Chapter Twenty-Seven: Mutations

Changping, the north gate of the capital, is the back garden of the capital, and is also known as "the royal family of Mill, the place of obscurity", and "the pillow of the Beijing teacher". The pen is the location www.biquge.info of Juyong Pass, one of the three passes in the Great Wall of China.

When Liu Shuangli was brought into Changping County, he was only moved by the mountains and mountains here all the way, which was not amazing. It is really worthy of Jinghuabao, which belongs to Changping, and the beauty of Jingshi is in the north gate. It's a pity that when she and Qin Siyang roamed the northern land three years ago, they couldn't swim to this Changping County.

As soon as they entered Changping County, Liu Shuangli and Lian'er were arranged to live temporarily in a small farmhouse. After that, they clearly said that they were escorting them all the way, but they were actually escorting bandits, so they went for the most part, leaving only five people to guard in the courtyard.

"Big brother, can you really see my father here?" Lian'er looked at the east and west of the courtyard, looking very uneasy.

"Yes, Lian'er just wait patiently, and your father will come to pick you up in person. Liu Shuangli persuaded gently.

"What about Mom?" asked Lian'er with wide eyes.

"Mom will definitely come to you and Daddy in the future, Lian'er just came first, um. ”

Lian'er lowered her head: "I want my mother to come together." ”

"Mom will come. Liu Shuangli persuaded in a whisper, "It's cold outside the house, Lian'er should go back to the house and sit." ”

That is to say, but Liu Shuangxuan is really bottomless, in what way will the people of the Zhengbei Alliance appear in front of them?

It's the middle of October, and it's winter, and the leaves are halfway off, and the weather is starting to get colder.

After spending two nights in this unknown courtyard in Changping, these bandits had not yet brought the people from the Zhengbei League, nor did they say that they would take them to meet people.

That night, Liu Shuangli slept very unsteadily, but Lian'er on the bed next to her fell asleep peacefully under her half-coaxing and half-comforting.

In a daze, she suddenly heard a 'click' sound outside the house, Liu Shuangli woke up in shock, turned over and sat up, listened carefully, and noticed that the 'click' sound came from far and near, and after a while, she arrived under the window outside her and Lian'er's house.

Liu Shuangli didn't want to wake Lian'er up, so he gently pulled out the swordless sword wrapped around the clothes, and then quietly moved under the window with his body pinching his steps. Half an hour later, I heard a low snap of my fingers outside the window, and someone was using something to warp the lattice window.

Liu Shuangli quietly wrapped the soft sword body of the shadowless sword around his wrist, pressed the tail of the sword with one finger, and gently put his hand under the pane, just waiting for the window to be opened, and immediately let go of the tail of the sword and stabbed it.

But the strange thing is that after a few 'clicks' under the window, there was no movement.

Liu Shuangli waited quietly for a while, and suddenly heard a 'bang', and the sound was far away. Liu Shuang couldn't think about it, pushed open the window, and looked around with the faint moonlight, but saw that the moon shadow was longing, the evening breeze was slow, and there was nothing abnormal in the cold courtyard.

But this small courtyard is not a wealthy family, and they can't see that they have a big account when they come to rent here, and with the five bandits on duty day and night, how can any thieves come in and still get in?

Could it be that she had misheard? But, no, the sound of the window being turned under the window was so clear to her, and there could be no mistake.

Looking back at the house, Lian'er slept very smoothly. There was still no movement outside the window, and the bandits on duty did not know where they were. Liu Shuangli dressed lightly, held the shadowless sword in his hand, and sat in front of the bed with the window ajar, not daring to fall asleep.

After half a ring, a soft sound was suddenly heard, Liu Shuangli hurriedly swept to the window to look for sound, only to see a black shadow on the shadow of the tree in the courtyard flashed in the night, and fled to the eaves next door in the backyard.

Liu Shuangli was startled, jumped out of the window, and just wanted to chase after him, but suddenly remembered Lian'er who was still asleep in the house, and after hesitating for a moment, he still suppressed the curiosity in his heart, jumped back into the house, walked to the bed and sat down with Lian'er.

I didn't dare to sleep all night, and it wasn't until dawn that Liu Shuangli lay on the edge of the bed in a daze and squinted his eyes.

At dawn, Lian'er woke up by herself, got dressed, and saw that Liu Shuangli was asleep in her clothes, so she reached out and pushed it curiously, and Liu Shuangli woke up with a touch.

"Lian'er, are you awake?" asked Liu Shuangli as he rubbed his eyebrows and smiled.

"Big brother, didn't you sleep well?" said Lian'er Qi.

Liu Shuangli shook his head, stood up, and said, "Lian'er is hungry, wait, I'll go to the front and see what else to eat." With that, he left the house and walked towards the kitchen in the front yard.

In the kitchen, the stove still has some residual heat, but the fire in the stove is completely extinguished. Liu Shuangli shook his head and smiled bitterly, thinking about the few bandits who stayed behind to guard them, it was really lazy. I haven't touched the kitchen here for two days, and I basically find a stall outside to solve my stomach problems. After eating it myself, I made another bun and came back to eat it for her and Lian'er.

The residual temperature of the stove was because Liu Shuangli couldn't see it the afternoon before, and begged them to take her out to buy some ingredients, so she finally used the kitchen to make the stove have its proper temperature.

Thinking about yesterday afternoon's procurement, due to the impact of the drought in the north, even the back garden of the Beijing division is very short of supplies. The two bandits took Liu Shuangli for a long time, and only then did they barely buy back some flour, corn, sweet potatoes, bacon, and eggs. When he came back, he made a few dishes with these simple ingredients, but it made the five bandits so happy that they really had a big meal.

Coming to the kitchen at this moment, Liu Shuangli thought that there was still some corn and sweet potatoes left over from the night before, and he didn't wait for the bandits to pack anything back for them, and now he would take these two things to fill her and Lian'er's stomachs.

The stove was re-lit, but there was no water, so I could only separate the corn and sweet potatoes from the fire and roast them.

He was about to start roasting the corn and sweet potatoes on the skewers, when he suddenly heard a piercing scream from the backyard, which pierced Liu Shuangli's heart.

The screams were filled with incomparable fear, which was from Lian'er.

Liu Shuangli was frightened, and hurriedly rushed back to the backyard, looking for the sound, but saw a person standing and a person sitting under the corner of the west wall of the backyard.

Looking closely, Liu Shuangli's feet stiffened, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

"Lian'er, don't look at it. Liu Shuangli forcibly suppressed the panic in his heart, rushed forward, hugged Lian'er, and covered her eyes.

"Big brother-" Lian'er wowed, threw herself into Liu Shuangli's arms, and cried.

The man who sat was a dead man, a dead man who had been alive before them the day before. It doesn't take much to know that it was one of the five bandits who left them to keep an eye on them.

Liu Shuangli hugged Lian'er, and looked at the sitting dead man again with half shock and half fear. There was a bamboo arrow inserted in the atrium that had not entered the tail, his eyes were protruding, his mouth was wide open, and his face showed a strange expression, with grief and pain, as if he was not looking at death.

Facing such a face, Liu Shuangli couldn't help but tremble from his whole body, and the hairs on his body seemed to stand up.

Liu Shuangli closed his eyes, forcibly controlled the fear in his heart, then picked up Lian'er and turned back to the house, picking up words and comforting her for a long time before the girl stopped crying and quieted down.

persuaded Lian'er, Liu Shuangli adjusted his mind, stepped back into the backyard, and looked at the dead bandit silently through the stone mill.

For this bandit, Liu Shuangli was not impressed. I only remember that other bandits called him a pillar, and they all dared to make jokes about him, and I felt that he was a very honest person. I remember that at dinner the night before, she asked about their family situation, and this person named Zhuzi replied that he was a person from Housuo Township, Shanyin County, Shanxi, who went to join the army because his family was so poor that he had no food to eat, and was assigned to Jizhou City. Nine years ago, he survived the defeat of the battle, and was punished by the imperial court with the whole army, and there was no military salary, so he followed the garrison general and became a bandit.

It is also a deserter from Jizhou, yes a deserter, they themselves admit it. Liu Shuangli remembered that when she told these bandits from the army about desertion, those who were usually on fire chose to remain silent, no one refuted her, and no one defended her, and if you looked closely, you could see some people with tears in their eyes.

This one is called a pillar, and it is one of them with tears in his eyes. I didn't want to survive the big battle of nine out of ten, but I died here today.

It's dead, and the courtyard is very quiet, and the other four bandits don't know where they are, dead or alive.

Liu Shuangli sat on the ground dejectedly, now she can be very sure, she heard it correctly last night, it was someone who wanted to open the room where she and Lian'er were sleeping, and she didn't know what she wanted to do after opening it, because she suddenly stopped for some reason later. The figure she saw then retreating into the backyard was not dazzling.

I'm sure there must have been a lot going on last night. Last night there were breakins, there were killings, there were pursuits, and then eventually there were dead and some missing. Just the two girls, they didn't know what was going on. When I woke up, it was normal, and then I saw the dead people, and then I found that there were no people.

Liu Shuangli closed her eyes and thought for a long time, she knew that there was a dead person, and she and Lian'er couldn't live here anymore, so where was she going next?

Gritting his teeth, Liu Shuangli got up and turned back to the kitchen, took off the corn and sweet potatoes that were half blackened by the fire, and then wrapped all the remaining unburned. Then he went back to the house, put the package he was carrying, and took out two large strings of copper plates, and put them in the house, which should be the rent for the owner of this small courtyard. After doing all this, they picked up Lian'er, and when the sky was just dawn and there were not many pedestrians on the street outside, they fled.

The first time he came to Changping, he was mostly locked up in a small courtyard in the past two days, and Liu Shuangli was very unfamiliar with the surrounding situation. She pulled Lian'er and walked through the street with few people, and after walking for two quarters of an hour, the population gradually decreased. The houses in front of me became more and more dilapidated, and the occasional pedestrians on the street were all wearing patched linen clothes.

In this area, there is no mention on the door beam of any house, and there is no stone lion guarding the door. They must have unknowingly arrived in the civilian area of Changping County.

I didn't feel that the ground here was very dirty, Liu Shuangli only felt thirsty in her mouth, she swallowed her saliva with difficulty, and looked down to see that the lips of Lian'er, who was holding her hand, had dried out and cracked blood.

In front of it was a wooden door that was completely invisible to the lacquer, and the lower half of the door was also cracked with half a large opening, through which you could clearly see the situation inside the door.

Liu Shuangli pulled Lian'er forward, raised his hand and knocked lightly on the cracked wooden door. But as soon as her hand touched the door, the door creaked and opened automatically.

Liu Shuangli was stunned for a moment, and then thought that this gate was cracked like this, and it was estimated that the family was so poor that they didn't need to lock the door.

Liu Shuangxuan sighed, and walked in without calling anyone to take Lian'er. But I saw that in the dusty courtyard, several large bundles of firewood were piled up, and the door of the main house was hidden. Walking further inside, through the half-open door, you can see an old woman with silver hair sitting inside, half-hanging her head. (To be continued.) )