In Huangzhou in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the river breeze is warm in the morning, and the afternoon sun is fierce, although it has not shaken so that people can't open their eyes, but when the bright arrows on the city head poke their heads out, who doesn't panic when they see it?

Xu Mu'er knew that no matter whether the old man who was shouting in the city just now was a official or an idle person, he was in a big disaster now, so he turned around and ran into the crowd in a panic. With him taking the lead in running, who dared to stay, naturally hula also ran into the distance, and for a while, thousands of homeless people were wolves and dogs, and they all ran for their lives, so they almost cried and called their mothers.

Then he heard the roar of the city one after another, but he was far away and could not understand, and after a time of about a hundred breaths, he saw a big basket coming down from the tower of the city gate, and then he saw a young man with his hair and shirt jumping out of the basket, so he went straight to look at the old man who had fallen under the city, and took some wooden planks and linen from the basket and wrapped them with the old man, so that people could see that the old man had only fallen and was not killed.

During this period, several people came down from the city, and everyone saw that one of them was a sturdy young man, wearing a leaf armor, a purple and gold bag, a horned bow on his back, and a spear in his hand.

After a while, I saw that the young man in the Confucian shirt had finished tying up the old man, and asked the city to pull down a door panel to lift the old man up, and then he got up and led a few people to the side of the homeless people, and said in a loud voice: "I am Huang Jie, a student member of Huangzhou County, and I am appointed by Lord Bo, the lord of Huangzhou Mansion, to settle you and others!" ”

Then he shouted: "Where is the person who throws stones and hurts people?" ”

After listening to the previous words, the wanderers hadn't turned their minds yet, thinking about how to send a student to settle everyone, and then listening to him shouting, they were all surprised, and they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Xu Mu'er.

Xu Muier's just throwing stones and hurting people saw a lot of people, so naturally he couldn't deny it, and now that the questioner was still a teenager, Xu Mu'er felt justified and also stood up and said: "It's the person I hurt, the dog official coaxed me and waited, what if I hurt him?" ”

That Huang Jie took a step forward and shouted: "Coax or not, we will naturally see later." Now you hurt someone, can you be convicted? ”

Xu Mu'er's face turned red, and she said with a stalk around her neck: "What kind of crime do I have?" I came from Susong County, all the way through the states and counties are such coaxing, the east gate should be the north gate, the north gate should be the west gate, and I don't send food and porridge, but I make swords, guns and arrows to drive me away, etc., you are a county student, you must be a famous talent, but you come to distinguish from me? ”

Huang Jie snorted coldly and shouted: "The counties along the way coaxed you and waited, what does it have to do with me Huangzhou?" Just now, some of you and others said, saying that they know that my Lord Huangzhou is a good official who loves the people like a son, but do you know who is the person who fell into the city? It's Lord Cao! It was Lord Cao Zhizhou who promised you to wait for the North Gate to help, but now he hurt you, now you are guilty? ”

When Xu Mu'er heard this, he felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost sat down, he never expected that he was hit with a stone, it was actually Lord Zhizhou, and he also caused him to fall into the city, isn't this a capital crime?

After thinking about it, Xu Mu'er looked back at her brother and younger brother not far behind her, as well as the old lady who was being held by her mother-in-law, but saw that the old lady broke free from her mother-in-law's support and came up with a wooden stick, so she scolded and scolded: "Rebel, how dare you hurt people?" ”

Xu Mu'er immediately fell to his knees with a puff, and cried silently after shouting "mother", but his performance made the old lady even more annoyed, so he made a wooden stick to beat him and said: "You unpromising son, how dare you hurt the old man of Zhizhou, how can I have such a rebel ...... the Xu family?"

Huang Jie naturally didn't want to watch the drama of this old lady and godson, so he stepped forward and said: "The old lady is angry for the time being, the family has family rules, and the state has national laws, so this matter should be handed over to Huang to deal with." ”

As he spoke, he walked up to Xu Mu'er, and shouted: "Come with me!" ”

Xu Muer's wife listened, and she didn't know why, but she stopped beating and scolding, and even made a look at Xu Muer, Xu Mu'er also obediently followed Huang Jie and walked to the city gate.

After walking thirty or forty steps away, he pointed to Xu Mu'er and stood on a flat ground next to the official road in front of the door, and then Huang Jie picked up a stone and drew a circle with a diameter of a zhang around his feet, and after asking Xu Mu'er's name and place of origin, he said in a deep voice: "Now that the villagers are resettled, for the time being, the ground will be trapped here, don't go out of the circle, and then come to treat you for hurting people after Huang has done all the work, can you believe it?" ”

Xu Mu'er nodded with a bitter face, thinking that he might be caught by the head of the errand squad and beaten with a mess of sticks and then put in prison.

Huang Jie nodded at him before walking back, then came to Cao Yanei and the others, and said to the villagers: "Fellow villagers, the matter of relief should have been taken care of by Lord Zhizhou, but now Lord Zhizhou is injured, and the officials in the city have their own duties and cannot be transferred, so I have no choice but to send Huang to act." Now the general next to Huang is General Cao Bao, the son of Lord Cao Zhizhou, if someone disobeys Huang's dispatch, his own general will be convicted of military law, and then he will blame the ruthlessness of military law! ”

Hearing what Huang Jie said, this Cao Bao naturally stuck the gun in his hand into the ground and put on a mighty shape, everyone was surprised when they saw it, and many timid people even trembled like chaff. Cao Bao is now in his early twenties, although he is stout and fat, but after wearing a leaf armor and a purple gold bag, he really looks a little mighty, and Huang Jie and his classmates for half a year also know that he is good at archery, and it is good to use a gun, so he really has eight points of momentum to pretend to be a general.

Seeing that everyone was shocked by Cao Bao's domineering spirit, Huang Jie also began to settle these villagers, first of all, let everyone retreat with him to the official road two arrows away from the east gate city wall, and then take the official road as the boundary, the crowd was divided into two groups of men and women, among which children under the age of ten men and women can be carried by their mothers, and then the old and weak and young people in the male and female groups were divided into two parts with the young and strong, so after a rough group, Huang Jie also estimated that there were really more than 3,000 people outside the east gate, including more than 1,800 men. The elderly and weak young people account for about 30%. There are also more than 1,200 women, of whom 60 percent are the elderly, the infirm, and young children.

After he roughly divided the people into four groups, the east gate behind him also opened, and then he saw a group of monks pushing wooden carts to transport cauldrons and firewood and grass, as well as donkey carts pulling sacks of grain. The homeless people were excited when they saw it, and many people subconsciously wanted to catch up, and at this moment they heard a terrible sound suddenly sounded, and everyone was disturbed by this sound and naturally turned their heads to look, but found that it was General Cao Bao who put an arrow into the sky, and at this time he led the box army to lead the bow and accumulate arrows and looked at everyone fiercely, Huang Jie shouted at the right time: "Those who move recklessly will kill, and those who go out of the circle will die!" ”

After listening to Huang Jie's loud drink, the displaced people were shocked, and only then did they remember that when they were divided into groups, Huang Jie asked Xiang Jun to draw a big circle where everyone was, and also made that painting a prison.

A few people who had already crossed the circle line woke up and looked, and hurriedly retreated into the circle, but there were also people who did not believe in evil, and they strode out without listening to the shouting, Huang Jie was not polite, patted Cao Bao on the shoulder and stretched out his finger, and as he designated, he listened to the swishing sound, Cao Bao released six feather arrows in one breath, shot down the six blind birds, and all shot the calf, and the city suddenly sounded a continuous wail.