Everyone checked the back house and even the back garden of the Yamen. Although everything was dilapidated and messy, the wall of the back garden of the Yamen was still intact. The wall of the back garden was higher and seemed to be stronger than the wall of the front yard. It seemed that there was no
So easy to get in from the back garden.
Although this cannot be used as a guarantee of safety, at least there is a barrier, which will make you feel more at ease. When returning to the main hall, Li Hui asked Jiang Sheng and others to pull several ropes on the corridor and cut a bunch of thorns to block several corridors.
.Doing this may not have much effect, it just brings peace of mind.
After finishing all this, it was almost the third watch. Li Hui lay down in his clothes, feeling exhausted physically and mentally. He was obviously very tired physically, but his spirit was highly tense and he couldn't sleep. There were two voices in his head that kept fighting.
A voice angrily scolded him for being stupid. He could have chosen a safer path, but he had to come here just for this official position. Now he was finally in danger, and he didn't know what to do.
But another voice retorted: In order to control your own destiny, truly protect yourself and your family, and prevent your destiny from being influenced by others, you can only fight hard and seize the only opportunity.
Giving up the choice of taking up an official position this time means drifting with the crowd and losing the opportunity to control your destiny. This is probably the only chance. Besides, in this era, nowhere is safe. It is like being almost imprisoned in the water prison even in the Gu family.
It's like losing your life. What we need to do now is to analyze calmly and respond positively instead of feeling sorry for ourselves.
The cold wind was blowing outside, and the sound of howling ghosts and wolves came from the treetops outside. After the bonfire was extinguished in the middle of the night, it was extremely cold in the main hall.
This night, everyone lived in panic and cold, and some people had nightmares during their short sleep. However, the reality was the biggest nightmare they had ever experienced.
…
I spent the night in fear. Fortunately, the cold wind howled all night and everything was in danger, but nothing bad happened.
When the sky was dimming, everyone who was taking a nap in a daze heard the frightened shouts coming from outside: "It's not good, it's not good."
Everyone was already in an extremely sensitive and frightened state. Suddenly, when they heard the shouting, their scalps went numb. Everyone jumped up and looked at the door with pale faces.
Lu Zhan shouted loudly and asked: "What's wrong?"
A nurse rushed in with a chill in his body. I don't know whether it was cold or fear, but his voice was trembling.
"Oh no, there are many people coming to the square. It's amazing."
Li Hui had already stood up and shouted in a deep voice: "Why are you panicking? When did it happen?"
"No... I don't know. As soon as Lao Huang and I opened our eyes, we saw many people in the square." The nurse shouted.
"When you open your eyes? You two bitches are actually sleeping secretly, right? I told you to be on guard, but you are sleeping secretly?" Jiang Sheng cursed angrily.
The nurse realized that he had made a mistake and murmured: "It was too...too cold to stay on the wall. Lao Huang and I came down to take shelter from the wind under the wall. But who knew we fell asleep? We didn't mean to
When I woke up and looked on the wall, I saw many people."
Lu Zhan said angrily: "You bastard, I told you to be on guard, but you are lazy. Jiang Sheng, give me a hard beating."
When Jiang Sheng heard this, he went up to greet him with punches and kicks. The nurse held his head and let him be beaten and scolded, constantly begging for mercy.
Li Hui frowned and shouted: "Now is not the time to deal with these things. We have to go and see what the situation is outside."
Li Hui quickly went out and came to the courtyard gate wall, climbed up the sloping ladder made of long windows, and looked out.
In the winter morning, there is a layer of white mist all around. However, in this morning mist, a large group of dark figures stand there on the cross street square outside the Yamen compound. They seem to be a group of ghosts emerging from the ground.
generally.
They did not move, but stood less than fifty or sixty steps away from the Yamen, their figures shaking vaguely, giving people an extremely weird and terrifying feeling.
Li Hui was deep in thought when Lu Zhan's voice came from beside him: "Who are they? What are they doing? They are pretending to be gods."
Li Hui turned around and saw that Lu Zhan had also climbed up the wall at some point and was stretching his neck to look outside next to him.
Li Hui whispered: "I guess they are the refugees in the city. I don't know what they are going to do, but I'm afraid it's not a good thing. In such a cold weather, who would stand in the cold wind so early in the morning. I guess they must
It was the refugee commander in the city who forced them to come. Magistrate Lu, let's just wait patiently and see what they are going to do. I guess those people will show up today."
Lu Zhan frowned and nodded slightly. He rarely agreed with Li Hui's words.
The sun slowly rose. Under the sunshine, the fog quickly dissipated, and the scene outside became clearer. Those were indeed refugees. They stood in the square in ragged and thin clothes, supporting each other, and they were so cold.
The trembling and shaking bodies were actually stamping their feet and rubbing their hands to keep warm.
Li Hui was shocked when he saw the miserable appearance of these refugees. This is the pain caused to the people in this troubled world. In addition to those who were killed, the living people are also suffering.
These refugees in front of us are actually even more miserable. Because the reason why they have fallen to this point is precisely because they love the Jin Dynasty. Not long ago, during Huan Wen's Northern Expedition, when the army arrived at their hometown in the Central Plains, they greeted the king with a pot of jelly.
Master, he thought he could get rid of the rule of the Hu people and live a good life, and return to the embrace of the Jin Dynasty.
As a result, the Northern Expedition army was defeated. Huan Wen left them and led his army to retreat, and these people were liquidated by the Hu people because they had been enemies, so they had to flee south.
They finally managed to escape to Dajin alive along the way. They thought they would have a way of survival if they escaped to Dajin. They thought Dajin would not only accept them, resettle them, but also comfort them. But what awaited them was a cruel reality.
Not only did the Jin Dynasty not resettle them or provide them with relief, they even did not allow them to cross the river at all, leaving them stranded in Jiangbei counties like Juchao County, leaving them to fend for themselves.
The Jin Dynasty was inhumane and immoral. Even for the sake of stability in the south of the Yangtze River, it was necessary to find ways to resettle these refugees instead of roughly stopping them in the north of the Yangtze River, regardless of their life or death.
In fact, it is not only the refugees in Juchao County, but also the local people. Knowing that there are bandits entrenched in the territory, Liyang County has set up checkpoints on official roads everywhere to prevent the people from leaving. Because once they leave their homeland, they will become refugees.
It has become a factor of instability. They would rather let them die trapped here than give them a way to survive.
This is Da Jin, this is reality.
While Li Hui was thinking about this, the crowd in the square suddenly became commotion. Amid a burst of shouting and shouting, the refugees dispersed to both sides and opened a passage.
Then, a group of people appeared in the passage. They swaggered through the passage and headed straight for the entrance of the Yamen Courtyard.
The group held all kinds of weapons in their hands, including swords, guns, sticks, bows and arrows. The leader, Li Hui, recognized him at a glance as the man who stood on the tower and laughed yesterday. To be precise,
, because he recognized the armor on his body. Of all the people here, he was the only one wearing a suit of armor.
The group of people quickly approached the wall and the courtyard gate, and seemed to have no intention of stopping. All the guards looked at Lu Zhan and Li Hui nervously, wondering whether they should take action.
Li Hui whispered: "Don't act rashly for the time being. If they don't take action, we won't take action. We will act according to the opportunity."
Everyone held their weapons and stared at the group of people. The group of people walked thirty steps away from the courtyard gate and wall, but stopped. From this distance, both sides could actually see each other clearly.
Li Hui paid attention to the man in armor. He was tall and burly, with a dark complexion. His facial features were not ugly, but there was a sinister aura on his face. He gave people a very unsafe and threatening feeling. Li Hui
It is speculated that this person is the leader of this group of refugees, the commander in their mouth.
The refugee commander in armor stood there with his arms akimbo, looking up at the people leaning against the courtyard wall. As his eyes swept over, everyone felt a murderous aura. Several guards did not even have the courage to look at him.
He subconsciously lowered his head as he glanced across.
"Hahaha. Brothers, I heard that our Juchao County has a new county magistrate and county magistrate. They are in the county government office. I wanted to come to pay my respects, but I didn't see anyone, but I saw a few on the wall of the courtyard.
You bastard with his neck stretched out. Hahaha." The man laughed loudly.
"Hahahaha." Everyone standing next to him burst into laughter.
Lu Zhan shouted angrily: "You bastards, the magistrate of this county is here. Who are you? How dare you humiliate me like this?"
Everyone below laughed. One person laughed and said: "Commander, this guy is not happy anymore. He is showing off his official power."
Another person said: "I guess he doesn't want to be called a bastard. Then just call him Pig Head. Shouldn't we give him a pig head? Hahaha."
Everyone burst out laughing again.
Lu Zhan said loudly and angrily: "Presumptuous. Who are you? Are you local gangsters, or refugees from the north? If you are local gangsters, that's fine, but if you are refugees from the north, how can you be rude to this county? Gather here,