It's dark and moonless.

However, if you stay for a long time, you can adapt to the light outside.

The half-man-high fields of corn are lined with millet one after another, and the ears of grain are close to golden yellow, and they are ripe.

Liu San bent down and chopped the stalks with a firewood knife, while cursing and cursing, and went out with the peasants to collect grain, mosquitoes flew around, and it was even more irritating in the sultry heat.

Li Dayi didn't bother to pay attention to him, just worked with his head bored.

In the fields and fields, there are thousands of soldiers and peasants, all of whom are rushing to harvest.

"Damn, Li Dutou, let's go to the army, why did you get such a ghost errand!" Liu San spat hatefully.

On several passages, there are Huazhou troops waiting to guard and collect grain.

Before Liu San's words fell, he suddenly heard a rapid whistle in the distance, and there was a faint scream.

Li Dayi was stunned, and his eyelids jumped again.

"Enemy attack! Return! Return! "The herald galloped in the wilderness.

The peasants, who were already panicked, immediately cried and shouted for their mothers to run in the direction of the West City Gate.

Liu San clenched the firewood knife, looked at the place where the screams in the distance came from in the night, gritted his teeth and said, "What are you running?" It's really inexplicable, how many Qi people can there be? ”

Li Dayi had quickly picked up the bundle of millet tied on his back, shouted to his subordinates, and also collected the harvested grain and returned to the city.

In the distance, there was a faint sound of arrows breaking through the air.

"It's an archer, a bower!" Some soldiers shouted in horror, and then screamed, and the shouting stopped abruptly.

Liu San was stunned, and he was also busy carrying the stack of millet rice, following behind Li Dayi, and running in the direction of the West City Gate.

The city gate was opened, and the soldiers and civilians poured in, and in the crying and shouting, some people were even trampled to death.

In the chaos, Lu Ning carried a middle-aged thin-faced uncle on his back and followed the flow of people into the city.

……

Near the west gate, there are several rows of fenced courtyards, one of which is obviously a high-class family of a farmer, and there are quite a few adobe houses in it, and it can even be seen as two entrances in the front and back.

The sky is full of fish belly, and the outside is still a mess.

Lu Ning is now in the front yard, teasing a black dog.

"Ah Da, come, accompany me to drink two cups to suppress the shock." Walking behind Lu Ning was the thin-faced uncle Lu Ning carrying last night, and his legs were still limp.

The thin-faced uncle's surname is Chen, and he is the in-laws of the owner of this house, but because there is no male owner in the house, he is the father of the young lady in charge of the house, so he has become a similar housekeeper.

Last night, Lu Ning heard that Boss Chen and his companions were collecting grain while cursing in a low voice Qin Thief King, Pan Thief Head and Thief Soldiers, Lu Ning slowly approached them, and Lianzhu Camp came to harass the grain collection, in the chaos, Boss Chen fell and injured his leg, and Lu Ning carried him back.

Originally, he just wanted to sneak into the city, but he didn't want to, Boss Chen thanked him for his kindness, called Lu Ning his life-saving benefactor, and inquired about Lu Ning's origin, Lu Ning naturally made it up, saying that he originally lived on the outskirts of the city, but after the Qi army came to the city, the Huazhou army burned the farmer's houses in the suburbs, and he could only live in a broken temple.

Lu Ning is a very standard local dialect, Boss Chen does not doubt it, and empathizes, and sighs very much.

It turned out that Boss Chen's family was surnamed Zhao, and he had a thin field of two or three hundred acres, and he was doing well, and he was also considered a first-class family among the farmers in the neighborhood.

A month ago, his daughter and son-in-law hired a few helpers to work in the fields in the suburbs, but they met three or four military men, who not only defiled Boss Chen's daughter, but also dispersed his son-in-law and helpers because his son-in-law refused to leave, and was cut down by one of the military men.

Mrs. Zhao had a son in his old age, his wife died early, and the concubine who gave birth to a child also died in childbirth.

And because those military men are all in civilian clothes, I only heard those military men call each other, and I knew that there was a person named Liu San inside, and Boss Chen couldn't sue the official if he wanted to.

However, although the military man is in civilian clothes, he has a foreign accent, and he can enter and exit Huazhou City in groups, who is not a military man in the city?

When Boss Chen talked about this, he was scolded by the king of thieves, thieves, and thieves.

And when he heard Lu Ning's fabricated life experience, he asked Lu Ning to stay in the Zhao family, and it just so happened that he also needed a long-term job now.

Although the change in the population of each household originally required insurance for several families in the neighborhood, but recently there has been chaos, and you only say that I am a distant relative in the suburbs, and I entered the city two months ago.

Boss Chen lowered his voice even more and snorted, saying that there is no one to care about this matter now? His own in-law, Mrs. Zhao, was originally here, but his son was killed by thieves, and he himself was angry. I went to sue myself, and no one paid attention to it, but the officials and officials had not come to this area for a long time, for fear of seeing themselves.

When Lu Ning heard this, he changed his mind and promised Boss Chen to stay here to work.

It's inconspicuous, there are many earthen houses, and it's convenient to do things at night, so it's a good hiding place.

But in the morning, Boss Chen came to call him to drink, Lu Ning pondered it, and nodded.

In the adobe house on the left side of the front yard, Boss Chen quickly got a few pieces of peanuts and scalded two taels of soju, of course, today's peanuts are not the peanuts in Lu Ning's cognition, but a kind of taro.

Boss Chen is very bad at drinking, and after a glass of wine, he broke his mouth and muttered, saying that in fact, the family does not need any long-term work now, and the grain in the field is not his own, and it will all be confiscated, what long-term work is needed? But you are my life-saving benefactor, I can't let you starve to death outside, look at the current situation, I'm afraid that soon the food of the people in the city will be tight, let's just say this Zhao family, the original grain storage, almost all of it was requisitioned, although there are some hidden at home, but it seems that it is enough for two or three months, not to mention other people's families?

Lu Ning nodded when he heard this, this Boss Chen is an understanding person.

"Daddy, drinking again in the morning?!" With a crisp voice, the curtain was raised, and a young woman walked in, with a middle-class posture, a beautiful face, and a slender figure.

"If you have wine today and get drunk today, what can you do if you don't drink?!" Boss Chen rolled his eyes, "How is your sister?" ”

"Not like that?" The young woman sighed softly, looked at Lu Ning again, and bent her knees slightly, "Thank you for saving my father!" ”

Lu Ning smiled, "It's serious." ”

Lu Ning listened to Boss Chen's chatter, this is his youngest daughter, since the accident, she has lived in Zhao's house and has been accompanying her sister.

Looking at these people, Lu Ning suddenly felt that he was trapped in the city and did not attack, and he wanted to lead Zhao Kuangyin to come for reinforcements, and even sneaked into the city now, the primary purpose was to burn the granary in Huazhou City, isn't it too cruel to the people in the city?

If you don't come into contact with these living residents of Huazhou, you wouldn't have such feelings.

Still, what to do, still has to be done. Lu Ning sighed softly in his heart, and could only use the excuse of "for a better tomorrow" to anesthetize himself.