There was chaos in the city right now. If something went wrong with Miss Liu, even if he died, it would not be enough to apologize.
Immediately, Wu Yong quickly jumped towards the foot of the mountain, holding the horse tied to the foot of the mountain, and chased towards the city without stopping.
It was getting too early at this time, and Qingyuan City was not peaceful these days, so I didn’t see any extra figures along the way. I still ran all the way to the crossing seven or eight miles away, and then I saw a mule cart approaching. Moving forward slowly in the fog.
Wu Yong let out a sigh, slowed down, glanced at the mule cart, and saw two baskets on top, filled with two full baskets of fruits and vegetables. He immediately withdrew his gaze and was about to Continued to run away, but the next moment he remembered something, and suddenly reined in the horse's rope and turned around. Only then did he see a bamboo hat left on the other side of the basket, and he immediately pulled out his sword with a cold expression on his face. He put his hand on the neck of the old man driving the cart and asked sternly: "Where are the people?"
The old man was so frightened that he looked back and saw a white figure slowly walking out from behind the village stone. It was Liu Yingying who had come down from the mountain before dawn.
When Wu Yong saw this, he immediately got off his horse and walked towards Liu Yingying. However, before Wu Yong could speak, Liu Yingying took the lead and looked at him calmly and said: "Don't persuade me, I have to go today. Even if you don’t want to go, you have to go.”
Her voice was calm, without any ups and downs, but the determination in her voice did not diminish at all.
Wu Yong's eyes immediately jumped and he said, "But if you go, it won't help at all."
Liu Yingying pursed her lips and said, "I know, but I still have to go."
As he said that, he slowly raised his eyes to look at Wu Yongdao and said, "I have to identify it with my own eyes -" As she said that, Liu Yingying gently touched her lower abdomen.
Then he pondered for a long time, and then said softly: "Don't worry, I know the appropriateness and the importance. I am not from the Shen family. No one in Qingyuan knows me. I only glanced at it from a distance outside the city gate. If They... are fine, I will definitely come back and wait with peace of mind, but if he... I will go up to the mountain tomorrow to save their souls and mourn for them. I just want to take a look."
Speaking of this, Yingying suddenly smiled helplessly, looked into Wu Yong's eyes and said: "Besides, you also heard what I said that day. Your young master always does what he says, so I I have to do what he says, otherwise, he won't let me go..."
Liu Yingying murmured, and then smiled lightly.
When she said this, although her eyes were fixed on Wu Yong, there was no focus in her eyes.
Her voice was very soft, as if she was talking to him or to herself.
The sound was so light that it seemed to disperse when the wind blew.
Upon hearing this, Wu Yong clenched his fists tightly for a long time, then suddenly turned around, pulled the horse over, and said to Liu Yingying: "Please get on the horse."
After a pause, he added: "My subordinate will escort you personally."
Seeing this, Liu Yingying finally squeezed out a faint smile again on her pale face, then bowed to Wu Yong, and then got on her horse.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves approaching quickly from a distance.
Liu Yingying paused her hands, turned her head and looked at Wu Yong. The next moment, she saw Wu Yong immediately drew out his sword, until a carriage slowly appeared in front of him in the mist, and a coachman also wearing a bamboo hat. Looking at them with a vigilant expression, he saw that the coachman's face was covered with horrific stab wounds, with five or six cuts on his face. Looking from a distance, he looked like a ghost crawling out of hell.
In this tense and tense moment, the next moment——
"Team Wu!"
The fierce ghost looked stunned and immediately stopped the carriage. Surprisingly, it was the driver who had escorted Liu Yingying and the others out of the city last time, fighting one against eight.
Seeing Wu Yong and Liu Yingying, the coachman immediately jumped out of the carriage and asked them. At the same time, the curtain of the carriage was quickly opened from the inside, revealing two familiar faces.
"mother--"
"Yao Yao——"
After seeing those two pictures, Liu Yingying was startled. The next moment, the horse rope in her hand dropped with a bang, then she pulled up her legs and rushed over. Unexpectedly, the people in the carriage were actually Wu and Yaoyao Er. people.
Liu Yingying thought that Wu and Yaoyao would be killed that day, but she didn't expect that they were still alive. However, Wu and Liu Yaoyao narrowly escaped death. This time they could see Liu Yingying, who was also crying and shouting. , mother and daughter hugged each other and burst into tears.
"I thought I would never see my son again. I thought I would never see my Ying'er again."
"Big sister, wuwuwu, wuwuwu——"
Liu Yingying's hands holding the two of them were trembling. She hugged Wu and Yaoyao with all her strength, fearing that if her hands were loosened, it would be like a scene that had appeared countless times in her dreams. , everything turned into air in the blink of an eye.
The warmth in my arms and the cries in my ears came clearly one after another, and finally I realized that this time it was true.
"You... how did you escape that day?"
"What's the current situation in the city?"
"Where have you been hiding these days?"
"Also, mother, why are you two alone? Where is Shen Lang, and where is the eldest son Shen Lang?"
After crying and hugging each other and expressing their feelings and worries to each other, Liu Yingying finally recovered. She immediately pulled the Wu family to check their injuries, asking about the situation that day and Shen Lang's condition. whereabouts.
As soon as he finished speaking, he remembered something and immediately leaned into the carriage to check. However, he saw that the carriage was empty and there was no other figure.
Before Wu could respond, Liu Yingying turned around and immediately looked at the coachman and said, "It's Shen Lang who your young master ordered you to escort my mother and Yaoyao here, right? Is everything in the city done?" Settle down, how could he send you here instead of coming in person? Oh, I understand. Things in the city have just calmed down, and he must be very busy now. He is busy quelling the chaos. Then you go back and tell him quickly. , my mother and I are staying here temporarily, waiting for him to pick us up. If he doesn’t come within a month, then my mother and I will have to go back to Yuncheng!"
Liu Yingying asked the coachman repeatedly, and the last sentence contained a hint of threatening anger.
The driver looked at Liu Yingying, then turned to Wu Yong, hesitating, as if he didn't know how to reply.
Wu's eyes suddenly turned red when she saw this, and when she was about to explain and persuade her immediately, Wu Yong suddenly shook his head slowly towards her.
Wu was stunned for a moment, and then came back to her senses. She immediately wiped her tears and pulled Liu Yingying tightly, squeezing her smile and comforting her: "Yes, it was the eldest son who asked him to send me and Yaoyao back. He was afraid of you." I was worried when I was alone here, so I immediately sent us over to reunite with you."
Then he said: "Yao Yao has been frightened these days. Ying'er, let's, let's not hang around here. Let's go back to where we live first."
When Liu Yingying heard this, she immediately wiped away her tears and said with a smile, "Okay, let's go back and talk."
Before leaving, Liu Yingying turned her head and glanced back in the mist behind her.
This time, Liu Yingying returned to the mountain to rest. She never asked about the events of that day, never questioned Wu and others about the details of their escape, and never questioned how Wu had spent the past half month. He never asked about the situation in the city, and only focused on recuperating and waiting for people to come to pick him up. It was not until another month later that Qingyuan City was finally completely calmed down. Finally, the Shen family sent someone to pick him up again, and also sent a funeral notice.
Liu Yingying tightened the funeral notice so hard that the white post was deformed. Then she opened the post with trembling hands and saw that the list of names in the funeral notice was so dense that there was no end in sight. The long post was extremely stretched. It was extremely long, with dozens of names, half of which looked familiar, and the one at the top of the list was Shen Lang, the eldest son of the eldest son of the Shen family.
Chapter 161
On the way back to the city, I saw white paper money all along the way. Every once in a while, at the intersection, I could see a lot of extinguished incense candles and worship fruits. There were road sacrifices all the way. It can be seen that this In the past two months, how many people have died in Qingyuan City.
Especially, after going down the mountain, I heard the cries of crows "quacking" and "quacking", and the crows kept circling overhead. At this time, the weather had unknowingly changed from midsummer to early autumn, and the already lush green scenery The shade of the trees gradually faded away, and the shrill crows of crows inexplicably added to the miserable and frightening atmosphere on this desolate road.
The hoarse cry of the crow made Wu's heart beat loudly. After enduring it for a long time, she finally couldn't help but lift the curtain of the car and said to Wu Yong outside: "I wonder if I can trouble Guard Wu to drive these two birds away? My heart is pounding."
Wu Yong glanced into the carriage and realized what he was doing. He was about to take an arrow and shoot away. After a moment, he hesitated and got off the horse. He drove the crows away with stones on the roadside for a long time. Then the two crows flew away. Stopped on a tree.
During the whole process, Liu Yingying didn't say a word. She was like a puppet, sitting motionless without even looking outside.
Wu kept wanting to say a few words of comfort, but finally opened her mouth, unable to comfort her, and finally just sighed.
Perhaps even Yaoyao noticed something was wrong with the atmosphere. She snuggled into Wu's arms quietly along the way, making no noise or making any fuss, and occasionally glanced at the face of the eldest sister opposite. .
It was not until they were approaching the city gate that Liu Yingying opened the curtain and looked towards the city gate.
After nearly two months of devastation, the city in front of us is riddled with holes, with ruins and broken walls everywhere. There are still traces of jet-black oily fire on the majestic and solemn city walls. Above the city gates, those The dozens of heads that were rumored to be hanging have long since disappeared. However, the blood under the city gate has solidified and turned black. I don't know whether it is the blood of those old friends or the passionate blood of the soldiers.
Liu Yingying fixed the black blood stains, her expression a little numb and slow.
After entering the city, it was a completely different scene. Compared with the desolation and solemnity at the city gate, the people in the city were orderly and the streets were crowded. Seventy-eight percent of the original lively atmosphere had been gradually restored.
The vitality flows endlessly, no matter how many dangers and sufferings we experience, life must move forward.
People have to move forward.
Just like these people in front of me.
When they passed a tea shed, they saw a huge crowd and it was so blocked that passing vehicles could hardly move. When they slowly opened the curtains, they saw that this was the place where Liu Yingying and the others were blocked when they left the city. A place of robbery and murder.
All the surrounding shops were destroyed, and were temporarily built into several teahouses for resting. Surrounded by the crowd, an old storyteller was seen chatting: "I heard that King Pingnan was nine feet tall, and his eyes were like hanging suspended trees." Mirror, his mouth is bloody, he is so ugly, and his appearance is so terrifying that he can lift an eight-foot man with one hand, and can tear a person to pieces with his bare hands and take out his internal organs. , he is the reincarnation of an ancient demon and evil star. He has been in the army for thirty years and can be said to be invincible in the world. This time, he can be said to have single-handedly conquered Qingyuan. We, the people of Qingyuan City, have no room to fight back. Even the northwest war king of the Shen family was no match for him. Seeing that our entire Qingyuan was about to be completely razed to the ground by him, unexpectedly, God would not destroy me. At this time, a general and a genius descended from the sky—— "
"Everyone remembers that day when the sky was filled with rays of rays of light, purple clouds were densely covered, and a ray of golden light shone on the ground in the east. It was a celestial phenomenon that the gods came to the world. On that day, the Overlord War God was reincarnated, and the God of War was glowing with golden light. He is robed in yellow, wearing armor and holding a spear. He can be said to be invulnerable to all kinds of weapons and attacks. His whole body is mighty and domineering. See the majesty of the phoenix eyes between his brows. If you look closely, you can see the power between those sword-shaped brows and stars. There was actually a third eye coming, and that was the third eye of the God of War. He was the reincarnation of the famous Erlang God. This overlord God of War used his sword to kill King Pingnan directly. He dismounted his horse, swung his spear, chopped off his head, picked out his muscles and bones, and shredded his skin and hair. In an instant, King Pingnan turned into a stream of pus and disappeared in the world. The god roared and returned. Without waiting for the gods to take action again, the soldiers and generals who supported Pingnan were so frightened that they abandoned their helmets and armor one by one. At this point, the dark clouds in the sky of our Qingyuan City dispersed, and our Qingyuan City instantly changed its previous decline. The soldiers were in the Shen family The leaders responded to the call and quickly captured the city and regained the lost territory of Qingyuan City. Only then can you and I gather together today and the people can live and work in peace and contentment."
The storyteller was energetic, eloquent, and full of witty words. The onlookers could be said to be on three levels inside and outside, and all of them were either mesmerized or excited.
As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately jumped up and asked: "So Mr. Zhao said, is this God of War a member of the Shen family?"
Then I saw the old storyteller pinching his beard and saying meaningfully: "No, no, that God of War is the reincarnation of a god from heaven. How can he be an ordinary person?"
"Who is that? Could it be that he is the emperor? I heard that the emperor is visiting our Qingyuan City."
Another person said: "Our emperor is a scholar."
Another person asked: "Could he be a nobleman from the capital?"
There was a lot of chatter in the crowd, the discussion was lively, and the atmosphere reached an unprecedented climax.
Then I saw the old storyteller pinching his beard and saying, "If you want to know the details, please listen to the explanation tomorrow."
With one word, everyone booed, some were disinterested, others scratched their heads, and the crowd dispersed in an instant.
The carriage the Shen family was riding in finally moved forward slowly among the crowd. The moment the curtain fell, someone outside the curtain saw a mysterious face saying: "I heard that the person who saved us Qingyuan from danger this time was a man." A prince——"
Another person said: "Didn't the prince go to the west? Today, the emperor has no children. Could it be that the new prince was adopted from some prince?"
The carriage passed several people and soon left the noise and excitement behind.
Half an hour later, they finally arrived at Shen's house.
The carriage stopped slowly. Compared with the bustling noise at the city gate, the sounds became quieter as we walked towards Shen's house. Until the carriage stopped, there was silence all around, as if we had arrived at a place. It was an empty place with no live sounds around.
"Girl, we're here."
Wu Yong reported for the third time outside the carriage, but it remained quiet inside the carriage.
Wu quietly opened the curtain and took a look outside. Her eyes turned slightly red for a moment. After a long time, she finally couldn't bear to remind her: "Ying'er, we're here."
As he spoke, he sighed slightly and said, "Let's go and pay homage to the deceased."
After saying that, she gently pulled Liu Yingying's hand. Liu Yingying nodded slowly as if she was still in a trance, but the moment she got off the carriage, she took the linen cloth prepared on the table and tied it on her head.
Then, Wu carefully supported him and slowly got off the horse.
After getting off the carriage, I looked up and saw that the entire Shen family's old house was covered in white. The once lively and magnificent house was now deserted, and no one was even stationed at the door of the mansion.
I heard that except for a few Shen family members, most of the Shen family members had been killed. The remaining servants, including the male servants, were all hanged and thrown into mass graves. All the maidservants were sent to the military camp and became military prostitutes. .
It can be described as terrible.
Now, the door of the mansion is wide open. Looking from a distance, it is quiet and empty inside. However, in the huge courtyard, there are densely packed coffins, one by one.
The Shen family's courtyard has always been the largest in the entire Qingyuan City, but at this moment, it seems that it can no longer be placed, and it is placed directly at the entrance of the mansion.
Seeing the densely packed coffins, everyone couldn't help but trembled and trembled in fear.
It's not fear or fear, but a shocking picture that goes straight into people's hearts.
It is a kind of regret for the old friend, the intolerance for the loss of life, and the infinite pity for the deceased.
One person is unacceptable.
What's more, it's so densely packed with so many people.
