Chapter 248: A Visitor in the Middle of the Night
In the middle of the night, there was a commotion outside, and Plum Berry heard movement in the innermost part of the mansion.
Frightened, Mei Berry got up and got dressed, and rushed out.
At this time, Mei You also came out of the next room, and the two looked at each other and obviously didn't know what was going on.
"It seems to be a movement outside the house."
Hearing Mei You's words, Mei Berry and the others also walked towards the outside of the house.
At this time, the others also got up when they heard the movement, and as soon as a group of people opened the door, they saw a few strong men with torches and Gu Pingyu standing not far away.
In front of them, there were a few ragged and gray-faced guys lying on the ground shivering.
"What is this?"
Mei Berry looked at the strong man who was the leader, she had an impression of this person.
It was one of the more than 20 people sent by Xie Changchen, named Cheng Zhu.
After they came, Xie Dachen arranged for someone to patrol the village every night.
I didn't expect something to happen on patrol tonight.
"These people sneakily came in through a dog hole under the earthen fort, and we caught them and became a good person."
Cheng Zhu's torches came down, and the few people who couldn't see their faces clearly directly lay on the ground with their whole bodies, and they kept shouting for mercy or something, and they were so frightened.
The other occupants of the grange seemed to have heard the commotion, and they got up in the middle of the night to see what was going on.
"Have you seen the dog hole?"
Mei Berry glanced at the few people on the ground who were already paralyzed with fright, and no longer asked them, but asked Cheng Zhu instead.
Cheng Zhu and the others flashed embarrassment, obviously they hadn't found it either, which made people take advantage of the loophole.
However, instead of trying to blame them, Plum Berry looked at the people lying on the ground and asked, "Have any of you ever been here?" โ
Finding the dog hole is not something that can be found casually, and the only explanation is that someone is afraid that someone has been there.
Sure enough, when Mei Berry asked this, the people were so frightened that although they couldn't help but look up, their heads were very neatly and secretly looked at one of them.
Their small movements naturally couldn't hide from the people present, and Cheng Zhu directly reached out and pulled up the person who was watching.
"Ahhhh Don't kill me, we're on the wrong track! Wrong! โ
The moment the man was pulled up, he began to scream for his life.
Cheng Zhu's torch approached before he could see his face clearly, but there was an unbelievable trilling voice from the crowd of onlookers outside: "San'er!?" โ
"Mother?"
Lin San, who was still struggling in Cheng Zhu's hands just now, was suddenly stunned, turned his head in disbelief, and saw that his old mother had already burst into tears in the crowd of onlookers.
"San'er! Oh my son!! โ
Mei Berry saw an old woman rushing out of the crowd and pounced directly towards Lin Sanna.
Cheng Zhu let go in time and dodged to give this space for the mother and son who seemed to be reunited after a long absence.
The surrounding crowd also whispered.
"Lin Yuan's little son, is this really back?"
"It seems to be Lin San!"
"Who is Lin San? Anyone can tell me? โ
"It's Lin Yuan's youngest son, Lin Yuan took her eldest grandson and youngest son to take refuge here, and then the younger son suddenly disappeared one day...... Who guessed it was going out, right? Is this coming up again? โ
"Look, it's not like it's good to mess around outside."
The surrounding onlookers said so much, where did they not understand Meiberry.
This Lin San was originally a person here, but when he went out and never returned, everyone thought he was dead.
Now it's back.
Seeing this, he also brought back other people.
"How many of you?"
Gu Pingyu squatted on the other guys lying on the ground and continued to ask.
"We ...... We followed Third Brother Lin to beg for a living......"
Someone else whispered everything there.
"And where did you come from?"
Mei Berry and Mei You also came over and asked curiously about the remaining people, but the thin and dark figure on the side raised their heads and said, "Yunzhou." โ
"What?!"
Gu Pingyu subconsciously wanted to draw his sword, but was also held down by Mei You.
And at this time, the plum berry was on the light of the torch, and when she saw the man's face clearly, she was also startled: "Lock? โ
It seems that no one has called his name for a long time, and the black and thin boy looked up at Mei Berry incredulously, and it took a long time to seem to react: "You, are you Sanya?" โ
Mei Berry didn't expect to meet people from Jinshui Village here again.
I didn't expect that the lock head would appear here from afar.
The appearance of the lock simply blew up a bunch of people.
Until now, Yanzhou has not allowed the people of Yunzhou to cross the border without permission, even if the epidemic has subsided, Yanzhou still has not relaxed for the people from Yunzhou.
But the locks are here, and that's definitely not an accident.
Therefore, Gu Pingyu, who realized everything, was blown up first.
The devil knows how many Yunzhou people have quietly touched it!
And the rest of the people who were bombed were everyone in the Zhuangzi.
In the second half of the night, almost no one in the village could sleep.
Not only were the few people who sneaked in and were caught, but then Lin San confessed that there were dozens of people waiting outside this Zhuangzi.
They all followed Lin San to defect.
Lin San was also cautious, saying that he would bring a few people back to see the situation first, and then come in if they could.
It's just that this person wants to be arrested as soon as a few people come in.
"So many people, all from Yunzhou?"
Gu Pingyu's expression was wonderful when he got that nine out of ten of them were from Yunzhou.
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Mei Youqian took the lock and went down to clean it.
After the lock was washed and changed into some ill-fitting but very neat clothes, Mei Berry had already let her mother steam a few steamed buns.
Without waiting for some side dishes, the lock gobbled up and finished eating.
After he ate the plum berries and brought him a cup of hot water, a group of people gathered around the lock to ask about Jinshui Village.
The people who were hiding outside Zhuangzi, Cheng Zhu and Da Chen and Gu Pingyu, had already gone to pick them up, and they hadn't talked about their families since just now.
Although they already had a guess in their hearts, they still inevitably felt a little in their hearts when they said it from the mouth of the lock.
"When the flood first came, everyone in the village ran up the hill, and the slower ones were gone.
When I went up the mountain, it rained all the time, and the environment on the mountain was also very bad, and many people couldn't hold it up on the mountain, and my grandmother was ...... at that time."
Speaking of this, Suo couldn't help but wipe his tears with his hands, and continued, "Later, the flood finally receded, and the village was basically destroyed.
There was nothing to eat, nothing to drink, and many people were sick.
Everyone who was not sick went to the town, and I followed my mother to the town again, but many people died in the town, which was worse than our village.
After that, everyone ran along the official road to the county.
As a result, the county did not open the door at first, saying that it was to prevent the epidemic from entering the city, and all the victims were kept out
My mother and they had no choice, everyone had nowhere to go, so they were like a wandering spirit gnawing tree bark and digging grass roots, and later, my mother also fell ill and fell down......"
Speaking of which, the lock was no longer crying, and in the end he was left alone.
Mei Berry also wanted to ask the other people in Jinshui Village, but the lock was not clear.
As soon as the flood passed, some people went down the mountain, and some people did not know where they had gone along the back mountain.
The further back. Everyone is becoming more and more embarrassed, and they may not know each other when they meet.
In the end, the lock head met Lin San when the time came, and he followed Lin San all the time.
And Lin San didn't know why he gathered a lot of people in the disaster in Yunzhou.
Feeling that Yunzhou couldn't stay anymore, Lin San quietly came back with those of them who were willing to go with him.
"Yunzhou, logically speaking, the imperial court will come to the rescue, didn't it settle down a few years ago? How did you leave Yunzhou and come here? โ
Mei You didn't quite understand what the lock said, and Mei Berry listened to it really, and the lock didn't finish the whole truth of the matter.
For example, how he met Lin San and why Lin San took him, he didn't explain.
The lock's eyes flickered a little, and without waiting for Mei Berry to say anything, the lock shook his head again and again: "This, this Third Brother Lin said that he couldn't say it." If you want to know, ask Third Brother Lin. โ
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Hahahaha, Lin San has been out of the house for so many years, hey, hey, he'll be related to a strange follow-up story in front of him~