Looking at the near noon, Linye called his subordinates and Sun Qilang to find a place with mountain springs, picked the furs and washed them, then set up a pot and cooked them. One of them came from a local area and found some wild mushrooms around and put them in the pot together.

There are a total of ten people in the team led by Forestry. He himself is a team general. Another Peng Sanlang, who was born in the Xiang Army, is the team guard. There is another Tao Qinglian, who is from Lutingzhou, Fujian, and is a hunter. The three of them and Sun Qilang are the backbone of the team, while the other six are local natives.

This composition is also the general component of this commander. Three to four percent are retired soldiers of the Xiang army and immigrants from Fujian Road, and sixty or seventy percent are local natives.

Fujian Road is full of mountains, and many of the people who come here are mountain men who are used to walking through the mountains and forests.

Although the local natives are more familiar with the terrain, most of them are from the original local officials and have been used to being controlled by others since childhood. It is difficult to change their ideas at once. Although they account for a large proportion of the team, only a small number of them have become small officials at all levels.

Humans are social animals, and the impact of the environment is far greater than imagined. If these liberated servants want to truly integrate into the environment of sugar services, they may have to wait until the next generation.

Due to the special status of the team, almost all team members are from the Fangjun. What this position requires is ruthlessness, and sometimes a little cold-blooded, which is really hard for ordinary people to do.

Sun Qilang is an idle person, just to make up the numbers in the team. Because of his identity, everyone consciously refused to let him do any difficult things. However, Sun Qilang is smart and often has some wonderful ideas, and is kind. He gets along well with everyone.

To be honest, the structure is composed of the personnel of the sugar sugar business. Not to mention finding five hundred, it is not difficult to find five thousand people who can walk on flat ground in the mountains and forests. The real difficulty is not to find these people, but to make these people form a whole, even in the deep mountains and forests, and to complete the tasks in a planned and step-by-step manner. According to the needs, it can be quickly dispersed in the mountains and forests, and can also quickly gather with effective means. This is the most difficult one. There are only five hundred people. Xu Ping spent more than a year from picking people to basically meeting the requirements, let alone the manpower and material resources spent to meet this requirement.

After having a meal, Forestry led his team to continue along the established route. He had a map of this area, but not everyone could understand the map. Even fewer people could combine it with the actual terrain after understanding it, which is also a rare reason for the personnel.

There is a barbarian village about twenty miles away from where they are now. According to the plan, they need to arrive there before noon tomorrow, join with other teams to form a city of troops, and sweep the surrounding Guangyuanzhou personnel. After completing the task, they will rush to the next location. Repeat this action.

Forestry walked in front of the team, climbed over a small hill. He climbed out of the woods and stood on a big rock and looked forward, and said strangely: "Hey, it turns out that there is a small village here."

There are villages, there are houses, there are food and drinks, and there are places to sleep. When they hear forestry words, they all rushed over. Only Peng Sanlang pulled Tao Lianqing and stood not far away.

Tao Qinglian was helpless. In fact, he was from Tingzhou, while Peng Sanlang was from Nanjianzhou. The two families were still more than 100 miles apart, but Tao Qinglian was relying on them. They were fellow villagers and were holding him in everything.

What do you do to bet the team? Although he is the second largest figure in this team, everyone hides, as if he gets close to him, his life is in danger at any time. Tao Qinglian is also suffering and can't say it.

At the foot of the mountain is a small village, with only five or six families in the east and west. Some rice fields were blooming along the stream at the foot of the mountain, which looked only twenty or thirty acres. At this time, the rice was blooming, but the fields below were planted too thin, which was particularly shabby compared to the scent of rice flowers in the paddy fields of Sugar.

Sun Qilang squeezed in front, looked at the village, shook his head and said, "The sun is now setting in the west, it is no longer as hot as at noon. There is no one in the village, and these barbarians are too lazy."

Lin Ye sighed: "I'm afraid they are not lazy, but that no one can come out to the ground. Let's go down and take a look. Be careful, listen to my orders, be careful that there are people from Guangyuanzhou in the village."

I walked down the dense forest on the hill and walked to the edge of the rice fields. There was still water flowing in the ditch at the fields. There has been no rain in recent days, and rice cannot be lacking in water in this season, so those who farmed were trying to water the land.

Carefully bypassing the rice fields, I saw a very rough dam built with stones on the slowly flowing stream. Everyone couldn't help but take a few more glances.

In the past, barbarians farmed, and they all planted slashes and fire, neither ploughed nor irrigated, and they all relied on the weather to make a living. With the expansion of sugar services and the construction of various water conservancy facilities, the concepts of people in the mountains were gradually changing. They learned to irrigate the fields, plant rice, cultivate, and irrigate, and the whole place was changing little by little.

Such a small village with several families can also build dams and irrigation ditches. It is no longer easy to be deep in the mountains. The team members have a little more favorable impression of this small village.

Forestry had a dark face, walked ahead first, and walked carefully to the entrance of the village hidden by the bamboo forest.

Peng Sanlang had no expression on his face, and he walked at the end with a steel knife. Just walking through the rice fields, he couldn't help but look at the rice fields stretching along the stream, and even looked up at the mountainside behind the village, where a large area of ​​forest was cleared out, and corn from the sugar commerce was planted.

After passing through the green bamboo forest, I saw the first family.

This is a row of three thatched huts. A small yard is surrounded by a fence in front. A little vegetables are planted in the yard and a few peach and apricots are planted by the wall.

A clean-cleaned mountain family exudes a faint warmth from the inside out.

Lin Ye's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He gently pulled out the knife from his waist, bent down and walked slowly towards the house in front, and covered the door along the bamboo forest.

Sun Qilang shook his head secretly. Linye is a good person, but he is too careful in doing things. It is just a small village of several families. Even the barbarians don’t welcome them, and they can’t do anything to ten big men with knives. Why do you need to be so cautious? Just go directly to call the door and ask for some food.

Seeing that everyone else took out their weapons, Peng Sanlang, who was walking at the end, glared at him fiercely. Sun Qilang shook his head and pulled out the steel knife.

The door was open, and a half-large yellow dog was lying beside the door. He looked up at the approaching forestry and his team, waved his head, and put his head back on his front legs, staring at the bamboo forest in front of him.

Linye made a gesture, and covered the two behind him to the door, glanced at the listless yellow dog at his feet, and whispered: "Go in with me, remember to be careful and don't make any noise."

The two agreed and walked into the courtyard with forestry.

There was no one in the yard, not even a living poultry and livestock, quietly without any movement.

Lin Ye sighed and took the two people behind him straight into the thatched hut.

When I entered the main entrance, I was the living room and the kitchen. There was half a pot of porridge mixed with wild vegetables in the pot. I don’t know when it was, but it was already rotten. The firewood under the stove was burned to the outside of the stove, leaving only some residue.

At this time, the sun was shivering in the west and was blocked by the mountains in another world. Although the heat had not yet dissipated, there was no trace of heat in this thatched hut, only a cold breath.

There was no one in the hut to the west. The things in the house were torn apart, and even the thin quilts of the quilt were torn apart, and the grass floes filled inside flew everywhere. There were broken jars on the ground. It was supposed to be the ones that contained food, and there were a few scattered brown rice under the fragments.

Lin Ye closed his eyes and calmed down for a while, and took the two of them to another room.

The room is simpler and quieter, and there are no various jars and jars. There is only a bamboo bed and a table that you can use with bamboo slices and branches.

A gray-haired old woman was on the bamboo bed, and she was holding a two or three-year-old boy in her arms.

Both of them were covered in blood. They had long died. Only the mosquitoes and flies that smelled the fishy smell flew around the corpse, making buzzing sounds.

The whole world was as silent as death, and the sound of flies sounded even more harsh.

Lin Ye sighed and said in a deep voice: "Let's go out, there are no living people in the house."

After saying that, he turned his head and left the house.

The two behind him looked at each other, but without saying a word, and followed them quietly out of the door.

In the yard, Sun Qilang also felt that it was abnormally quiet. He was a little nervous with a steel knife and stood against the wall with his body tense. Seeing Lin Yesan coming out, Sun Qilang whispered: "Brother Lin, what's going on inside?"

Linye shook his head: "People have been dead for a long time, and there is no living left. Let's go, let's go to the other stores to check it out, and it seems that it's almost done."

After saying that, Linye walked out of the door and discussed with Peng Sanlang for a few words. The two of them took five people to other people's houses in the village to check, and agreed to go back here before dark to meet.

The sun in the west has faded away the toxicity of the day, and has drawn a circle of blood-red colors on the top of the mountain in the distance. The cool breeze rises in the valley and blows into this small village deep in the mountains.

Sun Qilang lowered his head and returned to the house next to the bamboo forest at the entrance of the village with his head. He saw that Peng Sanlang was already waiting at the door with people. The yellow dog was still lying at the door beside them.

The dog was the only living resident in the village. Even the only cow in the village had only a skeleton left, even the cowhide was peeled off and the horns were removed.

When the two sides met, Sun Qilang could no longer help but asked in a deep voice: "Is this what people from Guangyuanzhou did?"

"Who can there be other than them?" Linye sighed deeply.

Sun Qilang shook his head: "I can understand how to grab grain and things, but why do they kill people? And the dead are all the elderly and children, where have the adults gone?"

A soldier from a local official family said, "Brother Qi, what's wrong with this? This is how the families in our mountains have come from generation to generation. The elderly are useless and it's hard to take on children on the road. Of course, they have to kill them here. Adults can sell money, so those people in the village are the most valuable things. If they don't take them away, they won't be in vain? These people still leave in a hurry, otherwise even the house will be burned to white ground!"

Sun Qilang turned his head and asked, "Catch people and sell them for money, who do they sell them to?"

"In the past, I just found a boss and sold it. The people who bought it would stay as servants. Otherwise, where would the thousands of servants from the boss come from? Now, our Yongzhou area has practiced the method of placing people into slavery, so they would sell it to other places. Brother Qi didn't hear that in Jiaozhi, a middle-aged man could sell it for dozens of stakes, and a woman would cut it by half. If she had the skills or a young woman had a little beauty, she could doubling it."

When Sun Qilang heard this, he shook his head. He had heard of these rumors before, but he just thought they were strange things. He didn't expect that such things actually existed in the depths of the mountains.
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