Chapter 166: Picking up bargains on the road again
The exile team set off in the howling cold wind.
The entire team now has no more than 250 people added together.
Xiangying thought, what an auspicious number.
They also had to take nearly fifty captives of King Xuan and prepare to escort them to their next stop - Meicheng in Yizhou.
Once we got there, we were already in the territory of South Vietnam.
As they walked up the Mountain of No Return, Tao Xue looked back frequently.
Xiangying chuckled: "No need to look, we can come back then."
Tao Xue, however, had no confidence.
They were about to enter the territory of South Vietnam, which meant that their death was not far away.
Tao Xue's face was dark as she said, "Princess, if I die and you have a chance to come back, please bury my clothes in the West Hill of the capital."
"Because from there you can see the Ziyang Palace where you live. Even if I die, I can still protect you at all times."
As she spoke, Taoxue was about to cry out of fear of the unknown that was about to happen.
Before Xiangying opened her mouth to comfort her, Qi Fengyi patted her on the shoulder.
"Don't cry, we will definitely come back." There was fearlessness in her eyes.
Qi Fengyi believed that there would definitely be a day when they would restore their country.
For this she is always ready to fight.
Just then, there was a noisy noise coming from the front.
Someone screamed in panic, and Taoxue held back the tears that were about to flow out.
Everyone leaned forward to look, and Qi Fengyi said, "It seems to be the fifth princess Xiang Qianqian who is calling."
Xiangying frowned: "What kind of evil is she going to do?"
Tao Xue's gossipy heart was burning, and she squeezed to the front to inquire.
After a while, she came back and said in surprise: "The Fifth Princess seems to have gone crazy. She kept saying that Concubine Shu died with her eyes open and that a tiger was following her."
Xiangying glanced ahead suspiciously.
Many people died in the previous battles. Many of the prisoners came from wealthy families. How could they have ever seen such a battle with swords, guns, sticks and clubs?
Naturally, some people were frightened to the point of losing their souls, like Lin Lingxiang. She felt a little better after taking some medicine to calm her nerves, but she kept holding Xiangli's sleeve and followed him closely.
But Xiang Ying would not feel strange no matter who was frightened, except Xiang Qianqian.
She is a selfish person who can do anything for herself.
How could a person like this be afraid?
Tao Xue whispered, "I heard he was so crazy that he almost took off his clothes. The captain ordered him to have his hands and feet tied up and thrown onto the food truck."
Xiang Yuanlang sneered: "What if he is pretending?"
It’s not impossible.
However, Xiangying doesn't have time to take care of her for the time being.
Because they were about to enter Meicheng, if she remembered correctly, at this moment in the original book, famine had already begun in Meicheng.
Meicheng is located in an area prone to rainy seasons, but it has not rained since a flood half a year ago.
Most of the grain of the Nanyue court was used as war materials. Even if the people of Meicheng received disaster relief grain, they would be exploited by the officials at all levels. What actually fell into the hands of the people was just a bowl of thin porridge and half a steamed bun every day.
Xiangying pondered, if there is a famine, there will definitely be riots.
She has to prepare in advance.
Originally, he was planning to remind Jie Chen, but Xiangying thought that Jie Chen had taken the initiative to draw a line.
She immediately gave up the idea and told Qi Fengyi to protect the three children first no matter what happened once they entered Meicheng.
After descending the Bugui Mountain and walking along the mountain path, Xiangying saw the guarded border towns and was completely convinced that she had left the territory of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Many of the prisoners were deeply moved, and some of them hugged each other and cried.
Mr. Lin grabbed a handful of collections from his hometown and felt quite emotional.
"It is hard to predict whether I will live or die. If I die in the future, please ask my descendants to visit my homeland on my behalf."
After he finished speaking, the people around him began to sob quietly.
The three children couldn't help but have tears in their eyes.
Xie Chen did not give them too much time to feel sad. He took the team through the handover procedures, reviewed the jade certificate, searched the team, and then entered Yizhou.
At first Xiangying didn't feel anything. The scenery of Yizhou was no different from that of the Western Zhou Dynasty.
But the closer you get to Meicheng, the hotter the weather becomes.
Even though they experienced the feeling of winter on the Mountain of No Return, the scorching heat in Meicheng brought them back to the end of summer.
Dry riverbeds can be seen everywhere, and corpses surrounded by flies are lying on the roadside.
There are also scattered carriages without owners.
It seems that the people are so busy living and fleeing famine that they don't even care about these things.
Everyone was terrified, except Xiangying, who grabbed their horses and ran to steal two unwanted carriages.
The skinny monkey passed by and did not stop him, but just took a look.
"Sister-in-law, aren't you afraid that someone has died in this car?"
"What's there to be afraid of? In this world, everyone is either a man, a woman, or a dead person. We can't just throw things on the ground and waste them. We can still use them if we clean them."
The children were also tired from walking.
Xiangying didn't have time to clean up because Jie Chen didn't let the team stop.
She could only tie the carriage to their only horse.
However, the horse can pull one carriage, but it will not be able to pull another one.
Xie Chen deliberately slowed down the speed of his horse. He stared in Xiangying's direction, waiting for her to speak.
Unexpectedly, when Xiangying was thinking, Lu Feiyi came forward with a group of bandits.
"Boss, let us pull the second carriage."
Xiangying disagreed: "How can that be possible? You will definitely be exhausted to death."
Under the sun, Lu Feiyi smiled with a mouthful of white teeth, his eyebrows were sharp and his eyes were bright, and his banditry was much less.
"No, six people take turns and can pull it."
Xiangying thought about it and decided that they would soon arrive in Meicheng, so it would be okay to secretly get a horse.
She said to Lu Feiyi, "How about this? You ask the brothers to push the carriage first. Don't put anything on it for now. I'll think of a solution when we get back."
"To reward you, we will add two taels of meat to each meal these days."
As soon as Xiangying finished speaking, the pirates cheered happily and expressed their gratitude.
Lu Feiyi took out a handkerchief from his bosom.
"Are you tired? Wipe your sweat." He said, and added, "The handkerchief is clean."
Xiangying smiled and said, "No need."
Xie Chen withdrew his cold gaze.
It looked like she didn't want to ask him for help at all.
Thinking of what Xiangying said about them each having their own paths, Jie Chen seemed to feel a little more irritated.
The sun was scorching, and the closer we got to Meicheng, the hotter it felt.
The children had already taken off their cotton coats and trousers and put on light, thin clothes.
Fortunately, the sun set soon and in the evening, Xie Chen announced that the exile team should rest in place.
There is an inn next to it with a well.
Xiangying and Momoyuki pulled the two carriages over to clean them.
The horse pulling the cart was also tired, so Xiangying quietly put a lot of fat hay in the trough.
"Eat more and get fat. You'll have to work hard on the road."
After saying that, Xiangying rolled up his sleeves and cleaned the carriage with Taoxue. Seeing this, the three little ones also ran over to help.
Until Lu Feiyi came over and said, "Boss, go and have a rest. We will take a shower."
Xiangying thought for a moment and said, "Okay, Taoxue and I will start cooking, and you can ask everyone to come and eat together later."
They divided the work and cooperated with each other so as not to interfere with each other.
Xiangying cooked two pots of cabbage stewed with meat, the aroma was endless.
Jie Chen was standing at the window, listening to the sour scholar telling the intelligence.
However, the sour scholar found that as he was talking, the deputy general stopped talking.
"Master? Master?" Suan Xiucai called him, but Jie Chen did not respond.
I only saw Ji Chen's stern face, his brows furrowed, and looked down following his gaze.
Xiangying and Lu Feiyi were sitting together eating.
The sour scholar seemed to have noticed: "These people are too noisy, I will go down and talk to them in a while!"
Xie Chen came back to his senses and said coldly: "Let them eat."
After saying that, he closed the window on his own initiative.
Out of sight, out of mind.
He respected what Xiangying said and forgot everything after that night.
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