Chapter 162: In front of the city gate
Wow~~~
The panicked screams of the people immediately sounded at the gate of the bustling Lin'an City:
"Here comes the Tartars!"
"Here comes the Tartars!"
Xu Shiyang raised his head blankly and looked around, he didn't understand why there were Tartars in Lin'an City.
The surrounding crowd had completely exploded, men, women and children were running in all directions, as if there were wolves chasing behind them, and there were piercing cries from the chaotic crowd, and some people were pushed to the ground, but no one pulled them up at all, and countless pairs of big feet stepped on the fallen people, causing bursts of screams.
The chickens and dogs jumped at the scene, it was like a bombing camp, and the strong servants of the big families covered the sedan car and rampage, which further aggravated the chaos.
Several of the Xu family's very experienced guards with weapons in their hands formed a small circle back to back, protecting Xu Shiyang, Xu Shiliu, Zhao Lin, and Gan Xiong, who was lucky enough to be sheltered, and the city gate officials, and anyone who tried to get close to this small defensive circle would be ruthlessly defeated.
After beating down almost ten people, the panicked crowd began to avoid the strong line of defense, unconsciously fleeing from both sides of the circle.
There were only fifteen Xu family soldiers, like a reef splitting the waves, standing still in the crowd.
Xu Shiyang took out his pistol and carefully observed it while groping for ammunition.
Until most of the people had fled to safety and the scene had subsided, he still hadn't seen where the Tartar was.
By this time, the road into the city was already in shambles, with squeezed out shoes, shredded clothes torn in the panic, all kinds of luggage, and wounded people falling to the ground, and the prosperity of only ten minutes ago disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Xu Shiyang was worried to see a little doll with no milk teeth growing all the time sitting next to her motionless mother, crying, and there was a basket beside them, which contained grain and vegetables scattered all over the ground.
A group of gatekeepers quickly descended from the city wall, dragged the people who had been trampled to death and were trampled and trampled to the side of the road.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" The officer guarding the door shouted: "Throw these people aside!" ”
Seeing that those bastards were about to throw away the children together, Xu Shiyang urgently ordered: "Zhao Lin, you take Lu Zhishen and Pu Luhun, bring that little doll and his mother over, lighter." ”
"Yes!"
Zhao Lin's eyes were on fire, she agreed loudly, and immediately ran towards the child with two guards.
A gatekeeper just wanted to reach out and grab the crying child, Lu Zhishen rushed behind him in a few steps, grabbed him by the collar with one hand and threw him directly into the sky.
It took the gatekeeper a long time to realize that he had taken off, and with a scream of teeth and claws in mid-air, he fell to the side of the road five or six paces away.
"You Diaomin! Do you want to rebel! The gatekeeper shouted, "Bring me ......"
Before he could finish speaking, Proudhun stepped forward and pulled out his waist knife with a choked cry and put it on the guard guard's neck.
The Jurchen trapper looked at the gatekeeper with the vicious eyes of the Tartar, like a wolf, carefully looking for an easy place to swallow.
"You! You! You! ”
You haven't been able to make sense for a long time.
Pu Luhun didn't bother to speak, his right hand still held the knife against the city gate official, and his left hand gently took off the straw hat on his head, revealing the braid that had not been cut off at the back of his head.
"Tartar...... Ahh
The gatekeeper fought hard to swallow the last word back, and several gatekeepers who were about to step forward to rescue their boss were also stunned.
They did not dare to use force against the Tartars.
"Proudhun!" Xu Shiyang shouted: "Just save the person!" ”
The trapper obediently put away his waist knife, and put the little rat's tail around his head again, covering it under his hat.
Zhao Lin found two thick wooden sticks and made a simple stretcher out of two small coats that I don't know who had dropped, Lu Zhishen and Pu Luhun gently put the mother who kept moaning on the stretcher and carried it to Xu Shiyang's side.
Zhao Lin carried the gun on his back and gently hugged the child, perhaps instinctively knowing that this woman would not harm him, the little doll actually stopped crying quickly.
"The child is fine, the mother broke a few bones."
Zhao Lin whispered beside Xu Shiyang.
"I'll go to the city later, arrange a better medical center, show the mother and son, and we will pay for the medical expenses."
"Yes." Zhao Lin lowered his head and whispered in agreement.
"This ......, this lord ......."
The gatekeeper rubbed his hands, came to Xu Shiyang with a sneer, and whispered:
"The small one is also on official business, and I just got the news that Dajin's envoy is going to enter the city from here, and the small one is ......, hehe, it disturbed the adults, and Wanwang Haihan ......."
"You have scooped the common people like this to welcome the dog Tartars!?" Xu Shiliu said angrily: "You deserve to die!" ”
"Dog Tartar?" The gatekeeper glanced at Proudhun, who was standing on the side, in surprise.
That's right, it's a fake Tartar.
Scolding dog Tartar in front of the Tartar?
He remembered Proudhun's obedient appearance just now.
The tartar listened to the man!! ’
What a big official this must be! ’
The prime ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty can't command Dajin's soldiers, right?
If it weren't for Xu Shiyang's appearance of a Han Eguanbo, he would have thought that this was a golden nobleman.
Thinking of this, the gatekeeper said with a smile:
"My lord, I'm doing this for everyone's good. The emissaries of Dajin ......, you know, they were very fond of riding into the city on horseback, taking pleasure in watching the Han escape, and if they did not empty the gate before then, the casualties would certainly be more than just now. ”
The quality of the gatekeeper in the capital is not low, but this "not low" is worthless in front of those who can use Tartars as slaves.
"Adults are also duty, and I don't blame them."
Xu Shiyang said without being salty:
"Just ask the adults to move lightly, many people have been trampled on the bones, and they don't deserve to be done like this."
"Yes, yes......." He said this, but what he thought in his heart was, 'This is not to blame.' ’
But it can't be helped, the form is stronger than the person.
The gatekeeper confessed to Xu Shiyang, and went back to beckon his subordinates to continue to clear the field, but this time, under the cold eyes of Xu Shiyang and his party, they no longer dared to litter, and helped the wounded to both sides of the road like a good student helping the grandmother cross the road.
The city gate tax collector who was protected by Xu Shiyang in the chaos just now looked at all this dumbfounded, and after a while, he stuffed the city gate tax he had just collected from Xu Shiyang to one of Xu Shiyang's guards, and said loudly:
"Your Excellency is benevolent! The little one has no ability, but he also knows benevolence and righteousness! This tax villain doesn't dare to collect it! Please take it back! ”
It's a good thing to be able to save a tax, but it's just that the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty is too ridiculous, and a small official dares to decide whether to collect taxes or not?
"Your Excellency."
Xu Shiyang smiled and arched his hand at him:
"You still take this money, if you resolutely don't accept it, then ask the adult to take the mother and son to find a good medical center to take a closer look, the consultation fee will spend this money, I will send two more people to follow the adult, if the money is not enough, let them come to me again."
"Huh? Adults don't go into town? The little official asked blankly.
"Let's go into the city, but we need to wait a while." Xu Shiyang smiled: "I really want to see what the Dajin envoy who likes to ride into the city looks like." ”