Chapter 29 Digging the City Wall
"Digging the city wall?!"
Du Mazi and the others nodded frequently, "Several people dug together with shovels."
"We thought it was strange, so we secretly wandered around the periphery for a while, and after we found two more, we quickly came back to report."
Zhou Yunshu frowned, her previous uneasiness was confirmed.
"Okay, I understand."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Du Mazi and the other three who were looking expectant, and said with a smile, "Well done."
"The four of you discuss it. Two of you will follow us into the city, and the rest of you will stay outside to get some information. Any information will do. Be careful."
Du Mazi's eyes lit up, "Okay, Mr. Zhou, let's go discuss it right away."
After Du Mazi and the other three left, Wei Zhong looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "They are just some small-time thugs and street urchins. They are useless."
"If small-time thugs and street urchins are used in the right places, they can play an unimaginable role."
Zhou Yunshu said as she looked at Wei Zhong, "Look, now you have brought us useful information."
Now that she had confirmed her uneasiness, Zhou Yunshu felt somewhat confident.
Considering that they needed to purchase a lot of water, and the current situation inside and outside the city was unclear, Zhou Yunshu had to bring a lot of people into the city.
These people do not include Li Jialan and others.
If her guess was true, and this group of refugees really wanted to attack the city, then the county town would be the most dangerous place, and she couldn't take them into danger.
Although there are dangers in staying outside, the danger is relatively small. After all, the target of this group of refugees is the county town.
When Zhou Yunshu was making her decision, Wei Zhong took the initiative and said, "I will leave six people to protect your family."
Zhou Yunshu looked at Wei Zhong, and Wei Zhong immediately said, "Mr. Zhou is so smart, he should have figured it out. Feng...Jie and I have an agreement. Protecting him is one thing, and protecting your family is also another."
"Don't worry, no matter what happens, they will definitely put your family's safety first."
Wei Zhong looked at Zhou Yunshu, who had been staring at him, with some trepidation, expecting what she would say to him.
When she just looked at him without saying anything, he would start to wonder if he had revealed something.
Just when Wei Zhong was thinking about whether to explain further, Zhou Yunshu suddenly smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Brother Wei."
Wei Zhong quickly said, "You...Mr. Zhou, you're too polite."
"Then I'll go and explain."
"Okay, I'll wait for you."
The smile on Zhou Yunshu's face gradually disappeared as she turned and walked towards the mule cart.
The strange feeling she had before was not an illusion. This Wei Zhong knew her, or rather, knew more than just herself.
So who would he be?
When Zhou Yunshu returned to her mule cart, Du Laosan and Feng Xujie were talking about something. Feng Xujie saw Zhou Yunshu coming back, said a few words to Du Laosan, then jumped off the shaft of the grain cart and walked towards Zhou Yunshu's position.
"Get in the car."
After Zhou Yunshu finished speaking, she went straight into the carriage, Feng Xujie followed closely behind her, and Chunque stayed on the shaft without moving.
When Zhou Yunshu saw Feng Xujie come in and sit down, she told Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen that she was about to go into the city, and also told them that she had asked Wei Zhong's men to look after them.
Li Jialan said anxiously: "Can't we go into the city together? How can I be at ease if you are alone?"
Zhou Yunshu explained, "The city isn't very safe right now. I'm afraid if I bring you guys along, I won't be able to handle it if something goes wrong. So it's better for me to go alone. If anything happens, Wei Zhong and I can just rush out and fight."
When Zhou Yunshu said the three words "fight out", Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen's expressions suddenly became heavy.
Fang Huiwen said, "Do you really have to go in? Let Wei Zhong and the others take the people in, and you stay outside."
"Yes, you are pregnant now..."
"Ahem!" Zhou Yunshu interrupted Li Jialan and continued, "Mom, I know what's going on."
Feng Xujie looked at Zhou Yunshu and his eyes fell. He knew that Zhou Yunshu was hiding something from him, but he also understood. After all, he also had something he hadn't told her.
"I still want to find out some information. This is the only city here, maybe I can find out some news about Grandma and Second Aunt."
After Zhou Yunshu said this, Li Jialan and Fang Huiwen had nothing more to say.
"Then let Haruzaki come with you, she..."
Zhou Yunshu shook her head. "It's because Chunque is so skilled in martial arts that she wants to stay with you."
Even though Wei Zhong promised to leave someone to protect Li Jialan and the others, Zhou Yunshu was still worried.
With Chunque around, at least if something really happens, Wei Zhong's men will cover the rear, and Chunque can take Li Jialan and the others to escape.
"That's the deal. We'll try to get out as soon as the city gates open tomorrow."
Zhou Yunshu said, looking at Feng Xujie beside her, "You stay in this car, and put your life first."
Feng Xujie nodded, "Uncle San, I will protect my family."
Zhou Yunshu nodded, looked at Xixi who had been staring at her, hugged her in her arms and kissed her, "Xixi, wait for me to come back."
Xixi nodded her little head, not thinking at all that her mother was going to do anything dangerous. "Come back early, Xixi, wait for daddy."
"Um."
Before entering the city, Zhou Yunshu and Du Laozhuang agreed that they would have someone armed with weapons meet them at the city gate the next morning when it opened, in order to prevent the refugees outside from robbing them.
If the refugees have not taken action by then.
In addition, Zhou Yunshu was afraid that if the refugees outside the city gate suddenly clashed with the people in the county town, it would implicate their own people, so she specially asked Du Laozhuang to lead the team to retreat two miles and asked them to patrol and impose martial law at night.
After arranging all this, Zhou Yunshu took Wei Zhong, Du Laoer, Du Mazi and others, pulling a total of ten cars to Anshan County.
When entering the city, Zhou Yunshu was stunned when she heard the money she had to pay to enter the city.
Two taels of silver, two taels of silver per person, is the county magistrate of Anshan County crazy about money?
You should know that in the past when there was no disaster, there was no fee to enter the county town, and some prefecture towns required at most a few cents to enter, while Anshan County actually required two taels.
What’s even more hateful is that even if they have to pay two taels of water, they have to pay the money obediently, otherwise they won’t be able to buy water, and the people outside the city can only wait to die.
Perhaps because they hadn't been to the city for a long time, Zhou Yunshu and her group felt as if they had returned to the days before coming to Luzhou as soon as they entered the city.
The people of Anshan County did not look as comfortable as those in Tongcheng and other places, but their situation was in sharp contrast to the refugees outside the city.
What surprised Zhou Yunshu the most was that some people in Anshan County wore red hooded robes. Although their number was smaller than that of the people in Anshan County, the people in Anshan County either kept it a secret or showed great respect to those wearing red hooded robes.
Wei Zhong had been standing beside Zhou Yunshu. He looked at those people and frowned, "What do these people do?"
"Maybe it's some religious sect."
As soon as Zhou Yunshu finished speaking, Du Mazi came up to her and said, "Mr. Zhou, do you want us to go and ask around?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at the inn in front of her and said, "Let's go. We'll stay here."
Du Mazi's eyes lit up and he said happily, "I understand, Mr. Zhou!"
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