Late at night, outside the Blue Pass.
You Miao and others finally found a place to stay. The horses have been running for a day and a night. Even if people can bear it, the horse can't bear it, and the horse must be allowed to rest. In a cave in a low valley, the light of the fire flickered, the entrance of the cave was covered by large rocks, and the outside was piled up with debris such as branches, blocking the light. The horse was tied not far from the entrance of the cave, chewing on the dead grass under the tree.
You Miao stared at the fire, and since he said goodbye to Li Zhifeng, he was so silent that he almost changed his personality.
The cave was very crowded, the women huddled in the innermost part of the cave, and the men stayed close to the entrance of the cave. Li Yan lay beside the fire, shedding tears silently, then began to cry, and then cried louder and louder, and finally let out a painful roar.
Pingxi, who was on the night watch, hurried over and said, "Be quiet!"
You Miao went to check on Li Yan, with guilt and pain in his eyes, and tightly clutching the jade pendant left by Liu Shaling in his hand. Everyone knew what he was crying, but no one dared to say it.
- He is crying about the Tang family, crying about his incompetence, he can't even protect his own wife, and she was humiliated when the country was subjugated. Cry now that everyone has escaped, and his wife is still in the enemy camp... How will the Tatars treat Tang Shi after they find out that they have escaped... You Miao dare not think about it any longer.
He hugged Li Yan and let him lean on his shoulder, Li Yan just stared blankly at the bonfire.
"Gaolan was passed, Silujian..." Li Yan murmured.
"Zhan Zhanjiang is full of water, and there are maples on it..." Qian Huiying said in harmony, which seemed to arouse the grief of the teenagers for a while. Several people sang Song Yu's conjuring in unison, their voices low and hoarse.
"My eyes are a thousand miles away, my heart is broken, my soul is gone, I mourn Jiangnan..." You Miao sang along with the crowd.
No one went ahead, and no one mentioned the past. After singing this song, they ate the last bit of noodles that You Miao brought out, and then each fell asleep to save their energy. After all, they have to flee at dawn, and where the escape will end, no one knows.
Escaping the Yellow River, escaping Jiangjunling, escaping the Yangtze River, I don't know if the flowers and flowers south of the Yangtze River are as sensual as before? In two months, the peach blossoms will bloom, and it is time to plant rapeseed in Jiangbo Villa. But Li Zhifeng, who accompanies him every year, will stay in the north and will never return to Jiangnan.
In a dream, You Miao seemed to have returned to Jiangbo Villa, with peach blossoms in ten miles and willow leaves fluttering. At this moment, Pingxi woke up You Miao with bloodshot eyes.
"Ziqian, wake up! I suspect there are Tatars nearby!"
You Miao woke up suddenly, and even got up and followed Pingxi out of the cave. He climbed up to a high place with his hands and feet, and saw torches lined up in a dragon on the plain in the distance.
"It's not a Tatar." You Miao knew at a glance: "The Tatars don't move on the mountains at night, they are probably Hu people, and you see..."
You Miao pointed to the other side and said, "They are probably not looking for us, the direction is wrong, it is the southwest of the Qinling Mountains."
Pingxi said: "There are still Han people here?"
You Miao shook his head, he wasn't sure, but in any case, he couldn't reveal his whereabouts at this moment, otherwise there would be more troubles. He and Pingxi briefly discussed for a moment, both of them were civilians in the past, and they were able to feel a little bit of regularity, so they decided not to scare the snakes, nor to leave the cave, but to put out the fire in the cave.
However, everyone in the cave felt something, but they didn't ask. Early the next morning, You Miao let the others go on the road. Some people had contracted the cold and started to have a fever. You Miao didn't dare to drag on, and let the unconscious man crouch on the horse's back and follow the team.
It takes three full days to cross the Qinling Mountains, and these people have extremely poor physical fitness. The most troublesome thing is that they have nothing to eat.
We must find something to eat today, otherwise everyone will not be able to survive. Hunger, chasing soldiers, cold, sickness, this is the most desperate moment. When the sun was three poles up, Youmiao was hungry and sleepy, and he was dizzy for a while. The horses lined up in a row, slowly advancing on the cliff stone road, and occasionally small stones fell and fell into the abyss.
Li Yan's eyes were blue and sunken. The rest of the teenagers were skinny and skinny, and some even had a high fever and muttered nonsense. You Miao stopped on a platform at noon and told them to rest on the spot and eat a few mouthfuls of snow.
"Master You." A woman came over, her body was dirty, but her beauty did not diminish, and she gave him a blessing.
Standing in the cold wind, You Miao looked down the mountain and saw signs of trees being cut down in the valley in the distance. He turned around and said, "Mrs. Huang?" . Huang Yuan's husband and young wife, his wife is only twenty-two years old, and her appearance is very beautiful. Huang Yuan was already dead when the city was broken, but Wei Shi survived.
Wei Shi: "The sisters have a few words. After thinking about it, they sent me here to tell Master You."
You Miao thought that something had happened to them again, and hurriedly said: "If we let us run first, forget it, we have all escaped here, it is impossible to leave you..."
Wei Shi hurriedly stopped You Miao and said with a smile, "No, your lord, you have misunderstood. I'm here to thank you for saving your life. Although Mr. You is young, he is one of the most prominent officials in the court. You are in heaven. Blessed."
You Miao was busy and humbled, and Mrs. Wei said softly: "That day, your guards rescued us and killed dozens of people in a row. They were unparalleled heroism. The second princess asked him, and he just said that it was your order. Yesterday Lan Lan As soon as we leave, we all know that Master You loses this loyal servant and is very sad. And people have joys and sorrows, please adults for the sake of the apocalypse, for the great cause of the Central Plains... Remember to mourn, and never hurt your body."
You Miao understood, Wei Shi and other women saw that his heart was sad but not visible, they were afraid that he would become ill, so they comforted him.
You Miao hummed, nodded, and said, "Thank you, Mrs. Huang."
As soon as he looked up, he saw the girls with pale lips, surrounded by the fire to keep warm, looking at him from time to time with worried expressions on their faces, so moved in his heart, he said, "Just support each other, just go back, we're here already. , don't fall on the road."
At this moment, the sound of fighting suddenly came from the bottom of the mountain, mixed with the screams of people. Everyone was shocked immediately, and You Miao immediately said: "Don't panic! Stay here! Come and see a few people with me!"
You Miao took off the bow and arrow from the battle horse and took up the quiver, but someone said, "Ziqian, we should run! It's not advisable to stay here for a long time!"
You Miao said: "No no, let's see the situation first, what if the Han army is at war with the Hu people?"
You Miao rode on the horse and went down the mountain, and he could see more clearly from the halfway up the mountain. Sure enough, a group of Han people were fighting against the Hu people, and the uniforms seemed to be Xianbei people. The Han people couldn't see which unit was in, and Pingxi wanted to shout, but was stopped by Youmiao. The strength of the two sides was equal, You Miao secretly counted, one five, ten, fifteen... The Xianbei soldiers were twenty, and the Han were twelve.
When they escaped, they were shot and killed a few more, and they were in chaos. They finally ran along the edge of the woods and ran in their direction.