There is an unknown valley in Lingnan, more than 20 miles northeast of Shaozhou. The valley is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Even the only exit, there is a short mountain blocking the road in the narrow valley. You have to cross the short mountain before you can suddenly realize that there is a different world in it.

In the third year of Xianheng in the Tang Dynasty, more than 11 surnames suddenly came to this hidden valley, shoveling grass and flattening courtyards, and logging wood to make houses. In a few days, a small village was built, named Taoyuan Village.

Because the mountain village is hidden, Taoyuan Village has little contact with other mountain people. However, because woodcutters and hunters often pass by here, gradually, they have a little understanding of this small village surrounded by mountains.

The villagers here are different from ordinary mountain people in the local area. Most of the residents of this village are gentle and well-educated. Although they are like weaving fields and planting melons under mulberry trees, they can often hear the sound of reading and even the sound of playing the piano and playing the throne in the village.

At first, the mountain people thought it was strange and there were discussions from time to time, but it was no wonder that it would be too long.

Eleven years later, one day in the second year of Yongchun of the Tang Dynasty.

It was late spring, and the valley was lush and green, with a few acres of mountain fields hidden among the weeds and thorns. There were dozens of families scattered in the valley, the courtyard of bamboo fences and the eaves of logs, all hidden in the lush area, with a corner occasionally exposed, like a poem and a painting.

A girl carrying a bamboo basket was walking towards the short hillside outside the village with a naughty boy less than ten years old. The girl was wearing a short shirt, lotus-colored trousers, a short dress of a mountain man, a black cheeks, and a touch of redness formed by working in the fields. However, from the inside to the outside, it was a bit spiritual, which was definitely not comparable to an ordinary mountain village girl.

This girl is the age when her buds are just blooming at the age of fourteen or fifteen. She is tall and slim, with her thin waist upright and flexible. When she walks, she is like a flexible green bamboo swaying in the wind. Her bright eyes, her straight and straight nose bridge, and her red little mouth look very handsome.

A **-year-old naughty boy walked beside the girl, who looked like her younger brother. Although this naughty boy was as dark as a mountain child, he did not have the same solid appearance as a tiger-headed and brainy as a mountain child. In comparison, his figure looked much thinner, and his oval face looked six or seven minutes like the girl, with delicate eyebrows, big eyes, and pointed chin.

The girl's name is Yuerong. The boy following her is the younger brother of her mother and her nickname is A Chou. A Chou has always been lively and active. If he can't take care of him, he will go wild to the mountains. He climbs up and down a tree worth more than ten feet tall like a monkey. He is praised by children in the village as the number one master of climbing trees.

As a result, it was in line with the old saying that those who are good at water drowning, while those who are good at riding a cavalry fell. Three months ago, Ah Chou fell down while climbing up a big tree to dig a bird egg, and fell down from a big tree that was as high as five or six feet tall. Although there were branches blocking it, the soil on the ground was extremely soft, and it still fell below its head and broke one leg.

This scared the parents, who were regarded as the pearl in their hands, and the elder sister was beaten by her parents because she did not take good care of her younger brother. Ah Chou had been raising her at home for more than three months. Recently, her health was getting better and she was no longer in the way of walking, but her parents were still confined to go out.

Today, his sister went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables. She saw that Ah brother had been stuck at home all day after falling and hurting her legs. He was used to being wild. In the past, she could go out to play with her friends after reading every day. Now, except for her father teaching him to study, she could only lie on the window with her butt sticking out and looking at her friends running in the mountains and fields enviously. It was really pitiful, so she begged her parents to take him out to relax. Although both parents agreed, the conditions were not allowed to leave her.

In a small courtyard with a bamboo fence, a girl two years older than Miss Yuerong was embroidering flowers. When she saw Yuerong and his brothers coming over, she smiled and said hello, "Miss Yuerong, little Ah Chou, go up the mountain."

"Well, take me up the mountain to pick some mushrooms and wild vegetables, is Sister Xiuxiu preparing a dowry?"

"No, they're doing it with embroidery."

Xiuxiu blushed and hurriedly put the embroidered Dong** in her hand behind her, which attracted Yuerong's happy laughter.

An old man playing chess under the elm tree not far away looked here in the voice and laughed: "Little Chou, have his legs been well? Haha, don't be naughty anymore in the future!"

Yuerong greeted them politely: "Uncle Qiu, Uncle Fang."

The other old man was probably about to lose the game, and looked extremely angry and urged him to make a move quickly. Then the old man turned his head with his beard.

Ah Chou, who is always the best expert in tree climbing and rock climbing, seemed to be quite dull when the old man said that his face was quite dull. He kicked out angrily, kicked a small stone away, and happened to hit a big white goose.

The big goose held her head and chest up, and walked with gentlemanly steps, as if a general who was inspecting the three armies was walking majestic on the trail. Suddenly being attacked, she was furious and immediately stretched her neck, spread her wings, and rushed towards Ah Chou with a quarrel.

"A Chou, you are naughty again!"

Yue Rong said, holding A Chou's hand and running. The big white goose bulged her wings and stretched her neck, chasing them unyieldingly behind their butts. A little shepherd boy who was grazing in the grass couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene.

"Ouch! Sister, my legs hurt a little."

As Ah Chou ran, he couldn't help but burst into pain. Yue Rong said angrily: "You little brat, the goose general from Aunt Liu's house is the most fierce, you insist on picking it up." As he said that, he took off the bamboo basket and squatted and said: "Come up, I'll carry you on my back."

Ah Chou said: "No, they have grown up and are very heavy, so how can my sister carry it?"

"Come on, a little furry child has grown up. Isn't it just my sister who carried you on her back to climb mountains and hills since she was a child?" Yuerong said without hesitation, put her brother on her shoulders, picked up the bamboo basket, and ran up the mountain. The big white goose persevered and shouted and chased her fiercely.

A sister's back is flat, soft, and has some sweat stains, but the smell is very good. A Chou struggled twice, and after being slapped on the butt by her sister, she stopped struggling.

General Goose chased after him for a while, and finally returned triumphantly and walked back to the village proudly. When Yuerong saw that the big goose stopped chasing, she slowed down her pace panting, but did not let her brother go.

"A Chou, when you arrive on the mountain, don't run around, so as not to worry about you again. Sister will pick some wild vegetables and grind them in the mountain and take you back. My mother is making bone soup for you. When you drink it while it's hot, your legs will get better faster. Don't you like wild vegetable dipping sauce the most? Sister picked wild vegetables and went back to make wild vegetable dipping sauce for you."

"Then... the sauce needs to be fried in oil."

"Okay, listen to Ah Chou, let's blow it up."

"There is another chicken inside."

Yuerong smiled and said, "Finish, put another chicken, you little greedy."

The brother and brother climbed up the low mountain, Yuerong put A Chou down and said, "You sit here, sister, go pick... Huh?"

Yue Rong glanced out of the valley and said in surprise: "Why are so many officers and soldiers coming?"

After hearing this, Ah Chou stood up and looked in front of the mountain. He was small and could only tiptoe, looking out from the wild grass and vines that were more than one person tall. There was a team gathering in the valley. This was the army of the Tang Dynasty. The soldiers were wearing battle jackets, carrying quiveres, cross-body battle bows, catching cross-legged swords, and riding a war horse under their crotch.

More than three hundred people and more than three hundred horses stood solemnly, silently.

There were two horses at the front of the team, the soldiers were wearing jackets and the generals were wearing robes. One of them was a general wearing robes, wearing leather armor and a lion and tiger pattern was painted on the burqa.

The other horse was a civil servant in a green robe. He was turning back and saying something to the soldiers. With his voice, the soldiers drew their swords and unsheathed them. The sun shone on their blades, shining and making them shine.

A Chou was a little curious. When he and his father went to Shaozhou City, they had seen soldiers like this, but they were just a few old soldiers on the top of the city. They did not have such murderous aura in the army, and they seemed to have different clothes.

"Sister, where are the soldiers here? What are they doing?"

"not good!"

Although Yuerong didn't know the purpose of these soldiers, she felt the danger. She quickly put A Chou down and told him: "These soldiers are afraid that they will be detrimental to us. A Chou, if you are unable to move, just hide here. My sister goes back to the village to report the news! If you are hiding here, no matter what, you are not allowed to come out! Do you know!"

Yuerong pressed A Chou into the bushes, carried a bamboo basket and ran away. She had just run a few steps and rushed back. She pulled some weeds and covered A Chou with a casual look. A Chou was buried under the weeds, watching her sister running into the mountain village through the gap, not understanding what was going on.

This is the country of the Tang Dynasty, and here are the people of the Tang Dynasty. Why is the Tang army unfavorable to the people here? The people in the village are not bandits. Ah Chou, who was puzzled, had to squat there according to his sister's instructions, squat there without moving.

The iron hooves made the gravels in the mountains ring, and two horses took the lead in climbing the low slope. From A Chou's perspective, they could only see the green-robed civil servant riding on a black horse, and the general standing on the other side, because they were blocked by the green-robed civil servant, and could only see his scarlet cloak that was raised by the mountain wind from time to time.

Yuerong waved her head-covered green handkerchief and ran, shouting to the village: "Grandpa (father)! Mother! The officers and soldiers are here, the officers and soldiers are here!"

"Kill! Kill all! No one is allowed to be let go!"

A chilling voice rang coldly in A Chou's ears. A Chou withdrew his gaze to look at A Sister and looked in the sound. The instructor was the civil servant in the green robe sitting upright. The man had a thin and tall body, a narrow and long horse face, a concave eyes and eagle nose, and was powerful without anger.

When he issued an order to the soldiers behind him, he subconsciously turned his head and his whole face came into A Chou's eyes. A Chou could clearly see his appearance. There were two cut-like nasolabial folds on both sides of the hooked nose. The nasolabial folds were deeply shrouded to the left and right, covering his thin lips. The murderous sound was made from that mouth.

The general who was accompanying him with a lion-tiger pattern slowly drew his sword out of the sheath. The knife rubbed the sheath and made a sensational friction sound. As Ah Chou heard it, he felt goosebumps. The general raised his sword, lifted his horse forward, and let out a short shout: "Kill!" and then flew around and swooped down.

Behind him, the soldiers holding horizontal swords rushed down one after another.

Ah Chou watched her sister running desperately between the mountain paths, and her jumping figure was like a leaping deer in the mountains. The general rode his horse, like a hunter chasing her head, galloping, and caught up with her sister in a moment. Ah Chou's heart couldn't help but raise it to his throat.

"Peng!"

The knife rises, the cold light flashes, and the blood appears.

"Mother, the officers and soldiers are here..."

Yuerong's voice stopped abruptly. As the knife passed, a leap flew into the air for the first time. The hot blood spurted out of the cavity splattered into a blood mist. The general waved the blood knife and swept past her. Then, countless battle boots stepped on the girl's soft body and rushed into the small mountain village.

"Sister!"

Ah Chou's eyes turned dark and he fainted immediately.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers were moving forward urgently from the mountain road, with footsteps and shaking shaking stones covering his sob.

The green robe official stood on the hillside of the horse, staring indifferently at the village in the valley, with a cold smile on his lips, and pointed at the front of the horse whip and repeated his order: "Kill! Kill all! No one is allowed to be let go!"

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The next day, Shaozhou Prefecture posted a list of articles, announcing that a great plague occurred in Taoyuan Village and that the whole village would die. In order to prevent the spread of the plague, the government burned the entire village and warned the people in all fields and villages not to break into Taoyuan Village to prevent the plague. Taoyuan Village disappeared bizarrely just like its bizarre appearance.

No one dared to enter this valley again. A few years later, no one could remember the name Taoyuan Village. People only remember that there is a plague god valley more than 20 miles northeast of Shaozhou. Many people don’t even know the origin of this name...

Note: Some of the names that were too inconsistent with modern times at that time, such as the father called "brother", the second person called you, you called Ru, and the third person called him Yi, all of which were changed according to the current readers' reading habits.
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