Three Kingdoms

To the southeast of Feiqian, Ma Chao, who was taking a detour with about 800 soldiers, was marching forward cautiously along the banks of the Western Han River. On one side is the Western Han River surging down, and on the other side is the mountain range that is neither high nor short. It is not easy to walk, but it is definitely much better than the Qinling Mountains.

Ma Chao was actually a little worried, mainly because of the provocation.

Whether Di Ren cooperated with Zheng Xifei Qian, or to what extent, this is a matter that requires special attention for Ma Chao. He took a detour and could not bring many troops. If Fei Qian If he really joins forces with Xia Bian's Di Ren Wang Ke, his own troops will inevitably be somewhat insufficient.

Another reason is that Di people are good at fighting in mountains. If they meet in such a place where it is inconvenient to move...

Ma Chao held the horse and looked at the fog surrounding him. Perhaps it was because the rain and fog had soaked his armor and made him feel cold, or for some other reason. Anyway, Ma Chao felt a little chilly.

"Send some more scouts to the front to take a look, and pay attention to the reeds on the hills and banks!" Ma Chao sent out scouts again, carefully checking suspicious locations to avoid being ambushed in this terrain.

The rain gradually became lighter, but the weather did not improve immediately. It was like I was still sobbing after crying loudly, and the weather was gloomy, as if I was accumulating strength to start the clouds and rain all over again. Wearing a soaked battle robe and heavy armor, walking beside the Western Han River is still something that has nothing to do with happiness.

Not only Ma Chao, but almost all the accompanying soldiers were either wet or sweaty, and their clothes and hair were all stuck to their bodies, which was very uncomfortable.

This does not count, because we are marching by the river. Although the loose river bank will not allow soldiers to sink into it like a swamp, every time you step on it, the yellow mud full of moisture will always sink in gently, making a sound. There was a squeaking sound. Not to mention combat boots, even straw sandals were not allowed to be worn. I could only walk barefoot, with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

A scout ran over, stamping on the ground and causing mud to fly everywhere: "General, we found some enemies ahead!"

Di people?

Ma Chao was startled. Before he could think too much, another scout who was climbing up the side of the mountain for detection also ran over from the side of the mountain, panting and waving his arms. Ma Chao's face was as dark as water. When the second scout came closer, he asked directly: "Did you also see the Di people?"

The second scout was stunned for a moment, then nodded repeatedly.

Ma Chao immediately frowned and stopped. The guards behind him quickly signaled, and the entire army stopped immediately, with no urgent need to move forward.

Ma Chao pointed to the yellow mud ground and said to the two scouts: "Where are the Di people? Draw it and see."

The two scouts quickly picked up a small branch on the ground and roughly drew a schematic diagram.

Although the graphics drawn by the scouts are neither beautiful nor standard, they are enough for Ma Chao.

Can't get around it.

Since there is no way around it, there is only one way left.

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In the junction area between Xiabian Qingni River and Xihan River, ditches and mountains connect the wilderness not far away. As a part of the high loess slope, the trees and vegetation here are not to say how dense they are, but they are not bare and nothing. Occasionally, one or two streams can be seen flowing down the hillside and flowing into the river. among.

It was not long after noon, and although the rain had generally stopped, layers of clouds still hung in the sky, like layers of curtains, which made people feel depressed.

The surroundings seemed quiet. There were two or three lean sheep grazing leisurely on the grass slope. Not far away, there was a crop field cultivated on the hillside. Beside the crop field, there were rooms made of rough loess and tree trunks. In a small house, a man in tattered clothes was squatting by the stream to fetch water. Judging from his habit of bundling his head, he seemed to be a stranger.

Originally, the Di people did not farm, but since the Qin Dynasty, the originally nomadic Di people have fixed their territory and gradually started farming like the Chinese Han people. Of course, the precision of farming is still far behind. of.

The mountainous area is barren, and there is only one household nearby.

The man has no name, only a title. This place is called Huangnigou by some people, but in fact, in the entire Xiliang, there are not ten places called Huangnigou, but probably eight.

Suddenly some sounds broke the peaceful atmosphere.

The man fetching water glanced to the north. The sound came from there, but there was nothing visible across the grassy slope. Then, there was the faint sound of horse hooves.

The man stood up, holding the old wooden barrel and looking at the grassy slope not far away.

Suddenly, two black felt hats emerged from the top of the grass slope, and then two tattered leather robes...

At a glance, you can tell that they are dressed like Qiang people.

The foreign man was stunned.

The two Qiang cavalry also held their horses and stared at the Di man with narrowed eyes.

For a moment, it was as if time and space had frozen.

The Qiang man's fingers moved, and then he touched the sword at his waist...

The enemy man roared fiercely, and then ran towards the cabin. At the door of the cabin, a dirty child was crawling out of the door...

Several more Qiang cavalry emerged from the grassy slope. Some of them followed the previous two people and chased the man, while the others seemed to be more interested in the thin sheep.

The Qiang cavalry rushed faster and faster, and the Di people were already running hard, but compared with the four-legged horses, they were still slower.

"Whoosh!"

The Di man seemed to have stepped on a small hole in the ground and staggered, but he escaped an arrow fired by a Qiang cavalry.

The arrow passed over the Di Ren man's body and stuck on the ground, shaking.

Then a Qiang cavalry said something, which immediately caused a burst of laughter.

The Qiang cavalryman who was holding his bow muttered something, then accelerated his horse and rushed towards the Di man, turned slightly, and slashed with his sword!

When he noticed that the horse was approaching, the man cried out and jumped with all his strength, his body rolled on the grass with several bangs, and he let out a scream...

The Di man's back had been slashed, but it was not a fatal injury. The blood dyed the grass and mud red, adding an ominous color to this world.

The ignorant child at the door seemed to have noticed something, grinned, and burst into tears.

The Di Ren man struggled to stand up when he heard the sound of rapid horse hooves coming from beside him again...

This time he couldn't escape.

The sharp sword cut through the skin on his neck, cutting through his almost non-existent thin layer of subcutaneous fat, and then the muscles and tendons cracked and snapped under the blade, and then the blade hit the bones of the cervical vertebrae. There was a slight pause, and as the impact and cutting force increased, the blade slid into the gap in the cervical spine...

"call……"

The Di man's head flew into the air, and in his final flip of sight, he saw the heads of the lean sheep in his home also falling to the ground; he saw several Qiang people jumping in front of the door. He dismounted and rushed in; he saw a Qiang man stretching out his bloody palm towards his child who was sitting on the ground crying...

The foreign man wanted to shout, scream, and stop everything in front of him, but he made no sound at all. What greeted him was only endless darkness...

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Debate.

In the Di people's village.

The Di man Wang Meng was so furious that he jumped up and down. He had overturned the table, kicked down the shelves, and even broke a jar and three earthen jars. However, when the surroundings were in chaos, Diren Wang Ke did not vent his anger on the stable throne behind him.

"Who did it? Did that guy do it!?" Di Ren Wang Ke roared, foaming at the mouth.

"..." The Lord of the Five Clan in Di Rennei remained silent.

"Speak quickly!" Diren Wang Yu stood in front of the leader of the Neiwu clan and sprayed his saliva on the top of his head.

"Our son-in-law found a lot of horse hoof marks and some Qiang bone arrows..." the leader of the fifth clan in Di Rennei said with his head lowered.

"Qiang people?" Wang Yan from the Di people yelled, "Which tribe can do anything?"

"..." The Lord of the Fifth Clan in Di Rennei was silent for a moment and said, "I don't know yet..."

The Di man Wang Ke once again sprayed saliva on the head of the Neiwu clan leader, "I don't know?! If you don't know, why don't you go and find it for me! Are we Di people easy to bully?! We must kill him!" eye for eye!"

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Li store.

There is a mountain that looks like a horse's spine.

Therefore, it is called Maji Mountain. There are beams on the mountain and a mountain village on the beam.

No one knows when this cottage was built or who built it, but one thing is for sure. This cottage is very old, so old that the iron wood used as the gate of the cottage is somewhat decayed.

Therefore, people in the village need to go out to repair the village wall and gate from time to time.

Especially after a rain, some areas soaked by rain are prone to decay and require timely repairs. If not treated, they may easily become the next source of collapse.

"Aweng! Xiaozi!" A young man squatting on the wall of the village and doing maintenance shouted to the bottom.

"You melon boy, you don't even have a piece of rice mill, why do you want to repair it!" A voice shouted from below, and then a stone rice mill was thrown up with a "buzz" sound.

The young man stretched out one hand and grabbed the handle of the rice mill, and then slowly drew an arc in the air to offset the momentum of the rice mill. Just as he was raising it to knock on the wooden board, he suddenly seemed to notice something and turned his head. Looking around, a group of cavalry appeared on the slope in the distance, heading towards the mountain stronghold.

"Aweng! Aweng! Someone is coming!"

After a while, the cavalry queue arrived at the bottom of the mountain stronghold. Gan Feng raised his head and shouted: "I am here to visit the descendants of the Meng family on the order of Lao Qin!"

Everyone knows that the Meng family came from Meng Mountain, and their clan was stable and prosperous. They served the Qin Dynasty and made eternal achievements. However, few people know that since brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi, the pillars of the Qin Dynasty, have been loyal to the Qin State, most of their clan members have been implicated. Even After being treated in this way, the Meng clan's loyalty to the First Emperor remained undiminished. Some of them defected to South Vietnam or hid in the mountains and never served in official positions. Others persisted in their beliefs and still guarded the Qin Dynasty's imperial mausoleum and quietly served him. right.

Regarding the imperial mausoleums of the Qin Dynasty, most people only know that they are in Lishan Mountain, Chang'an, but for the old Qin people, there is another imperial mausoleum, which is the mausoleum of King Zhuang of Qin...

This short-lived King of Qin is controversial, but at least he was the father of the First Emperor. Therefore, in addition to building his own tomb in Lishan Mountain, the First Emperor also specially repaired the tomb of King Qinzhuang, and the tomb of King Qinzhuang is convenient for here.

Three or four hundred years have passed. The originally majestic Great Wall has also been destroyed. The clear river water has become turbid. Caravans came and went on the ancient silk road. The smoke and dust of history slowly obscured the memory of this period.

"Old Qin Ling? Meng family?" In the village, above the hall, an old man sat in the middle, staring at Ganfeng with a trembling look.

"Of course." Gan Feng nodded and said.

The old man rolled his cloudy eyes and was silent for a long time before he said: "I'm sorry... There are no Mengshi people here, and I don't know what the old Qin order is... Come and see the guests off..."

Gan Feng nodded and said: "It doesn't matter, I just came here to convey a message. I will leave after I finish speaking."

The old man stared at Gan Feng, pondered for a moment and then said: "Please say something."

Gan Feng stretched out two fingers, then lowered one, and said: "I can't do it without my help, and I have to spend a lot of money to help. Old Qin is not a one-person family, but an ancient clan. I wonder if I think so?"

"..." The old man was silent.

The orthodox old Qin people are called Ying Qin, and the ancestor of the Ying family is generally recognized as Boyi, the son of Gao Tao during the ancient Yu period. Boyi, also known as Dafei, was promoted by Dayu to be the leader of the Dongyi tribe alliance in Rizhao area, Shandong Province today because of his meritorious service in assisting Dayu in controlling floods. He was also given the surname Ying. This is how the people of Lao Qin came to be.

The sentence "It takes a lot of effort to achieve success" was said by Dayu to Boyi, indicating that I did not complete the flood control alone, and Boyi took at least half of the credit. This shows how much Dayu appreciated Boyi. Because of his appreciation, Dayu wanted to abdicate the throne to Boyi in his later years.

Unfortunately, his son Si Qi refused to do so, so he took advantage of Dayu's serious illness to seize the throne from him, destroying the fine tradition of the abdication system, and became the co-lord of the world. From then on, he started a new era that would last for thousands of years in China. The long-lasting family world.

Si Qi challenged tradition because of his selfishness and became the first person to dare to eat crabs. So, is Boyi willing to fail like this?

Of course not. Not long after Si Qi succeeded to the throne, Boyi, who was unwilling to fail, openly challenged Si Qi. However, unfortunately, Si Qi had already matured his wings and was too powerful, so the war continued. Not long after, Boyi was finally defeated, and these old Qin people were sent to Yi Di, which is today's Xiliang.

Gan Feng's words are nothing more than elevating the Meng clan from the small confinement of the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty to the level of the entire ancient Qin people. Then the goals of all the old Qin people are not just one city and one place. , but finally returned to his original hometown, to the land entrusted by Dayu in ancient times.

The old man held the crutch and lowered his head. There were layers of wrinkles on his face, as if the depth of each wrinkle was filled with wind and frost. "What else can I say?"

Gan Feng smiled, lowered his second finger, and said: "If you dare not look when you are alive, why should you go eastward after death? If you dare not be famous while alive, why should you restore your family name after death? They all dare not, and there are people in this village. What do you mean? It just decays with the grass and trees!"

"By the way, I've brought you... to say goodbye!" Gan Feng didn't even look at the old man, who looked a little surprised, a little angry, and even a little helpless. He cupped his hands towards the old man, then turned around and left.

If you dare not look eastward when you are alive, what is the point of being buried in the earth and looking eastward after you die?

If you dare not activate Montessori while you are alive, what is the point of restoring it after you die?

The old man watched Gan Feng walk step by step outside the hall, to where the sun was shining, and finally stretched out an arm, "...please stay..."