The crows flew farther and farther, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Zhou Cang on the side, and asked him, "Yuanfu, continue to move forward, are we going to pass through Liushuzhuang?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhou Cang nodded in response, and said to Liu Wei: "Liushuzhuang happens to be on the road ahead, and it is the only way for us to wait!" ”

"Is there any other way to go?" Looking at the direction where Liushuzhuang was located, Liu Wei asked Zhou Cang again.

"No, if you want to avoid Willow Village, you can only walk through the mountains." Zhou Cang shook his head, looked at Liu Wei with a puzzled expression, and asked, "Isn't Mr. ......?" ”

"The crow is heading to Willow Village." Liu Wei lowered his head, took out another piece of meat from the cloth bag, first handed a small piece to Tang Ji beside him, and then took out a large piece and threw it to Zhou Cang, and said to the two: "The road into the mountains and forests is difficult to walk, and there are many wolves, insects, tigers and leopards. It's just that Willow Village may not be stable, we all have to fill our stomachs, and if we find something abnormal, we can leave with more strength. ”

Tang Ji and Zhou Cang didn't speak, took the meat handed to them by Liu Bian, and ate it.

In Taojiazhuang, Zhou Cang was already admiring Liu Bian's five-body throw, Liu Bian said that Liushuzhuang was unstable, and he naturally agreed that something must have happened there.

After eating their stomachs, they walked in the direction of Liushuzhuang, but the speed of their march was not very fast.

Liu Wei walked in the front, and behind Zhou Cangdian, Tang Ji was sandwiched between the two. After walking three or four miles, a village appeared in the people's field of vision.

From afar, the village has an unusually peaceful feel. It was just after noon, and it was the time for the villagers to finish their meals and go to work in the fields. Originally, there should have been a lot of villagers working in the nearby fields, but Liu Wei and the others didn't even see a single figure.

Liu Wei made a gesture to let Tang Ji and Zhou Cang wait here, and he walked towards the small village a mile away alone.

As he got closer to the village, the cries of crows foraging for food reached Liu Wei's ears.

The crow's cry confirms that something big has happened in Willow Village, and it also tells him that there is no one in the village, at least no one alive!

If there were people, the crows would never have foraged for food in the village so calmly.

He straightened up and beckoned to Zhou Cang and Tang Ji, who were waiting there looking at him.

When the two arrived, Liu Wei pointed to the village and asked Zhou Cang, "Yuanfu, have you been here recently?" ”

"Nope!" Zhou Cang shook his head and said to Liu Wei: "Although Liushuzhuang is the closest village to Taojiazhuang, it is also twenty or thirty miles away, and only some in-laws in the two villages will walk around each other on weekdays. ”

Liu Wei nodded, and said to Zhou Cang and Tang Ji: "There are people in Taojiazhuang who marry here, and there will be contacts on weekdays, I haven't heard any news about this place in Taojiazhuang, and Liushuzhuang must have happened in the past two days." ”

"How did you know that something happened here?" The houses in Liushuzhuang are intact and peaceful, and there is no sign of dilapidation at all, Liu Wei's statement made Tang Ji feel very puzzled in his heart, and blurted out a question.

"The village is too quiet." Glancing towards Liushuzhuang, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Tang Ji and said, "There is still the crow in the village. The crows are a kind of bird that likes to eat carrion, and their presence here just shows that there is a lot of carrion in the village. A village that is almost as poor as Taojiazhuang, think about it, what carrion will there be? ”

"Sir, do you mean ......?" Zhou Cang's eyes suddenly widened, and what Liu Wei said made his heart suddenly tighten, and he hurriedly asked, "All the people in Liushuzhuang are dead?" ”

"I'm afraid so." Liu Wei shook his head, beckoned to Zhou Cang and Tang Ji, and said to them: "We have to pass through Willow Village quickly, and we can't linger here for long!" ”

Zhou Cang answered, Liu Wei stretched out his hand to pull Tang Ji, and the servants walked quickly towards the village.

As soon as they entered the village, they stopped again.

The entrance to the village was covered with dried blood stains, and the blood had coagulated into black lumps, pasted on the walls and floor, and in a few thick lumps, there were still one or two patches of red.

Holding Tang Ji's little hand, Liu Wei felt that she was very scared, because her body was shaking uncontrollably.

Clenching Tang Ji's hand slightly, Liu Wei turned his head to look at her with a loving gaze, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, I'm here." ”

"Hmm!" Tang Ji pursed her lips and nodded, although her mouth responded, her petite body was still trembling uncontrollably.

It may have been the footsteps of the servants that startled the crows who were foraging in the village, and a large flock of crows fluttered their wings and flew over their heads with strange screams, and went straight out of the village.

After entering the village and not going far, Zhou Cang suddenly pointed to a few houses on the side and shouted to Liu Wei: "Sir, look! ”

Following the direction pointed by Zhou Cang, Liu Wei and Tang Ji turned their heads almost at the same time.

In front of their eyes, hundreds of corpses of villagers appeared. The corpses were piled up in a messy space between several houses, and the top ones were unrecognizable due to the pecking of crows.

Seeing these corpses, Tang Ji's face turned pale in an instant, and she bent down and retched.

Looking at the corpses piled up in a hill, Liu Wei reached out and hugged Tang Ji in his arms, patted her back gently, and said to her softly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, if you leave the village, you won't see it again." ”

With her head lying on Liu Wei's chest, Tang Ji trembled violently, and at this moment, she didn't even have the courage to look back at those corpses again.

Thinking of the dead bodies whose flesh was turned out, and whose flesh had been pecked by crows, almost revealing their bones, her heart felt as if it was about to stop beating, and her throat felt as if something was stuck, and she was suffocated.

"Let's go!" Holding Tang Ji in his arms, Liu Wei greeted Zhou Cang, who was still looking at the corpse, and walked towards the other side of the village.

"The bandits are so hateful, they didn't even have a single living mouth." Following Liu Wei and about to walk to the entrance of the village on the other side, Zhou Cang spat on the ground and scolded angrily.

"It wasn't the bandits." Holding Tang Ji, who was trembling all over, in his arms, Liu Wei said to Zhou Cang as he walked forward: "There are many horseshoe prints in the village, and several corpses have been smashed with skulls by blunt objects. Bandits kill people with a single sword, and they don't need to torture unarmed villagers with such brutal methods. ”

"It's not a bandit, who else can it be?" Although he admired Liu Wei very much, Zhou Cang really couldn't think of anyone who would be cruel enough to slaughter the entire village.

"Officers and soldiers." While speaking, Liu Wei didn't stop for a moment, he walked briskly with Tang Ji in his arms, and said to Zhou Cang as he walked: "Ordinary bandits don't have so many horses, the bones of the faces and foreheads of the villagers whose heads are knocked are all dented, and only a shield can cause such a large area of damage." When has Yuanfu ever seen a bandit who does not use a sword but kills with a shield? ”

"Damn, these dogs raised by the imperial court don't have a good bird!" Zhou Cang spat to the side again and scolded: "I really regret that I didn't kill a few more dog thieves who worked for the imperial court in the first place!" ”

Liu Wei didn't speak again, just glanced at Zhou Cang with a somewhat strange gaze, hugged Tang Ji and continued to walk forward briskly.

Being held in Liu Wei's arms, Tang Ji's mood calmed down a lot, and her body was not trembling as much as she did just now.

Although Liu Wei's body is still very thin, being held in his arms is warmer and more reassuring for Tang Ji than hiding anywhere.

Out of Liushuzhuang, the servants walked more than ten miles, and walked into a valley surrounded by mountains.

His actions aroused Zhou Cang's vigilance, and Zhou Cang hurriedly pulled out the long sword he was carrying from his waist, and looked around like Liu Wei.

This sword was obtained by Zhou Cang from the bandit leader when Liu Wei led them to kill the bandits earlier, and followed Liu Wei to leave Taojiazhuang, and Zhou Cang took it with him.

The surrounding mountains were surprisingly quiet, and there was not even half a chirp of birds and beasts.

Liu Wei looked around at the surrounding mountains, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he lowered his voice and said to Zhou Cang: "Be careful, there are people in the mountains nearby, but I don't know who is hiding in the mountains and forests." ”

Zhou Cang responded, and followed behind Liu Wei and Tang Ji with a long sword in his hand, and the speed under his feet also increased a little.

A few steps after they walked out, a loud shout came from the mountain forest on the left: "Stop!" ”

"Let's go!" Hearing the explosion of drinking in the mountains and forests, Liu Wei pulled Tang Ji out of his legs and ran, shouting to Zhou Cang behind him while running.

Nearly twenty soldiers dressed in Han army armor rushed out of the mountains and forests under the leadership of a low-ranking officer, shouting chaotically while chasing Liu Wei and the others.

Pulling Tang Ji, Liu Wei's speed of running was naturally not very fast, seeing that those Han troops were about to rush behind them.

"Grandma, a bear! Lao Tzu is not running! Zhou Cang, who was running behind Liu Wei and Tang Ji, glanced back, and when he saw that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, he scolded, held a long sword in his hand, and turned around and counterattacked back towards those Han troops.

Zhou Cang turned around, Liu Wei secretly screamed "not good" in his heart, and hurriedly shouted at him: "Yuanfu come back quickly, there is still an ambush!" ”

Before his words fell, two or three hundred officers and soldiers rushed out of the mountains and forests.

Leading this group of officers and soldiers was a Han army general in his thirties, with a dark brown scar on his left cheek, and a very hateful face.

"Strict administration!" Seeing the general of the Han army, Zhou Cang's eyes widened, he gritted his teeth and roared, from his eyes as if they were about to erupt flames, it could be seen that the anger in his chest had reached its peak at this moment.

It was none other than Yan Zheng, who led the troops to rush out of the forest, it was Yan Zheng who stormed Woniu Mountain three years ago, intercepted Zhou Cang and killed Honggu with an arrow.

The leader rushed out of the forest, and Yan Zheng also saw Zhou Cang's face clearly. He was stunned for a moment, and then shouted to the officers and soldiers: "Kill!" Just die, don't live! ”