The three of them rode their horses again for a while, and a village faintly appeared in front of them, and Fuquan stopped his horse, turned back to the crescent moon and pointed at the village with a horsewhip, and said, "Look, that's it!" ”

When the crescent moon heard this, she excitedly urged the horse: "Great, let's hurry over!" With that, he raised his hand and whipped the horse's back buttocks and shouted, "Drive! Drive! ”

"Hey! The princess ...... "Fuquan was about to say something, but I saw that the crescent moon horse had already run away. Looking back at his sleeve, his eyes unconsciously showed a look of worry.

I saw that Huai Sleeve always smiled lightly, and whispered: "It's okay, it's good for her to see more of these things." "With that, raise the whip and urge the horse to catch the crescent moon. Fu Quan followed closely.

The crescent moon princess rode her horse to the front, but she felt that it was quite different from what she had seen yesterday. Yesterday I saw that the common people's house, although simple, but it was scattered and neat. The village in front of me is full of broken walls, the broken adobe walls have been scraped by the rain and the yellow mud has been washed down, and it has been crumbling over the years.

Most of the houses have no roof, or only half of the roof, and the other half collapses and lies on the beams, on which tall artemisia grass has grown, and the wind blows, and the artemisia swaying, and the eaves of the beams are almost tilted.

The crescent moon rode up to the front, startled a few crows perched on dead branches, and flew away with a noisy voice.

At this time, Huai Sleeve and Fu Quan also rode their horses to the front.

"Fuquan, where did you bring this princess here? Why don't you even have a personal shadow? The crescent moon asked Fuquan in a loud voice.

Before Fu Quan could speak, he saw a few cracks in the door secretly open, revealing a few pairs of eyes peeping at the three of them.

The crescent moon didn't notice it at all, and entered the village on horseback, the dilapidated village in this deserted suburb is not big, and after a few circles on the horse, the crescent moon frowned unhappily and said, "Fuquan, what is the place you brought me here?" How to ......"

The crescent moon was only halfway through the words, and the chai doors of the courtyard suddenly opened one by one, and many scrawny old women or young children poured out from them, all of their clothes were in tatters, these people were lame, or blind, or mutilated limbs, and some even had no limbs at all, and only relied on their bodies to wriggle on the ground, like monsters.

The crescent moon was suddenly frightened, and when she was about to ride her horse out, the road was already blocked by these people, and the crescent moon princess shouted in fright: "You ...... You are human beings and ghosts, stay away from me, go away, go away......"

The people kept flocking to the crescent moon, and some of them had already come to her, stretched out their black and dirty hands that were as thin as claws, and grabbed the black velvet boots of the crescent moon, opened their mouths, and said in a deep voice: "Give us some food, good Samaritan, give us some food......

Almost all of them, repeating these two same words, stretched out a pair of thin, dirty arms and cloudy eyes of despair, and cast hope on the crescent moon alone.

The crescent moon was frightened, and kept swinging away the hands that had caught her with the leather whip, but with a flick of it, and another wave of it, and again and again, and endlessly, and the black hands were just as persevering, and endless.

At this time, standing at the entrance of the village, Huai Sleeve and Fu Quan naturally saw this scene, Fu Quan originally wanted to go over to relieve the siege of the Crescent Princess, but was stopped by Huai Sleeve, Fu Quan knew that the master must have her reason for doing anything, and he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he had to watch the Crescent Princess being besieged by many beggars, and kept shouting.

Huai Sleeve looked at it for a moment and said, "It's almost over, let's go over!" So saying, he rode his horse to the crescent moon, and when he came near, he drew a folding fan from his waist, and attached himself to the beggars, and with a stroke of the shoulder, the beggars were pushed aside to the sides.

After a short time, the horses of Huai Sleeve and Fu Quan came to the side of the crescent moon, and the crescent moon was frightened, and hurriedly rode the horse to the side of Huai Sleeve, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, they, where did they come from?" How, why are there so many ......?"

Huai Sleeve faced the many beggars, and said in a deep tone: "These are refugees who have fled from the war for many years, and they are also the children of our Qing Dynasty. After that, his voice trembled slightly, and his voice was moving.

The beggars also grabbed the boots of the sleeves or grabbed her robes, but the sleeves did not drive away, let them tug, and their eyes were extraordinarily gentle and compassionate.

Hearing the words of Huai Sleeve, the crescent moon was stunned at the moment, her eyes swept over these people who were suffering from illness, and she couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "After the countryside is sparse, the flesh and blood are displaced from the road. The hanging shadow is divided into thousands of miles of geese, and the roots of the words are scattered as nine autumn pengs. ”

The voice fell, followed by another sentence: "The chariot, the horse Xiaoxiao, and the pedestrian's bow and arrow are at the waist." Ye Niang's wife went to see each other, and the dust did not see Xianyang Bridge. The clothes stopped crying, and the crying went straight up to the sky......"

When the words fell, the crescent moon was already choked, but he still muttered in his mouth: "You don't see, Qinghai head, no one collects the white bones in ancient times." The new ghost is annoyed and the old ghost is crying, and the sky is cloudy and rainy, and the wet voice is chirping! ”

After groaning, the crescent moon reached out and grabbed the sleeve of the sleeve, and she couldn't cry anymore, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, it turns out that the war is really like this, so tragic......"

Fu Quan couldn't help but wipe his tears secretly.

The beggars still tugged at the three men's clothes and boots in different ways, repeating only a few simple words: "Appreciate the stuttering...... Let's enjoy the stuttering......"

Huai Sleeve heard that she had just blurted out a few words and phrases describing the war, and it seemed that she was really moved.

As the princess of the emperor's family, the crescent moon grew up with Kangxi since she was a child, and her ears and eyes have been integrated into Kangxi's mind of respecting heaven and loving the people.

"Listen to me." Huai Sleeve said to the many beggars.

Seeing that there was a sense of majesty in the temperament of the sleeves, everyone stopped their voices, turned their faces and looked at her.

Huai Sleeve turned the horse's head, let out the crescent moon behind him, and said, "This one is the princess of our Great Qing Kingdom." ”

When several older beggars in the crowd heard this, they hurriedly took the lead in kneeling and kowtowing, "Long live the princess, long live the princess...... Many beggars knelt and kowtowed one after another, chanting in unison.

The crescent moon prince took the initiative to tolerate it, leaned down and said: "No courtesy, no courtesy, get up, everyone, hurry up!" After that, he turned back to Fuquan and said, "Give me our backpack." ”

"Huh!" Fuquan hurriedly untied his backpack from his body and handed it to the crescent moon. The crescent moon took out the purse containing the silver, grabbed a handful of broken silver, and was about to scatter it.

"Princess, wait!" Huai Sleeve stopped, and reached out to the crescent moon, and the crescent moon looked at Huai Sleeve's smiling face, knowing that she must have a better way, so she handed over the silver purse.

Huai Sleeve took the silver purse in his hand, and asked in a harmonious voice, "You always have a leader here, right?" or who is in charge, who stands up and speaks to me. ”