Zhurou

Chapter 201
It turned out that during those two days, Duan Da and the gangsters in the city used their old connections to coerce and lure them under the pretense of transporting property to Caizhou. Out of town.

But after leaving the city, it is not entirely clear how to act.

Those individuals were skeptical at first, but when they came out to talk about it now, others talked about it, thinking that they had excellent eyesight, and they all wanted to say a few words.

"Why are you so easy to be deceived? The princess never left. Why are you panicking? Go and believe someone who doesn't know the origin. Isn't this a bad time?"

This one said: "He took so much gold and silver and said he was going to Caizhou. If he ran away halfway, where would you find it?"

"If he doesn't run away, he only has dozens of young people following him, and they also have trailers and boxes. How can they take care of them? Not to mention meeting Di Bing, even if you only meet bandits and bandits, you can't protect them all!"

The one said: "There are many Di soldiers on the road. If you go out alone, who knows when you get there, there will be only a skeleton left, and you may not be able to leave the whole body. How dare you go to him?"

"So what if he finds it. Someone has a knife. If he turns his face and denies it, if he takes the knife down, can he use his neck to block it?"

"I'm afraid I can't find it if I look for it. According to what he said, if the imperial court moves the capital, there will be people everywhere, even if you have ten pairs of eyeballs, you won't be able to find it."

"If our capital is gone, the Caizhou River is not separated, and the mountains are not too high, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop it? We can only flee to the south. You should have all the precious gold and silver with him, and the few left to spend , what to eat and drink? Where can I go?"

Seeing that the people in the venue were discussing a lot, Zhao Mingzhi didn't delay any longer. He asked people to bring tables, chairs, pens and ink, and separated them with a carriage. do not mention.

At that moment, everyone confessed one after another, and most of them didn't know about Duan Da's coercive edict.

A few others were identified by others, but they still couldn't prove their innocence, and they were full of hesitation. The patrolmen immediately moved the benches over, put them in the public, and the left and right military inspectors recited the law in person, and first fled before the battle. Sin, this crime should have been executed, and No. 20 in the five fraudulent laws for forged Baoyin Fujie. Although the princess is not the queen and prince, she guards the capital with her body, and is actually the same as the prince. .

Because there was no evidence of confession, he couldn't be killed on the spot, so people held up sticks, but after twenty sticks, the shit was already beaten, everyone was crying bitterly, scrambling to identify the mastermind.

Zhao Mingzhi also didn't need a seat, and always stood on one side, watching the case like an ordinary passer-by. It's just that she was standing, and there were countless people standing, how dare the judge act rashly.

The case was still being resolved here, but there was a drum beating nearby, and there was another whistle at the city gate. The gate officer turned his head to look awkwardly, and then turned back again. As for Song Jingren, he even looked at it early.

Zhao Mingzhi reacted suddenly and asked, "This is?"

The city gate officer said cautiously: "Usually this is the time to open the city gate, but today the case is still being tried here..."

Zhao Mingzhi said: "The yamen handle cases by themselves, and the common people have to leave the city by themselves. The two are irrelevant."

They also ordered the carriages to be moved to make way for people to walk.

The other party nodded hurriedly, rushed to the bottom of the city and opened the city gate without mentioning it.

However, the heavy city gate slowly opened, but no one came out for a long time, and the people who delivered the goods outside were queuing up, but no one responded.

Zhao Mingzhi thought for a while, knowing that he was here, he was afraid of becoming a threat, so he lit the torch and looked for an old man with a girl in his hand, went forward, and asked the old man shortly: "Would you like to go?" where?"

The other party was so shocked that his legs and feet were stiff, his mouth was wide open, and he could not speak for a long time.

On the other hand, the girl was about five or six years old. Although she looked yellow and thin, she was quite clever. After hearing Zhao Mingzhi's question, she said in a local accent: "Grandfather said that he would go to the south to find my father."

Pointing to a soldier guarding the city not far away, he murmured, "My father also has... the same clothes and sticks."

Zhao Mingzhi looked at the girl, the old man and the old woman next to him. The former hadn't let out a fart, but the latter came forward tremblingly and said: "The eldest and second of my family have all served in the army, and the third daughter married a husband." The one who sells bamboo baskets went to the south two years ago..."

The old man finally came to his senses at this time, and hurriedly said: "Actually, there is no need to go, it's just..."

Zhao Mingzhi didn't ask him any more, he half leaned down and stretched out his hand to the girl, and said softly: "Let's go, sister will go out of the city with you."

The girl was very courageous, she didn't look at her elders, but opened her arms.

Zhao Mingzhi was startled, then smiled, leaned down and picked him up, and said to the two old men behind him, "Let's go."

The two wanted to talk again, but they didn't know how to respond, so they had to look at each other embarrassingly.

Zhao Mingzhi stepped forward, and the soldiers at the back also stepped forward to help each other, or carry or carry the luggage of two people, nothing more than pots and pans, bedding and clothes, and two small bags of dry food and rice noodles.

And Zhao Mingzhi hugged the girl and stepped out of the city in front of countless people at the city gate. Although he didn't say a word, his behavior couldn't be more clear than expressing his opinion.

Because of the child in his arms, Zhao Mingzhi was afraid that his feet would not be stable, so he walked very slowly, he just looked down at the road, but he didn't know that the girl was facing the city gate with her back, showing no fear, just smiling.

But at this time, a bright light from the east came out through the clouds, and then another fiery red sun jumped up, as if in an instant, it illuminated a lot of the darkness between the sky and the earth.

Taking advantage of the firelight and the warm red sun, the girl stretched out her two short hands to touch the hairpin on Zhao Ming's branch.

So, there were many people present, far and near, men, women, old and young, all holding their breaths, maybe they could see clearly, maybe they couldn't see clearly, only to see the little girl holding the hairpin, I don't know if it was too hard, or it was just a fresh flower. Weak and weak, with just a swipe, a few petals will fall gently, slowly, fluttering in the air, going with the wind, and contrasting with the slightly swaying plain skirt when walking, it is like a picture scroll, which makes people unwilling to break .

After sending them away for two or three miles, and chatting for a few more words, after putting down the girl in his arms, Zhao Mingzhi took some money from the attendant and gave it to him, and said a few words of concern before returning to the city, where he and the left and right army inspectors And after Song Jingren finished his explanation, he stopped scaring people here, and hurriedly got on the carriage and returned to the palace without mentioning it.

But what she didn't know was that when she turned around and left, the old man and woman on the spot hesitated for a long time, staring at the money in her hand, without anyone saying a word, they unexpectedly went to grab her granddaughter's wrist.

And the latter didn't even need the two to explain, he turned around and walked honestly, the two elders and one grandson, but after a turn, they returned to the city again.

The city was allowed to enter but not to leave, but these three were sent out by His Royal Highness himself, and everyone watched, and since they never left the moats of the city, they had to turn a blind eye and let them go again. back.

In this way, I don’t know how many people gathered at the gate of the city. They were about to leave, and they looked at each other and asked, "Did you show us?"

(End of this chapter)