Chapter 722: The Wind Raises the Clouds and Gathers the World Zezhou (1)
Since being hunted by the Great Light Sect, You Hongzhuo has spent the past few days suffering from hunger and injuries. After meeting these two seniors yesterday, he has just had a full meal. This morning, he drank porridge and listened to Senior Zhao.
After talking about some martial arts principles, I just feel that my heart is at ease and calm, and I can't be more calm.
He knew that these two seniors were highly skilled in martial arts. If he followed them, he might not have to be afraid even if he met the "Heshuo Heavenly Sword" Tan Zheng. But such thoughts only lingered in his heart for a while. The two seniors
Naturally, he is highly skilled in martial arts, but saving himself was already a great favor. How could he implicate these two benefactors for his own affairs again?
After breakfast, You Hongzhuo said goodbye. Mr. Zhao smiled and looked at him: "Where are you going, little brother?"
You Hongzhuo thought for a while: "I...I haven't thought about it clearly. I think my martial arts are low, so the Great Light Sect won't spend too much effort to search for them. If my brothers and sisters are still alive, they must find them."
...Also, when we were ambushed that day, my eldest brother once said that my fourth brother was the one who stole everything. If this is true, I must find my fourth brother and avenge this blood."
He had already thought things through clearly at this time. Compared to the Great Light Sect, he and his six brothers and sisters were probably not a serious problem. Yesterday, he met the biological brother of "Heshuo Heavenly Sword" Tan Zheng, or perhaps
It was just an accident. At this time, the situation outside was unfavorable, and the green forest was even more chaotic. As long as he kept a low profile, he could always avoid the limelight and find out the blood feud between the sworn brothers and sisters.
"If that's the case, you can stay with us for a few days." After You Hongzhuo finished speaking, the other party smiled, "You are still injured and there is no place you must go. If you stay with us for a while, you can count as having a companion. Children of the world, this matter
There is no need to be pretentious. My husband and I are heading south and are about to pass through Zezhou City, where the branch of the Great Guangming Sect is located. We may be able to find out some information. In the future, if you are more skilled in martial arts, you can seek revenge from Tan Zheng.
There is a beginning and an end.”
"Thank you..." Hearing what Mr. Zhao said, You Hongzhuo stopped insisting and thanked him. The first word came out, and his throat felt inexplicably harder. Fortunately, Mr. Zhao had already turned around and walked towards Qingqing not far away.
The mule walked over and seemed not to have heard the words.
In fact, You Hongzhuo was only a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old this year. Although he had seen life and death and had no family behind him, he was not immune to the feeling of hunger, the fear of being injured or even being killed.
He said goodbye because of his childhood upbringing and the remaining pride in his heart. He knew that after saying these words, the two of them would no longer be destined to each other. Who knew that the other party could still open his mouth to try to stay? The gratitude in his heart was beyond words.
The three of them walked together and then headed south along the official road from Qinzhou to Zezhou. This road was originally an important commercial road when the Wu Dynasty was prosperous, but now the number of pedestrians there has been greatly reduced. Of course it was because of the hot weather.
Secondly, due to the policy within Daqi that prohibited residents from escaping southward, the closer to the south, the public security was chaotic and the trade routes became more and more dilapidated.
This area is close to the rule of Tian Hu, and there are finally some pedestrians, merchants and travelers in twos and threes, travelers in tattered clothes, escorts driving carts, and monks from the Great Guangming Sect can also be seen on the way - at this time,
The Guangming Sect has countless followers in Daqi. Although You Hongzhuo has no good impressions of him, he also knows the name of Lin Zongwu, the leader of the Guangming Sect, who is the best in the world, so he asked his benefactor and his wife about it on the way.
Later, from Mr. Zhao's words, he learned many old things about the Great Guangming Sect, and finally understood that the "Lin Echan" mentioned by the female benefactor yesterday was the best master in the world today.
At this time, the Central Plains was devastated by war, and the oral tradition among the green forests had long been discontinued. Only Lin Zongwu, who now has disciples all over the world, and Zhou Tong, who had been vigorously promoted by Zhuji in the early years, were still known to the public. Earlier, You Hongzhuo and his six brothers
Although I have heard some rumors about the green forest, the information I heard from those people was not as detailed as what I heard now.
The devil's saint Sikong Nan, Shenggong Fangla, the tyrant Liu Dabiao, Fang Baihua, Yunlong Jiuxianfang Qifu, Zhou Dong with iron arms, Cui Xiaolu with a pretty face and white head, and even the inner demon Ning Liheng and other generations in the world.
Mr. Zhao recounted the entanglements and grievances between the masters of the first two generations. The scene of the prosperous Wu Dynasty and prosperous green forests became more and more three-dimensional in You Hongzhuo's heart. Now all this has been shaken by the rain and wind.
Gone, only the former Zuo Dharma protector Lin Echan is left, who has already dominated the world, and the inner demon Ning Yi died a few years ago in the northwest for resisting the Jurchens.
He had heard of some of these things, and some of them had never been heard of before. When they were simply woven together in Mr. Zhao's mouth, it became even more embarrassing.
"...If we had gone west, it would still be a hell on earth. Because of the three-year war at Xiaocang River in the northwest, the Jurchens massacred the city in revenge, almost turning it into a wasteland. A plague broke out among the survivors, and now there are only
There are no more than a few people left. Go northwest... Xixia, the year before last, the Mongols came down from the north, pushed through the Helan Mountains, captured Yinchuan, and then massacred the city. Now the Mongolian cavalry has taken root there, and is already bleeding.
Chenghe...the world was in chaos, and Lin Echan took advantage of the chaos to rise up and confuse a few foolish men and women. It looked great, but in fact, his achievements were limited..."
After hearing what Mr. Zhao said, You Hongzhuo suddenly thought that yesterday Mrs. Zhao said, "Lin Echan didn't dare to talk to me like this." What would have been the status of these two benefactors in the world? Yesterday, he was still
I don’t know who Lin Echan is, and I haven’t realized this yet. At this moment, I think that these two benefactors saved me just casually. Where did they come from before, and what are they going to do next? These things,
But I don't know anything about it.
He was not easy to ask questions. On this day when we were walking together, Mr. Zhao occasionally told him some anecdotes about the past, and occasionally gave him a few words about martial arts and things to pay attention to in swordsmanship. Youjia swordsmanship is actually quite perfect in itself.
You Hongzhuo is a good basic swordsman in the inner family, but he once didn't understand actual combat, and now he pays too much attention to actual combat. The couple gave him some guidance, but it was impossible for his swordsmanship to improve by leaps and bounds. It just made him go further.
Just stable.
In the evening of that day, the three of them stayed temporarily at an inn in a market on the way. It was still a day's journey from Zezhou, but perhaps because many nearby merchants settled here, several inns in the market were not crowded.
There are only a few of them, but many of them are green forest robbers with weapons. They are wary of each other and have evil eyebrows. The Zhao couple, who are known as the Black Wind and the Two Evils, don't care. You Hongzhuo has only been traveling in the world for two months, and he doesn't know.
Whether there was any difference in this situation was only carefully brought up when it was time to have dinner. Mr. Zhao nodded: "They should all be from nearby and rushing to Zezhou."
"Did something big happen in Zezhou?"
"When traveling in the world, you have to look in all directions and listen to all directions." Mr. Zhao laughed, "If you are curious, go out for a walk before the sun goes down and listen to what they are saying, or even invite someone to drink.
With two bowls of wine, can’t we figure it out?”
You Hongzhuo felt a shiver in his heart, knowing that the other party was teaching him how to navigate the world, so he quickly finished the food in the bowl and handed it over.
In the early days, he was worried about being chased by the Great Light Sect and did not dare to go near these markets. Now that the two seniors were sitting in the inn, he no longer cowered and walked around the inn for a long time, listening to people talking and chatting.
, after about an hour, after the red sun set in the sky to the west of the market, I could roughly piece together the outline of what happened from the fragments of other people's words.
It turned out that during the period when he was being hunted by the Great Light Sect, hundreds of thousands of "hungry ghosts" were defeated by the Tiger King's army on the north bank of the Yellow River. At this time, the leader of the "hungry ghosts" Wang Shitong was being
Taken to Zezhou.
Although the name "Hungry Ghost" sounds unpleasant, this force is not a villain in the eyes of the Green Forest people. On the contrary, it is a well-known rebel army.
The appearance of "hungry ghosts" has its fair and just reasons. However, it is said that since Liu Yu established Daqi with the support of the Jin people, the Central Plains has been in chaos, and most local people are in dire straits. Daqi first went to war with Lao Canghe, and then
On the other hand, he had been fighting with Nanwu. Liu Yu had limited talents and did not pay attention to people's livelihood after he became emperor. He issued an imperial edict and conscripted all men of suitable age in Daqi to serve as soldiers. In order to amass money, he imposed numerous exorbitant taxes and levies on the people.
In order to support the war, food was continuously collected from the people and even robbed of food.
Amidst such chaos, natural disasters are also constant. The Yellow River is prone to flooding these days. After the political system was paralyzed, it was difficult to maintain the Yellow River embankments, resulting in the inevitable bursting of the embankments every flood season. Floods, coupled with droughts in the north, and locust plagues, have caused over the years
, all the resources of the Central Plains have been exhausted, and a large number of people migrated south.
The Liu Yu regime spent a lot of effort to prevent this migration. On the one hand, it strictly guarded the borders, and on the other hand, it no longer supported or protected any long-distance exchanges. If there was no background behind him, there would be no way for the court to cooperate with local snakes.
If it is difficult for ordinary people to make it, they have to endure heavy exploitation by horse bandits, fugitives, black shops, and government petty officials. In places where public security is not stable, local government officials will arrest foreign merchants and travelers as fat sheep late at night or arrest them.
It's slaughtering, it's a common thing.
These dangers cannot stop the desperate people. Every year, a large number of refugees try their best to go south. On the way, they suffer the tragedy of countless separations from their wives, leaving countless corpses. It is impossible for many people to make it to the Wu Dynasty and survive.
Sometimes, they either become bandits or join a certain army. Good-looking women or healthy children are sometimes caught and sold by human traffickers.
In the year he arrived, Wang Shitong gathered a large number of refugees and tried to find a way out of the heavy blockade from all forces. This force rose rapidly and expanded to hundreds of thousands in a few months.
At the same time, it also attracted the attention of all parties.
Jin Ren and Liu Yu both issued orders to intercept them. In fact, the various forces along the way were not happy to see the "hungry ghosts" going south - their rise was due to the current situation in the area. If everyone left
Now, who can be bullied by the king of the mountain?
Under such circumstances, hundreds of thousands of "hungry ghosts" were blocked on the road. After breaking the blockade of several Daqi armies, the refugees, who already had problems eating and drinking, of course looted the towns along the way.
, the Tiger King's army came out with the slogan of justice for heaven. Just a few days ago, the "hungry ghost" team that arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River was slaughtered and dispersed by the Tiger King's army. Wang Shitong was captured alive and was about to be detained.
Go to Zezhou to ask for help.
Most of these green forest people were mobilized by the Great Light Sect to go to Zezhou to support the martyrs. Of course, if it is said to be "support", they will naturally consider rescuing people when the time is right. And some of them seem to be
I went with a certain onlooker's mood, because in the mouths of a very small number of people, there seemed to be a hidden secret behind Wang Shitong's incident.
It is said that the "Ghost King" Wang Shitong who gathered hundreds of thousands of people and tried to lead them south was once a member of the Black Flag of the Xiaocanghe Chinese Army. The Black Flag Army has been fighting against the Jin for three years and has become a powerful force in the Central Plains.
Legend has it that after the Jin people left, it was said that a considerable part of the remaining Black Flag Army had been broken into pieces and infiltrated into various parts of the Central Plains.
It is also said that the inner demon Ning Yi has never died. He has been lurking in the dark, just creating the illusion of death to make the Jin people stop. Such rumors certainly seem like wishful thinking by the Black Flag Army, but it seems that there is really someone.
I want to use the incident of "Ghost King" Wang Shitong to lure the remnants of Black Flag to take action, or even find out the truth about the life and death of the inner demon.
After learning about these things, he quickly turned back to repay the two seniors. On the way, he suddenly thought that the evil nickname "Black Wind Shuangsha" obviously did not sound like a righteous person in the green forest. It was very likely that the two benefactors had previously
He was born in an evil sect, but now he has obviously become enlightened and has become so calm and majestic.
After a while, I thought about it again, but looking at Mrs. Zhao's action, killing Tan Yan and other eight people in the blink of an eye was like chopping melons and vegetables. Such a majestic and evil aura does have the feeling of "double evil". These two benefactors
Perhaps the father-in-law has not been out of the mountain for a long time. Now that Zezhou City is gathering momentum, I don’t know how the juniors will feel when they see the two seniors. Or whether Lin Zongwu, the best in the world, will appear. How will they feel when they see the two seniors?
What a feeling.
Just thinking about these things makes me feel excited.
By the way, will the inner demon, Black Flag, really appear in Zezhou City... (To be continued.)