Crown Prince

Seeing the angry expression on the doctor's face, the students in the hall kept silent.For a moment, calm was restored in the lecture hall.

Li Ying bit the tip of his pen and looked back in the direction of the second gate. After all, the courtyard of this school is deep and secluded, and after the sound of horseshoes, he could not hear anything... If he was on the street, he might still hear some news.It's not that he's curious, it's just that he's getting closer and closer to the five-year period, which always makes him feel a little uneasy.

Dr. Cui glanced over and found that among the white faces in the hall, there was a black head stuck abruptly on the back of his head. When he took a closer look, he couldn't help pulling out his beard in anger, and shouted sharply: "Wang Hezhang! Why are you still standing there in a daze!" He was so angry! !He is a dignified Ph.D. He has been teaching for so many years, and he has seen all people who are dedicated to learning... How can he teach such a stubborn person when he is old? !

Li Ying was taken aback, and hurriedly pretended to turn back to read, but Cui Wenyuan, who was obliquely in front of him, couldn't help but shook his head and thought, Junior Brother...It's too late.

Dr. Cui walked down with the ruler in his hand, thinking viciously as he walked, this meeting must not be soft-hearted again - he must teach that kid a lesson!But just as he walked in front of Li Ying's short desk, the second door [-] meters away was suddenly pushed open, and the copper hinges rubbed against the wood violently, making an extremely ear-piercing noise.

"What's wrong…"

"do not know…"

The students were all excited now, and they all turned their heads to look at the past.I saw the teaching assistant who taught them basic arithmetic on weekdays and led a guard hurriedly through the porch towards the lecture hall. Even his hair was a little loose, and he looked completely embarrassed.

Cui Dingjiang slowly lowered his hand holding the ruler, his gray eyebrows furrowed.

"My lord——" The teaching assistant saw Cui Dingjiang from a distance, as if seeing a savior, and almost tripped over the threshold when he stepped into the lecture hall: "My lord! Something is wrong!!"

Cui Dingjiang glanced past him and looked at the guard behind him. He saw that he was a school captain. I'm afraid that this time the matter will be a big deal...

The school lieutenant also frowned, looking like he was in a hurry.He passed the teaching assistant, saluted Cui Dingjiang curtly and said in a deep voice, "My lord, I don't know if any of your disciples are from the countryside?"

Cui Dingjiang couldn't help but tighten his heart, and said: "What happened?"

"Bandit riots..." The captain's face was serious: "It has already attacked more than a dozen surrounding villages, burning, killing and looting everywhere they went, and no one survived... But they are so many and powerful, and the horses are strong. Report the truth to the imperial court and go to the neighboring prefectures and counties to ask for reinforcements." He swept around the silent students in the lecture hall, and sighed, "If someone lives in a nearby village...you can go with the guards and identify the dead body."

For a moment, almost all the students looked at Li Ying.

In this class, most of them lived in the county or the state capital. Only Li Ying lived in Baoquan Township.

Cui Wenyuan stood up, walked quickly to Li Ying and picked him up, then went to the captain and asked, "My lord, my junior brother's family lives in Baoquan Township, I wonder if there... is it..."

The school lieutenant looked at the child in a daze. He was pink and tender, and he was more pampered than at home... He couldn't help showing a trace of resentment.

"Baoquan Township...is exactly the third township to be attacked..."

Li Ying's head exploded with a bang, leaving nothing.

At this time, there are still three days left for the Chinese New Year holiday.

The guards who came back from the front and the guards guarding the city gate changed their guards, and they all got on their horses and waited neatly at the city gate.Even if it is necessary to investigate the looted villages and drive away the bandits, the county cannot relax its guard - the bandits are so numerous, who knows if they will target the most prosperous county next?The number of guards in the county seat is limited, and if they want to fully encircle and suppress those mountain bandits, they have to wait for reinforcements from neighboring counties. At this time, all they can do is to collect the corpses of ordinary villagers who have been massacred.

The one who led the troops out of the city this time was Li Hengsheng, the school captain of the eighth grade Xuanjie.He is only in his early twenties, but he is already a veteran ruffian, and his subordinates can even lead a group of soldiers with a savage spirit, but he is somewhat suffocated in this small county town with beautiful scenery and simple livelihood.

"Hengsheng, but wait!" The captain who was going to the academy rushed over on horseback and stopped his colleagues who were about to leave.

Li Heng smacked his lips impatiently, reined in his horse and said, "What's the matter?"

Cui Wenyuan on the side hurriedly dismounted, then hugged the junior brother who had been sitting in front of him, and cupped his hands to Li Heng: "My lord! Please take my junior brother to Baoquan Township."

Li Heng glared at his colleague violently.He looked at the little thing under the horse... Tsk, how could it be so small?If he was walking on the street, he would drive his horse directly over that little thing, and he probably wouldn't even notice it.

"No!" He flatly refused: "Don't waste the time of our school captain any longer. If you delay the suppression of the bandits at night, can you afford it? Let's start——"

"Take me there!!" The little boy who had kept his head down and said nothing suddenly raised his head, just grabbed his whip and said, "Take me there! Or give me a horse!!"

Li Heng raised his thick eyebrows, and wanted to say something, but was snorted fiercely by his colleague's dark horse. "Heng Sheng, you can take him there..." The captain sighed: "At this time, only your team is going to Baoquan Township, he...all the boy's family members are there."

Cui Wenyuan also looked at him, pleading.

Li Hengsheng lowered his head to look at the child who was holding onto his whip.The little guy's face was extremely pale, and his eyes were black and bright, as if he was about to cry in the next moment.The whole family is here?Doesn't that mean...how big is this little thing?She doesn't look like she's more than four years old.

The next moment, Li Ying only felt his body vacated for a while, and then he was already sitting in front of the rude man, being held tightly by a pair of powerful arms.

"Sit down!" The man shouted from above his head, and then his body jolted violently, and the horse rushed out like a sharp arrow.

Cui Wenyuan rode his horse forward a few steps, and shouted loudly: "Junior Brother—Senior Brother is waiting for you in the academy!!" If possible, he really wanted to go with Junior Brother, but now the city gate is under martial law, if it is not for guards, he will definitely Can't get out.

It's still early, but today it's inexplicably cloudy, dark clouds are rolling in, and the rain is about to fall... I don't know if God is mourning for those innocent people who died.

The guards had already left. Cui Wenyuan rode on a horse wearing a thin coat, watching the city gate being pushed up from a distance, and the dust brought up by the horses under the guards' seats was strictly blocked from the city gate.From the beginning to the end, the child didn't look back, smiling and waving at him as usual.

An ominous omen suddenly appeared in my heart.

Li Ying couldn't open his eyes due to the oncoming cold wind, and his face was sorely scratched.But he just huddled there desperately, squinting and staring ahead without saying a word.

Chilled all over.

"...It's not that they didn't survive..." The man behind him spoke suddenly, as if realizing something was wrong, he added: "The captain of the school went to four nearby villages, and dozens of people are safe and sound..."

There should be about [-] households in the four townships... Are there only a few dozen people?

"..." Li Ying calculated, and his expression became more and more gloomy.

Li Hengsheng couldn't help scolding himself in his heart, it's better not to say this sentence, it scares the child!He tugged at the reins to slow down the horse, paused when his big hand touched the little guy, and simply took off his cloak with one hand, wrapping him tightly.

"A manly man, why do you have to be like this... The captain of the school has no father and no mother, isn't he still a small official, and he is in charge of people!" He comforted a little impatiently, but his voice seemed a little indistinct in the wind.

"..." Li Ying tugged at the cloak with her small hands resentfully, thinking, of course you don't understand my feelings without parents, and you dare to comfort me! !What a bastard...! !Choking, he wiped his face with the cloak and blew his nose again.

Subconsciously, he didn't think about the bandits, he just wanted to think that he was hitching a ride home from the people's police to visit his relatives.Bandits?What it is?How could there be bandits?

Yan Xing clearly said...obviously said that Hui Niang has five years of life...but it's not five years yet!not yet!Moreover, and what happened to Wang Han and Erlang? !Thinking of this, he felt a little lucky again.His house is in such a remote bamboo forest, and the road leading to it is also bumpy. Those bandits all ride horses, maybe they will bypass it?

When he was about to reach Baoquan Township, Li Hengsheng raised his hand to signal the horses to stop.The sky was dark, and the wind was blowing from a distance, carrying an indescribable smell.

Li Heng sniffed his nose, his face became ugly.His arm was still in front of the little guy, but he couldn't say anything.The wind blowing, turned out to be a thick smell of blood.

I'm afraid that what Baoquan Township encountered was a tragic massacre.Although it was confirmed that Baoquan Township was the third township to be attacked before, it was delayed until now because of the news that bandits were in the neighboring townships and the lack of manpower.The child in my arms may become an orphan in the future.

He looked down at Li Ying, and the hand holding the rein couldn't help but tighten.

"go!"

With an order, this column of well-trained soldiers drove in and entered this small Baoquan Township.As soon as he arrived outside the courtyard of the family closest to the exit, Li Hengsheng wrapped Li Ying from head to toe with a cloak, and covered his small face with his big hands through the heavy cloth of the cloak.

Too tragic a scene.

Apparently no one from the family survived.Three or two corpses were lying in front of the fence, and there was a young man who was cut in half by a saber, his legs were hanging on the fence wall, and his intestines fell to the ground.The big fat pig that couldn’t be taken away in the pigsty was hacked to death, the free-range chickens cooed in panic and flew around, a dog’s stomach was cut open, and died with its owner, the big bean The black eyeballs were still staring round before death, and the tongue was sticking out long.

The smell of blood was so choking that it was almost hard to breathe.

"These sons of bitches -!" Li Heng cursed unbearably from the guards behind him.These people have also killed that kind of desert bandits in the border town, and they are all extremely vicious. Even if the corpses are piled up in piles-it will not make them feel extremely angry like the scene before them.

Because these are all unarmed civilians! !

Li Ying couldn't see it, but he could smell it and hear it.He had smelled that bloody smell before, but it was when chickens were slaughtered in the vegetable market... But what he smelled now was the smell of human blood.

He grabbed the cloak tremblingly, feeling the urge to vomit.

If it's the first...he knows who it is.Uncle Liu and Aunt Liu, as well as Niuwa, the youngest dog... and Rhubarb, Xiaohua...

'Father...mother...'

"Where is your home?" Li Hengsheng asked anxiously when he noticed that the little thing in his arms was shaking more and more.It's better to take him to the house to have a look, if there is nothing wrong... If there is something wrong, it is better to accept the reality earlier than to be uneasy here.

Li Ying clenched his small fists, his teeth chattered intermittently, and he was speechless in a daze.

Mixing...how about mixing?Why is he not here at this time?

"...I, my house is... in the bamboo forest on the other side..." Li Ying choked up in a low voice.That's right, the reason why Yan Xing didn't show up...is because he didn't want to see himself acting like a fool who knew that something would happen to Hui Niang...so he lost his composure...but why didn't Yan Xing tell him that Hui Niang didn't die of illness, but Died in such an accident...why didn't you tell him that his father and his younger brother would also...have an accident...

The fluke in his heart finally turned into severe pain.

The rain has finally fallen.