Chapter 679: Return
On the way back, Diao Chan didn't have a good time, although he was in a hurry and sang and sang, so he could only eat but the horse died.
Along the way, countless people starved to death, and naturally, there was a plague, and the horses were infected with horse plague, and the dead died with herpes all over their bodies, foaming at the mouth, and dying of exhaustion.
Fortunately, horse plague is not contagious, otherwise everyone in the carriage would have been terrible.
However, the appearance of horse plague made the horse die, and when the horse died, the carriage was useless, so the carriage was sold, but in this famine era, how much was the carriage worth? Half a bag of rice and noodles.
At this time, the four masters and servants were already mixed in the group of refugees, accompanied by some deserters around, but these deserters came from Beihai, most of them were Kong Rong's subordinates, Kong Rong was killed, Beihai was occupied, and these soldiers had no roots, and now they are no different from duckweed.
"Honghua, I'll come. Diao Chan said, carrying the noodle bag on the back of the red flower on her back.
Honghua hurriedly said, "Miss, let me come...... You have a golden body, but you can't do it. ”
"It's fine. Diao Chan said, she wiped her face with her hands, at this time she was also unkempt, on the one hand, it was also to hide her appearance, and on the other hand, it was forced by the situation, because how could there be a place in the refugee team for her to freshen up?
Honghua sobbed with emotion, she didn't expect that she would be able to meet such a good master.
Lu Ye said: "Lord Cheng Yu, why don't you carry it yourself? You are a man." ”
"I've arrived, and I've had lung disease since I was a child, and I can't do physical work, in fact, I want to help, but I can't......" Cheng Yu said, he spoke with air leakage, as if it was a ventilated wall, no wonder, Cheng Yu has been frail and sickly since he was a child.
Diao Chan said: "It's okay, red flowers and green leaves, you follow me, and we will find a place to rest later." ”
"Good. The two girls agreed obediently.
It seems that the team on this road is also tired and tired, so when they came to a mountain, everyone also stopped to rest, some people took out dry food, carefully guarding the eyes of the people around them, after all, on this way, food is life, food is everything.
Without food, everything is fake, Diao Chan saw with her own eyes that a mother did not hesitate to use her body to call people in order to eat a piece of bread for her child, what a cheap exchange, but it was the most expensive exchange.
There were also two people who fought for a bowl of porridge, but the pottery bowl fell to the ground, and everyone found that there were only a few grains of millet in it, which was completely a bowl of rice soup.
There was a nobleman with jewelry and gold who starved to death, and no one took the gold on his body, because at this time, gold became a burden, and before he died, he used to exchange all his gold with people for a large bread, but in the face of life and death, who would give him food?
And the gold is heavy, wearing it is also a burden, people don't know if they can go to a place where there is a way to live, if they wear the gold, it is tantamount to putting on a set of shackles on themselves, making their steps heavier and more difficult.
Under a tree, Red Flower and Green Leaf worked hard to dig a hole in the ground, and then after Cheng Yu brought some firewood, Green Leaf took out the small iron pot behind him, and at this time, Diao Chan kneaded the dough in the small iron pot, and she only used a fist-sized piece: "Red flower, where are the wild vegetables?"
"It's here, it's all washed. Honghua said with a smile, she was also hungry.
I don't know how long these rice noodles can last, so Diao Chan eats it very economically, and barely four people can pad their stomachs.
Wild herbs and batter are mixed together to make it a little more hungry.
Suddenly, a group of people in the distance fought, and Diao Chan said, "What's going on over there?"
"A big man caught a hare, but another man insisted that the hare was his, and he wanted to fight for it, and you know, in our team, people starve to death every day, and being able to eat meat is the best thing, and I want to eat meat too. Honghua licked her lips and said.
Cheng Yu smiled mysteriously, and he said, "Look!"
As he spoke, Cheng Yu took out a big mouse from his arms, this is a big vole!
As soon as this vole appeared, the frightened red flowers and green leaves were discolored, and even Diao Chan was frightened, but Diao Chan understood that everyone at this time needed to eat something with oil and water, she gritted her teeth, and immediately brought the mouse over, smashed the mouse on the head with a stone, and faded off the skin neatly.
Originally, Diao Chan was going to throw away the mouse skin, but Honghua said: "Miss, wait, this horse is very big and complete, and it can be used as a glove!"
Diao Chan smiled: "Aren't you afraid?"
"Of course I'm not afraid, Miss, your hands are frostbitten, such beautiful hands, how bad. So saying, the safflower bore the skin of a mouse, and she pulled a needle out of the bun of her hair, and then used her long hair as a thread, and after pulling off a few of them, she began to sew them.
After smashing the rat meat into minced meat, it was kneaded with the dough, and then made a few delicious meatloafs, of course, this is simmered over charcoal, and the reason why it is not baked is that it is exquisite.
Because once this patty is baked, it will attract the attention of many people.
However, if you simmer in a charcoal fire, the surface will be burnt, but at least the fragrance will not leak out.
After all, refugees who have no food to eat are like a pack of hungry wolves, as long as there is delicious food, they can even give up the so-called etiquette and shame and pounce directly on the food, all for the sake of survival.
Diao Chan and his party struggled to advance among the refugees, all just to find Li Hugo, but Li Hugo's side was not very good, because Li Hugo played a defeat, which was the strategy of the military advisor Xu Shu, and now Sun Ce already knows where his father is in Li Hugo, so Li Hugo released water and fought with Sun Ce, and Sun Ce returned with a big victory.
This is also a part of the strategy, after Sun Ce's victory, he immediately came to Yuan Shu's account, Yuan Shu saw Sun Ce come back, he laughed happily: "Okay! worthy of the little overlord, Sun Ce, let me ask you, why did you obviously win, but did not take advantage of the victory to pursue? If you directly destroy the Nanjun, wouldn't you be able to directly attack Li Bolong's lair?"
Sun Ce sighed and said: "It's not that the last general will not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but because there are too many enemy troops on the banks of the Nanjun, although I have won one, but if I want to take the Nanjun, I must have another 100,000 people, and when the time comes, I will directly drop anchor, 100,000 people rush down the waterway, and directly capture the Nanjun from the water, so that I can win, but I only have 50,000 people and a hundred boats, so I specially came to ask the lord for ships and soldiers and horses." ”