This is not a story about gods and ghosts, so the vague lights on the hillside will not be the magic weapon in the hands of gods, and naturally it will not be the charming fox demon that comes out at night, nor will it be the thousand-year-old tree spirit that can put its tongue into people's stomach. Li Shimin is not Ning Caichen, so there is no Nie Xiaoqian. The one with soft lights in the mountains is not Lanruo Temple, but a row of wooden houses.

There are people living in the deep mountains and forests, which makes people sigh. You must know that Li Shimin's team walked into the mountain from the north for eight days before they arrived here. Their marching speed was very fast compared to the difficulty of the mountain road. After all, these were the most elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Fighting against the enemy on the battlefield did not take their lives. No matter how rugged the mountain road was, they would not be afraid.

As the saying goes, the horses are dead when they look at the mountain. In the dark night, they will rush over there when they see a little light in the mountains. When Li Shimin and others are exhausted when they reach the top of the mountain, they have run out of their energy. They relied on the excitement of seeing the lights and ran over in one breath. It took them half an hour to arrive. The distance is so far that they would not have seen it if they had not stood on the top of the mountain and looked down.

When the soldiers found that there was a row of wooden houses in front of them, they were obviously surprised. In any case, the houses appeared in the deepest part of the mountain always seemed a little weird, so when the soldiers walked to the door of the wooden house, they subconsciously clasped the hilt of the horizontal knife.

Li Shimin waved his hand and signaled not to act rashly. He walked to the wooden house and looked at it, then cleared his throat and shouted inside, "Is there anyone in the house? We are lost pedestrians in the past, can we come out to meet?"

His voice was not very loud, but it was enough to spread far away in the quiet night. Soon, the door of a wooden house was pushed open from the inside, and someone lifted a lantern and walked out, which was a little far away, so he couldn't see his appearance and age. However, the clothes on his body looked a little weird, as if they were not the clothing of ordinary people. When the man picked up the lantern and came to everyone, he saw clearly that he was wearing a Taoist robe.

"Is he really a god?"

A personal soldier from the Tiger Stripping Camp subconsciously took a step back and whispered to his companion: "It seems like a god..."

Li Shimin looked carefully. This person would never be a god. Because the man in Taoist robe was obviously shocked after seeing clearly that there were a group of soldiers in a mess but holding weapons in front of him. If he were really a god, how could he be scared by mortals? How could he subconsciously retreat and seem to be ready to turn around and run.

"This Taoist priest"

Li Shimin knew that now he must look like a group of refugees who robbed and killed people, so he immediately took out his Qin King seal from his arms.

"I am the second son of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and King Li Shimin of Qin. He led his army to chase and kill the remaining bandits and went into the mountains to find a way out. He just saw the lights here on the top of the mountain, so he rushed over. It was a risky thing to bother him late at night. Please forgive me."

"Da Tang?"

The middle-aged man in Taoist robe was stunned for a moment, then his face changed and asked in surprise: "The Great Sui Dynasty has been destroyed? The one who replaced the Great Sui Dynasty is called the Great Tang?"

This time it was Li Shimin's turn to be stunned. After thinking about it, he replied seriously: "The Sui Dynasty has been destroyed, the Yang family has been destroyed. Today, it is the world of the Tang Dynasty. I wonder when the Taoist priest entered the deep mountains? Since he knew about the Sui Dynasty, I think it was only in these thirty or twenty years."

"It's not that long. In the ten years of Daye, the world was in chaos and we hid in this deep mountain to avoid war. There were seventeen people here, all of whom were disciples of the Sanqingguan Daode Tianjun outside Chang'an City. I didn't expect that several years had passed in this mountain, and we would still meet outsiders."

"Since it took Daye ten years to enter the mountain, I believe the Taoist priest should also know the name of my father."

The Taoist priest thought for a moment and asked, "Is it the Duke of Tang in Longyou?"

“That’s right!”

Li Shimin nodded and said, "It made Taoist priest frightened, Shimin was frightened."

"The second prince is going to kill me. How dare I accept the second prince's gift?"

The Taoist priest flashed to the side and refused to accept Li Shimin's courtesy, but turned around and called out, "Senior brothers, come out. The person who came is the second prince of His Majesty the current emperor. The troubled times of the Great Sui Dynasty have ended, and the Tang Dynasty has established a country... We don't need to hide anymore. Come out and meet the guests quickly."

After talking to the Taoist priests for a while, he finally made it clear that the whole world was in the most chaotic end of the tenth year of the Great Avatar. These Taoist priests in the Sanqing Temple thirty miles outside Chang'an City were afraid of dying from war, so they simply brought their belongings and money and lost their food into the mountain. The seventeen brothers and sisters just thought that the safer they would go into the mountain, and they actually went deeper and stopped.

I built a wooden house and planted some food I brought on the nearby flat ground, and it took several years to pass.

When Shimin heard the word "food", he lit up.

"Master Taoist, I led my troops to pursue the remaining bandits and accidentally entered the mountain. It's true that the food has been eaten. The brigade of people is still waiting for me to return outside the mountain, but without food, hundreds of us are afraid that it will be difficult to get out. If the Master is willing to lend me some food, I will build a new Three-Clean Temple in Chang'an City after I return to Chang'an to repay my kindness today."

"food……"

The Taoist priest in the lead shook his head in embarrassment and said, "It's not that he refuses to lend it to His Highness, but it's just that the green and yellow ones are not in contact in March, and the food is only enough for a dozen of us to barely maintain until the summer grain is mature. On weekdays, we have to go out to hunt some wild animals, otherwise there will be still not enough food. So... don't blame Your Highness."

“What a pity.”

Li Shimin sighed and said, "Even seventeen of you are not enough for summer. It seems that you don't have much food to keep."

His tone suddenly turned, and a smile flashed in his eyes: "But the food for seventeen people to eat for several months is almost enough for me and the soldiers to eat for six or seven days. In six or seven days, we can walk out of the mountains..."

"How can your highness be so forced?"

The Taoist priest stood up and said with a look of a ugliness: "If you take away all the food, what should we do? We respect the Three Pure Land. Is your highness afraid of being punished by God for doing this evil? We serve the Dharma with our own body, and in fact, can you bully it at will?"

Li Shimin smiled and said, "If you say there is a punishment, there will be a punishment. Do you still need to hide in the deep mountains to escape from the world? You said you use your body to serve the law... Then I think you should not keep your body."

He stood up, looked at Yuchi Gong and asked, "Have you eaten human flesh?"

Yuchi Gong's face turned and said, "I haven't eaten it before."

Li Shimin said with a smile: "I don't have any, so I want to taste it."

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...

Li Shimin asked someone to count the food stored in the wooden house. It was indeed too little. Three hundred people saved food and could barely have enough to eat for seven or eight days, but it should be enough to get out of the mountains. Therefore, the soldiers did not need to eat human flesh to replenish their physical strength. This is not that eating immortal meat can last forever, and it will only make people feel disgusted and want to vomit.

All the property of the seventeen Taoist priests was robbed, including clothes, shoes and socks. Li Shimin looked at the seventeen naked people and walked over and said solemnly: "I remember my kindness today. If more than ten of you do not die, I will be the guest of the orphan when I arrive in Chang'an City in the future. If you die, I will build a Three-Cleave Temple in the city as promised."

"Li Shimin!"

The Taoist priest scolded, "You won't have a good end."

Li Shimin was not angry, but said calmly: "I will not kill you, but I am thinking about this food. The thief Zhang Jin said that he enjoys eating people's hearts. He once said that this is the most delicious thing in the world. If you don't know the good or bad, I will not mind whether it is really delicious."

The Taoist priest dared not speak anymore, and Li Shimin turned around and wanted to leave. At this time, the timid soldier suddenly whispered: "Although it is not a fairy meat, it doesn't seem to be unpalatable to see how many of them have fine skin and tender flesh. They are always better than those smelly horse meat..."

Perhaps this was too bloody and terrifying, and even he was shocked. He subconsciously looked at the comrades beside him, thinking that he would be despised and scolded by everyone, but who expected that none of the soldiers was surprised by this. Instead, a few soldiers who were already extremely fierce stared at the dozen Taoist priests with their eyes flashing fiercely. Even Li Shimin and Yuchi Gong were also shocked by the soldiers' eyes, which was a look of greed and extreme desire to vent.

Yes...

Li Shimin sighed in his heart and vaguely guessed why these soldiers had such an expression.

They followed them from Dongdu to Chang'an to rebel. The 50,000 army was full of energy. After the battle of Xuanwu Gate, more than 50,000 people escaped less than 3,000. On the Fengshui River, most of the 3,000 people who were pursuing Li Xiaogong were abandoned by Li Shimin. After entering the mountains, they ate some hard-to-eat dead horse meat every day and had to escape with difficulty. The remaining soldiers must be under great pressure, and it is time to have to vent. And for these soldiers, the best vent is to kill people.

"Jingde..."

Li Shimin called softly, looked at the soldiers' eyes gradually becoming red and whispered: "Let them kill them. If they don't vent their resentment... they are alone and worried..."

"I understand."

Yuchi Gong also thought of the key, so he waved his hand and said, "The King of Qin is going there to see if there is any food. You all stay here and search it carefully."

After saying that, he pulled Li Shimin out quickly, looking at his back, it seemed like he was running away, and he seemed a little embarrassed.

Behind him, the soldiers were cheering excitedly and perverted, and the whine of others before their death.

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...

Just half a day after Li Shimin's team left the wooden house, a very haggard figure stumbled out of the woods. Her clothes were no longer visible, and there was no human color on her face. Apart from her eyes, she was also a little angry.

Dugu Yirou staggered forward, and after walking out of the dense forest, his eyes suddenly lit up. It was when the sun was rising, and the dense forest was still wrapped in darkness, but the sight outside the forest had become very clear. Dugu Yirou looked at the wooden houses in front of her and immediately flashed with excitement in her eyes, and then rushed forward quickly. But she was so weak that she had almost no strength. She tripped by something and fell to the ground and fainted.

Her clothes could barely cover her body, and the wound on her shoulder had improved a little, and she applied a layer of herbs on it. She saw a wounded wild wolf find a bunch of herbs and chew it on the wound, so she did it as usual after the wild wolf left. This herb was extremely effective, and the wound no longer rotted, which showed signs of scarring.

The light of the sun shone on her. I don’t know how long she had been unconscious. She woke up quietly. She struggled to sit up, rubbed her forehead and then remembered that she had fallen. She looked back and saw what tripped her. Then she exclaimed in fear. Her hands and feet crawled back and walked back far away, with fear in her eyes.

It was a pile of minced meat, and it could be seen that it was a human corpse.

“Huh?”

When she saw that it was human flesh, she was obviously relieved, and slowly crawled back and identified it carefully. When she found the chopped head and the messy hair mixed in the flesh, she sat down and flicked it back and forth with a small wooden stick in the flesh for a few times, and found her fingers, intestines, and half of her heart that could be vaguely recognized. She gasped for a while and seemed to have thought of something, and then her eyes lit up.

She reached out and grabbed the half of her heart and put it under her nose to smell it. She couldn't help but feel a little happy: "It's actually a little fresh... I'm lucky."

Then she started eating, eating very slowly and seriously.
Chapter completed!