Chapter 282 Trapped in Yanghe Town by a Sandstorm
When Ye Siyin hid under the quilt, feeling complacent about getting the contraceptive pills, she was thinking about how to harm the baby in Ye Chutang's belly.
Her every move was reported to Qi Yanzhou by the National Protection Army who were secretly monitoring her.
Qi Yanzhou's eyebrows turned cold, and his eyes fell on the location of the Ye family.
"Keep an eye on her. If she's not clean, chop her up."
"Yes, Master Qi."
Qi Yanzhou gave the roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes to the National Protection Army.
"Distribute it to the night watchmen. If there is not enough, just take some from the basket and roast it yourself."
The nights in the Gobi Desert are very cold, and eating something hot can warm you up a lot.
"Thank you, Master Qi."
The night passed quickly.
Ye Chutang went to bed early last night and woke up early today.
Unexpectedly, Aunt Xu got up even earlier and was already cooking porridge in a big pot.
As soon as she stood up, all the members of the Qi family got up.
It was obvious that they were afraid of making noise after waking up and disturbing her rest, so they didn't dare to get up even after waking up.
Ye Chutang didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Mom and Dad, you don't have to be so cautious. Just do it the same as before. You're making me uncomfortable."
The temperature in the morning was very low, and you could see the white mist coming out of your breath while you were talking.
While helping Ye Chutang fold the quilt, Qi Yanzhou said, "Listen to Atang. Too much is as bad as too little. When you need to be careful, Atang will let you know in advance."
Ye Chutang agreed, "Azhou is right. The baby is only five months old. There's no need to be too nervous."
But Madam Qi disagreed.
"Tang'er, you are pregnant with twins, which is more difficult than a single baby. You'd better be careful."
"Of course you have to be careful, but you don't have to be overly careful. I'm a straightforward person. If I'm uncomfortable or need someone to do something, I'll tell you directly, so that everyone can feel at ease."
Since Ye Chutang said so, the Qi family immediately agreed.
But whether they will do so is hard to say.
After all, most people will instinctively take better care of pregnant women.
The Qi family tidied up their bedding, washed up simply, and sat around the fire, drinking porridge and eating buns.
After a while, I heard people from the Chen family calling for a doctor.
Ye Chutang knew without asking about the situation that the Chen family had been stung by a poisonous scorpion.
Windless and warm places are the favorite places of poisonous scorpions.
Before the Chen family was exiled, at the instruction of Qi Yanzhou, they were searched by officials who confiscated their property and were left penniless, with only a few sets of tattered clothes and bedding.
The food and drink were provided by the escorting officers, all of whom had dark faces and thin bodies.
The Chen family had no money to buy anthelmintics, nor were they as resourceful as Ye Siyin to get the medicine from Lu Feng.
Getting stung is only a matter of time.
really.
Lu Feng rushed to the Chen family's resting place and found that three people had been stung by poisonous scorpions.
One person was unlucky and was stung on the solar plexus and died.
The other two were unconscious.
One was stung on the hand and the other was stung on the foot.
The place where you were stung was badly swollen and had a purple-blue color, and you could tell at a glance that it was highly poisonous.
Lu Feng knew the dangers of the Gobi Desert and prepared a lot of antidotes.
After the two were given the medicine, there was no sign of waking up.
"He's been poisoned for too long. He'll have to wait for the drug to take effect before he wakes up. It'll probably take an hour."
Everyone was in a hurry, so they naturally wouldn't wait for the Chen family to wake up before leaving.
Han Chong ordered his men to throw the two unconscious people onto the cart.
The Chen family dug a pit and buried the dead one.
The cart was bumpy.
After the two Chen family members fell down several times, they were tied up with ropes.
When they woke up, they were dizzy, achy, and nauseous.
After being taken down from the cart, he vomited all over the place.
Fortunately, Han Chong had the foresight to let the two carts go at the end, otherwise everyone would have suffered.
Qi Yanzhou held Ye Chutang's hand and walked behind the National Protection Army.
He told her that Ye Siyin had tricked Lu Feng into giving her a contraceptive pill.
"Atang, if Ye Siyin wants to harm you and the child, I will take the initiative."
As for other matters, he could let Ye Chutang handle them himself.
But Ye Chutang and the child are his bottom line, and no one can touch them!
Ye Chutang held Qi Yanzhou's hand tighter.
"Okay, you can handle the Ye family's people and affairs according to the situation. I won't interfere."
Now that her pregnancy is public, she has to put more energy into protecting herself and her baby.
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It only took us two days to adapt to the Gobi Desert environment.
We can now chat and laugh happily when the sky is full of yellow sand, but we won’t eat the dirt.
The exile team also arrived at the first town in Uru County.
Yanghe Town.
This town is obviously different from the ones I visited before.
The wall was built of stones and was only about ten feet high.
The main street comes into view and you can see the end at a glance.
Although Yanghe Town looks like a makeshift market, there are still a lot of people coming and going.
Everything is sold there, but the prices are 30% higher than in Ningzhou City.
After entering the town, Wu Chenggang went to the government office with the exile document, and Han Chong sent someone to follow him to fetch water.
There were two extra-large wooden barrels on the cart for storing water.
If you only use it for drinking and simple daily cleaning, it can be used for five days.
Others buy what they need on their own.
The Chen family had no money, so they sat at the entrance of the town to rest.
The Ye family is also pauper.
But Ye Siyin had the money given to her by Lu Feng.
She saved up for almost a month and had about two taels of silver.
Now it is late autumn and she wants to buy herself two sets of thick clothes.
Then see if you can find an opportunity to go to the pharmacy and buy some medicine for miscarriage, just to be prepared.
Under the instruction of Qi Yanzhou, the National Protection Army deliberately gave Ye Siyin an opportunity.
She was so happy that she almost laughed out loud after successfully buying the abortion medicine.
She whispered excitedly, "The fact that things are going so smoothly means God is helping me!"
When these words fell into Qi Yanzhou's ears.
He sneered: "I didn't expect Ye Siyin to think so highly of me!"
“A-choo!”
Ye Siyin sneezed in the cloth shop, and her saliva sprayed on the short jacket in her hand.
The shopkeeper immediately said unhappily: "Girl, you have soiled this dress, you must buy it!"
The further north you go, the bigger the women become.
If she has a stern face, she looks fierce and not easy to mess with.
Ye Siyin was so frightened that she bought a short jacket she didn't like and ran away.
After having lunch in Yanghe Town, the exile team prepared to continue their journey.
Arriving at the town gate, Ye Chutang discovered that the sky and earth to the north had become one, and her beautiful brows immediately furrowed.
"There might be a sandstorm coming."
As soon as these words were spoken, the vendor selling beef jerky at the city gate nodded in agreement.
"Indeed, the sandstorm will come in less than half a day."
This is why there are so many people in the town today.
Everyone was storing food and water, preparing to stay at home for three days.
Since the people of Ulu County were already accustomed to sandstorms, no one mentioned it.
Just quietly taking countermeasures.
If Ye Chutang had not noticed something wrong in the sky, the exile team would have been trapped in the Gobi Desert with no village in sight and no shop nearby.
At the very least, they would be blown away, lose their direction, and be without water and food for three days.
In serious cases, the patient will be buried under the sand and dust, and his body will never be found.
Wu Chenggang's face turned a little ugly when he thought that the headman in the government office had not mentioned the sandstorm to him.
Isn't this just letting them die? !
He suppressed his anger, quickly took out the map of Uru County, and walked in front of Qi Yanzhou.
"Master Qi, should we quickly find a place to set up camp, or stay in Yanghe Town?"
Qi Yanzhou felt that this town was not very safe.
She looked at Ye Chutang, "Atang, do you think we should leave or stay?"
Ye Chutang and Qi Yanzhou felt the same.
This town seemed normal, but it always gave her a weird feeling.
"Let's stay. We are not familiar with the Gobi Desert and we don't know how powerful this sandstorm is. It's safer to stay."
"Okay, let Han Chong keep an eye on it. This place makes me feel uneasy."
Ye Chutang thought so too.
"The sandstorm came from the north. We don't live in the town. We camp at the outer wall south of the town."
The ground in the town is paved with smooth stones, which is not conducive to the use of earth-related abilities.
It would be safer for her to live outside of town.
Even if a tornado comes, it's no problem.
Qi Yanzhou immediately asked Han Chong to make arrangements.
After being stung by a poisonous scorpion, the people of the Sun family became particularly afraid of death.
Seeing that Ye Chutang did not live in the safer town and wanted to set up camp outside the town, he could not help but despise him and said, "You are worrying about nothing, a woman's opinion!"
Before he finished speaking, Qi Yanzhou made his move.
Only two "pop" sounds were heard.
The Chen family member who was speaking was slapped twice, and his face instantly swelled up like a pig's head, with a burning pain.
He opened his mouth to say something, but his teeth mixed with blood fell to the ground.
“You…you…”
Qi Yanzhou ran over with a cold look, and the toothless man immediately showed fear on his face and closed his mouth.
Wu Chenggang untied the whip wrapped around his waist and whipped the man hard.
"If you want to live in this town, there is only one way: die!"
After these words were spoken, no one dared to object and they all followed him to settle down just south of the town.
Yanghe Town is not big, with less than a hundred households in total.
The south wall is twenty feet long, enough to set up ten tents side by side.
Ye Chutang quietly buried the one-meter-long steel bar stored in the space underground, and used his earth-related ability to squeeze it into a twisted shape, making it stuck in the sand. Even a tornado would have difficulty pulling it out.
The steel bar protrudes half a foot and is used as hooks to fix the tent.
This job was given to Qi Yanzhou.
He has strong internal strength and high martial arts skills, so it is not difficult for him to turn the steel bars into hooks.
But he was surprised by the hardness of the steel bar, and immediately asked Ye Chutang quietly, "Atang, where did you buy this iron rod?"
If weapons were made from iron of such hardness, not only would the lethality be doubled, but they would also be more durable!
While packing up the tent, Ye Chutang said, "It was the 'ghost thief' who did it. I don't know."
"Ask him. I want to buy more of this iron. It doesn't matter if the price is a little higher."
"I asked before, but he wouldn't tell me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Sun Chu came over excitedly.
Others don’t know steel bars, but he does!
I didn’t expect Ye Chutang to bring modern things into ancient times. How did she do it?
space?
“Could it be that the fictional things in the TV show really exist?”
He murmured so quietly that Ye Chutang and Qi Yanzhou only heard fragments of his words.
The former immediately guessed what Sun Chu said, but the latter was completely confused.
"What TV? What fiction?"
He asked directly, and Sun Chu was frightened and immediately made up a story.
“You heard me wrong. I meant that we should use stepping stones to weigh down the tent to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.
Also, the number of iron hooks is a little too few, so we need to find a 'ghost thief' to add more hooks to increase their firmness.
After all, human life is at stake, so we must be cautious and strive to do our best. ”
Ye Chutang quietly gave a thumbs up, very satisfied with Sun Chu's skill in talking nonsense.
"These iron rods are buried deep enough and are very secure, so there is no need to add more."
The tent is a simple tent used for marching. In order to be light, the thinnest one is used.
The north wind blew, and the tent swayed in the wind, making a rustling sound.
After working for nearly an hour, we finally fixed the tent.
The tent is very big and can accommodate nearly fifteen people if they squeeze together.
The Qi family got one, and the rest went to the National Protection Army and the escorting officials.
As for the Ye family of the Sun family, they lived outside the tent.
At this time, the sky in the north looked even darker, as if there was a heavy rainstorm in the distance.
But Ye Chutang knew it was not the case.
The sandstorm was so intense that it picked up more dust and debris, increasing the thickness of the storm and causing the colors to appear darker.
It came faster than she expected, and she was afraid that the sandstorm would come before dark.
Qi Yanzhou saw Ye Chutang frowning with worry and asked, "Atang, is this sandstorm very dangerous? How about letting the National Defense Army accompany you to live in the town?"
Houses are always more durable and safer than tents!
Ye Chutang shook his head. "In the face of natural disasters that cannot be countered by human power, it is even more dangerous to stay in a completely unfamiliar environment."
Qi Yanzhou was unable to refute this.
He had never experienced a sandstorm and didn't know what harm and consequences it would cause.
"Han Chong, take your men around town and come back as soon as possible."
Han Chong took the order and entered the town with fifty people.
Both he and his subordinates had higher official ranks than the head of a town - the head of a village.
So, they had free access in Yanghe Town.
Han Chong returned to the camp just before the sandstorm came.
His face didn't look good and his whole body was tense.
After seeing this, Ye Chutang asked, "Did Lord Han find anything in the town?"
"Well, I found out..."
As Han Chong opened his mouth, an arrow carrying internal force shot towards him.
Although he dodged in time, his arm was still cut by the sharp arrow.
The feeling of numbness quickly spread from the wound.
In the blink of an eye, his mind went blank and he passed out.
Qi Yanzhou's face changed slightly, and just as he was about to catch someone in the direction where the arrow came from, he was grabbed by Ye Chutang.
"It might be to lure the enemy deeper into our territory. Don't go."
The sandstorm is coming soon. If Qi Yanzhou is trapped in the city, he will be isolated and helpless and at the mercy of others.
He also thought of this and immediately gave up the impulsive idea.
"What happened to Han Chong?"
Before he could finish his words, Ye Chutang placed his hand on Han Chong's wrist.
The pulse is stagnant, as if frozen.
"I've never seen this kind of poison, but it should have a similar effect to anesthetics. It will paralyze the nerves and make the whole body stiff, but it won't kill people."
Moreover, it will recover after two hours.
Thinking of this, she let go of Han Chong's wrist and said, "Azhou, go ask the National Defense Army that just entered the town, what did they find?"
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