Shen Dingzhu ran all the way. There was no good place to hide in the mountains and forests, so she could only quietly return to the northern barracks.
She wiped some dirt on her face. Fortunately, the clothes she wore tended to be dark brown, and she looked less conspicuous under the cover of the night.
In the barracks, there were fires everywhere, wailing sounds could be heard, and burning corpses lying on the ground could be seen everywhere.
The rebels were like a swarm of locusts, searching for weapons and food. Shen Dingzhu hurriedly hid near the empty granary. There was a blind spot here. The door of the granary was opened in the front, and the rebels would not go around to the back to check. .
Shen Dingzhu's heart was beating very fast and she didn't dare to breathe out. She heard a group of rebels rummaging through the food and grass, cursing.
"What a shabby place, even poorer, with broken weapons, and few women. It's not as good as White Lion City!"
"Look for it quickly. No matter how much it is, if you find it, you have to leave. General Shen of Jin State has cracked the White Lion City. He might come to Yuyang Pass in a few days. We can't die here."
The few people spat and set their target on Pengcheng.
Shen Dingzhu listened to their footsteps gradually disappearing, and the panic in her heart gradually faded away.
She was just about to poke her head out to check the situation, but saw many people coming back, and Shen Dingzhu hurriedly hid them.
The rebels dragged the corpses of the remaining soldiers and civilians outside the granary.
They exchanged: "Burn it on fire. When we go to Kyoto, we can explain to the emperor that it was the Jin people who killed our people and burned the granary. It was not us."
After saying that, they all burst into laughter. The laughter filled the late autumn night and seemed particularly bad.
Shen Dingzhu bit his lower lip, but heard a crisp sound of a machine.
Someone said: "This is the first time I have seen this thing. I just played it and wanted to try it, but I didn't expect it to be very powerful."
"You are such a bumpkin. This is called a fire gun. Didn't you see? There is a special fire barracks over there in the Jin Kingdom! They killed us without leaving a single piece of armor behind. Look at our Beiliang, can we have such a good thing?"
"If I hadn't robbed the wealthy Xu family, I wouldn't have known that there was such a powerful thing in this world. No wonder the Jin soldiers are so powerful."
"Okay, stop talking nonsense! Burn the corpses quickly, and let's go to Pengcheng!"
Shen Dingzhu's heart skipped a beat, the Xu family was robbed? Could it be that Xu Huaisong encountered the rebels? What frightened her even more was that Shen Dingzhu guessed what they were going to do.
These rebels actually want to use weapons as powerful as firecrackers to burn corpses!
Just as she was about to run away, she heard a loud "boom" in her ears, her ears rang, and the world turned upside down!
"Pounding" a huge explosion, igniting thick smoke, and a blast of air, knocking the box next to Shen Dingzhu flying, and smashing the bag head down towards her.
Before she could scream, she fainted immediately.
Outside, fierce fires were burning. The rebels lit fires everywhere and ran away carrying the looted items.
*
Shen Dingzhu didn't know how long she had been unconscious. When she woke up again, her whole body was sore. There seemed to be bruises on her shoulders, and every movement caused pain all over her body.
Her eyelids were heavy and she couldn't open her eyes. There seemed to be a lot of flies buzzing in her ears, and it seemed like someone was talking.
It wasn't until she calmed down for a while and finally had the strength that she slowly opened her watery eyes and looked around, only to find that she was in a dark place, like a prison, with only a small square window above. .
A half-width light shone down, making her feel dazzled, and then she realized that it was daytime now.
Shen Dingzhu sat up and sat up. The two dark-faced people in the same cell with her stopped their small conversation and looked at her with helpless and confused eyes.
"I...how did I get caught in the cell?" She held the sore back of her neck and saw from the corner of her eye that there were red marks on her wrists from the rope.
Wasn't she knocked unconscious by the wooden box? How could it be here?
Seeing Shen Dingzhu confused and confused, the two people leaning against the wall said silently: "This is the prison in Pengcheng. You are a troublemaker, so of course you will be caught here."
Shen Dingzhu raised his eyes in surprise: "I am not a rebel!"
Unexpectedly, the two people sighed normally: "It turns out that you are also common people, just like the two of us. It seems that the real rebels have fled long ago. We are just living in Yuyangguan, so we are said to be The thieves who opened the city gate to welcome the Jin army were captured and escorted here. All that awaits us is death."
As he spoke, another person was crying and wiping away tears. Judging from the voice, he was an older man.
By talking to them, Shen Dingzhu learned that she had been arrested for three days, and she had been unconscious for three days? !
The two men in the prison were imprisoned at about the same time as she was, and they thought she was about to die when she didn't wake up for a long time.
After a while, the jailer came to put the food and threw the rancid rice on the ground. The two men hurriedly came to eat. Shen Dingzhu felt nauseated and sat aside.
She hugged her knees and pondered, did Xiao Langyan know that she was caught in Pengcheng?
At this time, the voices of the jailers communicating not far away fell into Shen Dingzhu's ears.
"The people of Jin have gone crazy and killed the people of Beiliang whenever they saw them. Yuyangguan has become a sea of blood."
"I heard that they gathered all the people who were still alive and searched from house to house, as if they were looking for someone. If they couldn't find them, they killed the soldiers and people of Beiliang."
"The devil knows what they want to do. I'm just worried that they will attack Pengcheng. The fire barracks of General Shen of the Jin Dynasty blew open the gate of Yuyangguan with only two artillery pieces. They were unstoppable all the way. If they really hit Pengcheng, City, we all must die!"
"If the worst happens, just run away. They all run to Kyoto. Where the emperor is, nothing will happen, right?"
Shen Dingzhu was listening to them attentively. When she turned around inadvertently, she saw the older man actually coming closer and sitting next to her.
She screamed in fright and backed away: "What do you want to do!"
The old man's smile made people's heads tingle: "I just said your voice sounded weird. You are indeed a woman and you have pierced ears."
As he spoke, he yelled crazily at the jailer: "Lord Jailer, adults, there is a girl here. If you enjoy her, let me go. I am a citizen of Yuyangguan, not a rebel!"
Upon hearing this, the jailers frowned and came over with whips in hand. Their sharp eyes looked up and down at Shen Dingzhu: "Female?"
"Really," the old man kept nodding, "Actually, she is very beautiful, with mud on her face and pierced ears!"
The jailer opened the cell door and strode towards Shen Dingzhu. She turned pale and waved her hand to hide: "Don't touch me!"
However, the jailers would not reason with her. They grabbed Shen Dingzhu's arms and pulled the sleeves!
The white and greasy skin is quite eye-catching. The four men in the cell stared straight at him, and several people in the cell opposite also made strange noises.
Shen Dingzhu's face turned pale, and two jailers tied her hands and dragged her out: "Why are women joining in the fun here!"
They cursed, held Shen Dingzhu, and threw him into another empty cell.
She fell to the ground and got up hastily, but saw that the jailer just threw her in, locked the door and left.
Shen Dingzhu was a little surprised.
They actually... didn't hurt her?
Shen Dingzhu stayed up like this until night. When she was leaning against the wall and falling asleep, the cell door rang. She opened her eyes warily, only to see the jailer throwing in another haggard woman.
"It's so annoying. What's the point of just catching these women?"
"Stop complaining. Lord Zhangcheng said, keep these women. If the Jin army really breaks in, you can sacrifice them."
Shen Dingzhu looked at the woman lying on the ground. Her hair covered half of her face and her face could not be seen clearly. However, Shen Dingzhu could see a winding line on her face through the moonlight cast from the window. scar.
The raised lines are very scary.
At this moment, the woman stood up weakly, holding her hands on the ground. Her face, which was as pale as a ghost under her hair, was completely exposed.
Shen Dingzhu opened her round eyes: "Princess Boyue?"
Puyue was stunned for a moment and met Shen Dingzhu's eyes. They were both shocked. She rushed over in fear and covered Shen Dingzhu's mouth.
"Don't call that name!" Puyue hurriedly looked outside. Fortunately, the jailers were far away and no one heard her.
Shen Dingzhu nodded, and then she let him go.
Puyue shrank beside her, trembling all over, as if she was terribly frightened. Now she looked embarrassed and thin, how could she look like the pampered princess she had before the marriage?
Shen Dingzhu asked her in a low voice: "Why...have you ended up like this?"
Pu Yue gave a wry smile, it was really a long story.
After her marriage, Emperor Beiliang did not like her, so he casually gave her to a prince, but he often got drunk and beat her.
Puyue had no choice but to run away. She was afraid of going home, and even more afraid of being sent back to Beiliang.
Shen Dingzhu frowned: "We heard that you were missing and thought you had an accident."
Puyue wiped the tears from her eyes: "I learned that the Jin State sent troops to suppress the border, so I fled to Yuyangguan. I wanted to take the opportunity to return to Jin, but I didn't expect to be caught on the way. But why are you here? You shouldn't be Will you be a favorite concubine in my brother’s palace?”
Shen Dingzhu raised her long eyelashes slightly, looked at her for a moment, and then said: "I have some unavoidable difficulties. I will tell you when we have the opportunity to go back together."
Puyue sniffed, looked at the jailer outside, and carefully took out a wooden pipe from her sleeve.
This is something that can be tied to the feet of homing pigeons. She lowered her voice: "It's great to see you. I heard that the general leading the army is your brother Shen Lan. Please write a letter now. I have raised one. The carrier pigeon is very understanding of human nature, let it bring us the letter, and wait for your brother to come and save us!"
After saying that, Puyue stood up and put her feet up, facing the window, blowing a whistle with her fingertips, and a gray dove landed with fluttering wings.
When the jailers didn't see it, she hurriedly took the pigeon down, took off a small charcoal stick from its paw, and handed it to Shen Dingzhu to use as a pen.
However, Shen Dingzhu's beautiful dark eyes looked at her, but he remained motionless.
Puyue was anxious: "Write! You don't want to go out? Shen Dingzhu, my life is also in your hands now. If I have any shortcomings, how can you be worthy of my brother!"
