Yan Xuehuai was awakened by the screams.

Opening her eyes, she saw a woman who waved the kitchen knife in her hand and chopped down like crazy at the man in front of her.

"I beat you to death, beat you to death, dare to bully my daughter, I will beat you to death!"

Her eyelids seemed to be heavy, and her whole body was hot, and she felt as if she was about to be melted, and there was no sound in her throat.

Is this a dream or a place to go to the underworld?

The scene in front of me was replaced by darkness again and again, and only the shrill voice of the woman kept echoing in her ears...

Who is that woman?

Could this be that woman?

Could it be that she finally remembered those long-sealed memories?

She wants to see a woman's face clearly, and she wants to remember that face.

Yan Xuehuai bit her tongue hard, and the pain made her completely awake.

It’s not a dream, nor is it the underworld. The woman shouts loudly and the blood flowing out of the man, all this is true!

This is a ruined temple. The wooden statue in the Shenxi is nowhere to be found, and I don’t know which god he was worshipped before.

Not far away, there was a clay pot that had been overturned, and rice porridge was sprinkled all over the floor.

The woman was thin and thin, with a wet face, and I don’t know if it was sweat or tears. Her eyes were bloody, like a female beast protecting her cubs.

There were several people standing behind the fire, with shock and fear on their faces. The men on the ground were dressed in rags and had no power to fight back.

"I've killed someone, this girl has killed someone!"

"Catch her, hurry!"

......

Several men rushed up, and someone pulled out unburned wood from the fire and hit the woman's back. When the Martian was caught in the clothes, it started to burn. The woman turned around and glared at the group of hideous evil men.

"Come on, burn her to death and leave that little one behind."

"While that little guy is not dead yet, hurry up and start eating. Damn, I haven't tasted a woman in several years."

He was so arrogant that he was brave. When the woman got angry, two evil men rushed over and snatched the kitchen knife from her hand.

The woman had just killed the man, but she was already exhausted in fear. At this time, she had just struggled for a few times and was restrained by these two evil men.

The kitchen knife fell to the ground with a clang. A man bent over to pick it up, but saw a little hand grabbing him and picking up the kitchen knife.

It's the little girl who is almost dying of illness!

On the path behind the ruined temple, three riders rode their horses. Suddenly, the young man in charge suddenly tied the reins. Through the broken wall of the ruined temple, he saw a thin figure slashing at the man opposite!

That's a little girl.

The fire swayed, and the little girl staggered and chopped down with all her strength. The man could not dodge and was stabbed. Blood flowed down his arm. The two men pressing the woman were shocked. None of them expected that the little girl who was almost dying would dare to kill someone.

The two men loosened their hands and the woman broke free. She didn't care about the burns on her back. She struggled to pounce on her daughter, snatching the kitchen knife, like a hen protecting a chick, blocking her daughter.

The follower immediately sighed and lowered his voice and said, "Master Qi, we can't care about this kind of thing. Think about your identity, we can't lose our big mistakes because of small things."

The boy bit his lip, suddenly turned over and got off the horse, and walked towards the dilapidated temple.

"Master Qi, we can't go. Qi Wei's troops are nearby. If they are......"

Before the follower finished speaking, the situation in the ruined temple changed.

A dozen soldiers rushed in and surrounded the people beside the fire. A figure walked into the ruined temple, with agile steps and steady as a mountain, but his eyes were as sharp as an eagle.

He looked around the people in the dilapidated temple and said in a deep voice: "Do it!"

After a few screams, the three evil men who intended to be involved in the mother and daughter were lying on the ground, lying with their companions who had been hacked to death by women before, while the others were knocked out and threw them out of the ruined temple.

The young man behind the ruined temple had already stopped. The entourage beside him let out a low cry, saying in a voice that only the master and servant could hear: "It's all comforting."

The boy didn't say anything. He turned around and walked up the slope, rode his horse, pointed to the talkative follower and said, "Stay behind and find a way to hand over the medicine you brought to the mother and daughter."

The follower was stunned and said with a bitter face: "Master Qi, those medicines were brought by the princess for you..."

Before he could finish his words, the boy had already left.

The companion patted his shoulder with a sympathetic look on his face: "Say less next time."

Then without hesitation, he turned over and chased the boy, leaving only the follower standing in the wind and messy...

Li Qiniang still held the kitchen knife in her hand tightly. Because she tried too hard, her fingers had turned blue and white, and her face was covered with blood, including others and her own.

"Put down the knife!" a sergeant shouted.

Li Qiniang seemed to have not heard it. The burned skin on her back was so painful, she tried hard to straighten her spine.

These people have weapons, they will kill people, and they will also hurt her daughter. She cannot put down the knife, nor can she fall down. As long as she has a breath, she will also protect her daughter behind her.

Qi Wei narrowed his eyes slightly, and he looked at the woman in front of him. This woman was thin and thin, and probably had no martial arts skills. The little girl was only fourteen or fifteen years old. She was still shaking when she stood, and she must be sick.

Just now, outside the ruined temple gate, they saw the evil men trying to commit murder on the mother and daughter, but the refugees in the ruined temple did not even help. Although the mother and daughter could fight to the death, if he didn't happen to pass here, the mother and daughter would have been in danger at this time.

"Don't be afraid, I am Duke Ding, they are soldiers of the Great Wei Dynasty. Those who bully women and children have been executed. You are safe at this moment."

Duke Dingguo comforted each other?

The soldiers of the Great Wei Dynasty?

It's safe, they're safe now...

The man's voice was thick and low, with the momentum of the superior, like the morning drum of the evening bell and morning, gradually calming down Li Qiniang's chaotic mood.

Behind him, my daughter's tender voice came: "Put down the knife, that person is a high-ranking official, he will not make things difficult for us."

Li Qiniang's tight body finally relaxed. She loosened her hands and the kitchen knife fell to the ground.

A soldier stepped forward and picked up the kitchen knife.

Li Qiniang was startled by the soldiers' sudden movements and subconsciously wanted to snatch them. Yan Xuehuai quickly grabbed her clothes.

Li Qiniang reacted and said, "That kitchen knife...is inherited from the ancestral age."

Yan Xuehuai was a little helpless. This mother was decisive in killing and could even give up her life, but she couldn't bear to give up a kitchen knife.

"The knife is stained with blood, we don't want it." She patted Li Qiniang's hand and comforted her softly.

Seeing the interaction between mother and daughter, he sighed silently in his heart.

If it weren't for the troubled times, this mother would be an ordinary woman, cooking and cooking, watching the fireworks of the world, and guarding her own home.

But now, she had to take out the knife she used to cut vegetables to protect her daughter and herself.

"Where are you going, where are the others in the family?" Qi said in condolences.

Li Qiniang was stunned and said, "The little woman's husband's surname is Yan. Our family is going to Xinjing. The family has already taken the lead. The little girl got sick and fell behind. Unexpectedly, she was targeted by those evil people and followed her all the way to this dilapidated temple. The little woman thanked the official for helping her."

As he said that, Li Qiniang pulled Yan Xuehuai and kowtowed.

Qi Wei's eyebrows were slightly locked. Because his daughter was sick, the rest of the family threw the mother and daughter on the road, regardless of it.

King Yu raised his army and was unstoppable. The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager brought the young emperor who had just succeeded to the throne to move the capital north.

The new capital of the woman's mouth is the Pingcheng in the past, and the new capital of the Great Wei Dynasty.

Qi Wei couldn't remember the officials named Yan in the court, perhaps they were not officials, but ordinary people.

Although I don’t know who the family’s surname is Yan, Qi Wei has already looked down on this family in his heart.

He said to his entourage, "Let me find a doctor to treat them. The little girl is still sick, so let's take a look together. Let them follow the team and go to Beijing together."

The extinguished fire reignited, and the flames were blazing. Yan Xuehuai was held by Li Qiniang and curled up in a corner of the ruined temple. Her body was hot, but her heart calmed down. In her memory, she had never been so close to people. This feeling was strange, but... it was so good, as good as a dream.

His eyelids became heavier and sleepy came. Yan Xuehuai fell into chaos again, not knowing where he was and did not want to wake up.

"The doctor is here!"

Outside the dilapidated temple, the loud voices of soldiers came from the soldiers. It was obvious that they were a habit developed on the battlefield. Even though they knew that the Duke was inside, they would not lower their voices.

Li Qiniang was exhausted. She just closed her eyes and heard the sound coming from outside. Li Qiniang was so excited that she was completely sleepy. She quickly stood up on the ground.

The clothes on her back were burned by fire. Now she was wearing a coarse cloth dress that she was wearing to travel. The rough cloth rubbed against the wounds, making her sweat so much that she shook her for a while. She barely stood firm.

On the side of the ruined temple, Qi Wei, who was reading the military newspaper, raised his eyes and looked at the mother and daughter in the corner inadvertently. Seeing that the woman staggered and finally stood firm, she withdrew her gaze, threw the military newspaper she had read into the fire, and picked up another military newspaper.

King Yu's army has conquered Hangzhou, only one step away from the old capital.

From this point of view, moving the capital was the only wise move by the Empress Dowager in the past decade.

Qi Wei said to Hao Chong beside him: "Send the order and continue to rush in two hours."

The messenger ran out of the ruined temple and ran into the doctor and his apprentice head-on.

The doctor had gray hair, hunched over, walking with a step and gasping for three steps. If it weren't for his young and strong apprentice's support, he might have fallen on the road.

Qi Wei just raised his head, saw the doctor's illness, frowned, and asked, "Can you not hire other doctors?"

Hao Chong replied, "There have been more and more people fleeing. The refugees are like wolves and tigers. Even the shops in the town have been snatched more than a dozen. The pharmacy shops in the clinic dare not open the door to do business, for fear that one of them will accidentally attract bandits. The old doctor met on the road, saying that the pharmacy shops in the hall were snatched by the refugees. The business cannot be completed, and the owner dismissed them. When our people came over, the old doctor and his disciple were crying on the side of the road with the medicine box in their arms, saying that the owner had snatched all the money and did not even give them severance payments."

Qi Wei sighed. King Yu's troops were more than 4,000 miles away, and there was a natural danger of the Yangtze River in the middle. Even if the imperial army was useless, it could barely support it for a year or two. However, all the way north, he saw people's lives were miserable and bandits were everywhere.
To be continued...