At this time, Liu Cong was sailing in the middle of the river by boat, and he had no idea that there was a fire in Xiangyang City, nor that the refugees raising silkworms on the south bank of the Xiangjiang River were burned and slaughtered.

On this morning, the fog was misty, and there was almost no one on the other side, Liu Cong was in a hurry to return to the simple dock of the sailor on the other side of the river, so he urged the sergeant to drive the boat.

The soldiers who operated the boat reported that the fog was so foggy that they did not dare to sail easily, for fear of losing their way.

Fortunately, when the time came, the river fog gradually dispersed, Liu Cong took Yuan Ying, Pang Zihui, Liang Zhu'er and them to board the boat, and the sergeant pulled up the sails, and the ferry came to the wharf on the other side of the river.

Seeing that the ferry boat is gradually coming to the north bank of the river, there is still thirty or forty miles from here to the simple dock upstream.

Today, the wind direction is not good, and it is not easy to sail against the current, so Liu Cong ordered the soldiers to dock the boat.

The soldier chose a deep water, rowed the boat over and grabbed it, and then beckoned Liu Cong and Yuan Ying to board the shore.

Liu Cong had something on his mind today, from the time he boarded the ship to the north shore, he didn't say a word, just silently thinking about his thoughts.

Yuan Ying and the others knew what Liu Cong was thinking, so they didn't bother him.

At this time, Liu Cong and his entourage had already left the ferry and marched along the riverside mountain road to the upstream wharf.

The group was walking like this, and suddenly they saw a group of people gathered in the open space in front of them, and it seemed that there were about a hundred and ten people, men, women, and children, as if they were waiting for something, and they were all panicked.

When Liang Zhu'er saw it, he hurriedly walked in front and instructed Ma Zhu'er, Haosheng took care of the lord, and I went to the front to take a look.

Liu Cong stopped here and watched, only to see Liang Zhu'er arrive in the crowd, talk for a while, and then bring three men and women over.

When Liu Cong looked at it from afar, it turned out to be a group of refugees raising silkworms.

When Liu Cong was surprised, Liang Zhu'er and the refugees had already come to him, and when Liu Cong looked, he saw Liang Zhu'er report with a frightened face: "Lord, these refugees are silkworm farmers on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, last night, oops, lord, you ask them, something big happened." ”

When Liu Cong heard this, he turned his face to look at these refugees, and saw that they were all panicked, so Liu Cong comforted him with kind words and said: "Don't panic, if you have something to say to me, I am Liu Cong in the Jingzhou Yamen." ”

When these refugees heard this, they knelt down with a thud, let go of their throats and began to cry loudly, and the woman among them actually cried and broke her breath and fainted, and she couldn't slow down for a long time.

Liu Cong hurriedly persuaded the two men not to cry, and instructed Yuan Ying to rescue the woman, and it took a while to save her.

And then they talked about how they came to be killed.

It turned out that these three men were two families, the tall man and the woman were husband and wife, and the other short man was their neighbor.

The tall refugee said that after having dinner at his house last night, he lit the lamp and cleaned up the strips and began to weave a basket.

I was busy like this for about an hour, that is, after the second watch, I suddenly heard the ghost crying wolf howling in the distance, and I was surprised for a while, and felt that it was not a good thing, so I went out to see, only to see the fire everywhere, and in the firelight, a few soldiers pulled out their neighbors, put the knife on their necks, and asked them if they would raise silkworms next year.

The neighbors were too late to answer, and they slashed down with knives on their heads, and killed the neighbors on the spot.

It's not enough to kill the man, but he pulled the woman over, and asked if he would raise silkworms next year.

The woman was so frightened that she couldn't speak, and the soldier killed the woman with another sword, and then entered the house with a steel knife, and heard only a few cries of the children in the house, and suddenly there was no sound.

These soldiers rushed out again, brandishing steel knives and shouting: "Listen, where did you come from, you are not allowed to raise silkworms in our Jingzhou, if you continue to raise silkworms, so that none of you will survive, and you will be killed." ”

When they said that, they took up torches and set fire to their neighbors' haystacks, and the soldiers set fire to the fires that raged near and far, and they cried out, "Whoever raises silkworms again will be killed, and those who cannot be killed will starve to death and freeze to death."

When our family heard this, we looked around, and saw that there were fires near and far, and soldiers were killing refugees, and we didn't know why, so we were stupid, and we didn't have an idea for a while.

At this time, I saw my neighbor Zhang Shenglai escape, "Oh, it's him." The tall refugee said and pushed Zhang Shenglai and said, "You can tell the old man in Zhizhong." ”

Zhang Shenglai said that he went to the neighbor's house after dinner last night, and discussed something for a while, and suddenly heard the crying and screaming outside, hoarse, and heard the sound of shouting and killing, and through the doors and windows, he could see that there were fires outside.

When I went out with my neighbors, I saw that three soldiers had been killed at the door, and the steel knives in their hands were shining in the light of the fire. ”

I couldn't answer for a while, but the neighbor's man replied at the door: "How can you not raise it, raise it, it's good to raise silkworms." ”

Who knew that this soldier would let me go, and raised his sword to slash at the neighbor's man, and at that time he was in both places.

The soldier also scolded: "I told you to raise silkworms, and whoever raises silkworms will kill them." With that, he rushed into the house, slashed and killed, and killed all five members of his neighbor's family.

Outside, a soldier set fire to the neighbor's house, and scolded while lighting the fire: "Raise it, raise it, whoever raises it will kill whoever you want, and if you can't kill it, you will starve to death and freeze to death." ”

When I saw that there was fire in the near and far distances, and there were shouts and cries and murders, I picked up a stone and threw it at the soldier in front of me, and I threw the soldier to the ground.

When the two soldiers came at me with their swords, I turned around and fled to my own house, with my wife and children.

I don't know what happened, so I escaped not far from the deep and shallow steps, seeing that the soldier's steel knife was about to cut on my head, who knew that when I stumbled under my feet, I actually fell to the bottom of the ditch, and when I got up again, I saw many refugees fleeing from the bottom of the ditch, crying and screaming and running away, but they didn't dare to shout loudly,

I asked them to climb up the ditch to find their door, but when they saw that there was no one in the house, my wife and a child were gone, and the haystack at the door was not on fire, I suspected that my wife had fled with the child in her arms.

When I hurriedly chased down, I heard the sound of fighting in the east, and when I turned my head to look, I saw that in the firelight, his two families were fighting with two soldiers, one of the soldiers killed his child, this sister-in-law grabbed the soldier's arm like crazy and hissed and bited, and the other soldier fought with the eldest brother, this eldest brother has kung fu, holding a mulberry pole in his hand and competing with the soldier, the soldier always can't take advantage,

At this time, there were soldiers in the distance, I couldn't see it well, picked up a stone and smashed the head of the soldier who was fighting with my sister-in-law, picked up the soldier's steel knife and was about to come over to help the eldest brother, the soldier saw that the situation was not good, and ran away.

The eldest brother wanted to chase and kill, but the sister-in-law went over to pick up the child to rescue, at this time the soldiers in the distance were getting closer and closer, so I pulled the eldest brother and sister-in-law down the bottom of the ditch, and escaped like this.

When we fled until dawn, we all gathered together to see, and there were about three or five hundred people, but there was nowhere to go, and the women wanted to cry and cry for their children, and the men were despondent, and had no way out, so they came to the river.

In the end, I don't know who came up with the idea, saying that they came to the yamen and the sericulture department to ask, why did they send troops to kill us?

On the way, everyone said that it would not be the Yamen who sent troops to commit the murder, but these soldiers were all wearing Jingzhou soldier clothes, who were they who were not sent out by the Yamen?

Liu Cong understood as soon as he heard it, and Haosheng comforted the refugees and said: "Our Jingzhou Yamen accepted you refugees to live, just to try to let you live in peace and stability, how could we send troops to assassinate you?

In the past few days, not only have you been killed, but also in Changsha and Xiangyang, and this kind of thing has happened.

Changsha Taishou Han Xuan was assassinated, Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu was assassinated and seriously injured,

Also, dozens of grain depots in Changsha along Dongting Lake were set on fire by them.

These murders and arsons were all done by the Sun Quan and Zhou Yu clique of the Eastern Wu Dynasty to disguise themselves as Jingzhou soldiers, and they made you suffer and be frightened, all of which were done by the Eastern Wu Dynasty, and they would not be the business of our Jingzhou Yamen, I think, everyone will understand. ”

When these refugees heard this, they were immediately full of anger and asked Liu Cong: "Master Zhizhong, why did Dongwu come here to commit murder." ”

Liu Cong smiled bitterly and said: "It's a long story at this time, I won't talk about it today, you go back and clean up and make arrangements first, you still have to live your life, you can't dare to live because of such a scourge as Wu Bing, everyone says yes." ”

However, these refugees were afraid to leave, so Liu Cong comforted them, you have temporary difficulties in going back, you can go to the post station to apply, and the post station officials will report the situation to the yamen, and the yamen will help you get through the difficulties. ”

These refugees shouted: "I heard that all the officials of the entire post station were killed, and the post station was also set on fire, if it weren't for this, the post station officials would have led troops to protect us, and I also heard that Xiangyang City was also set on fire, and many soldiers were killed??????

When Liu Cong heard this, he was furious, and he stood up suddenly, gritted his teeth tightly, and said angrily in his heart: "Sun Quan Xiaoer, I don't share the sky with you, I originally wanted to unite with you to deal with Cao Cao, hmph, no need, I will destroy you first, and then kill Cao Cao." ”

At this time, a group of Jingzhou soldiers came not far behind, and when Liu Cong looked at it, he saw a team of two or three hundred people, marching and walking, while sending sentinels to patrol the sentinels.

As soon as Liu Cong saw it, he knew that it was his own horse, so he ordered Liang Zhu'er to go over and transfer him to lead the officers over for questioning. ”

The officer replied that it was General Wei Yan's soldiers, who were stationed in Thirty Lipu at this time, waiting for the lord to dispatch.

At dawn, General Wei received a complaint from a refugee that a refugee had been killed along the south bank of the Xiangjiang River, so General Wei sent ten teams to patrol along the south bank of the Xiangjiang River to pursue and suppress the thieves and protect the refugees, 079