Chapter 364: Eager to Return
In the southern part of Youbeiping County, on a slope near a water source, more than 20,000 people were stationed.
Everyone set up camp together, cooked and it was very lively.
Just then, a group of a hundred or so ragged people appeared behind them.
Before they could even get close to the main force, they were stopped by the guards, "What are you doing?"
Looking at the guards in front of them with arrows pointed at them, with murderous expressions on their faces, an old man with a white beard stood up and said tremblingly, "Sir, the Nanyang Earth Dragon has turned against us. We are refugees who have escaped, not bad people."
Yue Shu ordered his men, "Go and invite Master Lu Liu, Mr. Xue, or Master Liu Er."
"good!"
Xue Xu didn't expect that their large army would be caught up by the refugees from Nanyang.
"This gentleman——" Xue Xu looked at the old man with white beard.
"Your surname is Luo, what is the name of this gentleman?"
"My last name is Xue."
A quarter of an hour later, the more than one hundred refugees had washed their hands and sat down to eat.
"Eat slowly, be careful not to choke."
"Come, have a drink of water."
Looking at the refugees in front of him, Yue Shu couldn't help but think of himself and his family in the past.
Xue Xu fanned himself and asked, "Master Luo, why don't you wait for the government to come and provide disaster relief?"
Old Man Luo sighed and said, "When the Southland was flooded, the imperial court delayed for a month before resettling the victims. We were afraid we wouldn't be able to wait until then, so we came after you."
The Luo family, who specialize in flower gardening in Nanyang, visited their fields after the earthquake and found the landscape had changed, completely destroying their land. The subsequent disaster relief efforts in the south had dispelled their hope of getting their land back.
"How did you know about us?" Liu Erxi, who was beside Xue Xu, asked curiously. They didn't pass through Nanyang at all on their way north.
"Your caravan was kind and righteous, saving so many refugees from the south. We know about your caravan because some refugees who had received your kindness came to Nanyang to seek refuge with relatives. After the Nanyang dragon turned against you, they came after you with their bags. Why, didn't they catch up?"
At the beginning of the journey north, some people did leave the main force, some of them left normally and some of them left abnormally.
"You are the first group of Nanyang refugees to catch up with us." Liu Erxi said.
After these words were spoken, both sides fell silent.
Many people from the southern region were listening intently. After hearing this, they were extremely grateful that they had followed the main force northward. Otherwise, they didn't know what kind of disaster they would have encountered.
Xue Xu asked, "Are there many refugees like you who escaped?"
"A lot, why not a lot?"
"Yes, many people are fleeing."
Because I heard that it took a month for the South to start resettling refugees, many people did not die waiting in Nanyang.
"Gentlemen, please take us in. We can work!" Uncle Luo said as he was about to kneel down.
Others followed suit and begged them, "Kind sir, please."
Qin Sheng quickly supported Uncle Luo, but Uncle Luo found that he couldn't kneel down at all.
Xue Xu watched the scene with a smile, "I can take you in, but there are some rules that I need to explain to you clearly. If you can accept me, then you can stay. If you can't accept me, please find another way out."
Uncle Luo and others nodded hurriedly, "Sure, Mr. Xue, please go ahead." They knew that they had to follow the rules.
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Xue Xu said, "Sixth Master, I want to arrange for some people to stay and welcome our friends from Nanyang."
"Well, let's arrange another team in Guangyang to prevent our friends heading north from getting lost."
Qin Sheng nodded. "That's a good idea. I have one too."
Xue Xu inexplicably had a bad feeling. "What do you say?"
Qin Sheng: "I remember there were quite a few strongholds in Liaoxi County, especially on the two roads we had to take to get back to Liaodong County, there were strongholds blocking the way."
Xue Xu looked at him with eyes that saw through everything, "Hmm, then what?" Everyone knows that you are eager to go home.
"Then, I want to be a vanguard, leading a team to go ahead and eliminate all the thorns in the road ahead, so as to facilitate the passage of the large force behind. What do you think?" Qin Sheng looked back seriously. I was eager to go home, but I also had to work.
Xue Xu: Very good, they take care of the whole thing, one at the beginning and the other at the end, and their coordination is perfect.
"If you have no objection, then it's settled. I'll take one thousand of the seven thousand guards, and I'll leave Yue Shu and Liu Erxi with you. I'll leave these people to you. There's still a short distance to go, and you'll have to lead them back."
"I'll give you two thousand men, hurry up and leave." Xue Xu waved his hand and drove the people away like flies.
"Okay."
Qin Sheng immediately went to order two thousand guards to take them away, very quickly, as if he was afraid that Xue Xu would go back on his word.
Liaoxi County, Beizhen, Liufu Village
Liufu Village, which had been peaceful for a long time, finally couldn't help but take action. They robbed a village at lightning speed, not only stealing all the money and food, but also robbed several beautiful women and even killed people.
In less than two hours, they returned to the stronghold with their spoils, and several beautiful women were imprisoned separately.
Two old women carried wooden buckets into a room and began to feed water to the women one by one.
"Come, drink some water!"
Shi Xue's mouth was empty, and she immediately shouted, "Let me go quickly, or I will ask my father to destroy your village!"
Shi Xue didn't expect that she was just in a bad mood and came to visit her wet nurse in a simple manner, but she encountered bandits who robbed the village and took them away.
The two old women turned a deaf ear to her, and the one who fed her water handed a spoonful of water to her mouth.
Shi Xue struggled, but unfortunately her hands and feet were tied with strong ropes.
"Did you hear me? Let me go! Otherwise, you will all die without a burial place!"
"Hey, you're so arrogant, who's your father?"
Shi Xue raised her face and said proudly, "My father is Shi Tao, the governor of Pingzhou!"
"Oh, if your father is the governor of Pingzhou, then my father is the emperor."
Song Mo: ...Thank you, I can’t give birth to a daughter in her forties.
Seeing that coercion didn't work, Shi Xue turned to bribery, "Two mothers-in-law, please let me go. I will ask my father to give you silver, a lot of silver."
"Little girl, don't waste your breath. Our second in command has taken a fancy to you and wants to take you in as his fourth concubine."
Shi Xue was furious when she heard this, "He dares?"
The old woman grabbed her hand and pinched it hard.
"Ah!" Shi Xue's eyes turned red after being pinched like this. "You dare to pinch me? You guys from this broken village are really so bold. I'll let my father kill you——"
Seeing that she was still being stubborn, the old woman grabbed the flesh around her waist and twisted it hard again.
"Wow--" Shi Xue burst into tears.
"You should be thankful that the Second in Command took a liking to you, otherwise, based on your rebellious behavior just now, your face would have been swollen."
"Behave yourself, or you'll suffer."
Shi Xue shed two lines of tears.
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