Chapter 50: Self-Help
Zheng Niangzi had never seen Xie Zhiyun's face change.
She is always calm and self-controlled, and even the smile on her face is just right, as if nothing in the world can make her mood fluctuate.
But at this moment, she saw Xie Zhiyun's face obviously sank.
"Young lady, how can you ......?"
But before Mrs. Zheng finished speaking, she heard chaos outside the carriage, and a roar said: "There are wild wolves, protect the grain." ”
Xie Zhiyun's face became more and more ugly.
As soon as she lifted the curtain and looked outside, she saw that the grain delivery team not far away had encountered wolves coming from nowhere.
From the south of Yezhou City to Yongfeng County, there are endless plains, and most of the villages are scattered on both sides of the main official road, and there are farmland one after another between the villages.
In the distance, there are the rolling hills of the southern foothills.
Under such terrain, Yezhou has never seen a large-scale wolf pack.
Wolves generally do not congregate in crowded places, and even in the low mountains of the southern foothills, no one has ever seen a wolf pack, so how could this group of wolves suddenly appear?
However, even with the best training of the soldiers, the horses pulling the wagons panicked at the wolves, and when the first carriage began to get out of control, all the other horses could no longer hold on, and they struggled and neighed.
As soon as the horses barked, the wolves became agitated.
But the head wolf is hiding in the wolf pack, and if it does not give orders, the wolves will not dare to move.
At this time, there is a grain team in front, and the guards of the grain team are Wang Dusi and Liu Zhaohui, this batch of grain is not much, but it is only 5,000 catties, and Yongfeng Cang to Yezhou City is only half an hour away, so even if the garrison is cautious, it can only send about a hundred troops at most.
Although there were only a hundred people, they were all elite soldiers, and at this moment, in the face of dozens of wild wolves staring at them, although the soldiers were very nervous, they were not afraid.
No matter how powerful the wolves are, they can't compare to the long knives and swords in their hands.
Just a glance was just a breather, and Xie Zhiyun was just about to speak, when he heard Liu Zhaohui in front of him order: "The wolves are coming, protect the food!" ”
At some point, the head wolf gave an order to the wolves.
Vicious wolves rushed in from all directions, all of them rushing towards the rear of the grain team.
This location was too close to Xie Zhiyun's carriage.
Liu Zhaohui slashed a wild wolf with a knife, and was sprayed with wolf blood all over his face, he turned his head and said sharply: "Protect the young lady and evacuate to Yongfeng Cang." ”
More than ten soldiers turned around directly, and the coachman who controlled the carriage also quickly turned around, wanting to pull the carriage to Yongfeng Cang to avoid danger.
It was the first time Xie Zhiyun had faced such a dangerous situation, she was a little stunned for a while, and she couldn't react at all, and by the time she came back to her senses, it was already too late.
At this moment, the government soldiers were turning around and heading back, and the dozen or so soldiers succeeded in breaking off and followed behind the carriage that had turned around.
The carriage had completely detached itself from the large troops.
The crisis happened in an instant.
I heard a muffled sound in the air, and a cluster of cold arrows came into the air, directly shooting the soldiers closest to the carriage.
Xie Zhiyun heard a muffled snort, and then heard the loud sound of the soldier falling to the ground.
Xie Zhiyun's heart was beating wildly.
In the carriage, Chao Yu and Zheng Niangzi were already frightened, they were trembling all over, and they couldn't say a word.
Xie Zhiyun tried to pant to calm herself down, she squeezed the edge of the couch tightly with one hand so that she would not fall with the bumpy carriage, and looked out with the other hand to lift the corner of the curtain.
This glance made Xie Zhiyun fall into the ice cellar.
Before I knew it, the carriage had already traveled into a mess of rocks.
This is just an inconspicuous scenery on the official road, occasionally there are passing people here to rest, shade the sun, because of the chaos of rocks, it is not easy to clear, so it has been standing quietly here.
But at the moment, the rocks have become an excellent hiding spot.
Xie Zhiyun immediately understood why those people didn't move the granary, didn't act immediately after she went to the granary, and exchanged the grain that had been dropped, but waited for the opportunity to wait until today.
There are hundreds of officers and soldiers stationed in the granary, no matter what they do, they will leave flaws, and they will definitely not succeed, and the only chance is on the way from Yongfeng Cang to Yezhou City.
And if they want to exchange the food, or take the opportunity to destroy the evidence, the best way is to just set fire to the food, or take her.
Xie Zhiyun closed his eyes.
It seems that the other party is reluctant to give up those grains, and it is better than anything else to rob her of a weak woman who has no power to restrain her.
She was surrounded by more than thirty guards, and she could easily be kidnapped without even killing them all.
Xie Zhiyun clearly felt that the carriage was heading in the other direction, the carriage was very fast, and it easily bypassed all the roadblocks planted on the road, and went all the way to the depths of the rocks.
Feng Fang led all the soldiers to chase desperately, but the cold arrows were difficult to defend, and the stumbling spurs under the horse's hooves also made it difficult for the horses to move an inch, and for a while, they could only stay in place and watch the carriage disappear all the way into the rocks.
Feng Fang's face turned pale, but he quickly recovered and said sharply: "Catch the killer, you have to stay alive." ”
If the carriage can't catch up, they will go to catch the killer who released the cold arrow, and they can always leave clues.
At this time, Xie Zhiyun didn't know what was going on, and the carriage went all the way, stumbling towards the southern foot of the mountain and galloping away.
Xie Zhiyun reached for the car door and found that the car door was locked from the outside and could not be opened at all.
The carriage was so small that the three of them couldn't even stand up, and after all this tossing, everyone looked frightened and didn't have time to react.
Xie Zhiyun reacted quickly and was bold and careful, so she quickly recovered from the panic, and at this moment she had begun to regain her composure.
The carriage was still moving, and I didn't know where it was going.
Xie Zhiyun no longer pushed the car door, she lifted the curtain and looked outside.
At some point, they had driven into a dense forest, surrounded by trees that had just emerged from the cold of winter, and there were many kinds of trees in this dense forest, and there were no less than a dozen species at a glance.
Mrs. Zheng finally came back from her fright, and she asked Xie Zhiyun in a trembling voice: "Young lady, where is the carriage going?" ”
Xie Zhiyun didn't speak, she only glanced at the car door, and then looked at Zheng Niangzi.
Zheng Niangzi's face was pale, it was obviously early spring, but her sideburns were full of cold sweat.
Her lips were white and trembling violently, and Xie Zhiyun could even hear her teeth chattering.
"Coachman," Mrs. Zheng's voice was extremely dry, "the coachman is an old man in the house." ”
Xie Zhiyun closed his eyes.
The old people are not necessarily loyal, the old people will also deceive and betray, once their own interests are involved, they will choose themselves mercilessly, just like ......
Xie Zhiyun thought of this, but her mind was blank, she only felt a tingling pain in her brain, what prevented her from recalling the past hidden in the depths of her memory.
"They're probably not going to kill us."
Xie Zhiyun heard himself speak.
(End of chapter)