Chapter 9: The Crisis Arrives
Everyone was stunned by the corpse in front of them, and after being reminded by Li Zhen, they knew that they should quickly get into the carriage and leave.
There are two roads to get to Jiahe County, this is the main road and the other is a very steep mountain road.
While galloping, Liu Quan said: "We...... Let's take a detour. He looked at the bodies that were getting closer, their pants damp, and they were already incontinent.
Teacher Wang took off his glasses, held his gray hair with both hands and thought for a moment, and then resolutely spoke: "No." Now that I am detouring, it will take five days to reach Jiahe County, and I will miss the test. And...... On the other road, there should also be horse thieves. ”
"How do you know there's a horse thief on the other road?"
Another teacher retorted.
Teacher Wang said: "There are forty or fifty counties in Southeast Prefecture. The time when I was rushing to take the exam was when the horse thieves were crazy about committing crimes. Because the candidates are very rich, and the people who accompany them also have their belongings just in case. Robbing a powerless scholar like us is far more profitable than robbing those very experienced traders. Since there are horse thieves on the main road, they will definitely not let go of another road to Huangpu County. ”
When everyone heard this, they sighed. The sorrow in my heart grew stronger.
Vigilantly looking in all directions, it looked like there was a horse thief hiding place. Everywhere you look, you feel like the horse thief will rush out in the next moment.
It's getting closer.
Finally, a carriage at the head of the row stepped over the messy crowd of corpses.
Liu Quan was so frightened that he cried bitterly, didn't dare to look out, and held Li Zhen's hand tightly and didn't dare to let go.
Li Zhen didn't cry, but he also grabbed Liu Quan's hand tightly, and his palms were all sweaty. The staring boss looked at the disembowelment corpse of the young man, getting closer and closer to him. Watch as the horse collapses over him.
The wheels are pressed over.
The car staggered.
'Vomit'
Li Zhen couldn't hold back any longer, and when he saw a dead man for the first time, he vomited wildly.
The stumbling of the car just now, the bump of the car, the feeling of running over the corpse of a young man.
"What to do, what to do."
Liu Quan cried bitterly, hugged Li Zhen's arm tightly with both hands, and unconsciously forced, pinching Li Zhen's arm black.
Many teachers vomited one after another, and the scene was really terrifying. We used to think that horse thieves were far away from us, but today, they are very close.
Walking past the group of corpses, I was a little relieved. Teacher Li was shocked and said, "How could it be...... I've escorted candidates to the exam before, but I haven't encountered them before. ”
No one answered.
The answer is incomprehensible.
Maybe it can only be said that luck?
'Purr'
Suddenly, a loud trumpet sounded.
It came from all directions in the canyon of this swallow rock, and the reverberations made people scatter.
Li Zhen had the courage to stick his head out of the carriage window, but saw an iron rope thrown down from the canyon on the left, and a shirtless man grabbed a broken broadsword in one hand and slipped down with a pulley in the other.
'Purr, Purr'
A horn sound made by a special whistle is getting more and more rapid.
After a moment, I heard the roar echoing throughout the canyon:
"Garrison!"
"Hurry up!"
“……”
Liu Quan shrank his head in the corner and cried, "Is the horse thief coming?" Is it a horse thief? He told us to stop, did he tell us to stop? ”
Li Zhen was also trembling all over his body at this time, holding Liu Quan's hand tightly, and his face was calm. But I don't know what to do.
Teacher Wang is old and extremely experienced, and when he heard this roar, he hurriedly shouted: "I can't stop." rushed out of the swallow rock in one go, and you must not stop. ”
Some teachers were already hesitant: "Stop, the horse thief shouted at us to stop." If you don't stop, you won't be killed. ”
Teacher Wang scolded: "You can't stop." To stop is to die. The horse thief of Swallow Rock will never leave a mouth alive. In previous years, there were very few horse thieves, but in recent years they have suddenly appeared. If I'm not mistaken, the horse thieves in Swallow Rock are official bandits. ”
"Officials and bandits!"
"The county lord of Jiahe County was transferred from Beizhou last year. As soon as he took office, the horse thief came out. This place is only ten kilometers away from the main city of Jiahe County, but there are horse thieves who are so rampant, they must be official bandits. The thieves keep their mouths alive, and the water flows for a long time. Officials and bandits have never left a living mouth. ”
"Ah, how can this be ......"
"How so?"
"We told them that we were going to take the exam, can we beg them to let us go?"
"It's okay to keep the money, please let them let us go."
“……”
This time, even the teachers cried out.
Look at the horse thieves who keep jumping down the zipline from the canyon, and look at the horse thieves carrying more than a dozen fierce horses that suddenly rushed out from the originally empty rear. Looking at the scattered horse thieves blocking the road in front of him, he prepared to block the front road of the canyon with the horse stakes. Everyone was stupefied.
Teacher Wang's eyes were blood-red, his gray hair was messy, and he stood on the carriage frantically and shouted, "Rush over!" Rush over. You can't stop, you can't stop. ”
"We're going to die, are we going to die?"
"If we beg them, will they let us go?"
“……”
Some teachers hysterically yelled at the outside world: "Heroes, we are going to catch the exam, okay, let's go over." ”
"Hahahaha."
He was answered by the sound of rampant laughter echoing through the canyon.
Teacher Wang slapped the teacher on the head: "Don't have the intention of begging for mercy. If you think about the corpses at the entrance of the canyon, do they have any traces of running away and resisting? ”
As soon as these words came out, the person in the dream was awakened.
Yes, the forty or fifty people died in a mess, but there was no sign of escape. It's like ...... Standing there and letting people kill.
It's really an official bandit!
Li Zhen walked out of the carriage at this time, stood outside the car with one hand on the handrail, and yelled at the groom in the opposite car: "Rush from the middle." Rushing out through the gap between the two stakes, the place broke as soon as it was rushed. ”
The groom's face was full of tears: "My horse will die." ”
Teacher Wang burst out: "Do you still have to take care of the horse now?" Rush over and blindfold the horse, blindfold the horse! ”
The groom gritted his teeth, jumped from the cart and got on the horse's back, and hurriedly tore off the strips of cloth from his clothes to blindfold the galloping horses. Then he jumped back into the car and jerked viciously: "Drive!" ”
'Hiss' the pony neighed and rushed forward like madness.
There were more than a dozen horses in the rear, and a big man with a machete in his hand frowned: "Big boss, they want to rush." ”
The man who is called the big boss is a young man with a white complexion and about thirty years old, who sneered and said, "Yo, old Jianghu, it seems that he would rather die than give in." Then don't hang it, blow the trumpet, and kill directly. ”
"Gotcha."
"Pur Pur"
The trumpet sounded again, this time the tempo changed, and it became very rapid.
Suddenly, the horse thief, who had landed on a zipline from the cliff, began to smile fiercely and outflank the motorcade with a knife.
Teacher Wang's face changed, and he burst into a shout: "Hurry, hurry up." The horse thief is going to be killed! ”
'Ahh
A scream came.
The crowd turned their heads.
But I saw that on the last carriage, Mr. Zhang, who was holding daily necessities, was dragged off the carriage by a horse thief. Crazy struggle.
After only struggling twice, he was stabbed into the heart by the horse thief who pounced on him, and the blood flew into the body, and Mr. Zhang's body twitched and then stopped making a sound.
"Xiao Zhang!"
"Teacher Zhang!"
Teacher Wang and Li Zhen roared in tears.
'Whoosh'
At this time, Li Zhen's ears were cold, and his hairs stood up in shock. But an arrow was shot in the ear.
Li Zhen turned his head to look, but saw a horse thief chasing after him on horseback while winding a new arrow, shaking his head and sighing, as if he regretted that he had not been shot just now.
Teacher Wang hurriedly pressed Li Zhen's head into the carriage and shouted, "Don't come out!" ”
Li Zhen shrank into the carriage while staring at the head horse tightly. Seeing the blindfolded head horse getting closer and closer to the stationing stake, he roared hysterically: "Hit from the middle, you must hit from the middle......"
There was a 'bang', and the sky was full of dust.
Li Zhen, who had already entered the carriage, saw nothing. All he could hear was the painful screams of the head horse, and the mournful cries of the coachman......