Rebirth as Princess Jin again

And the people they were looking for, Situ Jin and others, had already left the city while it was dark. Since Situ Jing had lost track of him on the way to the border city, and they had been searching in the border city for many days, both openly and secretly, even the city lord's mansion was explored in the dark last night. After some searching, no trace of Situ Jing was found.

Situ Jin guessed that something happened to him on the way to the border town, and the group planned to search around the border town.

A few people had just left the border town and were looking for a village to rest. Looking at the village not far away, Su Ying's expression became more serious.

She pointed to the village in the distance and said: "Your Majesty, look at the village over there. It is already noon, but there is no smoke coming out of the roof of any house. It looks like no one lives in it."

This abnormal scene made Situ Jin frown: "Everyone, be careful. Let's go in and take a look."

When they entered the village, what they saw made them even more frightened. The fields outside the village were deserted and overgrown with weeds. The village was extremely quiet and there was no sound. It had clearly been abandoned for a long time.

The border town is clearly prosperous, but why are the nearby villages so deserted?

A group of people searched the entire village and found that there were no signs of fighting in the entire village, but it had indeed been uninhabited for a long time.

Nowadays, several people were very hungry and could only rest for a while. They took out the dry food they brought with them and found a relatively clean room. Everyone was exhausted from last night and planned to rest for a while.

The group of people ran around all night last night and soon fell asleep.

However, when they were sleeping soundly, a weak figure sneaked into the house through the window. The man carefully looked at the situation inside the house. His eyes quickly locked onto the jade pendant around Situ Jin's waist.

He stepped forward quietly and couldn't help but stretched out his hand, about to reach for Situ Jin's waist.

But he grabbed him, and the moment his eyes opened, the black shadow's eyes couldn't help but tremble. His eyes were as fierce as a wild beast. If he moved even a little, his arm would be broken and he would be killed on the spot.

"Who are you?"

Everyone in the house took out their swords one after another. In fact, they had already noticed the black shadow approaching the house, but they just didn't want to alert him.

But when they saw that the person in front of them was a child, the fierceness in everyone's eyes faded and became softer.

Su Ying walked up to the child and said gently: "Don't be afraid, you are from this village?"

The child was probably frightened. He stared at them blankly and said nothing.

The child was a little unkempt, but he looked about fifteen or sixteen years old.

"If you keep silent, I will make you mute forever."

Perhaps it was Situ Jin's voice that was so intimidating that the child was really frightened and his eyes were slightly red.

"I...I'm not mute, I'm just hungry and wanted to find some food. When I saw you entering the village, I thought of stealing some food from you."

Seeing the child in front of him, Situ Jin was still childish. He put away his anger and took out water and dry food from the bag and handed them to the child.

The child didn't dare to take it, so Su Ying took it with a smile and put it in his hand: "Eat it!"

The child was stunned: "You...aren't you here to catch us?"

"Us? Is there anyone else in this village?" Su Ying asked curiously.

As he was talking, several more figures ran over from outside the house, holding stones and sticks in their hands.

A group of half-grown children, the oldest six or seven years old and the youngest ten years old, stopped outside the door.

"Quickly, let go of our brother, otherwise don't blame us for being rude."

The kid who was caught saw his companions coming out and ran out with the dry food in his hands.

"They are good people and they gave me dry food."

As he spoke, he divided the dry food in his hands and handed it to the smaller children, but he didn't eat it himself.

Su Ying looked at the group of children. Although she was also hungry, the older children handed the dry food in their hands to the smaller children. She suddenly felt funny, but more sad.

Obviously what they saw in the border town was that there were no beggars on the road, but when they left the border town, there were only a group of children left in the whole village, making it difficult to even feed themselves.

Su Ying took out all the dry food in the bag and handed it to the children. The children got the dry food and wolfed it down.

But the eldest boy carefully put away the dry food in his hand.

Su Ying looked at him and asked, "Why don't you eat?"

The young man lowered his head in a somewhat lonely manner: "I've finished eating. I won't have anything to eat tomorrow."

Su Ying asked: "Are you from this village?"

The young man nodded.

Su Ying asked curiously: "Where are your parents?"

Speaking of their parents, the children stopped eating, their eyes turned red, and a few of the younger ones even cried.

"Our parents were taken away by the government officials."

One of the children in the group couldn't help but speak, but when he saw the older boy stopping him with his eyes, he quickly stopped.

Seeing that they didn't dare to say anything, Su Ying wanted to know the inside story, so she could only seduce them:

"If you tell us the truth, I will arrange accommodation for you so that you will never be hungry again in the future."

When the young man heard this, his eyes lit up: "If I tell you, can you save our parents?"

"So your parents are still alive, but they were just taken away?" Situ Jin asked.

When the young man talked about this, he was instantly angry and said with red eyes: "Everyone in the nearby villages was arrested. They lied to us people here and said they were going to mine. They gave us gold every month and then took all the young people in the village. Everyone was taken away, but because we children were too young to do anything, they didn’t want us and left us in the village to fend for ourselves.”

"In the beginning, we still had old people taking care of us, but as these young people died one after another, no one took care of us anymore."

When Situ Jin heard this, he frowned. He suddenly remembered the prosperity of the border town. There was no tax for opening shops in the border town, but the annual tax was paid in full.

"Didn't any of you report to the official in these years?" Muying was angry and interjected.

The young man's voice was a little choked: "My grandfather once took the old people in the village to go outside to report to the government, but then they disappeared. Finally, we found the bodies of my grandfather and others in the woods outside. The lord of the border town is the owner of this mine. , all the passages around here are guarded by officers and soldiers, we can't escape at all."

Situ Jin stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Then do you know where the mine is?"

The young man waved his hands quickly and said, "You must not go. There are heavy troops guarding there. You guys can't fight them."

Situ Jin straightened his expression: "You guys are responsible for protecting your wife and children here. You guys follow me to find out the whereabouts of the mine."

As he spoke, he knelt down and asked the young man: "Are you willing to take me to the mine with you? I promise you that I will rescue both your parents."

The young man thought for a moment and finally nodded. He had an inexplicable sense of trust in the person in front of him. He always felt that the person in front of him could definitely change their destiny.