Those years of farming in the mountains

Chapter 360 The Man of Vengeance
The second year of Yuanping was neither peaceful nor restful.

Several major incidents happened one after another on the land of Nanliang. Seeing that the half of the country across the river was about to become unstable, the wild bandits from all directions were like a fire, starting a prairie fire across the river.

Since March, the situation has changed again, and the chaos in Xizhou will never appear. Taoyang and Zhuquan revolted one after another. The general followed him to summon troops and horses to wipe them out quickly.

The fight in the south was fierce, refugees fled everywhere, unavoidable unrest in Yunzhou, also some strong people took the opportunity to pull up a group of bandits, cholera village.

In August, Butcher Song was ordered to go out to the southwest. Before leaving, he raided all the mountains and hills in the seven prefectures, suppressed the arrogance, and gathered troops and horses to search for money and food.

However, this situation lasted for a short time. Turning over the new year, until the first year of Zhanghe, from January to April, there were constant changes. Fengqing fell, Liang Huang fled to the south, and Jianye fell. It was a mess.

Counting the equally rotten Hejian Land, among the most important places in Daliang, only the Jiangbei area can maintain the only stability.

The big event in the east turned into a hurricane, and it also flew to the southwest. Seeing the strength of the Salvation Army and the Taiping Army, the local thieves seemed to be encouraged.

There are mountains and natural moats separating them, and there is still a soldier of Song Butcher stationed in Xizhou, so the rebels who rebelled in Yunzhou did not flood west for a while, but turned around and joined the thieves from the rest of the state. He committed countless sins.

"Yunzhou inherits Chongzhou and Xiazhou, East Street Jinjiang and Yining and Lizhou. Except for Chongzhou, where there is a Jiedu who sits in the town, the rest of the places only stay with local militias. The military equipment is loose, and they often hide in the city. Everywhere outside was secretly abandoned and given up to the rebels."

Chen Yu walked out of the southwest, and only then did he know how turbulent the situation in the world has become. Yuanyangmen, where Qian Xuanzhong was born, was not an exception. Facing those important towns and cities guarded by soldiers and horses, who had nothing to do, the crazy gangsters turned their attention to other places. , such as a village with a large number of old and young people, or a small town or county with a small population.

"The rebels are making trouble, and the most powerful of them even robbed the horses of the Western Regions from nowhere, wearing armor and hanging guns..."

When he inquired about this, he felt sad for this so-called girder. You must know that horses are precious objects in today's world, and ordinary generals can't afford to carry a cavalry team of a hundred people, and now they are raging across thousands of miles and several states A few gangs of bandits can raise hundreds of cavalry!
No matter how inferior the armored weapons are, the cavalry can eventually exert a great advantage in a flat land.

"No wonder, at a glance, the population is almost extinct. It turns out that they either fled to the city to hide, or they have been looted or hacked to death."

Putting Futian behind him and placing it properly, and protecting it with a formation under the bronze mirror—he turned into a rainbow and fled away, quickly heading towards Qi Yang.

Compared with going on the road alone, Futian was too slow, Chen Yu used his spirit to guide him, and let him move forward slowly, while he took a step ahead and didn't delay any longer.

……

Qiyang County, compared with the scene half a year ago, the city at this time is much deserted.

"I don't know who killed it at the beginning, and brought the Dushan bandits in, the city guards fled in all directions, the county master was picked up from the bed, and all eleven or twelve of his children and grandchildren were all severed at the entrance of Caishi. The rest of the women were taken captive to the mountain, and I don’t know how many are still alive.”

In front of a tea shop, Chen Yu was chatting with an old farmer wearing a bamboo hat. The atmosphere in the city was stagnant, and the events of several months ago had not been cleared up until now.

"Dare to ask the old man, the Yuanyang Gate was murdered by the mountain bandits that the old man said?"

He asked, who knew that the old man shook his head, took a sip of light tea: "Xiao Daoist, those bandits who crossed the mountain came around August last year, and the Yuanyang Gate... was gone in May!"

Speaking of this, the other party sighed again, "Master Qian of the Yuanyang Gate is a good man, and he is upright. On weekdays, the young people in the gate also help the various families in the city to do what they can. The old man used to be with them. We planted Lugu together, and we are both honest and honest guys."

pity.

The old man said angrily, "It's a pity that there are no people left. Originally, after the Long Whale Gang took action, there were still some people in Yuanyang Gate who escaped, but when the Long Whale Gang left, they wanted to reunite at the mountain gate, but they came again. A group of thieves were poisoned overnight."

He patted it on the wooden table again, as if he felt sympathy for his misfortune, "Those heartless people, even two-year-old babies are not spared, it doesn't matter if they are poisoned, each of them has holes pierced, and the whole body is left behind." Not one!"

Chen Yu listened quietly, asking a question from time to time, and the old man told everything he knew. Finally, he got the information he wanted, gave him another bowl of tea, turned and left.

On the road, there are very few pedestrians, and it is a big city. As a result, from the beginning to now, most of the doors are closed, and the pedestrians are also in a hurry and dressed plainly.

According to the old man, the Long Whale Gang is a gang from the north, and the other party does not know what purpose they have. In short, they confronted Yuanyangmen for half a year, and finally the conflict broke out, causing bloodshed.

The old man doesn't know the exact reason, but he only heard that other people said it was related to the baby, and there were also rumors that the leader of the Changjing Gang took a fancy to Yuanyangmen's position in Qiyang County and wanted to replace it, and there were even rumors that the struggle between the two factions sparked Suo is the youngest daughter of Qian Yunjiao, the master of Yuanyangmen.

In short, all kinds of opinions are strange and strange.

However, compared with the information he inquired in Xizhou thousands of miles away, he gained a lot from being in the city.

Qian Xuanzhong had indeed returned to the city, and by the time he rushed back to Qiyang, several months had passed, and the bandits crossing the mountain had already plundered and left.

"Brother Qian was still near Guangyong at that time, and the distance of thousands of miles probably made it extremely difficult for him to communicate with Yuanyang Sect."

Tsing Yi Jian, who failed to catch up, was devastated. A peddler in the city told Chen Yu that he had seen this young man kneeling in the courtyard and weeping.

Tatata!
A broken and toppled portal appeared, and on the other side of the corner, Chen Yu came to the former site of Yuanyang Gate, which was a more dilapidated place than the rest of the surrounding portals.

Stepping in, you can see bloodstains here and there, which have already turned black and red, and it looks a little darker.

The corpse was carried out by the neighbors in the city. Yuanyang Gate is quite famous in the city. When it was attacked by the Long Whale Gang for the first time, there were people to help and cheer, but the second time was really unexpected. A group of people broke into the city and lurked In the dark night, without anyone noticing, they poisoned and killed the remaining members of the Yuanyang family.

"What hatred, what resentment..."

I didn't search for it, it was messy everywhere, and even if there were clues, they were scattered and erased early in the wind and sun.

The silver light flickered, and the air rippled.

A primordial spirit raised its right palm high, and the floating light of gold and silver all over its body surged out from between its eyebrows.

"No, not here—could it be true that there is nothing left?"

Shining one by one, Chen Yu cooperates with Yuanshen, and the view of everything is mixed with majestic spiritual power, rendering the entire courtyard like an ocean.

what!
Having discovered something, he stepped forward and removed a strand of thought that was stuck to the ruined wall.

At this moment, a passer-by passed by the door and saw the Taoist groping in the dilapidated small courtyard. After frowning for a while, he was about to speak, but Chen Yu who turned around was the first to ask: "This good man, please excuse me for a while. May I ask if there have been strangers haunting this place this month?"

Thoughts invisible to others were floating in his palms, and he, who had been immersed in human thoughts for a while, was very familiar with the faint malicious appearance in the darkness.

Someone has been here with extremely strong evil intentions, and they are guaranteed to be habitual murderers and arsonists. Judging by the purity of such evil intentions, the crime is undoubtedly heinous, and the time to come here should not exceed ten days at the latest!
However, the other party's answer surprised him.

"No, there were more in the past few months, and no one has come recently, especially after the Long Whale Gang and the Dushan Bandits were wiped out one after another."

"..."

He was surprised that the two had just heard the power in their ears and turned their heads when someone said that they had been thrown up together.

"Do you know who did it?"

Dimly, Chen Yu guessed, and sure enough, the passers-by didn't hide it, and said bluntly, it was the Tsing Yi Jian who had practiced outside for a long time and gained the name of Nuo Da.

"It was a poor man, lonely, and he came back about once every nine days. He seemed to be carrying something, a bloody pile. I happened to open a shop at that time, and I saw him right at the head."

Speaking of this, passers-by couldn't help sighing again and again, saying that Qian Xuanzhong looked desperate.

"I left after that, and then there was news of the destruction of the Long Whale Gang and the Dushan Bandits."

According to the other party, the two news had just spread, and in the past two days, since he ran a store, he was one of the few merchants in the city who hadn't fled, so what he heard between ushering in and sending him out was much worse than that. There are more people around.

"Thank you."

Let's talk, withdrew a wisp of energy, and the spirit script of the mysterious emptiness technique that was dancing on the fingertips was extinguished, and the other party scratched his head with question marks, only to feel that he was in a daze in front of the door for a moment.

Induced disclosure, blurred impression, because he was in the city and the other party was just a passerby, and he didn't have many evil thoughts, so Chen Yu didn't directly search his memory, and used a little trick to disturb the passerby's head by the way, probably at the moment The boredom is gone, the mind is clear, and I left long ago without paying attention.

And he digested the other party's words.

The only evil thought in his hand dispersed, and Chen Yu looked solemn, because he thought that if only Qian Xuanzhong returned here, it meant that this evil thought came from the other party.

"Evil thoughts, human thoughts... spiritual obsession..."

call!After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his detection of evil thoughts and how to deal with them had to be changed.

It is not difficult to guess that Brother Qian who returned to Qiyang should also know who the real enemy is, so he is taking revenge, and in this process, he has been impregnated with a lot of evil thoughts.

"Human thoughts are not divided into good and evil. No matter what is good or bad, as long as it touches people's hearts, a thought will be born and drift to the goal."

It was indeed a poor consideration before, and I missed the current situation.

Soon he thought, if this is the case, then he also has it?

Yuanshen crossed his legs, and swayed a lot of spiritual silver light in the air.

Sure enough, no accident, there was a thin layer of thought wrapped around the body, dark and distorted, but it was resisted by the misty blue light, and it was counteracted and dissipated at a not slow speed.

"Speaking of which, why is mana being consumed all the time?"

It turned out to be the reason.

Chen Yu exploded his mana, turned into two clouds of celebration, scrubbed up and down, and finally ground the evil thoughts until there was nothing left before he stopped.

Rubbing mana, fighting against evil thoughts, actually made the consciousness clearer and more transparent, as if washing away the dust.

There was a flash of thought in his eyes, which was a bit interesting.

……

In the end, Chen Yu returned to the floating field, and it was obviously impossible to track the other party with just a whiff of thought, at least with his current methods.

However, this trip was not fruitless, it was more or less confirmed that Qian Xuanzhong was still alive and not dead, but was looking for an enemy as a vengeful man.As for where he went after he got revenge, few people in Qi Yang know.

After leaving the deserted county town, he went to the place where the so-called bandits crossed the mountain. The earthen village was empty, with a faint stench floating in the air, and he could see several decayed corpses.

On a September day, I really can't see people.

Then I went to the original residence of the Long Whale Gang, a small town, but it turned out to be empty. I heard that some gang members left a long time ago, and the rest also died in the revenge of the Tsing Yi Sword.

"Really cruel."

After inquiring that these two forces had been wiped out, Chen Yu sighed. It is hard to imagine that the person who is now killing people and can be called the executioner will be the humble, polite and loyal knight.

Although it's hard to persuade Liberation, but if we really meet in the future, it's okay to give a little help.

As soon as the primordial spirit shines, the mind is reset, and no amount of delusional thoughts will be wiped away.

As for the several forces that made an attack on the Yuanyang Clan, if they had the opportunity to dig them out, they would naturally not let them go.

"Willlessly killing, poisoning, destroying the city and looting..."

These few houses are not good ones, but he doesn't understand why that family poisoned them. After all, Yuanyang Gate is just like Haiyun Temple, living in the same county. Are there any treasures worth such a big fight?

He didn't think it was a panacea, after all, Ling Zhi didn't show up at the foot of the mountain in May.

However, he had searched Qiyang City inside and out, and couldn't find much information. After thinking about it, Chen Yu went back to Futian, intending to follow the direction of Brother Qian's last trace.

"Pingshan... the direction of Yining? It's just right."

He had heard for a long time that there was a canyon where unique medicinal herbs grew, and that there were many sects and Taoist temples in Yining area. Chen Yu had planned to go and see it, but now he went along the way.

Yining is a wealthy person, at least a few years ago, it was far ahead of the seven southwestern states, with a lot of influence and a lot of background.

At that time, if you take a walk around, you may get something from Taoist scriptures, interior scenes, secret treasures, etc.

Now, the fusion of wonders and blood apertures is in full swing, and the technique is also being pondered. He just wants to find some new and strange things to do for himself.

"The open space in the floating field has been taken care of, just wait for the new plants to be put into the soil, and there is only one ganoderma lucidum alone, which is a bit unsightly."

(End of this chapter)