132 On the edge of the cliff
Liu Yuanwai deserves to be Liu Yuanwai, and after he came back, not only the village chief and the people came to greet him.
The house has been properly arranged inside and out, ensuring that as soon as he returns home, the family will be able to open a banquet.
It seems that it is estimated that Liu Yuanwai will come back, and the servants at home have prepared the food for the reception banquet early.
Listening to Liu Yuanwai's introduction of Hua Minyun as the benefactor of their Liu family, up to the village head, down to Liu Yuanwai's parents are very grateful.
One by one, the villagers came over and said thank you.
The village chief is also surnamed Liu, and most of the people in this village are surnamed Liu, and they are all relatives of the same clan.
Village Chief Liu's attitude towards Hua Minyun and the two is as if Hua Minyun is also his benefactor.
"Where did the benefactor come from, and the accent doesn't seem like ours?"
Hua Minyun is a little curious, she has been running around since she was a child, and she has learned some words anywhere, but they are not pure.
"Oh? Village Chief Liu, guess where I'm from? I hadn't paid attention to this accent problem before, but now that I was reminded by the village chief, it made Hua Minyun a little vigilant in her curiosity.
She has a big plan, and she can't be negligent at any point.
Village Chief Liu seemed to be asked, thought about it, and was a little surprised: "Actually, I can't say, the old man has never been to other places, and the farthest is Huangyan County." ”
"However, last year there was a little beggar who came to fetch a bowl of water, and the old man saw that he was pitiful, and kept him for one night, and the next day he did not say goodbye, he said that he came from the north, and I thought that the benefactor's accent was somewhat similar to his, so I thought that the benefactor probably came from the north."
Hua Minyun nodded: "Yes, we are from the north, and we came to the south to join the army." ”
Hua Minyun said something as if it was true or false, but he didn't go deeper.
The villagers were gossiping.
Villager 1: "Why did the benefactor join the army, you two are outside, how worried the family should be." ”
I really can't understand it, in their cognition, joining the army is either a forced conscription by the imperial court, or the family can't survive. I went to the battlefield desperately.
This benefactor is extremely delicate, and he still has an attendant, listens to Liu Yuanwai's meaning, and has martial arts, and his family is good at first glance, so why bother to join the army.
Villager No. 2 also echoed: "Yes, isn't there any difficulty, the benefactor just needs to say and listen, although we are all small people, but those who can help must help, you also saved us Liu Laoba, we thank you." ”
Liu Yuanwai is the eighth oldest in the Liu family.
Villager No. 3 also made suggestions: "I heard that you only need to pay enough money to be exempted from military service, village chief, you go to the city tomorrow to help ask, if the benefactor really has any difficulties, we can't help." ”
Villager 4: "This year, depending on the situation, the harvest must be good, our prefect is self-compassionate, the tax burden is very low, sell the grain, and make up the silver." ”
Liu Yuanwai was not to be outdone, and waved his hand: "Where are you used?" I went out this time to earn a lot of money, and I put it here and put it away, and I am happy to use it for my benefactor. ”
This made Hua Minyun feel both moving and fresh.
This village is quite small, there are only two clans in total, and the Liu family clan is larger.
People are very close to each other, and it can be seen that this Liu Yuanwai's family is a kind-hearted person, he came back, and the villagers came to help get the wind banquet, and I heard that the road that came in from the village entrance was also repaired by Liu Yuanwai.
Such kind-hearted people, such hospitable villagers, and such simple rural customs made Hua Minyun sigh that he really didn't save the wrong person when he saved Liu Yuanwai.
She hurriedly shook her head and thanked everyone for their kindness: "Everyone doesn't know, my name is Xie Yun, I am a side branch of the Xie family in the southwest mansion, and I have practiced martial arts. ”
Liu Yuanwai was stunned for a moment, and was overjoyed: "It turned out to be General Xie's family." The benefactor wants me to repay it. ”
Hua Minyun didn't expect that Liu Yuanwai also knew the Xie family.
"The benefactor doesn't know, I went to the southwest mansion a few years ago to run a business, and one day I met a few people from the Southern Desert, they took a fancy to the red ginseng I was going to sell, and they not only wanted to rob it, but also wanted to kill me, if it weren't for General Xie Shao, I would have died a long time ago."
"I wanted to thank Major General Xie, but I didn't expect him to wave his hand and leave, or the people around me told me that it was Major General Xie, so I knew which family the benefactor belonged to."
It's just that he later wanted to go to the house to pay a visit, but he learned that his benefactor went to his sister's house to give a New Year's gift, but he didn't meet him.
"Unexpectedly, this time, it was General Xie's family who saved the lives of my family."
As he spoke, he was about to kneel down again, kowtowing to Hua Min.
Hua Minyun hurriedly grabbed him, it turned out to be his uncle.
My uncle has always been uneven, and it's too normal to do this kind of fact.
However, when the villagers heard Liu Yuanwai say this, they became lively again.
"General Xie Xiao is really a young talent, speaking of which, it is really not easy for General Xie's family to defend the frontier."
"Yes, yes, we are so close to the Southwest Mansion, if it weren't for General Xie's family guarding there, where would we have a peaceful birthday."
"Don't say it, my mother-in-law's cousin's cousin married into Ji'an Mansion."
"Isn't the Qinglong Army stationed there, don't say it's really better than our General Xie here, I heard that the people in the Qinglong Army are still taking the opportunity to collect money and compete with the people for profit, and the Shen family is biased towards those sergeants."
This has never happened to the Suzaku Army. Therefore, not all generals are like General Xie, at least General Qinglong, who is as famous as General Suzaku.
In the evening, the guest rooms prepared by the Liu family for Hua Minyun and Weiyue are also excellent.
The washed and dried very clean fluffy mattress, the house is prepared with hot water, and the intimate food is warmed with grass covers, which contains chicken soup and simmered soft and sweet rice porridge, in case the guests are hungry at night, you can cushion the stomach.
I also thoughtfully arranged a separate quiet small yard for them.
Although it is not as elaborate as the upper room of those inns, it has a sense of warmth.
It can be seen that the Liu family is interested in her.
It's just that Hua Minyun thought that he would be able to fall asleep soon.
But I didn't expect to be so uneasy all of a sudden.
A few days ago, there was only some apprehension, but tonight the feeling is getting stronger.
She had a gut feeling that something was going to happen.
But what can it be?
The Xie family's side is quite stable now. Even if Nisubu counterattacked, the Xie family had already prepared, and his brother-in-law Xie Chen was stationed there waiting, and it was not so easy to counterattack.
In Bianjing City, Daddy and Mother have Wuxing and the four teams of Meilan Zhuju to watch. The news just passed a few days ago was peaceful, even if there were some twists and turns, but the Hua family, as an old wealthy and powerful family, how could they not have a hole card to save their lives.
Hua Minyun knew very well that even if the emperor tried his best not to take down the Hua family at once, it would not be so easy.
Otherwise, why bother killing her in the first place.
She's fine now. The journey was fairly smooth to the southwest mansion, and he was not recognized.
Isn't there something wrong with the mountain bandits who are temporarily suppressed in the firewood room and ready to be sent to Huangyan County tomorrow? But the own dart masters watched.
That's it, the village chief and Liu Yuanwai are still not at ease, so let the Qingzhuang township neighbors suffer a little tonight, and they all go there to guard, and be sure to keep those mountain bandits in prison.
If something had gone wrong with the bandits, there would have been a commotion in the front yard, but now there was no movement at all.
What's the restlessness?
When I was tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep, I suddenly remembered the sound of Si Xisuo's soo.
Hua Minyun suddenly bounced up from the bed.
It doesn't sound right.
Xiahe Village is backed by Qishan, and it happens that the Liu family's mansion is at the foot of Qishan.
And it just so happened that the small guest house where she lived was at the back of the house, closest to Qishan.
Qishan is an extremely steep mountain range, very large, connecting the Great Wei and Nanzhao.
Half is in the territory of Great Wei and half in Nanzhao.
The voice of Si Si Suo was still far away, but she was so strong that she heard it, and was sure that it came from the mountains.
Hua Minyun listened carefully, this sound was like footsteps?!
Or the footsteps of many people.
A flash of inspiration flashed through her mind, and an incredible thought came to her mind.
Mo isn't Nisubu, right?!
He didn't face the Xie family army directly, but was ready to bypass the Xie family army, crossed Qishan, and was going to Min Nanfu?
Come to think of it, it's not impossible.
Although the terrain of Qishan is steep, there are continuous lofty mountains and steep cliffs everywhere.
However, there are two steep slopes that are slightly gentle.
One side is in the territory of Nanzhao, and the other side is in Dawei.
When Hua Minyun chatted with the villagers in Xiahe, he heard them mention that they would go to the mountains to pick some wild vegetables when they were not working, and the children in the village liked to go to the mountains to pick wild fruits the most.
It's just that the elders don't allow them to go too deep, because there are wild beasts.
However, there is an old hunter in Xiahe Village, and he is also there today, and he also boasted that he once chased an injured brown bear, went deep into the depths of Qishan, and got lost.
Then he met a man who seemed to be a foreigner, and he could not understand anything, and they showed him the way, and he came back.
Some people in Xiahe Village think that he is bragging, because this old Orion likes to brag when he is young, but some people think that the old Orion is lucky, maybe he met the land father-in-law or the Qishan mountain god, and showed him the way home.
At that time, Hua Minyun listened to the words of the old Orion, and only regarded it as a small talk, and did not take it to heart at all, but now that he thinks about it, the Orion is afraid that he is not boasting, but he has really met someone.
As for meeting a foreigner, it will naturally not be a mountain god, it should be a Nanzhao person.
In other words, there is a road between Nanzhao and Great Wei.
Hua Minyun's face immediately became solemn, if her guess was correct, the Nanmo people wanted to take advantage of the passage to enter the interior from here, probably because they wanted to go around to the rear of the Xie family, take them by surprise, attack them unprepared, and catch the Xie family by surprise.
Regardless of what happened to the Xie family, now that they have borrowed this road, Xiahe Village will bear the brunt.
With the worship of the wolf god and the cruelty and bloodshed of the people of the southern desert, there is a chance that the village will be slaughtered.
And Xiahe Village is the first stop, and after that, they must have slaughtered the village and slaughtered the city.
These villagers will definitely be cut by them, and they will be powerless to resist.
Thinking of the simple and enthusiastic faces of the villagers in Xiahe, Hua Minyun couldn't bear this at all.
She had to go see what was going on.
Although he thought about it so much, it was only a moment that flashed in his mind, and Hua Minyun quietly walked out of the room, and happened to see Weiyue in the courtyard.
Presumably, Weiyue also heard the voice.
Hua Minyun gestured to Weiyue, Weiyue nodded, and the two jumped over the eaves and silently groped in the direction of Qishan.
Following the sound, Hua Minyun and Weiyue groped for about half an hour, and then they saw the dense firelight within the sight of Qishan.
They were sitting in a circle, sitting or lying, as if resting.
Game is also roasted on the campfire.
Looking at the clothes and accessories, listening to the shadowy voices, it is clearly the language of the Southern Desert, and it is undoubtedly the Southern Desert Army.
Hua Min crouched on the tree, and quickly gestured to Weiyue, asking her to go back and tell the village chief about this first, find a place to hide first, and then let Weiyue go to the county seat to move the rescue troops, which is closer to the southwest mansion, and it is more convenient to inform Xie Jiajun and let them come to help quickly.
Weiyue understood what Hua Minyun meant, and drifted away silently as she came.
She sped down the road.
Weiyue knew that time was life at this time, and the girl's move was extremely risky, after they were sure that they were from the Southern Desert, Weiyue didn't see how many people there were, so the girl asked her to go back and report the news.
If there are many people, and the girl is hard to beat the monkeys, if she really wants to explain here, she can't apologize for killing herself.
Thinking of this, the speed on her feet increased, and before her eyes could see the way, she took a leap at a rapid speed.
Time is of the essence, and she can't afford to delay.
Hua Minyun didn't know that Weiyue ran for her life for her safety.
She squinted her eyes and looked down at the Nandesert people who were eating and drinking not far away, scolding and scolding.
They all wore similar clothes, which should be the uniform clothing in the Southern Desert army.
She estimated that the number of people here was about two or three hundred.
Come to think of it, maybe it's the vanguard, right?!
She had received information earlier that Nisubu had led an army of 100,000 to besiege the Suzaku Army.
Now such a large number of men and horses must be stationed on the other side of Qishan.
I don't know how Nisub knew about this shortcut, so he sent the vanguard to investigate.
Hua Minyun received a tip half a month ago that Nisub had disappeared with his army.
Turning from the border city where the Xie family was at war to Qishan was feasible in terms of route and speed in half a month.
If this road is cleared by the vanguard troops, they will reach Xiahe Village, and after slaughtering the village, they will just rest in Xiahe Village, and when the large army has arrived, they will kill them from the inside of Great Wei.
It's really not poisonous.
At that time, not only the Xie family, but also this Minnan Mansion would become a purgatory on earth.
Even if the Xie family survived under the encirclement and suppression of Nisubu, would the emperor spare the Xie family?
I'm afraid the big hat of rebellion is going to be buckled.
After all, how could the people of the Southern Desert invade the interior?
If the Xie family dies, they will be splashed with a basin of dirty water, and it will be said that they will share the spoils unevenly with Nan Mo afterwards.
If he lived, he would also be liquidated by the emperor, and it was said that he conspired with Nanmo to raise an uprising, establish himself as the king, and shake the country.
Nan Mo has bad intentions, and the emperor can be punished.
Hua Minyun remembered his past life, and now in this life, although he has advanced many years in advance, the Xie family has also stood on the edge of the cliff.