novelaction Chapter 115 Running away again
Chapter 115 Running away again
Zhou Dacang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You still believe this? My left eye has jumped countless times since I was a child, but I have never made any money, and I haven't picked up a penny. This shows that this saying is not accurate. Well, you have been sitting here for most of the day, sitting here during breakfast and lunch. It's a good thing you can sit still. Let's get up and walk around. Come on, let's do some moves."
Zhou Guo stood up and felt that he was having some random thoughts. He was just bored.
Standing up and getting into stance, the two began practicing skillfully.
But before they could fight a few moves, a man came running in panic to the city gate. No one knew what he said, and the soldiers hurriedly slammed the city gate shut.
"Closing the city gate in broad daylight?" Zhou Dacang asked puzzledly.
Zhou Guo's face looked very bad. He felt that something big was going to happen again. As expected, if the right eyelid twitched, nothing good would happen. It would be fine if the left eyelid twitched every day.
Mr. Zhao was originally sitting and dozing off leisurely, but was awakened by the noise.
Seeing that the city gate was closed in broad daylight, the first thought that came to my mind was that what my apprentice said was really right, and something really happened.
Everyone was stunned by this sudden change and stared blankly at the closed city gate.
Zhou Guo looked at his master who was approaching him, but he did not ask him to lie down and listen. Now everyone could faintly hear all kinds of panicked sounds coming from the city gate, crying, cries for help, the sound of horse hooves, and laughter...
The voice was so familiar, they had heard it a few days ago.
After so many days, the children still have nightmares at night.
At that moment, everyone's faces turned pale and their hands and feet trembled.
"This, this, aren't these bandits coming to seek revenge? What should I do?" The scenes of blood gushing out are still vivid in my mind.
What to do? Run!
The head of the village immediately arranged for everyone to pack up and leave. Everyone began to pack up in a hurry, thinking that they would stay here for two days, so they moved a lot of things down, even unloading the horses.
"Hurry, harness the horses. Why are all the things unloaded?" The head of the village was directing everyone to load the things, and he was anxiously looking at the unloaded horses.
Zhou Guo pulled out all the big swords on the cart and gave one to each of the uninjured young and strong men in the team.
But just as the things were loaded onto the car and before they could leave, the city gate rumbled open again.
Zhou Guo and his companions watched helplessly as the people inside rushed out in panic, dragging their families with them and running forward as if they were risking their lives.
She just felt her scalp tingling and cold sweat all over her body. The city gate was opened at this time...
"Hurry, everyone, hurry up, the injured, the elderly and the children who have difficulty in moving should all get on the cart, and everyone should work together to push the cart forward."
Not long after, the team started rumbling. Only ten horses were harnessed in a hurry, and there was no time to get the rest. At this time, nothing was more important than saving lives.
Zhou Guo and the old man led the team to pick out the young and strong men to cover the rear, and everyone held a big knife in his hand.
However, there were too many people rushing out, and they had not taken a few steps before they were surrounded by the crowd and could not move. They could only passively follow the crowd and run forward, and this was the only way out of the city.
Zhou Guo saw that this was not a good idea. With so many people surrounding them, they could not walk five steps before being caught up by the people behind them. With so many people, wouldn't chopping them be like chopping melons?
I don’t know what the situation is like in the city?
She grabbed the corner of a person's clothes at random, looked up and asked, "How many people have come into the city?" She was stunned the next second. Isn't this the butcher?
"Oh, there are so many!" the shopkeeper answered casually, trying to break free and hurry on. "It's too scary, run for your life."
Zhou Guo couldn't let him go like that, so he asked, "When did these people come, and who are they?"
The other party had no patience to answer questions, he was busy running for his life, and was about to start scolding impatiently. When he lowered his head, he saw Zhou Guo, and his expression changed instantly.
"Oh, my dear, why are you still asking these questions? Run away! These people are probably in the same group as the bandits who looted the neighboring county a while ago. The neighboring county was looted by these people. The people who escaped said that these people killed people without blinking an eye and would rob anything they saw. They have no humanity at all. Run away! If you don't run away now, you will die."
Beside him Zhou Guo saw his wife, the beautiful proprietress who had given him pig lungs, and two children sitting on the cart.
The whole family had panic on their faces. The proprietress, who had been bright and cheerful not long ago, now looked like a flower beaten by wind and rain, desperate and powerless.
She let him go, and they didn't even look at her. They turned around and ran away in panic with the crowd.
Zhou Guo didn’t know how many people were left in the city. In this chaotic world, it took a lot of effort for her to protect the people around her.
I could hear those desperate and shrill cries faintly in my ears. My hand holding the big knife trembled uncontrollably, my eyes turned red, and I could do nothing.
After a while.
She no longer looked back, but moved forward.
There were too many people and too much baggage, so the troops could not move fast. After two hours, they only covered about ten miles. Zhou Guo and others were not familiar with the road conditions here, so they had to follow the locals and planned to go north to the provincial capital.
Zhou Dacang and others have been busy all the time, constantly looking for strong men in the team. They heard that there will be quite a lot of people coming this time, and they can't stop them for long with just these few people, so they have to find more people.
A lot of people escaped from the county town, including many young and strong people, much more than their team.
But when everyone heard that they were chosen to stop the bandits in the back, no one was willing to go, not even their families. "We won't go. How can we beat those with swords and spears with our bare hands? We'll die if we go. Let's just run away. It will be good once we run away and reach the capital."
No matter how hard the group tried to persuade him, no one was willing to do so. They had seen how cruel the bandits were, how they could chop off half of a person's head with one blow of their sword. This scared them so much that they no longer had the courage to fight against them. Their calves trembled at the sight of them.
"Run? Where can you run to? At your current speed, can you outrun those people on horseback? Just wait until they kill all the people in the county and rob all their stuff. You will be the only ones left. How long do you think it will take them to catch up? Who in your family can escape with their mother or their young children?"
Zhou Guo's face turned cold. At this rate, it would only be a matter of time before the bandits caught up with them. "If you don't come out and die, your whole family will die. Can you bear to let your wife and children fall into the hands of bandits? If you don't save them yourself, are you waiting for others to save them?"
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"Well, what shall we do, son? What shall we do?"
"Wow, Mom, I want Mom..."
……
The crowd started to make noise.
Finally, a man spoke up: "I'll do it. You're right. If we don't save ourselves, no one can save us."
Zhou Guo looked over and frowned. It was an acquaintance, the butcher selling meat.