Qiming 1158

Chapter 580 Are You the Restoration Army?you don't kill people?
Wang Quanyou's family is not very clear about what happened in Chang'an City.

After they hid in the cellar, they did not dare to show their faces.

The day after hiding in the cellar, they heard a lot of people breaking into the house, making noise, smashing and running around, and even the group of rioters went to the firewood room where the cellar was located.

Listening to the noise of footsteps going back and forth overhead, it almost scared the whole family.

They were so frightened that they didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of being discovered and then being pulled out and killed.

Wang Quanyou and his old servant Lao Wang knew exactly what the rebels did. They walked through the business together, and the bandits they encountered on the way were not as scary as the soldiers in imperial uniforms.

Bandits are only forced robbery and can resist, while the robbery of the soldiers is a legal robbery that cannot be resisted. If you resist, it is a rebellion, and the soldiers can justly kill you.

Therefore, in the face of bandits, you can still resist, and in the face of soldiers, you can only admit your fault and spend money to eliminate disasters.

Fortunately, the group of rioters did not find the cellar in the firewood room, and the family survived by luck, barely surviving on the water and food they brought in before.

Eat things sparingly, two meals a day, or one meal.

The water is also saved for drinking, mainly for two children. Wang Quanyou and Lao Wangtou are basically supported by the wine in the cellar. Anyway, it is not a high-level wine. Drinking is about the same as drinking water, and it can also quench thirst. .

For a few days after that, they didn't hear footsteps close at hand except for the faint rumbling of explosions, so every night, when the explosions stopped, Wang Quanyou would carefully lift the lid of the cellar. Quietly ran outside to check the situation.

However, in the dark and windy night, what he could see was very limited. Apart from the chaos, he did not judge the specific situation, but he saw a lot of corpses.

However, this did not frighten Wang Quanyou. He saw too many corpses when he traveled around.

Although the danger is not small, he can also find some food that has not been looted, such as a few sacks of surviving wheat, in the ruined and confused home.

After the pancakes are eaten, the wheat becomes the life-saving straw for the family. If there is no fuel to cook, the wheat is chewed dry, and it can finally make something in the stomach, so as not to starve to death.

Except for Wang Quanyou who occasionally sneaks out at night to find something to eat, they just wait and wait and wait.

Until one day, the footsteps that frightened the family sounded above their heads again, and the family became nervous again.

But this time, they didn't hear arrogant laughter and roaring, nor did they hear the sound of beating, smashing, and looting. Instead, they heard some conversations.

"This house is probably deserted, isn't it?"

"It looks like it's been destroyed like this, and it's impossible for anyone to live in it. After asking around, no one knows where the family has gone, so just write it as abandoned. The shell of this house is still there, and it will be cleaned up a little. Can live in."

"Well, that's it... But this is not a solution. There are more and more refugees outside the city. Although this house is big, it can't accommodate so many people. Are there enough houses in Chang'an City?"

"If you want to blame Zhang Zhongyan, what kind of soldiers are you bringing? Are you here to fight or to rob? All the way to fight! Bah! The bastard's first-class man! Sooner or later, he will be liquidated for his family!"

"Be quiet! Let's talk about this in private. If it is heard by outsiders, it will be a big deal."

"I know... I just can't figure it out, we can kill these gold thieves on our own, why are we teaming up with that old bastard? Now we have to wipe their ass, you haven't seen General Zhou be so angry, It's about to draw a knife and kill someone."

"Who said it wasn't? But the instructor said that this is an expedient measure. Just be patient. Our power is not strong enough. Now is not the time to turn our face."

"Hey...how long do I have to endure this? I really almost couldn't hold back and I went to petition with my brothers!"

Wang Quanyou pricked up his ears and listened to the conversation between the two people outside. Then, the voices of the two people became farther and farther away, and finally they could no longer be heard.

What's happening here?
Wang Quanyou thought about it.

The name Zhang Zhongyan is not unfamiliar to him. It is impossible for him to do business in Guanzhong without knowing Zhang Zhongyan of the Zhang family. He is a great military and political leader in Guanzhong, a great official, and his family also has a very detached status in Guanzhong.

Relying on this detached status, there are not a few business people in the family. Wang Quanyou himself knows the Zhang family who manages the business.

So much so that they sometimes don't even pay attention to the Jurchens, and some low-ranking Jurchen officials have to be respectful in front of them, for fear of offending them and not having good fruit to eat.

Relying on the power and prestige in Zhang Zhongyan's hands.

But what were those two people saying just now?

Join hands with Zhang Zhongyan to clean up the golden thief?
In a short conversation, Wang Quanyou, who was fluent in literary and calligraphy, extracted an important point of information-the one who spoke was the Liberation Army. They joined forces with Zhang Zhongyan to clean up the Jin army in Chang'an City. Now Chang'an City has been occupied by the Liberation Army.

The battle is over?

Chang'an was occupied by the Restoration Army?
Zhang Zhongyan betrayed Jin Guo and joined the Restoration Army?
This is real?

Wang Quanyou was shocked and felt that he could no longer hide in the cellar. Some things had to go out to find out the situation.

But going out is very dangerous, so you have to explain something to your family.

Wang Quanyou explained to his wife and Pharaoh's head.

"I don't know if it's safe outside in this situation, but anyway, I'm going to go out and see what's going on. If the war is over, we might be able to go out together, but remember, if I go out at night If you haven't come back, don't go out, remember, you can only come out when I come to find you."

Li's holding Wang Quanyou's hand was really uneasy.

"Don't, wait a little longer, head of the house, if something happens to you, how can we orphans and widows live?"

"Then we can't sit and eat the mountains. There is only so much wheat left. We will eat it sooner or later. If we finish eating, will we starve to death here? We can't live by drinking alone."

Wang Quanyou pulled his hand away and said warmly, "Don't worry, I will be careful to protect myself. You must not make a sound here, and must not go out. Wait for me to come back!"

After explaining, Wang Quanyou lifted the top cover and carefully climbed out.

It was noon now, and the sun was shining brightly outside. Wang Quanyou couldn't open his eyes because of the stab, and it took a while before he could open his eyes to look outside.

He looked around, pricked up his ears, and heard nothing around him.

So he moved cautiously towards the main entrance, watching all directions and listening to all directions, and put all the skills he learned from traveling around in business when he was young.

When he walked to the gate, he saw that the dilapidated gate was hidden, and there were voices coming from outside the gate. Wang Quanyou swallowed, resisting the fear in his heart, and stuck his head out to look outside the gate.

Then he froze.

He saw two people in ordinary clothes talking on the street outside the door. He looked calm, as if there was no danger around him—there was indeed no danger around him. The corpse he saw when he came out the night before was gone, The blood was also gone.

As if nothing had happened.

While they were talking here, another couple, a man and a woman, came over there. The man was carrying a cloth bag, and the woman was holding a basket with...cooking cakes in it?
Then the four of them started talking.

"Yo, Wang Er, the food is back? What's in the bag? Wheat?"

"Ah, there is wheat in the bag, this is the cooking cake, the wheat is used to make porridge, and the cooking cake fills the stomach, the amount for five days, let's try not to go to the West City for five days, there are many refugees there, and it is easy to cause trouble, wait. Find a place for them in a while and let's walk around."

"Well, I also heard from Instructor Wang that a large group of refugees came from the west. I heard that Chang'an has food, and they all came to Chang'an. What are you coming to Chang'an? We just got over it, and they came to talk to me about it. What are we going to eat?"

"Who said it wasn't? After a long time, I thought I was going to die. Who knows that there is still food to eat, and the whole family is still alive. Oh, it's like a dream."

"If it's a dream, I hope I don't wake up from this dream. I haven't seen an army like the Liberation Army since I can remember. If it was a dream, wouldn't I die now?"

"I'll pinch you to see if it hurts!"

"oops!"

"Hahaha, if it hurts, it means it's not a dream."

"Come on you, go away!"

"Let's go!"

Several people chatted and laughed, and then the couple walked straight over, and the remaining two men also planned to leave in different directions.

Just a few steps away, one of the men seemed to see something, stopped, patted his friends, and pointed in the direction of Wang Quanyou.

Then the friend saw Wang Quanyou looking out with a dull expression.

"you……"

"Chang'an has...has no war been fought?"

Wang Quanyou stood up and walked out of the house, looking at the two with an unbelievable expression.

The two looked at each other, and then looked at Wang Quanyou, whose face was dirty, feeling very strange.

"Are you a refugee outside the city?"

"I live here! This is my home!"

Wang Quanyou stepped forward a few steps and asked loudly, "Is the battle in Chang'an over? Is it safe? No army kills people?"

Wang Quanyou's appearance and actions were really scary, the two men were so frightened that they took a few steps back, and then quickly left here.

They felt that they had to go to Instructor Wang, who was in charge of the security of the area.

Suddenly, a nonsense wanderer came in from this good-looking Dongcheng District. Could it be that something went wrong and some refugees came directly from the west of the city?

Wang Quanyou couldn't get an answer, so he could only go out.

He dragged his weak body forward continuously, and there was no cruelty on the battlefield, no corpses, and no mourning people.

Is the war really over?

Is it really over?
Before he could understand, the two men who had just left ran over with several soldiers in military uniforms.

"Instructor Wang, it's him!"

Wang Kangping, the instructor in charge of the area, public security issues and pacification issues, followed the guidance of two enthusiastic Chang'an citizens and saw the "refugee" who was disheveled, dirty, and staggering.

Hey, don't say it, it really looks like it.

"Who are you? Why are you here? Did you come in from outside the city?"

He asked, and Wang Quanyou was stunned when he saw the soldier holding the weapon, as if he didn't understand how he asked, then his eyes widened, his face full of horror, and he turned and ran away.

"catch him!"

Wang Kangping now confirmed that this person was not a citizen of Chang'an, so he immediately ordered the two soldiers around him to come forward to arrest him.

Wang Quanyou, who hadn't eaten well for a month, really couldn't exert much energy. After staggering a few steps, he fell to the ground and couldn't get up. The two soldiers immediately rushed up to suppress him.

Wang Quanyou then shouted in horror, "Don't kill me" and the like, and struggled hard, but with that little effort, he couldn't break free from the suppression of the two soldiers.

Wang Kangping looked at the terrified Wang Quanyou, shook his head, and sighed.

"Okay, okay, I won't kill you, but you shouldn't run around. You said that you will be well settled. Why do you want to run around? It's not that you won't be given food! The Guangfu Army said that it would take care of you. I'll take care of you! What are you running for?"

Wang Quanyou struggled for a while, and was really out of strength. He was overjoyed when Wang Kangping said he would not kill him.

"You really won't kill me?"

"Of course I won't kill you! You make us look like some wicked people. We are the Liberation Army, not gold thieves. Gold thieves are different!"

"The Restoration Army? Are you the Restoration Army? You don't kill people?"

"That said, it also depends on who you are. You are not a golden thief, why did you kill you?"

Wang Kangping walked up to Wang Quanyou, looked at Wang Quanyou up and down, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Are you really a refugee?"

"what?"

"Your clothes don't look like homeless clothes."

Wang Kangping didn't look at it carefully, but now I look closely and found that although the clothes are dirty and damaged, they are obviously made of silk and have patterns. They are not the cloth that ordinary people use to make clothes, and they are also high-end clothes that ordinary people can't afford. Taste.

this person……

Wang Quanyou suddenly reacted.

"Refugee? What kind of refugee? I'm not a refugee! I'm from Chang'an! I live here! I live here! That house is my home!"

"what?"

Wang Kangping and several others were surprised when they looked at Wang Quanyou who was talking loudly.

Then, after almost half an hour of tossing, Wang Kangping and Wang Quanyou finally figured out each other's identity and gained each other's trust.

While crying, Wang Quanyou pulled his family up from the cellar, introduced them to Wang Kangping, and cried about what happened to his family in the past month.

Wang Kangping and the people who followed him were extremely surprised to learn that the family had escaped this catastrophe in Chang'an City by hiding in the cellar.

"It's really good luck, in that case you can escape..."

Although it was very hard to live in the cellar, at least they could eat and drink, and they would not be caught and tortured as coolies, and they would not be killed.

And those who didn't escape were either robbed or signed to join the army, becoming cannon fodder for defending the city, and the death rate was extremely high.

Even women who can't fight have been used on the battlefield in another way by the Jin Army in the city, making "contributions" to the battlefield.

There are really many people who died directly or indirectly because of these things, among them a considerable number of women and young children, and countless families were broken.

For this reason, the anger of the Jin Army in Chang'an City is so great that Zhang Yuejing, the commander-in-chief, has been dispatching military instructors to lead the residents of the city to hold a public trial meeting every day. The town's grievances.

So in a very short period of time, the hearts of Chang'an city people moved closer to the Restoration Army.

Having said that, the heavy casualties are real, and Wang Quanyou's family is really lucky.

Finally, Wang Kangping took the crying family to his office to register, and registered all the information such as name and place of origin.

"It's your luck to survive. The house will be returned to you naturally and will not be requisitioned, but the things in the house and your lost belongings are indeed a bit troublesome to retrieve."

"I'm lucky to be able to survive. The family is safe and sound. There are quite a few. I don't dare to ask for anything. Instructor Wang, I'm sorry to bother you."

Wang Quanyou suffered a catastrophe and survived, and he no longer cared much about money.

He thanked Wang Kangping and planned to take his family back to their hometown in the countryside when the situation stabilized. The hometown in the countryside still has houses and land, which is enough for them to live.

"That's fine, but you'd better register it. The rule of our Liberation Army is not to take anything from the common people. If there is an original owner, the property will be returned to the original owner."

Wang Kangping smiled: "As long as the original owner is still alive and applies to the Liberation Army, we will not refuse it. If we can find it, we will definitely return it to you, and we will not take your things for nothing."

"This... can it be found again?"

Wang Quanyou couldn't believe it. In the past, this army, which used to be more ruthless than bandits, could actually be so reasonable?
This is the legendary Restoration Army that is so fierce and that every time it breaks a place, a Jingguan is erected?
"If you can describe it in more detail, of course you can. After we entered the city, we have seized too many things, and many people have died in the past month, but the same sentence is still true. I will try my best to help you find what you lost."

Wang Kangping handed the pen and paper to Wang Quanyou.

Wang Quanyou really didn't hold out much hope, but since the Liberation Army was so reasonable, he didn't want to waste this rare experience.

He wrote down the shape and the number and type of his three carriages.

As a businessman, he couldn't remember these things clearly.

He didn't hold out much hope, and felt that although he wrote it, it would be more psychological comfort. He relied on the business money to buy a lot of land in his hometown and built a house. Even if the business in the city could not continue, he would return to Being a landlord in my hometown, I can live comfortably.

As long as you can live, there is no shortage of family members, and nothing matters.

(End of this chapter)