Shen Yuan looked back and saw that it was an old man who was over half a hundred years old, and he came out of the ruins with seven or eight people.

The old man just crawled out and sat on the ground panting, with a wooden stick beside him, huh,...... Blind.

Regardless of Zhou Yuan's situation for the time being, there are still these people in this city who have escaped the catastrophe.

At this time, these people all looked at Shen Yuan, and Cheng Wujun also looked at Huo Jie, the villagers who came over from the mountains......

Shen Yuan tightened her cloak, in the middle of the night, it was really cold...... "What are you doing in a daze!" Let's get to work! Shen Yuan waved his hand.

Cheng Wujun lit more torches, and everyone began to clean up.

Just clean up the government first, and drag the dead bodies out and put them in one place. Cleaned out one by one, settled the people, and then one-third of the Chengwu army also seized the time to rest, the rest continued to clean, and the other part was sentry.

The first clean upper room was cleaned, and everyone had already urged Shen Yuan to go and rest quickly, but Shen Yuan couldn't sleep.

She called Aunt Cui and Xiao Cui in, everyone was crowded on the same bed, and Aunt Cui really couldn't let go. Shen Yuan didn't care about that, hugged the quilt with red eyes, leaned on Xiaocui's shoulder, and said sadly, "I'm sad and can't sleep." ”

No one can sleep.

In this way, they survived the second half of the night, and the next day, just after dawn, several women got up and saw smoke rising from the back kitchen of the government office, carrying the fragrance of rice porridge.

Shen Yuan wrapped her headscarf around her and stirred it seriously in the pot with a big spoon, and she put a big pot of japonica rice and millet.

The prefect's yamen is very large, the backyard is where the prefect's inner courtyard lives, the kitchen is also very spacious, there are two pots in the kitchen, and Xiaocui and Cuigu are also cooking porridge with them.

The women in the mountains got up, and when they saw what they were doing, they also set up a few more pots, and when everyone got up, at least everyone could drink a bowl of porridge first.

Then I saw Cheng Yuan come in and told Shen Yuan that the blind old man yesterday wanted to negotiate with us.

Shen Yuan remembered what he said about Zhou Yuan, as if he knew Emperor Ji.

The old man had already changed his clothes, because he couldn't see with his eyes, and there were people around him who helped him to sit down. Yesterday was very embarrassing, but Shen Yuan could see that this person's popularity was extraordinary.

As a result, as soon as he opened his mouth, he realized that it was the prefect of Wuxi.

Shen Yuanteng stood up in a flash! She clenched her hands tightly, her beautiful eyes were round, and she just looked at the old man, but fortunately, the person in front of her was blind and couldn't see Shen Yuan's excitement.

"You're the prefect! You are the prefect! Shen Yuan muttered.

Pointing outside, "You are the parents of the people!" You...... You ......" Shen Yuan found that he couldn't say anything!

Also, what is there to say!

"Girl, you misunderstood Governor Xu." The person supporting him couldn't help but say that it was one of the few people who crawled out of the rubble yesterday.

"Governor Xu has always loved the people like a son, yes, it is Huang Tan, a subordinate of General Chu, and the Wuxi garrison ......" The man couldn't say clearly, and he sweated anxiously.

I heard another person continue, "The two armies are fighting, although they are on the border of Zhanjiang, but Zhenjiang is adjacent to Wuxi, so we have been on guard. Wuxi already had a garrison Liang Youqi leading 40,000 elite soldiers to defend it, and one day, Chu Pingdong sent someone to borrow troops from the garrison Liang Youqi......"

As he spoke, the man dipped his finger in a little tea, and drew roughly on the table. "It is said that Zikang is trapped, Zikang City is not big, but there are tens of thousands of people, according to us here about 400 li, it already belongs to the Zhenjiang territory, but it is indeed far from us, it is much cheaper than going to Zhenjiang Capital to transfer troops......"

"So Wuxi garrison ordered his subordinates to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to rescue the emergency." The man continued, "Who knew that there was no news after walking for many days, but suddenly one day, our soldiers did not wait to come back, but the Lingnan army arrived at the city. ”

"Liang Youqi refused to send troops to meet the battle, and it was true that we were outnumbered, so we were besieged in the city. The beacon fire has been lit, and we can only hope that a large army will come to the rescue. ”

"Later, we were trapped for a few days, and Governor Xu had already seen at this time that being trapped was death, and facing the battle was also death. So he advocated that the battle might be able to fight for a little bit of life. So because he advocated facing the battle, he disagreed with Liang Youqi. In the end, Liang Youqi actually knocked the prefect unconscious, trapped in an underground secret room, and then led 20,000 soldiers to open the city and surrender. ”

Speaking of this, everyone in the Cheng Wujun army had already clenched their fists, and they could no longer suppress their anger.

Then, I heard the man say calmly, "But they didn't think that they had abandoned the city and surrendered, but they still killed all the people in the city." Lord Xu's eyes were also blinded by their fire prevention outside because they were trapped underground. Several of us were able to escape because we were hiding underground. ”

This man spoke very clearly. Shen Yuan kept looking at him, and it wasn't until a while that he had to smile and introduce that in Xia Dong Siran, it was a master book.

Shen Yuan snorted.

It's not that she doesn't believe what he said, from the situation reported by Cheng Wujun yesterday overnight, as well as the situation in the city, she believes that what he said is that you are true. Including Xu Zhifu, Shen Yuan felt the same righteousness as Wang Shangdian from him.

It's just that this person, he has a clear mind, but he doesn't have the heroic righteousness of Xu Zhifu and Wang Daxue.

Those two are human beings.

And this one is the one who does things......

This is strange, Shen Yuan said, "Help Lord Xu to rest, and then trouble Baili Xi to help take a look at his eyes, whether there is still treatment, and he can't delay any longer." Then we'll take a long-term view of everything. ”

Lord Xu obviously didn't want this, he was actually really anxious, he had a bad heart when he found smoke underground, thinking that he was attacking, and when he broke the rope and ran out, the fire was too big and he couldn't get out, in fact, if he couldn't get out, he also had to go out desperately, but he was stunned again......

Hey, reader.

By mistake, he picked up a life, and when he woke up and climbed up, what he saw was the same human tragedy that Shen Yuan saw.

He is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but he will not do such a thing as self-sacrifice and suicide after reading the book of sages, so he has been in this city for three days, he knows that he has the responsibility of protecting the people of this side, and now that the people are gone, he intends to stay here until he dies, and he will accompany this dead city.

In fact, Shen Yuan saw that the old man's spirit was not very good, and he was greatly stimulated, so he should be psychotherapy intervention......

Xu Zhifu didn't eat or drink, on the one hand, he said to himself that he was the only one who knew the truth about the vain death of the people in this city, and he wanted to avenge them and avenge them, so he didn't believe that God was so blind...... But on the other hand, he doesn't eat or drink, and is between passively waiting for death and actively seeking death......

Then, Governor Xu waited for Shen Yuan.

He didn't know who they were, but he heard her say, "The soldiers of the Great Zhou, the prefect and the court ordered the officials to abandon the people of this city and withdraw?" Or, escaped? ”

He heard her say again, "But the Lingnan Army is also a soldier of the Great Zhou!" The king of Lingnan is also surnamed Zhou! ”

He was still worried about which side came, if it was Lingnan, he would just pounce desperately, regardless of whether he could kill one or two or not.

He was born in the imperial examination, although he is a gentleman with six arts, but he has been an official for many years and has long been in good health.

If it's the Great Zhou's ...... As an official of the Great Zhou court, he really doesn't know how to ......

Then he heard the little lady speak, she was not one of them, but she would say, "People." ”

She has the people in her mouth.

Xu Zhifu couldn't see it with his eyes, so he learned to look with his heart and saw that she had people in her heart.

Governor Xu suddenly didn't want to die.

"Let's go and see the eyes." Shen Yuan urged again.

Then I was willing to go to the side of the house.

Baili Xi was already waiting there, and at this time there was a small square table in front of him, Baili Xi was holding a big bowl of white porridge, and he didn't know where, but he even found two salted duck eggs and two side dishes.

Seeing Governor Xu come in, I heard him greet him, "Come, come, don't worry, boss, have you eaten?" If you don't dislike it, have a meal with me. ”

Governor Xu shook his head, he really didn't eat breakfast, he couldn't eat it, and he didn't plan to eat it.

Baili Xi: "How to eat, how to eat, people are iron rice and steel, don't eat a meal...... If you don't eat a few meals, you will starve to death, and people are dying of hunger, how can your eyes be so good. ”

So he stretched out his hand to personally serve porridge to Lord Xu, and Xiao Cui neatly took the bowl from behind, "Scholar, you are still in charge of seeing a doctor, I will come to serve people like this." ”

Lord Xu's heart was half cold, how could it be that the scholar was not Langzhong, this eye is probably not good, the girl is kind, so she wants to comfort me.

The benevolent girl was sitting alone with Dong Siran at this time.

Shen Yuan liked to open the door to see, so he asked directly with a smile, "Why didn't Lord Dong defect with the Wuxi garrison at that time?" ”

Dong Siran was stunned for a moment, obviously he didn't expect the little lady on the other side to ask such a question.

He asked...... It's like swearing.

However, Dong Siran was even more afraid, and this question came to his heart. Of course he wants to defect with him! The situation at that time was very scary, no matter whether it was a defection or a run, it was better not to stay here and wait for death.

"It's not because it's too late!" Dong Siran scolded in his heart.

At that time, Liang Youqi, the Wuxi garrison, thought that he was with Governor Xu, and he didn't take anything with him.

He had scolded these words eight hundred times in his heart, and now he seemed to be seen through by the little lady in front of him.

Dong Siran didn't have time to hide his surprise, and after calming down a little, he said, "The timing is not right." ”

Actually, I just didn't have time...... Shen Yuan nodded, she understood.

A true villain is always more likable than a hypocrite.

Then Dong Siran withdrew, and the matter was clear, and it was more appropriate to leave some time for Shen Yuan to discuss with her own people.

Then I saw that Cheng Yuan, Brother Xiao Zhang, and Huo Jie all strode in.

I heard Cheng Yuan hurriedly say, "The road from here to Zhuozhou has been cut off......"

Cheng Yuan: "The war with the Lingnan Army has deteriorated faster than we expected!" ”