Chapter 42: On the March
After another three days, Yu Panxi prepared his suits, rode in a small carriage, and set off with Xiao Chumo's army.
Xiao Chumo did not inform Mo Baozhou that she was going to travel with the army, although he had not heard of the precedent for her family members to go out with the army, but there was no rule that her family members could not go out together.
Afterwards, Mo Baozhou heard about this incident, and immediately became furious, "What does this Xiao Chumo mean?!" I asked him to suppress the rebels, and he even had to take his family away, so I was afraid that I would be bad for her! ”
Having said that, he didn't mean this, he now gradually realized that Xiao Chumo was a little out of his control, and if he didn't have the means to control him, he was afraid that it wouldn't work.
Wang Yi is a minister who has been promoted by Mo Baozhou recently, he is insidious and cunning, but he is right with Mo Baozhou's temper, and he has been promoted to five levels in a year, and now he has become a servant of the Ministry of Rites, and he is already a close minister of the Son of Heaven.
When he heard Mo Baozhou say this, he immediately understood what he meant, and immediately said: "Even if he takes away his family, there is still Ming Guohou!" ”
Mo Baozhou snorted coldly, "Xiao Chumo's mother is long gone, and now he doesn't even want to inherit the title, do you think he cares about that old fool of Ming Guohou?" Besides, the Ming Guohou Mansion is also a generation of lords, and several families are even more in the same spirit, if I dare to move the Ming Guohou, I don't know how these people should deal with me! Especially Situ He, that old thing, just talking can kill me! ”
Wang Yi's eyes rolled, and he immediately said insidiously: "Isn't there still that Yu Feng?" I heard that General Xiao cherishes his wife very much, and he will definitely not see his father-in-law have an accident! ”
"Yes, even if he is indifferent, won't Yu Panxi come back to save his father?" Mo Baozhou also smiled coldly, and the two glanced at each other, and they were embarrassed!
The couple who were on the way, of course, didn't know about the plan of the two in the palace.
Coming out of the capital, the further south you go, the more depressed it becomes, and many places can be regarded as desolate.
For even some women in the prime of life have been taken away to make up their numbers, and in some places the farmland has been completely abandoned because there is no labor to cultivate it, and there are only a few old and weak women and children left in the whole village, and the children are not able to work at all, but all those who can work at the age of thirteen or fourteen have been taken away.
Seeing this tragic situation, anyone felt extremely uncomfortable.
On this day, the army passed through a village and encountered an incident in which the people wept.
The rice that should have been harvested in the autumn has been delayed again and again by some families because of the lack of strong labor, and now it is almost winter, and there is still no harvest.
Yu Panxi lifted the curtain on the car window, looked at the scene outside, and saw that most of the farmland was full of old people and children, and couldn't help but feel sour, and was just about to ask Xiao Chumo if he could send some soldiers to help them harvest all the rice, when he heard a terrible cry.
She immediately looked, and saw not far away, an old woman was holding a child, crying loudly, the child was covered in blood and looked dying.
When encountering this kind of thing, she naturally wanted to help, she quickly stopped the carriage, "Yinling and Chulu brought the wound medicine, let's go and see what's going on?" ”
Xiao Chumo had also stopped the army, turned over and dismounted to come over to inspect.
The boy was only six or seven years old, thin and small, and not as tall as the rice. It turned out that when he was carrying the rice, he accidentally fell, and fell straight down under the narrow ridge, although the rice field was not at a high level, but there were still some scattered tools and sharp rice stubble on the ground in the rice field, he unfortunately fell on a sickle, opened a big hole in the neck, and was also poked several places by the rice stubble, which was really shocking to watch.
Xiao Chumo and the military doctor tried their best to bandage him and stop the bleeding, but in the end they couldn't save the child.
Xiao Chumo, who had fought on the battlefield, had ended many people's lives with his own hands, but the feeling of such a fresh and weak life passing in his hands made him immersed in sadness for a long time and couldn't come back to his senses.
Yu Panxi also looked very sad on the side, looking at the old woman who threw herself on the child's corpse and cried bitterly, she couldn't even say words of comfort.
From the words of others, Yu Panxi already knew that the old woman's son had died of exhaustion in Shuiyun Palace, this was the only blood and blood left by his son, and it was also her only relative, so it was really embarrassing.
While everyone was immersed in sorrow, the old woman suddenly jumped up like a tensed bowstring and crashed straight into a nearby tree.
She was so fast that everyone didn't have time to react, and when she looked at it again, the old woman had only one breath left, and she trembled and asked everyone to bury her and her grandson in a place with her son, and they were going to reunite underground.
After listening to the old woman's words, Yu Panxi couldn't control her emotions anymore, and immediately collapsed in Xiao Chumo's arms and cried.
This scene was so tragic that even many three-foot men in the army couldn't help but cry.
Yu Panxi looked at the two corpses with tears in her eyes, one large and one small, and couldn't help but touch the night pearl in her sleeve, she knew that Ah Ye did not have the ability to come back to life, but she hoped that Ah Ye could save them.
When she had recovered a little, she found someone to collect the bodies, paid for them to buy two coffins in the surrounding town, and buried them beside the grave of his son in accordance with the old woman's deathbed wishes.
But everyone knows that people who go to Shuiyun Palace, even if they die, they can't go home.
The grave of the old woman's son is just an empty grave, there are so many people who died in Shuiyun Palace, and the corpses can't be disposed of, but they are all burned directly by a fire, and the smoke is continuous every day.
Yu Panxi erected a monument for several people and engraved their names.
After doing this, the sun was already setting in the west, and she and Xiao Chumo stood in front of the three graves, the afterglow of the sun sprinkled on the stone tablet, but it was a little desolate.
"This is just what we see, where we can't see, how many of these things have happened, and how many families have been extinct!" Yu Panxi said, and couldn't help choking up, "They are all living people!" ”
Xiao Chumo's eyes were bloodshot, and he was also sad in his heart, so he reached out to wrap his hand around her shoulder, silently comforting.
Yu Panxi was still a little excited, and said angrily: "This is all Mo Baozhou's sin!" I set up a monument for them, just to let you see it, and the ghosts who will seek revenge on him in the future are also famous and surnamed! Xiao Chumo, you must not help the abuse anymore! ”
"I understand!" Xiao Chumo was also in great pain, gritted his teeth and said, "I will immediately go to the emperor and tell him what I have seen and heard along the way!" ”
Yu Panxi smiled miserably and yelled at him: "Books? What's the use, Xiao Chumo, don't be stupid, it's useless! Do you think that Mo Baozhou's kind of person will still have a trace of humanity in his heart, will he sympathize with these people? He only has himself in his eyes, and other people's lives are worthless at all! ”