Chapter 380: In the Past and Today, in this door
Underneath the ancient willow, there is a huge tree hole. ()
Seeing this willow tree, Ding Qi inadvertently laughed.
Twenty years ago, when Ding Qi left the Xia Kingdom, the road was raining heavily, and Ding Qi used to take temporary shelter in this tree hole.
Ding Qi stood in front of the ancient willow, which was not much different from that year, touched the edge of the tree hole, and soon walked along this path towards the front.
Half a month later, Ding Qi stood in a defeated village.
This small village was also a place where Ding Qi used to pass through. Twenty years ago, it wasn't much prosperous, but it was full of life.
It's not like it is now, so defeated, ten rooms and nine empty.
Ding Qi saw the scene in this room, and his face showed a contemplative look.
Ding Qi then walked towards a courtyard in the village.
When Ding Qi traveled through this place, he briefly settled in this family. He still remembered that the family was quite gentle and simple, which made Ding Qi very impressed.
As Ding Qi approached the courtyard and looked at the empty scene inside, Ding Qi shook his head.
He had just scanned it with his divine sense, and the room was empty, and there was no one for a long time.
Ding Qi pushed open the door, and with a squeak, he saw that the room was covered with a layer of dirt and dust, and no one had entered for a long time.
Only outside the house, a piece of moso bamboo, which was planted back then, has now grown into a piece, swaying slightly in the wind.
Ding Qi's sound of pushing the door attracted the attention of nearby people.
As Ding Qi walked out of the door, a man no more than thirty years old looked at Ding Qi from afar. However, after seeing Ding Qi dressed in a scholar-like robe, not like a bad guy, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"This little brother, I don't know what you are looking for the Li Er family, it is not a distant relative of the Li Er family. But this family, as early as six years ago. It's all gone. In these years, there is a shortage of soldiers, and you may not be able to find anyone. The man glanced at Ding Qi, and finally said with some hesitation.
"It seems that this man doesn't know me anymore. Ding Qi looked at the man silently and thought in his heart.
Ding Qi traveled back then, and when he settled here, he actually saw this man. But back then, the man was just a mischievous kid climbing trees and catching birds.
When Ding Qi settled here twenty years ago, he quickly left here, and he had only met this man two or three times when he was a child.
At his age. How could he still remember Tintzy now.
Ding Qi looked at the man and could see the similar eyebrows of the child back then.
However, this man, after all the twists and turns in his life for 20 years, is long gone, and he has a lively and clever feeling that makes people shine when he was a child.
He has long been oblivious to everyone.
Ding Qi looked at the man, already making the other party feel a little strange.
At this time, Ding Qi also took his fixed gaze away from him.
"Thank you brother Tai for telling me about this. I didn't expect the battle between the two countries in Charu. It's already affected here. It seems that it is really impossible to see the Li family again. Ding Qi followed the man's words and said with regret in his tone.
When Ding Qi was a teenager, the atmosphere between Xia Lu and Xia Lu was already extremely dangerous. Ding Qi was also conscripted because of the two countries. There was a time when I went up the mountain to pick anchovies.
This time, after entering the Xia Kingdom, Ding Qi knew that there had been a war between the two countries in Xia Lu for several years since he left Jingzhou. Exploded.
In the past ten years, the two countries have been at war for 66 years. It continues to this day.
The war between the two countries has caused the livelihood of the two countries to wither.
The reason why Ding Qi is now in this village should be because of this.
This person heard that Ding Qi really had an affair with Li Er's family, and said: "Although Li Er's family has been away from here for a long time. But this little brother doesn't need to worry. Twenty years ago, Li Erjia accidentally got two century-old mountain ginseng plants in exchange for a large sum of silver. Although because of the escape from this chaotic place, he moved elsewhere. However, they have this savings, and it should be good to live elsewhere. ”
When this man said this, he showed a look of extreme envy on his face that Li Erjia accidentally got a century-old mountain ginseng twenty years ago.
When Ding Qi heard what the man said, he laughed secretly in his heart.
The two ginseng plants were specially left by Ding Qi in order to thank the Li family for allowing him to settle down.
I didn't expect it to be of such use in the end.
"Li Erjia, I shouldn't be going back here in the future. I also advise you, little brother, not to come here again in the future. Over the years, the Xia State has been in turmoil, and it has gradually become unsafe here. Most of the people in the village have moved away. Even our family will have to move out of here in a few days. The man reminded Tinzi.
Although this man does not have the cleverness of Ding Qi when he saw him when he was a child, his temperament is still simple.
He saw that Ding Qi was a foreigner, and he was afraid that there would be many twists and turns in rushing here, and in the case of the Xia Kingdom's soldiers being chaotic, there were many dangers on the road, so he would remind him so.
Ding Qi smiled at this in his heart.
"This village is quite close to me. If necessary, keep it safe. Ding Qi thought to himself.
Then, he looked into the distance.
Just as the man was about to say something, he looked at Ding Qi with some puzzlement, not knowing why Ding Qi suddenly looked into the distance.
However, after a short time, the man's face showed an extremely panicked look.
A group of dozens of soldiers and horses faintly rushed towards the village from afar.
As the soldiers and horses approached, judging from the uniforms on these people, they should be soldiers of the Xia Kingdom.
After the soldiers and horses approached, the few remaining villagers in the village also came out of their homes, and like the man next to Ding Qi, their faces showed panic.
In these chaotic years, these villagers did not feel the slightest relaxation because they were their own soldiers who appeared near the village.
They looked extremely nervous and uneasy.
In this war-torn era, the people in this village knew very well that the so-called soldiers were bandits, and bandits were soldiers. From many rumors, such a chaotic soldier, once close to a populated place, slaughtering the village and destroying the village is just a normal thing.
Especially in a small group of dozens or hundreds of soldiers like now, no one is in control at all.
Some villagers also saw that this group of soldiers and horses seemed to have suffered defeat, and a small group of rogue soldiers who were scattered were exactly the type they feared the most.
After the rebels came to the village, they broke into the village regardless of it.
"Little brother, come with me to the mountains behind the village to hide. The man next to him watched the soldiers enter the village in horror and said to Ding Qi.
This man seems to have experienced the incident of the chaotic soldiers entering the village a long time ago, and has a way to deal with it.
Ding Qi said what was in his heart.
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Hey, this kind of thing has already happened to this village twice, otherwise how could the village become so desolate." Every time the rebels attacked, these people swept the village away. Those who were able to leave had already fled the village and lived outside. But fortunately, the officers and soldiers of the first two times were just seeking money. After sweeping the village and seeing that there was no oil or water, he left. ”
"Now when the village encounters this kind of thing, they all hide behind the village, let them search it, and wait for them to leave naturally. The middle-aged man continued.
Ding Qi looked at these chaotic soldiers and nodded noncommittally.
He also saw that the rest of the people in the village had also run into the mountains behind the village. Seeing that Ding Qi didn't make any moves, he pulled Ding Qi up again and ran towards the back of the village.
The village was already ten rooms and nine empty, and there were only about 20 families left.
Less than 100 people gathered here.
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"God forbid, let these skin-picking demons leave quickly. ”
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"I hope that the grain hidden in the cellar will not be revealed by this group. ”
"As long as you don't be like the last group of people who couldn't find anything to burn the house. Someone in the village muttered in fear.
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Regarding the discussion of this group of people, Ding Qi frowned slightly.
Ding Qi's divine sense has always swept this small village, and every move of these dozens of soldiers is clearly reflected in his mind.
"This group of people is really very angry, much heavier than the group of mountain bandits I encountered before. Ding Qi thought to himself.
With the anger of this group, Ding Qi suspected that this group of stray soldiers would not be able to leave after a search, just like the two loots that the village had experienced before.
Sure enough, as Ding Qi had guessed, what made the villagers nervous afterwards was that after the rebels had searched the village, they rushed towards the back of the mountain.
The group was led by a middle-aged man with a pair of scars on his face, who looked at the villagers gathered in front of him and seemed to be a little dissatisfied.
"In this village, there is really little oil and water. The scarred man thought to himself.
He was used to this kind of looting of villages and towns, and after searching the village, he still didn't understand that there was no oil or water to be found in this village.
However, the man with the scar, after seeing more than a dozen young female dependents hiding behind the village, immediately had a hideous smile on his face.
He inspected the trembling villagers, and the fierce aura on his body suddenly made everyone gathered here cold.
But at this time, this person's eyes stayed on Ding Qi.
"Hey!" the man looked at Ding Qi with some strange expression.
Although Ding Qi is extremely ordinary, compared to the ordinary villagers gathered here, he can see a big difference at a glance.
Especially Ding Qi does not seem to be from an ordinary village family in terms of skin color and demeanor.
This caught the person's attention.
When Ding Qi saw this person looking at him with strange eyes, he understood what the problem was.
From beginning to end, Ding Qi never doubted that the true peculiarity of his body would be seen by this person. After all, even a martial arts person with deep internal strength, when he saw Ding Qi, he would only regard him as an ordinary person without the slightest strength.
What's more, this person has a lot of external skills at most.
The man just thought that he was no ordinary mountain dweller. (To be continued......)
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