Chapter Forty-Nine: Encountering Bandits

"Eh, you stand here, you stand over there, you two stand on both sides...... Where are you holding your hand? Help here! Is it all clear? When the time comes, I'll shout 'One, two, three, go!' 'Push hard, you know,......" the coachman commanded the man at the side. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

And the surrounding noise is getting closer and clearer, there are "whoosh" friction sounds, and there are also low-pitched human voices.

"Big brother, I said that I would definitely be able to do a vote on this rainy day, how about it? I always believe my brother this time...... Little brother, I still remember that it was written in the book, this kind of method is called, what is it called......"

"Call it 'robbery while it's hot', Cheng Thirteen, just the little ink in your stomach, and you won't blow it in front of the big guys in the future."

"'A little ink' is 'a little ink', it's better than you guys at all, am I wrong? I can't remember it for a while. In that book, there is 'robbing while the fire is hot', and we call it 'robbing while the rain is taking'. ”

After a burst of giggling laughter, a slightly hoarse voice said, "Okay, okay, don't talk less, don't be overwhelmed when the time comes." ”

I pricked up my ears and listened carefully, and I gradually had a bad premonition in my heart.

"Zhu Niang? Zhu Niang? Moon Ying called.

"What's wrong?" I looked at her outstretched hand in front of me, puzzled.

"Didn't you say you were going to get off the carriage? I'll help Zhu Niang down. Yue Ying shook her arm and said.

Yes, it means to get off the carriage, otherwise they won't be able to push it.

I reached out and grabbed Yueying's arm, and suddenly my heart froze, and my movements stopped.

"Zhu Niang......" Yue Ying looked at me in confusion.

"You come up, Yueying." I said.

"Come up?" She blinked, "Aren't you going to come down?" ”

The coachman came over and waited, looking like he wanted to say something, trying to urge me down but couldn't speak.

The sound of messy footsteps approached, and a dozen men dressed in black and short brown poured down one after another from the hillside with miscellaneous trees.

They were about fifteen to fifty years old, and wore straw sandals on their feet, which were particularly dark because they were wet by the rain. Some people's hair is tied with a crown and fixed with a thick wooden hairpin, perhaps because of the rush, even if the crown is tied, the hair is unkempt.

Each had a sharpened wooden stick in their hands.

I hurriedly pulled Yueying's hand and said, "Yueying, come up quickly!" ”

But Yueying looked at the person who came, her expression was dazed, and her mind was useless to talk to me at all.

The coachman muttered, "Are that the villagers in the neighborhood?" There are a lot of them, and we can ask them to help push the cart. ”

I was stunned by the coachman's assertion.

When they reacted, they saw that the coachman had walked up to them and said, "Big brothers, can you do me a favor?" Our carriage got stuck in the mud and couldn't push it out. You see there are a lot of people, can you help push it? ”

Several men in the crowd laughed "haha", and one of them said, "I worked so hard to dig, how can I let you push it out easily?" ”

The coachman didn't seem to understand, but still licked his face and said, "Do me a favor, thank you very much!" ”

The eldest man stabbed the stick in his hand in front of the coachman's placket and said viciously, "We can help you push the cart, but not in vain." ”

Yueying said to me in confusion: "Zhu Niang, are they ...... What is this doing? How do I feel that they don't look like good people......"

"We've got robbers." I said softly.

"Robbery!" Yueying exclaimed, and quickly covered her mouth with her hand. After a pause, he climbed into the carriage.

I thought she was going to hide in the carriage, so I stepped back and moved her position.

Unexpectedly, she untied the knot of the curtain with her hands in a panic but without the slightest pause, and then covered the carriage tightly with a "whirl".

The carriage was dark again, and I asked her through the curtain, "Yueying, what are you doing?" Come on in. I tried to pull the curtain again, but she pressed the corners of the curtain so tightly that she couldn't pull it out.

"Zhu Niang," her voice was low, "don't speak, hide, these robbers don't know what they're going to do." ”

But it's useless for you to stop like that, they must know that there is someone in the carriage. A few big men are down there, let them block it first, we are both women, how can I let you be alone outside?

I felt a lot of emotion in my heart for a while, and said: "Yueying, you come in, the coachman and the family are there, I don't want you to be outside alone." ”

Yue Ying didn't answer, still pressing the curtain.

Through the curtain, the driver could be heard trembling as he replied: "This big brother...... If you have something to say, if you help us...... Our young lady is sure that she will definitely repay you. ”

"Young lady?" The voice of a hoarse, strange man said.

"Look, big brother," said another strange man's voice, "the little lady sitting in the carriage looks like a maid, and the lady sitting in it must be some kind of lady." ”

"Big brother, this is a great opportunity! The carriage looks good......" The voice gradually lowered.

What are they planning? If you kidnap the ticket, you don't think about it, and if we are kidnapped, no one will come to save us.

Yueying, this stupid girl, why didn't she come in yet? Why are you still pressing the curtains?

"Moon Screening! You let go! It's useless......" I shouted in an accentuated tone.

"Get the people in the carriage down." This voice seems to be from some kind of "big brother".

"This, this...... I have to go and ...... with the young man" The coachman said halfway, and Yue Ying suddenly said fiercely: "Nest goods!" They didn't have a good heart! What are you doing there? ”

There was a flurry of footsteps, followed by a few laughs.

The eldest brother who took the lead said: "The little lady has a lot of eyesight, we just don't have a good heart." What's wrong? Are you afraid? ”

"You don't do anything wrong, let me tell you, our uncle is an official!" Yueying raised her voice and replied.

There was a burst of laughter in the crowd, and a man shouted, "Oops! We like to find trouble with the official! ”

"Moon Screening! I'll be angry if you say it again. I stopped her.

We all know what the robbers are not going to do, and what is she still doing in front of her? I don't want her to do anything for me, I just want her to be fine.

The coachman said to me in a suppressed voice: "Young lady, you, look, how should this be? ”

Do you guys all eat porridge? Block it for me.

I'm so angry.

I rubbed the corners of my forehead, untied my purse, handed it out from the small opening on the left side of the carriage, and said, "Ask them, what do you want?" We don't have much money with us, but we don't have more. ”

The coachman took the purse. I lifted the corner of the small curtain with my hand and watched the movement outside.

The coachman walked up to the group with his purse in his hand and said, "Our young lady said, you can say whatever you want, and we don't have much money with us......

"Let your young lady come out and speak." The man in the lead interrupted.