The sky is gradually brightening, and it is rare that the rain has stopped for many days.

Under Liu He's instigation and intimidation, this small village called Houfengzhuang became noisy early in the morning, and both adults and children were all in a panic, desperately stuffing their pockets, baskets, and ox carts with household belongings and belongings, for fear of missing something important.

While the families were packing up their things, Liu He instructed Tian Chou to take Shi A and Ding Kuang out of the village with more than a dozen horses, and move all the fifteen corpses left in the field back to the village.

When the farmers saw the horses carrying some dead people back, and then looked at the mottled blood stains on their bodies and the shocking wounds in their throats, the panic in their hearts spread even more, and they did not want to stay in the village.

Feng Laohan's yard had become a ruin, and he had already changed his mind at this time, knowing that things such as farm tools in the Dao Dao house could not be moved away after all, and he would be cleaned up when he burned it down. As long as the people are still there, if the children who fled to Jingzhou can be found, no matter how sad the future is, it will not be worse than the current situation.

Liu He did not urge the farmers in the village very much, but fooled everyone to make the surplus grain hidden at home into dry food that was easy to carry, so as not to cheapen the Xiliang soldiers guarding the pass in vain when passing through the Wuguan.

Xiliang soldiers are full of bandits, famous far and wide, in the eyes of the common people more terrible than mountain bandits and bandits, if they are forced to do so, no one wants to take the initiative to provoke.

Because he was not very worried about Xian Yuyin's injury, Liu He asked Wang Yue to personally take action and apply gold sore medicine to Xian Yuyin again to stop bleeding and heal the wounds, while he asked people to find a few clean white cloths, tear them into long strips, and then put them in a pottery urn and boil them for a long time, then take them out and wring them out, and carefully bandage them on Xian Yuyin's shoulders.

Everyone didn't understand why Liu He was so troublesome, and he had to put the cloth strips into the boiling water and boil them several times, but Liu He warned everyone with a serious face that in the future, all the cloth belts used to bandage wounds must be boiled and disinfected in boiling water, otherwise they will be easily infected with the terrible disease of "tetanus".

Not only that, Liu He also asked everyone not to drink raw water in the future, and insisted on drinking cooked water after boiling and warming.

Although everyone didn't know what kind of disease "tetanus" was, they saw that Wang Yue, who had been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, showed a solemn expression, and knew that what Liu He said was not a joke, so he silently remembered it in his heart.

Under Feng Laohan's solicitation, the farmers in the village gathered a fairly sumptuous meal for Liu He and the other five people before leaving. Maybe it's because the name of the envoy of the Son of Heaven is loud, or maybe the official reputation of Youzhou Mu Liu Yu among the people is quite benevolent, in short, in order to curry favor with Liu He, the people of Fengzhuang almost put all the food they can get their hands on the table.

The people's wish is very simple, that is, they hope that through this meal that they are absolutely reluctant to eat on weekdays, they can make the benevolent waiter more kind, bring everyone to Nanyang safely, and then arrange a place for everyone to survive.

Looking at the table full of chickens and ducks, bacon and all kinds of pickled vegetables and vegetables, Liu He felt a little sad in his heart, but he didn't say anything, but beckoned everyone to eat more, don't let down the kindness of the villagers.

After eating the meal of leaving the hometown, Liu He came to the more than a dozen households that had already cleaned up, with a warm and confident smile, and said: "Folks, don't worry, as long as I am here, I will definitely not treat everyone badly in the future!" ”

After Liu He finished speaking, the murderous Xian Yuyin stood up, and then said: "My son-in-law has already made arrangements, in order to pass the Wuguan safely, you must obey my orders and dispatch now!" ”

"The old and the weak, the women and the children, and the children, stand over there, and you sixteen sturdy men stand over here......"

"Each family took out all the black clothes and fabrics in their backpacks, and we needed to change the men of the village into uniform clothes; All women and women over the age of sixteen and under forty must wear the dirtiest and oldest, and every man should wipe his face with ash from the bottom of the pot, so that he may not be humiliated by the soldiers when he passes the border......"

Under the instructions of Xian Yuyin, Tian Chou and others, everyone completed the most important preparations before leaving in an orderly manner.

It was almost noon, and the preparations were finally ready. Liu He gave an order, and most of the people of Houfeng Zhuang took the lead under the leadership of Tian Chou and marched towards Wuguan, which was more than twenty miles away.

The sixteen Zhuang Hans who stayed with Liu He, under Liu He's command, dismantled the wood and door panels and other flammable things on each house and concentrated them in the courtyard of Feng Laohan's house.

Twenty corpses lay on a tall pyre, and when a fire is lit, they will eventually be reduced to ashes, making it impossible to identify their origins and identities.

Before lighting the fire, Liu He had already asked people to take off the blades that these soldiers who were pretending to be robbers carried when they came, the money they were carrying in their arms, and even their clothes, shoes and socks.

Liu He is really poor now! In order to be able to return to Youzhou smoothly, he racked his brains to gather all the resources that could be used, and now he didn't even let go of the things on the dead man!

When Tian Chou and Xian Yuyin came to Chang'an to meet the emperor, they brought hundreds of good horses produced in Youzhou, a guard of fifty people, and a lot of gold and silver money.

In Dong Zhuo's words: "These belongings that Liu Yu dedicated to the emperor, this Taishi first guarded for the Son of Heaven, anyway, the emperor is young now, and he can't use it!" ”

The most hateful thing is that the emperor appointed Liu He as the special envoy of the Son of Heaven, and nominally asked him to send an envoy to Jingzhou to ask Liu Biao for a sum of money and taxes for the palace. Because if Liu He can really get money and food from Liu Biao, wouldn't Dong Zhuo benefit in the end?

But Dong Zhuo was not so enthusiastic and expected about this matter at all, so it was like sending Huazi, just letting Tian Chou and Xian Yuyin, who were sent by Liu Yu, be Liu He's entourage, and the fifty-person guards were directly assigned to his son Lu Bu!

In order to cut off the last thoughts of these villagers, Liu He ordered everyone to set fire to all the houses in the village, and completely achieved the "three lights" of moving, burning and escaping.

After dealing with these things, Liu He changed into the only official uniform he usually wore in the palace, and then rode a docile black horse personally selected for him by Xian Yuyin, swaggering towards Wuguan.

Guarding Liu He on either side were Wang Yue and Ding Jing, followed by sixteen horse-leading men uniformly dressed in black clothes, and behind him were Shi A and Xian Yuyin riding side by side.

Sixteen horses led by the men of Hou Fengzhuang were carrying all the valuable goods and soft goods of each family in this village. In order to look solemn, the uniform use of black cloth frame loading, from the outside looks quite sloppy.

Liu He carried in his arms the customs clearance documents that had been sealed by the Taishi, which could prove his identity as the envoy of the Son of Heaven. Last night, Liu He had already burned the secret edict that the emperor had written to Liu Yu in private, even if the team was deliberately troubled and searched by the Xiliang soldiers under the pass, there would be no result.

Tian Chou took the old and weak women and children of Hou Fengzhuang for two hours, and when it came to Shen Shi, he finally came to the heavily guarded Wuguan.

On the towering wall of Wuguan, a soldier in charge of lookout saw a group of people approaching from the side of the pass early, so he hurriedly reported to the general in charge of guarding.

The leader of the Xiliang soldiers on duty today is named Dong Bao, a partial general under Zhonglang General Duan Xuan, and he is also a person in the Dong clan in Longxi.

Dong Bao relied on the relationship with Dong Zhuo's brother Dong Min, nephews Dong Huang and Dong Yue and other generals of the same clan, and usually when he was on duty, he did some hurtful things behind Duan Xuan's back, such as robbing the money of the people who traveled in the past, robbing and ** good-looking women, and even occasionally getting angry after drinking, and directly killing lone pedestrians.

Hearing the report of his sentry, Dong Bao, who was drinking upstairs at the closed gate, suddenly came to his senses and led a few of his own soldiers to walk down the wall.

When Dong Bao saw the group of people approaching, his face became ugly.

"Straight sissy thief! It turned out to be a group of poor ghosts! ”

Dong Bao scolded and walked over with people and stopped in front of the group of people in Houfeng Zhuang.

"If there is one of you who is in charge, get out of here and answer Ben!"

Tian Chou, who was dressed in tattered clothes, hurriedly bent over and walked out of the crowd with a smile on his face.

"General Qiyu, the villain is Feng Gui, a farmer in Houfengzhuang, just because Zhuangzi was looted and burned by a group of bandits recently, and now everyone has no way to live, I heard that the big families in Jingzhou lack tenant farmers, so I want to go over to beg for food."

As Tian Chou spoke, he took out a patchwork bag of money and fine, and respectfully handed it over to the soldiers beside Dong Bao.