Chapter 142: There is no escape
Huai'an finally glanced at the plaque on the door again, and a girl's figure flashed in her eyes, wearing a long skirt and clear eyebrows, that was her appearance when she first saw Siqing, and she was here at that time, in front of this vermilion gate.
That's when he said, "What do you see?"
Now, he wanted to see more of everyone around him, but he didn't dare to see Siqing.
But if you say goodbye well, the more reluctant you are, it means that you will not see you for a long time.
He would rather think that the journey can really be returned in two or three days, and deceive himself into thinking that a short separation is not enough to worry about.
He raised his hand to shake the phantom in front of him, smiled, turned around, and stepped onto the long street.
The vegetable farmers in front of the city gate were stopped, and they were arguing with the soldiers, and after arguing for a long time, they still couldn't get out of the city, so they had to retreat to the side of the road to complain.
Seeing Huai'an and his group coming, the vegetable farmer who was selling bacon raised his hand to remind him that he couldn't get out, but before he could speak, he saw Huai'an's entourage take out a piece of paper and show it to the soldiers guarding the city, and he was let go without saying much.
The vegetable farmer's brother pouted: "Why don't you let them go?" ”
He complained and stared at Meng Huai'an, Xu was the hand that had just been raised, which aroused the idea, and he saw Meng Huai'an turn around.
But his gaze only glanced away from him, and then moved elsewhere.
The vegetable farmer saw him standing in front of the city gate, looking into the distance, from the sunset bridge, from the south street, from the west garden, from the houses on both sides of the road, from the pedestrians, one by one.
The twilight sprinkled under the city gates, and his azure robe was like a touch of sadness on the majestic mountain peak, and the hem of his clothes was blown by the wind, without a sound, and the world seemed to suddenly fall silent.
Meng Huai'an put his hands behind his shoulders and looked at the city quietly like this, everything was in his eyes, and everything was outside his body.
The little vegetable farmer withdrew his raised hand, and the wind flowed through his fingers, probably just blowing through the hem of the man's clothes, and he also felt desolate.
In the wind, he suddenly thought of a word, obviously in the downtown area, but he looked at the man with his hands and looked back, but only this word kept lingering in his mind.
That's it: Kuang.
The caftan eventually faded into view.
The vegetable farmer came back to his senses, and his ears sounded another round of quarrels between his peers and the soldiers at the city gate, and in the end they were still defeated, and they had no choice but to return to South Street.
I passed by Meng's house again and saw that the door of Meng's house had been closed.
The lights were lit up one after another in the streets, and if the falling stars blinked with a faint light, they were not very clear in the night, as if they only needed to be shaken lightly and then dispersed.
Xiang Fu came in a glimmer of light, and lightly buckled the door of the twilight home, he didn't want any movement inside, but after a few buckles, the door opened.
He shook his head helplessly: "He's gone...... How do you get there?"
Hearing that Huai'an had left, Siqing's hand clenched the hem of his clothes, and he suddenly felt that his heart was stabbed by the tip of a needle.
She had imagined such a scene many times, she knew that she couldn't say goodbye to him, she tried to restrain her feelings, and not let her grief and pain fail other people's sacrifices, but the most real emotions could not be restrained and concealed, even if she didn't let herself cry, the tears poured back into her heart would turn into heart-devouring blood droplets, dripping so painful that all her internal organs hurt.
Xiang Fu waved her hand in front of her eyes, so that she struggled out of the sorrow, she calmed down, and hurriedly let people in the door, trying her best to adjust her mood: "I don't know why, suddenly there are soldiers surrounding the city wall, I venture out too risky, I plan to leave at night, but, is there any change today, the city gate has been sealed since the morning, and now someone is coming to besiege the city, are they a wave of people?"
Xiang Fu closed the door, and his eyes sank: "It's not easy to leave at night." ”
"Why?" she thought about it, reacted to something, and was shocked, "Could it be that the battle is going to be fought in the city, isn't that Cheng'er in danger, I can't ......"
She blurted out that she couldn't leave Cheng'er, but before she finished speaking, she remembered the heavy responsibility on her body, and swallowed the words back helplessly, her eyes were red, and she bit her lip fiercely.
This kind of trade-off, which mother to put on, is a knife and a knife.
Xiang Fu raised his eyes and said with difficulty: "That...... Regardless of whether the battle can be fought or not, Cheng'er will be in a catastrophe. ”
"What did you say?" she stood up abruptly.
Xiang Fuxuan pursed his lips and relayed the news that Cheng Yiheng had told him as it was.
There will be a battle in the city tonight, and it will be a contest between the Beiyang Army and the Crusader Army, at the cost of one city.
Today, Meng Kuo was ordered by Richard to lead troops to take away Meng Huai'an, threatening the young son of the Meng family.
The two groups of people do their own thing, and there is no intersection.
The Beiyang Army waited to invite you into the urn.
Siqing waited for an opportunity to leave.
But the waiting on both sides was disrupted by a group of "merchants" entering the city.
Meng Huai'an was born in the Meng family, and he couldn't pay the price of the Meng family, so he agreed to go with Meng Kuo, but the Meng family stood in Xuncheng, and when he learned that Xuncheng was in danger, he couldn't turn a blind eye.
He made a deal with Meng Kuo, and the deal should have been simple, just send a message to the crusading army and tell them not to enter the city.
Ordinary people can't go out, not to mention the words of the people are not enough to believe, the marching route will not be changed because of the wind and grass, this matter can only be done by Meng Kuo and his party, but behind Meng Kuo is Burchard, Burhard is unwilling to have an intersection with either side of the two, his identity is special, once implicated, private affairs will also become public.
They didn't do it, Huai'an chose to break the cauldron and refused to move, if everyone in Xuncheng was going to be imprisoned, his Meng family would not be able to escape, and he would have nothing to threaten.
Monquo was instructed by Burchard to compromise, but he preferred to go to great lengths and adopt the most roundabout methods than to negotiate privately with the two parties.
In the name of looking for people, they surrounded the city of Xuncheng, and they could not go out, nor could they enter.
The news that the people heard was that these foreign soldiers were looking for their commander's relatives, saying that the relatives were not in their right minds, and they had run to Xuncheng for fun, and they temporarily surrounded the outside of Xuncheng, and would not rush in to disturb the people, as long as they blocked people, they would withdraw.
The people just thought that they were just a fake public servant, and although there were complaints, they were probably used to it, but it was not enough to cause panic.
The crusading army could not enter the city, and took the initiative to bring people to come, this was a discussion on the table, as for whether the news was transmitted to the crusading army, it is unknown, but the crusading army changed its route that night and bypassed Xuncheng.
The Beiyang Army stared wide-eyed, but couldn't say it clearly, so they simply took the initiative to help find people as the host.
The search for people is unwarranted, the dark surge of wind and clouds has turned into a calm light, the people closed the door, blew out the bean-like lamp, and the streets and alleys buried the hustle and bustle of the day, turning into the usual tranquility.
Tonight, however, it seems a little too quiet.
Originally, the crusading army bypassed Xuncheng, and Meng Kuo should have withdrawn, but the night was dark, and Meng Kuo showed no signs of withdrawing his troops, and his people were still surrounding Xuncheng, not allowed to enter or leave.
This night's Xuncheng turned calm before the mountain rain came, and it did not become a ruin, but it was trapped as a lonely city.
Since it is a transaction, what Meng Kuo has come out has already come out, and as for Huai'an, he still has to accept it.
Huai'an went out of the city, and when he was sent to the next station, there was a receiver to guard him and take him to the border of Xin'an County, and he only needed to go to the next station, and he would complete Burhard's task, and he intended to return at that time, and he would take another person.
Before leaving, he secretly instructed his cronies and soldiers: "No one shall be allowed out of the city until I return in the morning." ”
At that time, the soldier asked in a daze: "Who do the adults want to take, and the little ones go in and arrest them directly?"
He said indifferently: "I want to see this person in person, and I can't startle the snake now." ”
When the soldier heard the second half of the sentence, he immediately understood: "What the adults want to take is the Meng family?"
He listened to the three words of the Meng family, and his eyebrows showed a fierce look: "The two women and the child in the Meng house don't have to stay, but not now, when we go farther away, when the sky is about to dawn, we will secretly dispose of it." ”
The soldier was shocked: "They are dead, can Meng Huai'an be willing?"
"If you don't say it, the news won't reach his ears. ”
The soldier hurriedly lowered his head: "Yes, yes!"
The moon sinks in the west, and it is deeper and heavier.
The gentleman waved his sleeves, and the rest of the body was swept back, and the wicked man swept back, paying attention to a touch of anticipation.
People's hearts are always unpredictable, and obsessions are also difficult to eliminate.
The people did not know that the departed man had saved them from a calamity in the smoke of gunpowder, and the departed man did not know that his family was still in the midst of the calamity.
Fortunately, Meng Kuo's secret words were listened to by confused people with intentions.
Meng Kuo actually saw Jiang Yarong's suddenly flashing figure.
His teacher Master Fu had been looking for Jiang Yarong's whereabouts before he died, so that he also paid attention, and then found that Jiang Yarong and Meng Huai'an still had some origins, so there was no need to use it in vain, but this Jiang Yarong's mind was too simple, and now she was so sick that she was confused, and now that Meng Huai'an was gone, she was no longer useful.
He was too lazy to take the dying fool seriously, and he didn't even want to chase it.
What can you do if you know it, as long as you are in this city, you can't escape from the palm of his hand.
Jiang Yarong's brain is not very clear, but her memory is surprisingly good, she ran out barefoot, she was not afraid of the cold, she stopped Cheng Yiheng who was about to leave in a daze, and repeated the conversation she heard just now sentence by sentence, one time is not enough, and she has to come again, which made Cheng Yiheng tremble from not believing it at all.
After Cheng Yiheng listened, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.
He turned around in a panic, and just happened to see Xiang Fu who came to inquire about the news.
He immediately made a decision and pushed Xiang Fuyi: "You go and see if the fourth sister is gone, if she doesn't leave, tell her to find a way to leave quickly, she has to leave before dawn anyway." ”
Xiang Fu listened to him explain Jiang Yarong's words in detail, and he quickly sorted out his thoughts: "Aren't the people of the Meng family who are dangerous?"
"You're stupid. Cheng Yiheng pulled him into the dark, "The Meng family that Meng Kuo wants to take, in addition to this, who else, he wants to kill the people here, the fourth sister is the person he wants to take, the fourth sister is carrying the important things of the Meng family, she was arrested, didn't Meng Huai'an leave in vain, and this Meng Kuo is obviously self-proclaimed, not Berhard's arrangement, I suspect that he is for private affairs, if it is a personal grudge, it is more dangerous, the fourth sister is a woman's family." ”
"Yes, yes. Xiang Fu reacted, "I'll go to my sister's place now." ”
He turned around and ran two steps, then turned back slightly and said, "Don't the Meng family care, Cheng'er is still so young, I ......"
"The fourth sister may be able to get out alone, but if you bring all these people with you, no one will be able to get out. ”
Xiang Fu wanted to speak and stopped, but he was firm in listening to his words, so he had to give up what he wanted to say and go straight to his home.
He stood in front of Siqing, with the intention of telling her to find a way to leave, and that Meng Kuo's original intention to attack the Meng family should not disturb Siqing at this time, but he couldn't help it, in his heart, Cheng'er was the continuation of Xiang Shen's life, he was already alone, and he really didn't have the courage to see a person die again.
He tugged at the placket of his clothes and said, "Is there a way for you to leave, is there a way to take Cheng'er away?"
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