Chapter 87: Refugees
After the potter finished talking with Diao Chan, he took the lead in walking out of the main hall of Situ Mansion, and suddenly, he saw Xu Chu, Pei Qian, Pei Guang, Pei Jing, and Pei Ben squatting on the ground, sticking their ears to the corner and eavesdropping on the wall to listen to the conversation inside......
The potter's cheek twitched a few times...... If it weren't for the fact that I would have to rely on these rotten garlic to charge into battle in the future, I really wanted to split them now.
Later generations said that Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang and other heroes slaughtered heroes after they became emperors, and the cunning rabbits died, and the lackeys cooked......
In fact, looking at the current situation, Lao Zhu and others are not without their reason for killing the emperor...... Maybe Han Xin, Lu Xuan, Li Shanchang, and Lan Yu also had the bad habit of listening to the emperor's corner back then.
"Does it sound good?" The potter showed a mouthful of white teeth, and the smile on his face was extremely mad at the moment: "You guys are so leisurely......"
Xu Chu and the others were startled when they heard this, and they jumped up one after another, looking at each other, and their expressions were very embarrassed.
Diao Chan also walked out with the potter at this moment, and when he saw this situation, his pretty face blushed, and he lowered his head nervously, not knowing what to do.
Xu Chu was the first to come back to his senses, and glanced at the Pei brothers, and saw that the five of them had straightened their clothes together, stood up straight, clasped their fists with both hands, and greeted the potters and Diao Chan with a solemn face: "The last general Xu Chu (Pei Qian, Pei Guang, Pei Ben, Pei Jing), meet the eldest prince, have seen Diao Chan girl, please ...... the eldest prince and Diao Chan girl."
"Bact! The hooligans also played the styling, and they all got out and set the horses. ”
"No......"
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After packing up their horses, the group headed for the outside of Luoyang City. The car was thrown to Wang Yun, who stayed with Yuan Shao, and Diao Chan also rode back with the potter and others.
The potter did not expect that Diao Chan's riding skills were quite good, and it was really surprising that a bright woman rode the horse so skillfully.
A woman from the northwest, even if she grew up in the place where she was subordinate, she still has a sassy atmosphere in her bones, but she hides it.
Out of the west gate of Luoyang, but saw the blue sky and white sun, I don't know when many refugees gathered outside the west gate.
Many refugees are still hung with colors, emitting painful sorrows and weeping, groups of threes and threes, two of them in a bunch, seeing the potters and a group of people coming, many refugees are frightened and pale, and they have to hide on both sides of the official road, as if they have seen a flood beast.
The potter's face was rarely dignified...... It seems that these refugees were extremely frightened by the Xiliang soldiers at the beginning, and now they have all become frightened birds, as long as they see that they are officials and soldiers, and they don't ask which way they are under the command of the princes, they are afraid that they will not be able to hide.
Of course, not all refugees are like this, and there are a large number of people, all of whom look lonely, like the walking dead, as if they have lost the motivation to live, just sit there and wait for death to come.
Diao Chan felt a cramp in his heart, and his eyes were quietly filled with tears unconsciously, showing fog.
"What's wrong?" Seeing the woman in front of him crying, the potter felt distressed for some reason, and hurriedly took out the handkerchief he was carrying and handed it to her.
"It's okay........." Diao Chan took the handkerchief, shook his head gently, and sneered: "After so many years, no matter how chaotic the world is, the surrounding areas of Luoyang are still prosperous and peaceful...... I never dreamed that one day this place would be like this. ”
"Everything in the world has a reason to follow and a law to be found...... But many things are beyond our human control. The potter sighed with emotion: "The world is hot and cold, the world is unkind, and some things are either natural disasters or man-made disasters, which cannot be resisted...... Don't be too sentimental. ”
Diao Chan shook his head and said: "Son, you are a child of an official family, but you don't understand, the little sister was sent out since she was a child, without a father and a mother, thanks to her father-in-law to raise her, even the closest people have forgotten what it looks like...... Now that Dong Zhuo has poisoned the world, how many people have become like little sisters......"
Hearing this, the potter let out a self-deprecating wry smile.
You have lost your parents, but you can still talk to someone...... I traveled to this era, and my original parents were afraid that they would never see each other again in this life, but they didn't dare to say it, and they couldn't say it......
But despite this, the potter never showed a trace of sadness, his previous life was not smooth, and he also encountered many suffocating setbacks in society, after which he lost everything in his previous life, but he remained optimistic, he believed that there was no end to the world...... People who love to laugh, people who are cheerful, and people who don't care about things will always have more luck than those who like to complain and blame others.
Diao Chan seemed to sense something, and turned her head to look at him curiously.
The potter's expression was quite lonely at the moment, and his eyes looked into the distance in a daze, obviously thinking of something sad...... But what is amazing is that even so, there is still a smile on his lips that will never fade.
In the eyes of everyone who knew the potter, this young man hardly kept smiling for a moment.
"Childe, what's wrong with you?"
The potter was pulled back to reality by the voice, turned his head, and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I remembered some of the past." ”
"An unhappy past?"
The potter did not answer.
Diao Chan said softly: "In the impression of the little sister, Childe never seems to be unhappy, no matter what happens, Childe will be calm and calm, talking and laughing." ”
Hearing this, the potter couldn't help but laugh and said, "In the eyes of the girl, I'm so heartless? ”
Diao Chan shook his head and said, "It's not that it's heartless, it's free." ”
The potter was stunned when he heard this.
After being silent for a long time, I saw him smile and said: "I can't say that I am free and easy, but people still have to be happy after all, no matter how difficult it is ahead, crying is also a day, and laughing is also a day...... It's always good to smile a little more, and luck likes to favor those who are optimistic. ”
Diao Chan pointed her pointed chin with her slender fingers and said playfully: "In the future, if the little sister is unhappy, she will have to bother the son to give more advice." ”
The potter shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile: "Tao did his best." ”
The two talked and chatted, walking and stopping, but they swept away the sadness of Shicai.
Suddenly, he saw Xu Chu behind the potter frowning, tilting his head to look at the side of the official road.
I saw five dusty, dirty, but gorgeously dressed refugees, forming a circle, a half-grown child curled up on the ground with his head in his hands, and kicking vigorously in the middle, one of the fat men who seemed to weigh 160 or 70 pounds simply sat on the child's body, and his huge fist rained down on the child's slender body.
"Stinky girl! Let you steal our dry food! Let you steal our dry food! ”
Xu Chu clenched the fist in his hand with a loud 'quack', and roared loudly: "Piff! What are you doing? Five seven-foot strong men, beating the weak with such a ruthless hand! Are you human?! ”
The potter frowned, beat his horse and changed direction, and led a group of people to run over.
Although the five strong men heard Xu Chu's shout, they didn't take it seriously, and turned their heads to quibble a few words, but found that there was actually a team of officers and soldiers coming over...... And each of them was wearing armor and swords, and the arrogance immediately wilted.
The big men put away their fierce expressions, stopped their hands and didn't dare to fight anymore, got up and stood aside honestly.
The potter came to them with a horse, looked down at the girl who was curled up on the ground and couldn't stand up after being beaten, and then looked at the five strong men, and said coldly: "Why are you beating people? ”
One of the strong men swallowed a mouthful of spit, and the look on his face was obviously quite resentful of the potter's and Xu Chu's meddling, but when he saw the armor and blades on Xu Chu and the Tiger Guard's soldiers, he was too timid to attack.
She ...... She...... She stole our dry food......"
The potter sighed and shook his head helplessly.
Although the clothes on these five men are dirty, they are also made of good fabrics, and they should have been wealthy families around Luoyang City......
Unfortunately, once they were killed, displaced, and lost their homes, each of them became refugees...... Today, the rich families of the past have degenerated from humans to beasts for the sake of dry food for preserved fruits...... Or rather, not even a beast.
In troubled times, life is not as good as a dog.
However, although they did not do it right, they were also forced by the way of the world...... If the potters are not in the same situation as them, what right do they have to criticize their actions? An outsider will never know the pain and despair of an insider.
"Do we have dry food on us?" The potter turned his head and asked Xu Chudao.
Xu Chu nodded and said, "The last general brought some with him." ”
"Take some out and give them some." The potter instructed Xu Chudao, and then casually took out a few five-baht coins from the money bag in his arms, bent down from the horse and handed them to the men.
Those men seemed to be a little incredulous, tremblingly took the money and dry food, stammered to thank the potter and Xu Chu, and then as if they were afraid that they would regret it, they ran away without looking back.
Xu Chu looked at the figures of the five people running away, snorted heavily, looked down at the girl who was still curled up on the ground, and said to the pottery merchant: "Eldest prince, this is ...... What to do? ”
The potter turned over and dismounted, turned to the soldiers behind him, and said, "Help her up and take a look." ”
But before the soldiers could step forward, Diao Chan had already flipped off his horse, walked quickly to the child's side, and reached out to gently lift the little girl from the ground.
"Little sister, are you okay?" Diao Chan asked softly.
The little girl who had been beaten looked about twelve or thirteen years old, although she was young, she could also see that she was normal, and there was a huge red birthmark on her right cheek, and she was thin and small like a malnourished chick.
The potter secretly figured out that the five big men were so violent to this girl just now - it must be because she looked mediocre and had not yet grown, and there was a birthmark on her face, not only was she not cute at a young age, but she also looked quite ugly, and she was prone to nightmares at night under the deception, so he punched and kicked her for some dry food.
If the one who stole the dry food was replaced by Diao Chan, the five men would not be heavy-handed, they would have already knelt down and offered food with both hands, and they would not be abrupt if they starved to death.
Human nature is so realistic and ugly.
After the little girl was picked up by the sable cicada, she struggled to stand still, she raised her head, her eyes looked extremely hollow, and when she looked at everyone, her eyes did not blink, and she was eerie...... The potter was covered in hair.
It's such a terrifying look that I don't even blink an eyelid.
In the impression of the potter, this kind of look is only expressed by felines...... It's so crazy, this is not the eyes that people should have at all, right?
But the girl's next move explained the reason for her empty eyes.
But I saw the girl stooping down on the ground, stretching out her hand and touching and touching the ground...... It wasn't until he grabbed a bamboo pole on the ground that he slowly stood up with it.
When the potter saw this, he suddenly realized...... No wonder the eyes are so empty and scary, it turns out that this little girl is blind.