It was almost midnight when Liu Zhiheng and Chuncao were sent back to Liu's courtyard by the people from Zhizhou.
Liu Zhisheng was still waiting for his sister who was still awake. When he heard that his sister and Chuncao were coming back, he quickly got up and opened the courtyard door for them.
"Sister, I thought you wouldn't come back today!"
"You think I won't come back, why are you still waiting? The door opened so fast?" Liu Zhiheng pinched his brother's nose, "You are telling the truth!"
Liu Zhisheng smiled shyly and led his sister back to the house happily.
"Sister, tonight, Xie Xiucai is here again."
Liu Zhiheng's face was full of disgust, "What is he doing here?"
"Who knows," Liu Zhisheng said angrily, "Maybe he is too busy. He will take the provincial examination in a few months, and he is not studying hard at home..."
"In the future, just drive him away when he comes. It's bad luck."
Hearing what Liu Zhiheng said, Chuncao, who was following the two of them, silently kept Liu Zhiheng's words in mind.
It was already late in the afternoon when the three of them were all packed up and ready to go to bed.
In the past few days, the weather in Pingzhou has been unbearably cold, so the three of them stayed in Liu Zhiheng's house and burned the heated Kang in one room.
Liu Zhisheng was so excited that he couldn't sleep. He kept asking his sister about Duan Wujiu and whether the palace was big and whether it was gorgeous or not. His eyes were full of longing.
"When I become a high official in the future, I will also buy a big house to live in."
Liu Zhiheng wanted to tell his brother that he didn't need to be a high official at all. If he just wanted money, the two of them could live in peace now.
"Go to bed early, there will be everything in your dreams."
Liu Zhiheng covered his brother with a quilt and closed the screen.
Spring grass has already laid out the heated kang.
The mattresses and quilts at home are all new, and they are many times thicker and more comfortable than before. Seeing Liu Zhiheng getting into bed, Chun Cao blew out the lamp and lay down side by side with Liu Zhiheng.
Although the windows were closed, the three of them could hear the howling wind outside. The harsher the weather, the more happy they were to have a warm home.
"Sister Heng." Chun Cao blinked her round eyes and suddenly said, "I really want to stay like this for the rest of my life, with a full stomach, a warm kang to sleep on when it's cold, and a thick quilt to cover me."
Yes, ordinary people like them have worked hard all their lives to seek this moment of stability, but there are some high-ranking people who refuse to give them even this little bit of stability, and will kill wantonly for a little fun.
Thinking of what was about to happen in three days, Liu Zhiheng's eyes suddenly became determined.
Although Liu Zhiheng called Duan Wujiu here, she never thought of passively waiting to be rescued. She liked to control her destiny in her own hands, and Duan Wujiu could only be her bottom-line option.
Liu Zhiheng patted Chuncao on the head: "Don't worry, you are the little Chuncao loved by God, and you will be happy all your life."
…
In the blink of an eye, it was three days later.
The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month is the small year.
On the day of the Little New Year, every household in Taohua Village is busy offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God. They all say, "It's early to send off the god, and it's late to pick up the god." So before dawn, everyone in Taohua Village got up, and every household was preparing for sacrifices, and the village soon became lively. got up.
The village chief also opened the courtyard door of his home and happily planned to sweep the door. But at this moment, a man covered in blood stumbled running in the snow and fell directly in front of the village chief's door.
"Yizi is here! Yizi is here!"
…
There was a banging sound in Liu's yard, and it was just dawn outside. Chun Cao hurriedly opened the door and saw the village chief's son standing at the door, with many people behind him.
"Where's the Liu girl?"
"Sister is in the house!"
The village chief's son said anxiously: "Go and call out all the girls and boys from the Liu family. Yi Zi is here! Many people have died in the village to the north. I'm afraid they are coming to our village soon. Hurry up and hide in the mountains." !”
After saying this, the village chief's son ran away quickly, came to the village chief's side, and began to organize everyone to evacuate to the mountain.
Liu Zhiheng had already heard the noise, and she ran out of the yard with her brother Liu Zhisheng.
Both of them were wearing white leather jackets and boots, carrying bows, arrows, and daggers on their backs. Looking towards the intersection, they saw people in the village running this way in a panic. The village chief was standing at the foot of the mountain organizing. Everyone go up the mountain.
Liu Zhiheng quickly took Chuncao and his younger brother and ran to find the village chief.
When the village chief saw Liu Zhiheng coming, the two looked at each other and said nothing.
"Village chief, let my brother take everyone up the mountain. He knows the way. The terrain in the mountain is complicated. If we go up in a mess, something may happen."
The village chief immediately said to the villagers who came: "The Liu family are hunters and are familiar with the roads on the mountain. You all follow the Liu family boy! Listen to the Liu family boy's arrangements!"
Liu Zhisheng hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Yes, I know where to hide better. Our village has hundreds of households and so many people, so we can't hide them all together. I'll find a few more places for everyone to hide!"
The village chief quickly pulled over his son: "You all listen to the Liu family boy's arrangements. You bring a few people to help him. Quick, take everyone up the mountain."
Seeing everyone heading up the mountain in an orderly manner, the village chief pulled Liu Zhiheng over.
The two walked aside, and the village chief whispered: "I called the whole village. There are a few who can't walk. I asked people to hide in the cellar of the house first. Is that okay?"
"Okay! We are all gone, and Yi Zibing probably won't be searching from cellar to cellar. As long as he's not too unlucky, nothing should happen."
"That's good. Those who can't walk are all old people. It's not easy to live in such a cold winter."
"No one suspects it, right?"
"No! I knocked on the door and left. If I was suspicious, I saw everyone running out, so I followed him."
Well done, just to have this panic effect, they don't have time to think.
…
Mao hour has arrived, dawn has broken in the east, and the last group of people in Taohua Village have also gone up the mountain.
It was written in the book that the Yizi soldiers would arrive at the end of the night. Liu Zhiheng planned to go to the entrance of the village in advance to wait for Duan Wujiu to arrive, but by chance, he met Xie Tinglan.
After having a quarrel with Liu Zhiheng a few days ago, Xie Tinglan went to Pingzhou City and drank wine with his friends from the academy for two days. He finally felt a little better. He thought that today was the New Year and it was inconvenient to disturb his friends. Then he returned to Taohua Village.
At this time in previous years, every household in Taohua Village would have been bustling with activity, but today I didn't see anyone. Just when I was wondering, I bumped into Liu Zhiheng.
Xie Tinglan frowned immediately when he saw Liu Zhiheng, and Liu Zhiheng also looked disgusted when he saw Xie Tinglan. They were really enemies.
Liu Zhiheng: "Why are you back?"
After Xie Tinglan came to see her that day, Liu Zhiheng had not seen Xie Tinglan again. Chuncao said that he was not at home and should be in Pingzhou City.
Liu Zhiheng thought that he might not come at this plot point, but he never thought that our male protagonist would come back for the plot.
"Where are the people in the village?" Xie Tinglan asked.
Liu Zhiheng was about to answer when he saw a man stumbling from a distance. He was covered in blood, but it didn't look like his own.
The man fell down in front of Xie Tinglan, panting like a dog.
"Yizi is here! Yizi is here!"
Liu Zhiheng glanced at the man, helped him up helplessly, and whispered: "Okay, stop acting. Everyone in our village has already hid, you really got into the act..."
Unexpectedly, the man pushed Liu Zhiheng away and said breathlessly: "Yizi is really here! I am from Linjia Village! There are one or two hundred people in Yizi, all riding horses and holding long knives. Our village Many people were killed! They didn't treat us as human beings. That woman... just counted us a hundred times and told us to run... I ran as fast as I could. When I looked back, I saw that there were so many people. He didn't even run away, he was just hacked to death... hacked to death..."
The visitor spoke intermittently, and although it was a bit incoherent, he made the matter clear.
Only then did Liu Zhiheng take a closer look at the man's face, wiped the blood off his face, and confirmed that this was not the actor she hired.
"No, Yi Zi is really here?" Liu Zhiheng asked in disbelief.
The book is talking about Chenshi, and the group of barbarians started killing from Taohua Village. How come they had already started killing at Maoshi, and they started from Linjia Village?
Liu Zhiheng felt like he was stabbed in the back by the plot.
Just as they were thinking this, the three of them felt a vibration on the ground, which was caused by the horse's hooves stepping on the ground.
When he looked up again, he saw a crowd of dark horses heading towards Peach Blossom Village. The leader was a girl in red, holding a whip in her hand. She was none other than the little princess of Beiyi, Murong Xinyue.
