Chapter 296: Misery
There were seven or eight people who came in with them, taking advantage of the chaos, and withdrew into the inner hall, which was in a mess, and there were many blood stains on the ground, and the blood stains had not dried up, and it was obvious that there had been a twitch here not long ago, and it was impossible to judge who the two sides of the battle were.
Removed the sandalwood seat where Li Shigu often sits, behind it was the entrance of the secret passage, pressed the mechanism, and the secret door opened, and everyone had no time to sigh at the ingenuity of the mechanism, and hurriedly followed Li Mao into the dark passage.
The other exit of the dark passage is located in Xia Ruihe's study, Li Mao originally trusted Xia Ruihe, but now he doesn't dare to be careless, since even Zhao Jinglai may play with him, who else can believe it.
Just when everyone was preparing the bow and crossbow, the door at the other end of the secret passage opened by itself, Xia Ruihe was waiting at the exit with a glass lamp in plain clothes, Li Mao glanced at it, and his heart calmed down.
After walking out of the secret passage, Xia Ruihe twisted the mechanism, but heard a rumbling sound, and the secret passage collapsed. She handed a letter to Li Mao and said lightly: "It was the commander who asked me to hand it over to you, you leave Yunzhou quickly, and don't come back in the future." ”
Qingmo asked, "Who is going to kill the festival marshal?" Xia Ruihe replied coldly: "This is no longer important. ”
Lan'er led Xia Ruihe's pair of children over with a burden, the two children were in short clothes and brown shirts, each carrying a burden, and they were all wearing baptist shoes, making a far-away outfit.
Xia Ruihe said to Li Mao: "I have never begged you in my life, this time you do me a favor and take care of them for me to grow up." Li Mao said: "You don't go together?" Xia Ruihe smiled bitterly: "Who in the whole Ziqing doesn't know that I am a handsome woman, where else can I go?" Xia Ruihe finally couldn't help crying.
Lan'er was very assertive, and hurriedly urged Li Mao to leave quickly.
Now is not the time for children to be in love, Li Mao had to cheer up, picked up Xia Ruihe's daughter, Qingmo picked up her son, and took Lan'er to leave in a hurry at night.
After dismissing a few soldiers with raised swords, the group rushed forward according to the route designed by Xia Ruihe, and came to Yunzhou Waiguo for a while. Qingmo put down Xia Ruihe's son and couldn't help wiping away his tears. He thought of the leopard head and Zhu Xiang, and he wanted to rush back to be with them desperately, even if it was death, but reason told him that he was now unable to protect himself, and that going back would not only not save them, but also very likely to bring them disaster.
Found a dung truck in an alley where sewage flowed, the dung truck was very dirty, but there was no dung, the old man who transported the dung had already been bought, he opened the secret compartment on the car, and hid Lan'er and Xia Ruihe's children in it, and then covered the wooden board, and sealed the cracks in the loess, and then piled up dung on the board.
Li Mao and Qingmo changed into tattered clothes, put on dirty wigs, and leaned over to push the cart behind.
This kind of dung transport vehicles usually go out of the city before dawn, and the guards are very familiar with Lao Lai, but this night they received an order that there was a rebellion in the city, and they were asked to strictly investigate it.
The dung truck was stopped, and a soldier covered his nose and stepped forward, and Lao Lai casually lifted the lid of the bucket as usual, and a suffocating rancid stench came out, and a group of people covered their noses.
There was a fine pawn who poked in the dung with a spear, but when he heard a "cluck" sound, he hurriedly shouted: "Something, there are people hidden in it." Lao Lai took a sip of soju and smiled lazily: "If you dare to hide people, you will be smoked to death if you bury a stone." ”
The crowd burst into laughter and despised the unwise comrade.
Suddenly, someone pointed at Li Mao and Qingmo, and shouted: "What are these two people, why do you want to go out of the city?" The coachman dodged and stopped in front of Li Mao and Qingmo, and replied unhurriedly: "Two rotten beggars, I hired them to push the cart." The axle was misworn and couldn't be pulled, so I had to cheapen these two jian goods. ”
The delicate pawn squatted down and looked at the axle, and sure enough, there was something wrong, so he waved his hand and let it go.
The group went out smoothly, and the city gate was about to close, when Li Mao suddenly shouted: "Lai, I have a stomachache and want to diarrhea, I'll go first." And he dodged into the gates.
Qingmo was shocked, opened his mouth but didn't dare to scream, but Lao Lai was calm and scolded: "Rabbit cub, swallow my two steamed buns and dare to play me, **** your ancestors for twenty-eight generations." ”
The guards were ordered to strictly check the people who went out of the city, and Li Mao was not suspicious when he went out and came in, and when he heard Lao Lai's scolding so viciously, he no longer cared about it, but he just thought he was dirty, and urged him to leave quickly, and stop abusing their noses.
Li Mao returned to the city to pick up Zhu Wan'er and the bell, when Zhao Jinglai went to the inn to see him, there were no less than dozens of killers with copper tiger heads on the street outside the door, Li Mao knew that if he didn't agree, he would be killed immediately, so he pretended to agree, nominally asked Zhang Qi to call people, but actually sent him back to report the news.
Although Zhang Qi has not been with him for a long time, he is very clever, and Li Mao can rest assured that he will leave things to him, and more importantly, his parents are also in the city, so he cannot be half-hearted.
What happened in the military mansion, Li Mao already knew in his heart, the current Yunzhou City was in crisis, and the slightest carelessness would lead to death, he knew that this act was auspicious, but he still couldn't resist the call of his heart.
At this moment, Yunzhou City was still shrouded in darkness, and the mutiny in the military palace was limited to a very small range, and in the huge Yunzhou City, except for the number of soldiers patrolling the night was twice as many as in the past, ordinary people did not feel anything unusual.
Because of the interference of the soldiers, Li Mao deviated from the route of travel, and seeing that the east was white, Li Mao was in a hurry, he was in the southwest of the city and his house was located in the northeast of the city.
When the morning bell rang, the night curfew in the city ended, and the hawkers, the early merchants, and the merchants and travelers who got up early set out one after another, and the pedestrians on the street gradually increased, and Li Mao was recognized as a beggar in a filthy dress. Pedestrians thought he stinked and avoided it. Li Mao pretended to be ashamed of himself, and trotted all the way with his head down.
Finally, I saw the door of the house opened on the street, the door was closed, and there was a team of soldiers with knives guarding the door, looking vigilantly at the passers-by. Those who can open the door on the street are all rich and noble, and pedestrians passing by in front of the door are trembling, not to mention that there is now a team of soldiers standing murderously.
Li Mao was unwilling to walk away like this, he wanted to copy the back road to enter, but found that there were a few unfamiliar faces sitting under the door of the workshop, and there were faint sentry sentry swimming on the street in the workshop.
Li Mao turned back to the street and walked slowly along the wall. Most of the street canals in Yunzhou are covered with stone slabs, which allow pedestrians, which makes the streets appear spacious and tidy.
When he was about to approach the gate of his house, a soldier with a knife shouted loudly: "Those who ask for food, go away." ”
Li Mao was stunned for a moment, and was looking left and right, when the soldier drank again: "What do you see, what about you, hey, you don't ask for food?" Li Mao said with a smile: "The villain's business is to eat, and today he temporarily changed to pulling dung." ”
"Get out." The soldiers were furious.
"Can't get out, the villain is waiting for a job here."
"Rice bowl, what rice bowl?"
"Wait for this nobleman's family to give porridge, sir, you don't know, this is a good family, ten bowls of porridge every day, and only those who arrive early can drink." The soldier's face softened slightly, and he said, "Let's go, this family has made a mistake, there is no porridge to drink this morning, and don't come in the future, so as not to arrest you as his comrade." ”
Li Mao pretended to be surprised and said, "What kind of crime can such a person commit, it's not that you are mistaken." ”
The soldier waved his hand and said: "Go and go, don't be verbose here, do anything to care about your, if you are long-winded, I will arrest you as a fellow party." Li Mao smiled greedily and said: "Sir Hugh wants to bluff people, are you telling the truth waiting to see the little lady of the Zhu family come out." ”
The soldier snorted when he heard this, and scolded with a smile: "I can't hide anything from you." After that, he sighed and said, "What a good piece of meat, but I don't know how to fall into that dog's mouth." ”
As he was talking, an old soldier strode over, pointed at Li Mao and scolded: "Get out, if you don't go, I'll break your legs." ”
Li Mao spat on the ground, turned his head and ran.
When he turned around, Li Mao burst into tears, it seemed that Zhu Wan'er and the bell had fallen into their hands, and it was not practical to save people alone, so they could only leave it to him. "As long as I'm safe, they'll be fine." Li Mao weighed it, secretly wiped away his tears, and decided to leave Yunzhou immediately.
Martial law has been implemented in the city of Yunzhou at this moment, the military government has three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, strictly checking passers-by, Li Mao has used the disguise technique, and his face is not easy to see, but his height and body shape are a hard injury, and people who are too tall are always more able to attract the attention of others when they walk on the street, not to mention that Li Mao's figure is so majestic.
Need a loose clothes, Li Mao thought to himself, and unconsciously walked towards a ready-to-wear shop on the street.
"Go away, go away, it stinks."
The servant who wiped the pillars under the corridor scolded sharply, his eyes fierce like wolf cubs. Li Mao was stunned for a moment, and quickly retreated, his current identity is a beggar, this shop is too luxurious, and it is not for someone of his status to come.
"Wait."
When Li Mao turned around and was about to walk away, a sweet and greasy call came from behind him.
A bunch of goosebumps suddenly fell out of his heart, and the person who called him turned out to be Aunt Jia - the cousin of Zhu Zhenyuan, the former general of the West Military Camp in Gushan Town, she used to be a secret prostitute in the West Military Camp, and Li Mao teased her, so she remembers.
Li Shigu didn't like his subordinates' private interactions, in order to avoid suspicion, he broke off contact with Zhu Zhenyuan after he arrived in Yunzhou, and he didn't know where Aunt Jia went, but looking at her outfit, Bacheng was still doing her old job.
The four capable men looked over when they heard the sound, the four of them were dressed ordinarily, but their eyes were as sharp as an awl, and they were expected to be a dark whistle from the head of a copper tiger.
Li Mao's hand subconsciously slid to his waist, but he was taken aback: the iron chopping knife let Lan'er take him out of the city.
Aunt Jia greeted her, Tan Onion fingered Li Mao's ragged shirt, her mouth was slurking, she circled around Li Mao twice, and said sarcastically: "Yo, big brother, where did you come from, I haven't seen development in the past few years, and it's becoming more and more developed, hahaha." (Dissertation College)