Lingnan There are an unnamed valley more than twenty miles northeast of Shaozhou. The valley is surrounded by mountains, and even the only exit. There is a low mountain block in the narrow valley road. Will suddenly open up and find that there is no other world.
Tang Dynasty Xianheng three years, suddenly there are eleven surnames, a total of more than 100 people, arranged by the local government to this hidden valley, shoveling yard, logging house, built a small village in a few days, named It is Taoyuan Village.
Because of the hidden terrain of the mountain village, Taoyuan Village has little contact with other mountain people, but because there are often Woodcutter and hunter passing by here, gradually, I have a little understanding of this small village surrounded by mountains.
The villagers here are not the same as the local ordinary mountain people. Most of the residents in this village are very polite and knowledgeable. Although they are the same as farming and weaving cloth, they plant melons under the mulberry. The sound of reading, and even the music of play the zither blowing Sheng.
At the beginning, mountain people was all surprised, and there was some discussion, but for a long time, it was not strange.
After eleven years, Tang Dynasty is one day in Yongchun ’s second year.
It is at the end of spring, lush and green in the middle of the valley, a green, acre of mountain fields, hidden among the weeds and weeds. There are dozens of families scattered in the valley. The bamboo yard and the eaves of the logs are all hidden in the green, and the corner is exposed, and it is picturesque.
A young girl carrying a bamboo basket is taking a naughty boy under the age of ten to the low hillside outside the village. A girl’s emerald-colored blouse, lotus-colored trousers, a short dress of a mountain man, his cheek Li Hei, with a touch of red that is often formed in the field, but from the inside out, there is a spirit of aura, which is not ordinary. Comparable Yamano village aunt.
This girl is at the age of the 14th and 15th year old bud. The figure is long and slender, the thin waist is straight and flexible, and it moves like a flexible green bamboo swaying in the wind. Those bright eyes, the straight and straight nose bridge, and the small red beak look like pretty and charming.
The girl was walking with an 8- or 9-year-old naughty boy, who seemed to be her brother. Because this naughty boy has the same skin color as dark colored in the ordinary mountain children, he does not have the sturdy appearance of the mountain children. In contrast, his figure looks much thinner, and the face of an egg looks like that of the girl. The eyebrows are beautiful, the eyes are large, and the jaw is sharp.
The girl’s name is Yuerong, and the boy who follows her is the brother of her mother’s sibling, and her name is A’Chou. A’Chou is just nine years old this year. He has always been lively and active. If he ca n’t see one, he goes wild to the mountain. He climbs up and down like a monkey in a dozen feet tall trees. He is praised by the children in the village as a tree climber. A master.
turned out to be in line with the old saying that those who are good at water drown and those who are good at riding fall. Three months ago, when A’Chou climbed a big tree and took a bird’s egg, it fell down and fell from a tree as high as five or six feet. Although the branches blocked it, the ground soil was extremely soft and fell. He broke his head and broke another leg.
This can scare parents who are treated like pearl in the palm. The elder sister is the eldest daughter, because she did n’t take good care of her younger brother, she was beaten by her father and mother. A’Chou has been raised at home for more than three months. Well, walking down the ground is no harm, but the parents are still forbidden to go out.
Today, his sister went to the mountain to pick wild vegetables, watching her brother hurt her leg by beating herself. She was depressed at home. Her temperament was very different from the past. She was worried that her younger brother would be bored. Taking him out to relax, although the parents agreed, the condition was not to allow A’Chou to leave her.
In a small bamboo fence, a girl who is two years older than Yuerong is embroidering flowers. When she sees her sister Yuerong, she smiles and greets: “Girl Yuerong, little A’Chou, go up the mountain Ah. “
“Well, take the younger brother up the mountain to pick some wild mushrooms and other vegetables, is this Xiuxiu preparing dowry?”
“Where is it, others are playing with embroidery.”
Xiuxiu blushed and hid his embroidered hands behind him, attracting a happy laugh from Yuerong.
Not far away, an old man playing chess at elm tree glanced at the room, and laughed and said, “Little A’Chou, are your legs well, haha, don’t be naughty again in the future!”
Yuerong greeted them politely: “Uncle Qiu, Uncle Fang.”
The other old man was about to lose his chess. He looked very corrupted. He urged him to hurry, and the old man turned his beard with his beard.
The A’Chou, which is the self-proclaimed master of tree climbing and climbing, seems to be quite dull when the old man said that face kicked out angrily, kicked a small stone, and happened to hit a big white goose Body.
The big goose head high, chest out, taking a gentleman ’s step, as if a Great General reviewing three armies, was walking on the path awe-inspiring, and suddenly was attacked by this, and suddenly could n’t help but anger, immediately stretched his neck and spread his wings, Quacks rushed towards A’Chou.
“A’Chou, you are naughty again!”
Yuerong said, took A’Chou ’s hand and ran, the big white goose flared its wings, pursed his neck, and chased behind their buttocks reluctantly, a shepherd boy in the grass saw this scene Can’t help but laugh down.
“Ouch! Sister, my leg still hurts a bit.”
A’Chou can’t help crying when running, Yuerong didn’t sulkyly say: “You stinky boy, the aunt Liu’s goose is the most fierce, but you want to shove it.” Say, untie the bamboo basket , Squatting and saying, “Come up, my sister is carrying you.”
A’Chou said: “No, everybody has grown up, it’s very heavy, my sister can carry it.”
“Come on, a little kid, has grown up, has n’t it been your sister who carried you across the mountains.” Yuerong couldn’t help but say, carrying his brother on his shoulders, carrying a bamboo basket and running up the mountain white goose persevered, screaming and chasing.
Sister ’s back was flat, soft, and somewhat sweaty, but the smell was good. A’Chou earned two hits. After being slapped on the buttocks by her sister, she no longer struggled.
General Goose chased for a while, and finally returned triumphantly, walked back to the village proudly, Yuerong saw that the big goose was no longer chasing, and then panted slowly, but did not put down his brother.
“A’Chou, I will be on the mountain in a while, don’t run around, lest your father and mother worry about you again. Auntie will take you back to pick some wild vegetables and mountain mills, Auntie is making bone soup for you, When the time comes to drink hot, the legs will be better. You are not the favorite to eat wild vegetable dipping sauce, the sister will pick wild herbs and go back to make wild vegetable dipping sauce for you. “
“Then … the sauce should be fried.”
“Okay, listen to A’Chou, blow it up.”
“There is a chicken inside.”
Yuerong smiled giggly: “Sure, put another chicken, you little glutton.”
The sisters and brothers climbed the low mountain. Yuerong put down the A’Chou and said, “You are sitting here, my sister will pick … Huh?”
Yuerong glanced outside the valley and said in surprise: “How come there are so many officers and soldiers?”
A’Chou stood up and looked at the mountain when he was busy. He was small and could only stand on tiptoe. He looked out from the tall grass and vines. There was a team gathering in the valley. This is Tang Dynasty. In the army, the soldiers were all dressed in battle jackets, carrying quivers, carrying war bows obliquely, catching swords in hand, and riding a warhorse under the crotch.
More than three hundred people, more than three hundred horses, standing aloof, Xiao Xiao was silent.
There are two horses in the front of the team. Sergeant wears a jacket and Military General wears a robe. One of the horses is a robe general wearing a leather armor and a lion tiger pattern painted on the robe.
The other horse was immediately a civilian wearing a green robe. He was turning back and saying something to the Sergeant. With his voice, the Sergeants pulled out their sheaths and the sun shone on their blades. , Shuo Shuo cold.
A’Chou was a little curious. He had seen Sergeant when he and his father went to Shaozhou City before, but that was just a few old soldiers in the city, how could such murderous-looking‘s military style, and clothing seem to be different.
“Sister, where is this soldier, what are they doing?”
“Not good!”
Although Yuerong didn’t know the purpose of these officers and men, she felt the danger. She quickly put down A’Chou and told him: “These officers and men are afraid to be harmful to us. A’Chou, if you have trouble moving, hide here. Your sister returns to the village to report. You are lying here, you are not allowed to come out anyway! Do you know! “
Yuerong pressed A’Chou into the bushes, ran away with a bamboo basket, just ran out a few steps, and hurried back, pulled some wild grass to cover A’Chou, A’Chou was buried under the messy grass, his face blank Seeing her sister running towards the village from the gap, she didn’t understand what happened.
Here is the mountain of Tang Dynasty, here lives the people of Tang Dynasty, why should the army of Tang Dynasty be detrimental to common people here? The people in the village are not bandits. The puzzled A’Chou had no choice but to squat down there as motioned by his sister.
The iron hoofs stepped on the mountain, and the two horses took the lead on the low slope. From the perspective of A’Chou, we could only see the man in the green robe riding on a black horse, standing in the other The military commander on the side, because he was blocked by the Qingpao civil servant, could only see his scarlet cloak raised by the mountain breeze from time to time.
Yuerong brandished a shredded green veil, and while running, shouted to the village: “Grandpa (Father)! Mother! The officers and men are here, the officers and men are here!”
“Kill! Kill all! Don’t let one go!”
The sound of tremble with fear sounded coldly in the ear of A’Chou. A’Chou withdrew his gaze to Sister Ai, and looked around. The sender was the man in the blue robe who was sitting on the horse, who was thin and tall Body, a long and narrow horse-faced, concave eyes eagle nose, not angry.
When he gave orders to the soldiers behind him, he turned his head subconsciously, and his whole face was reflected in the eyes of A’Chou. A’Chou can clearly see his appearance. There are two sharp cuts on both sides of the nose of the eagle hook The decree pattern, the decree pattern is deeply turned to the left and right, covering his thin lips, murderous-looking‘s voice came from that mouth.
The general with the lion-tiger pattern on the shirt beside him slowly pulled out his sheath, and the blade wiped the sheath, making a sound of intriguing rubbing. A’Chou listened and couldn’t feel a chicken skin pimple. The general raised his sword and lifted the horse forward, giving out a short drink: “Kill!”
Behind him, the Sergeant who held the horizontal knife ran down.
A’Chou watched Sister running desperately between the mountain trails, her figure jumping like a leaping deer in the wild of Foshan, and the general was galloping like a hunter with a chase, The battle horse galloped and caught up with Sister Ai in a moment. A heart of A’Chou could not help mentioning his throat.
“Peng!”
From the knife, cold light flash, blood shines.
“Grandma, officers and soldiers come …”
Yuerong‘s voice came to an abrupt halt. The knife passed, and a worm first flew into the air. The blood sprayed from the cavity splashed into a cloud of blood mist. The general waved the blood knife and swept past her. Immediately afterwards, countless combat boots stepped on the girl’s soft body ~ IndoMTL.com ~ and entered the small mountain village.
“Sister!”
A’Chou before one’s eyes is black, and fainted is gone.
Hundreds of officers and soldiers were hurriedly moving from the mountain road, and the sound of footsteps and rubble covered his whimper.
Qingpao officials cheered the hillside, staring at the village in the valley indifferently, with a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, and the whip pointed forward, repeating his command: “Kill! Kill all! Never let one go!” /
The following day, Shaozhou Prefecture posted a list of papers announcing that a major plague occurred in Taoyuan Village, and the entire village common people was extinct. In order to prevent the spread of the plague, the government house put the entire village on fire and warned the common people of Shiye and Baxiang not to break into Taoyuan Village. Prevents plague. Taoyuan Village disappeared bizarrely as it appeared bizarrely.
No one dared to enter this valley again. A few years later, no one can remember the name Taoyuan Village. People only remember that there is a Plague Valley in more than twenty miles northeast of Shaozhou. Many people do n’t even know the origin of this name …
Note: I specifically stated that before writing the book, Guan Guan studied many historical materials, but found that some things cannot be written strictly according to the history at that time. Because of this, it is too unsuitable for the current reading habits, and it will make everyone feel very violent. For example, at that time, my father was often referred to as the older brother, and the second person was called you without you. The third person is called Iraq.
For example, the most commonly used self-proclaimed woman is “child”, which is equivalent to the self-proclaimed “some” by men; officials should call their surnames plus official positions, adults are only used to call their family elders; The strange woman is also called a lady, and his wife is still a lady; and so on, if you are retro here, it’s awkward. Therefore, the readers are accustomed to the name.