bestfiction Chapter 212 Texas Day
Chapter 212 Texas Day
Bei Jingchu jumped down from the kang and said, "Let's go clean up the cellar, put some warm things in there, and make dry food out of it."
"Think of some other way to conceal the entrance to the cellar."
Then he took action.
......
On the street outside, far away, there was a Tunning soldier stationed, not allowing the people to go out.
The neighbors in the courtyard are a warm family. An aunt greeted them warmly from a distance.
"Everything has been taken away. This winter is going to be tough."
Ah Yu smiled and replied: "But my life is saved, and my family is still together. We just need to eat, so we can only borrow food from others."
"Yes, in the future, I don't know how many years it will take to pay off the debt I owe this winter."
"I have saved up a lot of meat and grain, but I don't want to eat it normally, so I'm just waiting for a good New Year!"
"If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have saved that bit."
"Oh, I'm so greedy!"
"I hope the official who comes to Tu Ning is a good one, so that we can live in peace and not fight anymore."
As soon as I heard it, I knew that this family had simple personalities and they must have really handed over all the money and grain.
Perhaps most people are equally simple.
Bei Jingchu was filled with sorrow. A warm finger touched her brow and rubbed it.
It’s Nian’er.
"Your brows have never been smoothed since today."
On the second day, the Tunning soldiers, who had said they would leave if they did not receive money, came again for the second time.
There were wails coming from next door: "Master Jun! Master Jun! We paid everything yesterday. We really have no money left!"
"what!!!!"
Bei Jingchu's ears were covered, and Ayu held one of her and Xin'er's ears in each hand, with the other ear buried in her arms.
Wait quietly for the storm to pass.
It's their turn next.
Several officers and soldiers broke into the courtyard and rummaged through the drawers and cabinets roughly.
The remaining property was also looted.
When one of them stepped on the soil in the cellar, Bei Jingchu's heart jumped up.
In the end, the few people went around in a circle and didn't discover their real secret.
Perhaps because they were full from the things they found, they did not kill anyone. Instead, one of them took out a handkerchief because their superior had told them to wipe the faces of these children. The eldest daughter of the Emperor of the Yue Dynasty is trapped in Dezhou.
"If we find her, we can negotiate directly with the Emperor of Yue Dynasty and ask him to cede five cities to us."
A dirty cloth that had been used to wipe countless faces was placed over Bei Jingchu's face.
She endured the discomfort and held her breath.
The other person took out a crumpled piece of drawing paper, compared it, stared at it for a while, and shook his head at his companion.
So they turned their target to Xin'er.
Only after they were sure that neither of them was the one, did they leave.
After the people left, A Yu lost his strength and fell to the ground.
Xin'er's mouth pursed and she was about to cry, but A Yu covered her mouth with his hand.
"Shh~ Nannan, be good and be quiet."
"You can't cry now. If they hear you crying, they might be attracted back. Do you understand?"
Xin'er's eyes became even more frightened, but she nodded and stopped crying.
In times of danger, even ignorant children will behave well.
But fortunately, there don't seem to be many people who know how to hide.
Perhaps he had the same concern as Aunt Yu yesterday: What if he was caught lying?
The wailing sounds continued, but they were getting quieter and quieter.
It means the distance is getting farther and farther.
Ah Yu and Yan Wei went out to check the situation, but the aunt next door asked in surprise: "How come you are okay?"
She pointed at Yan Wei and asked, "Why is he okay?"
There was a body of an old man on the ground, probably her husband.
The different experiences made the aunt feel unbalanced, like a demon that seemed to want to eat their flesh alive.
But in the end she did nothing and just cried loudly over the corpse with her children.
Separation and death are everywhere.
Inside the house, Lei Nian'er held Bei Jingchu's hand, as if looking for a backbone. She asked helplessly: "Sister, what should we do now?"
Bei Jingchu covered his forehead with his other hand, "First they robbed the money, and after they are done robbing the money, if they want to stop the war, it's time to end it."
"But I don't think that's possible."
"Burning, killing and looting have always been together."
She stood up and said, "Come on, everyone hide in the cellar!"
The third and fourth days were very quiet.
But the people living nearby had no food and were starving, becoming pale and thin.
Apart from Bei Jingchu, Xin'er, the youngest child, started crying: "Let me out, let me out!"
"It's obviously fine outside, but it's cold and stuffy in here!"
Ah Yu slapped her hard in the face and shouted angrily, "Be quiet!"
Xin'er covered her face, feeling aggrieved and surprised.
"Mother..."
"It's already this time, and you're still acting uncomfortable. I just spoil you too much."
"It's right to listen to Yangyang. Just wait these few days and don't make trouble!"
Xin'er endured the discomfort and complained aggrievedly: "Why do I have to listen to her? Whatever she says is what it is."
"I'm really uncomfortable, why can't you just listen to me?"
It was useless to reason with the child at this time, so A Yu continued to suppress her with force and did not allow her to cry.
Xin'er's resentment and dissatisfaction grew stronger and stronger, and her dissatisfaction with Bei Jingchu's decision reached its peak.
She had secretly decided in her heart that she would run away tomorrow.
On the fifth day, Xin'er huddled in her mother's arms, trembling as she listened to the noises from above, and no longer had the slightest thought of going out.
From above the cellar came the sound of searching footsteps.
I don’t know if it was Bei Jingchu’s illusion, but this time, in addition to the screams of people being beaten and killed, there were also... the faint moans of a woman being humiliated.
She reached out her hand to her neck, as if trying to remove the invisible hand on her neck, and a feeling of suffocation lingered.
[It turns out that their original purpose was to massacre the city. ]
[It turns out that the initial statement that they would not kill people if they handed over grain was just a means to numb people’s hearts.]
[The people in the city were forced to hand in their money and food obediently. After a few days of starvation, they lost their ability to resist and were easier to kill than rabbits.]
【And these people, these people...】
Bei Jingchu's eyes were filled with tears.
【These people are all people of the Yue Dynasty. 】
A depressing silence spread in the cellar, but what did sadness matter?
It is the greatest luck for each of them to be alive.
The massacre outside lasted for two days. On the seventh day, the familiar shouting that appeared at the beginning came again: "Everyone, the massacre is over--"
"Everyone who should come out should come out——"
"If you come out now, it means you surrender, and you can keep your life. If you come out again tomorrow, I will kill you—"
If a person is sober, he will definitely not believe this.
But now, even those who had plenty of food could not resist the urge to go up and get some fresh air, not to mention the common people who had been hungry and had not eaten for several days.