Outside Gangneung City, several woodcutters are cutting down trees in the woods outside Gangneung City.

"I said Lao Li! That second boy of your family has ever married! "A few lumberjacks are tired, so they stop for a while and gather together for safety, after all, there are many tigers, wolves, insects and leopards in the woods, and there are more people who are safer, and everyone is familiar with each other and can chatter.

"No, no!" Lao Li Tou stopped the axe in his hand and shook his head.

"Not yet? It's all twenty and four, remarried, there is a big girl in our village, there is a big girl in their family, there is twenty-eight today, Lao Litou, you can go and look for your second son! The fellow villagers on the side said to Lao Li Tou.

"I want to go too, but I don't have the money!" Lao Li Tou's face darkened, the rich have the troubles of the rich, and the poor also have the irritability of the poor, Lao Li Tou's irritability is that he gave birth to two sons, the eldest son has become a family, but the younger son has not settled down for a long time, that is because there is no money in the family.

The money has been used up for the eldest son's marriage and marriage, where is there any money left over for the younger son to marry, this has been delayed again and again until now the younger son is twenty and four, and such a big son may be able to play soy sauce.

"If you don't have the money to do this, do you want your youngest son to fight Guangguangtang for the rest of his life!" Another fellow villager on the side asked.

"Hey, let's take one step at a time, maybe we can meet a noble person who will give a little to our family!" Lao Li Tou laughed self-deprecatingly, this is completely an optimistic and overly optimistic attitude, nobleman? There are a few people in this world who can meet noble people.

While the group was chatting, several humanoid creatures covered in pitch black and mud suddenly emerged from the woods.

"Blame. Monsters. Come on. Run! When a few woodcutters saw these black-covered monsters, they immediately jumped up in fright, shouted loudly, dropped the firewood and ran away.

"Monsters?" Lao Li was stunned for a moment.

"Lao Li, run, run, run! There are monsters, there are monsters! "The fellow villagers over there still have a conscience and don't forget to remind Lao Li Tou, but Lao Li Tou is old after all, and his body is no longer flexible, and he came out to cut wood because he had an extra ration for his family, where can he run past those middle-aged or young men.

When Lao Li Tou was about to leave, several human monsters covered in darkness had already run in front of Lao Li Tou.

"Ghosts. Hell! Lao Li Tou was also frightened, and he was about to mix up with the past as soon as it was dark, although this was in the woods, but if he fell, it would not be light, seeing that Lao Li Tou was about to fall, the few black humanoid monsters over there hurriedly stepped forward to support Lao Li Tou and prevented Lao Li Tou from falling.

"Ghost, ghost!" Lao Li Tou slowly woke up, and when he saw a few "monsters" so close to him, he was about to faint again, but he was stopped by a few voices.

"Old, old man. We're not ghosts or monsters, old man, you see carefully, we're human. It's people! These humanoid monsters were about to approach Lao Li Tou as they spoke, but Lao Li Tou's eyes rolled up, and they remembered that the mud on their faces and the dirt on their bodies had not been cleaned up, and one of them wiped his face a few times with the cloth in his body, and then revealed a human face, "Old man, old man, you are not afraid now!" The humanoid monster laughed, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

"You, you're human?" Lao Li asked at these monsters.

"yes!"

"So how did you get out of there?" Lao Li Tou doesn't understand, in fact, few people come back to this forest, most of the wood is cut in a timber yard near Jiangling, but there is a need to pay taxes there, so Lao Li Tou and a few of them will come here, and the closest place here is Huarong Road, what is Huarong Road, for outsiders to call him Huarong Dao, for Jiangling locals to call Huarong Dao that is the ghost cave.

Because the people who entered Huarong Dao basically didn't come out, even if they had a big life, they would die within a few days after half a life didn't come out, if it weren't for the good wood here, his old Li Tou wouldn't have come.

"We just came out of Huarong Dao!" This monster said, that's right, these people are all black and black, and the whole person who fell into the mud pile is the Yangzhou Navy led by Lu Xun, they finally came out of Huarong Dao after a lot of hardships, and the original team of 2,000 people is now less than 1,500 people, and there are 500 people who will stay in Huarong Dao forever.

When they got out of Huarong Road, there were large areas of woods, and it was difficult to find their way, so they wanted to find someone to guide them on the way to Jiangling.

"General, general, we have found a woodcutter! He seemed to know how to get to Gangneung. In order to hide in the woods, Lu Xun and others were in the woods, waiting for the people who went out to investigate to come back, and after half a day, someone finally found that the people had brought a woodcutter back.

"Hurry up, please!" Lu Xun was very pleased, they finally walked out of Huarong Road, naturally they had to find a local to guide them to the road to Jiangling, although Wu Mi was from Jiangling, but he did not go to Jiangling from the exit of Huarong Road, so it was difficult to find the way, now with such a woodcutter, it is much simpler.

"Yes!" Soon Lao Li Tou was brought to Lu Xun.

"Old man!" Lu Xun stepped forward, and Lao Li Tou was subconsciously frightened, but fortunately, even if Lu Xun's face was a little dirty, it was still very delicate, which made people look very comfortable, so Lao Li Tou did not call him a ghost.

"Don't be afraid, old man, we just want to ask what kind of place this is!" Lu Xun said to Lao Litou.

Lao Li Tou looked over at this time, there were many people in this woods, they were all wearing armor, this should be all the way to the soldiers, this young man should be the leader, "This general, this is here, this is the boundary of Jiangling!" Lao Li Tou said to Lu Xun.

"Gangneung?" As soon as he heard these two words, Lu Xun's eyes obviously burst into light. That's great. Isn't the place he's going to be Gangneung?

"How far is it from Gangneung Castle?" Lu Xun continued to ask the old man.

"It's about forty miles away!" Lao Li Tou said to Lu Xun.

"Forty miles?" Lu Xun frowned. Forty miles is said to be far away, and it is said that it is close to the nearest step, if you march in a hurry, it will be a day's work, but Lu Xun and they are exhausted, so they need to rest, even if you have energy, you run outside Jiangling City in one breath, you don't have the strength to attack the city, but if you take a break all the way, you may have been discovered by the Jiangling defenders.

The reason why Lu Xun and Wu Mi entered Huarong Dao and arrived at Jiangling City was not because he Lu Xun was confident that he could win the defenders of Jiangling City with 2,000 soldiers and horses. No matter how you say Jiangling City, there must be nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, even if it is 10,000 pigs against the city wall, Lu Xun may not be able to beat it.

And the reason why Lu Xun still entered Huarong Dao with Wu Mi was to be able to rely on a surprise attack to catch Jiangling City by surprise, once the city gate was taken, then the two thousand elites under him Lu Xun could be displayed as many as possible.

But the exit of Huarong Road here is forty miles away from Gangneung City, if you run all the way over, will you still have the strength to fight.

"Old man, do you have some shortcuts?" Lu Xun asked again.

"General, are you going to Gangneung City?" Lao Li Tou is not a fool, and Jiangling has also been peaceful for a long time. And Lao Li Tou used to be a soldier. Under the command of General Cai, he also fought in Nanyang, but later the army was disbanded, and Lao Li Tou returned to Jiangling, looking at the armor and clothes worn by these soldiers, it was obvious that they were not Jiangling's soldiers and horses, although there was a Jingzhou dialect, but Lao Li Tou also knew where Jiangling soldiers and horses went out in the past few days.

What's more, at the exit of this Huarong Road, seeing that they were all covered in mud, I knew that they had just come out of the flower passage.

"Yes, we're going to Gangneung City!" Lu Xun nodded.

"General, what are you doing when you go to Gangneung City?" Lao Li asked again curiously.

"You old man is very verbose, our general asks you something, and you don't answer, where is the question!" The general on the side was dissatisfied again, and said to Lao Li Tou.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Lao Li Tou hurriedly nodded, you must know that he is in the hands of others, and Lao Li Tou can come back alive on the battlefield.

"Old man, let's go to Jiangling, that's to visit the deceased, this is the eldest lady of your Wu family in Jiangling City, we will escort the eldest lady to visit relatives when we go back this time!" Lu Xun said to Lao Litou.

"Gangneung Wu family? Is that Mr. Wu's house? "The great cause of the Wu family in Jiangling is naturally known to many people, and the old man Wu's family has been in Jiangling for several generations, as long as the people of Jiangling know it.

"yes, yes!" Lu Xun called Wu Mi over, and Wu Mi used some streams in the woods to clean up a little, revealing his beautiful face, which made Lao Li Tou feel that this was like a fairy from the painting, plus Wu Mi spoke the Jiangling dialect, which made Lao Li Tou believe it.

If you change people, you may not believe in Lu Xun's visit to relatives so much, because the Wu family was wiped out in Jiangling City, but it is rumored that it is in a hurry, and although Lao Li Tou is from Jiangling, his house is not in Jiangling but in a remote village far away from Jiangling.

"There is a shortcut to Gangneung! It's just that you need someone to guide you, but the old and the young, you have to cut and play with wood and sell it for money! Lao Li Tou was a little embarrassed, he had to bring these pieces of wood back to sell for money, so as to ensure that his home could be unraveled in the next half a month, otherwise, there would be no food for this half month.

"Don't delay, don't delay, old man!" Lu Xun waved his hand, and a guard came from behind him, and Lu Xun took a gold leaf from the guard's hand and handed it over.

"Old man, as long as you take us down that path, this golden leaf will be yours!" Lu Xun said bewildermently at Lao Li.

Lao Li Tou was taken aback when he saw the gold leaf, where have the people of Pingming seen any gold, it is all copper coins and the like, Lao Li Tou hurriedly shook his hand, "I can't do it!" ”

"Make!" Lu Xun said to Lao Li: "As long as the old man, you take us to Jiangling on the path, this piece of gold leaf is your compensation!" ”

"That's too much, too much!" Lao Li Tou is still shaking his head, the simplicity of the ancients and the kindness of the people are expressed in Lao Li Tou's body, if it is placed now, I am not afraid that you will give less, if you give more, it will be good!

And the ancients are different, basically lead the way that is willing to help, but Lao Li Tou is really helpless, if he doesn't work hard to cut firewood, then their family may not have to eat for half a month, there is a second son of twenty and four, this amount of food is not small, as the saying goes, half the size of the child eats to death Lao Tzu is how it comes.

"Not much! Take the old man, don't you have a second boy in your family who hasn't married yet! Take these back and talk to him about a good family affair, so that the old man can also enjoy the happiness comfortably and with peace of mind! Lu Xun continued to say to Lao Li. The words of the woodcutters had been heard before.

"My second boy!" Lao Li Tou was mentioned by Lu Xun to the second son of their family, this old Li Tou looked at the gold leaf in front of him and was moved, with this gold leaf, their second son can really take a family affair, so that his old Li Tou can also feel at ease, otherwise it is not a taste to look at his son Guangguangtang all day long, but who makes their family four walls.

"Thank you so much, General!" Lao Li Tou still stretched out his hand, took the golden leaf, and put him into his arms.

"Hey!" Lu Xun laughed, "Old man, I'll trouble you as soon as I get it!" ”

"No trouble, no trouble!" Lao Li Tou accepted other people's money, so he naturally wanted to do things for others, Lao Li Tou got up and ran towards a small road with Lu Xun and others.

……

"Chenming, is it wrong or right for you to say that I took refuge in the second son!" Dong Zhi asked his staff on the side, Dong Zhi has been struggling these days, because he doesn't know whether he should take refuge in this second son, Liu Pan, is right or wrong.

In the past, Dong Zhi was still very happy to have Liu Pan's hookup, because in Jiangling, the Dong family and the Wu family were on the same footing, although he Dong Zhi was Jiangling Taishou, but the power of the Dong family was not as good as the Wu family, that was because the Wu family and the Huang family had a relationship, so Dong Zhi had no way to take the Wu family, with Liu Pan such a backstage, it would be different, at least in the court, he Dong Zhi was also a person.

originally wanted to suppress and suppress the Wu family a little, but who knew that this second son would be so ruthless, and directly raided the family and exterminated the clan, hundreds of people up and down the Wu family, and they would kill them if they said they would kill them.

Liu Pan's such a house was indeed revenge on the Huang family, and it also scared him Dong Zhi.

"My lord, do you have any other choice?" The staff member on the side asked Dong Zhi.

'Yes! Do I have any other options? Dong Zhi also smiled bitterly, after the Wu family was destroyed, he Dong Zhi was branded with Liu Pan, basically he couldn't wash it off, either he stood with Liu Pan to the end, or he was destroyed, if there was no Liu Pan, I am afraid that the Huang family would have to take action against him.

"Oh no, no, the Yangzhou Army Yangzhou Army has come in!" (To be continued......)