Started as a thatched house and ended up as a female figure

"Haruwen!"

Cheng Wan stared at Chun Wen who appeared in her courtyard with wide eyes and disbelief.

Suddenly, Cheng Wan's expression changed, and she walked quickly to Chunwen and asked anxiously: "Did something happen to your young lady?"

Chunwen suppressed his anxiety, hurriedly saluted Cheng Wan, and said quickly: "Miss Cheng, my lady asked your slave to bring you a few words. It is best to speak to you alone first."

Cheng Wan took Chunwen into the house, leaving Mrs. Lin and the others in the courtyard looking at each other.

Xiao Lin carefully looked at the two carriages, a mule carriage, and three coachmen parked outside the courtyard, then pointed at the house where Cheng Wan and Chunwen entered, and said softly: "This is what Er Niu said before. That city friend you made late, right? This guy is a mule and a maid, so he is indeed from a wealthy family."

"But why are we driving so many cars here? Isn't one car enough? Isn't there anyone else here?"

Mrs. Lin glared at Mrs. Xiao Lin and lowered her voice: "It's definitely something important. Please pay attention to me. Don't follow that short-sighted behavior. Don't let others look down on our family!"

"Go and talk to Xiaoyu and the others. Tell them to be honest and stop making trouble."

"Ms. Wang, go find the set of beautiful cups that Wan bought before, make four cups of brown sugar water, give three cups to the three coachmen, and wait for the remaining cup to come out to Wan and the girl. Girl, don’t let people say that our family doesn’t know etiquette.”

Mrs. Lin dipped her hands in water to smooth her hair, and then stretched out her clothes.

Even though she just said that Xiao Lin was a one-size-fits-all, she was actually panicking.

I have never dealt with a family like this that has a carriage and a maid at home, so how can I not panic?

Shopkeeper Jia doesn't count. After all, he is still from Jiajia Village.

Moreover, Mrs. Lin had an intuition that the friend her granddaughter had made was much more powerful than Shopkeeper Jia.

After all, Shopkeeper Jia only has one carriage at home.

The courtyard was very quiet, but this quietness contained a little panic, a little excitement, and a little pride.

The room was also very quiet, but the silence in the room was a kind of dead silence that contained restlessness, shock, and confusion.

Time goes back to when Cheng Wan and Chunwen first entered the house.

"Miss Cheng, the late emperor passed away and King Duan succeeded to the throne as the new emperor. Our leader, King An, is very ambitious and wants to seize the throne by recruiting troops while King Duan has just succeeded to the throne and the government is unstable."

"King An ordered the forced conscription of men aged over fifteen and under forty-five from all over the country as soldiers, Miss Cheng!"

Cheng Wan sat down on the bed with a dull look on her face and waved her hands feebly towards Chunwen, indicating that she was fine.

Cheng Wan raised his head and looked at Chunwen, his eyes full of confusion and confusion, "The death of the late emperor and the succession of the new emperor are such big things, why didn't we hear any news? Don't we have to pay national mourning to the late emperor? ?”

Cheng Wan remembered that when an emperor died in ancient times, the common people had to observe state mourning.

"Miss Cheng, my young lady guessed that you would ask this question. She asked her servant to tell you: King Duan was not in the right position. The death of the late emperor has not yet been announced to the public, but everything that needs to be known is already known. King An is a human being. Cruel and short-sighted, most of the soldiers who were forcibly conscripted went to the battlefield, and most of them were killed in vain. Now that the city is in chaos, Miss asked you to take advantage of the county's recruitment order before you arrive in the village, and take your family with you People, get out of here quickly.”

"In addition, in addition to asking a slave to deliver the message to you, the lady has also arranged a carriage and a mule carriage for you, and both carriages are equipped with some supplies."

"Miss Cheng, the situation is urgent. I hope you will make up your mind as soon as possible."

Cheng Wan pinched her thigh hard to calm herself down.

"Chunwen, wait for me."

Cheng Wan rushed out of the house, "Mom, go to the village chief's house immediately and tell the village chief that King An is conscripting soldiers for war. All men over the age of fifteen and under the age of forty-five must be conscripted. The conscription order is coming soon. The village is over, let the village chief take care of it. Then call dad and eldest brother back, remember, hurry!"

"Second aunt, go and call your second uncle and second brother back and ask them to come back immediately."

Cheng Wan's words were like a bomb exploding above Mrs. Lin and the others.

The smiles on the faces of Mrs. Lin and others disappeared, replaced by dullness, horror, and disbelief.

"Go!"

Wang's head was like a ball of paste and she couldn't think at all. When she heard Cheng Wan's stern urging, she reflexively ran towards the village chief's house.

Xiao Lin's mind was also blank and he ran out in a daze.

"Nai, you take Xiaoyu and the others and start packing their things and prepare to escape!"

Cheng Wan turned around and hurried back to the house, leaving behind Mrs. Lin who was frightened as if struck by lightning, as well as Cheng Xiaoyu, Cheng Sanping and Cheng Hua who looked panicked and uneasy.

Mrs. Lin's body was trembling uncontrollably. She raised her voice and said, "War? Conscription...conscription? A Wan said, what are you going to... do?"

Cheng Xiaoyu stamped her foot hard and said anxiously: "Pack your things! Nai, pack your things! Sister said to prepare to escape!"

"Yes...yes, pack your things."

Mrs. Lin ran into the house in a daze and almost fell down.

In the room.

"There is chaos in the county. Is your lady okay? She asked you to deliver a letter to me. Will it cause trouble for you? Will you be in danger when you return to the city later?"

Chunwen felt warm in his heart and replied: "No matter what, the young lady is the daughter of the county magistrate. As long as the master is here, the young lady will be fine."

"The gate of the county town was not opened on time this morning and has been kept tightly closed. Now in the city, the county government officials and the soldiers sent by King An are arresting people everywhere, and many people are blocking the city gate. There is a large group in the middle. The eager man killed the official guarding the city gate, opened the city gate, and we took advantage of that opportunity to get out of the city."

"We are in the middle of the group of people escaping from the city. We are inconspicuous and no one notices us. We will wait until the city gate opens again before entering the city. The slave girl is a woman and the three coachmen are all in their fifties and sixties. Old man, no one will give us a hard time."

Cheng Wan breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

When Cheng met Xu Zhinian for the first time at night, she found out that Xu Zhinian's father was the magistrate of the county. She was still shocked at the time.

She had thought about Xu Zhinian's extraordinary background, but she also thought that Xu Zhinian's family was from a wealthy family in the city. She really didn't expect that Xu Zhinian was actually the daughter of the county magistrate's family.

But Cheng Wan didn't tell his family about this, not even Cheng Erniu.

Cheng Wan felt that saying so might add something a little off to the friendship between her and Xu Zhinian. It was good for the two of them to just talk about each other.

Chunwen said anxiously: "Miss Cheng, those people sent by King An know that someone has escaped from the city, and they must have guessed that some villages outside the city will know the news of recruiting troops in advance, and they will definitely speed up to the villages. , Miss Cheng, please make up your mind quickly."

Cheng Wan turned around twice and took a deep breath to keep her mind clear and calm. Now she couldn't panic or get confused.

To escape, at least you have to know where to go.

"I heard when I went to the county before that our county is relatively close to the capital under the rule of King An, right?"

Chunwen nodded, "Yes, the late emperor favored King An, so the three states under King An's rule are all in good positions. Our place belongs to Ganzhou, and it is only separated from the capital by Ningzhou, but Ningzhou does not belong to An." Wang Guan."

Cheng Wan couldn't help cursing the late emperor in her heart, "There's something wrong with this old man! Since he likes King An, he should keep King An by his side and directly pass the throne to him! This will separate King An and give him the throne." How can King An not rebel in his three states? Even if King An doesn't rebel, how can the new emperor tolerate King An!"

No wonder King An was recruiting troops so crazily. If he didn't recruit troops, it would be better to strike first. When the new emperor's throne was a little more stable, he would have to come and attack him.

There must be a battle between King An and the new emperor. Either you die or I live.

The connection between Ganzhou and Ningzhou will definitely become one of the main battlefields where both sides compete.

Their county is also close to Ningzhou. Once the war starts, they will bear the brunt of the war.

Cheng Wan pinched her palms hard and made her brain spin rapidly.

You definitely can't stay in King An's territory, and you can't go to the new emperor's territory.

Both sides are at war. King An's side is recruiting troops like crazy, and the new emperor's side is probably recruiting troops as well.

"Chunwen, I remember that in addition to King Duan and King An, the late emperor also had a son, King Rui of the north, right?"

"Yes."

"How much do you know about King Rui?"

"My young lady's uncle is the governor of Anling County under the rule of King Rui. I only know that His Highness Prince Rui is the legitimate son of the late emperor and the empress of Yuan Dynasty. He should have inherited the throne, but something happened to the mother's family of the empress of Yuan Dynasty. Later, he hanged himself. His Royal Highness Prince Rui contradicted the late emperor for his mother's sake, so he was relegated to Liangzhou in the north and was not allowed to return to the capital without an edict."

Cheng Wan was determined to go north to Liangzhou!

At the very least, in a short period of time, the new emperor and An Wang were so busy beating each other's brains out that they probably didn't have time to cause trouble to Prince Rui.

As long as Prince Rui has a little bit of brain, he will not get involved in the fight between the new emperor and Prince An now.

"Chunwen, thank you!"

Cheng Wan said her thanks very sincerely, and she really thanked Chunwen.

If it weren't for Chunwen, she wouldn't have known this news.

Thanks to Chunwen being the maid of the magistrate's family, otherwise she probably wouldn't have known this.

As for her gratitude to Xu Zhinian, Cheng Wan kept it in her heart.

Chunwen quickly leaned over and saluted, "Miss Cheng, you're welcome."