“Shuh la la” the sound of copper coins colliding sounded, and the copper coin mask was put on Li Huowang’s face.
Smelling the unique smell of burning smoke on the copper coin mask, Li Huowang felt an unprecedented sense of security.
“When we get to Anci Temple, let the masters and the others take a look. If you can even hide it from them, then this thing will be of great value.”
Li Huowang stood up wearing a mask, and shouted to the others behind him with a hint of excitement: “Go! Get to Henghua Mountain as soon as possible!”
The wheels of the iron-clad carriage rolled again and set off towards Siqi.
As it gradually approached the surrounding landscape with many lakes and many rivers, the vegetation on the side of the road also revived, and even the air was humid.
However, the way back was not all smooth sailing, and the Siqi border began to become more and more vigilant.
Fortunately, the border line between Siqi and Houshu was already long, and the defenses of the border troops who had been transferred away were simply unable to defend against it.
Taking advantage of the gap between frontier army rotations, Li Huowang and others returned to Siqi from Houshu.
One morning, Li Huowang was tightly tied to a tree by a chain as thick as the mouth of a bowl, and the other brothers silently watched him talking nonsense.
After going through so many times, they have long been used to it, and they are not as surprised as before. They already know Li Huowang’s disease very well.
After a while, Li Huowang’s eyes gradually recovered. He looked up at the sunny sun above his head and at the green trees on the side of the road, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
No matter what you experience on the road, you will arrive soon.
“Let’s have lunch, we’ll leave after we’re done, hurry up and we should be able to reach Mount Henghua before dark.” Li Huowang said to Bai Lingmiao who untied him.
Looking at Li Huowang’s left sleeve that hasn’t changed for so many days, Bai Lingmiao’s eyes flashed a trace of sadness.
She turned around, picked up the wood and went to fetch water from the nearby river.
The clear river water is very clean, and the wooden barrel carrying the water fell into the stream together with Bai Lingmiao’s tears.
“Do you feel sorry for Senior Brother Li?” Chun Xiaoman, who came with him, said softly.
“He is disabled now! His hand will never grow back again!” Bai Lingmiao said with sobs.
Chun Xiaoman seemed to want to persuade him to say something, but found that he didn’t know where to start.
The other party is so sad, it means that he has completely regarded Senior Brother Li as his own man.
“This time I just broke an arm, but what if there is another time? Why do we just want to go home, why is it so difficult! Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo”
Seeing Bai Lingmiao, who was closest to him, so sad, Chun Xiaoman seemed to feel the same way.
Although Li Huowang didn’t explain anything to them, after getting along with them all the way, Chun Xiaoman could see that the red bamboo slip on his waist was a sacrifice of things on his body in exchange for magical powers.
As long as that thing is by Li Huowang’s side, there will be fewer and fewer things about him in the future.
Chun Xiaoman looked at Bai Lingmiao who was getting more and more sad in front of him, his heart softened, and he hugged her in his arms.
In the final analysis, it is mainly due to their lack of strength. If they have the strength to easily solve this situation, then the current situation will still appear.
But it is almost impossible to persuade Senior Brother Li to throw away the bamboo slips. Although the things cost a lot, they are powerful.
Her heart swayed, and she said to herself: “If it’s really not possible, let Senior Brother Li teach me how to use that bamboo slip.”
Since anyone can use that thing, why not use it for yourself.
Whether it is Bai Lingmiao or Senior Brother Li, they both care about each other, and everyone feels sorry for them when they get hurt.
And I have decided not to marry anyway, so it doesn’t matter.
“If it’s my hand that’s broken…” Chun Xiaoman looked down at the sad Bai Lingmiao, then at his hand covered in black hair, “That’s fine too!”
After comforting in a low voice for a while, the two started fetching water again. The others are still waiting to eat, but they dare not delay their journey.
Put the barrel back into the cool water and start filling it.
“Wait.” Chun Xiaoman dipped his furry hands in water, and gently wiped the corners of Bai Lingmiao’s eyes. “It’s a little gray, I’ll wipe it for you.”
“Thank you, Miss Xiaoman.”
“You are welcome, we are all sisters. I will be your child’s godmother in the future.”
As soon as Chun Xiaoman said this with a smile, he saw Bai Lingmiao’s expression became more frightened. “Sister Xiaoman! Look behind you!”
Xiao Man quickly pressed the hilt of the sword at his waist with one hand, turned around suddenly, and saw corpses floating in disorder in the clear river slowly.
Soon everyone gathered by the river, and everyone looked at the corpses on the river in silence.
Judging from the clothes of these corpses, these are soldiers in all directions, and there must be somewhere fighting upstream.
Under the turmoil, the lives of the common people are naturally not much better. There are also many ordinary people among some soldier corpses, and their eyes are full of despair.
“There are so many floating waters, how many people will die on it.” Gouwa, who was leaning against the trunk of the tree, said with emotion.
“I’m afraid I can’t drink the water in the river in the future, I can only drink well water.”
Compared to what the other senior brothers were worried about, Li Huowang was thinking about other things.
“Everyone has seen a lot of dead people, don’t you think these corpses are too fresh?”
Li Huowang’s words made everyone pay attention to the details of those corpses.
As long as they didn’t die that day, under normal circumstances, the corpse in the water would look very scary, and it would definitely not look like this.
“Yeah, look, these dead people still have blood on their faces!”
“If it weren’t for being unable to move, it would be no different from a living person.”
Looking at everything in front of him, Li Huowang narrowed his eyes slightly. These corpses gave him a strong sense of unease.
“Is it because of being killed by some special ability? Are there any other factions involved in the secular war?”
“Or maybe I just want to go wrong. In this world, a war joined by those weird sects is a normal war?”
Which is not the case?
After standing by the river pondering for a while, Li Huowang left with the others.
Perhaps it was because of too many dead people, everyone felt a little heavy, and no one spoke when they walked all the way to the small town at the foot of Henghua Mountain.
When they saw the familiar scenery of the town that had been here several times appeared in front of them again, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
“Senior Brother Li, it’s getting late, are you still going up the mountain? Or do you mean to go after breakfast tomorrow?”
“Don’t be busy yet.” Li Huowang walked into a pastry shop that was filled with fragrance.
When he came out, he was already carrying a large stack of pastry boxes on his back. After taking these goods, the shop was about to be emptied by him.
“I’m leaving, you should stay in the previous inn, I can find you later, by the way, where is Gouwa? I saw you just now.”
“He went to the latrine.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Gouwa came out from the alley with a relaxed face.
“Hey, this hut is clean enough, not even half a fly or maggot.”