Chapter 18: Escape
In front of Hengshui City. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The madman took Li Yue off his horse and lined up with the flow of people to enter the city.
In front of Li Yue is a country couple, the woman is holding a rattan basket in her hand, and in the basket two reed roosters are tied with wings, legs and feet, only exposing their necks and stretching and contracting; the farmer is holding two fat and strong white-haired pigs tightly in his hands, about the city gate, people come and go, noisy and noisy, the two white-haired pigs have been humming and chirping, refusing to follow the farmer forward.
Then there was a well-dressed young couple, with a fat white child in their hands, and with round eyes looking at the reed rooster in the peasant woman's basket.
In front of the young couple was a group of five or six people, two ox carts, piled high with parcels. Two guards guarding the gate were impatiently rummaging through the packages on the ox cart, and one of the men, a middle-aged man at the head of the group, desperately bowed to the guard, saying something.
Smelling the smoky smell of wine coming from the Daoist people clinging to him, Li Yue hatefully moved his gaze to the other group of people who were out of the city. It was getting late, and only four or five sporadic peasants with flat poles and baskets left the city to return home after selling their goods.
Li Yue pondered in his heart, probably in a few moments, it would be his turn to enter the city with the mad Daoist, I don't know if he reported to the guard brother guarding the door that he had been kidnapped, would the guards take down the Daoist?
A sound of horses' hooves came from inside the city, and a team of fifteen or sixteen people galloped towards the city gate. The leader held up a bronze medal and shouted, "The city lord has an order, go out of the city on business!" The horse team actually rushed straight without stopping.
The two teams entering and exiting the city gate caused a slight commotion, quickly avoiding and moving out of the middle passage.
Li Yue was thinking about whether to ask for help, his back tightened, and a trace of heat swam from his back to his throat, and then dispersed for a while, Li Yue opened his mouth, but he couldn't make the slightest sound.
The madman has done it again!
Seeing that the galloping horse team was about to pass through the city gate, Li Yue turned his head and glared at the man hatefully, and kicked a big fist stone under his feet in a puff of anger. Seeing this, the Taoist smiled disdainfully.
The two white-haired fat pigs, when they first heard the sound of horses' hooves, were very panicked and struggled hard. The farmer pulled the twine tightly as he avoided the caravan, lest the brute might run into the caravan. The farmer was momentarily oblivious, stepped on the stone that Li Yue had kicked into, and struck the child that the young woman was carrying. The boy's father, who had been impatient to wait to enter the city, was even more furious when he saw his son crying at the untouchables, and grabbed the farmer by the collar and cursed.
The farmer was wronged, and it was obviously flat before he stepped down, but he didn't expect to step on a stone, so he hurriedly told him: "This uncle, the villain didn't deliberately bump into your son-in-law..."
The child's father refused to give up, and he slapped him and was about to be slapped. The peasant woman dropped the rattan basket in her hand and stepped forward to take hold of the child's father. All of a sudden, you come and go, adults beg for mercy, children cry, chickens and pigs bark, and there is a mess.
The madman was sneering at first, but his face suddenly changed, and the horse team that had just rushed out of the city gate rushed towards this side with their guns raised.
It turned out that in the middle of the farmer's struggle with the child's father, the white-haired pig broke free from the reins and rushed into the herd. The person who led the group of horses did not check for a while, and was tripped by the white-haired pig, and fell off the horse, this time, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest. The remaining dozen or so people, plus the guards at the city gate, all shouted and rushed towards this side.
It's a long story, but it's actually a matter of breathing in and out. By the time the madman came back to his senses, Li Yue had been separated from the horses and guards.
Li Yue grimaced at the madman, turned around and disappeared behind the crowd of onlookers.
The moment he saw the city gate and pedestrians, Li Yue began to think about various escape possibilities. The time and place, the number of people, and emotional reactions are all included in his observations.
It was getting late, and everyone was tired and irritable. How to stir up anger, cause riots, and slip away by yourself is the best policy.
The couple and the children were beautifully dressed, and they were obviously people of some status. The child was very interested in the rooster in the peasant woman's basket, and apparently had no contact with it on a regular basis, which confirmed his identity. In this hierarchical world, it is already an insult for a noble person to coexist with a poor villager, and if you are slightly offended by a poor person, it will be a great shame for the noble person.
After thinking about the action, Li Yue looked frequently in the direction of the city gate guards, as if looking for an opportunity to ask for help. The mad Taoist was really fooled, and sealed his dumb door with a spell, and the stones that Li Yue kicked out were his real purpose. The madman thought he was a child, and in anger he kicked the stone away. If the madman had taken a closer look at where the stone had fallen, the outcome might have been very different.
Li Yue bets on people's hearts!
Sure enough, everything went in the direction that Li Yue envisioned, and Li Yue successfully escaped from the madman.
Li Yue should have been proud, but now Li Yue, his hair is scattered, he is penniless, and the only coat and ornament that can be used as some property was stripped off by the madman and discarded by the river.
Downstairs in the brilliant lights and brilliant Tianxiang, a young man in tattered clothes looked at the diners who were staggered, smelling the tempting fragrance, and tears flowed in his heart, this was Li Yue who escaped from the clutches of the madman. As soon as he fled into the city, Li Yue went into the alley, hid away from the city gate, and waited until it was completely dark, Li Yue tore his clothes, grabbed his hair, and made him unrecognizable, guessing that even Li Changqing and his wife would not be able to recognize him in person, Li Yue came out of the corner where he was hiding, because he was hungry!
Like him, there were four or five beggars in even more shabby clothes who looked up at Tianxianglou.
Li Yue was thinking about how to mix food and drink justifiably, when the beggars stood up and rushed towards the street. Li Yue heard them shouting "Sister Guanyin" or something. Li Yue was stunned, he didn't expect that there was such a thing as "Guanyin" in this world.
"Take your time, everyone has it!" a pleasant female voice came, like wind chimes in a warm breeze.
"What a beautiful voice!I'm afraid the Queen of Sweet Songs on Earth is nothing more than that!" Li Yue looked towards the intersection.
The woman held a bamboo basket in her hand, walked gracefully, white clothes were better than snow, and black hair was like a cloud. The woman was like a cloud, a fog, a gust of wind, surrounded by a group of beggars.
"Here, this is yours!" the woman put a white-flour steamed bun into Li Yue's hand.
"Hee-hee, Miss, look at him stupid, so funny!"
Li Yue's old face turned red, only to find that the woman was followed by two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, looking at him with a smile. Li Yue noticed that the woman in white had a white veil on her face, and she couldn't see her face clearly.
Li Yue was about to thank him, but the woman in white was already far away. Li Yue grabbed a little beggar who was left behind and asked, "Is that woman... Be... Who?"
"The woman, is that what you called? That's Sister Guanyin!" The little beggar turned out to be a little girl, with a dirty face, and only two shining eyes could be seen. She brushed Li Yue's hand away and said crisply.
"Oh, then she's called... Called...?" Li Yue asked curiously.
Hearing that this little beggar was still stammering, the little girl Xiao Qi felt a little more pity, thinking that Li Yue was not happy with his stammering, and he must have been abandoned by his family to become a beggar. She said softly, "You, you're new here, right? That's Sister Jade Guanyin." Her surname is Yu and her name is Guanyin. ”
"Yes, yes, Sister Guanyin is the daughter of the prime minister of the dynasty!" Several other little beggars heard Xiao Qi talking about Jade Guanyin, and hurriedly came up and said.
"Sister Guanyin travels around Dachu every year and gives alms to beggars, which is our blessing. ”
"Yes, Sister Guanyin is our blessing!"
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From everyone's gossip, Li Yue found out that Jade Guanyin was a celebrity, a good person, and a beauty in Da Chu. She will go to all parts of Chu every year to deliver food and medicine to poor beggars, she is noble, noble character, although no one has ever seen the face under the veil, everyone thinks she is the first beauty of Great Chu, affectionately called her Sister Guanyin. Especially among beggars, it is a fairy-like existence that saves the suffering.