Chapter 1054: The Worlds Heroes Meet Jiang Ning (1)
The morning light reveals the eastern sky and spreads out towards the vast land.
The milky white mist is soaked in the warm color of the sun and stretches and flows on the ground. To the west of the ancient city of Jiangning, the low-lying mountains and rivers are looming out of this light and mist. In the undulations of the hills and in the gaps between the mountains, they are
The gentle morning breeze flows like a tide. Occasionally weak spots reveal traces of villages, roads, fields and people below.
On the road between the hills and fields, many pedestrians and business travelers have already set off. This place is quite close to Jiangning, and many ragged pedestrians are either alone, or dragging their families with their families.
They walked with their belongings and baggage towards the area where the "Fairness Party" was located. There were also many knights carrying swords and guns, and fierce-looking Jianghu people walking among them. They were the main participants in this "Heroes Conference", and some of them were far away.
When they meet, they greet each other loudly, speak their names boldly, saliva fly, and are extremely majestic.
There were also caravans from outside. Amidst the clanking of carriages and horses, bodyguards with either fierce looks or vigilant faces escorted the goods along the official road. The leading caravan was hoisted with flags symbolizing the protection of the different forces of the Fairness Party. Among them, the most
The most common ones are Baofeng's Three Talents of Heaven, Earth, Man, or Mr. He's King of Justice flag. On some special roads, there are also certain specific flags that are hung together.
The Fairness Party rose rapidly in Jiangnan, with complex internal conditions and strong destructive power. However, except for the initial period of chaos, its internal trade exchanges with the outside world could not disappear after all. During this period, the most primitive accumulation of the Fairness Party's rise was the killing and
The grain, cloth, and weapons were accumulated by plundering many wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River. Naturally, the grain, cloth, and weapons were digested on the spot. However, of the many treasures and cultural relics obtained, merchants who believed in seeking wealth through risk would naturally try to collect the goods. At the same time, they also collected the goods from the outside world.
Materials are transferred into the territory of the Fair Party.
This type of business was initially very risky, but the benefits were also extremely high. By the time the Justice Party's power became unified in Jiangnan, with He Wen's acquiescence and even cooperation, a group of people capable of competing with it had been created internally.
Behemoths such as "Ping Ping Wang" and "Baofeng Hao".
After the Fair Party occupied Jiangning and released the news of the "Heroes Conference", most of the forces in the Fair Party have become controllable to a certain extent. In order to make the conference go smoothly, He Wen, Shi Baofeng and others
Many forces were dispatched to maintain order on the main roads leading in and out of the city.
As a result, the number of caravans and escorts coming from the outside world to "seek wealth and wealth through risk" is also increasing, hoping to enter Jiangning, a transit station, and conduct more "leaps and leaks" on the Fair Party's accumulation of plundering wealthy households in the past one or two years.
"After all, ordinary Fairmen just wanted some food and clothing after killing wealthy businessmen and gentry. It is still difficult to count how many curios and curios they have scraped off during this period of time.
Wearing patched clothes, carrying a small package from home, a cloth bag on his shoulder, and a small medicine box hanging by his side, Ning Ji walked on the road to Jiangning from the east, covered with dust but with a relaxed step.
He looked curiously at the people moving forward, and quietly raised his ears to eavesdrop on the conversations around him. Occasionally he would take a few steps quickly and look at the village scene not far away. Coming all the way from the southwest, a distance of thousands of miles, the scenery during the
The landform changed several times. When we arrived near Jiangning, the undulations of the mountains became gentle. Small rivers flowed leisurely. In the morning mist, there were clusters of trees like eyebrows, hugging the waterside or in the mountains.
In this small village, when the sun gets warmer, the fragrance occasionally drifts from the roadside, and it is exactly that: green feathers in the west wind of the desert, and August osmanthus in the south of the Yangtze River.
When I left Tongshan County last month, I originally rode a horse.
For this horse, he had four big fights in less than a month, and more than thirty people were beaten to death. It was refreshing when he turned against him, but after the fight,
I feel a little frustrated.
The reason for the fight was simple. He seemed to be a good-natured man, and he was not too old. He was riding a good horse on the road alone, which inevitably attracted the attention of some local snakes who ran hotels and inns on the way. Someone wanted to taint his name.
Horse, some people wanted to take away his things, and some even called the government officials to accuse him and send him to jail. Ning Ji had been following Lu Wenke and others in the past two months, and he had never encountered this situation before.
, but I didn’t expect that things like this would become so frequent after I became alone.
Even the people on the way didn't even seem to be habitual criminals who opened illegal shops. That is to say, they saw that he was easy to bully, so they couldn't help but think about it. According to Ning Ji's violent character at the beginning, each of these people should be severely beaten.
Crippled, and then spend their whole life experiencing what it means to be in troubled times, the jungle of the jungle. But when he was able to take action, considering the identities of these people, he was slightly merciful. The only person who was disabled by him directly was that
A government official wanted to capture him.
The fourth fight was during the process of taking the horse to sell. The dealer who collected the horse snatched the horse directly and refused to pay. Before Ning Ji took action, the other party already said that he was causing trouble and started to beat him. Then he launched a half
The people at the market rushed out to get him. Ning Ji ran all the way and waited until midnight before returning to the horse dealer's house. He robbed all his money, let the horses in the stable go, and set fire to the back of the house.
He walked away. He did not order all the houses in the half collection, and felt that his temper had restrained. According to his father's words, his self-cultivation had become deeper. But he also vaguely understood in his heart that these people might not live like this in peacetime.
, maybe because in troubled times, everything becomes distorted.
Because things were relatively chaotic, he did not leave the name "Long Aotian the Beater" in these incidents. However, after these four fights, he felt helpless and had already dealt with the horse.
Good horse, he simply changed into patched clothes and went on the road disguised as a young man from a poor family. He no longer stayed in nice inns on the way. In this way, he never suffered such harassment again.
As for the options of joining a caravan or making friends along the way, Ning Ji had deliberately skipped it.
In this way, it was mid-August and he finally arrived at the outskirts of Jiangning City.
This day is actually August 14th, and there is only one day left before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Pedestrians on the road are walking in a hurry, and many people are talking about going to Jiangning City to celebrate the festival. Ning Ji stops and walks along the way, looking at the nearby scenery.
In order to meet the excitement on the way, sometimes I will go to the surrounding villages.
More than ten years after the fall of the Central Plains, the Jurchens searched the mountains and seas twice, and there were massacres near Jiangning. Coupled with the sweep of the Fair Party, war has shrouded this area several times. Nowadays, most of the villages near Jiangning have suffered disasters.
, but at this time when the Fairness Party ruled, people were already living in the villages of all sizes. Some of them were fierce and fierce, blocking outsiders from entering, and some would set up sheds on the roadside to sell melons, fruits, and sweet water.
For merchants coming from far away, different flags are hung in each village. Some villages hang several flags in different places. According to people around them, negotiations or fights occasionally break out in these villages.
Ning Ji likes these exciting gossips the most.
He walked and eavesdropped all the way, and occasionally saw kind-faced aunties selling things on the roadside. He would also go there with a smile on his face to buy some food, and inquire about the surrounding situation. Yesterday afternoon, he entered the territory actually controlled by the Fairness Party, and arrived here
In the morning, I had already figured out a lot of things.
Among the people in the Fairness Party, the ones who are relatively open and kind are the "Fairness King" He Wen and the people who use the banner of the "Equality King" Shibaobao. They occupy more villages along the road, and the more vicious ones are
The younger brothers of Zhou Shang, the "King of Yama", even hung on the flagpoles outside some of the villages they occupied. It is said that they were after the wealthy people nearby were killed. This Zhou Shang had two
A name. Some people say that his real name is actually Zhou Shang. Although Ning Ji is a poor student, he still knows the difference between two characters. I feel that Zhou Shang’s title is particularly domineering this time, and he really has the feeling of a villain.
I was already thinking in my mind whether I should kill him this time and make a name for myself as Long Aotian.
"King Gaotian" occupies not many places - of course there are some - it is said that he controls half of the military power. In Ning Ji's opinion, this level of strength is very powerful. As for "Wing Chao Lun King" Chu Zhaonan, he is the leader of the Great Guangming Sect.
Damn you son of a bitch, the leader of the Great Light Sect is said to have entered Jiangning in the past two days. The surrounding members of the Great Light Sect are extremely excited. Some villages are still organizing people to rush to Jiangning City, saying they want to visit the leader.
Occasionally I see gongs and drums and firecrackers blasting loudly on the road. Outsiders think they are madmen and no one dares to stop them. Therefore, the power of the "Chakravartin King" series is also expanding now.
Although the "Fairness King" He Xiaojian and the "Equality King" Shi Baobao are relatively open-minded, the villages on both sides still have to argue and fight over whether they have enough money to pay for the road.
"King of Yama" Zhou Shang is said to be a lunatic, but near Jiangning City, He Xiaojian and Shi Baobao teamed up to suppress him, so these people don't dare to go crazy on the main road for the time being, but they will fight if there is an occasional small friction.
It's very serious.
The soldiers under "King Gao Tian" don't seem to cause big troubles, but in fact, they often interfere with various forces, ask for oil and water from them, and join in firefights from time to time. However, their positions are not clear, and everyone often wants to fight.
They took action to win over. Today this group of people stood with He Xiaojian, but tomorrow they were bought by Shi Baobao to fight Chu Zhaonan. Several times they fought with Zhou Shang's lunatic, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
The various forces in the entire Jiangning City periphery were really in chaos, and to be honest, Ning Ji really liked this feeling! Occasionally, when someone said something, his face turned red, and he wanted to jump up and cheer a few times.
Although he fought head-on with the Jurchens on the battlefield two years ago, after coming off the battlefield, his favorite feeling was naturally to hide in a safe place and watch the fight between tigers and tigers. Think about the current situation in Jiangning,
He found a secluded and high place to hide, and watched dozens and hundreds of people making fools of themselves on the street below. The feeling made him tremble with excitement.
Thinking back to the situation in Chengdu last year, they fought for one night, and there were not even a few hundred people fighting. It became noisy, and then they were suppressed by their own side. He and Yao Shubin stayed for half a night, and then they met three people.
Two troublemakers are so boring!
——And over here! Look over here! From time to time, there are hundreds of people negotiating, and if they can't reach an agreement, they start fighting! A group of bad guys are bleeding heads, and he doesn't seem to have any psychological burden at all! Heaven on earth!
Ning Ji clenched her fists and jumped with excitement in a deserted place by the side of the road!
Dad didn't come.
Aunt Gua didn't come.
Aunt Hong didn't come.
Uncle Chen didn't come.
Uncle Du didn't come.
The eldest brother didn't come.
Yao Shubin's big mouth didn't come.
Yuwen Feidu and Brother Xiaohei didn't come.
…
I came here alone in such a lively and interesting place. When I go back and talk about it, I will not envy them to death! Of course, Aunt Hong will not envy her. She has returned to her original nature and is pure and stoic, but Dad, Aunt Gua and Big Brother will certainly
I would be so jealous!
Ning Ji was so happy that he ran on the road like a little wild dog. When he saw people on the road, he calmed down and then secretly leaned towards the pedestrians on the road to eavesdrop on what they were saying.
At noon that day, Ning Ji took a break in the lobby of a roadside inn.
In today's world, most ordinary people don't actually have the habit of having lunch, but going on a long journey is different from being at home on weekdays. This inn is one of the largest stopovers for more than twenty miles, and it provides tea and rice.
, white water, and ducks that were roasted extremely well and fragrant from far and near were hung at the counter. Since the Baofenghao Tianzi sign was hung at the door, and there were several vicious people sitting inside, no one caused trouble here.
Many business travelers and Green Forest people stopped here for a break.
Ning Ji spent a lot of money to buy half a duck, put it in a cloth bag, and then ordered a noodle pancake. He sat on a stool in the corner of the hall and ate while listening to those green forest tycoons bragging loudly. These people were talking about Jiang Ning.
Ning Ji listened with great interest to the story about a force called "Big Dragon Head" that was about to make a name for itself in the city. He wanted to raise his hand to participate in the discussion. During this eavesdropping, the lobby was full of people, and some people came in to talk to him.
At the same table, a bearded man with a nine-ring knife sat on the same bench as him, and Ning Ji didn't mind.
"Brother, where are you from?" He felt that the nine-ring sword was quite powerful, and maybe there was a story behind it. He started to approach him in a flattering manner, but the other party looked at him and ignored him. He was eating cakes very obscenely, and almost leaned on the table.
The young man on the bed.
Ning Ji was bored and ignored him.
The person over there who told the story of "Big Dragon Head" spat and started arguing with others. There was nothing interesting to hear. Ning Ji was about to eat the cake and leave. At this time, a figure outside the door caught his attention.
It was a bald little monk who was younger than him. He was holding a small rice bowl in his hand. He was standing outside the door of the inn, looking at the roast duck on the counter with some flinching and some longing.
A group of strangely dressed green forest men were coming in from outside. They looked a lot like the idiots of Zhou Shang, the "King of Yama". The leader reached out and touched the young monk's shoulder from behind, and said something like "
"Go away" and other words. The little monk swallowed his saliva and gave way to the side.
The mentally retarded green forest man did not touch his shoulder, but the young monk had already moved out of the way, and they walked in swaggeringly. Except for Ning Ji, no one noticed the problem in the scene just now. Then, he saw the young monk walking towards the inn.
Come, put your hands together and bow, and ask for alms from the waiter in the inn. Then he was roughly kicked out by the people in the store.
The breeze is gathering.
This was an inconspicuous thing that happened outside Jiangning City at noon on August 14th.