Yan Mu opened the curtain of the car, and through the rain, he really saw the man lying on the road ahead.

There are no villages in front of the village and behind the shops. There are forests on both sides, especially in the rain, which is drowsy. If you are timid, you will be scared.

Feng Zheng handed over an umbrella, Yan Mu asked Liu Yunxiang to wait in the carriage, and then asked Zijin to stay in front of the carriage, then got off the carriage and walked towards the man lying on the ground.

It was like rain, and the man was motionless, probably dead.

When I got closer, I found that it was an old man with gray hair, his clothes were torn, like a beggar.

"Master, I will move the body to the side of the road. When we go to the town, I will send someone to inform the local government to collect the body." Feng Zheng said.

Yan Mu's thoughts turned around, but he still walked towards the man on the ground, and stopped a step further. However, the next moment, the old man suddenly opened his eyes and reached out to grab Yan Mu's clothes.

Yan Mu was prepared for a long time and avoided it.

At this time, there was a movement from the forest on both sides, and black shadows rushed out. When they got closer, they saw people in rags like this old man. They were pressing sticks on their hands and were thin. They rushed up.

Yan Mu and Feng Zheng looked at each other, and the two hurriedly retreated to the side of the carriage, and together with Zi Jin, they protected Liu Yunxiang on the carriage, and at the same time pulled out the sword on their bodies.

These people surrounded the carriage, and there were about 40 or 50 people. They stared at them, and everyone had fear and uneasiness in their eyes, but they still moved forward step by step.

"Who are you?" Yan Mu asked in a deep voice.

The leader was a younger man, about thirty years old, with a stubble face. He pretended to be fierce and said, "Of course he is a robber!"

"oh?"

"As long as you keep the carriage and keep all your belongings, we will not hurt you!"

Yan Mu narrowed his eyes, and almost no one saw his body moving. However, the next moment, he had already arrived in front of the man and the sword was pressed against his neck. The people were startled and retreated one after another.

The man was trembling with fear, but he still shouted to the people behind him: "There are only four of them... Don't be afraid... Even if you rush forward... It doesn't matter if I die... Everyone must live..."

Hearing this, those who retreated began to move forward again.

"Are you hungry?" Liu Yunxiang opened the curtain of the carriage and took out a pack of dry food at the same time. "I don't have much dry food here, and you will be the one who rushes to do it."

As he said that, Liu Yunxiang deliberately threw the dry food away.

However, to her surprise, these people did not rush up to grab the bag, but sent a boy to pick it up. Although the boy was so hungry that he swallowed his saliva, he did not take one to eat first.

"Brother Shui, there is not much dry food." The young man shouted at the man who was pressed by Yan Mu with a knife.

Upon hearing this, the man looked at Yan Mu and the others again, "This little dry food cannot be used to save us!"

At the man's instructions, the others continued to move forward, and Feng Zheng and Zijin raised their swords to greet each other.

"Try not to hurt them!" Liu Yunxiang hurriedly instructed.

The two of them stepped forward without using swords, but only fists and feet. In just one blink of an eye, more than ten people had been kicked to the ground.

Brother Shui widened his eyes, obviously he didn't expect them to encounter a tough guy.

"You have a lot of people, but it's easy to kill them all." Yan Mu said lightly.

When Brother Shui heard this, he waved his hand to let the people retreat.

"You run away first!"

"Brother Shui!"

"Stop worrying about me!"

Yan Mu pulled the corner of his mouth and put away the sword.

"Okay, I won't kill you. Tell me, who are you?"

Brother Shui was on guard against Yan Mu and pushed him two steps first and felt safer, so he said: "We were originally the people of Ling'an City. After being driven out of the city by the people of Southern Jin, we were forced to become refugees."

Yan Mu frowned, "Disaster?"

The Southern Jin occupied Ling'an before the New Year. If they were driven out, the refugees would have spread all over the Yangtze River. But along the way, they did not see the gathering refugees.

"When did you get kicked out of the city?"

"The Southern Jin invaded Ling'an and burned, killed and looted us, and began to drive us out of the city on a large scale in about half a month."

"Why don't you go north?"

"We can't leave!"

“Why?”

Brother Shui was about to say that when the sound of horse hooves came from a distance, he immediately looked panicked.

"Everyone hid in the woods! Hurry!"

With his voice, these people quickly disappeared into the woods under the rain curtain like a tide, and seemed to have never appeared except for the footprints left on the ground.

Yan Mu looked at it, but saw a team of people coming towards this side.

After a change of mind, he stood by the carriage and became an inconspicuous servant again.

Liu Yunxiang glanced at him, and then asked Zijin to help her get off the carriage.

The men were wearing armor and dismounted a dozen steps away, and walked quickly towards this side.

"Have you met a bandit?" asked the leader.

bandit?

Liu Yunxiang silently said, "It was blocked by a bunch of ragged people. But they fled in a hurry when they heard the sound of your horse's hooves."

The leader looked around and said, "There are many bandits in this area, and they often rob passers-by. Be careful and hurry up and go to the town ahead to stay."

"Who are you?"

"We are from Bian Nan's military camp."

"That's it." Liu Yunxiang paused, "I want to see your general."

Hearing this, the leader looked at Liu Yunxiang again, "Who are you, this lady?"

"Crown Princess."

That night, they still stayed in the town ahead, but the soldiers of Bian Nan's military camp guarded the safety.

In the guest room, Zi Jin put the food on the table.

Liu Yunxiang served a bowl of rice porridge for Yan Mu, "Let's have a meal first."

Hearing this, Yan Mu put down the map in his hand, "There are thirteen cities in Lingnan, but the terrain is complex. From one city to another, sometimes you have to go through the steep mountains, sometimes you have to wade through the water, sometimes you can pass by the canyons, even miasma forests,

Once an emergency military situation occurs, it may not be able to be quickly connected."

"So with Bian Nan's military camp, the troops in the Thirteen Cities can be mobilized."

"But after Su Hui lost his battle, he led his camp to retreat a hundred miles, retreating to the Cave Heaven Canyon across the miasma forest, and had no plans to recover Ling'an."

"I will know his attitude when I go to Bian Nan's military camp tomorrow."

After using the meal, the waiter came in to help clean up the dishes.

"We saw many inns along the way closed. Why is this?" Liu Yunxiang asked the waiter.

"It's not because of the refugees who robbed openly and secretly. Our town would have been stationed by Bian Nanjun, otherwise it would have been in chaos."

"Why not let them into town?"

"These people are shouting and fighting and killing, and they are very angry, so how dare they let them in?"

Liu Yunxiang had to ask again, but the waiter was afraid of causing trouble, so he quickly packed up the dishes and went out.

She thought for a while, looked at Yan Mu and asked, "Did you find something wrong with the group of refugees I met in the afternoon?"

Zi Jin robbed him: "The soldiers said they were bandits, but they were not like bandits, they were clearly ordinary people. Due to hunger, they robbed passers-by."

"There is another point, why do they rather stay here than go north when they are hungry?" Feng Zheng added.
Chapter completed!