Du Mazi and the others nervously clenched the hilts of their knives as they heard the footsteps running behind them.
Zhou Yunshu turned to look at the man who was running towards me, and spoke with a hint of impatience in her tone, "What? Can you afford to delay my lord!"
The man immediately smiled and said, "I'm sorry, sir, I'm sorry."
As he spoke, he respectfully handed a wooden box to Zhou Yunshu and said, "Sir, I hope you can put in a kind word for me with the county magistrate."
"Good words?"
"It's the government servant's business." As he spoke, he raised the box in his hand and said with a flattering smile, "It's just a small thing, not respectful."
Zhou Yunshu watched the man open the wooden box casually, raised his eyebrows in surprise as he looked at the contents in the box, then closed the box and held it in his arms.
"Okay, I'll note it down, wait for my news."
When the man grinned and nodded, Zhou Yunshu poked Wei Zhong beside him, and Wei Zhong immediately raised his riding whip and set off, leaving only the man behind him with a silly smile on his face.
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Zhou Yunshu and his group left very quickly, even Huzi and the other three people pushing the cart behind them were not slow.
Originally, Huzi and the other three were filled with joy that they were finally going to show their faces in front of the county magistrate, but the further they walked, the more they felt something was wrong.
First, two mule carts surrounded them from the front and back, and then they discovered that the route they were taking to transport food was not to the county government office. Coupled with the screams not far away and the firelight everywhere, their legs almost went weak.
There was an ominous feeling, and a feeling of being on a pirate ship, and this feeling was verified when they saw the dilapidated city gate and the corpses on the ground.
The two people behind Huzi stopped in fear. The county seat had been breached! ?
The man on the mule cart behind him pointed the tip of a knife at his back and threatened: "Get up and hurry up!"
After all, Huzi and the other two are gangsters who have been around for so many years. No matter how stupid they are, they can still realize that Anshan County has been invaded, so the people who came to carry food today are probably not from the Yamen.
However, after living for so many years, they are still very aware of current affairs. If they want to survive now, they can only follow this group of people who don't know their origins and leave the city.
Zhou Yunshu and his party moved very quickly. The refugees at the city gate had disappeared, and there were only the bodies of officers, soldiers and refugees on the ground.
Zhou Yunshu and others did not stop, and drove the carriage all the way to the direction of the large team.
Occasionally encountered scattered refugees on the road, but when they saw Wei Zhong and others with long knives and fierce faces and the empty city gate, they gave up Zhou Yunshu and his party and rushed to Anshan County without hesitation.
Zhou Yunshu was eager to return home, and now she just wanted to return to her daughter, mother and others as soon as possible.
However, when they rushed all the way to the location where Du Laozhuang and others were supposed to stay, Zhou Yunshu did not see their large army except for Du Lao'er and others who arrived earlier than them.
"Where are the people!?" Du Mazi exclaimed.
As soon as Zhou Yunshu got off the car, Du Laoer and shopkeeper Liang came over. In addition, there was Wang Liyong who should be with the large army.
Zhou Yunshu felt slightly relieved when she saw that Du Laoer's face was not anxious, and that Wang Liyong didn't look like he had just experienced something.
Before Zhou Yunshu could ask questions, Du Laoer had already explained to Zhou Yunshu: "Only Wang Liyong was here when we came."
Wang Liyong now looked like a serious refugee, with no baggage on him, and no one would care even if he died on the roadside, so he waited peacefully on the road until he met Zhou Yunshu and his party.
Wang Liyong has a very good impression of Zhou Yunshu. If it weren't for her, their family would not be able to survive long ago.
So after seeing Zhou Yunshu, Wang Liyong said immediately after Du Laoer finished speaking: "Mr. Zhou, after the city gate was captured, everyone was afraid of being affected, so they retreated three miles to the outside. I stayed here to wait for you. of."
Zhou Yunshu finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the entire army was fine, "Then continue on our way."
It was not that Du Laoer and his party didn't notice the three strangers sandwiched between Du Mazi and Wei Zhong, but they didn't think much about it seeing their honest appearance.
It was only after Huzi discovered that there was no sign of the Red Lotus Envoy among this group of people that he was really sure that they had been deceived.
Oh my God! How could they be so stupid!
Huzi and the other three roared to the sky in their hearts, but on the surface they still had to follow Zhou Yunshu with their tails between their legs.
Zhou Yunshu and the others were the main force that caught up after an hour.
Before they could get closer, the patrolmen discovered their presence.
The people in the large team thought that their death was coming, because they had no water, not much food, and Zhou Yunshu had not brought anyone back yet.
When Anshan County was invaded by refugees, except for those who were determined to break away from the team to rob the county government, the rest also secretly regretted why they did not go.
But when they saw Zhou Yunshu rushing back, they regretted disappearing without a trace.
When Zhou Yunshu came back, she first handed over the water and food she bought to the excited Du Laozhuang, and then took Dr. Xue, master and apprentice, to her car.
When Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen saw Old Doctor Xue, they were surprised at first, and then their eyes turned red.
"Mr. Xue, you... how come Yun Shu met you!"
Old Doctor Xue looked around but didn't see Ji Mingzhu and the others. He sighed and said, "It's a long story. It's a long story... where is the old lady?"
Li Jialan's eyes turned red again. She didn't know whether her mother-in-law was alive or dead, and her second wife's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were also missing.
As the world becomes more and more chaotic and refugees become more and more ferocious, Li Jialan becomes more and more panicked.
Zhou Yunshu looked at Li Jialan who was sobbing softly and said to Dr. Xue: "We will talk in detail in the evening. It is better to continue on our way now!"
The two mule carts belonging to Dr. Xue arrived near the Zhou family's mule cart, but the other carts carrying water and grain did not move.
Everyone kept walking south. I don't know if all the refugees rushed to Anshan County. They didn't encounter any other refugees along the way.
After having food and water, the team felt confident and full of strength, especially since Zhou Yunshu informed them that each person would have three sips of water to drink at night, so the team moved faster.
Just for these three sips of water, everyone walked into the night in one breath.
The team occupied a large open space and began to rest. When they were almost done, Wei Zhong asked the patrol to notify everyone in the team to hold a meeting.
The person in the meeting was Zhou Yunshu. Zhou Yunshu wanted Du Laozhuang to say a few words first. After all, he was the legitimate steward of the team.
But Du Laozhuang waved his hand and asked Zhou Yunshu to speak.
Du Laozhuang's original intention was that he would go on stage to speak after the two pushed and pulled him a few times, in order to show his status in the team.
But who knew that he just politely waved his hand to let Zhou Yunshu speak first, and Zhou Yunshu actually stood on the cart ready to speak, which made Du Laozhuang choke.
