The master said not to judge people by their appearance

At night, in a dream in Yazhou.

Unlike in the past, at the end of the glacier tonight, there were no Yuanrong iron cavalry galloping over, only a huge hole in the glacier, which was the one that Xie Yunlan burned with a dragon chariot yesterday.

It seemed that after freezing the Yuan Rong iron cavalry into the bottom of the lake last night, this cycle of nightmares was broken to a certain extent, which was just convenient for them to find someone. Xie Yunlan immediately called soldiers to search the city to find Gesang's whereabouts.

Soldiers shuttled through the streets and alleys of Yazhou City. They almost searched Yazhou City, but found nothing.

Wei Chengzhi also went to the place where he met Gesang the night before, but the result was the same.

After some useless searching, Wei Chengzhi suddenly thought of something, he went to talk to Xie Yunlan, Xie Yunlan thought for a moment, and agreed.

The two groups separated at the intersection, Xie Yunlan led Shen Fan and a group of soldiers to continue searching the city, while Wei Chengzhi walked into those remote and hidden alleys alone.

After walking for a while, a head with pigtails protruded from the corner behind him.

Gesang observed for a while, made sure that there was no one else around, and immediately ran out of his hiding place.Wei Chengzhi heard the "da da da" footsteps behind him, turned around and was just in time to be thrown into his arms by Gesang.

"Hey, my old waist." Wei Chengzhi laughed, even though he was looking for Gesang tonight for a very serious matter, he still couldn't help but smile and hug Gesang, as if he hadn't seen him for a long time The daughter's father is so happy.

But thinking of the death of Cao Jinyu and others that he saw during the day, the smile on Wei Chengzhi's face gradually faded, and now only eleven people have died, but this dream continues to repeat, and the changes in the capital and Cangzhou are bound to repeat themselves. The people will inevitably die.

"Gesang." Wei Chengzhi put Gesang down, looked serious, and said, "I ask you a question, can you answer me honestly?"

It was the first time Gesang saw him like this, he was a little timid, but he still nodded.

Wei Chengzhi knelt down, making his eyes level with Gesang, and said, "Do you hate the people of Yazhou?"

Gesang shook his head.

"Then you hate Cao Jinyu and the others?" Wei Chengzhi asked again.

Gesang looked blank.

Wei Chengzhi realized that she probably didn't know the names of Cao Jinyu's gang, so he said, "It's the gang that kidnapped you."

He described the appearance and characteristics of Cao Jinyu and others. Gesang understood this time. She flinched a bit, as if she was afraid of them, but still shook her head.

"Then do you know how this dream came about?" Wei Chengzhi asked puzzled.

Xie Yunlan guessed at the beginning that the dream master had a kind of hatred for the people of Yazhou, so he wanted to slaughter them over and over again, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"I don't, I don't know..." Gesang stammered.

She was just a seven-year-old child, and she couldn't understand the origin of this dream, even if it was her own dream.

Wei Chengzhi realized this, so he changed the question: "Gesang, can you tell me what happened to you? How did you come to Yazhou City, and how did you fall into the hands of Cao Jinyu and others?"

Gesang nodded and said "Okay", but she was naturally shy, not good at words, and she stumbled when speaking. After Wei Chengzhi listened patiently, he sorted out the matter again before he sorted out what happened.

Gesang is from Yuanrong, and she has been living on the grasslands outside the pass since she was born.Her parents died early, but she has a grandma, and she and her grandma depend on each other for life on weekdays.

Most Yuanrong people are brave and warlike, and so are most of their children. They often played and played dangerous games when they were young, and girls were no exception.Gesang, who is shy and cowardly, doesn't fit in well, and her peers gradually don't play well with her, and sometimes even deliberately bully her.

Gesang doesn't take these things to heart, and no one plays with her, so she often goes to the grassland alone to pick some small flowers, which are Gesang flowers with the same name as her.

Gesang likes flowers very much. She collects them and gives them to her grandma when she goes home. Grandma will help her weave these Gesang flowers into beautiful garlands. Looking at his own reflection.

Although her wreath was often snatched by other children before long, she still enjoyed it.

Until more than a month ago, when she went to pick flowers alone, she met a caravan of Xia people.

Gesang knew this caravan. They had come many times, and each time they would replace some horses with the tribe and take them away. She was timid by nature, and even though she had seen them many times, she just watched them from a distance and never approached them.

Cao Jinyu and his team also knew her. In every chat with the Yuanrong people, they knew that this little girl had no parents, only a frail and sick grandma with handicapped legs, and that both grandparents and grandchildren were relatively withdrawn and had no relatives or friends in the clan. , even if it suddenly disappeared one day, no one would seriously look for it.

This is an excellent starting target.

As a businessman, the most important thing is a word of profit.Cao Jinyu looks honest and responsible, just an ordinary small trader, but if he dares to do horse smuggling business for money, he also dares to do other things for money.

The horses outside the pass are equally precious, as are the women outside the pass. The gentlemen in Beijing are very fond of these graceful orchids from other lands, and many high-ranking and noble families keep them.

Gesang has a handsome appearance, and he will definitely look good when he grows up. He is still young, so he can be trained by someone and sold in a flower house. Maybe he can become an oiran or something.As a seller, Cao Jinyu must have made a lot of money.

Obsessed with profit, Cao Jinyu waved at Gesang, seeing Gesang not moving, he rolled his eyes again, took out a handful of walnuts and melon seeds from the package, smiled and compared to Gesang, as if he wanted to give it to her.

Gesang had never eaten these, but she heard from people in the clan that the Xia people's food was delicious, so she walked over cautiously.

Cao Jinyu gave her walnuts and melon seeds, and taught her how to peel and eat melon seeds. She learned happily, but she didn't realize that someone walked around behind her, and when she was eating melon seeds, she suddenly covered her mouth from behind.

"Oh!" She faltered and shouted, but her voice was quickly blocked by the sackcloth stuffed into her mouth. She still tried to struggle, but how could she, a seven-year-old child, be against such a group of grown men.

She was tied hand and foot, blindfolded, stuffed into a sack for loading, and carried by horses, farther and farther away from her hometown.

They didn't keep her in the sack all the time, after they left the Yuanrong people's tribe, they let her out from time to time to breathe, so as not to suffocate to death.

She would find a chance to escape while she was breathing, but every time she was caught by these people before running a few steps, and then pressed into the water by them to torture, because this would not leave scars on her body, but also give her enough pain.

She was brought into Yazhou City by Cao Jinyu and his team. They just rested here and would return to Yunzhou in two days.During these two days, they locked Gesang in the woodshed in the backyard.

One day, the people who brought her meals forgot to close the door, so she seized the opportunity and ran out through the back door while these people were eating.

This is the furthest time she has run, and she almost succeeded. She ran to the street and met patrolling officers and soldiers. She couldn't speak the Central Plains dialect, so she could only gesture with her hands and feet. Those chasing her were bad guys. .

The officers and soldiers should also understand, because they stopped Cao Jinyu and his party for questioning, which raised a glimmer of hope in Gesang's heart, but when Cao Jinyu and his party said that she was the Yuan Rong they bought back outside the customs After being enslaved, these officers and soldiers left. Cao Jinyu and his party viciously restrained her. She was very frightened and cried to the surrounding Yazhou people for help, but no one helped her.

She was brought back, and was grabbed by her hair and pushed into the water again. The cold water choked her nostrils. Before she suffocated and died, they lifted her up violently. Press down.

Again and again, until these people have had enough.

She was locked in the woodshed again. She felt very cold at first, and her clothes were wet.Later, she felt very hot again. She huddled on the ground, her young body trembling constantly, and her mind was gradually blurred due to the high fever. The previous pictures kept flashing in her mind, that was stretches of grassland, the beautiful Gesanghua, that was her hometown.

"I want to go home..." Gesang murmured under his high fever.

She didn't want revenge, whether it was Cao Jinyu and his party, or those Xia people who wanted to die, she didn't want revenge. There was not much hatred in her pure and cowardly heart, only a strong and firm desire.

She just wants to go home.

As if responding to her call, or sensing her obsession, a shadow darker than the night suddenly appeared in the dim woodshed. This shadow was full of ominousness. Intuitively, Gesang felt that the other party was not good. thing.

She tightened her body and looked at the shadow in fear, but the shadow spoke more tenderly than anyone she had ever seen. It saw through her wish at a glance, and agreed to her, taking her home.

Then, Gesang fell into a dream.

She didn't know what happened in reality, since that night, she has been staying in this dream.

Their Yuan Rong hero Talgu gallops from the end of the glacier every night, and the invincible Yuan Rong cavalry removes all obstacles on the way home for her, but she still can't go home.

"I, I can't find my way..." Gesang cried, "I can't go back..."

Wei Chengzhi felt a pain in his chest when he saw what happened to Gesang. He was already heartbroken by what happened to Gesang, but now the tears that kept falling from the corners of his eyes made him not know what to do. He reached out to help Gesang wipe away the tears, but suddenly he heard footsteps The sound is approaching.

It is the people of Yazhou who are involved in the dream realm.The news that the officers and soldiers were searching for a Yuanrong girl spread among the people, and the people also helped to search for it, because this girl was most likely the culprit who dragged them into the nightmare.

Being dragged into a nightmare for more than a month, and being killed by Yuan Rong cavalry time and time again, they accumulated a lot of resentment, and as soon as they found someone at this moment, they shouted angrily and surrounded them.

Seeing this, Wei Chengzhi immediately put Gesang behind him and wanted to explain to the people, but the people would not listen to his explanation, they already had a kind of hatred for the Yuan Rong people, not to mention that the Yuan Rong people tried to kill them.

Seeing the excitement of the crowd, Xie Yunlan, who was hiding in the dark, felt bad when he saw this.

He and Wei Chengzhi pretended to separate, but in fact they returned here secretly with Shen Fan, hiding not far from Wei Chengzhi and Gesang, keeping a close eye on them.

At this moment, Xie Yunlan saw that the people were already going to arrest Gesang, so she immediately came out of the hiding place together with Shen Fan, trying to stop the angry crowd.

However, Gesang was already trembling with fear from these people, and seeing Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan who drew their swords at her yesterday, under extreme fear, her emotions collapsed again, and she hissed loudly.

After the Yuan Rong cavalry was frozen into the bottom of the lake last night, they became silent sculptures, but at this moment, as if they sensed the girl's call, a red light flashed in their dark eye holes.

The stiff armor suddenly began to tremble, and in the next moment, they burst in the water, absorbing enough nutrients from fear and resentment, turning into a huge black gas, gathering together.

A huge monster dragon with a length of one hundred feet roared out of the water, and it came straight to Yazhou City, wrapped in the wind and snow.

The crowd trembled under the roar of the monster dragon, Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan also changed their expressions.

Wei Chengzhi realized that it was Gesang's fear that gave birth to this monstrous dragon. He quickly hugged Gesang and comforted him, saying, "Don't be afraid, I have daddy here, I have daddy here, and I won't let others hurt you again!"

Gesang's screaming became softer. Her parents passed away shortly after she was born. In the short seven years of her life, she had always hoped to have such a tall father who could protect her when she was bullied by others. To be able to take her home at this moment.

"Gesang," Wei Chengzhi helped Gesang wipe away tears, and promised, "I will definitely take you home."

But Gesang stared at him blankly for a moment, but what he responded was a loud roar that broke out suddenly.

"You liar!" Gesang yelled, a frenzied snowstorm suddenly rose around her, forcing Wei Chengzhi to back away from her.

Cracks appeared on the ground at the same time, and a section of green vine emerged from the ground. It climbed up Gesang's ankle, and then gradually climbed up Gesang's whole body. It swallowed Gesang bit by bit, and finally in the center of the city, a huge Gesang flowers.

The monster flood dragon came above Gesanghua, and the wind and snow that came with it completely engulfed the crowd here. The panicked expressions froze on their faces, and the people in the city became ice sculptures at this moment.

Only Shen Fan, Xie Yunlan, and Wei Chengzhi, who were protected by the soul fire, were still alive, but as the snow increased little by little, the magic power of the monster dragon was strengthened, and the soul fire in Shen Fan's hand became weaker and weaker. It is difficult to resist this monstrous power.

Fortunately, before it was completely extinguished, the dream woke up.

Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan immediately got out of bed after waking up, and wanted to ask Wei Chengzhi about the dream.

But Wei Chengzhi had no time to explain to them for the time being. After waking up, he immediately went to the house where Cao Jinyu and his party were. He searched everywhere in the house, but just like the officers and soldiers who searched this place yesterday, they found nothing.

Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan who followed him didn't understand why he did such a futile effort, but they saw Wei Chengzhi running to a muddy field in the backyard in a daze after searching to no avail.

There was nothing bare on the muddy ground, only a small flower that had just broken out of the ground.

It is Gesanghua.

Wei Chengzhi started digging with both hands, Xie Yunlan also realized something, and called the officers and soldiers to help.

After a while, the mud was completely dug up, revealing the bones of a child buried underground.

The roots of Gesanghua entangled in the flesh and blood of the corpse, just like in a dream.

It is a Gesang flower that is rooted in the soil of a foreign land and can no longer return home.

There was a touch of white falling from the sky, and it was snowing again.