After saying this, no one asked anything more, but the woman wearing a Luo skirt next to her glanced at her worriedly, "Girl, if the relatives you are looking for are not from our neighborhood, then don't go any further." ”

Although she knew the main reason, she really didn't go forward, but Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but ask, "Why?" ”

"What else! I heard that Emperor Yue Hua personally led an army of 50,000 to fight our Nanming Kingdom, and the emperor began to issue an order to recruit troops and horses again! ”

The man who had been snorting melon seeds from the beginning said a word, and a mouthful of phlegm quenched to the ground.

"Hey," the shopkeeper who sold steamed buns came forward with a bun and sighed, "I don't know when such a thing will be a big deal,"

"But no, this battle is fought every year, every month, every day, those who sit on the throne think about expanding their territory all day long, everyone wants to stand on the top of the position, but who knows, in the end, it is not us ordinary people who suffer and be oppressed?"

"Speaking of which, Emperor Nanming has also recruited a lot of men from our village over the years, so isn't that sending people to the battlefield? I heard that the three sons of the Li family next door have all been arrested to the front line in this battle with Yue Hua, and they have not come back for more than half a year. ”

"Hmph, if you want to say, only a tyrant like Chu Boyuan can do such a thing! As early as 20 years ago, in the first war with Yue Hua, we lost most of our country's territory and manpower, and now we want to repeat the same mistakes again! ”

It was a man dressed as a scholar on the other side.

Xia Xiaoxiao still wanted to say something, but these words fell into his ears one by one, but he couldn't say anything, what they wanted to fight for and take was this world, with one party, they still wanted the other party, and they didn't give up until the world fell into the hands of the last person.

"What is this?" Suddenly, a fat woman who had been chattering melon seeds on the side spoke, "I just came from the next village yesterday, I heard that the military prostitutes in the Nanming military camp have suddenly escaped in the past two days, and now the men who are staying in the military camp are anxious, Her Royal Highness the princess has given an order, and in the past two days, she has been busy in these nearby villages to arrest people, saying that it is to arrest military prostitutes, but some people have seen that some of the last ones are clearly innocent girls, look at this appearance, if the last person can't catch them, those people in the government will directly arrest some girls at will to confuse the real with fake!" ”

One exclaimed, "Is this worth it?" ”

The woman also sighed, "What's the problem, this world is already chaotic......

It's the way of the world that is chaotic...... It's people's hearts that are messing up......

The words that once rang in my ears whispered repeatedly, and then faintly, as if the distant and near sound of horses' hooves, and the noise of fighting on the battlefield......

"Oh no, it looks like the government really came to arrest those military prostitutes who escaped!"

I don't know who next to me suddenly shouted, as soon as the voice fell, someone had already heard the sound of horses' hooves from outside the village, and the people around hurriedly stood up and looked outside, Xia Xiaoxiao was also startled, and only then did he recover a little from those conversations just now, and then looked in the direction of the outside of the village.

It stands to reason that the person who is leading the troops to fight on the front line now is Beigong Pheasant, although he is now their master on the surface, but in any case, he was also Yue Hua's person, and it was this war, and his participation was indispensable, but why didn't he hear the slightest mention from these people's mouths?

"Girl, what about your concubine?"

Thinking about it, Xia Xiaoxiao really asked so.

Next to her was the woman who had been sitting beside her from the beginning, dressed in plain clothes and skirts, no one in such a village had to be a big family, and she didn't pay much attention to her dress, but her eyes were bright and soft, and she also had a bit of dexterity in it, "If you want to say that our concubine is from Yue Huaguo, but it is also for us ordinary people, no, this war was provoked by the faint monarch on the head, but the concubine was unwilling to start a war after stopping it for a long time, and we ordinary people said, I wish we were the emperor! It is us ordinary people who suffer in the end! ”

In such a place, he is not afraid to say anything rebellious, anyway, those people can't listen to it, so they are also resentful, but Xia Xiaoxiao's face immediately surged with doubts,

Unlike what she had heard, this war started from the beginning in the hands of Beigong Pheasant, who captured two cities in Yuehua in a row, and now he is trading Ji Lingnan.

So, who's lying to whom?

Did Beigong Pheasant Li make Ji spread such words in Nanming, and moved the resentment of the common people to Chu Boyuan, so as to win the hearts of the people, or from the beginning, it was Beigong Yu who deliberately misled her?

While the two were talking, the woman who had just run out to take a look ran back again, "Hey, let's go, the old woman is right, the government really came to our village to find the girls!" ”

"What girl?"

When the woman next to Xia Xiaoxiao heard this, she hurriedly got up and looked out, but in the time of two sentences, the street was already noisy, and they all ran to the village, closing the doors and windows door to door, and even the people who were still sitting together and talking about it disappeared in a blink of an eye. Now I heard that the men in those barracks are making a lot of trouble and their morale is low, and the girls who escaped have not been caught back at all, so now find us village girls to make up the numbers, regardless of whether you escaped from the barracks or not, in the hands of those people, it will not be a yes! ”

The woman in front of her was so frightened that her face turned white all of a sudden, and at the same time, Xia Xiaoxiao was no better, but after thinking about it, there was a lack of people above, people were looking for people below, and if you couldn't find anyone, you would arrest people to make up the numbers, in such a remote village, even if you go to sue, you can't find a place to sue, there is a battle line ahead, who dares to offend those who are on the battlefield?

"Girl, let's go quickly, the sound of horses' hooves just now is the government's search for someone!"

The girl had already lost her face and wanted to run, but when she saw Xia Xiaoxiao who was still stunned on the side, she hurriedly grabbed her hand, turned around and ran in the direction of the alley.

The sound of swords colliding not far away gradually came to this side, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but glance back, and at the moment when Xia Xiaoxiao turned around, several men in official costumes had poured into the side of the street as far as his sight could see, and when he saw Xia Xiaoxiao and the two running towards the back of the alley, he shouted, "Come on, there are two people here!" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao didn't care anymore, from the beginning, she was actually just going to come in and ask for directions, and she followed the girl with a little smoke.

Fortunately, the girl who was running with her was familiar with the avenues and paths in their village, and after going out of the alley, she turned into a rather remote alley.

But Murong Tianlian's guy didn't get her feet back to their original state after she dropped her, she couldn't run fast with a limp on one foot, and she was tired enough, that peacock was going to throw her to a safe place, did you really wish she would die early?

The girl holding her hand soon realized that Xia Xiaoxiao had a problem with her feet, so she could only stop in the alley temporarily, "Girl, can you still run?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao was almost so tired that she leaned against the wall, the girl was busy giving her a good breath, and Xia Xiaoxiao relieved herself to answer her words, "Hugh...... Take a break......"

Fortunately, it is remote, there are several walls in front of it, and listening to the noisy sounds outside, I am afraid that those people in the government have begun to search from house to house.

robbing people's daughters, such a thing was actually done by people from the government!

"Those military prostitutes should have stayed well in the barracks, and they should be guarded, in a place as tight as the barracks, how could the prostitutes suddenly escape?"

Even in so many years of history, there has never been such a thing, those girls who stayed in the barracks, there are naturally some of them, but some of them are voluntary, and some of them are forced, let's put aside how strict the guards are inside, not to mention how strict the guards are, ordinary people can't come out if they go in without a military order, it's really negligent, one or two people are fine, but all the military prostitutes in the entire barracks have fled, this thing is too strange.

"Who knows, if it weren't for Zhao Erniang talking about hearing about it next door, I would be in the dark now." She also seemed to be tired from running, and she leaned against the wall panting, "You said that you are unreasonable to catch men to fight, and now you are still coming to arrest us women to serve as military prostitutes, if this war is not over, I think this country will be finished sooner or later!" ”

She scolded angrily, Xia Xiaoxiao pursed her lips, this battle, this battle is over, there will be the next battle, to fight, when will the fight be over?

The girl glanced at Xia Xiaoxiao's face, as if she had just realized that her words were a little inferior, and quickly changed her face, "By the way, girl, I see that you have come so far alone, and now you have seen what scene is outside, looking for some powerless women in the family, although you are now dressed as a man, but you are talking about it, why don't you go to me for two days to hide and then go to find relatives?" ”

Hiding for two days, but she didn't know where Beigong Yu's people had gone for the past two days, not to mention that she should be going backwards, and she was hesitating, whether to wait for those officers and soldiers to withdraw and then ask Yue Hua's army in which direction it would come, and a sound of interruption interrupted the silent scene.

"My lord, I've found a woman here!"

As soon as Xia Xiaoxiao and the others heard this voice, their first reaction was to immediately run in the opposite direction, but when the two turned around, they realized that they were running to the most unoccupied place, and the result was that they ran into a dead end, and there was no way out!

"Get on your knees!"

As soon as his knees hurt, Xia Xiaoxiao and the woman were thrown in front of a group of people, and one of the men in official uniforms immediately reported to the man who was riding on horseback, "Deputy Lieutenant Song, these are the last two people caught in this village, and the rest are running to Li Village, if our people chase after them again, I'm afraid it will be ......."

The latter words are self-evident, there is no shortage of powerful and rich people in the village, after all, they are people from the government, and this kind of matter will still have some impact if it is bigger, and it is impossible for them not to ignore it.

"Hmph, what a big boldness, the court took the money, so naturally he should do what he wants to do, and he dares to be so ignorant!"

The man in front of the crowd let out a low voice, Xia Xiaoxiao and the two glanced at each other, the entanglement in their eyes was undoubtedly thinking about how to escape, and the next moment they heard a woman who was also arrested on the side crying, "My lord, the people are wronged!" The folk girl is not a military prostitute, you must have recognized the wrong person! ”

It seems that the girl hasn't figured out what the situation is, in fact, it's not just that girl, a voice came out, and all that immediately sounded was the voice of crying and shouting wronged, and Deputy Lieutenant Song was already impatient, "Less nonsense!" Isn't it back to the barracks' own roster! When people come, they will take people away! ”

The people below were about to make a move, but before Xia Xiaoxiao could speak, the woman next to her immediately cried and opened her mouth, "My lord, since you are arresting a military prostitute, can you let my husband go?" ”

It was the woman who pulled Xia Xiaoxiao to run away from the beginning, Xia Xiaoxiao looked at her with a stunned face, and was about to speak, when she was signaled by a look, Xia Xiaoxiao reacted, did she want her to slip away alone?

Xia Xiaoxiao immediately lowered her eyebrows and said nothing, this is really not that she is greedy for life and afraid of death and is not righteous enough, but if she can go out first, at least there is a glimmer of hope to find Beigong Yu and let Beigong Yu rescue these girls!

The man seemed to have just seen Xia Xiaoxiao, who was kneeling not far from his feet from beginning to end, dressed as a man, but there was a little delicate between his eyebrows, and the color in his eyes brightened a little, "What's it called, how old is it?" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief, didn't make a sound, and only said a few words slowly with his mouth, and the lieutenant frowned when he saw it, but fortunately, the woman next to Xia Xiaoxiao was clever, and hurriedly repeated Xia Xiaoxiao's words, "The slave husband's name is Xia Erxiao, and he is twenty years old." ”

"Dare or dumb?" Deputy Lieutenant Song took a sip of displeasure, Xia Xiaoxiao was thinking that this man's costume had finally come in handy and made people disgusted for a while, but who knew that the man's next sentence came out, Xia Xiaoxiao was so angry that he almost vomited blood!

Before, he was just talking about coming to catch military prostitutes, but at this moment, everyone present could hear the man who was slowly laughing, "It's okay, take it away, there are also many brothers in the military camp who like men, seeing that your husband is beautiful, it is better to let the two of you have a companion on the road together!" ”

Xia Xiaoxiao and all the women present listened in disbelief to what Deputy Lieutenant Song said, go to your uncle's arrest of the escaped military prostitute! Dare to love that anyone can arrest her?!

There was no way to do it now, and someone immediately stepped forward behind him to tie up all the women present, put iron chains on their hands, and walked along an old road, which was the direction of the military camp where Nanming was stationed.

Xia Xiaoxiao looked at the place where he could barely see some gunpowder smoke in the distance, the place where Nanming camped, and the place where Beigong pheasants left.

"Hey, your name is really Xia Erxiao?"

Behind her, the woman stepped forward and whispered a question.

Because the two of them were the last, except for a few people from the official mansion not far away, there was nothing else, Xia Xiaoxiao glanced back at her, and nodded a little resignedly.

"My surname is Jiang Zhi, you can call me Ah Zhi."

Jiang Zhi smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and when she smiled, she had shallow pear vortex eyes that were watery, Xia Xiaoxiao looked very envious, but she still couldn't help crying without tears, "Miss Zhi, although I am very grateful to you for pulling out your sword and helping me run away from the beginning, and you are bent on helping me escape, but how can you still laugh in this situation now?" ”

"What's the use of thinking about it now, those girls in the barracks can escape, and then we can find another opportunity to sneak out."

Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but admire when she saw that she really didn't have any fear on her face, when would she be able to practice such a light breeze that would not change even if the sky fell?

In the Nanming barracks, the morale of the foreign side was monstrous, the exercise was repeated over and over again, and only in the deepest camp tent, the noisy sounds outside could barely be separated.

"Master, this war has stopped for nearly half a month, Beigong Yu has already rushed over here with his army of 50,000, if we don't do it at this time, I'm afraid our losses will be even greater......"

Anzi glanced out at the soldiers who had been practicing all day in recent days, lowered the curtain and walked to the bookcase, and said in a low voice.

After the bookcase, Beigong Pheasant Li put down the letterhead he had just finished reading in his hand, his fingertips fell on the wooden bookcase and slowly snapped, and the corners of his mouth lifted a curvature, "Now do it, let Chu Boyuan sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman?" ”

After being silent for a long moment, Anzi suddenly came to his senses, and was about to say something, when a soldier outside the door hurriedly walked in and knelt in front of the bookcase, "Master, I heard that the military prostitutes who escaped were all found by the princess." ”

An Zi raised his eyes slightly, only to see Beigong Pheasant Liguang twisted his eyebrows unhappily when he heard the word princess, he waved his hand and ordered people to go down, and then he came forward to think about it and said, "Master, forgive the slave for talking too much, first put aside whether Princess Chu knows the truth, but the princess is doing this, it is nothing more than hoping that the princess will improve her winning face in this war......"

Before he finished speaking, he was swept by Beigong Pheasant's extremely cold gaze, and he immediately stopped talking, not daring to say more, but it was just a glance, Beigong Pheasant Li had already withdrawn his gaze, Anzi saw him bow his head, as if he had taken out something from his arms, and the frown between his eyebrows gradually loosened, so he also lowered his eyes to see the thing in his hand, which was a handkerchief, embroidered with a magnolia, so white that it was not dusty.

Beigong Pheasant Li stared at the silk handkerchief in his hand, and the cold color in his eyes gradually softened, it was left by Xia Xiaoxiao when he first came to Nanming Kingdom, and it was the day he and Chu Muruo got married.

At that time, he didn't think too much, he just thought that she was negative, not to mention that there were more important things waiting for him to do at that time, and it was much safer to stay by Beigong Yu's side than by his side, so he was relieved, and he didn't even give her a hasty explanation, but when it was time to say goodbye, how long? But for more than two months, she snuggled in Beigong Yu's arms in front of him, and personally said that she was going to go with Beigong Yu, and no one knew better than him how much she used to hate Beigong Yu.

He didn't even dare to think about whether if she had thrown this handkerchief in the wind meant that she had lost him too.

Beigong Pheasant left his hand with a strong force, clutched the handkerchief tightly in his hand, and the expression in his eyes became cold again, "Anzi." ”

Anzi immediately came back to his senses and stepped forward, "What do you command?" ”

"Has the man sent to find out about her returned?"

She can guess this, needless to say, Anzi can guess, "Not yet, but I think it should be these days." ”

Someone who has been sent for nearly half a month, and there is no news yet?

The palm of the hand was spread out again, and the magnolia on the silk handkerchief was lying quietly, and it fell into the eyes of Beigong Pheasant, and it actually gave birth to a different kind of demonic smelt.

In the dark and remote camp, there were densely kneeling people, those girls, all crying with pear blossoms and rain, if it weren't for Xia Xiaoxiao's appearance as a man and a mute identity at this time, she would have cried like that.

It was dark, and the people in the entire barracks seemed to know that the military prostitutes who had escaped had been arrested, and there was a lot of noise outside, and these trivial things could not be arranged by those men, and there was a mother who had been in charge of the roster, but it was just a random sweep, so he said to the man who was not small, "It's all right, it's all right, there are a lot of girls who have escaped!" ”

It's all a group of girls who have never seen anything in the world, where have they ever been to a place like a barracks, and have seen these fierce-faced men? It was just that he swore not to obey along the way, and he lost his life on the road, and those who didn't understand the current situation also guessed a rough idea, if there were any more people who didn't know what to do, I was afraid that they would die and not die as well as the previous ones.

This matter, Xia Xiaoxiao is also dead, military prostitutes, are the most hard-working, those things that the men on the battlefield use to vent, there are also some who are tired to death because of this, and they all have the most ugly reputation, but when those corpses are in front of her, the only thing she can think of is a few words, she can live for a while, if these men really dare to touch a hair of her hair, she will have to pull a cushion to go when she dies!

Fortunately, I just came here today because it is full, and there must be a set in the open and in the dark, and some people know, so they have to hide it from some people, and it was late at night, and the mother beat people away, leaving only a big camp full of girls, and the earnest smile on their faces immediately turned gloomy, "Since you are here today, then this is your life, the will of Her Royal Highness the Princess, you can't hide." ”

Mom straightened the clothes wrapped in the fat body, and said slowly, "Mom, I have worked in the barracks for so much time, and those things between men and women are not the same as you, and you will naturally know after a long time, I don't care which girl you are, if you come out of the barracks, you don't want your own life, so you don't want your own life, so you can think about the life of your family, right?" In such a few remote places, don't annoy Her Royal Highness the Princess. ”

The implication is that if you are annoyed, it is really not as simple as one or two lives lost.

After the instructions were finished, the mother paused on Xia Xiaoxiao when she left, and sneered, "It's a young man with clear eyebrows, and if you are cheap, I prayed not to be revealed, my mother is not a guarantor." ”

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