sin of nature

Starting from Yingguo to Qingyue, in order to get there as soon as possible, I took half of the water and half of the land.

Except for the time to sit down to eat and sleep at night every day, I am on the road non-stop at other times.

Vice General Zhang is used to marching and fighting, and he has been on the road for several days. The fatigue of the horses and horses is nothing to him. Xiao Ming and Huang Li didn't show any fatigue or discomfort, but Jin Buhuan, after two days, he couldn't bear it. up.

Fortunately, after another two days, the land route became a water route.

On the ship was a flag with a golden long sword on a white background representing the royal family and nobility.

That was the boat sent by Qingyue to pick them up.

People in Qingyue are martial arts, especially swordsmanship. Not only princes and nobles, but also most men among the common people are good at using swords. People can go out with swords, and they think swords are more noble than other weapons.

As soon as they boarded the boat, it began to rain lightly, and several people hid in the cabin.

Jin Buhuan bit a piece of biscuit, and said vaguely to Deputy General Zhang, "You Qingyue produce jade, people say that gentlemen are dignified, gentle and moist like jade, but you are not affected by it, just beat and kill blindly."

Vice General Zhang didn't care about the inappropriateness of his words, and patiently explained: "Decades ago, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Qingyue was indeed respectful of literature and did not pay attention to things such as fighting with force, but spent more than ten years peacefully. Time. It wasn’t until about 20 years ago that martial arts started.”

Xiao Ming followed up and asked: "There must be an extremely important reason for a sudden change in the atmosphere of a country. What is the reason for your country?"

Deputy General Zhang said: "It is true. This incident originated from the war of alien races 20 years ago. Because the Qing Dynasty was a long time civilized, and the army had not experienced the tempering of war, the losses in the war were very serious. He practiced the soldiers with his own hands, and ordered all the people to abolish his books. Every village, town and county set up training halls and dispatched elite soldiers to stay there. Men under the age of 40 must participate in martial arts training every day. So far, the martial arts style of Qingyue has continued to this day.”

Huan Li asked again: "Qingyue has always been peaceful, and no one has ever heard of a war between different races."

The deputy general's expression became a little weird, and he said, "This matter has been in the past for many years, and it is a state secret, so not much news has spread to other countries. May I fall into a coma when I prayed for blessings in the temple in Wuci Mountain. After waking up, I was shocked and pale. It was because of my sincere love for the people that I was summoned by the gods. I entrusted the oracle to say that Qingyue will be destroyed by people with different eyes. At this time, people are in dire straits, so we must take precautions in advance. The former king was dubious, afraid of being misunderstood by others, and dared not make any moves. Until the first prince inspected the northern border area, he was killed by a man with different pupils. It was a bloody battle to eliminate the people with different pupils. Most of them were distributed in the north, and they also gathered together to resist to the death. Compared with ordinary people, they have stronger combat effectiveness, and it is a desperate battle. It is really one enemy against a hundred. But in the end, they are still outnumbered. The dozens of people who survived to the end were at the end of their battles, and they were all captured alive and given to death on the execution ground. To this day, whenever a person with different eyes is born in our country, he will be executed immediately to prevent future troubles. People with different eyes in other countries have never They are not allowed to enter the country, and they will be killed without mercy.”

Several people fell silent after hearing the reason for martial arts.

Jin Buhuan looked at the two people next to him, he couldn't swallow the biscuits he just took a bite of.

Xiao Ming sighed quietly, as if thinking of the scene of blood flowing into a river, he said, "The abnormal pupil disease was originally a disease...it has become a symbol of misfortune."

Vice General Zhang's expression turned serious, "It's about the security of the country and the people's well-being, and it's the only way to do it. It's better to kill innocent people indiscriminately than to misplace one, otherwise the one who suffers the disaster will be a great number of sentient beings."

Huan Li didn't think so, and his expression was not very good-looking: "Is it because the few people are to be buried with the many people? What is the crime of being born with different eyes? Killing people for unwarranted crimes, isn't the way of heaven for the many people Is it the way of heaven?."

Huan Li's words went too far, but Xiao Ming didn't stop him.

Vice General Zhang frowned, showing a contradictory look, and tried his best to control his emotions, "I have never had such an experience before, so it is natural to say these words lightly, but anyone who has witnessed or experienced the scene with the person with different pupils Those who fought in the war will not want to fight against them again. 20 years ago, we lost 10 people, and it took a whole year to wipe out the people with different eyes... You know that there are only less than 800 people with different eyes People..." His voice was slightly trembling, and he said with difficulty, "My father was also killed by a person with different eyes on that battlefield..."

Huan Li wanted to refute, but Xiao Ming grabbed his sleeve.

After staying on the boat for three days, the border of Qingyue was already clear when they went ashore. They first found a restaurant that looked clean to satisfy their hunger.

"Deputy General Zhang, are we going to the town connected to Feishuang?"

"The generals and soldiers of the Holy Admiral are arranged in the southwest direction, in Yinan City guarded by the Seventh Prince, and they will arrive in another day."

Xiao Ming asked strangely: "Is this city at the border?"

Vice General Zhang shook his head: "No."

"Then why is there a prince guarding it? But every city in Qingyue is guarded by princes and nobles?"

Vice General Zhang shook his head again, "The genius doctor doesn't know anything. There were twelve princes in the Holy Spirit, and three of them died young. Now there are nine. Except for the seventh prince, the other eight are all in the capital, and they deal with various matters with the Holy Spirit." It turned out that the Seventh Prince had been bedridden with sickness since he was born, and suffered from serious and minor illnesses. When he was ten years old, he almost died due to a serious illness. Fortunately, a god gave advice, saying that the city was too hostile and the Seventh Prince was weak. , unable to bear the hostility, must be kept in Yinan, where the climate is warm, so that he can live a long life. So the Seventh Prince moved to Yinan and became the only prince who was released outside. After a long time, it became logical and became Lord of Yinan."

"Your Majesty is not afraid that the Seventh Prince will dominate the side and make himself king?"

"That's not true. The Seventh Prince has been weak and sick since he was a child. Although there is no serious problem after the serious illness, he is very weak after all. He doesn't like to practice martial arts and swords, and he doesn't have the ability to raise soldiers and self-respect. What's more, Yinan It is not close to the border, and in the southwestern central part, there are only a few thousand soldiers protecting the city people in the city, which is not as good as other city lords who have tens of thousands of elite soldiers."

Xiao Ming nodded to express his understanding.

After eating hastily, they started on their way again.

In the afternoon of the second day, the group finally arrived at Yinan City.

Deputy General Zhang led several people to a mansion in the city.

"The soldiers are all cultivating in the seventh prince's mansion," he said, and called the old butler of the mansion, "Has the seventh prince returned to the mansion yet?"

The old steward saluted and said, "I haven't returned to the mansion yet, I got a letter from His Highness yesterday, saying that I will be back in a few days, and I want this old slave to take good care of all the soldiers."

Vice General Zhang explained to everyone, "The Seventh Prince was ordered to tour the south more than a month ago to investigate the conditions of the people in the southern cities. After the soldiers contracted a strange disease, the matter also reached the ears of the Seventh Prince. In the mansion, wait for him to come back and find a way to solve it."

Considering the continuous exhaustion of several people, Vice General Zhang originally wanted to wait for them to rest before starting the diagnosis and treatment, but Xiao Ming asked the other two to rest, and he went to diagnose the illness immediately.

Jin Buhuan couldn't help much at all, but he didn't refuse, went to the guest room to rest, and Huang Li followed Xiao Ming to check his condition.

Several people walked through the garden in the mansion to the backyard.

There was a whole row of guest rooms with the doors wide open.

There are at least twenty domestic servants in the backyard, all busy with delivering water, food, and bathing, and have no time to spare. It seems that they are taking care of two hundred people.

Some kind of unbearable growls and howls could be heard from the room with the open door from time to time, accompanied by the sound of utensils smashing to the ground, the atmosphere was very strange.

Deputy General Zhang led the two of them into the nearest room.

The first thing that came into view was the servant who was half lying on the ground picking up the porcelain shards. The servant tremblingly picked up the shards of porcelain and put them into the hem of his clothes, his body trembling slightly.

A few steps away from the servants was a man in a blood-stained blue cloth sitting in a chair.

Vice General Zhang bowed to the other party, and said to the man, "General, this is Doctor Xiao."

The general's arms were tied to the armrest of the chair, a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, his brows were full of tiredness, and his hair was scattered, some strands of hair were wet with sweat and were sticking to his cheek superior.

He just raised his head to look at the person, and before he could speak, he suddenly widened his eyes and let out a loud roar!The arm tied to the chair obviously had a mind of its own. It struggled vigorously in the rope, but if it couldn't struggle, it lifted it up, and lifted the owner of the arm off the chair. Even the chair that imprisoned him was raised high, and he threw it at the person who came without hesitation.

Before Deputy General Zhang could move, Huan Li kicked directly onto the chair, with a "bang--", the chair and the person hit back against a tea table behind him.

Xiao Ming pulled away the servant who was still picking up debris on the ground, and let Huang Li restrain him.

Huan Li nodded, raised her foot to step on the seat, and quickly stepped forward to press the arm that was still twitching on the chair.

It was strange to say that General Li, who had practiced martial arts for many years, could be easily subdued by this teenager who looked like he was only in his teens.

Xiao Ming quickly took out a small white porcelain bottle from his sleeve, took a few steps forward, tore off the cork, poured out a pill, stuffed it into the mouth of the owner of the arm, and solemnly said, "Don't chew this medicine, just eat it directly. pharynx."

The man opened his mouth to take the medicine, swallowed it with difficulty, and took a few breaths.

Huan Li still suppressed the man's arm, waiting quietly for the arm's strength to loosen.

After about half a stick of incense, Huang Li felt his hand loosen, so he withdrew his hand.

Xiao Ming frowned, and asked the general, "How do you feel?"

The man looked at his bound arm, moved his fingers subconsciously, clenched into a fist, then let go, showing an unbelievable expression, looked at Xiao Ming in front of him, "Are you able to move?! "

Deputy General Zhang stepped forward, looked in surprise at the arm that was no longer attacking indiscriminately, untied the rope that bound the general's arm, and checked carefully, confirming that there was no problem, he said happily, "The genius doctor really lives up to his reputation."

Xiao Ming shook his head, and said to Deputy General Zhang, "It's too early to be happy now, and I don't know if it's just a temporary effect, but let the soldiers take this pill first. In addition, this bottle of medicine is for external wounds." After speaking, he handed the two porcelain bottles, one large and one small, to him, and instructed again, "When you take this medicine orally, you must remember to tell all the soldiers not to chew it, but to swallow it directly."

When night fell, the 21 soldiers had all taken the elixir, and the uncontrollable arms also fell silent.

Vice General Zhang arranged for a few people to eat in the mansion. Those soldiers who had taken the elixir finally rested in peace and fell asleep. Only the general sat down with them. He was dressed in black, his hair was well-knit, his face was well-defined, his jaw was tight, and there seemed to be a kind of majesty and self-control in his eyebrows and eyes.

Vice General Zhang followed him into the table, turned to the others and said, "This is General Li who is guarding the southern border."

Xiao Ming and the others saluted slightly.

General Li also bowed his hand and returned the gift, saying, "You guys came here from a thousand miles away, and you have solved this strange disease. Li thanked you on behalf of all the brothers, and please stay a while longer, so that you can report to the Holy Majesty, so that I can thank you."

Xiao Ming said, "General Li doesn't need to worry about it, but he can't let go of it now. Although this medicine suppresses the disease for a while, it will take a few days to observe whether the medicine can cure the disease."

General Li nodded his head in agreement, "The genius doctor's words are very true. The cooks in the Fuzhong are preparing hastily today. There are only these special dishes of Qingyue. I don't know if they will suit everyone's appetite. In a few days later, there will be a big banquet."

Xiao Ming said a few polite words, then asked about the weird Feishuang City: "Excuse me, general, what happened when the soldiers entered Feishuang that day? What happened to them?"

General Li seemed to have been mentioned a very unpleasant experience. He frowned unconsciously, waved his hand to ask the maid serving next to him to pour wine for the few people present, and made a "please" gesture, "Let's talk while eating." .”

The maid filled the rest of the people with wine, came to Huang Li, and asked doubtfully, "This young master seems to be young, maybe he is drinking?"

Huang Li pushed the wine glass over and said, "It doesn't matter, just fill it up."

After a few rounds of teasing and drinking, General Li talked about what happened in Feishuang City that day.

"That day I led all the soldiers into the city. The Feishuang City was extremely strange. As far as the eye could see, it was all white with white powder constantly falling, and the horseshoe prints would be covered up in less than half an hour. We wore After crossing a large empty plain and dry forest covered with white powder, we arrived at a village. Houses are neatly lined up on both sides of the four-person-wide road, and the doors are all wide open. The strange thing is that there are people like you in that village. I live like an ordinary person, and there are even merchants setting up stalls on both sides of the street to sell some gadgets. This scene is really weird, so we hid in the distance to watch the actions of those people."

General Li looked up and drank a glass of wine, his face was not very relaxed, and he continued, "Although the people in that village look like ordinary people, they seem to be walking corpses who have lost their souls. The little flower seller at the head of the village always yells the same sentence, But no one bought a flower, and the peddler carrying candied haws walked from the east end of the village to the west end, back and forth, and everyone just repeated their actions mechanically."

"This village is too weird, so we took a detour and continued along the riverbed of a dry river. Although the river was dry, there was a boat in the middle of the lake. There was a young man on board. He was as big as a son, dressed in white, and stood on the boat looking at us. Strange to say, everyone saw that the boy was clearly still on the boat, and they came to him in the blink of an eye."

"As if impatiently asking why we were here, he blew a whistle and brought in a huge, snow-white white-haired dog, as big as a bear and capable of breathing flames from its mouth. The white-haired dog drove us all the way, forced us back to the border and entered the city, and then left. As soon as it left, we suffered from this strange disease."