The faint glow of the fire was particularly eye-catching in the darkness, indicating that someone had set up camp ahead.
During this hour of walking, I have seen many flames. This is probably the third one.
If the camp ahead was not his daughter's, Su Xiaozhong decided to find a place to rest and chase them tomorrow.
Su Xiaozhong rode his horse forward, getting closer and closer to the fire. When the distance was closer, he found that there was more than one fire there, but there was one at a certain distance, stretching for a mile away.
Looking at this situation, Su Xiaozhong had a hunch that this was probably where the girls were.
As soon as he approached, the night watchman immediately stood up and stared at him vigilantly.
Su Xiaozhong swept his eyes across those people, quickly retracted his gaze, and continued riding his horse forward.
Every time he came to a fire, he would slow down, and once he had made his way to the spot, he would continue forward.
I looked all the way and found that no one was from Xinghua Village.
There is only one last gathering place left ahead.
“Da da da”…
The sound of horse hooves came from far away and got closer. The four people who were on guard, Yang Dachuan, Zhang Bingliang, Doctor Xu, and Zhou Youyi, had already heard the sound of horse hooves.
Seeing the sound of horse hooves approaching them, the four of them became alert and picked up their swords.
When Su Xiaozhong approached, the four of them squinted and stared at the newcomer, but because of the backlight, they couldn't see each other clearly for a moment.
On the contrary, Su Xiaozhong could not see the faces of the four people opposite him clearly because of the light of the fire.
I am not familiar with Zhang Bingliang and Doctor Li.
Zhou Youyi looks familiar.
When his eyes fell on Yang Dachuan's face, his eyes lit up.
Second uncle!
Su Xiaozhong immediately dismounted and walked towards the four people. Suddenly, three long swords were pointed at him.
Yang Dachuan drew his sword halfway when his hand paused. He squinted his eyes and looked at the person in front of him.
Strangely, this person looks a lot like my brother-in-law.
It's not Yang Dachuan's fault. After all, he had never met Su Xiaozhong when he was in Linzhou Prefecture, so he naturally didn't know that Su Yin, Butcher Yang, and his third brother's families had already met him.
Su Xiaozhong looked at the gleaming knife in front of him and said quickly, "Calm down, calm down, we are one family."
When Yang Dachuan heard the voice, his eyes widened.
(⊙o⊙)…! He is truly my brother-in-law.
"Second uncle, it's me, Su Xiaozhong." Seeing Yang Dachuan in a daze, Su Xiaozhong hurriedly reminded him.
Yang Dachuan showed a look of joy, put the knife back, and said to the three people beside him: "Put away the knives, we are family."
Because Zhang Bingliang and Doctor Li were both outsiders and didn't know the relationship, they added, "He is Yinyin's father."
Upon hearing this, the two men immediately put away their swords with enthusiastic smiles on their faces.
"Oh, it's Miss Yinyin's father. I'm so sorry for my disrespect."
"Come here quickly, come here quickly."
The four people surrounded Su Xiaozhong and went over.
Su Xiaozhong smiled and walked with them to the fire. As soon as he sat down, he asked, "Chunhua, Yinyin, where are they?"
Yang Dachuan got up quickly and said, "Come on, I'll take you there."
The other three also knew that the man must be anxious to see his wife and daughter, so they didn't keep anyone.
"They are just ahead."
Yang Dachuan pointed at the carriage not far away.
As soon as they approached the carriage, the people inside lifted the curtain and Su Yin stretched her head to look outside.
At first glance, she noticed Su Xiaozhong.
Ouch, dad is here!
When Yang Dachuan saw Su Yin coming out, he said to her happily, "Yin Yin, look, who's here."
"Shh!" Su Yin made a shushing gesture.
Yang Dachuan was stunned.
What's going on?
Why isn't my niece excited at all?
He is even more excited than his niece!
Yang Dachuan was in a daze.
Su Xiaozhong turned his head to Yang Dachuan and said, "Second uncle, you go back first."
Yang Dachuan looked at his brother-in-law who was also calm, and then at his niece who was also calm, "Okay, I'll go over first."
As soon as he left, the father and daughter sat under a tree.
"Dad, are you tired?"
"I'm so tired that my legs don't even feel like my own legs." Su Xiaozhong didn't act pretentiously and explained it very straightforwardly.
"I'll find you a straw mat, and you can sleep outside tonight."
"no problem."
Su Yin found a straw mat from the carriage, spread it on the side of the carriage, and then lit a handful of mugwort on one side to drive away mosquitoes.
She took out a small bag of sulfur powder from her bag and sprinkled some around.
Su Xiaozhong did not intervene from beginning to end, and just watched his daughter take action quietly.
After everything was done, Su Yin patted the powder on her hands, turned her head to face her father in the dark night, and made a gesture of waiting for the emperor, "Dad, you can sleep well."
Su Xiaozhong stood up, walked up to her, and flicked her forehead with his finger, "You are so unruly."
Su Yin chuckled.
Look at what dad said, it sounds like an emperor.
The next morning, Su Yin was still asleep when she was awakened by a scream.
"Third brother!!!" Su Baozhu's surprised voice woke up everyone around her.
As soon as Su's mother got out of the car, she saw her husband sitting on a straw mat with sleepy eyes, and her eyes were filled with surprise.
"Husband."
Other families around looked over here one after another. Familiar people noticed the extra person at a glance. After seeing the other person's appearance clearly, they were all surprised.
"Hey, brother-in-law, why are you here?"
"Am I dreaming? Why did I see my brother-in-law?"
"Isn't this Brother Su? How come you showed up without making any noise?"
"Dad Yinyin, when did you arrive?"
"How did you find us?"
"Yinyin's father, why are you alone? Where are the other people from Lijia Village?"
"Where are the rest of the Su family?"
"How's it going in the back of the village?"
The people from Lijia Village and Xinghua Village surrounded Su Xiaozhong and started asking questions one by one.
Su Xiaozhong was somewhat moved by the villagers' simple and unselfish care.
It had been a long time since he had felt such care without any scheming or calculation.
The families of Yang Dahe and Yang the Butcher were not surprised, as they had seen it before. Although they had not seen it alone, they were much calmer than the others.
To others, Su Xiaozhong seemed to have fallen from the sky, which was incredible.
Yang Dahe spoke up at the right time, "Ask one by one. There are so many questions that he can't answer them all at once."
"Yes, yes, everyone come one by one." Uncle Li said.
Everyone else fell silent.
Su Xiaozhong was generally aware of their questions and knew what they were concerned about, so he spoke about the key points first.
"I know everyone wants to know what's going on in the village, so I'll tell everyone what I know."
"On the third day after you left, a group of rioters rushed into the village, burning, killing and looting. The villagers..." At this point, he paused, his expression sad, "They killed them all. Only a few people escaped."
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