In the dark night, the carriages galloped on the official road leading to Zhaoqing Mansion, and the coachman tried his best to make the carriage run faster, but the goods piled on the carriage were too heavy, and no matter how hard his horsewhip was whipped, the horse could not run faster.

In addition to the horse-drawn carts, there were many donkey carts on the road, and even a few ox carts, which were also full of people, and some could not squeeze into the carts and could only follow by holding on to the handlebars. The convoy stretched a full two miles in front of and back, men, women and children, and I don't know how many large and small bags they carried.

There were many cars, many people, but the night was too dark, and it was pitch black, so they could only rely on the torches in front of them to guide the way, and everyone was in a hurry to escape from Deqing City, which was approaching by the Ming army. Soon, a carriage crashed into a tree on the side of the road because it was in too much hurry, and suddenly the car overturned, and the men's scolding, women's complaints, and children's cries were mixed together, and the people behind them were panicking.

After hearing that the next person said that a car had overturned, Wang Shiyun jumped in a hurry, and asked the housekeeper to hurry up and move the jewelry on the car to other cars, but the injured people didn't care, and they were left to fend for themselves.

"Steward, take us with you!"

"Master, you can't leave us behind!"

"Master, I've been with you for more than ten years, you can't leave me!"

A few injured subordinates dragged their children and daughters to hold the steward's legs, hoping that the owner could take them with them, but what they got was the ruthless curse of the steward, and the usually kind proprietor also changed his face, and kicked away a guy who had been in his house for more than ten years with an extremely impatient kick, and then walked away without looking back.

The man's daughter, an eight-year-old girl, rushed to the owner's side crying and shouting when she saw her father being beaten, grabbed the corner of his clothes and prevented him from leaving, but was carried aside by a thug who guarded the hospital.

The man's mother-in-law saw that the owner was so vicious and ruthless, and cursed viciously in despair: "Wang Shiyun, you have no conscience, you can't die well" After cursing, the husband who held the leg that was crushed and the daughter who was bleeding from the corner of his mouth cried loudly, and the miserable voice was particularly deafening in the middle of the night.

When the old woman in a carriage heard the woman's cry, she couldn't help frowning and asked outside the carriage, "Which family is so ruthless that you have left people behind?" ”

The butler who was sitting with the coachman outside the carriage turned around when he heard the words and said, "Teda is the king's family." ”

"No wonder, Wang Shiyun is not a good person, but the old man is close to his family." The old woman shook her head, her eyes fell on her husband beside her, she held his hand a little nervously, and said in a low voice: "Master, the Ming army won't catch up with us, right?" ”

Ye Jinglian gently patted his wife's hand, comforted her and said: "The Ming army wants to be Deqing City, what do you want us to do, don't worry, this is a few miles out of the city, and you can't see the five fingers outside, how can the Ming army know that we have run away." ”

After listening to her husband's words, the old woman felt a little relieved, and then complained a little: "The old man used to be an official of the Ming Dynasty, and he should not do things for the Manchurians, but now it's okay, we will run as soon as the Ming army comes, alas."

"What do women know!" Ye Jinglian didn't like to listen to his wife's wordy words the most, and his mood was already irritable, so he couldn't help but speak louder, "The Ming Dynasty has died, this world is Manchurian, the so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, and the husband is also for the sake of our Ye family, is it true that the Ye family will never be in the officialdom from now on and become an ordinary family?" Nanming's eternal son of heaven can't grow! ”

Seeing that her husband was angry, the old woman didn't dare to contradict it, so she had to mutter: "Then you don't have to do those things that are sorry for the Ming Dynasty." ”

"If the husband doesn't do those things, Lin Er can be reused by the governor?"

As soon as the husband mentioned his son, the old woman suddenly had nothing to say. The couple sat like this for a while, and Ye Jinglian suddenly scolded: "Tang Sanshui dares to charge me a thousand taels of silver, and this bastard doesn't look at which one the husband is!" When he turned around, he would tell Lin Er to sue him at the Governor. After a pause, he sneered again: "But I don't know whether this silver will end up in the hands of Tang Sanshui or the Ming army, if it dies in the death of the Ming army, it will save trouble." ”

The old woman said: "Master, after all, silver is something outside the body, so it is benevolent and righteous for Tang Qian to take the risk of letting us out of the city, but you can't remember this from others" As she was talking, she heard the housekeeper outside the carriage shouting in panic: "Master, there seems to be a horse rider chasing after you!" ”

"What!"

Ye Jinglian's body trembled, lifted the curtain and looked back, and saw a group of people with torches and horses catching up from behind. Suddenly, his face became extremely ugly

"The Ming army is coming, the Ming army is coming!"

The sudden appearance of cavalry behind made the fleeing crowd commotion, and the last few cars stopped, and the people above ran to the woods on both sides of the road with shouts, lest they run slowly and call the Ming army to kill.

Zhou Shixiang took the lead, and the artist was bold, relying on his skillful equestrian skills to cross the crowd, and rushed directly to the front to force several carriages to stop, and suddenly the official road was blocked, and the vehicles behind could not go if they wanted to.

"Everyone, run for your life!"

The young and old families who could not move the carriage jumped out of the carriage with screams, and ran to the sides with soft goods in their arms.

"Stop them, stop them!"

There are a few families with a thick foundation, a big business, and a lot of nursing homes Seeing this, they shouted that those nursing homes tried to resist stubbornly, but under the knives of those Ming soldiers, those nursing homes could only be slaughtered like pigs and sheep, and many people didn't even scream, and their heads rolled to the ground with braids.

In the night, I don't know how many cavalry the Ming army came, the guards were very timid, and after barely blocking it for a while, no matter how much the master rewarded, they didn't pay attention to it, and dispersed in a hurry after shouting.

"Ma Wu, Ma Wu, take the master away!"

Because of fear, Ye Jinglian almost didn't even have the strength to stand, and pulled his old wife to beg Ma Wu, the leader of the guards, with a crying voice.

"Master, if it is an ordinary thief, the small one must protect you thoroughly, but it is the Ming Army, and the small one is just a nursing home, where can I fight with them, master, take care of yourself, the small one will run for his life first!"

After Ma Wu finished speaking, he spread his legs and ran towards the forest to the west, and as soon as he ran, the remaining guards followed.

There were panicked fleeing crowds all around, and Ye Jinglian, who was only the old wife and housekeeper around him, was so frightened that he was about to cry, and begged bitterly to Ma Wu, who had already run out of more than ten feet: "Brother Ma, you bring the master...... I'll give you all the money, all the money......"

Maybe it was the silver that played a role, Ma Wu, who ran out, gritted his teeth and brought two more subordinates back, one by one dragging Ye Jinglian and his old wife, but he just ran out of a dozen steps, his body was stunned, but he stood there, and after a closer look, Ma Wu's back was called a spear to poke out a bloody hole in the boss.

"Oh my God......"

Ye Jinglian's old wife eats fasting and recites Buddha on weekdays, where has she seen this meeting, she was so frightened that she fainted to death at that time, Ye Jinglian was also trembling, her legs were like a thousand catties, and she couldn't get out. The housekeeper even clucked his mouth desperately, retching wow.

Seeing this, the two guards who turned back quickly let go of their hands and did not run back.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me, give you everything, give it to you"

Ye Jinglian couldn't stop kowtowing on the ground, but he didn't know who to kowtow to.