sit tight

Chapter 21

, "They don't care about your life and death, no one will pick you up?"

The old man smiled wryly, "Pick us up? Who will pick us up? If the man from that family hadn't been strong and swam to the other side of the river, he would have been trapped here long ago, eating human flesh like us."

Lin Changqing closed his eyes in pain, then opened them again, his eyes were full of pain, "Old man, I have some loose silver here, you take it first. You can take your grandson with us later, and I will give you a way out. "

The old man pushed away Lin Changqing's hand to hand the silver, and took out the ingot of silver that Lin Changqing gave before entering the door, handed it to Lin Changqing, and said, "Master, the old lady can see that you are not ordinary people. I haven't been there long I'm alive, I just ask you to take my little grandson out, and don't tell others that he has eaten human flesh."

Lin Changqing and Peng Yue nodded together, promising not to.

The old man said, "Let's go, take him with you, go as far as you can, and don't come back again."

Peng Yue said, "Old man, we will take you along."

The old man got up, went back to the back room, and covered the wooden basin containing the body fragments with a white cloth.She slowly turned her rickety body, and knelt in front of Lin Changqing and the others, her tear-stained, withered face was full of sadness, and she said, "Gentlemen, please hurry up, the old woman is full of crimes, how could she still be so cruel?" I have the face to go out with you and live in the world. Do you know whose meat my little grandson ate? It is my daughter-in-law. She survived after soaking in water for three days, and then contracted the disease, that's it She died of illness. We have no food, and my little grandson and I have survived by eating her mother’s meat. Grandpa, please leave.”

Lin Changqing breathed faster, gritted his teeth, and punched a hole in the dirt wall. He said, "Your Majesty, do you know how many animals you have raised to harm the people like this?"

Peng Yue picked up the boy, ignored his struggle, and said to Lin Changqing, "Master Lin, let's go."

Lin Changqing turned to look at the old man kneeling on the ground in the back room, and said, "Old man, take care, we will pick you up after we have settled your grandson."

The old man said nothing, got up and went to Peng Yue, touched his little grandson's face, wiped the blood from his mouth with his sleeve, and said, "Master, let this child escape into Buddhism, only in this way can he guard against his sins, Seek a lifetime of peace."

Lin Changqing nodded, and walked out following Peng Yue who was holding the child.

The two walked cautiously on the muddy dirt road.The flood has been in the past for a long time, and it seems that a rain fell not long ago, which caused the road to be muddy.

When he was about to reach the old tree where the horse was tied, Peng Yue paused. Lin Changqing asked him what was wrong, and Peng Yue said it was fine.

Peng Yue didn't tell Lin Changqing that he had super keen perception. He heard the sound of the old man hitting the wall, and he died.

The two hurried on and passed through several villages. The situation was roughly the same. There were almost no living people to be seen. There were rotting bones, ruined crops, and collapsed houses everywhere.

The sky gradually brightened, and the two returned to Liangzhou City with the boy.

Back at the post station, Lin Changqing asked Peng Yue to find someone to clean the boy and send it to a nearby temple. He gave the monk some money so that the boy could stay there with peace of mind. When the matter was over, Lin Changqing planned to send the boy to the Temple of the Five Immortals.

The Tai Tuo was playing haha ​​with Ji Yanxi, Lin Changqing ignored them, simply washed up and fell asleep.

That night, Lin Changqing and Peng Yue visited the camp where the turmoil occurred, and learned that the food for the victims was not good.

The only good news is that it was not the plague that caused the deaths of humans and animals, but just ordinary infectious diseases.

When the two returned to the post station again, it was already the third day after arriving in the disaster area.Lin Changqing distributed all the food and supplies, asked the doctors to treat the wounded, and then buried and burned the corpses.The epidemic was finally brought under control, and the victims of the riots were properly resettled and calmed down.

It has been a month since all this was done.The weather in the south of the Yangtze River also became colder, and Lin Changqing replaced all the last disaster relief money with cotton-padded quilts and distributed them to the victims.

The Taifu looked at Lin Changqing, who had been running around day and night for a month, and his thin chin became more pointed.His fair skin turned a light yellow wheat color due to the wind and sun.I began to admire Lin Changqing in my heart, and my attitude towards him began to improve.

Because Peng Yue has been following Lin Changqing to protect her, he no longer hides in the dark, and is directly exposed to others, saying that he is Lin Changqing's personal entourage.

In the twelfth lunar month, all the disasters in the south of the Yangtze River have been resolved, and Lin Changqing and his party are preparing to return to the capital.

Lin Changqing went to the temple to pick up the boy, but the host told Lin Changqing that the boy could not go with them because he had been formally ordained and entered Buddhism.

Lin Changqing looked at the child quietly meditating in front of the Buddha, and thought to himself, such a result is not bad.

Before Lin Changqing left Liangzhou, there was one more thing to do, which was to find out where the first batch of disaster relief money allocated by the imperial court went.

Lin Changqing and the Taifu went directly to Ji Yanxi's mansion. When Ji Yanxi saw Lin Changqing coming, she warmly greeted the servants to set out the food and wine for Lin Changqing to practice.

Lin Changqing only drank one cup, but Tai Tuo didn't drink less. These days, he was only focusing on disaster relief and had no time to have a good meal.Peng Yue, who was beside Lin Changqing, was forcefully persuaded by Ji Yanxi to drink a glass of wine.

After thirty days of drinking, Lin Changqing felt groggy, and the Taifu lay down on the wine table and fell asleep.Lin Changqing was taken back to the post station by Peng Yue, and the Taifu stayed at Ji Yanxi's home.

Lin Changqing fell asleep on the bed in a daze, a deep sleep.

Seeing that Lin Changqing was fine, Peng Yue went to the yard, blew his whistle, and summoned a carrier pigeon.He tied the written note to the pigeon's leg and let it fly.

Turning around and returning to the room, Peng Yue's expression changed drastically. Qin Yufeng, who was sleeping soundly on the bed just now, was gone.

Peng Yue looked around, the doors and windows were closed, and there were no outsider's shoe prints on the ground.Lin Changqing disappeared out of thin air.

Hell on Earth 3

Peng Yue searched every corner of the station, but there was no trace of Lin Changqing.

The night passed, and Peng Yue's eyes were bloodshot. Finally, he called a subordinate and wrote a letter, asking him to send it to the emperor quickly.

After his subordinates left, Peng Yue put on a black outfit, took the Lingyue scimitar, and went directly to Ji Yanxi's residence.

Ji's family member Ding told Peng Yue that his family had gone out early in the morning, and he didn't know exactly where he went.

Peng Yue returned to the post station, sitting on the bed where Lin Changqing had been lying last night, in a daze.

Peng Yue's head started to hurt, why was he so careless last night, a living person disappeared right under his nose, and he didn't even hear a sound.

Peng Yue closed his eyes and lay on the bed.He remembered that before he left the palace, Qin Yufeng specially called him to the imperial study room, and told him to protect Lin Changqing, and if Lin Changqing had something good or bad, he couldn't escape it.

Peng Yue recalled that he had grown from a homeless orphan to being found by Jiang Yu, training with those orphans, becoming a Jin Yiwei, and being promoted to a commander.

Thinking of my master, a secluded master who has attained the Tao, what he said to himself is to repay kindness and treat others kindly.

In the beginning, Peng Yue didn't like Lin Changqing. In his heart, Lin Changqing was just taking advantage of the emperor's danger and taking advantage of the loopholes to stand up for the cheap villain.

Thinking of the relationship between the emperor and Lin Changqing, Peng Yue felt very twisted every time he saw Lin Changqing.Sometimes he really wanted to kill Lin Changqing with one blow and make him disappear completely, so that the emperor would no longer be entangled in chaotic emotions.

Peng Yue didn't dare, even if he knew that Lin Changqing had used a lot of tricks on the emperor, he didn't dare to act rashly, he knew that the emperor cared about Lin Changqing.

Lin Changqing's performance in Liangzhou this time far exceeded Peng Yue's expectations.Unexpectedly, Lin Changqing was really serving the people wholeheartedly.

Lin Changqing asked him to secretly pay attention to Ji Yanxi's movements. He found out that Ji Yanxi was indeed corrupt, but he was only greedy for the little ones, and the big ones were for the top.

Yesterday he and Lin Changqing went to Ji Yanxi's house to find out what Ji Yanxi was saying, but they were both drunk before they found anything.It stands to reason that one glass of wine would not make you drunk, but last night Peng Yue really felt drunk.

Thinking of this, Peng Yue probably guessed that he and Lin Changqing were drugged.Lin Changqing got a little heavier, and fell asleep when he came back. He was fine, and he took all kinds of poisons during normal training, and his body was already immune.Even though he is immune, the potency of the medicine will still affect his perception.

Peng Yueqiang cheered up, wanted to get up and wash his face, and continued to search energetically.

The bed board creaked, and Peng Yue felt that something was wrong, so he patted it with his hands, and it felt different from usual.

He stood up, groped around on the bed, and finally came across a button at the inconspicuous place at the foot of the bed.Press it down, and the bed board opens with a sound.

Looking down, there is a long staircase leading to the bottomless underground.

Peng Yue went down the steps carefully, then turned around and put down the bed board, fearing that it would be difficult if Ji Yanxi's people found out.

Peng Yue carefully touched the wall and walked down the steps, walking a full sixty steps before his feet touched the ground.

He groped forward. In the dark and silent underground passage, there were only Peng Yue's own breathing and footsteps.As I walked, there was a light in front of me.

Walking to the light source, the passage also came to an end.Looking up, there are also dozens of steps, and the light source above seems to come in from the window.

Going up the steps, Peng Yue listened carefully to the voice above at the end, and after making sure there was nothing wrong, he slowly lifted the wooden plank on top of his head and climbed up, Peng Yue patted his body