Chapter 150: The Golden Year of Chang'an (9)
Mu Qingfang recovered from a Chu Yue urgency, his heart was still frightened, and he stroked his chest and waved his hand again and again, "Don't mention it again, I'm also so scared that my heart is beating in my cavity, and I am fortunate to talk about the sky, but I have to deal with it." ”
Ah Liu pinched a handkerchief behind her to wipe the sweat on the back of her neck for her, "Look at my slumping body, but I am not as calm as Madame." Mu Qing smiled and pushed the long set of thanks.
As he was talking and laughing, suddenly a man who looked like a government soldier ran out of nowhere, shouting loudly as he ran: "Mrs. Changsun, help!" Far away, two guards rushed out from both sides, one holding his waist and the other holding his head, and intercepted the man who was crying for help. The man struggled and just shouted over and over again, "Madame, help." ”
The eldest grandson looked at Mu Qing, hesitated, nodded slightly, and the maid behind her stepped forward and waved his hand to the two guards, "Madame asked him to come forward and speak." ”
The Nafu soldiers broke away from the guard's hands and ran to the ground, and the eldest grandson and Mu Qing both felt that they were stunned when they saw him. With a crying voice, he called out "Mrs. Changsun", but he fell down in front of Mu Qing and said lamentingly: "On the way back to the city, Shiro was ambushed in the western suburbs of the city, and he saw that he was invincible, and asked his wife to quickly lead the government soldiers to reinforcements. ”
The eldest grandson exclaimed in a low voice, "There is such a thing. As he spoke, he pointed to a government soldier, "Hurry up and gather all the government soldiers, and leave immediately." ”
The man lying on the ground also realized that he had recognized the wrong person, raised his head and glanced at the eldest grandson, and then looked at Mu Qing, obviously stunned, and lowered his head again.
The eldest grandson hurriedly ordered people to prepare the carriage and horses. After counting the soldiers he brought, he bid farewell to Mu Qing, and hurriedly followed the person who called for help to the western suburbs.
For a while, the soldiers and servants of the government by the Fenshui were all dispersed, leaving only Mu Qing Aliu and a coachman from the Taishou Mansion, "Please send me back to the house." Mu Qing boarded the car and greeted the driver.
After driving for a while, Mu Qing suddenly pulled Ah Liu's sleeve, "Why did the soldiers who came to call for help at me called Mrs. Changsun." Do you think it's weird? ”
"Yes, yes. Xu didn't dare to look up and take a closer look, unable to distinguish the faces of the two ladies. Ah Liu hiccuped for a moment, and explained, but there was no trace of doubt in his eyes.
"If only I and the eldest grandson were wearing hats. A hat veil covers the face. I can't tell what it looks like. She was right, but neither she nor I were wearing hats at that time. Who among the soldiers can't know me and her? Mu Qing cupped his cheeks and frowned, "Since the soldiers of Nafu appeared and replied, they were full of strangeness. ”
"Besides, Shiro returned from delivering food, and he should have entered the city from the south, so how did he run to the west of the city?" She tilted her head and pondered for a while, but she really couldn't think of any clue, so she opened the pane casually, and the car was driving through an open field, approaching the edge of a dense forest on the outskirts of the city. Ah Liu leaned his face and looked over, "Huh", "Isn't this the ...... of purging?"
After saying half a sentence, she suddenly stopped, she didn't want to talk to Mu Qing about the terrifying past, on the other hand, when she remembered the massacre in the past, her back was cold, and if she thought about it for a minute, there would be another nightmare in the middle of the night.
"It is the place where He Sui Zhaoqing suppressed the escape thieves in Hejin, and he has not been here again, and this is still the same situation, the depression and slaughter are like yesterday, and they have not changed." Mu Qing sighed softly.
Ah Liu covered her mouth with his hand, and said angrily: "Don't say it, it's weird and terrifying, and it makes people panic." ”
The swaying carriage stopped at some point, and was silent for a breath or two, and the coachman suddenly lifted the curtain, and said hurriedly: "Something is wrong ahead, or there are bandits coming, they are riding horses when they hear the movement, and the carriage is heavy with people, I am afraid that I can't run, Madame quickly get out of the car and find a hidden place to hide." ”
Ah Liu has also experienced things over the years, although he was flustered in his heart, he was always calm, jumped out of the car quickly, turned around and helped Mu Qing get out of the car, the three of them abandoned the car and ran for a short while, Mu Qing held a skirt in one hand, covered his lower abdomen with the other, and several doubts crossed in his heart, one after another, it was too coincidental, and it was no coincidence that these accidental things could meet together in such an order. She stumbled under her feet again and again, and there was a dull pain in her lower abdomen, so she had to slow down, grabbed Ah Liu, shook her head and said, "No, no." ”
The coachman was so anxious that he stomped his feet, "Madame, hurry up, if you don't hurry, the thieves will catch up, and you won't be able to run anymore." ”
Before she had time to explain, she looked anxiously at the coachman, "You might be riding a horse?" ”
The coachman replied, "Yes, yes." ”
"Remember what I said." Mu Qing changed one hand to cover his lower abdomen, and pointed at Ah Liu with the other, bent down slightly, and a few beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on his forehead, "You take her, try your best to run to the western suburbs, to chase your wife, be fast, I'm afraid she will be in danger if it's late." After catching her, ask her to quickly turn around and come here to expel the bandits. Do you understand? ”
The coachman nodded and ran back to the car to unload the car, Ah Liu reached out to cover her hand covering her lower abdomen, and became a layer of melancholy, "Why don't you go with him, I will stay and hide and wait for you to come back, or let him go alone, and I will hide with you, so that I can take care of him?" ”
Mu Qing shook his head and said quickly: "Those are not ordinary bandits, maybe they are coming for me, they still want to chase me when I run away, if you run away, they may not care." Besides, I'm afraid I won't be able to stand the bumps right away. It's hard to hide here, and I'm still good at hiding, and one more person is one more danger. Besides, the coachman is a member of the eldest grandson clan after all, so you can rest assured if you go and stare at me. ”
The coachman unloaded the horse, led the trot over, and held Ah Liu to sit firmly on the horse, and Mu Qing instructed again: "Hurry, you must be fast." ”
The two of them whipped and galloped away. The sound of kicking and trampling horses' hooves and the rough shouting sounded less than a hundred paces, Mu Qing gritted his teeth, turned around and ran into the forest behind, running and secretly praying, hoping that the dark dense forest could give her another refuge like he had done two years ago.
She ran into the woods, found a thick trunk, and hid behind the tree, breathing heavily. When his back was close to the trunk of the tree, he realized that the clothes on his back were all wet, pasted behind him, and it was wet and cold.
The silence of the forest remains, and the only sound in the forest is the chirping of birds and finches passing through the canopy, and the fluttering of wings. Mu Qing gradually slowed down his breathing. Close your eyes and clasp your fingers.
After a long time, there was no other movement in the forest, she plucked up her courage, turned her neck slightly, and looked around, but there was nothing abnormal. So she turned around behind the trunk of the tree with great care, moving her steps little by little, trying not to make the sound of the dead branches and leaves under her feet, and moved carefully for a long time before turning around.
She leaned slightly from behind the trunk. Darkness all around. The light outside the forest tried to penetrate inward, but it was swallowed up by darkness dozens of steps into the forest, so it looked inward outside the forest. It's dark. I don't know what. Looking out in the forest, you can see very clearly.
At this moment, it was not quiet outside the forest, and thirty or twenty "bandits" wandered on horseback at the edge of the forest. Take two steps back, as if afraid to enter the forest. The "bandit leader" kept shouting and sent people to search everywhere. If it really came at her, Mu Qing secretly said, these are definitely not bandits, how could the bandits cower and dare not enter the forest, looking like a group of ruffians who were hastily put together.
There are not many people who want to be unfavorable to her, Mu Qing calculated in his heart, Gu Erniang is one, Du Yan is one, Li Jiancheng is one, and Liu Wuzhou, the captain of Yingyang Mansion who has just been defrauded by her, and the Turkic Shibi Khan can barely be counted. However, here and now, Gu Erniang was far away in Jincheng, Du Yan followed Wang Shichong to Luokou and was dealing with Li Mi, Liu Wuzhou and Shibi Khan were exhausted, and there was only one Li Jiancheng left.
Li Jiancheng was in the army going south, and Du Ruhui was still staring at him, and it was impossible for him to come and harm her, but his wife was in Jinyang City, together with Zheng Guanyi, who was trying his best to drive her away from Du Ruhui's side, Mu Qing's heart became clear, and then he looked carefully, and in the longing of the figure, there was really a carriage parked in a secret place on the side, which could not be seen outside the forest, but when he looked at the forest, he could see it clearly.
The "bandits" outside the forest suddenly seemed to be stimulated by something, and they ran into the forest with a huff. Mu Qing was shocked, hurriedly retracted her head, hid her body behind the trunk, only to hear the sound of slashing the vine branches with a knife getting closer and closer, and it would not last long to search for the big tree where she was hiding.
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But it was said that Ah Liu and the coachman rode their horses all the way to gallop, but fortunately, the soldiers led by the eldest grandson were only trotting and had not gone far. After about a quarter of an hour's pursuit, I saw a group of men and horses hurrying ahead.
Ah Liu couldn't help but shout on his horse, "Lady Eldest Sun! After shouting several times, someone finally went to the side of the car to return to the car.
The carriage and the procession came to an abrupt halt, and the eldest grandson poked his head out of the carriage to look. Because Ada sent a letter to the army and did not reply, she specially assigned a seasoned coachman in the Taishou Mansion to drive to pick up Mu Qing this morning, so she recognized that the one who came on the horse at this moment was the driver who drove for Mu Qing today, and the voice behind the coachman who called her loudly, she also recognized that it was Ah Liu.
When the horse came near, it was suddenly led and strangled it neighed. Ah Liu jumped off the horse, and said anxiously as he galloped towards her: "Mrs. Changsun and stop, there is no one waiting for Madame to come to the rescue, and there is really a problem with the soldiers of Nafu who came to ask for help." ”
"How do you know?" The eldest grandson asked suspiciously.
Ah Liu didn't know, only came to pass on Qi Niang's words. We were pursued by strongmen near the forest in the eastern suburbs of the city, and Qi Niang only said that there was fraud in the west of the city, and ordered the two of us to chase after and intercept Mrs., and then rush back to the east of the city to save her. ”
The eldest grandson didn't know the ins and outs at all, and he shook his head hesitantly, "What does it mean, what is the deception in the west of the city?" How did she find out? ”
Ah Liu was so anxious that she didn't understand why Qi Niang had such a speculation, she only knew that Qi Niang was in the east of the city, in danger, waiting for someone to save her.
Although the eldest grandson was confused, he was calmer than Ah Liu, and ordered an attendant to go and ask for help from the first person to find and interrogate, and the attendant went for a while, and ran back on his feet, but there was no trace of the person, she had a little understanding, but she couldn't be sure.
Ah Liu's eyes were red, and he stepped forward and said heedlessly: "Qi Niang is still on the line of life and death in the east of the city, please don't hesitate anymore, go to the rescue quickly, she still has a child in her womb, and she can't last long." ”
This last sentence suddenly crashed into the heart of the eldest grandson, and she was terrified, she never expected that Gu Qiniang was pregnant. Suddenly, the eldest grandson shouted in his heart, it's bad, the child in Gu Qiniang's head was lost in Jincheng County in order to make an alliance for Erlang, if this child was lost because of helping her withdraw from the army, but she and Erlang were taught what face they had to explain to Du Keming.
"Quickly pass the order, turn around and hurry to the east of the city." The eldest grandson pointed out a government soldier to give an order, summoned her guards, ordered them all to ride horses, follow Ah Liu first, and hurried to the eastern suburbs of the city to rescue people. (To be continued......) R1292