and walked five feet to Xiong Chu's right hand, but Xiong Chu just walked to the left, and didn't know what to say to Lan'er, because the voice was too low, and no one could hear it clearly.

Xiong Chu has become a mother-in-law today, Miao Sanguan and they have already led the team to leave the market town, and Xiong Chu began to tell from door to door: "Recently, it has not been peaceful outside, and the villagers must close the doors and windows to avoid suffering from the disaster of the pool." ”

Yan Erniang always wanted to go to Xiong Chu's side to talk, but Xiong Chu shook east and west, and went east and west, and in the blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour passed, and finally everyone was gone.

At this moment, Prince Xiong looked up and saw a woodcutter coming from the west end of the market town, carrying two large bundles of firewood, and the old man was almost blocked.

Not far behind the woodcutter, there was a wandering Langzhong. Wearing an old cyan robe, he carried a dirty white flag, and the two lines of black letters on it were also extraordinary: specializing in the treatment of incurable diseases, and selling dog skin plasters.

Yan Erniang finally rushed to the right of Xiong Chu five feet away: "Childe, are you done, I want to talk to you." ”

"You don't know, those people are all lost. Xiong Chu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "So many people have made a mess at the door of people's homes, and they don't know how to tidy it up." I had no choice but to go and apologize to others in person. ”

"Look at you, you're getting your clothes dirty. ”

Yan Erniang stretched out her hand to pat the dust off Xiong Chu's clothes, and she put her hands together, patting the back of her heart with her left hand and her lower abdomen with her right hand.

"Gee, what is this. Xiong Chu hurriedly said politely: "They are all people who roll on the tip of the knife, where can they be so particular." ”

The moment Xiong Chu stretched out his hand to hug each other, his left hand suddenly pointed at Yan Erniang's right shoulder well point with a halberd, and his right hand pointed at Yan Erniang's nipple root point with a halberd, and Yan Erniang fell to the ground on the spot.

Xiong Chu's body had not yet straightened up, and the short sword in his left hand had already flown out of his hand, and the target was the Lang Zhong behind him.

At the same time that the sword in his left hand flew out, Xiong Chu's body had already flown up.

The moment his body took off, the Qingyu Sword was already out of its sheath, and the target of splitting Huashan with one move was the woodcutter!

The woodcutter reacted quickly enough, and at the same time that Yan Erniang fell to the ground, two bundles of firewood had already been thrown out, and a strange flat pole was in his hand.

One-legged bronze lance!

With a click, the one-legged bronze man lance was forced to slash the oncoming green sword, and the curly bronze man's left arm was cut off.

Bang, bang, bang - the sound of a dense burst of short gunfire was fired at Lang Zhong in the back, who was immediately staggered.

Boom, boom, boom - arrows rained down, and the target was the woodcutter who had dodged the blow of the bear prince, if he was a woodcutter.

"Kill—"

Xiong Kaishan shouted angrily, brandished a double hammer and slaughtered into the market town, and the first to bear the brunt was that Lang Zhong.

Lang Zhong had been hit by at least three short guns, and the forty-eight silver needles he was holding in his hands had fallen to the ground, and before the whole person could react, the golden hammer of the flower holder had already arrived.

Poof-poof-poof--headless corpse planted on the ground.

As soon as the woodcutter dodged the Qingyu Sword's move to slash Huashan, he was targeted by ten bows and arrows. When he was hurriedly firing arrows, Xiong Chu had already dodged in, and the Qingyu Sword pierced through the Fengchi point at the back of his head, pierced out of his mouth, and killed him with a single sword.

Yan Erniang, who fell to the ground at the beginning, saw a blink of an eye, and his two right-hand men had all been killed, and her pretty face suddenly turned into ashes.

A pair of resentful eyes, staring at Xiong Chu who was walking slowly, Yan Erniang tried her best to ask, "How did you find out?"

"Xu Fenglan, Great Sect Master Xu!" Prince Xiong seemed to be in a good mood, and even smiled: "Yes, your disguise technique is indeed very skillful. Judging by your appearance alone, I don't see any flaws. However, you don't know what Yan Erniang should be like now, so you made four fatal mistakes. ”

"First, what Yan Erniang is carrying with her now is not a pair of water-splitting thorns, but a sword, the sword I gave her. ”

"Second, Yan Erniang is now wearing a silver fox coat I gave her, not a white cloak. At the same time, Yan Erniang should also greet the other person first when she comes to see me, instead of speaking to me directly. ”

"Third, there are thousands of people around me, although everyone calls me Gongzi, but now Yan Erniang calls me Xianggong. ”

"Fourth, the third son is called by me, and Yan Erniang's name is Shan'er. I called Sanzi, and you followed suit, and seemed to react quickly, but you didn't know that I was deliberately misleading you, so as to make a final judgment. ”

"In addition, today is not the day to catch the market, whether it is a firewood seller or You Fanglangzhong, it is impossible to appear here. With these five mortal flaws, won't your Hidden Dragon Hall still perish?"

"As for my visits to each house, it's just to assign combat targets to my hidden brothers. That's the short gun against Langzhong, that is, the schisandra of the upper star under you. Bow and arrow against the woodcutter, your doom star Bodhi hand. ”

"You pretend to pat me with dust, but your left hand is my Xinyu acupoint, and your right hand is my Guan Yuan acupoint. As long as one of these two acupoints is photographed by you, I will be scattered. If you want my life so hard, why should I be polite?"