The headman and squires of Bailu Township were now worried and their hair turned gray.
They gathered outside the large, dilapidated and abandoned ancestral hall in Bailu Township. The guards in front of the door refused to let them in. They, a group of hundreds of people, were not allowed to leave, nor were they allowed to stay.
The food that was delivered was left inside, without a word of reward or even a reply. Only the guards came out to let people go. The mayor and squires did not leave, and the guards did not chase people away, they just refused to let them go.
It was dark outside the ancestral hall, and the only light was a lantern shining on the open space inside the ancestral hall. There was no light around.
Insects chirped on the edge of the fields, and occasionally frogs croaked by. The night in Hejing in early May was not unbearably hot, but with the wind, it was actually a bit cold.
The village chief was leaning on a cane with both hands and had a sad face.
If you really want to say why they came here, the fellow village head himself couldn't explain. It was because he was uneasy and anxious and couldn't sleep.
Something big happened in the capital. They had little information and couldn't find out the details, but they knew it was a huge event.
Now, there are thousands of troops coming from the ten villages and eight stores in Bailu Township. Who can not panic?
At this moment, a fast horse galloped back, running smoothly all the way to the big ancestral hall.
The men in front of the ancestral hall hurriedly gathered around and asked loudly what happened.
Because of this commotion, several men who looked like military officers came out of the ancestral hall.
The village chief didn't know the other people, but he could recognize Bi Ying at a glance.
"General Bi!" shouted the fellow village chief, "General Bi!"
Bi Ying looked at them, whispered a few words to the men behind him, and the men behind him took orders and came out of the ancestral hall.
"Commander," his subordinate said as he approached, "our general said that if you stay here any longer, you will use military law to drive them away."
"Why, why is this!" the fellow village head was angry, "This is the place where we pay homage to Luxiang!"
"This place is now an important military base. Our general only gives you time for a cup of tea. If you still don't leave, I have to ask you to leave."
The word "please" was specially emphasized by him.
The crowd was furious, and a group of men gathered around to demand explanations. The guards stopped them with their spears and were not allowed to come forward. Some people were too excited and suddenly attacked the guards, causing chaos on the scene.
Suddenly, someone among the men in Bailu Township shouted: "The soldiers are coming, the army is coming!"
Seeing a large group of soldiers really coming from a distance, the men from Bailu Township turned around and ran away.
In the panic, people were going to the southeast, northwest, and south.
A few who were running too slowly were caught by the on-site guards. The soldiers who had just arrived were not polite and chased after them to arrest them.
The mayor, an old man, was almost carried away by a group of villagers. The group of them ran far and wide, and after confirming that there were no pursuers behind them, they stopped to rest.
"Bah!" a man cursed, "You are acting wild like this on our territory!"
"That's right, isn't this our home?"
"They all look like characters, but actually they are nothing!"
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Everyone was cursing and cursing, and someone whispered: "Did you notice anything was wrong?"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you. A few people lowered their heads and looked at the ground.
A person suddenly lay down on the ground and pressed his ears tightly to the ground.
After listening for a while, his expression changed drastically: "Listen and see!"
Several people lay down.
However, the fellow village chief stood up tremblingly on crutches and looked into the distance without blinking.
"Everyone, get up," the village chief said solemnly, "Look."
The villagers got up from the ground and looked at the soldiers and horses running in the distance.
One person murmured: "It's the army again..."
"Shh!" someone shouted.
Those with sharp eyes quickly discovered that these were not Bi Jiajun's armors.
Bailu Township is located in the wilderness, at the junction of Hejing and Xizhou. There are often military movements here. They don't say they know all the armor-making arms of the nearby major provinces, but more than half of them are very familiar.
The head of the township said very quietly: "The person who came here is not good..."
When there were still a hundred steps left, the leading man slowed down his horse, and the horse that gradually stopped walked slowly towards them.
The mayor tightened his grip on his crutch and swallowed nervously.
At this time, the moonlight was half exposed again, the view between heaven and earth became better again, and the eyebrows of the leading man also became clearer.
Seeing his facial features, the mayor and others opened their eyes wide, and for a moment they couldn't tell whether it was an illusion or not.
The night was pale, the moon was faint, the wind was howling from all sides, and the mountains and clouds in the distant sky had become a curtain of night.
The man tied the rope and sat on the horse. His dark pool-like black jade eyes swept across the crowd and landed on the mayor.
His face is extremely cold, but also extremely handsome. He cuts the moon into his face, melts jade into bones, picks stars for his eyes, steals the whiteness from the snow, his satin-like ponytail is blown up by the wind, and the broken hair in front of his forehead is swept across his eyebrows, showing a cold and chilly look.
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A spear was slung across his straight back. The cold light on the spear was dazzling, adding to its coldness and murderous intent, like the Shura King of Hell rushing out of the underworld.
The fellow mayor forgot about being afraid for a moment and looked at him blankly.
Shen Lie opened his mouth and said, "Is this Bailu Township?"
The fellow village chief came to his senses: "Who...are you?"
Shen Lie continued to ask: "It's midnight, where are you guys planning to go?"
The old village head squeezed the crutch in his hand and looked at the villagers on both sides for help. One of them was the head of a nearby village.
Seeing his appearance, Shen Lie asked back to his previous question: "Is this Bailu Township?"
