"Who goes there?!"
Not far away, the Ye army patrolling the city saw Zheng Quchi standing alone on the empty street, which was not only obviously suspicious but also particularly suspicious.
Startled awake by the shout, Zheng Quchi looked up, her gaze passing through the brim of her hat to the Ye army.
It was the soldiers' uniform she used to be familiar with, but now they clearly didn't recognize her. Instead, they gripped their knife hilts and rushed over menacingly, intending to arrest her.
Zheng Quchi immediately turned around and ran away.
To be honest, she had no idea where she could go or how to get rid of the Ye army's search. If she was caught, should she reveal her identity or deny it? And if so, what would be her fate?
These jumbled questions flashed through her mind, and she didn't have time to think about them. She just instinctively wanted to escape from them, or rather... escape from Yuwen Sheng.
Then, she found a quiet place and seriously considered what to do next.
Caught in the eye of the storm, what should she do?
"If any suspicious persons are found, notify others to apprehend them immediately!"
"yes."
The shouts that came chasing after her, along with the howling wind, made her heart tighten, and she dared not stop, her feet almost smoking from the friction.
When a person is in an unfamiliar environment and wants to escape from being chased, their brain will automatically choose some seemingly hidden places to run to, or a route they have taken before. Zheng Quchi then plunged into the alley she had come from.
She had just turned the corner when she was suddenly pulled into the house, and the wooden gate was quickly closed.
There was a woman, trembling all over, who was tightly gripping Zheng Quchi's wrist. The two hid in a corner, and she, still in shock, made a shushing gesture to Zheng Quchi.
Zheng Quchi was taken aback.
"Quick, after them!"
"People are running this way!"
A group of hurried footsteps passed by outside. After everything returned to calm, the woman gasped for breath, as if she had collapsed.
Seeing that she was quite frightened, yet still so kind as to save people, Zheng Quchi softened her voice and said gently, as if afraid of frightening her further, "Thank you... Sister."
The woman's eyes were red as she looked Zheng Quchi up and down: "How dare you run around outside at a time like this? Don't you know that there was a disturbance at the City Lord's Mansion not long ago, and now the whole city is arresting suspicious people?"
“…I don’t know.” Zheng Quchi looked back at her innocently.
"You should hide quickly..." Just as she finished speaking, the woman seemed to suddenly realize something, and her face turned ashen as she said, "But you won't be able to hide for long. At noon, the Ye army will set the city on fire."
Zheng Quchi also remembered the urgent matter that was currently unfolding: "Sister, is it really going to burn down the city? This isn't just a house or a dwelling, it's an entire city!"
"I didn't want it to be true either, but after midnight, the Ye army poured oil all over the city." As the woman spoke, she couldn't help but wipe away her tears again.
"Is there really no other way?" Zheng Quchi asked with an absurd expression.
"The general of Ye has only one condition now, which is to see his wife. But there is only half an hour left until noon. You have seen the soldiers patrolling the streets, right? They are carrying torches, ready to set fires as soon as they are given the order... Alas, the lives of ordinary people have never been worth anything in the eyes of those in power."
You met his wife... is that right?
The woman was crying so hard she was almost fainting. Zheng Quchi quickly hugged her and gently patted her back. When he looked up, he saw her husband standing by the door, holding a sleeping child, his face also filled with sorrow and despair.
She turned her head again and saw that the people in the next house were all peeking out. There were old people and children, men and women, all of them looking gloomy and anxious, feeling extremely uneasy and afraid of their impending death.
The soft, continuous sobs, suppressed, restrained, and breaking down, rustled and transformed the city into a city of sorrow. That helpless grief, like a long, thin stream, flowed into Zheng Quchi's heart.
Her heart, which was originally a proud and aloof city, was now crumbling at the sight before her.
"Sister, it's alright, everything will be alright. Do you know how those people who started the uprising at the City Lord's Mansion are doing now?"
The woman was calmed by her steady voice. She looked at the girl, who was half a head shorter than her. Although the girl's attire was strange, with a black robe covering her head and body, she always felt that the girl was not a "bad" person.
The woman shook her head, her nose stuffed up, her voice muffled: "I don't know, I only heard it from the soldiers who were patrolling back and forth. They don't allow anyone to move around outside, otherwise they will be killed without mercy."
If nothing unexpected happens, the people who started this uprising should be Gongchenya and his group...
How many people live in a city?
The price ranges from as low as ten thousand to as high as tens of thousands.
Residents, officials, shopkeepers, soldiers, monks, and travelers passing through from afar are all imprisoned in this cage within the city, suffering and awaiting death...
The person who started all of this was Yuwen Sheng.
She truly lacked the noble sentiment of selflessness. In both her past and present lives, she was always a small person struggling to make ends meet, and she was never the one to shoulder the burdens that required sacrifice and effort.
However, fate seemed to think her life was too boring, so it paired her with a husband who could make her life "exciting and dramatic".
Living under the red flag, and receiving education that emphasized patriotism and love for the people, she found it impossible to stand by and watch these innocent people die unjustly.
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