Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 64 Peace of Mind
The autumn wind is refreshing, and the forest is full of dye.

Li Shan paced in the alley, looking at the hills in the distance, he didn't know if it was a maple tree, but it was already a bright red color.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed for quite a while, and Li Shan has forgotten about it. After all, his occupation, not to mention the Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, even the National Day and Spring Festival may not be able to rest.

Afterwards, Li Shan inquired. In this era, the folks in the north already have the custom of admiring the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th, but moon cakes have not yet appeared.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival coincided with the Turks' southward movement, and a large number of refugees flooded into Jingzhao. Naturally, there were no activities such as admiring the moon and worshiping the moon god.

Out of the alley, further west is the wooden fence. Suddenly there was a heart-piercing cry. Li Shan frowned and looked at it. A woman with a baby in her arms was staggering towards him. The [-]-year-old child was holding her trousers, followed by a man carrying a box.

"It seems to be the daughter of Aunt Liu at the head of the village?"

"Married?" Li Shan was a little wary, "Where did you marry?"

The young man on the side roared anxiously, asking people to open the fence to let people in, and then said: "Xiaoliu Village, it's only been two or three years since I got married."

"How far?"

"Uh, maybe thirty miles away."

Li Shan licked his tongue. It was more than 30 miles, not too far away. Looking at the miserable conditions of the couple and hearing the crying, it was obvious that they were not going back to their natal home to visit relatives.

Eighty percent of the time it was a disaster, and the refugees made trouble again?

Li Shan remembered that Li Kai sent someone to send a message yesterday that the Tang army had won consecutive battles in Hedong and Guanneidao.

After thinking over and over again, Li Shan turned his head to look at Zhu Wei and Guo Pu who had heard the news and rushed over.

Soon, hundreds of people gathered at the intersection, and the news spread in a mess.

Xiaoliu Village was stormed, the villagers suffered heavy casualties, they were looted, and most of the houses were burned to the ground. Aunt Liu's son-in-law and daughter escaped by chance, so they could only come to seek refuge with Yue's family.

"Turkic soldiers?" Guo Pu shook his head in disbelief, "The army has set off for more than ten days, how could the Turkic soldiers still come to Jingzhao Mansion!"

After carefully questioning Aunt Liu's son-in-law, Guo Pu immediately judged that it was not Turkic soldiers, but refugees who made the rebellion, at most dozens of horses.

"Although they are refugees, there are more than 500 households in Xiaoliu Village..." Zhu Wei frowned.

In the past ten days, two groups of refugees have come to Zhujiagou to look for food, but they were directly driven away without causing any disturbances. However, the scale of Xiaoliu Village is larger than that of Zhujiagou, which has less than [-] households in total. .

What's worse, Aunt Liu's son-in-law and daughter-in-law were yelling, rumors that the Turks had attacked Jingzhao Mansion had spread, and the young and old in the village were panic-stricken. In fact, similar rumors had been circulating for several days.

"Sweet, keep it in your mouth."

There was a lot of crying, Li Shan... Uh, it wasn't that he was hard-hearted and indifferent, he was really used to it, squatting down and taking out sucrose to tease Aunt Liu's granddaughter.

At the age of five or six, he was timid, with dust all over his face and body, and he didn't dare to look up at others.

Li Shan smiled and stuffed the candy into the child's mouth, "Hold it, don't swallow it."

In just a split second, the child's tongue tasted the sweetness, and there was surprise and dodge in the dark eyes.

"Dalang..."

Li Shan glanced back, and the little monk squatted aside aggrievedly, condemning Li Shan with his eyes... Newcomers for old ones, this kind of treatment was only available to me before.

"It's gone, it's really gone." Li Shan rolled up his sleeves, "It's the last one just now."

Tears were rolling in his eyes... Li Shan was about to tease a few more words heartlessly, when his mother called out, "Da Lang."

"Mother is here too." Li Shan walked over quickly, "Don't worry, Brother Changsun and Brother Demou have both heard news that the King of Qin won both battles, and there were some small gains. Let's go."

"But the government hasn't come forward to provide disaster relief so far. There have been frequent riots among the refugees in Guanzhong, and even Xiaoliu Village..." Zhu Wei looked at Mrs. Zhu, "Your mother and son should go to the city to escape."

I have been staying here for more than ten days, and now I am running away... Li Shan rejected it without even thinking about it, not to mention other things, this also violated Li Shan's bottom line.

Besides, if he went to the city to avoid disaster, Zhujiagou's foothold would be completely useless, and what would the children of Prince Qin's mansion think of him?

Seeing that Li Shan refused to enter the city, Guo Pu and Zhu Wei stopped persuading them and selected people to go out to find out the details. If the Turks really attacked Jingzhao Mansion, they would send the mother and son into the city no matter what.

"Dalang, is it true that the Turks went south?"

"Will the Turks attack Chang'an?"

Li Shan still wanted to tease the little monk and the girl doll, and all the young and strong people around rushed up.

"I heard that the Great Earthquake Gate has already been breached?"

"Has the army been defeated by the Turks?"

"It is said that the Turkic Khan personally led the army..."

Li Shan looked around, and there were terrified faces, and an atmosphere of tension and fear pervaded.

"Are you Erlang from the old Zhao family in the south?" Li Shan jumped on a big rock and pointed at a man, "At the beginning of the year you still whispered that you thought I was bad, but now you have no courage?"

The man's face was flushed immediately, he lowered his head and said nothing, he kept muttering in his heart, at the beginning of the year he was beating Liu Heizai, but now the Turks are going south, can this be compared?

"The King of Qin sent troops to the east of the river and won consecutive battles. The Turks already wanted to withdraw their troops and return to the north. How could they attack as far as Jingzhao?"

"It's just refugees making trouble."

Li Shan took out a piece of paper from his bosom, spread it out and waved it, "Yesterday's military newspaper said that the governor of Bingzhou sent troops to fight in the east of Fenshui. He beheaded five thousand people and captured two thousand horses. Defeat the Turks."

"Xiao Wei, the governor of Fenzhou, defeated the Turks in an ambush and beheaded more than [-] people."

Zhu Wei on the periphery grinned when he heard it. It was obviously level [-] and level [-], which increased tenfold in an instant!
Zhou Zhao, who did not know when he appeared, grinned even more. He could see clearly and remembered clearly that the piece of paper in Li Shan's hand was obviously waste paper, and he specially kneaded it softly for...

The surroundings became quiet, Li Shan looked around with a calm expression, and continued after a while, "The Seventh Uncle just asked about it, and I have already made it clear that I will never enter the city to avoid it."

There was a commotion around, but Li Shan avoided the city. Although the villagers envied him, they probably wouldn't be jealous, let alone hate.

But Li Shan's words immediately made the people around him feel at ease. This is a very simple judgment. If it is true that the Turks are going south, it is impossible for nobles like Li Shan not to enter the city.

Zhu Wei and Guo Pu spent a lot of talking, their voices became hoarse, but it didn't help much, and Li Shan's understatement calmed people's hearts.

It's not because Li Shan can speak eloquently, but because he has proved himself with practical actions.

Guo Pu said in a low voice: "A true hero."

Zhu Wei stroked his long beard, not knowing what to say for a while.

"When Liu Wuzhou ravaged Hedong, Wang Shi was defeated and suffered heavy casualties."

Guo Pu emphasized his tone, "The King of Qin wants to turn the tide. He shouted in front of the battle, don't take a step back, the army will stand firm, and the soldiers will die to destroy the enemy army."

(End of this chapter)