Both Song Shuming and Qi Yue were in very bad condition. Song Shuming was stabbed in the back. Although it was not deep, they must have been traveling day and night without much treatment. The wound was inflamed and infected, and the person had a fever.
It's all blurry.
Qi Yue was also so thin that he was as thin as a handful of bones. His once bright eyes now looked more desolate with no hope.
"Sister-in-law."
The whole person was in a state of trance. No matter how much her daughter-in-law tried to persuade her, she ignored her. When she saw Mrs. Tian rushing towards her with a distressed look on her face, she collapsed.
"Sister-in-law, my eldest brother is gone, and the second son was also taken away. The eldest grandson wanted to collect his body but was beaten to death by those people, and the grandson's wife was... was..."
"No more, no more." Tian Sanglan hugged her tightly and cried with her.
Why is it happening like that?
Why?
Qiyue's second daughter-in-law, Wenxiu, was also sitting by the bed and crying. Her condition was also not good. She was so thin that her collarbones on her cheeks were obviously protruding, and her eye sockets were sunken, as if they were about to pop out of the frame. It was quite strange.
The film is the sense of sight.
Song Shuming obviously opened a large grocery store in Canaan City. The Song family was considered a squire in Canaan City and had considerable assets.
Song Shuming often led a team to go out to sell goods [selling goods from the south to the north, goods from the north to the south, and earning the price difference in between]. He was smooth and easy to work with, and he would often help people carry things and deliver them. He was quite comfortable in Canaan City.
It was precisely because he was able to eat well and made many friends that he had the opportunity to escape from the city of Canaan.
"Auntie, it was so sudden. We didn't even have time to react. We didn't know until we were already approaching the city that we couldn't escape from the city. All the city gates were sealed.
All men from fifteen to forty years old in the city were to go up to the city wall to fight, and those who disobeyed were killed on the spot.
When my uncle was taken away, my mother hid Xiaofeng Xiaoyu and me in the cellar. My father happened to take my husband to Qi Yuan that day, and his wife's family was not in the house. My nephew accompanied his niece-in-law back to her parents' house and she hasn't come back yet."
But it was clearly stated that it was a conscription, but who knew that a general named Liu who came to Canaan City at some time actually wanted to use the lives of those people to force the Imperial Army Group 0 outside the city to retreat.
Boss Song and many other people in Canaan City were forcibly pushed off the city wall.
The son of Mr. Song was impulsive. After learning that his father had been tortured in this way, he desperately fought with others. As a result, he was killed without even getting close to the city gate.
His wife, like many young women and girls in the city, was captured in General Liu's temporary army camp. There is no need to think about what her final fate will be.
Song Laoer, who accompanied his father to Qi Yuan's maternal home, did not escape the fate of being arrested.
Qi Yuanwai got the news faster than Song Shuming. After learning that General Liu's men were arresting people in the city, he hid all the men of the right age in the Qi family and Song Lao Er to avoid the first so-called conscription.
Before he could catch his breath, a few days later, the Qi family was reported for their extraordinary wealth. General Liu personally led a team to surround the Qi family. Song Lao Er did not escape this time and was really forcibly conquered.
I don’t know if Bing is still alive today.
"Except all the members, isn't it..." Tian Sanglan pointed to the next door.
There were two strangers coming with them, an old man and a little boy of six or seven years old.
At this moment, Tian Sanglan thought her grandfather and grandson were next door, but in fact they were already at Old Man Qi's house.
"The old son-in-law works in the government office..."
Qi Hongtao, who was covered in dirt and his original skin color could no longer be seen, spoke slowly and numbly with a calm face, but his arms around his little grandson, who was sleeping soundly in his arms, could not be tighter, as if he was afraid that something might happen.
The pine grandson will be gone.
This is his only living relative.
The son-in-law Mr. Zhou whom Qi Yuanwai mentioned was actually no longer a relative of his family. His daughter died of dystocia the year after she got married, leaving one dead and two dead, leaving nothing behind.
Master Zhou got the news too late. It should be said that the entire Canaan City officials only found out that King Xuan had gone to war with the imperial court after General Liu led his troops into the city.
The government office was controlled by General Liu's people, and he couldn't even get out, let alone send messages.
General Liu finally released them, but when he sent people to notify the Qi Mansion, the Qi Mansion was already in trouble. Qi's grandson and Song Mingshu's family were hiding around the city.
He searched for several days before he found someone. After telling Qi Hongtao what he knew in a vague way, he quietly opened the city gate in the middle of the night and let Qi Hongtao and others out of the city.
At that time, the city gate facing the imperial court was in charge of General Liu's people, and the city gate facing the fiefdom was still in charge of the Canaan City government officials. There was only so much he could help.
"That General Liu is the uncle of King Xuan and the biological brother of the current imperial concubine. I heard that the imperial concubine is already in the acropolis where King Xuan is."
Mr. Qi asked with a stern face: "Why do you want to flee? Even if King Xuan rebels and the court sends troops to suppress it, I don't think the court will kill all its own people."
The Qilin Kingdom has a history of more than 2,000 years. It has been strong and has not experienced internal and external troubles, but the imperial court has never treated its people as human beings.
Qi Hongtao still looked numb, he just raised his eyes to glance at him and then stared at the ground again.
"The imperial army doesn't know how to do it, but General Liu does. General Liu takes one step back and slaughters one step at a time. Why do you think the imperial army has reached the outside of Canaan City, but we people in the city still don't know anything?"
Without anyone answering, and not caring about the ugly faces of the people around him, Qi Hongtao continued: "When General Liu arrives at a place, he will first seal off the city and the town, and the surrounding villages will first be robbed and killed. If he cannot hold on, he will retreat."
, we should massacre the city first and then leave."
The Qilin Kingdom is very large, and Yingzhou is just a small corner in the territory of the Qilin Kingdom. However, Yingzhou also has three cities, thirty-six counties, ninety-three towns, and a total of one hundred and seventy villages.
Canaan City is adjacent to Yue City, which Yinzhou belongs to, but there are still several towns separated between Canaan City and Yue City. Either General Liu went directly to Canaan City, or he never visited the first few towns.
Keep.
But no matter which one, why is there never any news?
unless……
Mr. Qi and Mr. Qi looked at each other, and they both said in unison: "The entire Yingzhou has been sealed off."
Only for this reason was there no news from the imperial court.
It’s not that there isn’t one, it’s that one can’t get in.
Thinking of the miserable state of Song Shuming and his wife, and then looking at the despair and desolation of the former richest man in Canaan City before them, Old Man Qi and Old Mrs. Qi were more inclined to believe them.
Besides, whether it was Qi Yuanwai or Song Shuming, there was no need for them to go to such great lengths to make themselves look miserable just to deceive them.
What's more, this kind of joke is not made casually. If it is false, it will be a serious crime of slandering the prince and the important officials of the court.
Old man Qi stood up suddenly. His eyes were black when he stood up too fast, and he almost fell. However, old man Qi reacted quickly and gave him a hand.
"Old man, be careful."
Old Man Qi grabbed Old Man Qi's arm tightly, his eyes were red and he shouted self-righteously, but he was so mute that he could only breathe out, "Quickly, inform the whole village and run away."