Five Elements Cultivation to Immortality

In the endless Desolate Moon Continent's southwest border, the large rolling green mountains connected into an undulating endless vertical and horizontal dark interlaced lines.

At this time it is already sunset in the west, the darkness of the night is getting thicker. The villages at the foot of the mountain have already lit dim oil lamps one after another. A few old acacia trees at the head of the village were blown by the wind and their leaves rattled.

From time to time, there are a few dogs barking from the village far away, which will cause more barking, until it slowly stops and no sound...

Oil lamps shone on the dry cracked earth walls of the room, swaying a few blurred figures reflected on the walls, slanting either long or short.

"Child's mother, it's a done deal! At least he won't starve if he goes to the army. If he's lucky enough to do well, maybe he'll even have a future!"

The old man sitting by the door leaning against the door frame has an old face, his skin is rough from years of labor, his back is a little hunched as he sits, and he is holding a tobacco pouch in his hand, with a yellowed and blackened pouch crashed underneath the tobacco stem. After he finished his sentence, he picked up and sucked it.

"Snap, snap ..."

The sound of smoking was loud and clear in the silence of the house.

"But, Old Five, he... he's only fourteen, so young in age..." The old woman sitting on a simple, short chair, her clothes tattered and her face already crawling with many wrinkles, said with tears in her eyes.

The old man said, "These two consecutive years of locust plague, not to mention our family, a large half of the village's families have no food. Those who can go to the city to work have gone to work, those who can travel far away have traveled far away, and those who can become soldiers have become soldiers. Old Three's leg was injured in a labor accident some years ago, leaving him disabled and unable to do anything outside. Old Five's body looks like he is sixteen or seventeen years old, no one can't believe it! Now as a soldier not only can't starve themselves, and also can have an allowance of silver first sent down in advance. In the future, when he settles down, if he wants to, he can also send some back every month." Finished, the old man continued to smoke, the old woman in the room lowered her head and continued to sob.

Outside the door, a figure crouched against the wall by the door, but facing away, staring blankly at the outline of the distant rolling mountains in the darkness of the night, not speaking for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

In a silence inside and outside the room, time passes little by little, and the mountain village under the night seems extremely silent.

After a period of time, the figure outside the room stood up, turned around and walked into the house.

This was a half-grown boy, looking at his frame about sixteen or seventeen years old, but somewhat thin and weak, with a dark face and a very ordinary appearance, dressed in old rough clothes with several holes in them.

He just entered the room and said in a low voice after looking at a few people in the room.

"Father, Mother, you don't have to worry. Many people in the village have gone out, and now the family's harvest is only enough to barely eat. Although the village chief occasionally leads some people to hunt beasts in the mountains, but after all, the depths are forbidden to go, and can only occasionally hunt some pheasants and rabbits in the periphery, which are not enough to share. I also want to go out to take a look, and with Third Brother and Fourth Sister at home, they can also take care of you."

The real age of the half-grown boy was only fourteen. It's just that he grows up faster because he spends a lot of time hunting in the mountains and plowing the fields outside the mountains, but he's very skinny due to the fact that he can't keep up with his nutrition in recent years.

The young boy's name is Li Yan. He is usually a man of few words, since he was young, he followed the village's old scholar, with a group of children of about the same age to study in private schools for six or seven years.

Later, after the death of the old scholar, he studied less and less time, and often followed the adults in the village hunting in the outskirts of the Great Green Mountains. At first he just secretly sneaked out to follow, but after a long time after exposure, he returned to get a scolding from his parents. But the children of the mountain village are like this, all grew up in the sound of parents scolding.

Li Yan grew with age, and also began to follow the hunting team into the mountains, slowly familiarized with some of the habits of wild animals, and a little participated in the hunting of the adults. Due to years of running and jumping in the mountain and water streams, his body grows taller and stronger. But due to the two years of locust plague, the main grain harvest greatly reduced, the family can only eat a half-full every meal, he is not as strong as before, his body was thin.

Li Yan had four siblings. The eldest and second sisters had married far away when he was ten and twelve years old respectively.

Fourth sister Li Xiaozhu also found a good in-laws. But because of the locust plague in the past two years, her in-laws are not rich family, so for a while they cannot come up with the bride price to marry her.

However, they promised to get enough money for the bride price as soon as possible, so their wedding should be held within this year or two.

Some years ago, Li Wei, the third brother, when he plowed the farm, accidentally hurt his ankle by the plowing tool. Due to the lack of silver in the family, he was delayed in searching for a doctor, and became disabled and crippled.

Li Wei, who was half-kneeling inside the room to support his mother, raised his head apologetically and looked at Li Yan.

"Old Five, I..."

"Third brother, you don't need to say anything. It will require you to take care of the family more in the future."

Li Yan smiled gently at his Third Brother and interrupted.

"Maybe I'll get to be a general or something later on, and then it'll be glorious to pick you all up and have a good time."

Li Wei looked at him, then sighed softly before turning his head once again to look at his mother, who was being patted on the back by his fourth sister and was still whimpering, and said comfortingly as well.

"Then in the future, the Li Family may rely on Fifth Brother to glorify our ancestors!"

In fact, Li Wei and Li Yan didn't know nothing about the outside of the village. The villagers who went to the city to sell the meat or furs of wild beasts, or who went to the city to buy things would say something.

This is the border town, and to the south is the country of Meng. The two countries at the border fought from time to time. The chances of soldiers going to the frontier were still high, especially in these past few years when wars broke out from time to time.

As a result, there has been a lot of recruitment here over the years. In the past, villages had to write letters of guarantee to prove age, identity, past experience at home and so on. Now you can enlist in the army with fewer restrictions if you are sent there by the village chief.

These wars are also due to the fact that the present emperor of the imperial dynasty has made the world under the rule of the Way of Literature and Virtue.

The court's literary victory and military decline has led to the neighboring countries becoming restless, and from time to time there have been military conflicts. In recent years, there have been wars not only in one direction, but also on the borders of other directions.

Therefore, the imperial dynasty's garrison dispatch is not able to meet the needs of the local garrison, only by the local garrison local conscripts into the army, to supplement the source of soldiers.

The stragglers from outside the country may not know the inside story of this place and have a higher tendency to enlist in the war. But some of the local people are aware of the situation, so the local villagers are not very motivated to join the army.

And the local defense forces are hindered by the present Emperor's rule of the country by the laws of literature and virtue, and cannot forcibly conscript troops. Therefore, in the past few years, as long as you enlist in the army, you can get a fee to your family first, in fact, is the settlement fee, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of enlisting in the army.

This method caused a lot of rural households to send their sons into the army, of course, this is basically poor farmers, rich merchants and tycoons would not.

However, these situations are not known to the women in the village. In this world where men are superior to women, the men seldom tell their own wives about these situations.

Their mountain village, which is more than two hundred miles from the county town, has a total of twelve or three families in the village, and there won't be a single one enlisted as a soldier for many years.

These things, however, could be used as a topic of conversation when they were chatting in the village or in the fields. The two brother Li Wei and Li Yan heard some news when they were working in the fields, or when they were following the group into the mountains on the road.

Then, the room fell silent again. After a long time, Old Man Li knocked his tobacco pouch on the threshold a few times and said.

"Then I'll go find the village chief, you guys rest."

After saying that, he walked toward the village under the dark moonlight, and soon his stooped figure disappeared into this early autumn moonlight, and the night wind was already cool!

Moonlight fell on the bed from a few wooden window panes with holes for broken paper, and a few ragged quilts with exposed cotton covered the two of them as Li Wei and Li Yan lay back to back.

"Old Five, be calm when things go wrong in the military camp, endure as much as you can, and don't act forcefully."

"Ok!"

After a moment of silence.

"If...if there's a war, don't rush ahead if no one is watching, and be sure to drop a few steps!"

"Ok!"

Silence again.

"You don't have to worry about the family. With your enlistment allowance, I'll take care of our parents at home. With your monthly allowance you buy yourself more meat to eat, so you won't be bullied if you're strong."

"Well!... Third Brother, Father and Mother are getting older, so you do more work in the fields."

"Okay, as long as I'm alive, Father and Mother won't starve."

"..."

Sustained silence and occasional words continued one after another in the darkness.

The moonlight is like water and the night is cool!

In the middle of the night, there was a soft click from the door of the hall, and the brothers stopped talking.

Then in the side room resounded the low, inaudible voices of Father and Mother talking, rustling so that no one could hear...

Soon after, there was the sound of low sobs from the Fourth Sister and Mother, and it seemed that the Fourth Sister had been accompanying Mother.

With his back still against his third brother, Li Yan stared blankly at the wall in the darkness with his eyes wide open.

The cracks on the wall, illuminated by the hazy moonlight, looked like the advice and memories of beloved families at home, spreading from the mind to the heart...

In a daze, Li Yan was pushed awake. He opened his eyes to see that it was fourth sister Li Xiaozhu, next to him, third brother was no longer there, fourth sister looked at him with red and swollen eyes and said, "Fifth brother, Uncle Guoxin is here, father asked you to get up and go over."

Li Yan didn't sleep much last night until the rooster crowed a few times and he fell asleep sleepily, he sat up straight and then said to his fourth sister, "Fourth sister, I'll go now."

Li Xiaozhu, however, did not move, still looking at him with unwilling eyes. Li Yan looked at the other party's expression, his heart tightened for no reason, but his face revealed a smile.

"Fourth sister, there's no need for that. I'll come back to see you next Spring Festival, just that I don't know if you'll be at home by then."

Li Xiaozhu froze at his words, and then her face flushed.

"Annoying!"

Then she turned around and went out the door.

Li Yan looked at his fourth sister's back and couldn't help but let out a soft sigh, he didn't even believe his own words.

He would come back in the New Year... Now it is already the end of summer and the beginning of fall, not to mention what will happen to himself in half a year, or what will happen next year or the year after next, he doesn't even know.

After simply washing up, Li Yan came to the front room. At this time there were five people sitting in the front room, father, mother, third brother, fourth sister, and a strong man in his forties.

The strong man sat in a slightly taller and larger chair. He had a square face with a full beard, and wore a short-sleeved hunter's uniform with gnarled muscles.

In this early fall morning, the mountain village is already chilly, but he does not look cold, sitting there but also has a momentum.

Seeing Li Yan enter, the strong man laughed.

"Li Yan, you're getting up a little late."

Li Yan took a few steps to the strong man, bowed and said.

"Good morning, Uncle Guoxin!"

The name of the strong man was Li Guoxin, who was the village chief of this village. In addition to plowing and farming, he was also a good hunter, often leading the village's young and strong men to go hunting in the periphery of the mountains.

During the locust plague in the past two years, it was thanks to him that the village life was better than the other villages, at least there was no starvation.

Li Guoxin said after looking at Li Yan and then at Li Yan's mother and Li Wei and Li Xiaozhu.

"Originally, I was to go to the town two days later. The second son of the Old Shan family in the village and the eldest son of the Li Tian family are going to the county town to work as a kitchen helper and blacksmith's apprentice, so they asked me to send them there and then give a certificate of proof. Last night Uncle Chang came to my home and told me about the matter of Li Yan, so I decided to go over there today."

The name of Li Yan's father was Li Chang, and everyone in the village called him Uncle Chang. Li Guoxin looked at everyone again and continued.

"In fact, yesterday I also told Uncle Chang that it's okay to let Li Yan go to the county town to work as a laborer like the others, and this is a safe and sound job. However, I have to make it clear that this kind of work, a half-grown boy like him is definitely inexperienced and must start as an apprentice. Apprentices have to pay a fee, and secondly, they have to do all the work, and they have to sign a contract. If something bad happens during the apprenticeship process, the master will not pay anything, but Uncle Chang still decided to let Li Yan go as a soldier."

Li Guoxin looked at the red and swollen eyes of Li Yan's mother, but he still explained the matter.

This is also mainly a matter of money. Li Yan's family didn't have much money anyway. Although the apprenticeship fee was only 500 cents, for this family, it was undoubtedly out of their reach. Their monthly expenditure is only about 50 cents, this will have to spend nearly a year's expenditure, how can they afford to do so.

The second reason is that being an apprentice is hard work and there is no personal freedom. The apprentice has no dignity until he is finished with his apprenticeship. It was not uncommon for masters to beat apprentices to death.

Uncle Chang said after glancing at Li Yan.

"It's settled! It's going to be a lot of trouble for you now, Guoxin."

Li Yan's mother's eyes were red and swollen, and when she heard this, she was in a hurry to say to the village chief.

"Leaving today?"

The village chief said with a nod.

"Yes. Although recruitment is a regular thing nowadays. But yesterday, someone in the village came back from the county town and said that General Hong had already started recruiting soldiers early yesterday morning. This time the soldiers are probably the garrison of the inner-city guards. This kind of guards usually protect the families of the officials in the city and guard the granaries, armories and whatnot in the city. They generally won't go into battle, so if it's as slow as two or three days, it should be filled up, so if we go late, we'll miss out on this opportunity."

Li Yan's mother was anxious when she heard this.

"Huh? There's going to be a war?"

Li Xiaozhu also looked at Li Guoxin anxiously upon hearing this.

After hearing his wife's words, and then seeing his fourth daugher's anxious appearance, Uncle Chang slapped his hand on the table in front of him in dissatisfaction.

"Didn't Guoxin say that this is the Close Guard! The Close Guard is to guard the city and watch over the family, no war! Look at what you guys look like."

Li Xiaozhu and Li Yan's mother timidly glanced at Li Guoxin. After Li Guoxin glanced at Uncle Chang, he also nodded his head repeatedly, and then comforted them, and only then did they put their hearts down and stopped pursuing the matter.

Li Yan has not said a word since he entered the door and said hello. At this time he saw his mother and fourth sister like this, his heart couldn't help but feel sadness of separation rising up, a wave of sourness clogging his throat, and his eyes began to redden slightly.

He thought that if he earned money in the future, he would go home to his parents and relatives, and would never stay away from them again. He wanted to see their satisfied smiles every day, enjoying the warmth of their joy.

In fact, although the Close Guards don't have to be in the battle in normal times, if the battle comes, it will not matter if you are a Close Guard or not if there are not enough troops.

At least they are going to go up to wall defending the city. The enemy's sword, spear and arrow during the attack on the city do not have eyes, they cannot distinguish who is the close guards, who is the general, they will shoot without hesitation.

In addition, when it comes to the emergency, the close guards may have to go out of the city to confront the enemy. At that time, it will be a real battle of life and death.

But all in all, the Close Guard is really much better than the other ranks that are normally recruited.

Li Wei, who was at the side, was worriedly looking at Li Yan. He vaguely knew that things were not as simple as the village chief said.

Li Guoxin saw that Li Yan kept silent, so he said to him.

"Do you have anything to ask now?"

Li Yan thought about it and spoke anyway.

"Uncle Guoxin has already said that the close guards are recruited by General Hong to guard granaries and armories, and even to guard the families of officials. Then this errand is already very good and hard to seek, and I will be sure to serve this errand well."

When Li Guoxin heard this, he frowned lightly, thinking that Li Yan really believed all of his words, but in his heart, he said.

"On the way, I'll have to talk to this kid. He mustn't really believe that this is a risk-free errand, and that he'll lose his life then."

Li Guoxin then said goodbye to Li Yan's family.

"'We'll set out in half a quarter of an hour. This time it's just me and the three descendants going together, so there can't be anyone else to send off at home. It's over two hundred miles of mountain road, so if one family goes with a sender, plus the baggage, the cart won't be able to run fast enough, and it'll be hard to get to the town today."

There were only two good horses in the village, and after pulling up the cart and adding the weight of the four of them, it was the limit for them to reach the county town before sunset.

Not long after the sun had risen, the carriage had driven out of the village, and the mountain village was slowly distancing behind them.

Looking at the several families still standing at the head of the village, as well as the crowd of weeping women, the other two boys on the cart, who were also only about thirteen or fourteen years old, whimpered and cried, wiping their tears non-stop.

Li Yan looked at the crying fourth sister and mother in the crowd, as well as the third brother who was walking with a limp to support his father, remaining silent.

Until Li Yan got on the carriage, Third Brother and Father didn't say another word and just tried to smile.

The fourth sister and his mother, however, kept pulling the corners of his half-new ragged clothes, fearing that the clothes would be untidy. They cried while entrusting all sorts of things, asking him to come back to see them when he had time, and there were dried food and salted vegetables in the parcel, so he could eat when he was hungry and drink when he was thirsty...

Li Yan did not cry. He just held back his tears as a burst of acidity hit his heart, forcing out a smile and waving his hand at them.

"Father, Mother! Third Brother, Fourth Sister, take care of yourselves. Next time I come back I'll bring you good things from the town. Third brother, take good care of the family!"

"Old Five, we remembered, we remembered, go, go..."

"Fourth sister, when I settle down, I'll bring you back the town's rouge and powder!"

" Old Five...Sis...wait, woohoo..."

"Old Five..."

With a heartbreaking cry, Li Yan's mother collapsed into her fourth sister's arms...

The other two families were also crying, and the sound of whimpering on the cart was even louder. Li Yan could no longer control the tears, letting it flow freely on his face, but he did not make a sound.

The cart finally slowly moved away, away from the place where Li Yan grew up, away from the foot of the Great Green Mountain, away from the familiar grass and trees here

As the cart turned a corner of the mountain, the mountain village gradually became small, and finally no longer visible, but it seems that the wind came from the village cries louder and louder, making people heartbroken...

The other two boys on the cart were named Li Yu and Li Shan, both of them were only eleven or two years old. Naturally, they were able to become apprentices because their families were more well-off than Li Yan's.

There were only twelve or three families in their village, and the three young boys were quite familiar with each other. As the roadside scenery continued to change, the youngsters' innate nature of heart became revealed.

Their depressed mood was slowly replaced by the freshness of the different scenery passing by on the roadside, and Li Yu and Li Shan began to talk to each other.

The two of them became gradually excited as the scenery along the roadside kept changing. Their mood slowly flamed up just like the sunlight that was getting warmer and warmer in the sky, and they began to continuously envision the future and began to speak out loud.

Li Yan, on the other hand, remained mostly silent, only occasionally answering or echoing some of the topics they talked about.

His mind was in turmoil, and all kinds of thoughts came to his mind. He considered the future, considered his family members at home, and finally made up his mind.

"This time, I must do a good job and earn more silver. In the future, when I return to the village, I will build two large courtyards, one for my third brother, so that he can marry a wife; the other one for myself and my parents to live, so that the two elders can live a good life; during the festival period, I will also bring my three sisters back, and the family will be reunited, and will not be separated again."

This is a display of youthfulness. He was only thinking about his third brother getting married, but he was alone with the two elders, not realizing that he would have to form a family on his own as well.

He was flooded with all kinds of thoughts for a while.

On the way, Li Guoxin seized an opportunity to whisper to Li Yan, telling him to behave well after joining the army and strive to gain the favor of the head of the army, so that he might be assigned to a better affiliated barracks. Moreover, there is a possibility that close guards may have to participate in city guarding duties, so he should not take it lightly.

Of course he only said it was possible, adding that it basically wouldn't be. He was considering a reminder while fearing that he would scare Li Yan if he said it harshly.

Li Yan was also much sobered up from the muddle by Li Guoxin's interruption and nodded his head in a low voice, which made Li Guoxin's heart settle down a little.

After explaining these precautions to Li Yan, Li Guoxin's voice got a little louder and continued.

"Li Yan, if you are into the close guard army, in previous years maybe you should not have the opportunity to have family visits, unless you have made a war achievement.

But it's very difficult to get a chance to make a contribution when you're new in the army. If there are things or letters that you want to bring back home, you can put them in the place where Li Yu or Li Shan are. People from the village often come to town. Whenever they come, ask them to go there and take the letters and other things back to your parents.

In addition, although there are other people in the village in the town working as laborers or apprentices, but today should not have the time to take you to recognize the road, but you can go over to the place where Li Yu and Li Shan are going to take a look together first.

The two of them will be done when they pay their fees to the Master family and sign the contract, which will be very quick, but yours will take longer to be finalized."

Li Yan said at his words, "Uncle Guoxin, if people come from the village, just have them pass by my place as well, the barracks should be easy to find as well."

"You child! How can you think so simply! However... this is not your fault, after all, you have seen less. Those garrison barracks are no place for ordinary people to go. If you go there recklessly, it's not a big deal to be questioned, but it's possible that you'll be taken to jail as an enemy spy."

"Oh, that's something I really don't know." Li Yan scratched his head back in embarrassment after hearing his words and said.

"But when you've been in the army for a few years, or when you've become a big officer, we can go to you in a dignified way, Only by that time, you have to recognize your Uncle Guoxin!"

Li Guoxin joked.

Not waiting for Li Yan to answer, Li Yu grabbed the words.

"Uncle Guoxin, when I have learned to cook well, then every time you come here, I will cook you the best food for free, that is surely the most delicious and the most appetizing."

Li Shan also grabbed the words.

"Uncle Guoxin, I'll give your family...well, and every family in the whole village the best sickles and hoes, as well as knives and guns to use for hunting by then."

"Haha, good, good! In the future, our Li Family Village will rely on your generation. With you guys, we'll be able to heat pots of wine every day in our old age, eat barbecue, watch the sunrise and sunset over the Great Green Mountain, and enjoy ourselves freely." Li Guoxin laughed loudly.

After starting the conversation, the cart livened up, and Li Yan also talked a few words from time to time, engaged in it with longing.

The county town was to the south of the Li Family Village, turning out from the foot of the Great Green Mountain, the cart traveled all the way to the south.

The Li Family Village is located near one of the main peaks of the Great Green Mountain, while its sub-range of mountains stretches away to the south and north without knowing where it ends.

By midday, after finding a shady spot by the roadside and stopping the cart, Li Guoxin took out food and greeted them to rest and eat some food.

They also took out food from their own parcels and ate it together on the ground. Even though it was rough bread and salted vegetables brought out from home and a little bit of cured animal meat, they ate and chatted, but they were also happy.

Finally in the afternoon around 3 o'clock, they came to the county town. From a distance, a town was situated in a large open area, but the east and west sides of the city wall were built along the mountains.

The cart got closer and closer. Looking closer, the city gate and the city wall were more than thirty meters high. Looking towards the city wall, there were dark shadows walking on it, which were thought to be the soldiers patrolling the city.

A big golden yellow flag was erected at the top of the city, with the word " Emperor " written on it, and it swirled in the wind. On the city gate, three big words " Green Mountain Pass" are very eye-catching.

The three people on the cart also stopped talking at this moment, their mouths wide open as they stared blankly at the towering city gates. They haven't been here like the adults in the village.

Since they grew up in the village, the furthest place is just around the village, how have they ever seen such a majestic city wall? Seeing such a sight for the first time, their hearts were in awe.

At this time, there are not many people coming in and out of the city gates, probably because it is already afternoon.

Li Guoxin gently tightened the reins of the horse, slowed down the carriage, and turned back to the three of them and warned.

"This city was built to connect the mountains from east to west, and there are only two city gates on the north and south. The check at the north gate is much more lenient, but the check at the south gate, which is connected to Meng, is incredibly strict.

Moreover, the south gate is usually only open for about three hours during the day. Although out of the south gate is not the enemy country, still need to travel further south about dozens of miles of buffer zone to the Meng border, but for cavalry, it is almost a matter of moments.

The advantage is that the east and west sides of this Green Mountain Pass are connected to the mountains, making the direction of the enemy's attack only the south side of a road feasible, which makes the county town more defensible and difficult to attack.

The east and west sides of the city have steep mountains and narrow ridges, which do not allow several people and horses to go up at the same time.

Even if someone could get up there, attacking down from the mountains would be a problem, and it is estimated that without waiting to come down, they would have already been discovered and would have been shot by the defending crossbows."

They followed his words and looked toward the towering city wall.

But the city wall is too high, and they are under the north wall of the city, from this point of view they can only vaguely see to the east and west sides of a row of dark black things head up to the sky, respectively, pointing to the two sides of the mountain peaks, like a ferocious beast opening its fangs.

Li Yan secretly thought to himself. "Uncle Guoxin said this north city gate checked leniently, which should be the people coming this way are basically the people of their own country.

It should be crossbows and arrows on top of the wall. Look at the mountain ridge this vertical, steep, really can't allow several people to walk on it at the same time.

I can't go up this kind of ridge, I guess there are only two or three people in the village like Uncle Guoxin who can go up, but it's probably also very difficult.

It was also extremely difficult to walk on that mountain. If one foot step in the air, it is estimated that there is only the part of the fall to death.

Even if somebody gets on this mountain, if from the top of the mountain down to attack the two sides of the city wall, as long as there is a slight movement, there will be a foot on the sliding sound of the gravel. The soldiers on the wall must be known in advance.

At that time, only a row of crossbow arrows shot up, the people above will be shot into hedgehogs, it is really a heavenly security place."

Li Yu and Li Shan also came back to their senses from the shock at this time, hearing these words from Li Guoxin, Li Yu asked. "Uncle Guoxin, the city wall is so secure and guarded by soldiers, I think that the people of Meng must not be able to break in, right?"

Li Guoxin looked gloomy but said. "This is difficult to say, I heard that in these years, the Meng country's soldiers have attacked a few times, and one time, the enemy soldiers have attacked on the south wall of the city.

Luckily, General Hong led a bloody battle in the city himself, so the enemy soldiers were killed off. Later, I heard people in the town said that the blood flowed down the city wall to inside the city, flowing all over the place.

And the streets were covered with blood and flesh. On top of the city wall and outside the south wall is a mountain of corpses. Although most of them were of the enemy attackers, there were also a small half of our imperial soldiers."

When Li Yu and Li Shan heard this, they were scared pale. They thought to themselves that in the future, if they were to be apprentices here, wouldn't they have to be wary? Even more worriedly, they looked at Li Yan, thinking in their hearts that Brother Yan wasn't going to go up to fight as well? Wouldn't that be even more dangerous?

Li Guoxin also felt that it was wrong when he spoke here, and immediately stopped the conversation and casually said.

These are only some rumors, it should not be true, or now this county will not be so prosperous."

In fact, as the village chief, he knows best, due to the many wars in the borderlands, the emperor has long issued a decree: the borderlands do not allow the local people to easily migrate. In order to show the people's patriotic heart, even if there is a strong enemy outside, they can also live in peace and work happily.

Li Guoxin did not know the situation in other borderlands. He has received the government documents, requiring that no villagers are allowed to migrate, or else they will be punished with a serious crime.

Fortunately, here in Green Mountain Pass really blocked a lot of times the enemy invasion, to protect these villages and towns behind the Green Mountain Pass is currently peaceful, seemingly people peace and security.