306 Refugees
"This place is not to stay long. "Yan Qidao.
Refugees, in order to survive, can be desperate, only stealing is good, the human heart under the natural disaster ** is the most uncontrollable, without worry, I never know what the lower limit of people can be.
"The fawn......" Wuzhi was distressed.
"Just make a new one. Cui Xi smiled, "I have been used by those people, I will not touch it again." β
"Let's go to the nearby town first, and get ready for the new fawn and leave here at once. "Yan Qidao.
Yan Qi accompanied Cui Xi to find a carpenter's shop, but Xiao Chen went out by himself, and Wuzhi stayed in the inn to serve Young Master Yan Jiu, as soon as Young Master Yan Jiu entered the house, he took the map copied from Yan Zike and spread it out to study, until Yan Qi and Cui Xi came back and looked at it there.
"What did you come up with?" Yan Qi asked him.
"If the army carrying grain and grass goes by that road, it is going to be a long way. Young Master Yan Jiu frowned.
"Why is that?"
"Xu is the same as the situation we encountered," Young Master Yan Jiu pointed his finger on the map, Yan Qi and Cui Xi leaned over to look, "From Kyoto to Beisai, only this road marked by the red pen can be walked, this is also the only way for the imperial army to travel between the two places, this road has a harsh environment, the terrain is changeable, and the march is very difficult, the only advantage is that you can reach Beisai in the shortest time." The army escorting grain and grass will pass through this place in a few days, and their position at this time is probably here, the mountains here are full of gravel, and there was a lot of rain in the past few days, which may cause landslides or mudslides and block the way for the army to advance, although it can be cleared, but I am afraid that it will take a lot of time, so the only way to choose is the second way.
"The second road is to go east from here, and then turn north from the fork where we lost the car, this road is relatively easy to walk, but it is too far away, even if we keep rushing day and night, it will be more than ten days later than the time it took to take the first road - no food and grass, how many soldiers and horses will die on the front line?"
It's worrying about this. You must know that he and Yan Qi's father are on the front line, without military rations, wouldn't they starve to death?
But it's useless to worry, as Yan Zike said, there are too many factors that can influence the war, and no one can guarantee that everything is under control.
"Don't worry," Yan Qi reassured his younger brother, "Maybe this escort of grain and grass is just a precaution, maybe there is still a lot of grain in store ahead." β
"That's all we can hope for. Young Master Yan Jiu slowly put his hand into his sleeve.
"What about Xiao Chen?" Yan Qisi looked around.
"I went out, saying that I would come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," Young Master Yan Jiu slowly glanced at his sister, "I guess I'm going to look for those refugees again." β
"Eh, didn't you say you don't want that one?"
Wuzhi silently praised Xiao Chen beside him.
As a result, Xiao Chen came back from outside the next night, knocked on the door and entered Yan Qi's room, his face was full of wind and dust, and he carried a huge burden in his hand and put it on the table of the house: "Your clothes." β
ββ¦β¦ Want to get back from the refugees?" Yan Qi looked at Geng Zhiboy.
"Hmm. Xiao Chen lowered his eyes, "I've burned everything that has been touched, and these haven't been touched yet, if you don't want it again, I'll take it out and burn it again." β
I went to chase those refugees overnight for her clothes, and I didn't want anything else, only her clothes had to be returned. The thought of her intimate clothes being seen and touched by those who had given up their dignity, especially the men, made him feel indescribably disgusted.
"Thanks to your thoughtful thinking," Yan Qidao, "You should indeed chase it back, thank you for your hard work, go back to the room and rest quickly!"
"Hmm. Xiao Chen turned around and left the room.
This kind of recognition and acceptance is more satisfying than thanks and politeness.
Yan Qi opened the burden and looked at it, what was missing was only a few more expensive coats, and the underwear was a lot, and the pleats on the clothes were only left with the marks folded after the last wash, and the other clothes also maintained the folding method she was used to, so it was obvious that they had not been touched, so they didn't care, packed them and put them in the cabinet, but they also saved and re-purchased them all.
In the next few days, everyone's daily activities were basically to wait for the new carriage to be made and go to the street to re-set up, Cui Xi found the best craftsman in the city, paid them not to take other people's work for the time being, just worked overtime day and night to build the new fawn, and because of the experience along the way, the new fawn also improved many drawbacks, updated more useful parts, and bought six horses and mules and a horse after it was completely completed, Xiao Chen's original mount was also found when he helped Yan Qi get back his clothes that day, and he gloriously became another laborer pulling the cartγ
The group chose a sunny day to put their luggage in the carriage, and then drove the new fawn back on the road. After leaving the city gate, he first went east, and when he reached the intersection where he had lost his carriage, he turned north.
This time, Wuzhi didn't have anything to say, and when he went east, he might meet the refugees before, although there were two and a half armed guys in the car, but the refugees had more than a hundred or so mouths, maybe there were more people in the past few days, and these people couldn't do anything to survive?
Therefore, you can only go north first, walk for a while and then turn east, which is equivalent to going around in a circle, and finally you can return to the established road.
The new fawn seems to be more brisk than the original fawn, and the five branches are very satisfied with this, running happily all the way, meeting mountains and rivers around the water, and the direction of the north is still more mountains, and the mountains and hills are one after another, fortunately, the official road is still quite flat and spacious, even if it goes deep into the mountains, it is unimpeded.
When it was almost dark, the fawn settled in an inn on the edge of another small mountainous area, in view of the experience of the last theft, Wuzhi stayed in the car to guard, and after everyone had eaten, they went to the second floor of the inn, and each went back to his room to take a bath and rest.
In the middle of the night, the mountain breeze was blowing. Yan Qi deliberately slept lightly at night since the theft, opened his eyes suddenly, quietly rolled from the bed to the floor, listened carefully for a while, got up and quickly put on the clothes on the chair next to the bed, picked up the backpack containing the most important items and carried it on his back, the bow and arrow are now all on the left and right, holding it in his hand and opening the door lightly, he drilled out like a cat, without making any sound.
As soon as he went out, he saw that the door of Xiao Chen's room diagonally opposite was also open, Xiao Chen had already dressed and carried his backpack, and came out from the inside with his whip in his hand.
Yan Qi leaned over and said to him in a voice lighter than the wind: "Cui Xi, please give it to you, I will take Xiao Jiu, leaving this place is the first priority, if you are accidentally separated, don't stay longer, let's go back to the inn in the city before to meet." β
I was afraid of being separated, because Yan Qi heard that someone downstairs had entered the inn, not just one, but dozens or even more, and their entry was quiet, without alarming the guys in the store.
Xiao Chen, who had internal strength, heard more than Yan Qi - these people's breathing was very chaotic, Xu was nervous, Xu was excited, Xu was eager, but it was by no means the performance of normal guests staying at the inn.
In the middle of the night, three watches, a large number of people, breathing disorders - nothing happens.
Xiao Chen nodded, and as soon as the two of them turned around and were about to walk towards the door of Cui Xi and Young Master Yan Jiu, they saw that at the end of the staircase hanging the yellow lantern, there were suddenly a few more figures, and the figures obviously did not expect that there would be someone outside in the corridor at this time, one of them was not mentally prepared to call out, and the person next to him saw that the situation was not good, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Do it!"
Several figures immediately rushed towards this room, and there was a sudden commotion downstairs, but Yan Qi and Xiao Chen's reaction was much faster than these people, and the moment they saw the figures, they had already moved in unison, Xiao Chen slapped open Cui Xi's door with one palm, Yan Qi shouted "There are robbers!" and then kicked the door of Young Master Yan Jiu's room open, Young Master Yan Jiu had already turned over from the bed, quickly put on his clothes, grabbed his backpack and followed Yan Qi to the windowsill.
The entire inn seemed to have exploded in an instant, and there were chaotic screams and running sounds in each room, but there were more and more heavy and vicious footsteps in the corridor gathered from the first floor, and two fists were hard to beat with four hands, not to mention Cui Xi and Young Master Yan Jiu, who didn't know kung fu, Yan Qi and they could only choose to get out of danger as soon as possible.
Yan Qi and Young Master Yan Jiu climbed down from the windowsill, Young Master Yan Jiu's tree-climbing kung fu that he had practiced with Yan Qi since he was a child came in handy at this time, almost no matter how Yan Qi helped, he had followed her neatly and quickly from the second floor to the first floor, but the carriage shed was on the other side, which was the direction of Xiao Chen and Cui Xi's room, Yan Qi wanted to take Young Master Yan Jiu to go around from the back of the inn, but he saw that dozens of men had poured out from the door of the inn, and as soon as he ran out of the door, he looked left and right, and when he saw the sister and brother, he immediately rushed towards this car in an uproar, and heard someone shouting: "Don't let any of them go! Don't let them run to the police!"
In the dim night, Yan Qi could still see this group of people clearly, only to see that these people were all despaired, ragged, and their faces were intertwined with despair, resentment, hunger, longing, dazedness, pain, and madness.
- Refugeesββ hundreds of refugees!
They escaped from Beisai from afar, there is no land, no house, no food, no clothes, they want to survive, they don't want to die, so now, they have become more terrible than robbers.
Wherever you go, where you grab, you can rob people when you see people, you can search houses when you see houses, as long as you can survive, you can do anything. 166 Reading Network