It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 507

Xuzhou, Luofeng City.

To be precise, Luofeng City no longer belongs to Xuzhou. In order to balance the forces in all aspects and with the support of the various families, Li Letian sealed the princes and kings of the eighteen families in one breath.

Li Xingzai named Xiaoyao King, and his fief was in Luofeng City, Xuzhou. In fact, when he left Chang'an City, Li Xingzai was still full of ambition. After all, although the situation in Luofeng City was bad, it was not bad compared to Li Xingzai's previous experience.

He wandered all over the world, and with Cheng Dalei, he was a bandit for three years, and he was a puppet in the hands of Cui Xiang for more than half a year. There is no soldier or soldier under his command. What is the so-called puppet? Naturally, where others refer, he has to run there.

But then Cui Xiang abandoned Li Xingzai and feuded Luofeng City, although the foundation of Luofeng City was very bad. But after all, it is his own territory. Then again, no matter how bad the foundation of Luofeng City is, can it be worse than the foundation of Qingniushan Toad Village? When Cheng Dalei was first born, there was only one thin horse and five people.

Now it's all stormy and stormy. When you mention Cheng Dalei's name, although everyone gritted their teeth with hatred, no one was afraid and respected.

Even if the start is worse, it is better to have a site than no site, and for a few years, you can always free up a space.

With this thought in mind, Li Xingzai left Chang'an and ran to Luofeng City. I also encountered several assassinations on the road, and I vaguely felt that someone was helping me secretly, but I couldn’t find out who it was. In the end, he used a trick to his death and came to Luofeng City without knowing it.

Li Xingzai was also quite satisfied with his plan, and he was a little complacent. However, when he arrived at Luofeng City, he realized how bad the situation was.

The population in the city is listed as 100,000 people, but in fact it is far from that many. There are only a few registered residents, and most of them are the elderly, the weak, women and children.

So where have all the old men gone?

They all became pirates.

Luofeng City is near the sea, and pirates are often attacked. The strong men in the city, who can lift a knife, are either kidnapped by bandits or kidnapped by pirates.

So the only ones left in the city are the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. When he entered the city for the first time, Li Xingzai led his horse to walk in the city, and saw that the four jades were withered, and there were almost no shops on both sides of the street. Li Xingzai's first impression: This is a dead city.

The youngest strength of a city is gone, like a man who has been castrated, lifeless, old, and dying.

No anger, this is the first difficulty in Luofeng City. The second difficulty is that the pirates and thieves are messing up, and they come to the city from time to time to shoot. The key is that Luofeng City is already so poor, what is there to be strong?

These two difficulties already made Li Xingzai helpless, but the third difficulty was the location of Luofeng City. Luofeng City is located in Xuzhou, next to Yangzhou and Yanzhou. It is a crack between the three forces. If Li Xingzai gritted his teeth and endured it, it was estimated that no one would move him, but as long as he tossed a little bit. The Prime Minister's Mansion, the General's Mansion, and Yangzhou Li Xing would not watch him grow bigger.

This was the situation that Li Xingzai faced.

"Xiaoyao King, Xiaoyao King, Xiaoyao, your grandma is a big chicken leg..."

In the kitchen, Li Xingzai cursed, chopped off a piece of dry wood with an axe, and threw it into the stove.

He has already lived in the City Lord's Mansion, and now he does not have the ability to rest and improve and build a palace. The previous city lord was killed by pirates, and there was no servant in the city lord's mansion. Li Xingzai had to make a fire to cook by himself every day. It was not that Li Xingzai could not do such a thing. After all, he had been wandering alone for many years.

Chai, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, seven things to open the door, all of which cost money. And Li Xingzai didn't have a penny on his book, and now he was asked to go up the mountain to chop wood and borrow rice for the pot.

Li Xingzai finally understood one thing, the most important thing now is not the issue of development, but the issue of survival. Maybe one day, I will starve to death in the City Lord's Mansion, woe, how sad.

There was a sudden scream of killing outside, and someone shouted: "The pirates are here, the pirates are here."

When Li Xingzai heard the movement, he scolded fiercely. Holding a hatchet in his right hand, after thinking about it, he picked up a fire stick and limped out of the City Lord's Mansion.

"Grab it every day, rob it every day, do you think this is your back garden!"

He left the street and saw a dozen pirates looting. Pirates do not always have thousands of people, but many are small groups of seven or eight people, or a dozen people. Because Luofeng City is only a small city, there are no soldiers to defend, they are always on the case to rob the people, and some women and children are often taken away by them.

Now more than a dozen pirates are unscrupulous on the long street, and the people are running away in panic. Those who can't escape are killed by the pirates, and the pirates laugh.

Seeing this scene, Li Xingzai's anger rose from his heart, his wickedness turned to his courage, and he shouted: "Hey, your grandfather Li is here, you wait for a wolf-hearted person, dare to kill my people, come quickly to my sword and die. "

He stopped in the middle of the long street, protecting the people behind him. The people all knew that a King of Xiaoyao came from Luofeng City, but they didn't take it seriously. Today was the first time they met.

There is one man in the Li family who counts as one. Although his head is often unclear, he has never been a coward.

Li Xingzai had no soldiers to fight, no generals to send, and only a knife and a stick in his hand, but he could face a dozen pirates, so why should he be afraid.

Carrying a knife and slashing with the people, he first turned one with a hatchet, and then attracted pirates to attack and surrounded Li Xingzai.

Li Xingzai hit him far with a stick, and cut him close with a knife. He is not a weak scholar who is powerless, but after all, his kung fu is not very good. In the face of too many enemies that surpass him, there is really no way.

Stop it!

Li Xingzai sighed deeply, thinking in his heart, if I die today, I will die. He died to protect the common people. After the news spread, it also let the world know that there is no coward in my Li family.

At this time, a person was killed from behind the pirates. He was still young, about eighteen or nineteen years old. He was carrying an iron gun and killed the generals all the way. The move was fierce, the attack was ruthless, the long spear stabbed over several times, and Li Xingzai joined together and fought outwards together.

Seeing that this young general was so good, Li Xingzai gained confidence in his heart, and his killing power was even greater. The two joined forces to beat the dozen or so pirates and fled, and the one who escaped slowly was shot by the young general, piercing the heart.

Li Xingzai wiped the blood from his forehead, looked at the young general with three eyes, and said, "Thank you, if it wasn't for you today, I really don't know what to do."

The young general also looked at Li Xingzai and said, "Is Your Excellency Li Xingzai, the King of Free and Easy?"

"Ha." Li Xingzai waved his hand: "Shame, shame. By the way, what's your name?"

The young general suddenly knelt down and said, "King Xiaoyao is on top, and Qi Jiguang from a certain family came to seek refuge."