(I have to write another dull chapter, because otherwise I can't write Woniu Mountain and Lu Shi's righteous act of relief unforgettable)

The brother who was on patrol at that time was sad when he saw this woman and the child in his arms.

What kind of mother and daughter is this?

The woman, who was so dry that she had no flesh, when this winter was coming, had only strips of cotton wool on her body, hunched over, carrying a wooden stick, holding a broken bowl, and a child like a cat in her arms, without the slightest sound, and only knew that the child was still alive in the occasional blink of her eyes.

The mother and daughter slowly walked out of the smoke-filled streets in the West City, regardless of the patrols, and regardless of the fierce poles, they moved forward slowly, her goal was the city gate, in his meaning, out of the city gate, it was a piece of heaven and earth, that is, the mother and daughter could live, and life was the hope that they could live temporarily.

Li Er, who was on patrol, saw the two of them, and his habit of dismounting stopped them from moving forward, and said kindly: "Sister-in-law, there is a curfew for rice fat now, and you can't go out." ”

The woman's godless eyes looked at Li Er blankly, as if there was nothing in front of her, and then asked blankly: "Master Jun, you are not allowed to go to the street, you are not allowed to go to the street, so what should we do?" ”

Li Er was silent.

"If you don't let you go to the street, you won't be allowed to ask for food, and you won't even be allowed to ask for food, so what should I do? What do you want me to do? Still muttering, and then slowly squatted down, holding the dead-like child to his chest, so shamelessly opened his mind, and stuffed the shriveled ** into the mouth of the child who was almost unconscious.

There was no milk there, the child just subconsciously sucked, the woman just looked at it like that, and murmured: "His grandfather was arrested by the government, there is no news, my mother-in-law died, I have no money to bury it, so I buried it with the cotton wool she has covered for a lifetime, the child's father was recruited by the government last year and went to the outside of the customs, and he will never return, I have no choice, I slept with the only little uncle, why?" Aren't you thinking about leaving a flame for Lao Li's family? I didn't let the Li family die, but, just the day before yesterday, my brother-in-law, that is, my current husband, was coerced into a pole again, and died, and when he left, he said that the head of the pole promised to give a hundred taels of silver when he died, which was enough for our mother to live for a while, and that was to exchange his life, but he died, and the promised pension silver was gone. ”

All the brothers stopped in the murmur, dismounted, and watched the scrawny woman, crouching there with her dying child in her arms, muttering to themselves in the cold, colder and colder wind.

"The money we worked hard for is gone, my family's grass house has also burned, our mother and wife have lost everything, and now we can only beg for food, go to other places, go to even a place where we can live."

However, with a disappointed face, he carefully looked at the dying child in his arms, and continued to murmur: "However, the military master said that it was a curfew, and he didn't let us go, the child has not eaten for three days, and he is starving to death, and the roots and seedlings of the Li family are about to be cut off in my hands, oh my God, my father-in-law, my husband, my little brother, I am a sinner."

Holding the child in his arms rigidly, he stretched his neck, pushed his face upward, his unkempt hair, and his shriveled mouth, wailing to the long sky, and wailing hoarsely. "God, give me a way to live, to give the old Li family, a family that has worshiped you for generations, a way to continue the ancestral incense."

Dozens of brothers wept bitterly in front of this woman, and they were at a loss in front of this woman.

Where is the way to live? By the way, in the picturesque world that the military advisor said, the military advisor said that as long as we fight and struggle, we will have a way to live.

The woman suddenly seemed to remember something, and suddenly fell on her knees like crazy, and pounced on these Woniushan brothers who were standing dullly: "If you want me, if you want me, as long as I don't let my daughter die, as long as my Li family has a little bit of incense to continue, even if you cook me and eat me now, I am willing, Master Jun, please."

All of them silently took a step back, one step after another, until they were already leaning against the wall, and there was no way to retreat.

Li Er stepped forward, slowly but firmly, stretched out his hands, stopped a step away from the woman, and then said very carefully and sincerely in front of those brothers: "Sister-in-law, we are all hard-working people, follow me, follow me to have your bite to eat and drink, and follow me to let you continue the Li family's incense." ”

The woman looked at Li Er with a little disbelief, but there was already a bright light of hope in her eyes, and suddenly, in front of the public, she tore up her clothes that she couldn't hide at all, opened her shriveled chest, and shouted hoarsely: "Okay, okay, I still have meat, I can still let you eat enough, I can let you eat for a few days, come, as long as you save my child now, now, now, now"

All the people were once again shocked by the woman's madness, and retreated again, but with an eerie wall behind them, they could not retreat.

Li Er did not retreat, but stepped forward firmly, stretched out his hands, and stretched out his hands to the dying child: "Come, give me the child." ”

Looking at the woman's frightened eyes, holding on to her child, Li Er said softly again: "Come, give me our child, and I'll take you to eat King Xinchuang." Then the man, who killed people without blinking, gently arranged the woman's clothes, so that all the brothers were surprised and said gently: "Come, follow me, I will provide my flesh and blood for your mother and daughter, if nothing else, so that we can live, not for anything else, just to survive this moment, that is, the new king of the Taiping world that the military advisor said." ”

The woman seemed to be really moved by Li Er, or she might be really desperate, this might be the last chance, so she slowly spread her hands and handed over the dying child to Li Er, Li Er picked up the child, pulled up the woman who was still kneeling on the ground, and said word by word to the brothers behind her, leaning against the wall: "Now, I, Li Er, am no longer single, now I have an aunt, a child, and the double blood of the Li family and the Li family, shouldn't everyone celebrate me?" ”

No one spoke, and dozens of brothers just quietly looked at Li Erxin, who was full of determination.

A brother groped in his arms for a long time, and then took out half a piece of bread to break into the king.

Another brother took out a nest head in his arms, and the new king broke in.

The third brother also took a kettle by his saddle.

In a moment, there was a pile of food in front of Li Er.

At this time, there was the sound of a gong in the distance, and a brother with a trilling voice shouted: "Let's give it up, the military division of Woniu Mountain has decided to give it away."

This good news was like a gust of wind, and it immediately spread throughout the slums of Mizhi County, and it continued to spread with an unstoppable momentum.

"Grain relief, grain relief, now we people have hope to live, the new king."

Hope and surprise seem to be so unexpected, maybe only in this way can everyone feel a kind of surprise that has never been seen before, the problem is not just the problem of food. This news is like a hole in the airtight wall, appearing in this troubled world, giving people a hope to live, such a relief, such a thing to let everyone know that this is just the beginning, and a better tomorrow is just to wake up to the new king.

Such a thing happened without publicity in advance, and everyone thought that it was a kind intention of the gentleman in Woniu Mountain------ and the gift should always come unexpectedly to be the new king.

Tens of thousands of men, women and children have seen a long-awaited glimmer of light in this dark, endless troubled world, and it is the beginning of ending this dying tomb-like world.

The barn was already overcrowded, and every citizen was at a table, at a brother with cinnabar, drawing a red circle out of reach of his hands, and then walked to the place where the grain was placed, and after being confirmed by the grain person, he shouted loudly: "Open your pockets, you will have a big bucket of food." ”

Then in the eyes of all men, the brother took the big bucket in his hand that he had never seen before, and the golden wheat was full and full of sharp points, and then without hesitation he fell into the bag or the bag that was now tied with his clothes.

The brother who was already sweating profusely, but was full of energy, didn't care about wiping off his sweat, and shouted, "The next new king." ”

The people who got the grain could only repay these men who shared the grain by kneeling down, and blessed the new king again and again.

The man who commanded the distribution of grain shouted again and again: "This is the kindness of Woniu Mountain, this is the kindness of the big boss Guo Tianxing, the military advisor Lu Shi, the government can't do it, let us thieves do it." ”

Yes, what the government should do, but only thieves can do it, what kind of world is this?

Li Er asked for leave, pulled the woman, held the child who had become angry in his arms, walked among the brothers, and said loudly to all the brothers he knew and didn't know: "This is my woman, this is my daughter, and this is the new king of our family." ”

All the brothers blessed them loudly together, and Li Er became even more proud of the new king.

A brother kindly asked, "Brother, why don't you take your mother-in-law and children to the warehouse to receive relief?" She's the new king who meets the rules. ”

Li Er retorted with confidence: "Why should we go to receive relief? He is my mother-in-law, who is the person on the cottage, and as long as we fight well in front in the future, they will have a ration, so what else do we need to do? ”

Then he shook the cloth bag in his arms, and there was a sound of flowers pulling copper coins inside, and Li Er said proudly: "I just received a hundred yuan, which was issued by the cottage, and at that time, Leader Zhao also took care of me and had a small family, and sent an extra fifty yuan, so I took the two of them to the street, bought some clothes, and then took them to the restaurant to have a good meal. ”

Speaking of which, Li Er held the child in one hand and his aunt in the other, and strode towards the lively street market.