Chapter 782: The City Gate
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The gates of the city slammed shut, cutting off the inside and outside.
When the guards complained that it was not yet time for the change of shift, a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old came down from the city, with hurried steps, and two strings of tears on his face, and when he saw the closed city gate, he was stunned for a while, and squatted by the wall, waiting for the city gate to be opened tomorrow morning.
The young man's name is Li San, he is a buddy in the city, and yesterday evening the neighbor went into the city to report that the old mother was seriously ill and was hopeless, and when he was dying, he wanted to see him.
Li San didn't have time to bring a change of clothes, and rushed to the gate of the city with a string of accumulated copper plates, but he was one step too late and failed to leave the city. Now there is still more than half an hour before the unitary time, I don't know why the city gate was closed in advance, but the people of Shengdou have no right to open the city gate, so they have to squat in the corner.
Finally, the sky was bright, and there were a lot of people at the city gate, and Li San hurriedly squeezed over. There were many people out of the city, and everyone waited quietly for the city gates to open.
The sky was bright, the city gate was still closed, and the guards stood on the city wall and laughed while looking down on the people waiting to leave the city, and a sense of superiority arose.
As the sun rose, more and more people gathered out of the city, and the people in front were about to be squeezed to the city gate, and people kept pouring in behind.
At three o'clock in the morning, the people began to be restless, and some people were shouting: "Why don't you open the city gate yet?" ”
It's so abnormal, what time is this, and the city gates are not open.
The guards didn't bother to pay attention to these people, and continued to laugh.
The dungeon of the State Pastoral Mansion was robbed, and the Jade House was suddenly heavily guarded, which ordinary people don't know, but Shen San knows it, and he knows what Zhou Zheng did. He thought about it, and felt that it was better to go out of the city to avoid it first, and don't get involved in the middle of Cheng Mo and Zhou Zheng, he couldn't afford to mess with any of these two.
He packed up his things overnight, loaded more than a dozen cars, and two cars sat a few beautiful concubines, rushed towards the city gate, and saw the crowd in front of him from a distance, so he quickly sent a small servant to ask what was going on, but the little servant had not yet gone, and he understood from the noise of the people who went out of the city, and the city gate was not opened.
Looking from the car, you can see the closed vermilion gate, isn't it open?
The little servant quickly came back and said, "Ah Lang, the state pastor ordered the city gate to be closed tightly, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. ”
People with a bit of means got this unfortunate news from the guards of the city, and the news also spread among the crowd, and those who were not in a hurry chose to go home, and when the carriage turned its head, it was inevitable that they would bump into people, and quarrels were inevitable, and there was a quarrel everywhere.
Li San looked at the two huge city gates sadly for a long time, and continued to squat in the corner of the wall with his head in pain, his mother, who did not wait for him before he breathed, did not know if he would die without a blind eye.
Wu Duwei and Bai Du led five hundred sergeants, only ten miles away from Yangzhou City.
At noon, the news spread throughout the city that the gates were closed.
Cheng Mo finished enjoying a sumptuous lunch, wiped his mouth, and said, "Even the trick of closing the city gate has been used?" ”
"Yes, Ah Lang, what now?" Heizi was worried, if Zhou Zhenggou jumped off the wall in a hurry, they really had no choice, after all, there were only a dozen people, and it was really not enough for people to stuff their teeth.
A guard came in and said, "Ah Lang, a group of errands have come outside. ”
Is it funny to send a group of officers into battle?
Cheng Mo threw the brocade that wiped his mouth on the table, got up and said, "Go and have a look." ”
Almost all the servants in the yamen were dispatched, and many of them were still standing guard for Cheng Mo at the gate the day before, feeling honored to be so close to the king of Bei'an, but they were told early this morning that the king of Bei'an, who they had been guarding for a few days, was an impostor. The officers were in an uproar, and then they were ordered to surround and capture this impostor, they really found it difficult to accept, but they did not dare to disobey the order, and all kinds of frictions along the way, the situation continued, and the road of half an hour was short, and they had to walk for more than an hour.
The errand servants ate public meals and entered this system, although they were at the bottom, but their knowledge was different from that of the common people, and many people saw the majesty and domineering of Cheng Mo's guards, and yesterday's arrow, if it was shot at them, there would be one more hole in the body.
Many people stopped at a stone's throw away from the gate of the Emerald Residence, and the head of the squad even kicked and kicked before they cowered and approached, but no one dared to stand too close, maintaining the posture of escaping at any time, saying that surround the Emerald Residence and block the gate, which is a bit exaggerated.
But what is Cheng Mo's identity, the orders he issued, they will be meticulously executed, that is, it is said that idle people are not allowed to approach in the land of a stone's throw, and the guards will naturally abide by it.
A few people walked out of the gate, and the servants didn't see who came out clearly, they shouted in unison, and ran away, and the henchmen at the head of the squad didn't want to run, and they couldn't stop everyone running, if they didn't run, they would become targets. In the end, only the team leader was left standing alone.
Then, an arrow with the sound of the wind pierced the thigh of the squad leader, who could not stand and fell to the ground.
The officers saw clearly that it was Cheng Mo, and they were so frightened that their souls were gone, they spread their legs and ran for their lives, even their henchmen didn't dare to turn around and drag the team leader away, and the team leader had to watch his subordinates run away without a trace.
Cheng Mo didn't even look at him, the guards led the horse, he turned over and got on the horse, and headed towards the city gate.
The team leader ate a mouthful of smoke and dust, and when Cheng Mo and his party went away, they found a puddle of yellow and white things under their buttocks.
Most of the people at the gate of the city left, leaving behind those who were in a hurry to get out of the city, like Li San, who had to go out of the city if they were in a hurry. Those who have money ask the guards of the city to be accommodating, even if the city gate cannot be opened, at least use hanging baskets to hang them out. The guards just shook their heads, it's not that they don't want to make extra money, they really know how powerful Zhou Zheng is, and they even lost their lives for a few dollars, which is not cost-effective.
Li San had no money, no other thoughts, just squatting in the corner and crying silently.
Shen San went back, and when the carriage turned around, he hit and injured a few people, so he naturally wouldn't compensate.
The people at the city gate were so emotional that they didn't pay attention to the sound of horses' hooves.
Cheng Mochi went closer, saw that the city gate was closed, dismounted and squeezed through the crowd, went up to the city tower, glanced at a few city guards, and said, "Why don't you open the city gate?" ”
The old soldier at the head is the soldier who likes to drink two sips yesterday, and everyone calls him an old wine worm. The old wine worm recognized Cheng Mo at a glance, and when Cheng Mo entered the city that day, it was he who heard Cheng Mo's Beijing accent. When the prince of Bei'an arrived, he didn't dare to slack off, and replied respectfully: "If you go back to the prince, Zhou Zhoumu has an order and is not allowed to open the city gate." ”
Cheng Mo said: "Open, there is something to bear the king." ”
The old wine worm said, "No." ”
He can't afford to provoke the king of Bei'an, and he can't afford to provoke the state pastor, whoever comes over he listens to whom, so let's do it. He beckoned some of his companions and went down the city wall to open the gates. As soon as the city gate was opened, all the people cheered and rushed out, Li San only cried, and when he could react, most of the people who went out of the city had left, and the people who entered the city poured in, and the city gate was blocked.
Wu Du Wei and Bai Du led five hundred people, looking at the city gate from a distance, suddenly either by car or on foot, countless people rushed over, if it was not for Wu Du Wei ordered to line up, the sergeants would have almost been scattered.