Chapter 1157
Taking the Opportunity to Slaughter a Group [2]
Chapter 1157 Taking the Opportunity to Slaughter a Group [2]
Upon receiving the news, the village chiefs were very grateful. They gathered the villagers that very night and told them, "You all saw the Tianmang Prefecture disaster victims following behind our group... They are not to be trifled with. Be vigilant these next few days, send more people to keep watch at night, and make sure everyone stays up late and doesn't have any contact with strangers..."
His explanation terrified the villagers.
"Clan leader, our Lü family is related to Elder Qin's family. How about we borrow some martial arts experts from the Qin family?" Lü Heiwang suggested hastily.
Chief Lü: "Drag him aside and slap him six times. From now on, let his wife come to meetings, but he is not allowed to come."
"Yes!" Master Lü couldn't wait any longer. He dragged Lü Heiwang aside and slapped him six times, making Lü Heiwang's mouth bleed. He cried and whimpered, but dared not shout anymore.
Lu Heiwang was more timid than anyone else. He knew from the moment Magistrate Kang beheaded Luo Yaliang and his men that the deserters' disaster was no joke and that people would really die.
Not long after, Lü Heiwang's wife arrived.
clap clap clap!
After slapping Lü Heiwang a few times, he sat down on the ground and discussed matters with the men. After listening to the Lü clan chief's instructions, he said with relief, "It's fortunate that the clan chief was smart enough to help our Lü clan form a marriage alliance with the Qin family. Otherwise, how could we have enjoyed such good fortune during this war of fleeing the enemy? How could we have been so well informed?"
Chief Lu said coldly, "Stop flattering me. You need to stand up for yourself. Don't let your man drag down your family, and even more so, don't drag down the entire clan, otherwise..."
Before he could finish speaking, he glanced into the darkness... Earlier that day, as they were traveling, they had already seen a corpse not far from the main road.
He added, "The heads of each household should go back first, while the team leaders stay behind. I have something to say."
"Hey." Ninety percent of the heads of the various families in Lüjia Village got up and left, leaving behind the remaining ten percent, who were the captains of the various patrol teams of the Lüjia Village.
Chief Lü and Third Master Lü told them that they needed to increase the number of patrol shifts to deal with the crisis.
"We must not let our guard down, and we must not allow anyone to find a loophole in our defenses, or we will be the ones who die." After giving these instructions, Chief Lü dismissed the squad leaders.
Village chief Zhou, clan chief Han, clan chief Wang, Kong Miaowu Pan, and other village and clan chiefs were also instructing their descendants to be careful during patrols and to be on guard.
However, the deserters and disaster victims of Tianmang Prefecture were very perceptive. After noticing the unusual troop movements in the two counties, they did not dare to make a move that night.
Dangdang Dangdang!
"Fellow villagers of Baofu County and Linshan County, it's 5:00 AM! Get up quickly and prepare to set off!"
The next morning, the messenger called out to wake up the villagers.
Half an hour later, with a series of loud bangs, the massive caravan set off and continued its journey.
The deserters and scum from Tianmang Prefecture still clung tightly to the tail of the group.
At noon, when he saw the Wei people from the two counties taking out their war rations to eat, he could no longer suppress the hunger in his eyes.
Thump thump thump thump!
At least three hundred people knelt down in front of the two county teams, kowtowing repeatedly and crying out, "Officials, soldiers, fellow villagers, please give us some food! We are starving! Waaah!"
"Please, kind people, help us! My little boy has fainted from hunger. Please, kind people, give us something to eat!"
There are kind-hearted people, quite a few of them.
Xu Ji, Yu Chenghao, Yang Zeru, Shi Songxin, Dong Chengxin, Zheng Qianming, Wen Xiangnan (Wen Tao's nephew, the unlucky one who tested the medicine), Jie Ren, Jie Kun and dozens of other young scholars sent their servants to deliver food and water to the disaster victims who were seeking help, and also sent doctors.
The soldiers of County Commandant Zhong reported the situation to Elder Qiong and Elder Xun, and then said, "Our centurion asked if the two elders should do something about it?"
Old Qiong shook his head: "Don't worry about it, let them be. They won't improve if they don't suffer a little."
Chief Steward Xie shared the same idea. Besides, he was just a servant; how could he possibly manage young masters like Xie Ren and Xie Kun?
But Qiong Lao and the others didn't wait long; the accident happened in just a quarter of an hour.
"Ahhh! Let go! Let go! Stop grabbing! If you keep grabbing, Doctor Xie will be torn to pieces!" Xie Kun shouted, then hurriedly yelled to the martial arts master, "Save him! Quick, save him!"
Jie Ren grabbed him and pulled him back, saying, "Run! If we don't run, they'll catch us too!" Jie Kun was startled. Seeing the doctor being torn apart by the crowd, he hurriedly ran with Jie Ren toward the Wei army.
"Save people!" County Lieutenant Zhong spurred his horse, shoving through the refugees surrounding the grain carts, and shouted, "Stop! Line up! Anyone who dares to cause trouble will be dealt with according to wartime military law, and their entire family will be beheaded and displayed to the public!"
Dangdang Dangdang!
The messenger struck a gong and repeated the message.
However, many of the disaster victims in Tianmang Prefecture had already lost family members to enemy slaughter; or died by crashing into the city walls because they couldn't enter the city; or died on the way to escape the disaster. Now they were starving and desperate, with only food, doctors and medicine to save their lives in their eyes. They couldn't hear or care about anything else.
County Commandant Zhong could only lead his soldiers and the local militia from various clans to charge in and, after defeating dozens of people, finally rescue the Xie family's doctor.
The two drug addicts had been trampled until they vomited blood and fainted.
Dr. Xie's arms were both dislocated, and there were lacerations under his armpits. The wounds were bleeding, and the blood seeped through his thin summer clothes, making it look scarlet and glaring.
"Save, save Xiao Ma and Xiao Xiao..." Doctor Xie cried, looking at his unconscious apprentice.
Fortunately, his two apprentices protected him; otherwise, his arms would have been torn off by the disaster victims, and he would have been crippled even if he hadn't been torn apart by five horses.
"Carry the injured away for treatment!" County Commandant Zhong then ordered, "Surround these disaster victims, don't let a single one leave, await their fate!"
"Yes!" The soldiers and hundreds of young men from prominent families surrounded the three hundred disaster victims, ignoring their kneeling and pleading, even as they kowtowed until their heads bled, but they still did not let them go.
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Doctor Xie and Xiao Ma and Xiao Xiao were carried to the temporary resting place of the county government's procession. Magistrate Kang and Master Qiong summoned the students to see Doctor Xie's fate.
Then he asked Doctor Xie, "Tell me what happened."
"Yes." Doctor Xie cried, his speech slurred from biting his tongue while shouting: "Everything was fine at first, but the disaster victims were afraid that the medicine would run out, and that their patients wouldn't be able to get an appointment or see a doctor, so they started looting... At first, they only looted food and medicine, but later they even started looting people."
Doctor Xie seemed to shudder as he looked at Xiaoxiao, saying, "...They didn't snatch me at first, but Xiaoxiao... Xiaoxiao is the youngest, and her skin looks the most tender."
Those who understood the words were horrified.
Some students didn't understand and looked confused.
However, no one guided them; they were tired of teaching.
Magistrate Kang only asked the students, including Jie Kun and Xu Ji, who had provided relief, "Do you want to kill these disaster victims? You are the relief providers, and also the masters of the victims. You can decide whether or not to pursue the matter?"
This?
Jie Kun looked at Chief Steward Jie.
Chief Steward Xie bowed his head and acted like an honest, simple man.
"Grandmaster? Master?" Jie Kun asked Xun Lao and Qiong Lao again.
The two elders said, "You can decide for yourselves."
This?
Jie Kun and the others were in a dilemma. They gathered together to discuss it and finally decided: "Grandmaster, Master, and all of you, although these disaster victims almost caused deaths, they are also our Wei people and victims of the war. We think we should pardon them this time."
"Alright, pardon them this time and let them leave," Magistrate Kang ordered.
Magistrate Lin didn't speak, but just glanced at Magistrate Kang.
"Thank you, Magistrate!" The students, including Jie Kun, bowed in gratitude, but before they could finish, Master Lu 'sent them away'.
Jie Kun and the other students went together to find County Magistrate Zhong and told him the outcome: "Please release the people, County Magistrate Zhong."