Hefei City, Liujia Zhuangzi

Liu Qi stood in the small dilapidated room of his home, constantly walking back and forth, and occasionally when his eyes swept to the young son who was already sleeping peacefully wrapped in shabby clothes on the bed, a trace of pain flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Finally, Liu Qi made up his mind and said to his wife beside him: "Dai Lao Wu should go to the entrance of the village, I will bring the baby over!" ”

"Let's do this, I'm afraid that even the doll won't let us go to the underworld!" The wife on the side said with tears in her eyes.

"That's for the future, we can only take care of it now!" Liu Qi picked up his sleeping young son and prepared to go out.

"It's better to be in charge, let's just die as a family, at least we can be worthy of the doll!" The wife stopped.

"My Liu family has to stay behind, and it is better to exchange Xiao Er's life for our family's life than to starve to death together!" Liu Qi hesitated for a moment, his eyes glanced at his wife and the dying seven-year-old eldest son, who was already hungry, and finally walked out of the house ruthlessly.

Outside the door, Liu Qi immediately felt a chill coming, his dilapidated house was already leaking everywhere, but when he came outside, the chill was even worse.

Wrapping the tattered clothes on the young son's body tighter, Liu Qi came directly to the entrance of the village, where there was also a man holding the young child, but Dai Lao Wu had already arrived.

"Let's change it!" Liu Qi took a deep breath and came to Dai Lao Wu's side to say.

Dai Lao Wu didn't speak, but just glanced at the child in his arms with painful eyes, and stretched out the child in his arms, but soon he shrank back, and then staggered out.

Liu Qi hugged the child and handed over the young son in his arms, and the two sides were exchanged.

"Wait!" Dai Lao Wu suddenly shouted.

"Huh?" Liu Laoqi looked at him strangely.

"It's a little cold, I'll wrap him tightly!" Dai Lao Wu reached into Liu Qi's arms and touched his child, and said with tears in his eyes.

"Hurry up when you start, don't let my baby suffer before he dies!" Liu Qi showed a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said dryly.

"Gone!" Dai Lao Wu waved his hand, hugged Liu Qi's young son and prepared to leave.

"No change, no change!" A woman's voice came from a distance, but it was Liu Qi's old wife who ran out and shouted loudly.

"Ignorant mother-in-law, go home!" Liu Qi scolded.

"I'd rather die!" The woman cried.

"It doesn't matter if we die, but the big baby can't die!" Liu Qi forcibly pulled his wife and prepared to drag her away.

"Forget it if you die together, exchange the life of the second child for the life of the boss, and it will be a sin for the boss to survive in the future!" The woman lay on the ground and wept.

"It's not like we're doing it as a family!" Liu Qi took a deep breath and said.

"That's not going to work either!" The woman said stubbornly.

"In the end, it will not be changed! If you don't change it, give me back my doll! Dai Lao Wu did not leave immediately, but asked.

"Change!"

"Don't change!"

The dispute between the two quickly attracted the attention of others, a bunch of people stood numbly in front of their own door and watched, but they were not surprised, Yi Zi cannibalism, it was not the first time in this Zhuangzi, since the famous Yuan family ruled here, it often happened, and they were already used to it.

"The government is distributing food for disaster relief outside the city gate, and the government is distributing food for disaster relief outside the city gate!" Just when the two of them were at a stalemate, a young man from outside the village rushed to him, shouting incessantly.

"What?"

As soon as they heard this, Liu Qi's eyes suddenly lit up, in fact, it was not only them, but the whole village ran out when they heard the sound and looked at the young man one after another.

"Han Wazi, what you said is true?" The young man who was the focus of attention was naturally surrounded by people, and people everywhere asked if what he said was true.

"Of course it's true, the notices have been posted everywhere, the famous Yuan family has been defeated, and now it is Yangzhou Mu Lu An who rules here, Lord Lu is now putting grain outside the city gate for disaster relief, and it lasts for many days, as long as the people have a share, hey, don't stop me, I want to go to the house to get cloth bags of grain!" The boy said as he pushed the crowd away.

"Wow!" This time, everyone heard it clearly, and the sounds of surprise kept coming, and soon their brains turned fast, and they also rushed to the house to get tools.

"Dai Lao Wu, give me back my son!" Liu Qi also reacted, and hurriedly rushed to Dai Lao Wu's side and said loudly.

"Take it, and you give me back my son!" Dai Lao Wu returned the doll in his arms to Liu Qi, and took his own baby back from Liu Qi's arms.

"Let's go, hurry home and get something to load food!" Liu Qi hugged his young son and gently kicked the mother-in-law who was still stunned on the ground.

"Oh!" Only then did the woman react, and she quickly got up from the ground and hurried home with her husband.

Liu Qi returned home, threw his young son to his wife, took a dirty old cloth bag from home, and went to the city gate.

After a short time, Liu Qi arrived at his destination, and what was imprinted in front of him was the long queue lined up, and at the front of each team, a table and chair were placed, on which sat scholars, and behind those scholars, there were a large number of grain cloth bags, the cloth bags were stacked high and thick, and the eyes of those who looked at it were going to be spent, but no one dared to move, because on the edge of those grains, there were a group of soldiers wearing armor and holding spears and broadswords guarding the side, and each soldier looked extremely strong, Coupled with the cold light of the armor and broadsword on their bodies, it can be seen that this is a very elite team.

However, Liu Qi put his mind at ease, looking at this posture, the government's relief is almost stable, so that their family can finally survive temporarily, and they don't have to exchange their young son for Dai Lao Wu to cannibalism.

found a team that seemed to have fewer people, Liu Qi lined up, but although this team was relatively small, it was only relatively speaking, so many victims near Hefei City, even if they came casually, there were hundreds of people in each team, which was definitely a lot of numbers.

After half an hour of waiting, just when Liu Qi was about to freeze and couldn't stand it, there was finally no one else in front of him.

"What's your name? Where are the people? Just as Liu Qi wanted to speak, the scholar sitting in front of him asked.

"Liu Qi, Hefei Liujia Zhuangzi!" Looking at the soldier in charge of distributing food in front of him, Liu Qi wanted to show a flattering smile, but at this time he was frozen fiercely, and the muscles on his face had already stiffened, and he really couldn't laugh.

"Liu Qi!" Shizi read a sentence, took out a thick bamboo slip from the side, and began to look for it, while looking for him, he muttered: "Compared to our Jiangdong paper, bamboo slips are really too troublesome, I hope the lord will quickly replace these bamboo slips!" ”

"Found it, your family of four, right?" After some searching, Shizi seemed to have found Liu Qi's name on it, and asked again.

"Yes, yes, the villain and his wife plus two children!" Liu Qi nodded hurriedly.

"Well, then you can get two buckets of food this time!" Shizi nodded. And after the soldier finished speaking, the soldiers behind him pulled down a cloth bag and began to distribute the grain.

"Huh?" Hearing that he could receive two buckets of grain, Liu Qi was stunned.

"What? Too little, huh? The scholar asked.

"No, no, no, it's not too little, it's too much (one bucket is equal to about 16 catties)!" Liu Qi shook his head, but immediately reacted that it was not good to say this, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, thank you, thank you, with this food, we will not starve to death for the time being!" ”

"Hehe, the food is divided, take it, by the way, there is a quilt!" The soldier smiled slightly, ordered the soldier to throw the divided grain in front of him, and took a quilt from behind and put it on top of the divided grain.

"And you can get a quilt?" Liu Qi felt that there were not as many surprises in his life as there were today, and even his voice trembled unconsciously.

"Yes, my lord Lu An's Sacred Heart Renshu, I thought of you just after I captured Hefei, for fear that you would freeze to death and starve to death, so I prepared for you, you are really lucky, and you met a saint like my lord to be reincarnated and rescued." Shizi Road.

"The kindness of the state pastor, our people in Hefei will never forget!" Liu Qi said in a trembling voice. He remembered that the village boy said that the current Hefei was under the management of Yangzhou Mulu'an, so he knew who really saved them.

"If only you had this kind of heart!" Shizi nodded, looked at Liu Qi, and saw that he was almost skinny, and he was still wearing only a thin single coat, shivering in the cold wind, so he sighed and said: "There is also hot porridge on the side, you go and drink a bowl, otherwise I'm afraid you won't even have the strength to carry the food and bedding home." ”

"Thank you, sir!" Liu Qi's eyes were red, and he hurriedly wiped his tears with his dirty sleeves and said gratefully. Although the weather is still cold, there is a trace of warmth in his heart, if this state pastor can always be so benevolent, then their people in Hefei finally have hope.

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"It looks pretty good, and there's no mess at all!" Lu An was wandering at the gate of the city in civilian clothes, observing the people who had lined up in front of him, and said to Guo Jia on the side with great satisfaction.

"The lord has sent tens of thousands of troops to maintain order, what chaos can there be!" Guo Jia said with a smile.

"In this way, most of these people should survive this winter this year!" Lu An said with a slight sigh. He suddenly felt a sense of happiness in his heart now, if he failed to capture Hefei this year, God knows how many of these people would die in the hands of Yuan Shu.

"Lord, I have to remind you that our grain and grass, including bedding, are running out, and it will take nearly a month for the military supplies from Jiangdong to arrive in Hefei, and if we continue to send them like this, our soldiers will be tightened!" Guo Jia said.

"It's okay, I've already asked Zhou Tai to find the rich man in the city to ask for it!" Lu An smiled slightly and said softly.

"Another IOU?" Guo Jia couldn't help but think of those Jiangdong families, and he laughed a little.

"Not even an IOU this time, to be exact!" Lu An said, and said righteously: "After several months of hard fighting, Hefei City was captured, and the soldiers were already a little manic, it should be normal for me to occasionally be unable to restrain the soldiers!" ”

"The lord is right, I think the rich families in the city will definitely understand the lord!" Guo Jia laughed. As the lord, sometimes it is really shameless, but this is really an excellent way, anyway, the lord has no reputation in the world, so why not do it too much.

"Is there any movement over there Yuan Shu?" The two chatted for a while, and Lu An asked about business.

"Yuan Shu is still stationed in Shouchun City without any movement, but Sun Ce is about to return to Shouchun, he has Yuan Shu's 130,000 army in his hands, presumably Yuan Shu will soon send Sun Ce over to crusade against us!" Guo Jia replied.

"Hmm!" Lu An nodded, and asked again: "What about the Huaibei area, what progress has Cao Cao made?" ”

"Most of the entire Huaibei has been captured by Cao Cao, but Ji Ling still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, and he should be able to hold out for a while!" Guo Jiadao.

"It seems that this time, no matter how the situation changes, it is still Cao Cao who will get the biggest benefit!" Lu An smiled lightly.

"Cao Cao has the Son of Heaven in his hands, and he naturally has an innate advantage when attacking a traitor like Yuan Shu, who is the emperor, if it weren't for the fact that the Lord is just and is the Yangzhou Mu of the Son of Heaven, we can't justifiably occupy this Huainan area!" Guo Jia said softly.

"Forget it, don't care about him, we have to arrange these people now, and then prepare to face Sun Ce's counterattack, if the boat capsizes in the gutter, our Huainan area will be overhanged!" Lu An waved his hand and headed towards the city.

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"Sun Lang, you're finally back!" Shouchun City, after Yuan Shu heard that Sun Ce had returned, he walked out of the palace overjoyed and went to greet him in person.

"Yuan Gong!" Sun Ce saluted towards Yuan Shuzuo.

"No courtesy, no courtesy! It's great that you're back, I've been forced by Lu An's thief to eat and sleep recently! Yuan Shu hurriedly helped Sun Ce up and laughed. He was really worried about this period of time, since Lu An captured Hefei, he had a shadow in his heart, and he always had the idea of retreating, but because Sun Ce was about to return to the army, he endured it, fortunately, Lu An did not move during this period of time, and now that Sun Ce arrived, the boulder of worry in his heart also fell completely.

"The last general asks for orders to attack Lu An, expel him from Huainan, and implore Yuan Gong for approval!" At the mention of Lu An, Sun Ce's eyes flashed with a strange look, and he arched his hand.

"I agreed, this time you will take my 130,000 soldiers and horses, and you will definitely be able to defeat Lu An's thief!" Yuan Shu nodded.

In fact, Sun Ce didn't say it, Yuan Shu was also ready to send Sun Ce to crusade against Lu An, not only because Lu An was now approaching his Shouchun City, but more importantly, the situation in Huaibei was already quite not optimistic, Ji Ling was already unable to stop Cao Cao, if Lu An was not defeated, then Cao Cao would not only take all of his Huaibei land, but also besiege him with Lu An, and his situation would be even more bleak.

"Please rest assured that Yuan Gong will definitely be able to defeat him!" Sun Ce nodded. This battle is not for Yuan Shu to fight, but more to prove himself, even if he Sun Ce is now hopeless, but at least he must bloom his brilliance in this world.

After Sun Ce said goodbye to Yuan Shu, he returned to his mansion, and he couldn't help but think wildly in his mind about what his next battle with Lu Xuantong would be, and what he would do after defeating Lu Xuantong.

"Big brother, what are you doing here?" A crisp voice interrupted Sun Ce's imagination, but it was his sister Sun Shangxiang who came over.

Compared with the little Lori two years ago, Sun Shangxiang has obviously grown up a lot, and has become more knowledgeable than before, and her flat chest is also slightly bulging, but her active and martial temperament has not changed, so as soon as she heard that her eldest brother had defeated Lu Bu and returned, she came here with great interest.

"I'm wondering where we're going from here?" Sun Ce smiled slightly bitterly and said, sometimes thinking about it carefully, he found that he didn't even have an accurate target now, Yuan Shu would be defeated sooner or later, and there would be no good end if he followed Yuan Shu, but the question was where he could go now, and what would happen to Zhou Yu, Tai Shici and his father, who had been following him?

"What's going on, isn't the eldest brother going to fight that Lu Xuantong soon?" Sun Shangxiang said in surprise.

"I told you you don't understand!" Sun Ce touched his sister's head and said softly. After all, she's only a teenage girl, and I'm afraid I haven't thought about the future.

"Well, Big Brother will definitely beat that guy this time!" Sun Shangxiang didn't quite understand what Sun Ce was talking about, but she felt that her eldest brother's mind was very confused, she thought that her eldest brother had lost to that guy, and she was a little lacking in confidence, so she encouraged. She still has a vague impression of her eldest brother's opponent, that guy looks quite gentle, and puts his family back to reunite with his eldest brother, but in any case, as long as he is the enemy of his eldest brother, he is a bad person.

"Haha, big brother won't let you down." Sun Ce said with a smile. In my heart, I recalled the battle in Jiangdong back then, and there were no flaws at all in terms of military strength, force, or strategy, so I couldn't defeat Gongjin's ability and strategy, and this time, if the other party is still strong over there, then what will my side do to win.

Shaking his head slightly, Sun Ce threw out the negative thoughts in his mind, at this time he had to send an arrow, whether it was himself or Gongjin, they were eager to wash away the shame of the defeat through this battle, and if he was defeated, then the fame of Sun Bofu and Zhou Gongjin would be famous all over the world.

"Big brother, I'll go with you this time! I want to go to war too! Sun Shangxiang looked at his eldest brother's face and said a little tentatively. She has only been martial arts since she was a child, and she is not good at writing, and now her martial arts are much stronger than ordinary middle-aged men, so her biggest dream is to follow in the footsteps of her eldest brother and go to the battlefield to see it.

"Nonsense, is there a daughter's family who went to war? And how old are you? Sun Ce's eyes widened, and he did not hesitate to reject his sister's naïve idea, he only thought about fighting when he was a teenager, his sister was really different from ordinary people, but if it wasn't for her daughter, it would really be nothing to take her to see it, the blood of the Sun family naturally has a brave nature.

"Oh!" Sun Shangxiang nodded obediently, but there was a thought in his heart, it didn't work from the eldest brother, he had to find another way