Chapter 278 Refuge
The once lively Kucha Street was no longer alive, only the wind from afar, wrapped in the smell of ashes, rolling on the ground with red and green silk veils. The singer and dancer no longer knew where to escape.
The war is as cruel as a gust of cold wind. Wherever it goes, leaves leave their branches, the grass becomes yellow, vast and vast, and everything witheres.
Chen Ji held the whale knife, observed the surroundings with vigilant eyes, and listened to the movements on the street in his ears.
He took two steps quickly, approached Chen Ji and whispered: "Chen Ji, it was my villain's thoughts in the past. I hope you have a lot of people and don't bother me."
Chen Ji looked at him in surprise, but did not respond.
All hesitated for a moment: "Chen Ji, can you teach me the fighting skills?"
Chen Ji said calmly: "I won't teach you."
He thought carefully and said with a stern face: "Don't worry, in the future, I will never go west when you are with the prince. If you point to the east, I will never go east when you point to the west. I can take you as my teacher!"
Chen Ji frowned: "There is a coach in the Yulin Army, why should I be my teacher?"
All of them sighed: "The teachers of the Yulin Army mostly teach the flowers to make things happen. They do whatever they look good. They are all for inspection. They are really useless when fighting."
Xiaoman held the dark clouds in his arms and trotted up: "Why are you shameless? My young master said he wouldn't teach me. You didn't like my young master before, so why did you hold up any bad things again!"
Qi Jing opened his mouth and wanted to speak but stopped. The prince actually spoke and said, "The words of Deputy Envoy Qi are real. If he can return to Beijing alive, the five thousand Yulin Army in front of the imperial court should change the coach. I think the right guard is very suitable."
Chen Ji interrupted: "Your Highness, now is not the time to talk about these things, come with me."
As he said that, he turned toward Taohuaifang, where he had previously thrown away the Swordsman.
After seeing the direction he was about to go, Chen Liqin immediately took two steps to catch up: "Chen Ji, we just saw clearly on the roof that Jing Chao was burning, killing and looting... It's not that I don't believe you, but I'm just worried that you didn't get on the roof, so I don't understand what happened outside."
Chen Ji did not answer, but just continued to walk his own way.
At this point, there is no safe place in Guyuan City. Sooner or later, the Iron Cavalry of Jingchao will travel around every corner. Go to a place where the Tiance Army has not yet captured? It is still hard to escape and die.
Their only way to survive now is to hide from the cellar of the grain and oil shop, but he has no time to argue with others. If he wants to believe him, he will follow him. If he doesn't want to believe him, he will not force him.
Seeing Chen Ji go further and further away, even the prince follows without saying a word, Chen Liqin hesitated for a moment and finally followed.
Chen Ji led everyone carefully through alleys, and finally stopped behind a dirt house.
This is the junction between the Tiance army and the border army, and they are coming and going, shouting and killing are so close.
Everyone was nervous when they heard the shouts of killing, but they didn't know why Chen Ji stopped in such a dangerous place.
Chen Ji just looked at the sky silently, and the afterglow of the setting sun was disappearing, and the orange-red light was like a tulle covered in Guyuan City, which was slowly being pulled away.
One stick of incense.
With another stick of incense, the sky will completely darken.
Chen Ji leaned against the earthen wall, slowly closed his eyes as he heard the shouts of killing. The fatigue felt like the rising tide of sea water, slowly flooding his heart.
Zhang Xia leaned against the earthen wall beside him, looked at the fatigue on his face, and then silently turned his head to look at the sky and said, "It would be great if I was an official too. Unfortunately, my uncle clearly had a master's skills, but he didn't want to teach it to me."
Chen Ji closed his eyes and replied, "I think the skills of your uncle in his hands are not unique, so he is worried that an officer with the same skills will find out and assassinate you. Being an officer may not be a good thing," he said.
Zhang Xia lowered his head and sighed: "But if I am an official, today... I will have the ability to protect myself and there is no need to be so embarrassed. If I can survive this time, I will go to find a way to become an official by myself, whether it is to find someone to buy it or exchange it, I will always find an opportunity to become an official."
Chen Ji nodded.
Xiaoman held the dark clouds in his arms and kindly reminded: "Miss Zhang Er, there are ways to sell official positions in Panjiayuan, the capital, but those ways to practice official positions can only reach the innate realm."
Zhang Xia was silent for a moment: "It would be great if he could reach the innate realm."
Chen Ji's heart moved, and he had an extremely high level of official career.
As I thought about it, the sky gradually became darker.
Chen Ji immediately winked at Wuyun. Wuyun stepped on Xiaofan's head, jumped onto the roof lightly, and penetrated into Taohuaifang.
Chen Ji followed closely behind, listening to the dark clouds' guidance to find the direction.
"Meow!"
The next moment, Chen Ji suddenly stopped at the entrance of an alley and raised his fist with his right hand. Everyone stopped behind him, not daring to breathe, for fear of accidentally missing his whereabouts.
Until a long time later, there were hurried footsteps approaching.
Everyone looked out of the alley and saw Li Xuan carrying a seven or eight-year-old girl on his back, and followed six people who fled together in a hurry.
Behind these people, the sound of the horse hooves of the Tiance Army became more and more urgent.
When passing the entrance of the alley, Li Xuan turned his head accidentally and saw Chen Ji standing in the shadow of the eaves, looking at him calmly.
Li Xuan was about to ask for help, but he saw Chen Ji's indifferent eyes again, with distant eyes and warning.
He hesitated for a moment, but he still endured what he wanted to say, just as he had never seen the people in the alley.
Behind him, a woman fell to the ground while running away. The girl on Li Xuan's back cried: "Mom! Uncle, save my mother!"
Li Xuan wanted to turn around and help the woman up, but when he turned around, he saw the iron cavalry of the Tiance army galloping on a horse.
The woman lay on the ground and waved her hand, urging anxiously: "Good man, go quickly, don't worry about me, I can't run anymore! Please take Nannan away!"
Li Xuanya was about to bite her, but she finally became cruel and turned around and left.
Just as he was about to call him "brother-in-law", his mouth was just opened, and Xiaoman came to him as if he had been premonition and covered his mouth.
A whistling arrow flew over the heads of the crowd, with a sharp sound, and the Tiance army whistled past.
On the saddle of each Tiance Army cavalry, there is a rope that fills the right ear, full of bloody military achievements.
The woman who had just fallen just got up from the ground and was immediately overturned to the ground by the passing Tiance army cavalry. The cavalry behind her stepped past her back one by one, almost trampling her into flesh paste.
Chen Wenzong's eyes were so bloody that he saw it, but Chen Ji came to him at some point, covering his mouth with one hand and tightly sling his body with the other.
He looked back at Chen Ji, his eyes looking desperate and helpless.
Chen Ji didn't look at him, but just waited quietly for the sound of horse hooves to leave.
I don’t know how long it has passed, but he gradually let go of Chen Wenzong and his eyes slowly swept across everyone’s face.
Everyone fell into despair that was just close, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a moment. Chen Wenzong stared at Chen Ji, but didn't say anything.
Chen Ji stood in the shadow and whispered: "Brother, don't look at me like this. I'm not a good person at all. I don't care what you want to do, but don't implicate others."
He thought together and was confused: "But my brother-in-law..."
Xiaoman sneered: "You were quarreling with your brother-in-law before, and it was so ugly that I heard you speak."
All thought about it and regretted it: "I was just an angry voice. Chen Ji, is there any way to save my brother-in-law? I..."
At this moment, dark clouds meowed on the roof.
Chen Ji yelled softly: "Shut up!"
As soon as he finished speaking, an iron-tired arrow rushed straight to the dark clouds on the roof not far away. Suddenly, the sharpshooter on a high platform heard the cat's meow, and even the cat didn't intend to let go.
The sharpshooter suddenly felt suspicious when he saw that he had not shot into the dark cloud.
He jumped off the platform and quietly headed straight to where the dark clouds were just now. While searching for the whereabouts of the dark clouds, he pulled the bowstrings all over.
Chen Ji and others stood in a row under the eaves, not even daring to breathe.
On the eaves, the sharpshooter stopped above their heads, his eyes searching for the night like a hawk, and his bowstrings became more and more full.
Under the eaves, Chen Ji held the hilt of the whale knife in his hand, and the tighter he held it.
At the critical moment, a "corpse" of the people on the adjacent street quietly got up, as if pretending to be dead and escaping. Now seeing no one around, I got up and wanted to escape.
With a soothing sound, the tremor of the bowstring sounded, and the iron-tied arrow came out, nailing it to the ground.
Li Xuan's roar came from a distance, as if he had been caught up by an iron cavalry. The sharpshooter jumped over the roof and flew towards the sound.
Chen Ji ignored Li Xuan's roar and immediately pulled Chen Wenzong to touch Taohuaifang and headed straight to the grain and oil shop.
At this time, the grain and oil shop had been burned into ruins by the fire, and the grain piled up like hills in the courtyard were all burned into coke.
Chen Ji came to the wellhead, pulled up the well rope and handed it to Zhang Xia: "Go down quickly."
The prince was lying at the well in confusion, but the well was so dark that it was hard to see anything. Then, he watched Zhang Xia pull out a few bricks and stones on the well wall and drill into the side hole.
The prince looked up at Chen Ji in shock, and there was something else hidden in the well?
Chen Ji urged: "Your Highness, go down and hide it."
When everyone drilled into the cellar in the well one by one, Xiaoman took out a fire bar and lit the candles in the cellar to illuminate bags of food in the cellar!
Wang Gui rushed to the food and said excitedly: "There is such a treasure land, with water and food, even if you live there for several months... It's saved, lord, we're saved!"
Liang fell to the ground and finally dared to breathe heavily. Chen Liqin was unable to sit down and leaned on the grain bag, his eyes closed and trembled gently.
The prince looked at the cellar silently, and slowly stroked his palm from the grain bag. After a long time, he spoke: "If there were no traces this time, I'm afraid that ten lives would not be enough for me."
Qi Zhenjue suddenly choked up and said, "What should I do if my brother-in-law?"
Xiaoman frowned and said, "Aren't you also an official? If you want to save me, go and save me by myself. Who will stop you?"
He thought about it for a while and finally said in a depressed manner: "I...I dare not, I am not good at studying, I am afraid, I am not successful..."
Zhang Zheng sighed: "Men originally wanted to scold you, but then I thought about it. If it were me, I wouldn't dare to go... You and I are just ordinary people."
Xiaoman said from the side: "But don't expect my son to save people. My son doesn't owe anyone... Ah, where is my son?"
Chapter completed!