Late at night, after Zhou Shixiang hastily ate a bowl of millet porridge boiled by Lin Wan'er, he went to do his homework every day - patrolling the city. When going out, Zhou Shixiang hesitated, turned around and let Wan'er go to sleep by herself, don't wait for him to come back. Although Wan'er squeaked, she obviously did not follow Zhou Shixiang's meaning between her eyebrows.

Seeing this, Zhou Shixiang didn't say anything more, nodded slightly and went to take care of himself. To be honest, until now, he didn't know how to treat this girl, although the army had always thought that Lin Wan'er was his concubine, but he knew in his heart that he would not accept Wan'er as a concubine, it was not that he looked down on Wan'er who had lost her chastity, but that his deceased wife and children still firmly occupied his heart.

Whenever I think of my wife who was voluntarily slaughtered and eaten by the Qing army in order to protect herself, and An'er who was thrown to death in front of the Qing army, Zhou Shixiang's heart hurts very much, and he is also very powerless, Xiucai's memory and emotions are too heavy, so heavy that he is almost suffocated by the future generations.

The hatred of the family and the country is bloody in front of him, how can Zhou Shixiang forget the tragedies in the depths of his memory. Wan'er is a good girl, Zhou Shixiang knows her good, he has never been anywhere. The female plot did not discriminate against this ill-fated girl, but he just couldn't let himself abandon his hatred, and he couldn't let himself forget his wife and children so quickly and accept a woman again. Perhaps, he deliberately wanted to make himself another Huo Qubing after a thousand years, how could the champion Hou Xiongnu become a family before he was destroyed, and today's Zhou Shixiang is full of captives and no longer speaks of his family.

Home, every man wants to have a home, and every man once had a home, but when that home has been broken, what can a man do? Pick up a knife and gun, slash at the enemy who broke the house, and cut him to pieces! If you don't, you're not a man! Not such a man. Just. It's not a man, it's not a person!

Coming out of the courtyard, a few guards followed silently. These guards were all selected by Zhou Shixiang from the guards battalion. They all have men with the blood of the Qing army on their hands, although there are not many of them. But all of them are good men.

After a few months, these guards knew the habits of the Thousand Households, and they followed behind them silently, although Zhou Shixiang would not be in any danger in the city at all, but they still kept a sufficient distance vigilantly, and the hand that pressed the knife never let go, once a raider appeared, they would step forward to protect their Thousand Households as quickly as possible.

As usual. Zhou Shixiang sent people to the back camp to greet Song Xianggong, and asked people to go to the county government to inform Liao Ruixiang, and then patrolled the city. There is no fixed route for Zhou Shixiang's inspection every time, he sometimes goes to the south city first, and sometimes he goes to the east city first, but one thing is very clear, no matter where he goes first, he always has to go to the city wall to inspect first, even if he doesn't say a word, just walk along the city wall again. All of this is just so that the soldiers guarding the city can see him and know that their Lord Qianhu is coming.

Today. Zhou Shixiang arrived in Dongcheng first. Although the Qing army's two strong attacks did not succeed, but it made several sections of the city wall in the east show signs of collapse, fortunately, after those prisoners and strong men rushed to repair, the collapsed sections of the city wall have been reinforced, and it looks no different from other complete city walls, as long as you don't look very carefully, you will never see any problems with these sections of the city wall. Although the Qing army no longer attacked, as a precaution, Zhou Shixiang still asked Ge Zheng, who was guarding the eastern city, to send additional men to those sections of the problematic city wall, and also ordered Jiang He to transfer a team of guards battalions to assist in the defense.

After Zhou Shixiang went up to the city wall. Ge Zheng and the two Hundred Households Ge Yi and Song Erniu rushed to hear the news, and simply listened to the three of them report the situation. Zhou Shixiang waved his hand and asked them to go to work, and he took a look at it in the city himself and left. Ge Zheng and the others knew Zhou Shixiang's habit. Without further ado, he left one after another after clenching his fists.

After checking around the city wall, Zhou Shi believed that he was walking around the city, and he didn't deliberately decide on the next location, just walked around at will. Along the way, from time to time, there were patrol teams organized by the county government to pass by, but when they saw Zhou Shixiang and his entourage, they did not come forward to salute, but continued to move forward. This was specially ordered by Zhou Shixiang, and all officers and soldiers on duty did not have to come forward to salute unless he summoned him.

After the patrol passed, Zhou Shixiang looked around at the three forks and walked towards the street to the west. This street was originally a commercial street in Xinhui, there are many stores along the street, but since the Qing army defended the city, there are no shops on both sides of this street, the original bustling and lively place has become a dream of the past, that is, after Li Dingguo's army lifted the siege, this street has not restored its former glory. After the Taiping army occupied Xinhui, because the army lacked firewood, Zhou Shixiang ordered the demolition of the houses in the city, and these shops that could not accommodate too many people became the first choice for the Taiping army to demolish the houses.

Walking along the ruins for a while, thinking of the scene of Xiucai's family shopping on this street in the past, Zhou Shixiang was overwhelmed with emotion, and he didn't feel a little lonely in his heart, so he raised his feet and wanted to go to the residence where he lived in the back camp. When he was about to leave, he saw the ruins more than ten zhang away in front of the left, and there seemed to be people moving there.

It's so late, who's there?

Zhou Shixiang was strange, and quietly motioned to the guards to follow. The guards also saw the figure there, and the two of them had subconsciously pulled out half of their sabers.

The group just took advantage of the night to quietly walk forward, and when they got closer, Zhou Shixiang signaled the guards not to make a sound, so as not to alarm the people there, and he himself moved closer, past a pile of bricks lying there, and the scene that caught his eye made Zhou Shixiang's heart "chuckle" violently, and he gasped.

It was the people who made Zhou Shixiang gasp, dozens of women to be exact. The women knelt in two rows in the narrow alleyway, each with a straw sign stuck on their heads. They were of different ages, the eldest was twenty or thirty years old, and the youngest was only seven or eight years old, and most of the clothes were worn in tatters, and many of the women's clothes were patched with countless patches.

This is?

When this scene first came into view, Zhou Shixiang had already guessed what these women were doing, but when he was really sure, his hands couldn't help but tremble, because he couldn't believe that there would be such a betrayal in the city under his control.

Bastard!

Zhou Shixiang's face was pale, and the anger in his chest almost erupted. (To be continued)