Chang'an, Qin Palace, side hall.

Liu Yu was dressed as a palace guard, sitting in front of a soft couch, Murong Lan's abdomen was still wrapped with a tight medicine belt, lying on the bed, a bowl of millet porridge in front of him, only a quarter of a bowl, at a glance, the rice grains could be counted, a layer of sticky rice cereal, floating on top of the soup noodles, a few vegetable leaves, placed in a delicate small plate, placed on the side of the rice soup bowl.

Murong Lan's eyebrows frowned slightly, and she sighed: "Liu Yu, you tell me the truth, is the city about to run out of food?" ”

Liu Yu's face was not very good-looking, and even a little yellow, he swallowed a breath and shook his head: "No, don't think about it, drink this bowl of rice soup well, only by eating and sleeping well, can your injuries recover as soon as possible." ”

Murong Lan looked at Liu Yu motionlessly: "Okay, don't lie to me, if even I can only drink this bit of rice soup, the people in the city will only eat ten times worse, even you, now your complexion is not as good as mine A wounded and sick person, to be honest, haven't you eaten for a few days?" ”

Liu Yu was about to speak, but there was a "grunt" in his stomach, this time, all the justifications were no longer meaningful, and he sighed softly: "Don't think about it so much, eat these well, you are well, I will find a way to send you out of the city and leave." ”

Murong Lan sat up suddenly, her long cloud-like hair shawl, and looked at Liu Yu's eyes, full of concern: "How did it get like this?" You are the warrior that Fu Jian values, and no one's rations can be missing you. ”

Liu Yu nodded: "Fu Jian is very good to me, but I don't want to reveal my identity, so I still returned to the team guarding the city, this is my agreement with him, the daily ration has been reduced from six to two, plus a bowl of porridge water, porridge water porridge water, I see that the water does not see the porridge, compared to your bowl, it is not as good." ”

Murong Lan was silent for a long time and shook his head: "I didn't expect the food in Chang'an City to be consumed so quickly, I originally thought that it would last at least half a year, but in less than two months, it was ............."

Speaking of this, Murong Lan suddenly thought of something, and looked at Liu Yu: "Even if there are only two dumplings a day, you won't look so bad, you tell me the truth, did you give it to others?" ”

Liu Yu smiled slightly: "I really can't hide anything from you, you also know, Uncle Pirick's daughter-in-law just gave birth to a baby, and at this time it is the time when milk is needed, and I can only help them, and there are only two dumplings a day." ”

Murong Lan sighed faintly: "I can't imagine that Liu Yu, the god of war of the Beifu Army, is now reduced to the point where he can only drink one bowl of porridge a day. You can't do this, you can't do anything if you lack physical strength, you better find Fu Jian, let him open some small stoves for you, and in return, you can go out of the city to help him fight a few battles. ”

Liu Yu said categorically: "No, I said that I would only help Fu stick to the city, and never help him go out of the city to fight, otherwise, I would really become a Qin army, and I would not be able to explain these things clearly in the future." ”

Speaking of this, Liu Yu's eyes also became gloomy: "Actually, even if I go to ask Fu Jian, I'm afraid that most of him won't be able to give me anything, now the whole city is under military control and food control, even Fu Jian himself eats two dumplings a day, and Mrs. Zhang and his young sons, daughters, and people who can't fight, like the people in the city, have only one bread to eat." Maybe you eat the best and most food in the city every day. ”

Murong Lan's gaze fell back on the bowl of millet porridge in front of her, and some tears appeared faintly in her eyes: "Could it be that when I saw Mrs. Zhang in the past few days, my complexion was so bad, but I really didn't expect that Fu Jian could really eat the same thing as the people in the city, I thought that it was iron-blooded and ruthless to dominate the world, but I never expected to see such a scene in Chang'an City under Fu Jian's rule." ”

Liu Yu also said with emotion: "Yes, there are some things that you can only believe if you see them with your own eyes." It is said that Fu Jian is benevolent and righteous, I didn't believe it before, reducing taxes in the peaceful period, and giving some relief in disaster years, it is not very difficult to do, but this time it is really a time of tribulation, Fu Jian did not throw away a person who came to Chang'an to join him in this troubled world, and shared the joys and sorrows with the people, this is what a benevolent monarch should look like. Sometimes I even think that if he is not the emperor of the Di people, but a Han Chinese, I am willing to be driven by him. ”

Murong Lan sighed and turned her head: "Liu Yu, you drank this bowl of porridge, now you need it more than me." If the situation in Chang'an reaches this level, it means that the city is almost besieged, and in the past two months, the battle of the Qin army on the front line must have been very unsmooth. ”

Liu Yu's expression became solemn: "Yes, after Fu Hui's suicide, the morale of the Qin army was low, and there was such a thing in Chang'an City, it can be said that people were panicked, in the past two months, the Qin army attacked many times, but they were all defeated and won less, although Yang Ding was brave, he couldn't turn the tide of the battle, the former general Jiang Yu, Fu Jian's son Fu Qi, all died in battle. The Qin army lost more than 40,000 before and after, and it was still unable to drive the Yan army across Bashui. Now, with the reduction of military rations, even the attacking troops can only fight after eating four baitries, and the chances of winning against the strong Xiyan army are even slimmer. ”

"And not only that, the two armies have already hit the red eye, the prisoners after the war, almost all of them were killed, leaving no living mouth, human nature has been distorted to this point, outside Chang'an City, there have long been corpses all over the field, and at night, the green ghost fire on the dead corpse flashes non-stop, which is very terrifying."

Murong Lan bit her lip tightly, and her body trembled unconsciously: "Is it really to this extent?" Chong'er, Chong'er, he is so cruel, he really doesn't even keep prisoners? ”

Liu Yu sighed: "Murong Chong has no humanity now, and he vented all his hatred and anger on the bodies of ordinary Qin soldiers, and almost all the soldiers and civilians in the city have family members and relatives who died at his hands, and they hate it to the bone, so Yang Ding captured more than 10,000 Yan soldiers the day before yesterday, and they were all killed. However, Yan Jun's tactics are very clever, and the use of the art of war is very proficient, it seems that the Murong Yong you talked about last time is really a general. ”

Murong Lan sighed: "The eldest brother said that Murong Yong is talented, but he will not live under others for a long time, I am afraid that he will take advantage of this military exploit to find an opportunity to stand on his own." But now I can't take care of these things, can I let Murong Wei go out of the city and leave with the Xiyan army? If the result of the war is to destroy everyone in Chang'an, I would rather we not have this city, the emperor wants to dominate the industry, and it should not be piled up by the bones of so many innocent people. ”