Chapter 722: The Wind Rises and Gathers in Zezhou (1)
Since being hunted down and killed by the Great Light Sect, You Hongzhuo has spent several days in hunger and injury, and since he met these two seniors yesterday, he has only eaten a full mouthful. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info this morning while drinking porridge and listening to the Zhao seniors say some martial arts principles, I only felt that my heart was steady and calm, and I couldn't add more.
He knew that these two seniors were strong in martial arts, and if they followed them, they might not have to be afraid of Tan Zheng when they met the "Heshuo Heavenly Sword". But such a thought was only in the bottom of my heart for a while, the two seniors were naturally strong in martial arts, but it was already a great favor to save themselves, how could they affect these two benevolent fathers because of their own affairs.
After breakfast, You Hongzhuo said goodbye. That Mr. Zhao glanced at him with a smile: "Where is the little brother going?" ”
You Hongzhuo thought for a while: "I...... I haven't thought it through yet, thinking that my martial arts are low, and the Great Light Sect won't spend too much effort looking for them, if my brothers and sisters are still alive, I must always look for them...... Also, when I was ambushed that day, the eldest brother once said that the fourth brother ate inside and out, if this is the case, I have to find the fourth brother and avenge this blood revenge. ”
He had also thought things clearly at this time, compared to the Great Light Sect, he and those six brothers and sisters were probably not a big trouble. Yesterday, I met the biological brother of "Heshuo Heavenly Knife" Tan Zheng, or it was just an accident. At this time, the situation outside is unbearable, and the green forest is even more chaotic, so I just need to keep a low profile, I can always avoid this limelight, and then find out the blood feud of those righteous brothers and sisters.
"If so, you can walk with us for a few days." After You Hongzhuo finished speaking, the other party smiled, "Your injury has not healed, and you have no place to go, you can be regarded as a companion if you walk together for a while." Children of the rivers and lakes, there is no need to be hypocritical in this matter, my husband and wife are going south, and they are about to pass through Zezhou City, where the rudder of the Great Bright Sect is located, maybe you can find out some news, in the future, you will be stronger in martial arts, and then go to Tan Zheng to take revenge, it can be regarded as a beginning and an end. ”
"Xie ......" Hearing what Mr. Zhao said, You Hongzhuo didn't insist anymore, and thanked him, the first word came out, and his throat was inexplicably choked, but fortunately, Mr. Zhao had already turned around and walked towards the green mule not far away, and it seemed that he had never heard these words.
In fact, this year, You Hongzhuo was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man, although he had seen life and death, and there was no family behind him, how could he avoid the taste of hunger, the fear of being injured and even killed. Proposed to say goodbye because of his upbringing since childhood and the only point of arrogance left in his heart, he knew that after these words, the two sides would have no fate, who knew that the other party could still open his mouth to stay, and he was grateful from the bottom of his heart, and it was difficult to say.
The three of them walked all the way, and then went south along the official road from Qinzhou to Zezhou, which was an important trade route when the Wu Dynasty was prosperous, and now the number of pedestrians has been greatly reduced. First, it was because of the hot weather, and secondly, because of the policy of prohibiting residents from fleeing south in Daqi, the closer to the south, the chaos of law and order, and the more the trade routes withered.
This area is close to Tian Hu's rule, and there are still some pedestrians, merchants in twos and threes, travelers, tattered foot travelers, dart teams driving carts, and monks of the Great Light Sect can also be seen on the way - at this time, the Great Light Sect has countless members in the territory of Daqi, although You Hongzhuo has no good impression of it, but he also knows the name of Lin Zongwu, the leader of the Great Light Sect, the number one master in the world, and he opened his mouth to ask the Engong couple on the way.
Later, in Mr. Zhao's mouth, he learned a lot of old things about the Great Light Sect, and only then did he understand that the "Lin Evil Zen" that the female engong said yesterday is the number one master in the world today.
At this time, the Central Plains was ravaged by war, and the oral tradition among the green forests had long been broken, only Lin Zongwu, who now has disciples all over the world, and Zhou Dong, who had been vigorously promoted by Zhuji in the early years, are still known to everyone. Earlier, You Hongzhuo and the six brothers and sisters had heard some rumors about the green forest, but how could the information they heard from those mouths be as detailed as what they heard at this time.
The entanglements and grievances between the masters of the previous generations and even the first two generations of the rivers and lakes, such as the Holy Maiden Sikong Nan, the Holy Princess, Fang Dabiao, Fang Baihua, Yunlong Jiuxian, the Seven Buddhas, the Iron Arm Zhou Dong, the Red Face and the White Head, Cui Xiaolu, and even the Heart Demon Ning Liheng and other masters of the previous generation and even the first two generations of the rivers and lakes were told in the mouth of Mr. Zhao, and the scene of the prosperity of the Wu Dynasty and the prosperity of the green forest became more and more three-dimensional in You Hongzhuo's heart. Now that all this has been blown away by the rain and wind, only the former Left Protector Lin Evil Chan has already dominated the rivers and lakes, and the inner demon Ning Yi has died in the northwest a few years ago to resist the Jurchens.
He had heard some things and some things he had never heard of, and it was even more embarrassing to simply weave it in Mr. Zhao's mouth at this time.
“…… If this road goes west, it will still be a hell on earth. In the northwest, because of the three-year war of Xiaocanghe, the Jurchens slaughtered the city in retaliation, and almost killed the white ground, and the plague broke out among the survivors, and now there are only a few people left. Further northwest...... In Western Xia, the year before last, the Mongols killed from the north, pushed over Helan Mountain, captured Yinchuan and then slaughtered the city...... The world is in turmoil, Lin Xichan took advantage of the chaos to bewitch a few fools and fools, it seems to be huge, but in fact, the achievements are limited......"
After hearing Mr. Zhao say this, You Hongzhuo suddenly thought in his heart, yesterday Mrs. Zhao said, "Lin Xichan didn't dare to talk to me like this", what kind of status would these two benevolent fathers have in the rivers and lakes at the beginning? He didn't know who Lin Xichan was yesterday, and he hadn't realized this yet, and at this time he thought that these two ben gongs had just saved him, where they came from before, and what they were going to do after that, these things, he didn't know anything.
He doesn't want to ask. On this day, Mr. Zhao occasionally talked to him about some anecdotes about the rivers and lakes, and occasionally asked him a few words about things to pay attention to in martial arts and swordsmanship. You Jia's knife technique itself is actually quite perfect, You Hongzhuo's foundation is already good, but he once didn't understand actual combat, and now he attaches too much importance to actual combat, and the couple gives him some guidance, but it is impossible for his knife skills to improve by leaps and bounds, just let him walk more steadily.
In the evening of this day, the three of them stayed at an inn in a market on the way. It's still a day's journey from Zezhou, but perhaps because there are many merchants in the vicinity, there are a lot of pedestrians in several inns in the bazaar, but many of them are green forest hawkers with swords, wary of each other, and their eyebrows are not good. The Zhao couple, who have the name of the Black Wind and the Double Evil, don't care, You Hongzhuo has only been walking the rivers and lakes for two months, and he doesn't know if this situation is different, and when he has to have dinner, he carefully brought it up, and Mr. Zhao nodded: "It should be from the neighborhood to Zezhou." ”
"Is there something big going on in Zezhou?"
"Walking the rivers and lakes should see all directions and listen to the six roads." Mr. Zhao laughed, "If you are curious, before the sun goes down, go out for a walk, listen to what they are saying, or simply invite someone to drink two bowls of wine, won't you be able to figure it out." ”
You Hongzhuo's heart sank, knowing that the other party was teaching him how to walk the rivers and lakes, he hurriedly finished the food in the bowl and went out.
He was worried about the pursuit of the Great Light Sect in the early days, so he didn't dare to approach these markets. At this time, the two seniors in the inn were in charge, so they no longer cowered, and walked around the inn for a long time, listening to people talking and chatting, and after about an hour, the red sun set in the sky to the west of the market, and only then did they roughly weave the outline of things from the fragments of other people's words.
It turned out that during the time he was being chased and killed by the Great Light Sect, hundreds of thousands of "hungry ghosts" were defeated by the army of the Tiger King on the north bank of the Yellow River, and Wang Shitong, the leader of the "hungry ghosts", was being escorted to Zezhou at this time.
Although the name "Hungry Ghost" is not good, this force is not a villain in the eyes of the Green Forest people, on the contrary, it is still a well-known rebel army.
The appearance of "hungry ghosts" has its fair and honest 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, most of the local people are not happy, Daqi first started a war with Lao Canghe, on the other hand, it has been fighting with Nanwu, Liu Yu has limited talent, and does not pay attention to the people's livelihood after being called the emperor, he has a holy decree, all the men of school age in the entire Daqi are all conscripted as soldiers, in order to accumulate money, countless harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are issued in the people, in order to support the war, in the people continue to levy grain and even grab grain.
In the midst of such man-made disasters, natural disasters are also continuous. In these years, the Yellow River was already prone to flooding, and after the political system was paralyzed, it was difficult to maintain the embankment of the Yellow River, resulting in the inevitable burst of the embankment during the flood season every year. Floods, coupled with droughts and locust plagues in the north, have exhausted all the reserves of the Central Plains over the years, and a large number of people have migrated south.
The Liu Yu regime went to great lengths to stop this migration, on the one hand, strictly guarding the borders, and on the other hand, no longer supporting and protecting any long-distance movement. If there is no background behind him, there is no road for the court and local snakes to be linked, it is difficult for ordinary people to walk, they will have to endure the heavy exploitation of horse bandits, fugitives, black shops, and government officials.
These dangers could not stop the desperate people, and every year, a large number of displaced people tried their best to make their way south, suffering the tragedy of countless wives being separated along the way, leaving behind countless corpses. Many people could not make it to the Wu Dynasty at all, and those who survived were either left in the grass or joined an army, and women with good looks or healthy children were sometimes caught and sold by traffickers.
In this year, Wang Shitong gathered a large number of displaced people and tried to forge a way under the blockade of various forces, which rose rapidly, swelling to hundreds of thousands in a few months, and also attracted the attention of all parties.
Both Jin and Liu Yu gave orders to intercept them, and the forces of all parties along the way were actually not happy to see the "hungry ghosts" go south - their rise was originally because of the local situation, if everyone left, who could be bullied by the king of the mountain.
Under such circumstances, hundreds of thousands of "hungry ghosts" were blocked on the road, and after breaking the blockade of several Great Qi armies, the displaced people who had already had a problem of eating and drinking also ransacked the towns along the way. Just a few days ago, the "hungry ghosts" who arrived on the north bank of the Yellow River were slaughtered and scattered by the Tiger King's army.
Most of these Green Forest people went to Zezhou to support the righteous under the initiation of the Great Light Sect. Of course, when it is said to be "solidarity", when the time is right, it is natural to consider saving people. And some of them seem to be in a certain mood of spectatorship, because in the mouths of a very small number of people, there seems to be a hidden secret in the matter of Wang Shitong this time.
It is said that the "ghost king" Wang Shitong, who gathered hundreds of thousands of people and tried to take them south, was once a member of the black flag of the Xiaocanghe Huaxia Army. After the Jin people went, it is said that a considerable part of the remaining Black Flag Army has been broken into pieces and infiltrated into all parts of the Central Plains.
It is also said that the heart demon Ning Yi has never died, he has been lurking in the dark, just creating the illusion of death, so that the Jin people can stop - such rumors are certainly like the wishful thinking of the Black Flag Army, but it seems that someone really wants to use the incident of the "ghost king" Wang Shitong to lure the Black Flag remnants to take action, or even find out the truth about the life and death of the heart demon.
He learned about these things and hurriedly turned back to report back to the two seniors. On the way, it suddenly occurred to me that the nickname of "Black Wind Double Evil" with evil aura obviously did not sound like a person of the Green Forest Righteous Dao, it was very likely that the two Engongs were born in the evil sect before, and now they are obviously enlightened, so they have become so calm and atmospheric.
After a while, I thought again, but looking at Mrs. Zhao's shot, killing Tan Yan and other eight people in a blink of an eye is like chopping melons and vegetables, such a majestic and evil spirit, it is indeed a sense of "double evil", these two benevolent princes may not have been out of the mountain for a long time, and now that the city of Zezhou is gathered, I don't know how those juniors will feel when they see the two seniors, or whether Lin Zongwu, who is the first in the world, will appear, and what it will be like to see the two seniors.
Just thinking about these things makes me feel excited.
By the way, and the heart demon and the black flag, will it really appear in Zezhou City...... (To be continued.) )