Chapter 29: Out of the City
"Xiaozhi, what are you going to do?" After listening to what Zhiwen said, Uncle Song asked again.
Zhiwen didn't answer immediately, paused, and asked, "Uncle Song, what do you think I should do?" ”
It seems that the child has no choice but to ask the adult for advice, but it is also Zhiwen's test for Uncle Song.
Zhiwen didn't know whether it was good or bad to ask Uncle Song for help, and it was a small shock to enter the house with light skills, and now this rhetorical question is to test his attitude through Uncle Song's answer.
"Find out where they are first," Uncle Song looked at Zhiwen with his eyes, "It may not be easy to find before, but now the opportunity is very good and there is plenty of time." ”
"Then Xiaozhi, you can directly find an opportunity to take Nannan away, and the Zhang family will not stir up the crowd because of a missing little girl." Uncle Song continued, "But that deed of sale is always a hidden danger, it is best to find a deed to destroy or... Take. ”
Zhiwen smiled slightly bitterly in his heart, there was nothing he could do with Xiaoying last time, and now although the third picture has been practiced and his strength has increased greatly, he estimates that the situation may be better, but he can't do it by himself.
"Oh? Uncle Song, what's the good chance? Zhiwen asked.
"The situation in the entire Zhang Mansion tonight, Xiao Zhi, you should have noticed it, right?"
"Well, it's a bit of a mess, otherwise I wouldn't have found them." Zhiwen nodded.
"Early tomorrow morning, the entire Zhang Mansion will leave Anding County and go to Jingshi, today I am busy packing up things," Uncle Song said with a smile, "There are so many people, it will not take three or five months on the road, so well, there are many opportunities and enough time." ”
Zhiwen nodded secretly, it is indeed more convenient to act on the road than in this deep mansion compound, and when the contract is resolved, it is easier to get away with it, as for the other three cousins, when the time comes, to be honest, Zhiwen feels that it is much better for them to be girls for this Miss Zhang Fusun than to go back to their own home.
"Then Uncle Song is sure that I will be mixed into this mansion?" Zhiwen said with a smile.
Uncle Song also smiled, "I really can't guarantee this, but now, as long as Xiaozhi you change into a little girl's clothes, you will be with Xiaojie Xiaoying and them from tomorrow, there will be no problem." ”
Early the next morning, Zhiwen was wearing Xiaojie's clothes, which fit just right, originally Xiaojie was a few years older than him, but in the past few months, he has eaten well and practiced kung fu diligently, and he has become a little taller, so he caught up.
Helping Uncle Song's family move things onto a two-wheeled cart, Uncle Song left, and as a helper, he had to do other things.
Speaking of Uncle Song and his cousin's situation at Zhang Yuanwai's house, it is different from the one who signed a deed of sale for them, it is considered a short-term job, and when you want to leave, just say hello to the main family in advance.
Xiao Yingniang lifted the handle of the cart, Zhiwen and Xiaojie helped left and right, Xiaoying followed behind his mother, slowly walked out of the gate of the compound, and joined the crowd outside the door.
There has been a long queue on the street, horse-drawn carts, donkey carts, ox carts, mule carts, and trolleys, and so on.
There are also a lot of people carrying flat burdens, and there are also people riding thin horses and shouting back and forth, conveying orders or maintaining order in the team, Uncle Song is doing this, and he can be seen hurrying by from time to time.
There were many people, and there were many livestock, and the white steam from the mouth and nose was soaring, and all kinds of noisy noises woke up the entire county.
Zhiwen glanced in the direction of his house from afar, a little worried. After agreeing with Uncle Song last night, he rushed home overnight, but his parents were not there.
I still want to go to the Land Temple again, but I have practiced boxing all day during the day, and I am already tired, and I was excited after the third picture was completed, and I was worried when I didn't see my mother and Nannan, and the news that Zheng San brought back shocked him again, and then ran to Uncle Song's house, discussed things and rushed home, adults can't stand this toss, not to mention his eight-year-old body, even if he has martial arts.
had to rest in the hall until the early hours of the morning, but they still didn't see Zheng San and his wife come back, so they could only leave a note, explain the matter in general, and hurried to Uncle Song's house while it was still dark.
Zhiwen and the others were in the position of the servants and family members of the Zhang Mansion, which was already at the tail of the team, and then dozens of grain trucks and a team of guards and bodyguards followed.
When they were about to reach the city gate, the procession stopped, and I didn't know what was happening, but I faintly heard a noise coming from outside the city gate.
A group of servants hurried by, heading straight out of the city gates, and then the voices became louder, and there seemed to be the cries of children.
After a while, the team began to move slowly again.
When they walked out of the city gate, the scene in front of them made Zhiwen and Xiaoying's family a little panicked, only to see a dense crowd of refugees standing on both sides of the road, old and young, high and low people of all colors, etc., their hair was yellow, the shape of the bun was gone, their faces were covered with yellow ash, and their thin clothes were torn and dirty.
The most terrifying thing is that they all stared directly at the grain in the procession, and wherever the grain cart went, their eyes followed, and there was no joy or sorrow in their eyes, only the naked light of the hungry wolf seeing the food.
From time to time, on both sides of the road, there were guards or officials shouting and scolding, raising their horsewhips and even sheathed waist knives to beat some people looking around to maintain the passage of the procession.
With the muffled sound of whipping to the flesh, the low and suppressed cries of pain, and the cries of children, the procession moved forward in a depressed and slow manner.
Zhiwen didn't expect that so many refugees had gathered outside the city, it seemed that there were too many people just now, and the Zhangfu guards couldn't suppress it, causing the Zhang family brigade to be struggling, and even the county government had to send officials to maintain order and clear the road.
It took more than two hours for the entire Zhang family team to get out of the fleeing crowd, and Zhiwen couldn't help but let out a long sigh, this feeling of being surrounded by wolves was too depressing and dangerous.
After all, the Ming government still has some prestige, if there is no county government, a little spark may cause conflicts, provoke civil uprisings, and lead to food being robbed, in this kind of conflict of at least tens of thousands of people, Zhiwen himself is not sure to retreat, let alone protect others.
It's already noon, the Zhang family also has three meals a day, walked for more than two hours, everyone is tired, it stands to reason to find a place to eat some dry food, but this is not far from the fleeing crowd, everyone has lingering palpitations about the situation just now, no one stopped, but walked quickly for more than an hour, then stopped, and rested.
Zhiwen took the pancake handed over by Xiao Yingniang, and ate it with a bowl of cold water, he didn't agree with Uncle Song about eating and drinking along the way, I don't know how to calculate the food consumption of Zhang Yuanwai's family along the way, now you don't have to be polite, you should eat, well, when you leave, use silver to subsidize Uncle Song's family.
Seeing that Xiao Jie had also eaten, Zhiwen gave him a look, and Xiao Jie followed him towards the back of the line.
This is already discussed, but whenever there is time to rest on the road, Xiao Jie will accompany him to find a nannan, in case someone asks, Xiao Jie is familiar with people, and it is easy to talk.
At the end of the team are all grain carts, there are nurses and dart masters eating and drinking together in twos and threes, and when I saw two small servants from Zhang's Mansion coming from the front, they only swept their eyelids, and no one asked.
After a while, Zhiwen and Xiao Jie walked towards the front of the team again.
I didn't find Nannan, there are some rough men behind this, there are no female dependents, Zhiwen is also prepared in his heart, but he is afraid of missing if he doesn't go around like this.