Chapter 439 Arrival
This news made Zhu Yao'e a little worried about gains and losses. She was happy that Li Fan finally felt his wish and married him. She was worried that she was already a 22-year-old woman, would Li Fan dislike him?
Amidst the fear of gains and losses, Zhu Yao'e got on the carriage to see her off, but the team stopped when she arrived in Pinggu County, which made her a little anxious.
"When you go back to the eldest princess, bandits are rampant in Pinggu County, so I am arbitrarily making a move. It's not too late to get on the road when the bandits are wiped out..."
When Zhu Yao'e heard the words of the eunuch in charge, she was sank. She was no longer the princess who was the ignorant girl at the time, so that Li Fan could break into the palace of Queen Mother Li.
Pinggu County is only a few dozen miles away from the Ming Dynasty's capital. If there were rampant bandits here, there would have been a large army that would have encircled it.
The bandit appeared when she got married. The only explanation was that someone didn't want her to get married, and only one person was able to do all this.
Zhu Yao'e waved her hand and asked the eunuch in charge to go down. Her face turned pale, tears flowed across her face, wetting her wedding dress.
I couldn't help but think of the figure who was talking in front of my mother, the embarrassing thing about the man treating himself as a little palace maid, and...
Everything is over, and she will never be able to reach Shanhaiguan anyway. This farce will end in a few days. Where should she go?
Go back to the cold palace? She never wants to go back to that place. Perhaps the best destination is to break away from the world.
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On the official road outside Bishan Town, Jizhou, more than a dozen carriages collided and overturned on the road. The slow horse pulling the carriage was injured and fell to the ground and kept crying.
Dozens of men held wooden sticks and confronted each other tensely. Two people with the appearance of leaders were scolding each other, as if they would fight each other in the next moment.
At this moment, a burst of smoke rose from the official road in the distance, and hundreds of carriages galloped over. Seeing the blocked official road, they had to stop the convoy.
The officer in charge was furious and rushed towards the group in the middle of the road, waving the horse whip and beating it, cursing: "Your eyes are blind, and the team in the Beijing camp dares to block the road. If you don't let it open, you will cut it all!"
"June Jun! June Jun! You are all over the people from Qiu Ji Car Shop who are domineering and knocked over the villain's carriage. Look at the carriage, they are all destroyed by this group of killer materials!"
"Mr. Jun. Don't listen to this guy talking nonsense! It's clear that the people from Zhongji Cheshang don't use the rules and throw all the villain's frosting on the ground. This is all silver!"
The officer was furious when he heard this. His mission was to send the betrothal gift from Li Fan of Jingbei to the capital, and he had no time to talk nonsense with the two groups of people.
Just as I was about to raise a whip to slap people, my eyes turned and stopped. What were these two guys saying just now? It seemed to be strong wine and frosting, which were all good things.
After smelling the scent of wine emitted from the broken wine jar and the snow-white frosting on the ground, the officer glared and said angrily: "You are a death sentence when you block the road of the army! I am in a good mood today. I will spare you and not retreat quickly!"
"But sir! Our goods..."
The two were stunned when they heard this. Just as they were about to say something, the officer glared and pulled out the steel knife from his waist and said angrily: "Don't get out of here! Be careful that I will cut you one by one!"
The people on both sides immediately scattered like birds and beasts, ran down the official road in shame, and entered the woods on the side of the road.
The officer smiled proudly and said, "Brothers! Today we should make a fortune. A few people will bring their things into the car and go back to Yuelailou. I will treat you!"
"Okay!" The soldiers agreed happily and went to operate the goods scattered on the road.
This kind of good thing is that people who see each other have a share, and officers can get some soup when eating meat. Four or five carriages overturned on the official road, and the things on the carriages are scattered all over the floor.
Wine jars and scoops are everywhere on the road, and those intact are naturally easy to clean up, and there is no way to break broken wine jars. It is a bit troublesome to sprinkle the frosting on the ground, so be careful that it can be packed a lot.
Just as hundreds of people were busy packing their goods, a stream of smoke emerged from one of the intact sackcloth packages.
Before the soldiers could react, the mahjong suddenly burned, and the scorching flames ignited the carriage, and in an instant a carriage turned into a ball of fire.
"Fight the fire!" As soon as the officer shouted, thousands of people rushed out of the woods. The Beijing official army was busy putting out the fire, and they were surrounded by people without even pulling out their weapons.
The group of people held wooden sticks in their hands, and several of them cooperated to siege an officer and soldier. It took not long before they could all be knocked down the official army, and none of them ran away.
The officer was the worst. Not only did he say that his face was bruised, but his legs were all broken.
They ignored the fired goods and went straight to the carriage escorted by the government army. They opened the wooden box above, took out weapons and armor from it, and skillfully wore them on their bodies.
The officers were stunned. Where did this group of people come out? They were even more elite than them. If the other party had not taken any action, they would probably have to meet the King of Hell.
"Who are you? You dare to rob the betrothal gift from Duke Jingbei, so aren't you afraid of the court's encirclement?" The officer asked withstood the pain of his broken leg.
This group of people is even more elite than the official army. They are said to be ordinary bandits, but they don’t believe that they are killing the officers. Thousands of elite soldiers appearing in the territory of the Ming Dynasty is definitely not a trivial matter. He has a premonition that solving the betrothal gift is just the beginning, and something bigger must happen.
Although he did not expect the other party to answer, the officer still asked about the doubts in his heart.
The man who was whipped by him walked up to the officer, lowered his head and said, "You will know who we are soon. Thank you for sending the equipment here!
The imperial seal has been collected, and you have lost so many heads that you can't cut it!"
After saying that, the man threw the box containing the jade seal over, turned around and shouted: "Line in line!"
Hearing the order, the three thousand people who had already dressed were lined up in an order, and ran quickly to the distance along the official road, leaving behind a dull officer.
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Two hours later, Pinggu County was attacked by 3,000 armed bandits. Although there were no major casualties, the Ming Dynasty princess Zhu Yao'e was robbed by the bandits.
What shocked the officials the most was the speed of the bandits' operation. Starting from the raid of the county and occupying the city gate, Princess Daming was robbed in less than half an hour.
This is the first time such a horrifying thing has happened in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty's capital. While reporting to the court, officials at all levels began to mobilize troops and generals to surround the bandits.
But the Minzhuang and the military soldiers gathered in a hurry were not the opponents of this group of people. The group rushed to the east, rushing to Yongping Guard, and boarded the ship and went out to sea under the eyes of the Shanhaiguan army.
The wedding brigade team outside Shanhaiguan, together with more than 100,000 people, disappeared overnight. If the herdsmen had not left behind the messy camp, Zhang Chen would have thought he had hallucinations.
Chapter completed!