Chapter 181

Sometimes, you think that today and tomorrow will always be the same as yesterday. People live in shifts. There are many people on the street. In noodle shops and snack stalls, people talk and laugh while eating. Dogs call chickens flying in small alleys. Some women teach disobedient children with vines. The children flee to the street naked and make faces at their mother

Ye Xiaoxian also went to buy flour as usual.

However, she clearly felt that the people on the street had changed, everyone had panic and panic on their faces, and they were uncertain about the future.

"I heard that Hong Yanguo attacked Hexin county. It is estimated that it will hit us soon."

"Ah? How are the people of Hexin county now?"

"What else can we do? Since ancient times, can we attack cities and seize land without slaughtering cities? Naturally, slaughtering cities."

"Can we hold Qinghe County?"

"It's hard to say. We're all ready to escape. You should be ready early!"

“……”

Ye Xiaoxian has heard these words since she went out.

There is a small country in the south, called Hong Yanguo. It used to live on the island and offended Daqi from time to time. Now it suddenly starts to attack Daqi. The southernmost is Hexin County of Daqi. If Hexin county can't keep it, it's Qinghe County's turn.

The troops, horses, food and grass in Hexin county can only resist the provocation of Hong Yanguo. Now Hong Yanguo is really attacking. I'm afraid it won't last long. People in Hexin county have fled to Qinghe County.

Therefore, the people of Qinghe County were all in panic. They were reluctant to give up their family business and the usual peaceful days. They didn't want to leave their hometown and live an unavoidable life.

When there is no home, human life is as worthless as mole ants.

Therefore, half of the stalls on the street are missing, and now the rest are also frightened. When they meet people, they ask, "do you escape? When?"

Ye Xiaoxian is also nervous now, and she is reluctant to leave.

Finally, I bought a house in Qinghe County and lived a stable life. Once I fled, there must be more or less bad luck on the road.

But now the situation forced her to make a decision as soon as possible.

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Court, palace.

The old emperor was filled with playing books about the sudden attack of Hong Yanguo and wanted the emperor to make a decision.

The courtiers also admonished one after another: "Your Majesty, I beg your majesty to send troops as soon as possible, otherwise the people will suffer if you don't defend the south."

"Your Majesty, you can mobilize troops from nearby to save Hexin County as soon as possible."

“……”

In the hall, the third prince threw a look at the national teacher, who understood.

Then the national master also met: "Your Majesty, the top priority is to mobilize nearby troops to guard Hexin County, prevent Hong Yanguo from invading, and then send an effective general or prince to fight and annihilate Hong Yanguo in one fell swoop."

As soon as the national master's words came out, the ministers around him were silent.

Because he mentioned the prince. At such a sensitive moment, which Prince is sent to be stunned is the new monarch respected by the national teachers. After all, it needs a military talisman. Having the military talisman in hand is tantamount to mastering the lifeline of great prayer.

The national master was also cunning. He then said, "of course, it is up to your majesty to decide which prince to send. However, the prince must first go to war and know some art of war."

With that, everyone was silent again.

Those with party affiliations are all calculating their minds, but no one dares to advise them directly.

As a result, the old Emperor didn't speak. He closed his eyes slightly and didn't know if he was asleep.

……

Later, the third prince and the national master met again in the private courtyard.

The third prince still didn't like to speak, and his tone was calm. He lost a mouthful of tea and said again: "do you think my father really didn't hear clearly, or did he deliberately don't hear clearly?"

"Probably on purpose. After all, he needs time to think about it." National Teacher road.

The national master then said, "Your Highness, the third prince, you can rest assured that this matter will send troops sooner or later. Whether he sends you or a general, the situation is under our control. Sending you is equivalent to your imperial power. If you send a general, general Peng and General Qian are the only people who can get out of the court at present."

The third prince lost another mouthful of tea and then said, "if this is done, how should we deal with Hong Yan country?"

The national teacher smiled: "Hong Yanguo has no choice. If he is obedient, we can keep the island, just like what we promised at the beginning. If he doesn't listen, we have to destroy it in one fell swoop."

“……”

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Qinghe County.

Ye Xiaoxian bought a lot of flour today. In addition, there are a lot of rice and bacon.

Li Hongmei asked in surprise, "Ye, why do you still buy so many things? Now many people are ready to flee. The butcher family next door ran away and said it was to take refuge with relatives in Zhengwu city. Oh, what shall we do now, run or not?"

Unexpectedly, ye Xiaoxian said firmly, "run! I'm hoarding these grains for the road. Mom, go to the countryside and tell Grandpa, uncle and uncle to clean up. Don't bring anything else except food and silver."

"Ah? Really run?" Li Hongmei was very reluctant. She looked at the yard and her house. The green brick and black tile house was warm in winter and cool in summer. The room was big. She was really reluctant to give up.

"Leaf, no longer... Wait?" Li Hongmei asked.

"I'm afraid it's too late. Now there are a lot of refugees in the street. If we don't go away, the refugees will come in and rob us before the enemy kills us. At that time, they will rob things and kill people, and there is no way to live."

Once a person becomes a refugee, he will have no reason and no benevolence, righteousness and morality. Just fill his stomach.

Ye Xiaoxian had seen a lot of disaster films and war movies in her last life. She probably knew some ways to escape from famine.

It is better to form a small group. The more people, the better. Otherwise, it is very easy to be robbed by other refugees. Therefore, she must take the Xiao family in the countryside.

Although Li Hongmei was reluctant to give up, she had to hurry back to the village after listening to Ye Xiaoxian's words, inform the whole village to escape and ask the Xiao family to come out quickly.

After Li Hongmei returned to the countryside, ye Xiaoxian hurried to the squire Wang.

For one thing, he couldn't put his heart on Xiao Baozhu. For another, there was a horse farm in the king's family. Ye Xiaoxian wanted to buy two horses and transform them into carriages. The carriages walked fast and could hold a lot of food. He could eat enough on the road.

Fortunately, ye Xiaoxian went early. There are more than ten horses for her to choose from in the racecourse. After paying the money, she asked the boys in the racecourse to help refit the horse into a carriage.

While refitting, ye Xiaoxian went to the house of the king's rural gentry. First, she asked Wang Xiucai to see if their family had any plans to escape.

As a result, Wang Xiucai was very sure: "our family won't go."

"No one left?" Ye Xiaoxian asked in surprise.

Wang Xiucai said, "even if you go, you won't go far. At most, you can go to the relatives' house in Zhengwu county. Our Wang family is a squire here. If we all go, Qinghe County will be over. Besides, there are the wealth and contacts accumulated by our family. If you go to other places, it will be as cheap as an ant."

"Mole ants are better than death." Ye Xiaoxian said.

Wang Xiucai sighed: "my father is old. He said that life is from Qinghe County and death is the ghost of Qinghe County. He would rather die in Qinghe County than be the lonely ghost. Besides, Qingqing is pregnant now. If he runs around on the road, it may be one corpse and two lives. I can't bear to let him suffer."

Ye Xiaoxian asked again, "what about Baozhu? I want to take Baozhu with me."

Wang Xiucai seemed very casual: "of course, she was not from the Wang family. Now she should go with you at this juncture."

After hearing Wang Xiucai's words, ye Xiaoxian couldn't help feeling sad for Xiao Baozhu.

When the disaster came, he had only his wife in his heart, and Xiao Baozhu was still an outsider after doing so many things for the Wang family.

……

Ye Xiaoxian then goes to find Xiao Baozhu and wants Xiao Baozhu to go with her.

However, Xiao Baozhu didn't mean to go.

Xiao Baozhu stubbornly and resolutely said, "since I have come to the Wang family, I will be born a member of the Wang family and die a ghost of the Wang family. If the Wang family don't go, I won't go anywhere."

Ye Xiaoxian thinks Xiao Baozhu is very sad: "Baozhu, you think of yourself as a member of the Wang family, but they may not think of you as a member of their family. Just now Wang Xiucai told me to take you away. He said you are not from this family. Don't you recognize your position now? You and Wang Xiucai don't have the reality of husband and wife, let alone the name of husband and wife. If you go with me today, you will still have a chance to find a lover in the future. Don't be like now Will you continue to be so stupid? "

Xiao Baozhu seemed to have guessed that Wang Xiucai would say so. She was also sad in her heart, but she didn't know why, but she firmly thought she shouldn't go.

"Sister-in-law, I don't care if he treats me as his own family. Anyway, I have regarded myself as his family. Now my father-in-law is old and Qingqing is pregnant. If I leave, the family will lack a helper. My father-in-law has been very kind to me during this period of time. I can't walk away without conscience!"

"You..." Ye Xiaoxian was speechless: "don't you think about your mother? Don't you think about me and Baofeng? If something happens to you, we will be upset."

Xiao Baozhu seemed to think of something. She suddenly turned back to the house and came out again soon. She was holding some gold and silver jewelry in her hand. Then she said to Ye Xiaoxian, "these are all secretly saved by me. Take them back to my mother, sister-in-law. It's my filial piety. You take good care of my mother on the way to escape. I'll repay your kindness in the next life!"

Ye Xiaoxian knows she can't persuade Xiao Baozhu anymore.

If he had listened to the advice, he would not have insisted on staying in the Wang family. People say "don't hit the south wall and don't look back". Xiao Baozhu's brain won't look back even if the south wall is broken.

She stopped persuading, took the things given by Xiao Baozhu and hired a boy to drive the two carriages home.

I have to go to the academy to get Xiao Baofeng out later.

……

Li Hongmei is also not going well. Xiao Tieshu and Xiao Tongshu are reluctant to work in the Yamen. This kind of work is not what ordinary people can do if they want to. After all, they eat imperial food.

Lao Xiao is even more reluctant to leave. He is usually too lazy to die. He has to be brought to him to eat. There are so many children in the family to take care of, and he doesn't take a hand.

Want to escape? The road was so hard, didn't it kill him?

Li Hongmei didn't say a few words, but the old man Xiao scolded: "escape? I'm a hammer. At my age, do you want me to starve to death on the road? Don't you mean there are Japanese pirates? Let them come, I'll kill one, I, I'll be a hero."

Li Hongmei thought to herself, just as you are a lazy man, you should be a hero. Don't let people kick you to death.

Wang Mudan and Chen Ju don't want to go either. If they leave, they don't know when they can come back. Besides, where can they go? You can't wander outside all the time, can you? If you escape for ten days and a half months, or you can't find a place to stay for half a year, you will die sooner or later.

Seeing that she couldn't persuade them, Li Hongmei didn't persuade them. She just put down a sentence: "ye said, she packed her luggage and left. If you leave, you can go with us. At least we have two cars and can carry food. If you don't go, we will go by ourselves."

With that, Li Hongmei went home angrily.

But after going out for most of the day, the city changed again. Half of the stalls opened in the morning and almost closed in the evening. There were many people pushing wooden scooters and dragging their families to escape in the street.

Li Hongmei was hesitant and wanted to run away, but now everyone is running away, so she believes Ye Xiaoxian's words and must run away.

……

Seeing that Li Hongmei couldn't persuade anyone, ye Xiaoxian told Li Hongmei about Baozhu. Li Hongmei sighed: "Baozhu is really confused."

Li Hongmei asked again, "if we can run or not, just a few people."

"Run, several people will run!" Ye Xiaoxian said: "Hong Yan is a country on a small island. They are worried about their small place and want to expand, but generally aggressive people can't accommodate foreign races. If they occupy our place, they must kill it. Even if they don't completely kill the city, we are also inferior, so there's nothing to say. Run, everyone has his own life. I don't know what will happen next, Look at everyone's luck. "

Li Hongmei wanted to cry, her eyes were red, and soon she wiped it off herself.

Tears are useless. Can tears change Baozhu's mind? Can tears come with Xiao's family?

Ye Xiaoxian said again, "Mom, you go to the academy to pick up Baofeng. I'll find Liu Qianqian and see what they have arranged."

"Shall we go with the Liu family?"

"Climb as you can. After all, they have many families and can protect us. Otherwise, if our mother three run away, they may be robbed as soon as they leave the city." Ye Xiaoxian said.

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The Liu family is even more conscious than the king squire. Although Liu Qianqian has just got married, the red lanterns are still hanging and the red paper has not been torn off, Liu Qianqian is already packing his luggage and ready to go on the road.

Seeing ye Xiaoxian, Liu Qianqian couldn't help but come over and say, "Ye, you still have the mind to wander? We're all ready to escape."