The county horse is a medicine jar

The gate of Dingxi City will be opened on time every day at Chenshi, and it will be opened for about an hour to give porridge to the victims outside the city.Lin Sishen got up early in the morning, handed a handwritten letter to the head of the official post, and then walked straight to the outer city gate with Mo Zhu and a group of followers.

Originally, Sun Wenqian issued an order that when the city was wide open, no one was allowed to enter or leave the city gate.But when Lin Sishen and his group arrived at the city gate, the officers and soldiers guarding the city did not know whether they recognized Lin Sishen, were afraid of her status as an imperial envoy, or had already received the wind, and did not stop Lin Sishen at all. sent out of town.

Lin Sishen and Mo Zhu sat in the carriage, Meng Lin and other followers followed on horseback.

There is a long queue in front of the porridge shed outside the city gate, all of them are victims of the disaster waiting for porridge.

Lin Sishen picked up the curtain of the car and took a quick look, then felt that something was wrong. Although these victims were all ragged and disheveled, their faces were quite rosy and their expressions were a bit lazy.

Someone stretched his waist and yawned. When the bowl was handed over to pick up the porridge, he glanced at it with drooping eyelids, thanked him, and then stepped aside, muttering something to the person beside him.

And looking around, such a large group of disaster victims are all strong men, not even the elderly, weak, women and children.

Meng Lin rode on a tall horse, turned his head to look at the victims who were looking at them, and hurried to the side of the carriage, and said in a low voice: "Master, there seems to be something wrong with these victims."

Hearing this, Lin Sishen glanced back casually, and happened to see a man with a stick in the crowd secretly looking at him.After the four eyes met, the man looked away as if nothing had happened.

Look at his muscular and sturdy figure, as well as his thick arms that cannot be covered by his sleeves, he looks like a disaster victim who has been hungry for a long time, and he is clearly a practitioner.

Lin Sishen withdrew his gaze, and said in a cold voice unceremoniously: "It's just a group of rascals who pretend to be fakes, don't pay attention to it, hurry up and go."

Watching the carriage gradually disappear outside the city, a dozen strong men suddenly walked out of the group of victims waiting for the porridge.They looked stern and ruthless, dropped the broken bowls in their hands, and ran after Lin Sishen and others in the direction where Lin Sishen and others disappeared.

In Dingxi City Protectorate, on the lakeside pavilion with winding water and gurgling water, Sun Wenqian in official uniform was standing under the vermilion eaves.

Holding a white jade bowl in his hand, he looked at the group of fat koi carp that came out of the water in the lake, took fish food from the bowl, and threw it into the water, causing the group of koi carp to wag their tails and rush forward to grab the food .

Just as he was feeding the fish with a relaxed expression, a man in green shirt dressed as a scholar suddenly came not far away. It was Sun Wenqian's subordinate, Runzhu.

He walked quickly through the corridor, stopped behind Sun Wenqian, bowed respectfully and said, "Master Qibao, the Imperial Envoy has just left the city."

Sun Wenqian sneered when he heard the words, then handed the white jade bowl to the maidservant beside him, and waved his hand to signal the maidservant to back down.When the person walked away, he turned around and said, "Sure enough, as I expected, this Lin Sishen is not a peaceful person."

Run Zhu narrowed his eyes and smiled: "My lord had a clever plan. He knew that he would leave the city quietly, so he ordered him to do so early in the morning. Now it's easier to deal with. Before we design to lure him out of the city, he will fall into the trap."

Sun Wenqian stroked his beard, pondered for a moment and asked, "Have you arranged the manpower properly?"

Run Zhu replied: "The humble job has already arranged for several groups of people to follow up. They are all desperate for money. As long as the lord gives an order, they will attack themselves in groups, and they will definitely decapitate Lin Sishen. place."

Sun Wenqian nodded in satisfaction, and then ordered: "Wait for them to walk away before doing anything."

Runzhu respectfully accepted the order: "Since this is the case, then the humble official should lead people to set off."

A sinister cold light flashed in Sun Wenqian's eyes, and he stared straight at Runzhu: "You need to remember that this matter must not go wrong, and those people have to deal with it well after it is done. If this matter Something went wrong on the way and let Lin Sishen escape, even if you have nine lives, you can't afford it."

Run Zhu's expression froze, then he hurriedly knelt down and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the humble job will definitely live up to your high expectations."

Sun Wen modestly helped Runzhu up, patted him on the shoulder very seriously, and said gently: "Runzhu, you are my right-hand man, as long as you do things for me with peace of mind, I will definitely not treat you badly in the future." .By the way, there is an unmarried little daughter in my family. You met her a few days ago. She seems to appreciate you a little bit. I don't know you..."

What Sun Wenqian said was straightforward enough, of course Runzhu understood what he meant.

I don't know how many people in Longyou are coveting Sun Wenqian's mansion, this unmarried young lady.If he can climb up to Sun Wenqian, marry his daughter, and become his son-in-law, his career in the future will be smooth sailing and boundless.

Run Zhu's face was filled with joy, and he cupped his hands and said: "My lord, if the sixth lady appreciates you, you will be lucky."

Sun Wenqian glanced at Runzhu, suddenly turned around with his hands behind his back, and said leisurely: "Your Qin family is considered a well-known family in Longyou, not to mention that you are full of economics, erudition and talent, and you have a handsome appearance. After this matter is over, you will send your parents Please come to Dingxi City, marriage, we can discuss it then."

The corners of Run Zhu's lips could not hide the joyful smile, he solemnly cupped his hands and said: "To repay Your Excellency's kindness, I must do my best in this lowly position, to remove all obstacles for Your Excellency."

Sun Wenqian didn't look back, just waved his hands and said calmly: "Go."

Run Zhu backed down slowly, walked quickly outside the mansion all the way with his head down, a smug and thankful smile was always on the corner of his lips.After not walking far, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a corner of the courtyard wall, hiding a short woman in pink with messy hair.

A maid hurriedly ran out from the door, looked around and found the woman who was hiding, she was relieved, stepped forward to grab the woman, and complained in a low voice: "Miss Six, why are you hiding here? You are scared to death servant."

The woman in pink was pulled and turned her head, revealing a dark and ugly face, she smiled foolishly, and tried her best to show the maidservant the petals in her hand: "Flower, look at the flower, it's beautiful."

This stupid and ugly woman is the youngest daughter Sun Wenqian said, and also the young lady that Runzhu wants to cling to.

Miss Silly was holding a fallen flower, and kept giggling and murmuring, the servant girl was a little annoyed when she saw this, but she looked around cautiously as if she had thought of something just as she was about to have an attack.Coincidentally, I found Run Zhu standing not far away.

Her complexion changed immediately, and she tugged on the sleeve of Miss Silly to show her: "Miss Six, Mr. Qin is here."

When Miss Chisha heard the words "Master Qin", she suddenly felt a little embarrassed, she followed the maidservant's gaze and saw Run Zhu, her body trembled immediately, and the falling flower in her hand fell to the ground.She didn't care about Luohua either, she blushed and lowered her head, shyly afraid to look up at Runzhu again.

Seeing this, Run Zhu had a smile on his face, as warm and gentle as a spring breeze, and he walked slowly to the master and servant.He leaned over and picked up the fallen flowers on the ground, and put them in the young lady's hands. After slightly closing his head as a signal, he turned around and left Shi Shiran.

The young lady was flattered and held the flowers in her hands, staring at Runzhu's back infatuatedly, and refused to look away for a long time.

As soon as Runzhu turned around, the smile on his face disappeared instantly. When he got to a place where no one was around, he looked at the hand that had touched Luohua with disgust, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and carefully wiped it several times. In the end, he didn't even want to ask for the handkerchief anymore, he just threw it on the ground, and left the Duhu Mansion quickly.

*****

Lin Sishen and his party drove to Pingliang City in a carriage. Along the way, there were no people in sight as far as they could see.The dilapidated old houses on the roadside are crumbling, and there are cobwebs on the door. It is unknown whether the owner has left his hometown or is already dead.

It was like this until tens of miles away from Dingxi City, and only then did I see people, but what I saw were bones lying on the ground, and people lingering on the side of the road, who were stumbling around and sitting on the tree in a daze. Next, it seems to be waiting to die.

Even when they saw the carriage of Lin Sishen and his party, they only tried their best to look up, and they didn't even have the strength to go forward to beg for food.

Seeing this, Lin Sishen couldn't bear it, so he asked Mo Zhu to remove most of the dry food and water bags from the car, and distributed them to them.

Along the way, there were too many victims, even if Lin Sishen filled a wagon full of dry food, it was just a drop in the bucket. In the end, she really couldn't bear to look any longer, so she could only put down the curtain of the car and close her eyes to rest.

Mo Zhu pursed his lips, and hesitantly called softly: "Master..."

Lin Sishen shook her head helplessly, and she sighed softly: "Mo Zhu, I know what you want to ask me. I can only tell you that the disaster in Longyou is actually not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster. If you want to save Longyou There are tens of thousands of people on the right, and they cannot be saved by checking the account books."

Meng Lin outside the car heard what Lin Sishen said, and immediately said in a clear voice: "Miss Mo Zhu, the young master is right, now there is a greedy big brave in Longyou, if you want to save the people in Longyou, you must first You have to pierce the belly of this Pixiu."

Just as they were saying this, the carriage stopped suddenly. Lin Sishen lifted the curtain and took a look, and saw a woman's body lying in the middle of the official road not far away.

Meng Linpai immediately took a look, he bent down and lifted the rags from the woman's body to check, then he seemed to be stunned, squatting there motionless.

Lin Sishen looked a little strange, so he jumped out of the carriage and walked forward. When he came to Meng Lin's side and lowered his eyes, Lin Sishen also froze on the spot.

I saw that woman had been dead for several days, her eyes were wide open, her body was rotten and stinky, but what was shocking was that she was still nursing a small baby in her arms, and the child was lying on her chest. He closed his eyes tightly in front of him, still sucking the juice of his dead mother.

But her mother had been dead for a long time, and where there was milk, the baby was clearly sucking the mother's blood.In other words, after the mother died, the child survived with difficulty by sucking the mother's blood.

Meng Lin was stunned by the scene in front of him. He stared blankly and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.Lin Sishen reacted quickly, took off the coat on her body, squatted down and quickly wrapped the child in her arms.

Lin Sishen looked down at the baby in his arms with a serious expression. The baby left the mother's embrace and suddenly struggled and began to cry. Her lips were still stained with dried blood.

Lin Sishen glanced at the woman on the ground complicatedly, closed his eyes and said softly, "Meng Lin, bury this poor woman right there."

Although the baby survived by relying on the mother's flesh and blood, it was extremely weak. After Lin Sishen got into the carriage, he hurriedly asked Mo Zhu to feed her some water, then soaked the dry food in water and crushed it, and then fed her some .

After burying the woman, Lin Sishen took the poor baby he picked up and continued on his way.

After driving for several days in a row, they finally arrived in a group of mountains not far from Pingliang City.The terrain here is dangerous and narrow, and if you are not careful, you will fall off the cliff.

After they finally found a flat open space, the sky gradually darkened. Although Lin Sishen and Mo Zhu could hold on after traveling day and night, the baby couldn't.

Lin Sishen could only order to temporarily rest overnight in the barren hills.

The most indispensable thing on the mountain was dead wood. Meng Lin picked up a pile and lit a bonfire. Two guards patrolled the vicinity, and the rest sat cross-legged and warmed themselves by the fire for the time being.

The wind was a bit chilly at night, Lin Sishen even took out his official uniform and asked Mo Zhu to wrap the baby Haosheng up so that she wouldn't catch a cold from the wind.

These few days, Mo Zhu took care of the baby, he was exhausted, so Lin Sishen took the baby in his arms, and let Mo Zhu rest for a while.

While the flames were flickering, the porcelain doll-like little person in Lin Sishen's arms refused to sleep, staring at Lin Sishen curiously with round eyes like black grapes.

Lin Sishen raised his hand awkwardly to cover her gaze, then asked Mo Zhu beside him in a low voice: "Mo Zhu, how old does she look?"

Mo Zhu pondered, "They've all grown teeth, so they should be one year old."

Hearing what Mo Zhu said, Lin Sishen wanted to see the child's teeth, so he moved his hand away.Unexpectedly, with a movement of his hand, the child suddenly tried to widen his eyes, waved his small arms in Lin Sishen's arms, grinned and giggled happily.

Seeing this, Lin Sishen became a little interested, and she tentatively put her hand in front of the child again, and sure enough, the child stopped laughing, and when she moved her hand away again, the child laughed happily again.

After repeating this several times, the child's immature and innocent laughter provoked the rest of the people to look at it one after another, and they couldn't help showing a relaxed smile on their faces.

Seeing that Lin Sishen was making fun of the child, one of the guards couldn't help but tease him: "Young master can tease the child, but I don't know...when will the young master and the princess give birth to a big fat boy."

The other two followed suit.

"That's right, it's time for the young master to add new members to our general's mansion, so that people outside will always gossip about the young master and the princess."

"That's right, the people outside are very talkative, saying that either the young master is not good, or the princess has something wrong, and they haven't given birth to a son and a half in just a few years."

These guards are all the top five and three rough family generals in the mansion, and they have a good relationship with General Lin and Lin Sishen on weekdays, and they are also taboo about speaking, and they start discussing at random when they ask.

Hearing what they said, Lin Sishen was immediately stunned, and the smile on his face dissipated little by little.

Seeing this, Mo Zhu was in a hurry to smooth things over, and softly reprimanded: "You are in such a situation, and you still have the mind to tease the young master, so hurry up and rest to recharge your spirits, and you have to go on your way tomorrow."

Seeing that Lin Sishen's expression seemed to be a little off, and being scolded by Mo Zhu again, those people realized that they had spoken too much, and they didn't dare to say anything more, they hurriedly shut their voices and closed their eyes, pretending to sleep.

Mo Zhu looked at Lin Sishen worriedly, and called softly, "Master."

Lin Sishen shook his head, and comforted him: "It's okay, you can rest first, I'll take care of this child first."

After speaking, Lin Sishen stood up and paced around with the child in her arms. Looking at the child who was gradually sleeping in her arms, she felt a little restless for some reason.

It's fine for outsiders to talk about her, she never cared about it, but if they talk about Shen Qingwan, she will be a little unhappy.

Although Shen Qingwan and her have reached the present stage, and they agree with each other for life, but she is a woman after all, and there are some things she can't give to Shen Qingwan.

For example, the child in her arms.

Just as Lin Sishen was worrying about this in a daze, there was a slight noise suddenly from the forest on both sides, as if someone had accidentally stepped on a dead tree.

Lin Sishen looked around vigilantly, and hastily frowned, "Meng Lin."

As soon as the words fell, there was a muffled sound not far away, and then Meng Lin shouted loudly: "My lord, there are assassins, Zhou Jin, go and protect your lord."

After the words fell, Meng Lin and another guard came running from a distance, and at the same time, behind them came a group of strong men in ragged clothes and holding swords, who looked like bandits.

From a rough look, there were dozens of people.

Seeing this, the other three guards drew their knives and stepped forward, wrestling with them. For a while, there were shouts of swords, swords and shadows.Lin Sishen handed the child in his arms to Mo Zhu, and took the sword from the carriage.

Meng Lin chopped off one man's arm with a single knife, then turned his head hastily and said, "My lord, you and Miss Mo Zhu go first, and I will cover you to leave."

"Not so far."

Lin Sishen unhurriedly drew his sword out of its sheath, tiptoe lightly jumped into the crowd, the long sword in his hand moved like a dragon as if rising and falling, blood poured out where the silver-white sword light pointed, and the person who was hit by the sword threw the knife to cover his throat wail.

Every sword Lin Sishen unleashes is a killer move, and the people chasing her are just a group of reckless gangsters, let her long swords be like the rainbow and the shadows like the wind, those people will not only be unable to hurt her at all, but will soon be defeated Come, only a few people left and ran away in a hurry.

Meng Lin and the others heaved a sigh of relief, looking at the fleeing people, they couldn't help but cupped their hands and praised: "Young master, good swordsmanship."

Lin Sishen put away the sword and didn't feel relaxed, instead he frowned and said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid we can't stay here, these people are just stragglers who came to test."

Meng Lin nodded, looked at the corpses all over the floor and spat: "These should be sent by Sun Wenqian, this old fellow is really courageous, he dared to kill the young master."

"Get out of here first."

Lin Sishen took a deep breath, and beckoned everyone to hurry.

The group of people didn't drive for a long time, and they ran into a group of people dressed as gangsters again, this time there were more people, and they rushed up without saying anything and slashed at them with knives.

Although in the end Lin Sishen and the others escaped without any danger, they bumped into a group of people before walking too far. After going back and forth several times like this, even Lin Sishen felt a bit of a headache.

After some fighting, Meng Lin said out of breath, "These thieves are really low. They want to use up our physical strength by fighting with wheels."

Lin Sishen nodded when she heard the words, it was really impossible to go on like this, she turned around and looked at the corpses all over the ground, and said in a deep voice, "Abandon the horse and detour."

Lin Sishen asked the crowd to untie the horses' reins, and then waved the whip to drive the horses and drag the carriage to continue galloping towards the official road, distracting the pursuers, and then led the crowd into the barren hills.

Because it was night, Lin Sishen and others sneaked quietly and lightly dressed, and indeed they avoided those bandits several times.

When he was about to cross the barren hill, Lin Sishen saw a patrolling sentry standing on the hillside not far away.

She immediately asked everyone to stop for a while and keep silent, and to avoid the man by detour, but God failed, as she was about to bypass the sentinel, the child who was accompanying her suddenly couldn't help crying, and She kept crying and couldn't be coaxed.

In this way, the sentry was alarmed again, and the man hurriedly blew the wooden whistle when he heard the sound.But the child was still crying, and after a while, a large group of people surrounded Lin Sishen and others.

The number of people who came back this time was much higher than the previous few times, and it was impossible to count them. A man who looked like a leader in the crowd pushed them away and came forward, and he was the only one in the crowd with his face covered.

The man put his hands behind his back leisurely, and asked with a bright smile: "Master Lin, it's dark and windy tonight, I don't know where you are going?"