Chapter Forty-Five: The Red Face Drifts Away
Although most of the Yellow Turban Army was greatly suppressed, the Yellow Turban soldiers scattered throughout the country were not brought under any control. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Because the phenomenon of selling official positions in the Eastern Han Dynasty was too rampant at this time, and the chief officials of various counties were all bought with money, who would personally risk their lives to defend against the yellow scarves? In addition, the Yellow Turban Army would kill Han officials everywhere they went, punish all the wealthy clans, and loot property, so whenever they encountered a team wearing a yellow scarf, officials from all over the country almost immediately abandoned the city and fled.
In the Sili area that Zhang Jiao dreamed of attacking, there were more and more Yellow Turban soldiers who fled after several defeats, in order to survive they began to rob some villages, and then slowly gathered together, forming a huge uncontrolled armed collective, they did not dare to approach Luoyang because the entire Henan County was heavily deployed by He Jin, so they detoured to the north through Hanoi County, attacking a large area of Sili without defensive forces in the rear, and the first to bear the brunt of Hanoi County was Hedong County, and Xie County, the hometown of Guan Yu and Diao Xiu'er, was in Hedong County.
"Little Flower!"
"Where are you, Xiaohua? I've made a new house for you! Diao Xiu'er came to her room and found that a flower cat that had been placed in the house was missing, and began to look for it everywhere.
Diao Xiuer searched the front hall, backyard and corridor, but there was no trace of the kitten everywhere.
"Whew......" she exhaled a little lost, "lost again." Little white, little black, little yellow ......"
Count it carefully, and almost cry, "It's already the seventh!" ”
Since Guan Yu left, Diao Xiu'er felt that her life at home was a lot boring, and the family had no extra money and food to support those singing and dancing beauty and musicians, so she could only dismiss them.
Originally, Diao Xiuer could still learn things like female red, guqin, singing and dancing at home, but now the masters who taught her are gone, and the companions who accompany her are also gone, and the huge Diao Mansion has become deserted.
"Alas," Diao Xiu'er frowned lightly, "It's not okay to have a pet, what can you do?" ”
Diao Xiuer pitifully folded her fingers and calculated: "Raising pets will run away by themselves, raising flowers will die, playing the piano and dancing can't play all day, no friends, no girlfriends, it's not safe to go out over the wall to play, and now the whole world is at war when you go out to travel......"
"Ahh After making sure that there was no entertainment in her life, Diao Xiuer hugged her head and shook it in pain.
"Miss!"
"Miss!"
There are only a dozen maids looking for Diao Xiu'er in Diao's mansion, and the movements are very familiar, Diao Xiu'er did it once ten minutes ago, turning over the bushes, looking at the water tank, and exploring the branches...... But Diao Xiu'er was looking for a cat just now, okay?
The maids searched the front hall, backyard and corridor, and finally found Diao Xiu'er.
"Miss, the master is looking for you!" The maid in the lead glanced at the people around her, calmed down her breath, and then stepped forward and said calmly.
"Huh?" Diao Xiu'er expressed confusion about the maid's abnormality, but still followed them to the hall.
Her father was not there, only her mother was anxiously waiting for Diao Xiu'er in the hall, and as soon as she saw Diao Xiu'er, she immediately rushed up nervously and put a package into her arms.
"Xiu'er, now you go out and go east, go to Luoyang, the money in it is enough for you to open a shop and do some business, hurry up, hurry!"
"Huh? What the? Diao Xiu'er looked at her mother in confusion, and forgot how to answer for a while, "...... No, Daddy? ”
Diao's mother still replied at a very fast speed: "Your father is in the study with your brother, don't ask, let's leave quickly!" ”
After speaking, without waiting for Diao Xiu'er to respond, he pushed Xiu'er and walked out.
Diao Xiu'er felt that this moment was very similar to the scene when she pushed Guan Yu away, but the protagonist was replaced by herself, and a dark cloud suddenly enveloped her heart.
Diao Xiu'er, who was at a loss, held the package in her arms, and was pushed by her mother for a long distance, along the way Diao Xiu'er kept struggling not too violently, constantly asking questions and doubting, but Diao's mother didn't say a word, Diao Xiu'er turned her back to her mother and couldn't see the expression on her face at the moment, only knew that she was pushed out of the gate by her mother, crossed the street, and came to the west of the city.
There were too many doubts in a short period of time, Diao Xiu'er didn't care about asking so many things before, and she didn't care to ask why she was asked to go to Luoyang in the east but took her to the west of Xie Liang, the city gate was closed, her mother was inside, and Xiu'er was outside.
Xiu'er turned around suddenly, only to see a line of tears on her mother's face between the two doors.
Later, long later, Diao Xiuer thought about it for a few days, and felt that she should have looked back at that face more on the long road that her mother had pushed all the way out of the city.
"What the hell is going on?" Diao Xiu'er finally reacted from a series of changes, feeling that her body was not under her control after entering the hall, and she had already come to the city gate in a flash, and the door to go home was closed tightly.
"No, I have to go back!" Diao Xiu'er remembered the search for the maid in the courtyard, her mother's abnormality, and the dry food, clothes, and money in the package in her arms now, and felt more and more wrong in her heart, so she immediately decided to turn around and return to the city from other city gates.
And at the moment when Diao Xiu'er took the first step, the sky on Xie Liang City turned red, her smooth nose smelled a smell of burnt wood, distant shouts and screams came from the high and thick city walls, thick black smoke rose from the city, and black smoke penetrated the sky and the earth in the sky reflecting the red firelight, as if opening a tunnel between heaven and earth, and luring the soul with the strong smell of fire and blood.
Xie Liangcheng answered all Diao Xiu'er's questions so bluntly, the noisy killing sound in the city continued, Diao Xiu'er's good-looking eyes were full of tears but did not flow out, she lowered her head and picked up the package that had just fallen on the ground, turned around and ran wildly as if she was dead.
The moment Diao's mother in the city gate closed the door, the flowing water never stopped, and walked quietly in the direction of Diao's house: "The son is gone, the daughter is also sent away, they will all live, master, you have to accompany the Diao family to live and die together." I'm going to accompany you. ”
Empty.
The stone that stumbled over me is so empty.
The tree thorns that cut through my clothes and my face are empty.
The dense woods in front of you that can not be seen are empty.
Diao Xiu'er kept running, but she felt that her chest was empty, with coolness and echoes.
This feeling of emptiness is like lying down in deep water, if you say that the loneliness and boredom in the time when you can't find a trace of entertainment in Diao's mansion is like you sitting on the ice staring at a forever static white paper, looking at it year after year, only the white paper accompanies you, but when you finally get used to the boring white paper, the wind suddenly rises, and the white paper is blown out of the sky, and you can only look at yourself in the ice and cry silently.
Diao Xiu'er finally ran out of a safe enough distance from Xie Liang, and began to rush all the way in the direction of Luoyang City, she didn't dare to stay more time in a place where there was no city, the reckless wilderness was full of weeds and wild forests, and there was only a weak woman in the boundless world who fled for her life with a tired body, and just a day ago she was the baby of the whole family, someone sent food when she was hungry, someone handed her drink when she was thirsty, she just needed clothes to reach out for food to open her mouth, Then she wondered if she had pimples on her face because she had eaten too many chili peppers yesterday, but now she had to walk alone in the wilderness, guarding against wild beasts and thieves......
"Look! There's a woman over there! ”
"The clothes are good! It's a big family. ”
An obscene voice sounded: "It looks good, too." ”
A group of people laughed: "Hahahaha, let's go!" Catch up! ”
Finally, Diao Xiu'er, who faced this troubled world for the first time, was discovered by a group of brutal villains who had lost their conscience, the Yellow Turban Soldiers, who pounced on Diao Xiu'er with their teeth and claws twisting their beast-like faces.
"Ahh
Diao Xiu'er screamed and immediately ran to the woods on the side, after all, he was a human being in two lives, although he was afraid and afraid, the basic escape route would not be wrong.
Diao Xiu'er was screaming and running wildly in front, and a dozen Yellow Turban rebels were chasing after her with a reckless smile.
"Ahh
The spikes of the bushes cut through Diao Xiu'er's pants and her legs, and the severe pain transmitted to her brain through neurons, making her lips white, and the wounds on her legs hurt like fire.
"Haha! She had a leg injury and couldn't run! ”
The Yellow Turban soldiers chasing after saw Diao Xiu'er stop, and chased even harder.
Seeing that the hand of the first Yellow Turban soldier was about to grab Diao Xiu'er's clothes, his mind had already begun to fantasize about what to do next......
"They're coming! No! You must not be caught by them! I'm going to run! I'm going to run! ”
Diao Xiu'er looked at the Yellow Turban soldiers who were close with an evil smile on their faces, and could almost smell the rotten smell of his body caused by the long-term uncleaned, and felt sick to his stomach, thinking of the terrible consequences of falling into the hands of this group of people, Diao Xiu'er felt a chill in his heart.
I saw her grit her teeth fiercely, and at the moment when the Yellow Turban Army was about to grab his clothes, she plunged into the bushes full of spikes, and countless spikes pierced into Diao Xiu'er's body, but it was a force close to survival instinct that made her bite her jade teeth, and ran forward with her eyes closed, what is the pain? Will it die? Falling into the hands of those brutes is worse than death!
By the time Diao Xiu'er rushed out of the bushes, she was covered in blood, and her brocade clothes had become tattered like beggars' suits.
"Finally rushed out."
Diao Xiu'er has come to the side of the mountain, and the open view on the broken wall allows her to see the beautiful scenery of Songshan Mountain, and a kind of emotion for the rest of her life after the catastrophe made her almost cry.
"She's there!"
"Chase!"
"What!"
Diao Xiu'er looked back at the bushes in disbelief, and the Yellow Turban soldiers drew their knives to open the way, although not fast, but approaching step by step.
Now she really cried urgently, she finally thought that she was saved, but the chasing soldiers were still leaning in, this kind of situation is the easiest for people to rush to collapse, looking at the yellow turban soldiers Diao Xiu'er who were slowly approaching, as if she saw death beckoning to her.
"But there's nowhere to escape! There is a cliff in front ......" Diao Xiuer was stunned, the cliff.
"yes!" She stared at the edge of the cliff without blinking, "It's better to be ...... than to be caught up by them." You can also meet your mother...... Hey, hey, hey. ”
"Bang!"
Diao Xiu'er was wearing a bright yellow dress that day, and the beautiful patterns on it had been scratched by the shrubs, and she wore this bright yellow dress to draw a beautiful parabola down on the green cliff.
The Yellow Turban Soldier came to the edge of the cliff and looked up the cliff to see the woman in the valley who was being chased all the way by them in yellow clothes.
"Phew, that's bad luck."
The crowd scolded and walked away.
Not long after, a horse-drawn carriage came from far and near.
"Wang Shi Yushi, you see, there is a person lying there who seems to be still angry."
"Quick! Save! ”
Several accompanying maids hurriedly went up to carry Diao Xiu'er back, and no one heard her whispering in her mouth.
"Mother, Xiao Guan Yu,...... Ding Zhe, Cui Ruitong, Dong Dingbang...... Where are you all? ”