During this time, the streets of the city seemed much duller, and it was clear that the New Year had just passed, and the change from lively to deserted was so fast that people were a little uncomfortable.

Even the children who are always running around the streets are much less, and the children have to do some work when the men in the family are not there.

But whenever the children asked when their father would come back, the family didn't know how to answer them.

The war is getting more and more urgent, and no one knows when they will return.

In the beginning, the people only knew that there was going to be a war, and everything else was a military intelligence report, and they could not know much.

And recently, as the war officially began, rumors about the war began to spread everywhere. In the streets and alleys, you can often hear discussions about these things.

The Yanzhou army pressed the border, and even the two cities, these news made them worried, and for a while, when they came to Beihai, there were some people who were panicked.

"Give me some money." An old beggar with a dirty face sat on the ground, holding a broken bowl and speaking in a hoarse voice to passers-by on the street.

The appearance of the batch head makes people unconsciously bypass him, one of his legs is too thin, like a dry bone sticking to a layer of skin, it seems that he should not be able to walk.

"Give me some money." No one responded to him, and no one threw money into the bowl. Nowadays, no one has a good life, and no one has the heart to give money to others.

The old beggar seemed to understand this, sighed, put down the bowl, leaned against the corner, and closed his eyes.

He fled from the junction of Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and there was going to be a war, and everyone knew that there were more and more soldiers and horses in the city.

It's a pity that on the way he escaped, someone blocked the road and robbed, he was robbed of all his things and broke a leg, and he was able to live to Beihai for a while.

It seems that the time has come, and he will probably not live long after hunger and cold.

"Hey, the way of the world." The old beggar leaned against the corner of the street, talking to himself, and the hot breath from his mouth condensed into a white mist in the air.

He didn't want to go anymore, he couldn't live if he couldn't live, he was tired enough to live until now.

It's not bad to be dead.

"Dangchang."

It was the sound of a copper plate falling into a broken bowl.

The old beggar opened his eyes in astonishment, and there was a handsome little girl squatting in front of him, holding a sword in her hand, dressed as a man, but she didn't look like a child of a rich family, probably raising a girl as a boy.

At this time, she was putting a copper coin into his bowl.

"I only have one on me." Lingqi looked at the old beggar and said.

She looked at the person in front of her and remembered when she met her master.

"Huh." The old beggar looked at the copper coin in the bowl, and after a while, he said.

"Little girl, take this money back, the old man won't need it."

He didn't need it anymore, he was ready to find a place to die.

"The master said that you can't get back what you give out."

The little girl with the sword shook her head and prepared to leave.

The old beggar was stunned for a moment, he had never seen such a serious girl.

"Little girl." Coming to his senses, he reached out and stopped the girl.

Lingqi looked at the old beggar suspiciously.

The old beggar put down his hand and sighed again, perhaps people always like to sigh when they are old.

This little girl is a good person.

"Little girl, the old beggar escaped all the way, and heard some things along the way."

The beggar hesitated, he didn't know if the other party would believe his words, whether he could understand them, but he continued.

"Yanzhou Lu Bu, Xuzhou Tao Qian is ready to attack Qingzhou together, Qingzhou may not be able to stop it. It's only a matter of time before you hit Beihai, so you might as well ask your family to take you out of this place earlier. ”

After saying that, the old beggar lay back in the corner, and he didn't move a copper coin in the bowl, he was waiting for death.

Lingqi stood there dumbfounded, not because of the affairs of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, but because she heard a name.

Lu Bu.

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"When." The tip of the sword hit the ground with a soft thud.

Cao Pi panted as he gasped with a long sword in his hand, which was as tall as his body.

Lingqi sat not far from him, he wanted to practice swordsmanship, among the people he knew, he knew swordsmanship, and at this time only Lingqi could teach him. So he often comes to her these days.

Although Lingqi only taught Cao Pi some basic swordsmanship, she was also very serious, but today she looked absent-minded.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Cao Pi wiped the sweat from his forehead, he couldn't breathe, and his questions were intermittent.

But he could see that Lingqi was thinking about something today.

Lingqi looked at him in a trance, and suddenly asked for some reason.

"I heard that the general of Yanzhou is a man named Lu Bu?"

In her memory, her father led the troops away, and her mother stayed at home with her and waited, until a group of unknown people rushed into her home with swords and slashed and killed.

The mother took her away and sent her out of the city, and the people behind her kept chasing her. The mother told her to keep running, not to come back, not to tell anyone her name. She just kept running and never looked back.

She always thought that her father, like her mother, was dead.

“？” Cao Pi didn't know what Lingqi was asking for, but he still thought about it for a while and nodded.

"That's right, I heard my father mention it."

"Hmm." Lingqi sat there, as if she was a little overwhelmed, and in the end she didn't make any moves, just gently held her hand on the sword.

"Lu, is it possible that Lu Bu won't come to Qingzhou?"

Cao Pi was stunned for a moment, then pursed his mouth, raised the long sword in his hand, and asked rhetorically.

"What do you say?"

As he spoke, he took a heavy breath and continued to practice.

Yanzhou's soldiers and horses have already invaded Qingzhou, how can they not come?

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On the city walls, soldiers sat around each other, bowing their heads and eating the dry food in their hands. It was getting late, and no one spoke except for the occasional pleasantries.

A young general walked through the crowd to the side of the city wall, his hand pressed lightly against the sword at his waist, and looked out into the distance.

In the distance, he could vaguely see a barracks and tents.

After more than a month of marching, when they arrived here, the Yanzhou army had already captured two cities, and now because of their arrival, the Yanzhou army temporarily stopped the offensive.

They seemed to be waiting for something, and the youngster knew what they were waiting for.

"Click." A man wearing a hat walked up to the youngster.

The torches on the head of the city keep the wind from being so cold.

Gu Nan looked at Cao Ang and asked, "What are you looking at?" ”

Cao Ang looked at the camp in the distance, turned his head, and looked at the countless soldiers and horses in the city.

He didn't dare to think about what it would be like for so many people to rush together.

"Mr. Gu, what were you thinking about when you went on the expedition?"

Flesh and blood are flying, and ordinary people will be too scared to move.

Cao Ang suddenly admired the person in front of him, he just thought about that appearance, and he was already retired. Mr. Gu, a woman, how did she fight so far?

Gu Nan glanced at Cao Ang, hooked his mouth and smiled, this kid, after all, this is the first time to fight, it is inevitable that this will happen.

Maybe it's better to give him some experience from his predecessors.

She held out her hand and pointed to the camp in the distance.

"When you are fighting, it will be slightly better if you want to make cranberry cabbage (radish and cabbage)."

Cranberry weed···

Cao Ang was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

Half loud, and smiled bitterly, what Mr. Gu Nan said, how easy is it?

If it weren't for the fact that he was accustomed to seeing life and death and flesh and blood, who could regard people who kill each other as cranberry herbs.