Chapter 3 third quarter

There are four vehicles in the "Dashutang" convoy: the first one was originally for Di Bin, but he insisted on personally commanding the knights who explored the road, and he would only enter the car to rest when he slept in the open at night; the second one was for Yu In the car of the Runsheng couple, apart from Ye Yi, there were guards sitting on the roof and rear of the car, and men on horseback on both sides to protect them along the way; the third car was used to carry food, water, clothes, utensils, camping tents and Other necessities; Oshio's car was taken by Kamakura and Ning Xiaoyu.Together with the coachman and other guards on horseback, the entire convoy has as many as seventy-four people, and every time they arrive in a town, they have to book the largest hotel in the area.If it weren't for the "Feng Yilong" flag and the advance greetings from various branches, they would have become conspicuous targets of robbery.

But when such a large convoy enters this section of the official road, it is like a leaf falling in the forest. No matter which direction you look, you can't see people. Ant-like hungry people are piled up around the tents made of rags, or a few hug each other to keep warm.All they could see were bare trees of miserable appearance, whose leaves and bark had long since become bitter water in their stomachs. Both the convoy and the horses moved slowly.Tian Ahuo rode at the forefront and kept driving away the people sitting and lying in the middle of the road.Most of them couldn't walk anymore, and they had to climb back to the side of the road, only avoiding the huge wheels.

Di Bin rode his horse to the right side of Runsheng's car.He holds the rein with his left hand, and his right hand rests on the ring-headed steel knife inserted beside the saddle.However, he knew that the knife was just a consolation—if these thousands of hungry people really attacked together, it would be enough to swallow the entire convoy in a moment. He scanned every sunken face along the way.No one cried—perhaps they were running out of water.Each cracked lip is parted, as if expecting something.Is relief?or death? Di Bin has sent his subordinates to inquire: These large numbers of refugees come from three villages and towns in the west of the state directly under the Central Government (the state capital where the capital is located).Due to the severe drought last year, the harvest was severely lacking, but more than half of the land had to be handed over, and even the grain seeds had to be eaten in winter; when the weather was warmer after the New Year, he left his hometown to go to Beijing to ask for mercy, but he hadn't arrived yet. Fifteen miles away from the capital, they had been driven back by the imperial army, and half of them had starved to death when they fled here.

Di Bin didn't dare to look them in the eye.It's not that he hasn't seen poor people.He himself was poor as hell a few years ago.But in a big place like Piaocheng, the poor at least have food to eat—the little that slips through the fingers of those rich and powerful is enough to feed many people.Poor people in Piaocheng can still keep dogs... Compared with the past days in the broken stone, this place reminds Di Bin of the battlefield, the pile of corpses. ——At least the soldiers have to die a little more decently... "Bai Dou, do you know why I came here?" Yu Runsheng's voice sounded across the carriage.

"Is it to make us... recall the days when there was nothing?" Di Bin didn't see the boss in the carriage shaking his head. "To see how they differ from us. You know?" Di Bin looked around again.A sallow face.They are all ordinary farmers.Di Bin's father is a hunter, but he is not much better than the farmer.He imagined what he would look like today if he had stayed in his hometown. "I have no idea." "Although they are all starved to death, if there are so many people here, if they all rush over, we will have to sacrifice everything in our car, right? No, they can just kill us... There will be one more day today. Meat meal." Yu Runsheng coughed a few times. "Yeah. I think they've been eating human flesh for a long time..."

"But they didn't. Why?" As Di Bin listened, cold sweat broke out from his palm on the handle of the knife.It's something he's been worried about.Yes, why didn't they come over? "Because they dare not. They don't have the courage to take their destiny into their own hands. From birth to death, they believe they are ordinary people. They don't believe that they can change anything except occasional luck. They believe that the world Many things are inviolable. They are forever waiting for others to tell them what to do and what not to do. They too have dreams, which they easily give up and forget. When disaster strikes, they resent their fate Not good, and forgetting that I never made a choice."

"Don't you believe it? Look. They're starving, and what they need most is right in front of them. But they still dare not reach for it. I'm going this way to prove to you that we and them difference between." "The hall master said it very well." Ye Yi in front of the car said with a smile. Di Bin glared at Ye Yi.The young man he personally brought into the "Big Tree Hall" has become a little restless. Ever since he was promoted to be close to the boss, Ye Yi's attitude has become a little arrogant, especially after the "assassination" of the boss last winter.Dressing is also more particular than before, to show that he is different from other gang members.

Di Bin ignored him and turned his head away to look at the hungry people.There were a few children mixed in, with pitifully thin arms and legs, and round, bulging bellies.He couldn't bear to look any further. He knew that there were other meanings in the boss's words.Compared with Piaocheng, the capital is another world.What they are facing will not only be things in the underworld, maybe one day, he will do something or make some decisions, causing many irrelevant people to suffer. Can't hesitate.There is no sympathy for them. Can't fail because of these worthless people.

——Di Bin knew that this was what the boss really wanted to say. "Stop." Yu Runsheng suddenly shouted from the car.Di Bin suddenly became nervous.Although he believed in Boss Yu's words, it was too dangerous after all. The curtain behind the car is rolled up.Wearing a thick black cotton robe and holding a short cane, Yu Runsheng walked out slowly. Looking at the boss's face, Di Bin was very worried.The doctor said that the arrow wound has fully recovered.But he always felt that the boss was a little different from before he was injured-he couldn't tell what had changed.

— just like just now.The former boss seldom said so much...just some poor farmers, why did he say that? ... ——Is it because of the shock of losing his son? ... Ye Yi immediately jumped out of the car seat, and followed closely beside the hall master, and the other four subordinates with knives also got off their horses to guard. Yu Runsheng walked towards the group of children that Di Bin saw just now.Two of the boys hugged and sat on the ground weakly. Their faces were quite similar. They seemed to be a pair of brothers, but they were so thin that it was hard to tell which one was older.

Yu Runsheng squatted in front of them leaning on a short stick.He looked left and right at the two immature and withered faces, and then asked the boy on the right: "Are you brother?" The boy nodded. "Where are the parents?" The boy shook his head. "died?" The boy glanced at his younger brother, hesitated for a while, and then opened his scabbed lips: "Probably." His voice was hoarse, not like a child's. Some nearby hungry people who still had some strength began to gather around curiously.Di Bin became even more nervous, and motioned for Tian Ahuo to dismount as well, to protect the hall master.He led Baqi closer.He had made up his mind that he would ride his horse and charge if necessary—whether it was an old man, a woman, or a child who died under the horse's hooves. "Want to come in my car?" Yu Runsheng asked. The two children looked at each other in surprise and nodded at the same time. "But I can only let one person sit." Yu Runsheng said with an unusually indifferent face. "Who's coming? You decide for yourself." The brothers looked at each other again, and their hands hugging each other tightened.The young eyes showed complicated emotions, and the two mouths were half-open, unable to speak for a long time. "How? Have you decided?" "I want to sit! I want to sit!" A boy who was younger than the two brothers came out from the middle, abruptly pushed the two brothers apart, and shouted in front of Yu Runsheng. Yu Runsheng picked up the child with one arm, then turned around and walked away.The two little brothers on the ground immediately howled. The other starving people onlookers wanted to follow up and beg Yu Runsheng, but they were all stopped by the strong man with the knife.One of the swordsmen unsheathed the weapon an inch or so.The cold light was like an invisible wall, making the hungry people dare not move half a step closer. "Son, what's your name?" Yu Runsheng asked as he walked back to the car. "No. Daddy only calls me Agou." "Master." Ye Yi followed closely. "Why don't you let me hold it. The child is dirty and looks like it has fleas." Yu Runsheng ignored him, still looked at the boy and said, "I'll just call you Agou, and I'll give you a name another day. From today onwards, your surname is Yu. I'm your father." The child nodded vigorously: "Father." Di Bin saw everything in his eyes.He understood what Boss Yu meant.As the boss said just now, this child has the courage to control his own destiny.This is the difference between life and death. —But isn't that too cruel?Can't you take all three children away? ... —What about the other children?At a glance, there are at least seventy or eighty of them here.You can't take them all away, right?What is the difference between taking only three away and taking away one of the three now? ... Yu Runsheng had already returned to the carriage with the child in his arms.Di Bin was about to command his subordinates to set off again when he found another person got out of the car. From the last one. Di Bin hurriedly galloped over. Sickle with long hair was wearing a loose brown robe, and a Western Region blanket with colorful patterns was draped over his shoulders.Although the clothes concealed her figure, she was noticeably thinner than she had been a few months ago—of course, she still hadn't regained her former firm and perfect figure. He took Ning Xiaoyu by the arm and got out of the car together, one palm was black and the other snow white, fingers were intertwined and tightly clasped.Ning Xiaoyu is still so breath-takingly beautiful—even the hungry people forget the pain of the body for a moment when they see her—but without makeup, she has lost her former style, and at first glance she looks like a girl who has not left the court.She was only wearing a plain blue dress, which still did not hide her beautiful figure. "Fifth brother! Get in the car, let's go quickly." Di Bin urged while reining in the horse. Although Lian Shou was only standing, he was almost at the same level as Di Bin on the horse.He looked at Di Bin with sadness in his eyes - something Di Bin had never seen before.Di Bin was stunned by this look, and didn't speak any more. Lian Shou said softly to Ning Xiaoyu: "Wait for me for a while." Then let go of her palm.Walk to the group of hungry people alone. Among the guards on horseback was a young man with a cloth scarf on his head, who immediately jumped off the saddle and followed.This kid is called Liang Zhuang, and he is one of the admirers of the "Champion of Boxing" in Piaocheng. After the battle last winter, Lian Shou let him join the "Big Tree Hall". Lian Shou waved his hand without looking back, signaling Liang Zhuang not to follow.Liang Zhuang stared at the back of the sickle head with respectful eyes, and his right hand wrapped in a cloth belt held the handle of the knife at his waist, and waited 20 to 30 steps behind the "King of Boxing". Lian Shou walked up to an old man lying on the ground.The old man's rags were opened, and his cage-like ribs rose and fell with his breathing.The skin of the whole body seems to have been dried by the air, and it no longer looks like a living thing.Eyes pop with pain.Pupil light and cloudy. Scythe knelt down, took off the blanket rolled around the old man's fragile body, and then rested his head on his lap, wrapped his right hand around his chest and shoulders, and warmed his cheek with his left palm. The old man's eyes looked up at Sickle's face, still wide open.Not sure if he can still see. The sickle gently hugged the dying old man, just like hugging a lover.He opened his mouth unconsciously and sang a song. The Moon Casting Water—Where does the light and shadow come from? Stone thrown into water - wave - where to go? Shidao.com is confused One night, one meal and dust There is no way to die Waiting for the hundred-year-old lotus to bloom without color and fragrance... The whole field suddenly fell silent.Not even the horses neighed.Di Bin, Ning Xiaoyu, the subordinates of "Dashutang", the coachman and hundreds of hungry people nearby were all listening to Lian Shou's song. None of them could understand, and Lian Shou himself didn't quite understand.The lyrics are sung with an accent from outside the customs, and he has forgotten where he learned them on the journey that year. The eyes of the old man softened with the sound of the song, and his previously clenched teeth also relaxed.Leaning on Sickle's thigh, his expression became that of a baby. Scythe continued to sing the only passage he remembered over and over, his palm still stroking the old man's cheek back and forth. Until the old man's eyes finally closed.