On the afternoon of August 16th, everyone was talking about the Five-Fang Lei being taken away by the leader of the Great Light. The people around her were filled with indignation and murderous aura, and she felt that things were getting out of control.
Couldn't sleep well at night.
In the early hours of the morning, roars began to roar, and people in the dilapidated courtyard and dilapidated houses shouted one after another. Some people picked up spears and knives, and some lit torches. She also stood up, a little trembling.
I wore some tattered clothes, found a wooden stick, and tried to show my courage.
Fortunately, Aunt Huo waved her hand: "Just stay at home and don't go out. Just take care of yourselves."
Men and women armed with swords and guns gathered in the courtyard, and some said: "Young scholar, please don't go."
Aunt Huo's name is Huo Qinghua. She is a tall, middle-aged woman with scars on her face. It is said that she used to be somewhat pretty, but when the Jurchens came, they caught her. In order not to be insulted, she was scratched
Later, he joined the Fair Party and became a branch of the "White Rakshasa" among the "Seven Kills". Now he is the helmsman of this shabby yard.
The current structure of the Fair Party is chaotic.
Throughout the land of Jiangnan, all the big and small forces with some reputation will fly their own flags, but half of them are not true members of the Fair Party. For example, the "Seven Kills" under the command of "King Yama", the beginners are basically unified under the "
The "Ephemera" series, after passing the assessment, will be added to the six major series such as "Heavenly Killing", "Impermanence", "Abi Yuantu", "White Rakshasa", "Slaying Fierce" and "Karma". However,
In fact, because the "King of Yama" branch has developed so fast, there are many people who plant flags randomly, and as long as they have some strength, they are casually absorbed into it.
Huo Qinghua's side belongs to the authentic "White Rakshasa" branch. The dilapidated courtyard is dirty and messy. The number of people gathered in Jiangning is not that many at this time, but the surrounding forces will give them some face.
The so-called authentic "White Rakshasa" are "professionals" who work with the "karma" group. Generally speaking, the Fair Party occupies a place, and the "King of Yama" presides over arrests, and those who convict are usually "
"Karma" is a matter of this branch.
The "karma" set up a stage, and the "White Rakshasa" played the role of the victim, inciting the emotions of the people around him, so that he could kill the rich man on trial directly on the stage and divide the property. Therefore, the "White Rakshasa"
Among them, there are many beggars, women, and disabled people who have miserable fates. These people have vicious personalities and extreme methods.
Not afraid of death, very difficult to deal with.
"Little Scholar" is Qu Longjun's nickname in this shabby courtyard.
After the Chengdu Conference last year, a girl named Qu Longjun left Southwest.
Although she roughly understood that the situation in the southwest was now the most peaceful, in her heart, she still had the grudge of her father's death in Xiaocang River. She no longer hated the black flag, but she couldn't bear to live in peace like this.
Living in hiding in Chengdu, after all, if my father is still alive, he might still be a little unhappy, right?
During her entire growth stage, the place she was most familiar with was, after all, Jiangnan.
After Wen Shoubin died, the property left behind was applied for by Long Xiaoxia and returned to her hands. In addition to silver coins, there were several properties in Jiangnan. As long as she got any of them, it was actually enough for her.
A weak woman has lived half her life.
She followed the Chinese Army's convoy out of the southwest and learned some skills in closing accounts. In the face of Aunt Gu, the Chinese Army team that went out to do business also further taught her a lot of skills for survival outside. It's like this
After traveling for half a year, I finally took my leave and headed towards Jiangnan.
She knew that she looked too weak and easy to bully, so along the way, she mostly pretended to be a beggar, and put a piece of dead skin on one side of her cheek that looked like burnt skin as a disguise, and moved forward in a low-key manner.
.These skills learned from the Chinese military caravan helped her avoid some troubles, but sometimes she still inevitably attracted the attention of other beggars. Fortunately, during the half year of following the caravan, she learned some simple breathing techniques.
Fa, running around every day, the speed of escaping is not slow.
In this way, there were no dangers along the way, and we were lucky to have traveled two to three thousand miles. However, the entire Jiangnan area had been massacred by the Fair Party.
When she arrived in Jiangning more than two months ago, she already understood that the land deeds she was holding that originally belonged to Wen Shoubin were probably all gone now. She still walked a little further, but she had not yet arrived.
When she arrived in Zhenjiang, she was about to turn back. When she arrived near Jiangning, a thief stole the money from her baggage, so she had to change from pretending to be a beggar to a real beggar.
During this period, she was chased by beggars again, and once she was blocked in an alleyway. When she could no longer run away, Qu Longjun took out the knife he carried with him to defend himself. Later, he was about to commit suicide. Huo Qinghua happened to be passing by and saw her, so he saved her.
I came down and joined the "Broken Yard".
Huo Qinghua said, mainly because he admired her determination when she committed suicide.
Most of the people gathered in the dilapidated courtyard were people with extreme temperaments. Qu Longjun was extremely scared when she first joined. Many people tried to bully her, but Huo Qinghua stopped her. She tried to do odd jobs in this dilapidated courtyard, but the situation
Things really got better after these people discovered that she could read.
There were five children in the shabby yard. They were born in such an environment and did not have much discipline. Qu Longjun once tried to teach them how to read. Later, Huo Qinghua asked her to help take care of these things, and she would also take care of them every day.
Bring some newsprint, and if everyone gathers together, ask Qu Longjun to help read the stories above to relieve everyone's boredom.
There is not a single literate person in the courtyard of "White Rakshasa". Although they live a dirty life, no one talks about doing anything for the children. What they do say are mostly self-destructive words, but when Qu Longjun
After doing these things, she also found that although no one mentioned it, no one made things difficult for her under any circumstances. Later, she read the newspaper every day, and the name among these people became "little
Scholar".
Sometimes when people went out to "hit big houses", they would take her to see them, or they would bring her some smashed gold and silver objects when they came back. Qu Longjun would secretly hide them in preparation for one day having a good fortune.
Yes, a reliable way to leave here secretly.
Although these people in the yard did not harm her, Qu Longjun still felt disgusted and repelled by what they did, including killing the whole family with all kinds of lies and deceptions. Although these people had many strange opinions among themselves.
, such as "Although these people did not do these bad things, if we kill them, it can always serve as a warning to those who do bad things." However, such reasons cannot pass the evaluation of Qu Longjun, who has read the book.
Of course, others discussed such fallacies with gusto, so she didn't dare to refute them directly.
After spending time in the southwest and experiencing the propaganda that women hold up half the sky, Qu Longjun originally had some fondness for the Fairness Party, but now he was left with only confusion and fear.
Huo Qinghua sometimes talks about the changes in the Fair Party over the past year or so.
Although she was in the most radical faction of the Fairness Party, she still felt a little disdainful of the mixed bag of things that had happened over the years.
For example, "White Rakshasa" was originally created in the early days of Zhou Shang to use fake and real deceptions to get things done. It was to make the law enforcement team on the "King of Fairness" have nothing to say and make the people of the world "speechless".
Their "scam" must be so perfect that no one can tell it is fake. However, with the development of the past year, the verdict of "King Yama" has gradually
It has become an extremely common routine.
No matter how clumsy the accusations and performances on the stage are and the people in the audience don't believe it at all, they will pick up bricks, smash people to death, and then rob them. In this way, the performance of "White Rakshasa" becomes impossible.
It's so unnecessary that after people started to smash, smash and loot in the name of "King Yama", they simply put the blame back here and said that King Yama killed innocent people indiscriminately, and the reputation of this place is also gone.
It's getting worse and worse.
This kind of thing is getting worse and worse. Huo Qinghua and others don't know whether it is good or bad, but occasionally she will lament that "the world is declining" and "people's hearts are not as old as they used to be". If all "White Rakshasa" acted seriously
, people can’t fault it, so why are there so many people saying bad things here.
They considered themselves "craftsmen" who relied on handicrafts, and even wanted to teach Qu Longjun these skills to learn from them. However, after seeing Qu Longjun's resistance to being on stage, they finally let her go.
Recently, the situation in Jiangning City has become increasingly tense, but the wealthy households have been killed for a long time. Huo Qinghua and others are actually considering leaving, but they have not made up their minds yet. In the early morning of August 17th, this
The clues of the conflagration had already appeared. Following the order of "Heavenly Killer" Wei Xuwen, thousands of swordsmen launched an attack on the territory of "King of Chakravartin", and all the people in the city were beating "King of Yama"
Everyone in the banner also chose to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the territory.
As an authentic branch of the "White Rakshasa", even though there are not many people in the broken courtyard, we cannot lag behind others in this matter.
Everyone gathered together and went out shouting. Those who stayed in the dilapidated yard were mostly the old, weak, sick and disabled. Qu Longjun hid in the darkness in the corner with a stick and kept watch nervously.
For a long time, she has known the price of such a fight. If you hit others, others will hit you unscrupulously.
Fortunately, what happened that night was ultimately a revenge led by the "King of Yama". Before the counterattack from the "King of Chakravartin" came, more than an hour passed before Huo Qinghua came back with his people, shouting and shouting.
, several people were injured and needed bandaging. One woman was seriously injured and had a broken hand. She was crying and howling endlessly.
Qu Longjun had learned bandaging, and he treated people's injuries sensibly while listening to what everyone said. It turned out that not long after the fight started, the law enforcement team of "Longxian" Fu Pingbo arrived nearby and drove them back. A group of people did not
When they reached a remote place, they cursed and said that Fu Pingbo would not die well. But Qu Longjun breathed a sigh of relief. In this way, he finally had an explanation to his superiors.
It was approaching dawn, when the darkness was the thickest. Some of the fighting outside had subsided slightly. Presumably the law enforcement team from the "Fairness King" was gradually calming down the situation.
Among the five major factions of the Fair Party, the situation on the side of the "Fairness King" is slightly better. They have surrounded a small area in the northwest of the city. The damage there is slightly smaller than outside, and there are not many fights.
The territory of the "King of Equality" in the southeast is far opposite each other and is considered the two most prosperous areas in the city. But for people from other factions, the "King of Equality" has many rules, is "aloof" and "arrogant", and always sends out law enforcement
The most important thing is that the most important thing is that the opportunity to "find wealth and wealth in danger" is less than that of the other factions, so if you don't have a family, there aren't many people who want to join there recently.
If you choose to make short-term profits, ordinary people will follow the "King of Yama" Zhou Shang and make mistakes along the way. If you are religious, you can also choose Xu Zhaonan, who is powerful and has faith to protect you; but if you pay attention to the long-term, when the "King of Equality"
Baofeng has a wide network of contacts and the most resources. He is targeting the inner demons of the southwest, and he is very promising in the eyes of everyone. As for "King Gao Tian", he has strict military discipline and strong soldiers and horses. Now that troubled times are coming, this is also the most direct person to rely on in the long term.
Strength.
As for the King of Fairness, he is annoying, at least in the eyes of everyone here in the dilapidated courtyard. It is almost out of date. Sooner or later, he must find a way to smash open the place and pull out those things that are rich and unkind and have higher ambitions than the top. "Fairness"
"once.
In the atmosphere of everyone cursing, the people who were originally staying here walked around, healing their injuries, and some people cooked meat porridge and beat the teeth of the people who went out to fight. The woman with the broken hand was placed in a room on the side of the yard.
, although it has been treated, it may not be ideal, and it has been wailing. Everyone sat in the yard and listened to the wailing sound. They talked in this way for a while, and the sky gradually grew brighter.
"Little scholar." Wanyun, who was the prettiest and quietest in appearance among the crowd, but actually the cruelest in temperament, spoke up, "Take out some newsprint from yesterday and read us something exciting to relieve our boredom."
"Oh, okay." Qu Longjun nodded.
She usually reads newsprint in the afternoon before dinner. Yesterday, she was beaten because of Wufangchao. Everyone cursed for a long time and shouted for revenge. The few new newspapers were not read. At this time, Qu Longjun took out the newspapers.
, sat in front of everyone and started to read.
The newsprint circulated in the Fair Party does not record much news. Most of them are various stories from other places, such as legends of the green forest. There are also story books from the southwest that are reprinted here, and some vulgar jokes - anyway.
They are the favorite things for people in the market. Qu Longjun read it for a while, and everyone laughed. Some people said: "Read it louder, I can't hear you clearly."
Qu Longjun also read a little louder.
The reason why everyone felt "inaudible" was not that she didn't read loudly enough, but that the woman with a broken hand on one side of the yard kept wailing, and everyone had no choice but to stay silent and listen here.
He laughed so hard at the story.
After reading two newspapers in this way, and then turning to the third one, the wailing in the side room gradually became quieter, and sometimes some confused words were uttered, and those voices echoed in the morning breeze.
"Mother..."
"It hurts..."
"My baby, my heart...ah..."
"I was wrong..."
"It hurts me to death...Mom...Father..."
The woman whose hand was amputated is already in her forties, and her parents have long since died. The wailing sounds are hoarse, and the word "ah" at the end of each sentence always takes a long time, until the last breath in her throat is gone.
Stop. Qu Longjun felt sad when she heard this. She knew that she had to leave as soon as possible. "King of Yama" went to conquer the territory of "King of Chakravartin" tonight. Wouldn't "King of Chakravartin" have to do it again the next day?
call back.
With this thought in mind, I read a piece of news about Tongshan on the newsprint.
"...This devil, with great martial arts skills, was surrounded...and kidnapped the female master of Yanjiabao...and later left his name..."
"...This demon is known as the Five-foot Yin Demon...Dragon...Dragon..."
After reading this, she paused slightly, not realizing anything yet, but after a moment, she looked at the newsprint twice more.
Everyone was talking.
"...What kind of demon?"
"...shameless, that despicable and shameless demon..."
"...This young lady from Yanjiabao is not very good..."
"...According to me, if you meet a man like this, you should give him to him when he does that..."
"...it hurts me to death...my mother...my father..."
"……Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……"
Everyone laughed, and then began to discuss various methods on how to deal with such lewd thieves...
The light in the morning gradually became brighter. The people who listened to the news gradually dispersed and returned to their own places to rest. Huo Qinghua arranged some patrols and took a rest. The wailing woman on the side of the yard gradually became silent.
, she was about to die, lying on a shabby mat, with only a faint breath left. If someone went to listen to her ears, all they could hear was the wailing of the single hanging.
"I feel pain...mother..."
"I'm leaving...going..."
Qu Longjun sat in the yard with a newsprint. When he finally walked to the room here, he went in and closed the woman's open eyes. The name that flashed through his mind was still there.
Long Aotian...
How did he get to Tongshan...
Where is Tongshan...
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In the morning, Fu Pingbo, the "Longxian" who is now in charge of the security and law of the Jiangning Fair Party, summoned personnel from all parties, including "Heavenly Killer" Wei Xuwen and "King of Wheels" Xu Zhaonan, to start accountability and negotiations.
Xuan Wen said that he had no knowledge of what happened in the early hours of the morning. It was a spontaneous act of revenge taken by some members of the Fairness Party with violent personalities out of dissatisfaction with the so-called "leader of the Great Light Sect" Lin Zongwu. He wanted to arrest these people.
However, these people had already fled out of the city and said that if Fu Pingbo had evidence that these people had committed crimes, he could catch them and punish them.
On the other hand, Xu Zhaonan said that Lin Zongwu is a respected leader with unparalleled martial arts skills. He is highly respected and has great martial arts skills. He will not be able to stop what he wants to do. If Fu Pingbo is dissatisfied with his style
, you can talk to his old man face to face. He can't care about this anyway.
"King Gao Tian" and "King Ping Ping" didn't have any opinions on the fire that happened last night. They supported Fu Pingbo's arrest and punishment, and at the same time warned Lin Zongwu not to continue to mess around. But Xu Zhaonan's status was higher than them.
, dismissive of such warnings.
Also on this morning, after the fruitless negotiations ended, Lin Zongwu released the news that he would embark on Gaochang's "Millions of Soldiers and Horses Challenge" within three days.
The atmosphere in the city suddenly became more tense and chilly, and a tangible storm was already gathering.
But it is nothing more than a firefight. Everyone is mentally prepared and no one is afraid.
After a busy night, Ning Ji slept in the inn until noon.
For some reasons that he himself was not willing to think about or admit, he did not intend to give up the name "Long Aotian" anyway, so he beat up a lot of people last night.
…
Thousands of miles away in the southwest, Ning Yi, Ning Xi and his son were riding in a carriage on their way to work in Chengdu after celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zhangcun.
"Dad, tell me, where is my second brother now?"
"Who knows about this kind of thing, I wish I didn't die outside..." Ning Yi sighed.
"We all guessed that he must have gone to Jiangning. With Xiaoji's martial arts, he won't suffer a big loss. Don't worry, dad." Ning Xi was more optimistic, "Maybe he will soon become famous now. I'm really envious.
ah……"
"Maybe the family's reputation has been ruined by him." Ning Yi rolled his eyes. Of course, this was just the old father's habitual casual ridicule. He still had confidence in his second son's martial arts and character.
As for the fact that he also sent manpower to Jiangning, there was no need to tell his eldest son too much.
"In this way, the second brother will be the first person in the family to return to Jiangning. In fact, over the years, my mother and several uncles from the Su family have said that they want to return to the old house one day."
Ning Xi sighed, Ning Yi thought for a while but did not answer. He often missed Jiang Ning's situation in his heart, and according to past information, although the old house experienced several military disasters, it was actually preserved.
.
After a while, Ning Xi moved away from the sad topic: "...Dad, when I go back this time, my mother said that the last time you came out of Zhangcun, she asked you to bring a roast chicken."
"Is there any?" Ning Yi asked with a frown.
"Yes." Ning Xi held her chin with both hands on the opposite side and stared into her father's eyes.
"I don't remember these little things clearly." Ning Yi held the document in his hand and responded calmly, "...don't talk about this, there is something wrong with your thing..."
"Dad, you can't do this..."
"Listen to me first. As for whether it makes sense, think about it carefully... Look at the first point here..."
The bright sunshine shines on the newly built road, and the horse-drawn carriage gallops forward, carrying with it the dust raised.