Chapter 8 Human life is like grass
Xun Tao and Xun Shuang had a secret discussion with Zhao Yun, and later summoned Xun Wang, Xun Su, and Xun Yang who were still alive, and everyone decided to relocate.
Yingchuan Academy was the first to be evacuated.
Here, in addition to the Xun family, there are not many external teachers who are famous, and Mr. Shuijing Sima Hui.
"Brother, in the future, the sons and daughters of my Zhao family will rely on you to teach!" Zhao Yun said to Xi Zhicai solemnly.
He didn't go to say goodbye to the army, he said everything he had to say.
The Xun family is easy to say, anyway, what the patriarch tells him to do, and most of the teachers hired by the outside are difficult to leave their homeland.
However, one Sima Hui has already outperformed all those who are not famous.
The old man was also very stubborn, and his original trajectory was after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, at the invitation of Liu Biao, to go to Jingzhou to avoid chaos.
I don't know what my father-in-law said, and I definitely won't tell him the real reason for the relocation.
It's strange to say, Sima Decao seems to be very happy, and he must consult his father-in-law another day.
"Lord, you should do your best!" Xi Zhicai smiled wryly, he is not a generalist, so he is more bullish in military affairs.
"Fengxiao, when it comes to Zhending, I will let the family give you a subsistence job." Zhao Yun raised his hand and refused to allow him to refuse: "My Zhao family is so poor that there is only money left!" ”
"Hahahaha!" Xu Shu on the side couldn't help laughing: "Zilong, you have what you say." ”
Yuan Zhi's family, strictly speaking, was his mother, and they also helped him buy several maidservants, all of whom moved with the team.
Along the way, the guards of the Zhao family who came from Zhending will not have anything wrong.
Seeing the elite Zhao family's team, the Yangzhai family was at a loss, and then they understood that Ciming was not confused, and the Zhao family was not easy to get along with.
Those elite soldiers, at first glance, have seen blood in their hands, and they are many times stronger than Yang Zhai's army.
When Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu saw it, their eyes were full of light, and they naturally wanted to follow such a team.
If you are really close to Youzhou, maybe you will take some soldiers to fight with Hulu, and you can also display your talents to the fullest.
And Xu Shu himself, I heard that Zhao Yun was going to Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and he was by his side, and he wanted to follow him to see and understand.
At this moment, a carriage quietly drove up to everyone.
The curtain of the car opened lightly, and a maid said crisply: "Uncle! ”
This girl Zhao Yun has seen, it is the maid pomegranate next to Xun Ni.
Xu Shu and Xi Zhi took a look and pretended not to see it.
"Little lady, what, do you want to go too?" Zhao Yun trotted over quickly, went to the side of the carriage and asked in a low voice.
"Come in!" The pomegranate gently lifted the car curtain: "Uncle, it's not good for outsiders to see it!" ”
The two lives have been together for almost forty years, and Zhao Yun has never been in love.
In my previous life, when I was in middle school, I had a crush on a female classmate, but unfortunately I graduated before I could confess.
Later, I occasionally returned to my hometown, and I inquired about it, and it was said that the girl married a rich second ancestor.
I don't know what happened in the end, after all, as I get older, the youthful memories have dissipated.
Seeing the little lady who didn't use powder, Zhao Yun's heart was pounding uncontrollably.
"Why can't I go?" Xun Ni rolled her eyes: "That's my husband's family, and I will live there for the rest of my life in the future." ”
"Besides, my father is the sacrificial wine of the academy, and he was the first to go over, and I also want to learn something from my father to help you!"
"Good!" Zhao Yun's hand didn't know where to put it, he just nodded stupidly.
"Uncle, have you ever seen the sea?" Pomegranate and her own lady grew up together, like sisters, not at all restrained.
"The sea!" Zhao Yun came back to his senses and suddenly remembered what the boring person in his previous life said: The sea, it's all water!
couldn't help laughing, and kept staring at the little lady's face.
"Are people that funny?" After all, Xun Ni is a girl who has not come out of the cabinet, so she is very embarrassed.
"No, no!" Zhao Yun hurriedly shook his head: "Pomegranate, the sea is not known how many times bigger than the land, and it is endless. ”
"Huh? Can't that drown people? Pomegranate's questions are one after another: "Uncle, what does sea water taste like?" ”
"The sea water is bitter," Zhao Yunzhen also drank: "The taste is astringent." ”
"Why isn't it salty?" Pomegranate said to herself: "Isn't salt boiled in seawater?" ”
Sweet times are always short-lived, and the convoy slowly moves northeast.
The family attached great importance to it this time, and sent the second uncle to pick up the in-laws and others.
"Zilong, let's go!" Xu Shu had just learned to ride a horse, and he was a little eager to try.
However, the way he rode a horse was really not flattering, and his entire upper body lay on the horse's back, motionless.
Xu Shu was born in poverty, no matter how beautiful he used to be a ranger, how could he have the opportunity to come into contact with horses? Occasionally, galloping horses pass by, and they can only watch with envy.
"Brother Yuan, you can also fencing." Zhao Yun just wanted to laugh: "Then you should know how to balance." As the horse walks, you slowly experience the balance of your body. ”
As for himself, since he was a child, he has longed for the art of horse training handed down by his family, and he knows how to train horses earlier than his peers.
The first step is the hardest step to treat the horse as a friend.
Although it is not so direct in the Book of Horses left by the Father, the meaning is similar.
It is easy for modern people to understand, and pets are called babies one by one.
Although Zhao Zilong, a contemporary young man, is not an animal protectionist, he still loves animals very much.
"Won't it run?" Xu Shu was suspicious, and often saw people from the big family galloping past on horses.
"It's up to you to decide whether to run or not!" Zhao Yun understood his feelings, just like in his previous life, he could even drive a car, but he couldn't ride a horse, because there were no conditions.
From Yingchuan to Jingzhou, the straightest road is to take the southwest, cross Yingshui and Rushui through Xuchang and Luyang, and then cross the river along the water to Xiangyang, and follow the Hanshui to the south county of Zhisuo.
Since his rebirth, the Yizhou Zhao family has helped him tremendously, and Zi Rougong's sentence "My Zhao family's Qilin'er" pushed Zhao Yun's reputation to the top.
As an official student of Yingchuan Academy, he does not have a certain reputation, so he can only be an auditor like Xu Shu and Xi Zhicai.
Now, Zirou Gong's elder brother Yan Xingong is Runan Taishou, and Zhao Yun took this opportunity to prepare to visit Zhao Qian in person.
Yizhou Zhao family, the current patriarch is Zhao Dian's eldest son Zhao Xian Zhao Liben, he doesn't have so much time to go to Shu County, and he only has the opportunity to meet again in the future.
The northerners are longer than the bow horse, and the southerners are stronger in the boat.
In his previous life, Zhao Zilong was almost in the year of his establishment, and he lived for another fourteen years in this life, and he had never been to the south of the Yellow River.
There is no highway or anything, starting from Yangzhai, the road condition is not bad.
Crossing the Yingshui, it seems to have arrived in another world.
On the road, you can see the dead people at any time, and the linen clothes on their bodies are full of holes.
Second uncle Zhao Zhong left Zhao Yun a hundred parts, and when he first saw the dead, he also ordered everyone to bury the corpse nearby.
However, some corpses had already decomposed and emitted a foul smell because they had been dead for a long time, and Zhao Yun didn't bother to say anything.
Even if it is the Zhao family's trilogy, it is also a human being, smelling the corpse to the point of discomfort, not to mention enduring the smell of burial?
Everyone has come from Zhending, Jizhou is the granary of the world, even if you occasionally see starvation, it is still not so frequent.
The excited looks have long been gone, and the feeling is indescribable.
Xu Shu had never been far away before, and he was still familiar with the surroundings of Yingchuan, and often explained some allusions to Yingchuan's characters to Zhao Yun.
At this moment, he has long been numb, although he is from a poor family, his family still has a few acres of land, enough to live, and has a slight surplus.
When I thought of the Rushui, it turned out to be such a scene.
Fortunately, the weather is warm, and you can find an inn to settle down in at night when you encounter a market along the way.
There are no markets, and it doesn't feel cold at night when you camp in the wilderness.
Although there have been no major battles in the Zhao clan over the years, the bandits near Zhending are still often suppressed, and it is naturally not a problem to set up camp.
"Report!" At this moment, the team arrived at the boundary of Yuzhou, and there were people exploring the road in front.
"Thirteen, what's the situation?" The leader of this team was called Zhao Long, and he took the lead in hitting his horse to meet him.
The Zhao family is all raised by homeless children since childhood, and their loyalty to the family is needless to say, they are all surnamed Zhao.
If you want a name, it depends on whether you can make meritorious contributions.
Most people are named after numbers or sexagenary branches.
"Brother Long, it's really miserable!" Zhao Shisan couldn't help shaking his head: "The village in front is basically dead, and the rest of the people ......."
Before he finished speaking, he vomited, along with the two people who were exploring the path with him.
The Zhao family's troops, after some small battles, have encountered a lot of situations, and they have never seen this kind of thing.
Zhao Long couldn't make up his mind, and glanced at Zhao Yun.
Xu Shu was shallow-hearted, and when he saw others vomiting, his stomach churned, and he was uncomfortable, and tears came out.
"Don't worry!" Zhao Yun dismounted, patted them on the back, and took out the water bag again: "Rinse your mouth and speak slowly!" ”
"Third Prince," Thirteen kept panting, "Those people actually eat human flesh." They cut off the flesh of the dead and stewed it in pots. ”
The village is small, about thirty or forty households, and only one or two have smoke rising from the rooftops, which stands out in the evening breeze.
There is a slightly larger courtyard in the west of the village, which is estimated to be the richest man in the local area, and there is no one in it, and I don't know if someone has moved away or died.
"Let's stay here tonight!" Zhao Long's voice was low.
There was a well in the yard, and when I went to get water, I shook the wheel twice, and who knew that the rope had long since rotted, and made a rattling sound, and the rope became powder and fell into the well.
"Yuan Zhi, let's go take a look!" Zhao Yun felt extremely uncomfortable.
The longer you survive in this world, the more you integrate into this era.
Xu Shu didn't say a word, and limped over, it seems that riding a horse still has a long way to go for him.
"Look for the bark and rub the rope and catch the bucket!" Zhao Long said to the subordinates who were silently packing their bags, and turned his head and shouted: "Thirteen, let's go too!" ”
The road in the village is terrible, it had rained the other day, there was standing water in the low-lying places, and from time to time bones were seen, and green-headed flies were crawling around on them.
The first house with a cooking smoke was about a hundred paces away from the station.
The wood door was hidden, and someone inside made a snort.
"Daddy, just finish this bowl of soup!" A child's voice came out: "I washed it many times at first, and it was clean. ”
Zhao Shisan gently opened the door, and there were only two rooms in this house, and it was very dim inside.
One room is the one in front of me, the fire in the stove has not been extinguished, like a ghost fire, blinking and blinking.
The things burning in the stove should be green branches and green leaves, thick smoke billowed out, and there was a coughing sound in the other room.
"Dog, dad can't do it!" A weak voice came intermittently: "Hurry up and finish the soup, run for your life, and go to a big place." ”
Later, there was a squeak in the back room, and I couldn't hear it clearly.
The smoke inside the house had thinned out for a long time, and the children inside were whining and crying, and their speech was slurred.
Zhao 13 lit the torch and walked towards the inner room first.
The roof of an ordinary mud house is covered with thatch, and when the wind blows, the house rustles, and I am really worried that the torches will even ignite the thatched house.
There was no door in the back room, and a small piece of wood lay across the ground as a threshold.
A yellow-skinned child, looking at the intruder's face full of horror, holding half a crockpot in his hand.
The only furniture bed can no longer be called a bed, it is a few stones, a few logs in the middle, and a layer of thatch on top.
The young man lying on the collapse was skinny and skinny, as thin as sixty pounds.
Looking at his appearance, when he was dying, his eyes were half-open and half-closed, and only when his sunken chest rose and fell could he see that he was not dead.
When I got closer, I could see that half of the clay pot seemed to be the soles of human feet, and it was as thin as chicken feet.
Zhao Yun couldn't say a word in this situation, and suddenly remembered a photo of African refugees he saw in his previous life.
A vulture, with its head lowered, and a black child who was too thin to be human, was half-dead, and the vulture was clearly waiting to eat the flesh of a dead man.
"My lord, I, Xu Da, am not a human being, I have eaten my wife, my uncle and aunt." That man should have returned to the light and spoke clearly.
There is not much difference between Runan dialect and Yingchuan dialect, and it is not at all similar to Zhending dialect.
It's just that he said it very slowly, and he can roughly guess the meaning: "Dog baby, let's live with adults in the future." Daddy can't watch you grow up and marry a wife anymore. ”
After speaking, he passed away suddenly, staring at Zhao Yun with half-closed eyes, very penetrating.