Xue Ying's heart sank, and she said slowly: "It's a deserter." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info "If it's a robber, it's not stupid enough to cook on the spot and wait for the people down the mountain to come up and surround them, but they will plunder the food and supplies back to the stronghold. And even when it is obvious that they are already hungry, they can still obey the division of labor, which I am afraid can only be done by a professionally trained military.

Aunt Shunzi gasped: "Deserter?"

"What is a deserter?" Qiao Ya didn't understand.

"How can there be deserters at this time?" Aunt Shunzi ignored Qiaoya's question and squeezed her hand. "In this winter, the barbarians of the Northern Plains can't beat it!"

"That's what most people think, so the more snowy it is, the more lax border guards become. But this winter's snow is heavy, and the pastoral disaster next spring is almost a foregone conclusion, since this is the case......" Xue Ying paused and didn't continue.

Since the country of the Northern Plains is nomadic for a living, since it has long expected that there will be a shortage of supplies in the next spring, I am afraid that it will not hesitate to strike in advance, and launch an attack into the Central Plains when the border defense is lax, on the one hand, reserve the needs for next year in advance, and on the other hand, occupy the warmer south as a winter base, which can be described as a multi-task.

And these deserters are probably defeated after being attacked, and scattered here.

Xue Ying's words were only half said, and the people present basically didn't understand, but looking at Xue Ying's appearance, they basically believed that the people outside were deserters.

Aunt Junzi muttered: "How did they get here? This is far from the border, and further away is Anjing!"

Anjing City is the capital of Dagu, and Dagu is the country where they are now.

A group of deserters actually appeared not far from the capital, could it be that the army of the Northern Plains was already so close? But why was there no news before?

"Uhhh

Qiaoya's eyes lit up: "It's the people under the mountain who came to save us!"

"It's finally here......" Xue Ying muttered. Seeing that Qiaoya wanted to open the window again, she hurriedly grabbed her: "Don't go from here." ”

If you are caught by those people at this time, you will lose all your efforts.

"However, Zhao Zhuangtou and Master don't know that we are hiding! What if they think we are in the hands of those people?"

Xue Ying looked around, and through the light of the snow, she found something: "With that, you secretly climbed the roof." ”

Aunt Shunzi and Qiaoya followed the direction she pointed and saw a ladder.

"How can there be a ladder here?" said Aunt Junko.

"This used to be a study, and this ladder is here to get the books on the shelves. Xue Ying went over and tried it, and found that the ladder was quite strong, looked up, and said, "It's the back of the roof that goes up here, and the people in the yard can't see you." You climb to the top of the bookshelf, move the tiles out of the way, and you can see outside when you stand up - be careful not to make a sound. ”

"Okay, no problem!" Qiaoya was born to be very good at this kind of physical work of climbing up and down, and when she heard this, she rolled up her sleeves and began to climb up, her body was light, and she deserved to have practiced kung fu.

When Uncle Shunzi was repairing the roof before, she joined in the fun, and just learned how to fold the roof tiles, so she quickly made a hole in the roof and put her head out. The roof was inverted in a V-shape, and when she went out, she could see the mountain down, but the people in the yard couldn't see her.

After looking around and listening to the movement in the courtyard, she leaned down and whispered: "Zhao Zhuangtou and Master came up with a lot of people, and those people in the courtyard didn't find us and were in a hurry." ”

I have to find a way to let Zhao Zhuangtou know about the situation, but I can't let the people in the courtyard know that they are here.

"They didn't leave anyone to guard the courtyard, did they?" asked Xue Ying.

Qiaoya shook her head.

Xue Ying thought about it, opened the door connecting to another room, and in the dim light, she could barely see the appearance of the other room.

The room they were in just now was a study, and the next one looked like a lounge for napping, and although it was full of clutter, the basic layout had not changed.

Qiao Ya didn't know when she had come down from the bookshelf and followed her, "Miss, what are you looking for?"

"Rope or something. There were too many things in the room, and Xue Ying didn't dare to make a big move for fear of making any noise, so she took a look, and her eyes were fixed on the curtain that hung down from the roof.

She turned around and found Aunt Shunzi who was standing at the junction of the two rooms: "Aunt Shunzi, can you pull down that curtain?"

Aunt Shunzi nodded, looked at it a few times, and quickly found the trick, and pulled it with skill, and the curtain was pulled down with a "click", but it was followed by the thick dust accumulated over the years, and for a while, the room was full of dust.

Qiaoya held her head and hurriedly dodged, and Aunt Shunzi pulled down several nearby curtains in one go, and when it came to the last one, there was a black shadow after the "click", fortunately, Xue Ying had been paying attention, and reflexively reached out to catch it.

"Shhh

This accident frightened the three people present, and they stayed there and pricked up their ears to listen to the movement outside, and found that they did not alarm the people outside, so they breathed a big sigh of relief.

didn't have time to care about what fell, Xue Ying hurriedly said: "Tie up these curtains, tie one end to the pillar, and throw the other end outside the wall." ”

When the people down the mountain come up, it is easier for them to see this thing, and they climb in along the curtains, and the two sides are connected.

Aunt Shunzi tied the curtain and rolled it into a ball, tied one end to the beam, and rolled down the roof with the other end, and was busy, when a cry suddenly came from outside the door: "Search this yard, be careful, you can't let go of every corner!"

Xue Ying was taken aback: it is worthy of a professional army, and it was actually searched here so quickly!

Qiao Ya was startled at first, and then rushed over to guard the door.

Xue Ying hurriedly pulled her and whispered, "Don't worry, they didn't search here so quickly." ”

Aunt Junko came down from the ladder and heard the voices of those people getting closer and closer, and her face, which had been trying to maintain her composure, also showed a nervous look.

Xue Ying seems to be the calmest one, but after all, she has never encountered this kind of thing in her two lives, and her palms are also holding a handful of sweat, but there are women and children in this room, so she can't help but lose control. Gritting her teeth, she clenched Qiaoya's hand again and lowered her voice: "You listen to where they are, we are avoiding them." ”

There was a murmur in the courtyard, and Qiaoya listened to it and replied, "There are five people, searching from both sides to the middle." ”

The room they were in now was in the middle of the courtyard, but it wasn't big, and it wouldn't be long before those people searched it.

"Otherwise, let's all climb up to the roof. Aunt Shunzi proposed.