white clothes

"Brother Shen Yuan, are you tired?"

"Brother Shen Yuan, are you thirsty?"

"Brother Shen Yuan, you"

Childish childish voices asked a series of questions, resounding in the quiet mountain forest.

Shen Zong touched his ears: "Zhizhi, if you don't talk, Shen Yuan won't be tired."

"Oh." Zhizhi turned his head to look at Shen Zong, and obediently closed his mouth, but his big eyes were blinking, full of aura, he lay on the shoulder of this sword repairer named Xie Chenyuan, and secretly laughed.

Good people should be like elder brother Shen Yuan and elder brother Shen Zong, they didn't dislike him at all, they gave him clothes to wear and berries to eat, elder brother Shen Yuan saw that he was walking slowly and hugged him on the road.

Shen Zong put his hands behind his head, with a flowing green shirt, walked quickly a few steps and stood side by side with Xie Chenyuan, and saw that he was carrying a huge sealed sword box, holding a black water sword in his right hand, and holding a little baby in his left hand, wanting to share it.

"Shen Yuan, why don't I hug Zhizhi?"

Xie Chenyuan stopped after hearing this.

Shen Zong stretched out his hand knowingly.

Zhizhi reluctantly left the arms of the good man brother.

Shen Zong was about to take it, but when he didn't think about it, he quickly stood still and used his arms vigorously. When this unremarkable little guy was all on his arm, he suddenly widened his eyes.

This is too heavy!What is it that eats long.

"Thank you brother Zong." Zhizhi didn't notice anything, so she put her arms around this good brother's neck and thanked her.

Shen Zong's forehead was sweating, and he almost couldn't stand still. He took a deep breath and looked at Xie Chenyuan.

Only then did Xie Chenyuan reveal a smile, his eyes slightly curved, and he was dressed in white clothes, his posture was leisurely and elegant, and he could not see the meaning of teasing at all.

Shen Zong blushed and walked a few steps.

"Brother Zong, what's wrong with you?" Zhizhi wiped Shen Zong's sweat, feeling very strange.

"You are very heavy." Shen Zong gritted his teeth and said in a low voice.

Zhizhi opened her mouth wide, obviously not convinced: "Really, is it really heavy?" Holding the hem of her clothes with her small hand, she hesitated: "Then, then I'll go down."

"No, I can." Shen Zong weighed Zhizhi vigorously, not wanting to burden Xie Chenyuan further.

After walking a few steps, the weight in his hand suddenly lightened.

Xie Chenyuan gently picked up Zhizhi, hugged her in his arms, and looked at Shen Zong: "I am strong enough, even if I add you, it's fine."

Shen Zong put his hands behind his back, and his face became even redder when he heard this: "I don't need you to hug me." He is not a three-year-old child.

Xie Chenyuan had a lingering smile on his brows.

Zhizhi looks at these two good brothers inexplicably.

The three of them walked for a long time, and finally saw the shadow of a village.

Xie Chenyuan stood at the entrance of the village with a slightly stern expression.

Shen Zong couldn't help but frowned, looking at the deserted village.

Zhizhi was still young, so she looked around: "Where are the people here?"

The village is neither big nor small. Xie Chenyuan walked around the village and found that the houses in the village were messy. It seemed that the villagers had gone through a fierce struggle. There were blood stains on the ground, but most of the broken silver and copper plates in the houses were still there. They are still in the wooden cabinet, and many people's dishes are still on the wooden table, but the person is gone.

There are no living people, and there are no dead people.

Xie Chenyuan wiped a rough wooden crib with his fingertips, which was covered with dust.

"Look at this dusty spider web, this village should have been uninhabited for a long time." Shen Zong was very surprised: "Where did they all go?"

"It should be that someone forcibly took them away, even infants and young children." Xie Chenyuan looked into the distance: "Let's go forward."

"it is good."

Zhizhi hugged the good man's brother's neck tightly, frowning tightly.

The body of the black water sword soared according to the owner's will. The dark and cold sword body was cold, and the ice Zhizhi twisted and twisted. He lay on the sword and looked at the second village, which was the same as the first village they had just met. nobody.

Shen Zong avoided the chickens and ducks running around, and found that there were traces of wild animals in this village.

Xie Chenyuan rolled up his cuffs, facing the bleak wind, the end of winter is the time when a group of monsters are hungry.

The large-scale disappearance of the crowd makes it difficult for Xie Chenyuan not to think of this possibility, but this is the territory of the Great Chu Dynasty, and the Great Snow Dragon Riders of the dynasty are famous in southern Xinjiang, so why are they not seen?

The flying sword flew extremely fast in the air, Zhizhi blinked her eyes, sat obediently on the flying sword, and didn't mention looking for Xiaohongxiaohua.

After flying for about a hundred miles, Xie Chenyuan finally saw the crowd.

But the situation not far away was very different from what he had imagined.

The three of them got off their flying swords, and the Black Water Sword returned to Xie Chenyuan's hands. He stood on the hill and looked down at the long road of traffic below.

Shen Zong and Zhizhi stood by his side and also looked down.

There are old and young in the long stream of people, dressed in ragged clothes, many women with children in their arms, and some old men with gray hair. The old, weak, sick and disabled are at the end of the line, and their guards are armored troops. Riding a red blood horse, with an iron mask on his face, he is tall and mighty, and the elite soldiers under him move in an orderly manner, and no one is left behind.

"The Great Snow Dragon Cavalry in the Southern Borderlands is good at riding red blood horses. It is an important strength of the Great Chu." Xie Chenyuan said: "I heard that the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry only obeys the orders of the king of Great Chu, Shenwu Emperor Chu Ye."

"Ah, then did these villagers commit crimes, so they were arrested." Shen Zong made a guess, but quickly overturned it: "But these villagers are unarmed, they don't look like vicious people, it is possible that someone rebelled, they Was implicated?"

"My lord, my lord, do you dare to ask where you are taking us? We have always been honest and responsible. You let us leave without saying a word. We, we really don't understand."

Among the crowd, an old man walked to the front and asked questions tremblingly, his thin body shivering in the cold wind.

The leader glanced at him, then looked away without answering.

"My lord! My lord!"

The old man chased after him, still not giving up: "My lord, we admire you as the Great Snow Dragon Rider, the God of War of the Great Chu, you can't treat us like this."

"The king knows that you will not let you go if you kidnap us villagers."

The leader's hand clenched the reins suddenly, the red-blooded horse raised its front hooves, and stopped with a groan.

Seeing this, the villagers behind them stepped forward one after another, with a strong local accent, anxious and puzzled, but also implied hope.

"My lord, let us go back."

"Please, please, please."

The villagers knelt down one after another, hoping to return to their hometown again.

The big hand of the leading general holding the rein was rough and had been blown by the cold wind for a long time. Frostbite had appeared on the back of his hand, like old bark. After a while, he took off his iron mask, looked down and begged him villagers.

"No" the general's voice was like a cold wind, blowing out the hope of the villagers.

"So, are the rumors outside true..." Among them, a young and middle-aged man stood up suddenly, his honest face flushed red, and his voice was rough and full of sadness: "The king was bewitched by a demon and caught a wave Another wave of people entered Zijin City, just for his dream of eternal life."

"Stop kneeling, stop kneeling."

The young man grabbed the people around him and pulled them up, shouting vigorously: "The king is no longer the king he used to be, and the guardian god of Da Chu is no longer protecting us."

"These big snow dragon riders only obey the king's orders, don't you understand?"

"My lord, my lord wants to sacrifice us to those monsters."

The young man was shaking all over, crying and laughing loudly, as if he was crazy: "We are the sacrifices."

"Don't talk nonsense!" The old man who begged so hard not long ago suddenly got up and slapped the young man, panting, pointing at the villagers on the ground with trembling hands: "The king treats us well, have you forgotten that the king didn't want us a few years ago?" and ordered the distribution of fine seeds free of charge to transform the Daxia River into the Tianshan Mountains. When the heavy snow melted, there was no such thing as flooding tens of thousands of people on both sides of Chenzhou.”

"Wang Duo, you are disrespectful to the king, you are not worthy to be a citizen of Da Chu."

The young man surnamed Wang shook his head, laughed and backed away: "Village chief, you haven't been out of the village for a long time, and you don't even know what happened outside."

"As early as half a year ago, a group of monsters suddenly came to Zijin City. The king was bewitched by them, and he is no longer the original king."

He looked up at the former patron saint of the people of Dachu, and smiled miserably: "Am I right, my lords?"

After finishing speaking, the timid villagers were the first to cry, and the mourning was endless.

The leading general drew out the fine steel rapier with a swish, and pointed the tip of the sword at the young man: "If you continue to confuse the crowd, I will never forgive you."

"Then you answer our question, why did you big snow dragon riders arrest us?" Wang Duo stepped forward brazenly, with a fierce tone.

Shen Zong, who had been quietly observing, leaned closer to Xie Chenyuan: "Will the king be killed mostly?"

Xie Chenyuan looked at the general and said, "No."

Shen Zong and Zhizhi's ears perked up.

Xie Chenyuan looked into the distance, and said an answer that was not an answer: "The king of Dachu, since Emperor Shenwu needs these people, how dare Daxuelongqi kill people wantonly."

These people must be of great use.

And Xie Chenyuan didn't want to see the end of these people.

"Boy, say one more thing, I cut your tongue." A soldier wearing an eagle feather on his head suddenly drew his sword and chopped it off without saying a word.

The leading general's sword tip deflected, blocking the attack, and the back of the sword hit Wang Daoduo's abdomen hard, whether it was intentional or not, and immediately, Duoduo fell heavily to the ground, clutching his stomach and moaning in pain, the noisy villagers saw him. This scared silence, looked at each other, restless and helpless.

"Enough, Xu Wei."

Xu Wei withdrew his sword impatiently, let out a sneer, and rode away, disappearing soon after.

"Let's keep going."

The long stream of people continued on.

Xie Chenyuan followed behind them.

Three days later, these villagers were divided into three batches and sent to the big boat. The people on the shore gathered together, and everyone seemed to be relieved and worried, and the anxiety spread to every corner.

The Snow Dragon Riders seemed to be escorting them, but they were actually monitoring them, firmly preventing anyone from escaping. They even bought milk-producing goats and nutritious foods for young children for some pregnant women.

Xie Chenyuan specially bought a small boat to follow them. He was dressed in white and sat on the bow with a piano on his desk. Three ships, after these ships converged, there were 25 ships, and the official ship was full of people and sailed into the distance.

The location of Zijing City.

Xie Chenyuan raised his eyes, black clouds billowed in the distance, muffled thunder rolled over the clouds, making a muffled sound, and after a lightning bolt, raindrops filled with moist water vapor and the fishy smell of the lake poured down.

Xie Chenyuan held an umbrella and looked at the water surface dotted circles, the ripples were endless, the heavy rain was pouring, and there was only a white rain curtain left in the sky and the earth, so big that the official ship in the distance could not be seen clearly.

"Brother Shen Yuan, don't we get in the boat? It's raining heavily."

Zhizhi looked up at the good brother.

Shen Zong struggled to hug him: "I'll take you in first."

When Shen Zong came out again, Xie Chenyuan's umbrella tilted slightly, just covering Shen Zong from the wind and rain.

"Shen Yuan." Shen Zong called out, "What's wrong with you."

Xie Chenyuan withdrew his gaze, his voice was a little unclear in the continuous rain.

"A Zong, it stinks in here."

Shen Zong was slightly stunned, stink? Why didn't he smell it, he only smelled the smell of rain.

He couldn't help but looked up at Xie Chenyuan, and found that his crow's eyelashes were drooping at the moment, and his expression was extremely indifferent, almost expressionless, as cold as ice.