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Chapter 2 Avoiding Disaster

Xu Huai was stunned, and looked at the girl who was holding a bunch of velvets for him. Seeing that she was not wearing any gorgeous clothes, she was wearing very thin clothes on this cold day, without a skirt on her lower body, but a wide-legged embroidered jacket and pants tightened to her ankles; her beautiful face was flushed, as if she had just been running over, she suddenly realized that this outfit was not what the maid of the Zhu family should have, but Cuju women's clothing, and asked in surprise:

"Princess? Which princess is from?"

Dayue restricted the royal family's titles, but there were more than a dozen emperor brothers, princes and grandsons who had to be named Yizi. Xu Huai suddenly couldn't guess which prince's daughter the girl in front of him was, so he ran to the side courtyard of Zhu's mansion to look around.

"How dare you, a madman, be so rude? How could the Zhu family treat you rude soldiers as distinguished guests?" The palace maid next to the girl not only did not apologize and apologize in fear when she saw Xu Huai rushing to the princess, but after looking at the princess unscrupulously, she still asked so rudely that she frowned.

The girl had never seen such a rude person before. She threw a big handful of stinky robe on the stone railing in front of the corridor, pulled the sleeves of the palace maid beside her, signaling her not to get entangled with this rude military man, and then jumped out of the yard.

"Who are they? Are they maids in Zhu Hanlangjun's mansion? Why did they leave after saying a few words to Junhou?" Niu Er walked out of the room, looked at the three girls leaving, and asked curiously.

"I don't know which noble girl from the Prince's Mansion broke into this yard." Xu Huai said inadvertently as he looked at the girl's figure leaving quickly.

The memory clip has long foreshadowed the tragic ending of the Dayue clan members. Xu Huai is unable to feel even a little awe of these noble clan members from the bottom of his heart. On the contrary, he has some pity.

"Prince's Mansion?" Niu Er saw the three girls slipping faster, looked at the robes on the stone railing, walked over and wanted to pick them up, and said, "Dang Liu is not here, I will help Junhou wash these clothes!"

Xu Huai and his friends arrived in Bianliang this time. Although they took the shortcut, they were still working non-stop. The Jianrui army and the Han were unable to bear it. Xu Huai did not let Liu Qiong'er accompany him to have the hard work.

Xu Huai decided to come to Bianjing this time, and many previous plans have been adjusted. Before they set off, more people were evacuated back to Huaiyuan in advance; Liu Qiong'er followed that group of people back to Huaiyuan first.

Now Xu Huai is surrounded by a group of rough men, not even a person who can slit up the slit.

However, Xu Huai still reached out to block Niu Er, fearing that his actions would be too light or heavy, so he pulled the cloaks apart and became even less able to put them on. He said, "Don't, rest for me. Mr. Zhu's husband should send a servant to help us clean up these things. You call Zheng Tu and the others over - you should go to the city to walk around, but the rules must be said first. We are nothing in Bianliang City. The situation is extremely urgent now. We should leave Bianjing at any time. If you cause any disaster, you will be imprisoned in which prison, I don't want to rob the prison to save you grandsons!"

Although he might not be able to see Wang Bing for a while, and Zhu Han might be summoned to the palace to inquire about the war at any time, Xu Huai had to wait in Zhu's mansion.

However, even if Wang Bing was about to wait, Xu Huai would just pull Wang Ju, Shi Zhen, Wang Xian, Zhou Jing, Xu Xin'an, Zheng Tu and others to meet each other. There was no need to let hundreds of people follow him in a noisy way.

He also hopes that Niu Er, Zheng Tu and others will have the opportunity to appreciate the style before the most prosperous city of the world is completely destroyed by war; and in the future, they will never be able to see such a prosperous city in their entire lives.

Therefore, no matter how critical the situation is and how urgent it is, Xu Huai plans to give them a half-day vacation.

However, even if this city is destined to be destroyed by war, and even if the millions of people in this city are destined to experience hell-like struggles and torture, Bianliang, as the capital, still maintained its final false majesty.

Xu Huai didn't want Niu Er, Zheng Tu, Yan Xiaoyi, Zhu Shicong to make trouble at this time, and he had to remind him of some rules before he could feel relieved.

At this moment, Zhu Zhi, who had been washed and changed into a brand new robe, came over and said, "There is an edict in the palace that my father will come to the palace to meet the saint first. My grandfather is also in the capital, and may have to wait for my father to meet the saint. My father is here to have a drink with you first. It's cold and cold, so don't be restrained..."

"Since I'm not doing anything for the time being, I'll go home first - but I'm not busy going to the Ministry of War to hand in the service. It's no problem to delay for a day or two," Shi Zhen said, "If Master Zheng and Master Zhou have nothing else to do, I can go to my house to have a drink first!"

The Yellow River will thaw in March. If the Chihu people wanted to go directly into the Hehuai River and Huai River in this winter, their main cavalry might be penetrated from Hebei at any time and encircle Bianliang.

What Shi Zhen is most anxious about now is not to accompany Xu Huai to see Wang Bing.

Except for the family, he had to try to persuade his relatives and friends to withdraw from Bianliang as soon as possible and go south to take refuge.

Shi Zhen served as an official in the Ministry of War for many years and finally found a ninth-ranked family. However, he was cautious and gentle. He knew that it was extremely difficult to persuade his relatives and friends to withdraw from Bianliang to escape under the wind and snow when the New Year was approaching.

He had written a letter back to Bianjing to advise his family to go south first, but his family had sent a letter from the prefectures and obviously did not take his words seriously. Now he didn't know whether he could convince his family to leave Bianliang immediately.

He couldn't ask Xu Huai directly for this matter, so he wanted to pull Zheng Tu and Zhou Jing over and help him think of a solution.

If it really doesn't work, it would be much better to ask Zhou Jing and Zheng Tu to arrange personnel to "rob" his family of children out of Bianliang than to besieged by Chihu's troops in the city of Bianliang in the end.

Seeing Shi Zhen's frowning look, Xu Huai also guessed that he was looking for Zheng Tu. Zhou Jing did not want to drink, so he told Zheng Tu. Zhou Jing said, "You can accompany Mr. Shi for a while, but Mr. Shi has any instructions, you must do your best."

Seeing Shi Zhen rushing Zheng Tu and Zhou Jing left, Zhu Zhi asked, "Is Mr. Shi in a hurry to arrange for his family to evacuate?"

"..." Xu Huai nodded and said, "It may be ten days and half a month, or three or five days, and the small group of Chihu Scouts will be interspersed..."

"My father just mentioned this to his ancestor, but he was scolded!" Zhu Zhi said with a frown.

There are three main rivers in Bianliang City that pass through the city. Although they are all frozen at this time, when spring is warm and flowers bloom, the Wuzhang River leading to Jingdong East Road, the Bian River leading to Sizhou, and the Cai River leading to Caizhou is the main canal connecting the capital and the outside world.

Through these canal channels, millions of stones of grain, firewood, charcoal, cloth and other bulk materials are transported into Bianliang every year, maintaining the consumption of this city with a population of 130 and tens of thousands of imperial guards.

Once the enemy troops head south, not only will these material transportation channels be cut off, but the people of the surrounding prefectures and counties will flee for refuge out of their natural trust in the defense of the capital. At that time, they will not know how many people will flow into this city.

It is not unimaginable to exceed two million, or even reach a huge amount of three million.

Even if you can defend Bianliang, the food stored in the city will be quickly consumed. In addition to the butcher knife of the enemy soldiers, I don’t know how many people will die of famine and disease.

Eat each other is not unimaginable.

However, not to mention that Xu Huai was humble at this time, even if the king requested the imperial edict and wanted to evacuate the millions of people in the city south at this time, how could it be too late?

The New Year is approaching, and it is snowing outside the city again, and thousands of miles are frozen. There is not enough strong grassroots execution. How many people are willing to embark on the long journey of fleeing south without hesitation?

Zhu Han returned to his house and wanted to persuade the old lady to go south to avoid disaster at this time, but wasn’t he taught a lesson in reverse?

Faced with Zhu Zhi's sorrow, Xu Huai could only shruggle, saying that he could do nothing about it.

Zheng Tu and Zhou Jing were taken away by Shi Zhen. Xu Huai, Yin Peng, Yan Xiaoyi, Zhu Shicong and others took everyone to the city to open their eyes. He and Wang Ju, Wang Xian, and Xu Xin'an accompanied Zhu Zhi to a warm pavilion and sat down while drinking while waiting for Zhu Feng to return.

This warm pavilion is located in the middle of the garden. It was originally a pavilion. After winter, it was equipped with wooden window curtains. The base was empty and filled with firewood and charcoal to heat it. People are as warm as spring.

The times were difficult, and everyone was not in a hurry to talk and laugh. Xu Huai was not even concerned about the rehabilitation of the imperial edict. He thought the warm pavilion was too hot, so he opened a wooden window, looked at the snow scene in the garden and the blooming wintersweet, and drank wine in small mouthfuls.

After a while, there were tiny footsteps coming towards him. Xu Huai then heard the maid who had just scolded him in the side courtyard speaking under the corridor outside the warm pavilion through the curtain:

"I really don't have any eyesight. I actually treated the princess as a maid and threw a bunch of stinky clothes and asked the princess to hold it. Tell me, where is the maid so beautiful and wealthy?"

A lazy voice that sounded like a young woman said, "I heard that the soldiers in the army were either recruiting Tufan or exiled to the border state for criminals. They lived in that hut where they would meet their heads all day long, with coarse grains and digging some salty sauce and eating them with relish. They may not have seen a few women in their life, so how could they have the strength to see? But the princess didn't listen to the advice. He listened to Zhu Zhi's messy guy and thought he was a great hero, and he wanted to run over to watch the fun, so he would not be affected?"

The lazy voice sounded again: "Wang Xuan, you are not happy with the marriages that my mother has arranged for you. She is still angry in your Wang family's house and scolds my mother for meddling in other people's business. But you have fallen in love with a good man in Lanzhou. Now you are yelling over here, afraid that you will meet for a while later?"

"Zhu Duojin, what are you talking nonsense? I was so anxious to come to talk to her when I heard Princess Yingyun here." Wang Xuan's slightly breathing voice came over.
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