"Your Highness!" The man kept a fist gesture and said to Liu Wei: "Since the Zhongping period, there have been constant wars here, and many villagers have been arrested and conscripted by the Yellow Turban Army or officers and soldiers, and there are women in this village, which is already precious, and some villages are even ......."

Riding on horseback, Liu Wei nodded, waved his hand at the man who spoke, and said to him: "Tell Zhou Cang, don't be alarmed by the women in the village, it is not easy to live in troubled times. ”

The man answered, turned around and ran into the village.

Looking at the back of the man leaving, Liu Wei frowned slightly, and a little emotion arose in his heart.

Earlier in Taojiazhuang, when he saw the bandits bullying the villagers, he was already filled with righteous indignation, and immediately led a group of villagers to exterminate the bandits in the mountains.

Now that I have crossed the Yellow River, I thought that out of the scope of Dong Zhuo's power, the future life would be much better, but I didn't expect that the first village I met was a small village that had suffered from war.

In the troubled times, the life of the people was miserable, think about his life in his previous life, although he often wandered between life and death, but the whole environment was relatively peaceful and peaceful, except for the mountain villages where the population migrated to the towns, there were almost no uninhabited villages.

Although war will bring about the development of science and technology, it will only bring disaster to civilians.

frowned deeply, led the team into the village, and Liu Wei from a distance saw Zhou Cang standing at the door of a house shouting something.

Liu Wei lifted the reins, clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, sped up a little, and ran towards Zhou Cang.

"What's wrong?" When he arrived at Zhou Cang, he patted Tang Ji on the arm lightly who was sitting in front of him, signaling her not to dismount, then turned over and jumped off the horse, and asked Zhou Cang.

"Don't open the door!" Zhou Cang shook his head, and whispered to Liu Wei a little helplessly: "If it weren't for His Highness's order not to embarrass them, I really wanted to kick the door open......

"I can't help it!" Liu Wei waved his hand and said to Zhou Cang: "There are no men in the village, they are all orphans and widows, life must be very difficult, I will wait here and bully them again, what is the difference between you and I who exterminated the bandits in the mountains that day?" ”

Zhou Cang didn't speak again, just lowered his head and took a step back, making way for Liu Wei.

Tang Ji, who was sitting on horseback, looked down at Liu Wei who walked to the door of the house, and her eyes were full of tenderness.

Liu Wei has indeed changed, completely different from the timid, cowardly, and selfish Liu Wei she knew in the past. Today's Liu Wei has transformed from his bones into a true man with affection and righteousness, he not only cares about everyone around him, but even the poor people who don't know each other can get his pity and sympathy.

"Sister-in-law, I'm a passer-by passing here......" When he arrived at the door, Liu Wei knocked lightly on the door and shouted to the people in the house: "If it's late today and you want to borrow a place to stay, Sichuan Zi will definitely offer it, and ask your sister-in-law to open the door." ”

The house that Liu Wei knocked on was not large, and there was a wide gap in the middle of the wooden door divided into two doors, and the latch was a little decayed, so he could push the door open with a little effort.

But Liu Wei didn't do that, he knocked a few more times, and saw that the people in the house still didn't open the door, so he raised his eyes and looked at Zhou Cang on the side, and his face showed helplessness for the first time.

Turning his head to look at the other house behind him, Liu Wei found that two eyes were peeking at them through the crack in the door of the house behind him.

The position of those eyes was very low, the height was only about the navel of Liu Bian, although the room was very dark, and it was impossible to see who was hiding behind the door, Liu Bian still judged from the height of his eyes that the person hiding behind should be a child.

He reached out and asked for a small packet of cooked corn from the man behind him, and walked towards the room with the bread of corn.

When he reached the door, the little child hiding behind the door quickly turned around and slipped into a dark corner.

When he first entered the village, Liu Wei found that there was not a single family in the small village to open a group, and there was no straw at the door of each household that should be stored for grain.

"Hungry? This has to eat. Squatting outside the door of their room with a pair of eyes peeking at just now, Liu Wei poured out a handful of cooked corn from a small cloth bag and handed it to the edge of the door.

The dry food that Liu Wei and others carried, except for some dried meat, was the only corn that was cooked in water and then dried to prevent it from rotting and spoiling.

The method of corn is very simple, and the taste is not very good, but it is more convenient to carry it than to bring raw corn to bury the pot on the road to make rice.

Holding the hand of corn to the door, Liu Wei said to the child hiding in the dark corner of the house with a smile on his face: "Come on, it's all yours!" ”

People who are hungry for a long time cannot resist the temptation of food. Squatting outside the house, Liu Wei didn't wait long, and the child who peeked at them earlier timidly walked out of the corner timidly, and stretched out his little hand towards the corn that Liu Wei held in the palm of his hand.

Holding corn in his hand, Liu Wei did not move. He knew that any slight movement at this time might startle the child, and once the villagers misunderstood, it would not be so easy for them to stay in the village.

The child's little hand stretched out through the crack in the door, and a pair of vigilant eyes stared at Liu Wei without blinking. When his hand was about to touch the corn, he took it back as violently as if he had been electrocuted.

With a kind smile on his face, Liu Wei still didn't move, just held the corn and raised his hand slightly.

Probably sensing that he was not a threat, the child in the house was much bolder, stretched out his hand, quickly grabbed a handful of corn in Liu Wei's hand, turned around and ran towards the dark corner of the house.

When he grabbed it, the corn he took away was very limited, but the corn in Liu Wei's hand was spilled a lot.

Just when Liu Wei wanted to withdraw his hand and grab another handful, the doors of several houses suddenly opened, and several women ran out of the house quickly, squatting on the place where the corn was sprinkled, and picking up the small golden particles that fell on the ground one by one.

A woman who rushed out of her arms was still holding a skinny child with only skin and bones left in her arms, and she picked up the corn on the ground, and did not fill it into her mouth, but fed it one by one to the child she was holding in her arms.

The child in the woman's arms looked to be about a year old at most. The small arms and legs are just a layer of skin wrapped around the bones, the ribs on the body are clearly visible, the thin body has a big head, because the face is too thin, his eyes appear particularly large, and his facial features look like the legendary aliens are uncoordinated.

Even though Liu Wei's emotions were not fragile, seeing this scene, his eyes couldn't help but moisten. It felt like something was stuck in my throat.

He took a deep breath, adjusted his mood, and turned back to the group of men standing behind him and shouted, "Brothers, take out all your extra dry food!" ”

Liu Wei knew that he was a little impulsive because he was a little affected by his emotions. But the thin women who were squatting in front of him and picking corn on the ground made him have to do it.

Especially the skinny child, who should have been nestled in his mother's arms, enjoying the love of his parents, but he had to suffer from hunger.

In any case, Liu Wei could not watch the women and children in the village suffer so much, but stand aside and watch coldly.

Dozens of men got Liu Wei's orders, and they untied the bags of dry food they were carrying, and a few of them even took out the dried meat they were carrying and placed them on the ground at Liu Wei's feet.

Glancing at the bag of dry food placed on the ground, Liu Wei said to a man beside him: "Give dry food to the villagers in the village, don't give too much to each person, give a little first, they will be hungry for too long, and if they eat too much, they will be strangled to death." ”

"No!" The man responded with a fist clenched, and then beckoned to the side and shouted, "Come and help the two brothers!" ”

"Folks!" The three men collected all the dry food on the ground in one place, Liu Wei pressed the sword in one hand, crossed his waist with the other, and shouted loudly to the village: "I am Liu Bian, the king of Hongnong, who was chased and killed by Dong Zhuo's old thief, passing through here." Seeing that the villagers are living so hard, I feel inexplicable hatred in my heart! I'll take out some dry food today, and if you can trust me, please come out and get it!" ”

Squatting on the ground, they had already picked up the corn that Liu Wei had spilled earlier, and when they heard what he said, they all turned their heads and looked at the bags of dry food in front of the three men in charge of distributing the dry food with gloomy but expectant eyes.

Hunger forgets fear, and the woman with the child first ran towards the three men who were in charge of distributing the dry food.

After Liu Wei's order, the man who distributed the dry food picked up a small cloth bag from the ground, there was not much corn in the cloth bag, he weighed it twice, and felt that it might not be enough for the woman and the child to eat, and touched a small piece of dried meat from the side and put it in the cloth bag, and then handed it to the woman holding the child, and explained to her: "This is given to you by His Royal Highness, eat slowly." ”

The woman held the child in one hand, took the cloth bag, and went to the side to feed the child with a thousand thanks, and the other women saw that she really received dry food, where would there be delay, and all ran to the three men in a swarm.

The women had all received the food, and the rest of the village opened the door with trepidation, and walked timidly towards the place where the food was distributed.

Standing next to the horse that Tang Ji was riding, Liu Wei frowned slightly, and watched the scene of the villagers coaxing dry food without saying a word.

Sure enough, just like what Zhou Cang and others explored before, except for women and children in the village, there was not even an old man Liu Bi.

After receiving corn and meat from the man who distributed the dry food, the old and young of the village squatted on the ground and ate it in large gulps.

There was a child who looked to be only about six or seven years old, probably eating too fast, choking and rolling his eyes, squatting on the ground and holding his neck with his hands.