The car was jolting. Although Wu Langzhong put two layers of quilts on the saddle, Xiao Qiao still felt uncomfortable under his body. The car wasn't big enough to lie down. In fact, there is no posture that can alleviate the feeling that the bones are falling apart and the internal organs are going to be separated.

Every time it rises and falls, a stream of loess comes in from the visible and invisible cracks.

Xiao Qiao knew that her hair must have been covered with a layer of earth. Women are not beautiful, clean is the foundation. Peach and plum color, peony color, dark blue, lily color, and lotus color are all good-looking, but I have never heard of a beautiful woman whose face is like earth.

The farther north went, the bigger the soil became, and wherever the soldiers' feet and horses' hooves went, a yellow dragon entrenched in the low altitude and had not gone for a long time was set off. As long as you are on the road, it is useless to wash your face, and you will be covered in dust after a few steps.

Since she came ashore, she has not taken a serious bath, and Xiao Qiao has filled every pore with dust. When on board, the young soldiers would blush and turn away at one glance at her face. In the past two days, when people looked at her, there was no shyness at all, no different from looking directly at a wild cat that had just left the quagmire.

Xiao Qiao thought of the humid air in the south of the Yangtze River, remembered the beautiful carriage that she had made before without drilling the soil, and sighed softly.

I heard Wu Langzhong say that at noon today, the army will be able to rush to Tongguan. Now there is no sunlight coming in through the car window, which means that the sun has moved to the roof of the car, that is, it will soon be in Tongguan.

When people come to Tongguan, they want to fight and kill people, what am I for?

The lie of going north to find his brother, Liu Yu took it very seriously. The pen sticks in the army are already familiar with Xiaoqiao, and they say that they have been busy stir-frying vegetables in the past two days, just because they want to rush to produce a list of people to find people, and according to Liu Yu's order, they will post it as soon as they arrive in Tongguan.

The last time we had dinner together, Liu Yu asked a bunch of questions. Where are you going to live, Chang'an or Jiankang? What do you want to do for a living? Do you want to find you an in-law? Have you ever thought about entering the palace to serve the emperor?

She had to admit that Liu Yu had a natural sense of warmth when she spoke and did things. Maybe he himself came from the people, and he knows that it is not easy for small grass people. Maybe he was about the same age as his child.

But the chill in the bones eventually overwhelmed the warmth again and again. Xiao Qiao slapped herself hard in the bottom of her heart.

These days, as long as she hears the sound of Ding Ding as the Jin officers and soldiers walk, it reminds her of that night.

That day, my father went to luncheon and said that he would come back in the evening to see Xiaoqiao's recent copy of Xiaokai's "Book of Songs", but he didn't come back when it was time for dinner. Xiao Qiao copied five or six poems, and flipped through a collection of Cao Zijian's poems that was said to be written by Wang Xian, and was bored and fell asleep on the table.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open. Xiaoqiao woke up and saw her mother break in. Mother never walked in such a hurry. Without saying a word, she picked up Xiaoqiao and took her to a nanmu cabinet in the room, opened the cabinet, and groped around the back wall a few times, and the wooden board creaked open, revealing a hole in the wall. Xiao Qiao was stunned. She had lived in this house for more than ten years, and she had never known that there was such a mechanism.

The mother let her in, handed her a small burden, and told her that there was a fire sickle and a small torch in the niche on the right wall of the cave entrance, which could be used to illuminate it. Walk along the hole, don't move until you're okay, and then come out of that end.

She was about to ask something, but her mother hugged her tightly, quickly imprinted a few kisses on her face, and shoved her into the hole without saying a word. The planks creaked again, and it was completely dark in front of them. She groped for a while, touched the niche, and found the fire sickle and the small torches wrapped in cloth and cotton. There was a small clay vase with a sealed mouth on the side of the torch, and when you opened it and smelled it, it was pine oil, apparently prepared for the torch.

It is an arched tunnel that can only allow one person to bend forward, and the top of the head, under the foot and the left side of the cave wall are covered with bricks, and on the right side is a large strip of stone, which is supposed to be the foundation of the house wall. After walking for a while, the tunnel deviated to the left, getting farther and farther away from the foundation, and the right side of the cave wall was replaced with brick-clad earth. The oncoming wind blew the flames towards her. She stepped on something soft, almost screaming in fright, and shining a torch on a rat that had been trampled half to death. Goosebumps stood up all over her body, and she was almost so weak that she threw away the torch.

After walking for a while, the bricks became more damp, and the roof of the cave was still dripping in several places. She was bumped by something, and when she looked closely, it turned out to be a tree root that was crossing the tunnel. Shallowly, there are many tendrils sticking out of the brick cracks above the head, and it seems that this part of the tunnel is walking close to the garden.

At the end of the tunnel, there was a faint light from the top, and it was from where the wind came from. There was a ladder wrapped with copper against the wall, and Xiao Qiao looked at it, the wood was still very familiar, and there was no trace of insect decay. She put down the torch and climbed up the ladder to the end, only to find that at the end of the tunnel was actually a dry well, and on top of the stone fence of the dry well, there was a hollow fake tree made of wood, and the "tree" was covered with ivy and a bush heavy, and there was no article at all from the outside. After Xiao Qiao climbed to the head, she could just see the situation in the yard under the cover of the leaves.

She almost screamed.

The courtyard and outside were densely packed with people wearing armor and weapons. Eyes full of torches. Everyone was blasted into the courtyard and knelt on the hard brick floor. The ladies must have just been rushed out of bed, and the soldiers deliberately did not let them dress neatly, so they mingled with the servants in disheveled clothes. The little aunt, who had not yet married, was barefoot and covered her chest with a pillow.

A short officer reads an edict denouncing his father. She knew this officer, who used to come to her house often as a guest, and who was full of smiles when she saw the housekeeper, but now she was as arrogant as a rooster with a peacock feather.

The edict said that his father coveted the artifact, conspired to usurp, and attempted to assassinate the important ministers of the dynasty, and had been imprisoned.

The families of the thieves are also to be investigated.

Xiao Qiao covered her mouth with her hands, unable to believe her ears. A few days ago, the imperial court also issued an edict to reward his father, saying that he was loyal to the country, worked hard all night, and also rewarded silk and good horses. My father and the important ministers of the dynasty acted together to quell the Huanxuan Rebellion, and they were like brothers and often came and went. How could he become a thief in an instant without warning?

After finishing the edict, the officer walked up to his mother and symbolically owed a debt: "An Chenghei was ordered to raid the house, which was originally reluctant, but the military order is difficult to disobey, please take care of your wife!" If Mrs. can give an order, let the family members listen to the order quietly, everyone takes care of each other, and does not embarrass each other, you go out safely and steadily, and I will be obedient. Although the mother knelt, her voice was not weak at all: "People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, where can we talk about what to take care of!" Someone has been trying to take my husband's head for a long time, and today he finally did it. Kill if you want to, why bother under the banner of the emperor! Who in Jiangdong doesn't know who the current Great Jin Dynasty is! But in this courtyard at the moment, General An can call the shots, can you let everyone get dressed neatly? ”

The officer surnamed An was stunned for a moment, and made a gesture with a smile: "It's not easy to get people together, why bother tossing again." I really want everyone to keep their dignity, but unfortunately the time is too tight to delay any longer. Besides," the mother stood up coldly: "General An doesn't have to swallow and vomit, my family has been in and out of the prime minister for several generations, and I haven't seen anything in the world." You just want to say that your head is going to fall off, and you still care about decency. You go back and tell the sù that sweaty mud-legged Ziqiu Ba, we are wrapped in animal skins and died, and we are also the species of the high family and the blood of generations of nobles. Let him take good care of his health and live a long life, lest he fall into the hands of us ghosts! Hearing this, the family members all over the courtyard wept bitterly. The mother glanced back and shouted, "Shut up! Don't call these dirty minions a joke! Everyone immediately fell silent, except for sporadic sobs. A child was crying wow-wow, but suddenly his voice was muffled, presumably covered by his mother.

Xiao Qiao lay in the bushes, silently shedding tears, watching the whole family being taken away. When her mother walked out of the courtyard gate, she glanced in this direction, and that look almost made Xiaoqiao faint instantly. When the catastrophe was approaching, she ran away alone and did not stay with her mother.

When the soldiers took their mother and the whole family, the sound of their armor and weapons was exactly the same as the sound outside the car now.

But the sound stopped suddenly.

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of gongs, drums and trumpets in front of me. The coachman jumped out of the car, lifted the curtain and said that the girl could come down and do the activity, and we arrived.

Xiao Qiao got out of the car, rubbed his legs that were a little numb, and looked up to see an umbrella cover rising up to a small post in front of him, it should be Liu Yu who went there. Soon, the canopy reached the top of the post. Even at this distance, Xiao Qiao could see Liu Yu riding on a horse, raised his hand to signal to everyone, and then said something. Xiao Qiao couldn't hear what he said, but the Jin troops around the hill suddenly burst into a burst of laughter. After the laughter subsided, Liu Yu said something again, this time the whole army shouted long live, raised the weapons in their hands one after another, and shook the flag. The people who were not riding around were watching with their feet crossed, and the people on the horses were standing up straight in the stirrups.

Xiao Qiao stood on the driver's seat, and then saw a group of officers climbing the hill, all of them wearing armor, a few red cloaks, and more blue cloaks. They walked up to Liu Yu and saluted the latter. Liu Yu jumped off the horse, grabbed their hands one by one and spoke, and the attendant followed with a few large plates. Liu Yu grabbed bunches of red silk silk from the plate and hung them around everyone's necks. Then, the men turned around and faced the crowd. Immediately, cheers swept across the field like a storm. Xiao Qiao saw clearly that those silk silks actually formed the appearance of a red flower.

In this column of red flowers and armor, there is a pillar that stands taller than the crowd. The sun is the top photo, Xiao Qiao can't see his face clearly, he can only see the helmet flashing, the red tassels on the top of the helmet and the flowers on the neck are penetrated by the sun, like a red maple leaf representing praise and honor.

Xiao Qiao unconsciously pressed her hand to her chest.

She had never thought of the name deliberately, but the name had never left in her heart. Panic, joy, confusion, self-blame, and helplessness were all mixed together, covering her whole body, just like the blue cloak that had been covering her body at night.

It's time to reunite with the owner of the cloak.

Guo Xu.