The chickens in the fence have grown a lot bigger. After eating the chicken food, the little guys looked particularly excited and started chirping.
"Zhaozhao! Isn't your man back yet?" A passing woman shouted to Chu Zhaozhao with clean clothes in her arms.
"Not yet, but soon!" Chu Zhaozhao greeted with a smile.
After saying this, she looked outside the yard. At the end of the dirt-paved street, there was a willow tree, and children were playing under the tree.
A yellow dog squatted not far away, curled up into a ball and sleeping.
Several unknown birds fluttered overhead.
This was not an uncommon pastoral scene, but it made Chu Zhaozhao raise a faint smile on his lips.
She loved her time at Gosying Village.
Everything here is simple.
She didn't have to rack her brains to think about how she could stand out from the tens of thousands of outer disciples and get the quota of only a hundred or so inner disciples every year.
There is no need to shoulder the heavy responsibility of revitalizing the family.
There is no need to worry about how to hold that rusty sword to face the grandfather who has high expectations for her.
She only needs to pick wild vegetables and fruits with Sanniang and the others every day, or go to the textile workshop to help sew some clothes or silk.
Then you can go home, cook a table of meals, and wait for Chu Qingxiao to come back.
Sometimes she even thinks about how great it would be if life like this could last forever.
Thinking of this, Chu Zhaozhao's eyes suddenly lit up as he looked into the distance.
She stood up and walked quickly towards the outside of the courtyard.
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"So, the female bandit still hasn't learned?"
After dinner, Chu Zhaozhao and Chu Qingxiao walked side by side in the village.
"Yeah." Chu Qingxiao nodded with a slight frown.
Five days have passed since he was "caught" by Chu Zhaozhao that day. In the past few days, he has been helping Yue Jian understand the Shura world wholeheartedly.
However, this kind of profound and mysterious ability is difficult to teach by words and deeds. Chu Qingxiao can only use it in the competition, which is enough to have a stressful fighting method for the opponent to understand.
But five days passed, and although Yue Jian vaguely touched the threshold, he was still unable to take the final step.
According to the agreement, starting tomorrow, Chu Qingxiao will be able to practice sword sparring with him.
And this is actually a very dangerous thing.
Thinking of this, Chu Qingxiao's brows furrowed a little deeper.
Of course, Chu Zhaozhao didn't know what Chu Qingxiao was thinking, but he just thought that he was worried that if he couldn't do this, he would be embarrassed by Yue Jian.
She comforted her and said, "Don't worry. At worst, we will just have to escape before the female bandit really makes any move. In the past few days, I have almost figured out the layout of the village."
Chu Qingxiao glanced at Chu Zhaozhao and said, "Although Miss Yue Jian is a little out of touch sometimes, she is actually not bad-minded. Even if she really cannot learn, she will not be embarrassed."
"What I said before was ultimately just to coerce me into granting her the Dharma of the Shura Realm."
"Hmph." Chu Zhaozhao was a little dissatisfied when he heard this: "Are you very protective of her? Why, do you want to be the wife of Cangying Village?"
Chu Qingxiao laughed dumbly.
"I just feel that it is not easy for the people in Goshawk Village. Miss Yue Jian is so desperate to learn the Shura Realm now. I am afraid it is because she herself is not sure about how to deal with the death battle field held in Ghost Crow Village this month."
Although Chu Zhaozhao was dissatisfied with Yue Jian, he still admired Yue Jian for taking care of Cangying Village by himself.
It's just that she's a soft-spoken person and doesn't want to admit it.
"That Ghost Crow Village is indeed a little too ruthless in what they do. If I have the chance, I will definitely act like a master and kill those villains in one fell swoop!" She said with gritted teeth.
When Chu Qingxiao heard this, he glanced sideways at her and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything. "Save us!!"
"Open the door quickly! Save us!"
But at this moment, a heartbreaking cry suddenly came from the entrance of the village.
Chu Qingxiao and the two who were walking here were shocked when they heard this, and hurried over. At the same time, the person responsible for guarding the village gate also sounded the warning drum at this time.
Amidst the dull sound of drums, the darkened cottage lit up the lights, and the crowd hurriedly rushed towards it.
Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao were the first group of people to arrive at the gate of the village.
Before they even got close, they saw seven or eight figures lying on the gate of the village. Under the light of the torch in the hands of the people guarding the gate, it could be seen that those people were in ragged clothes, with wounds and blood on their bodies and faces.
When they saw someone coming, they became more and more excited. They put their hands through the gap in the railing and shouted loudly: "Help us! Let us in!"
As they talked, some of them looked behind them, as if something terrible was coming in the darkness behind them.
"What's going on?" Chu Qingxiao walked to the gate of the village and asked with a frown.
The person guarding the gate of the village was also confused and responded: "We don't know either. This group of people suddenly rushed over. At first, I thought it was a wild beast from the mountains!"
Chu Qingxiao heard this and took a closer look. These people were all strangers and were not from Gosying Village.
"Why don't we let them in first? Where are the children?" Chu Zhaozhao on the side said somewhat unbearably.
Chu Qingxiao looked at the crowd. Indeed, as Chu Zhaozhao said, there was a four or five-year-old child in the crowd, who was being pulled by a woman and hiding behind the woman.
Chu Qingxiao nodded, and glanced at the group of fleeing people again, confirming that they had no cultivation base, and immediately said to the gatekeeper: "Let them in first, I think some of them are seriously injured, no
If you get immediate treatment, you may die."
When the gatekeeper heard this, he hesitated for a while, but still followed Chu Qingxiao's opinion.
With the muffled sound of the village door opening, the group of people hurriedly ran in. Although they didn't know what they had gone through, it was obvious that the escape all the way had exhausted their strength. They were supported by the will to survive and ran into the sky.
At the moment of Yingzhai, everyone collapsed to the ground.
"What's going on!? Who told me to open the village gate!" At this moment, Huang Quxiang's voice came from behind everyone.
I saw a man walking quickly, looking unhappy.
Seeing Huang Quxiang's appearance, the gatekeeper felt a little wary and did not dare to respond for a while.
"I let them in. I saw that their injuries were serious. It was important to save people..." Chu Qingxiao and Huang Quxiang did have some unpleasant experiences, but Chu Qingxiao still maintained as much restraint as possible at this time. He saw that
Said calmly to the other party.
Huang Quxiang heard the words and ignored Chu Qingxiao. Instead, he turned his head and glanced at the people who fell to the ground. He frowned slightly and said immediately: "Get out."
As soon as these words came out, the people who had just thought they had been waiting for a long time suddenly looked frightened.
Naturally, they regarded Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao who let them into the village as life-saving straw, and wailed to Chu Qingxiao and Chu Qingxiao for help.
Chu Qingxiao frowned, but before he said anything, Chu Zhaozhao's expression changed: "What do I mean by you? There are children among them. Even if the village does not take them in, their wounds must be bandaged before they are released.
Let them leave!"
Facing Chu Zhaozhao's questioning, Huang Quxiang also ignored it. He just looked at the gatekeepers and said in a cold voice: "Can't you hear what I'm saying?"
Obviously, Huang Quxiang is indeed very prestigious in the Goshawk Village. When the few people heard this, they trembled and did not dare to say more than a few sentences. They hurriedly stretched out their hands to pull those people out of the village.
The changes here also attracted more residents of the village.
Pang Pangzhuang and Guan Zijin also arrived at the same time. They looked at the refugees who were really struggling to stay in the village, and then at the stern-faced Huang Quxiang and the angry Chu Zhaozhao. They probably understood what happened.
What.
"Hu Mazi, that's not necessary. The village is a little tight now, but they are all poor people. If you can help them, it's okay. At least give them something to eat and then drive them away..." Pang Pangzhuang said at this time.
.
Guan Zijin also nodded and added: "If you are afraid that they are here to cause trouble, then give me a few steamed buns. Don't worry at this moment..."
Seeing that Pang Pangzhuang and Guo Zijin were also on his side, Chu Zhaozhao felt more confident and was about to say something more.
However, Huang Quxiang glanced at Pang and Guo, and immediately walked to the group of fleeing people. He grabbed a man, lifted up the loose hair on his forehead, and said: "You two want to
If you want the entire Goshawk Village to be buried with them, then please do as you please!"
After hearing this, everyone looked at the man's forehead and saw a crow-shaped mark on the man's forehead.
After seeing this thing, Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao still didn't know why, but the faces of Pang Guo and Pang Guo, who had been helping them to speak just now, changed, and they looked a little pale.
"It's the Crow Slave Seal." At the same time, a voice sounded in the ears of Chu Qingxiao and Chu Qingxiao.
Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao looked back and saw Sanniang walking behind them at some point.
"What is the Crow Slave Seal?" Chu Zhaozhao asked.
"The Ghost Crow Village will collect living people as slaves from various villages that cannot pay the money, and after the slaves are sent to the Ghost Crow Village, they will have such a mark on their foreheads, and these people are also called Crow slaves.
"
"I don't know what the Ghost Crow Village wants these people to do, but once they become crow slaves, almost none of them can survive more than three months."
Sanniang said with a gloomy look: "These people are probably the crow slaves who escaped from the Ghost Crow Village."
"Ghost Crow Village has special means to track crow slaves. If the village on Taixuan Mountain dares to take in these escaped crow slaves, Ghost Crow Village will treat them as enemies."
"There was once a village with nearly two thousand people, but all of them were slaughtered just because they took in a crow slave..."
After hearing this, the expressions of Chu Zhaozhao and Chu Qingxiao suddenly changed, and they obviously understood that they had almost caused a big disaster.
The group of crow slaves who were fleeing for their lives turned pale when they saw that their identities were revealed, and they began to cry out incessantly.
"We are ordinary farmers at the foot of the mountain. We have never done anything harmful to nature. We were kidnapped by bandits and sold to Guiyanzhai! Please do a good job and give us a way to survive. We..." One of the men burst into tears.
of speech.
"If we are taken back to Ghost Crow Village, we will have no chance of survival. Those guys are not human at all..."
Seeing this, the people around him quickly knelt down and begged for mercy. As they spoke, they kowtowed to everyone with great force. Many people's foreheads were covered with blood within a short time, but they were still undecided. Obviously
Returning to a hell on earth like Guiyazhai is nothing compared to the pain in front of me.
The scene was indeed miserable, and the people in the surrounding Goshawk Village were trembling with fear.
But Huang Quxiang had no intention of compromising. He looked at the gatekeepers. The gatekeepers did not dare to hesitate any more. They stepped forward and dragged the crying people who were fleeing, and threw them out one after another.
The gate of the cottage.
At this moment, the woman with the child got the strength out of nowhere. She broke free from the pull of the two strong men and forcefully pulled her child to the front of Chu Qingxiao and Chu Zhaozhao.
Perhaps it was her mother's intuition that made her realize that among the group of people in front of her, only Chu Qingxiao was the possible life-saving straw.
She grabbed the corner of Chu Zhaozhao's clothes. Before she could say anything, two lines of tears poured down her cheeks.
"Girl, I only have one life. If I die, I will die..."
"But my child is still young, so you can keep her!"
"I can do whatever I want, I can be your slave, your maid, your cow or your horse, as long as I have a mouth to eat!"
"Those people in Ghost Crow Village won't know, so I'll just say she's dead!"
"I beg you! She is still young, she is only five years old..."