Chapter 53: The Mountain Barbarians
He Jingying stared at Xiao Lian and asked, "Are you on or am I on?" ”
Xiao Lian, who was alive and well in the past, looked at He Jingying's eager appearance and was stunned, and said politely: "You go, you go." ”
He Jingying stepped forward, first ripped off the strips of cloth from the mouths of the two women and asked, "What are your names?" ”
The two women, one glared at He Jingying angrily, and the other almost burst into tears. But they all bit their lipes and refused to say their names.
"Don't say yes, do you? Good! He Jingying learned Xiao Lian's appearance, the corners of her mouth were slanted and raised, and her smile was light, looking like she had obtained Xiao Lian's eight-point true biography. He Jingying lifted the corner of the quilt wrapped around the two women. Holding the silver kettle in his hand as if threatening, the weaker woman immediately burst into tears and began to cry bitterly. Even the stubborn man blushed and tears welled up in his eyes.
The slightly weaker woman cried, "Sister Yin, what should I do? What to do? ”
The stubborn woman said angrily: "What are you crying about! Deal! It's a big deal! ”
He Jingying poked the woman's exposed fragrant shoulders: "Die together?" It's easy to say, you can't even hold it out of your hands. ”
He Jingying smiled lightly and squatted in front of the weak woman: "You say, what is her name?" ”
"Don't say it!" The stubborn woman shouted.
He Jingying didn't give the weak woman a chance to hesitate at all, and lifted her quilt a little more. The woman screamed and ducked into the corner: "I say! I say! My name is Miao Shanhe, and her name is Liu Yinzhou! ”
Liu Yinzhou saw that his name was broken, and the tears that Fang had been holding back fell uncontrollably.
Xiao Lian asked, "Are you Liu Xingzu's sister?" ”
A trace of vigilance flashed in Liu Yinzhou's eyes, and he replied, "No! You're mistaken! ”
Xiao Lian said again: "Liu Xingzu is dead. ”
Liu Yinzhou was stunned for a moment, and looked at Xiao Lian blankly: "What did you say?" ”
Xiao Lian repeated again: "Liu Xingzu is dead, and Wei Leisheng is also dead." ”
Liu Yinzhou collapsed: "Impossible! No way! ”
He Jingying showed sorrow on her face, loosened the rope that tied Liu Yinzhou, and took two outer robes: "You two put them on first." After that, he turned his back to Xiao Lian.
After the two of them got dressed, Miao Lanhe helped Liu Yinzhou, who was like ashes, to sit on the stool.
He Jingying asked softly, "Yinzhou, your brother asked us to come to you." "Although it's not the truth, I believe that Liu Xingzu also hopes that they can find Liu Yinzhou." Why did you get caught in the brothel? ”
Liu Yinzhou was still immersed in sadness and couldn't answer, so Miao Lanhe answered for her: "We were sold here?" ”
He Jingying: "Sold here?" "Liu Yinzhou obviously escaped by himself, why was he sold here again?
Miao Lanhe looked at Liu Yinzhou and said, "Have the two sons heard of the barbarian plundering of the mountains here?" ”
He Jingying nodded: "I heard that Yongzhou Mountain is rampant, but hasn't it been suppressed?" ”
Miao Lanhe smiled sarcastically: "Suppress what? Those are not mountain barbarians at all! It's the people of the government at all! ”
He Jingying's heart moved: "You mean that the mountain barbarians here collude with the government?" ”
Miao Lanhe nodded: "I originally lived on the mountain on the outskirts of the city. He was arrested by several people just after he came down the mountain that day. Although those people were dressed as mountain barbarians, I could tell that they were from the city. The sons must know that we who live in the mountains have a specific name for the plants and wild fruits in the mountain, and they either don't know it, or they call it in the city. I was caught in a cave, where I met Sister Yin. ”
Liu Yinzhou came back to his senses at this time, looked at He Jingying and asked, "How can I believe you?" ”
He Jingying replied lightly: "You don't need to believe me, it's up to you to say it or not." But you see, if I want to harm you, I can kill you now. ”
"Okay." Liu Yinzhou nodded and said, "That day, after Wei Leisheng was arrested, I knew that something was wrong, so I wanted to hide outside the city for a few days. Like He'er, he was taken to a cave not long after he left the city. The guards called us Northern Slaves and said that we were northern escapees, and they would not listen to any excuses we had. Later, I learned from a conversation between the two guards that they had to catch thirty people a month. Where can you get the origin, whether it is from a poor family in the vicinity, or a lonely person, no matter whether it is a southerner or a northerner, they dare to arrest it. Some of these people were sold to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and some were cut off and sold to the south as slaves. We were sold to a brothel. ”
If it is only to shield the mountain barbarians, it can be said to be a crime of negligence, but if it is collusion with the mountain barbarians, then it is a different matter.
Xiao Lian asked, "You can still find that cave?" ”
Of course, it is not enough for a single witness to convict Xiao Zimao.
Liu Yinzhou looked up at Xiao Lian, with a faint light in his eyes: "Are you going to that cave?" ”
He Jingying nodded and said softly: "Yinzhou, do you want to avenge your brother and Wei Leisheng?" ”
The dead eyes suddenly came to life, and a small cluster of fire was beating in the eye. Liu Yinzhou replied categorically: "Yes! ”
When Miao Shanhe heard that Liu Yinzhou was going back to the cave, his face showed fear, and he tugged on Liu Yinzhou's sleeve: "Sister Yin! ”
He Jingying wrote a handwritten letter and put it in Miao Shanhe's hand: "Let's go out together later, you take this letter and go to the Tongfu Tavern in the south of the city to find a person named Ma Cheng." He will arrange it for you. ”
Miao Shanhe had no choice but to take the handwritten letter and say goodbye to Liu Yinzhou.
The two were about to wait for Liu Yinzhou to leave the brothel when there was a sudden knock on the door.
Xiao Lian opened the door and saw that two bearded men were standing at the door like door gods, one left and one right.
Da Meng scratched his head in embarrassment and smiled: "That, I'm sorry to disturb Wang Ye Yaxing." ”
Xiao Lian was puzzled: "Why are you two here?" ”
Yan Xiaodao said: "Chun'er we asked." Chun'er said that the princess wore men's clothes when she went out. That's where we guessed. ”
Xiao Lian looked helpless, these two were indeed the elite of Jingzhao Mansion and Dali Temple.
Da Meng waved his hand awkwardly and said, "It's really not that we deliberately want to sweep the prince's Yaxing at this time." It's really something we've found, and it's really a bit urgent. ”
Xiao Lian asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Yan Xiaodao said: "We found out that Liu Xingzu also has a younger sister. But she was not in Liu's Mansion when she was destroyed, so she escaped. ”
As soon as Liu Yinzhou heard the word "destroy the door", his eyes were dark and he fainted.
Xiao Lian: "......"
He Jingying: "......"
Outside the city is a ring of hills. The mountain peaks here are one after another, and the vegetation in the mountains and forests is so dense that even in the daytime, the sunlight seems to be blocked by the tops of the trees, and it does not spill on the ground at all, and the ground is surrounded by a long-term mist. Now in the winter night, the mountain forest looks even colder, the moon hangs in the sky, and it is even more blurred under the shadow of the trees.
Liu Yinzhou searched around the woods and pointed ahead: "It should be from here." When we came down from the mountains, we were blindfolded. But we passed by a land temple. The coachman who took us away may have done this kind of thing for the first time, and he was scared to go and worship the land temple when he saw it. Before passing the Land Temple, the car went all the way down, so we went up from here, and it should be right. ”
The five of them walked all the way up the mountain road, and sure enough, they saw some fire in front of them. The light of the fire was hidden in a col, which would not be visible in the daytime unless it was evident at night.
The five of them hid behind a tree and looked closely. It was a natural cave, and there was a fence and an observation deck outside the cave. Suddenly, a guard dragged a thin man out of the hole. As soon as the man was dragged out of the cave, he kept kneeling and begging for mercy.
The guard kicked the man on the head and shouted, "Stand up! ”
The man was kicked to the ground, and blood was immediately left on his head. But when he heard the guard's shouting, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly stood up, his hands still waving.
The guard waved the knife in his hand: "Stand up for Lao Tzu!" Otherwise I'll cut you now! ”
The man quickly stood up straight, his body tense.
The guard smiled happily and exited the fence. The guard smiled and said, "Whoever loses today will buy wine!" With that, he stood in a line with several other guards and raised their bows and arrows.
They were going to use that man as a living target!
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