"Saints? What if one day no one of the people would go hungry, and then he would dare to eat and drink with confidence? ”

Ji Xue chewed these words several times, and her heart was not a taste.

Her Ji family has always regarded herself very highly, and she does not regard herself as a member of the vast number of living beings, but regards herself as an emperor, as a beacon to guide the people of the world, and she is transcendent.

Therefore, in their Ji family, although there is no particularly big extravagance and waste. However, every Ji family member has three meals a day in strict accordance with the medical scriptures, early refinement, medium satiety, and late less, and has never deviated from this concept once.

It can even be said that in the eyes of their Ji family, no matter how difficult the world is, not only must they strictly follow this article to nourish themselves, but the people must also follow suit, and they must ensure that the way of a gentleman cannot deviate. It seems that their words and deeds, every move, are rules and truth.

Ji Xue also thought so before, she didn't bother with food since she was a child, she only practiced martial arts and was extremely self-disciplined. But now, she is thinking about a deeper problem, thinking about how people can survive.

At that moment, everyone fell silent. They either closed their eyes and recuperated, or thought about life, or planned the way to defeat the Xiongnu, each with their own thoughts and thoughts.

After a while, the shopkeeper brought up millet porridge, pickles, eggs, tea and other things one by one. "Ladies and gentlemen, you have all ordered, I wonder if you have any other orders?"

Wang Mang waved his hand, indicating that there were no other orders.

"Guest officer, use it slowly, if you have an order, just say hello."

Seeing the gesture, Xiao Er nodded slightly, and turned around and left after answering.

Wang Mang took the lead in picking up a bowl of porridge and said to the Murong family: "Everyone, eat it while it's hot." After a while, we'll have to go on. ”

Many heroes of the Murong family picked up their chopsticks one after another, holding the pickles contained in the small plates, and ate them with relish, not feeling the slightest unpalatable.

In the past, they didn't even look at these unpalatable pickles, thinking that they couldn't eat them at all.

Now they have only followed Wang Mang for just over ten days, and they have almost smoothed out the original high-minded temperament, leaving only a restrained heart of worrying about the country and the people.

As the saying goes, the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, and empty their actions.

Right now, Mr. Murong couldn't help but be happy when he looked at the changes in these juniors.

He deeply believes that as long as these juniors do not die young, then they will definitely become the pillars of the Murong family in the future and support the Murong family to go further.

If it weren't for the fact that there weren't too many people on this trip, he really wanted to send other heroes of his Murong family over as well, so that they could be tempered and trained by Wang Mang.

Wang Mang saw that Ji Xue was still pondering and did not move his chopsticks, he was stunned for a moment, then flicked his fingers, and hit Ji Xue's eyebrows, "Snow girl, what do you want?" Hurry up and eat it. ”

Ji Xue glared at Wang Mang and scratched her eyebrows: "You still don't know what I'm thinking?" ”

Wang Mang said: "What is there to think about this? The Book of Changes all says profit, enjoyment, yuan, and chastity. What is the benefit? Doesn't it mean that the first thing to do is to ensure personal food and clothing, so that people can live?

The Suiren clan drilled wood to make fire, and Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, why didn't they first teach the people "filial piety", "loyalty", "benevolence" and "righteousness"? Why do you want to teach the people how to survive first? Because only by living, and living well, can we have the energy to sublimate ourselves. If we have the heart to do something for the people, the first thing to do is to keep the people alive. Then we will guide them to goodness, righteousness, and knowledge..."

"Just you talk a lot." Ji Xue muttered, and also picked up chopsticks and ate them.

Ten people were eating around a table, and the other customers in the inn were also chatting while eating.

However, it is obvious that due to the cold weather at the moment, the early weather, and the Hun army pressing Gansu, resulting in unrest on the border, there are not many customers in the inn except for Wang Mang and his party, and it is very deserted.

In this way, after about ten minutes, when Wang Mang and the others had eaten almost and were about to settle the bill, suddenly many people came in outside the inn, more than 30 of them.

As soon as they came in, they shouted loudly, asking Xiao Er to prepare wine and food, making it look like a nouveau riche traveling, and they were very arrogant.

Xiao Er was overjoyed when he saw that business was so good today, nodded his head, and kept greeting.

Wang Mang squinted at the group of people, and when he saw that nearly half of them were Hu people, his brows furrowed slightly.

In this group of people, although they are all dressed quite plainly, Wang Mang has an intuition that they must be from extraordinary backgrounds, not ordinary people, but the kind of people who are high and powerful.

Even, Wang Mang was still in this group of people, and saw a young man in a green robe, who had a sense of déjà vu for him, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he just couldn't remember it.

Finding such a situation, Wang Mang hurriedly withdrew his gaze, didn't dare to look any further, and whispered to Old Mr. Murong: "I see that this group of people has a lot of backgrounds, and it seems that they are all dressed up in disguise like us, and they want to handle something big.

Sir, you have seen a lot of things from south to north, do you find anything unusual about them? Also, did you think there was something special about the young man in the green robe? ”

Old Mr. Murong narrowed his eyes, took a closer look at the group of people, and then immediately withdrew his gaze, not daring to look more, for fear that it would be too much to look at twice.

After reading it, he replied in a low voice: "Based on my intuition, they all have some skills, and they are not ordinary people. In addition, now that the Xiongnu have invaded the Central Plains, we Central Plains people should not have casual dealings with the Hu people at this time, and we need to avoid suspicion.

But they didn't, and they appeared in this remote place. Maybe they have some ulterior motives. As for the green-robed young man, from the face, this person seemed to be from a noble family. As for more, I don't see it. ”

A hero of the Murong family said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, it is absolutely unusual for so many good players to appear in this remote place. Coupled with the fact that this is the border of Yizhou, maybe they won't have any bad intentions? Why don't I follow them in secret? If they're okay, we'll ignore them, and if there's a problem, we'll kill them. ”

"This is not possible!"

Wang Mang said: "At the moment, we can't just make extraneous branches, so as not to affect the big plan." If my guess is correct, they should want to make trouble in Yizhou and try to plot the territory of Yizhou, maybe this matter has something to do with the Xiongnu invasion of the Central Plains.

After we finish this, we will send a message to the Wei family and ask them to pay more attention to the border. It's just a pity that the place where they sit is some distance from us, and we can't hear what they say. Otherwise, we might be able to hear something from their conversations. ”

(End of chapter)