Chapter 50: A Strange Place
In a small, dilapidated village, the UAE is scrubbing his clothes lightly.
The rain that stopped from time to time delayed their progress, but it also helped them shake off the pursuers in the capital.
In order to avoid interrogation, they traveled all the way along the country road, deliberately avoiding crowded places.
They are now in an abandoned village that has been gradually deserted after the villagers moved to higher ground after flooding a few years ago.
There was only a blanket spread on the kang, and on it lay a graceful woman, who was the other person on the trip.
After three days of running around, she had a fever since last night, and now it is worse than last night.
It's a remote place, but it's the best place they have been resting for the past three days.
Ah Lian wanted to find a bell doctor, but was stopped by Huan Ci.
After changing into clean clothes from the United Arab Emirates, she climbed onto the kang and went to sleep. If you will inevitably expose your whereabouts when you bump into other people, it is better to rest here for a while and sleep to recuperate.
When she fell asleep, Ah Lian fed the horses something and washed their changed clothes before closing his eyes in another room.
The two of them hardly dared to close their eyes for the past few days, but now they finally had a chance, and they fell asleep after a while.
At this moment, in the town near the village, a short man ran out of breath to the officers and soldiers guarding the guard, looking nervous and proud.
It was drizzling outside, and the steep wind blew in through the window, waking up the man lying on the kang.
Alan shrunk his neck and walked inside, holding his arms.
"Daddy." The woman on the kang murmured in her sleep.
He stepped forward and tucked the blanket for the woman, and sighed silently at the tears on her face.
Suddenly, a slight movement outside the house alerted him.
He clenched the short knife in his hand and slowly moved it outwards against the wall.
As he approached the door, a feathered arrow flew in front of his eyes, grazing the tip of his nose.
The sound of the porcelain bowl on the cabinet where the arrow shot down and the sound of things shattering woke up Huan Ci.
She jerked herself up from the bed, and then she heard the voice of the United Arab Emirates.
"Don't come out, stay away from the window, we've been discovered."
Huan Ci hurriedly slid down from the kang and hid behind a large water tank.
"How many people are out there?" She asked softly.
"I can only see a few carriages from here." Ah Lian leaned against the wall and looked out, his face was a little gloomy, "It's a carriage for officials." ”
Huan Ci frowned gloomily. She was flattered that these people were making such a big deal to catch her.
"Can we get out?"
The UAE shook his head slightly.
"Either I'll go out and attract them first, and you can go around from behind when everyone isn't looking." Huan Ci covered the tiger talisman on his chest.
"Nope." Ah Lian glared back at her, "I must take you back." ”
"The person they want to arrest is me, you should go back to Bingzhou and find my uncle quickly." Huan Ci rebuked angrily.
"You bring the Tiger Talisman with you." She tried to pull something out of her arms, but a whistling feathered arrow stopped her movements.
"The people inside come out." Not far away, the shouts of others were suddenly heard.
Looking at the feather arrows that were close at hand, Huan Ci gritted his teeth hatefully and moved along the wall to the side of the United Arab Emirates' legs.
"Let's go." She tugged at Ah Lian's sleeve and said.
Ah Lian glanced at her, and in the blink of an eye, he wrapped his arms around her waist.
After a whirlwind, the two of them were already at the back of the room.
It turned out that it was Ah Lian who carried her out of the window and rolled here from the side of the house.
After a quick glance at the surrounding environment, Huan Ci realized that there was actually a lake behind him, no wonder the group of people did not guard this place.
The horse they had brought with them was resting by the tree, and Ah Lian stepped forward in three steps and two steps to untie the rope.
The people in front had already spotted the anomaly and shot several arrows in quick succession.
Huan Ci hurriedly climbed onto the horse, sat behind the United Arab Emirates, and grabbed his clothes tightly.
Seeing that she had already mounted her horse, the Allian immediately turned his horse and ran eastward, where there were far fewer guards than in front, and none of them had bows and arrows.
The officials who came to set up the control really did not expect this place, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to go after them.
"What's going on?" A man stepped down from the carriage behind him.
The official was so panicked that he broke out in a cold sweat, and said worriedly: "My lord, those two people ran away from the east, and the lower official has sent someone to chase them." ”
"Let's take a look." Fu Shen said coldly.
He lifted his eyelids to look at the steep slope not far away, and a vague smile appeared at the corner of his lips.
On the other side, the UAE galloped all the way, and Huan Ci attacked the officers and soldiers in front with the bow and arrow on the horse.
There had been people shooting arrows at the back, and one of them was now stuck in the waist of the United Arab Emirates. Huan Ci supported him in the back, dodging other arrows along the way.
Suddenly, an arrow struck her calf, causing her to fall backwards with a strong force.
Before Huan Ci could exclaim, the man had already fallen from his horse and rolled down the steep slope in front of him.
Before she fainted, she saw several fierce arrows pierce the necks of the officers and soldiers on the steep slope, and the UAE quickly disappeared from sight without their block.
Not far away, a strange man suddenly appeared, walking quickly in front of her like a ghost. Huan Ci opened his mouth, but before he could make a sound, his heavy eyelids closed uncontrollably.
At this time, on the hillside, the official had galloped up with men on horseback.
"What's going on? What about people? He looked at everything in disbelief, and his face suddenly lost blood.
"My lord, the guards over there have all been killed, and the subordinates think that someone is there to rescue them." One of the officers and soldiers pointed to a steep slope farther away.
"Search quickly, otherwise how can I explain to Your Majesty?" He yelled angrily.
Behind him, Fu Shen walked over unhurriedly.
"People ran away?" The man's thin lips opened lightly, and his voice was extremely cold.
"Xiaguan will send someone to search." The official nodded hurriedly.
Huan Ci sneered: "Lord Zhang is really ineffective. ”
Zhang Miao's heart was on fire, but he was helpless.
Today's matter was indeed entrusted to him by the above, but it happened that Fu Shen was here to supervise the flood control matter, so he came to take a look. Now that there is an accident, he can only bear this responsibility, after all, everyone else is under his command.
He had been in this town for many years, and he thought that today was his chance to ascend, but he actually killed an uninvited guest.
Fu Shen directly ignored his frightened expression, and lowered his hand to look at the opposite hillside, his face a little gloomy.
Sweeping Leaves, who was far away at the bottom of the slope, walked up unhurriedly, passed by Zhang Miao, and walked straight to Fu Shen.
Fu Shen glanced at him and then looked away. If someone looked at him carefully at this time, they would definitely notice the smile on the corner of his mouth.
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Huan Ci woke up on a bed full of tents.
The smell of medicine filled the room into her nose, gradually awakening her consciousness.
She slowly opened her eyes and glanced around the dimly lit bed, wanting to lift the curtain to take a look.
But as soon as she moved, the pain made her sigh.
The next moment, the bed curtain was lifted from the outside, and a woman of fourteen or fifteen years old glanced at her faintly.
Huan Ci wanted to speak out loud, but he couldn't do it, and he couldn't use any strength.
She stared silently at the person in front of her, and the woman just looked at her, then lowered the curtain.
Huan Ci lay on the bed, listening to the footsteps getting farther and farther away, and the "creak" of the door that soon rang, and he was very puzzled.
A moment later, the wooden door rang again, and then hurried footsteps rushed towards her.
Huan Ci stared warily at the tent until a familiar face appeared in his eyes.
The person who came turned out to be a doctor.
He looked at Huan Ci, grabbed her arm, and then focused on taking her pulse.
Huan Ci looked at this man dumbfounded. No wonder this person is very familiar, he is the doctor he saw in the Fushen Mansion that night, how can he appear here now?
She turned her head to look away, looking at the furnishings in the room.
It should be a three-room house, and all the equipment is decent, but it is by no means a place where ordinary people live.
"Where is this?" After a while, Huan Ci finally spoke.
The doctor glanced at her coldly, turned his head to the woman beside him and said, "It's okay for the time being, just take the medicine on time." ”
The woman bowed her head and followed him out.
Ignoring her words?
Huan Ci pursed his lips and struggled to sit up.
She lifted her clothes and looked left and right, and it turned out that her body was covered with tiny scratches, only her legs were covered with strips of cloth.
The delicate and smooth feel came from her hand, and Huan Ci was shocked to realize that she had changed her clothes.
She hurried to find the half of the tiger talisman, which was still hidden in her arms.
Huan Ci breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed the bed rail, and tried to sit up, but the woman suddenly returned to the house.
She stared at Huan Ci and walked over quickly to hold her down.
"Where is this?" Huan Ci looked up at her.
The woman shook her head and looked away.
"I'm going out." Huan Qi accentuated his voice.
The woman shook her head again, giving her a warning look.
Although Huan Ci was puzzled, she was not good at doing it at the moment, so she had to slowly move back to the bed.
The woman looked at her with satisfaction and brought her a glass of water.
Huan Ci was not at ease, and shook her head to indicate that she was not thirsty, although her throat was very uncomfortable at this time.
The sun was slowly setting, the room was getting darker and darker, and the woman was not sure what she was doing, going in and out.
When it was almost completely dark, she ran in again and lit the candles, looking in a hurry.
"You wait." Huan Qi shouted.
The woman raised her eyelids to look at her, then closed the door and went out.
Huan Ci opened his mouth, and all the words he didn't ask were swallowed in his stomach.
It was so boring to lie down that she thought about it again, wanting to go outside and have a look.