21. The last warmth
The vegetable insect was lying on a small grassy slope with its eyes closed, and its eyes were a warm red. Just now, a Xianbei man took a black leather robe and put it on him. The smell of leather also seems to be warm under the higher and higher sunlight.
Xiaocao's thin fingers tickled his ears. A few insects who can't name them are rushing to the market not far away, and you said it, I said, it's very lively. The neighing of horses could be heard in the distance.
"Dead is dead, nothing." Caiza thought: "But Lao Tzu has thought about thousands of ways to die on the battlefield, but he didn't think about being tied up and cut off his head." ”
Caiworm has been in the army for 7 years, and he has seen strange ways of dying on the battlefield, and he has long been numb. The common people in the market are taboo about the word "death", but those who are soldiers make fun of it. When acquaintances met, the first thing they said was, "Where are you still carrying your head?" The other party will also happily reply: "If the king of Hades doesn't want it, Lao Tzu won't lose it!" The most commonly used and effective word of persuasion is, "If you don't drink while you live, do you want to save it and sprinkle it on the grave?" ”
But even the most unserious veterans don't want to be slaughtered like cattle and sheep. Battlefield fighting, equal opportunities, life and death, wealth in the sky, the strong win, the weak fall, willing to gamble and lose, no complaints. can be tied into rice dumplings, and it is too humiliating to be cut off in a group of people.
On second thought: death is death, and there is no difference between humiliation and glory. Think back then, if you fell off a cliff while picking herbs, and the corpse was eaten by wild wolves, how could it be better than now?
He has seen the death of enemies, the death of his companions, and the death of his relatives, and at this moment he suddenly understood: knowing that the death of others and the death of oneself are really two different things.
He wanted to tell himself: vegetable worm, you are not afraid!
Another voice is saying: You are afraid.
What's there to be afraid of? There is no old at the top, no small at the bottom, and no one is widowed in the middle. If you want land, you don't have a house, and you don't have to worry about the inheritance being robbed. Are you afraid that no one will care? I have been a soldier for 7 years and have made a lot of contributions, but except for the brothers around you who trust you with life and death, who knows which onion you are? There is wolf smoke everywhere, there are thousands of vegetable insects, who has ever seen the government erect a monument to them?
So what exactly are you afraid of?
He opened his eyes and saw a clear blue sky, and a big bird flew over in the sky, I don't know if it was an eagle.
It's not that I'm afraid, it's reluctant, but I have to give up.
It is a kind of pain that is expressed in the bones, flesh, and meridians of the whole body.
A person lives a lifetime, half a day is busy and half a day sleeps, in fact, he lives in a small circle, and he has never thought about what it looks like outside the circle. The first half of the vegetable worm deals with life-saving medicine, and the second half deals with the murderous knife, and it is not until today that I lie here that I realize that there is still a large part of this world that I have not dealt with at all. The pain that the bones, flesh, and meridians of the whole body are expressing lies in their opportunity to deal with those worlds, which is about to be completely extinct.
A damp cloth gently wiped his forehead, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the girl he had just seen kneeling beside him.
"Are you Han?"
Xiao Qiao nodded, carefully bypassing a wound in the corner of the vegetable insect's forehead and wiping the surrounding blood stains clean.
"Where's home?"
"Jiankang"
Cai's eyes flashed: "Hao Duan is not staying in Jiankang, why do you want to come to serve Hu Ren?" ”
Xiao Qiao kept her hands, sighed softly, and said quietly:
"If it's really good, how can you not stay!"
The vegetable worm suddenly didn't know how to answer the call. Over the years, you have fought in the court, today the clan is punished, tomorrow the family is raided, and there are really many people who have fled to the north, presumably this girl is the same.
After wiping her face, Xiao Qiao saw clearly that this person called Caiworm was very delicate, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it would be hard for her to imagine that such a person's bones were so hard.
Xiao Qiao opened the basket next to her, took out a big bowl of mutton soup from it, and carefully tore up a steamed bun and soaked it in it. The vegetable worm struggled to sit up, but only sent out a **. Xiao Qiao glanced back at him and said don't move, I'll feed you with a spoon.
The vegetable worm leaned on the grassy slope and ate the mutton soup one bite at a time, and the steamed buns melted into the soup and could be swallowed without chewing.
Since the death of his wife, no woman has ever been considerate of vegetable insects. He also went to prostitution with his brothers to find fun, but it was all a matter of paying money with one hand and untying his trousers with the other, and it had nothing to do with the real warmth and comfort.
Guo Xu and the others also asked to help him continue the strings, but the nobles and bigwigs from the north changed the fashion in Jiangnan, and no one wanted to pay attention to a veteran like him, who had nothing. Caiworm never thought that God would let him experience the feeling of being taken care of by a woman before he died.
"Then do you still want to go back to Jiangnan?"
Xiao Qiao didn't answer, but said instead:
"I'd like to ask you about someone."
"Who?" Caiworm really hopes to help this kind girl before she dies.
"Chen Song, have you heard of it?"
"Chen Song!" The vegetable worm wanted to sit up excitedly, but grinned in pain: "I've heard of it, big acquaintance." He is the leader of our hussars, and he is now on the Yellow River, and he is going to fight the Qin State. ”
"Team leader, so he hasn't been promoted yet?" Xiaoqiao muttered to herself.
"You've known him for a long time?" A lot of conjectures flashed through the rookie's mind.
"I know him, but I don't know if he knows me."
The rookie was silent for a while, he had no way of knowing what entanglement there was between this girl and Chen Song, but from her eyes, there was no nostalgia or resentment, but there was a faint trace of coldness. Thinking that Chen Song had followed Liu Yu'an to work for all these years, and it was indispensable to take over the grievances, the rookie couldn't help but shudder.
He was just about to say something, when he raised his eyes and saw a group of Xianbei cavalry walking towards him, each holding a long lance in his hand, and the tip of the lance had a human head stuck in it. The human head was washed of blood, and the hair was tied into a bun, which made the face even more miserable. It was followed by a carriage with a piece of wood erected high on it, and another piece of wood was joined horizontally in the middle to form a huge cross.
The Xianbei officer who led the team walked up to the vegetable worm and owed a debt. He is not very fluent in Chinese:
"You, I admire. Let you go, and I'll do it. But give me orders, so can't put. ”
Reach out and remove a leather bag from your belt:
"The wine here is strong. After you finish drinking, you go to sleep, and feel better. ”
The vegetable worm shook his head:
"Lao Tzu will die and understand, save your horse urine for your father!" After saying that, he spit out a mouthful of bloody sputum.
The Xianbei officer sighed, and with a wave of his hand, the Xianbei soldier lifted the leather robe covering the vegetable worm, stripped him naked, set him up in the carriage naked, and then fixed him on the cross with his arms outstretched. The neck and intact leg of the vegetable insect were tightly tied to the vertical log, and the limbs could not move at all, except for the ability to turn their eyes.
The Xianbei officer gave the order, and the soldiers ran in a single column to the front of the carriage, and with the creaking of wooden wheels, the carriage turned left and headed towards the Yellow River. Before the vegetable worm's face turned completely away, he shouted at Xiao Qiao:
"Take care, girl! Chen Song is a good person! ”
Xiao Qiao realized that her legs were as soft as cotton, and she couldn't support her body. She sat down on the ground, looking at the carriage in the distance and the back of the head, and her heart tightened:
What is Abogan going to do with him?
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