Chapter 12: Qingfeng County
After the woman finished speaking, she walked out of the room and told Lao Hua to rest more.
After the door closed, Lao Hua stood alone in the cramped room, his eyes flickering.
A few rays of sunlight came in from the window, and Lao Hua's cheeks flickered and dimmed.
Although the woman didn't say it explicitly, Lao Hua knew very well in his heart that he was the initiator of all this.
Although out of righteousness, he can move his whole body and kill the three Qingfeng County Lords, the consequences will only be more serious than the death of a few villagers, and even slaughtering the village is not impossible.
Lao Hua's original intention was to protect the safety of Mrs. and Xiao Yueyue, but... But Madame stepped forward. Lao Hua is no matter how ruthless he is, and he can't tolerate someone who can threaten the safety of those close to him.
"Madame has left me with the problem, how should I be? ”
Lao Hua sighed for a while, sat back on the bed, supported his cheeks with his hands, and looked ahead with no eyes.
"Song Kingdom is too far away from here, I sleep... That's thirty years. ”
"Mother, you are all right, and my brothers, how many of them survived the war. ”
Lao Hua once again showed a painful look on his face, and a mist appeared in his eyes. Although these questions were not spoken to anyone, he would always see the gracious figure of his mother in the courtyard with the other women boasting of his son in the courtyard in the depths of his dreams. When this fragment dissipated, Lao Hua saw his brothers again, one by one falling in the battlefield, shot through the eyes by arrows flying from afar, and even hacked to death by the enemy's swords.
Dozens of noisy voices suddenly came from outside the window, interrupting Lao Hua's grief at this time.
Lao Hua hurriedly wiped his eyes with his hands and walked out of the house to see what had happened.
There were more than a dozen young villagers, in a straight line, led by the woman to the woodland outside the village, surrounded by dozens of elderly villagers who kept telling everyone in the team, their faces full of reluctance.
Lao Hua was shocked, walked out of the house, and came to the leading woman's side.
"Madam, what is the arrangement?" Lao Hua whispered in the woman's ear.
The woman saw that he did not rest, but walked out, and her face couldn't help but be a little dissatisfied: "You have a good rest now, these dozen young villagers are going to hide in the forest, you don't have to care." ”
The woman held Xiao Yueyue in her other hand, and when Xiao Yueyue saw his brother Hua wake up, his face was full of joy, and he was about to break free from the woman's palm and throw himself into Brother Hua's arms.
But then the woman's hand increased a little harder, not letting Xiao Yueyue break free, Xiao Yueyue seemed to remember something, a little face instantly collapsed, and forced herself to turn her head away from looking at her brother Hua.
After the woman finished speaking, she ignored the young man, and continued to walk towards the woodland with Xiao Yueyue and the dozen or so villagers.
Looking at the dozen or so figures that were gradually moving away, Lao Hua Pestle did not move in place, and his heart was full of complexity.
The dozens of elderly villagers around saw their juniors go away, and they also dispersed, and when they passed the young man standing in place, they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look at him.
When all the villagers returned to their houses, only Lao Hua was still standing in the center of the village clearing, and a big yellow dog came to sniff under him, and ran away without a trace.
At this time, a weak spring breeze blew outside the village, with a bit of astringency, brushing past the young man's side, disrupting the young man's long black hair, and some of the tips of the hair fell on the young man's cheeks.
Lao Hua's hesitant expression slowly became firm as the spring breeze blew.
"Since it was caused by me, then it was me who came to cause and effect. Lao Hua muttered to himself, completely unaware that he had uttered these words full of Buddhist meaning.
Lao Hua finally moved, but instead of walking towards the woman's house, he ran towards the official road far away outside the village.
As he ran faster and faster, the oncoming wind hit Lao Hua hard in the face, and Lao Hua was wearing the brown caftan cloth woven by the woman at this time, and the hunting sounded with the wind.
The official road is separated from the village by a very large field, and Lao Hua runs with his steps, his feet soaked in yellow muddy water.
As Lao Hua's vision looked, the official road gradually became clear, and two brown horses were constantly spurred by the old man wearing a cloak on the sedan chair behind him, galloping along the official road.
The old man's face was full of anxiety, and his big calloused hands continued to increase a little force, causing the horse in front of him to tear and roar, and the horse's hooves turned into countless afterimages, bringing up bursts of dust and smoke on the official road.
"Madam, bear it back and lie down, and the child in this belly will definitely be saved. ”
There were several cries of pain from the sedan chair, but there was no answer to the old man's words.
At this time, the old man was soaked in a cold sweat in his vest, looking at the endless distance ahead, and he was confused for a while.
"It's over... The nearest Mashi town is two hundred miles away, and it will take to find a woman who knows how to deliver babies!" The old man's heart gradually became desperate, and when he thought of the possible consequences, the old man's body sitting on the sedan chair couldn't help but tremble.
But the old man didn't notice at all that a thin figure was quietly sweeping the top of the sedan chair.
That figure is Lao Hua.
Lao Hua, who had swept on the sedan chair before, wanted to use force to coerce the old man and the people on the sedan chair to go to Qingfeng County, because since he came to the woodland outside Zhangjia Village inexplicably, since he was rescued, he has not even set foot in the fields five miles away from the village, let alone go to Qingfeng County to solve the crisis in Zhangjia Village.
I can't even figure out the way to Qingfeng County, so how can I be the hero of the world?
At least in Lao Hua's opinion, going to Qingfeng County to solve the crisis in the village was the most daring decision he had ever made in his life.
But before Lao Hua could get too much heroism, he found that the old man was frantically raising his long whip and whipping the foaming horses in front of him irregularly.
"This will make the horse die of exhaustion, why does this old horseman ride the horse so much?" Lao Hua's face was indignant, climbed to the front of the sedan chair, and jumped down, and sat on the old man's side.
"Who are you..."Before he could finish speaking, the frightened old man was slashed in the back of the neck by Lao Hua's hand knife and fainted.
"Huh~~~!" Lao Hua picked up the reins on the horse's back and pulled it back sharply, forcing the horse to stop at a gallop.
Lao Hua hurriedly dragged the old man's body away, opened the curtain outside the sedan chair, and was about to ask the people inside where Qingfeng County went.
But as the curtain was opened, Lao Hua found that there was a woman in luxurious silk lying inside, sweating profusely with her hands on her high bulging belly, and a trace of blood had oozed between the skirts of her lower body.
The woman's lips were already white with pain, and she was frightened when she saw the uninvited guest who broke in.
Lao Hua put his hands on his forehead, and saw that this woman was about to give birth, and he would not find a place to deliver the baby... I am afraid that my life will be feared.
"It's just too late to waste some more time. Lao Hua said and entered the sedan chair, wrapped his hands around the woman without saying anything, and walked out of the sedan chair with her carefully.
With his feet slowly getting off the sedan chair, Lao Hua took the woman in his arms and ran in the direction of Zhangjia Village.
The woman's face was pressed against the young man's chest, and her heart gradually became desperate, so she was carried by the young man and ran away.
With the last bit of strength, the woman said in a hoarse voice, "I'd rather kill myself than be ruined by you savage." ”
Lao Hua's heart is complicated, why is this woman's thoughts so strange?
Without answering the woman's words, Lao Hua continued to gallop through the surrounding fields, and arrived outside Zhangjia Village in less than half an hour.
"Come out!" Lao Hua shouted with a puffed up voice, and the immature but unmistakable sound caused the whole village to run out of the house one after another.
When several old women saw the young man holding a woman with a high belly, they hurried to the young man's side.
"Quick, quick, carry her into the house! This woman is about to give birth!" the old women lifted the woman out of the boy's arms, and without saying a word, carried her into a room.
Lao Hua saw that the woman was carried in, turned around and galloped towards the official road again.
Within a moment, Lao Hua came to the sedan chair that stopped on the side of the official road, and stretched out his left hand to pinch the unconscious old man.
Seeing his bandaged left hand, Lao Hua realized that he was about to forget about it.
With a wry smile, Lao Hua changed his right hand and pinched the old man's middle hard.
"Hey!" the old man sat up with a spirit, looked at the young man next to him, seemed to think of something, and hurriedly opened the curtain behind him and looked in.
"Madame!" cried the old man in great grief.
"Your wife was carried by me to a nearby village to deliver a baby," Lao Hua said to the old man with a serious face: "If it weren't for me, your wife would have to die twice, and you wouldn't be able to explain it to your master." ”
The old man's face was full of disbelief, but he could see the immature face of this young man... It's not like the wrongdoers he's ever seen.
Gritting his teeth, the old man climbed down from the sedan chair and knelt down at the young man's feet.
"Shaoxia's great grace, me and the Yu family absolutely... Ahh
"You still want to talk nonsense!" Lao Hua viciously put his face less than a foot in front of the old man's face, and said: "Take me to Qingfeng County quickly, take a shortcut, the sooner the better, and repay me for your kindness!"
The old man looked at the young man in horror and nodded again and again.
When Lao Hua saw the old man nodding, he lifted his body and threw him on a horse.
"Bang! Bang!" Lao Hua's right hand condensed into a hand knife, and he squeezed hard to split the axle wood connecting the sedan chair and the horse neck (for the structure of the carriage, Baidu has a lot of structural drawings, there are too many rare words, so simplify it here).
Lao Hua immediately turned over and got on the horse, and turned his head to look at the old man on the side.
The old man was not a wooden person, and after nodding slightly, he rushed out on his horse first, galloping towards the southwest on the side of the official road.
Lao Hua also rode a horse and followed closely.
At this time, it was noon, and the afterglow of the scorching sun shone on the whole body of Lao Hua and the old man, dragging two long shadows on the ground.
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Qingfeng County, a dark alleyway.
Lao Hua's right foot stepped on the chest of a young man in his twenties, and he played with a wooden square token from the young man's body, with the word 'spirit' engraved on it.
"Ling Miao, the top five military generals under the command of the second prince, have been here in Qingfeng County for more than a month..."
Lao Hua pondered, in his memories, the Xiya County of the Song Kingdom changed two county lords, the previous one was a native of Xiya County, and most of the people under his command were disciples of Lao Hua. But this second county lord... When he took office, he convicted the former county lord of the capital for corruption and beheaded him for public display. I heard that this county lord is a popular person next to the prince of the Song Kingdom.
"They are all ruthless people, don't force them. Lao Hua muttered, and then his right foot suddenly increased his strength, constantly rubbing it on the young man's chest.
"Say, since you are one of the two thousand private soldiers under the command of Naqingfeng County, you must know where his family is, the old and the young, and name me their names one by one. ”
After a pause, the corners of Lao Hua's mouth pulled up a strange arc, and he laughed coldly.
"Otherwise, my neck will be cut off little by little, and my head will be thrown into the house of your wife and children. ”