Yu Qin didn't sleep well tonight, and woke up for no reason near dawn.
She looked at the moonlight outside the window. The moonlight was hazy and she was already a little intoxicated. There seemed to be a touch of red on the horizon, and the morning glow was about to burst out.
The first thing that came to her mind was that Xu Huaigu was leaving today, and she couldn't help but feel a little sad.
She walked out of the house, and the refreshing mountain breeze in the morning brushed her cheeks. It was particularly refreshing in the past, but today it seemed a bit annoying.
She seemed a little dazed, so she was about to go to the river to wash her face, but her steps unconsciously walked higher and reached the door of Xu Huaigu's house.
As if possessed by a demon, she stretched out her hand to knock on the door, but stopped mid-air.
I wonder if he will wake up now. If he doesn't, wouldn't he wake up by knocking on the door?
She hesitated for a while, and then thought a little encouragingly: I woke up if I woke up, what's the big deal, he was going to leave anyway, why should I care about him so much.
So she raised an eyebrow slightly, stretched out her bare hand and started knocking on the door, even harder.
However, after knocking on the door for a long time, there was still no movement in the room, and Yu Qin began to feel a little panicked. She sped up her movements, and the knocking sound became more and more urgent and loud, but it seemed very pale and weak.
For a long time, there was still no movement inside. She vaguely guessed that Xu Huaigu had left, and she was suddenly drained of strength. She leaned in front of the door in despair, not even having the courage to open the door.
Just when she was helpless, the sound of rapid footsteps sounded in her ears. The sound of footsteps hitting the rocks by the river, mixed with the crisp sound of splashing water, was very familiar.
She immediately recognized that these were not the straw sandals of the people in the village, but the sound of boots tapping.
She quickly stood up and looked in the direction of the footsteps, only to see a figure running up eagerly from the river.
Yu Qin watched the figure hurriedly approaching, which seemed to be unreal.
Xu Huaigu also looked up and saw a slim figure standing on the rock. He was stunned for a moment, then quickly shouted: "Yu Qin, tell Yu An quickly, someone from the government is coming to arrest you, go away!"
Yu Qin was still looking at Xu Huaigu blankly, not knowing why Xu Huaigu appeared. These misty words made her hesitant even more serious. For a moment, she just looked at Xu Huaigu in confusion, not knowing what to do.
Xu Huaigu saw Yu Qin stunned, and knew that she must have been confused by these words, but time was really tight, and Xu Huaigu did not have time to explain clearly to Yu Qin.
He rushed forward, grabbed Yu Qin's hand, and tried to pull her away. Yu An, who was in the next room and was not asleep, heard the noise outside and ran out in a hurry.
Xu Huaigu said to him anxiously: "Go quickly, someone is coming to arrest you!"
Yu An glanced at the anxious look on Xu Huaigu's face. It didn't look like he was faking it. He was not an indecisive person either. He immediately stopped hesitating and said to Xu Huaigu: "You take Qin'er and leave first. I'll be here right away!"
After saying that, he quickly rushed back to the house.
Xu Huaigu watched him go back in confusion, wondering what else he couldn't give up at this critical moment, but seeing that Yu An insisted on doing so, he had no choice but to pull the somewhat confused Yu Qin and run towards the river.
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On the top of the cliff, the governor Qi Wen looked at the sky getting brighter and then issued an order in a deep voice, saying: "Send troops!"
The general Guan Xu took out a long black arrow from his back and drew it with a brown-red long bow hanging on his horse. The arrow flew rapidly into the sky, making a sharp scream that cut through the air.
Using this kind of arbitrary bow and arrow to give orders can be heard by people hundreds of feet away. This is the most convenient way to convey orders in the army.
Xu Huaigu also heard the wail of bows and arrows down in the river valley, and he became wary. Sure enough, less than a moment after the sound of the bow and arrow, there was a sound of squeaking, and then a fire dragon appeared in the mountains, illuminating the entire valley!
Xu Huaigu concentrated his mind and looked in the direction of the fire dragon, only to realize that the fire dragon turned out to be a grand event where the light from the torches in the hands of a long team of people converged.
Looking at the size of the fire dragon, there are at least two hundred people!
The group of people moved extremely quickly. When they arrived at the village, they gathered into a circle and prepared to surround the village. But because Xu Huaigu discovered it in advance, he had already fled to the river with Yu Qin and hid in the river, so he was not surrounded by the group of officers and soldiers. But Yu An, who had gone into the house to look for the hosta, was only slightly slower than him, and now he escaped and escaped into the river.
Yu An, Xu Huaigu and the others met together and took a look at the village behind them where they had lived for more than ten years. At this time, they were surrounded by two hundred people. He couldn't help but cursed angrily: "Damn it, why are there so many people here!"
Yu Qin was also shocked and overwhelmed at this time, looking desperately in the direction of the village with miserable eyes.
The officers and soldiers were well-trained. As soon as the village was surrounded, a group of people began to disperse and kick open the doors from house to house. At this point in time, almost everyone in the village was sleeping. They were suddenly surrounded and captured with almost no room for resistance.
There were also some people who acted quickly and escaped before the officers and soldiers entered their homes. But once they saw the dense crowd of hundreds of people with torches outside, they no longer had the intention to escape. They could only sit on the ground with a pale face and wait. The officers and soldiers took them away.
Suddenly, in this inconspicuous valley, the beatings and scoldings of men, the sharp screams of women and the crying of children filled the entire valley.
Seeing the people she usually spent time with being caught one by one, Yu Qin's eyes were blank, and then she began to sob in a low voice. Yu An, who was usually calm and calm, also lost his calmness as a hunter. He just looked at the village anxiously but was helpless.
Xu Huaigu watched the two people lose their minds in the face of the sudden disaster, and was very anxious. He reminded: "What are you still doing in a daze? Others have been arrested, and we have to quickly find a way to escape from here!"
Yu An finally came back to his senses, thought for a moment and said, "Let's go downstream along the river. They can't search for anyone coming from the river!"
Xu Huaigu shook his head helplessly and said, "I just came back from the lower reaches. They have deployed troops downstream. We can't get through."
Yu An was also panicked now. You must know that they were in the valley between the two cliffs. The rock walls on both sides were steep and it was impossible to climb up. And the waterways upstream and downstream are blocked, where else can we go?
Is it possible that I am really going to be trapped and die in this river?
