Man Chong sighed helplessly and quickened his pace to gather the soldiers to deal with the labor in the city.
As soon as he left Chen Jiao's house, Man Chong inadvertently glanced at the white smoke rising into the sky. He suddenly had a premonition that the sky would collapse.
" That direction is the warehouse." Man Chong muttered in a daze.
The sound of horse hooves came from the other side of the street, and the anxious sound of footsteps came in an instant. Man Chong quickly stepped aside to make way. The knight who jumped down from the horse rushed into Chen Jiao's house. In just a few breaths, Man Chong heard Cao Ren's angry roar outside the house.
Then, Cao Ren walked out aggressively with a towering anger. Seeing Man Chong standing at the door, Cao Ren said angrily,""Kill all those slaves for me.”
"What happened?" asked Man Chong.”
"A few lowly slaves burned down the granary and armory.”Cao Ren's tone was filled with endless hatred. After saying that, he quickly walked toward the fire in the east of the city.
Time jumped back to an hour ago.
Ma Shun came to the messenger pigeon room to report. When he entered the soldiers 'room that was usually guarded on the first floor, he heard coughing sounds. Five of the ten guards were lying in the room, and their faces were sallow. It was obvious that they were seriously ill.
As for the other soldiers, they were nowhere to be seen.
When they arrived at the small courtyard by the stairs at the back door, a few laborers were brewing medicine. As they brewed medicine, they coughed. It seemed that they were also sick. The strong smell of medicine choked Ma Shun so much that he had no choice but to close his nose. Then, he called out and quickly climbed up the stairs to the attic where the carrier pigeons were kept.
The attic was high up and had windows on all four sides. Ma Shun breathed in the fresh air and carefully checked the surroundings and the situation downstairs. Ma Shun quickly came to the table and wrote on a piece of silk with a brush: There was a plague in the city and the warehouse was burned down.
After cutting out the silk with these eight words, he wrapped it around the leg of a carrier pigeon. He carried the carrier pigeon to the south window and threw it into the air. He muttered,"You must help me deliver it."
After seeing the messenger pigeon disappear from his sight, Ma Shun walked down from the attic. He could not be bothered with the soldiers lying on the ground and left.
When he returned to his residence, the coughing sounds in his residence were also incessant. The word 'plague' suddenly popped into Ma Shun's mind. Thinking of this, Ma Shun's hair stood on end. He had experienced the plague before. After the plague, only a hundred people survived in a city that originally had tens of thousands of people. The scene of the city being filled with corpses had caused a great trauma to the young Ma Shun at that time.
"Big Brother, I just received news that someone saw a woman who looked like his sister-in-law when they were delivering medicine to General Man Chong's house.”Just as Ma Shun was in a daze, a man walked over quickly and whispered into Ma Shun's ear.
Ma Shun, who was originally in a daze, suddenly burst out with light in his eyes. He said to the man,"Prepare everything and follow the original plan.
Take them there first. I'll go there and take a look. I'll meet up with you immediately.”
"Good! I'll go gather everyone now." The burly man did not hesitate at all. He was not worried at all about whether Ma Shun would meet up with him after visiting his wife. Ma Shun was a man of his word. He said that he would meet up with them, and he would definitely meet up with them unless he died.
Ma Shun groped his way to Man Chong's house. The door suddenly opened and he saw Man Chong leaving in a hurry.
"Perfect." Seeing that Man Chong had left, he felt relieved. He didn't go through the main entrance but climbed over the wall and entered. After jumping into the courtyard, he didn't see any soldiers standing guard, so he calmed down even more. He saw a maid carrying a wooden basin. She looked familiar. Ma Shun called out her name. When the maid looked up and saw that it was Ma Shun, she was so surprised that the wooden basin fell to the ground.
"Ying Er, is your sister-in-law here?”Ma Shun asked.
This woman was also from Xinye and was familiar with Ma Shun and his wife during their escape.
"Yes, yes, I'll take you there.
However, Sister-in-law was seriously ill and was still in a coma.”the woman called Ying Er by Ma Shun said.
"Quickly bring me there." Ma Shun was overjoyed.
Seeing his wife lying quietly on the hospital bed and caressing her calloused hands, Ma Shun's tears kept falling. After nearly a year, he finally saw the person he had been thinking about day and night.
Ma Shun gently kissed his burning forehead and said to Ying 'er,""Take good care of your sister-in-law."
"General Man is quite good to us. He even asked us to brew medicine for sister-in-law. Don't worry, sister-in-law will recover.”Ying 'er comforted him.
Ma Shun nodded." Time is of the essence. I have to go now. I'll come and see her again next time."”
"Brother Ma, you have to be careful." Ying 'er warned.
Ma Shun walked out of the room, climbed over the wall, and left the hospital. He then headed towards the meeting place with his brothers.
……
In the military training ground outside the city, a young man was drawing his bow and arrow. He bent down and aimed the bow at the sky. A bird flew past in the sky. The bowstring made a soft sound and the arrow suddenly shot into the sky. The arrow pierced through the bird and then the arrow took the bird higher into the sky.
However, it only rose a few feet before the bird with the arrow in its body fell from the sky and landed on the dry ground.
A soldier immediately picked up the bird's corpse.
"How is it? I told you my body had recovered.
It should be very easy to pull this two-stone bow.”Huang Xu brought the bird's corpse to Liu Chan and said happily.
"Your archery skills are indeed impressive. I admit that I'm not as good as you, but you definitely can't compare to me in martial arts. Kid, quickly wear armor and choose a weapon.”
"Just admit that your archery skills aren't as good as mine. Let's talk about martial arts later."”
"Let's compete now."
"It's too tiring to draw two crossbows at once." Huang Xu said. He had made up his mind not to compete with Guan Ping.
Huang Xu had rushed to the camp from Changsha last night. According to Huang Zhong, Huang Xu would need another half a year to recover. However, Huang Xu's mind became active after his body recovered a little. He ignored Huang Zhong's instructions and ran to Jiangling alone, wanting to participate in this war.
For some reason, Huang Xu and Guan Ping started to fight as soon as they met. The two of them fought endlessly in Liu Chan's tent. One wanted to compete in martial arts, and the other wanted to compete in archery. Liu Chan simply said that they would compete, and then pulled the two of them to the drill ground.
" This is a messenger pigeon..." Liu Chan said as he stared at the bird in Huang Xu's hand.
Guan Ping had wanted to teach Huang Xu a lesson when he saw him acting shamelessly, but when he heard Liu Chan say that Huang Xu had shot a carrier pigeon, Guan Ping looked at Huang Xu with ill intentions,""Innocent people who shoot and kill carrier pigeons in the army will be punished according to military regulations.”
Liu Chan took the carrier pigeon from Huang Xu's hand and saw that there was silk tied to his feet. He hurriedly took it off and opened it. After reading it, Liu Chan said,"This is a messenger pigeon that flew out from the city. Someone in the city sent us a message.”
"What message?" Guan Ping asked hurriedly.”
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