Chapter 42: Dispersion
A noisy voice woke up the sleeping Zhu Qiming, he opened his eyes, first looked at the puppy next to him, the little thing also turned its head to look at him, the tail kept wagging and stopping, Zhu Qiming reached out to stroke its head, the puppy let out a light whine, and then turned his head to look outside the cave, his eyes were uneasy. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Zhu Qiming raised his eyes and looked out, only to see fifty or sixty children coming outside, both boys and girls, some sitting on the ground against the trees, some lying on the residual snow, and some lying on the grass near the haystack. Looking closely, there were several women in their fifties in the crowd. Everyone's eyes were blank, and most of the corners of their eyes were hung with a few black lines, perhaps the traces left by the dust mixed with the tears and dried.
A middle-aged man with five big and three thick looks very funny with a donkey face, looking left and right in the crowd, as if he is looking for someone, scolding in his mouth. The donkey's face was flanked by a man as clumsy as a shrimp ball and a woman who was a little exaggerated.
The term "tiger's back and bear's waist" has a positive connotation, describing a man who is burly and athletic and very masculine. But if a daredevil, if he accidentally uses this word on a woman who loves beauty, it is strange not to be scolded for being bloody! However, at the moment, the body of this healthy woman really has to be described as a tiger's back and bear's waist.
An old woman over there scolded in a low voice: "A kidnapper with a thousand cuts! Three pieces of coarse bread fooled a handsome little girl, took her to the city and sold it into the green building to make a lot of money, and caused evil! ”
"What else? Adults are killed by Tartar thieves, captives, and how can orphans and orphans survive? If you don't throw away the corpse, you will be content in the wilderness! The other woman replied cautiously.
Kidnapper?
Zhu Qiming had heard that there were abductors and traffickers in the world, and their faces were hateful, but now he was seated and felt that this was true. The two men and one woman look strange, perhaps because of excessive greed, all three of them have their eyes turned outward, their nostrils facing the sky, and the corners of their mouths turned down, and their every move is very annoying.
I also heard that the parents of these children were either killed or taken captive, and I was quite puzzled: the Tartar thieves on Gu Linji's side were intercepted by Xu Gong, and the eleven Tartar thieves in charge of outflanking were all dead under their noses, Gu Linji should not have an accident, so where did these orphans and orphans come from? If it comes from other places, it means that the scale of the Tartar thieves this time is quite amazing!
Just when Zhu Qiming's brain was opened, the stout crutch walked quickly towards the haystack, "There are holes in the haystack, it turns out that the little girl is hiding here!" After speaking, he drew the knife out of the sheath, and the knife was in the style of a Tang knife.
The puppy in the cave looked restless, whining louder and louder, and as soon as the kidnapper approached the entrance of the cave, it sprang out and barked wildly at the visitor.
"Damn, it's a kennel!" The crutch kicked out hard, and the puppy whined and flew into the forest a few feet away・・・・・・
Zhu Qiming's heart swelled with inexplicable sadness. The puppy accompanied him through a lonely cold night, very humane, but at this moment he died, thinking of this, his hatred of the abductor added a little more.
After the abductor walked away, Zhu Qiming got out of the haystack. No one noticed his appearance, he was also a child, although he was well dressed and good-looking, but the haystack that he had drilled all night was also covered with dust and grass clippings, and he was not much different from the orphans of the big families in the crowd pile, and people only regarded him as a member of the crowd pile.
Standing in the open space, his vision was even broader, and he realized that the children who fled were far more than the dozens of people in front of him, and there were many on the side of the official road and the edge of the village.
There were four men and one woman sitting over there, five adults, well-dressed, the men were all in their twenties, and the women were masked with black gauze, so they couldn't see clearly, but from her bumpy figure, it was speculated that she must be a beauty. The four men were talking, and the accents seemed to be from the capital.
Zhu Qiming leaned forward curiously, and the words of the four gradually drifted into his ears clearly.
"Gu Linji survived, and the surrounding villages suffered a great disaster, it is said that hundreds of Tartar thieves have entered the prison, and this matter will definitely shake the imperial court!"
"Impossible! The guards all avoided the battle, so the matter would probably be hidden. ”
"Doesn't the Wei Suojun like to take risks? There are many dead Tatar thieves over there in Gulinji, and the guards can be greedy for their own merits. ”
"How dare you? Once the report is reported, the military department will definitely send someone to review, and it will be exposed! ”
"You say, if this matter is transmitted to Beijing, will the Ming Dynasty start a war against Wara?"
"What if you report it? The imperial court will certainly blame the matter on the remnants of the Tatars. Everyone in the world knows that Wara has wolf ambitions for the Ming Dynasty, but the court is still currying favor with Warat in every way, alas, the learned people of the Manchu Dynasty pretend to be smart, but in fact they are mediocre, and they are really not as good as the generation! ”
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The four men seemed to be quite knowledgeable, but they talked about the Tatar thieves as if they were talking about anecdotes, and their faces were completely devoid of the grief and indignation when the country was in trouble, which left a very bad impression on Zhu Qiming.
Zhu Qiming had no time to blame the four of them for being accustomed to playing tricks, and he suddenly remembered the scene when the imperial grandmother asked him the story of the gods.
Today's Da Ming seems to be really the six gods without a master! The situation in front of him is inseparable from the imperial court, and the courtiers have their own distracting thoughts, needless to say, so, what about the Son of Heaven? What is the Son of Heaven thinking?
After thinking about this for a lifetime, national worries overwhelmed personal enmity, and the desire in Zhu Qiming's heart to find out the truth about the assassination and abduction and to take revenge was not so strong.
The sound of the four of them talking sounded in their ears again.
"Alas, I wanted to accompany Yun Niang to Longmen to see the old man, but I caught up with this catastrophe, and the carriage and belongings were thrown cleanly, it was really a life of nine deaths!" A man glanced at the veiled woman and sighed. Obviously, that woman is Yun Niang.
"Luckily, I was lucky enough to witness a big show. At that time, I hid in the dense forest on the side of the road, and I saw that a man killed nearly 30 Tartar thieves with a knife, which was too brave! ”
"That knife looks like an embroidered spring knife, could it be Jinyiwei?"
"It's not! The man was dressed in shabby and ugly clothes, and most of them were folk warriors. It's a pity that there are three Ming people mixed in the Tartar thieves, and their martial arts are quite high. Although the man killed the three of them, he was not lightly injured, and he was rescued by someone・・・・・・"
Isn't it Xu Gong who embroiders spring knives and wears ugly clothes? He's hurt?
Zhu Qiming's heart sank, and his mind suddenly went blank.
Look at the sky, the hour has passed, Xu Gong is definitely going to miss the appointment. The whereabouts of the master are unknown, Xu Gong was injured and rescued again, and he has become a wandering orphan! When he was leaving, Xu Gong forgot to give the silver again, and now he is penniless and has no long skills, how should he live!
Mixed with Akito among the Tartars?
Another thought flashed in Zhu Qiming's mind, and then he deeply realized how keen Xu Gong's vision was, and it was extremely important to keep his identity secret, because the most difficult moment he faced seemed to be still ahead!
I am far away from my relatives, and I am separated from my old friends, and it is inconvenient to travel north and south, so I can only be with this group of orphans.
At this time, the three crutches came around again and stopped beside a girl about ten years old, this time the coarse cake didn't want to give, the "donkey face" directly grabbed the girl and pushed the "shrimp ball" to the side, the girl's cry was sad.
Unexpectedly, there was a half-grown boy next to the girl, who looked like the girl's own brother, and the half-grown boy grabbed the donkey's face and put on a desperate posture, but unfortunately he was not strong after all, and was pushed hard by the donkey face, and then fell out of the distance, and when he got up, his mouth was already bloodshot.
The girl's cry became even more miserable.
Zhu Qiming was inconvenient to come out, but the blood in his chest surged upward.
Some of the four men and one woman here spat in disgust, but they didn't want to do much, and they looked like they were watching coldly.
The helpless child and the indifferent adult made Zhu Qiming sad.
"You rely on yourself to be Sven, so you scold others for being inferior to beasts, what kind of ability is it to scold people behind your back? Kind of stand up! Zhu Qiming looked at the four men and said in a deep voice.
After hearing this, the four of them denied it and felt that the price was dropped, and they felt wronged when they admitted it, and they didn't know what to do for a while, so they stuck there.
The donkey's eyes widened, very frightening, and he approached the four of them in a deep manner, and his snort became heavier and heavier.
"And you, who are proud of your beauty, donkey face and shrimp balls keep scolding, who can stand your insults!" Zhu Qiming looked at the Yun Niang again.
The donkey's face became angry, and a salty pig hand was already on Yun Niang's shoulder, "Little girl, be nosy, Lao Tzu will ・・・・・・ you too"
Yun Niang got up angrily, "snapped", and a loud slap was thrown on the donkey's face.