Chapter 132: Escape
After asking for details, Li Shimin was furious and ordered Wei Chigong, who had just returned to the court, to personally lead the troops to hunt down Wang Junkuo. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The samurai also returned home and arranged for the family to send the servants to search and rescue.
But whether it was the imperial army or the rescue team of the samurai, they could only do useless work, because they had found the wrong direction from the beginning.
Wang Junkuo took Wu Yuanqing hostage and ran south, but these people were searching, chasing and intercepting in the direction of the Turks heading north.
When these people didn't know the essentials, Wang Junkuo and Wu Yuanqing had already disappeared into the vast mountains in the south.
There is no sun and moon in the mountains, Wang Junkuo and Wu Yuanqing have been walking in the mountains for five days, and they have also encountered a few small mountain villages with few families on the way, but they have all spared them.
Wang Junkuo didn't give Wu Yuanqing a chance to report the news.
When it was the ninth day, Wang Junkuo, who was strong and strong, couldn't bear it, let alone Wu Yuanqing.
Although there is no shortage of food in the mountains and forests, and water can be found, there is no salt intake, and both of them have weak legs and feet for nine days, and they are soft and fluttering when they walk.
At first, I could climb more than ten miles of mountain roads a day, but after I arrived, I couldn't even climb four, three or four miles, almost one step and two steps.
His clothes were also turned into strips of cloth by the branches of the trees, and he was unclothed, like a wild man.
So on the morning of the tenth day, when he climbed a mountain and went down to the bottom of the valley and saw a family, Wang Junkuo finally stopped avoiding and dragged Wu Yuanqing over.
Walking to the courtyard wall with tree branches, Wang Junkuo raised his foot and prepared to kick the door made of broken wood.
This is, the door of the hut creaked, and a woman in her thirties pushed the door and walked out.
looked suspiciously at the two people outside the courtyard gate, who were unkempt and covered with strips of cloth but with blades.
"Who are you, what are you doing at my house?"
Wang Junkuo's eyes showed a fierce light, and his hand was already pressed on the hilt of the knife. Seeing that this woman was about to be splashed with blood on the spot in the next moment, Wu Yuanqing showed an unbearable look on his face and hurriedly stopped him.
"What are you doing, you can't kill people in the yard," Wu Yuanqing whispered.
"Why not, don't you want this woman to help you report the news," Wang Junkuo sneered.
"Rub, you're thinking too much, I'm stopping you for your own good. If there is still someone in this house, and he sees you killing people, and he runs away again, you can catch up like this now. If you can't catch up with him and let him report to the official, then your trick of attacking the east and west will not be good, and there will definitely be thousands of troops to hunt you down, do you think you can still have a chance to escape to the Turks" Wu Yuanqing sneered.
"According to what you say, it's all for my good, would you have such a good heart?" Wang Junkuo stared at Wu Yuanqing suspiciously.
"This is not only for your good, but also for my good, if you are found to be jumping over the wall and killing me so early, I will not lose a lot. I don't want to die so early, if I can live a few more days, it's a few days," Wu Yuanqing said with a wry smile.
"Okay, I believe you, you go and tell this woman to get her some food, and it's not too late to kill her when we've eaten," Wang Junkuo nodded.
"Auntie, don't be afraid that we are not bad people, my uncle and I are from Chang'an, we came out to hunt and play a few days ago, but we got lost in this mountain, so we got what we look like now, it's been a few days, I don't have to eat, I don't have to drink, this is not to see you as a person, so I want to ask you for saliva to drink, beg for some food" Wu Yuanqing said loudly, and when he spoke, he wiped his face with his sleeve, and it looked much whiter.
"Oh, that's it, then you guys come in" The woman was originally very cautious, but when she heard Wu Yuanqing speak very kindly, and her voice was also a young man, and then she saw his wiped face, which was also considered dignified, and she really didn't look like a bad person, so the woman put her mind at ease, opened the door with a smile and let Wu Yuanqing and the two in.
"Come, you sit down and drink saliva first, and I'll go get you food" The woman made two bowls of water and brought them to Wu Yuanqing and the others.
"Thank you, auntie" Wu Yuanqing nodded in thanks.
"Madam, are you the only one in your family?" asked Wang Junkuo with a smile while holding the bowl.
The woman did not doubt him, and said while lighting a fire by the stove: "I don't dare to be called a master, in addition to the people's women, there are also my men and a boy."
"Oh, then where are your father-in-law and son, why haven't you seen them," Wang Junkuo continued to ask.
"My man and boy have gone hunting in the mountains, and I don't think I'll be back until the afternoon," said the woman with a smile.
"Oh" Wang Junkuo knew in his heart, so he didn't ask any more.
Listening to Wang Junkuo ask about the rest of the family, Wu Yuanqing knew that this guy was murderous, and this was to ask how many people there were in total.
In the middle of the ring, two bowls of soup cakes, that is, noodle soup, were served, and there were a few wild vegetable leaves in them.
The hospitable woman also made two large pieces of the cured meat hanging from the beams of the house and put them in a bowl.
I haven't eaten anything with salt for ten days, although the noodle soup is very ordinary, and there is not much salt in it, but Wu Yuanqing and Wang Junkuo still don't even have the soup base left.
After eating, I looked into the pot, but I was disappointed to find that the woman had only made these two bowls, and the bottom of the pot had been emptied.
Seeing the two of them behaving like this, the woman said embarrassedly: "There is not much food at home, so I have done less, and when my man comes back from hunting, the woman will make more game at night."
"Where, where, this meal is already full. We still have to find a way out of the mountain, so we won't bother you, aunt" Wu Yuanqing wanted to quickly take Wang Junkuo, a killing star, away, so he politely refused.
"No, this mountain road is very difficult to find, it is better to stay at my house for one night, and let my man send you out tomorrow," the woman said kindly.
"Yes, Yuanqing, let's listen to Madame, otherwise, if we don't find the way out, it won't be good to get lost in the mountains again" Wang Junkuo continued the woman's words, and Chongwu Yuanqing, who was still gloomy while the woman was not paying attention, laughed silently twice.
"Well, okay, then stay for one night" Wu Yuanqing didn't dare to refuse again, otherwise he was afraid that the woman would notice something and let Wang Junkuo chop it with a knife.
So she rested in the house until the afternoon, and the woman said that she would go out to dig some wild vegetables and wash some rice by the way.
Wang Junkuo didn't worry about the woman going out alone, so he pulled Wu Yuanqing to follow, in the name of helping, but in fact surveillance.
She followed the woman and dug up a small half basket of wild vegetables on the mountain, and carried them to the river at the bottom of the valley.
Wu Yuanqing wanted to help wash the vegetables, but the woman didn't let him, Wu Yuanqing, who had nothing to do, saw that the river was not deep, and wanted to catch two fish and go back, and go back at night to cook some fish soup and then get a few dishes, even if the woman's family couldn't escape the fate of being killed after all, they could eat more good before they died.
Just as he was looking for a place to catch fish by the river, Wu Yuanqing's gaze suddenly froze.
A touch of joy appeared in the bottom of the eye.
(To be continued.) )