Chapter 180

Like his hometown, the small embroidery building of Tanhua Mansion is also built by the water. It's just that the Luomei River in Meishan Town is formed by the confluence of streams in the mountains, and the Jinshui River was originally the moat of the imperial city, with extremely steep banks, and the back wall of Tanhua Mansion was built directly on the embankment of the moat - in other words, the boat that suddenly appeared could only moor close to the wall of Shanniang's house at most, but there was no place for them to dock. Even if you want to attack the mansion, you have to find a way to climb over the high and thick wall.

As soon as the boat stopped, the people on the boat immediately realized the problem and couldn't help but shout wildly, and then someone tried to hook up the wall with their flying claws.

It's just that as soon as the man threw out his flying claws, he shot a cold arrow out of nowhere. The arrow was so powerful that it flew backwards with the man, and then smashed into the river with a thud.

"It's a gale!"

Behind Shanniang, Lu'an whispered with excitement.

With the lights on the boat outside, Shanniang looked back at her and teased her, "What are you so happy about?" Don't you want to see him? ”

Liu'an suddenly shut up.

The people on the boat were so frightened by this cold arrow that they all bowed down, and Shanniang saw that Yuan Changxing even shrank directly into the cabin.

But in the blink of an eye, Yuan Changxing asked the leading man to carry the collar and throw it out. After the big man threw Yuan Changxing out, he himself was still hiding in the dark of the cabin, shouting and scolding at Yuan Changxing: "Something without eggs, it's embarrassing to say anything about making merit a crime!" The idea is all from you, what do you say that there is only one family of women and children left, it is easy to catch, but it has damaged so many of my brothers in vain! I still listen to your bad idea, and I have to let us follow you around here. Didn't you pat your chest and say, "The wall behind this is very broken?" You're going to break it, why did you shrink back?! Then he shouted to the others, "Push him forward!" Save it and call our brother a substitute for the dead! ”

Yuan Changxing struggled to dodge the hands that were grabbing him, and screamed loudly: "You dare! Do you know who I am?! The fourth prince is my cousin, my cousin is about to ascend the throne as the emperor, if I have three long and two short, he will definitely not be able to spare you! ”

As soon as he drank like this, it really made the people who grabbed him all have scruples.

And at this moment, another cold arrow flew over. Yuan Changxing, who was struggling, saw a shadow passing over in the distance, and immediately hugged a man who was holding his arm in a daze, turned around suddenly, and used the man as a shield to block the arrow. Suddenly, the man didn't snort, and just pressed Yuan Changxing directly on the deck.

When the others saw it, they immediately shouted again, and in an instant, where the light could shine, only the dead corpse was left, and Yuan Changxing, who was crushed by the dead corpse and couldn't move.

Yuan Changxing, who was crushed under the dead body, struggled twice, and when he saw that he couldn't push the corpse, he couldn't help but howl with a cry: "Save me, save me!" I'm pinned, help me! Then he shouted, "Whoever is dead, you dare not save me!" Turning around, I directed the Four Emperors...... The emperor sued you, so that you will die without a place to be buried! ”

Those people just didn't hear him, and they all hid in the dark and carefully observed Xiaolou.

And press Yuan Changxing on the boat, and then go back to the small building.

In the small building, the fifth master also recognized Yuan Changxing, and couldn't help but grit his teeth and say, "What is the wind doing?" Why don't you shoot that little bunny with an arrow?! I don't have any arrows at hand, and if I have them, I'll shoot him myself!" ”

He was just whining, not wanting a voice to come in from the window. But it turned out that the strong wind had been hiding in the shadow of the eaves. Jufeng replied to the fifth master: "The corpse on his body is blocking him, and he can't shoot at this time." ”

Xu Yuan Er also thought of this at this time, so he no longer scolded and called for someone to save him, but tried to shrink all the exposed hands and feet under the corpse.

The fifth old man gritted his teeth and said: "No matter, shoot his legs and feet first, and then talk ......" He was talking, when he suddenly felt that someone was touching him, and when he looked back, he saw through the light on the boat that Lu'an had two bows around his neck and several quivers in his arms, blinking at him.

The old man was overjoyed and said, "It's just in time." As he spoke, he reached out and took a bow from Lu'an's neck, and drew another arrow, but he was there for a long time observing and analogizing, and it seemed that he didn't even know how to open the bow.

When Hou Jue saw it, he took another bow from Lu'an's neck and pulled it away at once.

The old man observed Hou Jue for a while, then learned his posture, and even asked him to pull the bow.

While the father and son were tossing their bows, the wind that was rolled upside down under the eaves cried out in a muffled voice: "That's my spare ......."

Shanniang glanced at Lu'an again, and said to Jufeng with a smile: "I'm afraid this girl is worried that you won't be able to cope with it alone." In fact, she felt that the words of the fifth master made Liu'an feel unhappy, so she deliberately brought those bows and arrows over.

Before Shanniang's words fell, another voice on the roof suddenly said angrily: "Madam, don't be afraid, we are all here." —but it was the hairy voice of one leg.

Shanniang was surprised for a while, thinking about how he climbed onto the roof with one leg, but what she asked was: "Who is in front?" ”

"Uncle Hua, Aunt Hua, and Yanfeng, a few of them." Giant Wind Tunnel.

After thinking about it, Shan Niang retreated from the window and went to the front porch to look at the gate that was still under siege for a while. In the light and shadow of the torches, she saw Yan Feng and Uncle Hua standing on the roof of the second gate, pointing outside and talking about something. And under the weeping flower door, to her surprise, Mother Li was squatting beside someone, bandaging the wound on the person's arm.

"Who's hurt?" Shanniang asked, pointing over there.

Sanhe said: "Someone just came to report that Uncle Gui was injured by a stray arrow, and Mother Li went over to help." ”

Shanniang couldn't help frowning for a while, and asked, "But there are other casualties?" ”

"It's okay," Sanhe said, "it's just flesh wounds." Seeing Shanniang's disbelief, Sanhe smiled and said: "The master has trained the family for so long, no matter what, he can top one, not to mention that they are only at the second gate, and those people are all outside the second gate." ”

Shanniang knew that she was referring to the secret guards left by the prince, so she nodded, and then looked at everyone and smiled easily: "It's okay, it seems that it won't be a problem until dawn." ”

Although she looked relaxed, only she knew what she was feeling - Shanniang knew very well that anyone could panic at this time, but she couldn't. The more she seemed to be that this qiē was just a game, the less likely it was that the group of women and children here would be flustered. As long as they are not flustered, the men who are standing up to the rebels outside will have no worries and will be more calm and calm...... Yuan Changqing, who didn't know what life and death and the situation were, could do what he had to do with more confidence.

Shanniang knew that she couldn't help Yuan Changqing do anything in this situation, and she couldn't even help the people at home who were bloodily resisting the rebels. The only thing she can do is to be herself, not to be a burden to others, not to hold others back.

She had a relaxed smile on her face, but her hand was gripping the railing so tightly that her knuckles were slightly white.

Sanhe noticed it, but he didn't poke her, but only said softly: "It's cold outside, Madame should go in." ”

Shanniang glanced at the still burning imperial city again, and silently recited all the names of the various gods she knew, until she heard the faint cries of Yuan Yi and Quan Ge'er from inside, and then she returned to the house.

Inside the house, the two children were woken up by the shouting and scolding on the boat outside, and the two children who were still sobbing saw Shanniang come in, so they put one on Shanniang's arm, and Yuan Yi sobbed in a low voice, "Black." ”

"Don't be afraid," Shanniang stroked her son's face and said, "Only in dark places can you see light." Look," she said, pointing out the window to the half of the sky red by the fire in the Imperial City, "See?" Normally, we don't see such a big torch. ”

Her words immediately made Mrs. Fifth laugh. The fifth wife said: "Sin, I don't know which palace caught fire, but I asked you to say that it was a torch." ”

Shanniang said: "It's inside the imperial city, if it's outside, maybe how many people will die." ”

The fifth lady was silent for a moment and said, "I'm afraid that there will be no fewer people who will die tonight." ”

Shanniang followed and fell silent.

The two were silent, and suddenly there was a surprise shout outside: "Ah, hit! ”

The fifth lady and Shanniang glanced at each other, and hurriedly helped each other out of the room, only to see the fifth master happily waving his fist at the window. asked carefully, but it turned out that he and Hou Jue were now learning how to fiddle with bows and arrows, and then Hou Jue thought that Shanniang had almost asked Yuan Er to calculate several times, so he hated it in his heart, and shot an arrow at Yuan Er, who was pressed by the dead body on the ship. Now he has only been practicing archery for nearly half a year, and his small strength is not great, so the arrow has not been able to fly out of the courtyard wall.

The fifth master also shot an arrow at the boat after learning from his example - so, sometimes it is really unreasonable, there is a kind of person who is born to be a lucky general, and the fifth master, who has just learned to hold a bow, has an arrow in his hand, and it is so coincidental that it was nailed to Yuan Er's hand that was exposed outside the dead body and could not be retracted......

Outside the window, Yuan Er's wails and his cries begging for someone to save him into the cabin sounded.

And the fifth master's arrow also attracted a burst of revenge. The ship also fired a row of arrows and crossbows into the small building. It's just that the small building is at a high place, the ship is at a low place, and there is a high wall in the middle, which is not as convenient as shooting arrows from the upper floor, and many arrows and crossbows are blocked by the wall. Even the few arrows that flew over, and none of them hit the target.

Just like that, it also scared the gale. The wind hurriedly whispered, "Close the windows and get out of here!" As he spoke, he led Mao Da and the others to shoot a row of arrows at the boat in a counterattack.

Shan Niang angrily grabbed the fifth master who was still proud, snatched the bow and arrow in Hou Jue's hand, and shouted: "Be honest with me!" When has this been a mess for people! So saying, he dragged his father and brother back from the window, and drank again to ask him to come and close the window.

Lu'an rushed over, first covered half of the window, then bit his lip and hesitated, then looked up and shouted above his head: "Be careful." Then he closed the other half of the window.

Ju Fengyuan, who had already climbed onto the roof, was leading Mao Da and the others to shoot arrows on the boat, and suddenly heard Lu'an's voice, he was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand to wipe the tip of his nose, removed the unknown smile on his lips, pulled out an arrow from the quiver, and stared intently at a little point that Yuan Changxing accidentally exposed outside the corpse because he was shot in the hand and struggled desperately—that was only an inch in his waist and abdomen—and shot over.

Inside the house, Shanniang was still teaching her childlike father, and Hou Jue, who was full of unwillingness and still wanted to try his archery skills again. At this moment, there was a commotion outside, and Shanniang was just about to turn around and go to the front porch to take a look, when there was a commotion in the back window. She hesitated, then looked closer to the back window.

But I saw that the ship that was moored under the wall was pulling anchor. In the distance, it was dimly like a big black guy slowly approaching.

"What's that?" Shanniang couldn't help but ask.

Hou Jue, who came with him, was most familiar with the shape of that thing, and suddenly shouted: "Feiyan boat!" Brother's Delphinium! ”

Shanniang approached the window to take a closer look, it was really! The tall mast, the long ramming angle, and the thin and narrow hull are not the sharp weapons that cross the sea—the two-masted swallow ship!

Compared to the tall and narrow Delphinium, the inland warship that was originally besieging Shanniang's house immediately looked like a toy. It didn't seem to use the ramming angle or fire the cannon of the delphinium, just such a slight collision could crush the low warship into the water.

Obviously, the Feiyan boat also knew where its advantages were, so it clearly put on a look of consternation, and slowly ran over the inland ship without hurrying. And the inland ship, at last, succeeded in anchoring before the Swift overwhelmed it.

When the ship escaped from under the walls of Tanhua Mansion, Shan Niang knew why the Feiyan boat was in such a hurry to attack. Seeing that the cannonball would not hit Tanhua Mansion by mistake, a light flashed on the Feiyan boat, and then there was a loud "boom", and it was the Feiyan boat that fired a cannon directly at the inland ship. Suddenly, the inland ship was broken in two. Seeing that the people on the boat jumped into the water one after another, thinking that Yuan Er's hand happened to be pinned to the deck by the fifth master's arrow, Shanniang couldn't help but feel happy, and then turned around to see the movement on the front porch.

Before she could go out, Uncle Gui, who was wrapped in bandages on his arm, had already run upstairs and reported to everyone: "The reinforcements from the Prince's Mansion have arrived, and the rebels at the gate have all dispersed. He looked at Shanniang again and said, "My uncle is fine, I specially called this general to report the girl's safety......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he called a bearded man who followed him to the side.

Shanniang still remembers him, it was the bearded general who escorted the prince to Weifu when Yuan Changqing was poisoned.

The general looked Shanniang up and down very seriously, and said, "Madame's fine." He added, "Madam, don't be strange, this is an order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, asking me to take a look at Madame with my own eyes, so that I can go back and report it to Lord Yuan." ”

Shanniang's face couldn't help but turn red. She knew that it must have been Yuan Changqing, who had always been silent, who had brought out traces in his actions, that made the prince give such a strange order. She hurriedly bowed to the stiff bearded general and said, "There is General Lao." Please tell the general that everything at home is fine, please don't worry about it. ”

So, the night passed without danger.

Although she knew that Yuan Changqing was safe, but she couldn't see him with her own eyes, Shan Niang ignored everyone's advice, sat on the beauty on the front porch, supported her forehead, and watched the fire in the imperial city that was gradually being extinguished from a distance.

Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, Mother Li had to take a thick cloak, and let her sit under the porch.

At this time, the fifth master was in the house for a while, shouting his father and mother. But it turned out that he, who could not use a bow, had shot the arrow that made him proud, but he also had the bowstring cut off a piece of flesh on his fingertips. At this time, the danger was lifted, and the fifth master remembered the injury on his hand, so he relied on the fifth wife to be coquettish and foolish for a while, pestering the fifth wife to bandage his injury.

Hou Jue really couldn't see the tiredness of his father, so he turned around and came out, planning to take the two little people to make up for sleep. The whole brother obediently lay on the nurse's shoulder and snored, but Yuan Yi still held on, only squinting and holding Shanniang's knees and not letting go, saying that he would not leave his mother.

Shanniang didn't want to leave her son at this time. It's also a pity that it's early summer, and it's not cold at night, so Shanniang asked someone to take a small quilt to wrap Yuan Yi and let him sleep next to the beauty, while she continued to support her head with her fingers and looked in the direction of the imperial city.

The morning of early summer came very early, and just after Yinzheng, the sky was vomited. Under the gradually brighter daylight, you can see that after a night of storms and rains in the originally tidy capital, several houses are still burning with green smoke, and some red-clothed guards can be seen patrolling the streets from time to time.

At this time, Yuan Yi, who had fallen asleep, suddenly got up, rubbed his eyes and called "Dad".

This child, although he loves to stick to Shanniang more, seems to have a different feeling from his father. When Yuan Changqing was poisoned, he cried inexplicably. Now hearing him suddenly call Yuan Changqing, Shan Niang was startled, and instinctively looked up in the direction of the imperial city, but saw a big black horse running in the direction of Tanhua Mansion along the slender alley. Although the rising morning light made Shanniang unable to see the knight's face clearly, she instinctively knew who it was.

"Yes," she stroked her slightly bulging lower abdomen with one hand, touched her son's head with the other, and smiled as she looked at the approaching figure, "Your father is back." ”