There was a sudden noise and scolding in the camp, and Lu Ren and Cao Ang, as the leaders, of course, rushed out of the tent to see what was going on. And when the two of them approached, they found that there seemed to be the sound of scolding and fighting coming from the place where the fire was lit, but it didn't sound like some rogue thieves were sneaking up, and listening to the faint scolding sound, it should be that the night watchman caught some thief.

"Zixiu, let's go over and take a look."

Lu Ren and Cao Ang brought their entourage and rushed to the place where the incident had already surrounded a crowd. When I separated the crowd and went inside, I saw that it was three young men who were patrolling the night and beating a person lying on the ground. By the light of the fire, Lu Ren found that the person who was beaten turned out to be a thin, ragged boy who looked like a beggar.

Seeing this clearly, Lu Ren was furious on the spot, and suddenly shouted angrily: "Stop! ”

"I've seen Captain Lu and Cao Xiaolian!"

"See Mao! Did you fight like that? No matter what mistakes he makes, he's still just a kid after all! Retire! ”

The three night patrol youths glanced at each other, and cautiously replied to Lu Ren: "The captain doesn't know, recently there have been many thefts of grain and rice from every household in our camp, and it took a lot of effort for the three of us to set a trap and catch this thief who stole grain and rice......"

Lu Ren was angry: "So what!?" Do you want to beat him to death by beating him like this? Retire!! ”

Seeing that Lu Ren was angry, Qingzhuang had to retreat to the side. Lu Ren walked to the young man's side and squatted down, saw the young man lying on the ground, and looked at Lu Ren with a vigilant gaze. The flickering firelight made Lu Ren unable to see the young man's appearance clearly, but Lu Ren noticed that the young man was lying on the ground and being beaten like this, but his arms did not protect his head and face, but tightly protected the place under his abdomen, as if he was protecting something.

Lu Ren stretched out his hand to the young man and said, "Don't be afraid, get up, I won't hurt you." ”

The young man clenched his teeth, probably enduring the pain on his body, but he didn't get up in the face of Lu Ren's hand, but vigilantly crawled away and shook his head gently, until he hugged the thing in his arms tighter.

Lu Ren was also a little helpless when he saw that the young man's vigilance was so heavy, and after thinking back to what the young man had said just now, Lu Ren said to the young man again with a pleasant face: "I saw that you were hungry, presumably you only stole some food, right?" Arise, give back this food to all of you, and then come with me to the tent, and I will feed you with my dry food. Don't be afraid, I have no ill intentions and I won't embarrass you. I, Lu Ren, have always been a man of words......"

After hearing Lu Ren's name, the young man paused for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "You, you are Captain Lu?" That Captain Lu who could collect six stones of grain per mu when he was in Juancheng Tuntian? ”

Lu Ren nodded, and the people around him were taken aback when they heard "Six Stones of Mu Tian", and their faces were full of disbelief. There is no way, Lu Ren was just in a small place at the beginning, and now the name has not spread, so many people don't know Lu Ren's "great achievements" at that time.

The young man endured the pain on his body and crawled up, and only then did Lu Ren see that the thing he was protecting in the young man's arms was only a bag of rice wrapped in the only intact piece of cloth on the young man's body.

Seeing that the young man was still holding the small bag of rice tightly, he knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Ren, and said with a little choked voice in his voice: "Captain Lu, please let me go." It's okay if I die, but my younger siblings are dying of hunger! I only need this bag of rice to save my younger brothers and sisters, and the rest don't dare to ask for more......"

Someone in the crowd yelled, "Don't pretend to be pitiful! After stealing so many times, I finally caught you, don't try to get out easily! ”

The young man roared angrily: "I didn't pretend! A month ago, the three of us brothers and sisters were exiled here, and when we heard that the Tuntian homeless people were recruited here to earn food and eat, they also wanted to apply, but you disliked us for being small and weak and wasting food and rice, so you blasted us out of the tun! The three of us brothers and sisters just want to live, but we are small and weak, what other way to live than to do these things of stealing chickens and dogs!? We don't dare to steal more, just steal some food that is barely enough to make ends meet...... If you don't believe me, tie me up and let me see! My brother and sister are so hungry that they only have one breath left! ”

Lu Ren was stunned, and immediately asked the people around him, "Is there such a thing!?" ”

"Hey......" Many people around him were stuck, and it was obvious that the boy was telling the truth.

Lu Ren was so angry that he almost jumped up and cursed. After a few heavy pauses, Lu Ren sighed again and said, "Forget it, I don't blame you, I know that the rations distributed to you before are only enough for you to wrap your stomachs." "These things are basically handled by Lu Ren, so Lu Ren knows best.

Looking at the young man again, Lu Ren stretched out his hand to help the young man and said, "You return the rice to the stolen person, and then follow me to my post tent first, and I will give you my dry food." ”

The young man hesitated for a moment, held the small bag of rice in his arms to Lu Ren, and hesitated: "Captain, I don't care, it's just my younger brothers and sisters......

Lu Ren took the rice and handed it to the night patrol Qingzhuang, and pressed his hand lightly on the young man's shoulder and said, "I know." But your current situation is not much better, how can you have the strength to take me to see your brother and sister if you don't eat something first? ”

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Soon after, in a dilapidated house, Lu Ren saw two children lying on the ground.

After just one glance, Lu Ren's tears almost didn't flow down his eyes. He Lu Ren is indeed a "soy sauce man" who "hangs high if he doesn't care about himself", but this does not mean that Lu Ren is a completely selfish, cold-blooded and ruthless person. In fact, Lu Ren is kind and sympathetic to others, and the reason why he became a "soy sauce man" is actually a common social disease caused by the modern social environment, a psychological state that has to "play soy sauce" in order to protect himself.

For example, in modern society, if Lu Ren kindly picks up a person who has been in a car accident on the street and helps this person call an ambulance, and the real perpetrator escapes, then the next thing is likely to develop into a victim or his family insisting that Lu Ren is the perpetrator, even if these people know that Lu Ren is just a walking passerby, and even have an electronic video to testify for Lu Ren, they will also refuse to give up, and as a result, Lu Ren, a kind person, will not be rewarded. For no reason, I got into a fishy body and couldn't get out. If you run into it, it's the kind of liar who takes advantage of the sympathy of others......

But now Lu Ren doesn't have the scruples of modern society at all, so he is busy feeding the younger siblings of the rice-stealing boy with Wan'er. As the rice thief boy said, the two children were already dying of hunger, and the younger sister was in poor health because she was a girl, and they had fallen into a semi-comatose state of delirium.

This is a better body of the rice thief boy made a branch door to block the cold wind, lay a thick hay in the bed, and when he left, he lit a small fire in the hole to keep his younger brothers and sisters warm, otherwise in this kind of spring cold days, the two children are afraid that they have already died of hunger and cold.

As soon as Lu Ren followed the young man to arrive, his nose was sour for a while, so he naturally hurriedly ordered the tunzhong who followed him to collect more dry firewood and add more bonfire, so that the rice cakes he and Wan'er brought could be boiled into gruel. The younger brother's situation was a little better, after a few spoonfuls of gruel, he came to his senses, and he wanted to raise his hand and drink the bowl weakly, but he was pushed away by Lu Ren and said: "Don't move, eat slowly!" The more hungry you are, the more you can't eat too fast, or you will easily get stuck in your esophagus and choke yourself to death! You finally have something to eat, and you don't want to choke to death without starving, right? ”

This was a joke that Lu Ren wanted to make people laugh, but the people around him really couldn't laugh, and even Lu Ren himself just smiled reluctantly and frowned again, just wordlessly blew a spoonful of gruel and then fed it into his brother's mouth. By the light of the fire, Lu Ren looked at the unkempt and yellow-skinned younger brother in front of him, and the corners of his eyes unconsciously flooded.

was slowly feeding, Wan'er hurriedly called to Lu Ren at the other end: "Lord! This child is delirious and her teeth are clenched, and Wan'er can't feed her at all! If she doesn't eat like this, I'm afraid I'm really going to ......."

Lu Ren stretched out his hand to restrain the young man who was in a hurry and wanted to move, and then turned his head to Wan'er and said, "Wan'er, don't worry, let's change it." You come to feed my brother, I have a way to feed my sister. ”

The two exchanged words, Lu Ren first handed the gruel to the rice thief boy, and he knelt down beside his sister and pillowed his sister's head on his lap. According to modern first-aid common sense, holding my sister's cheeks with both hands, I barely opened my sister's mouth, poured a mouthful of gruel, and then forced it into my sister's belly in a mouth-to-mouth manner. After feeding a few mouthfuls, my sister suddenly coughed a few times, obviously the gruel fed by Lu Ren accidentally flowed into the trachea. However, after coughing these few times, my sister's eyes were barely stretched open a slit, and it seemed that she should be stimulated by these coughs to be more awake than just now.

Lu Ren shook his hand in front of his sister's eyes, feeling that his sister was still too weak, so he said softly: "You shouldn't be able to move, right?" But just wake up, I'll feed you, but you have to swallow yourself, or you'll cough again. ”

Stretched out his hand to take the bamboo spoon from the hand of the rice-stealing boy, but the rice-stealing boy hesitated and said, "Captain, my sister is ...... Oh, I mean, you don't have to feed like you just did? ”

Lu Ren glanced at the young man and said, "If you wake up, you don't have to!" Those who know the situation will say that I am saving people, and those who don't know will think that I am a disciple! I don't mind treating me as a disciple, but the question is, how old is your sister? No matter how old I am, I can't eat grass sprouts, right? ”

As he spoke, he smiled at Wan'er over there and said, "Wan'er, when will I feed you like this?" Why don't you feed me like this! ”

This kind of meat is actually not meat at all, at most it can only be regarded as a meaty joke, which made Wan'er's pretty face suddenly red to the neck stalk, and said slightly: "Lord-"

Everyone who heard this joke couldn't help but laugh, and because of this, everyone's mood slowed down a lot, and even the weak younger brothers and sisters laughed silently. At this moment, since everyone's mood is much more relaxed, feeding their younger siblings will naturally be much smoother. As spoonfuls of gruel were fed into her sister's mouth, her sister's eyes gradually opened completely, and a pair of big eyes looked directly at Lu Ren who was feeding her.

Lu Ren didn't know that this little girl had already deeply engraved this scene in her mind......

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