Chapter 4 Tracking

At dawn, in the wilderness, two figures looked at each other. Ying Yi held a whistle stick, and Sun Xiucai also held a stick, walking along the loess road with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Brother Ying, the intruders are besieging Kaifeng now. Should we go straight to Kaifeng or..."

Sun Xiucai had recovered some energy at this time, but his determination last night was a bit weaker. The so-called scholar rebellion failed in three years. It is said that he is someone like Sun Xiucai. He has read books and knows that thieves are powerful. They are afraid of wolves in front and tigers in the back, and they lack decisiveness.

He said: "In my opinion, it is better to go find officers and soldiers."

Ying Yi paused every time he heard what he said, and said: "If you want to find officers and soldiers, then go. I will find a tiger myself to take revenge."

Ying Yi didn't have any hope for the officers and soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty.

Those officers and soldiers were almost no different from thieves. At the end of the dynasty, people's hearts were scattered and all order collapsed. The passing of bandits is like a comb, and the passing of soldiers is like a grate. How can officers and soldiers be any better than bandits? Maybe the local officers and soldiers in the local county have a bottom line in order to protect their wives and children's property. But people like Zuo Liangyu also have a lot of them.

Ying Yi stayed up half the night last night and thought about a lot.

When he came to this time and space, he was already panicked and insecure. Knowing that it was the end of Chongzhen period made me even more uneasy. He knew that bandits were raging and the people were displaced. He knew that God was not merciful and natural disasters continued year after year. We also know that when the barbarians move south and occupy the Central Plains, the civilization of the Xia Dynasty will usher in its darkest period.

He was so frightened that he had no choice but to act like a turtle. He is not the protagonist in the novels he once read. He does not have the courage to embrace the world as soon as he travels through time, and he does not regard himself as Long Aotian. He is just a person, a lonely visitor from another time and space, with a dazed look, panic and helplessness.

He could only deceive himself and turn a blind eye. I just hid in a remote place like Xiaowangzhuang, hoping to live peacefully.

Even with the golden finger, which he called the True Spirit System, he didn't think of how to turn the tide.

However, he did not escape after all.

He doesn't have great courage, but he is a man of ancient ways. Gratitudes and grudges are clear, knowing that a drop of kindness will be repaid by a spring. I know what the sage said about repaying kindness with kindness. When he came to this time and space, it was Brother Zhang who saved him when he was about to die from hunger. The Zhang family's sister-in-law treated him like a biological sister, and Xiaoya was so smart and cute.

But all this was in vain.

Those thieves and beasts, Ying Yi was determined to use his own hands to seek justice for the three Zhang family members and the folks in Xiaowangzhuang.

Speaking of which, Ying Yi still has some vague memories of people like Li Zicheng. In the history textbooks of later generations, these people have a positive attitude and are called peasant rebels. Although Ying Yi is no longer at the age where he can be easily fooled, he also knows that people like Li Zicheng are not necessarily good people. But he could never imagine that these thieves were so heartless.

Brother Zhang is such a good person. Xiaoya is only seven years old. The people of Xiaowangzhuang are indifferent to the world. What mistake have they made? !

Ying Yi asked himself over and over again.

That Li Guo seems to be called some kind of bullshit national hero in later generations. Is this a hero? Fuck that shit!

Ying Yi couldn't wait to catch this beast and tear him into pieces inch by inch, but he couldn't let go of the hatred in his heart!

Revenge is Ying Yi's biggest thought now. But he never thought about pretending to be someone else's hand. The fall of the Ming Dynasty is imminent, and all order has collapsed. Where is there hope? The surrounding towns were in panic. A small Wangzhuang was massacred. How could anyone send troops to attack the bandits? It's too late to hide.

Therefore, Sun Xiucai's proposal was not taken to heart by Ying Yi at all.

He knew Sun Xiucai's virtue. Although he wanted to take revenge, he was afraid after calming down.

This is Xiaomin.

Sun Xiucai became anxious when he heard this and said: "How can you and I take revenge? Brother Ying, I know you are powerful, but can you defeat ten people or a hundred people? How can you defeat a hundred people?" Can we defeat more than 10,000 people? Hundreds of thousands of thieves will be killed!"

"I have my own way."

Ying Yi was unmoved: "If you want to go find the officers and soldiers, go ahead. You and I will say goodbye here."

Sun Xiucai looked confused. After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll go with you. At worst, I don't want to take this life. My wife and children are gone, so what's the point of living?"

Ying Yi raised the corner of his mouth and smiled: "Let's go."

This is considered a unified thought.

As they walked, Ying Yi asked: "Yesterday you said that a tiger was ordered by a thief to contact someone?"

Sun Xiucai said: "I didn't hear clearly. But it must be yes. It seems that I am going to Nanyang, who will I welcome?"

"We must meet a certain bandit." Ying Yi knew it in his mind and said, "Are they on their way there or on their way back?"

Sun Xiucai shook his head: "I don't know."

Then he said: "The horse's hoof prints are quite clear. Do you want to chase after them?"

Ying Yi tightened the whistle stick in his hand: "The faster, the better. If it's just a cavalry with a hundred people, it's nothing. If there are thousands or tens of thousands of people, it will be difficult to handle."

Sun Xiucai understood immediately.

But he struggled: "But they ride horses, and you and I walk..."

Ying Yi said: "So you can't come with me. I have fast feet and you can't keep up."

The two of them walked and came to a fork in the road. There is a trail that Ying Yi and the others took here, leading directly to Xiaowangzhuang. The other two are one going north and one going south. All have deep horse hoof prints. Ying Yi observed carefully for a moment and said, "They are going south. They are on their way there."

He said, "The intruders are besieging Kaifeng. They are in the north, right?"

Sun Xiucai nodded quickly: "To the south is Nanyang Mansion, and to the north is Kaifeng Mansion."

"Okay." Ying Yi thought for a moment: "I'll go south to chase a tiger. You go north and find a place to wait for me. If it works out, I'll come to you. If it doesn't work out, I'll do the same. Came to find you."

Sun Xiucai thought: "Let's go to Ye County. If a tiger returns to Kaifeng, it must pass through Ye County."

As he spoke, Sun Xiucai breathed a sigh of relief and added, "I don't know what's going on in Ye County. I have a few classmates and I just happened to go to them to inquire about the news."

Ying Yi was confident, and finally said: "No one knows the situation in Ye County. There are only a hundred people in one tiger, so it should not have conquered Ye County. But it cannot be ruled out that there are other bandits. You should be careful."

Sun Xiucai nodded.

The two parted at the intersection.

Ying Yi took long strides and followed the horse's hoof prints along the loess road to the south. Sun Xiucai went to Ye County in the north.

Ying Yi chased for a whole day, and on the way he encountered the traces left by the thieves who buried pots to rebel. But those traces are shocking and outrageous!

They eat people!

Some young bones were scattered on the ground, and the immature head looked at the sky and accused the bandit of his conscience.

Ying Yi no longer knew how to describe the hateful thief.

All the evil in this world is vividly reflected in these thieves.

They are no longer human beings, they are beasts worse than beasts!