In his own room in the guest house, Du Yan threw the clothes and ornaments he wore when he pretended to be Liu and Jin Niangniang in a charcoal basin and burned them clean, and opened the window to let the smell out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis matter has been completed since the beginning of the plan, and after more than two months, it is already winter, and the snow is beginning to fall.

He put his things in order, folded them into a bag, and sat on the bed for a long time. Where to go, I was confused in my heart.

For several years in the thieves' den, the idea of returning home to reunite with his relatives has always supported him, so no matter how harsh the training is and how heavy the beatings are, he silently endures it. When I returned home, I found that the belief I had insisted on for many years had been in vain, but it was still supported by the idea of revenge. Now that the great revenge has been avenged, my heart is suddenly empty as if I have lost.

He has no involvement, no home and no job, the sky is high and the earth is wide but there seems to be no place to stay.

Du Yan sat from morning to noon, still didn't think of a clue, so he simply carried the burden, the world is so big, where to go!

He went to settle the fees for the hotel, and went out of the city gate all the way to Xiabil County. At night, he set a fire in his old house, and put the silver stolen along the way to the third uncle's house, went out of the town to the south, found the ancestral tomb of the Du family, gave incense to his mother, told him that the revenge had been avenged, and then drifted away.

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In the early winter of the twenty-second year of Zhide, the weather was dry and cold, and the earth was bitterly cold. There were only bare branches left on the tree, and there was no green to see as far as the eye could see.

Within three years, the Great Zhou was full of chaos. There are feudal towns inside, and there are Hulu eyeing each other outside. The court covered their ears and stole the bell, and they were drunk with money.

Du Yan went all the way north, and all he saw was that the people were struggling to make a living. Although he was taught to abduct, kill, and set fire to people since he was a child, his conscience has not yet been extinguished. Sometimes, when he saw that the people were in great difficulty, he robbed large households and gave alms to the people.

He sometimes laughs at himself, he once heard a saying out of nowhere, if you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are good, you will help the world. He is a thief, but he is doing the deeds of a master.

Not long after, I suddenly heard that Donghu invaded the south, all the way to the three states of Xiadaizhou, Yuzhou, and Weizhou. The defenders of the imperial court retreated all the way, but they did not dare to take a moment of attack.

Du Yan secretly hated the inaction of the imperial court, thinking that he would go to Jingshi to have a look, maybe he could do something if he had the opportunity, even if he lost his life, it would be in vain.

He was alone, said to leave, bought some dry food, and went to the northern capital with his bags.

Walked for more than half a month, this day is almost noon, go to the boundary of Chenzhou, pass by a mountain, see the water and grass are abundant, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, and the stream is clear. He stopped to rest, and there were already many passers-by resting in the grass under the trees.

After a while, Du Yan was gnawing on dry food, and saw a team of people coming from the opposite road from a distance. Looking at the banner from afar, the armor is cold and solemn, and the bright silver cold light is dazzling.

He subconsciously jumped onto the tree behind him. The trunk of the tree was thick and thick, and the foliage was so thick that it obscured his form.

When the resting passers-by saw the army coming, they all avoided it, leaving only the old man with weak legs and feet to move behind.

The group approached slowly, with brightly armored soldiers at the front and a huge carriage drawn by eight horses in the middle. It was followed by two dozen smaller vehicles. After that, there were cars pulling boxes, and Du Yan counted them roughly, but he didn't count how many there were.

And then there were still soldiers, in teams, plus those who took the lead, and it was estimated that there would be seven or eight thousand people.

Du Yan was surprised, he didn't know where so many people came from. Fortunately, these people immediately solved his confusion.

The group approached, and one of the general-like men gave the order, and the procession stopped there. The soldiers came and went, each performing their own duties, and soon set up tents on the ground and buried hundreds of stoves.

A man got out of the ornate carriage in the middle, took a step back with his waist bent over, and raised his hand high. A hand stretched out from the car and put it on his hand, and a person slowly got out of the car, looking like he was in his forties, wearing a bright yellow robe, and his figure was thin and tall. He furrowed his brow, his face full of exhaustion.

Then people got out of the car one after another, surrounded by people in yellow robes, and the stars walked towards the big tent in the middle like a moon.

Du Yan heard them call each other Lord Zhang and Lord Li, and call the yellow-robed man the emperor. couldn't help but be stunned for a long time, the emperor was separated from him by heaven and earth, and he never thought that he would meet him in this poor country. I thought again, why did the emperor come here without leading these officials to stay in Beijing?

While he was puzzled, someone got out of the car and walked towards the tent. This time, most of them were women, and there were ladies and ladies and maids, and they went together in twos and threes.

At this moment, a sudden scolding voice came. Du Yan followed the sound and saw a soldier by the stream driving an old woman. The old woman's legs and feet were not very neat, thinking that she didn't have time to avoid it just now, and was scolded by the soldier, and in a panic, she fell out and couldn't get up for a long time.

The soldier flew up and kicked the old woman, who screamed in pain and muttered words for mercy, and crawled to the side to avoid it. The soldier still did not understand his hatred, and stepped forward to wait for his feet to be raised and kicked again.

"Stop!"

Suddenly there was a soft reprimand in the crowd, and a young girl came with a frosty face and a four or five-year-old child in her hand. Du Yan looked intently, and saw that the girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, although she was far away and her face was not real, but she exuded a graceful and elegant charm, which made people think that she must be a gorgeous beauty.

The girl was followed by two little girls, one on the left and one on the right. When the girl came closer, the soldier just now suddenly bent down and bowed his head, and saluted: "See the Ninth Princess, see the Eighth Prince." ”

Du Yan secretly said, it turned out to be the emperor's ninth princess and eighth prince.

I only heard the clear voice of the ninth princess and said indifferently: "What kind of ability is it to show off your power here? ”

The soldier did not dare to look up.

The ninth princess ordered someone to help the old woman up, and asked someone to give the old woman a few pieces of pastry. The old woman was obviously hungry, took the pastry and stuffed it into her mouth, ate a few bites, knelt down with a plop, and kowtowed to the ninth princess one by one. She listened to it for a long time, obviously not figuring out who the person in front of her was, so she just kept muttering: "Thank you, Miss, thank you, Miss, God bless the kind-hearted young lady to live a long life." ”

The ninth princess looked at her with pity, shook her head and walked away.

When the ninth princess walked slowly, a face was burning in the sun. I saw her eyebrows swept lightly, green temples piled up clouds, like flowers and trees piling up snow, the crescent moon was clear, and the endless beauty was shining. There is only a small mole at the end of the left eyebrow, but it does not diminish its color in the slightest.

Du Yan fell to expand the rivers and lakes, and the most he saw was a poor girl with a vegetable face, and then an official eunuch daughter like Chen Sirong, who was ugly and ugly, and even a good-looking face became hideous for no reason. Where have I ever seen such a beautiful woman who is beautiful and delicate to the extreme, and I can't help but look at it stupidly.

It wasn't until the ninth princess led the eighth prince and bowed her head from time to time to enter the big tent that Du Yan withdrew her gaze.

The men and horses had lunch here, rested a little, and then set up camp again, and went south.

Du Yan waited for them to go far before jumping off the tree and continuing north.

After walking for a while, he saw the deep rut marks that appeared on the ground from time to time, and then remembered the dust raised by the convoy when it came, although he was not a master of cutting paths and robbing roads, but he could also conclude that those carriages must have brought a large amount of gold and silver just now.

I couldn't help but wonder what the emperor was going to do with his important ministers and daughters and a large amount of gold and silver.

Thinking about it while walking with doubts, I still couldn't understand it for a long time. After walking for about ten miles, there were more and more pedestrians on the road, and a group of people and horses hugged the carriages, and there were many slaves beside the cars, and everyone's faces had long since lost their former domineering appearance, and they were all panicked like lost dogs. It looks like the team of a wealthy family.

A few miles later, the road is full of people who support the old and the young, and drag their families and families. Some families sat on a cart and a cow pulled it. Some carry or hold their children on their backs, and the husband and wife walk hand in hand. Some elderly people walked slowly behind on crutches.

Du Yan stood silently beside the road, with a faint bad conjecture in his heart, and pulled someone to inquire about it, so he knew the reason. It turned out that the Hu people had broken Lanzhou and threatened to go to Beijing. The imperial court was unable to defend the capital, so it had to abandon the city and flee to the south, where the river was in danger.

The people of the capital had no choice but to stay away from their homeland and flee with them, although it was hard, it was better than being a dead soul under the knife of the Hu people.

An old man persuaded Du Yan: "I don't know where the little brother is going, the Hu people are coming, so let's return early." ”

After Du Yan heard this, he stood in place and was silent for a long time. As soon as the sky broke, a ray of sunlight shone down through the clouds, instantly illuminating the crowd. The warm golden sunlight can't warm the displaced and sad faces.

Du Yan sneered, the court of Nuoda had no strength to fight, and there was no one in the court of Nuoda who could stand up and defend the enemy outside the country! That's it, that's it, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have abandoned the city and fled, what can he do as a thief?

He smiled wryly and returned with the flow of people.

Du Yan was fast, but he caught up with the imperial court in two days, and he was not in a hurry to overtake, but he was not far away.

After this day, Gwangju traveled dozens of miles to the south, and the land was barren and uninhabited. In the evening, the imperial army camped in the wilderness for the night, and Du Yan also found a place to settle down under a small dirt slope.

He took dry food from his baggage and ate it indiscriminately, found some dry branches and lit a fire, and slept with a cloak by the fire. Fortunately, it is already spring, and the night will not be unbearable.

In the middle of the night, a spirit suddenly woke up, the fire was about to be extinguished, and he was busy adding some firewood. Suddenly a low voice was heard, accompanied by the sound of horses snorting and the soft sound of the axles rubbing.

He hurriedly removed the wood he had just added and extinguished it, got up and lay down beside the mound, and poked his head out to look. There were more than a hundred fires outside the tent of the imperial court, and the soldiers on duty slept around them.

There were dozens of people on the periphery of the camp, and dozens of people drove the carriage to the northeast. Boxes were stacked on each cart, and listening to the sound of the carriage as it moved, he was sure that the contents of the boxes were not light.

Although the sound they made was small, it was still there, but neither the nobles in the tent nor the soldiers on duty by the fire woke up. Du Yan thought about it for a while, and he was relieved, it was his housekeeping skill to give people sweat medicine, and it was difficult to guarantee that others would use it.

When the convoy went away, Du Yan was about to follow them to see what they were doing, when a few black shadows came out of the largest tent in the middle and quietly followed the place where the convoy disappeared.

Du Yan was surprised, waited for a while, and no one came out of the camp again, so he dodged out from behind the mound, tiptoeing a few black shadows all the way to the northeast.

He noticed that the convoy was going uphill and seemed to be going up the hill. There was a moon in the sky, and there were torches in the convoy, so it would not have left anyone behind. But the road became more and more difficult, and the convoy moved slowly, until it had to be pushed behind by people.

After walking again, the mountain became steeper and steeper, and the carriage could no longer move forward. The convoy drove the wagon to an open field, and in groups of twos carried the boxes and continued up the mountain.

Du Yan followed behind a few people who came out behind, all the way up the mountain, turning a few corners, there was a cliff in front of him, and the people of the convoy stopped at the edge of the cliff. A few people who came out later hid in the dark to watch, and Du Yan also found a mountain rock to hide behind.