Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 164 Remonstrance
Regarding Caiwei, Song Qingshu still felt guilty. This little girl followed him silently, helping him without asking for anything in return. Limping and being tossed all the way, he suffered too much.

Now that the two are husband and wife, Song Qingshu simply held Caiwei's little hand, and while the girl lowered her head shyly, the two of them strolled along the Yellow River, with Scarface and the soldiers behind them knowingly Hanging far away.

Although he wanted to accompany Caiwei to relax, Song Qingshu still had an important task. After all, although the situation has eased now, he was firmly surrounded by the Yellow River after all, and he still needed to find a way to break out of the encirclement.

I spent almost an afternoon with Hong Chengchou. At this time, the sky was just getting dark. In the dim afterglow, the Yellow River was restless like a roaring yellow dragon. In this year, even if there is a severe drought, the water level of the Yellow River will be much higher than that of later generations. From the loess The plateau rushes down, and the wide river channel of more than ten miles suddenly shrinks here to more than 80 meters. The huge amount of water energy is beyond the imagination of people in this era.

Trapped in such a narrow place, the furious Yellow River Dragon roared and crashed into the corner of the Great Dragon Gate. Everyone who heard the earth-shattering sound of turbulent waves was in awe.

Strolling around the cliffs by the river for a long time, Song Qingshu found the narrowest place in awe. The cliffs on the opposite side were jagged and uneven, and the rushing river was about ten meters below. Scarface found a stick and threw it down. In the blink of an eye, he had been rushed over a hundred meters and disappeared without a trace.

But looking at the solid rock on the other side, with cracks everywhere, Song Qingshu nodded in satisfaction.

"Fire crossbow arrows with cannons from here, and nail them to the opposite bank with ropes! People tie ropes around their waists, pull iron chains with ropes, nail them to the ground on both sides, and then lay wooden boards. The natural moat can also become a passage for me. !"

Without the officers and soldiers attacking and harassing, facing the rolling Yellow River, Song Qingshu spoke boldly.

However, Scarface frowned, looking at the rushing river and shaking his head.

"If it falls, there will be ten deaths! In fact, Hong Chengchou's consoling attitude is already sincere enough, why don't you think about it and live a stable life?"

Hearing Scarface talk about this matter again, Song Qingshu, who had fallen into paranoia at this moment, shook his head fiercely again, twisted his fists and roared resolutely.

"I am the leader! I can see that Shaanxi is definitely a dead place at this time! We must go!"

Looking down at the Yellow River again, Scarface fell silent after all.

It took more than an hour to patrol the Yellow River, and it was almost dark, so I marked the narrowest place upstream of the ferry, touched the darkness, Song Qingshu and his party hurried back to Daying.

Starting this morning, the entire army was mobilized because of a desperate battle, and in the morning because of Hong Chengchou's sudden arrival, the entire army was in a mess, loosening and tightening, it seemed that these peasant troops were really tossed, watching from afar , the camp by the river bank was dead silent, Song Qingshu couldn't help shouting angrily when he walked in holding Caiwei's little hand.

"I said to strengthen our defenses and be careful of surprise raids by the officers and soldiers. There isn't even a gatekeeper here, so what's the point?"

Also frowning and looking left and right, Scarface suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Song Qingshu's clothes, pulled the two of them behind him, and shouted loudly at the same time: "Something is wrong, be careful!"

Before Scarface could finish his words, the pitch-black camp suddenly lit up. In an instant, countless torches shone like thousands of fireflies in the darkness, and the sound of chaotic footsteps surrounded them in all directions. In the night, Countless soldiers in paper armor clattered around the gate of the camp.

With a sound of swiping, the twenty Qingjian dead men given by Zhang Xianzhong pulled out their swords with both hands almost at the same time, and formed a circle to wrap Song Qingshu in the middle. The soldiers and horses under his command who came out actually pointed their swords at him, and Song Qingshu's head was buzzing for a while.

After a full second or two, Song Qingshu angrily pushed away the scarred face in front of him, waved his sleeves and pointed at the peasant army who suddenly appeared, and shouted angrily.

"How dare you draw your knives at me! Do you want to rebel? I brought you a bloody storm. This natural disaster and man-made disaster killed a bloody road, and you survived. This is how you repay me? Ah? Don't pretend to be dumb, give me say!"

Starting from Funiu Mountain, it was Song Qingshu who led everyone to survive. After all, the prestige he accumulated in the army will not disappear in a short time. Go out in a big piece.

However, at this moment, the magnetic, catchy, pleasant baritone voice, like Song Qingshu's life-threatening talisman, rang again in the crowd.

"Boss Song, everyone wants to live a peaceful life. Everyone is tired and doesn't want to leave anymore. Please, take everyone to call for safety!"

The hair is neatly combed, and the book long robe on his body is also very personable, especially refined. At this time, Li Xin, the Li Gongzi of Qi County, who should be kicked out of the camp, walked out leisurely surrounded by the crowd, and Song Qingshu couldn't believe it. What's more, apart from Liu Zongmin, Xing Hongniang, Xing Hongniang, Xiao Luobo, and the second fool, besides Liu Zongmin and Zhao Sheng, his confidants and generals all followed behind Li Xin.

Trembling all over with anger, Song Qingshu stretched out his hand tremblingly and pointed forward, but he was speechless for a long time, seeing his anger mixed with disappointment, sad eyes, Xiaoluo shrank back guilty, Xing Hongniang He didn't even dare to look at Song Qingshu, but Old Man Xing sighed deeply.

"Qingshu, Mr. Li is right. Everyone is tired and doesn't want to leave anymore. We all want to live a peaceful life! We are all honest people, unlike Wang Jiayin and those green forest thieves, it is better than anything else to be able to live in peace. Alright, listen to everyone's persuasion and accept Mr. Hong's offer!"

"no way!"

After he took a breath, Song Qingshu pointed at Old Man Xing angrily, without any respect at this time, his words were so cold that ice shards fell off, and he asked with trembling lips.

"Mr. Xing, you are my father-in-law, and you are still my master. You always treat me like your own. For such an outsider, you can actually lead a rebellion against me?"

"And Hong'er! You are the wife I am marrying! Who is he? You actually followed him to oppose your husband-in-law?"

"And you! You keep saying that I'm the leader! Those who kowtowed and burned incense in front of Guan Gong, now, your vows are farting?"

Those who were questioned by Song Qingshu, except for Liu Dazhuzi, the second-five boy, all the other leaders also lowered their heads and shrank back. Go and shout loudly: "The big guy is not betraying, but he really doesn't want to live this kind of bloody life! The big guy just asks the big boss to lead everyone to recruit for safety, so that they can live a peaceful life! It's just that small Small wishes!"

"Yes! The head of the family! My mother is over 70 years old, and I really don't want to let her go home again!"

"Boss, thank you for taking in my whole family and giving my family a bite to eat, so that my two-year-old baby will not be like other villages. I have to eat it in exchange, but I really can't bear to let my mother-in-law, My baby was killed by the officers and soldiers that day! Please, just call for safety!"

The surrounding soldiers begged in one go, some even knelt down, and some waved their knives, guns and firecrackers excitedly. Seeing such a chaotic scene, even Song Qingshu couldn't help but staggered back After taking two steps, shaking his head with grief and indignation, Song Qingshu suddenly grabbed Scarface's sleeve, and without turning his head, he gave orders in a low voice and hurriedly.

"I'll stay here, you send someone to Wang Guowei's camp immediately, and ask him to prepare the cavalry, bring ropes and cannons, and let's retreat to the east bank of the Yellow River tonight!"

I really didn't expect that at this juncture, Wang Jiayin, an outsider, had to rely on the soldiers and horses left by outsiders to deal with his cronies. Scarface was also quite helpless. He nodded slightly, and with the cover of the dead soldier in Qingjian, Scarface began to move back slowly, but before he could leave the crowd, there was suddenly the sound of horse hooves coming from behind him, and there were hundreds of torches, but this cavalry came with incomparably murderous intent, Seeing Wang Guowei, whose face was full of wine lees powder, rushing to the front with a machete, holding the reins of the horse, and yelling impatiently.

"Catch that kid Song Qingshu, don't let him run away, and dedicate it to the officers and soldiers. I'll change the general soldier, and I'll change you to a thousand generals, too!"

Even in such a critical situation, Song Qingshu was still quite speechless when he looked back in astonishment. Who were the people brought out by Wang Jiayin?
But Song Qingshu's heart was not completely chilled in the end. Before Wang Guowei's army came to him, hundreds of people rushed out from the dark camp. Among them, Liu Zongmin was carrying a hammer and wearing an iron apron. The one who roared was also running at the front, yelling while running: "That dog/bitch dared to touch my boss!"

Li Tiezhu, his subordinate with a scarred face, was also carrying a machete, and galloped like a vicious tiger. What Song Qingshu didn't expect was that Zhao Sheng, who was lighting the lamp, was also dragging a machete, shouting while running.

"Don't panic, master, the scholar Zhao Sheng is here!"

These three forces collided together, and the situation became even more tense. Wang Guowei wanted to snatch people, Liu Zongmin and the others wanted to save people, Li Xin, and Old Man Xing wanted to remonstrate, and Wang Guowei didn't want Song Qingshu to be arrested. They all pulled out the guys, especially the Funiu Mountain Army with the largest number of men. They were about to encircle them halfway with guns in their hands. Seeing that Song Qingshu's army was about to have a bloodbath, at this moment, the crowd in the middle , a helpless roar sounded.

"stop!"

In an instant, the turbulent movement of the three parties stopped, and pairs of eyes gathered on Song Qingshu in astonishment, and looked around coldly. Song Qingshu hummed boredly: "Don't you just want to ask for peace? Follow you, tomorrow Just go to Hong Chengchou's camp, recruit security, and be a slave to others, and go as an obedient citizen!"

After finishing speaking, Song Qingshu took Caiwei's hand, and no longer caring about the chaotic situation, he stretched out his hand to push aside the sergeants blocking the way, and walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army on his own. Scholars are also following suit.

Halfway, Xing Hongniang held out his hand to Song Qingshu hesitantly, wanting to say something, but he didn't even look at it, and just passed it coldly.

"You traitors, rebellious bastards! Ungrateful melon hammer, get out of the way for grandpa!" Cursed, Liu Zongmin was also shoving carelessly in the front, while Li Tiezhu and Zhao Sheng looked around vigilantly behind, also leading the sergeant followed.

The goal has been achieved, and there is no meaning of fighting, but none of the thousands of peasant troops is happy with victory. Instead, they all feel empty in their hearts. Under the torch, everyone looks at each other without saying a word.

Wang Guowei, on the other hand, snorted resentfully.

"Damn it, I've blinded my head for nothing!"

(End of this chapter)