It's too late to regret!

Perhaps, these four words are the most appropriate to describe the flag people around Xi'an City. Once upon a time, for those Qing troops who went all the way south, crossed the Yellow River and entered Tongguan, they were glad that they could enter Shaanxi alive. But this happiness did not last long.

A month ago, after the emperor came to Xi'an from Yulin, what he had always thought was the most feared thing finally became a reality - all their families were killed by the Mongols!

It was also from that time on, almost every day, there would be women who escaped from the grassland to Shaanxi.

"That night, it was dark and I couldn't see the light......"

Holding a somewhat hot rice bowl in her hand and drinking the porridge in the bowl, Xiumei, the daughter of the Yehenara clan, still looked like she was still apprehensive when she was in advance, and even her dusty face was still full of panic. She spoke Manchurian, and it was this Manchurian dialect that made these Eight Banners soldiers keep her and serve her a bowl of porridge and rice.

"The Mongols are coming...... At that time, the others and I were cautiously fleeing on the grass, and everyone was huddled together, and when we looked at the Great Wall, everyone thought that we had finally reached a safe place. However, the Mongols still stopped everyone at the foot of the Great Wall, and thousands of soldiers of the Han army were killed, and many women were also killed, and most of them were women......"

Speaking of this, her face suddenly became very desolate, and she looked into the distance with her eyes blank and said.

“…… My sister was plundered in this way, only God knows if she is still alive, my mother because she is unwilling to let the Mongols plunder, so when the Mongols chased her, she really couldn't escape, so she had to jump into the river and die......"

The woman's words made the flag soldiers in the checkpoint all look indignant, but more people were crying loudly there, and their wives and daughters were also among them, and there was no news so far.

They either died under the sword of the Mongols, or became the slaves of the Mongols, for them who had plundered the slaves and maids of the Han people, they naturally knew what would happen if their wives and daughters fell into the hands of the Mongols. If you don't talk about being a slave or a slave, you don't know what you will be bullied into.

"I'm going to kill them all, all the Mongol mongrels ......"

A flag soldier in his forties rushed out of the checkpoint, crying and screaming, and chopping down the trees on the side of the road with a knife.

He didn't even think about rescuing his loved ones, it seemed that for him, he had already resigned himself to his fate. In fact, the reason why he accepted his fate was because he knew that even if his wife and daughter were still alive, it would be impossible to find them again, and the grassland was so big, how could he find his wife and daughter who were plundered by the Mongols?

From then on, they will be separated from heaven and man......

Amidst the man's cries, the sentry card waistcoat took out a piece of silver, put it into the woman's hand, and said in Manchu.

"This bit of silver, you take it first, if there is an ox cart carrying grain in the past two days, go to Xi'an with the ox cart, maybe, your man is still waiting for you there."

The woman thanked her in Manchurian, thanks to the fact that she had met the soldiers of the imperial court, otherwise, I am afraid that she would really freeze to death in this wilderness.

In October of the 19th year of Shunzhi, compared with previous years, it was an extremely cold winter, and the snow in the sky had just stopped, and those who had not known where to hide because of the heavy snow called Hanako seemed to have come out of the ground, and began to beg along the streets of the city again, and no one knew where they had been hiding in the past.

In order to let the Eight Banners have a place to live, many houses have been "vacated" inside and outside the city, in fact, their original owners were driven out by the Eight Banners, and the people who lost their homes could only live in all corners of the city, and those broken temples were also crowded with these people. Families and nests set up broken grass hermitages and rotten grass sheds at the base of the city wall, and then barely survived.

Although since the defeat of King Li Chuang, the city of Xi'an has been repeatedly revolted, and the population has gone to five or six, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners have been inhabited, but the city is still full. Although there was rubble everywhere outside the city, and some of them were free places, as the Eight Banners set up tents there, they were also overcrowded. Most of these people speak Manchurian accents, and many of them have accents like Zhili and Shandong, and most of them are Han soldiers under their banners, but most of them are now wearing ragged cotton jackets, and many of them even just have straw ropes around their waists.

However, in contrast, these Eight Banner soldiers, although their clothes are shabby, at least they don't have to starve, but those Han people who were driven out of the door are hungry and cold in this winter, and the people who live in broken grass hermitage and rotten grass huts under the city wall not only have to endure the hunger caused by soaring food prices, but also have to endure the cold after winter.

And this God seems to be working against these people who have lost their homes. As soon as the winter began to snow, the snow fell for two days and two nights, and the snow in Xi'an City was three or four feet thick, and the snow became thicker and thicker, and the weather was getting colder and colder.

Every morning, the soldiers who patrolled the city had to use oxen-drawn carts to pull dozens or even hundreds of corpses of refugees who were frozen and starved and fell in the snow to the mass graves outside the city, and then let wild dogs eat them.

In troubled times, human life is as cheap as a dog, perhaps, this is the truest portrayal.

However, even in the troubled times, there is business, and if it is a full drill camp, there are business opportunities everywhere in this troubled world. A few months ago, the shopkeeper from Luoyang came to Xi'an with 3,000 pieces of cloth, and started a cloth business here, and suddenly there were more than 100,000 Eight Banner soldiers, not to mention the cloth that made clothes, it was a big business. However, after a few months of hard work, not only did he gain a foothold in Luoyang City, but also his business became bigger and bigger, and he even started a special business for the Eight Banners.

Early that morning, as soon as the door panel was removed from the store, Li Daming saw a person lying on the ground at the door, although this person's body was covered with snow and grass was spread under his body, but he looked like he was in his twenties, wearing a broken hat on his head, and a little hair beard showing from under the hat, it seemed that this person had not shaved his head for several months. As for the cotton robe he was wearing, it was also full of holes, revealing torn cotton wool. His face was purple, his eyes were closed, and he was frozen.

The guy on the side couldn't help but sigh when he looked at this person and said.

"Wow, it's really bad luck today, and when you open the door, you will touch a dead person!"

Just as the guys were about to kick the corpse to the road, they suddenly heard Li Daming shout.

"Slow!"

After stopping the guy, Li Daming said again.

"Let's see if there's any anger first."

As he spoke, he stepped forward and crouched down, tried his hand under the man's nose, and took his hand to touch the man's pulse.

"No one is dead! Hurry up and boil a bowl of ginger soup, don't be in a hurry, get some hot wine first! ”

The guys looked at each other, and when they stood still, they listened to Li Daming's instructions.

"What are you doing stupidly, you have to wait for someone to freeze to death!"

With the orders of the shopkeeper, the men carried the man who was about to freeze to death into the shop, carried him to the side of the stove, and poured a bowl of hot wine directly into the man while warming himself by the fire. Seeing that the person's eyelids moved slightly, Li Daming took a long breath and instructed his side.

"Send this person to the back, make room for him on the kang, let him lie down, and raise him for a few days."

When Wang San heard that he was going to sleep on the kang for this person, he was immediately unhappy. Not everyone can sleep on the kang, he is the big guy in the store, so he can sleep on the kang.

"The owner, you are old and troublesome, not to mention saving people, but also raising people, these years, with kindness, you can save a few."

Wang San's words made Li Daming smile and shake his head and say.

"Saving someone's life is better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter. Besides, since you watched it, there is a reason not to save it, you kid, if you weren't hungry, I wouldn't have kept you there. There is a reason not to save people! This is a man, accumulating virtue and doing good is the foundation, you know? ”

When the owner said this, Wang San's face suddenly turned red, wasn't he taken in by the owner on the way to Xi'an, how long has it been, and he actually forgot about it.

"The owner, the third son knows that he is wrong!"

When Wang San and his men carried the man into the back house, Li Daming stood on the counter as usual, and picked up the abacus there to reconcile the accounts. It wasn't until Wang San and the others came back that he gave instructions to Wang San.

"Today, you are optimistic about the shop in the store, and I will go to discuss business with the prince."

took out a thousand taels of promissory notes from the counter, and when he was about to go out, Li Daming gave another order to Wang San.

"When the man woke up, he served two bowls of noodles and two eggs in them, and estimated that he would not have eaten a full meal for a few days."

Hearing the owner's instructions, Wang San asked again after answering.

"What about the host?"

"Let's talk about it when I come back, let this person stay in the store for two days, and he won't be able to eat me!"

As he spoke, Li Daming walked out of the shop, wearing a fur hat and a fur coat, when he walked on the road, when he looked at the people sleeping on the side of the road, he always shook his head and sighed, as if he was sighing the difficulties of this world. No one in this world is easy, even she was almost reduced to a frozen corpse on the street. Occasionally, when someone begged him, he would take out a few copper coins from his pocket, but how much did he save?

"This ...... the hell"