Inside Qianhu Miao Village.

"Brush and brush..." The sound of sharpening the blade is endless, but the sharpener seems to be extremely irritable. The sharpening speed is getting faster and faster, and the force is better than once.

"Akang, take a break, it's enough." A female voice came from beside her.

"..." The sound of sharpening the knife paused, but it sounded again the next moment.

"Brush..."

The female voice said helplessly:

"Half an hour has passed, more than ten long swords, short spears, daggers... Now even the arrows are shining by you. Take a break, I will rub your shoulders."

Akang shook his head, the resentment on his face still remained unchanged, he gritted his teeth and whispered:

"Grind the weapons faster and kill a few Central Plains robbers at that time! Especially the dog thief named Jiang! He came to our Miaojiang and did all the bad things, thinking that he could leave with the protection of the Qin court. There was nothing so cheap in the world... I, Luo Kang, must cut off his head with my own hands!"

When talking about Jiang Xiaoshu, Xiaonian also looked sad, and her eyes were drooping:

"It is to save him that the Qin army killed so many Miaojiang people. When I think of the tragic situation of Aming and the other sixteen people, my heart trembled and I couldn't stop for a moment... These cruel people from the Central Plains should all go to hell."

Speaking of Amin who was in the same village, Akang immediately clenched his fists, and he said with some gritted teeth:

"Last month, Ah Ming's seventeenth birthday, I promised him that he would find a good wife for him, teach him kung fu, know, know..."

Akang could no longer say anything, and his eyes were red and his tears flowed. He rubbed his eyes with his arms, and then sharpened the knife hard again.

When talking about this, Xiao Nian did not persuade him anymore, and even picked up another knife and sharpened it with Akang.

After a while, all the weapons were polished and sharp. Xiao Nian pulled Akang's hand and found that several blisters had appeared at the tiger's mouth. She stroked her lover's hand with distress and then said:

"Akang, I haven't understood a problem."

"you say."

"Although I heard that the Central Plains robber surnamed Jiang is not weak in martial arts, our Miaojiang now has 20,000 people. Even one of them spits at him and drowns him... So I kept thinking, since everyone hates this person, why don't you go directly to the forbidden area to capture him and execute him?"

"When every Miaojiang person can't walk, his family will tell him that the southwest mountain of Qianhuzhai is the place where the Miao King is buried, and it is a forbidden place that must not be involved. Since this rule is set, of course everyone must abide by it."

"But the five wind and rain bridges were clearly there, so I lifted my feet and walked over."

"Xiao Nian, don't have this kind of thought! The elders of each village repeatedly emphasized that the Miao people must not set foot on the southwest mountain. Two hours ago, the young men in Nanhua Village were beheaded in public for this reason. Have you forgotten?"

"Rules and rules... The people in the Central Plains have not yet called me, but they have killed a lot of their own people. What is the rule?" Xiao Nian shook her head and then sighed:

"Isn't it too rigid?"

Before Akang could answer, an old voice suddenly came from his ear:

"Little girl, you said it wrong."

The sound appeared too suddenly, as if it was coming out of thin air, which really scared Akang Xiaonian.

Akang raised his hand behind his back, protected Xiao Nian behind him, and looked at the person who came vigilantly.

The visitor was an old man in his fifties and sixties. He had a dark face and medium figure, a bun with a squid, a little yellowish on his clothes, his trousers were tied high, and he was carrying a long bag on his shoulders.

This person is just an ordinary old man from Miaojiang, regardless of his clothes or temperament. There are not a thousand or eight hundred among the thousand Miao villages.

Then Akang's qi circulated and his eyes quickly looked at the old man. Seeing that the old man's every move was clumsy and loose, and there was no martial arts at all. At the same time, he thought again - at this time, Qianhu Village was crowded, how could there be enemies to get in? So he let go of his guard.

The old man ignored Akang's scrutiny, but looked at Xiao Nian and repeated his words:

"Little girl, you just said that the rules in our Miaojiang are too rigid, but this sentence is wrong."

Xiao Nian glanced at Akang and nodded when she saw Akang, then she said to the old man:

"What does the old man mean?"

The old man asked:

"Just this guy said that every Miaojiang person was told since he was a child that the tomb of the Miao King was a forbidden area, but why was it a forbidden area?"

Akang immediately said:

"One hundred years ago, Lord Miao was trapped in the tomb of King Miao by outsiders. The Da Miao village was divided into two factions. One faction was determined to take revenge, but the other faction chose to believe those outsiders. Everyone had a dispute and finally split up. When the family was divided, the two sides made an agreement that in order to preserve Lord Miao's body, no one could step into the tomb of King Miao again, otherwise it would be killed without any reason... Isn't this the reason?"

This story is exactly the same as the story told by Xiang Yiling to Jiang Xiaoshu. It seems that even though Langde and other fifteen villages went far away, they still kept this rule in mind and passed it down from generation to generation.

"Yes, this is a story that all Miaojiang people know. You remember it very carefully." The old man nodded and then asked:

"Do you still remember, what was the reason for the separation?"

"The family split was because the two factions started fighting during a dispute. Hundreds and thousands of people died on both sides. In order to avoid continuing to kill each other, everyone decided to have a good talk and finally split up."

"Yes, the predecessor of the Sixteen Villages in Miaojiang is the original Damiao Village. A hundred years ago, the popularity of Damiao Village was so strong that even if there were not as many as 20,000, there were at least tens of thousands of people."

"Of course, it's a pity that the people in Qianhu Village are too weak and refuse to avenge the Miao King. Otherwise, the Da Miao Village will still exist. How could a dog thief like Jiang Xiaoshu be domineering?" Akang said, and couldn't help but spat, obviously a little disdainful.

Akang is a simple person and is always straightforward and quick-witted. He blurted out these words, but he didn't think too much about it.

Xiao Nian, who was standing beside her, saw that the clothes of the old man opposite were from Qianhu Village. She quickly pulled Akang's sleeve and whispered:

"Akang, don't say that..."

The old man didn't care and smiled:

"It's okay. After you from the 15th Village people came, I have heard these words a hundred times and eighty times. It's okay to listen to them again."

Now Akang was a little embarrassed, and he scratched his head:

"Old man, I'm quick-mouthed, don't mind."

The old man waved his hand:

"Don't mind, don't mind... And you just said it right. Although the number of people in Da Miao Village was a little different, everyone listened to the order of the Miao King, and was united. I am afraid that it is much better than the 20,000 people in the Miao Village now... The sixteen villages now have grudges, and there have been several large and small frictions. If the Qin army had not arrived immediately, everyone would have been worried. I am afraid that as some people said, we Miaojiang people had already fought together."

Akang agrees deeply:

"Yes. The old man is right."

The old man's eyes rolled and he suddenly asked:

"The Da Miao Village was so powerful at the time. Why didn't I go to rescue him immediately after the Miao King was trapped, but instead started fighting in the internal battle?"

Akang Xiaonian was shocked when he heard this. After thinking about it carefully, he immediately felt that the stories he had known since childhood were strange - from the time King Miao was trapped to the separation of the two factions, there was at least one month between them, but as the old man said, it seemed that Da Miao Village had never rescued King Miao.

It was so strange. The two of them said in their hearts at the same time.

The old man grinned:

"I know why?"

Akang rushed to say:

"It should be because the trap of trapping Miao King is too vicious and no one can save it."

The old man shook his head:

"I'm wrong, 20,000 people, one month is enough to dig half of the entire southwest mountain. The gate of the Miao King Palace was just watered with iron. Although it is difficult, it is not difficult to break it."

Akang fell silent. After a moment, Xiao Nian's eyes suddenly lit up:

"Could it be... the people from Damiao Village were unable to get to the southwest mountain for some special reason?"

The old man nodded and signaled Xiaonian to continue speaking.

"It is precisely because of this reason that King Miao was trapped to death; it is also because of this reason that King Miao's tomb became a forbidden area in Miaojiang."

The old man nodded repeatedly in praise and said to Akang:

"Your wife is much smarter than you."

Akang smiled and was very proud. Xiao Nian was thin-skinned and blushed. He quickly brought back the topic:

"But what is the reason?"

The old man looked at the southwest mountain in the distance and murmured:

"The day when Miao King was trapped was in this autumn, it was like this. It rained heavily. It took a whole day. The rain watered the mountains and weeds, mushrooms, and vines everywhere... Look, it happened to rain heavily yesterday, and the situation at that time was probably similar to that now."

As he said that, his finger pointed at the big tree next to the few people. Akang Xiaonian followed and saw new bacteria on the trunk.

"Everyone stayed at home and rested until the next day, someone discovered that the palace of Miao King was sealed by iron. The news quickly spread throughout the Da Miao village. People climbed up the southwest mountain one after another, and many young and middle-aged people were carrying hoes and shovels to prepare to rescue Miao King..."

The old man said this, but he changed his mind:

"Have you ever heard of the fact that Qianhuzhai has been infatuated in the past year?"

Are you talking about rescuing King Miao? Why did you suddenly say this? The two were stunned, and then Xiao Nian said:

"Is the 'Central Plains Curse' that is widely circulated here?"

"No," the old man said slowly:

"People who are possessed of evil will lose their minds and attack all living things around them. In the past year, our Qianhu Village has only a few people who are infected with evil every time. The most is this time, but there are only seventeen people..."

Akang couldn't help but say:

"Seventeen people, just?"

"It sounds like a lot of seventeen people, but what if it is compared with two thousand people?"

"What!" "How is it possible!"
To be continued...