"The people of Canaan City can not only threaten the army outside the court, but if the prefect is a person who loves the people like his own son, he can also threaten the prefect.
Something happened in Canaan City, but there is no news in our Peifeng County. Canaan City belongs to Yingzhou. Although one of them is an official and the other is a general, it seems that they are all people who obey the orders of King Xuan.
Why did General Liu suddenly surround Canaan City and suddenly attack the people of Canaan City?"
If Yingzhou is compared to a country, Acropolis is the capital, and Tongcheng and Canaan City are the first and second-tier main cities.
How could Canaan City, one of the main cities, not know that King Xuan and the imperial court were at war? Instead, King Xuan's soldiers sealed the city and massacred the people?
Is it the prefect of Canaan City who doesn’t care about the lives of the people under his rule?
It's possible.
But Qi Baoer was more inclined to believe that the magistrate of Canaan City was not someone whom King Xuan could trust, and it was even possible that King Xuan had confirmed that he was not one of his own.
That makes sense why General Liu slaughtered the people in Canaan City, but his soldiers did not attack the people outside Hefeng Town.
Qi Baoer thought of this after seeing so many refugees still safe outside Hefeng Town.
It's just that she's too lazy to care. She's just an ordinary peasant girl. What does this have to do with her?
But these three people didn't leave even after their injuries were healed. They even got close to people from Lao Qi's family. Even her father felt as if he had been drugged, so she couldn't ignore them.
"You are driving us away." Jun Chenyuan used an affirmative sentence with a hint of threat in his words, as if he was reminding Qi Bao'er to think carefully when answering.
But Qi Bao'er is a soft-spoken person, but the more threats she hears, the stronger her bones become.
"Yes. The injuries you suffered at that time were all caused by sharp claws. I guess no one in this world can cure the poison you received. What you are hiding from is something that even you can't deal with."
For example, the controller of the medicine man.
She couldn't defeat any of these three people. If her father and ordinary people met him, wouldn't he just send them over and make them into hand-pulled dried tofu?
"So that's what you're worried about."
Wu Haoyuan patted his chest and promised, "We bombed that place and left nothing behind. We will definitely not cause you any trouble.
But if something happens there, someone will guess who came to Yingzhou, and they will definitely try their best to stop and investigate carefully at every checkpoint."
That's why they thought of following these refugees and blending in among the refugees to get out of Yingzhou.
It's because Yingzhou is too special and too dangerous in the mountains, otherwise they wouldn't have to use this trick.
It's not necessary, but just in case.
Qi Baoer knew this from the occasional chat between Wu Haoyuan and Chen Yi, otherwise she would not have tolerated these people following them for so long.
But again, she is a person who is afraid of trouble, especially the more she listens to their occasional chats, the more she discovers that each of their identities are...
The most important thing is that Qi Bao'er trusted her own intuition, and none of these three people gave her any feeling of threat. Maybe it was because of that, the more you indulge others, the more unbridled you are, so you dared to come quietly to drive them away.
"Bao, Bao?" Qi Kang'an shook his daughter, what was she thinking, but she didn't respond for a long time.
Qi Baoer came back to his senses and shook his head, "No, I didn't think about anything."
It's just that the tone is a little bit cover-up.
Qi Kang'an lowered his head and looked at her suspiciously. How could he smell a hint of guilty conscience from his daughter's baby-fat little face?
At this time, Mrs. Tian called him: "Anzi, come back and have something to eat first."
"Hey, just come."
Qi Bao'er breathed out softly, and suddenly felt sick again. Didn't she chase them away later? She had something to do and left. What was she feeling guilty about?
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That afternoon, they came to a town whose name they didn't know. There was a place to hang a plaque outside the town, but it was empty. There were many marks scratched by sharp objects on the wooden piles below.
"Everyone, be careful." Qi Kang'an pulled out a flat-headed knife.
The men who had knives all immediately took out their knives, and they all also got their hands on kitchen knives, hammers, and machetes. Many long and short sticks were made from the straight branches seen on the road. Even women and children now all have a stick in their hands.
This team, let alone their true combat effectiveness, looks like they are not easy to offend.
There was still a formation of men in the front, left and right, and behind. Everyone was cautious and walked slowly into the town.
After passing this town, there was a large plain. This town was stuck at the entrance. When they noticed something was wrong, they couldn't even turn around and had no choice but to rush in.
The town was quite big, not even smaller than the Hefeng Town they passed by, but it was eerily quiet. They could clearly hear noises coming from the houses around them as they walked by, but no one came out to take a look.
Old man Qi muttered: "It's strange, there is obviously someone there, but no one is guarding the gate of the town and they are hiding."
Qi Baoer's bright big eyes flickered, "Sir, it's normal. They are afraid that refugees will rob them."
It is said that a refugee once passed through this place, and he was so hungry that he could do anything.
Old man Qi felt that this was the only possibility, otherwise it wouldn't be this reaction.
Looking down at his granddaughter, he couldn't help but grin with joy when he saw Guaiguai's eyes regained their dexterity.
It's a good idea for those three to leave. Once they leave, their eyes will be fine.
I don’t know how the three people who have left know what Old Qi is thinking now, how they feel in their hearts.
It was also a coincidence that the next morning after the three people left, Qi Baoer discovered that he could see with his eyes as soon as he woke up.
After leaving the town and passing through an official road less than a hundred meters long, in front of us was the great plain whose edge seemed to be the horizon.
Here, they could finally feel what the rumors said - the city was open to drought.
Corn was originally planted on both sides of the road, and from the dry land they could occasionally see a few corn plants with their branches cut off and their forks hanging withered.
A man was running in the field trying to pull up a tree, but he pulled hard and knocked it all over. After a closer look, he saw that even the roots were dry.
Looking back again, the mountains are green.
"How can the world be different if you just take a few steps?"
A woman wiped the sweat from her face and said, "No wonder the people in the town ahead didn't run away. If we hadn't walked all the way, I wouldn't have dared to leave the town in this situation."
It gives the impression that there is no way to survive at all.
Qi Kang'an asked everyone to rest first, and he took everyone one by one to check how much water was left.
"The designated cans are all empty, and you have to count how many are empty. We are still on the side of the mountain. Let's rest here first. We happened to be looking for water near the foot of the mountain. We will fill them up before we go. We will watch the situation from the front.
Everyone is watching, and you have to save water."
Yiwazi raised his hands and shouted: "I know Mr. An."
Qi Kang'an nodded happily. He thought for everyone, it would be best if everyone could cooperate.
The women and children were left guarding the car while the men all went to the foot of the mountain to look for water. They brought their hammers and dug in the wet areas.
Old man Qi and Qi Kang'an and his son took Qi Bao'er to avoid the crowd and found a big tree. Just in case, they dug on the back of the tree.
The three grandfathers and grandsons have been cooperating in a tacit understanding along the way. They prayed for the old man to stand by the tree and look out for the wind, prayed for safety and dug a hole, and prayed for Bao'er to release water after the hole was dug.