Gao Yin later mentioned to Gao Qiao that after he left, he was about to ask someone to deal with the Shaw's body, but the woman still had a breath of breath. She had difficulty climbing to the door, staring at the direction of Gao Qiao's departure, muttering, as if cursing. The villagers who stopped and watched nearby heard it, it was the curse of the Tianshi.

The originally peaceful and peaceful days were gone forever due to the chaos of the Tianshi Sect. People in the capital mentioned the Tianshi Sect, and everyone hated them to the core. They felt that the dying woman was actually a chaos. They were angry and picked up stones and threw them. Seeing that Gao Yin did not stop them, the crowd was excited. Dodge dozens of people in the village surrounded them and sweared to spit and threw stones. If Gao Yin had not ordered the soldiers to drag the unrecognizable corpse away, they would have been burned by the angry villagers.

Although Gao Qiao had not seen it with his own eyes, he could imagine how deep the woman's resentment should be.

He didn't care how Shaw resented him, but as long as he thought about the resentment she might have put on his wife, he felt extremely regretful.

When he was racing back to the capital, he hated himself. Why hadn't he ever realized it before? This woman was so ugly.

He hated him deeply. Even though he had earned a reputation for making a famous place, people who mentioned his name would look up to him. He was just a waste of life, his heart was blind. He started 20 years ago and buried the root of disaster until the incident happened today and harmed his wife.

He remembered that he was soft-hearted and cares about his old kindness several times, so that even the prison officer had a misunderstanding that day. She was impatient, so how could she not misunderstand?

But at the beginning, he thought that a gentleman was open and just blamed her for being inexplicable.

Now that so many years have passed, my wife has finally come true as he wishes.

But it's too late.

Gao Qiao remembered her first encounter with her, her newlyweds, her husband and wife who caused many years of cold wars because of Shaw Brothers. He remembered that the last time they saw her up the mountain, the last time they saw each other, she even called him and came to tidy up her clothes for her.

I could no longer suppress it, and my eyes were filled with tears.

The woman was hysterical and swearing, she admitted that she had killed her disobedient brother, and also killed Xiao Yongjia and threw her body into the river.

But he would rather not believe it.

As long as she doesn't see her body for a day, he will be alive.

When the national crisis is settled, he must look for it again until the day he finds her.

Jiankang was far away. On the road, an army that had just been dispatched was hurried towards the city gate. The soldiers' footsteps were as dusty as they stepped on the road. When they saw Gao Qiao riding a horse by, they stopped and gave way to him.

Li Xie was busy at the gate of the city.

There are more than 200,000 households in the city and nearly one million people, it will not take a day or two to evacuate them.

Today, there are still thousands of residents in the city who have not left. These people are either lonely, old and weak, or have difficulty moving, and cannot go so far. Li Xie and his subordinates can only send these people together to Stone City.

It is relatively safer than staying in Jiankang.

He had just returned and saw Gao Qiao and his team from afar, and hurried over to greet him.

He knew that Gao Qiao had received news from Gao Yin last night and went there overnight. Because he had been involved in the search before, he was also very concerned about the whereabouts of the eldest princess. Seeing that Gao Qiao's expression was not relaxed, and bloodshot in his eyes, he knew that there must be no good news. He sank in his heart, he hesitated, and comforted him: "Let's relax. The eldest princess is auspicious and heavenly appearance, and he will definitely turn bad luck into good luck."

Gao Qiao asked him about the evacuation of residents. Li Xie hurriedly explained the situation.

Gao Qiao nodded: "This matter is left to you. Before it gets dark today, be sure to send away all those who are still there."

Li Xie should have called in a hurry and entered the city again.

He rode his horse past Qinhuai near Nancheng, subconsciously stopped the horse and looked in the direction where Qin Tower was.

That area was late at night, and the lights were full of sparks and silk and bamboos were filled with ears. It was still during the day, and every household had their doors locked, and the boat was parked on the shore. At first glance, it was deserted and there was no trace of anyone.

He knew that the woman had left the city, and maybe she had arrived at Qu'a at this moment.

That day, out of selfishness, he quietly sent his confidant to Qinlou, hoping to arrange for her to take the military vehicle carrying the baggage to Qua, and then ask someone to resettle her so that she would not have any place to stay there. Unexpectedly, the person who went there came back and told him that she had been picked up by Gao Yin's people.

He guessed that it was the Gao family who was grateful for her previous help and this time she gave her reward.

He breathed a sigh of relief at that time, but a faint feeling of loss in his heart, and he regretted that he did not come here early and saw the woman again.

His ancestors had been military officers, and because of this little bit of comfort, he entered the Suwei camp when he was young.

A long time ago, when he was still in Suwei Camp, he was free every day, like many military officers in Jiankang City with similar backgrounds and identities, calling friends all day long, eating wine, gambling, shooting archery and hunting, living in a mess, not thinking about other things, and life was worry-free. Until later, he was sent to quell the rebellion of Shu County with Li Mu, who was still a Sima of another department at that time.

It was the experience that was equivalent to a life in death that Li Mu showed profoundly shocked him and completely changed his life.

He knew that Jiankang was dangerous this time, so he made up his mind to follow Gao Qiao to the death and advance and retreat with him.

He is ready for death.

Both of his parents died. In the past, they were afraid of being restrained, so they always had a lot of marriage and refused to marry each other. They were free from worries and could not help but die in battle.

But for some reason, I thought that if I died, I felt a little hindrance in my heart.

The woman's appearance appeared again in front of her.

She was originally born like her, and even if she no longer took guests, if she fell in love with her, she would just raise her directly.

His official position cannot be compared with the gentry family in the capital, but it is easy to have a woman of such a background, and she is unlikely to dare to resist.

But for some reason, this time I pretended to be gentle and did not dare to offend her easily.

Li Xie turned his head again, looked at the direction of Qinlou, and was about to leave when he suddenly saw a subordinate running and saying, "Li Duwei, there is a woman at the gate of the south city and is about to come in, but she was stopped. She said, "I have something to do with you."

Li Xiexin jumped slightly, turned his horse's head and rushed to the city gate immediately.

He arrived in one breath, got off his horse, ran out of the city gate, looked around, and saw a small mule cart parked on the side of the road with less people not far away, and a woman next to the cart.

She was wearing a gray cloth dress, covered with black hair and a quilt, and stood there quietly. The two looked at each other, and her eyes lit up and waved to him.

Li Xie felt his heartbeat a little faster, so he hurriedly ran over and stopped in front of her.

"Didn't you say you've been picked up? Why did you come back?"

The green lady smiled and said, "Yes. But I was halfway through the way and remembered something again. I came back before the war started. I just wanted to go into the city to find you, but they said that the superiors gave the order and only went out but not in, so I had to ask someone to call you out. You won't blame me for disturbing you, do you?"

"How could it be!" Li Xie hurriedly said.

"What are you looking for me?"

"I saw that your clothes were scratched before and I didn't fix them. I thought that there was nothing wrong, so I made clothes for you, but when I left, I forgot to give them to you. I had never measured your size, but I just made random things because of the size. Don't dislike it."

Green lady handed over the bag in her hand.

Li Xie took it slowly and looked at her, not knowing what to say for a moment.

The green lady stared at him: "Nothing else, I'll leave first. The war is dangerous, and there is no eyebrow in swords and guns, be careful."

"...When the matter is over, if Li Duwei doesn't dislike me this time, I'd be your foot washer."

She finished speaking softly, lowered her eyes, turned around and walked towards the mule cart.

Li Xie watched her climb into the car and took a seat in. He put down the curtain. The person who drove the car called out and was about to urge the mule, he finally reacted, chased after him and stopped him, lifted the curtain, leaned in and said, "Miss Green, wait, I will definitely earn an imperial decree for you in the future!"

He looked at her suddenly let out a pair of eyes, grabbed her hand without hesitation, and then let go, closed the curtain for her, and told her to be careful when rushing the car.

He stood by the roadside, watching the little mule cart gradually fade away in the direction of going east, and look into the south.

In that direction, the horses were grinding the soldiers, and the dust was rolling. A battle to fight and defend the capital was about to come.

...

In early December, almost a month after Luoshen returned to Jingkou, the beacon finally burned to the vicinity of Jiankang.

As the news came, the Xuancheng rebels and the Tianshi Sect had already fought against Jiankang together. Her father Gao Qiao fought against the rebels in Liyang, which was less than two days away from Jiankang.

The bad news is not only that. Wangjiang County on the western front is also in danger. The rebels in Jingzhou may break through this line of defense at any time and fight to Jiankang.

Once Wangjiang County fails, Jiankang will be attacked on both sides, and the crisis can be imagined.

But this is also news from seven or eight days ago.

Since seven or eight days ago, she has not received any words from outside, and she has no idea how the battle is going.

Because of Jingkou, it was also surrounded.

A thief with thousands of people actually went down the river, bypassed Jiankang, and rushed straight to Jingkou.

This group of thieves, originally active in the Poyang Lake area, was rampant in the upstream for many years, and became king. They took advantage of the civil turmoil in Dayu to rob merchant ships, and rely on their familiarity with the terrain and water trend to come and go without a trace. When they were at their greatest power, the number of people once exceeded 10,000. It was in the past few years that Gao Qiao sent heavy troops to encircle and suppress them several times, and then they were stopped and restrained.

Unexpectedly, this thief would now take advantage of the chaos and come out to attack Jingkou.

When the thief arrived, it was late at night. He seized the ferry with lightning speed, then climbed 6 and headed straight for Jingkou Town. Fortunately, Jingkou was strictly guarded and was noticed by the guards and issued a warning. One thousand defenders immediately entered the battle.

Although most of the young and strong people in Jingkou Town had joined the army with Li Mu, the remaining villagers were not afraid and fucked the guys and joined the battle with the defenders. After fighting fiercely for a night, they finally defeated the water thieves.

All of these thieves were extremely vicious thieves, familiar with water wars, surrounded several passages in and out of Jingkou, and did not allow the messenger to be sent out to transport reinforcements. Relying on the many people and weapons, they took a rest and attacked again the next day.

Luo Shen thought of Xu Mi at that time.

Poyang is adjacent to the corner of the Yangtze River and is far away from Jingzhou. The reason why the thieves were so fierce at the beginning was that the court repeatedly suppressed them was said to have been secretly determined by Xu Mi. The thieves divided the gains with him, so he turned a blind eye and allowed the thieves to move in the upper reaches of the river. Even when the imperial court organized an encirclement and suppression, they also informed them.

It is very likely that Xu Mi wanted to arrest the A family the last time, but this time he simply made a point of clue that he colluded with the water thief and unexpectedly attacked Jingkou from the waterway.

The God of Luo immediately protected the Lu family. Considering that if Fan Cheng and Fan Wang could not defend themselves and were beaten in by the thieves, they could only fight in the streets.

If it really reaches that point, at least the manor can still protect one or two.

The next day, when Fan Cheng and others led the defenders and the young and strong men in the town to resist, Luoshen opened the gate of the manor and asked all the women, children, elderly and weak in the town to enter and temporarily hide.

The manor covers a huge area and accommodates thousands of people, so there is no problem at all. Shen took his children, neighbors near the Li family, and many people in the town, all entered the manor.

There were so many people who wanted to eat and sleep. Luo Shen led the servants in the manor to be busy. Fortunately, everyone hated the enemy. After coming in, they all took the initiative to do things. Even Xie Sanniang came and led the people in the restaurant to cook with Shen and others, making porridge and cooking.

The water thief was fierce and the number of people was the dominant one. The thing that Luo Shen was most worried about was indeed born.

The defenders gradually retreated.

Three days ago, they were forced to retreat to the vicinity of the manor. Fortunately, Fan Cheng had previously set up Fan Ping and a position around the manor, and the manor also reserved a lot of food, bows, arrows, flints and other strategic materials. It was through these careful preparations that they were able to support them and were not attacked by the water thieves.

Three days ago, a messenger finally rushed out in the chaos and asked Jiankang for help.
To be continued...