Chapter 49: Temporary Peace
"Brother Ergou, what should we do now? Still following them? Seeing that the crowd began to thin out, and there was no longer a figure of the Taiping Sect responsible for maintaining order in the crowd, Dumb finally breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Chen Mo Dao, he was still very afraid that their murder and food would be found out by the Taiping Sect.
"Take one step at a time, leave them, this winter, where are you going to get food?" Chen Mo took out the book "Mencius" given to him by Ah Weng from his arms and read the book while standing on the stake, his mother taught him the Analects, not to mention how much knowledge he had learned, but the words were recognizable, at least most of the words in Mencius, Chen Mo could recognize them.
"But...... If it is discovered...... "Dumb is a little afraid, although for Chen Mo, killing has begun to become numb, but for him, he is still worried in his heart, afraid of being discovered, at the end of the words, seeing that Chen Mo is just looking at himself quietly, his voice can't help but lower, I don't know why, now Chen Mo feels a little different from before, I can't say the difference, but there is always a faint sense of oppression.
"I just want to live." Chen Mo looked at Dumb quietly, and when he stopped talking, he said in an extremely calm tone: "No one wants to kill, but if you don't kill people, your mother will starve to death, my mother will too, and I am also afraid, but I am my mother's dependence, some things, even if you are afraid, you have to do it, now there is no better way out, you have also seen, the gates of the cities everywhere are closed, follow them, at least we will not be starved to death." ”
What does it feel like to be hungry? Dumb has a deep understanding during this time, the feeling that he is so hungry that he wants to go up and nibble on anything he sees, he never wants to experience it again in his life.
"So what are we going to do now?" Dumb looked at the direction in which the team left, and then looked at Chen Modao.
"A new batch of people is coming." Chen Mo looked at the book and said: "When they arrive, we will follow, if they are full, they will practice with me, if you want to live, you have to have the ability." ”
"Oh~" Dumb hesitated for a moment, and began to stand on the pile like Chen Mo, this thing was taught to him by his father before, and then Chen Mo took a group of partners to practice martial arts, Dumb is no stranger, but he couldn't stand like Chen Mo for so long, just for a while, his legs have begun to tremble.
Looking at Chen Mo, who didn't move at all and even had the spare energy to read, Dumb was a little incredible: "Brother Ergou, you are so amazing." ”
Chen Mo didn't answer, his physical fitness ability had reached five, and the system immortals had already given him more ways to exercise his physical fitness, but according to those information, practicing like that would consume a lot of physical strength, and he had to eat more meat.
In this situation, the bread that can be eaten every day is obtained by Chen Mo by killing people and selling goods, if he eats meat, I am afraid that Qu Shuai may not be able to eat it every day, so he can only stand on the pile every day, even so, Chen Mo can feel that his physical strength is growing during this time, and he can carry dozens of pounds of heavy objects, but he can't last.
Seeing that Chen Mo didn't speak, Dumb could only shut up and continue to practice, but after supporting for a quarter of an hour, he finally lost his strength, sat down on the ground, and looked helplessly at Chen Mo who was not moving, until this time, Dumb found that Chen Mo, who used to play together, had become different from them unconsciously, not only daring to kill, but more importantly, physical fitness, he remembered that his father said when he was alive that ordinary adults need to practice regularly to be able to last for half an hour, and they can even read a book without moving like Chen Mo, I'm afraid the average adult can't do it, right?
For Chen Mo, standing on the pile has almost become a daily instinct, and this stop persists until almost evening, when Chen's mother and Aunt Cai made a meal and asked them to stop.
"Brother Ergou, you are so powerful." Dumb looked at Chen Mo, who was sweating finely on his face, with a look of adoration.
"If you've been practicing for a long time, you can too." Chen Mo smiled, picked up the hem of his clothes and wiped his sweat, there was a bad smell on the hem of his clothes, he had not cleaned it for more than a month, and it was impossible for them to clean it under the current conditions, but for them, this kind of thing was already used to it, not to mention Chen Mo, even his mother, who loved cleanliness on weekdays, had not washed for a long time.
One is that there is no such condition, and the other is that if it is really washed white and pure, it is easy to be highlighted in such a wave of refugees, and it may cause unprovoked disasters.
Mother Chen and Aunt Cai had already boiled water, boiled a few pieces of dough, and then served them in a wooden bowl dug out of wood.
Aunt Cai's face was still thin, but it was not as dull as when she saw her in the morning, and there was a bit of awe in her eyes when she looked at Chen Mo.
"Mo'er, the bread we got back this time is enough for us to eat for a few days, and we must not be so reckless in the future." Chen's mother looked at her son with some distress.
"Don't worry, the child understands." Chen Mo nodded, sat down and hugged the sunspot in one hand, and frowned with the wooden bowl in the other: "Mother, do you know how to fight in a war?" ”
The Taiping Sect wants to attack Quyang, but how to attack the city? The first thing that appeared in Chen Mo's mind was Xiaqiu's nearly three-zhang high city wall, it was difficult to climb up, let alone attack the city, after learning that the Taiping Sect was preparing to attack Quyang, Chen Mo was actually a little excited in his heart, he had always wanted to join the army to make meritorious contributions, and he had also thought about how to fight the war in his mind, but most of them were all blind thoughts, and he couldn't do it accurately, now that he had the opportunity to participate, he naturally wanted to know more.
"Women, how do you know this?" Mother Chen smiled bitterly when she heard this: "However, it is generally not easy to attack a city, and you need to have equipment to support it, such as wells, ladders, rams, and catapults...... These things are not easy to obtain, and the Taiping Sect is afraid that they do not have them. ”
"What do these instruments look like, do you know?" Chen Mo said curiously.
Mother Chen smiled bitterly and shook her head, most of these instruments are recorded in only a few words in the book, she is a woman, how can she have the opportunity to see these things?
"Why do I ask this?" Mother Chen looked at Chen Mo puzzled.
"It's always good to know more, who knows what those Taiping churches will do when the time comes? If you know more, even if you have to do it and really go to the battlefield, we will have a better chance of waiting. Chen Mo explained.
"The soldiers are in danger, since ancient times, few people have been able to come back alive on the battlefield, Mo Lang, I think I can avoid it when I can." Aunt Cai sighed and said.
"No one can say for sure what will happen in the future, tomorrow we will find out if there are any surrounding cities willing to accept refugees, and if there is, we will try to vote." Chen Mo nodded, this kind of thing is not in a hurry, especially now that his mother is still here, if there is a way to get out, he will definitely not follow the Taiping Sect to mess around.