Those who came were indeed Qing soldiers.

Red-tasseled tops, □□ sabers, filed in.The long braid reaches the waist, although the appearance is similar, the spirit is different, and there is an air of shock.

In the long night, everyone in the hall got up, and Yin Chan immediately protected Xi Wanxiang behind him. At this time, she didn't feel the helplessness she imagined at the beginning, and she just looked at it calmly and calmly as usual. The Qing soldiers were still pouring in from the courtyard.

She changed her mind, and before the Qing soldiers made a sound, she turned slightly to Wan Xiang and said softly, "Wan Xiang is obedient, go wait for me in the house for a while. After avoiding this for a while, the sister-in-law will come to look for you."

Xi Wanxiang clasped Yin Chan's slender wrist, her wrist was held in her hand, it seemed so fragile that it could not be easily folded, but it was hard and flexible, absolutely indestructible. "I'm not leaving." Xi Wanxiang said calmly, leaning close to Yin Yang.

Yin Tang turned his hands away and stroked Wan Xiang's temples: "It's okay, you hide, if they can't find you, there's nothing they can do."

For today's plan, they can only hide.Xi Wanxiang naturally understood this very well.But she didn't dare to let Yin Dang face such a mighty Qing soldiers alone. She hesitated for a moment, and Yin Dang kept urging her. Indeed, if she continued to entangle like this, she would be taken away without any suspense. , or be killed instantly.

Xi Wanxiang felt sad, so she had no choice but to purse her lips, and slightly hugged her sister-in-law's waist, telling her to be careful in her words and deeds, and be more careful not to run into these unreasonable Qing soldiers.After finishing speaking, he turned and left helplessly.Mother Song on the side had been waiting for a long time. Seeing Xi Wanxiang turn around, she hurriedly dragged her by the arm and walked quickly to the small ancestral hall in the backyard.

Walking to the screen, Xi Wanxiang couldn't help turning her head.The figure of the cousin sister-in-law is so slender, but it makes people feel extremely safe.Yin Dang seemed to be the end of everything for her. When she saw Yin Dang, she felt like a tired bird returning to its nest.Attached, dependable, safe and warm.

Xi Wanxiang believed in her cousin's wife without any reason.She believes that the sister-in-law will be able to deal with these Qing soldiers. As long as they deal with it tonight, the two of them will leave overnight, and they don't even need to pack the parcels. Bondage, hidden in the city, hidden in the forest, grow old hand in hand.

Looking forward to the possibility of the future, Xi Wanxiang suddenly forgot the danger at hand, and also forgot the pain she had experienced and the momentary resentment towards her cousin.She even smiled slightly, Yin Tang seemed to be aware of her attention, and turned his back to Wan Xiang, curling his lips.

All five ranks of Qing soldiers entered the courtyard, and the last one to come in was the leader of the Qing soldiers. He was born with the head of a rat, a hat on his face, and a knife handle in his hand. The offender, Mrs. Xi, will be handed over to anyone who knows her."

There were only a few maidservants in the room, and the leader's voice was rough, with the aura of killing and decisiveness. These maidservants were already trembling with fright, and even the timid ones were already crying.

Yin Yang took a step forward, and there was no fear at all in his beautiful eyebrows.She made a deep bow to the leader: "The concubine is the young lady who is the head of the Xi family. I don't know if the official came all the way, but who is this Xi family for? Please tell the official."

"Don't pretend to be ignorant for me. Who else can it be? The second lady of the Xi family in Taimen Town, and the Xi family, the daughter-in-law of the prefect of Yongzhou whose home was confiscated." The leader of the Qing army sized Yin Chan for a week and saw her dignified Being polite, he suppressed his anger, took out a roll of rice paper from his cuff, shook it, and spread it in front of Yin Teng, "I can't escape, written in black and white, don't deny it."

The person in the painting is indeed Wanxiang. Yin Tang glanced at it, then lowered his eyebrows again: "The second aunt of the Xi family never returned to Guining after she got married, not to mention me, the entire Xi family can testify. We don't know Where is she now?"

Yin Chan's words were convincing, and the leader of the Qing Dynasty stared at her suspiciously for a long time, but she did not waver under such high pressure, and she was still as stable as Mount Tai, and the leader felt a little admiration in his heart.However, there was an order from above to cut the weeds and roots, so he waved his hand and ordered a search of the entire Xi residence.

Qing soldiers walked like the wind, passing her one by one, as if heading straight for an unpredictable result.Yin Yang closed his eyes and prayed silently in his heart.

Fortunately, these Qing soldiers did not find Wan Xiang's hiding place and returned empty-handed.

Yin Yang stood with his hands down, pretending to be casual, but heaved a sigh of relief in his heart.

This time it was the turn of the leader of the Qing army to worry, and it was difficult for him to find the Xi family.The torch-like eyes scanned around again, and finally stopped on Yin Dang, as if to see through her.

"You hid her?" the leader asked slowly, approaching Yin Dang step by step.

"Don't dare, it's true that the second aunt never came back, and the concubine doesn't even understand what happened to make the official search for Wanxiang so wantonly." Yin Chan was neither humble nor overbearing.

The leader snorted, and his rough voice was like a broken gong: "If you really don't know, this family will be arrested, and you must be impatient. You are amazing, and you didn't ask a single question. I'm afraid you already know it. Bar?"

Yin Yang frowned.

"Needless to say, I just arrested you. Going back and interrogating you will definitely gain something, and it's not a waste of time." The leader looked at Yin Chen contemptuously, and pinched her chin with two fingers, forcing her to look up, like She looked like an animal, "It's pretty..." He said, and laughed a few times to himself, showing a mouthful of incomplete black teeth.

Yin Yang has no room for a loopback.Her hands were caught immediately, tightly locked, and she couldn't break free at all. "It's useless for you to catch me. I have only an ordinary relationship with her, and we haven't seen each other for three years. How can I know her current whereabouts..."

The boss was annoyed, so he picked out his ears, and asked someone to stuff Yin Chan's mouth with a cloth strip.

The heart is cold, and the heart seems to have fallen into the ice cellar.The only consolation is that Wanxiang escaped the catastrophe.Yin Chan smiled sadly, that was good, at least Wan Xiang would not be beheaded.Perhaps it was retribution, who made her push Wan Xiang into the fire so decisively.

While pushing and shoving, a clear voice came from above the high platform. "I'm here, let her go." Xi Wanxiang appeared in front of everyone at some unknown time.

The wind suddenly picked up, and the draft blew from the back door, raising her hair high. Her childish face showed incomparable determination, and the look in her eyes was shining brightly, as if she wanted to burn all these shameless people to death. .

"Wan Xiang..." Yin Yang frowned even tighter, and she immediately said to the leader, "No, she is just my servant, she is not in good spirits on weekdays, she is talking nonsense at the moment, please forgive me. "

This leader is not stupid, he gave the two of them a meaningful look, then raised his chin: "Let her go." After saying that, the group of people let go of their hands and changed to Wan Xiang's detention.

In the midst of the confusion, Yin Chan was squeezed away by the flow of people and fell to the ground hastily.She watched Wan Xiang walk away from her, being escorted by these strange and terrifying Qing soldiers, and stumbled away from her.The eyes of the two of them were glued together, and Wan Xiang mouthed to her, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I will come back safely."

However, how can Yin Yang feel relieved?

Wan Xiang was about to walk out of the gate, and Yin Chan felt helpless again, this swallowing feeling made her head and heart numb.She didn't have time to think about it, and the consequences of delaying it any longer would be disastrous.

Yin Chan stood up and said sharply, "Stop!"

The woman who was calm just now suddenly burst out with such strength, which made the officers and soldiers really stop and look back at her in confusion.

"She has remarried, and now she is no longer the young wife of the magistrate's family in Yongzhou. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, after a woman remarries, she no longer has to bear all the responsibilities of her former husband's family, including punishment." Yin Yu resolutely said loudly, "You are full People can have the power to break the light today, and they must have clever laws, so this should also be clearly stipulated, and it is not easy to say a word. Her husband is in the hall, if you don't believe it, you can confront it in the hall!"

Yin Chan walked to the center of the main hall in two or three steps, pointed at Zhong Zhize who was still in a daze, and said without changing his expression, "He is Xi's remarried husband. She came back with a divorce letter from the magistrate's family, and it is not a bad idea to remarry now." Don't let it go." As he said that, Yin Chen actually took out a square-folded piece of paper from his sleeve, unfolded it, and suddenly there were two words "Letter of Divorce" written on it.

Xi Wanxiang's arms were twisted, she didn't know anything about her sister-in-law's actions, she didn't even know that when she agreed to leave here with her, she had thought of thousands of other ways in her mind and had done everything well Prepare.She was extremely stunned, extremely moved, and infinitely desolate.

The leader of the Qing army stepped forward suspiciously, and scraped the "divorce letter" from Yin Yang's hand, only to see that the reason, date, and even fingerprints of his wife's divorce were clearly written on it.He accepted the divorce letter, and asked Zhong Zhize: "Is this true? Xi is your woman now?"

The leader's eyes were straight, Zhong Zhize was considered a man, although his heart was pounding, he became hardened when he came up to him.Looking at the leader, he said, "Yes."

"I heard that you Han people value women's chastity the most. You don't care if this woman is divorced and remarried?"

Zhong Zhize took a quick look at Xi Wanxiang, but Yin Chan was the only one in her eyes.He looked at Yin Yang again, and the always prudent young lady looked at him almost beggingly. "I don't care, we were meant to be married by fingertips."

Yin Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Now the leader of the Qing army is a little embarrassed.Indeed, as the young lady of the Xi family said, the Qing law has a saying that if a woman is divorced, she is not limited to remarriage, and after remarriage, she will take on a new husband.Now that Mrs. Xi has become someone else's wife, she will not be burdened by the prefect's previous crime of raiding her home.

Just when the leader was hesitating for a moment, Second Master Xi, who had disappeared in the chaos just now, suddenly rushed out from nowhere, rushed towards the leader of the Qing soldiers with lightning speed, and even shook his hand. The sharp knife used for boning, shouted loudly and rushed to the front of the crowd.

The leader reacted very quickly, and dodged Xi Yuannian's attack by turning sideways, but his sleeve was accidentally cut, leaving a wound on his arm, and blood beads rolled down.

Xi Yuannian's eyes widened with anger, and he cursed at these Manchu barbarians, calling them bandits who not only plundered the wealth of Ming Dynasty, but also persecuted literati.Xi Yuannian spoke with certainty, his eyes were about to burst, he clenched his sharp knife tightly, and was about to charge forward again.

Xi Wanxiang has never seen such a desperate father, it seems that he has been silent for so many years just for this moment of desperation.Wan Xiang had already escaped from the Qing soldiers, walked quickly to Yin Dang's side, held her hand tightly, and looked at her father in amazement.But before he could stop it, the bayonet of the leader of the Qing soldiers pierced into Xi Yuannian's thin and barren body neatly.

Sharp spear heads came from all directions, piercing into Xi Yuannian's ribs.The knife in his hand fell to the ground with a clang, like a leaf that has finally withered, fulfilled its mission, became useless in the end, and then floated down without any worries.The Qing soldiers withdrew their hands at the same time, and Xi Yuannian collapsed to the ground, first knelt on the ground, then crawled all over, and suddenly fell into a pool of his own blood.

"Daddy!" There was blood in Xi Wanxiang's throat.Xi Yuannian is like most fathers in the world. On weekdays, people just want to push away and feel bored, but when they really parted, they realized that the loss of a close blood relative is heart-wrenching.She watched Xi Yuannian twitch slightly, her eyes were still smiling when she looked at her, and then slowly became silent, completely returning to the loess.

The leader of the Qing soldiers was extremely irritable after being made such a fuss, he frowned and waved his hand to take Xi Wanxiang away.

Unexpectedly, this Mrs. Xi was indeed an indomitable person. When her arms were twisted, she smiled and said that if she was forced to take her away, she would bite her tongue and kill herself here, and said, "Don't you just want to know the whereabouts of Chen Jin? If he dies, you won't be able to catch him until he dies! It will be difficult to deal with him at that time, let's see if you will come to the underground to accompany me!".The young lady next to her also persuaded, "Father died just now, and it won't be too late for her to do her filial piety and keep her spirit."

The leader of the Qing army stared at Xi Shi blankly, and felt that her half-smiling appearance was really shocking, and she looked like a person who was willing to let go. If she really committed suicide fiercely, she would not be able to complete the explanation to her superiors. Yes, it really has to follow the head to the ground.

After a moment of hesitation, the leader pointed the bloody knife point at Xi Wanxiang's neck, and said darkly, "As she said, you are asked to stay at home to watch the spirit. You should think about it carefully. The conditions we give you It’s not bad. Come back in half a month, if you can’t be found, this family will be buried with you.” After finishing speaking, the leader spat out, put his knife into its sheath, and led a group of people out of the house.

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