Su Sijin finally witnessed how tragic it was when locusts invaded and no grass grew.
All living things, without exception, become food for locusts, and humans are no exception.
Those who can't outrun will eventually become food for locusts.
Even the horses, donkeys and cows that fled like crazy could not escape becoming food for the locusts.
The luggage scattered on the ground was reduced to bare soil in the blink of an eye.
Su Sijin and her companions were stopped at the city wall of Qingfeng County. The yamen runners on the wall looked indifferently at the people below who were about to be killed by locusts.
Qin Kui, the yamen runner, had a stern smile on his face as he raised his hand and ordered, "Leave now if you know what's best for you. If you try to force your way in, don't blame me for using my bow and arrows to deal with you."
The victims looked at the arrows pointed at them from the city wall, and immediately kowtowed in fear and begged for mercy, crying out to the sky and begging to enter the city to escape the disaster.
"Sir, please have mercy on us! Let us go in to avoid the locust plague, and we will leave afterward. Please have mercy on us and let us in!"
The victims kowtowed and cried, but Qin Kui remained unmoved.
Even when the desperate and helpless people knelt down, Qin Kui not only watched indifferently, but also laughed at the people who begged for mercy like ants.
Su Sijin and Lu Changgong looked at each other and saw raging fire in each other's eyes.
Lu Changgong put his arms around Su Sijin's shoulders and jumped lightly onto the city wall.
"You bold and unruly people, you..." Before he could finish his words, Su Sijin grabbed the knife and killed him directly.
The sudden change caused the guards on the city wall to immediately aim their bows and arrows at the two men.
Lu Changgong took Qin Kui with him and seized all the bows and arrows of the yamen runners and threw them into the air. The arrows seemed to have their own thoughts and pierced into their arms and thighs.
"ah……"
There was a sudden wailing on the city wall. The yamen runners covered their injured parts and looked at the frosty Lu Changgong in fear.
They didn't expect that there was such a powerful person among the victims. They didn't even see why the arrow suddenly changed direction.
Qin Kui's voice trembled, and he stammered, "Bold... simply lawless..."
Su Sijin placed the broadsword against Qin Kui's shoulder and ordered in a cold voice, "Open the city gate and let them in."
Qin Kui swallowed his saliva in fear, stared at the big knife in horror, and explained with a trembling body:
"I... the county magistrate has ordered that the city gates not be opened. If I open them, the county magistrate will kill me."
Su Sijin narrowed her eyes slightly, the big knife was already close to his flesh, "Really? You'd better open the city gate immediately, otherwise I will kill you now."
As he spoke, the knife had already cut his skin. Qin Kui, in pain, begged for mercy, "Lady, please don't be impulsive. I'll open the door, isn't it okay if I open it?"
"hurry up."
The locusts are right in front of us, and it will be too late if we don’t open it now.
"Open the city gate, open the city gate quickly." Qin Kui was afraid that if he was a little late, he would lose his life.
"Qin Kui, you are tired of living and dare to disobey my orders." The magistrate of Qingfeng County spoke at the last moment to stop the gatekeeper.
Su Sijin looked at the person who came. She saw that the person was wearing brocade official uniform, an official hat, a mustache, shifty eyebrows and a pair of obscene eyes that were rolling around.
However, looking at Su Sijin's disheveled face, and then looking at her seemingly malnourished body, contempt flashed across his eyes.
He raised his head arrogantly, looked at the expectant eyes under the city wall with disdain, and turned them away indifferently.
His expression caused a murderous look to flash in Lu Changgong's eyes.
Lu Changgong just tapped a few times and came to the county magistrate. He froze him with a light tap and sealed his mute point.
"We've captured your county magistrate. You'd better open the city gates."
As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you must first catch the leader. Once we capture the magistrate of Qingfeng County, the rest will be easy.
Sure enough, at the last moment, all the people outside the city gate entered.
Everyone hid in the nearest houses as quickly as possible, and the city gates were rumbling due to the locusts.
Fortunately, the city gate was made of iron, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
A quarter of an hour later, there was no sound outside, and Lu Changgong appeared with the magistrate of Qingfeng County.
Lu Changgong pointed with his index finger and unblocked his blocked acupoints.
As soon as the Qingfeng County Magistrate was freed, he pointed at Lu Changgong and cursed, "You are so bold and unruly! You kidnapped and threatened an official appointed by the imperial court. I am tired of you living like this."
"say what?"
Lu Changgong looked at him with his frosty phoenix eyes, and the three cold words frightened the Qingfeng County Magistrate so much that he shrank his neck.
"Did I say something wrong?" the Qingfeng County Magistrate muttered softly, timid and stubborn.
"Uncle, uncle, is that you?" An old woman walked out of the crowd.
Su Sijin looked at the old woman coming towards her, a hint of surprise flashed in her eyes. She didn't expect that she was so lucky.
The old woman who came towards him was disheveled and had a hideous scar on her face. Black blood and pus were oozing from the scar, and it emitted a foul odor.
The old woman was hunched over, with her left leg turned inward and her right leg turned outward, walking in an extremely strange posture.
Her hands were also crooked, and to the naked eye she looked like a scary and dirty old woman.
The Qingfeng County Magistrate took several steps back in disgust, covered his nose, pointed at the old woman and said, "Stop, stop right there in this county. Stop trying to be close friends. We don't have any relatives like you, neither rich nor poor."
The old woman seemed not to notice the magistrate's disdain. To convince him, she took a few steps forward and said, "Uncle, uncle, how could you not recognize me?"
"You rebelled in the capital, Guanglu Temple Minister. Even though your father couldn't come forward to protect you, it was my father who sent you here out of concern and care. You can't be so ungrateful as to see me end up in this miserable state..."
The old woman was interrupted by the furious Qingfeng County Magistrate Shi Tianci before she could finish her words. "Shut up! Come, take this old woman who slandered me and beat her to death!"
"How dare you! You ungrateful thing! If it weren't for my father's identity as a secretary, how could you still be alive? How could you be a local tyrant in Qingfeng County? You..."
"Shut up, you lunatic, you crazy woman, stop talking nonsense." If Shi Tianci didn't stop the old woman, who knows what else she would say.
The old woman naturally wouldn't let Shi Tianci succeed. Who would dare to touch her now that she was in such a state? She also relied on her father's position as a secretary to drive away the approaching yamen runners.
Su Sijin didn't expect that the old woman was actually her. Her hands and feet were broken and her abdomen was pierced by a sword, but she was not dead yet.
Su Sijin once thought that she was going to die.
Unexpectedly, not only did she not die, she was also following their team.
It turned out that the vicious sense of surveillance before was actually the person in front of him who was neither human nor ghost.
"Who is Shi Tianci?" The previous man was the brother of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Minister of Guanglu Temple, and now another Shi Tianci who is related to the Minister of Guanglu Temple has appeared.
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