On the official road from Suzhou to Hangzhou, a long army meandered in, and after several days of gloomy sky, the sun finally came out. It's really hot, not like it's a September day.

Liu Ming was in the middle of the team, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and a subordinate behind him came up and complained, "Captain Liu, it's really hot this day!" ”

"Brother Zhang, if it's hot, you can lower the fire, there are a lot of girls in the carriage!" Another subordinate next to Liu Ming smiled.

Liu Ming glared at the subordinate and said, "Old Guo, that's Fang ...... That's the Father's woman, so you don't have to make up your mind! It's not good for General Liu's people to hear it. ”

In the long march, Liu Ming's men and horses were arranged to escort food, while women, gold and silver were escorted by Liu Yun's men. There were about 100 women, all in carriages, tied hands and feet, most of these women were Huanghua girls no more than 20 years old, and they were to be escorted to Hangzhou City to be presented to Fang La.

In a few days, Fang La will be enthroned in Hangzhou City. This time, he escorted money, women, and food to Hangzhou to prepare for Fang La's accession to the throne.

Liu Ming is a general, although he captured the prefect, Xuanfu envoy, general judgment and others, and made meritorious contributions, but he himself knows that after all, he is not a person in the Fang La army, so he was assigned to the drudgery of holding food.

"Brother Liu, you say, a peasant like Fang La is going to be an emperor? Is the world really going to be in chaos? ”

"I heard that Song Jiang in Shandong, Tian Hu in Hebei, and Wang Qing in Huaixi are all going to make trouble!"

"Nonsense, wasn't Song Jiang recruited? Zhao'an Song Jiang seems to be a horse master......"

"Hehe, the one who was recruited is an official, and the rebel is the king, even if he is a mountain king, he can sleep with a beautiful girl in his arms every day, alas, doesn't it make us soldiers suffer? Working for the court in vain, no money and no woman, the pension for the death of the war may not be given to your family, this fucking bullshit court! Brother Liu, we should have lowered the square wax a long time ago, at least we have the money to make it! ”

Listening to the noise of Lao Guo and Lao Zhang around him, Liu Ming subconsciously frowned, and at this time, a team of scouts passed by, so he glared at Lao Guo and Lao Zhang, signaling them to shut up.

Seeing Fang La's direct scout army, Lao Guo Lao Zhang didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, and waited for the scout to pass by with a yellow flag before he dared to speak in a whisper.

"Hey! This kid wants to escape, catch him! ”

"Catch him!"

In the march, behind a prisoner cart, a half-grown child with his hands tied rushed from the line to the side path.

Liu Ming took a look, it was the eldest son of the prefect Gao Qitang, who was eleven years old this year, and he was also going to be taken to Hangzhou to be killed.

And Gao Qitang's concubine room, at this time was tied with ropes, walking in front of the prisoner car with the families of some other important officials, her hair was scattered, her eyes were dull, the valuable headdress on her head was robbed, her face was bruised, she was wearing shabby clothes, and there were many scratches on her chest, obviously she had suffered a lot of humiliation.

In the prison car was Gao Qitang, dressed in prison clothes, curled up in a corner, not daring to look up at people, there were traces of whipping everywhere on his back and shoulders, obviously, Criminal Administration, Liu Yun and others didn't want him to die too happily.

"Stop chasing!"

The eleven-year-old child was running, and Liu Yun came out of nowhere, riding a jujube red treasure horse, and yelled at the two soldiers chasing the child.

Then he took a divine arm crossbow captured from Suzhou from the soldier next to him, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he pulled the string with an arrow, and with a "boom", a long crossbow arrow pierced the child's body......

"Ah...... "The child's mother, Gao Qitang's concubine, sat on the ground and cried bitterly, and the soldiers whipped her, but she refused to get up.......

There was a snap, a whip hit her head, her head was bleeding and her black hair was soaked, she just lay on the ground, covered her mouth and cried bitterly, tears in her eyes.

"Strip her of her clothes and beat her again!" Liu Yun walked over and took the soldier's whip and snorted coldly.

Bang, the sound of the cloth tearing, Liu Ming closed his eyes, then opened them, walked over quickly, pulled out the waist knife, and the knife fell in his hand!

"Uh......" When the blade penetrated the woman's chest, the woman looked at Liu Ming with wide eyes and was stunned, and then slowly closed her eyes.

"Captain Liu, what are you doing?" Liu Yun glared at him dissatisfied, "Who asked you to kill?" This bitch is still useful! ”

Liu Ming took out his waist knife and knelt down to explain: "General Liu, the Holy Father asked me to get to Hangzhou as soon as possible, don't delay along the way, this woman is too noisy, it's better to kill something, so as not to delay the march, what does General Liu think?"

With a snap, Liu Yun slapped Liu Ming in the face, kicked him down again, pointed at his nose and said, "Bastard dog thing!" Did Lao Tzu let you kill? If you dare to disobey Lao Tzu's orders in the future, Lao Tzu will kill you! ”

Liu Ming lowered his head and swallowed his anger and said: "The villain will not dare next time, thank you General Liu for not killing."

"Bastard ......" Liu Yun whipped him in the face before returning to his mount angrily, and after getting on the horse, he also glared at Liu Ming, Liu Ming just lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him.

"Brother Liu." Lao Zhang and Lao Guo helped Liu Ming up and muttered something.

Liu Ming returned to his horse, his face was unhappy, and the fresh whip mark on his face was very eye-catching in the sun.

The woman's body was crushed by the carriage, and trampled by the horses, no one cleaned it up, and no one cleaned up the child's body, Gao Qitang watched his concubine and child being killed, stretched out his hand, and wanted to shout, but was knocked out by the soldiers outside the prisoner's car with a stick with a stick.

Liu Ming rode on the horse, swaying his body with the bumps up and down the horse, and he couldn't hear what Lao Zhang and Lao Guo were discussing next to him, only Liu Yun's whip and the threat of "kill you" just now still appeared in his mind.

He stabbed the life of Gao Qitang's concubine, naturally he didn't want to see her humiliated anymore, he gradually found that the officials' families fell into the hands of Fang Lajun, and there was definitely no good end, and some were even cooked, he had only heard rumors before, but when he really saw it, he was still startled.

When the peasant soldiers asked him to eat with him, he vomited on the spot. Recently, he has become more and more suspicious, was his choice really right at that time? …… Is it really right to take refuge in Fang La?

When he clearly realized that Fang La's rebellion was also for gold and silver treasures and to enjoy women's sex, his head was often at war with heaven and man, and he didn't know what the result would be if he brought the Suzhou army to join Fang La's camp, or ...... Will it be the wrong path?

At the beginning, he chose to let go of Gao Qitang's wife and youngest son, and he rescued Wu Meiying, who used a hairpin to scratch his face, thinking about how to kill less and save more people. Today, has it come to the point where killing people is saving people? He couldn't understand why they still eat people?

There are some things he can't figure out, but right now, he can only choose to move forward with food......

…

There was a rumbling sound, and the light stone slab covered by the dry well was pushed away by a woman's hand, and a woman's head was exposed in the dry well, and she pulled a child of six or seven years old and climbed out of the dry well with a burden.

The woman and the child had been in the well for many days, and the water and food were gone, and there was still some silver in the baggage.

When she came out of the well, the woman hurriedly raised her hand to block the strong rays of the sun's rays and narrowed her eyes.

The woman was dirty, her face was full of stains, and after coming out of the well, she picked up the child and walked in a panic to the east, and walked to a big locust tree, and talked to an old grandmother for a few words, and was hidden in the house by the old woman.

This woman is Gao Qitang's wife, named Wang Ying, and is the cousin of Wang Kang, the envoy of the Jianwu Army; And the grandmother Guo was Wang Ying's servant when Gao Qitang was the magistrate of the county ten years ago.

Wang Ying had been kind to Guo, and Guo felt that she and Gao Qitang's youngest son had been hiding at home until the defenders of Fangla in Suzhou City were defeated and returned to the imperial court......

(End of chapter)