The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1187: go home
Chapter 1187 Return Home
When the Xiliang people who were waiting in line to leave the city saw their neighbors turning back, they were shocked and asked the Xiliang people they knew outside the city gate: “Old Zhu, weren’t you the first to leave the city? Why are you back?”
“General, please show mercy and let our family in!” Old Zhu didn’t bother to answer his neighbor’s questions. He pulled his wife and children to kneel down and begged the general guarding the city to let them in.
The gatekeeper general ordered the archers to shoot arrows without saying a word. The bows and crossbows were all pointed in front of Zhu’s family. Zhu was so scared that he retreated in embarrassment, holding his son. He almost peed his pants, and his back was soaked with cold sweat.
The Great Zhou gatekeeper general had a cold expression on his face: “We have given you the chance to become citizens of the Great Zhou… or the citizens of Xiliang. It is you who chose to leave the city and continue to be citizens of Xiliang. Then, don’t even think about entering our Great Zhou city! I counted to ten… If you don’t leave, don’t blame the swords and arrows for being blind! One… two…”
Without waiting for the Great Zhou soldiers to count to three, Zhu hurriedly grabbed his wife and daughter and crawled away crying.
The return of Old Zhu’s family, who were the first to leave the city, made the people of Xiliang, who had originally lined up to leave the city, suddenly hesitant.
Although Lao Zhu didn’t say anything, seeing that he was willing to kneel down and beg to enter the city, it seemed that he had encountered some trouble!
Seeing that the Zhu family had gone far away, the general of the Great Zhou turned around and said to the soldiers, “Continue to process the exit from the city! But let me tell you in advance, the people of Xiliang who have left the Great Zhou city, don’t think that just because our Majesty has shown you goodwill in the past few days, you will think that the Great Zhou will tolerate anything. You must leave Yecheng Pass as soon as possible. If anyone turns back… they will be treated as spies from Xiliang and killed without mercy! You better take care of yourselves!”
After the general finished speaking, the soldiers who were registering to leave the city looked up at the Xiliang citizen holding his child and trembling, and prepared to register: “What’s your name? Where do you live? How many people are there in your family? This time you need the whole family to leave the city together. Do you know this?”
The man kept shaking, trembling as he looked at the fierce-looking Great Zhou soldiers who were waiting to find them to register their household registration, and said hurriedly, “I… I won’t leave the city. My family is willing to become citizens of the Great Zhou!”
“Then why are you here to cause trouble? Go to the government office to register!” The Great Zhou soldier scolded the man and shouted, “Next household!”
But at this time, the people of Xiliang, who were originally eager to leave the city, hesitated.
“Are you going to do it or not? If not, get out of the way. Next one…” Da Zhou Bing shouted at the next household.
“Dad! We shouldn’t leave the city. Who knows what will happen after we leave? As common people, we don’t care which country we belong to. As long as we are alive, that’s enough! Look, Lao Zhu and his family can’t come back after they left!” The wife pulled her husband’s sleeve, tears falling down, and advised, “The child is still so young. Why did we leave home?”
“Hurry up! Hurry up! Which other household is there?” the Great Zhou soldier urged impatiently.
The husband was still a little hesitant at first, but when he heard the urging of the Great Zhou soldiers, he finally gritted his teeth and pulled his children and wife out of the team, saying, “You’re right, as common people, we just want to live. If the Great Zhou emperor wants to kill us, why bother? When the Great Zhou army enters the city, they can just massacre the whole city and kill them with one sword! Since the Great Zhou emperor said that he would treat us as common people, why should we leave our homes! Let’s go… home!”
“Yes! Why should we leave our homeland? Which emperor can give ordinary people like us a way to live? Which emperor is our master! Let’s go! Go home!”
More people pulled their wives and children out of the team and walked back.
The team in front suddenly dispersed, and the people queuing behind asked what was going on. They learned that those who had left the city were people from Xiliang who wanted to come back, and they were almost treated as spies and shot. The people suddenly became terrified.
Looking ahead, more and more people were leaving the team and returning home with their wives and children. The team behind also began to waver, and soon most of them dispersed.
Outside the city wall of Yechengguan, there were actually people from Xiliang who had left the city and returned one after another.
Those people begged for mercy and wanted to enter the city, but they were told that people from Xiliang who entered the city would be treated as spies. Some people even wanted to force their way in, but were killed outside the city wall by the Great Zhou army. This greatly frightened those people from Xiliang who were still hoping for luck. The Great Zhou army kept their word and they would protect the people of the Great Zhou, but they would not be lenient towards people from Xiliang.
Soon, the small number of Xiliang people who were still waiting at the city gate to leave the city took their belongings and took their wives and children home. They dared not leave the city again, for fear that they would encounter something after leaving the city and would not be able to come back.
After all, my home is within Yecheng Pass. Once I leave Yecheng Pass… I’ll be like a floating duckweed, not knowing where to go.
As long as the Emperor of the Great Zhou doesn’t kill them, it doesn’t matter even if he doesn’t treat them as his own people.
In troubled times…all the people want is to survive.
During dinner, the news from the city gate was delivered to Bai Qingyan, Bai Qingqi, Bai Qingjue, Bai Qingyun, Bai Jinzhao, Bai Jinhua and Bai Jinse.
Bai Qingyan lowered his eyes and picked up a piece of food for Bai Jinse. He said, “The gatekeepers did a great job. Tomorrow, we estimate that there will be more Xiliang people who want to come back. We will deal with them according to this method. Those who come back will be driven away. Those who dare to break in will be killed without mercy! Next, we need to re-register the number of people and households and implement the new policy. Ayun will have to work hard on these.”
“Don’t worry, elder sister, Ayun will definitely get it done!” Bai Qingyun responded.
“I guess if we wait another two or three days, more people from Xiliang will come back…” Bai Qingqi thought for a moment and said, “Sister, I’m worried that if we leave tomorrow, the news will spread quickly. Why don’t we… leave a few days later? What do you think?”
“No need…” Bai Qingyan took the handkerchief handed over by Wei Zhong and shook his head, “We will set out as usual tomorrow. I have asked General Yang to leave the city. General Yang is already waiting outside the north gate of the city…”
Bai Qingqi’s hand holding the chopsticks suddenly tightened: “What the elder sister meant…”
Bai Qingyan nodded.
“What are the elder sister and the third brother talking about? What do they mean?” Bai Jinzhao was confused and immediately felt itchy. He turned to look at Bai Jinse, “Xiaoqi, what are the elder sister and the third brother talking about?”
Bai Jinse looked up at her eldest sister and third brother, and whispered, “Does the eldest sister mean to let the third brother take the troops out of the city, then go around, and then hand the troops over to General Yang to lead them into the city?”
Bai Qingjue looked at Bai Jinse with admiration: “Xiao Qi really deserves to have grown up by the side of his aunt!”
“But elder sister, why do you do this?” Bai Jinhua was also a little confused.
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