Not to mention the mobile sentinels lurking outside. Even if the escapers managed to avoid all the eyes and ears, it would be difficult to get out of the forest without anyone leading the way.

Not to mention escaping, most people spend half a day in the forest and are scared away by the corpses everywhere, and only those with extremely tenacity, a strong desire to survive and a little bit of good luck can hope to create miracles.

Chen Zhongwen should have gotten some information from the mouths of few successful people, right?

Seeing that the night was getting thicker, everyone quietly retreated into the dense forest for some distance.

Although Xiao Jing had the intention to explore the truth at night, there was an open field outside the forest, and he would not rashly attack without understanding the situation inside.

Since he couldn't make a fire, he and his men gathered together to nibble on dry food, whispering about their next steps.

Just as everyone had eaten and was about to settle down temporarily, a low cry suddenly came from not far away.

"Protect my uncle!"

The accompanying Xia family immediately drew their blades and protected Xiao Jingtuan in the middle.

A moment later, he saw the brother who was guarding the periphery approaching with a man with his hands tied and his mouth gagged.

"Uncle, this guy has been walking around for a long time like a fly without a head." The guard said in a low voice: "The villain is afraid that he will make some movement and alarm the people of Huangzhuang, so he will be caught and let your fate go." ”

Xiao Jing looked at the frightened face through the moonlight, frowned, and said, "What is the origin of this person, can you see it?" Have you ever searched your body? ”

The guard replied: "Back to my uncle, he has nothing on him except a piece of clothing." In the eyes of the villain, he doesn't look like a fine work, but like a lost ......"

The man nodded hurriedly, his attentive and pitiful face full of longing for life.

Xiao Jing thought about it, made a "silence" gesture to him, and gestured towards Xia Hu again.

Xia Hu understood, came up and put the knife on the prisoner's neck, and then ripped the rag off his mouth.

"Son, wronged! The villain's name is Zhu Da, who is originally from Hedong, who was taken captive last year and has been a serf here for a long time...... The little one escaped during the day when he was unprepared, not the bad guy inside......"

Because he was in a hurry to confess his heart, his voice was inevitably louder, and Xia Hu had to push the knife forward so that he didn't dare to speak for the time being.

Xiao Jing smiled and asked calmly, "You escaped?" How do I feel less like it? ”

Although this man's words were earnest, his words were hard to believe.

As long as you are not a fool, you will definitely want to run as far as possible after leaving the Imperial Village. Even if this forest is easy to get lost, but the sun in the sky in the broad daylight hangs there well, and the sun chasing the west can get farther and farther away from Zhuangzi, so it is not difficult to run into the depths of the dense forest and get out of the control of the emperor, it is possible for one person to do it.

Who would be like him, still circling around here?

Seeing Xiao Jing's suspicions, Zhu Da couldn't help but tremble and said, "Son, what the villain said is true." After escaping during the day, the villain did go all the way to the west, but the road was broken as he walked...... I really had no choice but to look for my way around, but somehow I turned around a big circle and returned to this ghost place! ”

Xiao Jing nodded and said, "Okay, even if what you say is the truth." Then I have one more thing to ask: others always have to be prepared before escaping, why do you dare to cross the dense forest when you have nothing, because you don't want to live? ”

On the way here, the guards of the Xia family inspected many corpses. With the exception of a small number of people who starved to death, most of the remaining killed had a small amount of food on them, and the rest were mostly attacked by wild beasts or died of illness.

There are even people who have stolen pieces of silver!

This proves that those who try to escape are aware of the dangers of the outside environment, and they will be fully prepared before they act, otherwise it will be no different from sending them to death.

The man in front of him seems to be very clever, he is not so naïve as to think that he can swagger out, right?

Zhu Da cried and said, "Son, the villain also brought food, but he accidentally lost his ...... on the road."

Xiao Jing waved his hand to interrupt his self-defense, and said in a deep voice: "Even if this is common sense, then how can you explain the color of your clothes?" The dead in the forest are all from this imperial village, why are you the only one dressed differently? ”

The corpses that everyone saw along the way were all wearing tattered shirts, but what about Juda? He's wearing a robe!

Although the robe is also coarse, it looks very eye-catching compared to the others; In addition, his clothes were obviously recently washed, and they looked much more decent than others' clothes.

Can a serf who sells coolies to work like this?

Xiao Jing turned his back helplessly and sighed: "What do you say'Everything is true', but your words are clearly not true...... With such a series of lies, how can people believe you? Let's take him where he should be. ”

Judah certainly understands what it means to be "where to go". This group of people must have sneaked close to Huangzhuang, how could they let him leave and expose his whereabouts?

He definitely didn't know that Xiao Jing was just scaring him.

"Childe spares his life, the villain has all recruited!"

Zhu Da desperately screamed out before Xia Hu dragged him away.

Then, Xiao Jing finally figured out the whole story.

"The villain has been coming to Huangzhuang for a long time. Because I used to know a few words after calculating accounts, I was taken by the overseer after only half a year of hard work here, and now I am a small leader. Although no one still treats us as human beings, and although we have been tortured by the overseers all day, we can at least eat a full meal a day. ”

"Yesterday there was a handyman who went to the forest to collect medicine and never came back, so the steward asked the villain to come out and take a look. cough, don't get me wrong, this is a common thing in Huangzhuang, and when they don't have enough manpower, they often ask villains to run errands, because people know that characters like ours who can barely make ends meet in Zhuangzi will not run away easily. ”

"Eighty percent of the handymen ran away. The villain wanted to look around the neighborhood and go back to his life, but after a long time, he suddenly had other thoughts in his heart...... Don't hide it from the son, the villain originally had parents, wives and children, but they were all separated in the year of the drought. The villain thought that if he could go out, he would have a chance to find their family reunion, but he didn't expect that the deeper he went, the more he couldn't find the way, and finally he could only turn back. ”

"In the imperial village, people who flee are always severely punished. If you go back like this, you might lose your life! The villain is in a dilemma, so he has been wandering around here, trying to find a good way, but he was caught by Childe's men. ”

Speaking of sadness, Zhu Da couldn't help but exchange tears.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Jing's eyes suddenly lit up:

It turns out that you made a temporary idea, and this is easy to do!