Chapter 120 Enemy on the [Pearl Chapter]
"Waiter, come two bowls of noodles and stir-fry two side dishes."
The waiter looked up and saw that it was a middle-aged man with a young girl. He looked like a father and daughter, but his behavior was not similar. He smiled and said, "Two guests, two bowls of hot spring noodles!"
Hu Yantu picked up a table inside and sat down. Mingzhu sat opposite him with a bag. He could see the store door with his eyes raised.
It has been more than a month since I left the capital. Mingzhu has lost a lot of weight, her face is covered with dust, and her eyebrows and eyes are faintly filled with tenacity. The two of them sat opposite each other without saying a word.
The restaurant gathers in the restaurant, including those who eat noodles, tea and snacks, gather together to discuss current affairs.
One said: "I heard that Your Majesty has summoned a 100,000 Pingbei army to rebel against King Pingdan."
Another said: "Isn't this battle going to end up with us?"
"Danzhou is far away from our mountains and rivers, so we can have tea with peace and stability."
Mingzhu sat in the restaurant, holding chopsticks, put two bowls of noodles on the table, and she pulled the noodles bowl in front of her, picked up two noodles, blew them carefully, and ate them down.
Hu Yantu glanced at her. Last time she heard about the rebellion of King Dan, she was still crying secretly in the middle of the night, and now she could eat noodles safely.
Before King Dan returned to his fiefdom, he raised the banner of "clearing the king's side and eliminating the demons" and forced the new emperor to clear the Ziwei Palace.
The Ziwei Zhenren is dead, but the Ziwei Palace still exists. The centipede insects die but do not become stiff. The forces of the palaces and temples in various places are broken, so their power cannot be underestimated.
Even if King Dan did not raise the banner of righteousness, the civil and military ministers of the court were suppressing the remaining forces of Ziwei Palace. The battle between Ziwei and Xie Xuan scared them all out of fear.
If a person's strength can shake the mountains and the earth, and the cold and heat can reverse, how can the emperor's throne be firmly seated?
Hu Yantu laughed in his heart. How could those people know that if they talk about orthodoxism, there would be nothing more orthodoxism than Xie Xuan.
"If you fight, just fight, the price of rice will sometimes fall." This place is still far from the battlefield, so people will say this without any pain. Moving forward is not the scene in front of you.
Mingzhu kept consuming noodles until the person on the other side pushed the side dish to her, and she stopped chopsticks. The steaming steam in the noodle bowl made her eyes red.
"Look for an inn after eating noodles."
"I don't need to rest, let's continue on the road."
Hu Yantu glanced at her. Her cuffs were all worn, her hair was stained with dust, and her face was covered with dust. If you miss this town, it would be harder to walk down the road. There would be no place for her to wash up with peace of mind.
"You know what's faster than a soldier?"
Mingzhu shook her head. Uncle Yan rarely said anything. If he didn't take the initiative to talk to him, both of them could not say a word a day, but occasionally he would take the initiative to speak like he is now.
Usually, it is to mock her at this time.
"The fleeing man." The capital summoned 100,000 troops to resist the rebels, indicating that King Dan was coming in full force and if there were no strong generals, he would soon fight here.
The veterans who founded the country had long died, so no one could stop King Dan's elite soldiers.
Mingzhu immediately understood: "Yes...but that uncle just now didn't say that the battlefield was still far away from here."
She was waiting for a reply, but Uncle Yan stopped talking. She lowered her head and finished eating noodles. She found an inn, followed Uncle Yan and left her and went out to do business.
Mingzhu washed up and thought that she had never seen Uncle Yan wash his hands and face, but there was no odor on his body.
After she finished washing up, Hu Yantu had been waiting outside and stuffed a bag for her.
When I opened it, I saw that it was a thick autumn outfit inside. It turned out that he was doing the business, which was done.
It was still hot when I left the capital, but it was already autumn when I walked here, so it would be even colder to walk north.
Mingzhu shook her autumn clothes and even wrapped her handkerchiefs and socks inside. She put away these close-fitting things and felt that Uncle Yan was really capricious.
But as he expected, after only half a month of walking forward, the war was already tight and the levels were no longer accessible.
In addition to blocking the rebels' attack, Chengchizhou Prefecture first had to block the surging refugees.
Mingzhu sat in the car and Huyantu drove the car. When she passed the official road, she first saw people driving the car with horses in groups of three or three. She looked very rich in clothes and dressed.
Seeing Mingzhu and the others driving the car forward in the opposite direction, they stopped and persuaded him: "Brother, stop, King Dan is about to call him."
Hu Yantu still drove forward, so the people frowned and said no more.
When we move forward, there will be no carriages and donkeys. They are all people walking on foot. The carriages are walking slowly and slowly in the crowd.
Mingzhu lifted the curtain and looked out. Seeing that these people were pale and thin, she felt unbearable. At this moment, a small hand knocked on the wall of the car: "Sister, please give me some food."
When Mingzhu heard this, she immediately took a piece of dry cake from the car and wanted to hand it to the child.
With a crisp "bang", the whip hit the car wall, which scared everyone around him to take a few steps back. The child was so frightened that he widened his eyes.
Mingzhu said to Hu Yantu: "It's just a dry cake." There are many more in the car.
"When you go back, you will be able to open any porridge shed." The implication is that you can't give a piece of cake.
Mingzhu bit her lip and put down the curtain. While Huyantu was rushing the car, she quietly threw a piece of cake out of the curtain.
Hu Yantu sat in front of the car, heard the movement, frowned, but did not speak.
There was no place to stay along the way, Hu Yantu drove the car into the woods, tied the car and horses, and slept in the wild. He slept outside the car and Mingzhu slept inside the car.
It suddenly started to rain in the middle of the night. The raindrops hit the roof of the car, waking Mingzhu. When she woke up, she thought that Uncle Yan was still outside the car. She lifted the curtain and saw that he was leaning against the big tree.
"Uncle Yan, come into the car and hide from the rain." Although Uncle Yan has a strange temper and a bad mouth, he is a gentleman and has never violated her on the slightest way.
The carriage is narrow and you can't lie down anymore, but you can still sit and hide from the rain. The rain is so dense that I'm afraid it won't stop until dawn.
Hu Yantu didn't get into the car. He pulled out a knife from the bottom of the car, flew down some branches, and set up a shed along the carriage. The horses and people squeezed in the shed to shelter from the rain.
Although there were branches blocking the rain, the ground in the forest was still muddy, so Mingzhu still wanted to invite him into the car to shelter from the rain.
"Uncle Yan..."
Suddenly the curtain moved, Hu Yantu jumped into the car and brought in a burst of moisture. Mingzhu was about to speak when he pressed her mouth: "Shut up."
Mingzhu immediately closed her mouth, Hu Yantu took her to jump up the tree and blocked her body with dense leaves.
It took a moment to hear the voices, and most of them were covered by the sound of rain, and someone picked up the curtains of their carriages.
"Escape!" Five or six people were talking to each other, each of them holding their knives. "The legs and feet are fast, it seems that they are friends on the road."
Because I was inconvenient to fight with a woman, I left something to save my life.
Hu Yantu was hiding in the tree. He wanted to kill one of them but could not stand it, but he could hear the sound. He held the knife and did not move. He recognized the sound.
Mingzhu squatted for a long time, her legs and feet became numb, and her body was covered with cold rain. She was cold and afraid. She felt that she couldn't hold on, so she just stretched her waist and held it.
Her face turned red, and she thought that Uncle Yan was a gentleman. In times of crisis, she must not make any sound and gritted her teeth.
The few people took the carriage away with the dry food inside.
After the people walked far, Hu Yantu took Mingzhu down from the tree and let go of his arm. Mingzhu said, "What should we do now?"
Hu Yantu's face was unstable. If she hadn't been there, how could the enemy not have a knife when they met? But he didn't chase him and cut off the branches again, set up wet branches at the bottom of the tree, and lit fire.
The wet firewood smoked, and the smoke floated far away, and was blocked by the rain. They shrank under the tree to roast the fire. Mingzhu held her knees and roasted the fire. When she thought of something, her face turned pale: "Is it... it's because I gave a cake."
That's why I was targeted.
Hu Yantu didn't say anything. Mingzhu thought he was accusation, so she lowered her head and wanted to cry. She quickly wiped her eyes with her sleeves, but her face was covered with water, and she couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.
"The Yan brothers look down on a few cakes." These people are good at martial arts and have some Taoist techniques. They become sworn brothers, and they specialize in robbing families.
I was not lucky and I was met by them.
Mingzhu felt much more at ease when she heard this. She sniffed and took out a piece of cake from her arms: "I'll go out, let's bake and eat it hot." She said that, and handed the cake over.
Hu Yantu had a meal with his fingertips. She just put the cake in her arms and took it. It was so fragrant that it was soft and tore it apart, and it was torn apart half and distributed it to Mingzhu.
It rained all night, and when Hu Yantu woke up the next morning, he saw Mingzhu curled under the tree, his face burning red.
She slept all the way and stayed up until now, and finally couldn't hold on.
Hu Yantu frowned and carried her on his back. Mingzhu's face was tilted between his neck, and he was still saying in a daze: "Uncle Yan, let's hurry up."
Hu Yantu ran up and ran for a stick of incense before he saw a broken temple beside the Tao. He ran into the temple, lit firewood, untied his thick robe, and let Mingzhu lie on it.
Mingzhu burned her lips and her face turned red. Hu Yantu put her down, lit the talisman, and released a pair of twin ghosts from the bottle.
He hadn't done this for a long time and said to the little ghost: "Look at her."
The little ghost ate the offering and was very obedient. He left one and took one away. Hu Yantu then felt at ease to get the clean water. Last night, the rainstorm was heavy and the stream was turbid. He finally got a clean water.
Just as he was about to go back, the little ghost next to him suddenly screamed and Huyantu rushed back. Before he could enter the temple, he saw the carriage that had been stolen last night parked in front of the temple.
Hu Yantu felt a little nervous. Although he had lived on the knife since his mother was robbed, he had one thing he would never do, so he bullied the woman.
But... the Yan brothers are happy about this.
My mind changed and I had already flew into the temple.
Mingzhu had a dagger hidden in her arms. Although she was sick, she was very alert. She knew that Uncle Yan was going out to find water for her. When she heard someone entering the temple, she hid the dagger in her sleeve.
Seeing that Yan Laoer was so arrogant, he saw Mingzhu alone. As soon as he pounced on him, she stabbed her dagger on her body.
He was furious and grabbed Mingzhu's neck with one hand. Yan Laowu was persuading her: "This little girl is beautiful and has a strong temperament. My second brother will save her life."
Chapter completed!