Chapter 9: Still Alive (Part II
Chapter 9 is still alive (medium
"Monk"
It took Zhou Huai'an a while to come back to his senses, and asked a little confused.
"You're talking about me?"
The person who spoke was obviously not very old or tall, but he looked old because of obvious malnutrition, and his figure was slightly rickety, and his hair was still mixed up
A few wisps of gray with few white heads.
It's just that the deep scarlet bust on his body, which is covered with iron sheets and bubble nails, and the purple sheath saber with a green polyester silk wrapped around his waist, put porridge here
In the temporary venue, it reflects the superior identity and momentum.
In fact, Zhou Huai'an had already noticed what he had done before this, no matter how crowded the rebels who maintained order
Respectfully move away from some distance and space.
"Only you, the monks, are not in the body and body of the parents who call for it."
The other pointed to the top of his shaved head, which was only a little short hair.
"You're not a monk and something."
Well, Zhou Huai'an touched his scalp and remembered that unlike the other party's greasy bun, when he walked in the medical team, he was out of tropical hygiene
The above considerations are quite diligent haircuts. Looking at his shoulder-mounted half-hung wrap, it seems that he really smells like an ascetic on the South Asian continent
Dao, suddenly a little speechless.
"Actually...
Zhou Huaian felt that he could still work hard to save/defend himself.
"I see if you still have some compassion, do you want to eat something good."
The gray-haired leader, who looked a little premature, couldn't help but wave his hand and interrupt him strongly.
"Auntie, I'll give you a chance to be full...
Hearing this, Zhou Huai'an hinted that he had changed his mind, and silently shut his mouth.
"Look at you, this monk is also tall and strong, I'm afraid you are not a disciple of the big temple of that family, and you have eaten a lot in the past."
"Can you sing the scriptures, you will give me a short time to die."
"There are many people dying in front of us, and it's also bad luck."
"It's okay to read whatever you want, so that the brothers can feel at ease,"
He babbled a lot, and his eyes kept on Zhou Huai'an's body, but he had an expression that could not be refused at all.
"Of course, I won't call you in vain"
"The general has an order to treat the people of the Han family well, even if you are a monk, it is ordinary."
"Of course, those feudal monks are different, Hu'er should die."
"As long as I can satisfy my brothers, it's not a problem to wait for my time to eat."
"I don't know if I have a reward or two."
It's easy to find an opportunity and gap in the other party's chatter.
But I don't know,。。 Kindness.. What do you call you, sir?"
Zhou Huai'an could only touch his head and bow his head for the time being, and said to this leader who was shorter than himself.
"What kind of officer, my surname is Chai, my single name is Ping, and I am called Captain Chai."
There is such a conversation without a word, although the other party seems to have a nonchalant attitude, but the occasional awe in his eyes is acute, but it makes people
I vaguely feel that it is not a character who can be fooled around casually or seems to be with.
followed the captain Chai who was riding a jujube red horse, and two elderly guards who followed closely and sandwiched Zhou Huai'an's bag in it, and walked out of a section
After the time distance, those intermittently obscuring the view, the green hills and green fields outside the city suddenly disappeared quickly,
Only a shocking scene unfolded in front of Zhou Huai'an's eyes remained; The vultures flying in the sky like inverted clouds, the corpses stacked horizontally and vertically, and
There are a forest of broken weapons, dumped chariots, horses and wooden fences, covering the wilderness outside the city of Guangzhou, like the remnants of the mottled dark tide
It floods the various hills, slopes, bushes and fields in view.
Is this the battlefield left outside the city of Guangzhou?
In the distance, several large camps are crowded and noisy, standing on the banks of the Pearl River, and all kinds of teams are constantly coming and going
Among them, there are also three or five galloping horses and cavalry.
The convoys from the city had all converged here as they had snaked out of the gates, and the most conspicuous of the camps was undoubtedly the most conspicuous
It was like a flock of chickens, a large block of earthy yellow that stood tall above all the colorful flags, and the two vertical strips hanging beside it
flag
Looking at it from a distance, one of them has a big black character written on it "Rushing to the Sky General Huang", and on the other banner is the vermilion "Millions of Righteous Soldiers";
Could it be that this is the famous Huang Chao, where Huang Chongtian is, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but guess in his heart.
A small wooden basin with leftovers from a charred black pot and a sprinkle of black pickles on top is what the other party said is a full meal; Although it is basically nothing
There is how to shell and grind the yellowed brown rice, and there are a lot of burnt and sandwiched grains, chewing in the mouth is really coarse for the teeth and mouth
But compared to the mud flatbread and sour dumplings that have been eaten in Uncle Black's tribe, it is no longer so difficult to accept and tasty
Love.
This once reminded him of a time in the medical team, when he was trapped for three days and three nights due to a mudslide caused by heavy rain, and almost had the toothpaste around him
After everything was eaten, the rescue team arrived and ate the taste and mood of the simplest bowl of instant noodles with boiling water.
was soon swept away by Zhou Huai'an, and even the sticky pot residue was scraped off, and then he only felt that the empty stomach had just been filled
One is only half full, and even after touching his stomach unsatisfied, he can't even burp a full one; And Captain Chai, who was watching from the side
Slightly changed color.
"Okay, you monk who can eat."
"That's enough food for five to seven people."
"Next, it's up to you to see if it's worth the amount of food you need for so many people,"
After half a ring, he was led to a hastily built altar and incense table, and some magic utensils such as wooden fish, pan, and chime were thrown on the ground in a mess and no one had cleaned them up, and there were a few splashes of suspected vomit and suspicious dark stains on them.
Well, the other party must have done it on purpose, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but say to himself. As soon as I finished eating a slightly satisfying meal, I didn't even give a chance to eat and was pulled into this battlefield, and I was hit by this kind of "color, flavor" and face-to-face impact at close range.
However, when he was walking in Africa, Zhou Huai'an had already seen a lot of human tragedies caused by famine and war, directly or indirectly, and also knew many root causes and inside stories; There is no longer such a fierce reaction to this, but only the sentimentality and touching of the most basic humanitarian complex.
However, in the eyes of the gray-headed captain who felt that he had some origins, it was a different feeling and evaluation; At least the other party's immovable and free heart of compassion is just like the city and bearing of a high monk, but he is a little too young in age.
"Pull another one. In the end, it doesn't work?"
"At least I didn't spit it out on the spot, so I should be able to make do with it."
"You've pulled several of them before, and they're all vomiting to death."
"Even if you force it with knives and guns, you can't sustain it,"
Faintly listening to the sound of small discussions not far away, Zhou Huai'an took this opportunity to wait and arrange, Zhou Huai'an secretly carefully looked at the surrounding environment, and at the same time looked for possible routes to escape and hiding places.
I saw that although the mourning shed was killed in this battlefield, most of them were officers and soldiers with uniform soap robes and ears and hats; or it is a village soldier and a soil regiment with a hat; The corpses of the rebels, dressed in brown shirts and straw sandals, were easily recognizable because most of them were bareheaded and had only knotted buns.
And between the corpses, a ragtag crowd like a pack of vultures or scavenging wild dogs was stripped of everything that could be gained on the pile of corpses
with something, and left behind a bare corpse, which was soon covered by a dense flock of crows;
And the wild dogs in the distance are also slowly gathering and roaring and roaring in some kind of horn sound one after another, and the fat crows that eat oil and shine in a group
A new round of contention and conflict will begin. It's like some kind of invisible tacit understanding with a clear division of labor.
In the indescribable mixture of strange smells, some of the corpses looked like they had been dead for some time, while others were clearly bright red from what had just been killed,
Moreover, the wounds were almost all in the same position, and the location of the fall was relatively concentrated and neat, and it was obvious that they were later executed en masse.
Then, as if to verify Zhou Huai'an's conjecture, a group of people with blue noses and swollen faces or wounds on their bodies were also driven over with a noisy voice of pleading and crying; Then the spare knives and guns were stabbed and poked in the ravines that had been dug out of the background, one by one; Although there are still people struggling painfully in the red-stained mud, and there are people who stumble and try to escape;
At this time, someone pulled out the bow and arrow, but was pressed down by the captain who led the team with a face full of vicissitudes.
"Save some arrows and kill a few more official dogs in the future."
Then, seeing that he was soon followed by people in close pursuit, kicked these survivors who could not run far from behind, and cut off their heads with a knife, and brought them back with blood, and threw them backhand in the ditch covered with corpses.
"Monk, don't you think you can't see it?"
The gray-haired captain who brought him over suddenly took the initiative to explain
"That's a big bite, because his father was hungry in the disaster year, but he stole a local Qin Fengweng's dog"
"When I turned around, the whole family was buried by the officials of the government.
"In the end, he was the only one left who was pulled out by the wild dogs."
Subsequently, Zhou Huai'an knew that the so-called burying the stake means is to bury it alive, and it is the kind of thing that directly buries the head down in the soil in order to have a sufficient deterrent effect and save effort; Then, as the person slowly suffocates to death in pain, the incontinence of feces and urine will spurt out from the exposed upper end due to the pressure of the sealed body.
It is no wonder that the bitterness and hatred are so deep, this is simply the extreme expression of "class struggle and contradictions" in the textbooks of later generations; Zhou Huai was relieved
The evaluation and meaning suddenly became a little complicated, but there was still a certain numbness and sluggishness on his face.
When the corpses belonging to the righteous army were sorted out one after another and placed in front of Zhou Huai'an one by one. Then he took a deep breath and tried to sort out his complex mood, reminding himself of those touching and sad scenes and images, which turned into a subdued chanting.