Chapter 177: Strange
Yin Sanniang finished cleaning up the centipede's outer armor, walked back, saw the coachman sitting next to the fire and convulsed, and asked strangely: "What are you crying about?"
The driver's emotions that had finally stabilized broke out again in an instant, and the crying shook the sky for a while, startling Yin Sanniang, and helplessly looked at Yue Wuying and said, "I didn't mean to!"
Yue Wuying couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's okay, he cries by himself for a while, it's fine!"
The coachman glanced at the moon without a shadow aggrieved, and continued to bow his head to fill the fire.
Xue Yutang reluctantly finished eating and walked forward with a group of people, but without the Tieling carriage, he originally thought it was a short distance, but he actually walked for three days.
Everyone was exhausted along the way, and the long-term pampering made Xue Yutang feel obviously exhausted, but the coachman was full of energy.
At noon on the third day, a few people saw a city in the distance, this city is not very big from a distance, the city is surrounded by tall trees, only at the end of the official road to expose the city gate, the city wall here is much shorter, there is almost no defense.
Xue Yutang looked at it from a distance, and he also felt strange, since he established his own power, everywhere he went, he would subconsciously evaluate how to attack a city and how to defend it, but it was the first time he had seen such a low city wall without any defensive ability.
A few people got closer and closer, only to find that the whole city wall was made of earth, and the city gate had been crumbling after the wind and sun, and the city gate was no longer a guard soldier, but an official of the yamen, sitting at the tattered table drinking cheap tea, looking listless, let the people in front of the city gate come and go, not even looking at it, only occasionally when two young women passed by, they would raise their heads, whistle and tease, so that the latter returned to a listless appearance.
Xue Yutang and the others arrived at the city gate, and originally planned to follow the crowd to go in like this, but they didn't expect this official to look up and see Yue Wuying at a glance, as well as Yin Sanniang and Yun Lan behind her, these three women, each with their own characteristics, in this small town, have never seen such a beautiful and moving person, and the three women have their own merits, especially the Yue Wuying, who walked in the front, was simply amazing.
A few people couldn't help it, and whistled at the three girls with bright eyes, Xue Yutang originally didn't want to be too concerned with these ordinary people, which is equivalent to ants standing on their beards to provoke people, but people can't be like ants!
It's just that sometimes, you don't want to cause trouble, it doesn't mean that trouble won't come to you, an official made a look at each other, and then stood up, and one of the leaders shouted: "Stop!"
Xue Yutang didn't think they were calling themselves at first, after all, although this place looked dilapidated, the people who came and went were not a minority.
However, a few people were quickly surrounded by these officials, and several of them looked solemn, their eyes glanced at the three of them from time to time, Xue Yutang frowned, after all, it is not a good thing for this official to find him for no reason!
Yue Wuying looked at a few ragged officials calmly, she knew what this official errand was for, but for Yue Wuying and the others, this group of officials was really not even an ant, except for the coachman, anyone here could reach out and crush them to death!
"Do you know what you've done?" said the leading official as he looked at Yue Wuying.
Yue Wuying didn't even move his eyes, and Xue Yutang said on the side: "This official doesn't know what we have done?"
The official saw that Yue Wuying ignored them, and snorted coldly in his heart, they have seen a lot of such people, as long as they are put in prison, they can be convicted of a crime at will, and they will be scared to do whatever they want!
The leading official stared: "I suspect that you are trafficking in human beings, so come with us to the yamen!"
Xue Yutang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help laughing, this official seems to have done a lot of such things, and he didn't even bother to find a better excuse, in this world, human trafficking is really not a serious crime, you must know that this place is owned by slaves, not to mention that in all the land of fireworks, almost no one is voluntary, basically they are sold through, plus there are many children and daughters who can't afford to be raised by poor families, and if they catch the yamen, they will be paid at most two dollars, or a few boards, and the yamen will not be overly investigated.
Although this is a bit inhumane to say, no matter where survival is the first priority, the fundamental reason why the yamen does not care is survival, many children of poor families are sold to survive, and they are likely to starve to death at home, so this is not unusual.
Xue Yutang glanced at the official and said, "I said that the official brother, your excuse is too clumsy! I'm in a good mood today, I'm too lazy to bother with you, hurry up and get out of the way!"
The official was taken aback by Xue Yutang's momentum, his eyes rolled, he was judging Xue Yutang's strength, after all, the world is not peaceful, a powerful person wants their life, it is like crushing an ant to death, but how does this official look at Xue Yutang is not like a powerful person, they look good on their clothes, but they are dusty, full of dust, at first glance, they are on the road, this powerful person, in and out of the carriage brocade sedan chair, how can he walk on the road.
After the conclusion, the leading official suddenly became bolder, after all, beauty is current, sometimes blinded.
The leading officials gave a look to the rest of the officials, and this group of officials had always cooperated tacitly in this matter, and they all pulled out the long knives on their waists and pointed at Xue Yutang and the others, and the leading officials' eyes also became fierce: "Don't talk nonsense, you dare to threaten the officials, the crime will be added to the first-class, come here! Arrest them and escort them back to the yamen!"
A group of officials immediately became more vigorous, roaring and about to rush forward.
Yin Sanniang took a wrong step forward, blocked in front of Yue Wuying, smiled, and blew lightly, and the official was suddenly nailed to the spot and did not move.
Xue Yutang glanced at Yin Sanniang, Yin Sanniang said with a smile: "Don't worry, master, a group of ants, I won't hurt their lives, it's just that they are going to dream here for a few days!"
Xue Yutang nodded, and led everyone to the city, in fact, even if Yin Sanniang killed these officials, Xue Yutang would not say anything, after all, these officials did not do bad things on weekdays, if they were to be ordinary women from good families today, the consequences could be imagined!
In fact, with Yin Sanniang's temperament, this group of officials is so ignorant that they dare to offend themselves, and they have already killed him ten times or eight times, but now she is following Xue Yutang and Yue Wuying, and she does not dare to kill easily, after all, they are not the group of people from the Blood Poison Gate, and they don't blink an eye when they kill people, and she can also see that Xue Yutang and Yue Wuying are not willing to kill people if they are not a last resort, so she does not dare to kill lightly when she does not get the permission of the two.
However, Yin Sanniang will not easily bypass them, what Yin Sanniang did not say is that even if they wake up from a dream, they will always hallucinate on weekdays, which is crazy, and a few people will not have a better life in the future.
A few people walked into the city, saw that the city was full of low and dilapidated thatched houses, this town is not small, but there are not a few intact houses, the people walking back and forth inside are also yellow and thin, lifeless, and many people hang white silk in front of the door, at a glance it is just dead, this town can not see the end at a glance, but the scale is not small, if there is an occasional dead person, it is normal, but this look, almost every two or three lakes, there is a hanging white silk, which is obviously abnormal.
A few people walked to the street, the people who hung the white silk, some of them were crying, some were silent, and even the people who were crying had never heard the young voice, they were all the sounds of vicissitudes, and they were old people when they heard it.
Xue Yutang felt very strange, grabbed a passer-by, and asked, "What happened to you here, why did so many people die?"
But no matter how Xue Yutang asked, as soon as this passer-by heard Xue Yutang ask why he died, his face turned pale, and he left in a hurry. Don't give Xue Yutang another chance to ask.
Xue Yutang and Yue Wuying glanced at each other, but they were also very helpless.
Xue Yutang sighed and said: "Since we can't ask, there must be a lot of strange things here, let's quickly find a place, buy an iron feather carriage, and leave here while it's still dark!"
Yue Wuying nodded and said, "Okay!"
Yin Sanniang looked around the street full of doubts, and only felt strange, but she didn't see anything, could it be the plague, if so, they really left quickly.
But a few people wandered around the town until dark, and they didn't find a place to sell Tieling carriages, let alone Tieling carriages, and even ordinary carriages were not seen!
Seeing that it was getting dark, several people were only looking for the Tieling carriage, and they had not eaten since noon.
"Looks like we can't leave tonight, we have to stay here for the night now!"
Although Xue Yutang didn't want to do it very much, there was no other way, it was always better to live here than to live in the wild!
However, in the afternoon, they did not find the Tieling carriage or see the inn here, so the accommodation for the night became a problem.
Xue Yutang thought for a while and said: "Let's find a family, give some money, and spend the night, no matter whether we can find this Tieling carriage tomorrow, we must also leave, I always feel that this place is strange!"