"Where is my brother. It's been a day and a night. ”

Somewhere in the camp of the rebels, a burly man with a beard roared loudly to the left and right

"Haven't you come back yet? Let people find it again. ”

"Even if you search every inch of the city, you must find it."

"Chao rate will also be relieved, the head of the third team is just leaving the team privately this time"

A subordinate who described the old man as persuaded.

"Maybe it's just wandering around somewhere in the city and missing the return date."

"Besides, there are so many people who follow, all of them are old and old. When nothing happens. ”

"Besides, the city has been designated as a garrison for all the tribes."

"I rushed over to search with great fanfare, but I am afraid that it will be a little hindered."

"Then find a way, whether it's to transfer the favor, or to take the money from my private savings to buy them off."

"Yes, yes..."

Left and right, silent, hurriedly ran up.

It wasn't long before he used his power and connections to get the news and a response, but it was bad news.

"All dead, dead without all bodies? This is my brother."

His eyes immediately turned red.

"A chaff cake has left me with half of my brother."

"After the whole family starved to death, I only had one brother left."

"I didn't lose my life all the way with me."

"It was established in this fallen Guangzhou, and he died so miserably"

"How can I swallow this breath."

。。。。。。

At the same time, Zhou Huai'an, who was pushing around in the crowd by the still magnificent city gate, and who had not waited in line for a long time, couldn't help but be hungry and sleepy, leaning against the wall and taking a nap and being awakened again.

"Son. Your name is Zhou Huai'an."

The vague words of childhood seem to be still in my ears.

The name is derived from the old man of his family, and is used to commemorate Zhou Gong, the founding prime minister who was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu; Although his father this week and that week are just the same city and surname that can't be beaten by eight poles, they are even more Shaoxing nationality;

But it did not prevent his family, an old man who still admires him, from chasing the tail of the remnants of the era and the household registration loopholes that cannot be named in the name of the country, such as "Defending the Country", "Patriotism", "Wei Hong", "Wei Dong", "Aid Korea", etc., and giving him such a name that looks quite big.

Then, when he was a little sensible, with a popular Hong Kong and Taiwan martial arts film in the video hall, "New Dragon Gate Inn" spread, he couldn't help but be troubled and helpless by this name; As the process of going on to higher education, the clan will inevitably run into each other, and the new classmates will laugh and introduce the topic with this name.

There was even a time when ruffians from other schools came to watch the door of the classroom like a zoo; It wasn't until he made up his mind to go into the infirmary for everyone and fought several times that things stopped.

But the faint influence of his name was more or less accompanied him to college; There are even more narrow and funny professors and lecturers, who will deliberately ask him outside of class, "Where is your gold inlaid jade" and "Where is Mo Yan, a confidante?" ”

It wasn't until another literary middle-aged/obscene uncle with the same name as the heroine Mo Yan who wrote local Xiaohuang Wen began to flourish in the literary world that this faint topic gradually disappeared.

Coming to the outside of Guangzhou, Zhou Huai'an found that he had miscalculated again. Although he had traveled on the continent and faced wilderness areas, he apparently seriously underestimated the dangers of walking and moving alone in this age.

Because, what he accidentally got from the crowd around him was that in the periphery and suburbs of the city in this era, there were still records of tigers, wolves, bears and leopards and other fierce beasts, and there were many examples of people and animals being attacked.

Especially in this relatively uncivilized Lingnan region. Since ancient times, it has been a bad place for the exile of political prisoners; Although it has been developed over the ages, who knows how many unexpected surprises of nature await humans. For example, half a month before the arrival of the peasant rebels, in the countryside of Guangzhou, there were rumors that the hawkers were taken away by fierce beasts.

Moreover, you must know that even in the later generations where Zhou Huai'an lived, until a long time after liberation, in order to solve the problem of beast harm in wild production and life, the state has organized militia and troops many times and carried out corresponding extermination and pest eradication campaigns; It took many years to transform the wild beasts into endangered species that could only be seen in zoos and reserves.

Secondly, there is no shortage of robbers of all kinds on the roads of this turbulent world, or the news of the waves of starvation converted by the hungry people; Whether it is the former or the latter, it is simply a mortal threat and obstacle to pedestrians and business travelers who lack sufficient force and do not form a scale;

In fact, even in the ancient times of those who claimed to be Wenjing, Zhenguan, Tianbao, and Hongwu, there were inevitably records of all kinds of bandits and chaos, of course, in this case, it was usually not a simple natural and man-made disaster of the starving background; There are not only some people who are poor and remote and "extremely poor and thinking about change", but also those powerful families of the gate valve clans who dominate the local areas, as the driving force behind and the factors that make use of them.

Moreover, in the words of those locals, the officials and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty stationed on the road were even more dangerous and terrifying than these beasts and bandits; In their eyes, there may be no better fat sheep and false accusations as the target of robbery and murder than a foreigner who lacks identity or has no way to get there.

As a result, the surrounding areas of the city and its influence have become relatively safe islands in this turbulent era, so basically no one wants to leave Guangzhou, but after the city gate is reopened, there is still a steady stream of people fleeing back.

Especially after the news spread that Huangchao's rebels had conquered Guangzhou and began to give relief, the hungry people and homeless people who came out of the four miles and eight towns filled almost every major road, and the possibility of Zhou Huai'an wanting to get out of this situation became very small.

Although he can also look for those relatively remote mountain roads and paths with few people, to try to bypass those official roads that are full of checkpoints; However, in the absence of the Beidou satellite positioning system to provide navigation, and there is no corresponding camping tools and material support, this is undoubtedly a sense of probability; After all, those who hide in the mountains and forests are poisonous insects, beasts, miasma or something, and they will not specifically distinguish the difference between traversers and natives.

Moreover, even in the modern society with highly developed technology and information in later generations, there are still all kinds of self-conscious travelers or simply blind newborns every year, who disappear and lose contact in some ancient mountainous areas or remote areas; While wasting the manpower and material resources used by the state for search and rescue, it has made a steady stream of contributions to the shortlist of the Darwin Evolution Award and to raising the average IQ of the people of the country.

Zhou Huai'an consciously did not degenerate to the extent of being in the company of this; So for a while, he found that after leaving the city, most of the experience and skills he had gained in the first half of his life were basically useless.

Therefore, after half a ring, he stood in line among a group of homeless people and waited for the so-called rebels to release porridge; There is no way, the basic order has been re-established, and it will be more abrupt and conspicuous to continue to wander around, and there is a certain danger and probability of accidents.

The whole scene was full of chaotic crowds, but the basic order was okay under the supervision and maintenance of a sufficient number of armed men, except for all kinds of shouting and shouting, which were heard from beginning to end; Although the base for putting porridge seems to be chaotic and unreasonable, the advantage is that there are enough of them, and there are people who use hand-pushed carts to send all kinds of firewood, grass, rice, grain and other materials.

So, Zhou Huai'an didn't wait long this time to get his own share, which was served in an irregular bowl-shaped container made of grinding the bottom of the small half of the jar, and was forced to push and rush to the side. The so-called porridge was grayish-brown, filled with some black impurities of unknown whole wild vegetable roots or some other black impurities, sinking or floating mixed with rather scarce grain grains, no matter what container was used, with only one wooden spoon per person;

Here, those who looked too thin or short were driven aside from the ranks, others wailing and begging to leave, and then they were beaten and kicked by the soldiers who maintained order, or dragged by their arms.

Zhou Huai'an couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, this looked like he was going to recruit troops on the spot or pull a strong man, and couldn't help but hold this bowl of things as a cover, but the resolute and slow staggering crowd forward, and what happened next, made it too late for him to turn back.

Then he saw several people suddenly turn around and push through the crowd, screaming and stumbling all the way through, as if trying to get out of the group; Then, in the midst of the shouts and shrill trumpets of the "spies", together with the passers-by who had no time to dodge and tripped and rolled together, they were shot on the spot by the guards standing on the sentry stand and the fence like a sugar gourd;

The reaction and agility in it are not comparable to the goods that Zhou Huai'an encountered and killed halfway through the city. Then, the corpse that had been mended was quickly dragged down and hung on the wooden fence outside, and more people rushed to fill it with fresh blood, as if nothing had happened before.

As a person who has been shunted, he will also get a small gray ball the size of a fist, and the smell will be free with a sour and disgusting smell, but many people will gobble it up with relish, and they are eager to lick the residue stuck to the placket and between the fingers.

There are also people who do not eat immediately, but immediately rely on their strength to snatch the side of them; There were even several small groups formed, one of whom also looked at Huai'an, but in the end he made some kind of comparative judgment based on his height and appearance, and turned to another thinner looking person beside him, shouting and threatening fiercely;

However, this small commotion did not last long, and the rebel soldiers who were far away from watching and maintaining order rushed at them, knocked them to the ground in two blows, and dragged them out amid screams and confessions. So after a lot of twists and turns, these frightened people were finally able to taste some of this hard-won food.

After only taking a shallow sip of gray porridge, Zhou Huai'an almost didn't spit it out, and the indescribable taste directly reminded him of the first time that a tribe in Africa was tricked into tasting the indigenous dipping sauce made of colorful caterpillars, and the unforgettable but unbearable scenes and memories were unforgettable.

In the end, he couldn't make up his mind to try something else; After thinking about it, he casually handed it to a person who was kneeling on the ground in the dirt and crying with a sad face, his share was snatched and knocked to the ground along with the thin porridge, and it was completely trampled back and forth, and it could not be found at all.

Well, at least he had a little extra food in his pocket to make an emergency, and the only thing left was to find a chance to get out of here. And the kneeling man who accepted this gift with his head and head covered his head and brain was red, swollen and his eyes were so big that he rolled down with tears in his eyes, and turned around and cried in an urn that wanted to worship.

"Thank you..."

At this moment, a loud voice exploded in the crowd behind him.

"Monk Wuna!!"