Chen Yu crossed his waist, looked at the sloppy team, and couldn't help but scold again.

In a few days, there were thousands of people missing from the cottage. At first, he sent someone to stop him, but then he even ran away, and he didn't bother to ask again. Fortunately, his henchmen were all subordinates of Emperor Yangming back then, and he regarded the Sun family as enemies, and he was unwilling to surrender to the government, and his safety was still guaranteed. It's just that so many subordinates have defected, and the secret of Tongguanshan will soon be exposed, and the cottage is no longer safe, so it can only be evacuated.

The cottage that has been in business for so many years has been lost like this, and Chen Yu's heart feels like a piece of meat has been stripped of him, and it hurts when he thinks about it. He kept cursing Sun Jian, Sun Ce's father and son. They were simply his nemesis, Sun Jian defeated Emperor Yangming, shattering their dream of becoming a general, Sun Ce broke his last bit of foundation, and once again turned him into a lost dog.

And that's not all. The Xu family was wiped out by Sun Ce, and Xu Gan, the thief of the Xu family, thought that he was involved by him, hated him, and claimed to be troublesome to him. He was obviously implicated by Xu Chun, but now he has become the culprit, and there is no place to plead. Xu Chun's father and son, who knew about it, were killed by Sun Ce, and the others did not know the inside story, only that it was his subordinates who attacked Sun Ce's fleet that caused Xu Chun to be killed.

That's a lot of injustice.

The more Chen Yu thought about it, the more depressed he became, and sighed. Tai Shi Ci walked over quickly, heard it clearly, but pretended not to hear, and said loudly: "General, everything is ready." ”

"Ziyi, is it still necessary?" Chen Wei sighed again and looked back. "Anyway, this cottage is our hard work, we have lived for more than ten years, and it is no different from home, what a pity it is to burn it down?"

Tai Shici smiled: "General rest assured, I won't set fire to it unless it is absolutely necessary." ”

Chen Fu patted Tai Shici's arm and wanted to say something of thanks, but he couldn't say anything. They wanted to retreat, but Tai Shi Ci took the initiative to stay behind to attract Zu Lang's attention and buy them time to evacuate. This is a dangerous task, except for Tai Shici, no one dares to undertake it, and no one can undertake it.

"Ziyi, just hold on for a few days, don't hold on. We all know Zu Lang's strength very well, his subordinates are elite and well-equipped, we are not his opponents, there is no need to fight hard. ”

"Thank you, General, for the reminder. Please go first, general, three to five days at most, and I will catch up with you. ”

Wan Bing stopped in the distance and beckoned Chen Wei to follow. Chen Wei nodded silently, said goodbye to Tai Shici, and walked down the mountain.

Tai Shici stood on the mountain road, watched He Wanbing bypass a few slopes, gradually disappeared between the dense forests, and turned back to the cottage. The cottage is a mess and full of abandoned things. There was no burden for thousands of miles, and although the bandits were eager to take everything with them, some bulky furniture was abandoned for the speed of the march. Some of the bandits who left behind the broken back stood in this pile of ruins, depressed, and when they saw Tai Shi Ci coming over, some just sighed, and some barely cheered up to greet Tai Shi Ci.

Tai Shici wanted to comfort them a few words, but he didn't know how to say it. He knew that it was not that these people did not want to go down the mountain and turn themselves in, but that they couldn't. Most of them are Huiji people, and they are very close to Xu Sheng and Xu Zhao, who proclaimed themselves Emperor Yangming, and they dare not turn themselves in, so they can only be thieves with peace of mind. In fact, many people do not rob their homes, they try their best to cultivate land in the mountains and be self-reliant, but the land in the mountains is scarce and they can't support themselves, so they have to rely on the Xu family and listen to the instructions of the Xu family.

The cottage is gone, the land can't be taken away, and even if they escape to the depths of the mountains, they can't survive for a while. Whether we can find a better place to build a village, whether we can find suitable land for farming, this is an unknown.

People in troubled times are not as good as peace dogs. Tai Shici has experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion and once avoided Liaodong, and he knows the sorrow of these people. They actually have no ambitions, they just want to live a peaceful life, but they are born in this troubled world, and even the minimum requirements are so extravagant.

Perhaps I should have told them that petty people like them were not at all in the interest of the imperial court, and had long been pardoned by the edict. It's really not good, you can live again with a different name, and now that there are displaced people, the government can't manage so much at all.

But he couldn't. If these people knew that this was the result of Izuyama's surrender, they would have run away without a trace overnight, and his mission would have been ruined.

"General, what's wrong?" Xu Yan walked over, looked at Tai Shici, and said in a low voice.

"Oh, it's nothing, I don't feel good when I see the cottage like this."

"Isn't it, although it was a little hard, it still looked a little bit homely, but now it's good, like a thief." Xu Yan wiped his face, and then laughed at himself: "Look at what I said, aren't we thieves." ”

Tai Shici looked at Xu Yan sympathetically. Xu Yan is not a local, he is also a native of Donglai, Qingzhou, and has read a little book, originally in the county as a county soldier, and later made a yellow scarf, he went to war with Qingzhou Thorn Shi Jiaohe, Jiao He did not understand military affairs, and lost the battle, Xu Yan was captured by the Yellow Turban, so he voted for the Yellow Turban. As a result, the Yellow Turban was defeated again, and he wandered to the south of the Yangtze River and became a bandit in Tongguan Mountain. Because he understands military affairs, he has become a small leader, and he is now Tai Shici's deputy.

"You're not a thief now, and neither are they." Tai Shi Ci said: "You are all righteous soldiers recruited by Liu Yuanjun, you are the captain, and when you defeat Sun Ce, you can go out of the mountain." ”

"That's right, when the Yuan family sits in the world, we won't be traitors, we are all ministers of the dragon, right?" Xu Yan suddenly became excited. "Alas, general, you said that the lord of the Yuan League sits in the world, how big an official can you be, can you be a marquis?"

Tai Shici's eyes shrank, and he didn't know how to answer for a while. Yuan Shao sits in the world, can I be a marquis? Liu Xuan's marquis is definitely not a problem. The Liu family and Yuan Shao have an in-law relationship, and Liu Miao has made such a great contribution, it will be expected that the marquis will be worshipped. But can I be a marquis? When Yuan Shao lived in seclusion in Luoyang, he couldn't see it if he was not well-known in the world, his vision was very high, I was just a Qingzhou cloth cloth, and my reputation was not very good, could Yuan Shao look down on me?

Tai Shi Ci remembered that he had served Cai Boqi, a dignified Nanyang celebrity, from a famous family, when he asked him to do something, he was a corporal and approachable, and when he finished doing things, he assassinated Shi Zhang Yan to retaliate against him, but Cai Boyuan refused to come forward to protect him, so that he had to leave his mother and go away to Liaodong.

Will Liu Miao be like Cai Boqi, when he uses me, he is like a treasure, and when he abandons me, he is like a shoe?

Tai Shi Ci looked at the reckless jungle, and was melancholy for a while, at a loss, feeling that his efforts were meaningless, and in the end they were all in vain. In this world where the family controls everything, even if a poor scholar is talented, how can he hold the sky three feet, ascend to the rank of the son of heaven, and make immortal achievements?

The sound of hurried footsteps interrupted Tai Shici's thoughts, a scout rushed over, Xu Yan greeted him, the two whispered a few words, and Xu Yan hurriedly walked back. "General, Zu Lang has been dispatched and is approaching this side."

Tai Shi Ci perked up and put all distractions aside. "Ready for battle."