Large swaths of clouds floated in the sky, and dense stars were exposed between the gaps between the clouds, just like the Milky Way that was blocked above the clouds, and silver light dust was sprinkled from the gaps in the clouds. In the spring night wind, there was still the coldness of the Bianstone people. The team that led the prison car walked on the ground. Behind the prison car was a long line of prisoners with their hands tied. Around the line, hundreds of fast soldiers followed.
Looking out from the railings on the prison cart, the silver and gray night sky has a breathtaking beauty. The night is beautiful no matter what, because it is not the human world. He used to like to look at this sky at night, but now that he thinks about it, he has not seen it this way for a long time.
But now his body and mind are completely broken, his hands have been broken, his legs have been broken, the iron hook has passed through the bones of the pipa, and his martial arts skills have been ruined. He was finally able to let go of the mundane things and look up at the non-human things again, because he might not be able to go further down the human road.
His name is Fang Qifo, and in the spring of the eleventh year of Jinghan, he was thirty-nine years old. As the second leader of the chaos led by the Fang clan in the Wu Dynasty, even though the outside world regarded him as an omnipotent wise man, he had never studied since he was a child.
The Fang family is a very big family near Qingxi. The family was originally a decent family, with a house and land, and their parents worked diligently, and they had no worries about food and clothing. Since he was a child, he and several brothers and sisters had good qualifications, so he was accepted as a disciple by the people in the green forest and took him to other places to practice martial arts. When the martial arts were about to be completed, I went out for a walk in the rivers and lakes, and went home to take a look a year later, only to find that the fields at home were gone.
This happened because his father fell ill a few years ago. In order to cure the disease, the Fang family mortgaged the property. After recovering from the illness, Fang's father's health gradually deteriorated, and farming became more and more difficult. Fang's mother went to work in the workshop run by the nearby landlord. The landlord was not bad. He often brought things to visit Fang's father. A mortgage becomes a sale.
The landlord is very concerned about the surrounding, and Fang Qifo is also grateful. Even though his mother did not agree to sell the land, he even fainted in the workshop in order to save more money for the family and the children. Well, this is finally a big blessing. In fact, the money was not paid at that time, and the truth of human relations had already forced the Fang family to sell the land like a soft knife.
However, it wasn't long before he learned that the doctor had received money from the landlord's family, and deliberately made his father's illness serious and prolonged the medication. The Fang family, who was embarrassed at the time, had to mortgage their fields. He was full of vigor and he hit the landlord's house, but at that time his martial arts had not yet matured. First, the landlord's family member and then the government's arrest. Without evidence, the words of the people around him, and the coercion of power made him have to bow his head. .
But young people, who are full of vitality, will retreat as long as they decide something. Cousin Fang La, cousin Fang Baihua and even a group of brothers gathered to enter the landowner's house, but the other party was also prepared to invite officers and soldiers to come over, and after a fight, they were finally forced to retreat.
Only on the second day, they were designated as murderous bandits, and some people's parents didn't have time to leave... Since then, they have been homeless and desperate.
Carrying a blood feud on his body is indeed the best motivation for improving his martial arts. Soon after, Fang La, Fang Baihua and others made great reputations in the rivers and lakes one after another. He likes to lie on the roof at night and watch the stars. Although his martial arts progress has not been so fast, he is also an outstanding part of the Fang brothers. Nepalese. A few years later, he returned to Qingxi and entered the landlord's house again. At that time, the landlord's family business had already doubled several times. After defeating the master invited by the other party and destroying his family, he walked in a pool of blood and did not feel much joy.
He just didn't understand why the diligence and diligence of his parents only made the property less and less. And these landlords, who do nothing on weekdays, just move their tongues, and they can make those masters who work hard to practice martial arts be driven by them like dogs. Why did he have to pay such a high price for his rightful revenge
After another two years, he returned to Qingxi again.
The land that was once taken away by the landlord did not return to the hands of the former village household. Others divided up the land of the landlord and then expanded it even more. Those who are as diligent as his parents are also the ones who believe in justice the most. In this game, they have never had the right to speak.
Cousin Fang La is resolute. He has already realized this. Since he has become a bandit, he wants to rebel. He is also a natural leader. A large group of people gathered around him and were willing to listen to him. On the other hand, Fang Qifo prefers to watch such and such things. After thinking about the truth, he began to read and write, and he also understood better that if he hadn't been so irritable a few years earlier, his parents might not have died. The world is like a tide, you should go with the water.
A few years later, they forced Sikongnan to retreat. In that battle, the guardians and elders of Manichaeism still had a lot of masters who were not on their side. My cousin's martial arts skills were no match for Sikong Nan at that time. It was Fang Qifo who made all his efforts and lost several masters in a row, tilting the balance of victory and defeat.
After figuring out a few things, his martial arts, before he knew it, could already be side by side with Fang La.
Later, he and Fang La came up with the slogan "Fair equality, no superiority". For more than ten years, he planned the development of Manichaeism, like guiding a stream of water. With the joint efforts of everyone, he finally made all this come together into a wave of anger in the south of the Yangtze River. The people who lost the permanent property rose up and killed the landlord, and the people of the Three Mountains and Five Mountains rose up to respond.
And then, everything stopped... The water in the river was dead and they couldn't move...
Perhaps as the guy named Ning Yi said, if there is no ambition, it will stop there.
After conquering Hangzhou, Yongle's army began to change like a rainbow, and he who had been watching all this from there, could understand this best. Originally, the leaders of farmers and mountain bandits began to snatch gold and silver and divide up the land. The method of fighting that used to be able to swarm in one fell swoop when it came to big cities and large armies. Everyone knows it doesn't work, but everyone believes that everyone else is doing the same thing.
Desperate for their lives and short-sighted, after Hangzhou was conquered, the desperados could not escape. People who have been ruined by rich people actually just want to be rich... From this point of view, there is really no competition between people. !
He has walked a long way, watched it for a long time, and thought about it a lot, but he has no idea how to go next.
In fact, people who think too much are not happy. He thought that once he was disappointed in this world, after thinking too much and seeing too much, he began to be disappointed in people. During the period from breaking Hangzhou to his cousin's death in battle, he kept thinking, did their success really make sense? People are all the same. When they farm in the fields, they tremble with fear, just like their parents. They have money and land. They are also cruel and cunning like those landlords. When they become officials, they are like those dog officials. The general oppression is good. Even if we really overthrew the Wu Dynasty, have we failed to change anything
Fortunately, during this time, he didn't want to. Finally able to have time to look up at the sky, where he might go in the future. And in his spare time, looking back on the people and things in the past, he occasionally flashed in his mind, there were two people who were different from others.
His disciple Chen Fan. As his own direct disciple, this child is extremely talented and very smart. But perhaps because he was too smart, he saw the contradictions in the world early on. There is a knot in his heart that cannot be solved.
I had high hopes for him, but when I arrived, I didn't expect him to do great things. Smart people, either snobbish or naive, although he understands the world, but he is too naive after all, naive people cannot achieve great things.
Just like after Hangzhou's defeat, his cousin retreated to Qingxi. In fact, anyone with a brain can see that the Yongle Dynasty is over. In order to kill Bao Daoyi, he had already sold his life to Ba Dao Camp, but when he had the opportunity to leave, he ran back and secretly persuaded himself and a small number of people to leave, so that Fang Baihua almost killed him . After that, Qingxi was broken, and he did not evacuate. This time he was arrested. He was also a shadow of the green forest people who were robbed and ambushed a few days ago.
Of course, such a person can't do great things. But at the last moment, he hoped that he could find a place that the court could not find, and simply live through this life. The most important thing is not to end up being disappointed in the human being, as you always have been.
The other person was the little niece of Ba Dao Zhuang.
I always felt that she was a truly naive person, even more naive and fearless than Chen Fan. After Liu Dabiao passed away, she led Ba Dao Zhuang and always did some strange things. The people's tolerance for her is because Liu Dabiao's favor is too deep, and because Ba Dao Zhuang really has a strong combat power.
She is ignorant and reckless. When fighting, she will rush to the front, and she will be the last when retreating. Ba Dao Zhuang paid a heavy price in this uprising. She has always regarded the farmers as relatives in her heart. It's very uncomfortable. After breaking Hangzhou, because of the man named Ning Yi, she did some very strange things in the city. At that time, she felt that as long as she was happy, it would be fine. But when the city of Hangzhou was broken, when he and the others moved to Qingxi, the thoughts in his heart were a little different.
After leaving Hangzhou, she led the few remaining Ba Dao Zhuang households to choose a different path. I knew at the time that she went to Miaojiang.
Later, when Chen Fan came back, he also told himself the whole process of everything. The man named Ning Yi couldn't see through him, but later in the process of Qingxi's defeat, he thought more than once that if he could figure it out early, maybe he should leave more fresh troops for Ba Dao Battalion. of.
Qingxi was defeated, and everything was in chaos. He once thought that maybe he could allocate some people to flee to Miaojiang to increase the power that Ba Dao Zhuang could use. But in fact, these people on his side, the little niece may not be useful. In the process of guiding everyone to disperse, he just selected some children who had studied in the academy of Ba Dao Camp. There are dozens of people in total, or they are younger, and let them secretly go to Miaojiang to avoid disaster. This may be the last thing I can do.
During the Qingxi melee, Chen Fan came back, but the Ba Dao Camp didn't do anything. Shi Bao and others once mentioned that they had no loyalty, but they, Fang La, Shao Xianying and others knew that for the innocent and affectionate little niece, in the end, they suppressed the people in the stockade so that they could be saved. How hard it will be in her heart.
But that's fine.
Fang Qifo raised his head and looked at the night sky when the sound of the killing of the prisoners came from the side of the official road, thinking like this.
Maybe one day, these innocent children can walk through the road that they can't walk through.
People fight on the ground, and clouds walk in the sky.
Tie Tianying, the chief arrester of the Ministry of Punishment, waved the giant sword in his hand, and led a group of arresters and officers and soldiers to repel the sneak attack of the green forest people. live with them. This time, in order to allow the leader of the Fang clan to go to Beijing for trial, the seven Buddhas of Fang will be dignified and executed before the public. With the prestige of the imperial court, the nearby manpower is quite sufficient.
Fang Qifo sat in the prison cart, quietly looking up at the sky cloud. If possible, he hoped no one would come to his rescue, but things were out of his control now. The Ministry of Punishment obviously also wanted to use themselves as bait to catch all these rebellions in one go. He could only be silent and stop thinking about these things.
And just out of sight, among the mountains surrounded by nearby woods, there were several figures walking in it, and when the fight was going on below, they appeared on the nearby hillside and looked towards this side from a distance.
There are more than ten figures in total. The head is a woman dressed in a blue floral Miao costume. She has a face that looks a little baby fat, her eyes are clear and a little fearless, standing on the mountainside. In the gap, looking down, she was carrying a long wooden box behind her back. Beside her, "Shentian Sword" Du Sha', "Jin Evil Sword" Luo Bingren', "Yuanming Sword" Fang Shuchang', "Nine Dead Swords" Zheng Qiming... and so on.
They glanced at it, and then came down...