The glaring blood color made the officers' faces change drastically, "It's over, has Lord Wei been murdered?"
However, before they could stop the refugees from fleeing, someone in the city came to report: "Lord Liang and Lord Reconciliation Officer are still alive!"
"Hurry up and get more people to help!"
This is such a pleasant surprise.
Only two officers were left outside the city to deal with the aftermath, and the rest followed into the county town. Soon Lord Liang and the reconciliation officer, who were trapped at the bottom of the ruins, were rescued.
Lord Liang had a broken rib, and Officer Jie had a broken arm, but luckily they were not in danger of death. The servants of the Liang family who were trapped under the rubble with them were not so lucky, and none of them survived in order to protect their masters.
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On the forest path, the galloping horse slowly stopped.
A small red-legged falcon with black wings spread out circled in the air and then flew straight towards Wei Yunlan and Yu Qi.
Wei Yunlan stretched out her arm, and the red-footed falcon landed steadily on her forearm. Perhaps because it was afraid of scratching her, the pair of red bird claws deliberately relaxed and did not hold her tightly.
Yu Qi was surprised and said, "This is the first time it has been close to a stranger."
"Is this the bird from Tianshu Pavilion?" Wei Yunlan asked.
"It is a falcon trained in the pavilion specifically for delivering messages."
This little red-footed falcon belonged exclusively to her team, and the letter was sent by Pei Hu. Yu Qi reached out and untied the letter tube tied to the bird's claws, and took out the note stuffed inside.
"Miss Wei, Lord Wei has been rescued."
"That's great!" Wei Yunlan breathed a sigh of relief.
After the earth dragon turned over, the family split into four groups. On her brother's side, Liu Quan was quite skilled and there were mostly boys. On her mother's side, her mother was always smart and had the protection of Sui He, who possessed supernatural powers. What she was most worried about was actually her father's side, fearing that something unexpected would happen and that her father would be unable to escape.
Fortunately, everything went well.
On horseback, Yu Qi released the red-footed falcon that came to deliver the letter.
Wei Yunlan unfolded the map drawn by Wei Maolin himself, looked sideways at the three high and one low peaks in the west, and then looked around the surrounding scenery, "We are about to reach the border between Liangzhou and Suizhou."
After entering Suizhou, it is less than fifty miles to reach Suijiang City.
The two horses sent by the master of Tianshu Pavilion were very fast. Even though the bumpy road slowed down their speed, it was not difficult for them to arrive before dark.
"Let's hurry up and go to Suijiang first and then wait for parents."
The horses galloped on the path again, and occasionally they could see refugees coming from Suizhou, going the opposite way.
Soon, Wei Yunlan and his party arrived at the border between Liangzhou and Suizhou. From afar, they could see a team of officials guarding the official road. Every team of refugees who wanted to enter Liangzhou from Suizhou would be stopped by them.
Some were sent to Liangzhou, while others were sent back with a stern look on their faces.
Ningshuang and Tingxue noticed that the refugees who were allowed into Liangzhou all handed things to the officials.
"You have to pay money to enter Liangzhou!"
"Isn't this leaving no room for survival?"
Yu Qi was no longer surprised by such things. He glanced at that side calmly and whispered to Wei Yunlan, "Miss Wei, let's take a detour to avoid those officials."
"Okay." Wei Yunlan had the same idea.
There were many refugees fleeing from Suizhou to Liangzhou, but almost no refugees fleeing from Liangzhou to Suizhou. If they passed by the officials, it would be too conspicuous.
After circumventing the wild forest beside the official road for more than half an hour, Wei Yunlan and his party entered the territory of Suizhou.
It was not until this moment that she truly realized that the disaster situation she had seen in Liangzhou before was nothing compared to that in Suizhou.
Scenes of piled rubble like the one at the foot of Qingyapo Mountain can be seen everywhere here.
Fallen trees and collapsed houses have become commonplace.
In some places, in addition to landslides and falling rocks, there is also ground collapse.
The most serious situation was the first county town they passed through after entering Suizhou, a small town called Suian, where most of the city walls had collapsed.
Looking into the city from the collapsed city wall, you can see a huge deep pit next to the broken walls of the city wall.
This is much more serious than Wei Yunlan had imagined.
The road was bumpy and there were occasional cracks, which slowed down the horses' progress.
Ningshuang and Tingxue rode to Wei Yunlan's side, worried, "Miss, Suizhou is in such a mess, will the situation in Suijiang be worse than here?"
"Maybe." Wei Yunlan couldn't tell what the current situation in Suijiang City was.
But when they changed their plan, they did not change the meeting place because of the chaos in Suizhou. It was because Suizhou was severely affected by the disaster and the situation was chaotic, and the local government had no extra energy to deal with other things, so they had to pass through Suizhou.
In this way, it became natural for the Wei family to get separated from the exile team, report to the government office, and go to Beiguan on their own.
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Just as Wei Yunlan and his party had entered the territory of Suizhou, Wei Maolin took off the wooden yoke with the help of Pei Hu, and Gao and Cheng Yue'e sat steadily on the mule cart heading to Suijiang.
Wei Mingxuan and his group, who were thought by everyone to have the smoothest journey, wandered around the border of Liangzhou and Lianzhou for half a day. It was not until it got dark that they found the way in a nearby village.
Liu Quan thanked the farmer who asked for directions again and again, then returned to the mule cart and said to the others, "We went the wrong way at the last fork in the road. We should have gone the other way. It will take another hour to go back now."
The night wind is bleak, and it gets colder the further north you go.
Not to mention whether the people traveling all night could bear it, the mule that was already exhausted and almost fell down, and the ewe that Wei Mingxuan was leading, certainly could not bear it.
Wei Mingxuan suggested, "How about we stay in the village for one night and continue our journey tomorrow morning?"
In order to lighten the burden on the mules, almost everyone walked beside the mule cart along the way. Only Wang Ma and Gui Xiang sat on the cart for a while when they could not walk anymore.
After walking for hundreds of miles, everyone was already exhausted, and Wei Mingxuan's proposal was agreed by everyone.
Liu Quan knocked on the door of the house he had asked for directions just now.
After some discussion, the other party agreed to host them for one night for thirty copper coins, and also let them fetch water in their yard and gave them some fodder for mules and sheep.
Looking at the farmers' simple and enthusiastic faces, Wei Mingxuan and others expressed their gratitude repeatedly.
There were not many vacancies in this farmhouse, so Nanny Wang and Guixiang squeezed into one room with the unmarried daughter of the family. Wei Mingxuan, Wang Gui and Liu Quan lived in a small room that had just been vacated for them.
Wei Mingxuan was so tired these past two days that he almost fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.
While he was still dazed, a stone flew in from the window and landed on his pillow.
Wei Mingxuan sat up from the bed with a "thump", and most of his sleepiness was instantly scared away!
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