As the days passed, Sun Lizheng would come to Jiang Sanlang every day to tell him the latest battle situation he had heard.
That night, Yingbao suddenly had a dream. She dreamed that Qinchuan County was on fire and her own shop was also on fire. Her eldest cousin Jiang Cheng's family and her aunt's family were lying in a pool of blood.
Yingbao was frightened awake, and the scene was still vivid in her mind.
Thinking of a possibility, she shuddered, jumped off the kang, rushed to her parents' room and knocked on the door: "Dad! Mom!"
Jiang Sanlang and Chunniang hurriedly put on their clothes and got off the kang, opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I'm going to the county town. Dad, you stay home and inform the villagers to send people to guard the village in the next few days. In case soldiers come, let the villagers hide quickly." Yingbao said as she put on her boots.
Jiang Sanlang frowned: "What's the matter? Dad should go to the county town."
Yingbao recounted her dream and said at the end, "I was worried that something might happen in the county town, so I wanted to inform my eldest cousin and his family to close the shop and find a place to hide."
Jiang Sanlang's face changed when he heard this, and he turned around to put on his clothes: "I'm going to the county town, Baoer, you stay at home."
"No!" Yingbao refused.
"Bao'er!" Chunniang grabbed Yingbao and said angrily, "Why are you, a little girl, running around? It would be faster if you let your father go."
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Jiang Sanlang quickly put on his clothes, shoes and socks, ran out of the house and mounted the saddle.
It was dawn, and Jiang Sanlang jumped on his horse and said to his daughter, "You stay at home and tell your uncles to go and inform the villagers to be more alert these days."
"Okay." Yingbao also knew that there was no time to waste, so she nodded and let her father leave.
Then he took out a bag of wheat and a few jars of potion and gave them to his father: "If the horse is tired, give it this."
Jiang Sanlang took the bag and put it on his shoulder, put the potion into the bag, shook the reins to urge the horse out of the yard, and drove away from the village quickly.
It took him only a few hours to reach the destination, a distance of more than a hundred miles.
It was already daybreak, the city gates were wide open, and many people were coming in and out, without anything unusual.
Jiang Sanlang didn't know what would happen, but his little girl's dreams were always true, so he didn't dare to take it lightly.
When I arrived at the shop door, I saw the eldest sister Jiang Yunniang selling breakfast.
She was surprised to see her third brother coming: "Sanlang, why are you here?"
"Close the stall quickly and come back home with me." Jiang Sanlang got off the horse and ran into the shop quickly.
Jiang Cheng had just opened the shop door when he was surprised to see his third uncle rushing in.
Jiang Sanlang: "Close the shop quickly, and you and your family come back with me."
Jiang Cheng asked hurriedly: "Uncle San, what happened at home?"
"Don't ask anymore. Go back and get some people. I'll help you harness the carriage." Jiang Sanlang said as he walked straight into the backyard and started harnessing the carriage.
Seeing his uncle's serious face, Jiang Cheng thought something serious had happened at home. He was so scared that he ran home quickly and brought his wife and children over.
At this moment, I saw my third uncle hired a carriage on the street and was letting my aunt and her family get on.
"Uncle San, what happened?" Jiang Cheng asked worriedly.
Jiang Sanlang didn't know what to say, so he thought for a while and said, "You will know when you go back."
He glanced at his niece's wife, wondering whether he should tell her the truth, but when he thought that no one else seemed to be killed in his daughter's dream, he decided not to tell her for the time being.
But before the carriage had gone far, it met Manager Qiu riding a donkey.
"Huh? Where are you going at this time?" asked Manager Qiu.
Jiang Cheng hurriedly stopped the carriage, "There is something urgent at home, and Uncle San came to ask us to go back."
Jiang Sanlang also stopped his horse, thought for a moment and said, "My dear, things may not be peaceful recently. Why don't you come with us out of the city?"
Seeing that Jiang Sanlang looked serious, Manager Qiu asked curiously, "Uncle, do you know any news?"
Jiang Sanlang glanced at the sky and said anxiously, "We have to leave the city as soon as possible. You should also go back and bring your family to our village. We must leave the city before noon!"
After saying this, he waved his whip and urged the horse to leave.
He turned to Jiang Cheng and said, "Hurry up and catch up!"
Jiang Cheng had no choice but to bow to his father-in-law and drive away.
Qiu Rong was terrified when she heard this. She had a hunch that something was wrong, so she quickly lifted the curtain and said to her father, "Dad! Go home now and take my mother and brother out of the city. Hurry!"
Manager Qiu didn't understand what was going on, but when he thought about the wars that had been going on everywhere recently, he was startled and quickly rode his donkey home.
After returning home, he harnessed his donkey cart, took his son and wife on it, thought for a while, ran back to the house, packed the house deeds, land deeds, several banknotes, and dozens of taels of silver in a bundle, threw it to his wife, and then drove towards the city gate.
Not long after he left the city gate, he turned his head and suddenly found that the city gate was slowly closing.
Shopkeeper Qiu was startled and whipped the donkey to urge it to run faster.
What do you want to do by closing the city gates at this time
It must be something bad.
What he didn't know was that the county lieutenant Cao Shen, with seven or eight hundred soldiers, closed the city gates, attacked the county government office, killed the county magistrate, and then started a massacre and looting in the county town.
Cao Shen first went to the Jiang family's specialty shop, but found no one in the shop. He searched the shop but found no gold or silver, so he set fire to the house in a rage.
One of his men told him that Jiang Cheng's in-laws were also very rich, so he took people to the pastry shop, but they didn't find anyone there. They only found some raw materials for making pastries and copper coins.
Cao Shen caught the people and asked them, only to find out that they had already gone out.
"Humph! Where can they run to? Chuanhe Town?" Cao Shen sneered, "When I take over the county, I will wipe them out!"
Prince Cheng had promised him that as long as the matter was accomplished, he would have the final say in this county.
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By the time Jiang Sanlang led two horse-drawn carriages back to Dongchen Village, it was almost evening.
Yingbao was relieved to see her father returning safely with her eldest cousin's family.
Old Man Jiang was still puzzled and asked his third son, "Did anything happen in the county town?"
"I was worried about something happening, so I brought Dacheng and my elder sister back." Jiang Sanlang removed the saddle from the horse and gave the horse a bottle of medicine.
This horse is really tired today. It has run for more than 200 miles and its body is soaked.
Old Man Jiang glared at his third son disapprovingly: "If the war really comes to us, it's safer to stay in the county, you fool!"
Jiang Sanlang smiled without saying anything, went to scoop some water to wash his hands and face, then sat at the table to eat.
After eating, I lay down on the kang and fell asleep quickly.
Chunniang put away the dishes and whispered to her daughter, "Yingbao, don't tell anyone about your dream, no matter if it comes true or not."
Yingbao nodded and wiped the table with a rag.
By the time everything was packed up, it was already dark.
Suddenly, the two dogs, Dahuang and Xiaohei, started barking wildly towards the gate, and Chunniang was so scared that she quickly climbed up the wall to check what was going on.
Then I saw a donkey cart parked in front of the Jiang family's door. A fat middle-aged man got off the donkey cart and was knocking on the gate.
"In-laws! Open the door! It's me!"