Chapter Seventy-Five: Besieged
Early the next morning, the people looking for Cai'er went back and forth, found Cai'er in the river, and they salvaged the person and brought it back to the ancestral hall.
Shen Yunqing looked at Cai'er, who had been soaking in the river for a day, her face was pale and her whole body was stiff, and she felt a cramping pain in her heart for no reason.
How disappointed would she have to be in the world to choose this path after she was free?
Nangong Qiao on the side comforted: "Maybe only in this way can she be liberated, but living is a kind of torture!" ”
Shen Yunqing was powerless to refute, she silently straightened Cai'er's clothes, and asked Lin to bring a set of clean clothes over for Cai'er to change into.
Now that time is tight and the conditions are limited, she took Cai'er to the back mountain, took out a coffin that was not too big from the space, dug a pit that was not deep, and put Cai'er in it.
Shen Yunqing said to himself: "You can still sleep peacefully in the place where you grew up, and it can be regarded as a good death, it is uncertain whether there will be people living in this village in the future, will you be lonely?" ”
There was silence all around, and all that answered her was the rustling of leaves on the trees and a hint of the cool autumn breeze.
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After lunch, the villagers began to pack their things, and they were more prepared than the villagers of Nan'an Village, so they were ready to pack everything they could use and take them on the road.
From the needlework for sewing clothes, to the two-wheeled carts for transporting grain, quilts, buckets, food, and rice, there are several carts in front of every house to load things.
Looking at this posture, it is not like fleeing, but like moving with a family.
Uncle Gan shouted in a loud voice on the side: "Pick up the important ones, just make sure that you don't get hungry and don't freeze on the road, don't take those heavy ones, Erzhu, what are you doing with those stools?" ”
"Mrs. Xu, don't move the wooden bed, just move the quilt!"
"You are moving so many things, but when the officers and soldiers come, they can't run."
"Life is important, life is important, it is enough to bring food and clothing!!"
Uncle Gan kept telling on the side, and the villagers picked out some things to put at home, picking them up left and right, and always felt that all the things could be used, this one was reluctant, that one was reluctant.
On the other hand, the villagers of Nan'an Village had an experience, and there were not many things they had with them, and they all came to the ancestral hall to gather in less than an hour.
The village chief followed behind Shen Yunqing and counted the number of people, no more, no less, oh no, one less Xiaobai.
On the side of the old Yunlin Army, Hu Ran and the soldiers who went out to chase people have not returned.
Nangong Qiao was worried that things would change, so he left a secret message in the corner of the ancestral hall, planning to leave for Ningzhou in the afternoon.
In the evening, the villagers of Lanqiao Village finally came to the ancestral hall to gather at the urging of Uncle Gan.
"Miss Qing, except for Aunt Liu's family, they are all here."
Shen Yunqing waved his hand: "Uncle Gan, you don't need to report to me, you just take care of your own people, and I am only responsible for leading the way, if you run into officers and soldiers, I, the general and his subordinates, try to ensure that no one is hurt for no reason, but you also have to make sure that they don't have moths along the way." ”
Uncle Gan habitually stroked his gray beard and said, "Don't worry, the villagers are very grateful to Miss Qing, you think so much about us, how can we make trouble for no reason?" ”
Shen Yunqing waved his hand: "That's good, let's go!" ”
There were so many of them that it was dark when they left the village, but before they could climb the steep road out of the village, they were stopped by a group of people.
The person who came was still Zhang Dali, who was cowering in the middle of the group on horseback, followed by thousands of people, half of them riding horses and holding torches, and the other half following on foot.
The horse under his fat body was a little irritable, kicking and neighing from time to time.
"What? Want to escape? Hum! Dare to resist the order of the imperial court and kill officers and soldiers, you people are very bold. He didn't say anything about being kidnapped, and it was estimated that he couldn't save face, so he searched for Shen Yunqing's figure in the crowd.
"Yunqing, your aunt asked me to take you back and calculate the account of Yuyan!"
Shen Yunqing stood up: "There's nothing to calculate, it's all her own doing, including you, regardless of right and wrong, working for King Ning, don't you know what King Ning wants to do?" ”
Zhang Dali seemed to have heard some joke, a mouthful of yellow teeth was reflected by the firelight, extremely hideous, he sneered: "This is not something I can manage, whoever can give me high-ranking officials, I will do things for whom, since ancient times, the winner is the king and the loser Kou, General Nangong, do you say?" ”
The night gradually darkened, Nangong Qiao was dressed in white, his body was awe-inspiring, and his face was a murderous aura that was about to explode at any time.
He didn't move, standing in the crowd a cut above the villagers, and he was very conspicuous in the night.
"The sentence "King Ning seems to have said it too early, and you, what kind of thing? Deserve to mention this to me? ”
Zhang Dali on the other side was obviously enraged, he had never fought Nangong Qiao head-on, and he scoffed at Nangong Qiao's name of "God of War", thinking that it was mostly a rumor.
Seeing that Nangong Qiao didn't take him in his eyes like this, his face was not good-looking for a moment, and he said angrily: "I didn't expect General Nangong to be so high-eyed, then please go to King Ning's Mansion and sit down, King Ning is always worthy of telling you, right?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he reined in his horse and was about to rush downhill, ready to rush directly into the ranks.
But he forgot that such a steep mountain path was very unfavorable for battle.
Shen Yunqing saw the opportunity, and when the horse ran halfway up the mountain road, he swept the ground with his spear, just enough to reach the height of the horse's hooves.
I saw that the war horse was in pain and fell forward, and Zhang Dali on the horse's back was naturally unstable because of his center of gravity, and he was about to fall and eat.
Seeing this, the villagers set aside a vacant lot very interestingly, and when Zhang Dali fell down, they were about to come forward and beat him.
But the expected thing of Zhang Dali's heel did not happen, the war horse ran forward in pain, Zhang Dali jumped off the horse with the help of his strength, and took a few steps back.
"Yunqing, I have suffered a loss at your hands once, will I suffer a second loss? Don't look at it, I'm here prepared this time! ”
With that, at the sound of an order, hundreds of cavalry behind him rushed straight down the weedy slope on the side, and then the infantry behind him also ran down, surrounding hundreds of villagers who were about to flee.
Seeing this, the villagers were already frightened, and some villagers had already begun to tremble their legs, hugged their heads and began to cry quietly.
"Are we going to die?"
"I don't know, they don't seem to want to let us go......"
"I, I, I'm so scared, I don't want to die, woo woo woo woo ......"
A woman held the child in her arms and was so frightened that she began to beg for mercy: "Master Jun, I, I, I, I will give you food, will you let our family go?" My child and I are innocent! ”
Uncle Gan shouted on the side: "The daughter-in-law of the Yang family, don't be so spineless!" Even if they take the food, they won't let us go, so we have to fight with them. ”