Return to the beginning of fleeing from famine, holding space to counterattack

Chapter 38
"elder sister."

"Ah?" Jiang Nanqing withdrew from his thoughts.

"Sister, what are you thinking?" Jiang Xinliang didn't get a response when he talked to Jiang Nanqing just now. Looking sideways, he found that Jiang Nanqing's thoughts were wandering, and his face was full of sadness.

Jiang Nanqing stared at Jiang Xinliang's face and asked, "Xinliang, what if we don't make it to Duanyang?"

Jiang Xinliang thought for a while and said, "Why would my sister say that? Haven't we just gone far? And I think we can get there, sister, don't be afraid."

"But, suddenly I'm not so sure," Jiang Nanqing said after a pause, "I'm afraid I can't protect you."

Jiang Xinliang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted that it seemed that Jiang Nanqing was bearing everything all by himself these days, while he had been hiding behind her, doing nothing to help her.

Jiang Xinliang pursed his lips and said, "Sister, I can also protect you and your parents."

"Okay, you're still young, I'm just talking casually," Jiang Nanqing got up, looked up at the stars in the sky and said, "We will turn dangers into blessings in the future and go to sleep."

"Okay, sleep."

...

Jiang Nanqing and the others met many fleeing people on the road, and Wei Haixiu went to one of the mother and daughter and asked.

"The eldest sister also escaped, right?"

"Ah."

"Where are you going?"

The woman looked at Wei Haixiu in confusion, shook her head and said, "I don't know, just go wherever you go."

"Here, you don't have any plans?" Wei Haixiu asked suspiciously.

"Plans?" The woman shook her head bitterly, reached out and touched her daughter's head and said, "There are so many plans, just find a place where you can live."

"The child's father is gone, and the family is gone. If it wasn't for the child, I would go with the child's father."

Wei Haixiu didn't know what to say. She looked around and found that almost all of them were old and weak women and children. There were very few upright men in their prime of life, and most of them were arrested and exiled into the army.

They all had a hint of confusion on their faces, they didn't know where to go, they just drifted with the crowd.

"Catch them, a group of fugitives, catch them all for me."

"My lord, we are all good people, not fugitives."

"Hmph, you're still quibbling, catch all these people quickly, and don't let any of them go."

There was a commotion in the front, Wei Haixiu stood on tiptoe to see what was going on, and arrested people in a good manner.

Jiang Nanqing frowned slightly, the checkpoint here was obviously not long ago.

"Run, officers and soldiers have arrested people."

"I see who dares to run away?" The leading officer and soldier shouted loudly, "A few days ago, someone resisted the order and refused to perform military service, killed many of us, and then fled. Now there is an order from above, as long as those who come from over there Everyone was arrested and tortured severely, and if they were found to be fugitives, they would be executed immediately."

"All of you will go back with me to be interrogated honestly, and all of you who dare to run will be treated as fugitives and killed."

The people around immediately boiled over and said loudly.

"I'm not a fugitive, I didn't do anything."

"Yes, yes, we are all good people, we have never done anything bad, please let us go!"

"I'm going to seek refuge with my relatives, please ask the officials to be accommodating and let me go."

"I also went to seek refuge with relatives, not fugitives."

(End of this chapter)