After leaving Qingshui Town and heading south along the valley, the road became bumpy and rugged. There were towering forests on both sides of the official road.
Qiao Xin played with the stones in her hand and said, "This is a great place to rob people."
This journey will not be peaceful.
That being said, they could not relax their safety concerns. Qiao Xin had already carried a bow and arrow, and each of her sons and daughters-in-law was equipped with a machete. They did not expect them to be able to kill the enemy, but if something happened, it would be better to have a tool to boost their courage than to fight with bare hands.
It was really boring on the way, so she made a few wooden slingshots with a dagger and asked the children to use stones as weapons, aiming at the leaves on the trees to practice their aim.
While driving the cart, Qiao Yunqing watched his foster mother playing with the children and teaching them how to use slingshots.
How does this look like a grandmother?
If you don't know, you might think she is the child's sister. It was clearly a tough migration journey, but under Qiao Xin's operation, it felt like a picnic.
People like this can live well wherever they go, Qiao Yunqing thought with envy. With such an open-minded adoptive mother, can the brothers avoid repeating the tragedy of their previous life?
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After traveling day and night for several days, they finally crossed the territory of Youzhou and entered Yanzhou smoothly. Along the way, there was no banditry and robbery as they had imagined, and the journey was unexpectedly smooth.
Qiao Xin is no longer used to it. Isn't it said that poor and remote areas produce unruly people?
Isn’t it said that there are many bandits in Liangzhou and Youzhou?
"Youzhou is the birthplace of His Majesty. His Majesty's fortieth birthday is coming soon. If chaos breaks out at this time, it won't be a simple matter of losing your head!" Qiao Yunqing's words resolved Qiao Xin's doubts.
Does this mean that their family can be said to have benefited from His Majesty's blessing?
Seeing that it was getting late, Qiao Xin planned to let everyone rest for a while before continuing. After several days of traveling day and night, the adults and children had reached their limits, especially the horses, which were already exhausted.
"After we get out of the mountain pass, let's find a sheltered place to rest!"
"There is a mountain temple at the exit. We can go there." Qiao Yunqing was very familiar with the situation along the way.
In the quiet late autumn, the mountain wind whistled and the woods rustled. The small wind-killing lantern hung beside the horses' ears, becoming the only source of light.
Qiao Yunqing wrapped himself tightly in the fur coat, which his wife had made overnight at the behest of her adoptive mother.
Thanks to this fur coat, he didn't freeze into an ice stick outside in such a cold carriage.
In their previous life, they relied on their big feet to walk to the capital. Now the conditions are much better, so what is there for him to be unsatisfied about?
"Wait!" Qiao Xin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, suddenly spoke.
Qiao Yunqing tightened the reins, not knowing why, and felt nervous. He asked softly, "What's wrong?"
"There's a smell of blood in the wind, so drive slowly. Everyone be careful, and protect the children first if anything happens." Qiao Xin shook her head and said seriously.
"How about I go to the front and take a look at the situation?"
Qiao Xin refused and said, "We are already few in number, and we cannot disperse. If the enemy attacks from the east, we won't even have a chance to resist.
The surrounding area is full of steep cliffs, and there is not even a valley to shelter from the wind. There are at most two miles ahead to get out of this mountain road. If we retreat, there are more than twelve miles to go. No one can guarantee that there will be no risk if we turn back. For now, we can only move forward. "
Qiao Yunxin immediately understood the situation, and then heard Qiao Xin say to him, "I will be on guard, let Xu and Zhang get on this carriage, and you two just need to protect yourselves. If necessary, you can abandon the carriage to save yourselves."
Qiao Yunxin and Qiao Yunting found the backbone at once, and they all started to act! The Qisifeng lantern was extinguished, and the horseshoes were wrapped with thick straw mats. Everyone began to grope forward in the dark.
The further they walked, the stronger the bloody smell became. Even the slow-witted children could smell it. Qiao Xin was keenly aware that a fight had just taken place. Perhaps the other party was too confident and left without even cleaning up the battlefield.
There were seven or eight bodies lying on the side of the road, and the carriage had to stop.
Qiao Xin jumped down, with a hatchet on his waist and a longbow in his right hand, and looked around vigilantly: "I'll go take a look, don't move."
Qiao Yunqing was naturally worried, "Let the third brother accompany you, and the eldest brother come to my place first."
"OK!"
The more Qiao Xin checked forward, the more frightened she became. These people were all killed with one knife. The other party did not give them any chance to survive.
"Mother, look, we've seen him!" Qiao Yunting suddenly pointed at a corpse.
Qiao Xin looked at it carefully and was shocked. Isn't this the servant who followed Heng An?
How did he get here? She went forward to check and found that he was already dead.
"Look carefully again to see if there are any survivors."
Qiao Xin didn't want anything to happen to the brothers. It was not her kindness. When the Heng family investigated, they found that they not only had an intersection in the town, but also passed by this road on the day of the accident. Who would believe that these things had nothing to do with them?
This will be extremely disadvantageous for Qiao Yunxin's return home in the future!
Qiao Xin walked forward, feeling more and more disheartened. Not a single person was left alive. All were killed with one blow. Who on earth was so bold as to kill the two legitimate sons of the Marquis' Mansion?
It was a pity that they ran into them. Isn't this dragging them into the fire pit?
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