"Listening to your conversation, you should be literate, right? Why don't you find some way to help people write and write letters?"

His voice suddenly interjected, and both siblings immediately looked up at him.

"We don't sell ourselves!"

It was her sister who spoke, she looked at Jiang Heng vigilantly, and her little hand stretched out to protect her younger brother behind her, looking like she was protecting a calf.

"A certain official errand, not a human trafficker!"

Jiang Heng said and pointed to his Xuanyi, then patted the waist card on his waist and smiled bitterly. The little guy clearly took him for a human trafficker.

"That's right! This errand master is on an errand with the Zhenfu Division, but he is a nobleman!" The stall owner naturally knew the origin of Jiang Heng's clothes, and he hurriedly helped.

Jiang Heng glanced at the elder sister carefully, if it weren't for the lack of an Adam's apple, and the slight bulge on his chest, he wouldn't even be sure that this was still a girl.

"Need help? I might be able to offer you a job. He has a little sympathy for the two sisters and brothers, and his family has a big business, which is just two more pairs of dishes and chopsticks.

"Really!" the younger brother stood up and stared at him.

My sister was also trembling on the side, obviously excited, but trying to suppress herself.

"Really. Jiang Heng nodded.

"What do you want us to do? We can read, and we can do basic arithmetic. The younger brother said quickly, then thought about it and pointed to his sister: "My sister is also literate, and her cooking is very delicious!"

"I just want to ask you a few questions, don't worry, as long as you tell me the answers, then I will definitely arrange a job for you to eat well!" Jiang Heng waved his hand and smiled kindly.

"What's the problem?"

My sister didn't agree directly, but said vigilantly.

Seeing that this little girl was so alert and distressed, I was also slightly touched in my heart.

"Don't worry, it's okay if you can't answer, I'll feed you. ”

"That's... You ask!" Seeing Jiang Heng's kind appearance, her sister also relaxed slightly, and this was on the street, so she didn't refuse.

Jiang Heng nodded, looked at the two of them, and said, "You two are from the north?"

"Hmm!"

Both little ones nodded.

"Yunzhou?" Jiang Heng asked again.

The two of them still nodded, but their little heads looked a little sad.

"Have you ever seen a plateau person?"

Jiang Heng pondered for a moment before asking.

Since these two people are from Yunzhou, they want to know something about the situation there.

He wanted to verify the guesses in his mind so that he could prepare in advance.

But the two little things shook their heads with frightened faces, as if they remembered something terrible.

"No... I haven't seen it, my father said that everyone I saw it died!"

The little girl held her frightened brother in her arms.

"Okay! I don't want to mention this question for the time being, then I want to ask, what is the situation in Yunzhou? I mean, how is the situation in the battle between the border army and the plateau people?"

Jiang Heng seemed very patient, kept a gentle smile, and his tone was very gentle.

"I don't know! we don't know!" the little girl shook her head again, "but I've heard a few words from the fugitives every once in a while.

It seems to say that more than two months ago, the Zhenbei Army suffered a great defeat on the frontier. General Zhenbei was killed in battle, with a loss of more than 60,000. It has even lost border fortresses and dozens of cities! Now it has retreated to the hinterland of Yunzhou. ”

The little girl looked like she was eleven or twelve years old, but in fact she seemed very calm, and her speech was clear and there were not many stumbles.

However, Jiang Heng frowned slightly when he heard this.

"The plateau people have suddenly entered the hinterland of Yunzhou, but your brothers and sisters have never seen the plateau people, so why did you flee?"

The rout at the front was so abrupt that it was simply impossible to move the population in advance.

The little girl's eyes were slightly red, and she held back her tears and cried: "My family is Yunhai Mansion City in the hinterland of Yunzhou, and when the Zhenbei Army retreats to Yunhai City, it forcibly orders the people of the whole city to abandon their homes and cannot escape! My father died of starvation on the road to escape. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Heng was slightly silent, and the clues he got from the little girl's mouth were really limited.

However, at present, it seems that the imperial court is indeed hiding some things on the frontier.

These Zhenbei troops drove out the people in the city for the sake of the people.

After all, if you want to forcibly recruit young people to defend the city, there is no need to let the father of these two little guys out of the city.

In the same way, the people in the city were the most poor and could carry the equipment to defend the city, so there was no need to drive all the people to move south.

"The Zhenbei Army retreated to the sea of clouds, didn't you see the people fleeing at that time?"

Jiang Heng said with some doubts.

"Nope!"

The little girl shook her head again, a little confused, and said, "At that time, only the Zhenbei Army retreated to Yunhai City, and the rest were gone." ”

"Not a single refugee?" Jiang Heng said with some reluctance.

"No! I didn't see it, only the Zhenbei Army in armor. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Heng's face was a little tense.

More than a dozen cities have fallen, and the defeat of the Zhenbei army in front of them will definitely bring back a little news. But not a single citizen fled.

What's going on?

Could it be that the so-called highlanders marched so fast that they didn't give the people of more than a dozen cities the slightest time to flee?

But this is not the era of nuclear weapons, the kind that a nuclear bomb goes down to wash the ground, and there is no escape.

What is the court hiding?

This plateau man is by no means as simple as that kind of barbarian.

Because according to the news spread by the imperial court, the plateau people are just some barbarians on the grassland, but they often invade Dayan by relying on the benefits of war horses.

But this barbarian can make Dayan so anxious?

The imperial court set up a powerful pacification department just to solve the problem of recklessness in the rivers and lakes and the prohibition of military violations.

There is no reason why there will not be stronger force in the border army!

But this was still beaten by the highland people.

Jiang Heng knew his own strength, and estimated that if he was in the army, with his terrifying physique, if he was only an elite with fewer than a thousand people, he would be worthy.

But this is not the Pulse Refining Realm, let alone the Grandmaster Realm!

That terrible conjecture swept through the mind again!

"Don't be a copy of the Great Wall in another world!"

Jiang Heng thought back to a movie he had watched in his previous life, and sighed slightly in his heart.

Touching the heads of the two little guys, he said with a gentle smile: "You have done a great favor! In this case, I will not break my promise, this is a piece of silver, you pay attention to it for one night first, and go to Chengdongjiang Mansion to find me tomorrow." I'll arrange for you guys who can eat hot meals without starving or cold. ”

Saying that, Jiang Heng put a piece of silver in the little girl's hand, got up with a smile, and left with heavy steps, a little absent-mindedly.

Looking at the tall figure that was gradually moving away, the two looked at each other in a little stunned.

"Sister, we don't have to starve (•̥́ˍ•̀ू). The younger brother showed a surprised expression on his face.

The little girl just nodded silently.

"It's just... Sister, why don't you tell this uncle the truth?

"There's no need, it's useless to say it, have you forgotten before? others won't believe it, they will say that we are crazy!" the little girl shook her head helplessly.

Only then did the younger brother remember some unpleasant things that had happened before. At that time, it was almost considered a lie, and he was beaten to death in public.