Chapter 261: Reunion is Hard

Two voices rang out at the same time in the silent night, and stunned each other at the same time.

It turned out to be an acquaintance!
Li Yaoguang subconsciously withdrew his electric baton, but it was too late.

Poor Xiaoyao was a little confused after smelling 2.0 at first, but when he made a move, he found that the person who came was actually an old friend. He suddenly retracted his move and was electrocuted at the right time.

When Li Yaoguang realized that it was his old friend and wanted to stop, it was too late. He could only watch the smiling man in front of him fall straight down, still twitching.

Li Yaoguang...

This misunderstanding went too far, and the flood destroyed the Dragon King Temple!
"Little brother."

Li Yaoguang hurriedly squatted down to show concern for the unfortunate guy on the ground. He felt numbness and tingling in his fingers. When the dark shadows in the camp realized something was wrong with their bodies, it was too late. They could only fall down one after another with stunned faces. Even the tall dark shadow was not spared. Hearing something was wrong, he quickly rushed over, but he also fell down halfway. Before he passed out, his mind was full of concern for his brother.

Behind Li Yaoguang, Uncle Yin and the others who followed her steps to rush out were also stunned by the sudden change.

"Brother Guang, what on earth is going on?"

Li Yaoguang was busy checking on Xiaoyao's condition and had no time to say more.

Fortunately, she stopped in time and did not continue to output electricity. It was no big deal after just one click. She took out the antidote and gave it to Xiaoyao to smell while explaining quickly.

"Uncle Yin, this is my little brother, we are one family. I'm afraid there is some misunderstanding. I have already drugged him. You gather all the people and keep them under guard. Remember, don't do anything yet, let alone hurt anyone. Wait for me to wake up my brother and ask him questions clearly."

Uncle Yin and the others did not doubt or hesitate when they heard this. They nodded quickly and led the dozen or so tribesmen behind them to act according to his instructions.

When Xiaoyao smelled the antidote, his mind felt fuzzy and his body felt numb, and he heard the familiar yet unfamiliar voice of "Little Brother".

This is... Why did he remember that he seemed to have seen an old friend before he fainted?
"Oh, I think I saw the little sir..." He muttered subconsciously, and his consciousness returned instantly. He opened his eyes wide and saw the person above his head. He was suddenly delighted, "Hey, it's really you, little sir!"

Isn't it her? Li Yaoguang also had mixed feelings, happy, excited, and guilty. "Little brother, why are you here suddenly? Where are big brother and the others? Are they all okay? Is everyone safe?"

"My brother? It's bad!" Xiaoyao's face changed color when he mentioned his elder brother. He was afraid that his elder brother would flood the Dragon King Temple and hurt old friends like he did. He struggled to get up, but unfortunately, the electric current passed through his body. Although it was not fatal, it still made him feel numb. Xiaoyao's body softened and he fell down again. Li Yaoguang went to help him in time.

"Be careful."

Xiaoyao didn't care about these things. He just hated his body for not being able to keep up. He was afraid of making mistakes, so he stretched his neck and shouted behind him, "Brother, big brother, boss, please don't do anything. We are all family. This is Mr. Wuyouzi."

However, after the voice was heard, there was no response for a long time behind him, only silence.

Realizing that something might have gone wrong, Xiaoyao's face turned pale again, and he gritted his teeth and struggled to get up again.

Li Yaoguang realized something and hurriedly supported the man to comfort him: "Don't panic, don't panic, Xiaoyao brother is fine. I just used some medicine. Everyone should have fainted. Nothing happened. I have also told my companions who came with me not to do it. Don't worry."

Xiaoyao finally relaxed his tense heart, sat back on the ground in embarrassment, looking at Li Yaoguang, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Young Master, look at what happened tonight."

Isn't it? Li Yaoguang nodded. Speaking of this, Li Yaoguang couldn't help but ask, "Little Brother, how were you after we parted? Did you leave Beijing smoothly? Why are you here tonight? You almost..."

Li Yaoguang glanced at the people from Hejiacun who were also bewitched behind him, and the meaning was self-evident.

Seeing this, Xiaoyao felt extremely ashamed.

"Hey, hey, hey! I'm ashamed to say this, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, but don't worry, my brother and I, as well as the head of my family, are not vicious people, although... never mind, it's always our fault. Although we did it, I promise that we didn't hurt anyone's life. As for why we ended up like this..."

This is a long story.

Gradually, Xiaoyao mentioned the past to Li Yaoguang with a bitter mouth.

It turned out that after being reminded by Li Yaoguang that day, those who got the news all took action. The eldest brother even packed up his belongings and asked him to take his family back to his hometown to take shelter temporarily. They had originally planned to send them out of the city after dark in the same way as they had sent Li Yaoguang. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden change in Kyoto later, as if it started from the palace. Rumors were flying and intensified. The news that the emperor and the court had fled could no longer be covered up. Kyoto was in chaos. To prevent civil unrest, General Shen ordered the South Gate to be opened wide and gave the people in the city three days to do as they pleased.

They fled out of the city together with the family of Chief Xie, the families of his former yamen runners, and Li Yaoguang's stall friends such as Uncle Li who knew the inside story. Only the stubborn eldest brother and his brothers in the army were left behind to defend the city to the death.

After running away for less than two days, they received news that the city had been breached. Xiao Yao was really worried, and acting on impulse, he entrusted his family to Xie Chatou and his brothers, intending to go back to look for them.

Xie Chatou and his friends were also kind-hearted and could not bear to take risks alone, so they simply let all their families be taken care of by Shusheng, Li Bo and other stall friends while they continued on their journey to avoid disaster. They then turned around and went back, thinking that they had to go and take a look regardless of life or death.

When they finally arrived outside Kyoto and saw the city full of corpses and blood, Xiaoyao and the others were filled with despair, thinking that their loved one must be dead. They thought that since they had come all the way here, they could not let their eldest brother's body be exposed in the wilderness, even at the risk of death, and they had to find the body and bury it properly.

Fortunately, Hu Di was only concerned with chasing the major general who was said to have escaped, and was only concerned with looting the wealth in the city, burning, killing and plundering. The corpses outside the city were not collected, and no one cared. Relying on their familiarity with the terrain, more than a dozen of them risked searching in the dark among the mountains of corpses and blood outside the city. They actually found the seriously injured eldest brother and two soldiers who were still alive under the city wall defended by the eldest brother.

With such good news, everyone agreed that there might be more survivors in the pile of corpses. A dozen people were unwilling to give up, and groped around searching. They actually found more than 20 people in the pile of corpses one after another.

Later, everyone hid in the cellars of houses outside the city, and slowly recuperated with great difficulty. Just then, the capital was looted, and the Hudi army pursued them southward. They were able to escape by chance, and then caught up with their families and returned to their hometown with great difficulties.

The north was filled with war and disasters occurred everywhere. Xie Chatou, Li Bo, the scholar and other people who were born and raised in Kyoto had nowhere to go, so they followed them back to their hometown and took refuge in the mountains.

At the beginning, it was okay. With the guidance of the eldest brother and his men, everyone collected a lot of food and brought it into the mountains. From time to time, they led the brothers who were lucky enough to survive down the mountain to plunder and kill the Hu Di, bring back supplies, and rescue the wounded. Life in the mountains was not difficult.

Later, as more and more people came to rescue, the situation outside became worse and worse. Those who could escape all fled, the stored food was looted, the fields were left uncultivated, and there was no harvest. No matter how brave they were, life became increasingly difficult. In addition, there was a severe drought this year, and even reclaiming wasteland and farming in the mountains could not sustain it. They could not endure it any longer, so they had to take their strong brothers out of the mountains to find food and water, and to explore the way to the south.

But everything was destroyed by the sudden flood in the Zhuo River. Seeing that they were about to be trapped and die, they had no choice but to become bandits for the sake of their families in the mountains.

Of course, there are also moral codes for thieves. If they are Hu Di, they will be killed. If they are among our own people, they will kill the rich and rob the rich. If they are poor, they will not be robbed but will be helped. For example, the people in Hejia Village...

All one can say is that they were very unlucky. Compared with the refugees they met along the way, the situation in Hejia Village seemed much better. Not only did they have proper food, but they were not short of water. Just for the water, everyone went against their conscience and resorted to violence. However, even so, they did not kill or injure anyone.