Chapter Seventy-Eight: Refugees
A small colored bird in the sky was flapping its short wings vigorously, trying its best to catch up with the convoy below, but the masked man in the front was too fast, and its colorful feathers were shot off several and couldn't catch up, just when it wanted to go back and find a tree, and rest, the man suddenly raised his hand, and the whole convoy stopped.
The corners of Qin Tianan's mouth hooked, he pulled the reins and turned around and walked to Qin Tianze's carriage: "Your Highness, let's rest here for a while." After saying that, the others were ordered to stay where they were.
The little colored bird's eyes lit up, and it increased its strength, and flew to Qin Tianan's shoulder and directly tilted its head and collapsed there, until its little head was flicked, and then it stretched out its feet and exposed the bamboo tube sandwiched under its belly.
Qin Tianan picked it up, opened it and looked at it, and saw that it was still motionless, so he turned his head sideways and said, "You should know where the best place to rest is."
The little colored bird "chirped" a few times, flapped its wings and flew back, and when the wind blew, it flew into Lin Yanzhi's carriage through the gap in the curtain.
Lin Yanzhi, who was holding her cheeks, saw the uninvited guest flying in, her eyes lit up: "Hey, why did you come with you?" She looked at its round belly and short wings, and smiled, "Amazing, how did you get here?" Exhausted, aren't you?" Hold out a finger and let it rest on it.
The little colored bird tilted her head and thought about it, blinked her eyes, rubbed her little head and said, "I miss you, I miss you."
Lin Yanzhi was amused by it, raised her hand, and asked it to find a place to stay by itself, she straightened her hand and took the burden to untie it, found some dry food from it, broke it and fed it.
Su Leying woke up slowly, and when she saw the little colorful bird in front of her, she shrank up in fright and shouted screaming.
"Don't scream, it's just a little bird no bigger than your fist, and if you want to be afraid, it should be it." Lin Yanzhi touched the little colorful bird in her hand that finally finished the road and was finally able to eat a full meal.
Su Leying shouted even louder: "I don't know where to hit the dirty things that flew in, don't get out quickly!"
When the little colored bird heard this, the little eyelid was hooked, and it flew over, pecking and calling on the top of her head, "Dirty, dirty!"
Su Leying was so frightened that she waved her hands to drive it away, one person and one bird, and the noise kept arguing.
「…… Slow your time."
Lin Yanzhi, who couldn't stand it, lifted the curtain of the car and walked out, followed by Liu Xin.
Qin Tianze was in the shade of a tree, listening to Chi Yuan's report, and said, "Don't care how he does things."
Chi Yuan nodded and said, "Your Highness, your subordinates have found out that not only Shengjing, but also some young and strong men in various states have suddenly disappeared in recent days...... Maybe he was taken away by his gang like Wei Shizi."
"Qiancheng ......" Speaking of Wei Qiancheng, Qin Tianze asked, "Are you sure he was escorted to Yanzhou?"
Chi Yuan shook his head, "No, it is reported that after Wei Shizi's ship left its normal course that day, it encountered a storm, and when his subordinates sent people, only the capsized ship was left on the sea."
"What about a thousand cities?" Qin Tianze frowned and asked.
Chi Yuan arched his hand and said, "My subordinates have sent people to salvage it, but not only Wei Shizi, but the others have not even found a single corpse."
Qin Tianze closed his eyes and muttered for a moment: "That's the good news, Qiancheng is willing to be transferred to a place, just a trick."
Suddenly, there was a noisy sound from the side of the convoy, he glanced at Chi Yuan, who nodded and left.
He turned his head and saw a bunch of ragged people surrounding Lin Yanzhi's carriage, and hurriedly walked over and asked, "Yanzhi, what's going on?"
"I just came back from the river, and somehow I saw this group of people gathered here, and they said that they were from Yanzhou, and they couldn't live anymore, so they escaped together, but they encountered bandits on the road, and they hadn't eaten or drunk for a long time." After Lin Yanzhi finished speaking, she pulled Qin Tianze aside and whispered with an embarrassed face, "But Your Highness, I don't think it's okay to ...... at this time."
Suddenly, Su Leying got out of the car.
When she saw these people just now, she remembered Su Yanran's words, and when she thought of the inn, the prince flew over and protected her behind her, feeling that this was specially arranged by God for her, so that she could behave in front of the prince.
So she had been hiding inside and waiting for Qin Tianze to come, and now, when she finally saw it, she immediately took Lin Yanzhi's burden and said to those people, "I have some dry food here, you can take it and eat it."
Seeing those people stretching out their hands to ask for it, she endured her disgust, and reluctantly smiled and persuaded, "Take your time, don't worry, it's all there."
Lin Yanzhi was still talking to Qin Tianze, and when Yu Guang saw Su Leying's side, he saw those people rushing up, and said, "It's not good!" Then, he ran to her side as fast as he could.
Those people couldn't wait for Su Leying to distribute it slowly and methodically, someone got up, pounced, and snatched the burden in her hand, and for a while, the dry food in the bag fell to the ground, and those people threw themselves on the ground and grabbed it.
Some of them couldn't grab food, so they turned their eyes to Su Leying fiercely, and some even started to reach out and grab the car to climb on.
"You all stop, whoever dares to come up, don't blame me for being ruthless under the sword."
Suddenly, a silver sword appeared in the sky, startling the people for a moment.
"She said she had it all, but we didn't eat it!"
"Yes, yes, I'll give it when I say it!"
And the few pieces of bread on the ground, those who grabbed it, there was not much at all, and after being hungry for many days, after finally tasting a little, the greed in his heart was also aroused.
"That's it, are you the bird on your shoulder?!"
"Look at what you're wearing, there must be a lot of them in this car, everyone, leave her alone, look at her hands shaking, she won't dare to really kill us!"
"If you don't rob, you have to starve to death, no matter what, it's better to be a full ghost than to be a starving ghost, at least you have the strength to walk that Huangquan Road, everyone, on!"
One of them, after saying this, the refugees who were already clamoring were instigated, and began to push one after another, and some began to stare at other carriages.
Lin Yanzhi, who was said to be right, pursed her mouth, raised her other hand, and held it at the same time, which stabilized the sword that was about to fall to the ground.
The approaching refugees kept her back.
Qin Tianze looked at the guards standing aside, and said hurriedly, "What are you doing standing on!"
Immediately, the guards, who did not know what to do, received the order, and immediately acted quickly, drawing their weapons and surrounding them.
Su Leying was dissatisfied with being squeezed by Lin Yanzhi, and suddenly stretched out her hand and pushed her away: "You all step down for me, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is here, I see who dares to move again!"
Lin Yanzhi really wanted to plug her mouth at this moment, after the original inn incident, seeing that Su Leying was either sleeping or in a daze along the way, I thought she was learning to be obedient and stopped, but I didn't expect it......
The group of people turned their heads to look, but they pulled even harder, and some of them had already pulled on Lin Yanzhi's skirt.
"His Royal Highness the Prince? Isn't he a merciful Lord? If it were him, he wouldn't have pointed his sword at us at this moment! Isn't he afraid of being drowned by spittle when the time comes?!"
At this moment, there was the sound of horses' hooves.
The refugee who was still talking at the last moment suddenly fell to the ground, and the crimson that erupted from his neck splashed on Lin Yanzhi's body.
Suddenly, the people who were still making noise finally fell silent and froze in place.
Qin Tianan waved his hand, and another person fell, and everyone came back to their senses, and they all looked at him, only to see that his mouth moved and he said a word.
"Kill."
The refugees glared at each other and tried to run, but before they could take a few steps, they all fell to the ground after hearing a uniform "swish" sound.
At this moment, it was truly quiet.
The blood beads on Qin Tianan's sword fell to the ground bit by bit, he snorted lightly, flung his hand to the left, and the sword that was out of his hand immediately flew up and stuck on the back of the person who had been hiding behind the tree.
He walked up to Lin Yanzhi, saw that her face was also splashed with blood, and took out a handkerchief in his arms, but he saw the corner
When the word "shiba" was placed, he put it back again, untied the wrist guard on his hand, and raised his hand to help her wipe it off.
Lin Yanzhi, who was frozen, subconsciously turned her head away, still staring blankly at the ground, and the person who was still yelling in front of her just now became a corpse collapsed in a pool of blood.
"Those people aren't real refugees."
After Lin Yanzhi heard his words, she slowly turned her head, lowered her eyes and muttered: "I know, if it is really a hungry refugee, how can they speak so neutrally, although they are all dressed in tatters, but there is no trace of stain on their hands, and the soles of their shoes do not look like they have traveled a long way, I know, but ......." bμtν
She understood what kind of world she was living in, but her heart didn't seem to fully accept it.
In the rule of law society of the original world, not to mention people, not even a fish has been killed, but here, now, all of a sudden, in front of her eyes, a living person instantly became a dead thing.
She needs time to digest.
Qin Tianze looked at her reaction, guessing that she should have never seen such a situation, he stretched out his hand to her, and opened his mouth to call her name softly.
Lin Yanzhi gradually came back to her senses, stretched out her hand, and followed him all the way to the river.
Qin Tianze took out a handkerchief, and after wetting it, he looked at Lin Yanzhi's face and wiped her carefully until she could no longer see a little blood on her face.
"Yanzhi, after passing this mountain, we can stay at the inn for one night, I heard that there is a small village over there, I will take you to go for a walk at that time, and at night, I will make you a cup of Qingxin tea, you can drink it and sleep well, don't think about anything again, and then we will continue to hurry, okay?" He raised his hand again and touched her head.
Lin Yanzhi looked at him squatting in front of him, wanted to speak and stopped, and finally only nodded slightly.
Qin Tianan, who was standing next to the tree behind them, watched silently for a while, and after clenching his hands for a moment, he turned around and left.