In the following day, Ye Chengcheng no longer paid attention to the wounded soldier, but was just blindly worried about the safety of her own people - she sent Ding Shun to inquire about the news in the morning, although Ding Shun did not dare to go far, but the news brought back was enough for her to be shocked: this Commander Shen who entered the city was really a notorious villain, and he sent troops to search from house to house to capture General Lu's rout. The people who were slightly suspicious were killed on the spot, and not far from her house, there were two corpses horizontally.

After hearing Ding Shun's news, Ye Chengcheng regretted it, she hated herself for hesitating, she knew that today, a few days ago, she should go directly to Lincheng to take the train, even if it was a little dangerous halfway, it was better than hiding at home and waiting for death.

The most important thing is that her family is hiding General Lu's wounded soldiers at this moment, if this is known by Commander Shen's soldiers, it is estimated that her whole family will end up with a full house.

Ye Tingcheng was really scared, but she still had to pretend that nothing happened, for fear of scaring the timid father and son. I was so worried all day, and on the morning of the third day, she stood in the yard in a daze, and suddenly Zhang Xi ran over in a panic: "Miss! Commander Shen's soldiers have already arrived at the mouth of the alley, and they are searching from house to house! I'm afraid it won't be long before we find out about our house! ”

Ye Tingcheng's heart sank, this time she no longer concealed the news, but called everyone in the Ye family to the living room, and even held a small meeting with lawlessness.

After conveying the news to everyone, the father and son of the Ye family immediately panicked, Ye Tianxiong couldn't wait to cry, he and his two sons and daughters could have lived a good life in Beijing, and they could have been able to live a good life until death, but because he impulsively made a restoration, even his family had to come with him to this small county town to suffer the disaster of swords.

What kind of noble people are they? Even if you want to die, you can't die at the hands of this group of soldiers.

Xiaocui was even more panicked, because she had heard that the group of soldiers would rob the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law, and they panicked, and everyone thought of the wounded soldier in the firewood room, and suddenly panicked.

Although the man looked thin and tender, and did not look like a soldier, it is said that there were people who could see, and their identity could be judged by looking at their walking posture and palms.

Ye Tianxiong said: "Let him go quickly, don't bother us." ”

Zhang Shun sighed: "The soldiers have arrived at the mouth of the alley, and you can see it as soon as you go out." ”

Ye Linfeng panicked: "What can I do about this?" ”

Everyone quarreled, the noise made Ye Chengcheng dizzy, her body shook for a while, she finally held on and didn't fall, she signaled everyone to shut up, and said: "Don't make any noise, let's go to the vegetable cellar to hide!" The group of soldiers was mainly for money, and when they had enough of their things, they left. ”

Wuxin suddenly spoke at this time: "You don't have to panic, I will protect you." ”

Ye Tianxiong let out a long sigh: "Oops! You protect a fart, just your little ability, it's not enough for the soldiers to stuff their teeth, they can beat you into a sieve with one shot per person! ”

Wutian was at a loss: "Gun? Red tassel gun? ”

Suddenly, he felt that his hand was grabbed, and it was Ye Tingcheng who dragged him towards the vegetable cellar, and said as he walked: "In short, the gun is what the wounded soldier was holding in his hand a few days ago, it is very dangerous, when you see that thing, you should run quickly." ”

Unintentionally, he obediently took her hand, looked at Ye Tingcheng's side face, looked at her pink cheeks, looked at her cherry-like mouth, and secretly remembered her words in his heart: Guns are dangerous.

The wounded soldiers were also taken out of the firewood room by Zhang Xiding obediently and taken to the vegetable cellar together.

The Ye family's vegetable cellar, located in the backyard, is very hidden, used to store vegetables, and goes up and down through ladders, but the Ye family has not returned to the old house for a long time, and the vegetable cellar has been abandoned for a long time.

The small door of the vegetable cellar opened, Ye Tianxiong trembled and climbed down, followed by Ye Linfeng and Xiaocui, Ye Tingcheng stood at the mouth of the vegetable cellar, he didn't bother to look at the wounded soldier, but said in a low voice: "It's your turn, Wutian, help him go down together." ”

Wutian was also very reluctant to deal with this dirty wounded soldier, but now was not the time to lose his temper after all, he mixed the wounded soldier with one hand, held the ladder with the other, and slowly climbed down.

Then she turned to Zhang Xi Ding Shun and gave them careful advice, teaching them how to deal with the soldiers. After all, you can't go down as a shrunken turtle as a whole family, you have to leave two clever people on top to deal with it.

Zhang Xi Ding Shun's work is simple to say, just need to tell a lie, tell the soldiers that the master of the family has already returned to Beijing, and open the door widely, welcome the soldiers to move and take as they like, the Heng Ye family does not lack this bit of property, as long as the brothers save their lives.

Zhang Xi Ding Shun agreed again and again, both of them were raised by the Ye family, Ye Linfeng is not a man, at this time it is the turn of a man, and the two brothers have an unshirkable responsibility, so they can only bite the bullet and go into battle to meet the enemy.

After completing the instructions, Ye Tingcheng also followed the ladder into the vegetable cellar. Ding Xi Zhang Shun covered the small door of the vegetable cellar with firewood sacks, and placed a lot of sundries around it, arranging the place into a pile of sundries.

The two brothers made a clear division of labor, Zhang Xi led the Ye family's old chef to guard the front door and act as a pair of gatekeepers; Ding Shun guarded the back door of the house, ready to escort the Ye family to escape at any time.

Cui fumbled and lit a candle to illuminate the dark cellar.

Sitting next to Ye Tingcheng was the wounded soldier. I saw him sitting cross-legged, with his back straight, and he was sitting upright. Although Ye Chengcheng was dissatisfied with him in a thousand ways, he admired his bearing and posture, and he looked very calm.

Ye Tianxiong looked left and right, kept looking around, and then whispered: "It's really pitch black, and I don't know if this kind of place will be haunted." ”

Xiao Cui whispered: "Master, don't scare us......"

"Hmph." Ye Tianxiong sneered: "Am I not afraid?" ”

At this time, Wutian opened his mouth: "Don't worry, there are no ghosts here." ”

Ye Linfeng asked, "Living Immortal, do you have yin and yang eyes?" ”

Wutian hesitated and said, "I shouldn't be a yin and yang eye...... But you just have me! ”

The wounded soldier turned his head to Wutian at this time, and he opened his mouth, his voice very low: "Who are you?" ”

Wutian didn't look at him, and said angrily: "I said, I am the Demon King." ”

The wounded soldier laughed: "It's been a long time together, you're such a fool." ”

Ye Linfeng said: "Oh, you just think he's a mage!" ”

The wounded soldier laughed again: "Oh, it turned out to be a charlatan." ”

The vegetable cellar suddenly became brighter, and it was Wutian's hand that was on fire: "If you talk nonsense again, I will burn you to death!" ”

The wounded soldier raised his eyebrows: "Will you still do tricks?" ”

Ye Tingcheng "shhh After a while, Ye Tingcheng spoke: "Who is that, are you injured?" ”

The wounded soldier said: "Miss Ye is worried, they are all flesh wounds, and they are not in the way." ”

Ye Linfeng asked, "Eh, how many years have you been a soldier?" I see that you have fine skin and tender meat, you are a new soldier, right? ”

The wounded soldier shook his head: "No, I've actually been a soldier for many years." ”

Xiao Cui also chattered at this time and asked, "Then that, then have you ever done a bad thing of killing people and setting fires?" ”

"I did kill people, but I didn't harass people."

Ye Tianxiong pursed his lips: "Hmph, who believes it?" ”

At this moment, they suddenly felt that there was a commotion outside, and everyone stopped talking, and pricked up their ears to listen to the movement outside.

The situation on the outside is really not good.

There was a sound of riding boots outside the door, and he heard that the door of the Ye family was knocked like thunder, Zhang Xi was just about to open the door, but suddenly heard a gunshot, which frightened him to shrink his neck - it was the soldiers who knocked off the deadbolt with guns.

Subsequently, the gate was kicked open, and eight soldiers carried rifles proudly, and six of them swept into the Ye family's compound, leaving two soldiers to guard the door. Zhang Xi prepared a stomach full of good words, but when the time came, his brain was blank again, fortunately, the old cook was not messy, and said with a smile: "Hello bosses!" ”

The soldier at the head looked like an officer, he held his stomach up, held a pistol, glanced at Zhang Xi and the old chef with a full face, and asked, "What about your master?" ”

Zhang Xi bowed down and replied respectfully: "Back to the boss, our master went back to Beijing a few days ago, and now the two of us are left to look at the house." ”

The officer didn't doubt Zhang Xi's words, but said: "We were ordered to search the remnants of the enemy from house to house, since your master is not here, please cooperate with you!" ”

The old chef nodded like pounding garlic: "Bosses, please search, we will cooperate, absolutely cooperate!" ”

The officer glanced at several of his men, and several soldiers immediately rushed into the houses and began to rummage through the boxes and cabinets, searching for people for fake and money for real money.

Zhang Xi and the old chef glanced at each other, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, not afraid of the soldiers robbing money, just don't kill people.

One of the soldiers rushed into Ye Qingcheng's room, and at a glance he saw the tall cabinet in the room, and he smiled evilly: "The drawer is locked, there must be something good." With that, he picked up his gun and shot it according to the lock.

Zhang Xi secretly said that it was not good - the pistol of the wounded soldier was still locked in a drawer!

Sure enough, a voice came from Ye Chengcheng's room: "Report!" Discover a pistol! ”

Zhang Xi's heart sank, he didn't expect that there would be such a show!

The soldiers gathered in the courtyard, and the officer headed by him looked at the pistol carefully, and suddenly stared at Zhang Xi meaningfully and smiled: "The revolver is still ivory-handled, and ordinary people can't buy it with money." The officer asked, "Boy, tell me, where did the gun come from?" ”

Zhang Xi began to pretend to be stupid: "Picked it up." ”

After saying this, he began to retreat to the side, and the old chef who was his companion saw this, and he was eager to retreat, but the officer glanced at the old chef and turned his head to stare at Zhang Xi: "Really picked it up?" ”

Zhang Xi nodded hurriedly: "It's really-"

Before he finished speaking, the officer raised his hand and fired a bullet that blew the old chef's head. The corpse fell with a thud, and the bloody brains collapsed all over the ground.

Then the muzzle of the gun slowly moved and aimed at Zhang Xi: "Really picked it up?" ”

Zhang Xi, the male servant raised by the Ye family since childhood, the loyal gatekeeper, and the father of Ye Tianxiong, faced the barrel of the gun that was still smoking, and his heartbeat was about to stop.

Because he understands that the other party can really kill him, like crushing an ant to death, as long as he shoots, his just beginning life will be over.

He trembled with fright, and replied bluntly: "I didn't pick it up." ”

The officer asked with a calm face, "Who's?" ”

"A wounded soldier's."

"Where are the people?"

Zhang Xi was silent, and he asked himself: loyalty or death?

In the end, he got the answer - he chose neither, he chose to live.

He heard his own trembling voice: "Vegetable cellar ......"

The officer nodded with satisfaction, and he waved his pistol: "Then it will be troublesome for the little brother to lead the way." ”