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Winter has arrived, but it's not so cool yet. The road to the east is nowhere near as congested as it was a few months ago, and only one or two people pass by in the middle of the day.

In the distance, a middle-aged woman moved towards her.

The woman carried a child of two or three years old, but she had little strength left, and moved forward with difficulty.

She was unkempt, and the hem of her skirt had been cracked by thorns, showing tatters; One shoe is not on the foot, and after walking so many roads, the strip of cloth used to temporarily wrap the foot is also worn out, and the blood on the exposed foot is dry, but with every step, there is new blood flowing.

On his back was a boy, already starving, hissing and wailing, and occasionally having the energy to kick and beat, which undoubtedly added to the burden of the woman's walk.

I don't know how long I've been out of food, and I can't walk half a mile, so she has to stop and breathe.

The corpses that died on the side of the road were all white bones, but even human flesh had been eaten, there was nothing on the road ahead, nothing could be seen, and a child was on his back, his legs were as heavy as lead, and the goal was out of reach.

The woman struggled to persevere, gritting her teeth forward, completely numb to the pain and hunger of her body.

In front of them, in the shade of the trees, there were two ox carts, seven or eight people sitting or standing, and a bad horse on the side.

When she saw them, the woman's spirits were lifted up, and she mustered all the strength she had left in her body, and rushed to the front in three steps and two steps, abandoning all shyness, and in her hoarse voice, said, "Begging! ”

Suddenly the child on the woman's back forgot its wailing for a moment, and looked at them timidly with tears.

A ten-year-old boy in the crowd seemed to be the leader. Dressed in a wide robe, he is personable. Listen to the woman begging. He replied, "We have no food!" ”

The other party has two ox carts and a horse, how can they go without food?

The woman looked behind the young man suspiciously, the rest of the people should be the young man's guards, and a stunning young woman should be a family member. An ox cart was piled high and covered with cowhide to protect it from rain, and all that was exposed under the cowhide were bamboo slips and paper books; The other ox cart had much fewer items on it, just some miscellaneous bags.

There was only a saddle on the horse's back, and there was no bag. Sure enough, I didn't see any food. Perhaps the boy loved books more than his life, and when he fled, he only had time to take his collection of books with him; or in the midst of the rebels, and the grain has been robbed; Or maybe the young man has food in his possession, but he refuses to give it to strangers.

If there are enough refugees around her, she may be able to rush up and grab his cattle and horses for food, so that she can also get a piece or two of meat, but during this time, a large number of refugees have flocked to Deng Jizhi, and the refugees are very scarce. Except for the young man and his party, there are only women and mothers and children.

Asked for food refused. The woman was naturally disappointed, and changed her tone and begged: "In this way, beggar you to bring your concubines, mothers and sons to Hongnong to beg for food!" ”

If you can get on the ox cart and rush to Hongnong, you should be able to survive.

"I'm sorry, we want to go to Jingzhou," the young man looked embarrassed, and refused again: "If you go to Hongnong, there will be a lot of refugees and thieves in the future, and it will be difficult to save the ox carts and horses!" ”

Hongnong County is more than 100 miles away from here, and the young man is reluctant to go, what else can the woman do?

In front of everyone, the woman burst into tears, but she bit her mouth and made no sound, and the child on her back was strangely quiet.

After a moment of silence in front of the boy, the woman turned silently and carried the child on her back.

But she really had no strength, and less than half a mile away, the woman could no longer walk, but could only squat on the ground and panting, and the child began to cry again.

Gritting her teeth, the woman finally relented, and she untied the child and gently placed it in the grass by the roadside.

The child seemed to realize that something was wrong, and howled even louder, and the woman whimpered at him.

After a while, the woman suddenly got up, covered her face with her hands, and ran forward with all her might, so desperate that she no longer cared about the wailing of the child behind her.

The people under the shade of the trees watched this scene, and the beautiful young woman sighed softly and persuaded: "Zhong Xuan, I still have more than ten cakes!" ”

"More than ten cakes, but it takes more than ten days to get to Jingzhou!" The young man turned around and shouted to the young woman: "Sister, it's not my hard heart, it's really helpless!" We have seen so much that it is difficult for us to protect ourselves, how can we save others? ”

And what about cattle and horses? It's not impossible to do it when you're really short of food, you should be able to get to Jingzhou by walking, right?

Thinking about the slender feet under her skirt, the beautiful woman also sighed, knowing that the young man was telling the truth, but he couldn't be so hard-hearted as a man anyway, and was just about to step forward, when he suddenly heard the young man say: "Sister, I have a few words of the previous poem!" ”

The beautiful woman paused slightly, and listened to the young man say loudly: "I have already gone out and saw nothing, and the white bones cover the plain; After that, there was a hungry woman on the road, and she hugged her son and abandoned the grass! Gu heard the crying sound and waved his tears and refused to return it. I don't know where I died, how can I finish both? Drive the horse away, I can't bear to listen to this! How is it? ”

"Zhong Xuan's literary style, Zhao Ji's deceased father should also be praised, how can it not be praised?"

The beautiful woman replied, and then raised her feet to look at the child in the meadow.

The young man sighed softly, then got up, got on his horse and said, "Okay! ”

The guards shouted at the two ox carts and slowly started behind the boy, and when they reached the front, the beautiful woman had already picked up the boy on the ground, took the bread she had treasured in her arms, crushed it and fed him.

"Sister, get on the ox cart," the child got food, and suddenly stopped crying, and the young man was not upset before, but said: "I heard that at the Wuguan Office, Deng Ji has made a general surnamed Tian guard, I don't know how to let me wait!" ”

The beautiful woman didn't answer, holding the child silently boarded the ox cart with less loads, and the young man said: "Uncle Cai has been dead for three years, and my sister's literary talent is not under me. ”

"The nobles of the Zhongxuan clan, how can they allow a remarried woman to be a room!" The beautiful woman teased the child in her arms to eat, shook her head and refused: "I have a beautiful woman and you, there is no need to talk about this matter!" ”

The beautiful woman refused simply, and the young man opened his mouth, and it was always difficult to say that he wanted to accept her as a side room.

The child in her arms was already weeping and weeping, and the beautiful woman fed him some broken bread, and soon fell into a deep sleep, and there was no more speech in the procession.

Silent for more than an hour, has reached the fork in the road, if you do not want to enter Deng Mu'an's rule, you need to turn south, and when they are about to turn, there is a sudden smoke and dust ahead, and there is also a faint sound of horses' hooves.

Seeing that there was a large group of people and horses marching, the young beautiful woman and the guards changed color together, and hurriedly shouted for the ox cart to avoid the col beside the road.

At this time, he only hated that the old ox was too slow to pull the cart, but fortunately he waited early, and when he turned the mountain pass, the cavalry of the brigade could come into sight.

This cavalry is about 1,000 people, and it should be the subordinate of the ten captains under Deng Ji, and I have heard earlier that although they are stationed in Hongnong counties, they are still practicing riding in the field every day because of the new war horses, and I think there is a team rushing here.

The group quietly looked around, and sure enough, most of them were not good at riding, not to mention the crooked on horseback, and some people looked nervous, holding the horse's mane with both hands, and the equipment had been lost.

If it weren't for the worrying situation of their own family, the teenagers couldn't help but want to write poems to laugh at them.

The beautiful woman had sharp eyes, and on the horse in front of the cavalry, there was an unkempt woman behind the saddle who hugged the sergeant in front of her, who seemed to be the mother of the child in her arms.

If you show up and shout, what will you do in the future when you really go to Deng Jizhi? Or maybe give a big soldier a wife?

In a moment of hesitation, the cavalry roared past.

The boy did not show the woman in the cavalry, but it did not hinder him from leaving the place in a hurry, and urged the team to hurry on the road.

After walking to the southeast for another half an hour, the smoke and dust behind him rose again, and the sound of horses' hooves was heard, and the beautiful woman tightened the child in her arms and secretly exclaimed: "Bitter! This time, he chose a troublemaker, and there are ruts in the place where the ox cart passes, if you really have the heart to chase, how can you avoid it? It's just that his army is really willing to travel a hundred miles for a strange woman? ”

In fact, the three counties of Hongnong in Hanoi, Henan Province do not force the people to stay, and they can leave as they wish, but the beautiful woman knows that her appearance is a disaster, and there is a very famous thief's nest over there, so she is not afraid.

If you put the child in your arms on the side of the road, maybe you may not chase after it when you see it. But the child is sleeping peacefully, so how can the beautiful woman be willing to let go?

The boy was also frightened, he had his own mount, but he was reluctant to abandon the book of the oxcart and the beautiful woman alone.

The boy shouted for the guards to avoid again, but this time, the luck in the beautiful woman's heart did not come true, and the cavalry brigade chased after them along the ruts, and soon surrounded them in the woods.

When he saw the dirty woman who jumped down from the cavalry and ran to beg for a child, the young man turned pale and regretted that he had brought the child with him in the procession.

The cavalry team that rushed to the city is currently under the control of Gong Du, and when he saw the beautiful and incomparable Zhao Ji, he really showed his thief nature, and laughed and said: "The lord ordered the soldiers to become households, and I have been looking for nothing but now, but it is not a godsend?" ”

The supervision is very strong, and even the generals in the army do not dare to rob the women in the government, but there is no restraint when they go out, and when they hear Gong Du's order, several soldiers have rushed to the ox cart.

Although there are several guards accompanying him, what is the use of so many tiger and wolf bandits? He trembled with fear like a teenager, and he didn't dare to step forward to stop him.

The child had been returned to his mother, and the beautiful woman saw the soldiers approaching, and hurriedly shouted: "I am the daughter of Cai Bojiao and Cai Zhonglang, who dares to move?" ”

"What do you care about, Cai Zhonglang, Cai Zuolang......"

When the great Confucian Cai Yong, Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhibian let four, although three have passed away, only Zheng Xuan is alive, but there are many people who know it, Gong is from the Yellow Turban, and the reaction is slower, but the general has reminded: "Du Wei, this Cai Zhonglang's daughter!" ”

After the heart ape was taken back, Gong Du also remembered who Cai Zhonglang was, the daughter of such a character, and if she moved, she would attract countless scholars and high-ranking officials to be enemies.

If his family is still a thief, it would be fine, and now that he has joined Henan, Cai Yong's daughter is not a person like him who is not even in the position of a lieutenant can be used, so he has to give up, and said in frustration: "Let's go! I am not blessed to sacrifice her to the Lord! Maybe you can also rely on this merit to get the position of captain first, far better than Zang Ba Lei Bo's group of birds! ”

"Wang Cang doesn't go to Henan!" The young man pointed to his ox cart and said hard: "The book will not go to Henan!" (To be continued......)