Chapter 6 The Vegetable Man
When Yanghe entered the dike, he felt a strange smell coming towards him. The ground was filled with various colors of mud, stone, sand and garbage, as well as pools of sewage, etc. There were weeds everywhere, which was a bit similar to the ponds you saw along the way.
However, the flood rushed into the dike, and then the water receded and left all kinds of garbage and traces.
There are also many rubble and ruins on both sides of the street, but this dike may have been relatively rich in the past, with more brick and tile houses, and the walls of many houses are not very damaged.
There are always many temples in northern villages, such as Guandi Temple, Dragon King Temple, Grandma Temple, Horse Temple, God of Wealth Temple, Land Temple, Huanggu Temple, etc. Sometimes a village can reach dozens of them.
Yanghe saw some relatively good temples. Although the window rafters were damaged, they could rest and stay.
Unlike some of the abandoned houses that I passed by before, even the doors and windows were removed cleanly.
Yang He was delighted, so he could take a break here to make a fire and make rice.
Of course, the dike wall has been damaged, but it cannot be left here for a long time. The terrain here is low-lying. As long as it rains a little, the entire farmland will be flooded with water, and the water will not subside for a long time, and the plague will be plague. The dike conditions are so good, but no one takes over, which is obviously due to this consideration.
Minister Yang kept clearing the way ahead, walking along the place where the smoke from the cooking stove was rising.
Suddenly he turned around and pointed to a place and said, "Young Master, over there."
When Yang He looked up, he saw a house, built in a courtyard style, built on a platform. Although there was a large area on the east side, it was mostly intact, and smoke from cooking fires continued to rise.
Yang He licked his lips, and an unbearable hunger surged from his abdomen. He looked at his younger brother and sister beside him, and he was swallowing his saliva like a big mouthful.
He touched his arms and there was some silver there. In fact, he and Shutong had dozens of silver on them. He took out the money to buy food. It was okay to have a hot meal. As his student, the owner might also entertain a meal for free.
Although he was eager in his heart, necessary vigilance was essential. He and Minister Yang did not put away their weapons. They stepped up the steps and looked into the door.
The door was half-closed, and there was a screen wall inside, so I couldn't see the situation inside clearly. He and Minister Yang looked at each other, and Minister Yang first touched him in with a copper stick.
He pushed open the door, the door creaked, and then turned to the screen wall.
Yang He followed behind, and the two children pulled Yang He's hem and walked at the end.
The footsteps sounded, Yang He looked back and the dozens of refugees followed.
The courtyard is quite large, with broken wings on both sides. Then there is a lobby in front of it, with smoke inside, and it seems that someone is making fires in the lobby to make meals.
Yang He heard Minister Yang shouting: "Is anyone..."
Then the voice was broken like something was pinching.
Yang He was shocked, and he rushed up the steps, looked inward, and his whole body became terrified.
It was like a slaughterhouse, with a person tied to the pillars.
No, it is no longer a human, but a skeleton, with the meat on it being cut and eaten. There are shelves everywhere, with a personal limb, a person's hands, a man's, a woman's, and a child's, just like pork trotters.
The dark brown blood all over the ground, the smell rushed over, and the middle-aged man was about to vomit.
Especially with a person tied to the pillar on the right, it can be seen that the owner of the body turned out to be a woman. At this time, the bones were thick and only one head was left intact. Her pair of dead fish-like eyes were facing Yang He, making her scalp numb.
Another pillar was tied to a man, and his hands and feet were broken.
It seems that it is still a new beginning, and blood keeps flowing down from the end, and a large pool of blood condensed under my body, which has turned dark black.
He seemed to have not yet died, but his eyes were open, and he turned into a dead gray.
Then a big pot was placed in the middle of the hall, steaming hot.
Three men were busy inside, one was by the shelf and two were by the pot. When they heard the movement, they all looked faintly. Their eyes were full of green and bright, and there was no humanity in them.
"Since ancient times, I have never heard of the Taoist slaughtering each other and changing his sons to eat, and slaughtering his bones and cooking. Now, the father and son do not ask, the husband and wife do not ask, and the brothers do not ask. Cut the belly and heart, and put them into pieces, and make the taste of the people, and the taste of the children is particularly beautiful. Some sell human flesh in the market, and the price of six cereals per catty. Some pickle human flesh at home to prepare for emergencies. Some cut human heads and burn them with fire and suck their brains. Some hungry and fall down and cut their swords and cut them all. Some cut their flesh and eyes stare at others. Some people are banned by people and they always say, "I don't eat people, and people will eat me." The foolish people are not surprised, and there is no way to do anything to do. The owl is on the way, and the heaven and earth are dark in the day."
This is a post published by Huang Huai, the promoter of Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province in the Ming Dynasty. When Yang He first came to this world, his younger brother and sister were almost killed. Fortunately, he could rescue him in time, so he did not cause hatred. But afterwards, he always felt scared and frightened.
At this time, I witnessed this inhumane act again, so why don’t people’s eyes burst into tears and get angry like crazy?
At this time, there were constant screams from behind, and it was obvious that the refugees also saw everything in the hall.
"Yo, there are guests."
Only then did Yang He see clearly the appearance of the three men, and they were all dressed as officers and soldiers. One of them was wearing a red hat, a military cap, a cotton armor, and a waist knife. The two of them were wearing folded scarves, short armor, and a shoulder scarf. They also had waist knifes on them.
Both of them had double inserts. One of them seemed to have a arch bow in his bow pot, and the other seemed to have a horse bow. There was a horse bow. There was a hand gun inserted between the waist.
I don’t know which military town these three people were from. In Huaibei, wars were frequent, and bandits came and went. The soldiers and bandits in the army were not as cruel as bandits. After the collapse, they even lost their basic constraints. Killing and robbing people was just a casual time.
The man was talking to the soldier wearing a red hat and military cap. He had just hung something on the shelf. When Yang He saw that the man's hand was tied to the pillar. He looked again. There was a three-eyed gun against the wall not far from the shelf. There were bottles and jars of things underneath, as if they were gunpowder and lead bullets.
Just as the man was talking, he picked up the three-eyed gun leaning against the wall quietly. The two of them were originally busy at the edge of the pot, but they also stopped and held the knife on their waists.
Minister Yang immediately raised the copper stick in his hand, and Yang He was also alert and pushed his younger brother and sister behind him.
When he spoke, the soldier turned his eyes, looked at the sabers and copper sticks in Yang He and the two of them, and then looked at the people behind them. The soldiers gave each other a wink. The soldier smiled and said, "It seems that he is still a scholar. What if he admires the most is a scholar. It is better to meet him by chance than to invite him. He just cooked a pot of meat, so how about letting someone make this person?"
Yang He saw that there were a few scars on the man's face and his expression was cunning, so he couldn't hear his accent for a while.
The two of you, both of you, were full of cruelty and violent expressions. The man with a strong bow suddenly said impatiently: "Our man..."
"Young Master, that's our bow!"
Everyone was stunned. The soldier wearing a red hat suddenly pulled something out from his waist, flicked his thumb, raised his three-eyed gun, and pointed it into a lead wire in the hole.
Yang He rushed up like a whirlwind, and in a cloak that was rotating and bulging, the sword light turned into a horse with the force of his waist, and then the sound of skin, flesh and bones being cut off, and then blood splattered suddenly, spilling open like a fountain.
The soldier screamed, and a bloody shoulder was chopped off by Yang He. The hand above was still holding the fire stick, and the red light inside had already emerged.
However, Yang He was weak and his reaction was a little slow, otherwise he would have cut the soldier into two pieces with one knife.
Yang He shouted loudly, and then he rotated again, and the slashing sword was roaring with great force, and he slashed at the soldier with all his strength!
The soldier used his remaining left hand to raise the three-eyed gun in vain, but it had no effect. In the gorgeous silver light, Yang He's slashing saber suddenly cut off the handle of the three-eyed gun's stick, and then his remaining momentum was not reduced, and he easily cut off his left arm.
He then chopped down the slashing downwards. The cotton armor on his body did not protect him at all. He heard the sound of his clothes and skin and bones being cut open. The soldier's body was divided into two halves, with blood and broken internal organs sprinkled all over the floor.
Minister Yang also yelled and rushed up. The soldier with a strong bow was about to take the bow. Minister Yang had already rushed to the front of him. He quickly wanted to draw his sword, but there was no time. The copper stick in Minister Yang's hand was smashed down fiercely!
With a loud bang, the head of the copper rod hit the soldier's head hard, and immediately his headscarf sank downward and shattered, and white and red objects splashed on all sides.
The soldier staggered backwards, and Minister Yang hit his head with a heavy stick. The blood and brain plasma were flying even more. The soldier's head was smashed like a watermelon, and then his body made a heavy sound of falling to the ground.
"Donkey ball..."
The soldier with a horse bow retreated as soon as possible. He pulled out the hand gun from his waist, then took out the fire slash and blew it desperately.
In just a moment, the two accomplices were almost the same. Seeing Yang He and his two brave men, he was secretly shocked.
After lit the fuse with trembling hands, he shouted wildly: "Go to die!"
He aimed his pistol at Yang He. Yang He felt his scalp numbness, and the fear of death surged into his heart. Without thinking, he pulled out the dagger from his waist and threw it out suddenly.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, the flames of black gunpowder burning turned into white smoke, and the smoke rose, and the tiles on the roof above the head fell all over the floor.
Sister Ying'er cried out with a "wow": "Brother."
The younger brother Yang Qian bit his lower lip tightly and only held his sister in his arms.
Only the refugees behind were at a loss and stared at the tragic battle scene in front of them.
Yang He jumped over like a monkey, and the soldier was screaming. His right wrist was stabbed through by Yang He's dagger, causing a gun to hit the roof. When Yang He rushed over, he screamed in horror and tried hard to pull the knife on his waist.
But with a "pop", his short cotton armor was easily pierced, and then a long knife pierced his body, causing a bleeding blade to emerge from the back.
The soldier screamed and retreated with all his might. He immediately burst into blood in his chest, and then knocked over the desk behind him and fell to the ground.
A figure flashed, followed by the sound of bone shattering, but Minister Yang rushed over, and Yang He also thrust his sword and stabbed him hard. The man was so stabbed that he kept vomiting blood. He rolled and crawled on the ground, and blood flowed all over the ground.
Yang He and the others chased him, pushing him to the corner, then stabbed him one by one, and hit him one by one.
The man leaned against the wall and struggled, but he couldn't get up. After only the knife and stick, the blood kept gushing, and finally the man didn't move.
Chapter completed!