Chapter Forty-Eight: The Verge
Mu Bingyue looked at Shen Xue who looked helpless again, sighed secretly, and shouted at the man: "The Mu family welcomes Gongzi to be a guest at any time, and if possible, please bring a letter back to report safety." ”
Helian You heard Mu Bingyue's words, and quickly raised his eyes to look at her, and his dark eyes flashed with a streamer.
It's a pity that the boat has started, and Mu Bingyue can't say much, only blame her for waking up too late, but she believes that he has understood what she means, and if he wants to, he should stay, or come to Mu's house again.
The two boats staggered, Helian looked at Mu Bingyue, his thin lips slightly raised, "I will send the letter back." ”
Mu Bingyue endured Shunqi's disappointment, "I hope Gongzi takes care, the Mu family hopes that Gongzi can come back as a guest." ”
Helian Yu didn't answer this time, but he still looked at them.
Shen Xue's red lips opened slightly, surprised that he could speak, and then surprised that he would reply, but in the end, a thousand words only turned into a tear.
Mu Bingyue couldn't help but sigh when she saw it, the boat gradually separated, gradually drifted away, one person and one fox were isolated on the boat, and gradually when they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, Xiaoyun, who had been ignoring them, raised his head from Helian You's arms, and looked at Mu Bingyue with him, and finally couldn't see each other anymore.
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After two days, the rumors have escalated, and soldiers patrol the streets all day long.
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, on the eve of the New Year's Festival, the sudden crowd of refugees broke through the city ban, gathered from east to west, and flowed violently.
"Miss, Miss...", Shen Xue broke in from the door, interrupting Mu Bingyue's thoughts.
Seeing Shen Xue's panicked expression, she hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"The outside of the city was full of people fleeing from nowhere overnight, and now they are blocking the gates of the city, shouting to enter the city!" Shen Xue paused, and then said, "The slave maid also heard that the Xuanyuan Kingdom and the Firmament Kingdom have captured several cities. Knowing that Mu Bingyue didn't want them to pay attention to these gossip, she still couldn't help but say it.
Mu Bingyue asked, "How many people are outside the city?" ”
Shen Xue paused and said, "I don't know, some say it's hundreds, some say it's thousands, but the county guard has already transferred a lot of people over here." ”
Mu Bingyue frowned, is this momentum a little too big?
It will take a few days for food to be mobilized from all over the country, and it will take at least four or five days to deploy, and this year's festival has not yet passed, or when the New Year's festival has passed, Xuanyuan and the two countries really start to move, and I am afraid that the situation will be more difficult to control at that time.
She stood up, "Let's go, let's go have a look." ”
Shen Xue was anxious, "Miss, I'm afraid that we can't do anything about it, I'm talking about the riots of the victims, if there is a fight, it's too late for us to hide." ”
"Hide? Where to hide? Don't say more, go find the carriage. ”
Knowing that Mu Bingyue had made up her mind, Shen Xue didn't say much.
After half an hour, she and Shen Xue finally arrived outside the west gate of Wucheng, and the city walls were already full of onlookers.
The cries of women and the cursing of men outside the city came from across the wall, cursing all they could condemn.
When everyone in the city saw Mu Bingyue and Shen Xue coming over, they all got out of the way.
Mu Bingyue walked forward, her face full of fear and worry flashed in front of her, and her mood became heavier and heavier.
Zhang Sheng, who was standing at the base of the city wall, saw them, his expression changed several times, and he did not say anything to stop them.
Walking up to Zhang Sheng, Mu Bingyue stepped forward and asked, "My lord, I don't know what the situation is outside the city?" ”
Who knows that Zhang Sheng really likes to ignore it, "You ask the official, who does the official ask?" ”
Mu Bingyue was slightly stunned, she didn't understand why Zhang Shengyuan was like this, at this time, the corners of her clothes were secretly pulled by Shen Xue a few times, she looked at her puzzled, Shen Xue looked at her, opened her mouth several times but didn't say anything.
On the side, Zhang Sheng snorted coldly when he saw their movements.
The attitude of hatred in Zhang Sheng's eyes reminded Mu Bingyue of his abnormal behavior of not going to the porridge shed in the past few days, and a few people talked about his attitude, she looked at Shen Xue with an awkward expression, and realized.
Shen Xue looked back at her, and smiled at her with flickering eyes, which made Mu Bingyue, who was in the same vein, shake her head.
There are priorities, and she can't care about those sesame mung beans at the moment, she asked Zhang Sheng again: "My lord, I wonder if the people can go up to the city tower to have a look?" ”
Zhang Sheng looked at her this time, but his expression was full of contempt, "Who do you think you are?" The affairs of the city are also something that you, a pariah, can ask about! ”
At the moment of the big event, Mu Bingyue didn't want to argue with him, and her expression became more and more respectful, "My lord, the people just want to see how the people outside the city are doing?" Maybe the folk girl can help one or two. ”
Zhang Sheng was disdainful, "The matter of chaotic people, there are prefects and county guards, what is the use of you as a little untouchable?" Quickly retreat to the officer. ”
Full of untouchables and chaotic people, it seems that this is also a person who treats human life like a mustard. Anyway, the king of Hades is so difficult to see that the little ghost is difficult, and Mu Bingyue doesn't want to confront him here, she looked at the people gathered next to her, "I don't know where the prefect and the county guard are?" ”
The crowd shook their heads one after another to say that they didn't know, and just when Mu Bingyue was disappointed, the little soldier guarding the city said: "The county guard and the prefect have been keeping watch in the city all night, and now they have returned to the official residence to rest."
Zhang Sheng glanced at the little soldier with a displeased expression, the little soldier saw a quick glance at Mu Bingyue, lowered his head and stood back, before Mu Bingyue could speak, Zhang Sheng was already displeased and shouted: "Okay, okay, go home for the official, don't gather here if you have nothing to do." ”
Before the people could make a move, the sound of the roaring outside the city was led by Zhang Sheng, and it suddenly boiled, accompanied by cursing and began to slam the city gate with his body.
Obviously, Zhang Sheng's words caused a misunderstanding among the people outside the city, Zhang Sheng cursed in a low voice, no longer cared about her Mu Bingyue, and caught up with the city tower.
Zhang Sheng, who went up to the city wall, shouted to the chaotic crowd outside the city: "The emperor strictly ordered the city to be banned, you chaotic people, don't you want to live?" After hitting the city gate, the official will arrest you all and send you to the border gate. ”
"There is no rice and no food, rather than being left to fend for itself like this, it is better to be the opposite, and you can be a full ghost."
The man who led the way to the gate shouted.
Zhang Sheng's words completely detonated the dissatisfaction of the people outside the city, and the crowd followed the roar, and more people went to hit the city gate.
The shouts of indignation and shouting were loud again, and the situation outside the city was chaotic again.
Mu Bingyue only saw Zhang Sheng leaning over to fight against the angry crowd outside the city, but his words angered the crowd outside the city even more, and the angry scolding that came into the city doubled, and the movement of hitting the city gate became louder and louder.
When one of the guards in the city saw this, he rushed to deliver a message to the county guard.
Mu Bingyue thought about it, leaving Shen Xue to go up the city wall alone, and the guards who had replied to her before saw it and didn't stop it.
By the time she arrived at the city, the furious Zhang Sheng was already getting the archers to prepare to shoot the rioting people, and the raging crowd was already not to be outdone and threw rocks into the city first, and the situation became more and more difficult to manage.
Mu Bingyue looked at the 'mob' that Zhang Sheng said, everyone was ragged and had a hungry face.
As soon as I looked at the past, the black pressed a crowd of people.
Zhang Sheng didn't seem to expect her to come up, and he couldn't dodge a messy stone thrown below, and Zhang Sheng, who was smashed, suddenly became angry, but he looked at Mu Bingyue with horizontal eyebrows, and shouted: "Put her in prison for me, and release arrows to this official." ”
The guards looked at Mu Bingyue and hesitated, and Zhang Sheng's expression became even more furious when he saw it, "Are they all rice buckets?" Didn't you hear what the official said? What are you doing in a daze! …… Shoot the arrow, shoot the one who takes the lead and hits the door. In their distraction, the man found a thick stake out of nowhere and began to bang the gates.
The iron city gate was crumbling in the desperate impact of everyone, and Zhang Sheng couldn't care about Mu Bingyue anymore.
The archers listened and bent their bows and arrows.
"No one is allowed to shoot arrows." As soon as the situation was about to erupt, Mu Bingyue drank awe-inspiringly.
shot! If you are not afraid of god-like enemies, you are afraid of pig-like teammates! This man is really hopeless.
The archer was drunk by Mu Bingyue, I don't know if he couldn't do it himself, or he didn't agree with the method of bloodbathing and suppression, and the arrows on the string were all stored but not fired.
Zhang Sheng burst into smoke when he saw it, "Let go of the arrows, press her down, if the mob attacks the city, the court will blame it, and no one can afford the crime of dereliction of duty." ”
The trend of collisions under the city is still increasing.
The archers in the city hesitated when they saw it, and looked at Mu Bingyue, who was standing still, but still did not move.
Mu Bingyue laughed angrily, and looked at Zhang Sheng, "Mob? The people's riots were all started by you, but now they are going to die because of your gaffes, what is the reason of heaven? ”
She turned to the others, "Don't be a blind executioner, the situation is not uncontrollable now, at least it can last until the prefect and the county guard arrive." ”
The archers listened to her, looked at each other, and slowly lowered their bows.
Zhang Sheng was furious when he saw it, and before he went berserk and erupted into flames, Mu Bingyue preemptively said: "My lord, the top priority now should be to appease the disaster victims......", the situation is urgent, and she has to be patient.
Without waiting for Mu Bingyue to finish speaking, Zhang Sheng, who had been completely controlled by his anger, roared violently: "You are a troublemaker, this official sees that you are as hateful as these chaotic people, and you deserve to be killed." ”
One of the guards couldn't listen anymore and set up Zhang Sheng, and the other guard also stepped forward to help.
Zhang Sheng was furious, "You are all reversed, and you can't find death?" This official sees that you really don't want to live anymore, let go of this official, let go of this official, let go of this official......"
Mu Bingyue watched Zhang Sheng shout and leave, glanced at the guards who nodded to her, nodded her head, walked to the city barrier, and shouted down: "Stop, I am here to ensure that everyone can eat at noon." ”
The crowd was unmoved, and those who stormed the gates did not stop.
Mu Bingyue looked at the man in charge, "There are thousands of soldiers and people in the city, I advise you not to do stupid things." ”
Seeing that their expressions were relaxed, she continued: "If I do as I say, I promise that everyone will have dinner at noon." ”
The agitated crowd did not calm down, but shouted even more, apparently unwilling to believe anyone's words anymore.
Mu Bingyue raised her left hand and slowly fixed it in the air, without any superfluous remarks, but strangely stopped the questioning of the crowd, and the pearl on her wrist left a soft halo on her jade face that had taken on the appearance of dust under the reflection of the morning sun.
The county guard and the prefect who rushed to hear the news, saw the scene of the castle tower, slowly closed their steps, and glanced at each other.