Chapter 40: Longquan Village
"If you cry again, you will be thrown into the mountains to feed the wolves!" The soldiers who spoke were troubled by each other's undulating crying, and thought that guarding the dolls was an easy job, but I didn't expect that these little babies could cry so much, and he himself couldn't bear to be a parent, so he could only verbally intimidate and intimidate.
As soon as they heard that they were going to be fed to the wolves, the little babies cried even more fiercely, and they wanted to find their mothers one by one, but the soldiers had no choice but to drop the steamed buns and water and close the door and go out without paying attention, just not hearing.
"Hey! What iniquity has been created! The middle-aged soldier grumbled to himself.
Cui Jiu'an and Cui Ranxin went around to the other side, and secretly took a look in front of the window, more than a dozen children were more than ten years old, the younger ones were just walking and crying on the ground, and the house was in chaos, they didn't dare to stay longer, and quietly went to a larger house next door, without looking closely, they could know that the women in Longquan Village were all locked up inside, some were timid and faintly crying, and some were bold enough to scold, but the soldiers guarding outside the house seemed to be accustomed to it, and they turned a deaf ear and just guarded.
Cui Jiuan grabbed Cui Ranxin, who wanted to save people with drugs, and whispered, "No." ”
Cui Jiu'an's gaze fell on the several connected houses in the distance where the snoring sound could be heard, and that was what he was looking for.
A total of four rooms were carefully checked, three from west to east were full of people, only the fourth, the middle-aged man in the easternmost room was wearing an indigo blue robe, the red candle in the room was almost burned out, and the man sitting in front of the desk held the pen and did not know how to write.
Cui Jiuan knocked lightly on the window to attract the attention of the people in the room, and the middle-aged man left his chair and glanced out of the door at the crack of the door, and the soldiers guarding the door were drowsy. Turning back to the window, he gently opened the window, and the boy and girl standing under the window surprised him not by the appearance of the city, but by the well-guarded village at such an age.
"Dare to ask, but Lord Lizheng." The boy's words were not questions but affirmations.
"Who are you? How to get in. Izumi was asking, but there was concern in his words.
"The family teacher Du has a family."
"It turned out to be a disciple of Doctor Du." Quanli Zheng then remembered that it was now the end of the month, and Doctor Du would come to Longquan Snow Mountain at this time of year to pick early chrysanthemums, and this year the village suffered a big change, and he forgot about it.
"You guys go quickly, don't get caught, you'll die." Knowing who the two were, Izumi was even more anxious.
"Don't worry, Lord Lizheng, please tell us the truth, and we can find someone to help."
"Little brother, you better go quickly, don't be affected by this." But Li Zheng only persuaded the two to leave.
"Lord Lizheng, if you don't tell the truth, not only will we not leave, but I will also arrest an officer and soldier and ask."
Izumi was looking at the eleven or twelve-year-old appearance of the little girl who was talking, her stubborn eyes were extremely bright, and she couldn't help but laugh out loud: "What a good doll." ”
"Well, I'll make a long story short, some time ago a Taoist priest came to our village and went around, and then the county magistrate Luo Changxin sent officers and soldiers to surround our Longquan Town, arrested women, children and the elderly, and locked them up, and asked the men in the village to help them dig treasures, I heard that there are silver mines under this foothill, and now they have locked me up here and forced me to write a false report that the villagers have the plague——"
"They want to open a mine privately, and they will destroy Longquan Village with all their bows!" Cui Jiuan's eyes flashed with a cold light, he was really a dog official who had lost his conscience.
"What the little brother said is that our Longquan Mountain is located in the middle of nowhere, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and there is protection in the court, this county order has always been used to being the emperor of the soil, and this time we have no way out." Izumisato is sad when he talks about this.
"Lord Lizheng, if you enter Longquan Snow Mountain, you have old and young, how long can you support with food?"
Facing the young man's sudden inquiry, Quan Lizheng thought for a moment and said: "At most half a month, children and the elderly can't stand it for a long time. ”
"Then if I can help all of them escape into the mountains, will Lord Lizheng have the courage to take a few strong men to the prefect to complain about the evil deeds of the dog officials?"
The young man in front of him had a calm face, and the clouds were light and light, but Izumiri didn't know why, he just believed that this young man could do what he said.
"If the little brother can rescue a village of old and young women, even if we die, we are not afraid of anything, just afraid that the prefect and Luo County Order will collude with each other to shield each other?" Izumisato is expressing the doubts in his heart.
"Lord Li Zheng rest assured, that Governor Li is an upright person, but he has just been transferred and doesn't know much about this side, if he knows that Luo County ordered to open a silver mine in private, forcibly seize it, and want to destroy the village, he will definitely not stand idly by, but we only have ten days, and the people you go to must be quickly not intercepted and captured."
"Little brother, rest assured, there are hunters and medicine farmers in the village who are vigorous and vigorous, and now they are controlled by their wives and children, so they can't resist and be obedient, if they don't care, they must be extremely brave."
"Dare to ask the little brother if there is any way to save everyone?" Izumiri is still not very reassured.
Cui Ranxin shook the medicine bottle in his hand: "Lord Lizheng, who made those soldiers' meals?" ”
"It's clumsy."
"Where is she?" Cui Ranxin hurriedly asked.
"In order to isolate us, they now live in the kitchen in the north with my old mother, who is in charge of their diet."
"Wait—this is the jade pendant I carry with me, take it." Quan Li was untying an ordinary jade pendant from his waist and handing it out the window, and Cui Jiuan respectfully took it.
"Be careful!"
"Hmm." Cui Ranxin nodded and pulled Cui Jiuan away quietly, leaving only the middle-aged man standing in front of the window, his originally dead face with a hopeful light.
The kitchen is connected to the firewood room, the Li Zheng family has just cleaned up the kitchen, and the clothes are lying in the dry grass, and the old mother next to him has fallen asleep peacefully, fortunately, it is a summer day, if the people of Layue sleep like this in the cold winter, they will have to freeze to death.
There was no one guarding the kitchen, only the patrolling soldiers lit torches and kept walking, Cui Jiuan didn't knock on the door and went through the window, Cui Ranxin hurriedly climbed in, grabbed the young man's hand and jumped hard, the small firewood room, not too big a land, Li Zhengjia was so frightened that he picked up the iron chop that picked up the ashes on the ground, but the young man in front of him had a hat hanging behind his neck, and the handsome and good-looking face didn't look like a bad person, the girl next to the young man had clear eyes, and her facial features were delicate and a little similar to the young man.
"Y-what do you want to do?"
"Auntie, don't be afraid, we just discussed with Lord Lizheng how to rescue everyone." Cui Ranxin said and took out the ordinary jade pendant, but when the Li Zheng family saw it, he pulled it tightly and hugged the jade pendant into his arms.
"What do you want me to do?" The woman also knew a few words, so she was a little bolder than the other village women.
"This is a laxative, you add those soldiers to the porridge tomorrow morning, and when they collapse, everyone will flee into the mountains together, you will live here for a long time, you must be more familiar with the mountains and forests than them, bring food and hide, and they will be responsible for finding support."
Cui Ranxin handed a small jar of laxatives to the woman, and they didn't stay long, and walked away through the window.
"What's the wind?" The old woman, who was sleeping in a daze, rubbed her eyes and looked at the wind-blown window.
"Well, daughter-in-law, this is closed." The woman put away the medicine jar and came to the window, thinking that these two must have come from the Valley of Hundred Medicines, Doctor Du finally found the inheritor as he wished, and a smile of relief appeared on the corner of his mouth.