Jian Jun was feeding the horse. Hearing this, he grinned and said, "It's a coincidence that you mentioned this. On the way back, we met a group of old men and women. One of them had a small wooden sign hanging under his waist. It happened to be made by our second lady.
Okay, those who were sent out by others. When Xia Junnan took a look, he couldn't help but personally go forward and escort them away."
Xia Zhaoyi never mentioned the small wooden sign to them, but among the elite soldiers of the Xia family who died with her back then, dozens of them were fellow villagers or brothers with the existing Xia family soldiers, so there was no information about the small wooden sign.
Few people know it.
"How far did they go? Did they say when they would be back?" Xia Chuan asked.
Jian Jun shook his head and saw that some of them looked wrong: "Did something happen?"
Xia Chuan then quickly briefly described Hengxiang’s story.
"There is such a thing," Jian Jun said, frowning and thinking, "However, if such a serious thing happened to Hengxiang, Xia Junnan and the others should have known about it by now. In this way, you let the army take time to rest,
They may send people back at any time to dispatch troops and horses. I will take people to find them first and see if I can encounter them."
"Okay!" Xia Chuan nodded.
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Hengxiang does not have a tall city gate in the strict sense. The terrain of Hengxiang is complex, with flat and far-reaching open areas and rolling hills. Two-thirds of the entire city is covered with hills. However, as the population around the city increases,
In recent years, Hengxiang has been quietly expanding outwards, and soon the area occupied by hills will no longer be as large as that of flat land.
Li Guohao and Yao Xin were sitting on the roof of a restaurant in Beidi, looking at the sea of people at the northern checkpoint a few miles away.
When night falls, the lights are bright, and the thousands of people seem to be merged with the sea of lights, a gleaming glass, which makes the eyes blurred.
Qu's Mansion is on the right hand side of Li Guohao and Yao Xinzheng. Looking down from a high position, there are only a few bright spots in the huge and deep Qu's Mansion. Most of the places are dark and there is no shadow.
When they saw Zhao Ning arresting their parents, wives and children during the day, Li Guohao and Yao Xinzheng were afraid.
Zhao Hui'en was a very good talker. When inciting them to rebel, she first lured them with power and benefits, and then kept irritating them with the stinginess and ferocity with which Qiu Sanming treated them. The two of them got hot and thought of rebelling, but in the end,
Now not only were the family members implicated by them, but the entire military force of the southern capital's imperial guard was swept away by Zhao Hui'en.
The only way out now is that Li Guohao met an old friend who came from Tongdu a few days ago and is now doing well.
This old friend promised them that as soon as their families were free, he would help them and their families to cross the border together, and he would also help them find a job in Guangjian Emperor, that is, Ying Jinliang.
But the condition is that they need to save a woman named Lin.
The two of them had no clue, and there were very few useful people around them. Moreover, Zhao Hui'en had been looking for a so-called traitor all afternoon, which made the two of them suspicious. They no longer dared to trust the people around them.
Like Zhao Huien's eyes.
When it was completely dark, the two of them sat here, helpless.
The girl named Lin could not be found, and the whole family here was still controlled by Zhao Ning.
It was dark inside Qu's Mansion, and it was also dark outside Qu's Mansion. But in the darkness inside and outside, Li Guohao and Yao Xinzheng knew that there were people hiding inside, at least there were no less than a thousand soldiers and horses outside Qu's Mansion.
In Zhao Huien's view, dealing with Zhao Ning and Qu Xiling is nothing more than catching a turtle in a jar, but their families are still in it.
Li Guohao sighed: "What's the matter? It's better to follow the captain. There won't be so much oil and water, but we will be able to enjoy the food and drink."
After being quiet for a while, he became more and more irritable as he thought about it, and continued: "If it hadn't happened this morning, I would have been holding my wife at home."
After saying that, seeing that Yao Xinzheng next to him still didn't respond, Li Guohao turned his head and found that he had been staring at a certain place.
"What are you looking at?" Li Guohao looked where he was looking.
"There seem to be several figures," Yao Xinzheng frowned, "Maybe they are the shadows of trees."
"Why did you look at it for so long?"
"On the other side of the wall, it seems that I have climbed over the wall."
Gu Xi
It was so dark over there that Li Guohao couldn't see anything.
Suddenly, several soldiers' screams sounded from below, saying that a body had been found.
Then, many torches lit up and they all ran towards the location Yao Xinzheng just mentioned.
"There really is someone!" Li Guohao stood up, "Let's go and have a look!"
Wu Shaoning and others stopped and when they heard the sound outside the wall, they immediately moved towards the wall.
At the same time, because of these sounds outside the wall, the dark Qu Mansion was also brightly lit, with clusters of torches burning high in the dark night, gathering in one place.
The two large carved wooden doors closest to here were smashed with loud noises from the outside: "Qu Xiling! You bitch, you don't dare to fight with open swords and real guns, you hide and kill people in secret!"
"Zhao Ning, Qu Xiling, and you two old women will be thrown into pieces in the vegetable market and cut into pieces with a thousand cuts!"
"come out!"
"Zhao Ning, Qu Xiling, open the door!"
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There had been shouting outside for a long time, but everyone inside the door stood with torches in their hands, not daring to move.
Li Guohao and Yao Xinzheng rushed over and were shocked when they saw this situation. They were afraid that they would offend the people inside and kill their family members with a knife, so they hurriedly stepped forward to calm down.
Because they heard someone calling Zhao Ning, Wu Shaoning and the others kept their stance against the wall and did not move rashly. They wanted to wait until Zhao Ning arrived before showing their faces, so as not to be misunderstood by these subordinates and lead to conflicts.
But the Qu Mansion was too big, and the people who went to call Zhao Ning didn't come back, and the soldiers outside the door were already impatient.
"We're burning down the door!" one person shouted.
"You can't do it!" Li Guohao and Yao Xin were anxious.
These soldiers were not from the Duwei Mansion in the south of the city, but from Qi Zhixiang's Hengxiang Guards Station. They would not listen to what Li Guohao and Yao Xinzheng said.
A large amount of tung oil was thrown at the door, and the leading soldier shouted: "If you don't open the door again, we will set fire to it!"
"If you dare to set fire, we will throw out the heads of these old men first!" someone inside the door shouted loudly.
It was obvious who these old men were, and Li Guohao hurriedly stepped forward to stop them: "Be calm and don't be impatient. Just be patient and wait for Mr. Zhao's order."
"We must not act rashly without Mr. Zhao's instructions," Yao Xinzheng also said.
But no one paid attention to him, and the clamor from both sides became more and more arrogant.
The soldier inside the door refused to give in at all, and the rapidly escalating provocation made the leading soldier furious. He raised his hand, and the torch lit up the carved door and instantly lit up the fire.
The people inside the door roared and roared, and then an old man screamed.
Li Guohao and Yao Xin were looking towards Qu Mansion at the same time. Through the high wall and the blazing flames, they didn't know whose father this scream was.
Their legs were weak and they fell to the ground with a plop.
The ear of the soldier closest to them twitched slightly. I wonder if it was his own imagination. At the moment when Li Guohao and Yao Xin were kneeling down, he seemed to hear other noises.
