After being exiled, I led my whole family to rebel.

It is said that men are reluctant to shed tears, but these men cried even more sadly than the women.

However, everyone was anxious and refused to accept this reality. They asked all at once: "How is it possible? Isn't it said that Lan County is very wealthy? Isn't it said that their county magistrate is a good official? No matter how good an official is, he doesn't care about the lives of the people." ?”

"What, no one is giving porridge at the gate of Lan County! The gate of the city is full of homeless people like us, at least 3000 of them! I asked clearly, no one was giving porridge two days ago It was said that a few days ago, the rich man was giving porridge, but the people behind him couldn't eat, so he beat the rich man. Now no one is giving porridge at all, and the city gate is closed. I don't know when it will be opened again - —”

"Then we are not allowed to come out. Can we go in? After we go in, we can even work as coolies for others. As long as we can exchange for some food-"

"You can't get in, the city gate is locked tightly."

"We're not allowed to enter the city, and we're not allowed to give out gruel. What should we do?"

"God, are we really going to starve to death?"

Everyone was silent.

Xu Qingying looked at Jiang Yongkang, and Jiang Yongkang nodded, indicating that the man was telling the truth.

Xu Qingying's heart slowly sank.

Seeing the panic immediately spreading among the refugees, Xu Qingying immediately said: "Don't worry, everyone, let's go and take a look first. Don't they all say that the magistrate of Lan County is a good official? If we go and beg him, he won't look at it. We all starved to death in front of the city gate.”

"That's the truth. At worst, we can follow Li Datou's example, rebel directly and capture Lan County! There are still three or four thousand refugees at the city gate. Let's do it together. If you don't believe it, we won't be able to conquer even Lan County!"

"That's right, people are going to starve to death. Why do you care so much! Just risk your life. Anyway, if you die sooner or later, you will die, so you might as well be a dead ghost!"

Xu Qingying thought, something bad has happened.

This kind of mob was most afraid of someone instigating and shouting. Sure enough, everyone completely forgot about Xu Qingying's ideological education in the past few days. They chopped branches and made weapons, and ran towards the city gate.

The people in the exile team are still sensible. Along the way, they have become accustomed to Xu Qingying giving orders, so they always seek Xu Qingying's orders first when encountering problems.

This time, everyone gathered around as usual, "Miss Xu, what should we do?"

"Otherwise, let's run away. Since Team Leader Zhao and the others are not here anyway, we will just lie and claim that we are refugees and settle down wherever we go!"

"You're crazy. We still have relatives in Ye County. What if they can't find us when they come to Lan County?"

"In my opinion, they have a large number of refugees. The two forces have a total of 6000 or [-] people. Maybe they can really take down the city. Let's take advantage of the chaos to get some food..."

"Have you forgotten what happened last night so quickly? If there is a fight, can we escape unscathed? Besides, we don't have food. If we can rely on our status as exiled prisoners, we might be able to enter the city. The court doesn't care about the refugees, but it doesn't He said that no matter where the prisoners are exiled...we all have the banknotes with us...what can't we buy when we go into the city?"

"You're right. Not only do the refugees have no food, but we also don't have food. Why don't we go and check the situation first? If the situation isn't right, then we can evacuate?"

There was no other way, Xu Qingying could only agree.

The group of them walked slowly behind, and finally arrived in front of the city gate.

Sure enough, as the vanguard said, a large number of refugees gathered at the city gate, and there was no end in sight.

There are men and women, and they are bringing their families. All the refugees are blue and skinny from the cold. Some people have been hungry for too long, and their eyes have no life. The fat on their bodies has been exhausted, and even their muscles have begun to atrophy, like mummies. .

Looking around, it looked like zombies passing through the border, and it was so dark.

Xu Qingying said blankly: "Snobbishness makes people fight, and heirs fight against each other. The title of Huainan brother is engraved in the north. The armor is infested with lice, and all the surnames die. The bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster for thousands of miles. There are hundreds of relics for the people. One, the thought of it is heart-breaking."

As soon as we got closer, the city gate slowly opened, and several donkey carts drove out. A clerk shouted: "We will give out porridge again today, five hundred bowls a day. If you don't get it, come back tomorrow!"

Five hundred bowls, but there are at least 5000 people at the city gate!
Xu Qingying never thought that there would be a time in her life when she would have to fight for a bite of food from the refugees.

As soon as the official finished shouting, the ground shook and everyone rushed towards the city gate like locusts passing through.

"Let's go, let's go too!" Huang Cui'e pulled a few people in the direction of the porridge shed.

Unexpectedly, before they even got closer, they heard loud cries. It turned out that the porridge had been distributed and the people behind had not drunk it. The refugees started to make trouble, but they were beaten to death by the clerk with a whip.

This is too fast.

However, Xu Huiming turned back and brought back a piece of bombshell news: "Sister, I just heard from the little official that the reason for not giving porridge a few days ago seems to be because the vassal king rebelled. Come on, the notice is under the city wall, let's go and take a look. ."

rebel?

This was a great conversation. Rather than eating porridge, these exiled prisoners paid more attention to the general situation of the court.

So they all ran to the city wall to read the notice.

Miao and Zhao Zhenlan couldn't understand, so they couldn't help but pulled Xu Qingying anxiously, "What does it say? Who rebelled? Is it Li Datou?"

Xu Qingying's face darkened slightly.

Feng'er saw that Xu Qingying's face was not good, so she quickly replied: "Madam, Prince Ming of Qiongzhou has rebelled! They have occupied Quanzhou and Chaozhou next door, and are preparing to march to the capital. The little emperor asked the vassal princes from all over the country to come to the capital to escort him."

Feng'er wondered again: "Hey, why did Prince Ming say he wanted to avenge his fiancée? Isn't the eldest lady of the Fang family still fine?"

But Fang Xun had already seen the notice. His face turned from white to green, and he was not ugly. He clenched his fists and said, "Okay, he is indeed a member of the Zhou family - no wonder... no wonder..."

But Xu Qingying immediately said: "Fang Xun, there are many people with mixed eyes, so be careful what you say!"

"Girl, as soon as the announcement is made, everyone in our team will know. This matter cannot be hidden."

"If the news that Fang Ruyu is still alive spreads, I'm afraid your family will be in danger. Since Prince Ming insists that Uncle Zhu sent people to kill Fang Ruyu in order to rebel in the name of his master, then he will not be left alive. People in our team still don’t know that it was Prince Ming who was chasing us that night, so they can only wonder why Prince Ming insists that Fang Ruyu is dead. But fortunately, we are now trapped in Jinzhou City, among the refugees. From now on, I will tell everyone not to leak the identities of our exiled prisoners, so as to temporarily keep you safe."

Fang Xun seemed to be a little excited, but he held back his hand and said, "Thank you for your thoughtful consideration, miss."

"No need, we are one with honor and disgrace now. If they kill you, they might also kill us." Fang Xun's face turned pale, showing embarrassment, "It's our Fang family that has brought everyone down."

"The matter is over. No need to say more. You go back and inform your family members, especially Fang Ruyu, about this matter."

Fang Xun naturally understood and shook his head unbearably, "My cousin and he were childhood sweethearts. She was still looking forward to marrying to Qiongzhou, but she didn't expect that his Zhou family was so cruel and ruthless that they could do such a heartless thing as wife murder. He If you don’t want to marry my cousin, why don’t you ask for an imperial edict to annul the engagement? What do you mean, Uncle Zhu sent people to kill the entire Fang family, how could Uncle Zhu have such a pig head to do such a thing as eradicating the weeds? "

Xu Huiming sneered, "If this is the case, he will be a disciple of Wuming. We have underestimated Prince Ming..."

Fang Xun was surprised.

Xu Qingying sighed quietly, looking at the ants-like refugees in the distance, she suddenly felt powerless, "These are all small things."

She pointed far away, with a sense of compassion in her eyes, "This world... is going to be in chaos."

Feng'er's heart skipped a beat.

Xu Huiming felt a chill down his back when he was hit by this, but his eyes were covered with mist, so he couldn't see clearly.

Fang Xun said, "Miss Xu...what do you mean by this?"

"The emperor is young, his relatives are monopolizing power, the vassal kings are coming to the capital, the climate is changing, and refugees are everywhere -" Xu Qingying sighed. The more she thought about it, the more familiar the script became, and she couldn't help but feel more desperate. "Do you think...these ambitious vassal princes came to the capital? Will you leave again?"

A word to wake up the dreamer!

Fang Xun and Xu Huiming were instantly covered in cold sweat!

Fang Xun felt short of breath and almost fainted. His face turned pale and his voice was trembling: "Zhu Ci mistakenly told me about Zhou——"

Feng'er looked left and right, but she couldn't understand why Miss Xu could make two grown men feel like they were mourning for their heirs with just one sentence.

She has never been afraid of being exposed in front of Xu Qingying. The girl said, if you don't understand, just ask. If you ask, you will know next time. Only by asking more people can you become smarter.

So she said: "Girl, I don't understand why those feudal princes didn't leave after they entered the capital? Can't the little emperor just issue an imperial edict to expel them and leave?"

Xu Qingying shook her head, "It's not that simple. It's like a rich man with a fortune, but before he died, he wanted a child who couldn't even speak clearly to inherit it. The child was not sensible, so he had to let his uncle take care of it. But the uncle is also a brain. Kongkong doesn’t know how to do business at all. Now, another son is back and wants to inherit the family property. This uncle asked all his uncles and brothers to contribute their efforts to support this younger son——"

When Feng'er heard this, she immediately understood, "Girl, what you are saying is that these uncles and brothers will steal property secretly in the name of protecting the youngest son! I know that we had a rich family before. Once a person dies, the youngest son will not be able to do anything at all." If you can't keep your family property, your uncles will chew you up until nothing is left. These vassal kings are already very ambitious, and Uncle Zhu summoned them back to the capital. Isn't this just inviting a wolf into the house?"

Feng'er immediately understood why Miss Xu just said that the world was going to be in chaos.

She jumped up and said, "Uncle Zhu Guo... must be out of his mind. How could he come up with such a stupid trick?"

Xu Qingying nodded, "What they are fighting for is the throne, and every move involves the livelihood of tens of millions of people. If a war really starts, the 300 years of peace in the Zhou Dynasty will come to an end, and we ordinary people will all be caught in the flames of war." middle--"

Feng'er's face turned pale this time.

She has never experienced a war, but she has seen the scene when bandits attacked Zhangjiacun that night. Now she still dreams about those corpses.

Thinking that the Zhou Dynasty would soon turn into a piece of scorched earth, Feng'er instantly felt chilled from beginning to end.

That's war...

War means death, lots and lots of people dying.The people are in dire straits, and the country is in turmoil...

Feng'er was in a daze for a while, feeling like the sky was falling.

Xu Qingying and others went back and told everyone the news. Unexpectedly, it rained all night, and others also brought back even worse news.

They learned from other refugees that the largest chieftain in Qianzhou united with other small chieftains to rebel and declared that they would no longer pay tribute to the Zhou Dynasty.The Qianzhou guards and the chieftain were having a great fight.

The area in Qianzhou has been plunged into melee. Important border crossings and official roads are guarded, making it impossible to enter or exit at all!

This news is like a bolt from the blue!

They were originally going to be exiled to Qianzhou, but this was just a last resort, but suddenly they said that the chieftains of Qianzhou were rebelling?They have no choice but to go to Qianzhou?
At this moment, Xu Qingying felt that her fate was absurd.

At the same time, they are worried that the war will continue and hurt innocent people.There are also Xu Meixiao and others in Ye County, I don’t know what the situation is.

Can Bantou Zhao and the others overcome the obstacles and return to the capital?

Xu Qingying really wanted to curse, God!

This group of people really can neither retreat nor advance.

Even if it was Xu Qingying, there was nothing she could do at this moment.

Miao, Lian, and Zhao hugged each other and cried, and everyone in the Xu family was silent. Huang Cui'e asked: "Does that mean we can't go to Qianzhou, and the court doesn't care whether we live or die?"

"Mom, didn't you listen to what Sixth Sister said just now? We are now black households. We are no different from refugees!"

Xu Huijia was surprisingly optimistic: "I think it's good. We will be refugees from now on, find a place to settle down, and then change our household registration, won't we get rid of the status of prisoners with low status? By then, the second brother and Huiming will If a scholar takes part in the imperial examination, our Xu family can change its family again!"

"You have a beautiful idea." Xu Dekai exposed his son's fantasy without hesitation, "There are at least hundreds of thousands of refugees in Jinzhou. Which county has such great ability to accommodate so many refugees? I'm afraid we still have to settle down. If you don’t settle down, you will starve to death and freeze to death on the way!”

"Don't we have more than 1000 people?" Xu Huijia sighed, "Why do I understand Li Datou a little bit? In this world, if I don't eat people, people will eat me. Why not imitate Li Datou and snatch him all the way! It's better than starving to death. Come strong!”

"No, once the refugees are dead, the court doesn't need to spend money for disaster relief, nor does it need to divide the land for resettlement. It really kills two birds with one stone. It's a shame that we are just ants, and no one will know if we are dead."

Jiang Yongkang glanced at him sideways, then glanced at Xu Qingying, "Miss Xu, the Zhou Dynasty has suffered from floods this summer, heavy snowfall in winter, constant fighting in the north, and rebellion by the vassal kings. I am afraid that our strength will be exhausted. Our group is now being attacked. We can't advance or retreat. In this case, why don't the girl lead us to capture a city? Firstly, our team is full of old, weak, sick and disabled, and we can't rush on the road in this ice and snow. Secondly, there are many bandits in Jinzhou. , if we can find a place to settle down, it will be much safer than walking in the wild. It is really a good strategy for advancing, attacking, retreating and defending."