On the Difficulties of Escape in Ancient Times

Chapter 230 Persuasion
Mrs. Liu murmured in her heart: Fortunately, I have a big belly now, otherwise I would have to float up.

I also wonder: When you treat others with courtesy, you must ask for something.

But she is County Magistrate Chen’s wife. If she can’t do it, it’s even less possible for me to do it.

That's all, maybe I was saying it politely because I was grateful to my daughters for saving people overnight.

Anyway, if they just listen to it, they won’t take it seriously.

Although what Mrs. Chen said was very nice, she was not as good as the Wu Dongjia whom she once traveled with.

Mrs. Chen was a little surprised when she saw that mother and daughter were acting arrogantly without being proud.

I remember when Aunt Wu's brothers and sisters-in-law came to visit with their children, I said a few polite words, and was praised by Aunt Wu as Mrs. Wu who came from a scholarly family. I was so excited that I couldn't contain myself.

However, the Xiao family's mother and daughter were born in the countryside, but they were able to live in a calm manner, and their emotions and anger were indistinguishable.

Even if Mrs. Chen wanted to take the opportunity to get into the Li family, she would not let her second son marry a daughter from a poor family.

Now it seems that Mr. Liu doesn't talk much and is cautious in his words.

Miss Xiao's appearance and temperament are just like those of the Liu family, and she looks steady and generous.

Miss Xiao Er seemed a bit aggressive in her words, but she also seemed to have an idea.

Miss Xiao San was the youngest but the most calm-tempered. After coming in, apart from greeting her, she sat there silently.

It turned out that Mrs. Chen was still a little skeptical about her son's words.

After all, even if Li Yan is the eldest son of a concubine, he has followed Prince Jin'an and the others since he was a child, and has seen many beautiful women from all walks of life.

How could it be possible to treat an ordinary farm girl differently?
She also felt that it was probably because Li Yan happened to be saved by the Xiao family and was entangled by the Xiao family that she could only hold her nose and admit it.

But now seeing Xiao Xiao sitting there calmly and generously, if he hadn't known her identity, he would have suspected that Miss Xiao San was also a girl from a wealthy family.

However, when it comes to marriage, she has to take a closer look, so as not to wait until her son marries someone to find out that it is not suitable. This cannot be returned, right?

Xiao Xiao didn't guess what Mrs. Chen was thinking, and felt very regretful. She shouldn't have followed her greedily, but had to listen to these scene words.

Fortunately, pheasant soup with a little dried shiitake mushrooms is really delicious.

Xiao Xiao wanted to get well soon, and also wanted to take a walk in the mountains. Whether he could hunt pheasants was not important, what was important was the process.

It's best to find a hidden cave. If Li Yan and County Magistrate Chen are wiped out, then they don't have to worry about it, just wrap up and flee into the mountains to hide, right?
Maybe future generations will record that a villager from the Wu Dynasty hid in the mountains to avoid war. I don’t know the year, but later generations accidentally broke in and discovered that the survivors of the previous dynasty were living and working peacefully in the "Peach Blossom Spring"...

On Xiao Xiao's side, he was already thinking about a way out. After Li Yan and the soldiers on the other side entered the city, they first killed two spies chasing young women, and then asked his men to shout: Don't panic, the prince has sent three waves. The arrival of reinforcements will definitely make it impossible for the rebels to come back.

They also claimed that they were the first batch of urgent marchers, with only more than 800 people, and that hundreds of reinforcements would arrive at night.

A broken home is worth thousands of dollars, and no one wants to leave home if there is a way to survive.

So some men took the initiative to help.

Even if they cannot go into battle to kill the enemy, they can still help carry stones to the city wall and throw them down. They can also carry cold water and pour it down the city wall, so that the rebels below can feel calm and refreshed.

It can also be used to pour hot water from the city wall to make the rebels feel the ultimate warmth.

Of course, this method was not theirs, but the government officials had been short of arrows for a long time, so they could only follow the native method suggested by Mr. Chen to defend the city with difficulty.

The government officials and servants have a lot of experience in letting them deal with the gangsters.

But now facing the rebels with real swords and guns, as well as the spies who were hiding for sneak attacks, I felt very uneasy and panicked.

He was deeply afraid that if the rebels cooperated internally and externally, he would be the next one to fall.

Fortunately, we had received the news early and were blocked by the city wall, so we could persist until now, otherwise we would have been completely defeated. Unexpectedly, they actually received reinforcements, and their morale instantly soared.

Only County Magistrate Chen, who received the news, looked at his eldest son in surprise and asked in a low voice: "Boss, didn't you say before that all the troops of the Lord were sent out to fight against the rebels in Yingtian Mansion? How could you still send So many troops to support us? "

He was ready to wait until it got dark, then send his eldest son to run away secretly, leaving him to stay and live and die with Wuning County.

In this way, the Lord will not implicate and blame his family members.

Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, reinforcements almost fell from the sky.

Mr. Chen was also very surprised when he heard this: "Looking at the direction, it should be the soldiers of the guard station. I don't know if the second brother found Mr. Li? Or did Sheng Qianhu suddenly wake up?"

Li Yan quickly found the Chen family and his son. After understanding the situation, he made some repairs, buried the pot to make rice, and decided to wait until he was full before opening the city gate to fight back.

The Chen family's father and son also soon learned from Li Yan that the eight hundred reinforcements he mentioned earlier were a bit too much.

There were actually only six hundred reinforcements.

And the reinforcements behind him were purely fictitious.

After County Magistrate Chen heard this, his face fell instantly, and he was happy in vain.

He sighed: "But the other party has more than a thousand soldiers and horses?"

"The people on our side have been exhausted in the past two days. How about we come more slowly? Is it enough to guard the city gate?"

What he said was also true.

Fortunately, he himself was in charge, otherwise he would have been worried that the government officials below would have fled in all directions.

Now Li Yan only brought 600 troops and horses, and he was very happy. He wanted to open the city gate to meet the enemy, but it was just an egg against a stone, and he was looking for death.

It almost made him wonder, was Li Yan an undercover agent sent by the other party?

Do you really want to open the city gate and let them in?

It's better to take turns guarding. The rebels will leave sooner or later if they can't attack.

Otherwise, when the Lord's reinforcements arrive and the situation reverses, the rebels will be attacked from both sides, like catching a turtle in an urn.

Li Yan explained to him: "There is another prince who is secretly supporting Yingtian Mansion's troops. For a while, I'm afraid we won't be able to tell the winner."

"We can only save ourselves."

"It's been hard work, Master Chen, to defend the city these two days."

"You are exhausted, and the rebels are not much better. It's best to defeat them now by working together."

"Otherwise we can drive them away."

"But if we continue to confront them, the people in Wuning County and nearby areas will become panicked."

"The rebels will definitely not bring much food and grass, and the people in the villages outside will suffer."

County Magistrate Chen broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this, and finally handed him over: "I am ashamed of myself. I only listen to my lord's arrangements."

Fortunately, he had previously thought that Li Yan was a talker, weak in his work, eager for quick success, and regardless of the lives of the people.

After hearing what he said, I realized that I was short-sighted.

He just wanted to defend the city, but forgot that the people outside the city were also whom he wanted to protect.