This cart was made by my grandfather. He wanted to buy a horse back then, but there was no way out. Later, the Mu family's money was slowly spent, and the cart was left unused.

Mu Shi later made a wheelbarrow for himself, and put the cart in the warehouse.

Mu Yangling didn't know what happened, but Mu Shi looked like he was running for his life, so she had to take out the thing.

By the time Mu Yangling packed up his things, Mu Shi had already brought a dozen or so people with torches to go up the mountain road to Xishan Village to investigate the situation.

Liu He sent someone to pick them up and take them to the Liu family compound. The whole village, young and old, was there, and no one spoke in the cold night.

Mu Yangling surrounded Shu Wanniang and the two children with a quilt, stuffed Xiao Bowen and Xiulan inside, and said to Ma Liu in a low voice: "Auntie, help me take care of my mother, I'll ask What happened to uncle."

Looking at the flames in Xishan Village, Ma Liu said in a low voice, "There's no need to go, such a big fire is probably caused by Hu people."

Mu Yangling was taken aback, "We have troops stationed in Xingzhou Prefecture."

Ma Liu smiled wryly, "Four years ago, when the Hu people went south, Liuxia Village was burned down like this. Everyone in the village, old and young, came out alive. At that time, our Xishan Village was lucky, and the Hu people hadn't arrived yet. There, the soldiers from Xingzhou Mansion arrived, but Liuxia Village was long gone, and if the barbarians came down, wouldn’t it be our Xishan Village’s turn? I don’t know how many people in the village can survive.”

There is a mountain between Xishan Village and Linshan Village. Mu Yangling became anxious, wondering what Mu Shi was doing in Xishan Village at this time.

After all, Ma Liu lived for decades, and explained in a low voice: "Only the villagers of our two villages know the trail from Xishan Village to Linshan Village. Your father wants to seal that road. If the barbarians If we take the main road, we will not be able to reach Linshan Village, we will go straight to other villages, we just need to stay in the Liu family compound and wait for the troops from Xingzhou Prefecture."

Mu Yangling raised his eyes to look at Chushan, and didn't ask: "What if the villagers of Xishan Village betray them?" He just said: "Shouldn't we send someone to notify Xingzhou Prefecture to garrison?"

"How do I notify this?" Ma Liu asked, "It takes a day and a half to walk from here to Fucheng."

"We just need to inform the yamen of the news? The yamen will naturally take care of the matter of notifying the garrison," Mu Yangling didn't want to sit around like this.

Ma Liushi hesitated for a moment, and said: "Then I'll go talk to your uncle and see if he agrees."

Although it only takes half a day to get to the county government office from here, they need to walk on the main road, and they may encounter barbarians once they encounter barbarians. Once they encounter barbarians, they will only lose their heads.

No one is willing to let their son do this dangerous thing.

So Liu Daqian didn't even ask Liu He, but directly refused, "Our Linshan Village has a special location. As long as the path is sealed off, the chance of our village being discovered is very low."

Mu Yangling looked angry, "No matter how low the odds are, it's possible. At that time, Hu people will rush over from the avenue, so we can only wait to be made dumplings? Besides, there are quite a few villages along the avenue, even if the county can't be notified Ya, it’s good to give them a warning, now they are unconscious, maybe they don’t even know that the barbarian rushed into the village, and one person can save one person. The familiarity here, can’t we hide? Four years ago when the barbarians went south, didn’t we just hide in the woods?”

Mu Yangling watched them bow their heads in silence, knowing that they were unwilling to take risks for others, so he threw up his sleeves and left in anger.

To save others is to save oneself. There are only a few hundred people in Linshan Village, but most of them are old people and children.

Linshan Village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the other side is facing the road. Although it may be ignored by the barbarians, once they are discovered, they will either rush past the barbarian team and rush up the road, or go into the mountains to hide.

It's almost unnecessary to rush past the barbarian team. Even if Mu Yangling wants to use this method, other people don't have the guts to go into the mountains. If it's cold and snowy today, it's okay to be young and strong. How many old people and children can bear it? live?

Even if it was for Shu Wanniang and her siblings who had just given birth, Mu Yangling would not choose this path.

Before Mu Yangling could persuade Liu He, someone pointed to the foot of the mountain and said, "There is a fire there, Shishi and the others are back."

Mu Yangling hurriedly turned his head, and someone was already there to greet him.

Mu Shi and the others were all covered with blood, and Liu Ting even had a knife wound. Liu He was shocked when he saw this, "You met a barbarian?"

Mu Shi's face sank like water, "The barbarians found that trail, we met five people first, and we didn't dare to let them follow us out, so we killed them, but there should be others behind, we can't stay here any longer, Must leave immediately."

"How is this possible? Only people on both sides of us know about that trail, so how could the barbarians know about it?"

"Xishan Village has built the house at the foot of the mountain, which is not far from the path."

As soon as Mu Shi said this, everyone's suspicious eyes on Ma Liu disappeared. Yes, it is very possible that the barbarians want to burn the house and found that path, and it may not be betrayed by people from Xishan Village.

The villagers of Linshan Village don't go to Xishan Village very often, so they don't know these things, even Liu Ting, who often goes to Xishan Village during this time, didn't notice this.

But the grandparents of the Maliu family and the girls who married from Xishan Village all knew that the houses in Xishan Village were not built down the mountain.

The parents' family in Xishan Village and those whose daughters were married to Xishan Village all cried out, "Is there no one in Xishan Village who survived?"

Mu Shi and the others didn't answer. The barbarians always plundered without leaving the young and old. Maybe the woman is still alive, but most of the time it's because life is worse than death.

"Okay, don't cry, pack up your things quickly, we're leaving now." Liu He ordered: "Don't take too many things, it's important to run for your life."

Although Liu He said so, everyone was reluctant to leave their family property behind. Some old people sat on the ground and cried loudly, refusing to leave desperately, and some wanted to take all their belongings with them.

Mu Yangling looked at the messy village, and immediately turned upside down angrily. With this appearance, Linshan Village was probably in chaos before the barbarians came in.

"Father, we can only stay for another two quarters of an hour, and we will leave after two quarters of an hour."

Mu Shi's expression was also very ugly. He took a deep breath, nodded and said, "Go and take care of your mother, I'll go and talk to the village chief."

Mu Yangling turned around to find a rope, spread a quilt on the cart, wrapped Shu Wanniang and Bo Si Kejia and placed them beside her, stuffed Bowen and Xiulan in, and covered them with a quilt They tied them up with ropes and fixed all their belongings on the carts, but the villagers were still in a mess.

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