Chapter Eighty-Nine: Back to the City
After Zhang Xing finished eating and drinking, he felt that he had some strength in his body, and touched Gu Xichao's face, which was already a little warm. She pulled out some ash and left it to cool down. Roll Gu Xichao's trouser leg as high as possible to expose the wound.
She still didn't dare to pull out the arrow, so she only loosened the upper binding, washed the wound with cold boiled water, and sprinkled some grass ash to stop the bleeding. I poured him half a bowl of hot water into it.
On this rainy night, that's all she could do.
Zhang Xing added a few slightly coarse firewoods into it, curled up to the side and closed his eyes. I don't know when, she was suddenly awakened by a groan, the fire was about to be extinguished, she hurriedly added some hay into it, and set up a few dry firewood.
The fire was burning again. It was Gu Xichao who groaned. Zhang Xing saw that his face was flushed, and hurriedly reached out to touch it, and it was really hot. The rain hasn't stopped, the sky hasn't dawned yet, and it's impossible to find herbs outside. Zhang Xing had to boil the water and give it to him over and over again, hoping that this method would have some effect.
Gu Xichao was already burned and confused, shouting cold for a while, and hot for a while, Zhang Xing kept wiping his body and feeding him water, and he was only busy until the sky was bright, Gu Xichao quieted down and fell asleep.
Zhang Xing touched his forehead, it was not as hot as before. She breathed a sigh of relief. Looking outside, the rain had stopped, and the wilderness was shrouded in a light mist, and it was hazy to the eye.
She wiped her face briefly, changed Gu Xichao's dried clothes with him, and used wet soil to extinguish the fire. She still didn't dare to take the liberty of pulling people over like this, and decided to go to the city gate to see the movement first. Leaving Gu Xichao alone, she was a little uneasy. I saw a pile of cows eating hay in the cowshed. He simply dragged the person inside and buried it, leaving only the mouth and nose to breathe outside.
She didn't dare to lead the horse. I had to put it first. After she was done, she was relieved to go to Huaiyang City.
I haven't arrived at the gate of Huaiyang City yet. I saw a long queue waiting to enter the city, mostly from nearby farmers, either carrying burdens or driving ox carts. When the gates of the city were not opened, they gathered together in groups of three or five to speak.
Zhang Xing folded her hands, shook it here, listened there, and made a rough guess. Huaiyang City had a curfew last night, and I heard that Liu Yihan, a general under Liu Shenzhou of Heyuan, had sneaked into the city and wanted to do wrong. It was discovered that two groups of men and horses were fighting at the mass grave outside the city, killing and wounding countless people.
The villagers and peasants also mostly heard things, whether the matter is true or not, the process is unknown, only the mass grave where the fighting is said to be wild, what blood is flowing like a river, dead people everywhere, etc., people are very angry. Everyone listens to it.
Zhang Xing interjected and asked, "Isn't Liu Shenzhou in Heyuan? Why did he come to Huaiyang?"
The storyteller was a forty or fifty-year-old farmer who drove an ox cart, snorted a few times, and said, "Boy, you don't know what to do." Liu Shenzhou's men and horses were defeated by the Marquis of Zhongyong in the north, and several towns were lost. The land at the source of the river is not like ours, where you can grow food. It's all mountains, how much food can you eat on the mountains? He hit the idea until we came to Huaiyang. ”
There was a sour rot show in an ox cart who shook his head and said, "Fei Ye, Fei Ye." Liu Shenzhou's move was not to borrow grain, but to borrow the road. Huaiyang to the south is the Jiangdu Nanjing and other places, and the north is even far away, if you can borrow Huaiyang, you can make the belly of the loyal and brave marquis suffer the enemy. If he takes the far distance, he will be able to reign in the north. ”
"Hu Xiucai. The car shouted, "Didn't Liu Shenzhou already be called Emperor Huangwu?"
The people around him also echoed one after another, saying that Liu Shenzhou had divided the generals under his command.
Zhang Xing remembered the emperor's voice she heard last night, and suddenly she was stunned. After a little more listening, the gates of the city opened. The team is back together. Zhang Xing only came to inquire about the situation, not to really enter the city. So he folded his hands and continued to shake towards the city gate.
Although the gate of the city is wide open, there are dozens of soldiers with guns and knives standing on both sides, and dozens of paces in the city are squatting and guarding several groups of archers with bows and crossbows. People entering the city were searched one by one, and they were very strict. This situation made the surrounding people silent.
Zhang Xing didn't dare to get too close, and only stood at a distance to watch for a while. It was already dawn, and the number of people coming in and out of the city was already increasing. Then she folded her hands and shook away.
Back in the cowshed, pull out Gu Xichao. He was still the same as before. Zhang Xing was thinking about how to get people to the gate of the city, when he saw a villager in his thirties leading a cow over.
The villagers never thought that there were still people living in their cowsheds, and they were stunned as soon as they came in. Zhang Xing had a plan and made up a story, only saying that he was from Huaiyang Palace, and it rained heavily last night, and his accomplice was injured again, so he had no choice but to hide from the rain in this cowshed. At the moment, his accomplice was too seriously injured to move, and he hoped that the villagers would do him another favor and go to the Huaiyang Mansion to report the news.
Who in this vicinity doesn't know about Huaiyang Wangfu? Zhang Xing's rhetoric was rigorous, and the villager was stunned by her, and nodded his head in a series of ways.
Zhang Xing ruthlessly took out the two taels of silver he was carrying and gave it to the farmer, and then pulled off the wrench that Gu Xichao was wearing on his hand and handed it to the villager to make a token for him.
The villager took the wrench, but did not accept the cash, and said goodbye to Zhang Xing for a while. Zhang Xing felt a kind of surprise in her heart, retracted her hand, pretended to nod and said, "Uncle Ende, we will thank you in the future." ”
She wasn't wrong. If this Gu Xichao really entered the Huaiyang Palace, this palace would definitely have something to say to the messenger.
The farmer tied the ox, smiled and took the wrench and left. Zhang Xing saw him walking away, and hurriedly went back to the cowshed and put away all his things. Although Gu Xichao's body is still a little hot, it is much better than last night. I think it won't be long before the villagers will bring people over.
Although she had thought about bringing Xu to take care of the life of the court, she still decided to gamble - if this Gu Xichao's power was really so bad, he would not be able to sit in the position of the prince of Huaiyang Palace.
She didn't dare to expect that the Huaiyang Mansion would give her any reward, she just wanted to stay away from these troubles.
After packing up her things, Zhang Xing fed Gu Xichao a bowl of hot water again, thinking that the time was almost up, she dragged Gu Xichao to the haystack and hid it. Wait on the road to Huaiyang. I didn't have to wait long before I saw a large group of people galloping over from the side of the avenue.
Zhang Xing's heart was pounding. I'm afraid I saw the boy with beautiful peach eyes I saw last night.
But the horse team was so fast that she couldn't see the faces of the horses at all. All she saw was the rolling dust dragon coming and going like the wind. Helpless. She still couldn't rest assured, so she had to follow behind and peek again.
The peasant had already brought the man into the cowshed. Zhang Xing saw that the guards outside were full of fresh faces and a carriage, so she was a little relieved - if you want to kill people, you don't need to bring a carriage so troublesomely.
She didn't plan to go over, the cowshed was so big, as long as they were careful, they would definitely be able to find Gu Xichao.
Sure enough, only a moment later, Gu Xichao was carried out. Put it in the carriage. The carriage left first. There was a thin-faced middle-aged man talking to a farmer.
Because it was a little far away, Zhang Xing couldn't hear what they were talking about, only saw the villagers gesturing and shaking their heads. The middle-aged man took a large bag of things with the farmer, and then left with the rest of the people.
Zhang Xing waited for them to leave before she came out and went to the city gate, and when she passed a small stream, she washed her face and remembered the search at the city gate. She couldn't help but reach out and touch her breasts - although it was only two Yin peaches, it was still easy to get into trouble.
She sat down on a stone by the side of the avenue, and waited until an ox-cart passed by, and on the cart sat some of the eldest daughters and the younger girls. She stopped the car. After some clever words, I spent some money and found a little daughter-in-law to buy a set of half-used clothes. I found a shelter from the wind and replaced it.
Who knew that the search at the gate of the city was much more lenient than before, and only a few people were stopped to search their bodies. He only glanced at Zhang Xing a few times, and then waved his hand. Released.
Zhang Xing went straight to the inn. Wei Yunhai and Wei Minwu hadn't slept all night, and the two of them had been looking in the city for a long time last night, but not only did they not find anyone, but they were almost discovered by patrols. The door of the inn was closed, and they had no choice but to find Wang Bingyi's house.
Wang Bingyi was also startled when he heard that Zhang Xing was gone. He has been sitting in Huaiyang for many years, and he has some connections, so he immediately left the Wei father and son to live, and he asked acquaintances everywhere to help inquire about the search, but it was also fruitless overnight.
He also entrusted him to the Huaiyang Palace, but there was another major event in the palace, and no one cared about him.
He didn't sleep all night.
The three of them went straight to dawn, Zhang Xing still didn't hear from him at all, Wei Yunhai and Wei Minwu planned to go out of the city to have a look, and Wang Bingyi also planned to find someone to inquire again.
At this time, Zhang Xing came back.
The three of them hurriedly asked what happened?
Zhang Xing didn't dare to tell them the truth, only said that she went to Xuliu Village, a few miles outside the city, and went to see a family that had helped her last year, but when she came back, she caught the curfew at the city gate and was not allowed to enter or leave. She had no choice but to go back and stay at the family's house for the night.
Wang Bingyi knew that she was a long-term person, so he only nodded and said, "It's good to come back, it's okay to have nothing to do." ”
Wei Yunhai had a lot of gray hair overnight, they were all kind to people in the flood last year, and they didn't think much about it, only said: "Xing'er, don't go out alone in the future." He couldn't help but blame his son, glared at Wei Minwu, and said angrily: "Xing'er is still young, you are the elder brother, how can you let her go out alone?"
Wei Minwu didn't hear his father's scolding at all, he only looked Zhang Xing up and down, and when Wei Yunhai sent Wang Bingyi out, he hurriedly stopped Zhang Xing and asked, "Hey, where is your shovel?"
Zhang Xing glanced at him, grinned, and said, "Lost." ”
Wei Minwu was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "Who are you coaxing? To see your benefactor, you still need to bring a shovel? ”
Zhang Xing turned around, stretched out his hand in front of Wei Minwu, and said with a smile: "Second brother, you say, should I tell my uncle that you took all the money in the money bag?"
Wei Minwu was stunned again, gritted his teeth and said, "That money is clearly what you don't want." ”
"I don't want it. Zhang Xing smiled and said, "But do you think Uncle will believe it?" (to be continued......)
PS: I wish you all a happy new year and all the best. Xie Lu Xie floated on the clouds, Huaiyu's mother and several relatives of Qianmo Jianghu, Xie Lu Xie Ti 26 pro-reward, there is a change tonight, but it will be later.