After Li Jingnan was taken away by Fu Tingye and others, Hua Qingxue closed the door.

Last night's riot was over, the sun had risen, and the entire city of Renqiu was as silent as death.

Around noon, Hua Qingxue heard a commotion starting to come from nearby.

The voice was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that the Liao soldiers were searching people from house to house.

Hua Qingxue heard the sharp screams of the woman next door: "Don't catch him!" He didn't go anywhere at home last night! I beg you! Don't catch him! ——”

Hua Qingxue felt like she was in an ice cellar, and this shout made her creepy!

The screams, the roars, the loud clashing of those people! Everything terrified her!

But she couldn't do anything but listen to what was happening around her......

Hua Qingxue's hut did not escape the scope of the search, and when she tried to overcome her psychological fear and opened the door tremblingly, there was no imaginary violence.

Several Liao soldiers walked into the courtyard with a big grin, but they just turned around very perfunctorily and left.

Including the small dilapidated room where she slept, the Liao soldiers only stood at the door and glanced at it.

Hua Qingxue was feeling strange, when she heard a Liao soldier ask her: "I remember that there was a child in the house last time, why didn't you see him?" ”

Hua Qingxue's heart, which had just put down for a short time, instantly re-lifted it!

“…… No, no...... It's gone......" Hua Qingxue replied softly, her scalp tingling.

The Liao soldier seemed to be the leader of this team, he casually opened the clothes drying in the courtyard, looked at Hua Qingxue who was shrinking in the corner, smiled, and asked, "You don't remember me?" ”

Hua Qingxue raised her head and looked at the Liao soldier.

——It was the Liao soldier who delivered dirty clothes that day.

There were two people who came that day, and he only said a word of Khitan to his companion during the whole process, so Hua Qingxue was not impressed by him, but only felt a little familiar.

I really didn't expect that this person would actually speak the official language of Qi State......

Hua Qingxue thought to herself, these Liao soldiers should be for his sake, so they will show mercy, right? If she was like everyone else, she would be smashed when she entered the house, and she would have no way to live.

Without waiting for Hua Qingxue to reply to him, he had already said to himself: "You didn't look at me a few times that day, not to mention that I have raised the general flag now, I must not recognize me." ”

Although Hua Qingxue is not good at words, she also whispered with a good eye at this time: "Congratulations to Lord Zongqi." ”

The man snorted softly, and there was something evil in his smile.

"Do you know how I got this flag? Last night, I killed a lot of thieves, and as soon as the commander made the adults happy, he put me up as the general flag, and I estimated that if I catch some more people back today, I should be a thousand households. ”

Hua Qingxue pursed her lips and did not speak.

Frankly speaking, she has not been here for a long time, she is neither a Qi nor a Liao, and she has no sense of belonging to either party.

The dead man certainly made her feel heartache, sympathy and pity are almost an innate function, but they are only sympathy and pity. The people who were slaughtered by the Liao soldiers last night had nothing to do with her, so naturally she would not have a feeling of righteous indignation or resentment like the rest of the people in this city.

Without seeing the expectant expression on Hua Qingxue's face, the general flag was a little disappointed, but he quickly picked up the original topic-

"When did that kid disappear? Have you ever gone out to look for it? ”

Hua Qingxue lowered her head, not wanting people to notice the panic in her eyes.

“…… Yesterday, I went out yesterday and didn't come back...... I looked for it once, but it was too messy outside, so I came back......"

Zongqi's expression was a little playful, rubbing his chin with his fingers, and asked Hua Qingxue: "Is it your brother?" ”

Hua Qingxue shook her head and denied it: "It's my sister." ”

Zongqi smiled, "You don't seem to be very sad." ”

Hua Qingxue was slightly stunned, reacted very quickly, and replied, "I don't know...... Last night, I ...... I was too scared to go out and look for ...... I don't have much food at home, and my heart is in a mess...... I'm scared...... Don't care about being sad and sad......"

Although the answer was a bit of a mess, if you think about it, it is also in line with her current situation.

Zongqi smiled, looked at the clothes around him, and asked some questions about how the clothes were washed.

Hua Qingxue felt very strange, as if this person was deliberately chatting with herself.

But just when she was strange in her heart, the other party suddenly said: "With so many clothes, why doesn't that little boy help you?" ”

Hua Qingxue almost answered: He helped me a lot-but at the moment when his mouth opened, he stopped abruptly and changed his words: "...... Little boys? I guess my sister is talking about it. ”

He smiled, "yes, I'm misremembering again. ”

Hua Qingxue felt that her back was already soaked with cold sweat......

"Okay, you wash these clothes first, I guess there will be a batch to be delivered in two days, tsk...... This yard is really small enough. He muttered, turned to the other Liao soldiers and said something in Khitan, and then they left one after another to search the next house.

After a few moments of silence, there were shouts and roars in the back alley, chickens and dogs jumping, chaotic and disorderly......

……

After Hua Qingxue closed the door, she was completely out of strength, and the whole person sat down against the door, she sat in the cold and biting snow, not moving, letting those cries come into her ears, without any expression on her face.

When life has become self-sufficient, the abundant emotions that human beings possess have disappeared from her body in the same way.

At this moment, even if she cried, she couldn't cry......

It's so hard to be alive.

She made simple meals to fill her stomach and then began to boil water to make the paste.

The starch has been bought before, and after boiling, it is smeared one by one on the bloodstained places on the clothes, not too thin, not too thick, and then just wait for the paste to dry thoroughly, you can scrape them off, basically you can remove a large part of the blood stains, even if there is a residue, it doesn't matter, and then wash with soapy water, it's almost the same.

The soap in the yard will need to be left for another month before it can be used, and Hua Qingxue plans to use radish and vinegar to clean the blood stains.

There were wails and cries all around, and Hua Qingxue was doing the work in her hands in an orderly manner in these voices.

She really has no way at all, and now the only thing that can protect herself is probably the dirty clothes of the Liao soldiers in the courtyard......

……

When Fu Tingye rushed back, it was already late at night, and he smelled a pungent stench as soon as he walked to the door.

He frowned, a worry rising in his heart, walked up and tapped the door, and it didn't take long for the door to open—

Hua Qingxue was holding a broom, and when she saw Fu Tingye who suddenly appeared, she was stunned for a while.

"What's going on?" Fu Tingye walked into the courtyard and saw the dirt all over the ground, mixed with feces, on the ground, east and west, stinky and stinking.

"Nothing...... Probably because they saw that I was not suffering, they were a little upset. ”

Hua Qingxue took a broom and swept them into a pile, Fu Tingye saw that there were two or three shallow pits in the corner of the courtyard, and knew in his heart that Hua Qingxue had dug up and was ready to bury the dung.

He marched and fought, and he was most unaccustomed to this kind of villainous behavior, so he snorted coldly at the moment, "If you bury it, whoever throws it will throw it back." ”

As he spoke, Hua Qingxue hurriedly grabbed his arm, "General!" What they have lost is their loved ones, and they will inevitably be sad and angry, just some fecal sludge, just bury it. ”

Hua Qingxue really didn't want to make any more noise.

After the group of Liao soldiers left today, she became famous in this alley.

As long as there is a man in other people's families, regardless of age or age, they are all dragged to the prison for interrogation, even if there is no man, some money will inevitably be lost during the search, only she is good, and then look at her courtyard is full of Liao soldiers' clothes, and she is determined to be the lackey of the Liao soldiers, and the public is angry...... Hua Qingxue didn't want to be the one who hit the stone with an egg.

Fu Tingye said coldly: "It's just bullying the soft and afraid of the hard." ”

Hua Qingxue smiled bitterly.

This is human nature, but you can't complain about it, because it is "human nature".

"Pack up and come with me."

Hua Qingxue was overjoyed, "The general is here to take me out of the city?" ”

Fu Tingye shook his head, "Now that the city gate is well guarded, it's not the time to go out, you go with me to settle elsewhere first, your courtyard...... It's hard to live right now. ”

How can you sleep like this?

Hua Qingxue was naturally happy, and while she was happy, she was also a little worried, "But I still have a lot of Liao soldiers' clothes......"

The clothes were originally hung in the yard, but later she found that someone threw dirty things into the yard, so she quickly took them all off and put them back in the house.

"It's okay, I'll pick it up tomorrow."

Although Fu Tingye didn't say much, Hua Qingxue's mood still couldn't help but jump with joy. She didn't ask where to go or when she would be able to leave the city, just because Fu Tingye gave people the feeling that she was too secure, as if as long as he was there, everything would be fine.

Hua Qingxue packed up a small burden and followed Fu Tingye out of the door.

The night was cold and uncanny.

Occasionally, there would be a lot of mixed footsteps, it was the Liao soldiers patrolling the streets at night, they were holding torches, and when they saw suspicious people, they would rush up and scold them, and take them to their cells.

Fu Tingye took Hua Qingxue around the streets and alleys of the city, Hua Qingxue obviously felt that he was taking a detour, but he didn't dare to squeak, he just followed him silently, and as soon as the distance dropped slightly, he hurriedly trotted a few steps to follow.

Fu Tingye stopped suddenly.

Hua Qingxue was walking with her head buried in her head, and she was caught off guard against Fu Tingye's back! Dull pain in the bridge of the nose!

"Right...... I'm sorry......" Hua Qingxue covered her nose and said with some embarrassment.

Fu Tingye glanced at her, didn't speak, walked away a few steps sideways, came to an inconspicuous wooden door, raised his hand and patted it a few times.

Bang bang, bang bang.

Hua Qingxue noticed that he deliberately paused when knocking on the door, and secretly guessed in his heart that this might be some kind of code.

Just as he was thinking, the wooden door creaked and opened......