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Chapter 245 The Road to Home (3)

Chapter 245 The Way Home (Part [-])

In the dark night, the birds spread their wings and flew across the night sky. Under the half moon, the mountains undulated and stretched. Under the starlight, the waterways looked like white belts scattered among the earth, and spread along the terrain like beard hair and tree roots.The traces left by human beings in this darkness are only spots of fire, sometimes gathered, sometimes scattered.

In the early morning of the ninth day of the ninth day, nearly five days before the fall of Hangzhou, the initial chaos caused by this chaos finally had a relatively clear track.The lights at night are centered on Hangzhou, and after the fall of the enemy, they rushed out to the surrounding area.At first, it was restless and dense, but at this time, the trajectory gradually turned into a stream, and the flames in Hangzhou City, after the initial splendor, have gradually stabilized at this time.

Bloodshed, killing, and death almost dyed the streets of this city red in the first four days.However, when the initial madness is over, everything will calm down, and it's time to wash away the blood.During the four days of killing and looting, it is impossible to describe in detail how much blood there was. Many wealthy businessmen, gentry, and officials who hadn’t escaped from the city were almost hunted down and tortured, and they were almost slaughtered. I don't know how many people were killed in the "suspected" resistance, and how many women were insulted. After the initial rebels were killed, the survivors who survived basically became numb, and let the The "rebels" who came from different places occupied one place and one place.

Only a few people with family backgrounds became exceptions.

A large house not far from the Hangzhou government office was originally the house of the Chang family of the four major families in Hangzhou. Although it was also damaged in the earthquake, it was not serious, and it has been repaired and repaired since then.Not long after midnight, the inside and outside of the house were brightly lit, and a banquet was coming to an end. The host at the gate of the house sent a large group of people to the street, greeted and saw them off one by one.

Generally speaking, in the chaotic city of Hangzhou at this time, those who can hold a banquet are basically the leaders of the rebel army who have entered the city, but at this time it is not the rebel army who are participating, and the guests seem to be dressed in simple clothes and obsequious.The middle-aged man who is the master and the attendants around him are quite magnanimous. This middle-aged man is the most respected brother in Hangzhou, Fang Qifo, who is known as the handsome Buddha. They were all wealthy gentry and businessmen in Hangzhou City, as well as some officials who took refuge in Fang La. Among the crowd, there was also the figure of the main building of Lou's family.

As one of the big families in Hangzhou, the Lou family had no connection with Fang La before. Fang Qifo only found him the night before breaking the city.Because the Lou family has a variety of businesses and has come into contact with many schools and schools, the other party found some connections and was moved by affection. His answer at the time was not firm, but because he was harassed by Qian Haiping's people before, he was angry, but he was not. reject.

So when the city was broken on the second day, he cooperated with Fang La's army who was not familiar with the situation to count all kinds of supplies in Hangzhou at this time, and became a guest of Fang La's army after that. If Fang La can really secure Hangzhou, his Lou family will retain almost all of their capital, and they will faintly become the number one family in Hangzhou at this time.

Of course, Fang La may not be stable in Hangzhou, and the future is actually not optimistic, but at this time, he can only use this reason to talk about masturbation.

The group of surviving people at the moment actually knew each other more or less in the city of Hangzhou, or had heard their names.Some of them secretly colluded with Fang La from the beginning, and some were lobbied to join later.In Fang La's new regime at this time, they may become the first batch of native nobles, but unless they are those who have firmly joined Fang La's camp from the beginning, the rest of them are somewhat nervous, and they don't talk to each other. They didn't talk casually, only said goodbye to Fang Qifo respectfully, and then left separately.

To this group of people, Fang Qifo's attitude seemed gentle and kind.He is nearly forty years old this year, tall and tall, with extremely high skills. As a general, he does not know how many enemies he has killed, but when he is a counselor, he has a steady and restrained side.In the Fang La army, there are countless people with unruly personalities, like Shi Bao himself who is crazy, Deng Yuanjue is a bit crazy, Li Tianrun is calm but arrogant, and Si Xingfang is fierce. These people have their own talents, but in front of Fang Qifo They are all extremely submissive, and even the moody girl who calls herself Liu Dabiao, or Wang Yin, who is equally civil and military, usually obeys orders and doesn't say much when facing him.

At this time, he sent away the people participating in the banquet, turned around and walked back, and a young man who was accompanying him followed him: "Teacher, you value them so much, but in my opinion, they may not like them, some of them People are unhappy, and I'm afraid we don't think our business will last long. In my opinion, those who didn't really submit to us in the first place will be killed if they are killed...and they can make a lot of money."

Perhaps because he was used to this disciple's tone, Fang Qifo just glanced at him indifferently, but he was not very angry, and smiled slightly: "Chen Fan, we have occupied Hangzhou now, you have to get rid of this bandit habit. Change it, what is this business, what is it about making a lot of money. Shenggong will be called emperor, and you will at least be a general in the future, so don’t be greedy for petty gains. "

"Tsk, teacher, it's always more interesting to be greedy for cheap things. Those emperors, generals, etc., just think about it..."

The young man named Chen Fan seemed a little tired, but Fang Qifo didn't care. He just said as he walked, "Hangzhou is a place in the south of the Yangtze River. The Holy Duke proclaims himself emperor, and Hangzhou is the capital city. This is so important." We can’t really destroy all the places. Now it’s time for the autumn harvest, the rice needs to be harvested, manpower is needed, the city needs to be built in the future, there must be rules, there must be business, and it must be proclaimed emperor, and it must be supported by people. Come on. The people who came to the city with us are not good at these things, they can only burn and rob, now this is our own home, it is time to restrain ourselves."

Fang Qifo sighed: "They understand what we don't understand. It doesn't matter if you are unhappy now. As long as you are willing to do things, I will give them status and power. They will like it... Now that Hangzhou has been won, the past few days I am going to attack Jiaxing, and before that, I have to arrange these things. I will leave in a few days, and you are here to keep them from being harassed. Do you remember this matter?"

"Teacher, I want to attack Jiaxing with you. I don't understand these things. Otherwise, you can keep General Wang or An Xifu and replace me. It doesn't matter if I go to Huzhou..."

"It's not that you don't understand, it's that you're too lazy to think about it, otherwise you wouldn't open your mouth and talk about them... Right now Wang Yin is going to take charge of the situation in the south, and An Xifu is going to Huzhou in the north. It's best for you to stay, you are my disciple, and it's unreasonable." .”

"I'm not being unreasonable. I think I can exchange An Xifu back. Taking a step back, isn't that girl from the Ba Dao family even more unreasonable than me? I can also exchange her back."

"Those people going north to Huzhou are a mess, good and bad. Sending them over is to let them disturb Huzhou on the one hand, and on the other hand, it's just to give them a chance to plunder. Cherish the blessing and follow the past, so that they can be rescued when necessary. Command this group of people. You know that at noon today, Lu Xie and Yao Yi almost got into a fight. Thanks to An Xifu and Hei Lingwei who arrived in time, this matter was calmed down. If you were in the past, I am afraid that the chaos would have already added to the chaos Right... As for Ba Dao, where has she been these few days?"

Chen Fan tilted his head and scratched his eyebrows: "A few days ago... when the city was full of killings, she was friendly with neighbors on the street, gave out steamed buns to those people, and didn't allow us to kill people. She also went north yesterday. I heard that her subordinates are looking for a person named Ning Liheng, the person who put her and General Shi together and killed Gou Zheng and the others? Anyway, I think this chick is quite free..."

Fang Qifo frowned and thought for a while: "When the city was broken that day, the most people fled to the north. I heard that Ning Liheng had contacted many people beforehand and went north together. Today, Yao Yi and others seem to be staring at Joined a group of fleeing teams, could he be among them?"

"Teacher, do you want me to catch up and warn them? Obviously that Ning Liheng is very powerful. By the way, let me replace Liu Dabiao and the others?"

"Is there any warning, there is an army among the fleeing crowd, and they have already become exhausted. Ning Liheng only succeeded for a while that day, and what can he do with his own strength... As for what you want to change Go back to Liu Dabiao and talk to her yourself, as long as you can tell her clearly and let her come back to maintain the situation in the city, I will allow you to go north."

"Teacher, then you have to give her an order..." Chen Fan tilted his head and said, but the Seven Buddhas in front of him waved their hands and kept walking. After waiting here for a while, they shouted angrily: "But I can't maintain the situation in the city, you... Teacher, don't you force others to be difficult, I want to fight!"

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The piles of bonfires were dimly extinguished, and the camp had entered a stage of rest.

The small camp on the top of the hill was not neatly set up, there were no fences and not many security patrols, and there were few tents in it. The tired soldiers with all kinds of good and bad weapons slept around the campfire in the wild. At this time, although there were various mosquito bites, they were all groggy.

Lu Xie was sleeping in the tent—he wasn’t actually asleep. He was lying on the bed, eating half a roast chicken, looking at the roof, occasionally spitting out the bones.

"Oh shit……"

What made him unhappy was after all the ignorance he received at noon during the day. His brother was beaten up by several people and was ambushed in the valley just like that, and Yao Yi insisted that he attacked him by surprise!

I really want to blame him, I have no excuse, it's too uncomfortable...

Although their main responsibility for going north this time was to disturb Huzhou, making it impossible for Huzhou to take care of Jiaxing and Hangzhou, the main task was actually not that important.At this time in the northwest, the one who can really rescue Huzhou or Jiaxing is the Wujuying that originally belonged to Kang Fangting. With Hundred Blossoms undefeated, Huzhou's troops were powerless against both sides.

Encountered such an innocent disaster in such an easy task of murder and robbery, he originally thought that he had to fight back no matter what, but naturally he failed in the end.After the black military law team arrived, both sides fell silent.

In the Fangla Army, although most of them are composed of homeless victims, some of them don't even have the weapons. He hills and prepares.But there are still a few truly excellent armies after all.

Leaving aside the army under Fang Qifo and others, in order to avoid the serious rout on the battlefield, the military law team established by Fang Baihua was indeed an elite. They are all murderous and ruthless people. In several battles, when the front row was defeated, the heads of the rear fell in batches.The current leader of this team is a young man named An Xifu, who has a quiet and bookish spirit, but it has to be said that Lu Xie felt a little guilty when he saw him.

It has to be said that in today's uprising army, the people participating are basically in a mixed state. Whoever has big fists is afraid of others. Naturally, Lu Xie can't offend Deng Yuanjue, Shi Baosi Xingfang, or Hei Lingwei. But he was following Li Tianrun, and Si Xingfang's subordinate Yao Yi could still afford to provoke him.Today I was really upset, but now I couldn't sleep, and I cursed for a while.

He was venting himself in his heart, when he suddenly heard a small commotion from outside the tent, he was startled, and wondered to himself, could it be that Yao Yi is here to make trouble again?After wielding a big knife, he picked up the curtain and went out. Just after he got out of the tent, he saw a group of people passing through the camp and coming towards him. The first person was petite, but it was a girl in a skirt and a black gauze hat. The person behind her was tall and carried a box on her back. After that, there was also a group of vaguely visible people walking. The footsteps of these people disturbed the bonfire on the way, and the light was rolled up in spots in the air. Shea thought for a while about the background of the pedestrian in front of her, but when she realized it, she was stunned.

The girl took out a token in her hand and shook it. Lu Shea quickly saluted, but before she could speak, the middle-aged man behind the box spoke first: "General Lu, there is no need to be too polite, we are here to find someone named The scholar named Ning Liheng may be in the fleeing team going north, has General Lu heard of it?"

Lu Xie was stunned: "No, I don't know..."

"You have come all the way, and you must have caught a few people who were alone on the way. Where are they being held, take us to ask, okay?"

The fleeing crowd came from all directions, and some people would definitely be caught along the way, some would be killed and robbed, and some would be arrested and interrogated.Lu Xie nodded quickly, and then led the team over. From a distance, there were dark shadows in the mountains, and it seemed that more people were ambushing.After the man brought him there, the girl and the others didn't need him to watch over him, so he turned back and sat by the campfire looking over there.

He was not familiar with the team in front of him, but had only heard of it.It was the Badao Battalion led by the famous Liu Dabiaozi in Southwest Wulin.This Liu Dabiao was originally a martial arts hero, not a bandit, but he had a friendship with Fang La, and he responded to Fang La's rebellion, and he was an elite rebel army like Hei Lingwei.

Of course, compared to Hei Lingwei's reputation of beheading all the time, this Basao camp is due to Liu Dabiao's own famous name. It is said that this man is a master of swords and has few opponents in the Jiangnan martial arts. He is an eight-foot-high waist He is also a hero with eight feet and a hairy chest. Among the rebels, there are few people who can stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

When Lu Xie first joined the Rebel Army, she heard that she admired Liu Dabiao very much.But as his status in the rebel army grew, he realized that although the soldiers in Badao Battalion could occasionally see him, Liu Dabiao himself had never seen him.This person doesn't seem to participate in all kinds of activities in the rebel army to fight for power and profit. He is mysterious and domineering.But later, Lu Xie vaguely heard that Liu Dabiao died a few years ago, and now it is Liu Dabiao's daughter who is giving orders instead of him, but she also stubbornly makes people call her Liu Dabiao's son, as if she wants to let Naifu's As a result, the name was passed on. When he heard it at first, it was a little funny, but later he realized that the atmosphere was not right.

It is said that although Liu Dabiao's daughter has a weird temper, her martial arts skills are extremely high. This is a high-ranking rebel army, and almost no one dares to make fun of the word Liu Dabiao, because she has fought many fights with everyone in the high-level .The woman was thin, but the tyrannical saber in the imperial envoy's house was a different method. I heard that even Shi Bao and Wang Yin, who were the most skilled in martial arts in the army at this time, might not be able to defeat her. Chen Fan, Fang Qifo's disciple, It is said that he even has the power to pull weeping willows upside down, and he is like a Shura on the battlefield, but it is said that if he fights against Liu Dabiao, it is also a draw.

Whether there are other reasons for this is not clear to Lu Xie, but those who were tied can still survive, but there are many people in the army who are said to have been killed by that Liu Dabiao. After that, although others rarely saw him As a woman, she didn't dare to call her by a name other than Liu Dabiao's, and as time went by, the word spread was miraculous.It was the first time he saw it today, and he didn't feel much domineering, but he didn't show any disrespect at all.

After a while, the interrogation over there was probably over, so they came here again.The girl gave him a slight nod of thanks, and he hurriedly returned the salute. The middle-aged man behind said: "I asked about the matter, but there was no result, so we came from Xue Dounan, General Xue. General Yao should be near here. I don't know if I have seen it. ?”

The people in this group were actually quite polite. After hearing the question, Lu Xie realized that the girl and her group were asking the group of people from the north, and immediately nodded: "Of course I saw it, Yao Yi, Their team should be on the other side of the mountain, just go west. Oh, and the Black Ling Guards, led by Mr. An, probably have already gone forward."

"Thank you." These people listened, turned and left, and walked into the darkness. After walking a few steps, Lu Sheath saw the girl turn her head and opened her mouth. This was the first time he heard the other party's voice. It's a little cold, but it sounds sweet: "We are looking for a man named Ning Liheng. If General Lu encounters a fugitive again tomorrow, please ask for help. Thank you."

"Uh... Naturally, there is no problem."

After Lu Xue finished speaking, she breathed a sigh of relief as she watched those people go away in the dark.From the feeling, these people are quite easy to get along with, and then I feel that this may be the aura of a powerful person, it is best to go to Yao Yi's side and get rid of Yao Yi and others, that would be the best ...

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At the same time, our eyes were pushed further north, and some bonfires were burning in the valley where many fugitives were camped.In the darkness here, Chan'er is hugging her knees and sitting down on the grass, her eyes are slightly sad looking at the figure who is going away by the campfire, and another figure of a woman is holding a glass of water towards the other side walk over.

There are some things that she doesn't understand, even if she understands slightly, at this time, she has become a little bit incomprehensible.

In the morning, my uncle was diagnosed with a critical injury on his hand, and the doctor gave first aid.When she, Juan'er, Xing'er and others were forcibly driven into the departure team by the young lady, she was so sad that she almost cried, but it was not the time to cry, so she held back.

In the afternoon, both the uncle and the young lady had caught up, and she was very happy about it.But during the journey, she inquired that my uncle's injury was very serious.But as soon as I got here, my uncle started to do things, various things, running around to persuade those wealthy businessmen to take out gold, silver and jewelry as bait, summoning veterans and hunters to ask about various situations, until night, these things did not stop However, my uncle has been asking around the campfire, thinking about it occasionally, walking around, and writing and drawing on paper with maps most of the time.

Injuries slow down people's thinking, and my uncle's situation doesn't seem to be ideal, but from the beginning to the end, he didn't stop, occasionally asking the lady for her opinion, until those who were asked had fallen asleep, he Still writing and thinking.

It's not that she can't understand my uncle's intentions in doing these things, but something keeps beating her in her heart: my uncle's injury is too serious, my uncle will not be able to hold it...

I wanted to go over and try to persuade him, but I couldn't muster up the courage. The young lady didn't persuade my uncle this time either. She followed and watched from the side. Most of the time, she kept quiet and didn't speak.She is very envious of the close relationship between the young lady and the uncle, but... the uncle will not be able to hold on...

Just now she brought a glass of water and wanted to go there, almost wanting to muster up the courage to go beyond the duty of a maid, and opened her mouth to persuade the uncle to stop first, but the lady who passed by took the water glass.Perhaps seeing the expression on her face, the young lady shook her head slightly and hugged her, then brought her a water glass.When she came back here, she didn't want to fall asleep, and when she saw the young lady and uncle sitting side by side, she hugged her knees, pressed her lips to them, and cried in a low, suppressed voice...

The fire exploded, and a piece of light dust rose. In the light, Ning Yi raised his face and thought about it carefully, then bowed his head again, and continued to write and draw on the paper. The night may be very long...

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That night, Ning Yi finally fell asleep, and when he woke up the next day, he continued yesterday's plan and deduction.The refugee got out of the camp and turned around. He continued to think on the horse, and sometimes discussed with Su Tan'er, and gave Su Tan'er what he thought about. Along the way, he asked such and such people.It wasn't until the evening that he handed over a rough idea to Chen Xingdu. Some of the details needed to be revised by people who really knew the soldiers, and maybe they couldn't be accepted in the end, but right now, we can only To this extent.

When some people were discussing in the tent that had just been set up, Ning Yi and Su Tan'er rode a horse and headed towards the nearby hillside. There was a winding waterway on the other side of the hillside.As the sun sets, the sun casts golden light on the mountains and water, sparkling under the mountains, and beautiful wild flowers bloom on the hillsides.

Ning Yi got off the horse and reached out to pick up Su Tan'er. Then, although he saved his wife, he staggered back a few steps, and the two fell into the grass slope. Ning Yi still had some strength at this time, although he fell Actually, it wouldn't shock Su Tan'er too much, and then the two of them lay there and laughed lightly.

Looking up, in the evening of the ninth day of the lunar new year, a flock of geese flew across the sky. The clouds on this day were fine, like pure white cotton wool.Ning Yi opened his arms, and Su Tan'er gently covered his stomach with his hands, like two children.

The two children lay there for a long time before someone spoke...

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