Chapter Ninety-Five: White Porridge and Black Porridge

Yesterday's north wind blew the sky exceptionally clean, and there was no longer any dust. Rumors are like smoke in a warm room, changing more and more unpredictable. After all, the scope of yesterday's events was too wide, and there were so many people involved, it was impossible to completely cover it up.

"Did you hear yesterday's movement, just in the south of the city? There was a loud bang, as if the city wall had been pulled down!" People basking in the sun on the streets gathered together and talked about family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs.

"What's going on?" The people next to him did hear a few noises, and they had seen people in a hurry.

"The Imperial Forest Army and Dongjinwei are fighting!"

"Really?", anyone who hears such a shocking thing will be suspicious.

"Can this be fake? Except for the fight between the Imperial Forest Army and Dongjinwei, what other force can make such a big move? According to the sound yesterday, the entire south of the city is full of corpses, and it is simply a river of blood!"

"You haven't woken up yet!" the man with the ear protector sneered, don't look away, obviously not believing the middle-aged man's words.

"Hey, don't believe it! Now the south of the city is still full of blood! I went to the south of the city early this morning, and I took a look from a distance, and the corpses were stacked like mille-feuille, and the royal guards surrounded them into an iron bucket, and no one was allowed to enter! I almost let the royal guards arrest them at a glance! I told my brothers, otherwise I would have been clever and fast, and my brothers would really not have seen me!"

"Hey, keep blowing, you'll be there!" the man snorted twice more and walked to the side.

"If you don't believe it, go to the south of the city!"

"Just take a look!"

"I'm afraid you won't go back!"

"Let your dog stink! Lao Tzu will go to the south of the city to have a look, but I want to see if the Imperial Forest Army can catch Lao Tzu!" The man who was holding his hand turned back and cursed, and walked majestically towards the south.

"If he dares to go to the south of the city, I will write my name upside down! This kid is designated to turn back halfway through, hide in a corner and come back at noon, pretending to be a general and talking nonsense! If he really goes to the south of the city, he will definitely not come back!"

"Don't talk about him, let's continue to talk about what happened in the south of the city yesterday, why did this Imperial Forest Army and Dongjinwei fight?

“......”

In winter, people who gather together in the streets and alleys always have to think of something to say, and this time is the best time to reflect imagination. Even the women who had gathered together to do needlework were inevitably reminded of what had happened yesterday in the thrift bookstore, only their imagination was even more bizarre in the rumors they heard.

Of course, not everything in the vast sky is noisy, and there are also quiet places.

There are not a few households living in the remote alleys, all of them are closed doors, living their own lives, of course, I don't know what is going on outside.

The steaming water from the well was warm at first, but it was cold and bitterly cold, and this short time was far from enough time for a person to wash a piece of clothing, so he could only continue to wash it next to the cold, until his hands were cold and unconscious. When the fire is lit and the blood flows back to the fingers, the hands become swollen and hot, and after two or three more times, the hands will definitely be covered with chilblains, and it will be difficult to get back.

The firewood was very damp, and the chimney was pouring wind, filling the house with smoke, and the cooks were choked and coughing, and finally cooked the rice, only to find that the bottom of the pot was already paste. Served two bowls of non-mushy, and scraped the bottom of the mushy pot again and again to barely make up the third bowl.

A spoon gently scooped up a little porridge, blew cold on the side of his mouth, and sent it to Hu Ran's mouth, and the next spoon was sent into Ning Du's mouth. When the two bowls of porridge are finished, the last bowl is completely cold.

Slowly pick up the pasted porridge with chopsticks, and there is bitterness in my mouth that cannot be dissipated. Fortunately, there is not much rice in this bowl, and it didn't take long to eat it, and the bitter time is not long, and correspondingly, the hungry time will be longer.

Wash the dishes and chopsticks, sit on the stool next to the bed, sit quietly, listen to the wind outside the window, wait for the sunrise and sunset, and watch Ning Du and Hu Ran who are breathing gradually calming down. It seems that boredom is also the thing to do in this day.

It was getting dark, and it was time for dinner again.

"Is there no rice?" opened the rice bowl, there was not a grain of rice left in it, and I knew it at noon, but I forgot it at night. "I'm really stupid. ”

Pour out the copper coins in a clay pot, count them and count them to twenty-six wen, and now it is too late to buy rice, and it is too cost-effective to buy other ready-made food. It will take a long time for this money to be used.

He sighed helplessly.

"I'm sorry I had to make you hungry. ”

There was no light on because there was not much oil left. Slowly suffering from sleepiness, he fell asleep in the corner of the bed.

It was not the pain that woke Hu Ran, but hunger, and she opened her eyes with difficulty and looked at the simple beams, her eyes full of hunger. But the first thing she did was to tilt her head, and she felt relieved to be hungry when she saw the young master beside her.

"Are you awake?"

Hu Ran saw a woman in her twenties, her hair was tied up casually, there were two strands of uncombed hair next to her cheeks, which looked a little messy, her face was small, there were no edges and corners, and she looked very gentle.

"Hungry ......" Hu Ran could only pronounce one syllable, and his voice was exceptionally small.

The woman leaned closer to her ears and finally heard what Hu Ran said.

"Are you hungry? I didn't eat anything last night, and I'm going to be hungry indeed...... I'll buy you something to eat right away!"

"Hungry ......" Hu Ran seemed to only say this one word, repeating it constantly.

The woman immediately turned around to get the money, but because she was too anxious to knock over the jar, and finally scattered on the ground, she hurriedly picked it up, and was just about to go out when she was stopped by a quick knock on the door.

There was a rush knock on the door, indicating that people outside were in a hurry.

The woman held the money in her hand, subconsciously glanced at Hu Ran and Ning Du, lowered her head and looked at the ground, and didn't dare to move.

There was a knock on the door three times, and when the people outside saw that the people inside had never come to open the door, they scolded and walked away.

After making sure that the people outside were finally gone, the woman looked at Hu Ran uneasily, and when she saw that the other party was always looking at the beams of the house, she fled and left, as if this was not her home, but the prison she was going to escape from.

Hu Ran felt that the world was spinning, she was really hungry, but while feeling hungry, she also felt the pain in her body.

"Why does my foot hurt so much?" Hu Ran didn't have much energy to think about what had happened before, what she wanted to do most was to solve her stomach problem, so that she could have the strength to solve other problems. "If only the young master hadn't fainted. ”

If Ning Du was there, Hu Ran wouldn't need to think about and worry about anything.

The current Ning Du naturally couldn't hear Hu Ran's call, he fell into a deep sleep, and it was impossible to wake up after a while.

first suffered the captivity of the "Jiuli Prison Dragon", then was eroded by the "Sealing Immortal Ghost Seal", and finally there was the outbreak of "Heavenly Demon Killing", during which there were several life-and-death battles, and Ning Du's body reached the limit of the limit.

Ning Du's most serious injury this time was his meridians, the front and back three forces were deeply penetrated into the meridians, and later they were directly uprooted by the strongest means, which was undoubtedly fatal to the injuries to the meridians. Even now, his meridians have not been completely smooth, and his vitality has not been able to flow well.

With such a premise, Ning Du's recovery speed naturally slowed down indefinitely. Unless there is a person like Bian Shihan to treat him, Ning Du will not be able to wake up in a short period of time.

Speaking of which, it is beyond common sense that Ning Du has been able to survive until now, and anyone who knows the twists and turns in this will only attribute it all to a miracle.

Hu Ran tilted his head hard, glanced at Ning Du again, and knew that what the other party needed most was rest.

"Master, are you okay again...... I'm so hungry, so hungry......"

After a long wait, the door finally opened again, and the woman hurriedly ran to the bedside and brought the food back to Hu Ran's mouth, Hu Ran coughed without taking a few bites, causing her to hurt all over her body, and tears directly appeared in her eyes.

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, you should have prepared water first, you must have choked, I'll go boil water for you now......" The woman hurriedly turned around to boil water, and after a busy work, she found that the food she bought was already cold, and she couldn't help but be a little annoyed by her clumsiness.

"Hungry ......" Hu Ran didn't care about anything cold or cold now, she just wanted to eat.

Half an hour later, Hu Ran ate everything the woman bought, but she still felt hungry, but fortunately she now had some strength, and she began to feel a hot pain in her feet, so painful that she almost couldn't bear it.

When the woman saw Hu Ran's appearance, she thought that the other party was not full, so she said guiltily: "I'm sorry, I can only buy so much, it's all my ......."

The knock on the door rang again, and the woman panicked and didn't dare to make a sound.

The people outside the door shouted a few times, as if they knew that there were people in the house, and if they didn't open the door, they wouldn't come again, and after shouting for a while, they scolded and walked away.

The woman became very embarrassed and wanted to dodge but did not know where to dodge.

Hu Ran looked at the woman who seemed to be very embarrassed, and asked with difficulty, "Did you save us?"

"Hmm. The woman bowed her head in response. As soon as she opened the door yesterday morning, she saw Hu Ran and Ning Du who fell to the ground, she hurriedly moved the two back and put them on the bed, she waited for a long time and no one came, so she had to take care of the two by herself.

"Thank you. Hu Ran thanked from the bottom of his heart.

"Hmm. ”

The pain swept over, Hu Ran felt sleepy and tired, and couldn't help but want to close her eyes, but she still forced herself to ask, "Sister, what's your name?"

"Me?" the woman looked surprised, as if no one had ever asked her the same question before, and she was stunned before she replied, "My name is Xi'er." ”

"Sister Xi'er, my name is Hu Ran......" Hu Ran said and fell asleep, very relieved.