Three Kingdoms King of the North

After hearing this, Cao Man and Zhou Zhe couldn't help but turn pale with shock: "Is this true?"

Especially Zhou Zhe, he just said that it is impossible for a yellow scarf thief to come to Zhuangzi.As the words were still in my ears, someone came to report that the Yellow Turban Bandits were heading for Zhuangzi, which was too coincidental.After a brief panic, he wondered if it was Cao Qiuping who sent people to spread rumors on purpose in order to make people believe her words.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhe sat down again, and asked the servants with a stern face, "Tell me, is it your lady who made you say that on purpose? Langlang Qiankun, where did the yellow scarf come from?"

The servant glanced at Zhou Zhe who was talking, and recognized him as the master's friend.Normally, he would inevitably have to distinguish a few words, but today is an urgent matter, so why would he spend more time talking with this person.He kowtowed to Cao Man respectfully, and said, "Master, thank you for your care over the past few years. The villain is very grateful. Seeing that the yellow turban thief is coming, if you don't leave, it will be too late. Please forgive the villain for offending me." .”

The servant stood up and rushed in front of Cao Man. Without saying a word, he knocked him unconscious with his fist, and then carried him on his shoulder.The servant turned to the people in the hall and said, "The bandit soldiers are coming. If you don't want to die, you can escape with me, Cao Shiliu." After speaking, he carried Cao Man on his shoulders and ran outside.

The servants and maidservants who were busy in the hall watched Cao Shiliu run out with Cao Man on his shoulders. Some worried that Cao Man was in danger, so they shouted and chased after him; Cao Shiliu fled together.

Zhou Zhe stared dumbfounded at the messy servants and maidservants, thinking that this Cao Qiuping is really nonsense, in order to make others believe her nonsense, she actually let people go home and spread rumors, it seems that it is a little bit of a marriage for her to marry her brother-in-law I don't think about it, I'll discuss it with my wife after I get home, and I'll forget about this marriage.

Zhou Zhe shook his head, got up and walked out of the Cao Mansion, ready to go home and tell his wife about it.Unexpectedly, as soon as I walked to the street, I saw that the village was in a mess. There were people calling for their children everywhere on the street. Zhuang Wai fled.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Zhe couldn't help stomping his feet angrily, thinking that this Cao Qiuping was really harmful, but after learning the art of observing the sky with a Taoist named Zuo Ci for a few days, he went around bewitching people's hearts and making everyone in the village Danger.After this matter is over, you must talk to Brother Cao and ask him to discipline his daughter properly.By the way, there is also that servant named Cao Shiliu who has to be severely punished. In order to please the young lady, he dared to knock the master unconscious, which is simply against the sky.

Back in his mansion, he saw that the place was also in chaos, and the servants were running back and forth in the yard without stopping, carrying boxes after boxes of soft goods out of the house.Seeing this situation, Zhou Zhe was furious immediately, not to mention that Cao's family was in chaos, and his own family was not much better.He yelled angrily, "Stop it all!"

When the servant was in a daze, he suddenly stopped when he heard his master's voice.Zhou Zhe grabbed a servant and asked viciously, "What are you doing?"

"Back to the master," the servant hurriedly replied: "Young master heard that there are yellow scarves coming towards Zhuangzi, and ordered us to pack up our belongings and prepare to go to other places to avoid disaster."

"Nonsense, it's nonsense." Zhou Zhe shouted to the servants standing in the yard: "There are no yellow scarf thieves at all. Everyone bring their things back to me. Anyone who dares to talk nonsense will be dealt with by the family law."

The servants had heard the commotion outside, so they immediately started packing when they heard Mr. Zhou said they were moving.Unexpectedly, at this moment, the master actually said that there were no yellow scarf thieves at all, and asked them to move their things back, which made them a little bit in a dilemma.

Seeing the servants standing in the yard without moving, Zhou Zhe couldn't help being furious. He saw a broom leaning on a nearby pillar, grabbed it, and slapped the servants violently. While smoking, he scolded: "You dog, didn't you hear what the master said? Why are you still standing here, why don't you hurry up and move the things back."

Just when the servants were at a loss, Zhou Zhe's young master ran out from the main room. Seeing that the servants were all standing in the yard not understanding, he couldn't help but asked angrily, "Why are you still standing here when I told you to pack your bags?"

As soon as Mr. Zhou finished speaking, a person rushed up to him and slapped him hard.Mr. Zhou was beaten so hard that his eyes were staring at him. He was about to get angry when he heard the voice of his own father: "You evil son, who wants you to listen to rumors and tell the servants to pack up?"

"Father, my son heard from people on the street that there are a large number of yellow scarf thieves coming towards Zhuangzi." Seeing that it was Zhou Zhe who beat him, Mr. Zhou lost his temper. He covered the beaten part with his hands and said with a mournful face. : "So let the servants pack up and prepare to take shelter outside."

"Confused," Zhou Zhe yelled at his son, "It's clear that the girl from the Cao family is spreading rumors and causing trouble, but you still want to believe it is true, why don't you order someone to take everything back."

Faced with his father's storm, Mr. Zhou didn't dare to tell the difference, so he could only order his servants to move the things back.Seeing the servants moving things back into the house, the expression on Zhou Zhe's face softened a lot. He looked at Mr. Zhou and asked, "Where are your mother and sister?"

"Packing up in the backyard."

"Nonsense, it's just nonsense." Zhou Zhe stared at his son and said angrily, "I'll come back later to deal with you." After speaking, he walked towards the backyard.

The backyard was also a mess. The maids were running back and forth in the yard carrying big and small bags.Seeing the master coming in, they stopped in their tracks. "There are no yellow turban thieves, everyone go back to their respective rooms." After Zhou Zhe yelled these two sentences at the maidservants, he walked quickly to his wife's room.

Mrs. Zhou, who had no master, was crying with her daughter in her arms. Seeing Zhou Zhe coming in, she quickly let go of her daughter, stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Zhe's arm, and said excitedly: "Master, the yellow scarf thief is about to kill us. What should I do?"

Zhou Zhe shook his hand vigorously, freed his arm, and said to his wife angrily, "What kind of yellow scarf thief is it? It's all the girls from the Cao family who are spreading rumors."

"Father," Miss Zhou raised her head and said, staring at her father with red and swollen eyes, "but sister Cao clearly said that there will be a military disaster in the near future."

Now Zhou Zhe can't hear who is talking about the yellow scarf thief in his ear. Hearing that his daughter has mentioned Cao Qiuping's assertion again, he can't help feeling a little annoyed. He raised his hand to hit her, but Mrs. Zhou firmly stopped up.He could only say angrily: "It's clear that the girl of the Cao family spread the rumor intentionally to prevent her father from punishing her, and you actually believe it to be true!"

"What, is it a rumor spread by Ms. Cao's family?" Mrs. Zhou couldn't help but widen her eyes in surprise when she heard Zhou Zhe say this: "I think this child is quite well-behaved, wouldn't he do such an embarrassing thing?"

"There is nothing impossible." Zhou Zhe snorted coldly, and then said: "In my opinion, let's forget about her marriage with your brother. This kind of woman will bring shame to the family sooner or later. "

Mrs. Zhou has always been obedient to Zhou Ze's orders. Hearing what he said, she nodded quickly and said, "Everything is up to you. I will go back to my mother's house when I am a concubine tomorrow, and tell my brother about it."

While the husband and wife were talking, the butler crawled into the house, knelt on the ground and said to the two of them, "Master and Madam, disaster is coming. A group of yellow scarves came from the north, only one mile away from Zhuangzi. , let's run for our lives."

Zhou Zhe had just ordered that no one be allowed to mention the Yellow Turban Bandits outside, but he didn't expect his housekeeper to come in and say this again.He walked quickly to the butler who was kneeling on the ground, raised his foot and kicked him.

After the butler was kicked down, he didn't struggle, but lay on the ground and continued: "Master, those who fled to the north in the village happened to meet the yellow scarf bandits head-on, and there were countless casualties. Only two or three of them fled back quickly to report " After finishing speaking, the butler turned over, kowtowed to the couple, got up and ran out.

At this moment, Zhou Zhe finally understood that the attack of the Yellow Turban Thieves was not groundless, nor was Miss Cao's spreading rumors, but something real happened.He stomped his feet anxiously, and said repeatedly: "It would be nice if I walked with Brother Cao."

"Father, mother!" At this moment, Mr. Zhou rushed in from outside like a whirlwind, and said to the couple: "The yellow scarf thief is about to go outside the village, let's go quickly."

Zhou Zhe panicked and said: "Hurry up, hurry up, take the coils, and pack up some other things, let's run for our lives."

When the family of four escaped from the house, they found that the yard was empty, only countless clothes scattered on the ground.Seeing that all the servants had run away, Zhou Zhe couldn't help crying, and hurriedly ordered his son: "Go to the stable to see if there are any horses, and prepare a carriage for your mother and sister."

Mr. Zhou agreed, and quickly ran to the stable.But after a while, he came back dejectedly, and said to Zhou Zhe, "Father, the horse and the carriage are gone. They must have been taken away by servants."

"These people have been paid a thousand knives." Zhou Zhe cursed angrily, then said helplessly: "Then let's go quickly. Since the yellow scarf thieves came from the north, we should flee south, maybe we can hide Live forever."

When Zhou Zhe's family came to the south of Zhuangzi, they were blocked by a river.Only one wooden bridge was full of people, and the fleeing people broke the wooden railings beside the bridge, and the people on the side fell into the water.Even so, people eager to escape continued to rush to the bridge.

Just when Zhou Zhe was considering whether to change another way to escape, he heard a loud noise, and the wooden bridge full of people collapsed, and all the people on the bridge fell into the water.For a moment, countless people were splashing in the water, and the river water seemed to be boiling, with screams and cries for help.

When Mrs. Zhou saw that the bridge had collapsed, she was frightened out of her wits and collapsed on the ground.Knowing that it was impossible to cross the river, Zhou Zhe quickly greeted his wife and children: "We can't cross here, let's go to the east." After speaking, he and his son set up his wife, and then stepped toward the Flee to the east.Seeing that the escape route was cut off, the people were in a hurry, and seeing the Zhou family coming towards the east, they also followed.

At this time, the yellow turban thieves had poured into Zhuangzi from the north. They killed anyone they saw and robbed everything they saw.After looting all the things in the house, a fire was set on it. For a while, the village was full of flames and black smoke.

As soon as the Zhou family escaped from Zhuangzi, Mrs. Zhou couldn't move anymore, she fell down on the ground, and said to Zhou Zhe, "Father, I can't move anymore, you run away quickly, if you don't leave, it will be too late." gone."

"No, how can I leave you alone." Although Zhou Zhe is not a good person, but at the moment he is very manly, "I will carry you behind my back, even if I die, I will die with you." As he spoke, he asked his son to help him carry his wife on his back, and then shouted at his children: "Hurry up and run away! The whole family is going to die here." The brothers and sisters of the Zhou family knelt down and kowtowed to their parents. He turned around, turned around and fled eastward with the people.

Zhou Zhe went out on weekdays, either on horseback or by car, and he had never traveled such a long distance before.If it was a person, he might still be able to escape, but with a person on his back, he couldn't go as fast as he thought.After he ran not far, he was so tired that he was out of breath. He might have asked others for help, but everyone who ran past him looked flustered, and no one stopped to look at him.

When he saw a group of bandit soldiers with yellow scarves pouring out nearby, he couldn't help but stop, thinking to himself: "If I had escaped with Brother Cao earlier, I might have escaped by now."

Besides, after Cao Qiuping and Mrs. Cao left Zhuangzi in a carriage, they headed towards the county.When they were still seven or eight miles away from the county seat, they suddenly saw countless people coming from the direction of the county seat with their old and young.Mrs. Cao felt very strange, and quickly ordered a servant to find out what was going on.

After leaving the servant for a while, he ran back in a panic and reported to Mrs. Cao: "If you go back to Mrs. Cao, those are the people who escaped from the county. They said that a large number of yellow scarf thieves surrounded the city and were about to attack the city. Well. They were afraid of being attacked by the army, so they fled."

Mrs. Cao couldn't help being confused after hearing the servant's report. She looked at Cao Qiuping who was sitting opposite and said, "Daughter, what should we do now?"

Cao Qiuping thought for a while, and then replied: "Mother, since there have been yellow scarf thieves around the county, there must be some in Zhuangzi. Now we can neither enter the city nor return to Zhuangzi. The only way is to go west, to the territory of Jizhou Go, maybe there is still a chance."

Mrs. Cao has long been frightened to the point of disorientation, so naturally her daughter will do whatever she wants.She nodded and said, "Daughter, it's up to you to decide where we go."

Cao Qiuping quickly lifted the curtain of the carriage, and told the driver: "Turn around and go west to Jizhou!"

The coachman was terrified when he heard that there was a yellow scarf thief in front of him. Now when he heard the young lady say to turn around and go to Jizhou, he immediately turned his horse's head and drove the carriage westward as if he had been pardoned.

After walking less than two miles, a cloud of dust suddenly rose in front of him.The coachman quickly reined in his horse, turned his head and said to the carriage, "Madam, Miss, there seems to be a large army ahead."

The three carriages of the Cao family were parked by the side of the road. The mother and daughter of the Cao family, as well as a dozen coachmen and servants were all silent, blankly watching a huge army appear in their field of vision, and gradually approaching himself.It wasn't until a hundred paces away that the sharp-eyed Cao Qiuping saw the words "General An Dong Zhao" written on the front banner.

Chapter 398

Among the servants escorting the mother and daughter of the Cao family was an elderly family member who had served three generations of the Cao family.He has been traveling all year round, and he is considered a well-informed person in the Cao family. Seeing this big banner now, he couldn't help frowning, and said, "General An Dong Zhao? Who is this man? Why has the little old man never heard."

Zhao Yun's title of General Anton was conferred by Han Zhan from Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty before he left for the expedition.Not to mention the Cao family far away in Qingzhou, even Wu in Yedu City, the number of people who know about it is very limited.

But Cao Qiuping didn't care about this. She hugged her mother and said excitedly: "Mother, did you see it? It's the army, it's the army. As long as they come, we don't have to be afraid of the yellow scarves anymore."