Chapter 95 Knocked Out
Fortunately, Xu Zhiyi stopped his harsh words after leaving the city. He lifted the car curtain and looked at the refugees lining the road outside, his brows slowly furrowing. "There are so many refugees, and that idiot Cao Manlou actually just lets them do nothing?"
Shen Ning pretended not to hear.
Fortunately, Xu Zhiyi didn't force her to chat this time.
Their carriage looked ordinary and not luxurious. In addition, there was a group of nearly a hundred guards following the carriage, who looked not to be trifled with. The refugees just watched from afar and did not approach.
They arrived at the farm safely. Eryue handed over the guards to Zhao Tong, who assigned them to the various farms. There was also a whole cart of weapons and arrows pulled on the ox cart behind them.
Not far away, the refugees who had originally wanted to join the village quietly walked away...
Chen Ning instructed Zhao Tong to tell several of the village's guard leaders that no matter what happened, protecting human lives was the most important thing. In a critical moment, it would be okay to let others plunder the village. The most important thing was to protect the workers on the village and their own lives.
Beside him, Xu Zhiyi's eyes flashed slightly.
He looked at Chen Ning with a half-smile: "Are those workers more important than the things on your farm that can be exchanged for a lot of silver?"
In this world, the lives of many people, especially those at the bottom of society, are not much better than those of ants in the eyes of the powerful, not to mention that the things in Chen Ning's farm are sold at high prices outside.
What's more, those guards were hired by her at a high price to protect the manor. To earn this money, they should fight for their lives when encountering a situation... But Chen Ning asked them to put their own lives first.
Xu Zhiyi smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Chen is kind-hearted."
He seemed to be sneering at her hypocrisy, but Shen Ning didn't argue too much, just glanced at him: "Things are dead, people are alive, and human life is always more valuable than dead things."
Her tone was a little cold.
She could always put on a smile even when he was deliberately bullying, ridiculing or threatening her, but now, hearing the contempt for human life in his tone, she seemed unable to flatter him.
Xu Zhiyi smiled and said nothing more.
It was still early, but Shen Ning did not stay for too long. After making all the arrangements, she headed back home. However, not long after she returned, she saw a carriage in front of her surrounded by refugees.
"It's County Magistrate Cao Manlou, it's Pingning County Magistrate Cao Manlou."
"Open the city gates, open the city gates and let us in. We are starving to death."
"You bastard officer, you disregard human lives and let us in..."
The people in the carriage did not move, and the refugees outside were filled with indignation.
There were also refugees with elderly people and children who begged: "God, please give us a way out. We can barely find food in the city. Our children are starving to death."
"Please, Master, let us in..."
"He played dead and refused to come out, so he overturned the car."
"Yes, we're all going to die anyway, so let's kill this bastard official first!"
"superior!"
The carriage was originally surrounded by refugees and it was impossible to move forward. Some people joined in the commotion, and immediately dozens of people followed suit, shouting and pushing the carriage hard to overturn it.
The guards in ordinary cloth surrounding the carriage were unable to stop it, and the person in the carriage finally had to show himself, and it turned out to be Cao Manlou.
Cao Manlou was clearly frightened as well. As soon as he emerged, he began to bow and offer polite words: "My fellow elders, my fellow brothers, let's talk things over nicely... I came out today to inspect the refugees' situation and to ensure they are properly resettled."
"Bullshit, just put it in place and let us in now."
"Yes, the city gate is heavily guarded, with bows and arrows pointed outside. They are trying to kill us."
"Kill this bastard official!"
"Everyone, please don't be impulsive. I have already submitted a petition to the court. I will definitely be able to properly accommodate everyone..."
"Catch him. If we catch him, we can use him to enter the city, and if we enter the city, we can survive."
"ah……"
In just a short moment, the place was in chaos.
Xu Zhiyi frowned and said, "Let's go and take a look."
He only brought one person with him, the silent guard who forced Er Yue to retreat in a moment.
The guard flew over and threw the men closest to the carriage in the blink of an eye. They were hit and bleeding, and they shouted, "The dog official is going to kill people."
"The damn official wants us all to die here."
"Kill the dog official!"
The hundreds of refugees were in chaos, shouting and fighting, and they were crowded together. The women and children who had originally been kneeling in the carriage to save their lives were squeezed and trampled and began to cry out.
Shen Ning saw a thin woman trying her best to protect two thin children beside her, but she was squeezed and trampled by the crowd. Seeing that the children were about to be drowned by the crowd, she hurriedly said, "Go and save them."
"You go over there." Er Yue ordered the five or six guards beside the carriage to go over there, while he himself remained beside the carriage, not moving an inch.
Xu Zhiyi raised his eyebrows: "You are a good guard."
Shen Ning smiled: "He is my brother."
Eryue's expression remained unchanged, but the tips of her ears had turned slightly red.
younger brother……
I feel so happy.
But at this moment, something unexpected happened. Several black shadows appeared out of nowhere in the wilderness not far away and attacked the carriage like ghosts.
In the distance, on Cao Manlou's side, Xu Zhiyi's guards realized something was wrong and were about to turn back. At this moment, several hands suddenly emerged from the refugees who were shouting beside him and grabbed towards him like evil spirits.
That speed and angle couldn't possibly be that of a refugee.
There is an ambush!
Xu Zhiyi's guards were furious, and they didn't even care whether they would get hurt or not. They just wanted to get rid of the entanglement around them. At this time, the black shadows had already arrived next to the carriage.
Er Yue wanted to take Chen Ning away as soon as possible and had no intention of caring about Xu Zhiyi's life or death. However, in just a moment, the space around the carriage was sealed tightly, leaving no chance of escape.
Immediately afterwards, those black shadows attacked straight over.
Those black shadows were obviously not ordinary assassins, and the sword light was cold and gloomy... At this time, two more figures appeared and stabbed lightly at the men in black.
There was a big fight between three parties, but Er Yue saw that the two people who appeared behind were helping, so he did not attack them at the first time and focused on dealing with the man in black.
But at that moment, three shadows suddenly emerged from the ground under the carriage and stabbed the black unicorn's buttocks. The horse neighed and ran forward desperately...
"Gudong!"
Shen Ning was caught off guard and fell backwards directly into the car wall, subconsciously letting out a low cry.
Next to him, Xu Zhiyi held the wall of the car with one hand and held Shen Ning's arm with the other. Just when he thought that the woman was about to cry out of fright, he saw Shen Ning gritted her teeth, climbed onto the car and sat up straight, and without saying a word, she pulled out a dagger from behind her sheepskin boots.
She saw the man in black driving outside through the curtains. She relaxed and tightened her hand holding the dagger several times, and then she rushed forward under the cover of the sound of the car... and stabbed the man in black in the back with the knife.
The man in black just had a complete setback.
He already knew that there was a disabled man and a weak woman in the car. He didn't have to worry about the disabled man, but the woman must have been scared to death.
He heard the woman behind him screaming in pain as she hit the car wall, but what he didn't expect was that she would be stabbed with a vicious knife right after.
The man in black groaned and slapped back with his backhand.
The moment the dagger stabbed out, Shen Ning shouted at Xu Zhiyi: "Jump out of the car..."
Since this man was stabbed by her, Xu Zhiyi should have a chance to jump down. He might get hurt, but at least he can buy time and wait for his powerful guard.
However, before she could finish her words, she had no time to react to what was happening as she was slapped hard against the back wall of the carriage and fainted.
The man in black who was driving the car also let out a muffled groan, and in a short moment, his neck turned blue.
That knife is poisoned...
Behind him, Er Yue's eyes were bloodshot. He finally killed the three people who were pestering him and flew forward to chase them. As a result, he saw three more carriages appearing in the wilderness ahead.
The three carriages and Shen Ning's hijacked carriage gathered together and then separated again, speeding off in four different directions.
The boy's eyes turned red.
He was alone, so he could only follow his intuition and choose a direction to chase...
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