Chapter 45 Gradually

I had a dream again. Tropical towns and estates, ubiquitous orchards and sugar fields, and bare-armed laborers and slaves are the most common sights in the four seasons of the year.

An inseparable little tail, a delicate and immature face, so shy and attached, makes people have a kind of nostalgia and satisfaction from the bottom of their hearts to spoiling,

Therefore, "I" often took her, dressed as a boy, to play in the outer cities of the port city, and then enjoyed the various accents and skin tones of the common people, and all kinds of scenes.

The shaking vision and the obvious tremor made it clear that I was dozing off in the carriage. Outside the window of the thin white glaze, the sunshine of early spring is just right,

On the illuminated earth, what should have been a sprout and vitality of all things was a barren and depressed scene. And this is the hinterland of Lianghuai, which has been known as rich and dense since ancient times, and is full of dilapidation that is not enough to describe by poverty.

You must know that the situation in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Lianghuai region is much better than the more northern, which often causes some people to break out of the broken or dilapidated dikes, and wantonly divert and flood new areas and waters.

Since it is not due to natural disasters, then naturally there are only man-made disasters, such as because of the chaos of war, more cruel harvesting and exploitation than other regions, whether it is food, goods or Dingkou.

Compared with the military towns in the north that often sit on several states, it has been repeatedly divided and fragmented by various large and small forces, and at most there are seven or eight armed families in a state that have the names of strategy, defense, and town defense at the same time, not counting those grassy mountains and powerful Wu Forts.

Because it is an area that has been repeatedly contested by wars in recent years, many villages are deserted or semi-deserted like ghost domains.

Only when you get close can you find that inside, unlike the movements of wild dogs and crows, there are a few people living in the ruins like lonely ghosts.

Those were the few surviving villagers who fled the fighting and took refuge in the mountains, only to come back afterwards. The acres of vegetable fields they turned out, in the large barren fields, are like leprosy that have been gnawed by dogs, and they stubbornly survive.

Occasional rest, a small number of populated villages and towns are also materially poor to the extreme, the so-called big families with the best conditions, eat only a hurried spoon of coarse rice, and ordinary people, the most common is potato shredded potatoes and pulled wild vegetables boiled into thin vegetable porridge.

Moreover, it is also for the pillars of the family to eat, and the others only have dumplings made of potato leaves and chaff to barely satisfy their stomachs, and their thin and shriveled bodies have obviously been severely overdrawn in the heavy labor, so both men, women, and children are all looking like they are not old and decrepit.

It is very reminiscent of some outrageous old photos around the so-called golden decade under the rule of the Republic of China advocated by those little freshmen.

It's just that seeing too much naturally makes people indifferent, and from a certain Cheng dù, these locals who are lingering in this troubled world also have potential dangers and uncertainties in a certain Cheng dù.

At least not the first time I've seen the bones of the abandoned corpses on the road that are not the traces of man-made tools that wild dogs and crows can leave behind.

The best thing to use here is not money, but all kinds of dry food and other food, followed by daily necessities such as silk cloth, or salt and iron products. Of course, in order to complete the transaction smoothly and not become a missing person, there must be sufficient armed deterrence and assurance.

Petty theft and other similar offenses that infiltrate the ranks are the result of execution, or most people cannot afford the price of such mercy.

Every time I was able to stay in the city, I would try to collect some copying and make newspaper clippings or impressions to enhance my understanding of the world and the times.

All the way to the southwest, through Hongxian, Jixian, Yongqiao, Fuli, Linli, Lutang, Xinxing, when I stopped to rest again, it was already in Shansang County in the territory of Maozhou.

However, instead of going into the county town that had been burned and looted, and demolishing the outlying county seats, we camped on a high ground outside the city

It used to be the last famous general of the Southern Dynasty Liu and Song, the Dangong City built by Tan Daoji, an abandoned military city built on the hill of the estuary, and now the old site has become, and the business travelers come and go to settle down, spontaneously gathered into a small town.

When we came here, several more people died, and they were the footmen and servants who accompanied us. Two of them, tired from pulling each other down the mountain, were no longer human, and although I was a bit of a bluffer, I could not revive the man who was missing half of his head.

The other servant fell to the ground while walking, and never got up again. There was also a traveler who joined halfway, because it was convenient for diarrhea to go to the grass, and left the brigade without permission for a while, and was attacked by jackals, although he quickly arrived to drive away these evil beasts.

He was bitten out of his lower anus, and he kept bleeding, and the last thing I saw was his brother, howling and crying, trying to put the ripped entrails back in.

In fact, along the way, people are dying and others joining.

The mound of earth, which was overturned in a hurry from old to new, buried many fresh lives, but many more people, without even having the time to bury themselves, died on the road, becoming the food of wild dogs and crows.

"The setting sun is swaying in the wind, and the old roads are illusory

The clouds are raining, and the clouds are raining

Memories are looking for spring in dreams, and autumn grass is rare

Gently come and go quietly, only da doo dulu

Dust returns to dust, and dust returns to earth, repeating in reincarnation

Jun Ke has seen clearly that flowers are not flowers and fog are not fog

Passing through the lost is the way, why be stubborn and helpless"

Known as the theme song of the historical tear-jerking movie "Da Ming Tribulation" "Flowers Are Not Flowers", the Loli sound sung by my professor holding his head and squatting, in this depressed and dilapidated scene, there is a particularly outrageous tension and taste.

Even the people around him stopped, or put aside their work and began to listen quietly.

I went to visit the special patient, and by the way, I checked and changed her dressing, changed into a blue shirt and a loose edging pleated skirt, and my hair was loosely tied to the side, looking graceful and feminine, and I was reading something like an account book......

Well, to be honest, when I first saw this look, I had a kind of spit, and once you put it on, I almost didn't recognize it.

The standard goose egg face, willow eyebrows, watery eyes, and tasseled lips are very in line with the beauty standards of classical aesthetics, but what she does and experiences is obviously not something that a boudoir woman of this age can do.

I've even seen two daggers wrapped in ribbons among her belongings.

But I only know that everyone in the convoy calls her Shi Niang, and she has a lot of background behind her, and she is also one of the few people who speak the most effectively except for the proprietor of the convoy who has never shown up, and even the foreman of the guard, the righteous leader, has to be polite.

But with her level, even if she knows that nothing is possible, she is worth my faint teasing and satisfying a certain psychological capital.

She was used to the look she had until I pulled out something.

"Wear it ......"

It was two semi-circular pieces of cloth sewn on a cloth strap, with a little cotton wool and knots at the ends that could be staggered together.

It belongs to the craft of holding her head and squatting overnight, and to be honest, her female red front or something is fine, and her proficiency in calligraphy and reading does not match.

The crooked stitches and threads on it are obviously the product of repeated stitch removal and rework, and the cotton wool is also a little uneven, but she still choked back tears, licked and left a lot of needle fingers that were poked and bloody, and sewed them for me.

"What is this?"

She looked at her quizzically

"Chest pads, ......"

I replied with a sigh of relief

"Filthy ......"

Her face changed.

"Don't you want to hurry up......"

I'm full of righteous colors

"Such a big lump on the chest fell on the wound, not only did it not breathe, but it also involved the wound and it was more difficult to heal......"

"Tie this thing and hold it, it's good, it's faster, and it's easy to change the dressing."

"This way you can also do some light movement without pressing the wound......"

It seemed that the last reason moved her, and she took the letter with suspicion. With the help of the maid who put on the curtain, he put it on.

"Something seems to be different......

She moved her upper body slightly, tugging at the wound and frowning.

Nonsense, I secretly spat out, it looks more upright, at least the D cup has become E. Seeing that she had a slight shake of her body, it was obvious that when she sat up and got up, it was better than lying down.

"Does it still fit?"

"How do you know ......"

She suddenly thought of something, and her face blushed slightly.

"I measured the size when I changed the dressing......"

"Shameless ......"

"Don't dare to be, this is what I should do......"

"Actually, you should be more happy......"

I spitted as I checked the sutures, feeling the temperature and breath from the woman's body that bounced with my breath.

"At least those people didn't hurt you,"

"Otherwise, I'll have to do a job similar to that in the gynecology department, and you're not losing more......"

Then a roll of cloth flew over my head.

Although I was a little upset that I took advantage of it on the spot, I was a little complacent that someone brought me a cooked fish afterwards as a kind of thanks.

A few days later, we have arrived in the southwest of Huaibei Road, which belongs to Xiacai City in Yingzhou, which is also the confluence of Feishui and Huai River in the north, and an important town on the border of Huaibei.

Although it is only a medium-sized city, it has a high and deep moat, and there are military cities and water villages that defend the main city. The flow of people inside and outside the city is dense, and the traffic is busy, and the inventory has become very strict.

Because the opposite bank is Shouchun County, the important place of Shouzhou in Huainan Province, and it is also one of the ancient battlefields of the ancient battle of Weishui. It is also a military town in Huainan Province and one of the important ferries that have been attacked.

Therefore, in the name of visiting spies.

At every turn, someone was stopped to the side to search his body, rudely tore apart the salute, and shook it all over the ground, as long as he hesitated a little, he was violently fisted and kicked, and on the city pass, a series of bloody human heads had been hung.

Then

"The Luodu Imperial Court issued a great conquest order, on the grounds that the towns of Huainan colluded with the rebel party and intended to subvert the imperial court, sent soldiers from the towns of Qingxu and Huaisi to discuss the ......"

The righteous man who went out to inquire about the news brought me the news