Lin Chuan knew that there was no reason to compare his climbing skills with Qi Zhou's, so he no longer insisted. He untied his clothes and tied the little girl tightly behind his back. He Qizhou carried the little boy and the bow and arrow bag on his back and took the lead in climbing.
As we climbed up, sure enough, there was a foothold every two feet or so on the cliff. However, there would be strong winds blowing from time to time at the top of the mountain. In addition, the top of the mountain was extremely cold and the rocks were cold and slippery. It was not easy to climb up the cliff of just over ten feet.
It took He Qizhou a stick of incense.
And Lin Chuan was even slower. Unlike He Qizhou who relied purely on finger strength and leg strength, Lin Chuan had already opened the three meridians and had some success in light body kung fu. When climbing, he combined the gecko's wall-walking kung fu, which seemed to be more stable, but
Carrying a person on his back consumed a lot of energy, and his time was actually three minutes slower than Qi Zhou's. In addition, after carrying a big man up the mountain for a long time, he was already exhausted. After reaching the top of the cliff, he was even more sweaty.
Out of breath.
He Qizhou let Lin Chuan rest for a while, and then helped to pull him up when he carried him up, and then slowly climbed down the cliff. He Qizhou estimated that the height of this mountain is nearly 400 feet, which is already higher than the highest peak of Bailian Mountain.
It is much higher. The Bailian Mountain Range is more than a hundred miles long in the southwest of Qimen Mountain, separated by Qinan County and Jiangjun County. Compared with Qimen Mountain, its scale is obviously much smaller.
The man insisted that the couple go up the mountain last, and He Qizhou went to carry the disheveled woman on his back. A gust of mountain wind blew by, blowing the woman's hair scattered in front of her face, revealing her pretty face, and the broken skirt of her clothes.
The hunting sound in the wind could no longer cover up her fair and plump body.
After all, he was young and passionate. When He Qizhou carried the woman on his back and asked her to hug him tightly, he pressed his chest against his back and felt a surge of warmth. Fortunately, when his hands touched the cold stone wall, he suddenly woke up and cursed himself secretly.
Beasts, gather your thoughts and climb up.
With this first experience, although the woman was a little heavier than the boy, it took less time. After picking up the woman from Linchuan on the top of the cliff, He Qizhou took advantage of the opportunity to adjust his breathing while coming down, and put the other one in the air.
A woman carried it on her back.
After going up and down the cliff again, He Qizhou felt that his limbs were numb as if they were filled with lead, so he decided to rest for a while on the top of the cliff. Only then did he remember to look down the opposite mountain. More than a hundred feet below the mountain was a mountain surrounded by mountains.
The valley bottom is only a few acres in size, with dozens of houses scattered around. Directly north of the valley is the mountain where the cliff is located. To the west is a steep mountain peak that is almost the same height as the north. Relatively speaking, the mountain in the south is higher.
It is much lower, and to the east is a higher mountain. Through the floating clouds on the mountainside, the peak appears and disappears. It seems to be more than a hundred feet higher than where it is now!
He Qizhou sighed in admiration. It was such a dangerous place. After adjusting his breathing, he slipped down the cliff and prepared to carry the last person on his back. After carrying the strong man on his back, He Qizhou smiled bitterly and cursed in his heart, "It's so damn heavy!"
However, I thought that it had been quite some time since I had climbed up the cliff against the waterfall. As a child, he was stubborn and would always climb up against the strongest point of the waterfall. He also had to resist Yang Zhan's "hidden weapon". He would always be exhausted every time, and
Now there is actually a 70-80% similarity, so I gritted my teeth and went up happily.
However, He Qizhou soon discovered that it was really difficult to carry such a big man up. After climbing only a few steps, his ten tenacious fingers were worn out. He stepped on his own bloody fingerprints with his feet and climbed up in just ten steps.
It seemed that the cliff of more than ten feet would never reach the top, and the Dantian in the lower abdomen began to ache again. I did not dare to look up again to see how far away I was, for fear that I would be discouraged after seeing it, and all my previous efforts would be wasted.
Move the pit upwards.
Venus first appeared in front of my eyes, and then my vision gradually blurred. I don’t know how long it took, but I heard Lin Chuan’s voice. An arm dropped from my head, and then I felt a light touch on my back. Lin Chuan had already pulled Chen Chonghanzi away.
Going up, he quickly grabbed the top of the cliff, pushed hard, rolled over, and then fell to the ground, gasping for air, unwilling to get up for a long time.
Everyone lying on the top of the mountain could already see the shadowy figures hovering upwards, but there was still a long way to go from the top of the mountain, and they still couldn't find it for a while. Thick smoke was still rising from the mountainside, and He Qizhou was almost resting.
Finally letting go of his worries, Lin Chuan still carried the man on his back when going down the mountain, while He Qizhou took charge of the two children, and the group slowly climbed down the mountain.
Along the way, the man told in tears what had just happened. It turned out that in order to avoid the war, several families lived in seclusion in the deepest part of the Qimen Mountains sixty years ago. After the founding of the new dynasty, they were unwilling to come out of the mountains, but there was a lack of people in the mountains.
Salt, iron and medicinal materials, but the reclusive people have no household registration and cannot go out to trade with others. In order to survive for a long time, the reclusive family gradually marries other hunters and farmers with household registration around them, and sells local products and grains in the mountains through them in exchange for
Things needed.
The person captured by the officials today was a hunter in the mountains. The old couple gave birth to two daughters. The eldest daughter married this strong man named Zheng Yuan and gave birth to a son and a daughter. Zheng Yuan was a reclusive person in the mountains.
Since he, his son and his daughter did not have household registration, they all hid in the woodshed when they were found to be interrogated by officials.
The younger sister’s husband is named Han Song, and he is a registered hunter. This group of officials dug out 500 taels of silver that the hidden people in the mountains had saved at this family’s house to buy salt, iron, and medicine. The leader of the officials did not believe it.
Orion's own money insisted that they were robbers. When he saw the pretty sisters, he became even more animalistic and ordered someone to drag them into a wooden house with evil intentions.
When Han Song and the two old men saw this, they resisted vigorously and were beaten to death by the officers on the spot. Zheng Yuan, who was hiding in the woodshed, could not bear it anymore. With his initial knowledge of the three meridians and the impact of disregarding his life, he killed the two officers in one fell swoop.
.Then they fell into a tight siege and everyone, including his two children, were captured by the officials. This is what He Qizhou and the others saw when they arrived.
The reason why they didn't surrender was because those officials said after killing the old man that they would treat him and Han Song as robbers. They were the ones who killed the three people who died just now, so they knew that this group of officials was
There will be no one left alive, and they can only fight to the death. However, seeing their loved ones being killed, one can imagine the pain and anger in their hearts. If Qi Zhou and the others had not arrived at the right time, all of their family would have died unjustly, and he and his family would have died unjustly.
Han Song will also become a warrior for those beasts.
The residence of the hermit clan in the mountains is very secluded. Except for Zheng Yuan, this family has never entered this valley, and this valley is just one of the residences of the hermit clan outside the core. Zheng Yuan said that there are often people who seek refuge in the world.
People fled into this valley, but as long as they did not do evil in the mountains, the hermit tribe would never control them, because they could not distinguish between the good and evil of these people, and they themselves were such people.
In fact, the government had known about the existence of this valley for a long time. Every time the crackdown was carried out, it was just like arresting and killing a few people and then stopped. Zheng Yuan believed that the officers and soldiers deliberately left this "bandit den", which not only could
From time to time, you can make some meritorious deeds and receive some rewards. More importantly, you can stay in the province and avoid recruitment on the northwest border. Sometimes, you can easily blame Qimen Mountain for some shady things.
Blocking the post road is a common method used by the government to blame the Qimen Mountains. On the one hand, it can block the escape routes of the people in the mountains, and on the other hand, it prevents people outside the mountains from knowing the truth. But like this time, so many people were sent, and they were directly in the Qimen Mountains.
There has never been a situation where the killing started outside the mountain. In the past, we always entered from the south of the mountain, which is easier to walk. This is the first time to attack from the north of the mountain. It may be because the government also knows that there are many hidden sentries at the entrance of the south of the mountain, and the officers and soldiers of the brigade have not yet reached the entrance of the valley.
, all the people in the valley became birds and beasts and dispersed, so this is also the reason why the officers and soldiers gained very little in the past. This also shows that the government wants to capture more "mountain bandits" this time.
After listening to Zheng Yuan's summary of the matter, He Qizhou certainly knew the reason, so he told Zheng Yuan about the white scarf thief's escape two days ago. Zheng Yuan suddenly realized that in order to make up for his fault, the official came to suppress the bandit under false pretense, and did not take any
His military exploits cannot make up for his own mistakes. He told He Qizhou worriedly that the number of people fleeing into the valley from Qinan County in the past few days reached over a thousand. Although some people have left, the number of victims in the valley has increased.
There are still eight to nine hundred people who originally lived in the valley. If officers and soldiers enter the valley, these people will inevitably become scapegoats.
He Qizhou curiously asked what so many people were eating in the mountains.
Zheng Yuan replied: "There were originally more than 20 households and more than 100 people living in the valley. Most of them had household registrations in Miya Village, Qinan County. Only a dozen people were from the hermit tribe like me, and there were more than 30 people.
We also don’t know our identities and are self-sufficient in the valley. When the flood just happened ten days ago, some villagers outside the mountain who were closer to this valley went into the mountain to take shelter temporarily. When our clan leader learned about the disaster, he took pity on them and sent some food, fruits and vegetables to support them.
, for some reason, the news spread, and more and more victims came into the valley, because there are more than a dozen large and small caves in the valley, enough to accommodate hundreds of people for temporary shelter, but we Yin people are not able to provide so many caves.
We wanted to buy some food from outside the mountain. The silver we collected from the officials was what we, the Yin people, were going to do when we went out to go shopping. But we didn’t expect to encounter such a group of beasts. Later, there was no enough food in the valley, so some people left.
We looked for other places, but people still entered the valley one after another."
He Qizhou said: "We must let all the people in the valley leave immediately. Zhang Luyao, the prefect of Jiangling Prefecture, is a good official. He has already raised food. You can rush to Jiangling City as soon as possible. All the victims will have a place to stay. I heard that the imperial court
The disaster relief money and food will arrive in the near future, and the river defenses will be rebuilt and the disaster areas will be rebuilt in the future. If we leave too late, if we mess up those officers and soldiers, not only will their belongings be robbed, but their lives may also be lost!"
Zheng Yuan said: "Okay, as soon as I arrive in the valley, I will contact my brothers in the mountains and ask them to arrange evacuation. However, there are many people inside who do not have household registration. I am afraid that they will be unable to move and their lives will be unsustainable after they go out. I don't dare to make decisions on my own."
They went to the settlement of our Yin tribe. If there are really bad-intentioned people inside, our Yin tribe will no longer have a foothold. The rules of the tribe are only to go out but not to enter. It has been more than ten years since any outsider has entered and settled, even if
Even if they are children born and raised outside the clan."