Large patches of clouds floated in the sky, revealing dense stars in the gaps between the clouds. It was as if the Milky Way was hidden above the clouds, and silver light dust fell from the gaps in the clouds. The spring night wind still carried a piercing chill. The procession of prisoners walked on the ground. Behind the prisoner carriage was a long line of prisoners with their hands tied. Around the procession, hundreds of bailiffs followed.
Looking out from the railings of the prisoner carriage, the silver-gray night sky had a breathtaking beauty. No matter what, the night was beautiful because it was not the human world. He used to like to look at the sky at night, but now that he thought about it, it had been a long time since he saw it like this.
But now his body and mind were broken, his hands were crippled, his legs were broken, and the iron hook had pierced through his shoulder blade. His martial arts skills were mostly wasted. He could finally let go of worldly things and once again look up at the things that were not of the human world. Because the road of the human world, he might not be able to continue forward …
His name was Fang Qisfo. In the spring of the eleventh year of Jinghan, he was thirty-nine years old. As the second leader of the rebellion led by the Fang family in the Wu dynasty, even though the outside world saw him as an omnipotent and resourceful star, he had never been educated since he was a child.
The Fang family was a large family near Qingxi. His family was originally a decent family with a house and land. His parents worked diligently and did not have to worry about food and clothing. Because he and his siblings had good aptitudes, they were accepted as disciples by the Lulin people and brought to other places to learn martial arts. When they were about to master their martial arts, they went out to roam Jianghu. A year later, when they returned home, they found that the family's land was gone.
This was because his father had fallen ill a few years ago. In order to treat his illness, the Fang family mortgaged their land. After recovering, Fang Qisfo's father's health gradually deteriorated and it became more and more difficult for him to farm. Fang Qisfo's mother went to work in a workshop run by a nearby landlord. The landlord was not bad and often brought things to visit Fang Qisfo. Later, when they couldn't pay, the mortgage became a sale.
The landlord was very concerned about the surroundings, and Fang Qisfo was grateful. Even though his mother did not agree to sell the land, and in order to save more money for the family and children, she even fainted from exhaustion in the workshop. But his father's health was good, which was a great fortune. In fact, at that time, they were unable to repay the debt. The Fang family had no choice but to sell the land.
However, not long after, he learned that the doctor had been paid by the landlord's family to deliberately say that his father's illness was serious and delay the medication. As a result, the Fang family, who was in dire straits at that time, had no choice but to pawn their fields. Full of vigor and vigor, he fought his way to the landlord's house. However, at that time, his martial arts skills had not yet reached the pinnacle. First, the landlord's house servants, then the government's bailiffs. Under the circumstances where there was no evidence, the surrounding people's words and the coercion of power forced him to lower his head.
However, young people were hot-blooded. As long as they had decided on something, how could they retreat? His cousin Fang La, his cousin Fang Baihua, and a group of other brothers gathered together and attacked the main house of the Great Earth Lord. However, the other party was also prepared and invited soldiers. After a fierce battle, they were finally forced to retreat.
On the second day, they were labeled as murderous bandits. Some of them had parents who were too late to leave … From then on, they had no home to return to and had to flee for their lives.
Carrying a blood feud was indeed the best motivation to improve one's martial arts skills. Not long after, Fang La, Fang Baihua, and the others made a name for themselves in Jianghu. Although he, who liked to lie on the roof at night and look at the stars, didn't improve as quickly in martial arts, he was still an outstanding member of the Fang Brothers. They joined the Mani Sect. A few years later, they returned to Green Stream and attacked the landlord's house again. At that time, the landlord's property had increased by several times. After defeating the experts hired by the landlord and exterminating the entire family, he didn't feel much joy as he walked in a pool of blood.
He just didn't understand why his parents, who worked hard and trembled with fear, only caused the family's property to decrease. Moreover, these landlords didn't need to do anything on normal days. They only needed to move their lips and they could order those experts who worked hard to practice martial arts around like dogs. It was only right and proper for him to take revenge. Why did he have to pay such a high price?
Two years later, he returned to Green Stream. The land that had been taken away by the landlord didn't return to the hands of the previous villagers. Other people divided the landlord's land and then expanded it even more. Those who worked hard and cultivated the land like his parents were also the people who believed in justice the most. In this game, they never had the right to speak.
His cousin, Fang La, was decisive. He had long realized this. Since he had become a bandit, he wanted to rebel. He was also a natural leader. A large group of people gathered around him and were willing to listen to him. Fang Qisfo, on the other hand, liked to see all kinds of things. He began to read and read books. He also understood that if he hadn't been so violent a few years ago, his parents might not have died. The world was like a tide, one should go with the flow.
A few years later, they forced Sikong Nan to retreat. In that battle, many protectors and elders of the Mani Cult didn't stand on their side. His cousin's martial arts skills were also not as good as Sikong Nan's. However, in that battle, which was supposed to be a disadvantage, Fang Qisfo, who fought with all his strength, defeated several experts in a row and tilted the balance of victory and defeat.
After thinking through some things, his martial arts skills were unknowingly on par with Fang La's.
Later, he and Fang La came up with the slogan, "All laws are equal, there is no superior or inferior." For more than ten years, he planned the development of the Mani Cult. It was like he was guiding streams of water. With the joint efforts of everyone, everything finally converged into a raging tide in Jiangnan. The people who lost their property rose up and killed the landlords. The people of the Three Mountains and Five Peaks rose up to support them.
Then, everything stopped … The water in the river died, and they couldn't move it anymore …
Perhaps, as the guy named Ning Yi said, they had no ambition, and that was the end of it.
After conquering Hangzhou, the momentum of the Yongle Army began to change. He, who had been watching all this, could understand this the best. Originally, the leaders of the farmers and mountain bandits began to fight for gold and silver, and to divide the land. The method of fighting, which could be used to attack together, became useless when facing a big city and a big army. Everyone knew that this wouldn't work, but everyone believed that everyone else was doing the same thing.
They cherished their lives and were short-sighted. After conquering Hangzhou, the desperadoes didn't risk their lives anymore. Those whose families were ruined by rich men only wanted to be rich men … From this point of view, there was really no difference between people.
He had walked this road for a long time, looked at it for a long time, and thought a lot, but he didn't know what to do next.
In fact, people who thought too much would not be happy. He thought that he was disappointed in this world. After thinking too much and seeing too much, he started to be disappointed in people. During the time when Hangzhou was conquered and his cousin died in the battle, he kept thinking, "Is there any meaning to their success?" People were all the same. When they worked in the fields, they trembled with fear, just like his parents. When they had money and land, they became as cunning and cruel as the landlords. When they became officials, they bullied the good like those unscrupulous officials. Even if we really overthrew the Wu dynasty, we wouldn't be able to change anything, would we?
Fortunately, he didn't think about it during this time. He finally had time to look up at the sky, where he might go in the future. In his spare time, when he looked back on the people and things in the past, he occasionally thought of two people who were different from others.
His disciple, Chen Fan. As his personal disciple, the boy was very talented and very smart. But maybe because he was too smart, he had seen the contradictions in the world. There was a knot in his heart that couldn't be untied.
He used to have high hopes for him, but later on, he didn't expect him to achieve anything great. Smart people were either snobbish or naive. Although he knew the ways of the world, he was still too naive. Naive people couldn't achieve anything great.
For example, after the defeat in Hangzhou, his cousin retreated to Qingxi. In fact, anyone with a brain could see that the Yongle Dynasty had lost its power. In order to kill Bao Daoyi, he had already sold his life to the Dominator's Saber Camp, but when he had the chance to leave, he ran back and secretly persuaded himself and a few others to leave, so that Fang Baihua almost killed him. Then, when Qingxi was conquered, he didn't leave. This time, he was captured, and he was among the people who were ambushed when they tried to break the prisoners.
Of course, such a person couldn't achieve anything great. But at the last moment, he hoped that he could find a place where the Imperial Court couldn't find him and live a simple life. The most important thing was not to be like himself, to be disappointed in people in the end.
The other person was the niece of the Tyrant Saber Village.
He had always thought that she was really naive, even more naive and fearless than Chen Fan. After Liu Dabiao passed away, she led the Tyrant Saber Village to do some strange things. Everyone tolerated her because Liu Dabiao owed her too much, and the Tyrant Saber Manor did indeed have powerful combat strength.
She was muddle-headed and rash. When fighting, she would charge at the very front, but when retreating, she would be at the very back. Tyrant Saber Manor had paid a heavy price in this uprising. She had always viewed the manor's residents as her family, so she definitely felt terrible. After Hangzhou was conquered, she did some strange things in the city because of the man called Ning Yi. At that time, he thought it was fine as long as she was happy. But when Hangzhou was conquered and he went to Qingxi with the others, he thought differently.
After leaving Hangzhou, she led the remaining villagers of the Tyrant Saber Village to choose a different path. He knew that she went to the Miao Territory. When Chen Fan came back, he told him everything that had happened. He could not see through the person called Ning Yi. However, during the process of Qing Xi's defeat, he had thought about it more than once. If he had thought it through earlier, perhaps he would have left more fresh troops for the Tyrant's Saber Camp.
After the defeat of the Qingxi Army, everything was in chaos. He thought that he could send some people to the Miao Territory to increase the strength of the Tyrant Saber Village. But in fact, the people on his side might not be of use to his niece. In the process of guiding everyone to scatter, he only selected some children who had studied in the academy of the Tyrant's Saber Camp or were even younger. There were dozens of them in total. He sent them to Miao Jiang secretly to hide from the disaster. This might be the last thing he could do.
During the chaotic battle in the Qingxi Army, Chen Fan returned, but the Tyrant Saber Camp did not do anything. Shi Bao and the others had once mentioned that they had no sense of brotherhood, but Fang La, Shao Xianying, and the others knew how hard it must have been for his innocent and affectionate niece to suppress the people in the stockade village and protect them in the end.
But it was good.
When the sound of killing came from the side of the official road, Fang Qibo looked up at the night sky and thought.
Maybe one day, these innocent children could walk the path that he couldn't walk …
*****
People fought on the ground, and the clouds moved in the sky.
The chief constable of the Ministry of Justice, Tie Tianying, waved the Giant Que Sword in his hand and led a group of constables and soldiers to repel the sneak attack of a group of people from the Greenwood Tribe. The prisoners behind the prison cart also became restless, and the soldiers on both sides began to suppress them with weapons. This time, in order to let the leader of the Fang Family go to the capital for trial, Fang Qibo was executed in public to restore the prestige of the imperial court, so there were enough people arranged nearby.
Fang Qibo sat in the prison cart and quietly looked up at the clouds in the sky. If possible, he hoped that no one would come to save him, but now things were out of his control. The Ministry of Justice obviously wanted to use him as bait to catch all these rebels in one fell swoop. He could only stay silent and not think about these things anymore.
And just when his eyes couldn't see, a few figures were walking among the mountains hidden by the forest nearby. Just as the fighting was going on below, they appeared on a nearby hillside and looked over from afar.
There were a total of more than ten figures. The one in the lead was a lady dressed in a blue-colored Miao people's attire. She had a face that looked a little baby fat, her gaze clear and also carried a little fearlessness. She stood in the gap of the mountainside and looked down, carrying a long wooden box on her back. Beside her were "Towering Blade" Du Sha, "Evil Blade" Luo Bingren, "Yuanming Blade" Fang Shuchang, "Nine Deaths Blade" Zheng Qiming, and so on.
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