After Xiao Yu's father left, her mother returned to the grass hut with two bowls of wild pheasant soup. Seeing that Xiao Yu had already applied the medicine and was laughing with Duoduo, she sat on the side of the kang and asked, "Yu'er, how are you feeling?"

"I feel better, mother. ”

"Let's eat first. Give, Duoduo. Yu'er, I'll feed you. During the meal, Mu Xiaoyu asked: "Mother, why do those officers and soldiers arrest people?" "Because they have to fight with the big demon at the border, some of the people who were captured were to go to the coolies to transport grain and grass, and some went to the front line to fight with the demon clan. ”

"Demon clan, is it really that bad?"

"Okay, let's not talk about that, I'll tell you a story, will you listen?"

"Good!" "I'll listen too!"

"Once upon a time, there was a great city called Weiyang City, where kings, queens, princesses, and their people lived, and there was a prince from a neighboring country......"

In this way, for a period of time in the afternoon, my mother kept telling stories with Xiao Yu and Duoduo, and both of them listened very attentively. What they don't know is that trouble is coming.

The fat official's face was ugly, and while riding a horse, he shouted to a group of strong men following behind: "Hurry up." "These strong men walked slowly, and were whipped with leather whips by several officers and soldiers on guard. There was also blood oozing from the feet, that is, someone who had cut off his toes in order to evade military service, but he was still caught by the fat official.

As the procession was marching, one of the strong men suddenly fell to the ground and refused to get up again. His bast shoes were stained with blood, and they looked terrible.

"Get up!" shouted the officers and soldiers with whips.

I saw the man begging for mercy: "Master Guan, my feet really can't walk, so you can let me go." ”

The fat officer turned his head to the officers and soldiers with a disdainful expression: "Let him be free." The soldier pierced the man's chest with a spear and threw him by the roadside. The surrounding strong men were so frightened that they no longer dared to complain, so they could only follow in a hurry.

The fat official said while knocking on the melon seeds: "It's really unlucky, I just met a few disabilities, and there are people looking for death, and the number of people arrested this time is not enough." ”

When passing by Mu Xiaoyu's house, the fat official stopped the horse and said, "Has this family ever been conscripted for military service?"

"My lord, I have never been conscripted, but this family is not in the Ding property book, and it is not within the scope of our conscription. The Tsing Yi official said.

"Why don't they go on the Ding Bun? The number of young people recruited is not enough, and I can't take care of too much, let me go in and search!"

Xiao Yu's house was not closed, and a group of officers and soldiers broke into the courtyard in such a majestic manner, while the strong men were guarded by a few officers and soldiers and stayed at the door.

"The folk girl has seen the captain of the school. Mu Xiaoyu's mother didn't panic, and walked out of the house calmly. ”

The fat official asked, "Who are you?"

"The people's girl Liu Yanran. ”

"You know I'm the captain of the school?"

"The folk girl used to work as a clerk in the prefect's office, so she knew a little about the laws of the imperial court, official titles, and knighthoods. ”

"Oh?" said the fat official's attitude softened at once, "then why does Madame want to live in seclusion in this poor country?" ”

Xiao Yu's mother sighed, "My face was injured by a gang of night thieves, and I am no longer interested. ”

The fat official lamented: "This group of goddamn rebels is really damned." "Oh, I've passed through this conscription and bothered my wife, and I hope you'll forgive me. After speaking, he was about to leave, when he saw the gauze that had just been changed outside the grass hut, and asked, "Madam, are there any injured people in your house?"

"This is the medicated compress for the wound on my face. ”

The fat official asked suspiciously, "The wound on Madame's face doesn't look like a new injury?"

"It's an old wound, but I also want to recuperate, Captain, it seems that you don't have the right to come to my house for military service, and you don't have the right to ask about this. ”

The fat official's tone gradually changed: "Then why is there blood on the gauze?

Seeing that Xiao Yu's mother couldn't answer, the fat official's attitude changed, "Hmph! I want to fool my official after learning a little about the court law?

The officers and soldiers poured into the hut and the hall and reported: "Captain, two children have been found in the hut. ”

"Oh?" the fat official went to the grass hut suspiciously, and Xiao Yu's mother stood in the courtyard without moving, the gentleness on her face disappeared, and those who knew her well would feel that she was unusual at this time, and her face was gloomy.

When the fat official saw Mu Xiaoyu and Duoduo, he was a little surprised and said, "It's you two again?"

The fat official seemed to be reminiscing about the past, and said, "You two, where is your father?"

"I don't know, my father went to a far place. Mu Xiaoyu said through gritted teeth.

The fat official frowned, he was going to give an errand to the county government today, although he would not lose his official position if he did not complete the target, but he would always make the county unhappy. Thinking of this, the fat official was depressed, and when he saw Duoduo, he rubbed his hands and said, "You can't go home empty-handed." This little girl, it should be good to catch her back as a maid, hehehe. Then he reached out to grab Duoduo's chest, and then the Tsing Yi official hurriedly said, "My lord, don't do anything to children." There seemed to be anger on the fat official's face: "Sikong Xu, are you teaching the official to do things?"

The fat official grabbed Duoduo's front shirt, and Duoduo struggled: "Eh—you villain, what do you want to do?" and bit the fat official's hand as he spoke. The fat official hurriedly changed his hand and grabbed Duoduo, and said with a lewd smile, "You still want to bite me, let me train you well!" After speaking, he was about to tear Duoduo's clothes.

"Brother!" Duo Duo cried out in fright.

"No-" Mu Xiaoyu's eyes were red, and he struggled to get up from the bed. But he was covered in wounds, covered in ointment, and had difficulty moving.

At this time, a light rain began to fall in the sky.

When the fat official was about to tear off Duoduo's clothes, he suddenly felt that his arms were grabbed by a pair of rough hands, and he couldn't move at all.

He turned his head to see a burly man with a grizzly bear on his back and a scruffy beard standing behind him, and the cold in his eyes made his heart palpitate. At the same time, the slightly unsheathed sword of the green-shirted official also fell back into the box.

The fat officer asked a little timidly, "You, who are you?"

The middle-aged burly man didn't reply, threw down the grizzly bear, held the fat official's neck with one hand, lifted him up and said coldly: "You guy, don't you want to find death?"

The fat official was stuck by his neck, his hands and feet were off the ground, he couldn't say a word when he was dancing on the ground, and his complexion gradually turned from ruddy to blue. When the soldiers saw that something was wrong, they all surrounded them. Xiao Yu's father was still unmoved, just stuck the fat official's neck and looked at him indifferently, as if it was not a life, but just a dead thing.

At this time, Tsing Yi no longer hesitated, and drew his sword and stabbed Xiao Yu's father. Xiao Yu's father turned a blind eye, and when the sword came, he stretched out his two fingers to clamp the sword surface, and twisted it skillfully, only to see that the sword of the green shirt was immediately taken out of his hand, and was firmly held and suspended in the air by Xiao Yu's father with two fingers, Xiao Yu's father flicked his two fingers, and the sword flew towards the green shirt with lightning speed. The green-shirted officer was completely unable to react, and the sword grazed the right side of his neck and stuck in the mud wall, and the sword body trembled. The sharp sword aura caused a blood mark to appear on the right side of his neck. The fat official was still caught in the air by him with one hand, and his position did not move at all.

Qingshan's face was pale, as if he had escaped death, and he panted and bowed down to salute: "I don't know that there is such a master living in seclusion here, thank you for the mercy of the heroes." ”

"I'm just a country man, not a master. If you hadn't had a shred of humanity, that sword would have stabbed you in the throat. ”

"Master, please spare this official's life. ”

Xiao Yu's father looked at the fat official who was already purple, "Why spare him? A sesame official from the ninth grade, but I don't know how many lives he has killed in vain, he beat my son, and he even wanted to stretch out his hand to my daughter just now!"

"Although the official position is small, it is also appointed by the imperial court, and killing him here will also cause trouble, and do you want to kill people in front of your children?"

Xiao Yu's father looked at the green-shirted official, then looked at the fat official, threw him on the ground and said, "Hmph, spare his life for the time being!"

The fat officer was thrown to the ground, gasping for breath, and then shouted angrily: "What about the soldier? Escort, kill him for me!"

The soldiers were a little timid and did not dare to move forward. At this time, the green-shirted official whispered to the fat official, and the fat official looked timid and said, "Quick, go quickly!"

"Wait, aren't you going to pull the strong men, take me away. ”

"This ...... This ...... "fat officials are at a loss."

The green-shirted official said, "My lord, take him with you." ”

The fat official was stunned for a moment and said, "Okay......! can take into account the overall situation, willing to win glory for the country, this official ...... Deeply grateful, strong man, please!"

"Daddy, why are you going?" Duoduo hurriedly ran over and hugged his father's leg.

Father squatted down and gently stroked Duoduo's hair, "Duoduo, just stay at home with your brother, don't go anywhere, I'll be back soon." ”

After speaking, he stood up and said to Xiao Yu: "Xiao Yu, take care of your injuries at home, don't run around." ”

Duoduo and Xiao Yu nodded at the same time.

When Xiao Yu's father walked to the yard, he said to Xiao Yu's mother: "Mother, take care of the children." ”

Xiao Yu's mother sighed and said, "Okay, you come back quickly." ”