Chapter 5 Yancheng

Maybe the sound of the collapse of the broken temple is not loud enough. Maybe the villagers who heard the sound of the collapse of the broken temple in their dreams regard the sound of the collapse of the broken temple as the sound of wind, or for other reasons.

In short, when the stone came to the village below at a very fast speed, all the houses were black.

There are no stars and no moon in the sky, and the firelight halfway up the mountain does not shine in the village because of the terrain. The whole village is dark.

In such a dark environment, a healthy ordinary person can only see a few steps away, but the crazy stone does not notice that he can see far in the dark.

Although the children in the village will occasionally bully Stone and Little Nier, where will the children hold grudges when they play with each other?

When there is no need to go up the mountain to collect firewood, dig medicine and pick wild vegetables with adults, the stone often takes Xiao Nier to the village to play.

There are many memories of stones playing with little girl in this small village, so the crazy stone comes to the village to find little girl.

Under the tree, the firewood pile, the shabby house on the edge of the village.

Every place where Stone and Little Nicole used to play, Stone went to find it, but how can he find Little Little Little in this village?

If he is awake, even if Stone is just a twelve-year-old child, he can definitely guess something unusual from the burning of the broken temple.

How can the broken temple be burned? Why did he wake up when the ruined temple was completely burned? Why is the temple gate so difficult to open?

If Stone thinks about these three questions, he should also be able to guess that Little Nicole was abted.

Whether it is from the clothes that Little Nicole wore when she was taken to the broken temple by her uncle, or from the drop-shaped jade, Little Nicole's origin is very unusual.

Maybe those questions once appeared in the stone's mind, but those questions should all be immediately left behind by him when it first appeared in the stone's mind.

The crazy stone will hide his voice looking for Little Nicole, but the sound he makes back and forth in the village looking for Little Nicole is extremely small.

The sound of the stone was even covered by the wind, so it did not wake up the people in the village.

After Xiao Nier was not found in the village, the stone went straight to the stream not far from the village; after not finding Xiao Nier by the stream, the stone went straight along the mountain road to the mountain.

Whether it is by a stream with no road or on a mountain with rugged paths, the stones run steadily and fast, more steadily and faster than an ordinary adult on a wide road.

When the stone went up the mountain, the ghost mask on his face was not as clear as when the temple was broken, as if it could disappear at any time.

When he went down the mountain, the ghost mask had disappeared.

When there was a ghost mask on the stone's face, he had a very fast speed and could not feel the pain and cold on his body at all, as if he were not a mortal. When the ghost mask on the stone's face disappeared, he became a mortal.

The stone not only felt pain in his face and hands, but also felt cold and extreme fatigue.

It seems that if you take another step forward, the stone will fall down, but until he comes down the mountain, he is still slowly moving.

In addition to the stream at the village and the hill behind the village, there is another place where the stone has not been found.

More than 470 years ago, after Emperor Zhou Wu unified the world and established the Great Zhou Dynasty, he divided the regions other than Tiandu into 37 counties and sealed them to 37 princes who helped him calm down the world.

During the more than 300 years of the Zhou Dynasty, although some princes were reclaimed their fiefdoms because they offended the royal family, some favored courtiers were granted fiefdoms.

Before Emperor Tang succeeded to the throne, the world was still divided into Tiandu and thirty-seven counties, and there were still thirty-seven princes.

After Emperor Tang succeeded to the throne, he listened to the words of his favorite minister and began to divide the princes. In just 17 years, the number of princes of the Great Zhou Dynasty increased from 37 to 158.

The original thirty-seven princes were extremely dissatisfied with the Tang Emperor's wanton division of the princes, and those ministers who did not get the division were also not slow to Tang Emperor's wanton division of princes.

After the accidental death of Emperor Tang, there was a rebellion against the princes of all parties who had long been dissatisfied with the Zhou royal family.

Because the power gathered by the princes of the rebel parties is far above the power of the Zhou royal family, the sky, which is said to be built by heaven, was broken by the princes of all parties after only three months.

In a fire that burned for seven days, the sky became ruins, and the Zhou Dynasty was completely destroyed.

After the fall of the Zhou Dynasty, all the princes in the world became kings one after another, and the world entered the era of war between hundreds of countries.

This mess is nearly 150 years.

In nearly 150 years, most of the small kingdoms have been destroyed, and the State of Yan, which has only three cities and eight towns, is such a small country.

When the State of Yan was still there, Yan City was the capital of the State of Yan.

Although Yancheng was the capital of the State of Yan more than 130 years ago, Yancheng is actually not big, less than ten miles long, and only seven or eight miles wide.

Yancheng is not big, nor is it a strategic place. Naturally, there are not many disasters of war.

On the day of the Spring Festival, the wind and snow that lasted for eight days finally stopped, and Yancheng, which had not had a war disaster for more than 30 years, also became lively.

Although the Spring Festival is a day of reunion and a day when you should rest after working for a year, because those who are in the position of official eunuchs, landlords and rich farmers are very generous on the New Year's Day, not only are the shops in Yancheng open for business, but also the number of snacks and juggling on the streets is comparable to the busiest in the year. Gathering.

Near the time, the streets of Yancheng were already full of traffic and voices.

In the lively crowd, there are dignitaries and nobles, groups of landlords and rich farmers, careful poor tenants, and timid and humble beggars.

People will not explore how a beggar becomes a beggar. Those who have good thoughts will give something to those beggars, and those who don't want to give alms will be far away.

Just like not all the landlords and rich peasants who walk in groups and swaggering on the street, not all those who are unwilling to give alms will far away from those dirty beggars.

Next to a little beggar with a burn on his face stood five men who were not strong but with a fierce face.

These five men, the oldest is thirty-five or sixteen years old, and the youngest is less than twenty. Although they all wear coarse cotton-padded clothes, they are not as patched as other poor peasants in coarse cotton-padded clothes.

The five people call themselves the five wolves of Yancheng, and they are the famous ruffians in Yancheng.

The five wolves in Yancheng have no kung fu. They can spread their infamous all over Yancheng because they have shown the extreme of rogues who bully the weak and fear the poor and the rich.

The little beggar did not provoke the five wolves in Yancheng, and the five wolves in Yancheng did not see anything that interested them in the little beggar, but the five wolves in Yancheng still wanted to teach the little beggar a lesson.

The burn on the little beggar's face was not small, and the burns on the hands covered by the sleeves were even worse.

This little beggar surrounded by the five wolves in Yancheng is a stone.

The quiet mountain village is less than 30 miles away from Yancheng. When Stone and the adults in the mountain village came to Yancheng to sell medicine, they also took Little Nicole to Yancheng to play.

After coming down from the mountain behind the mountain village, the stone moved to Yancheng.

When the stone came down from the mountain, it was not bright yet. When the stone came to Yancheng, it was already time.

There are beggars in Yancheng, so no one has noticed such a little beggar as Stone.

After entering Yancheng, looking at the dense people on the street, the unconscious stone didn't know how to find Xiao Nier among so many people.

With his instinct, the stone moved his body as if he had lost consciousness and walked towards the place where he and Little Nicole had been before.

In front of a stall selling osmanthus cake, the stone stopped.

Although the money from Stone's sale of medicinal herbs is not enough for him and Xiao Nier's daily life, Shitou once bought a small piece of osmanthus cake for Xiao Nier.

Last autumn, Stone bought osmanthus cake at the stall of two old people. At this time, it was a couple in their early thirties who set up a stall selling osmanthus cake in front of Stone.

The man has some funny fangs when he smiles. He is the kind of person who is hard to forget at a glance.

There is still a little boy standing beside the couple, who should be the couple's son.

Maybe the osmanthus cake sold at this stall tastes particularly good. Maybe the osmanthus cake sold at this stall is relatively cheap. Maybe people are very generous on New Year's Day. This stall selling osmanthus cake is very prosperous.

Looking at the osmanthus cake on the stall getting less and less, the couple's faces were full of smiles.

The stone is not far from the stall selling osmanthus cake. When there were fewer people in front of the stall, the couple selling osmanthus cake also noticed the stone.

Seeing the stone staring at their stall in a daze, the man with fangs looked at his wife, picked up the broken half of the osmanthus cake on the stall and wrapped it in a piece of straw paper, handed it to the little boy standing beside them, and then pointed to the stone.

After receiving the sign from his parents, the little boy obediently delivered the small paper bag to the stone.

However, when he put the small paper bag on the stone subconsciously stretched out his hands, the little boy suddenly twisted a small piece of osmanthus cake the size of a little thumb in the small paper bag.

After stuffing the small piece of osmanthus cake into his mouth, the little boy made a grimace at the stone and ran back to his parents.

Stone looked at the osmanthus cake in his hand, and then looked at the couple who were smiling and preaching to the little boy. His lips moved without making any sound.

Just as the stone looked at the couple with a small paper bag, five men in coarse cotton-padded clothes appeared in front of the stall, blocking the stone's sight.

"Fan Liuer, I heard that you have a good business today!"

In front of the stall was the five wolves of Yancheng, talking about Li Er, the oldest of the five. He was also the boss of the five wolves in Yancheng.

The man with a fang's surname is Fan, and he ranks sixth. People who know him in Yancheng usually call him Fan Laoliu. Those who call him Fan Liuer are also some ruffians in Yancheng.