In the early morning, after dinner, Zhou Dagu and Manager Asan checked their confessions again.
"Remember, your young master is a hero, he is not a straw bag who pushed us to the Two Realms Mountains to sacrifice! Only in this way can your prime minister, in order to preserve the reputation of his family, help us hide the truth!"
"Only in this way can the widows and orphans of the soldiers who died in the Blood Dragon Valley receive the compensation they deserve!"
"The truth is not important. How the surviving people can survive is more important!" Zhou Dagu looked into his eyes.
Ah San nodded heavily, feeling only respect for the boy in front of him and no longer daring to harbor any murderous intent.
It is best not to offend such a flexible person.
Ah San cupped his hands and bowed his head: "Mr. Zhou, let's say goodbye right here. I'll ride to the capital quickly so that I can report to Prime Minister Zhao!"
"There are no wild tigers on our way here. You are talented and wild animals will not intrude on you."
Zhou Dagu waved his hand. He was not afraid of Ah San's betrayal. After all, there was no other way for him to go.
He understood that Ah San could tell that if he continued to stay with him, he would probably be left in this valley by him.
After all, only dead people can truly reassure people.
A fast horse galloped away from the mountain road.
Zhou Dagu returned to his senses and looked at the two little bumpkins, lost in thought for a long time.
There was the sound of branches being crushed in his ears. When he looked up, he found many wild wolves circling at the mouth of the Blood Dragon Valley.
The blood dragon is dead, and the blood python will no longer swallow the corpses of animals in the valley.
Some bold animals have already entered the valley with their heads.
Walking in step by step, looking at the corpses on the ground, they devoured them.
This is the law of nature. More than ten years ago, demons and barbarians invaded Yumen Pass, and the human race suffered a tragic victory.
The beasts of that year were mostly fat and strong.
The wild wolf turned around and saw a tent with flying tarpaulins. He took a step forward and felt the smell of living people in the air.
The Blood Dragon Valley has been invaded by powerful beasts. How could wild wolves like them have the chance to go in and devour it.
There were three or five wild wolves in a clan. They looked at each other and ran wildly towards the horse's hoof prints on the ground.
There is a lot more qi and blood in a living person's body than in a dead person's body.
The snow in early spring comes and goes quickly.
Zhou Dagu rode away from the Blood Dragon Valley, and there were no traces of snow under the horse's hooves.
He reined in his horse and looked back.
In the distance at the Blood Dragon Valley, vultures were circling in the sky, and wild tigers and eagles were fighting.
"Fortunately, I have good eyesight. Otherwise, if you eat too much of these cold things, you will inevitably want to try some hot ones! If you take aim at me, it would be bad..." Zhou Dagu looked sideways.
After entering the country, his senses were heightened. He heard something like an animal panting on the mountain behind him?
He turned around and looked sideways, just in time to see three wolves running towards him with their heads lowered.
Zhou Da Gu Yang spurred the horse: "Drive!"
His heart was beating violently in his chest.
…………
The sun was setting, and the setting sun hung in the sky. There was a figure in the woods passing through the green leaves, and the leaves were stained with a trace of blood red.
Zhou Dagu ran towards the village along the road in his memory.
He came on horseback, so he was naturally much faster than the marching team of one hundred and ten people, and it had already taken him a whole day.
He wiped the blood from his hands on the tree. Fortunately, Zhou Wu had taken Zhou Dagu with him when hunting before, so he had some understanding of wolves.
Coupled with the habit of touching corpses, he got a talisman from the second master Zhao, and the talisman trapped the three wolves, and he barely survived.
only……
Zhou Dagu touched the wound on his chest: "My strength is too weak!"
The Taoist Jinsuo only trapped three wolves, but the wolves were too cunning. After he killed the three wolves, another wolf came out of the woods.
The horse was killed, and a deep wound was left on his body. If it weren't for the pill, he might have died long ago.
He touched the wolf skin on his body and sighed. Except for four wolf skins and a family letter, he had nothing on him.
Zhou Dagu supported his heavy body and took the elixir to save his life, but there was no way to recover from his injuries. His body looked full of energy and blood, but in fact it was just an overdraft of life.
The village in the distance appeared in front of him, and Zhou Dagu's walking speed became slower and slower.
He looked at the only lighted place in the village, crawled bit by bit, and finally lay down in the vegetable field, breathing weakly.
He touched his head, the temperature was getting higher and higher, it was over!
Isn't it because I have a fever?
In this world, fever is a life-threatening disease.
He has a scholar's body and is extremely weak. He was frightened by wild wolves and walked quickly on the mountain road, but he ignored his frailty.
Under the moon, the early spring moon is very bright.
Zhou Dagu fell into a coma, and his life and death depended on fate.
In the village, a cry suddenly came: "Brother!"
A girl woke up from her sleep touching her chest, sweating profusely on her face.
She lit a lamp, leaned against the bed, and looked into the darkness: "Is something going to happen to me? I seem to be dreaming?"
The girl's surname is Zhou, and her given name is Ruyi. She is from Zhoujia Village. She is fifteen years old. She is the age to get married, but because she cannot afford the bride price, the wedding is delayed for a while.
Zhou Ruyi sat by the bed, feeling something was wrong more and more in her heart. Her relatives were connected heart to heart. She believed this kind of thing: "Is it really that something happened to my brother?"
Zhou's mother passed away, and Zhou's father often worked in the army to earn a living. No one was sure whether he would be able to come back this time.
In Zhou Ruyi's heart, her cowardly elder brother is both her mother and her father.
She got out of bed, put on her shoes, and walked out of the house. In the distance, two big men were lying in the haystack at her door.
This is the bodyguard of Wang Yuanwai's family. Wang Yuanwai also worked in the county government in his early years. Later, he made a mistake and went home to buy land and became a landlord.
Who would have known that as he bought more and more land, his people became worse and worse, and if he was not careful, he would become the largest landowner within hundreds of miles.
Zhou Ruyi's family cultivates their own land.
It's just that in the past few years, because my eldest brother Shu Xiu was in school, the family owed a lot of money. In addition, my father was old and frail, and the court imposed heavy taxes.
The family's life is getting poorer and poorer, and now they owe five taels of silver.
Recently, news came from the county that a group of military households were missing from Yumen Pass. It is very likely that this group of military households included his father and brother.
There was someone in Wang Yuanwai's county town. He heard that Zhou Ruyi's father and brother were not here. How could a little girl repay him five taels of silver?
Wang Yuanwai has long been thinking about Zhou Ruyi. The little girl has tender skin and tender flesh, especially her big eyes, which make people look at her with affection.
He has never played with any kind of woman, but little girls like this are rare and make him feel itchy.
Zhou Ruyi looked at the two big men lying at the door. They were the ones sent by Wang Yuanwai to watch her.
She quietly came out from the crack in the door and stood under the jujube tree in front of her house: "Brother, please don't get into trouble!"
She looked at the moon and saw a big monster in the vegetable field under the moon.
Zhou Ruyi was startled: "You two, stop sleeping, hurry up! Look! There is a monster!"
The two guards at the gate naturally understood how fierce Zhou Ruyi was. This little girl might become a mistress-like figure in the future. It was one thing to not let her go out, but it was another thing not to offend her.
People in the upper class have the complacency of the people in the upper class, and people in the lower class have the calculations of the people in the lower class.
The two of them didn't care how Zhou Ruyi came out, and followed the direction of her finger to look at the moonlit ground.
"Is that a wolf?"
"No, how can there be such a big wolf? No, it can't be a monster!"
Zhou Ruyi stared at the monster in the distance, feeling increasingly strange: "This... looks like my brother!"
Zhou Ruyi's heartbeat is getting faster and faster: "Go and take a look?"
"No, what if it turns out to be a demon! Little girl, nothing can happen to you. If you make any mistake, we will both be doomed!"
"Then you will come with me?"
Zhou Ruyi covered her heart, as if something important was about to leave her: "If you don't take me, I will crash and die here right now, and let Wang Yuanwai punish you!"
The two nodded helplessly and followed Zhou Ruyi: "Well, let's just take a look from a distance. If anything goes wrong, we must run away!"
Zhou Ruyi ran in the vegetable field, her speed getting faster and faster, and she shed tears uncontrollably.
The moon emerged from the clouds, and she could clearly see the faces of the people on the ground.
Zhou Ruyi cried and shouted: "Brother!"
This poor person, a fifteen-year-old girl, was trapped at home by gangsters and never cried. But when she saw her brother sweating on the ground, she could no longer suppress her grievances.
The moon couldn't bear to look at it, so it hid in the cracks in the clouds.
