Jiangshan is a matchmaker: Husband, please stay

Chapter 72
The two returned to the army camp one after the other, and a lieutenant had already stepped forward with an anxious look on his face.

"My lord, you are back."

Nie Wuhuan handed the whip to Zhou Xiang, and hurried into the tent.

"There is an urgent report. The emperor is ill. You can go back if you want the prince."

"What?" Nie Wuhuan's face changed, and he grabbed the emergency report in the lieutenant's hand to glance quickly, lowered his eyelids and thought for a while, grabbed the riding whip from Zhou Xiang's hand, and was about to leave.

"My lord, you're ready, you can leave now." The lieutenant hurriedly followed.

"kindness!"

Turning on the horse, Nie Wuhuan grabbed the reins and was about to beat and scold him. Suddenly, he thought of something, looked at Zhou Xiang over there, and shouted at him, "Release her in three days, and I will come to pick her up personally. You, you If you want to stay here, you must not go out half a step."

"Ah?" Zhou Xiang exclaimed.

"Drive!" After explaining, Nie Wuhuan left like crazy.

Zhou Xiang held his buttocks that had been bumped and nearly opened the wound again, and with a wrinkled and distressed face, he watched Nie Wuhuan go further and further away.

At night, barbarian gunpowder blasted a gap above the gate of the frontier fortress, and the flames shot into the sky, roaring everywhere, and there was a bloody storm.

All of a sudden, hungry crowds flocked into the territory of Yuezhao Kingdom, and the frontier guards were beheaded for a while, and those barbarians who were good at climbing walls and escaping ground scattered around in no time. Every corner of the frontier is illuminated.

The lieutenant general who was looking at the scroll in the tent was shocked, and couldn't help but rush forward with someone to tell the truth.

But it was too late to get here.

Needless to say the purpose of the barbarians sneaking into the territory, just burning, killing and looting everywhere, after those people dispersed, they had no time to worry about it.

The lieutenant made a decision that night and immediately ordered people to start building the city walls and send more people around.And the rest of the things can only be messed up and drilled.

Overnight, the entire village near the frontier was disturbed.

In recent years, often due to natural conditions, the barbarians have lost their living conditions, water and grass, cattle and sheep have no food, and they have no buddies to support themselves. Everywhere in the land occupies the mountains and is king, it is torn apart, and it cannot be managed with one handle. There must be some negligence, so finally when this group of people ate up the last bite of mutton, they exploded the nearby frontier and rushed in.

It's nothing more than grabbing food and killing people, but carelessly caring about money.

Therefore, the people and fertile land near the frontier fortress were the ones who suffered the most.

That night, a large number of people rushed to the town with their families, and even families with relatives drove to the city overnight to flee.

The county yamen in the city was still singing and dancing peacefully. Hearing that the city gate was knocked open by refugees, he peed his pants in fright, threw away the wine cup, and fled with his wife and children.

There was great chaos in the city, but fortunately the deputy general arrived in time at night and stopped a bigger riot. He took advantage of the chaos and arrested no less than a hundred barbarians.He also threatened to let go of his words and not give us food, clothes, or wine. The remaining people will kill more people and rob more food.

The deputy general got annoyed and took the leader away. At the same time, he sent a letter to the imperial city and started to recruit people everywhere.

The rebellion lasted for three days and three nights. The barbarians turned the frontier into a commotion, leaving corpses strewn all over the field.

Three days later, Su Jiu was released by the jail chief and gave her a penny, saying that the prince ordered her to go home directly in a carriage. Take care of yourself.

The reason why no soldiers were sent over was because I heard that something happened in the frontier now.

Su Jiu took the copper coins and hired a carriage, but she didn't go back to Youxia Mountain directly, but went to the town. She wanted to take a look at Zhou Xiang along the way, and she promised to visit him, why did she suddenly disappear.

Su Jiu walked all the way to the town, but he couldn't tell where he should go in a daze.

For some reason, many common people gathered outside the town at this time, swarming like walking inside the town.

She stood outside the crowd, looking at the crowded town, why did she go in, and what happened?She was looking around when a person squeezed beside her. The man was dressed in rags, had a yellow-black complexion, and was carrying a huge package on his thin body. Seeing Su Jiu's displeasure, he nodded apologetically, "Miss, I'm sorry. "

Su Jiu nodded slightly, pulled him back and asked, "Dare to ask, why are there so many people gathered here?"

The man looked left and right, saw that Su Jiu in front of him was neatly dressed, and sighed, "Hey, we all come from the village near the frontier fortress. The barbarians are making trouble everywhere, so we are homeless. The girl alone People? Find a place to stay alive!"

"War? Is the frontier at war?"

The wild weeds and deserts of the barbarians, without the living nature, began to make chaos everywhere, broke into the town in the middle of the night, persecuted everywhere, and caused panic in the town.

The common people had never seen this situation before, and they fled in panic.

There is a war!
Su Jiu suddenly felt a burst of sadness.

In the war between the two countries, it was only ordinary people who suffered. The soldiers who were killed or injured also had relatives, and I don’t know how many people lost their relatives.

She paused for a moment, watching the slow flow of people in the town, she decided to go to Zhou's house first.

With the surge of people, Su Jiu was crowded into the town.

As soon as you enter the town, it's like a different world. The comfort and prosperity of the past are gone forever, replaced by a piece of ruin and desolation. Some houses have been vacated, presumably because they have heard about the war for a long time. The place fled.

Some old people are still waiting in their small huts, looking at the miserable refugees, they can't help but look dignified, as if the sky is about to fall.

Su Jiu turned around the alley and ran to Zhou Xiang's small courtyard along the familiar road.

The door was closed tightly. She stood there thinking for a long time, looked around, and finally knocked on the door.

The sound of 悾悾 echoed in the silent alley for a long time, but the door was still closed.

She tried to push it open, but the door opened with a creak.

Su Jiu poked his head in, and it was eerily quiet inside.

It was getting dark, she thought, maybe everyone in the yard was busy, "Is there anyone here?"

No one answered.

"Little boy, Zhou Xiang?"

No one answered.

Su Jiu's heart ached, did he already leave?Where are we going? When the war broke out, everyone fled, looking for a piece of peace, maybe they did too!

Su Jiu looked at the empty courtyard, and his heart was raised. When he looked up, he seemed to see someone moving in the courtyard. She walked in with her skirt.

Going up the stone steps, Su Jiu looked down from the attic, surrounded by only slightly floating willow branches, where is the half of a person?

After searching around, Su Jiu decided to go home first.

It is possible to get out of the town, but there is no carriage willing to carry people.

Su Jiu sighed, it seemed that he was going to walk on foot, and his big feet with flat feet would suffer again.

Facing him, the car came and stopped in front of Su Jiu.

"Su wine?"

Su Jiu laughed, "Zhou Xiang, it's easy to find me, you have no one at home."

Zhou Xiang jumped out of the carriage, looked at her left and right, thought for a while and said, "Little boy has gone to the mansion. I'm afraid you're not here right now. You must have missed something. Where are you going?"

"I just want to see if something happened to you recently. I went up and down to see if I was afraid that you would be dragged down. I didn't expect you to be fine. I'm going home now."

"It just so happens that I have a carriage, and I'll take you back."

"Hey, is there a war here?" Su Jiu asked while letting Zhou Xiang carry him into the carriage.

"No, it's just the savages making trouble. I'm afraid the people are frightened and looking for places to hide. It's nothing serious. I guess someone will come to comfort them at night and tell them to go home."

"I see, I thought there was going to be a war." Su Jiu muttered, and got into the carriage.

As soon as the carriage started, there were soldiers rushing to tell each other that they are not allowed to go out for the next two days, the barbarians are on a rampage, and if you want to survive, you must hide here and not go out for half a step.

Zhou Xiang had no choice but to drive the carriage aside and stepped forward to ask.

"Hey, brother, dare I ask if it's so serious?"

Seeing that it was Zhou Xiang who had been on patrol together, the man couldn't help stepping forward and said, "Let's find a place to hide. The rest of the people haven't been caught yet. I'm afraid there are many casualties, and our people were also injured. People are brave and good at fighting, they all live on horseback, they grab flattery and make trouble everywhere, right now the turmoil is in turmoil, it’s better to avoid it for a while, it will be fine in two days.”

When Zhou Xiang heard this, he looked at Su Jiu behind him. Su Jiu frowned, thinking that his life and death didn't matter, and he couldn't implicate Zhou Xiang. Although she wanted to go home now, she couldn't be willful, so she nodded to Zhou Xiang, " Youxia Mountain is relatively hidden, so it is estimated that nothing will happen, and it is in the farthest village of the frontier. I am afraid it will not be safe if I go back. It will cause trouble for my family, especially if I don’t want you to be dragged down, so let’s stay in the town first Avoid it!"

"Okay, Miss Yisu."

The carriage turned around and ran towards the small courtyard of the Zhou family.

When the two went back, Xiao Tong had already returned and prepared the meals. When he saw Su Jiu coming, he cheerfully stepped forward to greet him, "Miss Su, it's good if you come, I'm so bored by myself."

"Hey, I also happened to meet your son on the road. How are you doing recently?"

"Very good, come in quickly, I've prepared the meals. I heard that the young master is coming back today, so I'm ready. It turns out that Miss Su is here too. That's great, come in quickly, hehe..."

The two walked in hand in hand, Zhou Xiang followed behind, also grinning from ear to ear. He wanted to go up to ask Su Jiu how he was in prison, but seeing that Su Jiu was not decadent, he gave up and washed with Su Jiu. He took his hand and sat there with his head bowed to eat.

Su Jiu has always been a little absent-minded. She misses You Xiashan's father, mother and Xiaoshan. She wonders if the barbarians will persecute them there, but they can't get out now, so she can only pray that nothing will happen to them.At the same time, she was also worried about Nie Wuhuan who was gone that day.

Knowing that Zhou Xiang came back from the army, he couldn't ask any more questions, for fear that Zhou Xiang would think that he had some inexplicable relationship with Nie Wuhuan, so he lowered his head and grabbed the rice without even eating.

Zhou Xiang also had something on his mind, he pretended to be confused, he knew something was going on in the army, and he was busy flying up recently, three days had passed, and he didn't see the prince coming back, he asked everyone and they said they didn't know, and he borrowed the money if he was worried about Su Jiu. Fortunately, I met him in the town, but I didn't dare to ask more questions, so I lowered my head and ate the vegetables without even eating a grain of rice.

The little boy looked at the two of them, pursed his lips and smiled, and bit his chopsticks, not bothering to take a bite of the rice or vegetables.

Su Jiu stayed in the town absent-mindedly for two days. After two days, the guards withdrew and the people all went back.

(End of this chapter)