What the hell is going on? Zhao Yu also cowardly followed to the side of the team. Compared with the slightly excited appearance of others, Zhao Yu is still relatively calm at present. However, he still put his hand behind the butt of the horse he was riding, and symbolically stroked the staff that was tied to it.

No matter what emergencies you encounter, you must ensure that the weapon is always in your hands! Zhao Yu has always firmly remembered Shen Mengting's warning.

"What? You said you were going to fight for your life?" said one of the officers and soldiers, who had just said something about the old woman. He even bared his teeth and waved at his comrades-in-arms around him, "Hah, brothers, did you all hear what she said just now?"

"Hahaha...... I heard it!

"She's going to fight for us!"

There were so many soldiers laughing and shouting at each other, like a group of vampires!

"What the hell are they doing?" Shen Jun had always been the least calm on the team, and his hand had reached for the sword behind his back. It seems that in the next moment, he will draw his sword and cut people,

However, when he held the hilt of the sword behind him with his backhand, one of Qian Hao's hands reached over.

Shen Jun looked a little surprised, but after seeing Qian Hao shaking his head slightly, he slowly retracted his hand.

"Let's take a look at the situation first!" Qian Hao showed extraordinary calmness, "First find out what happened?"

So, the people quietly observed the cause of the incident.

On the road to the right of the fork, a group of soldiers were arrogantly surrounding there, and their number seemed to be in the dozens, but if you really counted them, you found that there were only sixteen. These soldiers are all armed with swords, and they have the feeling of being an elite police [river crab] guard.

Shen Mengting immediately speculated from their equipment that they had the qualifications of junior swordsmen.

'Who the hell is it?' Shen Mengting seemed even more suspicious. The appearance of soldiers on such roads is clearly abnormal. Shen Mengting speculated that these people might have gone out to run errands for some big officials.

And compared to the soldiers who were all armoured and armed, the civilians surrounded by them were much thinner. The civilians were all in rags, and one of them was a child with mud on his face.

This...... For some reason, Zhao Yu's heart was hit by the waves at the moment. Perhaps, that gray-faced child reminded Zhao Yu of his former self.

The number of civilians was not large, probably five. But the humility they showed was beyond the ordinary. Five of them were: an old man with a long beard, an old woman with a cloth on her head, a girl with a baby in her hand, and a boy who seemed to be only four or five years old.

The old and weak, women and children - this is the label that Zhao Yu labeled these people.

And it was the old woman who was wrapped in a cloth on her head who prayed to those officers and soldiers just now, and her current appearance was also humbled over. However, her efforts seemed to be in vain. Because the group of soldiers didn't take it seriously at all, but laughed even more fiercely.

For a while, Zhao Yu's slightly turbulent mood seemed to be stirred a little upside down.

Is this bullying? Zhao Yu couldn't help but look at his teammates next to him. It's just that those teammates are not doing anything at the moment, they are still quietly watching.

"Please, gentlemen, we are just ordinary people, please don't be like us!" the long-bearded old man also spoke. He fell to his knees with a thud and gave a fist salute to the soldiers, "Please, please!"

This scene made Zhao Yu and them a little embarrassed. After all, an old man who has grown up like this actually kneels down to apologize to a few young people, which is really against some traditions.

"Father!" the woman with the baby in her hand also knelt down, and she also gave her free hand to hold the old man. But then it was even more difficult for her to hold the baby in her other hand.

"Don't speak! Let me beg these officials! If we beg with our hearts, they will surely let us go." ”

"You, old man, are so cowardly!" the turbaned old woman seemed to reproach. However, her movements were next to the old man.

"Aha, are you begging us?" said a soldier who was just across from the old man, laughing a few times. The soldier was visibly dressed differently from the rest of his fellows, with golden feathers stuck behind his helmet.

Shen Mengting immediately recognized that it was the rank of lieutenant. If it's really a lieutenant level, but the swordsman level is an intermediate level. Shen Mengting looked directly at the lieutenant.

The lieutenant's appearance is just an ordinary public face, but his face is slightly fat. The sword he wields is also different from other ordinary soldiers, and the hilt of the sword is inlaid with a dragon pattern.

'What is the origin of this person?' Shen Mengting was already self-evaluating in her heart. If a lieutenant goes out of town to do something, it means that they are not doing a small thing.

"Yes, Lieutenant Chen Ziqun! They just said that they were going to fight with us, but in the blink of an eye, they knelt down and begged!" One of the soldiers responded, which was also in response to Shen Mengting's guess.

The leader, Chen Ziqun, was indeed a lieutenant officer and soldier.

"What made their attitude change so much?" Lieutenant Chen Ziqun kept raising the sword in his hand, "I think it's the weapon in my hand!

The attitude of this officer and soldier was really disgusting, and Zhao Yu's hands couldn't help but clench into fists.

"No, please! We are just poor people passing by, and we have offended the officials without long eyes! I beg you to let us live!" the old man of the commoner continued to kneel and pleaded.

"Father!" the daughter next to him hugged him tighter, "You don't want this!"

"Oh, girl! Don't say that! After all, it is indeed our fault in the first place! I hope that we can communicate well with these soldiers, so that they can see that we are pitiful, so that we can spare our family!" the old man touched his daughter's outstretched hand. However, after a few strokes of the back of his hand, the old man removed his daughter's hand.

Then the old man prayed again to the soldiers around him, "Ladies and gentlemen, please." We didn't mean to, I hope you can see that we are all small people, just let us go!" At this point, his eyes were completely rosy, and he kept wiping his face with the back of his hand, "Please!"

The old man's cry was still quite moving, and the soldiers seemed to have stopped smiling. It's just that although their smiles are gone, their serious faces are even more intimidating.

"I really beg you!"

"You know how to plead now, but your wife was very tough just now! and he still wants to fight with us!" interjected the soldier who stood at the very least, the only one of them who had not drawn his sword.

"It's our fault! I'll wait for my wife to apologize to you!" said the old man, kowtowing to the soldier in front of him.

"Old man!" the old woman next to her seemed to be quite complaining.

"Please, don't punish us! Just a few days ago, my son-in-law fell ill and died. We had no choice, so we wanted to move our family from outside to Kiyose Castle. I didn't expect ...... I didn't expect to encounter such a thing on the road! I'm so sorry! I'm very sorry!" the old man kept apologizing.

This made Zhao Yu a little incomprehensible, he didn't know why the old man had to apologize! Could it be that they had done something wrong?

Just when Zhao Yu was very puzzled, a soldier's voice interrupted his thoughts.

"I say, old man, how sincere you are to apologize now!" the soldier shook his sword, "but did you ever think that such an apology would really work?"

"Ahh

"We're not the ones looking for trouble, and why do you want me to let you go?" said another soldier.

"I'm sorry! We really didn't mean to, please give us a yard from the officials!"

"Hey, I said old man, don't you still understand the situation?" Lieutenant Chen Ziqun finally spoke again, "The things on that cart are not ours!

When the old man heard this, he instantly showed a look of despair, "Ahh......h But ......"

"You all have to remember that we are just soldiers. And the cart we escorted also belonged to a certain dignitary in the city. So, we're not in a position to talk about how to let you go!"

"Ahh......h No, please, please!"

The old man's successive pleadings disgusted the lieutenant, and he immediately waved his hand angrily, "You better not waste your efforts in vain, we can't let you go!"

"Ahh......h At the moment, it was as if a cloudy breath was blocking his trachea, causing him to be stuck and unable to breathe.

"Father!ah! Father!" Seeing this, the woman next to her hurriedly slapped the old man on the back.

The old woman also kept touching her wife's chest together.

"Ahh......h I ...... "The old man was a little out of breath."

"Don't blame me for being ruthless!" Chen Ziqun's swordsman had already put away his sword at this moment. I saw him rightfully put the sword in his hand and neatly pushed it into the scabbard pinned to his waist, "It's really because the mistakes you made are too great." ”

"Oh, no, please!" the woman with the baby in her hand began to pray.

But the fierce pleading seemed so insignificant to the soldiers.

"I mean, your family, how long will it take me to explain! What you broke before was the goods of a certain official in the city. With the sound of his speech, Lieutenant Chen Ziqun pointed sharply to a certain place on the side, "So, you still have to wait to be punished!"

"Ahh

"No, please, I really don't!" the old man pleaded.

Following the direction pointed by the lieutenant just now, Zhao Yu saw a cart that had fallen apart. The wheels of the cart had collapsed, revealing the contents of the cart.

It was a few scattered pieces of glass that had been thrown everywhere, almost completely shattered. However, Zhao Yu still recognized from it, it seemed to be a vase-like item.

Not only Zhao Yu, but Shen Mengting also seemed to know the context of the matter.

The whole thing should have come from this: the group of family members happened to meet the same group of soldiers who were also escorting items while on their way to Kiyose Castle. Originally, they were irrelevant to each other. However, it may have been because the family was not paying attention and accidentally broke the soldier's escort items.

This leads to the misfortune that appears on the right side of the fork in the road.

"All right! I really don't want to say anything else! Prepare yells! Come with me to the city and be punished!"

Lieutenant Chen Ziqun's words made the old man's sense of frustration even worse. Suddenly, he began to weep bitterly, "Ah, why? Why can't you go around our family? Our family has had enough troubles!"

"Okay! I've explained it many times! It's not something we can control. Oh! What a fucking bad luck!" Lieutenant Chen Ziqun stomped his foot angrily, "What a fucking name am I! I was about to complete the mission, but I didn't expect to meet you civilians who don't have long eyes. Now it is all right, we will all be punished together, what are you embarrassed to pray to me?"

"That's it, it's clear that you made mistakes first, and you're embarrassed to ask for our forgiveness?"

"Won't you, old man, discern the current situation?"

Now that the leading lieutenant has opened the head of the accusation, the rest of the soldiers will unceremoniously continue to send reproachful words.

Looking at the scenes on the other side of the road, the people on Zhao Yu's side didn't know what to do. The development and cause of the incident were completely unexpected.

I thought that the soldiers were bullying the civilians, but it turned out to be the fault of the civilians themselves!

Shen Mengting let out a low cry of dissatisfaction, she pulled the reins of the horse in her hand intentionally or unintentionally, and the horse she was riding also tossed at will, "Okay! You all know the cause of the incident! It's just that the family members themselves are not good! They broke the items escorted by the soldiers. So...... Those soldiers have tempers, and it is understandable that they want to take them to the city to punish their crimes!"

Shen Mengting's remarks seemed to give the team a blow to the soul, and Shen Jun and Qian Hao also showed a burst of surprise on their faces.

"Hmm, what's wrong?, do you still have any questions?" Shen Mengting waved the reins in her hand again, "Let's hurry up and continue on our way!

A few horses' hooves immediately spread in Zhao Yu's ears. It's just that the sound of horses' hooves is still only made by the Nasa that Shen Mengting is riding. The rest of the horses were still quiet.

"Hey, I said, what's wrong with you?" Shen Mengting seemed to be a little dissatisfied.

"Ahh......h Do you mean to tell us to turn a blind eye and just walk away?" Shen Jun looked very puzzled, and he also held up his palm, pointing sharply at the situation over there.

Regarding Shen Jun's actions, Shen Mengting also became very puzzled, "What are you talking about? What do you mean by turning a blind eye? The current situation is that it is the fault of that group of civilians at all." It was they who broke the items that the soldiers were escorting. So what are you going to do with this kind of thing? How can you do it?"

Perhaps it was too excited, and the horse that Shen Mengting was riding unconsciously shook again.

"Alright, alright! Don't get excited, don't get excited!" Qian Hao immediately came to extinguish the fire. I saw that he directly crossed the horse between the two, and he himself continued to press down his hand.

"It's not that I'm excited!It's someone who wants to meddle with something!" Shen Mengting glared and immediately added.

"What do you mean I'm going to meddle in? Don't you see the current situation? This group of people is kneeling in front of the soldiers! What is a big deal, I want to make a group of pathetic Pingming kneel!" Shen Jun replied sharply.

"If civilians do something wrong, why make them kneel?"

"Ha! Sure enough, she is the daughter of the Generalissimo's family, and her thoughts are a little high-minded bureaucratic thoughts!"

"What did you say?"

"Stop! Stop! Don't make any more noise!" Qian Hao increased the action of pressing down his palm, "How to do it exactly! We still have to consider the current situation!"

"Yes, Sister Mengting, let's take a look at the situation!" Jiang Jingwen also hurriedly sent a word of dissuasion.

And just as they were arguing, something happened at the fork in the road.

"No, don't, sir, please let us go! Our family can't even eat, and we can't afford to pay for that vase!" the old man pointed his head toward the ground at the lower end. He began to apologize uncontrollably.

But that didn't move the soldiers in the slightest.

"What can you do if you can't afford to lose? I think you still have to tell the officials in the city about this kind of explanation!" Lieutenant Chen Ziqun made a flicking motion in obedience, he was ordering his subordinates to act quickly, "I can't be the master!"

When the rest of the soldiers saw this, they began to raise their pace, and began to narrow the circle that surrounded the poor family. Seeing that the family was squeezed and suffocated, the old woman couldn't hold it back. She suddenly went from being still to stumbling indiscriminately.

"Ah! I'll just say it! These people will never bypass us! They will only take us to blame! We can only escape if we fight with them!"

"Don't be impulsive, old woman!" the old man seemed to be about to stop.

"Heh, why are you coming here again!" Lieutenant Chen Ziqun shook his head disdainfully.

"If you want us to die, just say it!, why bother to say that you can't tell for sure!" the old woman stood up menacingly.

After she stood up, Zhao Yu had an epiphany that this old woman was not old at all, on the contrary, her lumbar spine was still stretched straight.

"Why are you talking like that? Didn't you just hit our cart?"

"That's not the case!" the old woman looked at her family, "the vase was broken before I hit it!"