[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

Lu Caichun's hand holding the letter gradually tightened, and the letter paper was crumpled and deformed.After thinking about it for a while, she knew the twists and turns before and after this matter.

It turned out that as early as when Yan Chasan sent the yamen servants to arrest Zhang Fang and the two, the people involved in Hu Taiping's case had already guessed that the matter had been revealed. Naturally, they will not let go of the fact that more people live in the temporary yamen, and it will be a matter of course that the letter falls into their hands.And these people probably dared to forge a reply letter because of Yan Chasan's indulgence in Hu Taiping's case, luring Tang and A Jin out of Fengtai County, and then intercepting and killing them in the post station.

Mr. Yi said: "Miss Lu, this old man once heard from Yan Xianggong that the girl is Bei Xia's nephew. Since she is Bei Xia's nephew, she must be very sensible. Now it is the Tang family who pushed me into this situation, not me. I'm sorry for his wife, I will definitely kill them all. I hope the girl will give in and let me settle this grievance."

The county residents behind Master Yi held up torches, and the flames illuminated every pair of eyes in the stormy night.Every pair of eyes stared at Lu Caishu.

Lu Caichun swallowed dryly, and said with difficulty: "No matter what, I can't just watch you hurt their mother and child."

Mr. Yi sighed and said, "Miss, don't you understand? Leave him, mother and son, who will we wait for? How can we have a peaceful life? Since she dared to inform Grand Master Pang, why didn't she dare to report the situation?" Sue to the Holy Majesty? At that time, I will wait for a group of people to lose their lives. It will not be a big deal. Miss, have you ever thought that Yan Xianggong will not be implicated in this matter?"

Lu Caichun said: "Everyone is just afraid that the Tang family will sue—if she promises to all of you that she will never mention Hu Taiping to anyone in the future, will you be satisfied? Can you let her and Ah Jin's lives be spared?"

After saying the above words, she gradually calmed down in her heart, looked around, and said loudly: "Everyone, please think about it, as long as Tang shi keeps silent, everyone will be safe and sound, so why not leave her life? If everyone really moved Tang Shi, it is safe for the time being, but this is killing people after all, and all of you bear blood debts! Hu Taiping is only the case of Zhang Zhuo and Fang Yuan, but if Tang and Hu Jin are killed, it is a crime. The things you committed will be restored by Skynet, and there is no guarantee that they will be exposed one day. Everyone, please think about it, is it worth killing his mother and son?"

"You said this—it's just because you haven't been flooded!" She just finished speaking, and suddenly someone stood up.It was a black and short man, the rain on his face was still wet, he smiled bitterly, and said: "You are the nephew of Beixia—do you know what Fengtai County was like when that dog officer Hu Taiping was still there? A look like?"

When the people around heard what the short black man said, some of them already wiped away their tears.

The man said: "The food is flooded by the water, and the people who can't escape are so hungry that they are only skin and bones - they have nothing to eat, and the bark and grass roots have been eaten up, so they take the children who are just a few years old - what they can't bear to eat. Eat it for other people's children... and those women, tied to a tree, chopped off their thighs and arms with a hatchet, and a group of people gathered to eat, and blood flowed all over the ground."

"Do you know what that dog officer surnamed Hu is doing at a time like this?"

"He didn't think about disaster relief. Instead, he took advantage of this time to buy people's fields at a low price—half a bucket of rice and an acre of land! He greedily spent more than half of the money paid by his superiors to repair the embankment. The strong men went to build the dam, but there was no rice, no food, no buildings, and many people died of starvation and exhaustion. The dam was not built firmly, and when the water rushed, it collapsed, and human bones were scattered everywhere!"

By the end of the man's speech, tears were streaming down his face.Lu Caichun gritted her teeth hard, tears rolled down, but she didn't feel it, her wrist was trembling, and she could hardly hold the knife.Turning her head slowly, she looked at Tang Corps.Tang already closed his eyes, and tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes.

"Do you dare to say, which piece of rice grains this woman eats is not collected from us? That evil breed is so well-bred, which piece of meat is not fed by the blood and sweat of the common people?"

Lu Caichun stood there.His throat was blocked, and he couldn't make a sound, and any sound was tiny in front of this questioning.

Everyone at the scene was silent, and silence invaded from all directions, and only the splashing wind and rain could be heard in their ears.

Master Yi let out a long sigh, and said to Lu Caichun, "Miss Lu, please get out of the way."

Lu Caichun took a step back, Master Yi thought she had made a concession, but unexpectedly, she stopped and rushed forward, and the handle of the knife hit Master Yi's Tanzhong acupoint.

Everyone exclaimed, Master Yi felt his whole body go numb, his legs went limp, he fell on his back, someone rushed to help him.

Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was in a daze, Lu Caichun leaped into Tang's room with lightning speed, slammed the door behind him, picked up the handle of the knife, and dropped the latch.

There was a sound of shouting and banging outside the door.

Relying on her memory, Lu Caichun touched Tang's side in the dark, and tore off the sackcloth that was stuffed in her mouth.

Tang's tongue was clear, and she cried immediately: "Please, Miss Lu, save Ah Jin, he doesn't know anything... Please, Miss Lu, save Ah Jin!"

While shaking her hands, Lu Caichun untied the rope on her body, gritted her teeth and said, "Don't make noise! ​​Save everyone!"

Everyone knocked open the door, and the torch bearer stepped forward to look at it, and found that there was only a pile of rope scattered on the ground, and the three people in the room had long disappeared, only the wind and rain were blowing against the wide open window.

Someone walked in with Master Yi by his arm and asked him, "Master, what should I do?"

Master Yi said: "They can't run far, let's go out and look for them."

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It was pitch black all around, and I couldn't see my fingers.The cold rain hit his body and face, and he couldn't even breathe in the cold wind.

Lu Caichun supported Tang on one side, and Hu Jin on the other hand, and ran desperately in this windy and windy wilderness.

She had carefully memorized the situation around the post station. The official road was lined with harvested fields, and there was nowhere to hide.She reckoned that Master Yi was hit by her at the Tanzhong acupoint, and he would not be able to recover for a while, and would not follow other accomplices to brave the wind and rain to search, and could only wait for news in the post.At this time, although going back to the post station would take a great risk, it was actually the best hiding place.

Lu Caichun walked around in circles in the wilderness based on his feeling.Tang shi ran along with her in the cold rain, out of breath, but persuaded her, "Miss Lu...bringing my servant...a sinner is also a burden...you just need to take Ah Jin... Take him away...the slave family was caught by them...it doesn't matter..."

Lu Caichun scolded her: "What sinner? What are you guilty of? Don't risk your life, Ah Jin is still counting on you alone, don't expect me to take care of your children for you! If you dare to throw him alone to me, be careful! I turned around and threw him into the mountains, to fend for himself!"

Hearing her words, Tang couldn't help sobbing.Hu Jin also cried intermittently.

In the midst of the wind and rain, a light suddenly appeared not far away.Lu Caichun knew that it must be a post station, and the tense energy in her body gradually relaxed.She instructed Tang and Hu Jin: "Shut up all the crying, let's go back to the station."

Hu Jin was so frightened that he trembled like chaff, but tried his best to suppress his crying, and asked, "Sister Chun, why did you go back to the station again?"

Lu Caichun didn't answer him, but said to their mother and son: "There is a woodshed at the back of the station. If there is no one guarding it, we will hide there. Since Mr. Yi is the leader, there are still many official duties in the county waiting for him to help Mr. Yan. Don't worry, it's hard to stay in the station for a long time. Once he leaves, the people who come with him will also leave. If we can't be found outside, they will naturally withdraw. At that time, I will send you to another country with a fast horse."

When they got close to the post station, Lu Caichun first let Tang's mother and son hide in the bushes nearby, then stepped forward a few steps, climbed onto the beams, jumped onto the roof, wiped away the rainwater in front of him, and carefully watched the movement in the courtyard.

There were lights on in Tang's previous room, and two people could be vaguely seen among them, they should be the left-behind Master Yi and the county residents who accompanied him.But the rest of the people have disappeared, and they think it's time to go out to find people.

Lu Caichun jumped down from the roof, calculated the route in her mind, and quietly led Tang's mother and son around.When he arrived in front of the woodshed, Lu Caichun opened the door, and the door hinge creaked.Fortunately, the wind and rain were so loud that no one could hear them.

After the three of them hid in, they curled up next to piles of firewood.The clothes were already drenched, and they were sucked tightly to the body. After a while, the hot flashes became unbearable.But in the current situation, the three of them had no time to take care of this discomfort, they just held their breath and concentrated, for fear that someone would find out.

After a long time, there was only the sound of wind and rain in the distance.

Tang shi couldn't see Lu Caishu's expression clearly in the dark, only heard her gradually calming breathing.She stretched out her hand, and with the faint heat, touched Lu Caishu's cheek.Lu Caichun was startled at first, but after knowing it was her, her tense body slowly relaxed.

She seemed to feel that Tang was crying, and there were drops of water falling down, she didn't know if it was the rain dripping from his clothes, or the tears on Tang's cheeks.

Tang groped, and used her hands to brush away the wet hair sticking to Lu Caishu's cheek.She choked with sobs and said softly: "Miss Lu, you don't have to do this for our mother and daughter."

Lu Caichun shook her head slightly, and said, "This is my choice. I have my own reasons, and you don't have to ask why."

Tang said: "Miss Lu, you heard what that man said. Changing sons to eat, and dissecting bones to cook, I have heard of it at that time. But what I care about in my heart is always only my husband's future, Jin'er The long-term support of the family. The slave family also handled the land deed for the husband... The slave family also vaguely knows how to get those thin pieces of paper..."

Lu Caichun pinched Tang's wrist with his backhand, gritted his teeth, and said, "You don't have to force me like this—whether you protect your mother and child or not, I have my own calculations in my mind. You just hide here obediently. At dawn, everyone The future remains the same."

Tang smiled wryly, and said, "Miss Lu, thank you very much...thank you very much."

After saying that, Tang stood up abruptly, rushed forward, opened the door of the woodshed, and plunged into the wind, rain and night.

Lu Caichun noticed her actions, and there was no one around Hu Jin, so he couldn't help shouting, but Lu Caichun tightly covered his mouth.Lu Caichun was out of breath, and ordered in a low voice: "Don't make a sound! You hide here for me, and I will go out to find your mother!"

Hu Jin cried in a low voice, curled up obediently, and huddled beside the woodpile.Seeing this, Lu Caichun hurriedly turned around and ran out, closing the door of the woodshed carefully when leaving.

Amidst the rain and wind, the sound of horses' hoofs was heard, Lu Caichun thought that there were a few horses resting in the stables of the post station at that time, this Tang family must have gone to loosen the horses, and he didn't know what he was going to do.Lu Caichun gritted her teeth and stomped her feet, and was about to look over to the stable, but saw that the sound of the horse's hooves also alarmed Master Yi and the two of them.The two rushed out of the house, Master Yi hurriedly ordered: "Go to the back of the station and have a look! That bitch may have turned back!"

Lu Caichun crouched in the dark, and waited for Master Yi and the county officials to go to the stables behind, then he secretly followed.

The county residents seemed to have seen the situation in the stables, and hurriedly shouted loudly: "The horses have run away! The dogs have entered! They have ridden the horses away!"

When Lu Caichun heard this, she didn't know for a while whether Tang was going to transfer the people in the post station or was doing something else. No matter how she thought about it, she didn't know why she let all the horses go. After all, she was hiding in the woodshed. It's not that it can't be robbed.It was inexplicable that she rode away in such a hurry.

Without the horse, Lu Caichun knew that even if he went out to chase, he would not only leave Hu Jin without shelter in the woodshed, but also would not be able to find Tang.She punched the wall hard with her fists, turned around and hid in the woodshed.

Hearing the sound of the door, Hu Jin knew that it was Lu Caichun who came back, but Tang's sound was missing from her side, Hu Jin immediately shed tears mixed with snot.Lu Caichun heard his suppressed crying, stepped forward quickly, embraced him in his arms, and remained silent.

The night gradually dissipated, and the window paper of the woodshed reflected a thin light of dawn.The wind and rain have stopped, only the corners of the eaves are still dripping with water.

Hu Jin was sobbing, and fell asleep in Lu Caichun's arms. Lu Caichun's eyes were fixed on the fading window paper, and his ears were still listening to the movement outside the woodshed.

The footsteps were messy, obviously those county residents turned back.

The voice of talking came from afar, probably saying that yesterday they searched all over the area, but they couldn't find anyone, only brought back a lost horse.Master Yi's voice can also be vaguely heard, he is telling the county people about the horse in the post stable being ridden away last night.The county residents scolded angrily, saying: "No wonder I can't find him. It turned out that he got on his horse and ran away."

Mr. Yi said: "Let's go back to the county for the time being, and we'll deal with it later. The woman surnamed Lu was traveling with another Bai Yutang who should stay in the county. I think they are often together, so they definitely won't If you ignore this matter, you will have trouble with them."

The footsteps and voices gradually faded away, Lu Caichun knew that Master Yi and the others had left the station, so she woke up Hu Jin who was in her arms, and said to him: "Your mother will ride a horse, I'm afraid life and death will be unpredictable..."

As soon as Hu Jin woke up, when she heard her say this, she couldn't help crying.Lu Caichun raised her hand, held the sleeve in her hand, wiped away his tears three times, and scolded: "Don't cry! Listen to me!"

Hu Jin stopped the overflowing crying, sobbed, looked up at her, and listened to what she said next.