Ye Jianqiu

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The vicissitudes of life become mulberry fields, and mulberry fields become vicissitudes of life.

There is no certainty in poor communication, and the change is always up to the sky.

Waves of whirlwinds rolled up the yellow sand, like smoke rising from the flat ground, spinning and running across the desert. The desert without even a single tree was so vast that it made people feel tired. loneliness.

A lone horse was walking alone on the wasteland. In the setting sun, the man on the horse was unkempt and emaciated, his clothes were covered with dust, and his thick hair and beard were twisted into strands of hemp rope.

At this time, suddenly the horse neighed and raised its hooves in shock, a strong smelly wind hit the man, the man felt his back sink, and saw two furry paws on his shoulders!Feeling the heavy breathing coming from the back of his head, he immediately bent down, ducked his head, and threw the heavy object off his body!

Before it was too late, the man immediately raised his ax and slashed at a gray-haired orc who was rushing towards him. In an instant, the orc's throat was cut, and he fell to the ground spattered with blood!At this time, several orcs with human faces and wolf bodies screamed and rushed towards the horse's buttocks. The horse kept bumping and dodging on the ground in shock. The orc was hacked to pieces and fell to the ground dead.

"59."

Looking at the blood-stained yellow sand and the corpses of orcs, he silently recorded the number of orcs he killed along the way.

The man knew that in fact these orcs were no threat, it was because they had been orcs for too short a time and hadn't learned how to hunt.

What worries him the most are the lone wolves and packs of wolves, who are the real killers of the wilderness.The wild wolves that grew up in the wilderness are sinister, cunning, greedy, resistant to hunger and cold, excellent at long-distance running and tracking, with a keen sense of smell and vigilance, chasing after their prey, and sometimes calling their companions to fight!

The man shook his head, walked towards a clean sand dune with the blood-soaked axe, bent down, grabbed two handfuls of sand and wiped the axe, put the ax on his waist, and continued walking.

When he finally passed through the sparsely populated wasteland, he gradually approached the bustling town.

As the road got wider and wider, there were more and more pedestrians, and the common people were hurriedly fleeing in the direction of Linyue City in the capital.

In the cold wind, some people covered their heads with blankets and big hats. Even so, they could still see some animal-like features on their faces, and even those bold half-human, half-beast aliens appeared in the crowd swaggeringly Inside, there were a few majestic tiger-shaped orcs. When others saw them, they avoided them one after another, leaving a passage for them to pass through.

In fact, the number of common people hidden in the alienation of the people is beyond people's imagination.

People were terrified at the beginning and gradually accepted it, because their neighbors, friends, and even relatives were more or less alienated.But there are also some people who can't accept it. When they see orcs, they will try their best to burn them to death, because they think they are monsters.

These aliens are actually not the same as the wolf-type orcs who attacked just now.

Many people don't understand that there is actually a very clear dividing line here. Those who are alienated in advance maintain the thinking and behavior of human beings, and they are not a threat to human beings.Only those who were infected by the virus and sandstorm overnight could become ferocious beasts.However, there are also harmless orcs among them, such as the sheep-shaped beasts and fish-shaped beasts locked in the dark room by the old lady of the Cao family. Even if they are infected by the wind and sand, they will not hurt people.

These alienated people who had been hiding for a long time were overjoyed. They thought they had a strange disease, but they didn't realize until today that many people are just like themselves!And overnight, their abilities became stronger, and they gained extraordinary physical fitness.Some armies have even begun to urgently look for this kind of powerful alien orcs, and posted notices declaring that they are willing to pay a salary that is several times higher than the normal number to collect these alienated people into the army.

At this time, there was a mournful cry like a kitten on the side of the road.

I saw a ragged, hemp rope tied around his waist, a barefoot orphan shivering in the cold wind, weeping helplessly.Passers-by sighed when they saw it, but no one extended a helping hand. Some even shook their heads repeatedly, only thinking of monsters.I saw that the child had long ears and red eyes. It turned out to be a small orc in the shape of a rabbit.

The weak Alienist army is not accepted. Maybe the child's family can't accept that he has become a monster, but they can't bear to execute him to death. In the end, he was abandoned by his parents, and he stayed here pitifully and resigned to his fate.

Seeing this, the man got off his horse and stuffed him with a big pot helmet. The other refugees stared at the dry food in the child's hand with green eyes, but the man who was full of evil spirit did not dare to go forward to grab it, and just hid aside and waited for him to leave.

The man simply sat on the ground, watching the orphan eat the pot helmet with salty tears.After the child was full, he choked up and slowly moved closer to the man. His outstretched hands were covered with fine white fluff. The man stretched out his big hands to caress his soft long ears.

There was smoke and dust billowing on the road, and the cars and horses were not stopping. The man looked numbly at the crowd passing by him.

Finally, passers-by stopped. They were two couples who were also tightly packed. They saw the little beast crying and pitiful, so they asked the man vigilantly. Quietly pulled off the face scarf to reveal his deer-shaped beast face.

Then the man took out a few silver ingots to the kind-hearted people, and threatened them with a sharp ax that there is a god three feet above their heads, don't deceive them!The couple wept, and said that their child was burned to death as a monster, so they felt pity and promised to treat him as their own.

The man was relieved to let the child leave with the adults.

The dying day was like blood, and the man stood alone under a big tree that had been burnt to charcoal fire, silently looking at the fleeing crowd, everywhere he looked, there was devastation.This is Liujiatun, [-] miles outside Bazhou City, where you can see the densely packed military tents where the army of Chi Kingdom is stationed in the distance.

He never expected that after leaving Qingyang, he learned that the outside world was not only swarmed with beastmen, but also turned into a purgatory on earth.Some people once told him that now the barbarians are rampant, the barbarians are rampant, and even the mountain bandits are rushing down the mountains to kill and plunder.

I really would rather be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times.

The man's eyes were bloodshot, and it could be seen that he hadn't closed his eyes for many days. He stretched out his fist and slammed hard on the scorched tree trunk that still had red charcoal fire, and beat it painlessly, as if it could relieve his inner pain.

He looked at the flock of birds flying across the sky, opened his chapped lips and wanted to shout, but his throat was hoarse and he couldn't make a sound.

——Mother, where are you, can you turn into a bird and escape from the cage?

——Little cook, where are you, but you turned into a tumbleweed and escaped from the desert?

"The bright mirror is lacking, cold rain and bells do not know the morning and evening, loneliness and blue silk... Who cares, the dawn wind and the moon, I hope that life and death will be with you. It's just that the yellow beams are fragile, the world is far away, and the eyes are tearful, watching thousands of sails pass by..."

The sound of singing came slowly, which was particularly eye-catching in the hustle and bustle.

I saw an eye-catching figure appearing in the crowd, the man came singing a song, riding a little donkey upside down, with his head down and drunk, wanting to fall off the donkey's back, someone on the side of the road became malicious, wanting to fall off the donkey's back. Looking at his donkey, he stretched out his hand and pulled the man on the donkey's back a few times. The man's body tilted and he fell to the ground.

"You villain, what are you doing!"

The man shouted loudly, and the villain fled immediately.He shook his head, his heart was stolen by hunger and cold. He was originally a conscientious citizen, but he did all kinds of evil things when he was in desperate situation.

When the drunk man staggered up from the ground holding the donkey, the two looked at each other, and they were both stunned.

"Old water?"

"Cao Wu?"

Meeting an old acquaintance in a foreign land, Cao Wu couldn't help but get red eyes.

"Old Shui, why are you here?"

"Cao Wu, why are you here?"

The two spoke at the same time, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I saw Lao Shui said: "I really didn't expect that I, Lao Shui, could meet the fifth young master of the Cao family here, why not have a drink."

After finishing speaking, Lao Shui took a wine gourd from the donkey and handed it to Cao Wu. Cao Wu took it and turned his head. Down.

"Old Shui, where are the other brothers?"

Hearing Cao Wu's question, Lao Shui smiled bitterly: "It's gone..."

"Not here...what do you mean?"

"Dead, all dead..."

Cao Wu's heart clenched fiercely, he lifted the wine gourd and swallowed his tears and the spicy wine together.

Lao Shui let out a long sigh, and only then did he reveal the reason.

It turned out that Qiao Yuying tricked more than 200 people from their farm to follow her to Mount Yingtou. When they bravely captured the Mount Yingtou from the Chi people with the Lu family army, they were all ambushed by the Lu family army afterwards. Almost all the brothers were killed!

Poor those brothers didn't even see Lord Zhao's face, they just met Lord Yan.

Lao Shui shed bitter tears and lifted his clothes, only to see brown hair covering his belly and a long tail looming behind him.

Cao Wu was weeping and speechless. This was clearly a sand fox orc. It can be seen that Lao Shui is also a person with supernatural powers. If he hadn't been so lucky, he might have died.

"My real name is Wen Xun, and the dumb little Wen is my son."

Cao Wu hugged the wine gourd and bowed his head in silence. Now, Cao Wu felt that his heart was riddled with holes, and no matter how shocking things were, they couldn't cause waves in his heart.

If the wine is not intoxicating, everyone is intoxicated, and the old water who drank too much continued to babble.

Wen Xun was originally Tanhualang in the 27th year of Taiyuan.

At the beginning of the green robe, the king's kindness is heavy, and the yellow list first opens the royal ink.

In March of that year when the spring flowers were brilliant, Linyue City was full of joy, filled with chariots and horses, colorful boats played music, and melodious songs. All the ministers chose the east bed.Ten years in the cold window, no one asked, and he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop. He Wen Xun was proud to be on the imperial list, arranging flowers and wearing red, riding a horse to follow the champion, and parading around the street behind the second place.In the peach blossom forest, he immediately fell in love with the lady from the noble family who was lifting the colored curtains and brocade curtains on the side of the road to peek. He saw that lady's face was like a pile of flowers, and her skin was like beautiful jade. There are endless eyebrows to express affection, and endless meanings in the corners of the eyes.

Wen Xun immediately dismounted and handed over the rich peony in his hand to that beautiful woman.

But who would have imagined that this is a princess playing with fish and dragons in white clothes, no wonder people are more gorgeous than peonies!

When Wen Xun learned the inside story, he hesitated. He didn't want to be a courtier and a horse for the elderly.

The proud princess saw the hesitation between his brows, and immediately ordered to see the guests off, and has never had anything to do with him since then.

Cao Wu patiently listened to Lao Shui's nagging.

Wen Xun also talked about how he worked so hard to find out that the King of Qi, Zhao Chun, was put into a jade coffin and stored in the steepest cave in the sky because of his long sleep. , was called Xianhuang Gorge by Cangqiong people.

Wen Xun shook his head and sighed: "People in the world talk about gods, who sees them go to heaven? It's not that the fairy family is all vain, and it's rare to have a firm heart. If he wants to be emperor, he will be emperor. If he wants to be a fairy, he will become a fairy. If he wants to die, he will die. Live as long as you want, live freely in the world, don't care about the suffering of the people in the world, pity us ants and beasts..."

He pointed to the military tent stationed in the distance and said: "Do you know who is leading hundreds of thousands of troops from the Chi Kingdom to attack Bazhou City? Huya General Yang Xiaomi... Haha! That Yang catcher was a good show! He traveled north, not only burning, killing and looting the places he passed by, but even hijacking those big officials, and forcing them to Those family members went to raise ransom and get huge profits. His subordinates followed suit one after another. Even if they captured some poor people alone, they would ask their family members to pay thirty bolts of good silk to redeem them. If they refused, they would sell them into slavery! Not to mention those valuable I am afraid that Yang Xiaomi will let Yang Xiaomi blackmail him!"

Cao Wu raised his eyelids to look at the black dragon army flag fluttering in the wind, and silently picked up the empty gourd and poured a few drops of bitter wine into his mouth.

Lao Shui stood up and laughed wildly, pointing to the distance and said: "How do you know who is fighting in the south? It is Lu Yanyu, who claims to be a wise king, who has led millions of troops and occupied three big cities! Hehe!"

"Where's the little cook?"

Cao Wu plucked up the courage to speak.

He has been searching day and night for five full days, but there is no army stationed near Yingtou Mountain, and the once-popular Yingtou Mountain seems to have been abandoned.In the counties and towns around Qingyang, except for the Lu family army's flag flying, there was no Situ Jin's troops, and no news of my mother.

Cao Wu was almost desperate, he was afraid to find out what he was least willing to accept.

Lao Shui was in a daze for a moment and said, "Is Guan Ye a problem? I don't know..."

Cao Wu immediately jumped up, grabbed Lao Shui's collar and yelled, "Is the little cook with Situ Jin? Where are they?"

"Situ Jin, he's in Qilibao..."

"Where is Qilibao?"

"At the junction of Bazhou and Chongzhou."

Seeing Cao Wu immediately get on his horse, Lao Shui stepped forward to grab the reins: "Old Wu, won't you walk with me?"

"Where are you going?"

"Go to join forces with the imperial court to suppress the rebellion..."

"Fuck off, counter-insurgency!"

Cao Wu rode away on horseback.