From eunuch to emperor

From the barracks, twenty miles to the south is Jiangtou Town.

When we arrived at Jiangtou Town, the sun was already westward.

The three of them entered the town, and when the people on the road saw them, they left their things and fled in all directions.

The houses on the side of the road closed one after another, and the adults picked up the children and ran away, as if they had seen a ghost.

"My lord, what's the matter?"

Bai Tingting was puzzled.

Wu Xiangyun looked at his attire and asked, "Do we look scary?"

Bai Tingting also felt strange, and said, "Why did you run away when you saw us? Are we so ugly?"

On the street, a three-year-old child stood in the middle of the road at a loss, watching Long Chen and the three of them and crying.

Seeing that the child was pitiful, Wu Xiangyun got off his horse and wanted to hug the child.

Bai Tingting reminded: "Be careful!"

Having fought with Long Chen and the dark guards, Bai Tingting was worried that this child was an assassin.

Wu Xiangyun didn't think so much, walked over to pick up the child, and coaxed: "Don't be afraid, sister is not a bad person."

Unexpectedly, the child cried even harder.

"My lord, what should I do?"

Wu Xiangyun had no choice but to worry about the child.

Long Chen looked around the town, the houses were well built and there were quite a few people, but it looked very bleak.

Especially the people in the town are like frightened birds.

Long Chen dismounted, took out a piece of meat from his body, and handed it to the child: "How about some meat?"

When the child saw the meat, he immediately stopped crying, hugged it with both hands and gnawed, and the snot and tears stuck to the meat, but he didn't care.

"Eat slowly, don't choke."

Wu Xiangyun watched the child eat as if he hadn't eaten for a few days.

The child devoured it hungrily, and stuffed it into his mouth vigorously, regardless of being afraid of strangers.

belch...

Sure enough, I choked on eating too fast.

Bai Tingting got off the horse, took out the water bag, and slowly fed the child water: "Eat slowly..."

The child took a sip of water, then stuffed the remaining meat into his mouth, for fear that others would snatch it.

After eating the meat, the child looked at the three of Long Chen timidly, not knowing where to put his two little hands.

"Where are your parents?"

Bai Tingting asked.

The child replied in a low voice: "They were all taken away..."

Bai Tingting understood immediately, and asked, "Has your father been arrested and enlisted as a soldier?"

Jing Tianlie has been expanding his army, some of them voluntarily, but most of them must have been taken away by force.

The child nodded slightly.

Long Chen felt strange, it was understandable for a man to be arrested and served as a soldier, but how could a woman be arrested?

"What about your mother? Where did she go?"

Long Chen asked softly.

The child burst into tears and cried, "My mother...she was taken away by the bad guys."

There were many eyes watching Long Chen and the others from the cracks in the windows and doors on the street, they seemed to be watching.

At this time, a hunchbacked old woman walked over hobblingly with a cane, and begged the three of Long Chen: "Please forgive us, the child is still young, and his parents have been taken away. There is no food at home, please show mercy."

The old woman was about to kneel down and beg while holding on to her crutches, Long Chen quickly stepped forward to support the old woman, and said: "Don't get me wrong, old man, we are passing by and just want to soak in the hot spring here."

"What's wrong with you here? Why do you hide when you see us? Have the people here been arrested to fight at Jade Buddha Pass?"

Seeing that Long Chen said that he was not from the government, the old woman was relieved.

Long Chen helped the old woman up, the child hid behind the old woman and peeked at Long Chen.

"You are passing by, hurry up, there is going to be a war here."

"My son was arrested and said that the general needs soldiers."

The old woman sighed and shook her head.

Wu Xiangyun asked: "Where's the child's mother? Was he also arrested and imprisoned by the Jade Buddha?"

Speaking of this, the old woman sighed: "No, the government came to collect military rations a few days ago, and the yamen saw my daughter-in-law looks good, so she was taken away."

The area close to Jade Buddha Pass was under the jurisdiction of Jing Tianlie. When Jing Tianlie was fighting, the officials here helped him recruit soldiers and food.

When Bai Tingting heard this, she immediately blew up, and cursed: "It's another dog, I killed him!"

The old woman was startled, and quickly persuaded: "Young lady, you can't, that's the county magistrate's son."

Bai Tingting said angrily: "Even if I am the king of heaven, my mother will kill him!"

Long Chen comforted: "Old man, I have some food here, you take it back first."

Long Chen took out his own food, and Wu Xiangyun also took out the food.

Seeing Long Chen handing out food, the people on both sides opened the door and rushed out.

"Give me some, my son hasn't eaten for several days."

"My child has been hungry for a few days, please give me some."

"Give me some."

There were too many people surrounding them, and the food for the three of Long Chen was simply not enough.

"Don't grab it, we don't have any."

Wu Xiangyun was very helpless.

Long Chen saw that these common people were indeed hungry, they looked very pitiful.

Long Chen looked back at Wu Xiangyun's horse, and wanted to kill the horse and share some meat with everyone.

Da da da...

There was a sound of horseshoes from the north of the road, and a group of officers and soldiers rode over. Seeing this, the people were so frightened that they scattered and went home to close the doors and windows.

The old woman couldn't walk fast, so Wu Xiangyun helped the old woman and the child go home.

In the blink of an eye, officers and soldiers rode to the front.

More than a dozen officers and soldiers were riding horses. The first one was wearing armor and holding a ring-sword in his hand. He looked fierce and looked like a ten-man commander.

There are grains on the horses, and several beautiful women who are tied up.

"Who are you?"

The commander raised his knife and pointed at Long Chen and shouted.

Long Chen asked coldly: "Are you Jing Tianlie's subordinate?"

The ten captain's eyes turned cold, and he scolded: "I ask who you are!"

Long Chen sighed slightly, and said, "I'm not in a good mood today, so I don't want to ask twice."

The soldiers behind the Commander-in-Chief pointed to Bai Tingting and Wu Xiangyun and said, "Boss, these two girls are so right."

The ten husband's eyes fell on Bai Tingting and Wu Xiangyun, with a lewd expression on his face, he laughed and said: "There is such a woman in this poor village, I caught it!"

The soldiers behind rode out and rushed out, intending to take Bai Tingting and Wu Xiangyun away.

Long Chen was furious, he stopped in front of the soldiers, faced the horses that were charging towards him, and punched the horses' heads with his fists.

boom!

The horse's head was shattered by a punch, and the soldier on his back flew out. Long Chen stretched out his hand and grabbed the soldier in mid-air, then slammed it on the ground.

boom!

The soldier hit the ground on the back of his head and was shot to death on the spot!

sigh...

Long Chen's attack was too fierce, and the ten commander and his horses retreated in fright.

"We are soldiers under the general's command to requisition food. If you dare to do it, be careful to destroy your nine clans!"

The Ten Commander was frightened, and hurriedly brought out Jing Tianlie to threaten him.

Bai Tingting scolded: "What is Jing Tianlie, do you know who this is!"

Long Chen looked at the commander indifferently, the blood on his fist was still dripping down.

The ten husband carefully looked at Long Chen, shook his head slightly and said, "Who are you?"