Dreamland City....
“Go ask…”
The villagers of Waibo Village looked at the head of the Pei family.
Boss Pei looked at the tightly closed gate of Menglan City and felt extremely panicked.
Especially since there were obviously many more soldiers guarding the city gate than before, he was even more afraid to go over.
There's no sign of Menglan City withdrawing its troops.
"Brother, how about I go and ask?"
Pei Lao Er licked his cracked lips and looked at his eldest brother.
He really didn't want to make such a wasted trip, so he had to ask before he could give up.
If I go back like this, it would be like waiting to die.
Pei Laosan half opened his mouth and gasped, "Second brother, I'll go with you."
It's not a good idea to just hide here and wait.
The gate of Menglan City was so clean, with not a single person in sight, which did look a bit scary.
Was Dad deceived by a noble person?
Or maybe Dad heard it wrong? It's normal to be a little hard of hearing as he gets older.
Pei Laosan didn't have much confidence, but he still wanted to go with his second brother.
Otherwise, if something happened to my second brother, my second sister-in-law and her family would not be able to survive.
Pei Lao Er looked at Lao San, pursed his lips and nodded.
"Okay, let's go together..."
Pei Lao Er stretched out his hand towards Pei Lao San, and the two brothers held hands tightly.
Seeing this, Boss Pei placed his hands on his two younger brothers' hands.
“Let’s go together…”
"If you stick your head out, you'll get stabbed. If you hide your head, you'll starve to death. Let's give it a try."
If I just wait here, I'll starve to death if I go back, so I might as well go and give it a try.
After watching the three brothers walk towards the city gate, the villagers hesitated for a moment and then followed one by one.
Yes, waiting is just waiting to die.
Why not give it a try, just in case...
If all else fails, you can also find out when the imperial court will distribute disaster relief grain, so that you have something to look forward to.
"Who is staying outside the city?!"
The guard on the city gate tower looked at the people gathered at the city gate and shouted in a deep voice.
This group of people had been hiding in the distance and acting suspiciously for a long time, and they had already seen them.
If these people had not been unarmed and looked like refugees, they would have gone down and captured them long ago.
Do you really think that the defenders can't see them if they hide behind the hill? How naive!
Boss Pei paused, his knees trembled twice, and he almost fell to his knees.
He shouted to the guards on the gate tower in a trembling voice,
"Sir... Sir, we heard that the city is recruiting soldiers, so we came here to sign up."
Boss Pei smiled ingratiatingly at the guards on the city gate tower.
After saying these words in one breath, his heart was about to jump out of his throat.
The guards at the city gate frowned and looked carefully at Boss Pei and his group.
"Where did you get this information?"
The Guard General was indeed recruiting soldiers, but this news was only known to the people in the city, and he had not spread the news to the villages outside the city.
The main reason is that this place is too close to the capital, and the general is worried that recruiting soldiers in a high-profile manner will be discovered by the capital.
Therefore, the city gates on both sides were closed tightly and no news was leaked out.
Now suddenly a group of people came and said they wanted to join the army, which made them wonder where these people heard the news.
Could it be that someone secretly leaked the news outside the city?
This is a serious matter, they must report it to the military commander immediately.
Boss Pei looked at the guard's suddenly gloomy face and trembled with fear. He grumbled,
"It was... a... a noble person who told me..."
It’s over!
The defenders looked unhappy.
What should he do? He knows nothing about the noble man's situation.
Besides, the noble man gave his father vegetable buns and saved his mother's life. He couldn't be so ungrateful as to betray the noble man.
Hey~
Boss Pei held the hands of his second and third brothers tightly and swallowed nervously.
"Your Excellency!" The guards on the city gate tower frowned in confusion.
"Where is the noble man?"
Only King Qianhuang left the city in the morning. Could the noble person these people are talking about be King Qianhuang?
Boss Pei licked his lips, hesitated for a moment, and shook his head.
"I don't know."
"It's just that I met a noble person on the road, and he gave me some advice."
He couldn't tell anyone about what happened to the nobleman in the Crooked Neck Village, so as not to betray the nobleman or put the people of the Crooked Neck Village into dire straits.
The defenders frowned and were about to ask about the nobleman's situation when they saw someone on horseback galloping towards the city gate in the distance.
When the people of Waibo Village heard the sound of horse hooves, they all turned their heads to look over and consciously moved to both sides of the city gate to avoid being trampled by the horses.
The defenders stretched their necks to watch the horses approaching. After seeing the people on the horses, they immediately shouted,
"Quick, open the city gate, the prince is back!"
When the guards at the gate tower heard the shouts from the top, they immediately opened the heavy city gate.
When the people of Waibo Village heard that it was the "Prince", they were so scared that their knees went weak and they all knelt down.
There is no prince they don't know, and a prince is not someone that small people like them can know.
But there is nothing wrong with kneeling down to greet.
The villagers of Waibo Village threw themselves on the ground with their hands and knocked their heads against the ground, not daring to look up at all.
“Oh~~~”
Chen Yong pulled the reins and stopped at the city gate, his eyes sweeping over the skinny refugees on both sides.
"Where are you from?"
Pei Lao Er raised his head tremblingly and quickly glanced at the horse's hooves, not daring to look at the horse's belly.
"Your Highness, we are from Crooked Neck Village."
How dare you lie in front of the prince? You will lose your heads.
Shen Yong raised his eyebrows and curled his lips in a faint smile.
Unexpectedly, the old man acted quite quickly.
"Are you here to join the army?"
"......Yes!" Pei Laoer trembled all over, feeling a little excited in his heart.
The prince mentioned joining the army, so does that mean what the noble said is true?
God bless you!
Chen Yong looked at the frail bodies of the common people, then turned to look at the defenders.
"Let them into the city."
After saying that, Shen Yong pinched the horse's belly.
The sound of horse hooves rang out, and when the villagers of Waibo Village looked up dazedly, they could no longer see Chen Yong's figure.
The villagers looked at each other in disbelief, "Are they asking us to go into the city?"
The guards at the city gate were clearly questioning them just now.
As a result, when the prince arrived, he let them into the city.
But what are they going into the city for?
Is the city really recruiting soldiers?
There was a look of doubt in everyone's eyes.
The three Pei brothers were even more confused.
Pei Laoer even had a vague feeling in his heart that the noble person his father met might be this prince.
Otherwise, why did the prince let them into the city as soon as he heard that they were from Crooked Neck Village?
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