The Valour,they have no complacence with successes,nor panic with failures;yearning for stronger enemies,they constantly challenge themselves in morass;echoing the beating drums ,they devote themselves into death;peacefully walk through the hell and toward the fatal end with honor.
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The scenery in the mountains is always so beautiful. Now it's nearly dusk. The sunset shines down from the gap in the tree crown and reflects everything around me. I haven't read any books, so I don't know how to describe this scenery, but I like the comfort here and the smell of thick soil and vegetation.
I prayed that this comfort would last forever...
Until...
Everything burned just in front of me...
When I went back to the village alone, the flames and corpses all over the ground made me shudder from head to foot. I searched like crazy. Finally, I found the bodies of my grandfather and uncle by the river next to the village.
Grandpa's white haired head had been dyed red by blood, and his wrinkled face was gradually full of blood. His right arm was cut off , and his left arm was opened and tightly protected on uncle who had died early.
At this moment, I was frightened and almost half knelt and half climbed down beside my grandfather.I wiped the blood on my grandfathe.
But as soon as the cry began, someone spoke in the distance.
"Someone is crying and there are someone still alive. Don't let him run away."
As soon as the man's voice rising, a mess sound of footsteps approached here. I just raised my head, the sound of the feather arrows suddenly came to me. There was no place to hide.,so I had to lean back and plunge into the river behind me.
The river is muddy and greasy, and it also emits a thick smell of blood. Although I hold my breath, I am still disgusted by the smell of this man's blood. The water flow is very slow. When I open my eyes in the water, I see a trace of flesh and blood floating around me. I hold a stone and try my best to endure.
There were many people's angry scolding and shouting on the river bank, but no one came after me.
I know they can't see me because there is too much blood flowing into the river. I can't see the underwater scene from the surface of the water, but the safety is only temporary. There are no forks and bends within two miles of the river, and there are no thick grass on both sides of the river. I can't hold my breath when I climb out of the water.
Once exposed, they will be shot into stinging obscenity in an instant. Even if they can't shoot, their actions will be controlled by others.
Now, I have to bet on life and death. After I made up my mind, I tried my best to climb forward to the limit of this tone, and then drilled out of the water.
When the people on the shore saw me coming out of the water, they all waved knives and guns and scolded and chased me. I took another deep breath, got into the water and turned around and dived back in the same direction.
When I reached the limit of my breath, I finally dived back to the entrance of the village. This is the place closest to the forest. I drilled out of the water, rolled to the other bank, and quickly ran into the forest amid the loud cry of a man on the other side of the river.
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Two hours later, the sky gradually darkened. I lay down in the long grass not far away and looked forward. In front of me, dozens of men were making a fire and camping. Although they knew I had escaped, they probably thought that I was not a threat to them.
The strong hatred made me tremble all over. I grabbed my thigh, let the pain calm myself down and grinned. Since they are going to spend the night here, I will come back later.
When I get to the forest, I first recognize the terrain, and then set the tiger killing stake ,a simple, but effective trap.
After getting three along the way, I returned to their camp again. A strong smell of wine floated. I looked up and saw that the camp was full of people. Most of them had snored like thunder, and the only night watchman looked sleepy.
I stared at the night watchman, hoping that he would go to bed soon, but I was wrong. He walked up to a lying man and kicked him. He scolded and said, "Get the fucking up there, it's your turn." Then he lay on the ground.
The new successor didn't wake up yet. After yawning a few times, he sat by the fire in a daze.
My heart sank. What can I do? I couldn't wait any longer. I slowly climbed behind the man, fiercely covered his mouth with my hand, and the knife in my hand slashed his neck.
The man twisted violently in my arms and then stopped moving, but the low voice he made when he was dying still scared me all over with sweat.
Slowly put down the man's body, and I felt it again to the sleeping people
When the sixth man was stabbed smoothly, there was a sound of wood cracking in the fire, and the man I covered my mouth woke up.
He grabbed my wrist with a knife, and the other hand got my hand off his mouth.
I tried my best to press the knife against his chest, but I couldn't. The man's strength was too strong. My hand with the knife suddenly loosened, and the knife fell on his chest. The sharp blade stabbed into less than half of him. The man screamed and pushed away my hand to pull out the knife inserted into him. I turned over and hit him heavily on the head, Turn around and run into the woods.
A lot of curses came after me.
I ran hard without turning my head back. I screamed again. It seemed that the piles were not white. I took the gang around. I went back to their camp, rushed to the horse, got on the horse and ran.
At dawn, the horse ran out for more than 20 miles and stopped. I found there was a carry with an arrow pot with five arrows and a bow in it.
There were two leather water bags around the horse's neck. When I pulled out the plug, the pungent smell of wine came out. I thought for a while and led the horse to the mountain.
When I got to the mountain, I pulled out an arrow from the arrow pot, picked up a leather bag, found a branch that forked in front of me, and stopped in an underground cave.
I stirred the branches in the cave a few times, and the sound in the cave told me that what I was looking for was right here.
After half filling the wine in the bag, a big snake with five colored spots came out, and the small triangular head was held high towards me. Before it rushed up, the branch in my hand firmly pressed on its neck, and the arrow in the other hand also plunged into its head.
After catching four snakes, I walked back to the horse with my harvest and squeezed the venom in the mouths of these snakes into two leather bags.
When I finished, I threw away the dead snake, and I began to look for another one I needed in the forest. Under a dead tree, there were several beautiful and fresh mushrooms, with black spots on the golden umbrella cover. It smelled sweet. That's it.
The leopard skin mushroom. It's a poison that penetrates the intestines,and most powerful to match my snake venom.
Got on my horse, I caught up again. When I was close to the camp, I hid my horse in the woods and explored the situation outside. All the people outside had gone away, and only a few bodies were left on the ground.I carefully looked around, then walked over and turned over a body.
It seems that someone turned over before me and found nothing on the body. The man half killed by me fell here with the knife in his chest.
Seeing that the man's hand was still trembling slightly, I went straight to him and pushed it a few times. The man woke up, but he didn't seem to recognize me. He just said in a weak voice, "Kind man, give me some water please."
I nodded and said, "I don't have water with me, but my home is not far from here. I can take you home for treatment, but tell me who you are first? Where do you come from? Where are you going? "
The man said in a hoarse voice, "we are soldiers of Gaoli country. After being scattered by Tang soldiers, we hid here and became thieves on the mountain. This time we went down the mountain to get some food and were about to go back. Something happened on the way and I was injured."
I smiled at him gently and asked, "no one cares about you?where are your companion? "
The man smiled bitterly and said, "the main camp is two days away from here,just north from here."
I asked, "how long has your companion gone?"
The man added, "they've been gone for three hours."
I stared at his eyes and showed my teeth, slowly pulled out the knife inserted in his chest and flew on the horse without turning back. With the man's scream, I hit the horse and rushed north.
After an hour, I slowed down and watched on the road. There was a faint sound in front of me. I turned over and got off the horse, picked up the arrow pot on my back, pulled out an arrow and inserted it into the horse stock.
The horse hissed sadly and ran ahead. I listened to the sound again and turned and went into the woods by the road.
When I got back to the tree again, the thieves attracted by the cry also came to the tree. They only heard a voice saying, "it seems that we are being watched. Kill the lame horse and leave it alone. Let's go."
Another voice said, "boss, i can not find Pu Lao San here. Where has he gone?"
The boss said, "didn't he get caught? In this way, our foundation will be completely leaked. If Tang soldiers are attracted again, we will all die here. We can't care about him. Let's go. "
Said that all those people ran in the same direction.
I hid in the tree to check the number of people.
There are thirty-seven of them.
Not good. It seems that a bag and a half of snake wine is not enough.
Thinking of this, I had no choice but to chase after those people. Looking at the messy footprints on the ground and the unlucky dead horse, I hesitated when I stood on the side of the road. These people should know that there are not many people here. Will they set an ambush.
They are soldiers. They can recognize this ambush, and after they succeed, they can safely and boldly go back to the mountain. Now it's not easy for Tang soldiers everywhere to find a nest.
I can not afford the ready-made losses at present. Since I decide wait before chasing, I cut off a horse leg and have a rest.
In the woods, I climbed to the tree and chewed up the half horse leg. The rough raw horse meat choked me. The smell of blood made me vomit. After eating it, I held the trunk and went to dust.
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When I woke up, it was dark the day after tomorrow. I slipped down the tree, moved my hands and feet, and chased down again. I walked carefully in the moonlight. After walking some way, I found that the grass in front was very messy.
After seeing the trace, I was secretly happy in my heart and followed the messy footprints. I'm looking forward to my special medicinal wine coming into use soon.
As I walked, I thought, how can I clean up the rest? Even if thirty were poisoned, there are still seven. Go back and report to the official? It's too late. Let's take it step by step.
After walking for a short time, there were bursts of screams in front of me. I fell on the ground and slowly climbed over. There were a lot of people lying on the ground in front, and several were rolling violently on the ground. It seemed that my wine was very popular. Silently counted the number of people. Twenty four were dead and four were still struggling. It seemed that they were about to die. In this way, nine were not dead.
Turned around and looked around. After confirming that there was no one else, I went to those people. I picked up dozens of arrows on the ground and began to chase again.
On the way, I saw another body. I touched it and found that it was not cold yet. The rest should not be too far away.
But not far away, a feeling of panic suddenly appeared. I felt more fear at every step. I stopped and looked around.
This feeling once appeared. I met a leopard on the mountain three months ago. I turned around and run back.
Behind me came the sound of the feather arrow breaking through the air. I fell to the ground and rolled away. Then there was a burst of scolding. The sound of the arrow breaking through the air came again. My left leg didn't work at once. The pain like fire spread all over my body. I struggled to get to the forest and chose the largest tree to climb up.
The people under the tree lit torches and surrounded the tree. I curled my body between the thick branches and leaves and listened to the sound under the tree. There was a fierce curse under the tree: "here, this bastard climbed up the tree."
After a while, the man under the tree started to cut the tree. I took my bow and looked down through the leaves. These people stood under the tree and formed a circle. A big man was chopping the tree with an axe, and another held a torch to illuminate behind him.
I raised the bow, aimed at the lighted one,immediately I shot out the arrow. When the man who raised the fire fell to the ground, the people on the side shouted and hid around. When I saw the tree chopper, I was startled by the sound. I took the opportunity to shoot another arrow into his body.
All the others hid behind the trees around. A voice shouted, "little bastard, we will starve you to death in the tree. You will see!"
As the day began to dawn, the arrow wound on my left leg made me tremble with pain, and the blood slowly flowed along the trunk. I knew I could hardly hold it. I took out an arrow, broke it hard, and wrapped it with my hair. Then I shouted at the bottom, "I surrender. As long as you spare me, I'll tell you where my other two companions hide." Then he threw the bow and arrow into the distance and slowly climbed under the tree.
They looked at me in amazement. I then said, "call your boss and I'll tell him something."
Then I threw the knife out from a distance and raised my hands.
Seeing that I seemed to be willing to surrender, the bandits ran towards me, and their fists and feet fell on me like raindrops.
If I take office on the ground, when they are fighting and can't support it, the voice of the boss said, "take his breath and I'll ask him a few words."
Then he squatted down in front of me and said to me, "how many of you? Where are they? I'll spare your life. "
I said in a weak voice, "you are their leader. I have a secret to tell you...As long as you don't kill me, I'll tell you the whereabouts of a huge treasure."
The man smiled grimly, grabbed my neck, picked me up and said, "do you have a lot of money?"
I said weakly, "the money is... Right... I..."
My voice became lower and lower. At the same time, there was a faint look on my face. When the man put his ear close to me, I saw the right time and smashed my head heavily on his temple. The man's temple was deeply pierced by the arrow. He howled and threw me to the ground and rolled around on the ground.
In a burst of angry curses, I saw a knife in my eyes and hit me straight on the head.
That day, I, Yan Jiulang, just turned 15.