In the backyard of the county government of Huangsha County, this place has been carefully cleaned up by the two maids as early as the day Gu Xuan and others entered Huangsha County, and since then, it has always been the daily living place of Gu Xuan and his party, unlike Chen Anmin, who has been in Huangsha County for many years and has his own mansion in the city, Gu Xuan has always chosen to live in the county government in order to facilitate his office.

In the whole courtyard, the location is the most noble, and the east wing facing the gate naturally belongs to Gu Xuan, the king of Hedong County, and the west side is the residence of the Ma family brothers with the lowest status.

Yesterday, Gu Xuan and Jinglong left the county seat together and went to Yanzhou, the two brothers of the Ma family have been staying in the county government to assist in the office, Ma Erhu was born as a farmer, strong and strong, followed Chen Anmin to run east and west, helping the people in the yamen to carry things, and the rest of the time has been practicing with Zhu Dachun, and Ma Mingze is valued by Lu Yi because of his talent and intelligence, and will learn to deal with simple official affairs together, and share worries for the yamen in the future.

No matter what, even if the circumstances are different, these two Majiacun brothers who followed Gu Xuan together without hesitation can be regarded as truly integrated into this small border city, and they don't treat themselves as outsiders.

In such a remote place, there is no gambling house and brothel, and there is no fun after night, plus they are very tired from running around during the day, and both of them go to bed very early, after all, they have to get up early the next day.

Dark clouds cover the moon, evil spirits are rampant, and it is now ugly, but the door of the west wing room was suddenly pushed open by a pair of hands from the inside.

With the sound of the door opening, Ma Erhu walked out of it, and at the same time was rubbing his eyelids on his face that seemed to be glued together by something, until he stood still in the cold wind, and the whole person finally woke up a little.

In the middle of the night, when the cold wind is raging, but I was woken up by the urge to urine, this is really the most annoying experience, and what's worse is that I poured the urinal during the day and put it in the thatched house, and I have forgotten to take it back, and now I have to leave the warm house to go to the toilet, is there anything more annoying than this?

Yes, because there was no thatched house in the courtyard, he had to leave this small courtyard and go to the other side, a few rooms apart, because the backyard of the county government was originally uninhabited before, and it was purely a warehouse for putting things, so it was built so peculiarly, and this is also for the people who work outside to go to the toilet.

Ma Erhu was in a bad mood, shook the thick cotton clothes he was casually wearing on his body, tightened his shoes, and walked out.

After all, he is a young man, Gu Xuan has not treated him badly when eating and drinking, he is angry, even if the spring cold has not faded now, and the cold wind does not feel cold at night, as long as he runs quickly to the thatched house, he can come back after urinating and get back into the warm quilt to sleep again, just now in the room, he seemed to hear the sound of beating outside the room, it should not be long to sleep, thinking that there are still many things to be busy during the day, his feet are naturally faster.

ran to a fairly clean thatched house, found a pit and stood up, and then took off his pants in a panic and began to discharge the flood.

When Ma Erhu casually shook twice, tied his pants, and walked out carefully, he was almost awake from the cold, and he looked up at the night sky full of dark clouds overhead, and sighed with emotion, and couldn't help but stop.

I don't know if Majia Village, which has been turned into ruins, has been rebuilt by them, and what are they doing now?

Are you like yourself, at least have a warm bed to sleep in?

Hurry up Ming'er, let Mingze's kid write a letter, and when martial law is over, ask someone to go out of the city and send it over.

He can't read, and he really has to ask Ma Mingze to do this kind of thing.

Thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't help sighing, and he didn't know whether his choice was right or wrong, at first he wanted to lean against the big tree to enjoy the shade, and the countrymen didn't have much knowledge, and he always felt that the prince was already a very big official, but he didn't expect that now he followed to a place where birds don't, and he was tired like a dog every day, but there was no chance to regret it, in short, he took a step at a time.

Thinking silently like this, when he was about to walk towards the yard, Ma Erhu suddenly stopped again.

He lifted his chin, his nose twitching rapidly in the air, like a hound's keen sense of smell, and a faint smell of blood slowly drifted in from the other direction.

Although Ma Erhu is just an ordinary villager, as a Youzhou man who has been poisoned by horse bandits, especially after the destruction of Majia Village, his vigilance has become extremely high, and I believe that Ma Mingze is the same, for this kind of bloody smell, he can distinguish it more quickly and clearly than ordinary people, and he cheered up at the moment and tiptoed into action.

He was originally not very bold, but now that curiosity prevailed, he didn't dare to make too much noise, so he could only follow the smell of blood in his nose and secretly walk in that direction.

In the entire Yamen of Huangsha County, except for these outsiders, because Huangsha County is now in ruins, the recent official business is very busy, and in addition to the fact that you can eat a free dinner in the Yamen, many people choose to spend the night here.

At this time, from the small courtyard where these locals stayed, there was a constant smell of blood that made people's scalps tingle along the air.

There were no screams, no fighting, and under the quiet night sky, in the dark courtyard, there was only a steady stream of stench.

"Smack!"

The sound of a pair of boots stepping on the ground sounded softly from inside, Ma Erhu's whole person seemed to have been struck by lightning, his eyes were round, fortunately he reacted quickly, quickly held his breath, and hid lightly to the other side, thanks to the catastrophe he experienced in Majia Village, otherwise where would ordinary villagers have this reflex.

This night, the killers who infiltrated Huangsha County, a total of thirty-five people, only five people came out of this courtyard, but Ma Erhu, a fool who had just woken up, knew about this, just secretly watched these people quietly walk out of the inner room one by one holding daggers with cold light, and knew what was going on without thinking about it, so he didn't dare to look at it anymore, so he could only close his eyes, cover his mouth, try not to make a sound, and quietly wait for the other party to leave.

After the five people inside had finished killing and confirmed that there was no life, they walked out of it lightly, and walked directly to another place in turn without looking.

After a while, Ma Erhu plucked up his courage and secretly poked out his head a little, until he was sure that the other party was really gone, he dared to put down his hand, but he still didn't dare to take a big breath, he could only carefully adjust the rhythm of his breathing, and constantly warned himself not to panic, and after a long time, he stabilized his mind.

But in the blink of an eye, he was caught in a dilemma.

As long as you hide here, it is naturally the safest, although I don't know who the other party is and why he came, but the other party has just killed the people in this courtyard, there is a high probability that he will not come back to search again, but if he stays here, what should Ma Mingze, who is still sleeping in the yard, do?

They left the ruins of Majia Village together, and went to the prince, and after getting along day and night, the relationship was even better than when they were in Majia Village before, and it can even be said that they are now each other's only support in this strange place.

This kind of fellow villagers who rely on each other, and that Mr. Lu, the prince attaches so much importance to him, if he is killed, even if he survives this time, he will definitely be to blame, and if he is settled by the autumn queen, will he be able to escape the catastrophe?

What to do?

Before coming to Huangsha County, he had always been an ordinary farmer in the first half of his life, and he was also an ordinary person, greedy for life and afraid of death, which is human nature.

Are you just hiding here?

But......

He suddenly remembered that when a group of them hid in the ancestral hall of Majia Village, because they were afraid of going out and being killed, they killed their sister-in-law who was captured by the horse bandits, and later because they were afraid of reporting that something would happen, so they had to let Ma Mingze, a young man, take a risk to go out on a snowy night.

He's just an ordinary coward!

But this is not a sin!

He wondered if he shouldn't have come here in the first place, how nice it would be to go back and be a simple ordinary person, so he could sleep in peace now.

In the air, a foul smell irritated his sensitive nerves.

And at that moment, a hand covered in blood slammed into him.

Ma Erhu had been thinking about it, and was so frightened by this sudden surprise that he almost jumped up, but he finally knew what kind of dangerous situation he was in now, so he barely held back and didn't scream, and looked at the side at the moment, there were dark clouds overhead, there was no moonlight, and he couldn't see the other party's face clearly, but judging from his posture lying on the ground and the smell of blood on his body, it should be the person who stayed in the original county government, in other words, it was a colleague he had seen during the day.

Unable to care about anything else, he hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.

"Called。。。。。。 ”

The man's mouth opened and closed, and streams of black-red blood kept pouring out of it, and he was seriously injured, and his throat was full of blood, and he couldn't even say a complete sentence, and the shadow of death had already shrouded him.

Ma Erhu had to hold on to his hand hard to keep him from falling.

"Quick, go, call。。。。。。 ”

Before he finished speaking, this man had completely lost his breath, and he was stabbed in the neck, and it was a miracle that he could hold on for so long.

Ma Erhu hugged the still warm corpse, and the whole person froze.

What to do?

What to do?

Do you still have to choose to escape like before?