Chapter Twenty-Nine: In the Apricot Grove

One day, the boat arrived at Heishidu, Liang Zheng was inconvenient to bother, so he led the family to get off the boat, but just after Gong County, he didn't go far and got lost and turned into a barren beach.

I looked at it as far as the eye could see, but I saw thousands of rivers and rivers, mighty and mighty, twists and turns, waves like anger, the river beach was full of river willows that could not be seen and the weeds that did not reach the overhead, and the whistle wind rolled up a yellow fog barrier on the sand, and there was not a single village in sight. Liang Zheng couldn't help but sigh:

"The ancients often said: Jiuqu Yellow River is thousands of miles of sand, and the waves are blowing from the end of the world. When I was reading before, I always felt that this 'wind dusting world' was a bit exaggerated, but now I look at it really good. ”

Xu Hu said with a smile: "The young master is really interested, don't you know that this person who is not in the village before and behind the store is the most prone to being a rogue and a thief, although we are not afraid, but in the end it is also a troublesome matter." ”

Speaking of Liukou, Liang Zheng thought of the red lady, as if her cold and shining short sword shook in front of his eyes again, and he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and he was about to speak after thinking about it......

Suddenly!

An arrow pierced the sky!

"Could it really be that the Red Lady is here?" Liang Zheng was secretly taken aback, and immediately ordered the generals to line up.

This time, the generals Xu Hu brought out of the Liang Mansion were all veterans of the battle of Qingshi Pass, and now although they became hasty, they were still calm and calm, and quickly listed two horizontal columns, holding muskets, and lined up with black muzzles, all of them looked solemn and waited for battle.

After the sound of the arrow, only the noise of people and horses was heard, and the footsteps and horses' hooves were mixed, and a group of strongmen really appeared on the barren beach, scattering in a word, but ......

But instead of running towards them, he ran towards the front, and instantly disappeared into the tall grass.

This time, even Liang Zheng can't help but be curious.

"Let's go over and take a look, and be careful not to startle the snake." He ordered at the generals.

The line was silently hidden, and just after walking a few steps, I heard the faint sound of shouting and killing and the sound of gold and iron clashing in the apricot forest in front of me, as if someone was fighting.

Liang Zheng quietly approached to take a look, and saw several pack carts surrounded by the open space of the apricot forest, and more than a dozen domestic servants and servants each holding long knives, sticks and strongmen were fighting.

It's just that there are few servants in the house, and there are few who know how to punch and kick, and a few strongmen go back and forth, and suddenly cut down a piece, and the rest of them can't support it for long at a glance, but they still fight to the death and don't retreat, gritting their teeth and holding on.

Among them there was also an incense cart, embroidered curtains draped, in front of the car a goose egg face, all over the Qiluo maids to protect the carriage, a stray arrow passed through, straight to one of the maids in front of the door, she was so frightened that she closed her eyes, but the arrow just "pounced" next to her ear, followed by the air the robbers could not suppress the obscene laughter:

"Little girl, are you scared? Do you want my brother to help you change your dress? ”

When the maid heard such vulgar and vulgar words, she couldn't help but blush with anger, and couldn't help but curse loudly: "You...... You go away! I warn you, the officers and soldiers will be here in a moment! ”

It's just that this level of warning obviously does not achieve the purpose of intimidation, but provokes the strong people to laugh, this one said, "This little girl is spicy enough, strong enough!" "I said, "Although the face is a little worse, this waist ...... Enough to taste! A pockmarked bandit cut down a family member, and walked up with a bloody knife: "That young lady is naturally the eldest brother, as for you......"

He smiled lewdly and reached out and touched the maid's chin: "How about going back with me to be a wife?" ”

The maid instinctively wanted to spit on a mouthful of phlegm, but when she turned her head and saw the fast knife dripping with blood in the other party's hand, she was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she couldn't spit out a word, but the look of hatred and fear all fell in the eyes of the strong people.

So they were even more excited, and "suddenly" the knife fell, and finally the family was also in a different place, a stream of blood arrows spurted out of his neck, and his body was soft and crooked.

When Liang Zheng saw this, he couldn't help frowning secretly: the ferocity of the bandits was beyond his expectations, but it was just ......

He glanced again at the carriage parked in the middle of the field.

It's already been a commotion outside, why don't the people in the carriage move at all? This calm kung fu is too surprising, right?

Just thinking about it, I saw that the group of strongmen gradually gathered around the carriage at this time, and began to "rip" the girl's clothes with their eyes like knives.

The maid looked at the thieves who were getting closer and closer, looked at the fierce and vicious looks of the strong people, and the more and more obscene eyes, and the deeds of those women who had fallen into the hands of mountain bandits and suffered all kinds of inhuman torture in the past, all of a sudden came to her heart, and she subconsciously wanted to run, but she probably thought of the young lady in the carriage behind her, and even if she ran, it was estimated that she would not be able to outrun these robbers, and then stopped. This time there was no way to go to heaven and no door to enter the earth, so I couldn't help but look away, and wept in despair.

However, when she turned her head, she just pinned her face to Liang Zheng's side.

"Young master, it seems to be ...... It was the maid who was on the same boat with us the other day. Xu Hu was the first to react.

Liang Zheng looked at it intently, wasn't it the goose-egg-faced and slightly freckled maid who made him feel sorry for himself and wanted to drive him off the boat?

It seems that the kind young lady must be in the car......

But why are they here? Still caught in theft?

But now is obviously not the time to pursue this issue, everyone knows each other, people are finally kind to themselves, how can they sit idly by?

Liang Zheng stretched out his hand and was about to drink the generals of the family, but at this moment, he heard a voice from the carriage:

"Xiangyun, I'...... I'm going to die...... I'm almost out of breath...... Hurry up and bring me the Nine Rui Peach Bead Pill! ”

The voice was very low and soft, like a gossamer, but it was heard clearly, as if it was trying to suppress the great pain. Before Liang Zheng could react to what was going on, he saw that the bandits who had been surrounding the carriage suddenly took a beating, and suddenly dispersed a few steps.

Jiurui Peach Bead Pill ......

Isn't this a cure for the plague?

Could it be that this young lady in the car actually ......

When the maid heard this, her eyes, which were already full of thoughts, suddenly lit up, and she answered on the spot: "Okay, girl." I'll bring it! ”

In a word, all the thieves changed color!

Plague!

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In ancient times, the plague was a plague that everyone heard of.

In the eighth year of Wanli, the plague broke out in Datong Mansion, and the corpses and bones were everywhere, and the wails were endless.

The history books contain: "The plague of Datong is a great work, ten rooms and nine diseases, the infected people die one after another, and several families, once infected with this epidemic, one out of ten people are even closed."

Wanli's "Shanxi Tongfu" volume 26 records that Lu'an "is a great epidemic, swollen and good infection, the sick dare not ask, and the dead dare not hang".

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, a leper in Liujia Village, Shanxi Province contracted the plague, and in just three days, two-thirds of the people in the village died.

The past is still vivid, and the tragic situation is even more shocking!

What's more, there are frequent natural disasters in Henan today......

It is important to know that natural disasters are the most prone to plagues......

Thinking of this, they couldn't help but look at the maid in front of them again......

At this moment, the goose egg face with a little freckles on the other side had become a sign of the plague in their eyesβ€”wasn't that a rash?

The medical book contains: "The epidemic will be made, and the rats of his family will kill themselves for no reason...... The sickness arose suddenly, and a small piece of the body was first graved, hard as a stone, reddish in color, and extremely painful, and the body was hot and talking, or dying in a few days, or dying on the same day, and the doctors were restrained and could not prescribe it. ”

A small piece of the body was first graved, hard as a stone, and reddish in color......

Sure enough, it's the plague!

Suddenly, like a basin of cold water, the lust that was full of desire disappeared in an instant.

It's no wonder they think so......

You must know that in ancient times, plague was mostly plague, and everyone knew more or less about the symptoms of plague, and once the plague broke out, it was chilling to wipe out the village.

One of the thieves, who seemed to be the leader, looked left and right at the carriage full of cargo boxes on all sides, and gritted his teeth fiercely.

After all, it is important to save your life......

The silver exchanged for these red goods is enough to go to the kiln a few times.

"Grab the box, let's leave!" He shouted at his men.

It's a pity that even if you want to get money at this time, you can't get it.

Because......

"Kill!"

Liang Zheng shouted, stretched out his hand to press the void, and a group of generals came out on the spot, "crackling" to split the head and cover the head is a burst of guns, the gang of robbers was caught off guard, and immediately fell down, and the rest were also stunned by this sudden blow, stunned for a moment, and then reacted, and hurriedly turned back to fight.

"Second row, shoot!"

With another wave of the big hand, the flames of the guns flashed out again, and the robbers lay down on the ground.

Although this group of strongmen is vicious, but after all, they are just rogues, a large number of casualties in a short period of time instantly collapsed morale, and the remaining few stubborn people who resisted, where are the opponents of these Guanning iron cavalry generals under Liang Zheng? Within a few rounds, the generals who were replaced with bayonets stabbed one by one, and all the accounts were settled.