Chapter 47: The Way Back
When the enemy meets, he is very red-eyed. More than a dozen big men didn't want to cause trouble, and it was a blessing to be able to escape, but they didn't expect the people who planted the flag village to be unrelenting, seeing that the number of people on both sides was about the same, and they were all bandits for many years, they were not afraid, so the two sides fought, but gave other old and weak women and children enough time to escape.
After the initial panic, the people who planted the flag began to carry out an organized clean-up operation. Faced with the superior number and strength of the flag village, half of the prisoner camp fell in a pool of blood. Other people who were lucky enough to escape from the cottage still fell under the pursuit of the flag-planting people. Only a handful of people were able to escape.
Compared to the mindless running around of the other captives, Han Yu was much smarter. When the fire first started, Han Yu took Sister Xia and the others to hide in a hidden corner. When the people who planted the flag village were killing people at the gate of the cottage, Han Yu took advantage of the lax defense in the rear and shot a few people who planted the flag village with a bow and arrow, and then took Sister Xia and others to easily cross the defense of the cottage and disappear into the vast jungle.
The sun was rising, among the mountains and forests, a man walked on the mountain path with seven women, and from time to time a few women accidentally fell to the ground, and the man had to slow down his progress, carefully help them up one by one, and stared around with a wary face.
This is Han Yu and his party who have just escaped from the flag-planting village, they have been walking all night, Han Yu can still hold on, but the seven women behind him can no longer walk.
"Brother Yu, take a rest, there shouldn't be anyone chasing after you." Sister Xia looked at the sisters who were already seriously exhausted, and felt quite distressed.
"Okay!" Han Yu looked around, pointed to a big tree in front of him, and said, "There are dead trees under the tree over there, let's go over there and rest for a while before leaving." ”
As soon as I sat down, there were several 'gurgling' sounds, which meant that someone was hungry. The rush of escaping last night, and the lack of water and rice overnight, it is rare to be able to survive until now.
"You rest here first, and I'll go find something to eat." Don't wander around. Han Yu instructed.
"Well, we know, you can go with confidence."
In August, the harvest season is in the mountains and forests, and all kinds of wild fruits have ripened, and the wild meat in the mountains has begun to store the fat for winter, and it is the most fat. Han Yu was originally born as a hunter, and his ability to shoot arrows with one hand was even more perfect, and he had already hunted three or four pheasants and a hare in a short time. But thinking that there were seven mouths waiting to eat, Han Yu went to hunt a few more game.
When Han Yu returned with a full load, several women had already fallen asleep together. Looking at the sleeping people, Han Yu smiled helplessly, and had to make a fire by himself, wrap the game that had already been disemboweled, and bury it in the fire, and then climb to the branch on the side, holding the bow and arrows and pretending to sleep.
Maybe he was too tired, and before he knew it, Han Yu fell asleep. When Han Yu woke up from his dream, he found that several sleeping women had already woken up, struggling to deal with the game in their hands, eating with their mouths full of oil, and they didn't care about their image at all.
"Brother Yu, come down and eat something!" Sister Xia held a rabbit leg and shook it at Han Yu.
Han Yu looked around, and found no danger, so he jumped down from the tree, and he was not polite, but the rabbit leg was eaten in a big gulp. Sister Xia on the side was afraid that Han Yu would choke, so she handed over a few fresh fruits to let Han Yu moisten her throat.
"Where did this fruit come from?" Han Yu asked curiously. When he went out hunting before, he went around many places and didn't find any wild fruits.
Sister Xia smiled and pointed to the bushes not far away and said, "It's over there, the sisters found it when they went to the convenience." But there was only one, and we plucked all the fruit on it. ”
"Well, you can eat too, and we'll have to hurry after eating."
"Good!" Sister Xia sat beside Han Yu with a happy face, eating a chicken leg in small bites.
Han Yu worked hard all night, and hunted for a long time, and after waking up, it was the time when he was hungry, a rabbit leg was in his stomach, and it was useless, so Sister Xia hurriedly brought another one and two pheasants.
"Give it all to me, do you still have anything to eat?" Looking at the rabbit leg and pheasant in his hand, Han Yu asked.
"Yes, yes. Our sisters didn't have much to eat, but we ate some fruit, and half a chicken was enough for each person. You're the only man we've got here, and the sisters are counting on you to get us out safely, so you need to eat more. ”
"Well, don't worry, as long as I still have a breath, I will guarantee your safety."
Receiving Han Yu's assurance, several women secretly breathed a sigh of relief. With Han Yu's ability, it is very easy to escape alone, but if you want to take a few of them with you, it will inevitably cause a lot of trouble along the way.
"Brother Yu, where do you say this Second Brother Du is now? We can't just look for it so headlessly, can we? ”
"Let's not go to Second Brother Du." Han Yu swallowed a mouthful of meat, shook his head and said.
"Why? Didn't we negotiate it before? Seeing that Han Yu was unwilling to come as planned, Sister Xia couldn't help but get anxious. Sister Xia is very aware of the hatred between Han Yu and Ye Bushui, but if she doesn't go to Du Zhong now, who else can she go to.
"It was an emergency and we didn't have time to think about it. But now it's different, we've escaped, and we need to think about where we're going in the long run. ”
"Brother Yu, why is this?" Sister Xia asked inexplicably.
"Putting aside the grievances between me and Du Zhong, I'll tell you about the current situation first." Han Yu put down the pheasant in his hand and said seriously: "I'm afraid that Du Zhong's current situation is difficult to protect himself. Why do you think that the flag village dares to celebrate at this time, it is because they have just hit the people of Eucommia, and Eucommia has suffered heavy losses, and it will not be able to threaten the cottage in a short time, so they can rest assured and boldly celebrate the victory. If we go to him, with his present predicament, do you think he has a surplus to feed you? ”
"Second Brother Du is really so miserable now?" Sister Xia was a little incredulous. Eucommia is the brainchild of the cottage and has always been deeply respected by the people in the cottage. His abilities are also obvious to all.
"I'm afraid it's not much better than what I said." Han Yu said in a deep voice.
"Where else can we go except Second Brother Du?"
"Go to that new cottage."
"Huh?" Sister Xia was surprised: "That's the cottage that has been attacked three times by your Feiyu Village and before and after the night, but there is a deep hatred between you, how could they take in a few of our weak women?" ”
"So I decided to give it a try by myself."