Lingnan, more than 20 miles northeast of Shaozhou, there is an unnamed valley, the valley is surrounded by mountains, even the only exit, the narrow valley road, there is also a low mountain blocking the way, you have to turn over the low mountain, you will suddenly open up, and find that there is another world in it.
In the third year of Xianheng in the Tang Dynasty, suddenly there were more than 100 people with 11 surnames, and under the arrangement of the local government, they came to this hidden valley, shoveled grass and flattened the courtyard, cut down wood to make houses, and built a small village in a few days, named Taoyuan Village.
Due to the secluded terrain of the mountain village, Taoyuan Village has little contact with other mountain people, but because woodcutters and hunters often pass by, gradually I have a little understanding of this small village surrounded by mountains.
The villagers here are not the same as the local ordinary mountain people, most of the residents of this village are well-mannered and well-read, although they are the same as ploughing the fields and weaving cloth, planting melons under mulberry, but you can often hear the sound of reading books in the village, and even the sound of music playing the piano and playing the sheng.
At the beginning, the mountain people thought it was strange and talked about it from time to time, but after a long time, it was not strange.
Eleven years later, one day in the second year of Datang Yongchun.
It is the end of spring, the valley is lush and green, a few acres of mountain fields, hidden among the weeds and thorns.
There are dozens of families scattered in the valley, and the small courtyards with bamboo fences and the eaves of logs are all hidden in a piece of greenery, occasionally revealing a corner, which is picturesque.
A young girl carrying a bamboo basket was walking towards the low hillside outside the village with a urchin boy under the age of ten.
The girl has an emerald shirt, blue trousers, a short dress of a mountain person, black cheeks, and a touch of red formed by often working in the fields, but there is an aura from the inside out, which is by no means comparable to ordinary mountain and village girls.
This girl is the age of fourteen or fifteen years old, with a long and slender body, a slender waist, and a straight and flexible waist, like a flexible green bamboo swaying in the wind.
The bright eyes, the straight and straight nose bridge, and the red little mouth are very handsome.
Beside the girl walked a one-year-old urchin, who looked like her younger brother.
Because although this naughty boy has the same dark complexion as ordinary mountain children, he does not have the tiger-headed and tiger-brained appearance of mountain children, and in comparison, his figure seems much thinner, with a goose-egg face that resembles that of the girl, with fine eyebrows, big eyes, and a pointed chin.
The girl's name is Yue Rong, and the boy who follows her is the younger brother of her mother's compatriot, and his milk name is Ah Ugly.
A Chou has always been lively and active, a photo can not be seen, he went to the mountains, more than ten zhang high trees he also climbed up and down like an ape, by the village children praised as the first master of tree climbing.
As a result, the old saying is true, those who are good at water drown, and those who are good at riding fall.
Three months ago, when Ah Chou climbed a big tree to dig out birds' eggs, he fell down from a big tree five or six feet high, and although there were branches blocking it and the ground was extremely soft, he still broke his head and broke a leg.
This can scare the parents who regard it as a pearl in the palm of their hands, the elder sister, as the eldest daughter, because she did not take good care of her younger brother, was beaten by her father, and Ah Chou was raised at home for more than three months.
Today his sister went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, and watched his brother break his leg all day long at home, his temperament was wild, and he used to go out to play with his friends after reading every day, but now in addition to being taught to read by his father, he can only pout his butt and lie on the window and look enviously at the little partner running in the mountains, it is really pitiful, so he begged his parents to take him out to relax, although his parents agreed, but the condition was not allowed to leave her left and right.
In a small courtyard with a bamboo fence, a girl who was two years older than Miss Yuerong was embroidering flowers, and when she saw her sister and brother coming over, she greeted with a smile: "Sister Yuerong, little clown, go up the mountain." ” "Well, take my little brother up the mountain to pick some mountain mushrooms and wild vegetables or something, Sister Xiuxiu is preparing a dowry?"
"What's the matter, people are embroidering and playing."
Xiuxiu blushed and hurriedly hid the embroidered things in her hand behind her, causing Yue Rong to laugh happily.
An old man who was playing chess under the elm tree not far away glanced at the sound and laughed: "Little ugly, is your leg already good, haha, don't be naughty in the future."
Yue Rong greeted them politely: "Uncle Qiu, Uncle Fang." ” The other old man was probably about to lose, and he looked extremely angry, urging him to hurry up, and the old man turned his head with his beard.
The ugly, who is known as the first master of tree climbing and rock climbing, seems to be quite disgraced by the old man's face, and kicks out angrily, kicking a small pebble into the air, which happens to hit a big white goose.
The big goose held its head high, walked gentlemanly steps, like a great general reviewing the three armies, walking majestically on the path, when suddenly attacked by this, could not help but be furious, immediately stretched its neck, spread its wings, and quacked and rushed towards the ugly.
"Ugly, you're naughty again" Yue Rong said, took Ugly's hand and ran, the big white goose puffed its wings, stretched its neck, and chased behind their buttocks relentlessly, and a little shepherd boy herding sheep in the grass couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene.
"Ouch, sister, my leg still hurts a little."
Ah Chou couldn't help but exhale pain as she ran, and Yue Rong said angrily: "You stinky boy, the goose general in Aunt Liu's house is the most fierce, you want to tease it."
As he spoke, he untied the bamboo basket, squatted down and said, "Come up, my sister is carrying you." ” Ugly said: "No, everyone has grown up, it's very heavy, how can my sister carry it." ” "Come on, a little hairy child, and you've grown up, isn't it my sister who has climbed mountains and mountains on your back since you were a child."
Yuerong couldn't help but say, put her younger brother on her shoulder, picked up the bamboo basket again, and ran up the mountain, the big white goose persevered, quacking and chasing.
Sister A's back is flat, soft, and has some sweat stains, but it smells good, and Aug struggles twice and is no longer struggling after being slapped on the ass by her sister.
The goose general chased for a while, and finally returned triumphantly, and walked back to the village proudly, Yuerong saw that the big goose was not chasing, so she panted and slowed down, but did not put her brother down.
"Ugly, when you get to the mountain in a while, don't run around, lest your father and mother worry about you again.
My sister will take you back when she picks some wild vegetables, and my mother is boiling bone broth for you, so that your legs will get better faster.
Don't you like to eat wild vegetable dipping sauce the most, my sister will pick wild vegetables in a while, and go back to make wild vegetable dipping sauce for you. ” "That sauce is going to be fried in oil."
"Okay, listen to the ugly, blow it up."
"There's another chicken in there."
Yue Rong laughed very loudly: "Cheng, put another chicken, you little glutton." ” The sisters and brothers climbed the low mountain, and Yuerong put the ugly down and said, "You sit here, sister, go picking."
Yue Rong glanced out of the valley and said in surprise: "Why are so many officers and soldiers here?"
Ah Chou also stood up and looked at the front of the mountain, he was small, he could only stand on tiptoe, and looked out from the wild grass vines and vines that were more than one person high, there was a team assembled there in the valley, this was the army of the Tang Dynasty, the soldiers were wearing battle jackets, carrying quivers, cross-body war bows, holding horizontal knives in their hands, and riding a war horse under their crotch.
More than 300 people and more than 300 horses stood solemnly, Xiao Xiao was silent.
At the front of the procession were two horses, the sergeant wore a jacket and the colonel wore a robe, and one of the horses was a general in a robe, wearing leather armor and a lion and tiger on the robe.
On the other horse, a civil official in a green robe, was turning his horse back and saying something to the sergeants, who, as he spoke, drew their swords and unsheathed them, and the sun shone on their blades.
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Ah Chou was a little curious, when he went to Shaozhou City with his father before, he had also seen the appearance of a sergeant, but it was just a few old soldiers at the head of the city, how could they have such a murderous military momentum, and the clothes seemed to be different.
"Sister, where are these soldiers and what are they doing?"
"Not good" Although Yue Rong didn't know the intentions of these officers and soldiers, she felt the danger, she quickly put Ah Chou down and instructed him: "I'm afraid that these officers and soldiers are going to be bad for us, Ah Chou, you can't move, just hide here, my sister went back to the village to report that you are lying here, no matter what, don't come out, you know?"
Yuerong pressed Ah Chou into the bushes, picked up the bamboo basket and ran, just ran a few steps, rushed back, and pulled some weeds to cover Ah Chou, Ah Chou was buried under the grass, and watched her sister rush towards the mountain village from the gap with a blank face, not understanding what was going on.
This is the country of the Tang Dynasty, and the people of the Tang Dynasty live here, why should the army of the Tang Dynasty be unfavorable to the people here, and the people in the village are not bandits.
The bewildered clown had no choice but to follow his sister's instructions and squat there, motionless.
Iron hooves trampled on the gravel in the mountains, and the two horses took the lead on the low slope, looking at it from the ugly point of view, only the blue-robed civil official riding on a black horse, and the military general standing on the other side, because he was blocked by the green-robed civil official, he could only see his scarlet cloak raised by the mountain wind from time to time.
Yuerong waved the green handkerchief wrapped around her head, and shouted to the village as she ran: "Grandpa and Mother, the officers and soldiers are here, the officers and soldiers are here."
"Don't let anyone go after killing all" The chilling voice sounded coldly in Ah Chou's ears, Ah Chou withdrew his gaze to look at Ah Sister, and followed the prestige, the person who gave the order was the blue-robed civil official sitting on the horse, this person was thin and tall, with a narrow horse face, concave eyes and eagle nose, not angry and arrogant.
When he gave orders to the soldiers behind him, he subconsciously turned his head, and the whole face met Ah Ugly's eyes, Ah Ugly could clearly see his appearance, on both sides of the hooked nose, there were two knife-like nasolabial folds, and the nasolabial folds were deeply skimmed to the left and right, covering his thin lips, and the murderous voice came from that mouth.
The general with the lion and tiger pattern on his robe next to him slowly pulled out the sword from its sheath, and the knife grazed the sheath, making a penetrating grinding sound, and Ugly listened to it, and he didn't feel goosebumps.
The general raised his sword, lifted his horse forward, and let out a short shout: "Kill" flew with all four hooves and swooped down.
Behind him, sergeants with horizontal swords in their hands rushed down.
Ah Chou watched his sister running desperately between the mountain paths, jumping and flashing like a galloping deer in the mountains, and the general galloped on his horse, like a hunter chasing after the tail, the war horse galloped, and caught up with Ah Sister in a moment, and Ah Chou's heart couldn't help but mention his throat.
"Pong" The knife rises, the cold light flashes, and the blood shines.
"Mother, the officers and soldiers are coming" Yue Rong's voice stopped abruptly, and where the knife passed, a mantis flew into the air, and the blood spurted out of the cavity splashed into a cloud of blood mist, and the general brandished the blood knife and swept past her.
Immediately afterwards, countless combat boots stepped on the girl's soft body and entered the small mountain village.
"Sister" Ugly's eyes went dark, and he fainted.
Hundreds of officers and soldiers were hurrying forward from the mountain road, and the sound of footsteps and rubble covered out his whimper.
The blue-robed official sat on the hillside, staring indifferently at the village in the valley, with a grim smile on the corner of his mouth, and pointed forward with his horsewhip, repeating his order: "Kill and kill no one."
The next day, the Shaozhou government posted a billboard, announcing that a great plague had occurred in Taoyuan Village, and the people of the whole village died, and in order to prevent the spread of the plague, the government burned the entire village, and warned the people of the four fields and eight towns not to break into Taoyuan Village to prevent contamination with the plague.
Taoyuan Village, like its bizarre appearance, disappeared mysteriously.
No one dared to enter this valley again.
A few years later, no one can remember the name Taoyuan Village, people only remember that there is a plague god valley more than 20 miles northeast of Shaozhou, and many people don't even know the origin of this name Note: Some of the titles that were too inconsistent with modern names at the time, such as the father being called "elder brother", the second person being called you, you being called you, and the third person being called Yi, were all changed according to the current reading habits of readers
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