Chapter 139 The city is full of white flags

Style: Historical Author: Great monk oWords: 3417Update Time: 24/01/11 11:44:27
On the ancient road outside Fufeng Pass.

More than 2,000 women, no older than forty years old, gathered together and it looked very shocking.

Compared to before, they no longer had the frustration they had when they were in Sin City, but only looked forward to the future.

Zhang Meng rode to the front of the team and asked, "Boss, where should we send them next?"

Li Dao replied, "Go to a place that can fully accept them."

Although Hong Ling and Lu Luo were all pitiful people, Li Dao understood human nature better.

Most people may sympathize with them, but if they truly know what they are going through, most people will sympathize with them but also look at them strangely.

Therefore, there is only one place suitable for them.

Li Dao looked back at the long team, and then ordered, "Let's go!"

...

Two days later.

Clouds rise outside the city.

Because they had many people with them, the original one-day journey took them two days.

At this time, Zhang Meng, who was walking behind Li Dao, suddenly pointed to the front and said, "Boss, look quickly."

Hearing this, Li Dao looked up and found many people standing outside Yunqi City in the distance.

"Go over and have a look."

As the team approached, Li Dao found that these people were all wearing Daqian-style official robes.

At this time, a middle-aged man with a fair complexion but dark eyes suddenly walked out of the crowd.

Facing Li Dao and others, the man tentatively raised his hand and asked, "Excuse me, are you the team of Deputy Commander Li of the New Town North Army?"

Li Dao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who are you?"

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and then he said, "Cui Hao, the Lord of Yunqi City, could you be Deputy Commander Li?"

"I am."

Li Dao just finished speaking.

The next second, there was a pop.

I saw the middle-aged man kneeling directly in front of Li Dao and leaning down.

Cui Hao's kneeling also caused many Yunqicheng officials behind him to kneel down.

Seeing this scene, Li Dao was stunned for a moment.

Then he immediately got off his horse and stepped forward to help him up, and asked, "City Lord Cui, why are you doing this?"

"Cui is thanking you on behalf of the people of Yunqicheng. Without you, Yunqicheng might no longer exist."

Hearing this, Li Dao was a little surprised, and at the same time, he was also inexplicably touched in his heart.

Then he said slowly, "There's no need for this. As a Yunzhou soldier, this is what I should do."

He raised his head and glanced at the group of people behind Cui Hao, and continued, "Okay, you guys should get up too."

The group of people did not speak, but looked at Cui Hao.

It wasn't until Cui Hao nodded that everyone slowly stood up.

At this time, Li Dao noticed Cui Hao's black eyes.

Then he looked at the other Yunqicheng officials behind him and found that the eyes of these officials were more or less black.

"City Lord Cui, what are you..."

As if he guessed what Li Dao was asking, Cui Hao touched his eye sockets and said with a wry smile, "Deputy Commander Li, you will know after entering the city."

Shortly after.

Under the leadership of Cui Hao and others, Li Dao led the team towards Yunqi City.

Just when he and his men were approaching the gate of Yunqi City, a sudden gust of wind blew out of the city.

The next moment, many white round pieces of paper were blown out by the wind and waves.

Li Dao subconsciously reached out and grabbed it, and found that these white pieces of paper were pieces of paper money.

To put it simply, it is the ancient underworld coin.

After this scene appeared in front of them, Cui Hao and other Yunqicheng officials' expressions remained as usual, without any ups and downs, and they seemed to have become accustomed to it.

For a moment, the surrounding atmosphere became inexplicably depressed.

Seeing this scene, Li Dao said nothing.

Zhang Meng and others who were following him seemed to have noticed something, and their expressions became complicated.

When the team passed through the entire city gate, the scene in front of them made everyone fall into silence.

The same goes for Li Dao. Although he had already prepared himself mentally, the scene he saw now still made him feel depressed.

At a glance, the long street is covered with white paper, and the houses on both sides are hung with white cloth.

The entire Yunqi City seemed to be dyed white at this moment.

The only color embellishment may be the braziers still burning outside some houses.

The once bustling Yunqi City has turned into this.

The whole long street was deserted. Occasionally, there were people dressed in white who walked by silently and hurriedly.

After a while, Cui Hao whispered from the side, "During the battle at Fufeng Pass, many people from Yunqi City were transferred away. After they died on the battlefield, Yunqi City became like this."

"How can we sleep in this situation?"

"They have been going door-to-door to comfort and appease the people day and night these days, that's why it's like this."

Li Dao nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

Cui Hao shook his head, "It's not us who are suffering, it's the people."

Having said this, he once again raised his hand to Li Daoyi, "Cui still needs to thank you, deputy commander, otherwise there will be no one to restrain the lonely souls in this city."

Li Dao did not answer, but took the lead and rode towards the city.

What they had seen before was only the scene near the city gate.

And when they stepped into the city, they saw the true appearance of Yunqi City.

Faintly, there was a constant stream of crying sounds.

There are endless braziers outside the door, and endless white flags hanging outside the windows.

From time to time on the long street, a man in plain clothes would walk around holding a spiritual tablet and crying.

Soon, the team, led by Cui Hao, arrived in front of the city lord's mansion.

Like other places in Yunqi City, the City Lord's Mansion also has a large number of white flags hanging on it.

Li Dao stopped his horse and said, "City Lord Cui, I wonder if you have a place to temporarily accommodate so many of us?"

Cui Hao handed over his hand, "Don't worry, Deputy Commander Li, Cui will definitely arrange your people."

Li Dao nodded, turned to Zhang Meng and others and said, "You can take them to rest here for the night. I have something to go out and will meet directly outside the city tomorrow."

"Yes, boss, feel free to go."

"Um."

Li Dao nodded, bowed his hands to Cui Hao and others, then turned and left.

...

Not long after, Li Dao's figure appeared outside an alley.

After he walked along the narrow alley, he soon saw an intersection in front of the alley.

Seeing the intersection, Li Dao couldn't help but recall the way he fled from here in "embarrassment".

Thinking of this, he slowly approached the intersection again.

When he came to the intersection, he looked around subconsciously.

Finally, my eyes fell on the place where several old ladies loved to stay.

It turned out that where there used to be four or five aunts every time I passed by, now there was only one solitary figure left.

He has gray hair, messy hair, and a stooped appearance.

His eyes were dull, he kept muttering something in his mouth, and he was still holding a piece of clothing in his hand, as if it belonged to an adult man.

Looking at that figure, some pictures flashed through Li Dao's mind and he recognized the other person.

It was an aunt he once knew.

He vaguely remembered that the aunt had introduced her son to him enthusiastically.

Although the aunt at that time was already in her fifties, she still had black hair and was full of energy. She would often scold other aunts for most of the day, and even one of them could take the lead in fights.

However, now it has become like this.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from the side.

"Boy, stop looking. There is no more excitement here."

Li Dao looked back and saw an old man with a white beard leaning against the door frame a few meters away, still holding a cigarette bag in his hand and smoking.

A puff of smoke was exhaled, making his face a little hazy.

But what attracted the most attention was the uncle’s solitary leg.

After noticing Li Dao's gaze, the uncle took a puff of cigarette, pointed at the aunt with his pipe, and said slowly, "This is the aunt of the Wang family. His son died in the battle. She couldn't bear the stimulation and got epilepsy."

"And this is pretty good. Among the ones you didn't see, some couldn't bear it and left, and there are still a few who are lingering at home. Whether they can survive this winter is also a question."

Hearing these words, Li Dao looked at the uncle up and down and asked, "What about you, uncle?"

"I?"

The uncle paused in his movements and said slowly, "They are all dead, what is there to see?"

Finally, the uncle waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go home quickly. It's such a cold weather, old man, I have to go back and rest."

After watching the uncle close the door, Li Dao glanced at the aunt again and slowly walked towards his home.

...

At this time, in the courtyard of a house.

A pretty girl sat on the stone platform, with two large figures on either side of her.

One is a snow-white wolf, and the other is a large eagle with white feathers and black feathers.

The girl leaned against the giant white wolf and held up a gray little guy in her hands.

"Yuanbao, tell me when will the young master come back."

"Zhizhi."

"What? You said the young master won't come back? I don't believe it."

The girl took Yuan Bao's hands in her hands and began to rub them in anger.

After a while, she picked up Yuanbao again and continued to ask, "Tell me again."

"Squeak!"

"What? How dare you say that!"

Ingots:? ? ?

What does it say?

Also, when will you humans be able to understand rats?

However, Jiu'er didn't care about that much, she hugged Yuan Bao and started to ravage him again.

Suddenly, Yuan Bao broke away and rushed out.

Jiuer was shocked when he saw this scene, thinking that he had gone too far and made Yuanbao angry.

So he quickly said, "Yuan Bao is sorry."

However, Yuanbao ignored Jiuer and quickly came to the door.

"Squeak!"

When Jiuer came over, he found Yuanbao standing up with his little paw pointing at the door.

Seeing this, Jiu'er shook his head and said, "Yuanbao, stop making trouble, it's not a good time to wander outside now."

"Squeak!"

Yuan Bao pointed to the door reluctantly.

Just when Jiu'er wanted to continue saying something, two figures suddenly appeared on both sides of her.

"Woo!"

"Chirp!"

Looking back, I saw Mo Qian and Xiao Bai shouting outside the house.

The next second, there was a knock on the door.

The voice that Jiuer had been waiting for for a long time sounded outside.

"Jiu'er, I'm back."