Tang Dizhihua

The summer days come very early.The sun rises from the east, and there is still a little coolness of summer night, but the small animals in the forest have already begun to move.

Suddenly, an arrow shot out from the grass, and the rabbit that had no time to escape was pinned to the ground, and a tree of birds flew away with a miserable howl.

A young gentleman stood up from behind the invisible stone. He was dressed in common clothes, with a linen strip of the same color as the common clothes wrapped around his forehead, holding a simple short bow, and he went forward to pull the arrow from the hare's leg. , simply bandaged the rabbit, and then slowly descended the mountain.

In the bamboo basket on his back were several live or dead prey, including the hare just now, and the unnamed bird that was shot down, and the basket shook from time to time to show that he returned with a full load.

Not far from the col is a small village, where a few hunters live here. This is the temporary residence of the hunters. There are not many people hunting in midsummer. The village looks a bit desolate. There was cooking smoke.

He walked to the door of the wooden house where the smoke was rising, and saw a middle-aged hunter chopping firewood, squatting beside him was a six or seven-year-old girl, watching the fire with a wooden stick.

When the middle-aged Orion saw him, he smiled heartily: "Xiao Lang, you are back."

Mr. Xiao Lang replied, put the bamboo basket on his back on the ground, and turned around to open the lid of the bamboo basket.The middle-aged Orion couldn't help but let out a soft drink when he saw his harvest early in the morning.

"I picked some herbs, and these prey, except for today's food, the rest are pickled."

Orion looked up and down, and praised: "Xiao Lang is good at arrows! Can I let Xiao Lao nitrate this leather, and it can be sold for a good price." After that, he scratched his head in embarrassment, "What do you think of Xiao Lang?"

"Just do what Weng said. Take it as a reward for taking me in."

"What's wrong with this? This prey was shot by Xiao Lang, and Xiao Lao took advantage of it." Orion was happy, "Xiao Lao will go to pickle the meat, Xiao Lang is also welcome, just keep it for rations."

Li Yi also nodded, walked to the stove, silently thinking about when he would leave.

The evening before yesterday, Zhao San, a hunter, found him unconscious in the mountains and brought him back to this temporary residence.Zhao San lives alone and has only one daughter, who is seven years old this year.

Zhao San went hunting in his early years and often entrusted his daughter to neighbors, but because he grew up in the mountains, his daughter was bullied by neighbors without knowing it.After he knew about it, he took his daughter with him every day, and taught her to identify herbs for trauma, as well as some simple boxing skills.

Although the little girl has little strength, she can also open a small Yi bow. It is not a problem to light a fire and cook on weekdays. She knows some simple methods of tanning fur.

Beside the stove, the little girl who was only as tall as Li Yi's waist called Da Lang sweetly.

Li Yi couldn't help laughing, and took the fire stick from the child's hand.The little girl squatted beside Li Yi with a small body, tilting her head to look at him.

Li Yi tilted his head and asked, "What do you see me doing?"

The little girl giggled and said, "Da Lang is beautiful! In the nearby villages, Da Lang is the prettiest!"

Li Yi saw that she was cute, and touched her head with his free left hand.The little girl hurriedly covered her head, while Zhao San watched the interaction between the two, and said with a smile: "Xiao Lang, let's play with Ah Ru, I'm on the stove."

Unexpectedly, the first person who disagreed was the little girl: "No! Ah Ru wants to help Grandpa!"

Zhao San put the processed meat into the pot, added some dogwood to remove the fishy smell, and added some salt.Going to be busy with tanning fur again.

Li Yi washed his hands, found a comb, and called the little girl over.

Zhao Sanyang's daughter is a bit rough, and her hair is combed randomly.Li Yi couldn't see it, so he combed her hair again, imitating the little lady's hair accessories he had seen, and combed her a small bun with hanging ears.

Zhao San was very happy to see the two children playing.

Zhao San often lamented that if the aunt could have an older brother or younger brother to protect her, it would be much better than him taking care of her alone.However, his wife died early, and the villagers looked down on him as a hunter, so he continued like this.

That day he saw Li Yi unconscious on the mountain road, although judging from his clothes and weapons, he was not a harmless person, he carried him home and gave herbal medicine to heal his injuries.If he read correctly, most of the wounds on Xiao Lang's body were knife wounds.

Some of the wounds had already festered, so he couldn't do anything, so he tried to remove the carrion with a dagger, and then applied herbs. During this period, Xiao Langjun woke up several times, but his mind was still not clear.

Next comes a fever.Zhao San fed him several times of concoction, and then he did his best to obey the destiny.Unexpectedly, he woke up the next day.

Li Yi rested for a day, the wound was not healed, his face was pale due to blood loss, but he still went to the mountains to hunt early in the morning, in order to repay the favor of Orion's father and daughter for saving him.

He didn't know when those pursuers would find him, and he didn't dare to stay here for a long time, for fear of hurting the two of them, so he decided to leave early the next morning.

In the county seat closest to here, the news finally reached Xiao Ye after several rounds of people and pigeons sent it in turn.

Xiao Ye read those few short sentences over and over several times, feeling a little suffocated in his heart.As a subordinate far away, he didn't know what the general altar's plan was.The general altar made him dormant again, but he was not reconciled.

Xiao Ye knew in his heart that he had already paid for the lives of his brothers because of his recklessness, but if the escaped Xiao Lang was hunted down, no matter how much that person knew about the Huzhou affairs, his life would be temporarily saved.

Xiao Qingfang is far away in Turkic, and he can always make up for this time difference.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xiao Ye destroyed the news he had just received with heavy eyes, pulled out his knife, and showed a cruel smile.

Li Xiaolang, don't blame me for being cruel, trade your life for the lives of Xiao Ye and my brothers.

"Pavilion leader, they moved." A porter-like man bowed down to the front, not daring to raise his head for a moment.

A few silhouettes could be vaguely seen in the darkness.An indifferent voice sounded in the darkness: "Have you found out the details of that group of people?"

A drop of sweat dripped from the porter's forehead: "No...no. They have strict discipline, and it can be seen that they are not a small force, but they speak very strictly, and they interrogated the prisoners severely, but there is no useful news at all. "

"..." There was silence ahead.

The porter's forehead was sweating more and more, and his back was already soaked.

"What do you want?"

"Governor, please spare me!" The porter suddenly kowtowed, and there was a dull sound when he collided with the ground, "I beg your orders to pursue the man in purple, and please allow it!"

The leader of the pavilion hummed, and the porter hurriedly resigned as if he had been pardoned.

"General Li." Another voice sounded in the darkness, the voice was clear and clear, it should belong to a scribe, "We might as well go to the biggest power in Jiangnan Road to do a business."

"Oh?"

"The court leaders don't know. This force only recognizes money, not people. As long as the benefits are sufficient, they can kill their parents and siblings. This force is called the Iron Hands. They are both forces in the world, and they don't mind telling our group The details of people."

"Oh...then will they covet Huzhou too?"

"Huzhou is originally a cover-up for the former leader Xu Ge. It's just that the group of people who are also from the Jiangnan forces and vying for their interests are even more annoying."

The leader understood what the scribes meant, at the moment there are only two of them in this room, with the martial arts of the cabinet leader, it is enough to know that no one is within three feet of this room.Therefore, he revealed his true colors even more, gritted his teeth and snorted: "Damn Xu Shide!"

"It just so happens that Lu Da has already gone after the man in purple." The scholar said with a smile, "You might as well swallow it, the sage won't blame us."

The two waited for a short time before the subordinates brought an unattractive person.At this moment, the lights in the room had already been lit, but the lights were dim, making it impossible to see the whole picture of the other party.

The man introduced himself as Lin, who is in charge here.

As the initiator, Scribe first said: "We want to do business with the Iron Hands."

"Business is easy to talk about." The man surnamed Lin had a beard and his voice was rough and rough, "I'm afraid that the distinguished guests won't be able to afford our price."

The scribe smiled slightly: "Don't you ask me what kind of business it is?"

The man said: "There is no business that the Iron Hands Group can't do, there are only prices that the distinguished customers can't afford."

Li Geling was impatient that the two of them didn't talk about the main point for a long time, so they interrupted their conversation: "What kind of power is the person in purple clothes in the Jianghu?"

The man definitely took a look at Li Geling, and said, "Your honored guest, please forgive me. I don't know which way the honored guest is from?"

"It's not important." Li Geling said coldly, "You tell me your answer, and I'll give you a reward after verifying it."

The man pondered for a moment, then raised his eyes suddenly, and said, "Tie Hand Group needs [-]% of Huzhou's wealth."

The next moment, an unsheathed horizontal knife lay across the man's neck.Behind Li Geling suppressed his furious voice: "You want to rob the court of property?"

The man closed his eyes slightly, and said: "Then, I want the salt road in Huaiyang, and I will give you [-]% profit from the Iron Hands."

Li Geling snorted coldly, touched the back of the knife to the other party's neck, and said: "I don't care if you are the Iron Hands or other forces in the world, you'd better remember not to touch the things that the saints care about most. I don't mind." Let’s see if it’s your necks that are hard, or my knife.”

The scribe said: "Your Excellency is a smart man. We want to know the full details of that power."

"I don't know all the details. But what the guests want to know, the Iron Hands know a thing or two. This organization, called Snake Spirit, has power all over the 22 Dao states in Dazhou, with many subordinates and strict management. They The headquarters is not in Dazhou, but in Turkic. However, the Iron Hands only know about their hall in the south of the Yangtze River, and we have received news that the snake spirit will have big plans recently."

This person dictated the address of the snake spirit's hall in the Jiangnan area.

Li Ge looked at the scribes, the scribes nodded, and summoned a person who said such and such, and said such and such, that person bowed and retreated.Only then did the scribe say to the big man surnamed Lin: "Thank you for letting me know. The reward has already been dispatched. Your Excellency will go back and wait for the good news. Huaiyang will definitely reply in three days."

The big man said: "Then Lin waits for the good news."

After the big man left, Li Geling asked angrily: "Huaiyang official salt, how can you give it to the Jianghu people at will?"

The scribe said: "The leader of the pavilion is safe and don't be impatient. Fang has heard that the Tie Shou Tuan is a great harm to Jiangnan. But the Tie Shou Tuan has many ties to Jiangnan's aristocratic family. If you move it rashly, it will hurt your muscles and bones. Therefore, in the future, we will Then... in this way, this great harm can be eliminated."

"You really have confidence in that Di Renjie." Li Geling sighed softly, "When Di Renjie was imprisoned, I was still a small guard at the gate... Unexpectedly, I am now the cabinet leader. Hey, tell me, Di Renjie is now sixty and seven, can he live long enough to deal with Yangzhou affairs?"

The scribe said helplessly: "How do I know? Without Di Renjie, wouldn't the case be solved?"

Li Ge led the way: "Forget it, what do you want to do with the invisible matter. Mr. Fang, after finishing this mission, I want to be transferred to a real post in the army. What are your plans?"

"Me?" The scribe lowered his head and thought for a while, "Let's see how the sage arranges it."

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, the leader curled his lips and stopped talking.

As soon as the sun went down, Orion urged Li Yi to rest.

Li Yi took some herbs and put them in his cuffs, chest pockets, and boots, and lay down with his clothes on.

Half asleep, half awake, sleeping until midnight, Li Yi's head began to ache again.He had no choice but to rub his temples to relieve his headache.

Suddenly, he seemed to hear a lot of footsteps.

Li Yi, who came like a frightened bird these days, woke up suddenly. He crept close to the window sill and looked out through the cracks in the broken window paper.

The people in purple searched the houses in an orderly manner, and they seemed to be coming this way.Li Yi immediately opened the back window and hid outside the room.

Xiao Ye personally inspected the stoves of these households, and when he saw the stove with residual sparks, he bent his lips and made a gesture.

The man in purple opened the window of the main house, and the industrious and kind-hearted Orion's panicked voice came to his ears: "You, you, what are you doing?!"