beg for chivalry

The mule cart bumped all the way, and by the time the tarpaulin was lifted again, it had arrived in Lingzhou.I saw a green paddy field in front of me, and the criss-crossing mud paths like branches cut the field into green fragments, and the turbulent stream was like a silver belt, crossing the country.Layers of gray eaves tiles overflow the valley.In the depths of the mountain is the sky-like weeds, which cover the road densely.

Zuo Sanniang knew she had come to the right place.She looked around, carefully got off the mule cart, straightened her disheveled hair and dirty clothes, and got into the bushes.A few men from the Jiangyou Merchant Gang jumped off the mule cart, carefully removed the lacquered porcelain bottle wrapped in white cloth, and transported it to the street.Zuo Sanniang had just recovered from the shock, pressed her chest and took a few deep breaths, and then walked out of her wits.

After she escaped from the Tianfu mansion, her mind buzzed like a bunch of bees, and when she closed her eyes, she seemed to be able to see the golden crow with a pale face, lying on the side of the porch and bowing to her .I couldn't help thinking about it frequently in my heart: a few days have passed, how is Fifth Brother doing now?

Yan Jiubian is a ruthless and poisonous person, she caught him several times tormenting Jinwu to death, this time he fled by himself, he must have taught Jinwu a lot of suffering.

Lingzhou was a place she vaguely remembered.Zuo Sanniang vaguely remembered that she had been abducted from the Valley of Ten Thousand Doctors for more than ten years, and Houtianlou had almost become her only home.After the Golden Crow was poisoned by one phase and one blindness, she never thought of going to the Valley of Ten Thousand Doctors to ask for help, but this Valley of Ten Thousand Doctors is a hidden place that is difficult for ordinary people to know. Trail of the Valley of Medicine.

The roads in the town are low and narrow, but people are densely populated.Zuo Sanniang walked a few steps, and applause and applause could be faintly heard from the side of the street. She turned her head and saw a few jugglers surrounded by the crowd, performing phantasmagoria and soft skills with all their strength. .The jugglers seemed to be from the Western Shendu country, with dark and firm skin, short curly hair, and black tattoos on their bodies that looked like hemp ropes.Someone planted a long pole in the ground, and the poisonous man flipped up and down on it, and suddenly jumped out again, clamping his heels, and grasping the pole deftly like a bird.

Everyone applauded again and again, and sprinkled the copper plates on the ground like rain.One of the short and thin men came out with a smile and picked up the copper coins, and clapped his hands to ask his partner to change his position.So they brought up a bench and tied a poisoned man on it with hemp rope. Zuo Sanniang squeezed into the crowd curiously to have a look, but was surprised to see a man walking away with a sharp knife in his hand. to the man bound to the stool.

The bound man repeatedly shook his head and wailed, obviously fearful of sharp knives.Seeing that the point of the knife was about to reach the throat, the others were terrified, Zuo Sanniang gasped a bit in her heart, she quickly covered her eyes, and couldn't help but secretly peered out through the gap between her fingers curiously.

There was only a shrill scream, and the faces of the people suddenly turned pale, and there were screams and exclamations.A round skull fell to the ground, and blood gushed out from the severed neck. The poisonous man actually cut off his partner's head with scissors!

But before the crowd scattered and fled in all directions, a strange scene reappeared, and the corpse whose head had been severed began to tremble, and a black shadow suddenly appeared from the broken neck, and while slowly wriggling, it was born again. A head came out.The poisoned man whose head had been cut off grinned at everyone with blood on his face, and wiped his face clean with a towel beside him.Everyone looked again at the head that fell off earlier, it was plastered and painted, and the face was no different from that of ordinary people.

It turns out that this is one of the Western illusions called "head-taking technique". The juggler first tucks his head in his clothes, and puts a fake head on his shoulder, stuffed with pig's blood wrapped in casings.It looked as if his head had been brutally beheaded, but in fact only the false head was removed, and the people inside were safe and sound.

Sanniang was stunned, and so were the others, this kind of move is unusual, shocking and subtle.While the crowd was cheering and applauding, she touched the side of the poisonous man, and besides the few people who were jumping up and down in the crowd, there were also a few poisonous men squatting behind the curtain, pointing at each other. Copper plates picked up by the people.They saw uzi steel swords for jugglers, sausage casing blood bags scattered around them, and a few squeaking tits were kept in cages.

The poisonous people whispered to each other, they spoke Pali, which Sanniang couldn't understand, occasionally mixed with some Lingzhou dialect.Sanniang could only vaguely hear them saying: "Let's go south after the show, how about it?"

"Why go south?"

"There is Tianfu in the north, and the Central Plains people want to hold the Martial League Conference, so it's troublesome to control it. The west side can't go through, and it's under the control of 'Dashiyou'."

"'Dashiyu', do you mean the devil?"

A poisoned man stretched out his hand and pointed to the west. Zuo Sanniang took a sneak peek and saw that he was pointing to the valley to the west.The scenery there is indeed a bit scary, I saw weeds growing continuously, covering the way.The local people are reluctant to go to the valley, because even the best mountain pioneers who have lived here for more than ten years dare not set foot there.It is a dangerous place where old horses can get lost, snakes, scorpions and poisonous beasts are everywhere.

Shendu said: "We can't go straight through there, we have to go around a little further. There are 'Dashiyu' hiding in the grass and forests there, and there are their cities in the valley. If you encounter them, you will be sucked away...that is, Ah Terman."

They lowered their voices and said in a low voice: "Unlucky...you will be gutted."

Xishan blushed, staining the vines with blood.A flock of black autumn birds fluttered across the air, and the dark shadows cut through the sunset.

The poisonous men in the town packed up and left, Zuo Sanniang picked up a stick and walked into the valley.The green grass under my feet was soft and wet, and the wet rain soaked the hem of the cloth shoes.Curls of cooking smoke rose from the village, then circled and dissipated in the air, disappearing into the red sky.

As Sanniang walked through the path, she could only hear the clinking of bowls and ladles beside her ears, and the laughter in the room was endless, and she couldn't help but feel a little tenderness in her heart.

But the farther west you go, the more people are sparsely populated, and you can see a stretch of grass cutting the path.Zuo Sanniang stretched out her hand to push the blade of grass away, but she frowned first, the blade of grass had a jagged edge, she cut the skin of her fingertips lightly, oozing tiny drops of blood.

She squeezed into the grass forest, and the long grass rubbed against her body, tearing her clothes like a razor blade.Leaving small scars all over the body.Looking into the distance again, we can only see blades of grass that are as sharp as knives all over the field, boundless like an ocean, and we can't tell east, west, north, south.

"The Forest of the Dead Way..." Zuo Sanniang murmured, her heart beating up and down.Somehow, she felt that the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines was just behind this grassy forest. She had been away from this place for more than ten years, and she did not remember her way back.Maybe Jinwu knew about it, he said that he had heard about Wanyigu's moves from Aunt Mu, but now he is not by his side.This piece of grass and forest is extremely dangerous, and the founders of the mountain will never return.Once she went in, if she couldn't find the gate of the Valley of Ten Thousand Medicines, she would starve and freeze to death in the wilderness.

Zuo Sanniang lowered her head and took a look into the bag. There was only half a water bag of water and a scone wrapped in greased paper. There was not much money left on her body.She stretched out her hand to touch it, and caught a glazed flower in the corner of the bag, it was shiny, and she got it from Jinwu.She had known that he was thinking about Wang Xiaoyuan, and she was reluctant to leave even a small gadget bought in a shed, so she stole it in a fit of anger.But now she feels that she is naive again, this thing is not worth a lot of money, and it is difficult to return it.

After thinking about it again and again, she still mustered up the courage to take a step into the grass forest.

The long grass was really like a sword blade, cutting her in unbearable pain.So Sanniang had no choice but to use wooden branches to push aside the grass leaves, and trudged through the wet mud with difficulty.I don't know how long she walked, but she only knew that her feet were sore and unbearable, her whole body was aching, but the sea of ​​grass still didn't see an end.

The sun was swallowed by the mountains, and the sounds of wild insects were heard all over the place. It was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers, adding a bit of chill.Zuo Sanniang's heart was trembling, she just blew on the torch, but she could only hear a rustling in the grass leaves, and then the sound of insect wings overlapping and fluttering.In an instant, a large group of black shadows rushed towards her face!

Zuo Sanniang screamed, the torch fell on the blade of grass, and burst into flames.Using the light of the flames, she saw that the black shadows were actually large winged insects with overlapping legs crowded together, being scorched by the flames and noisily scattered in all directions.The fire burned the blades of grass, and soon there was a heat wave, and the scorching hot air rushed to the face, igniting this piece of forest!Zuo Sanniang ran away impatiently, the fire dragon swam around, and the waves of flames reflected the sky like daytime.

In the firelight, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a cluster of dark figures in the distance, standing silently in the grass and forest, arm in arm.That is not a straw man, but a real person.Before they knew it, they had surrounded Zuo Sanniang, watching her silently and coldly like a stone monument.

"You...you..."

The chain circle formed by the crowd slowly closed, surrounded by layers of evil spirits, approaching her.These people were dressed quite differently, and looked very different from Lingzhou people.The men wrap their heads with green scarves, and their dark and strong arms are exposed in the green cloth gowns with the double breasts, while the women wear pleated skirts with water clouds. Everyone is carrying a side basket and holding a small curved scythe for mowing grass in their hands.Everyone's eyes were dark and gloomy, as if a stormy sea was brewing.

Zuo Sanniang looked around in panic, she suddenly thought of getting up and poisoning people's discussion about "Dashiyou".They said that there are a group of evil spirits in the grass forest, who will tear people's intestines open.Ordinary people who entered this sea of ​​grass would never return to Lingzhou Town.

But at this moment, she had no way out, the fire behind her was extremely intense, and half of her body was scorching hot.Under the heat wave, she shook her head in a panic, and shouted: "Don't come here! Who are you... What are you going to do!"

The curved edge of the knife was dyed red by the flames, like a shocking bloodstain.The weird people who came out of the grass forest at no time came like heavy dark clouds, but they seemed to be carrying a heavy force, making her breathless.

People, people are everywhere, and the field of vision is filled with figures.Zuo Sanniang could hear their heavy breathing, like a howling gale that lingered in the deep valley.The fire wave was hot, but the heat emitted from people's bodies was even worse, and more scorching breath was released from the beating of the heart.

Someone suddenly spoke in the silence, it was the voice of an old man, full of hesitation and surprise.Accompanied by the chirping of burning grass leaves, the sound is particularly loud in the deep valley.

"...San'er, is that you?"

Immediately after, there was a heavy sigh, but Zuo Sanniang's heart seemed to be suspended by a string in an instant.

"It's been ten years, and you've finally returned to the Valley of Ten Thousand Doctors."