Chapter 239 The Last Level
As night fell, a certain camp of the Dingbei Army was brightly lit and full of people.
People pushing carts and their families lined up in a long line. After passing the soldiers' inspections one by one, they headed north.
Different from the main camp of the normal army, the northern camp of the Dingbei Army is a small camp with 200 people, with 100 cavalry and 100 infantry. There is a camp every ten miles, and the cavalry is constantly patrolling between the camps. Every pass Everyone in the camp is subject to interrogation. It feels like it exists solely to arrest people.
Shen Yuexi was far away from the Dingbei Army when she stopped an old man holding a pipe in his mouth and asked.
"Old man, where are you going?"
The old man had his back hunched and raised his head to look at Shen Yuexi.
Shen Yuexi has dressed up like a girl from a poor family, wearing coarse cloth clothes, a big scarf, painted face, and carrying a basket.
"Isn't the girl a local?" The old man beat his lower back with one hand, raised his cigarette rod and pointed at the dark mountains to the west, "We are all from Zhangwu. I heard that the battle was over and we came out of the mountains."
A man dressed as a farmer carrying a load next to him interrupted and said, "Old man Wang, I heard that the people of King Qi are not bad."
The old man coughed twice and said: "Whoever wants to be the emperor should not do it. As long as we don't fight all the time. Even if we hide in the mountains, there will still be bandits who take advantage of the situation. It is better to be in the city, where there are county officials and agents, so you don't have to worry all day long. "
The man was still chatting, but a woman in front of him turned around and shouted: "Mr., don't waste time. After passing this checkpoint, we will arrive at Zhangwu in the middle of the night."
After inquiring about the information, Shen Yuexi was so excited that she said goodbye to the old man and ran to the back of the group.
In the team, Qiang Lin, whose head and face were covered with dense blood-stained cloth, with only his eyes and nose exposed, was driving a flatbed cart pulled by ropes by three horses. Xiao Zhuo was lying upright on the cart with his face A broken straw mat was covered on top. Two women, Shen Lan and Xia Lan, sat beside the cart, wearing linen and wearing mourning.
These outfits were arranged by Shen Yuexi.
Qiang Lin is from Xirong, and as long as the soldiers are not blind, they can tell it at a glance. So he wrapped his head. Xiao Zhuo's aura was too strong and eye-catching, and it was difficult for the soldiers not to notice, so they had to force him to dress up as dead.
Shen Lan pretended to be Xiao Zhuo's eldest sister and third sister. Qiang Lin's identity was the second brother.
At first, Xia Lan was puzzled: "Why don't you let me be a maid? I've always done this."
"Our family is too poor to afford a wedding," Shen Yuexi explained.
Returning to everyone, Shen Yuexi said to Shen Lan: "Sister, I've asked before. You can reach Zhangwu in the middle of the night after passing the checkpoint. This is the last checkpoint."
Relying on these costumes, they have already passed a level. As long as they pass the level in front of them, they will successfully escape.
Just in case, everyone agreed to meet up at Xiaogang Village if they got separated along the way.
The team squirmed forward and was about to reach them.
"Next, hurry up." A cavalry captain of the Dingbei Army shouted impatiently.
"Cry, you're all crying." Shen Yuexi poked Shen Lan with her finger and reminded in a low voice.
Shen Lan didn't need to brew her emotions, she was already sad. As soon as Shen Yuexi finished speaking, she was already crying sadly.
Xia Lan closed her eyes and pondered for a while. When she found that she couldn't cry, she secretly pinched herself, and her tears immediately fell down.
Seeing both of them crying, Shen Yuexi began to think about the sad things. Her identity was still the wife lying in the car. Her husband was gone, how could the wife remain indifferent.
It’s strange, I obviously cried smoothly on the first level. Why can’t I cry now?
She didn't believe it. While they were competing, a man's voice suddenly sounded in her ears:
"Lady, what are you doing with your eyes closed?"
Shen Yuexi quickly opened her eyes and realized that it was their turn. The one who asked the question was the captain who urged everyone just now.
"Ah...I am...I am praying to God to let my husband-in-law come back to life." Shen Yuexi touched the straw mat covering Xiao Zhuo's face, "My husband-in-law is gone, and I, at such a young age, should be A widow."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shen Lan burst into tears.
The captain looked at Shen Lan with some confusion, then turned to Shen Yuexi: "This man is dead? Then you are all his wives?"
According to his experience, the one who cries the most is probably the wife, and the one next to her who sheds tears silently is like a concubine. As for the one in front of her who didn't even shed tears, she must be the one with the lowest status, otherwise she is not crying.
"Our family encountered bandits," Shen Yuexi sighed. "My brother's head was chopped several times... My sister's hand was also chopped off. My sister and I were the only ones uninjured. We hurried back. Zhang Wu is looking for a doctor."
When the captain heard this, he guessed everything wrong. He said: "You are really pitiful, but we have been ordered to hunt down the repeat criminal Xiao Zhuo, and I want to check them one by one."
"You can watch it if you want." Shen Yuexi jumped out of the car and stood aside.
The school lieutenant first came to Qiang Lin who was driving, raised a torch, looked up and down, and said to Qiang Lin: "Tear off the cloth on the head."
The three women next to them were all heartbroken almost at the same time, and even Shen Lan didn't even bother to cry anymore.
Although Qiang Lin is not the person that the Dingbei Army is searching for, once his identity as a Xirong person is exposed, he will inevitably be detained. Naturally, they will not be able to escape.
Qiang Lin calmly put down the flatbed truck and raised his hand to untie the cloth in circles. Following Shen Yuexi's instructions, he started to unravel it from the mouth. When the scar inside was exposed, the captain shook his head and said, "Don't unravel it. It’s all chopped up like this, quickly go to the city and find a doctor.”
Shen Yuexi secretly glanced at Shen Lan next to her and saw that Shen Lan was staring nervously at Xiao Zhuo who was lying in the car.
The next step is the difficulty. If Xiao Zhuo can't hide it, it will be over.
The captain returned to the flatbed truck, holding a torch, and was about to get closer. Shen Yuexi said: "Sir, I would like to remind you that my husband may have a bit of a smell... don't inflame you."
After hearing Shen Yuexi's reminder, the captain originally planned to lift up the straw mat with his hands, but instead pulled out his knife and picked up a corner of the straw mat with the tip of the knife.
As soon as I picked it up, a few flies buzzed out of it.
Shen Yuexi specially got some horse blood and smeared it on Xiao Zhuo's face and neck to attract mosquitoes. She also got some horse dung and tied it under the flat plate so that the smell would be stronger, but Xiao Zhuo had to endure it all the way. Stink.
The captain was so smoked that he only covered his nose and took a cursory glance at Xiao Zhuo under the straw mat.
The sky was dark, Xiao Zhuo's face was smeared with blood, and a beard was stuck to his chin. He took a quick look, drew the knife, waved his hand and said, "Hurry over."
"Let's go." Shen Yuexi quickly signaled Qiang Lin to drive.
After passing the checkpoint smoothly, Shen Yuexi breathed a sigh of relief. She wanted to drive away immediately. But if she made any noise, she might attract attention, so she had to follow the people's team and walk slowly.
After walking less than a few miles, a noise suddenly broke out from behind. A group of cavalrymen in the distance, about a hundred people, held up torches and rode up to catch up, shouting loudly: "Where is the family member who just died, please stop quickly. "
The people on the road didn't know what was happening, and they all panicked.
Shen Yuexi was shocked, why did the other party suddenly catch up?
It turned out that the captain let Shen Yuexi and others go, but he remembered something that he found strange just now. That was the three horses pulling the cart.
How can an ordinary family have three horses to pull a cart? And more importantly, those three horses are not the horses pulling the cart at first glance. As a cavalry colonel, he is particularly familiar with horses. He thought of the date horse among the three horses. The red horse is obviously the best war horse.
He immediately led his cavalry to chase them out.
"Husband, what should I do?" Shen Yuexi panicked. Things developed beyond her expectation.
Seeing the other party's cavalry chasing after them, it would have been fine if it was just her and Xiao Zhuoqiang Lin. The three of them were all top-notch in riding skills. But Shen Lan couldn't ride a horse, and Xia Lan only knew how to ride. There was no way to escape.
"I'm here to lure them away. You go to Xiaogang Village first." Xiao Zhuo lifted up the straw mat and jumped up, jumped on a horse, swung his sword to cut the rope pulling the cart, and shouted to the pursuers behind him: " Xiao Zhuo is here!"
The school captain who led his troops to chase was overjoyed and shouted to his subordinates: "Seize Xiao Zhuo and you will be proud of your ancestors for the rest of your life..."
Before he could finish speaking, his cavalrymen were already chasing Xiao Zhuo in a chaotic manner. Everyone knew that Xiao Zhuo was the most important, and the other women were not important at all.
Seeing that the cavalry were chasing Xiao Zhuo, Qiang Lin quickly waved his whip and shouted to Shen Yuexi: "Master, let's leave quickly."
"No, you go," Shen Yuexi jumped out of the carriage and jumped on the maroon horse, "Qiang Lin, cut the rope."
Qiang Lin knew that she was going after Xiao Zhuo, but time was running out and it was too late to persuade her, so he had to cut the rope with a knife.
Shen Yuexi quickly chased Xiao Zhuo on horseback.
Her riding skills were extremely superb, and the maroon war horse she was sitting on was a gift from Ji Zhong. Its leg strength was much stronger than that of ordinary war horses. She ran with all her strength and caught up with Xiao Zhuo.
"Husband, I'm here."
Chapter completed!