"Brother Mo, why did that woman take off her clothes?" Ah Dai looked at the direction where she left with some nostalgia. Seeing that Chen Mo's face was not good-looking, he asked weakly.

"Who knows?" Chen Mo was a little anxious. He also understood a little about men and women these days, but it was just some. Besides, it was better to not take off his clothes than that aunt had taken off her clothes. She was covered in mud and dirty, so she was not as good-looking as she had seen before...

Thinking wrongly ~

Chen Mo shook his head and said, "Go, go back."

"Don't make food?" Ah Dai looked at Chen Mo and said.

"Who will send you food in this weather?" Chen Mo shook the snow on his body and said as he walked.

"What about inquire about the news?" Ah Dai looked at Chen Mo in confusion. He remembered that they came out to inquire about the news.

"We have already found out, let's go to Quyang." Chen Mo thought while walking.

"Didn't you say you want to fight?" Ah Dai said in confusion.

"It seems that it is not difficult for the Taiping Sect to attack the city. Let's catch up with the people ahead to see it. It is best to sneak into the city and take a look." Chen Mo heard that Mr. Liu talked about Xia Qiu's breaking the city before, and felt that he might have thought it was bad, and siege the city might not be that difficult. Otherwise, how could the surrounding cities be so easily captured?

The snow was getting heavier. Chen Mo returned to the gathering place of the four of them. Looking at the heavy snow, he couldn't rush to travel today. In this snowy day, it was easy to get lost.

"Mom, do you know where Qu Yang is?" Chen Mo asked Ah Dai to pick up some firewood, but with the help of his mother and Aunt Cai, he began to strengthen the shack. He was afraid that he would spend the night here tonight. The Taiping Teaching in front of him would not be able to leave, and he could not let his mother get frozen.

"It's about fifty miles northeast." Chen's mother looked at Chen Mo and said, "Mo'er, aren't you going to join the war?"

"I heard that the Taiping Cult destroyed several cities, and all the county magistrates and magistrates left the city and fled. If so, we can rush over first to see if we can find a place to settle in Quyang." Chen Mo tied the felt cloth and fur all around the felt cloth found on the road, barely able to shelter the wind and snow.

"The city is broken, how can I settle down?" Aunt Cai sighed.

"The Taiping Sect can't ignore the city, right? It's good that I'll take this opportunity to settle in Quyang." Chen Mo explained. In fact, he wanted to go back to Xiaqiu, but after coming out for a few months, he was a little unclear where Xiaqiu was, let alone at least one month to talk about it. Where can I get food and drink?

If the dozens of breads that everyone had stored were not enough for four people to eat for three days, even if they could save food, it would be good to spend ten days.

"The guards in various places have never resisted?" Chen's mother frowned. When Chen Mo's father was alive, she often heard Chen's father say that corruption in the government was a trend, but she never thought that cities in various places were easily captured by the Taiping Cult.

"Most of them are Xiaqiu, Lingxian and Hongxian, and there is no news about the others." Chen Mo nodded. Before that, who would have thought that Taiping Cult is so powerful, or that county magistrates and county magistrates are so useless? The inaction of officials from all over the country is probably the fundamental reason for the current Taiping Cult rampage?

"Isn't this naive thing going to change?" Aunt Cai sighed and handed Chen Mo a hemp rope while saying bitterly, "In this world, how can orphans and widows survive? Maybe it's good to go to Quyang and find someone to renew it. There must be a man at home. Not all children are as sensible and capable as Chen Mo, at least Ah Dai can't do it."

Ah Dai found firewood, and everyone melted some snow and cooked the noodles. In order to save energy, they squeezed together to fall asleep early.

The next morning, the wind and snow stopped. Looking around, the sky and earth were white. Chen Mo packed his luggage, took his own purse, and greeted Heizi. Everyone identified the direction and headed towards Quyang.

The fifty-mile road is actually not far. It was thirty miles from Zhuangzi to Xiaqiu, and it was a day when everyone could go back and forth. Everyone was not hungry these days and were still in good physical strength. In addition, heavy snow blocked the road, and in the afternoon, they had already caught up with the Taiping Cult who were moving forward.

...

Quyang, yamen office.

A burly young man was drinking warm wine quietly, looking at the bamboo slips in his hand, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a cold air rushed in. The young man looked up and saw the visitor, smiling: "Why is this anxious?"

"Brother Ziyuan can still laugh?" The visitor sighed and said, "The Taiping Cult is conquering cities and lands everywhere. I just received a message from the Duijun that Linhuai has been captured, and a large number of Taiping Cult rioters have appeared in Guangling. They ordered all counties to defend themselves in the door."

"Good thing, Brother Meng Gao is the Quyang Order. If this is successful, the promotion will not be far away. It will be better than if I am trapped here when I return to my hometown." The young man smiled.

"How can it be so simple?" The visitor said helplessly: "In these days, the Taiping scholars burned the villages everywhere and brought the people as bandits. They came to Quyang, and were afraid that there were tens of thousands of people. There were only hundreds of county guards in Quyang, and the thieves were fierce. I had no soldiers or generals in my hands, and I didn't understand the art of war. How to resist?"

"Although there are many people, they are all people from all over the world and have no weapons." Qing Young stroked his long beard under his jaw and smiled: "Compared to this, Brother Meng Gao should be more concerned about how many Taiping scholars there are in Quyang."

"You mean..." The visitor was halfway through, and suddenly slapped his head and smiled: "With you Zang Ziyuan here, I need to worry about it. Ziyuan, you need to help me this time!"

"I don't care about the county town myself, what's the reason for coming to help you?" The young man smiled bitterly. He was also the county magistrate. After taking leave, he returned to his hometown to visit relatives. Who would have thought that he was in trouble with Taiping Cult. If he really looked at it carefully, he would be guilty of dereliction of duty.

"Do you want to see you die and refuse to save me?" The visitor said to him.

"Well, you can order the four gates to be blocked, and let the county magistrate lead people to capture Taiping Christians everywhere in the city. First, eliminate internal troubles, and erect more flags on the city walls." The young man thought for a while.

“How do you clear the peacemakers?”

"You can order the virtuous and noble people in the city to promote the evil deeds of the Taiping Cult and ask the people in the city to help. My brother has been an official in Quyang for five years and is quite famous for his benevolence and righteousness. Quyang is already rich and the people are mostly rebellious. In addition, the evil deeds of the Taiping Cult are more dangerous, and they will fight to expose the people. This heavy snow has helped Brother Meng Gao a lot." The young man smiled.

"The people outside the city..." the scribe frowned.

"In extraordinary times, there should not be a woman's kindness." The young man shook his head and stood up and said, "If he can defeat the evildoers of the Taiping Cult, all crises will be resolved. But if Quyang City is destroyed due to his temporary kindness, then don't talk about Quyang, it is afraid that it will be Sheyang, Haixi and even the entire Guangling will fall into the trap!"

"What if Ziyuan leaves the matter to pick on Taiping Cult?"

"Can you refuse?"

"No!"
Chapter completed!