Chapter 112 Benefactor

Shi Ting handed over Lu Xuan's relics to Ling Qingyun, wanting Ling Qingyun to go to Tianyi Pavilion to find him, but Ling Qingyun didn't go.

She wanted to figure it out herself.

But she is a woman in her boudoir and has difficulty walking. If An Wei is in Beijing, she can ask An Wei to help her. An Eave's ability is not inferior to Shi Ting, and he is the son of An Su, which is more convenient.

Therefore, Ling Qingyun was not in a hurry at this time.

She waited for An Wei to come back first.

It's just that she's also worried about how to tell Sù Anea. When Lu Yu is involved, An Wei may not be happy to investigate, this is Ling Qingyun's hidden danger.

She was rejecting Shi Ting, but Shi Ting often appeared in the Ling family.

Shi Ting gained Ling Qingcheng's trust, and Ling Qingcheng regarded him as a close friend. His kindness, Ling Qingcheng accepted it all.

Ling Qingyun told his eldest brother: "Water is so precious, you can't afford to repay his favor in the future, so don't ask for it." ”

The eldest brother told Ling Qingyun: "I thought the same way. But Zhongzhou was alone in the capital, and he regarded me as a friend, and if he saw too much, he thought that I had never treated him sincerely. ”

This is Shi Ting's sue sù Ling Qingcheng.

"Big brother, he doesn't look simple." Ling Qingyun said, "Is he really just the son of a medicine merchant?" ”

"It's true." Ling Qingcheng was sure, "The medicine merchant is very profitable, so he is very rich. ”

Ling Qingcheng didn't know that he married Chen Qiniang this time, so he completely believed it.

The wealth of the Chen family in Qizhou is not revealed, and they live a very low-key life. So over the years, no one in Beijing knows about it.

But from Chen Qiniang's marriage, you can get a glimpse.

Ling Qingyun didn't talk any further.

Her brother likes to make friends and has an eye for people. Shi Ting was sincere in settling with Ling Qingcheng, and he would not harm Ling Qingcheng, so Ling Qingcheng couldn't see anything wrong with him.

On the contrary, it is Ling Qingyun, who has a lot of prejudices against others.

"He has failed me, and now he has some advantage, it is not worth anything." Thinking like this, Ling Qingyun no longer embarrassed his eldest brother.

Shi Ting still delivers water to the Ling family every day. He was a friend of Ling Qingcheng, and the Jing clan didn't have much heart.

In the blink of an eye, August 14, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is destined not to have a good time.

The cloudless blue sky, blue and blue, would have put people in a good mood. Nowadays, it only makes people despair.

Even despair is a little dry mouth.

At night, the full moon is like a basin, hanging high on the tips of the branches, sprinkling the clear light on the courtyard, and the finches under the eaves think it is daylight, chirping and chirping.

The dry wind also smells rancid.

Ling Qingyun sat on the needlework and did the needlework.

She promised to make a sword spike for An Wei, make shoes and socks, and prepare to make a straight shirt for him, which is almost finished.

Lu Yu's needlework has always been good.

An Wei has a long body and wide feet, and her style is much larger than that of ordinary men, so Ling Qingyun cut shoe patterns and fabrics, and her mother immediately understood, pursed her lips and smiled, and didn't say anything.

The shoes and socks, the straight jacket, and the sword spike are all ready.

Ling Qingyun was a little bored, thinking that she had a habit in the past, every time she made a piece of clothing, or shoes and socks, she must secretly embroider a five-petal plum blossom in an inconspicuous place.

It may be embroidered on the inside of the mouth of the sock, or in the shoe bar, or on the inside of the left sleeve of the garment.

Lu Xuan also laughed at her: "Where is this bad problem?" ”

"I don't know, if I don't embroider, I always feel that this dress is not finished, and my heart is not steady." Lu Yu replied.

Lu Xuan said a lot about her for this.

After she became Ling Qingcheng, she had not made complete clothes, shoes and socks. Sometimes, she would do some needlework, but her mother didn't finish it.

This is the first time I have officially picked up the needle.

Therefore, she is still embroidered with her plum blossoms on the inside of the left sleeve of the eaves straight.

Because she likes to depict with pale lines, except for Lu Xuan, no one knows about her habit.

She was embroidering plum blossoms when she suddenly heard a noise.

Ling Qingyun was stunned.

It seems to be a distant voice.

"What's wrong, this is?" The maid beside Ling Qingyun asked.

Ling Qingyun didn't know either.

The noise grew louder and louder, with a shouting voice.

"It seems to be from the city gate." Ling Qingyun muttered to herself. Zhaochifang, where the Jin State Mansion is located, is close to the Anping Gate in the south.

Anping Gate is one of the three city gates to the south of Shengjing.

"Could it be the disaster victims attacking the city?" Ling Qingyun thought to herself, "Anping Gate is not very important, the guards are weak, if it is breached, then Zhaochi Fang"

The walls of each neighborhood are made of loess bricks. It's very fragile over time. Last time, Ling Qingyun's dog climbed over the wall of the workshop and collapsed a piece of the earthen wall.

If someone were to get in, it would be very easy to get into the house.

"What's wrong, what's going on?" Ahead, in the mother's yard, there was also such a question, because the noise in the distance was getting louder and louder.

In the midst of all the noise, there was the cold and sharp sound of the blades.

Ling Qingyun immediately went to her mother's side.

Jing Shi stood in the courtyard, listening to the movement outside, and when he saw Ling Qingyun coming, he asked her, "Yun'er, listen, is it the movement over there in Anping Gate?" ”

"Yes." Ling Qingyun said.

Jing's brows furrowed.

When their mother and daughter were in doubt, Chen Qiniang walked over quickly, and didn't bother to greet her, and said to Jing's and Ling Qingyun: "Mother, second sister, the little ones came to report that Anpingmen was attacked by bandits."

There was no water or food outside the city, and the people of the crops died of thirst and starvation.

There are rich and noble families in the city, there are wells, and there are reserves of grain. Rather than die of thirst outside, it is better to fight to the death, find the weakest city gate, and turn in to strengthen some water and food.

It's all dead anyway.

"Mother, the city gate is gone." Ling Qingyun concluded, "Our Zhaochi Fang must be the first to be robbed!" ”

Jing's face suddenly turned pale.

Chen Qiniang also said: "Mother, what the second sister said is not bad. This time, the people who attacked the city gate were afraid of many people, not only bandits, but also homeless people. Mother, the wall of our courtyard is not high, it is easy to push, and it is the Jin State Mansion, the bandits will think that we have money, as long as the city gate is broken, we will bear the brunt. ”

Ling Qingyun agreed with this.

Suddenly, the footsteps of camels were heard outside, and many people came towards the garden.

Jing was shocked.

"Mother, it should be Qingcheng." Chen Qiniang comforted Jing's and went to open the courtyard door by herself.

Sure enough, it was Ling Qingcheng.

Ling Qingcheng called all the housekeepers, stewards and coachmen over at home. He hurriedly said to Jing's family: "Mother, the city gate is about to be lost, and the imperial court has no reinforcements yet, and those guards can't stand it." Hurry up and move the important things to Shifu first.

The Shi family has a large cellar, and there are guards and courtyard walls. It's better for the two of us to stay together than to be weak alone. ”

He had already discussed it with Shi Ting.

Jing didn't hesitate any longer and said, "Okay, hurry up!" ”

The things in the house, there is nothing valuable, everything valuable is hidden in the box.

Jing asked people to carry all her seven or eight boxes to Shi's house. Then, he carried one of Ling Qingyun's boxes.

On the side of the stone court, fifteen strong men were sent over to help.

It was only half an hour before and after, and the sound of Anpingmen was getting louder and louder. I don't know where the troops reinforce Anpingmen.

However, the Imperial City should not have received news yet, so there was not much reinforcement for a while.

Everyone in the Ling family hid in Shiting's mansion.

They all moved a few important boxes and moved them to the Ling family.

On the Shiting Mansion, there are fifty or sixty nurses.

"How can he have so many nurseries?" Jing secretly muttered to Ling Qingyun.

They were in a small room across the courtyard on the west side of the stone garden. There are seven or eight wings in this courtyard, and dozens of people from the Ling family account for five.

The maids of the stone court accounted for two of them.

And the men of the family took weapons one after another and stood guard at the door. On the Shiting Mansion, plus the men of the Ling family, there are more than 100 people.

It should be able to hold on.

Rui Niang was scared, so she didn't follow the third uncle and three aunts, but was next to Ling Qingtong and Ling Qingyun.

After finally settling down, Jing and Ling Qingyun muttered to Ling Qingyun why Shi Ting needed a fifty-six-year-old nursing home.

The courtyards of the stone court are all equipped with snow-bright and sharp weapons.

"I don't know." Ling Qingyun whispered to her mother.

Suddenly, there was a very loud shout at the city gate, as well as laughter and noise. This is the city gate breached, and the bandits have broken in.

The women hugged each other in fright.

The sound of footsteps and shouts was getting closer.

Finally, a group of refugees and bandits broke into the courtyard of the stone garden.

Shiting has strong martial arts and excellent marksmanship. His dozens of nurses were all trained by him, and they all used sharp spears.

Although it was not a horse fight, the spear still had an advantage for the refugees with hoes and sticks, and the bandits with rusty ice blades.

The sound of fighting outside became more and more intense.

An hour later, the guards of the imperial court arrived and repelled the steady stream of victims, and the stone court was also littered with corpses.

In the scuffle, Ling Qingcheng was slightly injured, and he was hit with two sticks in the back, and he still hurts; Ling Qingtong was very clever and killed a bandit.

"Qingcheng, you go in and rest for a while." Shi Ting said to Ling Qingcheng, "I'll put this place in order and let the female dependents come out." ”

He asked Ling Qingcheng to go in to take care of his daughter.

This yard is full of corpses.

Shi Ting needed to drag the corpses out in order for the women to come out, otherwise it would frighten them.

Ling Qingcheng nodded.

Ling Qingyun and the others left from Shiting's mansion after the sky was dark. The things are still on the Shiting Mansion, but the people went back first.

Anpingmen has been heavily guarded, and there will be no danger for the time being.

In Shengjing City, if you say that the weakest place is probably this Anping Gate. Anping Gate is the city gate to the south, while the Imperial City is in the far north, away from the Imperial Palace.

Most of the official roads are connected to the east-west city gates.

The city gate on the south side has nothing to do with the palace guards, and it is not an important official road, and gradually the city gate fell into disrepair, and the guards were relaxed, and it was breached by refugees in just over an hour.

"Fortunately, there are Shi Guanren, otherwise our lives would not be guaranteed!" Jing sighed.

Back in the Jin State Mansion, the Ling family suffered heavy losses. The walls of their courtyard were pushed to the ground in many places, and they were in tatters; The house was in a mess, and all the food was gone; The things left in the house, those that could be moved were moved, and those that were left behind were smashed.

Fortunately, they moved the most important soft to the Shiting Mansion.

Shi Ting not only helped them save their property, but most importantly, saved their lives.

The house slaves of the Guangling family were completely unable to stop those bandits and refugees.

In this way, Shi Ting became the great benefactor of the Jin State Mansion.

This kindness is unforgettable.

***R1152