Chapter 16: Hope for the Future

Under the moonlight, Guo Xing'a was thinking about what kind of captain Fushun would be. In another moonlight more than ten miles away, Wu Xiuming in Xiaolang was applying medicine to the wounds of his fellow countryman Cao Meng.

Cao Meng escaped again today, and was arrested again sadly. The big boss personally cut off several of what he thought were the masterminds, and the real mastermind Cao Meng was also beaten with ten lashes.

"Bear with me! I told you that I couldn't do it like this, but I just wouldn't listen! Wu Xiuming chewed the herbs into a puree in his mouth and smeared them on the wound on Cao Meng's back little by little, and Cao Meng, who was in pain, hissed and inhaled the cool air.

"Fuck, as long as I don't die, I'm going to have to run!" Cao Meng's facial features were distorted in pain, but his mouth was still hard.

"You have to save your life first!" Wu Xiuming was a little helpless.

"Can you save your life with these bandits? Sooner or later, it's not a death. Escape to save your life! Cao Meng was still hard-mouthed.

"Big grasshopper, you've escaped! You've been caught a few times, and the big boss doesn't have a good memory, otherwise you would have fed the wild dogs. He Huan in the fellow trio seems to be addicted to Cao Meng.

"He Da Le'er, you should be a bandit!" Cao Meng glared at He Huan fiercely.

"What can you do if you don't be a bandit, in this world, live one day at a time!" He Huan accepted the arrangement of fate very calmly.

"Xiao Langzhong, you also want to be a bandit?" Cao Meng turned back to Wu Xiuming and asked.

"Who would have thought! What could be done? Wu Xiuming shook his head.

"Run!" Cao Meng didn't want to give up Wu Xiuming yet.

"You've escaped, and this is the first time. What else do you get besides a few more lashes? He Huan is still fighting Cao Meng.

"You can always get out! Absolutely! Cao Meng said firmly.

"What about after you escape?" He Huan made up for it again.

The three of them were speechless, and after He Huan asked Cao Meng in one sentence, he also let out a long sigh.

The three seventeen and eighteen half-grown sons are Huaibei villagers, who were originally bachelors with no parents and no wives and children, but they have a tile to cover their bodies. Cao Meng's own family has a few acres of thin fields, Wu Xiuming is an apprentice in the pharmacy, and He Huan is an idler in the village. Before the troubled times came, the three of them had no intersection, and after the troubled times came, they became the last few people in their village. Being forced to join a strange group, bullying and suffering that they had never experienced before, made the three-and-a-half-year-old children have a deep understanding of "the villagers see the villagers, and the tears are in their eyes". After a long journey and brutal fighting, only the three of them were left in the village. People desperately need their kind in an unfamiliar and dangerous environment, and the three of them form their own small group. No matter how disgusted Cao Meng and He Huan were, the three of them still hugged each other tightly.

Cao Meng hated this group of demons who destroyed his homeland, and he didn't want to run away all the time, and he had run away countless times. From the beginning of the solo ride, to the later group to open the way, I was caught back every time. Along with the increase in the scars on Cao Meng's body, the number of demon team members also increased. They ransacked village after village, from a hundred or so at the beginning to thousands.

"If you want to be an official, kill people and set fire to be recruited, don't always think about whether you will die or not, in case you are recruited one day! Let's also mix up a half-job. Gritting your teeth and enduring the pain! Hello, brother, get you something to eat. He Huan patted Cao Meng's pouting buttocks, hummed a little song and turned away.

"How many of our thousands of people are real bandits?" Wu Xiuming looked at the moon and asked.

"Just a hundred or so people!" Cao Meng gritted his teeth and replied hatefully.

"How can 900 people be restrained by 100 people?" Wu Xiuming still looked at the moon.

"Phew! It's not that there are too many people like He Da Leer! Cao Meng took a sip.

"Brother Da Le'er just has a little bit of a bad mouth, but it's actually for your good!" Wu Xiuming didn't want his own people to make too much trouble.

"I'm serious, it's just that there are too many people like He Dale'er, and it took 900 people to let 100 people restrain them." Cao Meng put on his clothes and sat up.

"How so?" Wu Xiuming turned his head to look at Cao Meng.

"The people who were captured didn't want to be bandits at first, but when they killed someone, they saw blood. Like He Da Leer, he wants to be a bandit. This guy is a splashy, born thief. "Cao Meng and He Huan are both dependent brothers and enemies.

"Brother Da Le Er was also a good person." Wu Xiuming doesn't believe who is a naturally bad person.

"This house has no ridges, and there are idle people. If someone pushes him, he naturally becomes a bandit. "Cao Meng has seen through it, people who don't have anything are the easiest to get out of their minds.

"After all, there are still many people who don't want to be bandits." Wu Xiuming didn't want to defend He Huan, He Huan was indeed the first person among the three to regard himself as a bandit and the first person to kill someone. Wu Xiuming can't forget the scene when He Huan killed the first person, an old woman who wanted to take back her food was cut off by He Huan.

"Do you know who is the person around you?" Cao Meng gave his own answer.

"That's it?" Wu Xiuming couldn't believe it.

"Fifty of the nine hundred people, do you know who they are? I scared myself, and I was restrained by others. Cao Meng had a look of hatred that iron could not be made of steel.

"Yes! Alas......" Wu Xiuming sighed deeply, He Da Le'er would not give him a knife in the back. How many of the 900 people who could be coerced were He Da Le'er? When he really wants to resist, He Da Le'er, who is not his fellow countryman, will definitely give himself a knife in the back in exchange for the appreciation and trust of the big boss.

"Also, there are too many people like this in your Xiaolang!" Cao Meng sighed.

"I ......" Wu Xiuming didn't understand.

"I always want to save my life first, and I can't help but fight before the knife reaches my neck! It's all out of the way, it's a big deal of seven hundred against two hundred, and it's still a sure win. It's a pity......" Cao Meng shook his head in distress.

"We're bloody, too, what's the solution!" Wu Xiuming and Cao Meng's hands were also stained with the blood of the weak.

"Alas......" Cao Meng just sighed.

"Don't sum up the experience of escaping, there is meat to eat!" He Huan smiled and came back with a piece of black and slimy meat of unknown nature.

Cao Meng ignored He Huan, reached out and tore a small piece of the barbecue, stuffed it in his mouth and ate it. Wu Xiuming smiled at He Huan, wiped his hands with leaves, and began to tear meat and eat it. He Huan smiled, put the meat in it, and sat down opposite the two.

"There's a bone here, I'll take it back and reward the little ones later!" He Huan pointed to the ground in front of him, he already had some minions of his own.

Wu Xiuming and Cao Meng were speechless and ate intently. encountered a small piece of bone, and spit on the ground in front of He Huan.

The three of them were eating sullenly in the moonlight, and for a short time there were seven or eight small bones piled up in front of He Huan. A dark and thin figure quietly touched He Huan's back. A hand as dry as a tree branch sneaked around He Huan and gently picked up the dusty bones on the ground.

"Why are you missing two pieces?" Wu Xiuming was the first to notice that the number of bones was wrong.

"Fuck you uncle!" Cao Meng found the withered figure lying on He Huan's back and kicked him up from the ground.

"Dare to steal the stuff of Lao Tzu! I'm tired of living! Cao Meng pressed the thin black man to the ground and beat him violently.

"Oops, oops...... A few big brothers spare their lives! The black and thin man kept begging for mercy.

"Get out!" Cao Meng was tired and kicked the black thin man away.

"Whew...... ...... black thin man spat out blood, lying on the ground wheezing and panting.

"Big brothers, my brother is dying of hunger, please, give me a few bones!" The man, who had been relieved for a while, knelt on the ground and begged.

"Get out!" Cao Meng threw the bones that fell on the ground back into the pile in front of He Huan, and kicked the thin black man again.

"A few big brothers, be kind! My brother is dying of hunger, even if you give us a bone, save my brother! The thin black man cried and begged, and kept kowtowing on the ground.

"Dare to beat our brother's idea, let Lao Tzu see you again, Lao Tzu picked your skin!" Cao Meng turned around to look for his waist knife.

"Big brothers, please, good people have good rewards!" The thin black man still kowtowed, unwilling to give up.

"Who's your big brother, get out!" Cao Meng pulled out his waist knife.

"Please......" Seeing that Cao Meng had already taken the knife, the thin black man got up and left helplessly.

"That is, the big grasshopper, these bitches raised it, even the big boss dares to steal ......" He Huan exclaimed.

"Brother grasshopper, dissipate your anger, come back and eat it quickly! It's cold for a while, and I can't eat it! Wu Xiuming explained.

Early the next morning, He Huan gathered his minions and took Wu Xiuming and Cao Meng to the big boss to gather. When I saw the big boss, the big boss was already surrounded by old bandits, and a few new leaders like He Huan also gathered in the outer circle of the crowd with their minions. Some of the newly brought in hungry people gathered in the outermost circle, either lying down or lying in a disorder. When He Huan and the others passed by the hungry people's team, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old hungry person didn't know if he was faint from hunger, and actually stretched out his hand to beg for everyone, wanting to stutter to satisfy his hunger. Cao Meng glared at the young man and snorted. A dark, thin hungry man rushed over, held the boy down, and dragged him back to the hungry pile.

"I've seen the big boss." He Huan led everyone to salute the big leader.

"Hmmm! That's it! That's your person, kind of interesting! The big leader stretched out his hand and pointed at Cao Meng. It may be that there are too many hungry people he meets every day, and the big leader's eyes and memory are not very good, and he doesn't recognize Cao Meng as the fugitive he punished last night.

"It's my brother, who grew up together! This is also, Xiao Langzhong, will heal! Not only did He Huan not speak ill of Cao Meng like he squeezed Cao Meng in private, but directly said that Cao Meng was his little brother. and hurriedly took advantage of the great opportunity to pull Wu Xiuming and introduce him to the big leader.

"Hmmm! Yes, all useful people! The big boss nodded.

"Lang Zhong just stay by my side and listen to it! That brother, take this one, pick someone for yourself! "Lang Zhong is a scarce resource in troubled times, and the big boss hurriedly left Wu Xiuming by his side. He pulled a coarse cloth bag from behind him and threw it to Cao Meng.

"Thank you, big boss!" Cao Meng knew that his pocket was filled with cakes made of miscellaneous grains and leaves, and he could take the cakes to the hungry people to choose his own minions, and this is how the fellow trio was selected. With this coarse cloth pocket, he is the small leader of this bandit, and Cao Meng is very reluctant to thank the big leader.

Wu Xiuming was surrounded by the big boss and a group of old bandits to seek medical advice, while He Huan accompanied Cao Meng to start selecting people.

"Enough fun!" He happily expressed his merit to Cao Meng.

"I don't know if I should thank you today, or scold you!" Cao Meng walked towards the hungry people with his head down.

"Let's scold! You're going to thank me suddenly, I'm really not used to it! Hahaha! He Huan took his minions to Cao Meng's car, after all, standing in the hungry pile with a bag of food is not a joke.

"Forehead......" The hungry people who had seen the scene of picking people had already gathered around Cao Meng, but Cao Meng didn't know what to say.

"Pick me, Chief! I have strength, I can fight! I can do anything! A thin black man was the first to burst out of the crowd, and he made a few gestures with a wooden stick.

"Yo, shit, it's you!" He Huan recognized the thin black man as the one who stole the bones last night.

"Yes, yes, it's the little one, the little one offended several leaders Huwei, the leader forgives! In the future, the little one will definitely be a good cow and a horse for a few leaders, and repay the kindness of several leaders! The thin black man heard that not only was there no anger in He Huan's tone, but there was also a trace of closeness, and he hurriedly wagged his tail and begged for mercy.

"I didn't kill you yesterday, you kid is in good health! What is it called? Cao Meng is also satisfied with the black and thin man who vomited blood last night and can still be alive today. After all, people with tenacious vitality will not waste multigrain cakes.

"The little one is called a dog's day!" The thin black man nodded and said.

"What's your name?" Cao Meng and He Huan both suspected that they had misheard.

"The little one is called the dog day, and the leader asks the little one to call it, and the little one is called it!" The thin black man smiled flatteringly.

"Holy shit, you've got one!" Cao Meng scolded with a smile and threw a multigrain cake to the dog.

"Boss, the younger one has a brother, and he can also serve the leader." Dog's day is afraid that Cao Meng will start picking others.

"Which one!" Cao Meng asked.

"Genzi, come over and kowtow to the leader." Dog Day hurriedly returned to the crowd and pulled out his brother's roots, but it was the young man who was hungry and faint and begging just now.

"Lao Tzu doesn't want to die!" Cao Meng could see that the boy was not so much pulled out by the dog day, but more appropriately helped out. The whole person was already thin and only had a skeleton, as if a gust of wind could blow it down.

"Boss, my brother is so hungry that he can make a meritorious contribution to the leader by eating something!" Dog Day hurriedly knelt down and said.

"You let him kill someone, I'll see!" He Huan took out his waist knife and threw it over, and Cao Meng hugged his shoulders and looked straight at the dog.

"You can kill, you can kill!" Dog Day hurriedly picked up the waist knife and stuffed it into the root hand.

"Genzi, kill the leader quickly, and the leader will reward you with food!" Dog Day held the root hand tightly, for fear that he would not be able to hold the waist knife.

"Brother! ......" The root was crying, and I didn't know if I was hungry or afraid.

"Humph!" Cao Meng still hugged his shoulders and snorted contemptuously.

"Kill! The chief is rewarded with food. The dog's hand holding the root trembled uncontrollably.

"Hey! ......" He Huan was a little impatient and wanted to interrupt the dog's day.

"Don't worry, boss, my brother just picked someone! That's it! Dog's hearing showed He Huan's impatience.

"Don't delay your efforts......" Cao Meng also lost his patience.

"Ahh ......" The dog was already crying in a hurry, listening to Cao Meng about to give up his roots, he was so anxious that he snatched the waist knife and stabbed a hungry man in front of him.

Everyone has long seen that the root can't kill people, and no one is prepared for the dog's day to break out and hurt people. The man's physique was far stronger than that of Dog Day, but he was caught off guard, and second, he was a little vain after being hungry for a few days, and he was actually slashed to the ground by Dog Day.

"Genzi, come and kill!" Dog Ride stuffed the waist knife back into Genzi's hand, dragged Genzi and looked at the man in front of him, and took Genzi's hand and cut off the man's neck.

"Ahh ......" the root howled meaninglessly.

At the sound of the root's howl, the waist knife slashed at the man's throat, and blood splattered all over the ground.

"Look, Chief, my brother can kill and serve you." With a somewhat hideous and flattering smile, Dog Day knelt in front of Cao Meng.

"Don't waste my bread!" Cao Meng threw two cakes at a time to the dog.

"Boss Xie, your great kindness and small brothers are unforgettable!" The dog day kowtowed to Cao Meng.

"Is it worth it?" He Huan withdrew his waist knife and asked while helping Cao Meng pick someone.

"The value of the dog's day!" Cao Meng replied in a deep voice.

The group walked through the hungry people and picked people, and slowly walked far.

"Genzi, come and eat the cake!" Dog Day knelt until He Huan and Cao Meng walked away before getting up, holding three cakes and looking for the root with an excited smile.

"Brother, I'm afraid!" The roots of the first murder shook into a ball.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, there is a brother! Eat the cake! "Dog's day fed the cake to the mouth of the root.

"In the future, follow the leader, and the leader will give us bread to eat every day!" Looking at the root wolf spitting tiger, the dog day has a kind smile on his face.

"Brother, I don't dare to kill!" Neko cried again.

"It's okay, brother! Just hide behind your brother! Doggy used his fingers to glue the crumbs of the cake that fell from the side of his mouth, and sipped it into his mouth little by little.

"Brother, you eat!" I had already taken a bite of the root on the third cake, and then I remembered that my brother hadn't eaten it yet.

"You eat, brother is not hungry!" The tongue of the dog is reminiscent of the taste left behind by the residue.

"I'm full, brother, eat!" Neko took two more bites on the cake before he realized that his brother was lying to himself. But less than a quarter of a palm-sized cake remains.

"Huh! It just so happens that my brother has these! Dog Day took the cake and didn't dare to bite it, and ate it with his tongue one by one.

"Brother! ......" Neko wanted to cry again, he felt sorry for his brother.

"Don't call me brother in front of the leader in the future!" Dog's day only ate half of it, and then hid the rest in his arms.

"What's that called?" The root is a little confused.

"It's called dog's day!" Dogday raised his head.

"Brother! ......" the root is unwilling.

"Silly boy, the leader likes to call it that, so you have to call it along. The leader is happy, and will give us more bread. You see, I got one more cake today! "Dog's hey smile.

"But the root of the brother ......" is still unwilling.

"Don't think about those useless things, the bread is real. You have to have bread to live, you know? There is hope to live! Doggy touched his brother's head.

"Alive!" I still don't seem to understand the roots.

"Brother Promise, no matter what happens in the future, you have to live, you know? You are the hope of our family's future, you know? Doggy looked at his brother seriously.

"Hmm!" Neko nodded vigorously.

The two brothers, Dog Day and Genzi, after Cao Meng had picked someone, followed their leader and left, and the hungry people had to wait for the next opportunity. The man who didn't even know his name, and died in the hands of his brother in a daze, didn't collect the body for him. It was thrown like a stone and a tree. After the night, only a few broken bones remained.