Chapter 571: The Toppling Gate Valve
confirmed that Xie Shence was still alive, and then the news that came back one after another made the biggest stone in Wang Qingyan and Wang Jiehua's hearts fall to the ground, and then the feeling of the whole person and the whole family changed.
This change brought to the two of them was naturally an improvement in work efficiency, Wang Qingyan stayed in the transfer department almost all day after that, and Wang Jiehua, who had been silent for many days, also began to move around.
This kind of change is doubtful in the eyes of outsiders, but the few troops who went to search for Xie Shence have not been able to return, and while the Xianbei army has been fully pressed, well-informed people have already known that most of those people have gone and never returned. After that, these people saw the Wang sisters busy and busy, and their eyes were filled with sympathy and pity.
After all, it is not easy for two widows to support a family. Under such a general psychology, there are a lot fewer people who come to find fault, and although public opinion has not been completely reversed, gradually no one has poured sewage on Xie Shence's side.
Of course, there are also many sisters who have illusions about the Wang family and come to offer their courtesy, but they work to no avail. For these people, generally Wang Qingyan and Wang Jiehua still ignore them, and when they are annoyed, they will directly pick up people. Because everyone has confirmed that Xie Shence may indeed be dead, even if there are some conflicts, they will not be too concerned, but they will not pursue the trouble.
In a sense, for example, the provocation of some people in the Liao family and Zhang Jiazhang's family has actually been weakened, and they use this method to "protect" themselves, and sometimes Wang Qingyan and Wang Jiehua occasionally meet and smile, with a slight smile in their eyes.
Thank Shence is here, although they will not thank Shence for this, they will come back in the end, but what kind of situation will be at that time, the sisters don't know. It must be fun
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On the official road in November, because of the war in the north, a large number of materials began to be transported to the north in a planned manner, and all aspects were coordinated and began to take shape. Although you can still see traces of the initial panic along the way, everything is moving in an orderly direction. It is always gratifying to be able to ensure the needs of the war in the north as soon as possible.
The advantages of a highly centralized system, which has always been criticized by literati and Confucian scholars as not knowing the separation of powers, checks and balances, were brought into full play at this time. Now that some people have seen that the momentum is good, they have changed their tone and began to praise such and such an official for his skill, and for being able to command calmly and smoothly before such a huge emergency, and that he is a really good minister. Although there are some people who still scold, they are often regarded as upright and laugh it off.
Generally speaking, at this time, the officialdom and even the rivers and lakes have this kind of consciousness of "you and I are a family to resist foreign insults and do not distinguish between each other", and they were extremely harmonious for a while. Many people turned hostility into friendship because of their common ambitions, and there were many good stories of shaking hands and making peace.
There are a lot of people coming and going on the official road, because the materials transported along the way are extremely important, and there will be soldiers guarding them at intervals.
At this time, some river and ocean thieves are extinct, not to mention that there are many people and their eyes are easy to show their stuffing, even the inspection post set up in thirty miles is enough to make people who fish in troubled waters unbearable.
The two people on horseback were not in a hurry, and went north with the flow of people, the master and servant of this pair of freshly clothed angry horses, at first glance, were the sons of rich families, maybe they could be the children of the scholar clan, and they were either heroes or gilded by the orders of the family, in short, it was impossible to go to the north at this time to enjoy the mountains and rivers.
If you are a person with eyesight, if you are careful at this time, you can actually find that this pair of masters and servants who can be calm and calm on the official road are not ordinary rich sons.
Those two war horses are second-class horses produced in the Northwest Liuzhi Horse Farm, which are more than a cut above the ordinary riding horses or war horses in Shanxi Province. This kind of pomp and circumstance is not something that ordinary rich people can do. The high-grade war horses of the Northwest Army are impossible to get their hands on without a real and powerful general as a clansman.
Moreover, just the dozen or so inspection posts along the way, those fierce and vicious soldiers, who were extremely greedy but also extremely restrained, could make some people see a little bit of dignity.
That son is not simple, although he is a little tired, but he is magnificent, broad-shouldered, round-waisted, extraordinary, and has his own majesty, so that people dare not approach at will, and he should be a big man
Such a point of view accounts for the vast majority of this group of people at this time, and some of the remaining people just can't get used to the noble son's empty eyes doing his own thing.
But it's still good anyway, at least he can throw a silver ingot when someone needs help, although he thanked him afterwards and returned the remaining silver taels, he also looked like he was ignoring it, well, I have to say, that faint sentence "keep it for later", his appearance is actually very charming.
Two days later, the master and servant began to speed up, and then they were all on their way, which puzzled some, but no one had crossed paths with them, so no one knew why they had left so suddenly.
"He's a good guy."
"This person is magnificent, and he thinks he is a child of the scholar clan with a family history."
"It's twenty taels of silver at hand, and the old grandson's family has picked it up."
"Such a person can't climb high"
Four or five days later, when a group of people walked to the county seat, some sharp-eyed people found that outside the county city wall, there was a wanted list, and the highest reward was actually the cold-looking rich boy.
Everyone was shocked, and then they all said that they had already seen that something was wrong with the person, so they didn't talk to him along the way, and some people said that they must have committed something, so they didn't dare to talk to people, and some people said that they were either murderers or rapists with murderous faces, and they were not good birds anyway.
Others said that the truth of the matter may not be so, and the granddaughter of the old man, who had been saved by a silver ingot, said a few good words, and then was buried by the voices of the crowd.
"Where are the good guys and bad guys, you little girl can tell the difference"
"Tell you that the bandits I saw back then are more like good people than good people, and the result? It's not like murder!"
"The little doll is a mother if she has milk, and she doesn't know whether it's right or wrong"
"Let me tell you, it's you honest people who have never seen the world, and we also have difficulties, why don't you help us? Don't you know you can't fool me? ”
"It's really bought with a pennail, and now I'm still helping him speak, I don't know if the people on the list are all some extremely vicious people, good or bad, it's really ho"
These people either despised or shook their heads and sighed, and the little girl's last sentence "But he is really not a bad person" was not heard by anyone, and they did not care. Even if you care, maybe it's just preaching, taking the opportunity to ridicule the family, saying that they got cheap.
Xie Shenwei and Xie Shu, who had already sensed the danger behind them, didn't know about such a thing, and now they, in addition to avoiding the eyes of ordinary sergeants, had to beware of the cavalry that might appear at any time. A silver ingot, so insignificant, I have long forgotten it.
Xie Shu, like Xie Gang and Xie Di, is the righteous son of the Xie family's housekeeper, ranking seventh, and Xie Shenwei calls him the seventh brother most of the time. He is not hypocritical, this respect is earned with his life, not to be overly modest.
The battle came one night, the four Ti cavalry intercepted two in front and two behind, and Xie Shenwei simply killed the two, Xie Shu put a steel plate on his back and carried two arrows, and then the two of them did not entangle, and quickly retreated.
Perhaps because he didn't kill everyone, for several days in a row, Ti Qi clung to it like a maggot on the tarsal bone, killing one after another, most of them just attacking, not too much entanglement, to avoid being killed and injured in large numbers. This strategy of the enemy advancing and retreating, the enemy retreating, and the enemy being tired and disturbed played a remarkable role in a matter of days.
Then, on a rainy evening, a small group of about thirteen or fourteen Ti Cavalry came up to them.
"Master Horse, you said that at this time, it really makes no sense for you to still resist stubbornly, if you go back with us, you only need to cut off your right arm, and I will make my own decision to spare your life"
"Noise."
"Look bastard! You are now a fugitive! Do you think you're a relative of the emperor? Your Lao Tzu has been imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department, do you know that your Xie family is finished! The edifice will fall! Do you still dare to be rampant with me? Do you know who I am?"
"I don't know."
"Your forehead"
"I'm not interested in knowing."
"Mix"
"If you don't know who you are, go back and ask your mother."
"You dare to say that my mother is a bastard, I will kill you!"
"Phew, chops, here you go."
Then came the sound of arrows breaking through the air, the cries of gold and iron, the neighing of horses and the screams of men in the pouring rain of the evening.
"You can't escape, cough cough, the secretary general of my family is behind you, you're dead, hehe, you're dead, ha, Xie Yi is dead, Xie Shence is dead, Xie Sheng is also dying, you are going to die, you Xie Jiaha, from now on, a widow, haha"
Xie Shenwei's face was expressionless, and he used a silk bag to cover the horse and knife that was stained with minced meat and blood, and he didn't look at the person whose head and body were completely separated, tied a rope and carried it behind his back, Xie Shu, who had suffered several knife wounds, led four horses and stood beside him.
"The second son, maybe the eldest son, don't think too much"
Xie Shenwei wiped his face, raised his head, and after a while, the blood on his face was washed away by the rain, tied his hair back up, and said: "Zhou Jinmian is behind, we have to speed up, we can't use their horses, otherwise we will be tracked down quickly." ”
"However, our horses have already been shot to death, and if we are on foot, it will not be easy to get out once we get entangled."
"It's okay, just use their horses, go to the next city, and then make plans."
Then, under the rain curtain, the two of them continued to hurry, until dawn, when they came across a roadside inn, hastily bandaged the wound, and bought food and liquor herbs under the fearful gaze of the boss.
However, this way of hurrying—or, more bluntly, fleeing—was not last long, and on the third day of that evening rain encounter, Xie Shenwei was overtaken. At this time, they were only thirty miles away from the state city.
Subsequently, the two were captured alive by Zhou Jinmian.
Xie Shenwei, who was already extremely tired, was already unconscious, and Xie Shu, who was covered in blood, broke his legs and scolded himself, and then was gagged.
Zhou Jinmian was the last to leave, and when he left, he glanced back at the battlefield, without any amazement on his face. It was as if the hundreds of people who had been completely turned into corpses were not his subordinates at all.
"It's better to be dead, it's best to be dead"
In the next five or six days, hundreds of Ti cavalry encountered the first time after capturing Xie Shenwei alive, the counterattack of the Xie family's forces.
After the First World War, nearly half of the hundreds of Ti cavalry were lost, and at the same time, the Xie family forces who came to rob people also left sixty or seventy corpses.
Later, Ti Qi found that under the interception and killing of the Xie family regardless of losses, the original nearly 300 people were less than 30 at this time, and the manpower to replenish the nearby was also being consumed sharply