Chapter Ninety-Nine: Where the Heart Belongs (17)
At the beginning of the lunch, during the lunch break in the camp, several men came out with carts, looking like they were going to distribute food. Mu Qingzheng was secretly puzzled, and Yinghua laughed happily, "The meal is here, has my sister eaten?" ”
Mu Qing nodded and asked, "It's not just a meal, is this considered lunch?" ”
Yinghua's eyes followed the guys, and he replied absentmindedly: "Well, now there is one meal a day, and it is set in Weizheng." ”
Mu Qing looked her thin figure up and down, and felt distressed for a while, the little lady who was thirteen or fourteen years old, when she had long hair, how to endure one meal a day, wanted to take her back, and knew that it was wrong.
The golden bell rang on the school field, Yinghua had taken off her hand and went to the field, there was a sound of leather boots rubbing, and all the soldiers had gathered on the school field from everywhere, no one spoke, only lined up neatly and waited.
The high platform was far away, and Mu Qing could only vaguely see two figures, one was imposing, and the other was calm and indifferent. The soldiers and generals received the food without saying a word and sat in the field, she glanced at the close, each person only had a bowl of porridge as thin as water, and a steamed cake made of millet noodles mixed with white flour, even Ah Liu sighed when he saw it.
Now that the meal had been divided, the people sat on the floor at will, spread out, and said a few words to each other. A sharp-eyed person saw the rice grain on the car behind Mu Qing, and raised his voice to inquire: "But the grain is here?" ”
Ah Liu nodded hurriedly, Mu Qing didn't have time to stop her, she couldn't help but point to the food in their hands, "Is that all there is to it every day?" How? ”
"What if it's not enough." The soldier looked at the things in his hand, raised his chin towards the high platform, and said simply, "Don't they eat the same as us?" There is much more to complain about. ”
After saying a few words casually, the soldiers on the other side suddenly pulled him. "Don't say it." Mu Qing looked up, Li Shimin and Du Ruhui were coming to her side. Her eyes were almost glued to the calm, familiar figure. I haven't seen him for nearly half a month, my cheeks are obviously thin, but my spirit is still good, and my eyes are still firm and powerful.
When Li Shimin saw that she had sent grain and rice, he was relieved and thanked him again and again. As soon as the people asked for the rice and grain to be put into the warehouse, some soldiers rushed over, not daring to shout indiscriminately, until they came to the front. Fang Cai said breathlessly: "Lu Ah Liu, Lu Ah Liu, they tied up Deputy Lieutenant Su, went out from the side camp, and robbed the people's food." Right now, there are people shouting at the gate of the main camp, begging for an explanation! ”
Those who heard this were like a bolt from the blue.
"Where are the six Rua?" Du Ruhui suddenly felt as if he had been hit hard in his head, and with bursts of sharp throbbing pain, he clenched his fists and asked.
The soldier who told the news was panicked. stammered: "But, but never again, never returned." ”
Du Ruhui closed his eyes tightly and paused for a moment. Withdrawing the chaotic thoughts in his mind, he suddenly opened his eyes again and glanced at the soldiers sitting in the circle. The few who approached them had roughly heard something. is surrounded by bowed heads and whispers. "Erlang, you are here to stay. Don't teach them what kind of mess they have. I went outside the camp to see it first. After that, he raised his leg and left, only took two steps and stopped, looked back at Mu Qing, wanted to speak and stopped, and only nodded at her.
After he left, Li Shimin summoned several lieutenants in light green uniforms and several lieutenants, and instructed them to quickly withdraw to the barracks with the soldiers under their jurisdiction, and not to go out and walk around without authorization.
Mu Qing sent the food, and he was already fine, he thought that he would go back when he saw him, who would have expected that this would happen, seeing that everyone was busy with their own people, she was not in the way here, so she called Ada Aliu, got in the car and walked out. There is only one road from the garrison, and from a long distance, you can hear the noise, and if you listen closely, there seems to be the sound of iron weapons clashing. Closer, there was still screaming and wailing.
Mu Qingzhi was shocked when he heard this, and urged Ada to hurry up with two whips. When approaching the crowd of people who were pushing and scuffling, Ada turned around and said hurriedly: "Lady, hurry up and get into the car, don't come out again." ”
Before she could see what kind of situation was in front of her, she had been pulled back behind the curtain by Ah Liu, Ada didn't dare to go any further, only parked the carriage behind a wall not far away, and Mu Qing could only look out through the ventilation pane on the wall of the car. I saw a few logs scattered on the ground in front of me, and they had been scattered by the forty or fifty angry villagers. The people on duty at the gate used to rotate in shifts of ten people, but now they have increased to two groups of twenty people, and they still can't resist.
The villagers held hoes, firewood knives and sticks in their hands, stabbed and poked forward, pressing step by step, and some people held large stones and threw them at the guards. At this time, holding the halberd and spear while refusing to retreat, how to resist it, there were a few ruthless soldiers who stabbed a few halberds, and immediately saw blood, and some people fell to the ground, unable to get up, roaring and scolding and screaming in pain, mixed together.
Mu Qing's eyes tried his best to search for the familiar figure in the crowd of rioters, and he looked back and forth several times, but he didn't see it.
I was anxious, and suddenly another team of soldiers came from behind me, carrying a row of spiked horses, but moving forward neatly with difficulty, and when I got closer, I saw clearly where the newly carried horses were spikes, which were clearly broad-faced blades poked out of the roots, and the cold cold light flashed in the sun.
The soldiers who refused to be in front of them retreated step by step, until they were close to the sharp blades of the horses, and ran behind the horses in all directions. The cold and cold horses were regrouped between the villagers and the guards. Although the villagers were still angrily throwing stones inward, they could no longer break through the obstacles.
Then four other soldiers strode over with one person, it was Du Ruhui. A thin stone flew over, he couldn't dodge, and the stone flew over his shoulder, and his summer robe was thin, and he covered the stone with one hand where it had been rubbed, and after walking a few steps, blood was faintly oozing out of his fingers.
The stone seemed to fly past Mu Qing's heart, causing a sharp pain, she gritted her teeth, didn't let herself scream, and only stared at the shape outside according to the pane.
Du Ruhui frowned and glanced at the few villagers lying on the ground, and said coldly: "If there are soldiers disturbing the people, you can come and inform the general that there is someone who is in charge." Why do you want to fight with your body and make trouble in front of the barracks? Don't say that you can't fight but hurt yourself, and then the history of the sect knows it, how to say it? ”
When the noisy villagers heard this, they fell silent for the most part, and only a few of them were still shouting, "Can the officers and soldiers wantonly rob the people of the grain?" ”
Du Ruhui ignored it, and continued in a deep voice: "Today I know that you are here to ask for explanations, to return rice and grain, but it's okay, if you don't know, to say that you are picking quarrels and provoking trouble in front of the camp, and to say that you are planning chaos!" The former is just that each of them was whipped and dismissed, and what the latter should do, I don't need to repeat it, I understand it! ”
For a while, the two sides of the confrontation were silent. Although the villagers with resentful faces were unwilling, they still lowered their swords and hoes. Du Ruyan breathed a sigh of relief, and just wanted to ask in detail how much rice grain had been robbed, so that he could send someone to the warehouse to weigh it out and compensate the villagers, but a small team of people came in the distance, and the flatbed cart squeaked and rumbled when it hit the ground.
Du Ruhui looked up, only to feel a chill in his chest, and his heart sank straight down like an ice lump. Sure enough, the villagers looked back, and suddenly the crowd became excited again, and the blunt knife in their hands was raised high again, and they turned around and rushed over after shouting and scolding. (To be continued......)
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