In the evening, Yan Buwen they only walked more than ten kilometers, and they came to a new market town from the original Daliu Town, which is quite fast, after all, Yan Buwen is a cart of things to do cattle and horses, and the road is not good to walk, high and low, potholes, very difficult to walk, more than ten kilometers is already relatively fast. When he arrived in this market town, the first thing Yan Buwen did was to unload the mill and kill the donkey, first sell the donkey, and then buy a brown horse from a local squire, so that the horse would drag the cart and go faster.

Yan Buwen also heard a good news, from Longxing Town to the nearest Chuzhou is only a dozen kilometers, less than 20 kilometers, to Chuzhou is the territory of the revolutionary army, there is also a relatively stable place, so many people in Longxing Town moved directly to Chuzhou, leaving behind some old and weak women and children, the army or bandits who come and go have little interest in them. So much so that Longxing Town is still quite peaceful, and even if the battlefield is close to them, it seems that it will not be affected.

But this peaceful scene did not last long, and on the night that Yan Buwen and Ruan Lingyu came, many people entered this crowded town, there were fifty or sixty people, these people finally saw a town, and excitedly knocked on the door to ask people to take them in, but no one dared to open the door, and these people saw that no one in the town opened the door, so they had no choice but to temporarily rest on the street and eat some dry food they brought.

Some of them were gorgeously dressed, some were plain, but on the whole they were much better than the townspeople. At a glance, you can see whether these people are fleeing the famine, fleeing, or suffering disasters on the road. The arrival of these people also attracted another group of people.

"It's so noisy outside? Why so many people? Ruan Lingyu looked out through the crack in the door, everyone was sitting in groups, in groups of three or five, as well as old people and children, "These people are also very well dressed, they shouldn't be fleeing the famine." ”

"Or whatever, I'll go out and see, you don't move in the house." Yan didn't hear it.

"You get out, how do you get out? Going out through the main entrance? There were still two people sitting in the doorway. Ruan Lingyu said, at this time, the owner of this house, that is, the squire who bought a horse from Yan Buwen, came out of the house and warned Yan Buwen: "It's better not to go out at night, I don't dare to go out now, and I have to take refuge in Chuzhou after a few days, now there are many bandits outside, and there are often wars, and the town is no longer safe." There must be something special about the presence of so many people at night, and we will honestly wait and see how it gets better, and when they are gone, we will return to normal. ”

What the old squire said was not unreasonable, it was really scary for so many people to appear at night for no reason, who knows what would happen.

After the old squire returned to the room to rest, Yan Buwen said, "I'll go out over the wall and inquire." ”

Ruan Lingyu saw that she couldn't stop Yan Buwen, so she advised: "You can be careful." ”

Yan Bu smelled out of the old squire's yard, and when he came to the street outside, he saw that the streets of the town, which were not wide, were full of people, and although many people wore good clothes, they were very dirty, and they obviously fled from the city. So Yan Buwen smiled and sat next to a couple: "Brother, you guys are running so fast, I can't catch up." ”

The man glanced at Yan Buwen, and estimated that he was all the way with him, so he said with a bitter face: "No, no, by the way, brother, you are also on the train from Tianjin to Nanjing?" ”

This made Yan Buwen clear, and Yan Buwen instantly understood where this group of people came from: "Exactly, didn't you say that you were waiting for the train to go to Dingyuan?" How to run this way. ”

The man was surprised: "Isn't this a long direction?" ”

"No, it's a little further southeast and you'll reach Chuzhou."

"Chuzhou, oh, forget it, Chuzhou is Chuzhou, Chuzhou may be more stable than Dingyuan." The man doesn't matter.

The man continued, "Brother, you really don't know what happened last night? ”

Yan Buwen said: "I went to the town to buy something last night, and when I went back the next day, I found that many people were gone, so I ran out." ”

"It's no wonder that last night there were two waves of troops fighting next to the train, with countless casualties, all dead, and there were troops standing on the top of the hill at that time, strafing below, whether it was the people on the train or the soldiers under the valley, they were all affected, the carriage I was sitting in was okay, far away, and the people in one carriage were basically dead, so we didn't plan to wait, we ran away first."

"I see." Yan Buwen nodded and understood, when you leave tomorrow, you must not go with these people, otherwise the target is too big, and it is on the edge of the area, and bandits are easy to appear.

Yan Buwen was about to get up and leave when suddenly there was a gunshot at the entrance of the town, followed by the neighing of horses, and then a dozen or twenty people rushed in from the entrance of the town on tall horses, also carrying guns and machetes. Several of them were holding torches, and their faces were so fierce that they stopped in the crowd, looked around, and then laughed and raised their guns.

Yan Buwen glanced at it, the outfit of this group of people was very familiar, could it be the gang of bandits who looted the military equipment last night? Whether it is or not, the eyes of these bandits are now on this group of fleeing travelers.

In fact, the bandits have been staring at the fleeing passengers for a long time, from the time they got out of the train to keep staring, not that there can be a catastrophe on the way, but the bandits are like cheetahs, they have to wait for the prey to get tired of walking by themselves, and they have no strength to run before they move in one fell swoop, so the success rate is very large. So before they could rest enough, when they were half-asleep, the bandits rushed in, and these passengers had no strength to escape, and there was no possibility of resisting.

One of the bandits at the head said loudly: "We are here for money, everyone cooperate, we don't want to die or lust, so you don't have to worry about your safety." But if you don't cooperate, then no wonder we are unreasonable. ”

Yan Buwen's eyes were sharp, and after seeing the bandits, he was about to sneak away, but before Yan Buwen could take two steps, a gunshot rang out, and a bullet hit Yan Buwen in front of him, and Yan Buwen was so frightened that he didn't dare to move.

At this time, a bandit suddenly came over and looked at Yan Buwen with a smile: "Little brother, you are disobedient and want to run, then start with you and hand over all the valuable things on your body." ”

Yan Buwen secretly shouted: Decline! So he honestly threw out all the more than ten oceans on his body. Then the bandit searched again, and after making sure that there was nothing, he smiled and said: "This little brother is happy, what is his name, let's register, we have rules in this industry, and those who have robbed will never rob the second time." ”

"The little one, named Long Gu." Yan Buwen smiled.