Chapter 176: Food

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He Yan looked at her with a smile: "Because I saved those captives, are they true heroes?"
"True heroes will see places that others cannot see. There are many men who speak for men, and many women who speak for women," said Qi Luo. "But there are not many men who speak for women."
He Yan looked at her with a serious expression and couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart, but she was not a real man, so she couldn't really give what Qiluo wanted.
The world is like this, and wanting to shake is not overnight.
Seeing that He Yan was silent, Qiluo took the opportunity to say: "Master Xiaohe, after you left last night, there were many aunts in the city who came to inquire with me. Mrs. Zhixian also asked you, and his door said that if you can come back alive, then I want to talk to my daughter about you. You don’t have to marry you, just be your concubine."
This remark turned too fast, and He Yan couldn't respond. He met Qi Luo's full of hope. He Yan could only move out his usual excuse, "Thank you for your love, but I already have a sweetheart."
"Already have a sweetheart?" Qiluo was a little disappointed, but turned to curiosity for a moment. "Who is Lord Xiaohe's sweetheart? Is she beautiful? What kind of person is he?"
A smile appeared on the corner of He Yan's mouth, "Yes, she looks beautiful, her temperament looks cold, but she is a very gentle person."
This young man has always looked quiet and gentle, but at this moment, it really shows like a young man of this age, with some shame and tension.
Qi Luo was even more curious. "Listening to you, this girl should be very good. Does she like you?"
He Yan was shocked and shook his head.
"Don't like it?" Qi Luo was shocked. "Master Xiaohe has a good skill, good looks, and his heart is so good, and he is the protagonist Wu Anlang. These people don't like it. Why?"
"Because he is very good, there are people better than me." He Yan shrugged. "And I have something I need to do, I don't want to hurt others."
Qiluo looked at him and laughed, "Pouting", "Master Xiaohe, you are good at everything, this is not good. As long as your sweetheart is not yet married, that is, things are not finalized, then grab it. The old master To pick a concubine room, we have dozens of sisters in a courtyard. I sway in front of my master every day, and I have to dress up carefully every day. This old concubine's favorite concubine was also won by the concubine herself. Master Xiaohe really likes that Girl, don’t care about the others. People who are better than you may not be able to hold your identity more than you, but you will lose to you. The fierce girl is afraid of entanglement. I like you very much."
Unexpectedly, he could still hear "the fierce girl is afraid of tying the lang" here. He Yan thought of Jiyang's anxious mood at that time, secretly funny. Qiluo seemed to be very enthusiastic about soliciting the love of her sweetheart, and had to say an end, He Yan had to stop her words: "Miss Qiluo, thank you for your kindness, but we are still insecure. If Run can keep it and the Uto people are rushed back, I will do what you said, but now... still."
After hearing this, Qiluo also sighed and said, "Also."
She fell silent all at once, and he was a little sorry, He Yan felt a little sorry, but the girl was so happy when she came, so she was so sad that she said a few words, thinking about it, she took out a dried apricot from the burden on one side Pass it over, "Don't worry, we will hold on."
Qiluo saw the dried apricots in He Yan's hands, and then he was startled, and then he was taken by surprise, "Master Xiaohe, why do you still have sugar?"
"He grabbed it when he started from Liangzhou Wei." He Yan scratched her head.
When leaving Jiyang, Cui Yuezhi grabbed a lot of Jiyang specialty preserves for her. Xiao Jue did not like to eat these, and all moved to He Yan's house. When they left, they mostly brought dry biscuits. Such snacks didn't carry much, but He Yan also picked up some, thinking that they wouldn't take up anyway.
Qiluo carefully licked the dried apricots and said to He Yan happily: "Thank you Xiaohe, since the Uto people came, the concubine was hungry every day and could not eat even food, let alone sugar. I don’t dare to think about it. Now I’m very happy to be blessed with Master Xiaohe."
He Yan: "I can't eat any food? Let's not worry about it. Uto people besieged Rundu.
She came to Rundu until now, and they both ate the dry food brought by Liangzhou Wei with Wangba. I know that Rundu is very nervous, but that's because it's for the soldiers who are keeping the city. These days, they are busy and busy. They don't even have time to go shopping in the city. If it weren't for Qi Luo to say it himself, He Yan didn't know that Run was already so nervous.
You know, even Qiluo can't eat enough, let alone ordinary people.
Qiluo bites Xingbi and looks at her with wide eyes: "Master Xiaohe doesn't know, Uto soldiers besieged Rundu for more than a month, but Rundu had a snow disaster last year. After the snowstorm, there was a famine. Even if the Uto people do not come, the people in Rundu will have a hard time. Not to mention that the road out of the city is blocked now, and there is not much food in the city. They are all given out to the army. The people are already hungry and eat turf trees. Gen, a few days ago, people who had starved to death appeared."
"What!" He Yanteng sat up for a moment, "This is serious?"
"Dare not deceive Master Xiaohe." Qi Luo said: "Otherwise, we are all rich in grapes, why did Master Xiaohe come on the first day, just give the bowl of Master Xiaohe, it is really... that is already Run It’s the last bowl of grapes."
The famine of the people in the city is a big deal, but Li Kuang did not tell her such a serious matter!
If this is the case, there is no point in defending the city. What Li Kuang and others are waiting for is not Ru Hefei, while the Rundu people are waiting for endless despair and hunger. They are waiting for death.
He Yan lowered his eyebrows and put on his shoes without saying a word, Qiluo asked: "Master Xiaohe, what are you doing?"
"I want to see Li Kuang."
...
Li Kuang was checking the report of yesterday in the house. Suddenly he saw He Yan striding from outside. He was a little surprised and asked, "Aren't you going back to the house to rest? Why did you come out again."
He Yan sat down on a chair on the side, she was really tired, and it would be better to sit down. Just looking at Li Kuang said: "I came here to ask, we burned the grains of the Uto people last night, what plans do you have afterwards?"
Having said that, Li Kuang looked at He Yan, and sincerely said: "Yesterday's victory, thanks to Master Xiaohe. Now that the Uto people are out of grain, I plan to continue to wait for reinforcements. The Uto people are out of grain. It must be more anxious than we are. If we forcibly siege... Let’s set a trap, what do Master Xiaohe think?"
He Yan: "I think it's inappropriate."
Li Kuang frowned: "Why?"
He Yan stared in his eyes, "Master Li intends to stalemate with the Uto people. This was nothing wrong, but how long can the people in the city persist, I am afraid that they have starved to death before waiting for reinforcements. This year's snow disaster, the city has leftovers Not much, why did Master Li hide me from this matter?"
Li Kuang heard that without answering He Yan's words, he asked: "Who told you this?"
"Rundu has so many people, Master Li thinks it can be concealed?" He Yan's eyes are sharp, "Even if there is a concealment, how can there be more people starving to death?"
When she took Rundu’s 500 soldiers out of the city last night, she felt that Rundu’s soldiers were emaciated and weak, but she only thought that it was the result of the continuous defense of the city until Qiluo said it was only because of the reason.
This is already the case in the military, which is a taboo in war. Shouchengshou was starved to death in the city, it is not unwritten in the history books. That's on earth, and I dare not think about it.
Li Kuang remained silent for a while and asked He Yan: "What do you mean?"
"Can't continue to defend the city. I and the adults brought Rundu soldiers and horses, and the Uto people battled out of the city."
"Impossible!" Li Kuang replied without thinking: "Proactively attack, this is the next move."
"Last night we already took the initiative to attack."
"Last night was five hundred soldiers, but Rundu had a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses. This is Rundu’s last hope. If, as you said, a decisive battle with the Uto people, the defeat will cause the city to fall, and all the people in the city will fall into the Uto people. In the hands! Brother He and the Uto people have already handed twice. It is impossible to know the brutality of the Uto people. These people fell into their hands and were more terrible than death. I am the chief of the city of Rundu, Even if all the people in Rundu starved to death, it would be better to die under the torture of the Uto people!"
"Who said we will lose?" He Yan frowned, "Everything may happen before the battle is fought. We may also be the winning side."
"30,000 to hundreds of thousands, how can I fight?"
He Yandao: "Jiyang's battle did not win more with less."
Li Kuang turned around and said in a cold voice: "I am not the Governor of the Right Army, nor are you General Feihong. I can't fight this battle with too few wins, nor can you fight."
"I can fight!"
Li Kuang looked back at her, as if looking at an unsightly child, shook his head and said: "Brother He, I admit that you are a bit powerful, and there is also a set against those Uto people, but the war is cruel, it blocks It’s the life of a city. I can’t take the life of a city to earn your military merit. Those of us, just die, just a life, but the city gate is unbreakable. I will not take the initiative to fight. Uto people, if they want to attack the city, we will defend. They will stand still, and we will wait for the reinforcements to arrive."
This was the case of Li Kuang at that time, and the battle was particularly conservative. He Yan also knew very well. It was just that when she was a lieutenant general, she led tens of thousands of Fu Yue troops, and now...
"This is Rundu, and Master He is Wu Anlang. Without my permission, I can't order Rundu's soldiers and horses. So, don't waste your time!" Li Kuang coldly said.
He Yan took a deep breath, the stone was stinky and hard, and she hadn’t changed it for so many years. She asked: "Well, if you don’t attack and retreat, as the Master Li said, there will be no food in the city. Starved to death. You and I know what is happening to the soldiers and horses of Rundu. If you go on like this, even if the people do not starve to death, the soldiers and horses will starve to death. For the Uto people, so many die without a soldier. Rundu soldiers, didn't they cheap them?"
"The soldiers and horses will not starve to death." Li Kuang's face was heavy, "I have my own way."
He Yan asked: "What way?"
Li Kuang glanced at her and said, "You don't need to know." He said that he ignored He Yan again and turned his sleeves into the back room.
He Yan looked at his back and felt a little nervous. Food is by no means a problem that can be easily solved, but Li Kuang seems to be in the chest. There is a secret granary in the Rundu capital. But if there is such grain, how can the soldiers and horses of Rundu and the people of Rundu suffer from such hunger.
He Yan shook his head and planned to go to Jiang Jiao and his colleagues to discuss it before they went out and ran into a person head-on, but it was Zhao Shiming, a county known as Rundu.
Zhao Shiming awkwardly wiped his sweat from his forehead and glanced inside the room, saying: "I, I was going to go in, but as soon as I got to the door, I heard you and Master Li were arguing, so I couldn't go in." He looked Looking at He Yan's face, he said with relief: "Master Xiaohe, don't take Master Li's words in your heart, he is this temper, stubborn, like a rock. His heart is good, and he dare not take it The people of Rundu go to bet. Lord Xiaohe came from Liangzhou, it may not be very clear. Those of us who have been in Rundu...are really afraid to take this risk."
"I'm not angry." He Yan sighed: "Just think it's wrong."
She looked at Zhao Shiming again. Previously, Zhao Shiming and the mask-making were all done by Zhao Shiming looking for craftsmen. Zhao Shiming, a county known in Rundu, seemed very popular in Rundu. Now Li Kuang is dissatisfied with her, He Yan is not easy to find Li Kuang's dignitaries, and Jiang Jiao has been with them all the time, and they can't be separated. This Zhao Shiming... There should be people around us, although not many.
"Master Zhao." She thought about it and bowed to Zhao Shiming for a long time. "I have something to ask you for help."
Zhao Shiming was startled and said, "Master Xiaohe, but no matter what."
"There are people around Master Zhao who can be used, like guards. I want to borrow two for one. Do something for me." After a pause, she said again: "However, you need to hide Li from this matter. Adults, he cannot be known."
Zhao Shiming looked at the young man in front of him, he was public and private, he had been with Li Kuang longer, he should not help He Yan hide Li Kuang. But on the other hand, he believes that this young man is not malicious, even a pure person rare in the world.
Otherwise, last night, he did not have to take risks to rescue the women in the enemy camp.
Without thinking long, Zhao Shiming said: "It's easy to say."
...
The sky of Rundu is so gray that it hasn't shined in the sun for a long time, and the whole city is filled with a rotten and old atmosphere.
In a family home, two naked boys pushed out a body. This was their grandfather, who was placed on a straw mat. The whole body was thin enough to see every bone... he was alive. Starved to death.
It's not uncommon for such things to happen recently in Rundu. Ying Xiang walked by, looked at it, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes.
Their food is actually not much.
"Four sons, we have stayed in Rundu, and it will become like this," she reminded softly.
Chu Zhao did not speak, but walked forward quietly.
Xu Xiang's people have already left Rundu. Here is to wait for death, no one will take the initiative to drill into this city that is bound to fall. There is no such thing as Xu Xiang here, even if they are the four sons of the Chu family.
Death is an extremely fair thing, and will not be merciful for a moment because of its noble status.
"We..." Ying Xiang also spoke.
"Wait again." Chu Zhao interrupted her.
Wait, what are you waiting for? Ying Xiang silently asked, "If the four sons are really worried about Miss He, why not take her with her?"
"She didn't even know Xiao Huaijin, she traveled thousands of miles to Rundu alone, just to save the people of Rundu City, how do you think she would leave the next city with me?" Chu Zhao smiled. He Yan, if all the dust settles, it is likely that she will leave silently. The more critical it is, the less likely she is to leave alone.
He thought it was stupid, but sometimes, he couldn't help but want to continue to look at it, to see what other shocking things this girl can do, and how can it be done?
Ying Xiang walked with her head down, her voice softly, "Can't Si Gongzi let her go?"
Chu Zhao smiled lightly: "I just... don't want to see her die so easily."
If she is alive, there will probably be more interesting things in the world. If she died, the woman in the world would only be that way.
As he said, Ying Xiang said suddenly: "Four sons, girl He..."
Chu Zhao looked down her eyes and saw He Yan standing on the street, looking at a family of people in a state of preoccupation. At the door was a woman sitting, digging through the mud, trying to dig out some grass-root bark to eat.
She stood quietly, her eyebrows closed, and she couldn't see exactly what she looked like. Chu Zhao walked over and said, "Brother He."
He Yan saw the two of them and replied: "Brother Chu, girl Yingxiang."
Ying Xiang owed her body, and several people walked forward together. Chu Zhao asked: "Brother He just fought the Uto people last night, why not rest in the house?"
"It's okay, I'll walk out." He Yan said.
Ying Xiang asked, "Have he ever used rice? If not, there are still some dry food in the slave's baggage." She sighed, "Rundu is like this now, the hot food is gone."
He Yan shook his head: "Thank you, but I'm not hungry."
She can't eat it.
Chu Zhao thought for a while before speaking: "Brother He is distressing the people in Rundu, is there no food in the city?"
He Yan looked at him: "Brother Chu also knows?"
"I arrived in Rundu earlier than you," Chu Zhao shook his head and smiled. "The time is sufficient. The people in Rundu that I saw in my eyes are all like this."
"If Brother Chu can move Xu Xiang..." He Yan asked tentatively.
He Yan has always been suspicious of Chu Zhao’s identity. Although Chu Zhao was a student of Xu Xiang, he did not seem to be directly involved with Xu Xiang. It is true that the reason why he can have a face in front of Chu Linfeng is inseparable from Xu Jingfu. But Chu Zhao, in many cases, made choices that seemed to be contrary to Xu Jingfu's original intention.
For example, in Jiyang, the military defense map sent by Chu Zhao.
He is a man of great ideas, such a person, it is better not to be against it. Before he showed any hostility, he had to be careful. Just as Chu Zhao wanted to use her, if Chu Zhao could get close to He Rufei, it would be fine. After all, now He Rufei is crazy and inhuman.
If He Yan once wanted to be promoted under Xiao Jue, then now she has changed her mind, she decided not to involve Xiao Jue, far away from Xiao Jue, try to do this by herself.
Chu Zhaowen said, his smile faded away, and after a moment he shook his head and said, "Brother He, I am not omnipotent, Xu Xiang... and will not listen to my opinion."
What this said seems wrong.
He Yan raised his eyebrows, and the relationship between Xu Jingfu and Chu Zhao seemed to be very meaningful.
"I can't help the people of Rundu. The only thing I can do is to accompany them. But what does Brother He plan to do?" He looked at He Yan, "You know, Rundu is basically It won't last long."
A city without food can only stand still. Li Kuang did not explain the situation to her in the first time, and now he refuses to confront the Uto people directly. This road seems to be a dead end.
"Will you give up?" he asked.
The man's eyes were soft, like the warm wind of March in Shuojing, but he also brought a bit of coldness from the spring, sober and secretly looking forward to it.
He Yan couldn't help but let him face him openly, "What does Brother Chu want me to do?"
Chu Zhao stunned for a moment, but instead smiled: "Why are you still asking me?"
He Yan walked forward slowly, "I thought that in Brother Chu's heart, it seemed that there was already an answer."
After a while, his voice came from the side: "I have never seen anything that can block Brother He's footsteps, and I have never seen anything that makes Brother He lose hope."
"You are too omnipotent to think what I think."
Chu Zhaodao said: "If that doesn't happen, Brother He can do everything, can't it solve Rundu's urgent need today?"
He Yan fell silent.
Chu Zhao continued to say: "Brother He knows that when the famine was the worst in the past, the people in the city would eat even if they would change their children in order to survive. It is a particularly terrible thing for people to eat people. If Rundu If this continues, it may not happen that way."
He Yan lowered his head and smiled softly, looking away.
The street is empty, the shop has been closed for a long time, and almost all the edible things have been found out to eat. Obviously it is a lively summer day. Rundu seems to be grassless. Even the trees on the roadside, the branches are bare. The leaves have long been picked off by the hungry mad people to fill their stomachs.
If it weren't for the hot sun, this wouldn't look like summer at all, like winter. This is not like the Rundu in He Yan's memory, small and lively, the grapes are crystal and the wine is mellow.
War has changed everything.
She whispered: "Do you know what is more terrible than Yi Zi Shi Shi?"
Chu Zhao was a little surprised, "What is it?"
He Yan didn't speak, but just looked at the lifeless city, and there was a feeble sorrow in his heart.
That kind of thing... if she can, she hopes that it won't happen for a lifetime, and she won't see it for a lifetime.
That is real on earth.