How can you escape when your neck is shackled and your hands and feet are shackled?
Besides, it's almost dark, and where can we escape to the barren mountains and ridges?
What should you do if you encounter an eye-catching white-fronted giant insect? You know, there were giant insects in the mountains in ancient times.
The most important thing is that it was pitch dark at night, and he was afraid of running away into the barren mountains alone...
According to the description on the character card, there may be some tricks in this world.
The long team of exiles walked for a few more miles and arrived at the foot of a mountain. At the foot of the mountain was a wooden pavilion with eight corners on the roof. Bai Yu estimated that it should be an octagonal pavilion.
The official ordered to stay the night here.
"I'm freezing."
"Light the fire quickly."......
The officers tied the horses to the pillars of the wooden pavilion, lit a fire in the pavilion, and set up a large pot and a small pot. Obviously, the big pot cooked food for the prisoners, and the small pot cooked food for themselves.
The prisoners fought for the hay on the roadside to make a nest so that they could sleep warmly at night.
Bai Yu finally reacted. With quick eyes and quick hands, he grabbed some hay from under the young man's hand. He had no choice but to do it. Others around him looked big and thick, but this young man was more "slender".
The young man gritted his teeth and said, "It's you again."
Bai Yu laughed dryly, "You are young and don't need so much grass, so give me some."
The young man snorted coldly, holding the hay and planning to stay away.
Bai Yu grabbed him and said, "Seeing as you are traveling alone, I am also alone. This place is still far away from Beihuang. We might as well get together and have someone to look after us on the way to avoid being bullied."
The young man hesitated for a moment, looked at Bai Yu's relatively strong "body", and put down the hay, "Okay, if someone bullies me, you have to help."
"No problem." Bai Yu spread the hay he grabbed next to him and asked seemingly casually, "What's your name and where are you from?"
"Lin Pingan, Qifeng County, Jingzhao Prefecture."
"What a coincidence, I am also from near Jingzhao Mansion, a fellow countryman."
"The exiled people were divided into twelve batches. Aren't these batches all from the vicinity of Jingzhao Mansion?"
"That's right, that's right...we are all fellow countrymen."...
Bai Yu chatted with the young man and tried to extract useful information.
The young government officer shouted, "Stay where you are and don't move around. Let's count the number of people."
Bai Yu's heart skipped a beat, and he was about to start counting people. He would decide whether he was a human or a ghost based on this tremor, but he could do nothing. He could only pray that the yamen officer was not good at math and would be one of the few.
The old yamen officer said to the young yamen officer, "I will start from the beginning, you will start from the end, and we will click to the middle, and the sum will be the total. It is faster this way."
The young yamen officer rubbed his cold hands and said, "Okay, hurry up and finish the counting, and let's go and warm ourselves by the fire. I suspect that the official is targeting the two of us and asking us to count our heads every day."
The two rode apart.
One starts from the end of the queue.
One nods from the head of the team.
Without taking a cup of tea, the two of them met and reached the middle of the line.
The young government officer asked, "I ordered one hundred and seven, how many did you order?"
The old government official said, "One hundred and thirteen."
The young yamen official calculated, "One hundred and seven plus one hundred and thirteen equals two hundred and twenty. The total should be two hundred and eighteen. How come there are two more?"
The old government officer was also confused, "Maybe I ordered it wrong."
The young government officer said impatiently, "It's very cold here. No matter what, we can just report according to the two hundred and eighteen. Anyway, there will be various accidents on the way to exile. It doesn't matter if there are more or less."
The old yamen officer frowned, "It's okay if a few are lost, but what's the deal with two more? What if someone sneaks in and encourages all the prisoners to escape together, we can't afford to suffer, so we should count it again.
Bar."
Two more?
Bai Yu was a little confused.
There should be one more, why are there two more?
Could it be that... besides him, there is another "fellow traveler" fishing in troubled waters?
The old and young government officials counted again.
As a result, the two of them were shocked.
Two hundred and twenty!
Still two more than the total!
If it is still possible to count wrongly the first time, it is less likely to be wrongly counted twice in a row. Moreover, the wrong number is still the same, and it cannot be such a coincidence!
Their expressions changed slightly, and they quickly reported their official duties.
"Two more?"
The officer expressed doubts, "You said there are two missing, and I still believe it. How is it possible that there are two more? Who would come to be an exiled prisoner?"
The other government officials snickered.
"You two, one is too old and his eyesight is dim, the other has a hairless mouth and is not able to do things well. It is normal to make mistakes in counting."
"In this barren mountain and ridge, there is not even a human figure. There are two more people. Could it be that one is a lonely soul and the other is a fox? Hehe!"...
The old government officer smiled bitterly, "We counted it twice, but there are still two more."
"I still don't believe this evil!"
The officer didn't believe it and said, "I'll count it myself!"
He rode the horse and counted from the head of the team to the end of the team.
As a result, he was also shocked.
There are really two more!
This made him very angry and shouted loudly, "Which two are the ones who sneaked in? Stand up!"
The prisoners are puzzled. Someone sneaks in as an exiled prisoner? Is there a brain disease?
Seeing that no one stood up, the officer's face darkened, "I will count to five and stand up immediately. I will go back and forth from where I came. I will pretend that nothing happened! If I find you out, you will look good on me!"
Bai Yu watched the changes quietly, and of course he would not stand up foolishly. He suddenly felt less worried, because he was not the only one sneaking in, and even if he was discovered, there would be someone behind him...
"one!"
"two!"
"three!"
"Four!"
"five!"
The five numbers were quickly counted and no one stepped forward.
Guan Cha laughed angrily and took out a booklet from his arms.
"The names and household registration information of the prisoners are all in this book. I will call them one by one. I want to see how long the two people who sneaked in can hide. I will give you a chance. If you don't want to come out, it's too late to leave now.
Got it!"
"Those whose names are called should walk in front of me and stand on the other side."
His voice was cold and serious.
The government officials mounted horses and patrolled back and forth to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos and escaping.
Bai Yu felt bad. Calling names one by one like this would definitely expose them and make them unable to hide.
The official opened the first page of the book and read, "Yang Kaihe, Yang Chengzhi, Yang Yongshui, Yang Yongjin."
The four people stood up together and passed in front of the official. There was a slight similarity between their eyebrows, and they were obviously members of the same family.
"Wang Zhong, Wang Xiaoying."
"Cheng Dafu, Cheng Menqing, Cheng Erliang."......
As the official called the roll call, one household passed in front of him and stood on the other side.
Bai Yu saw that there were fewer and fewer people here, and he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. This could not go on like this.