I heard that you are a scum

Hired a carriage at the Linluguan post station, and the two started to drive back.

It was another few days full of travel and dust, the first half of the trip was peaceful, and it was about to arrive in Chang'an, who would have thought that an accident would happen on the official road.

The time on the road was very boring. When Duan Yannian went there, he brought two books to read on the road, but looking down at the book in the carriage made him feel sick, so he didn't read it.

Besides, he didn't have so much to say to Chuntao, so the two of them simply sat on the side of the carriage and stared at each other all the way.

And just as the two of them stared blankly, a feathered arrow suddenly passed through the paper window of the carriage, wiped Chuntao's cheek and nailed it to the carriage.

A bright red mark appeared on her face, and Chuntao was so frightened that she didn't react for a long time.

The horse was frightened, Herod let out a cry, and began to flee in all directions in a panic, and the carriage began to shake violently.

"Woo--! Who--!" The coachman tightened the reins, but still did not stop the carriage.

"Be careful!" There was another sound of breaking through the air, Duan Yannian flew over and threw Chuntao onto the seat, then hugged her and rolled under the seat following the shaking of the carriage.

"Shua shua shua" a few more arrows came through the air, and they were nailed to the carriage with a "dong dong dong".

The horse let out a painful neigh, and then the carriage stopped after a violent shock.

Duan Yannian covered Chuntao's mouth, and prayed in his heart that no one would find them if they didn't make a sound.

I don't know who he offended Fang Sheng, but he did it directly on the official road.

The sound of several people talking outside has already been heard.

"Brother, why is there an extra carriage here?" Could it be that innocent passers-by were implicated by him?

"Never mind him, grabbing one is a robbery, grabbing ten is also a robbery, brothers, search for a car!"

It turned out that it was just some robbers nearby... It would be much easier to deal with it since it wasn't aimed at them.

This group of people must be searching for this car right now, Duan Yannian thought for a while, took a piece of mud from the sole of his shoe, and wiped it on Chuntao's face avoiding the wound under Chuntao's staring eyes.

Duan Yannian winked at her crazily, she gave him a hard look, and nodded slightly.

Before the robbers finished searching the carriage in front of them, Chuntao quietly kept the important paperwork and bank notes on her body, put all the broken silver on her body on the top layer of their luggage, and then put the luggage near the door of the car. Let people get it without getting in the car.

Duan Yannian, who is not a man of courtesy, pulled out two arrows that were not inserted deeply, and gave one to Chuntao.

The two looked at each other, pretending to be hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. Chuntao was lying a little bit inward with the arrow in his arms, facing inward; In the armpit.

Listening to the conversation of this group of robbers, it seems that they knew in advance that a rich businessman would take this route to go home to visit relatives, so they chose a location that was not in front of the village and behind the store. They were the innocent passers-by who were implicated.

The coachman didn't make a sound for a long time, he was afraid that something bad was going on.The survivors in the other carriages were also driven out of the carriage one by one by them. The sounds of children crying and women crying were not far away from them.

As the footsteps got closer, the two of them became more and more nervous.

The curtain was pulled open, Duan Yannian closed his eyes and held his breath, not daring to make a sound.

The robber who was in charge of searching their carriage saw the luggage bag at first sight, but he really didn't look at anything else.

They didn't change their clothes when they came back from Linlu Pass, and they still dressed like two refugees who fled. When they left, in order to prevent anyone from looking for money, the two of them wore clothes of slightly better material. None of them, and those two clothes were folded in the clothes bought in Linlu.

Thinking about it now, Duan Yannian is somewhat thankful for being cautious at the time.

The robber opened the package and put it in his pocket after seeing the broken silver on it. Then he flipped through it a few more times, saw that there were only a few ordinary clothes and dry food, and threw the package on the car indifferently. .

He turned around and jumped out of the carriage, and said to the bandit leader not far away: "Boss, there are two poor people in the extra carriage. It is estimated that all the money was spent on the carriage, and there is no oil or water on them."

The bandit leader didn't doubt the truth of what his subordinates said, and only asked the others to search quickly.

"Boss, can these solutions be solved?"

The crying woman sitting on the ground cried even louder when she heard this.

The bandit leader stepped forward and raised the woman's chin, and took a closer look: "The long one is a sign, take her and that little maid back, and get rid of the little one."

The woman hugged the child tightly and begged bitterly: "Everyone! Let the child of the slave family go! You can do anything to the slave family! Please don't kill him! He is still young!"

"Bring it to you!" A robber snatched the child from the woman's hand, lifted it high, and fell it hard. The child's crying stopped abruptly.

And the woman who witnessed her own flesh and blood being thrown to death in front of her eyes let out a mournful wail and passed out directly.

Hearing all this, Duan Yannian gritted his teeth with hatred, clenched his fists tightly, trembling with anger.

Chuntao put her hand on his fist and shook her head at him.

Duan Yannian's anger was vented all at once, the two of them don't even have the ability to protect themselves, so what are they going to do to save others?Even if he doesn't care about himself, he can't harm Chuntao...

For the first time, he hated his frailty so much, hated that he didn't learn martial arts well at the beginning.Even though he has outstanding literary talents, full of knowledge, and is a prime minister, he still has nothing to do with these destructive bandits.

It is better to be a centurion than a scholar.Only at this moment did he truly understand the helplessness and bitterness contained in this poem.

The robbers outside seemed to have finished their raids, and the leader of the bandits ordered: "Let's withdraw almost, this is the official way, be careful not to encounter officers and soldiers."

Then there were scattered and distant voices from outside, and the little maid's cries became smaller and smaller until they could no longer be heard clearly.

The two of them remained still cautiously, and after a long time they got up and jumped out of the carriage when no one came back.

The coachman was hit by an arrow, and he was out of breath. The other two carriages seemed to belong to the rich merchant's family. Before they set off, they probably didn't expect that a simple trip to visit their relatives would bring them a catastrophe. disaster……

They searched around, but found no survivors like them. Duan Yannian moved several corpses into the carriage. Chuntao wanted to help, but he refused, "You are a girl who is afraid of moving any corpses. What else can you do, go find some water to treat the wound on your face, if you get a scar, Xiao Qi will not want you."

It was indeed the first time Chuntao saw a dead person, and she was a little scared. She curled her lips when she heard him say that, "He dares!"

But having said that, she turned back to their carriage and washed the wound with clean water.

After carrying all the corpses, Duan Yannian finally picked up the baby's swaddle and gently placed him in the middle.

He took Chuntao and pushed the carriages to the side of the road, and then the two bowed to the three carriages, which was a sign of respect for the dead and an apology for not being able to save them.

"There should be a city a little further away. Let's report to the officials first, so that these people don't throw their bodies into the wilderness, and then make other plans."

After going through such an incident, both of them felt a little heavy in their hearts, and they didn't feel at all the ease and joy of escaping from death. They didn't have much conversation, just buried their heads in their journey, and finally arrived at Yunjing City in the afternoon.

Yunjing City is much richer than Linlu, and the people who come and go are usually hawkers carrying burdens or caravan carriages.

After the two entered the city, they went straight to the inn, freshened up, changed into the clothes they brought from the capital, and then turned around and went to the yamen.

After all, if he was as disgraced as before, he might never see the magistrate at all.

After showing the fish talisman to the yamen servant, the two were quickly and respectfully invited into the yamen.

The county magistrate of Yunjing hurried over without even putting on his official uniform. At first, he thought he was lying to him when the yamen servant said that the prime minister was here. Who would have thought that the prime minister really came to their small place? Good or bad...

The county magistrate nodded and bowed and asked Duan Yannian to sit on the main seat. He wanted to kneel down to him despite his age, but Duan Yannian hurriedly stopped him.

"The presence of the prime minister really makes this little Yunjing city full of glory! I just don't know why the lord is here?" asked the county magistrate.

"Huzhi County doesn't need to be so cautious. I was ordered by the emperor to go to the border to investigate the cause of General Cen Yuan's death. On the way back, I met a group of robbers. Not only did these robbers rob property, but they also ignored human life. The power to bind a chicken cannot save the rest of the people... I actually came to report to the official!"

Hu Zhixian showed a distressed expression: "This... Your Excellency, to be honest, the bandits you mentioned probably belong to Qingfeng Village on Yunjing Mountain. Qingfeng Village is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The small number of troops in Yunjing City are underestimated. I also wanted to send troops to take it down, but the casualties were heavy..."

This group of robbers has become an organized and disciplined team, and they have taken over natural dangers. It is really difficult for the army to compete with them.

Duan Yannian didn't force him, he ordered Chuntao to take out some larger denomination banknotes and handed them to Huzhi County: "I have already put the corpses of those who died in the carriage into the carriage, and I hope that Huzhi County can send someone to take them away." Bring it back, find out the household registration, and notify the family members. The money should be treated as a pension."

The magistrate of Hu is naturally unwilling to accept the money: "Lord Duan absolutely must not, the pension should come from the yamen."

"No, Mr. Hu, this is also a little bit of my heart... You should not refuse again, otherwise I will definitely have trouble sleeping and eating."

In the end, Huzhi County accepted the money, and immediately sent people to the place where they died to bring back the bodies.

Duan Yannian expressed that he didn't want to be disturbed, and asked Hu Zhixian not to come to the inn to meet them, and Hu Zhixian readily agreed.

After a short rest, the two of them immediately embarked on the journey back to Beijing early the next morning, and this time, Chang'an was right in front of them...