The fragrance of medicine is alluring, the farm elder sister is cool and cool

After figuring out the cellar, the two found a place to sit down. Now they couldn't go anywhere, so they just had to wait. They didn't know how much time had passed outside. They had no concept of time. They ate when they were hungry and slept when they were full. Hidden Bat would occasionally go up to see what was happening outside.

Wen Qingcheng was lying on a flat surface to rest. She didn't know how long she had slept. The hidden bat came down from above. Wen Qingcheng stood up, rubbed her eyes, and murmured sleepily, "Is it day or night now?"

"It's daytime outside now. I just went to the city gate and the soldiers have started to conscript men everywhere. The rebels fought for a whole day yesterday but failed to capture the city. A letter was sent in by flying arrows, threatening to massacre the whole city if the city gate is not opened."

"What! Massacre..." Wen Qingcheng's heart was beating like a drum. "Although they are rebels, they are all citizens of the Great Qi Dynasty. Why are they so cruel?"

Yinfu sighed, "The main purpose of these people is to attack the capital. Attacking the city one by one is too slow. They want to kill one person as a warning to the rest, massacre one city, and scare the other cities, so that they can be forced to surrender the city. In this way, if no reinforcements come, they will march straight in and enter the capital within five days."

It took Wen Qingcheng a long time to recover from the shock. "What's the situation at the city gate now? How's the morale?"

"Alas, Jiangling City was originally under-defended. All men and women aged 14 and above and under 60 were forced to defend the city walls. They also demolished many houses and used the bricks and stones as weapons."

"These people are just ordinary people. They will just be cannon fodder if they go there." Wen Qingcheng sighed.

"That being said, if the city is breached, wouldn't it be even more tragic? It would be better for all the people to defend it as long as possible and wait for reinforcements."

At night, Wen Qingcheng and Yin Fu chatted with each other over a jar of wine. "Yin Fu, do you think Brother Mo received my letter? I wrote to him before we left, telling him that we were going to Kyoto. If he knew there were rebels, would he be worried about us?"

"I have also sent secret letters to the young master and the surrounding camps, but I don't know if the letters have been delivered."

Wen Qingcheng was silent for a moment. Now she understood what it meant to leave everything to fate. She just didn't know whether she would live to go home for the New Year.

It was about midnight, and Yinfu had finished drinking the water he brought from the inn, so he went up to fetch water under the cover of darkness. In fact, there was a lot of spiritual spring water in Wen Qingcheng's space, but it was not easy to take it out suddenly.

Wen Qingcheng found a blanket to cover herself and was about to lie down to rest when she heard a voice from above. Wen Qingcheng stood up and went to the entrance of the cellar to listen. The wooden board above her head was opened, and outside was a starry sky. Then, a ragged man jumped down, and Yinfu followed closely behind and closed the wooden baffle.

The man stood up and saw that there was light in the cellar. Wen Qingcheng and the man looked at each other for two seconds, both of them were a little confused. The man was a 14-year-old boy, and he looked a little frightened.

"Just now I went upstairs to fetch water and saw this man coming in from the dog hole in the backyard, so I caught him." Yinfu explained.

Wen Qingcheng felt a little uneasy. She and Yinfu had been hiding here, but she didn't expect that others would also hide here. More people would definitely find this place later. "Where are you from?" Wen Qingcheng touched her Adam's apple and asked in a clear male voice.

"I am a beggar from Jiangling City. I was captured and put on the city wall to defend the city. Tonight, a large group of people suddenly came outside the city, claiming to be from the Jiangbei camp. They lied to us that they were reinforcements, but as soon as the city gate was opened, they started to charge at us. Only then did I realize that they were not reinforcements from the Jiangbei camp, but another group of rebels."

"Two groups of rebels!" Wen Qingcheng's heart dropped instantly. They had already charged in. If they were discovered, they would surely die here.

Gou'er continued, "They rushed in, hacking around with knives. The civilians on the city wall dropped their weapons and fled for their lives. Some were forced to retreat and jumped off the city wall and died. Fortunately, I ran fast and was familiar with this area. I knew that this house was a haunted house. Even if the rebels came in to loot property, they would not find it. That's why I fled all the way here. As soon as I got in, I was captured by this big brother."

Yinfu stood behind the beggar Gou'er, and his eyes seemed to change. Wen Qingcheng was afraid that Yinfu would kill Gou'er, so she hurried in front of Yinfu, blocked him, and said to Gou'er, "You can hide here, but you have to listen to us and not go out. Otherwise, if you reveal your whereabouts, I will kill you first."

Gou'er nodded hurriedly, promising and swearing. Wen Qingcheng and Yinfu looked at each other and said, "Let's keep him for now. He is familiar with Jiangling City and may be useful to us."

Yinfu said coldly: "You sleep there at night." Yinfu pointed to a corner of the cellar, far away from where Wen Qingcheng was lying.

The dog hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you, brothers. It's good enough to give me a place to stay. I will be obedient."

Wen Qingcheng curled the corners of her mouth. She was not the type to be outgoing, and now that a stranger had suddenly come, she felt a little restrained and stopped talking to the dog.

Yinfu glanced at the dog, took out the kettle and handed it to Wen Qingcheng, "I'll pour the boiled water in, you drink first."

Wen Qingcheng smiled. She was not used to drinking well water. Even after heating it, she always felt it was not clean. She took the kettle and found a dark corner without light. Wen Qingcheng opened the kettle and took some spiritual spring water from the space and dripped it in to purify it. Then, she poured it into her own small kettle.

"I've drunk it, you can drink it. There's a well here, so we'll need water to drink." Wen Qingcheng handed the kettle to Yinfu.

The three of them found their own places to sleep. They could not feel the time in the cellar. When Wen Qingcheng woke up again, she heard a loud noise outside. The sound was very close, like footsteps on top of their heads.

Yinfu stood up suddenly, holding a sword in his hand and walked to Wen Qingcheng's side. "Don't be afraid, they should be rebels, they can't find this place."

Just as he finished speaking, the entrance to the cellar was suddenly opened, and countless people fell down like dumplings, rolled to the ground, and climbed up again in panic. Eight or nine people, young and old, men, women, and children, jumped down in a row.

Yinfu drew his sword, and the group was frightened when they saw Yinfu holding the sword, and they knelt down and kowtowed. Wen Qingcheng saw that their hiding place had been exposed. If these people could hide here, there must be more people who would hide here. What if they attracted the rebels...

"Yinfu, let's go quickly." Wen Qingcheng whispered in Yinfu's ear. Just as Wen Qingcheng expected, just as they were about to leave, they heard the rebels entering the yard.

"There's a hole here!"

In a few seconds, two rebels with knives jumped down. Among the seven or eight people who just came down, there were two young girls, who screamed in fear. I guess these people were chasing those two girls.