At this time, the sun was about to set, and Liu Zhuangshi accelerated the movements of his hands, delaying for such a long time, I am afraid that there will be officers and soldiers looking for him soon.

"Niece Yujing, you are pulling this rope here," Liu Zhuangshi shouted, Yujing, who had his back to him, handed her the rope in his hand, and then limped to the other side and said, "Wait a minute, I'll shout one, two, three, let's pull back together" Lin Yujing nodded.

"Ready, one, two, three, pull" The two of them pulled back at the same time, but Lin Yujing was afraid that she was a weak woman, and she couldn't pull it with a small amount of strength, so she had enough strength to pull it back, but the pull ring was not as strong as expected, Liu Zhuangshi staggered and almost sat on the ground, and Lin Yujing was too strong and fell directly on all fours, the two looked at each other very embarrassed, at this moment the lid of the box was lifted up by itself in a squeaky sound, it seems that it has not been opened for many years, although the sound is harsh, but the mechanism of the box is still intact, it seems that the craftsmanship of the person who made this thing back then is also quite good, but such a vicious mechanism, but it also shows that this person is also vicious, especially the highly toxic needle, I am afraid that it is beyond the reach of blood to seal the throat.

The two of them looked into the box at the same time, and inside was an oilcloth package, about the size of a book, but they couldn't see the thickness in the box, because they were afraid of the vicious mechanism of the box, and neither of them dared to step forward at this time, Liu Zhuangshi saw that it was such a thing, and he probably guessed that it was not a valuable thing, so he turned his head and looked at the sunset in the west and said" Niece Yujing, don't care about this box for now, I'll go and fix some dead branches of trees, you say goodbye to Young Master Qin, and we'll leave here as soon as we're done tidying up, and it is estimated that they will send someone here again later."

Lin Yujing nodded when she heard this, and walked towards Qin Zhiyuan's corpse, it was very difficult to walk step by step, and when she arrived, she sat on the ground and sat on the ground, lying on the corpse and crying, Liu Zhuangshi turned his head and shook his head helplessly, and went to the side with his long sword to find dry branches.

After a while, three fires were erected, and Liu Zhuangshi's brother dug a pit on the spot and buried it, the people of the rivers and lakes had no home, and they had followed Liu Boss for many years, and they had long since they didn't remember where their hometown was.

In an instant, the fire soared into the sky, and the branches of the trees were crackling, just as the so-called unknown before death, a handful of soil after death.

When the two were cleaning up, Liu Zhuangshi suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly lay on the ground to listen, shaking the information that came, indicating that it was a large group of people, Liu Zhuangshi couldn't care about anything else, so he simply cleaned up, wrapped his right hand in a rag and picked up the oilcloth package in the box and said, "Let's go, people will arrive soon, while the sky is already dark, we rode along the mountains and forests and hurried, it is estimated that they saw the smoke here just now"

Lin Yujing wrapped the two urns in cloth and carried them behind her, turned over a horse beside her, Liu Zhuangshi's legs and feet were inconvenient but it was laborious to ride one, and the two of them each carried another horse behind them, thinking that they were changing horses and rushing overnight, but the war horses were not easy to control, and the two of them worked hard for a long time The horse was not good to move forward, and they had been wandering around by the corpses of several soldiers.

After that, the wounds on Liu Zhuangshi's body slowly improved, but after all, the original injury was too deep, and the vitality was greatly damaged, a body of martial arts was almost all wasted, and the injured leg that was cut many times was also completely lame, and could only move forward with a cane, the two did not dare to enter the city all the way, nor did they dare to take the official road avenue, just pick some mountain paths and detour the countryside, can not live in the hotel has always been a broken temple or cave, when the Han Kingdom was strong, the territory was vast, between the east and the west, the north and the south were thousands of miles away, and now the decay almost every dynasty has a land reparation, has been the Yue country in the west, and the Lu country in the south and some large tribes have embezzled most of the land, this escape two people met some farmers to rest and beg for foodAfter all, the whole country is panicked, and there are rumors of various wars every day, and people have seen too many people fleeing from the border to the interior or other countries, if it is not for a natural mountain barrier between Wu and Han on the east side, Wu is unwilling to go west, I am afraid that it has already swallowed the Han with the other two countries, and now the west of this mountain range was originally a high mountain Bailong Mountain, which has become a mountain range overnight, and Wu is even more reluctant to take advantage of people's dangers, and the Han Kingdom is a boundless desert from east to west, but in the hinterland of the desert there are also large oases with a country called Zhou.

The border of this country is large from east to west across the Yue country, Han State, Wu State three northern borders, the northern border of the three kingdoms are close to the desert, perennial by the Zhou State of the armed harassment, the Zhou State does not invade the south, just come to loot and go back, Wu State and Yue State of the two countries of the national strength is still strong, there are garrisons on the border, occasionally there will be a battle in the Zhou State, only the Khanate is the weakest, the border has no soldiers to station, it is to let the soldiers and bandits of the Zhou State to rob the border people, after a long time, the border of the Khanate is actually a piece of wasteland, no one for a hundred miles, all fled to the countries on both sides, although the road to the Yue Country is far away, but the distance is easy to walk, although the east to the Wu State is close, but to turn over two mountain ranges, that ancient mountain range is a long time ago and there are many trails to walk, that is, the Bailong Mountain Range that has only been in the past hundred years is almost difficult to cross, the tall perennial snow is not to say, that cold makes ordinary people unbearable, but the will of the people who survive is also extremely firm, there are too many people who have escaped war and suffering life for so many years, and there are countless people who have frozen to death in the Bailong Mountain Range, but finally someone has found some secretly connected caves in the mountains in the northern section, and the path on the cliff has crossed the Bailong Mountain Range to reach Wu State, and there are those who fled to Wu Country first in returning to pick up relatives, so slowly this escape path spread everywhereBut this road winds in the mountains, through the intricacies of caves between the mountains, and the path on the side of the cliff is also steep, allowing only one person to pass slowly against the mountain.

If the White Dragon Mountain Range is blocking the footsteps of most people, then the nameless and distant mountain range on the east side is the nightmare of the remaining part of the refugees, not to mention the many beasts that have lived in the mountains for a long time, and the evil bandits who initiated the refugee wealth, it can be said that the refugees who can survive to the country of Wu are all people favored by God, and the years have given birth to a kind of business that crosses the border by taking people, these tongues are also fleeing people, but the poor countryside out of the people, in the process of fleeing, secretly poisoned, killed many fellow travelers, after searching the luggage, they left a small part, most of them are filial piety to the bandits in the mountains, after gaining favor, the bandits also acquiesced in this behavior, but will also let them take a small number of refugees to cross, after all, there are relatives and friends on both sides are also to pass on word of mouth to each other to have continuous business, after a long time, there are Han people who are not refugees want to cross the border to Wu, after all, Han is not as good as a day, these people are more willing to look for these tongues, and these tongues also prefer these people who have oil and water than refugees.

On this day, Liu Zhuangshi and Lin Yujing heard about the place where the crossing section of the Bailong Mountain Range was, the two of them came hard, but they didn't expect that there was a small town at the foot of this mountain range with a cave, and everyone had mixed fish and dragons, but most of them were people who fled to this place, and there were no people from the government in this town, so that the two people who had just arrived here breathed a sigh of relief, this way to avoid checking the two people did not know how many more detours, and the town was full of people It was very lively, but most of them were selling some cheap items, more of them were bartering, the two only had simple luggage on them, and they were not entangled, and most of the people who escaped here were begging along the road or wild things caught in the mountains, Yujing's belly is getting bigger day by day, from the south to the north for more than half a year, and from autumn to early summer, but the weather in the north is still very cool at this time, the clothes on the body are not thin, and it also covers a little Yujing's body, but the belly is too big to completely cover, the two sat with a group of refugees in a corner of the town, Liu Zhuangshi looked at Yujing's stomach and said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on to Wu Guo"

Yu Jing smiled and nodded, gently touched his big belly with his hand and said, "No matter where I am, I have to work hard to give birth to him, ouch, Uncle Liu, you see he kicked me again" Yu Jing suddenly frowned, and sighed, Liu Zhuangshi smiled and said, "It seems that this kid's leg skills are good." ”

Yu Jing also covered her mouth and smiled, these two people have been together for more than half a year, at the beginning Yu Jing was afraid that this middle-aged man had bad thoughts about herself, but after a long time, she knew that she was a gentleman with the heart of a villain, although this Liu Zhuang is a martial artist but also a righteous gentleman, Yu Jing has no parents since she was a child, and she is also a person who has experienced hard times。

"Uncle Liu is almost noon, I'll go buy some food, you will rest here" Although the two of them are not entangled, they still have some silver, after all, when they can't get anything along the way, they still have to rely on silver to buy, Liu Zhuangshi exchanged his saber and some valuable items for some broken silver.

"Okay, I'll ask them about the crossing, let's be prepared," he said, pointing to a group of refugees not far away, looking at their appearance, they should have been here for a short time.

Lin Yujing nodded and got up with difficulty and walked across the street with a big belly, Liu Zhuangshi moved closer to the group of refugees next to him, and listened to it for a while, most of them were scattered information, either who starved to death again, or who sold his daughter-in-law or daughter in another article, there was no valuable information, after listening for a while, a refugee looked at Liu Zhuangshi and said, "This old man is very eye-catching, he must have just arrived here, right?"

Liu Zhuangshi smiled and nodded, "I inquired with my daughter-in-law all the way, I just arrived here and wanted to escape to Soochow." ”

The refugee smiled contemptuously and said, "Hmph, Dongwu, think easily, a group of us have been here for more than half a year, and we haven't had a chance, so you can save it" After speaking, he waved his hand impatiently, "Go, stay aside, this is my second brother's position, he will come back here to bask in the sun."

Liu Zhuangshi nodded curtly, and said a little later, "Dare to ask this fellow countryman, why did he stay here for so long and not cross the border to Wu State?"

The very arrogant refugee man said, "The beauty of crossing the border is the cold of the Yinlong Mountain Range, and we who wear single clothes can't resist the stinky food, and we all have to freeze to death inside." After speaking, he pulled the placket on his chest, stretched out his hand and pointed to a few arrogant strong men sitting at the door of a tavern across the street, laughing and talking, and said, "No, do you see those masters? This mountain is opened by them, and this road is brought by them. ”

Liu Zhuangshi nodded, probably knowing what was going on, it seemed that it would take a lot of trouble to get through this Yinlong Mountain, and the refugee man saw that this lame old man was very kind-hearted and willing to listen to him, so he became interested, regardless of whether the other party listened or not, he came to the front and said, "Do you really want to go to Wu Kingdom?" ”

When Liu Zhuangshi heard this, he raised his head and said, "Please tell the fellow countryman, but fellow countryman, you have a way, why didn't you go there by yourself?"

When the refugee villager heard that the old man was suspicious, he was stunned for a moment, and then he was very angry and said loudly, "You actually doubt Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is a person who walks back and forth twice, you actually doubt me, I don't think I need to tell you the way, you still keep the Han Kingdom, wait for the war to burn here and wait for death!"

After speaking, he waved his hand and was about to leave, but Liu Zhuangshi hurriedly grabbed him when he heard it, and hurriedly apologized and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the real person doesn't show his face, it's the old man who has no eyes and invites the fellow to be strange."

The refugee man saw that Liu Zhuangshi's apology was quite sincere, so he didn't continue to turn around and leave, raised his eyes and looked at Liu Zhuangshi and said, "That's it, since your old man has to be sent to death at his age, then I will give you a point of Huangquan Road." ”

After saying that, he smiled and stretched out his hand to signal the old man to sit down, Liu Zhuangshi slowly sat cross-legged, and after the refugee man sat down, he said, "I didn't brag about going back and forth twice, as for why I didn't go, one is that I was instructed by my master to wait here for his worldly friends to come here, and arrange for them to cross the border although their tongues, and the other is to wait for the next batch of valuables from Wu State." ”

When the refugee man saw Liu Zhuangshi looking at him dressed like this, he quickly explained" A few days ago, there was a young woman who fled here, with a two-year-old child, I saw that she was pitiful and took her to eat, it turned out that her family had died in the war and fled all the way with other refugees to this place, I was also a single for many years, so I moved my selfishness, gave her a cotton coat, and bought two places for her and the child in the tongue with the coil and private money given by the master, and let them go to Wu first to join my master, I waited for the master's brother, and then I could follow this master to Wu again, originally I was staying in the opposite inn but there was no silver, so I begged with the crowd on the street。 ”

Liu Zhuangshi looked at the neck and ankles of this refugee man, not with fine skin and tender flesh, but also clean and fair, unlike himself and the refugees on the street covered in mud, it seems that this person does not look like a lie, so he nodded and said, "The fellow has not told me the way to cross the border, I don't know the surname of the fellow?"

"Don't dare, don't dare, how dare you call your subordinates, I have been an orphan since I was a child, my lord took him in and gave him the name Zhang Zhong, I don't know what you call the old man?"

"The old man's surname is Liu, the third in the family, Gu Shan has a three-character name, a person from the southern border of the Han Kingdom, because his family was condemned by an unscrupulous king, so he fled here"

Zhang Zhong didn't doubt it when he heard it, after all, the people who fled here every day were either the scourge of war or the remnants of the guilty ministers, Zhang Zhong thought for a while and said, I've been waiting here for a while, and I think that the old man will come in the near future, and then I will say that the old man will send you and me to pick up, although you are physically inconvenient and slightly disabled, I can explain that you and the second master of a cottage in the Xifeng Mountains of Wu Kingdom are acquaintances to pass by, and then I will tell you the details of the cottage in detail, but Liu Laohan I bothered to take you over, and your old man also has some coffin books, right?"

Liu San frowned and said, "This method is possible, but the old man fled all the way to here, and he was disabled and met several waves of robbers all the way, and there was no trace of foreign objects that had been looted all over his body, and the old man was not alone, and a daughter-in-law fled with me to this point, and he just went to the opposite side to beg for food, so Zhang Zhuangshi never met, how can this be explained to the old man?"

"There is another person?" Zhang Zhong was surprised when he heard this, he was still a woman, he lowered his head and thought about it and said, "Liu San, since you have no money on you, then in this case, if you go back to Wu with me, I can ask the master for a few acres of land for you to live in peace with your daughter-in-law, but this is the annual rent?

Liu San hurriedly thanked him and said, "I should be filial to Zhang Zhuangshi, and it is the luck of the old man and his daughter-in-law to get Zhang Zhuangshi's help, and the daughter-in-law of the old Han Dynasty thanked Zhang Zhuangshi first." ”

Zhang Zhong smiled and nodded, and said, "Then since this is the case, I just said that your daughter-in-law here is the one I saved two days ago, and when you cross the border, you should go, anyway, when you get to the place, if you want to come, my lord and the lord of this world will not be held accountable." ”

When Liu Sanyi heard this, he hesitated, thought for a while, and said, "Later, when my daughter-in-law comes back, I will discuss it with her." ”

Zhang Zhong probably also felt that it was not good to take advantage of others, so he nodded.

At this time, Lin Yujing came from across the street, took some coarse grain in his hand, walked up to Liu San and said, "Daddy, there are many refugees here and there is not much to eat, that's all, you can eat some first" Liu San pushed down the things handed over and said, "Don't be busy, I'll introduce you, this is Zhang Zhong Zhang Zhuangshi, a fellow villager who has fled to Wu State, and now he is back to pick up people, I just met when I inquired about the news, and I am willing to take us to Wu Country together." Zhang Zhuangshi, this is the daughter-in-law of the old man, whose surname is Lin and her name is Yujing. Lin Yujing was very happy when she heard this, and hurriedly said, "Really? That's really good." Then he lowered his head slightly, and whispered, "The little woman has seen Zhang Enren."

Zhang Zhong looked at Lin Yujing a little stunned at this time, and forgot to reply for a while. Liu San coughed softly, Zhang Zhong was stunned, and hurriedly said, "I've seen the little lady, I've seen the little lady." Lin Yujing raised her head, smiled slightly and did not speak

After all, Zhang Zhong is a domestic slave of a large family, when he is a person who has seen the world, although the little daughter-in-law in front of him has fled for a long time, and has a big belly, although the clothes are tattered and unkempt, but still can't cover the amazing face, it is a little rude, thinking that this little daughter-in-law is much stronger than the one saved a few days ago, it is a world of difference, and the child with him has also remembered that he must remember his biological father, but this one in front of him is still with a big belly, and when they are not familiar with Wu Guo's life, they must take down this little daughter-in-law, and the child in the belly is just like me, this kind of national beauty can not be let go, It is even better than the concubine of the old man Xinna in Wu Kingdom, Liu San and Lin Yujing must not know that Zhang Zhong has already signed Yujing's idea at this time.

"Yujing, dad still has to discuss something with you" Liu San briefly said to Lin Yujing before and after discussing with Zhang Zhong just now, Lin Yujing frowned at the beginning, thought about it and stroked her stomach and said, "Everything is up to Daddy, for the sake of the child in the belly, Yujing has no complaints, and it is just a fake couple in name, and it is not serious, Yujing is not so careful." "This way, Liu San has been taking care of Lin Yujing very well, Lin Yujing has not enjoyed a few years of happiness and accidents since she was a child, and she has been dependent on Liu San all the way, and she really treats Liu San as a relative.

As soon as Zhang Zhong heard that Lin Yujing had no objection, he said happily, "Then let's settle down on this street corner in the next few days, and when the old man comes in a few days, I will ask him to hand over the coils of the two of you to the tongue, and then we will go to Wu Kingdom together." Liu San and Lin Yujing glanced at each other, the former was very calm and did not speak, and the latter nodded happily.

A few days without incident, this evening two carriages and a few accompanying men from the entrance of the town into the town, Zhang Zhong looked up at the carriage, happily jumped up from the ground, trotted to the carriage in front, "Jia Butler personally drove the car? Do you remember the slave" Zhang Zhong hurriedly greeted a middle-aged fat man who drove the car.

The fat man opened his eyes slit, carefully looked at the person in front of him, and said, "Remember, aren't you Zhang Laocai's godson? Zhang Zhong smiled and said, "How can a slave be blessed to be the godson of our master, Steward Jia This is a joke Small, although the small one is sometimes not strong, but the two major mountain ranges of Yinlong and Xifeng have also gone back and forth twice, and have some experience, so my master sent me to pick up your master" Steward Jia was about to speak, and the curtain behind him was lifted at this time, and a deep voice inside said, "Since Brother Zhang sent you to pick you up, how could you be so down"

Zhang Zhong bowed down and hurriedly said, "Back to Master Jia, I saved a young woman some time ago, and I wanted to take advantage of this chaos to get a daughter-in-law for myself. ”

"That's the case, Jia Zhen, let Zhang Zhong lead him to find an inn to rest for two days before preparing to cross. ”

Jia Zhen turned sideways and nodded backwards and said, "Got it, master"