367. To save or not to save
The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the whole Tianshui City is like an isolated child, no one can hurt or love.
The snow disaster is getting more and more severe, not to mention the people, even the soldiers can't get out. They have been organizing people to clear the snow and shovel the snow, but no matter how they do, they are not as angry as God, the snow is getting deeper and deeper, and the lord of the East City has asked people to clear the snow, and they have barely cleared a road for people to walk.
"This snow, it's getting heavier and heavier, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid even the rations of the people in the city will become a problem!" Yan Lian leaned against the window, muttering in a low voice, her brows furrowed deeply, she could trap mosquitoes.
Ying Yanhe also followed her gaze and did not speak, because she didn't understand these at all. Now she only knows that no one bullies her, she can be fed and clothed, and her life is so good.
After going around in a big circle, I suddenly realized how good the days used to be...... But he was young and ignorant, and he ruined himself and a family.
"I'm afraid that in a few days, the people in the city will make trouble," Mei Yihong stood not far away, his same gaze falling on the thick snow outside the window, and his tone was heavy.
Because of the heavy snowfall, the inn was closed, and Ying Yanlian lived here. And Beichen Ao can't get out because of the things in the barracks and the heavy snow now.
Ying Yanlian rubbed her hands that were a little cold, looked at Mei Yihong and said: "Tell the East City Lord, this matter, be cautious, if one is not good, and the people make trouble, it will make the current situation worse!" β
The snow was so heavy that the people of the Jin State still refused to retreat, almost seeing the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the Qin army...... And the army of the Qin State was also on guard, in order to pursue the Jin State closely.
In such a situation, if there is any more riot in Tianshui City, it will be even more difficult to control.
"This matter, the East City Lord understands, he is a native of Tianshui City," Mei Yihong pursed his lips and explained.
Ying Yanhe looked at Ying Yanlian suspiciously, her eyes flashed with doubt and puzzlement, those eyes kept falling on her, and Yanlian had to look at her and ask, "What's wrong?" This look made her look like a stranger, and she didn't know it at all.
ββ¦β¦ Are you Ying Yanlian? After hesitating for a moment, Ying Yanhe asked in a tangled manner.
"Huh!" Yan Lian and Mei Yihong glanced at each other, and asked funny, "What do you say?" β
Ying Yanhe looked at her for a long time before she could hold back a sentence, "It's really strange, obviously we are two sisters, but why do you know so much?" Why don't I understand a word? "Even if she knows a few words, she has never seen such a thing, how can she understand so much?
"Hehe......" Ying Yanlian looked at the somewhat cute Ying Yanhe, and felt that she was not jealous, not jealous, but a little beautiful. "Everyone's thoughts are different, it doesn't matter if you understand it or not, just be your truest self!" Perhaps, after really experiencing those pains, Ying Yanhe was made to be a person again.
Now she is only in her early twenties, and she has already grown gray hair, and the inhuman torture has made her originally delicate face crawl into wrinkles. However, in the past, her face was full of jealousy, but it was not as beautiful as now.
The human heart can really be reflected in the face.
"Maybe!" Ying Yanhe said thoughtfully, and found that from being sensible, it has never been as easy as now.
There are not so many distractions in my heart, but I feel that my heart is extremely free.
"But, Yan Lian, why did you not seem to be from Guquan Village?" Yan He tilted his head, looked at her and said very seriously: "The people in our village are not as smart as you!" "Those who can talk to General Wang Ye are still so unchanged. If it weren't for her, if it weren't for Yan Lian's presence, she would have been paralyzed in fright.
In the first few days she had been living in, she was so trembling that she couldn't even speak.
Now that Yan Lian lives here, she is better.
Seeing the doubts in Yan He's eyes, Yan Lian understood what she meant. They were all born and raised in Guquan Village, and they didn't know much, and when they saw the big officials, they panicked, and they couldn't even say everything, let alone order other generals to do things.
"Hehe......" Yan Lian didn't explain in detail, because the explanation was not complete, so it was better to remain silent.
Mei Yihong also looked at Ying Yanlian suspiciously because of Ying Yanhe's words, and felt that Ying Yanhe's words were right, so Ying Yanlian was really the same as other country girls...... No, even those ladies in the city, even the eldest princess and others can't compare to her, that intelligence and intelligence are not comparable to ordinary people.
"Okay, let's get down to business," Yan Lian put away her joke thoughts, and said to Mei Yihong sternly: "You go and discuss with the East City Lord, and see how much rations are left for the people in the city, this weather is so cold, the snow should be non-stop, the problem will only get more and more serious, if it suddenly breaks out, it will not be able to control it at that time!" β
Her eyelids jumped, and she always felt that things would not be so simple.
"Okay, I'll go and discuss with the East City Lord, you just stay here and don't go out!" The East City Lord didn't know that Yan Lian was a woman, so he consulted with her about everything and treated her as a man.
In such weather, she is a woman's house, and it is really inconvenient to go out.
"Okay, go ahead, I'm waiting for your news here," Yan Lian said as she looked at him.
Mei Yihong went to the City Lord's Mansion, and Ying Yanhe and Ying Yanlian sat in the room, and no one spoke. Ying Yanhe didn't know what to say, but Ying Yanlian was thinking about food, heavy snow, and enemy ...... There is no moment of tranquility in the mind.
"Lord Wang, this heavy snow blockade, the rations of the people in Tianshui City are estimated to be running out, if there is civil strife, it will not be good for us!" Ah Feng clenched his fists on the side.
"Yes, there is not much food and grass in the barracks, although there are warm clothes this year, but even if there is silver in the city now, you can't go out, and you can't buy food!" The cold winter is a bitter thing for the people of Tianshui City. encountered a rare heavy snowfall again, and such days made them even more miserable.
"Where's the neighboring city?" Beichen Ao's face was gloomy, his hand kept flicking on the desk, and his heart was extremely irritable.
If this stalemate continues, Yu Qin State will become more and more unfavorable. He originally thought that taking advantage of the victory to pursue would make the Jin Kingdom uneasy and mess up their military morale. But now, don't say that they are messing up their military morale, it is estimated that if the heavy snow continues like this, it is the military camps of Tianshui City and Qin State that should be messed up.
"The heavy snow closed the road, and the shovel was removed and fell, and there was no way to clear the road at all," the weather was cold, and the people were reluctant to do it.
"What are the people doing right now?" Beichenao's expression did not change, but it looked even colder.
"It's calm now, but...... If it continues, it's not easy to predict! Daqing muttered in a low voice, then looked up at Yue Anming, who was silent, and hugged his fist at Beichen proudly: "Lord Wang, why don't you open a warehouse to help the people first!?" Otherwise, it would not be a good thing to cause civil strife when the people have no food! β
"No," Ah Feng immediately retorted sharply when he heard this: "If the opening of the warehouse is to help the people, what will it be?" They still have to defend Tianshui City, and they have to fight to the death with those people in the Jin Kingdom, if there is no food, how can you let them fight and kill the enemy? β
"But if the people don't have food, isn't it a dead end? What is the point of protecting Tianshui City? Daqing stiffened his neck and said displeasedly.
"This ......," Ah Feng glanced at Beichen Ao hesitantly, not daring to say anything further.
"The prince's matter should be considered, what Ah Feng said to the two young generals in Daqing is that this grain and grass is the most important, and it depends on how the prince decides to protect the soldiers or the people of Tianshui City!" Yue Anming said slowly on the side, his expression was stern, but if he looked closely, he would find that his eyes were still flashing with schadenfreude, and there was no trace of worry at all.
Beichen Ao glanced at Yue Anming lightly, and did not answer his words, but looked at Ah Feng and Daqing and said: "You send someone to the City Lord's Mansion to ask, see how the City Lord's Mansion is arranged, if there is an urgent shortage of food and grass, you can divide a little from the military camp, as long as the ice and snow melt, everything will be solved!" β
"Yes, the last general will go immediately!" The two of them replied in unison, and at this moment there was no disagreement in it.
When the two of them left, Beichen Ao looked at Yue Anming and said: "Lord Yue, when you talk in the barracks, you should consider it, so as not to get into trouble, this king will treat you for the crime of provoking, don't blame my subordinates for being ruthless!" β
"Xia Guan doesn't understand what the prince means!" Yue Anming's face was gloomy and he said with a slight grievance.
"Hehe, if you don't understand, Lord Yue will decide for yourself!" After Beichen Ao gave him a cold look, he let him out.
After Yue Anming got out of Beichen Ao's tent, he clenched his hands into fists, looked at the tent coldly, and said in a low voice: "Beichen Ao, I want to see how proud you can be - when the snow melts to the extreme, it is time for you Beichen Ao to cry!" As soon as he thought of this, Yue Anming's mood was inexplicably better.
Compared with the misery of Beichen Ao at that time, these grievances are really painless!
"Lord Wang," After Yue Anming left, the hidden guard who followed Yan Lian suddenly appeared.
"What?" Because he hadn't seen Ying Yanlian for several days, Beichen Ao became irritable.
"Madame and General Mei have already discussed with the city lord that if the people are short of food, they will be separated from the barracks, and they will be put on the street for disaster relief," the hidden guard told the matter with an expressionless face, without a trace of his own feelings.
"Do you want the East City Lord to come to the barracks to talk?" Beichen asked proudly looking at the hidden guard.
"Yes!"
"Sue Mrs. SΓΉ, just say that this king knows, go back!" Beichen Ao's tone was a little happy, thinking that he and Yan Lian were in a good mood, and his mood was much better.
"Yes!" The guard clasped his fists and saluted, then turned to leave.
The things in the camp were all settled, Beichen Ao stood up, walked to the door of the camp tent, saw the snow at the door, and his eyes flashed with a cold light: It's time to decide the winner.
It's almost the New Year, and the mood should be good, but the heavy snow that hasn't stopped for a long time has depressed everyone's mood, and no one is happy - the snow is squeezing and even making it difficult for them to come out to get relief food.
"Lord Wang, there is not much food in the warehouse, if we continue to provide disaster relief, there will be no rations for the soldiers by then," someone told worriedly, afraid that things would become more and more chaotic by then.
Before, it was said that the grain was lent to the people, but it was to wait until the snow stopped, and then let the people go out of the city to buy it, and then return it to the barracks. However, the continuous snowfall had no intention of stopping, which made the soldiers in the barracks begin to become agitated, and gradually there were dissatisfied voices, worried about their food problems.
"If this snow keeps falling, will we still have to give food to the people, but what about ours?" Some soldiers are secretly venting their dissatisfaction, full of anxiety about the future.
"I'm going to find a way, can we still watch us starve to death?" Someone said hesitantly.
"What's the solution? The snow doesn't stop, can the prince still fly out and bring the grain? The person who complained just now asked sharply.
"This ......," choked up by the aggressive tone, and put everything in his throat, unable to speak.
"Actually, I think that after the prince came, our life was better," the person next to him was silent for a moment before he said sincerely: "Before, how much better could ours be than now?" Every year at this time, don't you suffer for food? At least this year, with the king of war, we don't have to be frozen! β
"Yes, this year is the best I've ever had here, and I can still wear such a thick padded jacket, which I haven't seen at home," the contented person thinks that this is good enough.
"That's what I said, but we should have the best life," the man's tone was excited, eager to open everyone's brains to see, wondering what was hidden in them, why they were so stupid, so desperate for Beichen Ao. "If we hadn't distributed the food to the people, we would have been able to eat dry food at once, and we wouldn't have to survive with thin drink!"
"Listening to what you said, can we still watch the people of Tianshui City starve to death and freeze to death? Don't forget jì, many of the clothes we can wear this year to keep out the cold are still made by the people of Tianshui City who stay up day and night, at least we are still hungry and not dying, I believe that the prince will have a way by then! "From the very beginning, the soldiers who were firm in Beichen Proud and brought them a good life were completely unlistenable.
In this way, the people in the barracks were divided into two factions, one group felt that the food should be distributed to the people and should be borne together. The other faction felt that it should not be distributed to the people, after all, the soldiers were important. If they don't have enough to eat, how can they have the strength to fight against the enemy?
The snow was about to cry under the people, and when they were desperate, it finally stopped.
"The snow has stopped," Yan Lian looked out the window, there was no joy in her eyes, but a more solemn expression.
"Isn't it good if the snow stops?" Ying Yanhe was puzzled and felt that there was nothing better than this. She could hear the cries of surprise from the people, and even she felt such joy.
"Okay, it's not good!" Yan Lian sighed, she couldn't tell Ying Yanhe about these complicated things-now she hoped that Ying Yanhe could keep it simple and not have to live so happily and painfully.
"......," Ying Yanhe didn't know how to answer at all because of her profound words.
Yan Lian didn't pay attention to Ying Yanhe's strange expression, but stared at the military map left by Mei Yihong tightly, and her eyes didn't even blink .......
"Mei Yihong," suddenly, Ying Yanlian, who had been staring at the military map for a long time, suddenly thought of something, gestured on the map, and then shouted loudly.
"What's wrong?" Ying Yanhe was taken aback, and asked while holding her chest.
"Let Mei Yihong come in, hurry up," Yan Lian didn't hide her temper and said sharply.
"Oh," Ying Yanhe got up from her chair and hurriedly walked out.
She only now fully understands that Ying Yanlian and her are people from two worlds, and she doesn't care about that kind of trivial thing at all, and it is completely different from her own thoughts.
"Yan Lian, what's wrong?" Seeing that Ying Yanhe hurriedly called herself, saying that Yan Lian was looking for something for her, she put down what she was doing and hurriedly ran over.
"Mei Yihong, come and see," Yan Lian didn't even raise her head, just stared at the map.
Mei Yihong was full of doubts, walked up and followed her gaze, and saw that the map had not changed at all, so she couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "What are you looking at?" β
"You see, the army of the Jin Kingdom is stationed here," Yan Lian gestured on the map, like a great general who was about to charge, inexplicably convincing. "Tianshui City is here, after the snow stops, Jin Junrin will definitely send someone to attack ......the city," a slightly suppressed excited tone overflowed ...... Yan Lian's mouth.
Mei Yihong listened casually before, but when Yan Lian said more, her eyes brightened, and she couldn't help but listen intently, her eyes fell on the map, and she refused to move.
Ying Yanhe saw the two of them muttering something in a low voice, and she didn't hide it at all, but unfortunately she couldn't understand anything, so she could only look at Ying Yanlian with envy, thinking that if she had known that Ying Yanlian was different from them earlier, would her fate be different?
Perhaps, like the third aunt, is also good. No matter what you do, you rely on yourself for everything, and you can be stable even if you don't shine.
"Okay," Suddenly, Mei Yihong shouted in surprise, pitiful, and Ying Yanhe was startled again, and couldn't help but start rolling her eyes. "Yan Lian, this attention is really good, when the time comes, it will definitely be able to teach Jin Guo a cruel lesson!"
"Hehe, it's up to you whether it's good or not!" Yan Lian was not too happy, but stared at Mei Yihong's stern words.
It's very simple to say, but it is even more difficult to implement everything.
"Don't worry, I'm going to finish this thing!" Mei Yihong's eyes flashed with the brightest light since the recovery of his memory, which was a kind of heroic spirit that had removed the decadent mentality and really wanted to face the enemy.
This kind of Mei Yihong is the most brilliant.
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