The First Front Army did not stop at Yuxi and went straight to Kunming, which was very close to Kunming, less than a hundred kilometers. After resting in Yuxi for one night, when the police force and the armed police force also arrived in the back, they simply made the handover. As soon as dawn came, the First Front Army began to set out.

At this time, in the Overseer's Mansion in Kunming, Tang Jiyao did not sleep all night, and last night he heard that the 100,000 troops of Yuxi had only fought with the Gui army for less than an hour, and all of them had surrendered to the Gui army. Moreover, the Guizhou-Yunnan coalition army surrendered to the Gui army, and the Hunan army was finished. didn't make him angry on the spot, the entire office was smashed by him, and Liu Group's family was scolded hundreds of times. Tang Jiyao's office has a bit of the appearance of the Overseer's office, he was the only one in the office all night, from anger at the beginning, to helplessness, to decadence. And his subordinates didn't dare to come in at all, for fear that they would be scolded if they came in.

Decadently sat on the ground, his hair was messy, his hat was thrown away, his neat military uniform was messy, the buttons of his shirt had fallen off, and the command knife was pulled out and placed beside him. I don't know, I thought he had just fought with someone else.

Slowly got up from the ground, inserted the command knife into the knife holster, walked to the corner and picked up his hat, opened the cabinet, took out a new set of military uniforms and changed them. Opening the door to the office, everyone went out, looking at the newly rising sun, and walking out of the Overseer's Mansion with the rising sun. The morning sun reflected his bleak back, and at just forty years old, he looked like an old man whose life was about to come to an end.

He didn't call anyone, and walked alone in Kunming's pick-up, at this time there were already many small stalls on the street to set up stalls. Looking at the peaceful scene around him, a wry smile broke out on his face, this place will not belong to him in the future. He gradually walked to the outside of a pork shop, and just as he was about to leave, a voice from inside made him stop his feet that he was about to lift and stop and listen.

There was a shirtless man in the pork shop, and he cut the pieces of pork to just the right size. Opposite him was a young woman with a vegetable face, carrying a basket in her hand, apparently to buy pork.

"Brother Zhu, I'm here again, I'm really sorry, I don't want you to break the bank every time." The young woman said with an embarrassed expression.

"Big sister, don't talk about that, this is what I should do, it's not easy for you, it's not easy to take in so many children and provide them with food and shelter." The big man said, and took the young woman's basket and put a large piece of pork liver and a few large pieces of pork on the table.

"Brother Zhu, don't have so much, you also keep some to sell yourself, you still have a wife and children to raise at home. Does my sister-in-law know about you giving me pork? As she spoke, the young woman took some of the meat from the basket.

"Your sister-in-law, she knows, she also knows that you are not easy, and she asks me to give you a little more every time. It's not easy for you, the world is harmful, you call and beat people every day, so many people die, and the children of those people are helpless, if you don't take them in kindly, it is estimated that those children will follow in the footsteps of their fathers. Be a soldier, huh! When he died, he didn't want to think about his wife and children at home. Dahan said helplessly.

"Alas! If it weren't for the help of my neighbors, I wouldn't be able to continue. I don't know what will happen in the future, but I really can't worry that those poor children will suffer so much at such a young age. The young woman said with a sad face.

"I think it won't be long before I get better, and a relative of mine who works in Guangxi now, according to him, has an orphanage in Guangxi that takes in orphans and teaches children to read and write. Moreover, my relative also said that when I heard that the recruits were rushed to Guangxi City, not only was the salary high, but if something happened to someone who was injured or killed in battle, the government would not only pay a sum of money but also bear the living problems of the family members. ”

"Brother Zhu, even if it's true, but this is Yunnan, and the whip can't reach it."

Dahan said excitedly: "It won't be too long, I heard yesterday that now the Gui army is coming, and when they take Kunming, the good days of our people will come." ”

"Big brother, is it true?" The young woman was also excited.

"Let's just wait!" After the big man finished speaking, he picked up the pork that the young woman had picked up and put it in her basket.

This time, the young woman did not shirk again, and after saying thank you again, she said goodbye to the big man and walked out. She was stunned for a moment when she saw Tang Jiyao, but she didn't know Tang Jiyao, so she walked past him calmly.

Tang Jiyao looked at the young woman who was far away and slowly followed. Along the way, the young woman kept taking a lot of things from various stalls. There are steamed buns, noodle soups, pancakes, fritters and other foods. Every time, the young woman would talk to the stall owners for a while, and each time she would thank them for a thousand thanks. When the basket was full, the young woman went to her lodgings.

Tang Jiyao followed her to an alley, walked farther and farther, and gradually walked out of the alley, at this time there were no houses on both sides, but the young woman still walked forward. After walking for a while, I saw a ruined temple in the distance (déjà vu!). It's only a little less famous than the Joy Inn). This place has been abandoned for a long time, and the temple is dilapidated, and there is not even a door. Just as the young woman walked into the ruined temple, Tang Jiyao, who was following behind, heard the cheers of children coming from inside.

He couldn't help but walk over and stand at the gate of the ruined temple, looking at the young woman inside surrounded by dozens of emaciated children. The young woman placed the basket on a stone table, and took out from the basket all the food that had just been given by the stall owners, except pork, and gave them to the children. When the division was finished, the young woman took the pork and washed it aside, and set up a broken pot beside it, the edge of which was no longer known how many large holes had been broken, and there was still a little room in the middle that could barely be cooked. The young woman cut the washed pork and pork liver into the same number of small pieces according to the number of children, and put them in the pot along with the noodle soup. An older child took the initiative to come and light the fire.

When the meat was cooked, each of the children took out a small bowl, some of which were still missing edges and corners, lined up, made a little soup and a piece of meat, and ate the food that had just been handed out.

Although the young woman got a lot of things back, it was still far from enough, dozens of children, either only half of the baked cake, or one-third of the steamed buns, or only one fritter, although there was meat, but in the face of such a small bowl, a small bowl was less than half a tael.

Just as the children began to eat, the young woman took out a small cloth bag from her bosom and unfolded it. Tang Jiyao, who was far away, saw the young woman take out a piece of steamed bread that was already a little blackened from the cloth, and ate it, and while eating, she poured some water from a small bucket next to her and poured it into her mouth, and the blackened and stiff steamed bread couldn't swallow it without water.

When Tang Jiyao saw this kind of scene, there was an inexplicable throbbing in his heart.

He walked into the ruined temple, and the children and the young woman saw him. Dressed in military uniform, he frightened many children to hide behind the young woman. At this time, the young woman pretended to be calm and said, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”

"I'm sorry, I don't mean anything, I want to ask, are the fathers of these children all soldiers?" He said calmly.

Perhaps seeing that Tang Jiyao's face was not fierce, the young woman's heart was also relaxed.

"Yes! Their fathers were killed in battle. The young woman touched the head of a child next to her and said.

"Do you eat this in the morning?" Looking at the food in the hands of the children and the black steamed buns in the hands of the young woman, Tang Jiyao spoke.

"It's not that we eat these in the morning, it's that we eat them all day, and then dig up some wild vegetables in the evening, but now we are almost exhausted of the wild vegetables around. If it weren't for the help of the neighbors, we wouldn't even be able to afford this. As she spoke, the young woman was about to fall into her eyes.

Hearing the young woman's words, looking at the child and the young woman with a vegetable face, he felt his chest almost out of breath. The children were very small, the oldest looked to be only seven or eight years old, and the youngest was only three or four years old. The thin body, the thin rags are wrapped around the body as clothes, and the exposed hands and feet are not a little fleshy, and the thin ones are no different from the skeletons. What was supposed to be a happy childhood, now there is no joy in front of the child, only hunger and cold.

It's not winter, but it's already cool, and it's predictable what the children will do if it's winter. Tang Jiyao's eyes seemed to see that these children were huddled in the cold winter to keep warm, the cold wind was blowing, all the thin bodies were trembling in fear, and some children who did not persist fell asleep forever with painful faces.

Are these iniquities of one's own making? One will be successful, and ten thousand bones will wither. But the children are innocent and cannot be allowed to suffer this kind of suffering. What have I done all these years, is it ambition that has lost me, or is it my own nature. The Gui family came, although he didn't want to believe it, but the fact seems that he is already yesterday's yellow flower, and he can't let this kind of tragedy happen again. It seems that in this life, except for the Nanchang Uprising, I have not done a good thing, so let myself do something good at the end!

Tang Jiyao took out an envelope on his body, which was the retreat he prepared for himself once defeated. Now it seems that he is fundamentally qualified to enjoy it anymore, everything he has is fought for himself by the soldiers under his hands, and he is ashamed of those soldiers who died in battle.

He handed the envelope to the young woman and said, "This is for these children, I hope you can use the contents to find all the orphans of the soldiers, please be kind to those children, and say sorry to those children on my behalf." ”

After saying that, he bowed to the young woman and turned around and walked out. His actions made the young woman baffled, and it took a long time for the young woman to come back to her senses, open the envelope, and there was only one bill of exchange on one side, a bill of exchange worth 500w pounds. By the time the young woman chased him out, the man was already gone.

Many years later, as the director of the largest orphanage in Kunming, she accidentally saw a photo and realized that the man was Tang Jiyao, the overseer of Yunnan at that time, but Tang Jiyao had been dead for many years at this time. Later, an orphanage in Kunming was renamed Tang Orphanage.