Chapter 187: The Verge
Li Anyue stuffed the silver into her clothes, found another piece of clothing, tore out a rag, wrapped it on her head at once, and found some incense ash from the incense burner and smeared it on her face, covering up her fair complexion. Then he patted his ass and left, leaving two people on the bed who were tied up.
Li Anyue learned from the old mother's appearance, and walked out slowly with some awkwardness, usually those family members would not pay attention to such an old mother, and their eyes were attracted by the dozen or so young and beautiful aunts, so they basically recognized people by their clothes, and at this time, they didn't care much when they saw Li Anyue walking out in that dress, which was smoother than Li Anyue imagined. When he walked to the invisible place at the door of Zhu's mansion, Li Anyue took off the rag on his head and walked quickly to the girl's side.
The girl burst out laughing when she saw her like this, "Sister, it's funny that you are like this." ”
"Little girl, you can still laugh, don't run away." Li Anyue nodded her head, and then pulled her to run in the opposite direction of the Zhu Mansion.
The two stopped when they ran to a place selling clothes, Li Anyue commanded in her ear, handed her some silver, and after a while, the girl came out with a package of clothes. The two ran to a place where there was no one again, and Li Anyue quickly changed her coat, put on the set of clothes that the girl bought, and immediately transformed into a ...... The little brother who ran the hall.
"Girl, you have ...... taste" Li Anyue looked at herself and was a little speechless.
The girl smiled embarrassedly, "This set of clothes is better there, and the others are the same as those worn by Zhu Dafu, but they are cheesy." ”
Li Anyue could only smile helplessly, untied her hair and tied it into a ball head, and as soon as she wore her hat, she looked more like a little brother running from the hall......
"Alright, everything is ready, let's go!" Li Anyue tidied up her clothes and took the girl away, and bought a set of boys' clothes for the girl on the way, so that it would not be so easy to be discovered.
Li Anyue and the others all changed their clothes and walked to the city gate, but at this time, the city gate was overcrowded, and the city gate that was still open was also tightly closed at this time. Li Anyue couldn't see what was going on, so she pulled a man next to her.
"Big brother, what's going on? Why is the city gate closed? ”
The man didn't look at her either, he still kept staring at the city gate, but he still said to her, "It was said that the Qi army was coming, so the city gate was closed just now, and you are only allowed to enter and not leave." Eh, my wife and children are still waiting for me at home, what can I do? ”
As he spoke, the man leaned into the crowd, and then the girl tugged at her hand and pointed to the crowd for her to see. Li Anyue looked over where she was pointing, and saw that Li Shengcai was also huddled in the crowd with a package on his back, but unexpectedly, the carriages were not there, and he seemed to be the only one.
Li Anyue just wanted to get closer to observe, but there was another commotion on the side of the crowd, only to hear the people above the city gate shouting, "Open the door!"
A crack opened in the gate, and a man in a soldier's uniform galloped in, and the people hurried out of the way, and the horse galloped toward the palace. While the people were speculating about what news the man had brought back, they heard the man at the gate shout downward, "Disperse all of you!" The Qi army at the city gate is already three hundred miles away, and if you go out, you will be sent to death! If you can hide, hide as soon as possible! ”
As soon as these words came out, it caused a great panic in the crowd, and the people who were still crowded at the gate of the city scattered at this time, and some even cried. Li Anyue pulled the girl tightly and retreated to the side, in case people accidentally washed the two of them apart. Li Shengcai looked at the closed city gate and walked back angrily, Li Anyue and the girl glanced at each other, and followed from a distance.
Li Shengcai hugged the package tightly all the way and went directly back to the inn where they stayed yesterday, but there were no other people in the circus team at the door. Li Anyue and the girl were just about to leave, when they saw the two big men who came to pick up Li Anyue at noon and walked directly into the inn. After a while, I saw Li Shengcai being pressed out by two big men.
Li Shengcai shouted while struggling, "I said, I really don't know where those two girls went!" Didn't you see that I disbanded the whole circus troupe? ”
"You go back and tell our master this, and we just do what we are told!" Without saying anything, the two big men took one of his arms and went in the direction of Zhufu.
It seems that it is because after Li Anyue escaped, Zhu Dafu could only settle accounts with Li Sheng, but he didn't know what happened to the others if the circus team was disbanded. The girl watched Li Shengcai being pulled away and snickered on the side, "Look at him in the future, he dares to do so many bad things and harm himself!" Deserve! ”
Li Anyue smiled and scratched her little nose, "The little girl is quite resentful." ”
"I don't hold grudges, but I hold grudges against him! Sister, you don't know how many bad things he's done! ”
"Okay, I know you're magnanimous, but that guy is too bad. It's getting dark, so let's find an inn to stay in. Li Anyue looked at the sky with some unease, not knowing what would happen next, although she had seen several war movies and seen countless war reports, but what it was like to really fight a war was something she couldn't feel in the peaceful 21st century.
The girl saw that she was going to leave but still stayed, so she took her hand and shook it twice, "Sister, what are you thinking?" Don't you want to go yet? ”
Li Anyue came back to her senses, nodded, and found a nearby inn that was closer to the palace and looked better, but it wasn't her money anyway. But when I entered the inn, I was shocked, and the people who were going to go out of the city were stranded in the city because of the closing of the city gate, although the price of this inn was relatively high, but now people are no longer stingy with their money, after all, as long as they are not misers at the critical moment, they still feel that life is more important than money.
Li Anyue and the girl finally asked for a small room, the specifications are about the same as a firewood room, but the price is about the same as the upper room in the ordinary inn where they usually live, in view of the fact that there is no choice now, Li Anyue doesn't care so much, and gives the shopkeeper a gold ingot, and he can live for seven or eight days.
The night is getting thicker, the faint moonlight is shining in the city, and the people at night have unloaded the panic of the day and gradually fell asleep, but the palace is not peaceful.
The brightly lit palace was noisy at this time, and the news from the scouts during the day still left a shadow in their hearts at this moment, and just when everyone was arguing, another soldier reported that the army of Qi had been stationed ten miles outside the city of Vaxi, and sent a messenger to deliver a letter under the city gate.
The twelve-year-old king, Vasidaka, forcibly took out the letter calmly in the eyes of everyone, and said after a while, "This is a war letter handed over by the Qi State, requiring that the city gate be opened tomorrow morning, otherwise the siege will begin." ”
As soon as these words came out, there was silence in the hall, and for a while there was no sound, as if even the sound of breathing was suppressed. Vashidaka watched that everyone was about to leave the province, and everyone immediately exploded like a pot, and you quarreled with me word by word.
"Shut it all!" Vashidaka stood on the throne irritably and shouted, and everyone's eyes were on him, before he continued, "What words are slowly revealed one by one, and before the war starts, it will become a mess, what a system!" ”
One of the ministers stepped forward, "Wang, how are you going to deal with it?" ”
Vashidaka replied without thinking, "Lone naturally won't bow to the Qi Kingdom. ”
As soon as the man heard this, he retreated into the crowd in silence, and without speaking again, another minister stood up again, "Does the king know how many troops the Qi State has, and how many troops the Waxi Kingdom has?" ”
"Didn't the scouts reciprocate, the Qi State sent 100,000 soldiers to come this time, but now there are only 30,000 horses stationed under the city of Vaxi Kingdom."
"There are only 30,000 horses, but Wang Ke knows that the combined men, women, and children of the Waxi Kingdom are less than 50,000 horses, let alone resist the elite soldiers selected by the Qi State in every way."
As soon as Vashidaka heard this, he knew what they wanted to express, and his face became gloomy, "Do you mean to surrender to the Qi country alone?" ”
When everyone heard this, they knelt down in unison, "Please think twice!" ”
Vashidaka stood in front of them, but he was so angry that he couldn't say a word, usually these ministers also coaxed him like a child, did they still treat him as a child at this critical moment, his fists clenched silently.
"King, please allow the mourners to say two words." At this time, the Queen Mother, who had been sitting behind the curtain and listening to the government, spoke.
Vasidaka bowed down, "Queen Mother, please speak." ”
The Queen Mother looked at the people in the court, "Do you still remember the promises you made to King Qingning and Emperor Tianyang during the civil strife?" ”
Everyone was silent, but their hearts were like mirrors.
The Empress Dowager continued, "When the Tianyang Emperor sent troops to quell the civil strife in the Vaxi Kingdom, you said that you would always submit to the Tianyang Dynasty and serve the Tianyang Dynasty. But now, you, as courtiers, are coercing the king to do this deviant! Vaxi City is a barrier between Tianyang Kingdom and Qi Kingdom, if Vaxi Kingdom opens the city gate, it will be a matter of time before the Qi army invades Tianyang Kingdom, and hundreds of thousands of people are in crisis because of their own selfishness, can you also feel at ease? ”
"There is a huge disparity between the strength of the Wasi Kingdom and the Qi State, as long as the Qi State concentrates its firepower, the Vasi Kingdom may be broken within a day, and the people of the Vasi Kingdom will be killed at that time, how can you bear it, the king? King, you are first of all the king of tens of thousands of people in the Vaxi Kingdom, and then you are the courtiers of the Tianyang Kingdom! Please think twice! ”