Number of People

  Chapter 25 A way out

   After a while, two black shadows rushed out with the creak of the door.

"Brother Feng, this is, you can call him Shiro or Brother An." Zuo Liangyu introduced his partner, while saying: "Silang, this is Brother Feng, does the Feng family know about the Xiezi Pit? As a general, Big Brother Feng is his son!"

  Feng Ziying is also a little funny, this guy has also learned how to pretend to be a tiger, first put up his posture, and use the tiger skin as a banner.

   "I've met Brother Feng." In terms of size, this is half a head taller than Zuo Liangyu, and he actually sang a fat song to Feng Ziying.

   "Brother An, you are welcome. We are about the same age, so we should call them brothers."

  Feng Ziying is not as fastidious as these people in this world. It is good to make more useful people.

At least Zuo Liangyu was also a figure in the history of his previous life. Even if he was a warlord of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he must have some ability to be able to manage hundreds of thousands of troops. Relying on family background, can't you just hand it over?

  At this time, everything is about saving your life. As long as you can escape, even if you really encounter bandits, you can kneel and bow. Who made yourself so vulnerable now? If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about no firewood, and don't care about anything else.

"Silang, hurry up and lead the way, we are going out of the city." Seeing Feng Ziying treating Wang Pei'an very courteously, Zuo Liangyu was very happy, and felt that he had enough face, so he worked harder: "This city is not safe, Brother Feng is a rich man. If you can't sit still, you have to go out, what can you do?"

"Erlang, if I want to go out now, I'm afraid I have to go out through Dongshuimen. In the evening, the people from the Liang Gang fought with those who came in. More than a dozen people from the Liang Gang died, and a large area fell here. I didn't dare to go there. Look, I see that my uncle seems to be over there too,..."

   "Your uncle is there too?" Feng Ziying was taken aback and stopped. How could his uncle be there? Could it be that he is also a bandit of the White Lotus Cult? Wouldn't he have thrown himself into a trap?

  Zuo Liangyu was also taken aback, her eyes widened, her hands clenched into fists, and she almost stepped forward to grab him, "Shiro, why is your uncle there? Could it be..."

"Erlang, you also know what my uncle and the others have been doing for the past six months. They can't even drink porridge. The tax supervisor is guarding the pier every day. The passing boats will come to sneak off the goods in the middle of the night, but this is still very common. If you get caught, you have to cut a piece of skin alive, but you have to pay taxes and miscellaneous taxes, so you don’t even think about living, no one comes here, how do the weavers live?”

Although they are only eleven or twelve-year-old boys, Feng Ziying feels that both Wang Pei'an and Zuo Liangyu have shown maturity beyond their age group. The children of the poor are already in charge of their families, and the children who lack parents and mothers want to survive. If you go on, you have to learn to adapt to this world.

   "Then your uncle dares to rebel and become a bandit?" Zuo Liangyu's face was unkind, and his tone was even more stern.

"Erlang, my uncle will definitely not become a bandit. Before that, he probably just wanted to help a large group of people behind the Wei family alley to earn a living." Zuo Liangyu's somewhat ferocious tone forced him to Feeling a little timid, Wang Pei'an muttered: "My uncle is not that kind of person, you know..."

   "I know there's a use for it. He's mixed up with those bandits. Once the guards come, there's only one way to die..." Zuo Liangyu said viciously.

"My uncle heard people say that soldiers from the guards went south to Yanzhou. I heard that there was also a bandit riot in Yanzhou, so Liu Xiantai, the soldier of the army, mobilized the soldiers from the guards to go south together. The soldiers from the Qianhusuo of Dongchang Prefecture also I'm going south." He obviously heard some news from his uncle, and his uncle's news must have been learned from some interested people.

Linqing Bingbeidao is in charge of the military affairs of Dongchang Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion. Once there is a bandit disorder, the local yamen and the inspection department can't suppress it. They have to report the situation to Bingbeidao, and Bingbeidao needs to make a decision. Countermeasures.

This time, it was obviously because of the serious banditry in Yanzhou that the Linqing Guard and the guards from the Qianhu Office of Dongchang Mansion were mobilized. It was just that it was a coincidence that there was an even bigger bandit riot in Linqing, and it was It's hard to say that the bandits fell into the trick of the White Lotus Sect to divert the tiger away from the mountain.

   "Liu Xiantai has also gone south?" Feng Ziying was even more worried. Liu Xiantai was the deputy envoy of the Linqing Army, Dao, and Army, and was in charge of the military affairs of the entire Linqing Guard and the two prefectures of Dongchang and Yanzhou.

   "I heard from my uncle that he has gone south, and he has been away for several days." Wang Pei'an was also a little uneasy.

He felt that Brother Feng, who was about the same size as himself, seemed to have an innate coercive temperament, perhaps because of his status as the son of General Shenwu, or the special status of Gongsheng of the Imperial College, which made him a little timid subconsciously .

"It also traveled by water?" Feng Ziying didn't know anything about many situations, and she only came to understand it temporarily. In addition, she didn't know much about the internal operation regulations of the official government of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so she could only rely on what was left in her body It is too difficult to make a judgment based on some of the memories.

   Fortunately, it is a source of family education. My cheap father is at least a senior military official of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The commander-in-chief of Datong Town is not comparable to the ordinary deputy envoy of military equipment, so he has some understanding of these aspects.

   "Yes, I heard that they left by boat at night, and the boat came from Dongchang Mansion." Wang Pei'an replied.

  Feng Ziying can't think too much now, the only way now is to go out of the city and find Li Dushuai of Water Transport.

  The Deputy Envoy of Military Preparation and Dao has been transferred to Yanzhou. It’s not even ten days or half a month to go there. The only hope now is that Li Sancai has already arrived in Liaocheng or Zhang Qiu. Only then will there be time.

"Forget it, Shiro, you'd better find an opportunity to tell your uncle, this is not an ordinary civil uprising, people from Luojiao and Wenxiangjiao are involved, the court will not let it go easily." Feng Ziying stared at the other party, "It's still too late to get away now. I'll find someone to clear up your uncle for a while, and maybe I can be exonerated."

  Feng Ziying had to say this.

  It is unreasonable to let people lead the way and work hard for you, but don't let them think about it.

  As for asking someone to clear it up, it is not a lie. The Feng family still has some contacts in Linqing, but he is not capable, so he can only ask his father to talk and clear it up later.

  Zuo Liangyu was also determined when he heard it, kicked Wang Pei'an, and said ruthlessly: "Thank you Brother Feng, do you really want your Dalang Erlang to be the same as you?"

  Wang Pei'an quickly bowed to thank him, but Feng Ziying didn't care, and waved his hand: "Let's go, find a way to get out of the city, if you can't get out of the city, it's useless."

  The three of them turned out of the alley and sneaked along the alley, sometimes walking by the side of the ditch, sometimes behind the wall, in short, avoiding streets and intersections as much as possible, so as to reduce the possibility of encountering bandits.

"Brother Feng, that's the Ciyu Temple over there. We can bypass the Ciyu Temple and go down the side of the city wall to the East Water Gate. That's the fastest way, but there must be someone guarding it, or we can go to the cricket. The alley is drilled out, there are many forks in the road, and it will take half an hour to get through if you want to go around."

   Walking to the back of a low house, Wang Pei'an leaned down, "And I'm worried that there must be guards at the entrance of Cricket Alley, and..."

   "And what?" Feng Ziying heard something in the other party's words.

"Cricket Alley is opposite Gulou East Street. They had a battle there before, and many people died. They were guarded by the religious bandits you mentioned. I'm afraid it will be difficult to pass. If we walk south of Ciyu Temple , I might be able to pass by the city wall,..."

  Wang Pei'an's words made Feng Ziying feel hopeful, "Are your uncles guarding the city wall?"

"Brother Feng, my uncle and the others really didn't want to rebel. They were also forced to do nothing by the regular tax supervisor. In our Weijia Hutong, we all make a living by weaving wicker baskets and straw bags. There are hundreds of households. Two or three thousand people rely on this to eat, and they used to rely on business to make ends meet, but now I heard from my uncle that the guests who come here are less than 30% of the previous two years, so how can everyone live?"

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