Hearing this, Yun Chan slightly opened the window of the carriage and took a look at the low tower.
Sure enough, there were actually two rows of archers hiding behind the wall pillars, ready to fire at any time.
"Little brothers, don't get excited. Please think carefully. If we are really bad people, how can we still be here to discuss it with you with all our sincerity? We are really people sent by the imperial court to save you. Please believe us!"
Yan Zhuang shouted at the top of his voice.
"I definitely don't believe it."
As soon as Yun Chan finished saying this in the carriage, she heard the guard guard retort: "The bandits before also talked like this and tricked us into opening the city gate, allowing them to steal our food without any effort and even kill us.
You have killed many people and kidnapped many girls. If we continue to believe you, we will be fools!"
"..."
This kid.
If you don’t believe it, you don’t believe it, so why are you scolding yourself?
Yan Zhuang didn't know what to say to make them believe him, so he had to whisper in front of the carriage door to ask Sang Zhan what he meant.
Pushing open the window, Sang Zhan waved to the carriage behind him, gesturing for them to come forward.
When the carriage behind them stopped side by side with theirs, Sang Zhan gave the order to lift Gongsun Bai out of the carriage, and then the two wet nurses got out of the carriage.
After the carriage was cleared of people, two guards slapped the horse on the buttocks. The horse raised its front legs and neighed before running forward quickly.
As a result, as expected, the entire carriage was shot into a hedgehog.
"Okay, don't waste arrows. The carriage is full of food specially prepared for you. If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself. Don't worry, if there were anyone else in the carriage, they would have been shot to death by you long ago. You can rest assured and bold
Go and see.”
Yan Zhuang continued to shout loudly.
Yunchan glanced at Sang Zhan suspiciously.
Why didn't she know when the carriage behind was loaded with grain?
Moreover, although the carriage space at the back is not small, food takes up a lot of space. With three people, how many bags of food can be stored in it?
Before leaving, Yun Chan also thought about this problem, so she also prepared some food and cotton-padded clothes and quilts to keep out the cold in her space warehouse. She planned to wait until she entered the city and find an opportunity to distribute them to the people in the city.
In this situation, it was not convenient for her to take it out, but she didn't expect that Sang Zhan had also made preparations.
"Food takes up too much space and will slow down the journey, so I only brought them two boxes of silver."
When Sang Zhan saw Yunchan looking over, he took the initiative to explain: "With this money, their life will basically not be a problem this winter."
"Um."
Yun Chan nodded and said nothing else.
It's just a pity that the carriage was destroyed.
She opened the car window and took a look outside. Gongsun Bai was still leaning on the shoulder of a guard. The bumps in the past few days had not affected him much, and his face didn't look too bad.
Probably, it was because he was about to wake up.
"Bring him up."
Yun Chan gave an order, then looked at the two wet nurses: "You guys come up too."
At this moment, the temperature outside the carriage was too low. Gongsun Bai was fine, but the two wet nurses were shivering from the cold.
Because there is a charcoal basin inside the carriage, it is still as warm as spring.
Hearing this, the wet nurse hurriedly got into the carriage, and Gongsun Bai was also carried in immediately.
Fortunately, the space of this carriage is more than twice that of that one, and now that there are three more people, it doesn't seem crowded.
Gongsun Bai was placed on the soft couch on the left, and the two wet nurses were guarding the main seat at the back. Yuan Yuan was lying on it, sleeping soundly.
Sang Zhan and Yun Chan were sitting on the soft couches on the right.
There are three soft couches in the carriage, each of which is spacious enough to sleep two people.
Outside.
When the soldiers guarding the gate heard Yan Zhuang's words, they couldn't help but look at each other, and their eyes showed suspicion and struggle.
The word "food" is too tempting to them. They have been eating dry tree bark for several days. If they continue like this, they will all starve to death. What the hell will they be guarding at that time?
"Death early, death later, it's always death. Let's go and have a look."
Finally, someone plucked up the courage and boldly walked towards the carriage that was riddled with bullets.
He walked up to him and kicked open the door of the rickety carriage.
The object of entry was two large mahogany boxes.
Apart from that, there is nothing else.
A trace of disappointment flashed in the soldier's eyes. There were only two boxes of things, and the whole county's people put together were not enough to fill their teeth!
Why is the court so stingy?
well!
Forget it, mosquito legs are also meat. Fire has been eating tree bark for a long time. It can be improved by one or two meals.
The soldier climbed onto the carriage with an injured arm, opened the mahogany box, and planned to see whether it contained rice or noodles. However, the next moment, the soldier suddenly...
Stupid.
The mouth can be opened wide enough to hold five large eggs!
silver!
It turned out to be white money!
My God, the entire Yuanjiang County cannot earn so much money in a year!
"Come...come quickly!"
When the soldiers got excited, they turned into stammering: "Hurry, hurry, hurry...come quickly..."
"What's wrong? Is there any food?"
"Yes...yes...there is money!"
"What?"
As soon as the others heard that there was silver, they immediately limped over and saw that it was indeed silver, and it was a whole box, oh no, two boxes!
"Yuanjiang County can be saved, and the people can be saved!"
"They are really the people sent by the emperor to save us. Hurry, open the city gate!"
At this time, the soldiers guarding the gate finally believed and immediately opened the dilapidated and low gate.
The carriage drove forward slowly.
When they arrived at the city gate, the soldiers came forward one after another and knelt down to salute and thank them.
The carriage did not stop, and Sang Zhan and Yun Chan did not show up, but drove straight into the city gate.
A young man whose head was wrapped in gauze but whose legs were nimble ran at the front and volunteered to lead the way.
Behind him, several lightly wounded soldiers followed closely carrying two boxes of silver.
The direction they were going was exactly where the magistrate of Yuanjiang County lived.
In fact, this county covers a large area, but many people have moved away over the years. This time, many people were killed and kidnapped by Huangpoling bandits, so the population has become smaller and smaller.
Along the way, Yunchan looked outside through the window and found many vacant houses. Almost all the places where people lived were hung with white silk and white lanterns. The whole street looked lifeless, full of sadness and despair.
Before coming, Yun Chan really didn't expect that the situation would be so serious. In this era of underdeveloped information, no matter how powerful the country is, there will still be many people like Yuanjiang County who are not known by the court.
Said, the tragedy of not being known by the emperor.
Yuanjiang County is relatively lucky. Although it is adjacent to Huangpoling, it is not too far from Kyoto City. If not, the news would not have reached the ears of the old man Dongfang so smoothly.
"Sir, the magistrate's office of Yuanjiang County is in front of us. Please wait a moment. I will knock on the door right now."