The next morning, the group was preparing to set off.

Suddenly, I saw a dark shadow rushing towards me from a distance.

When the shadows got closer, they discovered that they were actually a group of cavalry.

After a while, the leader of the cavalry stopped in front of the group, waving his whip and saying, "Stop, who are you?"

Li Xiang looked at the armor on the man and thought he should be a cavalry captain.

Although they came from the capital area, the yashi were just minor clerks, not even officials.

In Xiping County, County Magistrate Zhang wanted to give face to the Shen family.

At this moment, Li Xiang had to obey this cavalry captain.

He just bowed and said, "I am Li Xiang, the bailiff of the Ministry of Personnel in the capital. I am ordered by the court to escort a prisoner to the southwestern Shu region. This is the prisoner's exile."

The cavalry captain carefully examined them all before frowning and saying, "If they are prisoners, why aren't they wearing shackles and are they riding in carriages and carts? Could it be that you are deliberately shielding these fugitives?"

Li Xiang said respectfully, "Your Excellency, when I arrived in the north and received these prisoners, they were already dying. If I had used torture instruments, I'm afraid they wouldn't have survived until now.

This carriage did not belong to the prisoner, but to a young master who happened to be traveling with us.

The cart was indeed mine. It was only because I had not adapted to the climate when I first arrived in the north, and was attacked by bandits, that I was chopped off and fell unconscious. My apprentice got me a cart and had the prisoners pull it, which is how I was able to survive until now."

The cavalry captain looked at the Shen family carefully again.

I saw that all of them were dressed in tattered clothes, covered in dust, and their faces were sallow, with only their two eyes exposed, making them look like living creatures.

The woman in the carriage and the man driving it were indeed both well dressed.

The cavalry captain was already quite convinced. After a moment's contemplation, he asked, "Have you seen any suspicious individuals along the way, around ten years old?"

Li Xiang pondered for a long time, wondering if he was looking for the blind boy, but the information in the cavalry captain's words was not clear, which showed that he was not looking for him seriously.

He pretended to think about it for a long time before saying, "No."

The cavalry captain looked at everyone carefully again, and saw that there seemed to be someone lying on the carriage, but the figure seemed to be a child.

He frowned and rode away again.

The person wrapped in the quilt was naturally Shen Jinlin.

After hearing the sound of horse hooves, Jiang Yu jumped off the cart immediately.

Knowing that his clothes were ragged, he did not hide it, but simply grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground and smeared it on his face, and suddenly he looked no different from any other member of the Shen family.

Then, he stood directly with the crowd.

When the cavalry officer asked questions, he and the Shen family lowered their heads.

When the cavalry captain looked at them, he also showed a calm look of panic, but his eyes did not move.

Sure enough, the cavalry captain just glanced at the carriage, and after discovering that it was a child, he left immediately.

After the cavalry walked away, Chen Xinli asked calmly, "That cavalryman just now, was he looking for you?"

Jiang Yu was speechless, his face tangled as he said, "Yes, but I..." The boy was silent for a moment, then said, "But I don't want to go back with them. I won't cause any trouble for you."

Now it was Chen Xinli's turn to be shocked.

The young man estimated the direction of Chen Xinli, as if to assure himself.

After hearing this quietly, Meng Yun curled up his lips in satisfaction.

Unfortunately, Jiang Yu saw nothing.

Yun Gu continued to sit in the carriage and serve her master, while Yu Liu continued on his way with an expressionless face.

In the afternoon, a group of people walked on the muddy road and finally arrived at a cave in a barren mountain.

The reason why it took so long to arrive was because it seemed like God was against them.

An hour after we set out, it started to drizzle.

Less than half an hour later, heavy rain came quietly.

At the beginning, everyone was very happy and sighed that it would be great if such heavy rain had fallen in the north earlier.

Even Shen Jinlin was running happily in the rain.

However, as time went on, the raindrops gradually became larger and even turned into heavy white rain, and everyone began to panic.

The heavy rain quickly washed away the loess and silt on the ground.

Because there was no place to shelter from the rain, the group had no choice but to move on.

Although it was summer, the heavy rain continued to hit everyone, making them feel numb all over, and soon everyone was soaked like drowned rats.

But no one called a halt.

After all, there is no village or shop nearby, and there is no place to shelter from the rain. If you stay here, you will freeze to death.

Heavy rain continued to wash the ground.

On the road, countless shallow streams gradually converged together to form a stream as deep as Shen Jinlin's knees.

Countless yellow-brown streams rushed to flow downwards, carrying away more silt.

The group walked with one foot deep and one foot shallow, occasionally stepping on empty space.

The adults could still manage to keep their balance, but the children often lost their balance and fell because the stream was too deep.

"puff!"

Shen Jinlin didn't step firmly and suddenly sat in a puddle of yellow water.

"Jinlin," several voices called out at the same time.

Shen Fuyou was nearby and hurried to help.

The little boy didn't cry. He immediately got up from his uncle's arms and wanted to prove himself again.

Chen Xinli felt very sorry for her brother's actions.

He immediately grabbed his younger brother, and then pulled Shen Yushan, Shen Yulin, Shen Xinyu, Zhang Xiaodi, and his eldest brother Shen Jinshan and others to stand in a row, supporting each other as they walked.

A few of them would stumble from time to time, and then be helped up by others, only then would they feel better.

But the heavy rain continued to fall.

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