Wang Jian also put on the clothes of a domestic servant and asked, "My lord, if someone intersects, how shall we answer it?" King Qin thought for a while: "Let's just say that we are from Xianyang, Shaanxi, my surname is Zhao, my name is Zhao Zheng, you are also surnamed Wang, how about calling Wang Jian?" Wang Jian nodded: "Okay." ”

King Qin said: "We are scholars from Xianyang, and we went to Henan to visit friends. Remember? Wang Jian nodded again.

After the order, the two continued on the road and came to Luonan, and along the way, Wang Jian inquired while walking, but there was no news of Li Dang and Li Yan's people all the way. But there was one news that worried them, and someone told them that there had been two major battles near Luonan, both between the army and the thieves. The officers and troops won a great victory and beheaded countless people.

After analyzing the two, they concluded that Li Yan's men and horses were also ambushed, and it was likely that the entire army was wiped out.

At this time, the King of Qin and Wang Jian really became a lonely family, with nowhere to stay, they combined, since Luonan could not go, it was better to go back to the vicinity of Huayin to have a look, maybe they could meet the broken Qin army, and then slowly recruit people and horses in order to recover.

It was agreed, and the two returned to their horses and headed north.

However, at this time, the difficulty came, the gold and silver on the two of them had been exhausted, because they escaped from the battlefield, they didn't bring much silver, and they spent it along the way, so they were soon penniless, the king of Qin had never encountered this situation in his life, he had no worries about food and clothing since he could remember, first in Handan by the rich father Lu Buwei to help, and after returning to Qin, he lived the life of a great son, who had fallen to this step of the field, although the immortal medicine can prolong life, but it is really like a ginseng fruit, it can't stop hunger, and the immortal medicine will not make people become copper and iron bones, if you are hungry, you still have to eat, otherwise you will really starve to death.

In this regard, Wang Jian is much stronger, he suffers in the army, far more than ordinary people, so he does not feel too bitter, along the way Wang Jian can steal and steal, can rob and rob, really have no food, so he went to the river and stream to catch fish, get food, first invite King Qin to eat, so that King Qin is very grateful.

However, at this time in Shaanxi, Chiye Qianli, a picture of tune, where there is how much to eat, it is easy to get to Huayin, the two of them heard the news, Huayin City has been occupied by the official army, and they are searching everywhere for the Qin army who has slipped through the net.

King Qin immediately felt that the sky had fallen, and there was really no place for him now. They had to wander around Huayin in the hope that they would be able to run into some Qin troops. But after more than ten days, I didn't encounter one.

In order to avoid being caught by the official army, the two had to go north and came to Heyang County on this day.

This place is close to the boundary of Shanxi, and like other places in Shaanxi, thieves are swarming, and the people are struggling to make a living. On this day, the two of them walked hungry, and saw a village in front of them, thinking that it had been looted by thieves, a broken wall, and blackened trees were everywhere, and the village did not hear the sound of chickens and dogs, but in the middle of a house, some white smoke floated out.

Wang Jianxi said: "Childe, you see, it's cooking smoke." ”

Since there was cooking smoke, someone must have cooked, so the two rode their horses into the village and walked in the direction of cooking smoke.

There are not a few steps to arrive, it is a private house, there is no gate, you can see the courtyard directly, at this time I saw a stove on the west wall of the courtyard, and on the side of the stove squatted a white-haired, leaning old lady, was boiling a broken pot, the pot was steaming, and was throwing some wood into the stove below.

Wang Jian was a little puzzled, this village is ruined like this, how can there be food, and there is only this old lady, he thought about it, and said in a low voice: "Childe, I'm afraid this is a trap, tempting people to come, so that they can rob, be careful." ”

King Qin nodded: "Let's not go in first, let's take a look around." ”

The two of them rode around the village, and there were no more whole houses in the village, and they couldn't hide them even if they wanted to, so they checked and saw no one, and they were a little relieved, and returned to the old lady's door.

At this time, there was a gurgling sound in the pot, it seemed that it was almost cooked, Wang Jian and King Qin jumped off the horse, pulled the horse into the door, Wang Jian shouted: "This aunt ......"

The old lady was shocked, startled, and turned her head in a trembling state.

King Qin and Wang Jian were shocked when they saw her face. Where is this person, it is clearly a skeleton.

The old lady's face was no longer a trace of flesh, her dark and charred skin had no luster and was full of wrinkles, her eyes were so dull that she had no life, and her wide mouth showed a few teeth, which seemed to be shaky. With that grassy white hair, it's really like a human and nine like a ghost.

As soon as she saw the two of them come in, the old lady didn't know where she got the strength, she stood up suddenly, and she was not afraid of the boiling water in the pot, so she reached out and fished into the pot, and after scooping up the things inside, she desperately stuffed it into her mouth.

After King Qin and Wang Jian saw what she was eating, they felt like they were about to vomit.

That's a human foot!

This foot is also skinny and ribbed, but it has been boiled for a long time, the boiling water is soaked, and it looks swollen, and the old lady stuffs her foot into her mouth and bites it with a clucking sound, this sound makes people listen to it, and the whole body is cold.

King Qin said unconsciously: "You are eating people......"

The old lady shrank into the corner of the wall while gnawing, her eyes emitting a light like a wolf protecting food, and stared at the two viciously, as if she was afraid that they would come up and rob them.

Where can King Qin and Wang Jian step forward, the three of them watched like this, and only the sound of creaking and gnawing human bones was heard in the air.

It was easy to wait for the old lady to gnaw all the flesh and skin on her feet, and then she had some energy and sat down.

King Qin looked at the human bones on the ground, held back his disgust, and asked, "You, you survived by eating people?" The old lady's expression was like a knife that had been eaten, stirring in her stomach, but in those cloudy eyes, there were no more tears: "He is...... It's my man...... ...... who starved to death last month The things in the house have been robbed by the officers and soldiers who have been killed by God, and those who can run ...... They all ran away and fled the famine...... If we can't run, we'll die...... I ate my man...... I ate him for a month ......"

At this point, she could no longer speak, and sat there shaking with her eyes closed.

King Qin and Wang Jian glanced at each other, both showed a look of resentment, what kind of world is this, King Qin once heard his father-in-law and the ministers of Qin State say that there was a difficult time in Qin in the past, but it was the most difficult time, and there was no tragedy of cannibalism, the people of Qin ate bran and swallowed vegetables, and they could survive after all, but after more than a thousand years, the social situation did not bear the burden and did not progress, but regressed to the situation of cannibalism.

Natural disasters are not the root cause, but man-made disasters are the root cause of tragedy.

Facing this old lady who was struggling to breathe, the two really didn't know what to say. King Qin took out the last few pieces of broken silver from her side, put them in front of her, and then got on the horse with Wang Qian, wanting to leave the village.

But as soon as they walked out of the house, they suddenly heard a rush of footsteps, Wang Jian was stunned, and there were more than 20 people who heard the sound, and they were running from all directions, which was not good.

He hurriedly said to King Qin: "Childe, something is wrong, go quickly......"

The two of them ran away from hitting their horses, but as soon as they turned a street corner, they swept a stick from below and hit Wang Qian's horse's leg, and the horse neighed and immediately fell to the ground, throwing Wang Jian off the horse.

King Qin's side didn't please either, and two people jumped off a broken wall, jumped onto the horse, and squeezed King Qin off the horse. Without waiting for the two to stand up, they beat them to the ground with sticks in all directions, snatched their knives, and then several men pounced on them and held them down, and tied them up with ropes.

After being tied up, the two of them were lifted from the ground and sat on the ground, King Qin saw that these people were all gray and vicious, and when they looked at the two, their eyes showed a hungry wolf-like light.

A burly man with a spear in his hand laughed: "What did I say, the road of heaven and earth is endless, and I am too hungry to walk, so I asked us to come to this village and caught two fat sheep." ”

A person on the side said, "There is an old sheep in the yard." The burly man scolded: "That old sheep, the whole body does not add up to three taels of meat, you go and gnaw the bones, Lao Tzu wants to eat mutton and drink mutton soup." ”