"Catch him!" Reilly shouted, seven or eight teenagers started to catch people together, but this thin monkey was like a loach, slippery and slippery around these people, the body twisted and twisted can always avoid other people's hands, a few times was obviously caught clothes, as soon as he turned around, the grip was unloaded, flashed the last person's interception, the thin monkey pulled his legs and ran, the seven or eight teenagers also had no rice for a few days, hands and feet were not sharp, in order to catch him all crashed together, and when they got up to chase, the thin monkey boy had run out a long way, turned around and plunged into the messy alley and disappeared, those teenagers looked for a long time and did not find, can only scold and scold。

The boy who escaped the 'round-up' came to the corner of the street and squatted down, at this moment the city was full of people, it seemed to be making trouble again, he didn't care, he didn't eat much for two days, he just ran all the way and didn't feel it, this relaxed legs began to tremble, patted the two cakes in his arms, the boy happily showed a mouthful of white teeth, stood up three or two times and turned into a yard where no one was.

I saw that there were two dirty teenagers in the yard, who looked a little younger, and were boiling water in a clay pot to cook something.

The young man took out two flatbreads from his arms and shook them proudly, "Then you don't need to say, haha."

The three teenagers happily tore open the two flatbreads and poured out the soup from the crockpot, the soup was full of wild vegetables, not even salt, there was no taste at all, but the three of them ate it called a fragrant fragrance, let the street outside outside yell, fire and smoke everywhere, the three of them didn't care, it seemed that these few pieces of bread and wild vegetable soup were all they had in their lives.

The bread was gone, the wild vegetable soup in the crockpot was also eaten, and the three of them were contented to lie on the abandoned ox cart in the yard, looking at the sky.

"Brother Ma," the youngest teenager said, "You say, we won't starve to death here, as long as we don't starve to death, will my mother and my father find me sooner or later."

"Your father and your mother have been starving to death on the road for a long time, you don't have to wait," the older boy next to him said angrily.

"You talk nonsense, you talk nonsense, my father and my mother are not dead"

"Dead, dead, all starving"

。。。。。。

The two teenagers were arguing, almost fighting, the boy called "Brother Ma" did not answer, with yellow grass in his mouth, his eyes looked at the sky without saying a word, he was a child of a small village in the south of Peiguo, and there was an elder brother and a sister above, he was spoiled as a baby at home, and his parents named him "Ma Xiao," Everything was fine, suddenly one day the war spread to his hometown, the southern border army of Peiguo was defeated for many years, the Chuguo army drove straight in, all the way like a bamboo, the Peiguo army collapsed, and the result of the Peiguo army who fled back from the front line actually did the work of soldiers and bandits, burned and looted everywhere they passed, their village was attacked at night, the young and middle-aged people in the village picked up farm tools to resist, and scolded the leader of the army for being a wreck, not capable of fighting the enemy, but having the ability to bully their own people, the leader of the deserters was furious, and the men and women in the village killed hundreds of men and women before they gave up, and also robbed the village of food for the winter and the seeds of the next year, kidnapped dozens of young women from good families in the village.

I thought this was miserable enough, who thought that within a few days the Chuguo army arrived, and it was a burning, killing and looting, making matters worse, seeing that winter was coming, the village was completely cut off from food, just like that, the remaining villagers in the village carried their families and walked on the road of escape together, thinking that they could always find a place to settle down if they went north, but the more they went north, the more desolate they became, and within half a month, they heard that Peiguo was broken. The news that King Pei drew his sword in front of the city gate and killed himself, since then he has encountered more and more displaced people, and the displaced people who fled along the way have converged into a torrent, and the torrent has been continuously attacked by soldiers and bandits, the enemy army of Chu, Even the horse thieves plundered, less than a month later, the grass silk in the north took advantage of the chaos in the world to go south, broke through the Chen State and Dai Guo in the north, and fought with the Chu State army in the land of Peiguo, and soon there were more refugees from Chen Guo and Dai Guo fleeing from the barren land of Pei Country, and the killing was staged every day, and people continued to fall on the way to escape from the famine, there was no food, and the appalling things such as Yi Zi cannibalism were no longer new, and the world really became purgatory.

What he saw and heard along the way completely changed the worldview of the teenager, his father was killed by the bandits, his mother died of a cold disease on the road, his sister was separated when the war was in chaos, and his brother was captured by the grass lock to be a slave, both of them were uncertain about life and death, and when they slept at night, they were caught by a group of homeless people and almost got off the soup pot, fortunately, they had the ability to give birth to a "loach" since they were children, otherwise they would have become meat in other people's mouths.

After Ma Xiao escaped from the "torrent", he met another small group of displaced people, and it was easy to survive the winter, they walked to the stone city deep in the mountains, although there was nothing, although there was still not enough to eat every day, but there was finally a place to stay, he also met two teenagers who also fled here, the youngest was separated from his parents, and he didn't even know his surname anyway, only knew that his father and mother called themselves "Xiaobao", and the older one was a scholarly young master, whose name was "Ji Pingsheng" , It is the name of the most similar name among the three of them, the encounter is the same as the two of them, they lost their relatives on the way to escape the famine, the three of them are the oldest, ten years old this year, although they are young, but they crawled out of this pile of dead people, and they are very alert, so Xiaobao and Ji Pingsheng both call him Brother Ma.

Since the three of them met, they have been setting pheasants, touching frogs, catching cicadas, digging wild vegetables, eating whatever they can eat, and they have to steal when they have nothing to do, so they live a life of hunger and hunger in this abandoned courtyard.

Just when Ma Xiao fell into contemplation and the two troublemakers quarreled, the sound of turmoil in the city suddenly became smaller, and at the same time there were rows of horses' hooves, and the three of them sat up instantly, the sound of horses' hooves was like a stone, which aroused their psychological waves, and the atmosphere became tense The hunters are those soldiers who ride horses and hold weapons in their hands, and the prey is these poor outcasts, who can rob everything they can from "gold, silver, grain, cotton clothes, and iron tools", and even people have to rob them, and they will be killed on the spot if they disobey.

This small city is hidden in the mountains, since the beginning of the chaos in the world, there have been no soldiers and horses here, how can there be a sudden sound of horses, Ma Xiao looked at Xiaobao who was trembling with fright, and said to Ji Pingsheng, "You two hide here, if someone comes in, hide in the stove, I'll go out to see the situation" After speaking, he got up and climbed onto the low wall.

"Brother Ma, come back quickly after reading it, don't be arrested by them, listen to my mother, they dig into the hearts and livers of children and drink alcohol" Xiaobao lowered his voice and said nervously.

"Okay, I'll go back as soon as I go, maybe I can get a few flatbreads back." Ma Xiao laughed and went down the low wall, sneaked out of the main street, just entered the main street and saw that the homeless people who were still making trouble were all standing near the main street, as if they were watching the excitement, Ma Xiao drilled around in the crowd and arched his little head out, only to see hundreds of soldiers standing neatly on the main street, all holding spears in their hands, some people were also leading tall war horses, a man in yellow armor rode on a black horse, obviously the leader of this group of people, this person looked around with inverted triangular eyes and cleared his throat, and said to the people in the small town: "Fellow villagers, I am Zhang Tong, a staff officer under General Moyun of Peiguo."