Chapter 212: A Meeting of Fate
The little girl's thin body instinctively shrank back, but after all, she couldn't resist the temptation of food, and moved her hand to Lu Bu.
Looking at the dough handed over, the little girl didn't care about anything else, and after taking it with her dirty little hand, she put it in her mouth and chewed it all over the place, and quickly swallowed it.
The embarrassed eating appearance is obviously hungry for a long time.
Lu Bu stretched out his hand back, and Wen Ji, who had just joined the gang, saw the opportunity, and immediately took the water bladder and handed it to Lu Bu. Lu Bu passed it to the little girl again, and said to her gently: "Eat slowly, don't choke." β
She didn't care, she just took a big bite of the bread in her hand, and couldn't swallow it anymore, so she drank a sip of cold water.
For some reason, Lu Bu remembered the little girl who had dragged the corners of his clothes in Zhuo County, who was also innocent and young.
But they took on a burden that didn't belong to them at all.
After eating four cakes in a row, the little girl stopped, she wanted to eat again, but her little belly, which was already bulging, made a serious protest.
"It's useless!" She muttered to herself, looking rather annoyed.
"What about your family?" Lu Bu asked her.
The little girl looked up, her eyes full of confusion.
Only then did Lu Bu notice that although the little girl was wearing tattered clothes, her face was like a lotus, her eyes had a star-like brilliance, and her delicate and small facial features were covered with dirty mud and dust. If you can wash and dress up, it will definitely be an extremely handsome beauty embryo.
After the little girl was full, she seemed unwilling to go, so she stood awkwardly in front of Lu Bu.
She knew that the big brother in front of her, who stood up very tall, was a rare good person in the world.
The little girl's dazed expression, Lu Bu saw it in his eyes, and he didn't know whether her family was dead or alive, but he took pity on her, and began to wander at such a young age.
"Let's go."
After a long silence, when these three words came out of his mouth, even he felt very cruel.
The little girl pulled Lu Bu's crotch armor and kept shaking her head.
Even so, it still failed to impress Lu Bu.
This time he went south to fight the thieves, not for sightseeing, and he must be responsible for the two thousand lives behind him.
If it is in Wuyuan, Lu Bu can still find a family to raise him. But now that she is in Yingchuan County, she is not familiar with the place, and she rashly finds a family to foster her, which is likely to hurt her.
All Lu Bu could do was to let her eat this meal, nothing more.
The little girl kowtowed to Lu Bu three times, and her mother often said, 'A thousand years of favors', just now she has firmly remembered Lu Bu's appearance.
But she hoped that the man in front of her could change his mind at this moment.
She was disappointed.
Looking at the little girl's slow and thin figure, Lu Bu sighed, he didn't even give her a ration.
There is a proverb in Zhou: 'The husband is not guilty, but he is guilty'.
If you are given three or five meals of food, you may be snatched up by the refugees around you as soon as you turn around. Not to mention that she is a little girl, even a barbarian can't resist it.
O chaotic world!
The Confucian scribe who watched this scene from a distance patted off the dust on his body, he looked at Lu Bu, and began to speak: "The general is going to the south to quell the rebellion?" β
Lu Bu glanced at him and seemed to acquiesce: "What advice do you have at your feet?" β
But the man did not answer, but asked, "Does the general know why the moth thief arose?" β
This question seems to be simpler, and Lu Bu can answer it casually: "It's nothing more than that the people have been bewitched by the so-called 'virtuous teacher' and gathered to make trouble. β
"Is that really the case?" The scribe asked again.
Lu Bu frowned, this person obviously had something to say, so he simply asked clearly, "What do you mean?" β
Seeing that Lu Bu didn't think about it at all, the scribe's gray-brown eyes flashed with a subtle disappointment, but he also patiently answered: "The moth thief is not achieved overnight, in the past two years, there has been a great drought in the south, and how many farmers have not harvested their grains. The imperial court didn't care, and even increased taxes every year, and the local families annexed land seriously. β
"The local officials are corrupt, and the court is evil. Where do the people still have a way to live, even if there is no great sage and good teacher, just come to Zhang Li Maqi, just raise their arms and shout, they will also rebel. β
"Therefore, the trouble of moths and thieves is not in the people, but in the court."
The further he spoke, the more fierce the indignation of the scribe's words became.
If everyone had food to eat and land to cultivate, who would want to rebel with them?
If you think about it, it seems that this is really the case.
However, Lu Bu has never studied the livelihood of these countries on weekdays, and what he reads the most is some books on the art of war.
He has always believed that the governance of the Qi family and the security of the society are things that only those big people in the court should care about.
And he's just a border general, and he doesn't use so many brains.
"Why are you telling me this?"
Compared to what he had just said, this question made Lu Bu even more puzzling.
There was a rare smile on the scribe's face, "The general has kindness in his heart. β
Good?
Lu Bu looked slightly stunned, and said as if self-deprecating: "I am not a good man and a woman, and the people I have killed are afraid that I will make my heart chill." β
The scribe did not answer, but he took his leave to LΓΌ Bu and went north.
Before leaving, Lu Bu also happened to set off, and he asked, "Where are you going?" β
"Luoyang."
"What do you want?"
"Eliminate the eunuchs and thieves, and help the Han room."
I didn't expect this person to look quite old-fashioned, and he had such great ambitions in his heart, but he was disrespectful.
Lu Bu arched his hand at him and said, "If you are in Luoyang, you can go to the Northern Five Plains to try." β
The scribe politely thanked Lu Bu, and his decision in his heart did not waver in half because of this.
Only in Luoyang can he show what he has learned for many years.
The generals went south, and the scribes went north.