It was already sunset and dusk, and everyone in Lu Ren and Han Hao's two Tuntian camps had already finished work and returned to the camp. When it was too late, some of the people had eaten their supper snacks, and the open fields of the camp and the banks of the river were full of more or less small circles of people. And in the center of these small circles, some are young people who have attracted high-fives and applause from the surrounding people for the sumo wrestling show, and some are simply a group of people who are there with a lot of nonsense. And here in Lu Ren's camp, there are also some "unofficial" basketball games that are attracting onlookers and applause.

Let's put it this way, if you ignore the soldiers who are carefully patrolling everywhere, just look at the rice fields that are turning from green to yellow, and the people who are enjoying some entertainment life at the moment after a day's work, it is simply a group of rural scenery that makes people look very relaxed. If you are an uninformed person, most people will think that this is a quiet and peaceful countryside with simple folk customs.

For Lu Ren, if such a scene can appear now, he will sigh faintly in his heart: "Alas, the efforts of this period of time have not been in vain!" ”

And at this moment, in Lu Ren's tent:

"Lord, Wan'er is full......

Lu Ren looked at the small bowl in front of Wan'er that couldn't hold much rice at all, and frowned slightly with some dissatisfaction: "You just ate a few bites of rice, and you actually said that you were full?" ”

“…… Really full. ”

Lu Ren directly interrupted Wan'er's words and said, "Even if you are really full, you have to give me more food now!" You see, I've been raping/raping you every day during this time...... Bah, baba I forced you to eat more at every meal, and now your face is much more rosy than before. ”

"But, but, but ......" is two buts, but Wan'er didn't say the next words, but secretly glanced at the small wooden basin of rice on the table with the corner of her eye, and there was only a small spoonful of gruel left in it at the moment.

Lu Ren and Wan'er face each other day and night, how can Wan'er's careful thinking be hidden from Lu Ren? Following Wan'er's gaze, Lu Ren already knew what Wan'er was thinking, shook his head slightly, and then reached out to grab the empty bowl in front of Wan'er, and with the other hand, he put all the last bit of gruel in the rice bowl into Wan'er's bowl.

Wan'er was slightly surprised: "Lord, you haven't eaten much!" ”

Lu Ren handed the bowl to Wan'er and said, "Silly girl, how can you compare with me?" I'm a strong man, but you're a weak little girl. It wouldn't hurt me to eat a little less at every meal, but at your age, it's time to recuperate. Now we have less food, but it will last about another month. In another month, the rice in the field can be harvested, and then you see if I will desperately eat and drink enough at every meal, and make up for what I have not eaten enough during this time. ”

Wan'er habitually bit her lip when she heard this, neither making a sound nor reaching out to take the meal handed over by Lu Ren. Seeing this, Lu Ren frowned again, stretched out his right hand and picked up the small spoon, moved his butt a few times to Wan'er's side, and there was a constant smile on his face: "You still don't want to eat, do you?" Okay, then only the official personally fed my family Wan'er-" scooped up a spoonful of porridge and handed it to Wan'er's mouth: "Open your mouth, ah-"

"Poof......" Wan'er was amused by Lu Ren and laughed, plus she didn't dare to confess Lu Ren's intentions and didn't dare to really ask Lu Ren to feed her by herself, so she had to quickly grab the spoon and take the small bowl and said, "Also, let Wan'er come by herself." ”

"That's how good it is!!"

Seeing Wan'er obediently taking the bowl to eat, Lu Ren picked up his bowl and continued to eat...... In fact, there were not many mouthfuls of rice, but Lu Ren was there chewing slowly little by little. To put it bluntly, Lu Ren is using this way to self-suggest, implying that he actually eats a lot.

After eating a few bites, Li Dian came to the outside of the tent, and Lu Ren hurriedly invited Li Dian into the tent. Before Li Dian could come in and give a salute, Lu Ren, who came up, had already thrown his head and shook it off: "Man Cheng came just in time!" You have been patrolling the camp for a few days, and the camp is still safe and sound? What is the mentality of the people? ”

Li Dian knelt down and said with a smile of Xinwei: "Brother Lu is at ease, and the people in Yingtun are as peaceful as water." In the past few days, when I was patrolling the camp, I also personally asked for people, and basically all of them were all in the same word. In fact, who doesn't know that it's the season of green and yellow? When the grain in the camp is not continued, and the two places of Juan and Fan are already strapped for money and cannot receive the two tuns in Jinan and the north, Brother Lu, you can come up with this method of making people feel at ease at this moment, which really makes Dian respectful! ”

Lu Ren laughed twice, reached out and touched his half-hungry belly, and couldn't help but look back at Wan'er. It's just that when he looked back at it, Lu Ren's face immediately pulled up: "Wan'er-"

"Ahh Wan'er didn't expect Lu Ren to turn back suddenly, so she naturally stopped what she was doing in shock—but Wan'er was trying to pour some of the porridge in her bowl into Lu Ren's bowl when Lu Ren didn't pay attention to her.

"......" Lu Ren sat back in front of the meal table a little speechless, poured the porridge in his bowl into Wan'er's bowl again, stretched out his finger and lightly tapped Wan'er's forehead and said: "You stupid girl, eat all these meals honestly, otherwise ......" After thinking about it, he pointed to Li Dian over there and said: "Otherwise, I will feed you spoonful by spoonful in front of Mancheng!" ”

"......" Li Dian was speechless.

"Ah...... Wan'er, Wan'er knows! ”

Li Dian could only smile and shake his head when he saw this situation, and continued to talk to Lu Ren about the patrol in the past few days.

After Juancheng Xunyu sent a letter that day, after several considerations, Lu Ren decided to tell everyone in the camp clearly, instead of hiding it. In fact, Lu Ren is really helpless. Because if he is deceived, he believes that it will only bring more trouble, and people's hearts will probably not be at peace. And if the people's hearts are not at peace, they will cause trouble, and if these people have trouble in their lives, then all the efforts they have made before will probably be in vain.

In order to make people's hearts calm, Lu Ren simply gritted his teeth and explained the matter clearly in front of the whole camp before informing the whole camp that the daily ration per person would be reduced by 30...... It's really to save some food from between the teeth to support the autumn harvest. In fact, you don't have to wait until the autumn harvest season, but Lu Ren knew that the rice in the field could be harvested earlier, and people at that time didn't believe it, and if they really wanted to say it, everyone would think that Lu Ren was lying, so it was better to say that the autumn harvest was better.

In addition, Lu Ren really gritted his teeth and gave an order, that is, his and Wan'er's rations were the same as everyone else, and Lu Ren personally went to the grain official to receive them in front of everyone every day, to show that "he does not deceive the public". Why grit your teeth? Because Lu Ren knew that this little amount of money he and Wan'er had every day was not enough to eat alone! It is precisely because of this that it happened that Wan'er wanted to give up all the food to Lu Ren just now.

Don't say anything about going to Xuzhou to buy some tops first, because Lu Ren knows very well that he can't leave Yingtun at this juncture, and as soon as he leaves Yingtun, there will probably be chaos. In other words, at this time, Lu Ren really couldn't think of any other way than to learn from others' "examples" and pacify the people.

Now, judging from what Li Dian heard about patrolling the camp for several days, the people in the camp all expressed their understanding of Lu Ren's "saving food day after day", and they were all greatly impressed by Lu Ren's ability to "set an example", so much so that there was such a sentence in the camp: "If we can get Captain Lu like this, why don't we follow his teaching!" ”

"If we can be a lieutenant like this, why don't we follow his teaching......"

Lu Ren silently recited this sentence a few times, and an indescribable feeling suddenly surged in his heart, and his eyes were faintly hot. Quickly shook his head a few times to throw this feeling to the back of his mind, and laughed at himself in his heart: "What am I?" When you are really an ancient Qing official? Didn't I always laugh at those clean officials who offended people too much, thankless, and their lives were still very poor, and the gains outweighed the losses, so if I want to be an official, I must be a corrupt official who is rich, powerful, and has women to enjoy? It's just that now he doesn't dare to be a corrupt official under Cao Cao...... "Being a corrupt official under Cao Cao?" It's like that's looking for death.

After thinking about this, Lu Ren looked up in a self-deprecating smile, but found that Li Dian and Wan'er were looking at him with very inexplicable eyes. Embarrassed, he laughed a few times, pushed his bowl in front of Wan'er and said, "Wan'er, I suddenly feel that I can't eat it, you can eat all of this." ”

"Huh? Lord, Lord, you can't be so unwatered! ”

Lu Ren smiled and shook his head: "Silly girl, I'm really not hungry all of a sudden." Obedient and finished eating it, I want to go out for a walk with Mancheng now. If I come back and see you haven't finished eating......"

Li Dian was really familiar with these two, and said with a smile: "I will watch Brother Lu feed Miss Wan'er spoonful by spoonful." ”

Wan'er's face was flushed when she was troubled, and her voice was like a mosquito. Lu Ren reached out and pinched the tip of Wan'er's nose, and then went out of the room with Li Dian for a walk. When he walked to the camp, Lu Ren avoided the people who were relaxing in the camp, but pulled Li Dian quietly to the field.

In the middle of the field, there are patches of rice fields that can be harvested as grain soon. A cool evening breeze has been eaten, and the aroma of rice is sent into the nose. Slightly closed his eyes and smelled the fragrance of rice deeply, enjoying the feeling, Lu Ren suddenly opened his eyes and muttered in a low voice: "Man Cheng, I suddenly understood something. ”

"Oh? What is it that makes Brother Lu deeply insightful? ”

"I am now giving the order of 'saving food for a day', from you and me, down to the cloth clothes, every day is the same and I can't eat enough. But in this way, everyone is still rejoicing in suffering, and there is no trouble because of famine, but to tighten their belts to support it, not because my 'example' makes everyone respect in their hearts, but because there is another reason. ”

Li Dian looked at Lu Ren with some puzzlement, and Lu Ren smiled at Li Dian, stretched out his hand and pointed to the rice field that exuded bursts of rice fragrance and said, "What can really make everyone feel at ease is these!" If it weren't for these japonica rice that was about to grow to give everyone hope, I, Lu Ren, would be helpless even if I had the ability to reach the sky. ”