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On the other hand, if a person is strict with himself, self-esteem and self-love, then this person must also be a person with courage!

Jin Sheng sighed and said, "It can be calculated, it can be endured, it can be done firmly, and it is done thoroughly, which makes people afraid." People who are strict with themselves, self-respecting and self-loving should be regarded as the kind of people who can "survive".

Chao Chong didn't deliberately care about visiting Dongfang Xiao's illness, there is no hatred in the world for no reason, and there is no kindness for no reason. Even if Dongfang Xiao is a good man, before he has done anything worthy of everyone's affirmation, Chao Chong can't be too close, otherwise he often visits a stranger's illness diligently, so what do the brothers who have been following him think?

The relationship between people is very complicated, and the sage also said that if you are close, you are not inferior to those who are far away! As a leader, you should pay more attention to these, reward for merit, punish for mistakes, and treat others in proportion to his efforts, so as to convince the public.

Therefore, before Dongfang Xiao shows his worth, before making a contribution that Chao Chong and a group of people agree with, Chao Chong will only respect, but will not get too close to this person.

The next day, early in the morning, Chao Chong and they were having breakfast together in the living room, and saw Wu Song come in helplessly.

Chao Chong beckoned him to sit down and said, "Why are you so listless?" Dongfang Xiao is okay, right? ”

Wu Song and Dongfang Xiao are also under the fence, and they are both sick and no one cares, so they have a sense of being connected to the same fate, but they still shook their heads with some annoyance: "He's a weirdo, I really can't get along with him!" ”

Lei Ting lightly peeled the eggshell with his thick fingers, and when he saw Wu Song hanging his head, he said: "I think that Dongfang Xiao is silent, more like a stuffy gourd than someone, be with him, it's strange not to suffocate people, Second Brother Wu, don't pay attention to him, let's drink together later!" As he spoke, he glanced at Shen Tulie intentionally or unintentionally.

Shen Tulie snorted coldly, didn't say a word, and drank gruel by himself.

Chao Sheng smiled and said: "Drinking is naturally lively when there are many people, but the eldest brother's orders, we can't be lazy, if the second brother Wu doesn't want to go, let me deal with that Dongfang Xiao." Every day by my eldest brother's side, day by day, I found that I unconsciously had an extraordinary temperament, and when I washed my face in the morning, those maids peeked at me with blushing faces. It seems that being too handsome is also a sin, so let me take care of that Dongfang Xiao to atone for myself! ”

Shi Qian threw away the egg in his hand, patted his thigh and echoed: "It's really the same thing that heroes see!" Those maids always peeked at me, I have been unknown for unknown reasons, very distressed, now listening to Brother Chao Sheng, it suddenly dawned on me, it turned out that I was handsome and caused trouble! Let's go and atone for our sins together! The sharp-beaked monkey's cheek face was slightly raised at a 45-degree angle, showing a kind of loneliness that was unbearable from above.

Chao Sheng said happily: "Virtuous brother! ”

Shi Qian said excitedly: "Brother Chao! ”

Chao Sheng said: "Bosom friend and confidant! ”

Shi Qian said: "It's too late to meet!" ”

……

Li Kui's eyes were wide open, and he couldn't understand what they were saying at all.

Chao Yang and Nguyen Thi Sanxiong drank gruel unhurriedly and took two pickles with chopsticks, as if I didn't know them.

Two black lines appeared on Chao Chong's forehead, these guys, the crooked building is too crooked. Obviously, Wu Song didn't mean that.

Chao Chong coughed twice and said to Wu Song: "What is Dongfang Xiao's condition?" Is there anything wrong? ”

Wu Song frowned and said: "He is really a weirdo, although I wanted to help him back to the room, he kept holding on to prevent me from touching him, and finally stumbled back to the room and drove me out again!" I don't think he's going on like this! No wonder I've been sick for more than a month and haven't gotten better! ”

Chao Chong smiled: "Is your malaria cured?" ”

Wu Song said with a smile: "Yesterday I drank a lot of wine, and there was another big fight, my body had a fever, and my malaria was cured, but now my body is better, my appetite is good, and my meal is fragrant, and I eat ten steamed buns in one go, without effort!" ”

Chao Chong said, "Did he have breakfast?" Da Lang's kitchen, the breakfast is quite good. ”

Wu Song said: "Before I came, I saw him go to the village, and he shouldn't have come back yet. ”

Chao Chongqi said: "How is his body?" Can I walk alone? What are you going to do in the village now? ”

Chai Jin's large manor is surrounded by dwellings, and there are about 500 villages, most of which are tenants of the Chai family.

Wu Song shook his head and said: "I still have the strength to walk, as for why I went out, I don't know this!" ”

Chao Chong thought for a moment and said to everyone: "A seriously ill person, with a newly acquired thirty taels of silver, arrived somewhere in the village early in the morning, are you curious about what he is going to do?" ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, curiosity is one of the most primitive desires of human beings.

Chao Chong smiled: "Then hurry up and eat, let's go and see after eating, maybe we can encounter something interesting." ”

At this time, Dongfang Xiao used several layers of clothes, wrapped himself tightly, moved with difficulty, and walked towards the land temple in the village.

In a trance, fragments of memory flashed layer by layer.

In the cold moonlight, a group of routs poured into a village. He rode on horseback, his armor shattered, his robes torn.

The silence, the bright moon, the fire in the village, and the wailing continued.

He drove his horse and wanted to step forward, but a man and a horse stopped in front of him and shouted: "** unbearable, the army is in turmoil, if they don't let them vent, they will collapse when they encounter the enemy again!" ”

Speechless, he bowed his head and was silent for a long time, then dismounted and entered the burning village, and kicked open the door of a room where several children, men and women, were frightened like quails with severed wings.

He looked at the children with big innocent eyes, waved his hand, and said, "Hurry up!" ”

The weak child didn't run far at all, and was caught up by the red-eyed routs one by one, and the knife pierced the chest of one child after another, and the child breathed hard and breathed heavily, but he couldn't do it. Tears welled up from the corners of his eyes, and he wanted to make a sound in his throat, as if he wanted to say "I hurt", so that his little face turned red, and the last mouthful of blood spurted out, staining his arm red.

Eventually, with tears in the corners of his eyes, the child's eyes widened and his body went limp.

With red eyes, he roared and slew the routs.

He stood outside the burning village in despair, why did he fight by himself?

The villages that were washed in blood were all the people of the Great Song Dynasty!

Just because the army was defeated, do you want to vent on them?

What should power be used for? He never found an answer. But he decided not to hold a knife again for the rest of his life. An iron rod picked up on the road, plus some pig iron scrap, made people build a quadrangular iron square beam, which can be used as a protective body.

After arriving in Cangzhou, he did some hard work every day in exchange for some food, and he found that this kind of life was also good. Especially when he carried a house beam one day, the envy and admiration of others made him feel his worth. It feels so good to be respected!

One day, when he was helping someone build a new house near the Land Temple, he accidentally saw the children.

Their eyes shone with admiration, watching him carry the four-zhang long main beam alone, clapping their hands excitedly. The clear eyes of those children suddenly reminded him of the children of that night......

But the villagers told him not to go near the land temple or to approach the children, because they were all people who had been punished by the spirits and had been wronged by their parents in their previous lives.

He didn't want to offend the taboos in the village, so he subconsciously avoided those children.

But one day, he happened to pass by in front of the Land Temple, and while eating steamed buns with meat filling, he was thinking about things. One of the children shouted, "Look, it's a golden armor!" "He's so tall", "Yes, yes, he's so strong, if I grow up like him, no one will bully me." ”

"Brother Lux, are the steamed buns delicious?" A six- or seven-year-old child, barefoot and in shabby clothes, stood in front of him, staring curiously at the steamed bun in his hand.

"Haven't you eaten it?"

The boy shook his head with his fingers on the corners of his mouth.

His heart was sour, and he picked one of the steamed buns in the paper bag in his hand and handed it to the child.

The child held it in both hands, took a small bite, ate the meat filling inside, ran to the other children in surprise, handed over the steamed bun and said, "You taste it, there is meat!" ”

The snow-white steamed buns were held by the children's hands, leaving two small black handprints, but the other children were not dirty, and they took turns biting one by one, with happy faces.

He also gave away the other meat-stuffed steamed buns in his hand, and he didn't even leave the one he had bitten twice.

He walked into the Land Temple curiously, and there were six or seven small coffins in the small temple, which were covered with thick straw and shabby bedding.

"What is this?" He pointed curiously to the coffins.

After eating the steamed buns, the child said happily: "That's where we sleep, and when it's cold at night, we lie down in it." ”

A chill rose from his back. He couldn't help but clench his fists.

At this moment, a middle-aged woman wearing thick clothes and covering her face walked in with two buckets, and when she saw him, she was very surprised and kindly reminded: "Hero, this is not the place you should come, let's go quickly." ”

He didn't move, watching the middle-aged woman open two buckets, one of which contained clean water. In a bucket is --- pig food!

This kind of food can only be eaten by pigs in the latrine.

"Why?" His deep voice showed his anger.

"Because they're sick."

"What disease?"

"Dirty disease! Some places call it leprosy! ”

He was silent, he had heard of the disease, it was contagious. Only then did he realize that each of the children did have some spots on their arms and necks.

The middle-aged woman pulled him away from the Land Temple, and the children were a little reluctant to say: "Brother Lux, will you come again, the steamed buns are so delicious." ”

He paused, and said in the puzzled eyes of the middle-aged woman, "Yes, I will bring you steamed buns to eat again." ”

He walked out of a distance with the middle-aged woman, and the middle-aged woman was still kindly persuading him not to provoke these plague gods, these children were cursed by ghosts and gods.

He asked, "How did you get sick?" ”

The middle-aged woman said a little proudly: "You are asking the right person, ordinary people still don't know." My family is the first chief of the village, and he knows the most about these things. A year ago, a family of three moved back from the city, but soon the man died, and it is said that he passed it on to the mother and son, who were playing in the village and infected several of their friends. After deliberation in the village, the woman was buried alive. Several infected children were also going to be buried alive. But when the Chai officials learned about it, they gave a sum of money to the sick family to keep the children alive, so they were kept in the land temple, and they were not allowed to go out, nor were they allowed to approach at will. Just let me go and bring them some food every day. It's been a long time, and everyone has been negligent in taking precautions, so don't approach next time. ”

"What's going on with those coffins?"

"Anyway, you won't live long with this disease, wouldn't it be easier to prepare in advance? After you die, you can nail the lid and you're good to go. ”