The next day, I remembered that I forgot to ask Wu Feng last night, how has he been doing in the past few months? What happened to his injuries? This time, Yu Gong received the order of Qin Bo and General Qi to envoy to Wu State. Yu Private, it is to mourn Wu Zixu, the uncle who was forced to commit suicide by his husband. For so many years, Wu Feng has been secretive about his own affairs, but looking at his emaciated appearance, maybe Wu Zixu is not as simple as a clan uncle for him. When I'm done dealing with the affairs of the Prince's Mansion, I should really find a time to ask him again.

After eating breakfast, I rushed to my courtyard without evil. I haven't seen him for a few days, he has tanned a little, and he has grown a lot stronger. He couldn't speak before, he was sensitive, quiet, calm and domineering. But today he seems to have turned into a tall and sturdy sparrow, and he is constantly noisy in my ears. After a while, he said that Yu Di bullied him, and then said that Yu Di ignored him, and finally began to complain about the chef's big chef, saying that he only gave him a meal of meat for five days. The poor little appearance seemed to have been wronged.

"Give you a meal of meat in five days, this is already the general's special treatment of you, don't complain. I'll take you to the market today, and then I'll go to the wilderness outside the city to catch a rabbit to eat, okay? ”

When Wuxian heard the word "rabbit", he instantly put away his miserable face, and smiled so much that he wanted to hang the corners of his mouth on his ears: "Then let's go quickly!" He said as he dragged me out.

I couldn't help but smile when I saw his anxious appearance, and the haze that had been accumulating in my heart for many days also disappeared because of his smile at the moment, "Don't worry, I have to change my clothes to go out with you, you wait for me in the courtyard first." ”

"Then you hurry up and change it!" Innocent reached out and pulled the belt on my body, I hurriedly dodged back, and said loudly: "How can I change it if you don't go out?" ”

Innocent didn't know what the defense of men and women was, and he muttered for a long time, and was finally kicked out by me.

I took off my fine coat and put on a thick thick brown coat, and my hair was messed up at the top of my head in a big horn. Finally, he smeared a handful of charcoal ash on his face. Soon, a thin black-faced teenager appeared in the mirror.

"Ah Shi, why is your face so dark?" Ever since I and Innocent went out of the house through the small door in the backyard, Innocent has been wiping my face with his hands.

"If you move again, we'll go back to the house now. Continue to eat your porridge in the evening. I brushed away my innocent hand, lowered my face and shouted.

"It's so ugly—" Innocent roared and retracted his hand, after eating so many days of monotonous and tasteless porridge, the rabbit was more important to him than anything else.

Yongcheng in early winter is a little less prosperous and a little more depressed. Except for a few horse-drawn carriages hurrying through the streets, only dusty pedestrians remained. They walked together in groups of three or five, their necks hunched and their bags on their backs, their tattered robes looking particularly thin in the bitter cold wind.

"These people have all fled from Dali, and there are food shops in the west market, and they will be given food when they go. Yu Di said that there were still many people who were dying of hunger outside the east gate. "Innocent has heard a lot of news from the guards these days.

"The king's things can be eaten for free? The city wall under construction in the west had been crushed to death by many hard laborers in the previous month. After receiving this ration, these fleeing Dali people will be used as laborers and sent to strengthen the city wall. The Qin and Jin dynasties were about to go to war, and the Dali Kingdom sandwiched in the middle suffered another famine this autumn. These people fled to Yongcheng early, just to find a way to survive. It's a pity that there is no way to survive in this world. "I couldn't help but sigh when I looked at these fleeing Dali people.

"Being a man is really not like being a wolf." The innocent on the side suddenly replied to me as if he didn't understand.

I turned my face to look into his clear eyes, and I couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Although he now chooses to live with me in the General's Mansion, and the soldiers in the Mansion usually get along with him, in his heart, the "wolf" is still the closest friend.

"Why don't you speak?" Seeing that I was stunned, Wuxian leaned his head over.

I chuckled and took his hand: "Actually, there are many interesting things about being a human being. Let's go, I'll take you to the market to join in the fun! ”

Towards the end of the year, all people, whether they are scholars or commoners, must begin to prepare for sacrifices at home. As a result, the market is the busiest place in the city. exchange my home-woven kudzu cloth for your home-brewed turbid wine; Use my spring-dried lemongrass for a handful of millet left over in your autumn. The common people had no money in their hands, so they exchanged things in the market. When the scholars had money, they went to buy the best spices and the best wine in the hands of merchants from all over the world to sacrifice and worship their ancestors.

For a grade like Wu Feng, it is said that everything that should be sacrificed in the house should be handed over by the farmers who collected the village in late autumn. However, Wufeng's mining was too far away from Yongcheng, so the grains, animals, wine, and spices used in the sacrifice had to be purchased separately from Yongcheng. In previous years, it was the family leader Qin Gu who did this, but this year he didn't come back, so I could only Zhang Luo first.

"Ah Shi, you see, there are a lot of people there." Innocent shouted as he pointed to a large group of people in front of him.

"Which merchant is this, the business is so good, let's go and see!"

I pulled Innocent into the crowd and was surprised to find that this was a fortune-telling stall. Surrounded by the stalls were common people dressed in cloth, some with sackcloth and some with millet rice, and it seemed that they had come to ask the shamans for fortunes.

"Ah Shi, didn't you say that many people starve to death every winter, why do they still give all the food to that person?" Innocent asked.

"The major affairs of the country are in worship and worship. Every year, in addition to the large and small sacrifices of the established season, the marriage, matching, marriage, and marriage of the prince's family, as well as the intersection of wars between countries, must also ask the sorcerers in advance to be auspicious. If it is so chaotic today, no matter how poor you are, at the end of the year, everyone wants to ask the gods how their luck will be next year. ”

"I don't understand what you're saying." Innocent shook his head in annoyance.

"I mean, this guy knows what's going to happen next year."

"Really? Can such a stinky old man know what's going to happen next year? Why don't we ask? Innocent became interested, and had to take off his robe to change the witch's hexagram.

"You hurry up and put your clothes back on, it's cold, where is someone like you!" I was made to laugh and cry by the innocent stupidity, "You have to tell the fortune that I have brought money here." Well, it's for you. ”

Innocent took the money and asked with a smile, "What about you?" ”

"I don't count, if everything in the future is known, it will be too boring."

"Then I won't go, maybe he's not sure, I can't give the old man a penny for nothing."

"I can't see that you're still very stingy with the wolf king."

"I'm not stingy, I'm afraid that you won't be able to buy things if you don't have enough money." Innocent blushed at what I said, and angrily pulled me away from the fortune-telling stall.

I was dragged by him for a few steps, and suddenly remembered an extremely important matter: "Innocent, did you tell anyone about the fact that you saved me that night?" "In order not to let Wu Feng worry about me, I only told him that I hid behind a tree and saw the private meeting between Yao Nu and Jin Ren. After that, the part that was saved by innocence was deliberately hidden. Innocent used to not be able to speak, but I was not afraid that he would poke me, but now that he is becoming more and more eloquent, I have to remind him.

"I didn't say it, you didn't tell anyone else, and of course I won't say it."

"Well, no matter who asks about it in the future, don't say it, lest the general worry about me in vain."

"With me protecting you in the future, naturally no one can hurt you. It doesn't matter if the head of the family knows it or not. ”

Some people speak, saying ten points but only believing him five points, but innocence is different, what he says in his mouth is what he thinks in his heart, so I feel warm.

"Let's go, hurry up and finish shopping, I'll take you to catch rabbits."

"Good!"