The raindrops hit the leather, making a "crackling" sound, Tang Ji lowered his head and glanced at the butterfly-shaped live buckle on his chest, pursed his lips, raised his face to look at Liu Wei and asked softly: "The concubine has a cowhide to cover the rain, how can the husband cover it?" ”

"This leather armor is the best rain gear!" While putting on his jacket and leather armor neatly, Liu Wei said to Tang Ji: "The road is slippery on a rainy day, you have to tighten me when you walk, don't fall." ”

Liu Wei was already soaked, but he could still think that she was going to fall when she was walking, Tang Ji was moved in her heart again, and she responded softly with a red face.

All the seriously injured patients were covered with a thin cowhide, and the wounds were simply wrapped in cowhide to shield them from the wind and rain, so that the wounds would not become infected by rainwater.

Zhou Cang explored the way in front of the head, Liu Wei and Tang Ji followed, and the rest of the people lined up in a long line behind and marched slowly.

It rained all night, the mountain road was muddy and slippery, and Tang Ji slipped under her feet several times along the way, and almost fell to the ground.

The spring rain is continuous, and when the rain rises, it is endless.

At first, Tang Ji and the seriously injured patients still had cowhides to protect them from the rain, and they were not so embarrassed. But by the second day, the thin cowhide had been soaked by the rain, and the raindrops hit it and penetrated through the cracks in the cowhide, and the waterproof effect was not as good as the first day.

Traveling in heavy rain, everyone else was fine, but the few seriously injured people were very difficult. The rain poured on the wounds, and the skin and flesh that turned out were soaked a little white, and the wounds of the two seriously injured patients had even begun to fester, bleeding pus.

Liu Wei also prepared some herbs to prevent infection, but when the herbs were applied to the wound, they would soon be washed away by the rain, and they would not have a therapeutic effect at all.

Walking beside the two men who were carrying the seriously wounded, Liu Wei put the back of his hand on the forehead of the seriously injured and probed it. The cold rain poured down on the wounded's face, but his forehead was hot.

"Find a place to shelter from the rain!" Liu Wei withdrew his hand, looked at the continuous mountains in front of him with a frown, and shouted to Zhou Cang, who was walking in front: "Yuanfu, do you know if there are any villages and towns around here?" ”

The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was slightly different from that of later generations, if it was a few hundred years later, there were many temples and ancestral halls dedicated to the gods, and Liu Wei and others could find a place to settle in a sparsely populated place.

However, the population was sparse at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although the people and officials were also very reverent of God, and the imperial court would often hold some activities to worship the sky, but the ancestral halls and temples were few and pitiful.

In the past few days after escaping from Luoyang City, except for seeing temples outside Luoyang City, Liu Wei almost didn't see ancestral halls and temples elsewhere, so when he asked Zhou Cang, he asked about the villages and towns.

"There's a town thirty miles ahead." Zhou Cang stopped, raised his hand and pointed forward, turned back to Liu Wei and said, "It's just that if we get there, we will have to deviate from the ferry......"

"I can't care about that." Liu Wei waved his hand and said to Zhou Cang: "Since you know the way, you will lead us and others to pretend to be officers and soldiers, find the town and settle down." ”

"No!" Zhou Cang responded with a fist, raised his feet and ran towards the front of the team, shouting to the men who were struggling in the rain: "Brothers, hurry up, if I wait to walk fast enough, I can rest in the town tonight!" ”

People who have been drenched in heavy rain for two days in a row have long been tired of this rain, and even Tang Ji, who said that she likes rain, has begun to resent the rainy weather. As soon as they heard that there was a town ahead, where would everyone delay, and the speed under their feet was much faster than before.

The seriously injured patients were all in a fever, and the expression on Liu Bian's face was much more solemn than two days ago. Choosing to settle in the town was a bold decision for him.

There will be no officers and soldiers in the village, at most there will be some army chiefs and pavilion chiefs, but the town is different, there will be lower-level officials in the town who are responsible for local thieves, if they are seen to be suspicious, once there is a conflict, it is likely to attract nearby officers and soldiers.

But if you don't go to the town to rest, others may be able to hold on, but the seriously injured can't stand the toss, and I'm afraid that before the rain stops, a few seriously injured people will die on the road.

"Is it cold or not?" Decided to rush to the town to rest, Liu Wei walked a lot faster, he pulled Tang Ji, walked briskly on the muddy road, turned his head and asked Tang Ji.

"It's not cold!" The rain had soaked through her clothes, Tang Ji was already shivering from the cold, and her lips were a little white, but in order not to worry Liu Wei too much, she still shook her head and said that she was not cold.

"Put it on!" Looking at Tang Ji's frozen white lips, Liu Wei untied the leather armor on his body as he walked, pulled Tang Ji to stop, put the leather armor on her body, and said to her softly: "It's heavier, and it can't cover much wind and rain, but it can always suppress the wind and cold." ”

"Husband, ......" Liu Wei put the leather armor on her body, Tang Ji hurriedly turned sideways and wanted to refuse, but he grabbed his arm and forcibly put the leather armor on her body.

"Hurry up, if you can get to the town tonight, you won't have to suffer from this rain anymore." After putting on the leather armor for Tang Ji, Liu Wei frowned slightly, glanced in the direction of the town pointed by Zhou Cang, pulled Tang Ji, shouted to everyone, and continued to walk forward against the wind and rain.

The wind was carrying the raindrops, hitting the face head-on, at first I just felt cold and cold, but later I felt that the raindrops hit my face a little numb and crispy.

Liu Wei lowered his head and pulled Tang Ji to walk on the side of the team. The road surface is getting muddy and muddy, and when I step on the road full of water, I splash yellow mud on my feet, and I feel very uncomfortable when I walk.

Rainy nights always come earlier than sunny nights, and although the pace of your feet has quickened considerably, the sky is still getting darker.

In the misty rain, a phantom of a house emerged. Liu Wei wiped his face full of rain, stretched his neck to look at the town in the distance, and shouted to the people behind him: "Brothers, work hard, you can enter the town in a few more miles!" ”

The town has appeared in the field of vision, and everyone was drenched in a dark mood by the rain at this moment, as if a rainbow had risen at this moment, and when Liu Wei shouted these words, except for the serious injuries who had no strength to follow the shout, all the men cheered in unison.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and some men with particularly poor vision were already in a fog in front of them, but none of them shouted and couldn't see anything.

All knew that the town was very close, and that if they gave up at this time, they would have to sleep in the wilderness tonight.

The town was getting closer and closer, and seeing that he was about to reach the entrance of the town, Liu Wei raised an arm and stopped everyone's advance.

"Yuanfu, you take the two brothers into the town first, and then say that the officers and soldiers are passing by, and collect a few private houses to live temporarily!" The team stopped, and Liu Wei explained to Zhou Cang on the side.

Zhou Cang answered, and ran towards the entrance of the town with two men in armor and soldiers.

"Brothers, come with me!" Zhou Cang took the two men into the town first, and Liu Wei waved to the people behind him and also went to the town.

After entering the town, Zhou Cang led the two men along the streets of the town, and the man who followed him to the left pointed to a house built of bluestone in front of him and said, "General Zhou, look at the house." ”

"What's wrong?" Following the direction of the man's finger, Zhou Cang glanced at the house not far in front of him, and asked the man, "What's wrong with the house?" ”

"Nothing." The man smiled awkwardly, stretched out his hand and scratched the back of his head and said to Zhou Cang: "It's just that the house is quite big......"

"Ugh!" Glancing at the man, Zhou Cang already understood what he meant, nodded and said, "I also think that the house is quite good, so I will go and ask them for a nightstay." ”

As he spoke, Zhou Cang had already raised his feet and walked towards the house, and when he arrived at the door of the house, he reached out and pulled up the cooked copper knocker on the door, and smashed it a few times.

After a while, the door of the house was opened from the inside, and a servant who was about seventeen or eighteen years old poked his head out, looked at Zhou Cang and the others from head to toe, and said in a strange manner: "Who are you waiting for?" Why are you knocking on my door? ”

"This little brother ......" Seeing that the door of the house opened, Zhou Cang hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted the little servant, and said to him: "We are the officers and soldiers under the command of General Niu Fu, who fought against the Yellow Turban rebels a few days ago. ”

"Go, go!" The little servant waved his hand at Zhou Cang, and said impatiently, "This is also the place where you are waiting to stay?" Go to other houses to disturb, don't make noise here! ”

As he spoke, the little servant took a step back, grasping the edge of the door with both hands to close the door. Zhou Cang was born in a yellow scarf, and he has always had a bandit in his bones, and he has been anxious by the heavy rain in the past two days, and it is rare to be able to talk to this little servant patiently.

I didn't know what to do, so not only did he not let them in, but he also ridiculed him. Where did Zhou Cang get angry with such a villain in the market, as soon as the little servant was about to close the door, he raised his feet and jumped up, grabbed the little servant's collar and scolded: "Grandpa is going to live in your house today, what are you going to do?" ”

"Someone, the officers and soldiers are beating people!" What Zhou Cang didn't expect was that the little servant's collar was grabbed, but he was not afraid at all, but shouted loudly.

Before his shout fell, there was a sudden shout in the originally quiet courtyard, and fifty or sixty people with short spears and shields poured out and rushed towards Zhou Cang, who was blocking the door.

Seeing the group of generals rushing out, Zhou Cang was stunned for a moment. Although ordinary rich families will also raise some home servants, but none of them can prepare their blades so neatly, and it can be seen from this group of family servants who rushed out that the master of this family must have led the soldiers to fight in the past!