Chapter 108: Attacked and Killed
After the two of them leaned against a tree, Su Yue took out the water bag from the space. After the two of them quenched their thirst, she took out the barbecue for them to eat.
"Can Yue'er see the top of the mountain?"
"Okay, there are a lot of supplies on the top of the mountain. If we can get the villagers up there, it can solve a lot of problems. But the mountain is so difficult to climb, it's really hard for someone without some skills to make it up. No wonder no one has come up."
Su Yue felt somewhat fortunate that they had come to Yunwu Village and Yunwu Mountain.
She didn't know what the reason was for this Yunwu Mountain and why it had such a landform. She had seen some mountains with snow-capped peaks and green trees at the foot of the mountains, with two seasons on one mountain, but this Yunwu Mountain was the opposite.
Murong Li looked down the mountain and said, "Leader Qin and the others should be able to come up. Let's go up and take a look today. If the supplies are more than we thought, let them all go up."
They only have some rice to survive, but no meat or vegetables. In winter, the temperature here is extremely low, and there is not enough food for the people to eat. It is estimated that not many people can survive the winter.
Thinking of so many refugees who are still homeless, Murong Li felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart. He wondered if Murong Yi's visit would be of any use.
Although that man is as cunning as a fox, his heart is not rotten to the core. I hope he has some conscience.
What they didn't know was that at this time in Jiaoshan Canyon, Murong Yi and his party had just arrived and were preparing to rest here.
Many refugees were seen along the way. Murong Yi, who came here from modern times, had never seen a year of famine. Seeing such a scene, he was shocked.
Murong Yi was in a very heavy mood. He could scheme against people and be cruel and ruthless in the capital, but he would not do anything to ordinary people.
The drought in Northwest City is so severe that the people are displaced and starving to the point of being on their last legs. This is obviously the result of the indifference of the people in power here.
Such a severe drought should have been reported to the imperial court long ago. Regardless of whether his cheap father cares about it or not, he will definitely not sit idly by. At the very least, he will ask the prefect of Northwest County to find a way to resettle the people.
Therefore, the loss of relief grain and silver was not accidental, but premeditated.
Murong Yi immediately asked someone to invite General Tian over. This was not a good idea. By the time they found out the whereabouts of the food, who knows how many people would have starved to death.
And even if the whereabouts of the food were found, there would probably be nothing left by then.
General Tian came over quickly and saluted: "Prince Yi, what instructions did you send me?"
"Please sit down."
Murong Yi pointed to the place around him.
General Tian nodded and sat down.
Murong Yi said, "General Tian, you see there are homeless refugees along this road, starving to death. If we follow our original plan to search for food and distribute it to them, I'm afraid everyone will starve to death. This is what I suggest: you write a quick letter and send it back to the capital immediately, asking the emperor to send another batch of food. What do you think?"
General Tian won the emperor's favor, and what he said carried more weight than what he said. If he had spoken truthfully, the emperor might have thought he was exaggerating, exaggerating the drought to such a serious level, and that he had some ulterior motive.
If General Tian had written the express report, the result would have been different.
General Tian nodded. He had the same idea. What he saw and did along the way completely overturned his three views. He thought that since there was a severe drought in Northwest County, the county magistrate should at least take care of these refugees. Unexpectedly, it was the opposite of what he thought. Not only did no one take care of the refugees, but the counties they passed by, except Xichuan County, did not allow the refugees to enter at all, leaving them to wander outside and fend for themselves.
Such behavior was simply infuriating, but he was just a general who was ordered to protect Prince Yi's safety and investigate the whereabouts of the disaster relief grain. He had no right to interfere in this matter.
Along the way, I heard people saying that some kind-hearted people gave the refugees some food, but that food was just a drop in the bucket for so many refugees.
It cannot solve the fundamental problem.
I wanted to talk to Murong Yi about this before, but we both had different thoughts and never spoke. I didn't expect Murong Yi to talk to him first.
Start this thing.
He said, "Then I will write a dispatch immediately and have it sent back to the capital."
Murong Yi bowed to General Tian and said, "Then I'll trouble you, General Tian."
General Tian responded, "Prince Yi is kindhearted. There is no need to be polite to me. This is what I should do."
General Tian immediately asked someone to take out paper and pen from the carriage, wrote a letter, and immediately gave it to his men to send it back to the capital at full speed.
After receiving the dispatch, the soldier brought out a horse, jumped on it, and rode away at full speed.
"call out!"
Suddenly, a sharp arrow shot from somewhere towards the galloping soldier. General Tian was quick-eyed and quick-handed. In the blink of an eye, he drew his sword, jumped towards the arrow and knocked it away.
Then he waved his hand, and all the elite soldiers immediately stood ready for battle.
Seeing another assassin coming, Murong Yi experiencedly hid under the carriage and waited for the robbery to end.
In the blink of an eye, a man wearing a black mask and holding a bow, leading twenty people wrapped in black clothes, quickly confronted General Tian and his entourage.
General Tian looked at this group of strange people and wondered who was coming to kill them.
They encountered various robberies and assassinations along the way, but this was the first time they saw someone wrapped entirely in black clothes, with only his eyes visible, his nose and mouth not showing.
Very strange.
"Who are you, and why are you intercepting court officials?"
The man holding the bow said gloomily, "Kill your people, kill them!"
He said, and immediately gave the order.
The two men in black behind them rushed towards them with weapons raised.
General Tian was a veteran of the battlefield and he always felt that this group of people were not simple. He went to meet the men in black first.
“Dangdangdang…”
After just a few rounds, the swords and knives hitting the man in black felt like hitting an iron plate, and could not hurt him at all.
General Tian had never encountered such a strange scene before. He became nervous and thought of a countermeasure at the same time.
Suddenly, his sword moves changed, from slashing to stabbing, and the long sword fiercely stabbed towards the heart of the man in black.
"when!"
Another sound like hitting an iron plate still couldn't hurt the black man's heart, but it made General Tian's palm numb, and he almost let his sword slip out of his hand.
At this moment, the man in black swung his sword and General Tian was hit hard in the chest. The wound was so deep that the bone was visible and blood gushed out instantly.
General Tian grimaced in pain, covered his chest with his hands and swung his sword. Immediately, several people came to help him.
"General, leave this to us, you go and bandage the wound." A soldier shouted.
General Tian quickly stepped back, pulled off a corner of his robe, and wrapped it around the wound on his chest, his eyes fixed on the faceless man in black.
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