Hanhou

Yuli is located in the north of Shaling County. It is named after a elm forest. Frontier residents settled here as early as the Qin Dynasty.

It was getting dark, the fires were extinguished little by little, and more than 20 families also lost their voices one after another.

Two hundred paces to the west of Yuli, there are several abandoned wooden houses. Tall elm trees stand around the wooden houses, covering three carts hidden behind the houses.

"Ji Zi, we agreed to pick up people today. If there is a mistake, you know Fang Bo's temper!" A villain in a leather robe with a fierce look in his eyes was riding on a horse, staring unkindly at the man who was huddled beside the car. A man in sackcloth.

Being scolded by the villain with his first and last names, Ji Zi didn't feel angry at all. Instead, she smiled and flattered her, and said, "How dare I lie about how famous Fang Bo is? It's just that in recent years, earthen walls have been built in the village. Yuli is no exception. We live close to him, and it is not as easy to pick him up as before. You need to be more careful so that you don't attract the attention of others."

The villain snorted and pressed the handle of the knife impatiently.

"The last time I came, there was no such earth wall."

"That's not it." Ji Zi also had a gloomy face, and spat, "It's all Zhao's children in Linxiang who thought of such a method. Those with earthen walls will grow taller, and those without earthen walls will follow suit, making pieces piece by piece. Get up. I heard that there are archery towers built in some villages, and they are guarded day and night."

"Zhao's child? How old is it?" The villain's eyes flickered slightly.

Guessing the villain's plan, Ji Zi was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "That kid is not an ordinary person. His father was a guest of the prefect, a meritorious officer in Shaling County, and even beheaded the head of the Xiongnu. I will leave it to the kid Hundreds of acres of land, hereditary titles of military merit, and more than a dozen strong servants, it's best not to think of him!"

"Mouse guts!" The villain sneered.

He traveled around the counties with Fang Bo, doctors, merchants, hundreds of craftsmen, and even good family members. Not to mention that the father of this child is dead, even if he is not dead, as long as he really wants to loot, there is no way.

When the Xiongnu attacked the border last year, they made a fortune. Besides the border residents, they also kidnapped many sons and daughters of the border soldiers, transported them to other counties and sold them, and made quite a lot of money.

The villains have already lost their humanity, and they have done a lot of murder and arson in order to plunder and sell people.

There were several women in the caravan who were even more vicious than him. The mulberry picker who sold for a high price last year was plundered by women.Some women wanted to escape, but they were locked up and starved to death by the woman, and they brought the body to other women, threatening to escape, and this was the end.

"It's a pity, otherwise, I would have gained an extra piece of silk." The villain said to himself, not taking human life seriously at all.

Seeing his expression, Ji Zi shrank her neck subconsciously, not daring to speak any more.

As the night darkened, the gatekeeper in Lizhong carefully lit the torch and waved it twice towards the nearest houses.Inside the low courtyard wall, the woman who was in charge of keeping the wind off took off the door bolt and waved to the man behind her.

The man turned around and walked into the house, removed the water tank on the ground, lifted the wooden boards hidden underneath, and revealed a dark cellar.

In the cellar, seven or eight young girls leaned together, the older ones struggled to move forward, and the younger ones protected behind them.The girls had their hands tied behind their backs and their mouths were gagged.Seeing a man show up, there is hatred in his eyes, wishing he could bite off the man's throat.

Seeing a lot of similar situations, the man didn't take it seriously at all, he just smiled, took the wooden ladder, let the woman guard it, went down to the cellar by himself, and forced the girls to climb up the wooden ladder with a short knife.

"Hurry up!"

The girls walked out of the cellar one by one, the first two looked at each other, one slammed into the guard woman, the other broke away from the rope that had been frayed long ago, ignoring the bloody wrist, and pulled the coarse cloth off her mouth , ran out of the door desperately.While running, he shouted: "Help!"

Both women and men were taken aback.

Regardless of the pain in her waist, the woman wanted to catch the fleeing girl.

Unexpectedly, another girl rushed forward, broke free from the rope that bound her hands, and desperately hugged the woman's leg.There was a five or six-year-old girl, trembling with fear, still tearing her face, and bit the woman's wrist fiercely.

"Quick, ladder! Take the ladder!"

Seeing that the man was about to climb up, the girls who were still under the cellar jumped up together and dragged him off the ladder.Regardless of the broken arm, he said loudly: "Leave us alone! Only one can escape!"

"no!"

A young girl saw the machete leaning against the corner of the wall, ran over quickly, grabbed it with all her strength, raised it above her head, and slashed at the woman fiercely.

The woman let out a scream, not as hard as before.

"I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you!"

With red eyes, the girl holding the hatchet rushed back to the cellar like a vicious female leopard.

Both her Aunt and Aunt died at the hands of the Huns, and all her family members also died.She and Adi came to visit relatives in the cloud, but they didn't want to, but they went into the wolf's den.Her own uncle robbed them of their only copper coins, and then sold them to this villain!

Brother wanted to take her away, but when the villain found out, he beat and kicked her and couldn't make it through that day.

She hates!

She wants the lives of the jackals!

The girl grabbed the hatchet tightly, and saw the man climb up again, without any hesitation, she slashed down fiercely!

"what!"

Accompanied by the man's screams, several fingers rolled to the ground, and the wooden ladder was stained red with blood.

The escaped girl rushed out of the courtyard door, shouting for help.

Several nearby houses were lit up one after another.

Someone came out in cloaked clothes, and when he saw the girl calling for help, his expression changed immediately.Instead of extending a helping hand, he wanted to cover the girl's mouth and drag her back to the courtyard.

"Hmm—" The girl was terrified.

Two more girls ran out, and when they realized the situation in front of them, they rushed forward desperately and stabbed the broken pottery in their hands into the thighs of the villagers.

"the wicked!"

"Don't die!"

The noise broke the tranquility of the night, and seeing the fire in the opposite neighborhood, the villagers who were entangled by the girl couldn't help showing panic.

Five or six men in short brown clothes with open skirts came over to check. Seeing the situation in front of them, and then looking at the girls rushing out of the door one after another, they were stunned for a moment, and then their faces were full of anger. With a loud shout, they raised their fists and rushed forward .

The girls were full of misery and looked at the Yuanmen not far away, thinking that they would never be able to escape again.Unexpectedly, the man pulled them away, shielded them behind his back, and smashed his fists into the villain's face!

"Thief, black-hearted villain!"

The more and more villagers gathered, the gatekeeper saw that the situation was not good and wanted to sneak away, but he was punched in the back and fell forward, knocking out his front teeth on the spot.

"Search!"

At the old man's order, Qing Zhuang and the woman broke open the wooden doors of several houses, dragged the crying woman out, searched around the house, found several cellars, and rescued more than a dozen boys.Two of them are already unconscious, and if they don't find a doctor, they probably won't survive tonight.

The faces of the villagers suddenly changed.

If these five families did such evil things, if they were replaced by the previous dynasty, more than 20 families in a mile would have to sit together!

"Boys and girls are taken care of by women. All these villains are tied up and sent to the official temple after dawn!"

The women wailed even louder, but they didn't howl a few times before they were pushed to the ground together with the men, punched and kicked down, and they could hardly even groan.

"This man is the brother-in-law of Litian in the village!" A villager recognized the man whose finger had been cut off, and said loudly, "He drives to the county every five days, so he must have taken the opportunity to hide him in the car." Bring it home!"

"The gatekeeper is with them!"

Although the earthen walls were built, people in Yuli still continued their previous living habits, with five households living in one neighborhood, with a certain distance between neighbors.This kind of living habit allows several families to cover each other and work together.

Fortunately, God has eyes to expose their evil deeds.

Everyone couldn't imagine how many children and girls were killed by them before the earthen wall was built!

"Go to the county seat tomorrow and ask the official temple to arrest Li Tian!"

Without interrogation, he knew that this matter had nothing to do with Li Tian.

There was a lot of commotion inside, the villain and Ji Zi couldn't hear the sound clearly, but they could see the light of the fire.

Ji Zi is Li Tian in the village population. At this moment, his forehead is sweating, and he is [-]% sure that the matter has been exposed.Turning his head to look at the villain, he wanted to say that this business cannot be done, and asked the other party to help him to say a few words in front of Fang Bo, and he would reward him with copper coins and silk cloth.

Not wanting to say anything, a cold swipe across the neck, Ji Zi opened his eyes wide, watching his body headless, blood spurted from the broken neck, staining the white snow red.

The villain sneered, licked the scarlet on the blade, and said viciously: "I'm afraid the matter will be revealed, so I will slaughter the people here! The young girls will take them all away, and then set them on fire!"

The villains screamed loudly, excited like bloodthirsty jackals.

When the villain gave an order, the gangsters put their legs between the horse's belly, held the reins with one hand, and rushed towards the earthen wall.

Before rushing five meters, the sound of breaking wind suddenly hit.

The villain instinctively dodged, avoiding the arrows that hit his neck.The villains around were not so lucky, they screamed and fell off their horses one after another.Some broke their necks and died on the spot, while others rolled on the ground, hugging their arms and legs and crying.

The sound of breaking wind came again.

After three waves of arrow rain, the wailing stopped abruptly.

Torches appeared one after another, from far to near.

Knights in armor surrounded them, and their horseshoes crushed the snow and crushed ice condensed with human blood.The fire illuminated the cart, reflecting the ferocious face of the villain.

Wei Yuece stepped forward immediately, with his bow fully drawn, the light of the arrow was colder than the snow.

The horses began to run, and the knights on the horses drew their bows at the same time. As long as the bowstring sounded, the villains could be shot into hedgehogs.

Facing the cold arrow light, the villain finally started to get scared, and suddenly got off his horse, knelt in the snow, and said loudly: "I am willing to surrender!"

duh!

An arrow flew head-on, piercing the villain's left eye.

Wei Yue put down his long bow, Wei Wu stepped forward on his horse, and swung his knife to cut off the villain's neck.

"Wish to surrender? What are you!"

"Send two horses to the interior to look after the looted people, and send them to Yunzhong City tomorrow." Wei Yue said.

"promise!"

The corpse of the villain is left in the snow, and the wild beasts will pick it up.

Wei Yue whistled, and the cavalry quickly assembled, and according to the clues left by the scouts, they galloped away to the next village.

Wei Taishou issued a strict order that these villains must be buried in Yunzhong County, and no one is allowed to escape!With the scouts released by the frontier army and the information sent by Zhao Jia, there was no way to hide the caravan's presence.

The reason why the caravan in the city was not detained immediately was to avoid alarming the enemy and rescue the captive boys and girls as soon as possible.After tonight, the prefect Wei will order people to seal the gates of the city, one by one, and arrest all the villains!

Zhao Jia didn't take part in the action at night, and stayed at home, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.He simply got up and walked around the screen, sat down behind the table, lit the lamp, picked up Wei Yue's reply letter, and read it again from beginning to end.

Wei Taishou's memorial was sent to Chang'an, but there is no news so far, and Zhao Jia also found something wrong.It's just that due to the news channel, I can't think of who is behind the trip.

According to what Wei Yue said, Prefect Wei intended to invite him as a guest, and with the protective umbrella of Prefect Yunzhong, no matter who was behind the action, he had to be more or less scrupulous.

Zhao Jia sat cross-legged, resting his chin on one hand, and tapped his fingers on the wooden tablet.

First came Zhang Tong, followed by someone from Chang'an. He just wanted to tap the technology tree for farming and farming. Why is it so difficult to be a quiet farmer?