Chapter 30: The Jade Burns

The moment Duan Xuehong fell, the tip of the knife touched Li Guo's lower abdomen, and in an instant, it penetrated the skin and stabbed into his abdomen.

Li Guo screamed "ah", grabbed the back of the knife, and pulled the knife out with force. Blood spurted out instantly, and even brought out a section of intestines.

Li Guo held the bloody knife in his hand and glared at Duan Xuehong angrily, and then, his body fell, and the knife in his hand also stabbed Duan Xuehong hard with his habitual surname.

Li Guo's whole body strength was pressed on the knife, and one-third of the knife stabbed into Duan Xuehong's body, Duan Xuehong also screamed, convulsed a few times, and stopped moving. Li Guo also lay down beside Duan Xuehong, and after gasping for a while, he lost his breath.

Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing looked at everything in front of them stupidly, and only after a long time did they react, crying and crawling to Duan Xuehong's side, helping him up and holding him in his arms.

The blade of the knife almost pierced Duan Xuehong's body, and the tip of the knife was already exposed on the other side.

"Sister Xuehong!" Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing cried and called.

Duan Xuehong opened her eyes with difficulty and looked at the two of them.

"Sister Xuehong!" The two cried, tears dripping from their eyes.

"Don't cry, you ...... Run. Duan Xuehong said with difficulty.

"We're going to take you with us." Yuan Moqing cried and said.

"Silly girl, take me...... You can't leave, you go quickly. Duan Xuehong raised her blood-stained hand, stroked Yuan Moqing's face, and said.

Yuan Moqing's face was stained with blood, but she didn't care, grabbed Duan Xuehong's hand, shook her head, and still tried to refuse.

"Let's go!" Duan Xuehong suddenly shouted vigorously, "Do you want your father, Sai Jinhua, and me to die in vain?" ”

"Okay, let's go. Sister Xuehong, we listen to you, let's go. Yuan Moqing cried helplessly.

"Yuanyuan!" Duan Xuehong suddenly called Yuan Chen.

"Sister Xuehong!" Yuan Chen responded in tears.

Duan Xuehong forced out a little smile and said, "Take care of Mo Qing." ”

"Don't worry, Sister Xuehong." Yuan Chen wiped his tears and responded in one gulp.

Duan Xuehong smiled with relief, closed her eyes slightly, and slowly tilted her head to the side.

Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing called out loudly and cried loudly.

After crying for a long time, the two gradually calmed down. Yuan Chen picked up the gun, pinned it to his waist, and Yuan Moqing sorted out Duan Xuehong's clothes, and put her body in the room behind the front desk. Then, the two of them observed the movement outside the door. The soldiers outside the door seemed to listen to Li Guo's words and didn't dare to come in, but they didn't leave. After discussing it, they walked around the first floor and inquired, but found no escape path. The kitchen and the cottage behind the front desk are closed, and there is a corner door next to the kitchen that leads to the backyard, but there is no back door in the backyard, and the wall is relatively high, so you can't climb up. So Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing quietly walked up the stairs and came to the second floor.

One by one, the two of them gently opened the doors of the upstairs rooms, where they had lived for several days, but only in the innermost room arranged for them by Sai Jinhua, and had not been to the other rooms.

The other rooms are basically the same as theirs, except that the orientation of the rooms is different. Yuan Chen walked into a room that did not face the street, but towards the backyard, opened the window, and looked out.

The town was almost in full view, and Yuan Chen looked down and was pleasantly surprised.

It turns out that under the window of this window is the eaves of the first floor, which extends to the left along the eaves, and is the pigsty and chicken coop in the backyard, but there are also eaves on the pigsty, if it is strong enough, you can walk over, you can reach the eaves of another family's house, which is next to an alley, which looks very quiet, and there should be no soldiers. If you run away from there, it should be feasible.

Yuan Chen called Yuan Moqing and said what he thought.

Yuan Chen looked at it, frowned and said, "Sister Yuanyuan, I agree with everything else, but walking over from the pigsty, I'm afraid that the eaves are not strong." ”

After hearing this, Yuan Chen fell into deep thought. Indeed, although Yuan Moqing is similar in height to her, her figure is slightly plump. So it's normal to have such worries.

was in a dilemma, but Yuan Moqing suddenly said, "Let's try, otherwise there will be no other way." ”

Yuan Chen looked at her, and the eyes of this girl who had gone through hardships suddenly exuded a determined gaze.

The two went back to the first floor, took the flint and steel from the kitchen, and carried it in their arms. Yuan Moqing came to the counter and found that there were still some scattered silver taels in the cash cabinet at the counter.

"Sister Yuanyuan." Yuan Moqing was a little embarrassed and called Yuan Chen.

Yes, Sai Jinhua is simply a lifesaver for them. But now that the benefactor has died for them, how can they take these silver taels? But on second thought, if they didn't take the silver taels, even if they escaped from the town, their journey would have become quite difficult.

So Yuan Chen gritted his teeth, lowered his heart, and nodded.

Yuan Moqing's eyes were red, and he took the silver two into his arms.

The two men each picked up a knife from the floor, went to the back kitchen to get some dry food, and then went up to the second floor again.

Yuan Chen observed the movement outside, then raised his legs and stepped on the windowsill, stood on the eaves, and stepped on it, which should be relatively strong. So she turned around, took a few steps forward, came to the junction of the eaves and the yard, and turned around and beckoned to Yuan Moqing.

Yuan Moqing also stepped out of the window, learned to behave, and quietly walked to Yuan Chen's side.

The two of them turned around and looked, and could roughly see some soldiers hanging out in the corner of the street. The two of them shrank as hard as they could, bent as hard as they could, and moved towards the eaves above the pigsty.

When they arrived at the eaves, Yuan Chen raised his hand, and Yuan Moqing waited behind, because the eaves were much thinner than the eaves, and I was afraid that they couldn't resist the weight of them passing together.

Yuan Chen propped his hands on the eaves, moving little by little, and finally moved over. Then, she breathed a sigh of relief and turned around and waited for Yuan Moqing.

Yuan Moqing also followed Yuan Chen's example, and moved to the middle of the eaves little by little, but unexpectedly, the eaves "creaked".

"Don't move!" Yuan Chen's heart suddenly rose to his throat, and he shouted softly.

Yuan Moqing hurriedly stopped her movements, raised her head and looked at Yuan Chen, her eyes revealing anxiety, and sweat oozed from her head.

"Inhale, don't put your weight on your limbs, spread out." Yuan Chen said softly.

Here, Yuan Chen made a mistake, how could an ancient person like Yuan Moqing understand the concept of the center of gravity? Hearing Yuan Chen say this, she became in a hurry.

only heard a "boom", and one of Yuan Moqing's hands collapsed the eaves, and one arm fell into it.

"Ahh She screamed, grinning in pain.

Yuan Chen hurriedly leaned over, and slowly raised his head, observing the movements of the soldiers on the street. The soldier didn't react, but Hou Er stood in the middle of the street, looking around, as if he heard the sound of collapse, and also heard the scream, looking for the source of the sound.

"Bastard!" Yuan Chen gritted his teeth and scolded.

"Sister Yuanyuan! What's wrong? Yuan Moqing asked.

"That Hou Er, it seems that he heard our voices. Hurry, hurry up! Yuan Chen urged.

Yuan Moqing slowly pulled his arm out of the hole where the eaves had collapsed. I saw that the sleeves of her clothes had been cut open, and there were a few bloody cuts on her skin.

Yuan Moqing gritted her teeth and persevered, climbed over the eaves, and came to the eaves of the neighbor's house with Yuan Chen. Jumped over the roof and into the alley.

There were no soldiers in the alley, and the two of them held back the pain all over their bodies and ran all the way east.

Zhuji Town is not big, and after a short time, they have already run out of the town.

The two looked back, but fortunately there were no pursuers. Their pace slowed down a little, but they didn't stop, after all, the farther away from Zhuji Town, the safer it was.

When they came to a small hill, the two of them finally could not walk anymore, and sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

Yuan Moqing looked at Yuan Chen and said with a smile: "Sister Yuanyuan, it seems that you are indeed slimmer than me." ”

Yuan Chen also laughed, but instead, the two of them began to cry again. Along the way, they have suffered too much, and in addition to enduring hardships, they have lost too much, including intimate relatives and friends.

"I must go back to Zhuji Town again!" Yuan Moqing cried for a while, and suddenly said.

"I'm going back too!" Yuan Chen also said.

The two glanced at each other, and said in unison, word by word: "Kill-Hou-two!" ”

With that, they clapped their hands and looked up at the sky, where it was nearly dusk.

The two took out dry food, ate a few bites casually, and rested for a while, and the sky slowly darkened.

When it was completely dark, the two of them stood up and walked back the way they had come.

The lights were blind, and after walking for a long time, they finally returned to Zhuji Town.

Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing separated on both sides of the road and slowly walked towards the town.

The townspeople were already asleep, and the streets were unusually quiet, which made one wonder, where were the soldiers during the day?

Yuan Chen suddenly had a bold idea and wanted to go back to the inn to have a look. She slowly approached Yuan Moqing and said her thoughts, Yuan Moqing hesitated for a moment and nodded.

The two sneaked to the inn. Indeed, there were no soldiers in the town, and they were cautious, even a little apprehensive, but they did not encounter any danger along the way.

When they entered the inn, they were taken aback. Through the moonlight, everything in the inn could be seen more clearly, although the tables, chairs and benches were still the same as after the day's fighting, staggering to the side, including six or seven soldiers, the bodies of Sai Jinhua, Li Guo, and Duan Xuehong were gone.

Yuan Chen and Yuan Moqing glanced at each other, and felt a chill in their backs, so the two hurriedly turned around and returned to the street.

"Sister Yuanyuan, what's going on?" Yuan Moqing asked with a trembling voice.

"I don't know." Yuan Chen forced his composure and said, "But don't forget what we're going to do when we come back, let's go, go to Hou Er first!" ”

"Good!" Yuan Moqing responded.

Yuan Chen wore Yuan Moqing and came to Hou Er's house. The two discussed, and Yuan Chen hid in the dark, leaving Yuan Moqing alone in front of the door.

Yuan Moqing raised her hand and knocked lightly on the door, then ripped off her collar, exposed half of her shoulders, and lay on the ground.

The sound of footsteps in the door gradually became clear, and I came to the door. "Who?"

"Save ...... Help me! Yuan Moqing groaned deliberately.

There was no movement in the door for an instant, and it is estimated that Hou Er was observing the movement against the crack in the door.

Yuan Moqing deliberately pretended to be a twisted posture after the woman was injured.

After a while, the door was opened with a "squeak", and Hou Er walked out of the door with a crooked smile.

"Little lady, what's wrong?" He asked with a hippie smile.

"I ...... I met bandits, I was wounded......" Yuan Moqing still lowered his head, lying on the ground, and said.

"Oh? Come, come to my house, and I will protect you. Hou Er said, hurriedly reaching out to try to help.

Yuan Moqing saw the other party bending down, and he rolled to his feet, grabbing his throat with one hand. Yuan Chen also jumped out of the corner with an arrow step, and raised his knife on Hou Er's neck.

"Don't make a sound! Otherwise, you'll die! Yuan Chen said in a low voice.

"Ahh Grandma spares her life! Hou Er was so frightened that he closed his eyes tightly and begged for mercy softly.

"Go inside!" Yuan Moqing said, and dragged Hou Er into the house.

Yuan Chen closed the door, turned around and raised his knife: "Hou Er, do you recognize us?" ”

Hou Er dared to open his eyes, and after seeing clearly, his legs were weak, and he knelt down, trembling like chaff, and he was so frightened that he couldn't speak.

"Look at your cowardice!" Yuan Chen scolded, "I didn't expect us to come back again, right?" ”

"Grandma! Grandmother! Hou Er held back for a long time before he finally spoke, but he kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, "Grandma spare me, I, I know my mistake!" ”

"Wrong? What's the use of that? Sister Hua is dead, Sister Xuehong is also dead, do you know that you can save them? Yuan Moqing pointed at him and reprimanded.

"Yes, yes!" Hou Er stuttered, "But, but I didn't expect it, I just wanted to mix up some money and spend it, and I didn't expect you to be able to fight with the soldiers......"

"For the sake of money, you actually killed the surnames of two people......" Yuan Moqing said, her eyes were red, and she couldn't go on.

"How much money do they give you?" Yuan Chen asked.

"Where did you give it, but later they found out that you had escaped and Li Guo was also dead, so they were furious, not only did they not reward me, but they also beat me." Hou Er smiled bitterly.

Yuan Chen took a closer look, and there were indeed scars on the other party's face.

"Well deserved!" Yuan Chen scolded and asked, "Where are the soldiers in that town now?" ”

"It's all gone, it's back to Xiangyang."

"We'll go back if we don't catch it?"

"Yes, Li Guo's martial arts are so high, they were all killed by you, and those soldiers were very scared and didn't dare to chase after you. So they carried the bodies of Li Guo and a few other soldiers back to Xiangyang. ”

"What about the corpses of Sai Jinhua and Duan Xuehong?" Yuan Chen asked again.

"Huh? No, I don't know, I didn't see them carry out these two bodies. I guess it's still in the store. Hou Er's shoulders shook and said.

"I went to see it, not in the store, you tell the truth!" Yuan Chen asked.

Hou Er said with a crying voice: "I really don't know, do I know if I can tell you?" ”

Yuan Chen put the knife on Hou Er's neck again: "Don't say it? Looks like you don't want to live anymore? ”