It was pitch black and quiet Mopan Street seemed to be silent as if it was uninhabited. It was never seen again in the usual bustle, and there was no light in the darkness.

Mopan Street lived around the families of the Han army under the Pingnan Fan. After the Taiping Army entered the city and broke the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, these Han army's families were in panic all day long. They closed the doors, and the elderly men were guarding the doors, while the women hid in the house with their children in their arms, trembling.

The women were timid, and when they were tired of crying, they sighed and shrewd. The men gritted their teeth and sat in the yard, smoking pots of tobacco pipes, but their hearts could not be calm. Like those women, they were also afraid.

Men and women, all the Han army's family were afraid, fearing the upcoming revenge of the Ming soldiers, and begging God to bless them to escape this disaster.

However, God did not hear their prayers. What should come will always come. The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded on the calm street, and the sound of weapons and armor hitting each other throughout Mopan Street.

"Team A goes east and Team B goes west, blocking all the street exits, clearing one by one, and not missing a household!"

"Get orders!"

The Taiping Army outside responded unscrupulously, but teams were heading in different directions. It seemed as if they were deliberately trying to scare the Han family hiding in the dark. The Taiping Army would step very loudly, and from time to time they would knock on the walls and stone slabs. Some even dragged the spearhead of the spear on the ground, making a sharp rubbing sound.

Fear spread rapidly in the darkness, and pairs of eyes hidden in the darkness were filled with horror.

"Mom, they are here. They are here. They are here. They are here to kill us..."

The daughter-in-law Li looked at her mother-in-law with a frightened look on her face, and her mother-in-law was also afraid. She held her young grandson tightly in her arms with her hands, fearing that the Ming Dynasty soldiers outside would take her young grandson away from her arms after they came in.

"Grandma, you hurt me."

The young grandson was too tightly held by his grandmother and felt uncomfortable and started to scream in a low voice. The grandmother quickly let go of her hand. The grandson threw herself into her mother's arms unhappily, but she heard that her mother seemed to be crying. Although the voice was very soft, she was really crying.

“The head of the family…”

Grandma turned her face and looked at her husband sitting on the threshold outside the house. After hearing the woman's scream, Old Yan, who was nearly 60, heard the woman's scream, put down the tobacco pipe, picked up a big knife placed by the door, and slowly walked towards the yard.

"Don't go out, don't go out no matter what happens!"

Old Yan's heart was beating wildly. The big knife in his hand that he snatched from the Ming army with Manzhou people in his early years was also trembling slightly.

"Bang bang bang!"

There were heavy sounds of slapping the door outside the yard. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who had been worried and scared for a day stood up at the same time in horror.

Old Yan stood there staring at the courtyard gate. His heart was in his throat, as if he had seen the gate of the courtyard being smashed open the next moment, and then rushed into a large group of Taiping troops, chopped him to the ground and then captured his daughter-in-law and grandson.

Old Yan couldn't imagine that scene. He stood there in great fear, but he did not see the gate of the courtyard being smashed open, but heard strange voices coming from outside the door.

"Open the door! We are from Guangzhou Prefecture. We are ordered by the general of the Guangzhou General of the Ming Dynasty to investigate Dingkou, and open the door quickly!"

Check Dingkou?

Old Yan was confused for a moment and then even more frightened. He remembered that thirty years ago, the Beile man from the Jin Dynasty also used this name to trick the Liaodong Han people out of their homes and killed them one by one. That time, he slaughtered 3 million Han people.

Pooh!

Old Yan stared at the gate of the courtyard and spat secretly, "What are you going to investigate Dingkou? You are going to kill us!"

The Taiping gang also made such a move. It would be better to ask us to gather somewhere, but to kill from house to house, it would be difficult.

Old Yantou was a little desperate. He knew that he could not be the opponent of the tiger and wolf soldiers outside. He did not hate the Ming Dynasty soldiers who wanted to kill them. He just felt wronged and did not know why the retribution would fall on them, not on those Manzhou people.

My Yan family is also a Han Chinese! Why do Han Chinese kill Han Chinese?

Old Yan's breath suddenly ejaculated, and he sat down to the ground powerlessly, and he thought of this yard.

The Yan family's yard was stolen by the son of the old Yan family a few years ago. The owner of the yard was killed by his son. The female corpses in the backyard well were also caught by the old Yan family, otherwise the well would have been ruined. Such a good yard would be worthless if it was lost.

Alas, I'm guilty, retribution...

Old Yan smiled bitterly.

.........

When the people outside saw that the door was not opened inside for a long time, they were impatient to wait, and another strange voice shouted: "He, mom, I know you are hiding inside. If you don't open the door, we will smash it!"

What to do, what to do?

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the room looked at her husband (father-in-law) sitting on the ground motionless in horror.

After the gate of the courtyard was slapped again, amid the frightened eyes of the wife and daughter-in-law, Old Yantou suddenly stood up and threw the sword in his hand to the ground, then ran behind the door in panic and pulled the gate open with trembling.

After the gate of the courtyard opened, seven or eight Taiping soldiers wearing red military uniforms, swords at their waists, pointed felt hats on their heads, and torches in their hands.

A soldier waved the torch in his hand on Lao Yan's face and cursed angrily: "We knocked on the door for a long time, why didn't you open the door!"

"Little old man, I..." Old Yantou didn't know how to answer, so he could only bow his head and beg him almost: "The army master of the Ming Dynasty, the whole family is a good person, and the people of Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty. Please spare my whole family!" After that, he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed suddenly.

"Good people? Are there good people in the Han army flag?"

The Taiping Army Xiaoqi, who was leading the team, glanced at Lao Yan and saw the big knife placed on the stone table. He laughed, but did not mean to step forward and chop the other party. Instead, he said to a little official from Guangzhou Prefecture who was following behind, with a look of fear, "Ask him!"

"well!"

The stinger came to Lao Yantou with a roster in one hand and a brush in the other, and said to Lao Yantou, "What's your son's name?"

"Reply to Jun Ye, my son's call..." Old Yan raised his head and looked at the little official hesitantly.

The Taiping Army flag next to him shouted: "What's the name? Say it quickly!"

Old Yan was startled and did not dare to hesitate. He hurriedly said, "My son's name is Yan Chongxian."

The little flag nodded and ordered the minor official: "Remember it."

The little official hurriedly took the notes and asked Lao Yan again: "How many people are in your family?"

"The old man has four people in his family, the old couple is with his wife, and a six-year-old grandson." After saying that, Old Yan glanced at the house worriedly.

When the little flag saw the old Yantou's actions, he sneered in his heart, but ordered the little official: "Tell me the names of everyone in his family."

"yes."

The little official did not dare to delay and asked Lao Yan one by one. Whenever he talked about a person's name, Lao Yan was afraid of death, but he had to say it. After the little official recorded all the names of his family, Lao Yan was nervously waiting for the Taiping Army to deal with them. He was afraid that the other party would take them out, which meant that retribution had come.
Chapter completed!