Chapter 22: The Fugitive
Mu Zhe decided to cooperate with Chen Qi, so he didn't hesitate anymore, and discussed the specific implementation details with Chen Qi immediately.
Although there are also people from the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Households, and the Yong'an Army, these people have their own affairs, and Mu Zhe is the person in charge here, and he does not need to consult anyone about the matters he decides.
After discussing the specific details, Mu Zhe took Chen Qi to the construction site. By this time the work had begun, and Muzhe ordered everyone to be summoned back to the clearing.
"In Xia Mu Zhe, I apologize to everyone here," Mu Zhe said and bowed to everyone, Chen Qi was a little surprised by his actions, not to mention his subordinates and victims, they were all surprised.
Mu Zhe didn't care about this, and continued: "The previous things were my fault, and today I am fortunate to have Chen Gongzi wake up," he said and saluted Chen Qi again, "But if there is a mistake, it must be corrected, I promise you today, in the future, you will definitely let everyone eat enough, eat well, and rest well." ”
After listening to Mu Zhe's words, the victims began to talk about it, and Mu Zhe's subordinates looked at me, I looked at you, with a blank face, it was really the performance of the master today that really shocked them.
At this time, Chen Qi took a step forward and said, "What Master Mu said is from the bottom of my heart, please believe it." ”
"Yes, yes!" Mu Zhe hurriedly said, "Now let everyone take a break from work, rest for half a day, and let everyone eat well and be full in the evening." ”
As soon as Mu Zhe's words came out, he surprised everyone again, the corners of Chen Qi's mouth raised slightly, and he looked at him and continued: "In addition, the old, weak, sick and disabled, women, children and children, all leave here with Chen Gongzi, he will take everyone to a better place, you don't have to suffer here." ”
Chen Qi continued his words: "You may wonder where I will take you and what intentions I will have, I can swear to you that I have absolutely no ill intentions, and I will do my best to let you return to your hometown safely." ”
This piece of information, each one of which shocked these victims, how bad can it be to leave here? Can it be worse than staying here?
Before, everyone tried all kinds of ways to get out of here, but now that they have the opportunity, of course they will not hesitate. At that moment, someone immediately shouted loudly: "We are willing to go with Chen Gongzi, we are willing to go with Chen Gongzi......"
Chen Qi waited for the shouts to fall, and continued: "If you stay here to work, I will record your names and addresses later, and when this place is completed, I will come to pick you up and send you back to your hometown." ”
"Great, we all listen to Chen Gongzi's ......"
"Chen Gongzi must come when the time comes......"
......
For a while, the victims who had just settled down suddenly boiled again.
The next thing went very smoothly, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, women, children and children were taken aside, and the remaining able-bodied laborers stood on the other side, and Mu Zhe sent people to register all the names and addresses of these people, and finally handed them over to Chen Qi for inspection.
After all this was done, it was time for the unitary, when the sun was setting in the west and the temperature dropped slightly, Chen Qi led the old, weak, sick and disabled, women, children and children to leave.
"Big brother, please save my aunt, my aunt is sick and was thrown into the ravine over there by them. A teenage boy pulled Chen Qi and cried.
Chen Qi glanced at Mu Zhe next to him, "Is it true?"
Mu Zhe smiled bitterly and said, "There are all dead people over there, is this kid ......?"
"My aunt isn't dead, she's just sick!" the boy interrupted Mu Zhe and cried out.
"Take me to see it. ”
Chen Qi's words Mu Zhe didn't dare to refuse, but he didn't dare to let Chen Qi see that place, "Chen Gongzi doesn't have to go in person, I'll take this child over, if the person is still alive, I will definitely bring it over." ”
Chen Qi nodded, he could think of what kind of place it was, he was afraid that he would see such a scene, and he couldn't help but kill Mu Zhe and the others for a while, so that even if he saved all the victims, it would bring them disasters, "These accounts will be calculated later!"
Mu Zhe saw that Chen Qi agreed, and immediately beckoned a few of his subordinates to take the boy to find his aunt, his clothes were all sweaty at the moment, he was afraid that Chen Qi would go over in person, even if he cooperated with Chen Qi now, he didn't dare to guarantee that Chen Qi would not kill himself when he saw such a scene.
A short time later, Mu Zhe and his men returned with the boy, and a woman in her thirties was also carried back.
The woman's face was pale and unkempt, Chen Qi stepped forward to check, there was still breath, he looked up at Mu Zhe, "I hope this kind of thing will not appear in the future." ”
Mu Zhe hurriedly said: "It must be!"
Chen Qi didn't say more, picked up the woman, left here with everyone, and walked towards Xingyun Temple.
About a mile away from here, Chen Qi entrusted a few old men to lead everyone to continue to Xingyun Temple, while he took the boy and woman to Yunzhou City.
When they arrived in the city, Chen Qi placed the two in the Yuelai Inn, and then found a doctor to treat the woman. After the doctor's diagnosis, the woman was not seriously ill, the wind cold and fever, coupled with overwork, long-term hunger, so she fell unconscious, and immediately prescribed medicine and asked Chen Qi to grab the medicine according to the prescription.
Chen Qi grabbed the medicine and came back, asked the store to help find a mother-in-law, helped take care of the woman, and went out of the city to Xingyun Temple by himself.
The mother-in-law found by the store was very dedicated, first boiling medicine for the woman to take, and then boiling gruel for the woman to drink, and then staying in front of the bed.
"Hao'er~"
At the third watch, the woman woke up, and her mother-in-law, who was lying on the side of the bed and falling asleep in a daze, was awakened by her.
The woman looked at her mother-in-law, her face full of vigilance, and asked eagerly, "Where is my nephew?"
The mother-in-law said: "He and Chen Gongzi are in the next room, don't worry, I'll call you now." With that, he got up and walked out of the room.
After a while, with a "Auntie", the boy burst into the room and threw himself into the woman's arms.
The woman stroked the boy's head and burst into tears of excitement, "It's good if you're here, it's good if you're here......"
After Chen Qi went to Xingyun Temple to see, everything was fine, the victims he brought out from the construction site also arrived, and he explained some things to Meng Xiaofan at the moment, and then returned to the inn.
Just now, the mother-in-law came to inform the woman that she was awake, and Chen Changhao ran out without wearing shoes, and Chen Qi followed. Seeing Chen Qi, the boy said to the woman: "It was this big brother who saved us." ”
The woman said: "Thank you for saving your life, the concubine can't salute, and I hope the son will forgive me." ”
Chen Qi said: "Madame doesn't have to be polite, just wake up." ”
"Whatever you want to eat, I'll make it for you now. The mother-in-law asked.
"Thank you, sister-in-law, I'm not hungry now. Go and rest, all of you. ”
Chen Qi saw that the woman tactfully asked the two to leave, so he said goodbye and took his mother-in-law out of the room, leaving the boy to accompany him.
The woman stared at the boy, her eyes full of love, "Hao'er has suffered with her aunt, and when your aunt is well, we will leave immediately, and everything will be fine when we get to your uncle's house." ”
"Hao'er is not bitter, Hao'er has to endure more hardships, he has to learn martial arts, go to Tianyi Sect to take revenge, and revive our Shen family. ”
The woman and boy were Yu Min and Shen Changhao, who had escaped from the Shen family. Yu Min took Shen Changhao to hide in the dark room for more than half a month, and then carefully came out of the dark room. After some investigation, it was determined that the people of the Tianyi Sect had withdrawn, so they took Shen Changhao out of the dark room.
The huge Shen Mansion was empty, Yu Min and Shen Changhao didn't dare to stay, so they found some dry food and broken silver and left. Shen Mansion is located in a remote area, Yu Min took Shen Changhao and did not dare to take the main road, all the way through the mountains and mountains, picking up remote paths, and only left the scope of Shen Mansion for more than ten days and went on the official road.
The two stopped and walked all the way, Yu Min didn't want Shen Changhao to suffer, and tried his best to eat and live. On this day, they arrived at the boundary of Yunzhou, the two sat on the side of the road to rest, a group of victims passed by, saw two people holding food, they came forward to ask, Yu Min saw that these victims were pitiful, so they distributed the food to everyone, due to the large number of people, the food is limited, the victims were in a mess for a while. At this time, there was a person who took advantage of the chaos to snatch Yu Min's package and was surrounded by the victims, and she was worried about Shen Changhao, so she couldn't catch it and was run away by that person.
The package was robbed of silver taels, and the food was distributed to everyone, Yu Min could only take Shen Changhao to force forward, and at this time Yu Min was hit by a cold again, but fortunately, it was only two days away from Yunzhou City.
On this day, when I arrived outside Yunzhou City, I met the victims recruited by the government to send them to the canal construction site, and many victims along the road did not know why, so they followed into the team, and Yu Min and Shen Changhao were also caught in it. Yu Min wanted to leave with Shen Changhao, but was stopped by the people of the government, she wanted to use force, but she was weak, and she had no choice but to follow her to the canal construction site.
When they arrived at the construction site, the two of them were forced to work, poor a young lady, a big young master, how could they have suffered like this? Yu Min was physically and mentally exhausted, and fainted from the cold and fever, and before Chen Qi rushed to the construction site, she was thrown into the pile of dead people. If Chen Qi didn't come today, Shen Changhao would have waited until it got dark to take the risk to save him.
Yu Min smiled and shook his head, "Hao'er must remember that before you arrive at your uncle's house safely, don't say this kind of thing, and don't let people know that we can do martial arts." ”
Shen Changhao nodded seriously.
Yu Min said again: "If there is anything to do with your aunt in the future, you must not care, you have to find a way to escape, you must live, even if it is a humiliating life, you are the only hope of our Shen family." ”
"No, I won't leave my aunt behind!"
"Silly boy, if you are affected by your aunt, your aunt will not be blind even if she dies. Yu Min stroked Shen Changhao's head.
"We're not going to die, auntie, tell the big brother about us, he's a good man. ”
"No," Yu Min said excitedly, "Now none of us can trust us, and we can't let anyone know our identity." ”
"But ......"
"No, but people's hearts are sinister, we have to guard against it, even if you go to your uncle's house in the future, don't believe everyone. After Yu Min finished speaking, he looked at Shen Changhao's puzzled expression, "You will understand later." ”