bookrebus Chapter 270 The Miserable Person
Chapter 270 The Miserable Person
After the explanation, everyone spread out the map. When Shen Changgong was about to discuss tactics, he suddenly looked at Fairy Meiyan behind him and asked,
"By the way, didn't your intelligence say that the Yan-killing Society's Rangers were in Boyang City? Do you have any information on their specific location?"
Fairy Meiyan shook her head and said,
"No, Jiutian Tower didn't send any spies to investigate in detail. Didn't your intelligence personnel investigate?"
Gongsun Wan'er said quickly,
"We checked, but found nothing. Boyang City has been closed these days, and our people can't get in."
After thinking for a while, Shen Changgong said,
"That would be a good way to lure the snake out of its hole. We can also follow our previous agreement and issue a city-wide wanted notice and then conduct a manhunt."
"How do you lure the snake out of its hole?"
King Nan asked.
"Let's make the defense around the yard a little lax, so that they can come and assassinate us."
"You think assassins are fools?"
"Then you say, we have been protected by the army the whole time. How could they have the opportunity to assassinate us? If they don't come to assassinate us, they will just remain lurking."
The Southern King snorted coldly,
"We have an army of 500,000, why would we engage in intrigue with a bunch of rats like them? You're just too good at thinking, so you always try to solve every problem by taking shortcuts and taking risks.
Boyang City only has a few tens of thousands of households? It's only noon now, and in the afternoon, we'll have the army knock on every door and search, asking where any strangers are. We'll arrest and question anyone who resists, and kill anyone who resists.
There's no need to wait until night, we can find them in the afternoon."
Shen Changgong was shocked when he heard this, then he gave a thumbs up and said,
"The King of the South is so domineering, so I'll just listen to Brother Nan."
"I'm your uncle."
After deciding on the method, the army had lunch and then went out together, knocking on doors every household.
Dozens of generals personally commanded and led patrols, determined to find all the assassins.
For a time, the entire Boyang City was in chaos, and the Yan army was busy walking through the streets with weapons in hand.
"Open the door! Open the door, fellow!"
"Have there been any strangers visiting your neighborhood or your home recently? Report them and there's a reward! I'll give you one ounce of silver for every person who finds them."
"Is there any?"
"No? We don't believe it, let's go in and take a look."
"Don't give me money, fellow villager. I'm not that kind of person."
"My friend, your daughter ran into my arms by herself? Hurry and take her away."
The Yan army had strict military discipline, but every group had some bad people, and some Yan soldiers took the opportunity to secretly extort money or steal money during searches.
Of course, they mainly stole the money of wealthy families, not ordinary people.
It’s not because of conscience, but because the poor people hide their money very carefully and are afraid that it will be stolen on a normal day, let alone if the Yan army comes, they really won’t be able to find it.
Secondly, poor people don’t have money, so they will definitely take money from whoever has money.
Even though there were inspectors constantly patrolling the various Yan armies, there were still some who stole things.
The Yan army continued to search and knock on doors.
"Go and search yours, why are you following me?"
Yang Hongying brought a group of people and gave Su Wuan beside her a dissatisfied look.
They were all lieutenant generals, not main generals. They had nothing to do, so they came out to search to see if they could make any contribution.
"What do you mean by following you? It just so happens that our routes are the same."
Su Wuan said with a smile.
"Come on, I saw it all. You beat up the other generals to get the chance to follow me, right?"
When Yang Hongying said this, she rolled her eyes even wider.
"No, no, it's really just a stopover."
Su Wuan was thick-skinned and continued to smile.
As the only female general in the army, Yang Hongying was selected by the conscription order, and all the generals were full of vigor and vitality. Naturally, they were all attracted to this heroic and beautiful female general, and Yang Hongying became the darling of the army.
Everyone wants to be closer to her.
They came to an alley and knocked on several doors, asking if any strangers had been there, but everyone said no.
Then they knocked on the door of the fifth house.
The person who opened the door was a young man. When he saw them, he nodded and said,
"My lords, what can I do for you?"
Yang Hongying asked,
"Have any strangers visited your home recently?"
"Strangers? No, our remote little courtyard is usually not visited by anyone, and we don't have any relatives visiting our family."
"Who else is in your family?"
"And my brother."
"Go in and search!"
A team of Yan soldiers walked in and began to search.
In the yard, there was a young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old chopping wood. When he saw so many people coming in, he was at a loss with the axe in his hand.
After searching around and seeing that there were no assassins, everyone left.
Then they knocked on the sixth door.
I knocked for a long time, but no one opened the door.
The two looked at each other, and Su Wuan kicked the door open.
After bringing people in, they found that it was a dilapidated house and was extremely poor.
"General, there is a woman in the room."
A soldier ran out of the house and said to Yang Hongying.
When everyone walked in, they saw a woman sitting against the wall, naked, with a baby in her arms. She looked at the door with numb and desperate eyes, and her hands were mechanically patting the baby in her arms.
Seeing this strange scene, everyone looked at each other, and finally could only turn their eyes to Yang Hongying.
There's no way, she is a woman, so I can only let her ask.
Yang Hongying came to the woman with a spear in hand, squatted down and said,
"Can you hear me?"
The woman said nothing, her eyes unfocused, and she was obviously absent-minded.
Yang Hongying looked down at the baby in the other's arms. The baby did not have the baby fat of a normal child. Instead, it was skin and bones, with eyes closed and a sallow face. There was no sign of life at all.
"Is your child...still alive?"
Yang Hongying asked again.
The woman remained silent, like a madman.
She sighed and asked as a matter of routine,
"We're searching for a gang of assassins. We don't know how many of them there are. Do you know where any strangers have been seen recently? Report them and I'll give you a reward of one ounce of silver."
The woman still didn't speak.
"Oh, let's go."
Yang Hongying stood up and prepared to go out, but suddenly stopped and asked,
"Does anyone have small change? Don't want copper coins or silver ingots? Lend me some."
Su Wuan quickly took out two pieces of silver from his pocket and handed them to Yang Hongying.
"No need to pay it back."
Yang Hongying put the silver next to the woman and said,
"Go buy some food and a coffin and bury your child."
Then he put down his own piece of dry food.
After doing this, they walked out.
"I know……"
Behind him, the woman suddenly made a sound.
Everyone turned around immediately, and Yang Hongying asked,
"what do you know?"