Yingbao was also very anxious. After thinking for a while, she ran to the Deer Park.
He touched Yoyo's neck and asked, "Yoyo, take me to chase daddy, okay?"
Yoyo blinked her big eyes and looked at her, as if agreeing silently.
Yingbao took out a leather saddle from the cave, fastened it to Youyou, and climbed onto the deer's back by stepping on the railings: "Let's go! Let's go find Dad."
Yoyo seemed to understand what she said and ran away on all fours.
Yoyo has grown very tall now, almost as big as a mule or a horse, but Yingbao is already ten years old, and it is still difficult for it to carry him.
Avoiding the villagers, Yingbao hurried forward but still couldn't see her father, Jiang Wu and the others, and she couldn't help feeling anxious.
An hour later, Yingbao stopped to feed and water Youyou.
Seeing that Youyou was very tired, he simply put it into the cave, changed into a gray ramie shorts, put on a bamboo hat, and walked forward quickly.
After walking for half an hour, she let Youyou out again and rode onwards.
In this way, we finally arrived at the dock outside the county town near evening.
There was a small boat at the dock, preparing to leave.
Yingbao had sharp eyes and immediately spotted two figures on the boat, they were Huzi and his younger brother Jiang Wu.
Yingbao didn't care about anything else. She immediately took Yoyo and ran towards the boat quickly.
He ran and shouted: "Jiang Wu! Jiang Wu! Stop!"
Jiang Wu also saw his sister and subconsciously hid in the cabin.
Yingbao was so angry that she rushed out without caring that the sampan had already been pulled away and grabbed the edge of the boat.
"Ouch! Why are you so reckless, little girl?" The boatman immediately came over to pull her.
Yingbao ignored the pain all over her body and hurriedly said to the boatman, "Hurry up and let them get off the boat!"
Hu Zi and Jiang Wu poked their heads out and shouted in unison: "Don't dock, boatman, please start the boat, we have paid for it."
The boatman was in a dilemma and had to row the boat forward.
Ying Bao was furious. She ran over and grabbed Jiang Wu and Hu Zi's ears, "Do you know what you are doing? Going to Jingzhou? With this boat? It will capsize with just a wave!"
The boatman was not happy and tried to defend himself: "What are you talking about, young lady? I go to Jingzhou several times a year. Why are you talking so unlucky?"
"Sorry, it's all my fault." Zhang Min came out of the cabin: "I wanted to go to Jingzhou alone, Jiang Wu and Hu Zi must come with me."
Then he said to Jiang Wu and Hu Zi, "Jiang Wu, Hu Zi, you can go back with Ying Bao."
"I won't go back!" Hu Zi refused.
"As a man, a word should be kept. I won't go back!" Jiang Wu covered his ears with his hands and took a few steps back, away from his sister.
Yingbao was so angry that she laughed: "Well, since you don't want to go back, I will go with you."
The book in my mind contained information about the fall of Jingzhou. It said that the governor of Jingzhou held out for two months, leading more than a thousand loyal people in the city and tens of thousands of civilians to help. In the end, when all his arrows and reinforcements were exhausted, the city was broken, and he died after a bloody battle with the bandits for three days and three nights.
This prefect of Jingzhou should be Zhang Min’s father.
The book also says that after the Jurchens broke into the city of Jingzhou, they started a massacre and killed everyone in the city.
Governor Zhang never received any reinforcements until his death, and later the emperor exterminated all nine generations of the Zhang family.
It’s really sad to think about it.
Yingbao glanced at Senior Brother Zhang sympathetically and sighed.
Forget it, I'll just go with them. If anything goes wrong, I'll take them away.
Well, just put it in the new bamboo cage that daddy made.
My father was afraid that the same thing would happen again, so he made a bamboo cage without windows in the cave. If he ever met a bad guy, he would throw him into the cage and cover it with a lid. No matter how strong the bad guy was, he would be trapped.
The bamboo cage is made of thick bamboo and is surrounded by a layer of reed matting. Once people enter, it is pitch black and they can't see anything.
"You're going too? How is that possible?" Zhang Min scratched his head.
Having two little ghosts is troublesome enough, and adding Yingbao...
"If you don't go back, I will follow you." Yingbao sat down on the deck without any hesitation.
Zhang Min glanced at his junior sister with some guilt, and finally fell silent.
He originally went to the county town to find his master, but his master was not there, and the people in the medical department didn't know where he and his senior brother had gone.
There was no other way, Zhang Min wanted to go to Jingzhou alone to check out the situation, but Hu Zi and Jiang Wu insisted on following him.
Before leaving the city, he had handed over the Jiang family's carriage to Jiang's Specialty Shop, and then hired a donkey cart to go to the dock outside the city.
Coincidentally, they encountered a large fishing boat, so Zhang Min chartered the boat and headed for Jingzhou.
Seeing that the children had stopped making noise, the boatman quickly rowed the boat and asked his wife and son to row upstream.
Seven or eight days later, the large fishing boat entered Jingzhou.
Yingbao looked at the shore and realized something was wrong.
Many people were walking south with their families, and when they saw boats on the river, they waved desperately.
The boatman also noticed the problem and looked serious.
"Young man, we can't go forward. Look ahead, we don't know what's going on. Why are we all fleeing like this?" The boatman didn't dock the boat, but just stood on the boat and shouted to the shore, "What's wrong with you? Are the barbarians attacking?"
When we were docked at the pier before, we heard that the Jurchens were invading, but the court was slow to send troops.
Unexpectedly, before reaching Jingzhou City, a large number of people would flee.
A commoner answered him: "Yes, now the governor has ordered the city gates to be closed, so we can only go south."
"Block the city gates?" Zhang Min became more and more anxious and urged the boatman to set sail.
The boatman had no choice but to continue sailing for a while and then refused to start the boat.
Zhang Min thought about it, paid him the reward, and went ashore with his junior sister.
The four men went in the opposite direction of the fleeing crowd and soon arrived at the gate of Jingzhou city.
The gate was closed at this time, and there were still many people outside who wanted to go in.
Zhang Min squeezed forward and shouted, "I have something important to report to the governor. Please open the door and let me in!"
The soldiers guarding the city ignored him and shot arrows at him.
Yingbao knew that this would not work, so she called Zhang Min immediately: "Second Brother, let's find a place to stay first and come back to check."
Zhang Min had the same idea, so the four of them retreated several miles and sat down in a dense forest to rest.
Yingbao took out some dry food and distributed it to her younger brother and Huzi, and also gave some to her second senior brother.
The four of them ate, and it was dark now.
"Let's take a rest first and go check it out tomorrow morning." Yingbao took out some plants from her bag and gave them to her brother and Huzi.
The weather is hot now and there are a lot of mosquitoes in the wild. If you are not careful, your face will be bitten.
Jiang Wu took the mint leaves, chewed them, spit them out and rubbed them on his arms and legs.
Yingbao shook out another cloak and let several people squeeze in the cloak to sleep.
She took out another black cloak, covered her head with it, and curled up next to Jiang Wu.
After they were all asleep, Yingbao quietly entered the cave and began to pack up her things.
There are two bows and arrows, but the arrows are all made of bamboo, which has little damage and is of little use.