Chapter 23: The Wanderers
Chen Xianyue's eyes dodged, she tightly picked up the wild vegetables in her hand, and changed the topic, "Have you finished eating the porridge?" The little lady is going to make you dinner. ”
"Little lady." Jiang Luo followed, "It's so dangerous in the mountains, you can't go any further." ”
"But ......," Chen Xianyue lowered her head, "You didn't say that those are all seeds, they are reserved for planting in the spring of next year." ”
"Besides, we don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at us when we first come to the village, if we don't go out but we have something to eat, we will inevitably be remembered......"
Jiang Luo was speechless, and she said stubbornly, "Then next time I want to go into the mountain with Xiaoniang." ”
"Nope." Chen Xianyue refused her without thinking.
Jiang Luo stiffened his neck and refused to retreat.
In the end, Chen Xianyue softened, she sighed and rubbed Jiang Luo's messy hair, "Okay, Xiao Niang won't go into the mountains to dig wild vegetables." ”
Jiang Ran sat in front of the stove and lit the fire, Jiang Luo couldn't grab the work, so he could only watch with Jiang Cheng's eyes.
The kitchen was bright, they had never seen such a bright light at night.
Jiang Luo told them that this is called a solar lamp, and explained it to them carefully, they didn't understand it very clearly, just one sentence, this lamp does not use kerosene and wax oil, as long as there is sun during the day and at night, it can be illuminated.
Chen Xianyue was tired all day, and her face was still full of smiles. She cleaned the wild vegetables she had dug up, scalded them in boiling water, and laid them on the steps of the yard to dry.
The remaining tender part is directly added with water and a little salt to cook into vegetable soup, and a large bowl for each person is used as dinner.
This basket of wild vegetables is enough for the four of them to last for more than ten days.
Jiang Luo took a sip of the soup, his mouth was slightly bitter, and he was barely acceptable.
"Mother~ Today, my brother and sister and I planted vegetables, and my sister said that they can be eaten in more than ten days." Jiang Ran's eyes were as pure as mountain spring water, and her eyes were full of anticipation, chewing wild vegetable leaves in large gulps.
Chen Xianyue put down the dishes and chopsticks, and when she came back, she noticed that the ground in the yard was turned over and wet, and she knew that she had poured a lot of water at a glance.
"Did Ran Ran let her sister work?"
Jiang Ran suddenly restrained his smile and lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.
Jiang Luo pursed his lips, "Xiao Niang is eccentric, my brothers and sisters can work, and I am not weaker than them~"
Chen Xianyue pulled her hand distressedly, her little hand was slightly red, and there were two scratches of different shades on her wrist.
"The little lady knows that Luo'er is powerful, but Luo'er is a young lady, and she is ...... young."
Jiang Luo frowned, the boss was unhappy, "The Jiang family has fallen, I am now the daughter of my mother like the second sister, what kind of concubine do I have." ”
Chen Xianyue was silent, and the atmosphere in the kitchen was quiet for a while.
Yangchuan Castle.
Since the plague was rampant, the people gathered in front of the city gate no longer had the luxury of expecting Taishou to be kind enough to let them into the city, and in order to survive, the people scattered in all directions.
They begged along the roads and fled in all directions. With Yangchuan City as the center, you can see the corpses of people everywhere along the road.
All kinds of Yangchuan City reached the ears of the Qinzhou Assassin Shi, he and Lingzhou Assassin Shi were both feudal officials, and they didn't want to meddle in the affairs of others, but the people suffered too many casualties, which was terrifying. So he sent his second son Chu Mubei to bring people to investigate the matter.
When Chu Mubei arrived in Yangchuan, the city gate had already been opened, and the mountains of corpses piled up outside the city had already been disposed of.
After careful investigation, it was learned that Lingzhou Assassin had sent someone to Yangchuan, but Qian Taishou of Yangchuan told the person who came that the reason why he closed the city was because of the plague outside the city, and he had to do it as a last resort in order to protect the people in the city.
He acted quickly to deal with the aftermath, and the state officials briefly visited for a few days, but found nothing famous. And he sent several large boxes of real money as a tribute, and the people in the state left.
Chu Mubei didn't believe that Qian Taishou was so innocent, he brought two retinues into the city alone, and most of the rest were hidden outside the city.
After living in the city for four or five days, he had just found some clues, and the men outside the city also sent him a message telling him that he had found some homeless people, and those homeless people could prove that Qian Taishou robbed the people's daughters and killed the people.
At this point, his whereabouts were unexpectedly revealed. When Qian Taishou got the news that he had led someone to secretly investigate, he was furious, and scolded the people of the Chu family for stretching their hands too long, and they actually wanted to secretly investigate the evidence of his crimes!
So Qian Taishou pretended to make a rebellion among the homeless people and sent troops to chase and kill the homeless people everywhere. On the one hand, he wanted to get rid of Chu Mubei unknowingly, and on the other hand, he wanted to kill the people who had gathered in front of the city gate, so that there would be no living witness.
Chu Thorn Shi Sheng has two sons and a daughter, the eldest son is frail and sick and rarely appears in front of the world, but this second son Chu Mubei is a genius, at the age of thirteen he followed Chu Thorn history to the battlefield, and at the age of seventeen led eight hundred cavalry to drive the nomads in the north thousands of miles.
It's a pity that the people of the Chu family are really dead, as the Taishou of Yangchuan, the Lingzhou assassin at the top doesn't care about him, but the people of the Chu family come out to be demons!
The officers and soldiers searched the outsiders in the city, and Chu Mubei took advantage of the chaos to escape from the city with two retinues.
Before he had time to gather with the team, Yang Xiong, the captain who got the news, came after him with his men.
Chu Mubei and his entourage could only disguise themselves as begging refugees and flee all the way.
Yang Xiong pounced, drew his knife and slashed at the trunk of the tree, "Send someone to chase south along the road!" As long as they encounter homeless beggars, they will all be killed, and they must not be allowed to leave Yangchuan's territory alive! ”
"Yes, Captain!"
The crowd scattered in all directions.
Yang Xiong hesitated, "Wait, send another team of people to chase north along the river, in case someone goes the other way......"
"Yes!"
Yang Xiong was bitter in his heart, before he was provocative, everyone had to look at his face and act, but who knew that the matter was so big, not only did they pay attention to the history of the assassin in Benzhou, but even the history of the Qinzhou assassin next door was also alarmed.
In case Qian Taishou has a bad deal, he will definitely be the first to be knifed!
He's still young, he doesn't want to die!
Chu Mubei and his entourage went north along the river, and they were accompanied by dozens of people, all of whom were displaced people, including women and children.
His idea was very simple, he wanted to escape from Yangchuan's territory among the people, and then reveal his identity and persuade these people to return to Qinzhou with him, so that he could not only help these fleeing people, but also have evidence to impeach Qian Taishou.
The people fled for many days, their physical strength was exhausted, they stopped and stopped, although Chu Mubei was anxious, but leaving the people and fleeing alone was even more eye-catching, and he could only endure it for the time being.
After walking for a day and a night, it was a difficult noon, the river slowly became shallow, and a continuous small mountain village appeared on the other side of the river.
"Brothers and sisters, there is a family in front of us, let's go into the village and ask for something to eat!"
I don't know who roared, and the people rushed across the river and ran to the village to beg.