Chapter 127: Unveiling the Rods (6)
Mrs. Sun is serious about preparing for things, and she is very hardworking. Since Mu Qing told her about the tent soup kitchen, within three days, she had sent someone to say that everything was ready, and invited Mu Qingjie to go with her.
When the messenger came, Mu Qing stood in the light of the room again, wiping the fine scale armor with his head bored, and the newly prepared Xuanxi robe was placed beside him, and his heart was as heavy as ten thousand dark clouds.
After years of famine and renewed fighting outside the city, he has not been alive for a few days since this spring. Those 10,000,000 grass cowards, casually or suppressed or collected, but it was not too troublesome, only this time, reported that Hejin had gathered more than seven or eight thousand, Li Gong was afraid of the siege of the last Bird Mouse Valley, and relied on Erlang's Xuanjia army, this time he led the army to meet the enemy head-on.
Ah Liu came to ask her if she had seen the servant who delivered the message, and she muttered angrily, "Erlang went to war, why did I never see her worried." Yibi said and waved his hand, "You listen for me, you don't have to go back and forth to me, just send it away, and I'll talk about it later." ”
Aliu took care of it. Du Ruhui smiled dumbly, paced behind her, and reached out to wrap her whole person up, "There are many soldiers who go to war, if every woman in every family has to be afraid and wipe her tears, won't the whole city be flooded with tears, and there will be no need to fight at that time, just open the city gate and wash it clean with the water." ”
Mu Qing pretended to be angry and pushed his arm away, and turned back to face him, "I'm going to be serious with you, you have to be careful to protect yourself, don't joke with my hippie smile." ”
"Don't talk about me, I'll talk to you about something important." Du Ruhui pressed her shoulders and stared down at her solemnly, "The hungry people outside the city are already hungry and have lost their lives, seeing that you have grain and rice, someone will definitely create some trouble, if you know that there are nobles and relatives among them, you will have bad intentions again...... " He taught himself to brace for a moment, frowned and didn't say any more.
"Can you just hold it and use it as a coercion to make the Tang Kingdom open the city gate to release grain?" Mu Qing finished the second half of the sentence for him.
"Don't go." He let go of her and turned his back and walked away.
Mu Qing choked for a while, shook his head and said, "Since I came up with this idea for her, how can I not go." It's better to bring more people and deter them. ”
Du Ruhui still didn't agree, turned around and walked back to her, his eyebrows furrowed, "Mu Qing, you don't know how hungry people are, really ......"
She covered his lips with one hand, raised the other hand, pressed it lightly on his eyebrows, and said with a soft smile: "There are several women who go with you, if all the husbands of each family are frightened and worried, and they are not allowed, will there be no one to go to the soup kitchen, and there will be no need to go at that time, but just open the city gate and send people to bury all the homeless people who have starved to death." ”
He couldn't hold back for a moment, snorted out laughing, reached out to hold her wrist, pulled down her palm covering his lips, lowered his head against her moon-like forehead, and said in a muffled voice: "Be vigilant, you must let Ada go with you, and let him not leave your side." ”
Mu Qing said "en" heavily, Du Ruhui suddenly raised his head, hurriedly changed his clothes, and untied the ties on his regular clothes, Mu Qing hurriedly shook off his robe for him, and turned around to get the long knife he was wearing, "Are you going to leave now?" It's not yet time. ”
"On the bright side, Erlang can't move He Suizhao, and I have to go and talk to Li Gong about the soup soup outside the city, so that he can dispatch He Suizhao to use it, so that it can be considered." Du Ruyan hurriedly put on his clothes, buckled the long knife, and walked out of the main house and strode down the stone steps, while raising his voice to call Ada.
Ada brought the horse from the backyard and handed it to him. Mu Qing stood in front of the door of the main house, only to see him take the reins, whisper a few words to Ada, and point to her. Ada also looked back at her and nodded solemnly, Du Ruhui looked at it and seemed to be uneasy, and patted Ada on the shoulder several times before leading the horse out of the door.
"Be careful, take care of yourself." Mu Qing raised his hand on the stone steps of the main house and waved: "When you come back, I will go to the city gate to meet you." ”
Du Ruhui turned around and nodded and smiled at her, and she added another sentence in her heart, "Be safe."
Tang Guogong took Erlang to meet the rebel thieves on the third day, and the eldest grandson also took a long team of domestic servants out of the city, about fifty or sixty people, pushing a large cart loaded with rice, grain, cauldron and other things, following behind the five or six carriages, wandering leisurely, provoking the idlers in the city to watch, pointing and pointing, and guessing which house Bawang was in the pomp and circumstance, so strange.
There were sharp-eyed people who saw that there was a sign like the "Tang" character emblem on the carriage, and pushed the people around him to take a look, and a few people who knew about it said: "The Tang character emblem is ...... I heard that the newly appointed Taiyuan Dao and Hedong comfort envoys are the inherited Tang Guogong, is it not ......", so everyone decided that the car must be to comfort the inner family of the envoy, and they rushed to see the excitement.
Mu Qing was still wearing the lake-green lapel robe, leaning against the pane and looking out, according to Du Ruhui's intention before leaving, this trip should have been accompanied by He Suizhao, and he looked around, but there was no other person, not to mention the manpower he had transferred, there was no trace.
This taught Mu Qing to feel worried in her heart, although she was not afraid of the starvation and rebellion, but because she came up with this idea for the eldest grandson, she had to take on some responsibilities. But all the way out of the city, I didn't see him. Ah Yue saw that she was sitting and fidgeting most of the way, and asked her a few times but couldn't get the point.
"Along the way, can you see He Suizhao?" Mu Qing suddenly asked Xiang Yue. Ah Yue frowned for a while, and shook her head suspiciously, "I haven't seen it." ”
A few miles after leaving the city, the dilapidated and chaotic appearance gradually rose, the shelter supported by the tattered felt cloth, and the thatched-roof mud houses with half of the walls collapsed, the scene was no different from what she had seen a few days ago. The cyan color of the wasteland is almost invisible, revealing large patches of yellowish-brown dry soil. A few days ago, there were quite a few people wandering around, rummaging and rummaging for something to chew, but today, when I look at those people, most of them lie and sit in a disorderly manner, without saying a word to each other, motionless like a clay sculpture of a dried corpse.
Ah Yue withdrew from the other pane, unwilling to look out again, tightly twisted her hands and sat silently in the car. "Lady, don't look at it anymore, if you don't pay attention to see that terrible stone mortar or something, it's another heart-blocking." She reached out and pulled Mu Qing, who was still looking at the pane on the other side.
"If you don't see it, it's gone?" Mu Qing said lightly, lifted the curtain on the car, moved out of the car, and sat on the wheel with Ada. The refugees, who were so hungry that they couldn't lift their eyes, only moved their eyes with their group, and no one had the strength to take another look. When Mu Qing looked back again, the cart behind him where the rice grain was placed trembled and followed, and a few people slowly stood up from the ground, their eyes moving closely with the cart, and their feet were about to move.
Mu Qing immediately gasped, her scalp was faintly swollen, and she felt that this group of people and her were like lambs walking slowly in front of the hungry tiger wolf, thinking like this, she couldn't help but take a few deep breaths.
"Don't panic, look at the shady forest." Ada drove the car calmly and whispered to her.
When she looked around, she saw nothing, dark and gloomy, and there was no sunlight at all. When the car came to a bend, it turned a little in the direction, and the sunlight also deflected a little with the angle, and suddenly a strange light flashed by. Mu Qing quickly turned his head to look at the strange place, and only then did he vaguely see that in the dark forest, behind the thick tree trunks, arrows and arrows on the bow and crossbow with a cold light were quietly poking out from the shadows of the darkness, following the entire car formation.
What is this about? Where did the many warriors come from, but they should be against them? Countless thoughts flashed in Mu Qing's heart, and he wanted to ask Ada again, but he smiled slightly: "Who is the person in front of the lady?" ”
Mu Qing sat up straight and looked up, the bright narrow robe, the frivolous smile, and the one who stood across the official road in front of her were the congratulations she had been looking for. She immediately understood, and complained that she had not seen him with her in the morning, because she had arrived before them, and the warriors in the woodland who were standing by with crossbows should have been quietly laid out by him.
At this time, she let go of her heart, which had been hanging for most of the way, and laughed secretly in her heart, wondering that he was so relied on, and he was indeed a powerful person.
He Suizhao arrived first, and had already chosen the place of the tent, backed by the dense forest that did not see the light of day, and the archers and crossbowmen hid in the forest in case of emergency, facing a shallow river that meandered and crossed, and the refugees had the intention of making trouble, so as to temporarily bind them, and they could not rush forward immediately, and bid for time for the ladies and ladies to retreat into the dense forest.
Everyone stopped here, Mu Qing jumped out of the car, and saw that the eldest grandson was wearing a hat, and the soap yarn hung down to her shoulders and arms, carefully wrapped and hidden impermeable, and behaved cautiously. Look at yourself again, recalling that she had learned etiquette and demeanor thoroughly in the past, and she was as delicate and reserved as she was, and to this day, she is actually wearing a men's robe, not whitewashed, and often acting with her son, rough and reckless.
After a while, the tent was raised, and the fire under the big iron kettle was burning vigorously, and the porridge and rice in the kettle were boiling together with the milky white water, and the aroma was wafting far away. Someone had already gathered the hungry people, distributed stoneware bowls, taught them the rules, and instructed them not to mix and rob.
The porridge was about to come out of the cauldron, Mu Qing touched the arm of the eldest grandson, and motioned for her to come forward and confess Erlang's benevolence and compassion, so as to teach people who to report the grace of saving their lives.
How do you know that the eldest grandson has been raised in a deep boudoir since he was a child, and he has been a noble lady every day, how can he have exchanged words with the market flathead, not to mention these people who are already as lowly as ants, after hesitating for a while, she still couldn't take a step, so she had no choice but to whisper to Mu Qing: "Can you please ask Sister Gu to do it for you?" ”
Mu Qing was stunned, and shook his head, "Erlang's kindness should have been preached by you." The words are only three or five sentences, but if you teach me, what is it? ”
The eldest grandson looked at Mu Qing with wide eyes, and then looked at the hungry people in front of him who looked anxious and waited for the porridge to eat, gritted his teeth, clenched his fists tightly, stepped forward, raised his hand to both sides of the soap yarn on the hat, turned over the palm of his hand upward, stretched out to the cauldron behind him, held his breath for a moment, and said loudly: "Taiyuan Dao comforts the second son of Li Gong, who is compassionate and compassionate, and sympathetic to the hungry people. ”
With that, she immediately put down the soap veil on her hat, her face hidden in the veil was so red that it seemed to be bleeding, and her hands hidden behind her skirt couldn't help but tremble slightly. Although the hungry people in front of them were overjoyed, they were already weak and hungry, and the sparse cheers and thanksgiving sounded more like lamentations.
Mu Qing nodded and smiled approvingly, and sighed silently in her heart, the good people have taught her husband and wife to do it, since she herself has made a wedding dress for others, she might as well be a wicked person again.
So he stepped forward, raised his hand to stop the joy in front of him, swept the crowd solemnly, frowned, and said in a male voice: "There are some harsh words, let's say them in the head first." Li Jiaerlang's kind deed was originally for everyone to live, and the rules have already been explained, and everyone is careful to keep them, and they will all have to save their lives within a month. If someone breaks the rules and fights for trouble, they can't complain about breaking up the porridge tent and begging for their lives! Therefore, everyone has to mention something to each other, don't be tired of everyone losing this life-saving food! ”
The hungry people gathered around were silent for a moment when they heard this, and then they all said yes, and could not agree more. The eldest grandson picked up the big iron spoon, leaned into the cauldron and scooped up the first spoon, and everyone lined up in an orderly manner to hold a bowl and receive porridge, without saying anything.
After Mu Qing retreated to the tent, He Suizhao raised his eyebrows and hooked the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "Qi Niang is so imposing now. But she ignored her.