Chapter 176 Unexpectedly

Ma Mingwen smiled as he watched everyone teasing Xiaobao. After a while, he turned around and talked to Su Qing'an. Reading

After hearing that he had left, Su Qing'an was called over by the government office for repeated questioning, and she felt very sorry.

"I didn't expect that because of my little thing, I would bring you so much trouble, and even caused you and your son to be separated from the family."

Su Qing'an shook her head: "We didn't lose anything, but we were called over for questioning. Fortunately, Xiaobao was born at that time, otherwise I would be called over for questioning three times a day, and I really couldn't stand it. Moreover, Bocheng's relationship with his second mother's brothers and sisters was not very good. After the separation, we, mother and son, are quiet."

Ma Mingwen couldn't let it go: "No matter what, I am sorry for you and your son."

Cui Yuying listened to it and sighed. At that time, I didn't tell her because I didn't want to add to the sadness of separation. I didn't expect that it would bring her so many things later.

Handed Xiaobao to Xiaodouzi and sat over.

"Xiaobao is still so young, how did you bring him here? It's nearly a thousand miles away from Fengting Town, how did you and your son get here?" It's really hard to imagine.

When asked by the two of them, Su Qingmei recalled the days of fleeing for the past few months.

From a large family at the beginning, to only her and her son at the end. No matter how hard it was at that time, the family was still together, but now everyone is separated, and no one knows where they are, whether they are dead or alive.

Su Qingmei's eyes were filled with tears when she thought about it.

"Guangning Prefecture was recruiting soldiers, and my father was on the list. My cousin and uncle also wanted to go. If either of the two families went, they would die. So we discussed escaping together. Many people in the village and town fled. We fled all the way south... Later, we were captured by a team, and we followed the team all the way south, thinking of going to Fujian..."

"Unexpectedly, we were chased by another team halfway. During the escape, the team ran out of food, and the leader wanted to kill the women and children who followed the army, saying that they were burdens. He chased us into the dense forest in the mountains, and my parents and I were separated..."

"Later, I was rescued by someone and arrived in a valley, but the person who rescued me had bad intentions, so my mother and I escaped. Unexpectedly, we were captured in another mountain just after we escaped. The village was occupied by a group of bandits, and the village owner arranged for me and the Baishu brothers in the village to escape, hoping to get help..."

In just a few words, the speaker narrated the past lightly, but the listener couldn't help but feel sad and wanted to cry.

Along the way, the mother and son can come to this day, it is really God's blessing.

Cui Yuying shed tears, as if she couldn't wipe them away. She held Su Qing'an's hand tightly: "You have suffered..." But she couldn't say more.

Ma Mingwen couldn't help feeling sad.

This damn corrupt dynasty, if the person on the throne had half the ability to govern, the people would not have to leave their homes and their families.

He must overthrow it!

Su Qing'an shed tears in front of Cui Yuying and Ma Mingwen, two people she knew every day, seeing that they cared like elders.

She didn't have time to think about this journey, and now she is afraid.

If they had made a mistake one day, the mother and son would have been gone long ago.

"I met Bocheng before I came here." Ma Mingwen said slowly.

Su Qing'an stopped sobbing and looked at him in surprise: "Is he still alive?"

Ma Mingwen nodded: "Yes, he is still alive."

Su Qing'an breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive. If I died without knowing that there was a Xiaobao, it would be such a pity."

Ma Mingwen glanced at Xiaobao and said: "If he is alive, you will definitely see him. He is now a fourth-rank loyal general. But this time he let us go, I am afraid he will be stripped of his official position."

Lü Bocheng let them go? "Did you meet on the battlefield? Are you opponents?"

Ma Mingwen nodded: "Yes. I left Fengting Town, robbed the weapons of the county government, and robbed the private house of the county magistrate. You know that, right? From then on, I wanted to join the anti-army team and rebel against Dashuo."

Su Qing'an nodded: "Then you must have robbed a lot. Later, the county magistrate made a lot of money in our Pingchuan County, set up many tax checkpoints, and collected various taxes from time to time. Even Xiaobao paid the Ding tax. The people who entered the city had to pay taxes even if they brought a few eggplants into the city."

Ma Mingwen shook his head: "This Shuo Dynasty is rotten from top to bottom. It can't be repaired."

Su Qing'an fell silent.

It seems that Master Ma and the Shuo Dynasty are enemies, and they belong to different camps with Lu Bocheng. And those bandits who occupied the village are obviously against the court. This...these two parties are in the same camp.

Ma Mingwen glanced at her and said, "You just said that you escaped from the mountains to find someone to rescue the people in the village?"

Su Qingmei nodded: "I originally escaped to the other side of the mountain and borrowed people from other villages in the mountains, but I didn't expect that several nearby villages were occupied by bandits. We had to leave the mountains and go to Gongxi County to find a solution. I originally planned to go to the county government office to see the situation and tell the county magistrate to send troops into the mountains to suppress the bandits."

Ma Mingwen smiled disdainfully.

"Although the magistrate of Gongxi County did not exploit the people so much, he did not have the courage to go into the mountains to suppress the bandits. Besides, the county has only more than a hundred people, not to mention the police."

Su Qingmei was anxious when she heard this: "What should I do? You don't know, I was captured by them and taken to the mountains. I lived in a big bunk bed with more than a dozen women. Every night, the gang of thieves came in and dragged the women out. The next day, a woman jumped off the mountain to commit suicide. It was too tragic. I can't watch it. If I don't save them, the people in the village will be killed."

This was the first time Cui Yuying heard such a tragic thing.

With a heartache, she looked at Ma Mingwen: "Master, please help me think of a solution."

Xiao Douzi and a few others were listening nearby, and they were all a little indignant. They shouted: "Master, I will kill them!"

"We will go too!"

Ma Mingwen glared at a few apprentices: "Didn't you hear what your sister-in-law said? Several nearby villages have been occupied! There are two or three hundred thieves in a village. How much can you do? It will only implicate the people in the village!"

The glimmer of hope that had just risen in Su Qingmei's heart was extinguished again.

Cui Yuying glanced at Ma Mingwen, then turned to comfort Su Qing'an: "Qing'an, don't worry. Let your master think about it. He didn't say he wouldn't help you. He still has some troops, but the mountains are easy to defend but difficult to attack, so you still need to plan carefully."

Ma Mingwen looked at Cui Yuying and said nothing more.

He only told Xiaodouzi: "Go and book a room."

"Master, you're not going to Renzhou?"

"Not for the time being."

"Are you going to Renzhou?" Su Qing'an asked.