readsfreenovel Chapter 497 Three people traveling together
Chapter 497 Three people traveling together
Chu Xiaomu took the bag and the dome-stone sword, opened the tent curtain, and saw Xiaoying standing angrily at the door of the military tent. He was stunned.
Xiaoying stretched out her hand and grabbed his ear, angrily saying: "Stinky wood, where do you want to run to?!"
Chu Xiaomu cried out in pain and said, "Ouch, be gentle... Didn't Sister Xiaoxuan tell you..."
Xiaoying shouted, "Of course she did. Why didn't you tell me?! Are you trying to sneak away again?"
Chu Xiaomu quickly begged for mercy: "Okay Yingying, let go of my ears first, I will tell you slowly."
Xiaoying let go of her hand angrily and glared at him with a look of anger on her face.
Chu Xiaomu had no choice but to tell Xiaoying that he was going to Jinyang City to collect food and grass. But before he could finish his sentence, Xiaoying said, "I want to go to Jinyang City too. This place is so boring!"
Chu Xiaomu thought that I might encounter a lot of dangers when I go to Jinyang City this time. Although I can protect you, I am going to ask someone to do something for me, and I can't use force to solve the problem. But I really don't want to leave Xiaoying here, so what should I do?
He couldn't help but look at Jinglan.
Jinglan said calmly, "If Miss Xiaoying wants to go, then go ahead. Anyway, Jin Li'er, Chang Lun and the others don't know her. It's good to have more people with you on the road."
Xiaoying immediately recognized her voice and was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth. She said, "You...you are Sister Jinglan?"
Jinglan nodded and said, "Don't call me by my name when we get to Jinyang City. It will be a big trouble if others find out."
Although Xiaoying was naughty and willful, she knew what was important and nodded in agreement quickly.
Jinglan added: "You can't call him 'Brother Xiaomu' anymore. There are some people there who know him."
Xiaoying asked, "What's his name?" She suddenly laughed and said, "Then I'll call him 'Wild Boy' or 'Stinky Wood', haha..."
Jinglan frowned and said, "That won't work. It's too ugly."
After thinking for a while, he said, "After arriving in Jinyang City, my name will be Lin Qing, his name will be Lin Yuan, and your name will be Lin Ying. We are three siblings, so don't make any mistakes."
Xiaoying clapped her hands and laughed, "I know. You split the word 'Chu' into 'Lin', and the word 'Jing' into 'Qing'. Then why is Stinky Wood called 'Lin Yuan' and not 'Lin Fang' or something like that?"
Jinglan said, "These names are just randomly chosen. They are not as complicated as you think. It is not impossible to call it 'Lin Fang'. However, after passing Chenmu Pass in Jinyang City, there is a place called 'Qingyuan'. Like Biyuan, most of it is grassland, so we plan to pretend to be people from there."
Chu Xiaomu said: "Let's call him 'Lin Yuan', that's good. The three of us brothers and sisters will go to Jinyang City. I hope everything goes well and help Bicheng out of trouble."
After leaving the camp and walking to a deserted place, Chu Xiaomu summoned his original force and roared loudly. The roar resounded across the wilderness, and almost all the soldiers in Bicheng on the west bank of Kun River heard it. They thought that the general's injury had healed, and they were all refreshed.
Wild dogs from the Red Sand Nation! Our general is fine, we won't be afraid even if more of you come!
Soon, ten horses, one gold and nine red, came rolling over like thunder. They were Cheng Huang and the nine dragon zebras.
Chu Xiaomu led Qisheng, Hongda and Hongsi over and installed the two saddles and stirrups that had been prepared long ago on the backs of the two dragon horses.
Xiaoying was most familiar with Hong Si these days, so she chose Hong Da and Hong Si, and let the other seven go on their own. The zebras were quite wild, and except for the ten members of the herdsmen who had raised them since childhood, no one else could control them.
However, Chu Xiaomu was the only one left in the herdsman team. Whenever he thought about this matter, he would immediately turn his mind elsewhere to avoid the heartache...
The three of them mounted their horses and galloped towards Jinyang City.
Walk along the west bank of the Kun River.
From the current Nanding Army Camp to the mouth of the Xiaoli River where it joins the Kun River, there are soldiers from Bicheng defending the river banks, so there is no need to worry about encountering the Red Army.
The journey was about seven or eight hundred miles long. Fortunately, there were sparse forests along the way. Chenghuang and Longban were the most majestic beasts in the world, so they ran very fast.
On the way, we met many people from Bicheng who were cutting and burning trees and reclaiming wasteland. Most of them were wearing tattered clothes and their faces did not look very good. It was obvious that they had not had enough food to eat in the past few months.
The Beicheng Army was responsible for defending the Kun River in this area. Chu Xiaomu stopped his horse and asked a man in his fifties how many people were reclaiming wasteland and farming nearby. The man frowned and estimated for a while, and said there were probably six or seven thousand.
Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but gasp. He said that the Beicheng Army still had more than 3,000 people. It seemed that two civilians were needed to support one soldier. How could this be possible?
The old man said that it was not just their place, there should be nearly 10,000 people near the mouth of Xiaoli River. Then he started to curse angrily, saying that there were originally 30,000 to 40,000 people here, many of whom could not bear the hardship and fled to Jinyang City, Baijun City and other places.
Xiaoying asked with a smile why the old man didn't leave.
The old man glared at Xiaoying and said, "What nonsense are you talking about, little girl? As long as the general is here, Bicheng will be here! Sooner or later, our Bicheng army will cross the river. When the time comes, we will capture all the people of Chisha Country and make them slaves. Then we will have a good life..."
Chu Xiaomu was relieved to hear this, thinking that it was good that the soldiers and civilians of Bicheng still held out hope, otherwise it would be really hard to save the situation. When he and Jinglan went to Jinyang City, they must collect more food and grass. After everyone had enough food and water and had enough strength, they could find a chance to fight back to the east bank of Kun River.
After about a day and a half of traveling, they arrived at Xiaolishui in the afternoon of the next day. Across the river was the territory of Jinyang City.
After walking along the bank of Xiaolishui for a while, I found that this tributary of Kun River was not very wide. The wider places were about thirty or forty meters, and the narrower places were about fifteen or sixteen meters. However, most of the streams had a huge drop in height and were very steep.
Chu Xiaomu estimated that it should be no problem for him to fly over on his yellow horse, but he didn't know if the zebra dragon could do it. He didn't dare to take the risk.
After asking around among the people who were reclaiming wasteland for a long time, I finally found out that a family of brothers had made a raft to ferry other people across Xiaolishui. However, most of them were passing through, and few came from Jinyang City. Moreover, it would cost at least five silver shell coins to ferry one person across.
The three of them thought that sending someone to flee secretly must have violated the laws of Bicheng, but in such a critical moment, the common people only wanted to save their lives, so what was wrong? No matter how deep the force or how high the martial arts, in the face of such a world situation, there was nothing they could do.