20. Ten Ways of Depression (A)
Wind blows heavy snow, December, Jianchang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Youyan army invaded the Liao border in July, and conquered thousands of miles of territory such as Tieling, Shenyang, Liaoyang, and Guangning in three months. In ancient times, the conquests were all the merits of the same surname, and the people who suffered were innocent people.
Although the bow and horses are strong, they are mainly based on plunder, and the number of refugees who have lost their land and land has increased dramatically for a while.
If the refugees are not in the middle of the road, there are only three ways to choose, one is to cross the river, this option is very expensive, and most of them are used by businessmen, but one is that there are many disasters at sea, and the other is that piracy is rampant, and those who go south smoothly are lucky.
The second is to cross the Shanhaiguan to enter the customs, but the two armies at the Shanhaiguan are facing each other, and they may turn into purgatory at any time, and the northwest side of Shanhaiguan is adjacent to Taihang Mountain and Yanshan, if you want to flee over the mountain, it is also quite difficult.
And the third, is from the west of Liaoning into the grassland desert, detour from the river to enter the customs, although this road is the most distant and difficult, but on the contrary is the most safe and feasible way. Jianchang is located on the west side of the hills of western Liaoning, the remaining veins of Yanshan, and the middle of Duoyan Weizhong, but the west enters the wilderness, although it is not the land of Qi along the way, it is still a better way for refugees to flee.
At this time, although it was extremely cold weather, between the wind and snow, Jianchang had already gathered millions of displaced people. The displaced people have traveled like this, don't say that Jianchang is not a big city, even if it is a city like Xuandu, it is unbearable to endure the wandering of refugees like this, and it will be unbearable in March.
Most of the refugees brought their families with them, and although some people brought enough food out, most of them were hungry and bandits along the way, and all the way down they became hungry people. Along the way, there were countless frozen corpses and starvations, and the bark of trees along the road was stripped to satisfy hunger, and there were even more cannibalistic tragies, which are difficult to describe. Looking at it, there are those who carry flat burdens, those who resist hoes, those who hang hammers, those who push wheels, and even those who juggle drums.
Among the refugees, there are three brothers surnamed Su, the eldest brother is called Su to pick up guests, the second brother is called Su Mali, and the third brother is called Su Sanjin. The three brothers were originally local hunters in Jianchang, and they usually worked in the wealthy Huang Shilang's house, and acted as a nurse in their spare time. That Huang Shilang is a local tyrant, originally the three brothers relied on the protection of the local tyrants, and did not regard the refugees as any problem, and still followed the Huang master to eat and drink spicy, but three months ago, the Huang master could not bear the refugees to rob, and met the wandering Zhang Mazi to make trouble, last month the portable aunt took the property, and ran away by himself, so the family's nurses, house slaves, servants, and girls all became homeless. In this way, as soon as everyone summed it up, they divided all the things in Huang Shilang's yard. This Su family brother was born in Orion, and he can be regarded as knowing the goods, and when he went up, he picked up the tiger skin that Huang Shilang's family used to set chairs, and was complacent, but suddenly found that the other people were all beating food and escaped, so that the Su family brothers knew that they were lucky, but they didn't even get food, but they just took advantage of a bamboo basket to draw water.
Under the bleak winter wind, the heavy snow turned the dust on the side of the post road into frozen mud, and the refugees on both sides of the post road did not move, but curled up in a ball, holding thin torn jackets for warmth. Among the refugees, the three brothers of the Su family were also mixed up, and at this time, the three brothers had not eaten for a long time, and the three strong men were also so hungry that they looked like cats, curled up, and shivered under the earthen wall next to the post road. In front of them were a few rather complete tiger skins, but they didn't know what they were used for.
The three brothers were awakened by a gust of cold wind, shivering, and their tears frozen. I only heard that the third Su Sanjin was strong enough to boost his strength, his teeth trembled, and he shouted: "Jianchang Huang...... Huang Shilang, Jianchang Huang Si...... Lang, you bastard, bastard! The word "egg" came out, and the boss Su seemed to have the strength to pick up the guests, and scolded hoarsely: "Our employer, the bastard egg and the yellow crane, ran away with his sister-in-law, ran away ......" Although the surrounding refugees were freezing and starving, a few people still laughed, and at this time, the second Su Mali also woke up, and continued with a crying voice: "We really can't help it, we can't help it, take the tiger skin for food, change food for food!" Tiger skins that used to be two hundred taels, three hundred taels, and four hundred taels are now all three bowls of rice, all ......" said this sadly, and when he said it, he only opened and closed his lips, and he could not make a sound at all, just like a fish in a dry river. But the roadside was full of people in distress who were sitting with their feet and withering, and when they heard this, they gathered the Guanyin soil in the mezzanine of their clothes, but they didn't talk.
Among the refugees, there are people who starve to death like this every day, and the surrounding crowd has seen too much, and they have long been numb, and they are just watching the three brothers of the Su family as a play, how can they really take care of them? So they all closed their eyes and slept lightly to stay alive.
The three brothers of the Su family trembled all over, and after scolding Wang Ba Danyo Shilang a few times, they were powerless to scold again, and when they saw that there was no one around them, they couldn't help but feel sad and looked around. At this time, Su Sanjin saw a thin young man sitting next to him, who was holding a slender stick and writing and drawing in the slush, this young man's behavior was different from others, which attracted Su Sanjin's attention. This Su Sanjin is a brother of the Su family who knows some literature and ink, and at this time he tilted his head to look, but saw that the young man had already written a lot of dense things, but they were all words such as "stacking", "round city", "Tianyuan", "six hundred steps south", although he knew all those words, he didn't know what to do. Su Sanjin was depressed in his heart, and scolded: "That cub, what kind of bullshit are you writing?" He just wanted to show off his majesty with the young man and chat by the way, but unexpectedly, the young man continued to write about himself without any response at all.
Su Sanjin became angry at this time, pinched up a snow ball, shouted "Fuck you" in his mouth, and threw it at the words written by the young man. The young man wrote devotedly, as if he was concentrating on deduction, at this time, the snow group came, but it did not shake his mind in the slightest, he still kept writing and calculating in the mud, and stopped thinking for a long time from time to time, and did not put Su Sanjin who was making trouble on the side in his eyes at all. Su Sanjin didn't expect this young man to be so rude, thinking in his heart the lesson of his ancestor that "starvation is a small matter, and losing face is a big matter", he took off the mud shoes under his feet, and was about to throw them out to disturb the young man's writing.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the long stick in the young man's hand flipped over, although it was not very fast, but it was accurately and abnormally pointed at Su Sanjin's wrist. Su Sanjin suddenly felt that his arm was numb, his whole arm was weak, and as soon as his palm was loosened, the mud shoe flew out diagonally, which happened to hit Su Mali's face. That Su Mali just fell asleep, but unexpectedly, a pain in the bridge of his nose woke him up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that his brother was barefoot, looking at him timidly, and there was a mud shoe on his chest, and the people around him lowered their heads and snickered at this time, and immediately understood the reason, and for a while his cheeks were so angry that his cheeks turned white, his willow eyebrows flew obliquely, and he glared at Su Sanjin angrily, and snorted heavily.
Su Sanjin was wronged, but he couldn't refute it, he was in a hurry for a while, apologized repeatedly, and then pointed in the direction of the young man, but saw that the young man was carrying a long stick and was already walking towards the city. Su Sanjin was about to seek confirmation from the people around him, but unexpectedly, everyone began to coax, and when he was anxious, he suddenly heard a muffled snort, Su Mali had already pounced on Su Sanjin, and opened his mouth to bite Su Sanjin's ear. After this commotion, Su Jieke was also woken up, and hurriedly grabbed Su Mali, stretched out his hand and grabbed Su Mali's ear and scolded: "Second brother, pay attention to the impact of Cheng, our Su family is a decent person, don't be like those glamorous sluts outside all day long." Seeing the chaos, the surrounding refugees forgot that they were hungry for the time being, and they all watched and laughed.
At this time, I suddenly heard a young man who looked like a hunter next to him whisper: "Monkey, give them something to eat." A thin hunter beside the young man seemed to unpack his bags with great reluctance, took out three steamed buns, and threw them to the three brothers of the Su family. The three brothers were still angry at each other, but when they saw the steamed buns, they suddenly had no other thoughts in their hearts, so they jumped up and grabbed a steamed bun and stuffed it into their mouths. Na Su was the first to swallow the guest, as if he had endured the swelling pain in his throat, and breathed a long sigh of relief, but turned his head and saw that the young man and his party were about to go away, and hurriedly shouted: "The strong man stays, the Su family has never eaten the food that comes from the swoop, the strong man, you choose a tiger skin...... Su Sanjin also shouted at this time: "These are all tiger skins of two hundred taels, three hundred taels, and four hundred taels." His lines slipped away, and he didn't change them all at once.
When the young hunter heard this, he seemed to be slightly surprised, and in an instant he had a little amusement, and said, "Then it will cost four hundred taels." When Su Mali next to him heard this, he seemed to be frightened, and with a "bang" sound, he pressed on the best piece of tiger skin on the ground, and then felt out of shape again, and lowered his head and moved away.
Seeing this, the two hunters next to the young Orion also laughed, but they heard the young Orion ask: "I don't want your tiger skin, you are a local, we want to buy some medicine, you can show me the way, I still have steamed buns here." As he spoke, he patted his furoshiki.
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, many people suddenly surrounded the post road, and many people rushed to say that they were locals and could lead the way. At this time, one of the thin women with a child in her arms fell to her knees in the slush of the post road, and cried loudly, crying and shouting: "Hero, my child is only three months old, my man was cut down by a bandit, what kind of evil have I done...... A skinny old woman next to her also knelt down at once, her voice was hoarse, and she kowtowed again and again: "Give ...... Give me something to eat, I'm hungry, hungry, I haven't eaten for three days, my children are dead, my grandson is dead......" As he spoke, he stepped forward and hugged the young hunter's legs and feet.
Seeing this, everyone around also knelt down and stepped forward, hugging the three people, although they were hungry for many days at this time, but this time they saw the hope of eating, and instantly burst out of considerable potential, and for a while, within the post road, there were people who surrounded half a mile in layers. Everyone talked to themselves about their miserable situation, weeping and howling one after another, all telling about their misfortune and suffering, and later, when the people on the periphery saw that they could not grab food, their eyes gradually glowed green.
Among the three people, the young Orion who was the first to speak was the leader, and he was also the person with the highest martial arts, but he was confused at this time, and did not struggle, as if he was hesitating how to solve it, at this time, the young man named "Monkey" behind him pulled his sleeve and said hurriedly: "Brother Bai, don't be stunned, we won't be able to leave any longer." As he spoke, he stretched out his leg and kicked away the refugee who was holding his leg next to him, and beckoned to the other person: "Soy sauce, let's go." With that, the two of them quickly rushed backwards.
The young hunter at the head seemed to be a little unbearable at this time, and was about to reach out to untie the burden on his body, but saw that the refugees on the periphery were already crowding inward, and shouted: "Don't let them escape, it's these bullies who have taken our life, and if we don't rob, we will starve to death." As he spoke, he squeezed forward the kneeling refugees in front of him, and the kneeling old woman was squeezed by the crowd, and immediately fell into the mud, trampled by the crowd, and lost her life in an instant.
The young hunter who was the leader was already preparing to give alms, but when he saw this, his eyes flashed with anger, and a dark light suddenly shot out from his sleeve, only to see that the refugee who took the lead in squeezing forward suddenly had blood rushing in his throat, and he was already dying. The people around saw the killing, and there was a big chaos, and the young hunter led by him broke free from the crowd, and the "swaying step" unfolded, and after a few ups and downs, he fell next to the "monkey" and "soy sauce", and the three of them took advantage of the chaos when their figures flashed, and they sneaked away by the terrain.