Chapter 42: What Happened
Three days later, the convoy returned to Qinghe County.
Zhao Lin was supposed to go back to Liuhemen as soon as possible to resume his life, but maybe he had been away from home for too long and missed his family, so he always felt a little flustered these days.
He knew that Bacheng was thinking nonsense, but he was not sure, so he said to Yuan Cheng: "Senior Brother Yuan, I want to go home first, you ......"
Yuan Cheng smiled very understandingly: "It's normal for you to go out for the first time, it's normal to be homesick, I'll go and say from Master's side, you go back first." ”
Zhao Lin thanked him and hurried home non-stop.
When he walked into the house, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw his parents and brothers sitting in the hall in good shape.
It seems that I am thinking too much.
The matchmaker Hu Da understood that she was a guest at home and was drinking the boiling water handed over by her brother Zhao Shan.
"Is it Lin'er?" Mother Zhao was overjoyed when she heard the familiar footsteps.
"Daddy, I'm back!" Zhao Lin strode into the house.
"It's good to be back." Zhao's father pulled him to his side and sat down, and his mother also came over to ask questions.
Zhao Shan wanted to talk to his younger brother, but was stopped by Hu Daming.
"Let me tell you, the daughter of the old Zhang family in Shitian Village is famous for her beauty and ability, but her vision is too high, and she is not married in her twenties."
"Now that her family is in a hurry, it's your boy's turn to be lucky......"
Hu Da understood that the spit was flying, blowing the woman into a daze, and Zhao Shan blushed and didn't know what to say.
Zhao Lin poured himself a glass of water and drank it slowly, thinking that one day he would take his brother to see what the woman looked like.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a "bang", and the courtyard door was kicked open.
Zhao Lin stood up and rushed to the door, seeing Liang Song running in sweating profusely.
"I've finally found your home, out of ...... Something happened! ”
Zhao Lin chuckled in his heart, stepped forward and gave Liang Song a look, and said in a low voice, "Go outside and talk about it." ”
"It's too late."
Liang Song broke away from Zhao Lin, "My cousin was taken away by his beard!" ”
Zhao Lin only felt a basin of cold water poured on his head, and said in surprise: "How is it possible?" ”
"I saw it with my own eyes!"
Liang Song gritted his teeth and said: "My cousin said this morning that his back hurts, maybe the old injury has recurred, so I went to the town to get medicine for him, and when I came back, I saw more than a dozen beards tying him and dragging him away from home." ”
"Bad dish!"
Zhao Lin frowned, and couldn't figure out which link went wrong for a while, but since Hu Zi could find Zhu Dachun, it meant that they must have clues.
"Where's Zhou Paotou? Beard didn't go to catch him. ”
Liang Song shook his head and said: "Zhou Paotou is not at home, it is estimated that something has gone out, I am worried that something will happen here, so I will notify you first." ”
"Thank you!"
Zhao Lin patted Liang Song's shoulder hard, and his mind turned quickly.
He knew that since Hu Zi had caught Zhu Dachun, no matter whether Zhu Dachun recruited or not, he would definitely be able to find them.
Liang Song is Zhu Dachun's cousin, and he has close contacts with Zhou Paotou, and many people in Baiqiao Village know about their going into the mountains to hunt, and Hu Zi can be found with a little investigation.
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin immediately decided, "We can't stay here, let's run to the city, Hu Zi doesn't dare to arrest people over there." ”
"Lin'er, what's wrong?"
The two of them were talking in the courtyard, which alarmed the family in the house, and they all came out to ask him what was going on.
"Dad, mother, brother, something big has happened, let's get rid of it in the county."
Zhao Lin stepped forward and pulled his parents out.
"What's so urgent?"
Zhao's father and Zhao's mother were a little confused, and subconsciously followed him out.
"Brother, tell me what's going on first." Zhao Shan stretched out his hand to stop Zhao Lindao.
The situation was urgent, Zhao Lin didn't hide it anymore, and said directly: "I offended Hu Zi, they may come to raid the house, just leave now, it's too late to be late." ”
The family was completely dumbfounded when they heard this, and obediently followed him out.
"Hey, don't go, I'm not done yet!" Hu Da clearly chased him out and stomped his feet.
When the five of them left the village, Liang Song suddenly stopped and said to Zhao Lin: "I'll go back and take a look, if Zhou Paotou goes back to the village, I'll ask him not to go home." ”
Zhao Lin saw that his eyes were firm, and he knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he advised: "You paint your face, change your clothes, be careful!" ”
"When we get to the county seat, we will meet at the entrance of the yamen."
Liang Song nodded, turned around and ran from the path in the direction of Baiqiao Village.
Zhao Lin rushed with his family, because time was pressing, he squatted down and let his mother lie on his back, and then hugged his father's waist with one hand, and ran with his brother in the direction of the county seat.
Running out of more than five miles, there was the sound of horses' hooves behind him, Zhao Lin looked back and saw a team of more than 20 horsemen rushing over.
"That's him, don't let him run!"
The beard that ran at the front shouted.
Zhao Lin knew that as long as he fell into the hands of the beard, the whole family would not survive, so he asked his mother to hug his neck, stretched out her free hand to grab her brother's belt, and ran wildly.
"Catch him alive, see how Lao Tzu tortures him."
The leader's beard shouted arrogantly.
Zhao Lin ran with all his might, his legs swinging like flying, and a cloud of smoke and dust was raised behind him.
He was now as strong as an ox and as agile as a leopard, and even though he had three men hanging from him, he still ran like a fly, leaving behind all his beards.
The bearded men were surprised to find that Zhao Lin was running faster than their horses, and the bearded man who was the leader immediately changed his words and said, "Shoot him to death with arrows!" ”
The bowstring sounded, and a rain of arrows flew over.
After Zhao Lin practiced martial arts, his ears and eyes were clear, and when he heard the sound of bows and arrows behind him, he instinctively dodged to the side, and an arrow that ran to the back of the heart hit the back of his brother's waist.
Zhao Shan snorted in pain.
Zhao Lin didn't have time to check his injuries, and ran forward with his family desperately.
I don't know how long it took, the castle tower of the county town finally appeared in sight.
Zhao Lin looked back and saw that the pursuers had long since disappeared, and the strength on his body suddenly leaked, and he almost fell to the ground.
I felt my heart beating like a drum, and I was so tired that I almost vomited blood.
He put his parents and brother down, and saw that his brother's clothes were stained red with blood.
"Brother, how are you?"
"It's okay, it's a little dizzy." Zhao Shan said weakly.
Zhao Lin knew that it should be caused by blood loss, so he hurriedly lifted his brother's clothes to check the wound, but fortunately, the arrow did not penetrate the flesh deeply, and the blood gushing out was red, indicating that the arrow was not poisonous.
He broke the shaft of the arrow, pulled a few strips of cloth from the hem of his clothes, and bandaged the wound briefly.
"Lin'er, you help your brother, we can go by ourselves." Zhao's father helped Zhao's mother to stand up and said distressedly.
"Dad, mother, you take a break, I'll deal with it."
Zhao Lin appeased his parents, stopped a carriage entering the city from the main road, and gave the coachman a large handful of copper coins to let him take the family into the city.
The coachman glanced at Zhao Shan, didn't say a word, and drove the carriage to the city until it stopped at the gate of the county government.
The county government is the concentration of county governance, and the military room and the torture room are set up here, and the safest place in the entire county is here.
Zhao Lin found an inn in the closest place to the county government, settled his parents and brothers, and immediately went to ask for a doctor.
There is a medical clinic near the county government, and Zhao Lin asked the doctor to explain the situation and gave a tael of silver for the outpatient fee.
The doctor came to the inn with Zhao Lin, checked Zhao Shan's injury, and said, "There is no worry about life for the time being, just treat the wound and stop the bleeding." ”
"You ask the guy to boil the kettle and boil a pot of white vinegar."
After listening to the doctor's words, Zhao Lin was sure in his heart.
According to his limited medical knowledge, the ancient injury was not the most terrible, the terrible thing was the wound infection, and the doctor knew that with hot water and white vinegar to disinfect, the medical skills should not be too bad.
Zhao Lin brought boiling water and boiled white vinegar as instructed, and the doctor took out scissors, knives, tweezers, and half a foot of white cloth from the medicine box, and put several things into the boiling water and white vinegar in turn to disinfect.
After a while, Zhao Shan's screams like killing pigs came from the guest room......