053: Sergeant Tiger Wolf
When the homeless man saw the steamed buns and beast meat that suddenly appeared in front of him, they were so real and tempting, and even those beast meats were still exuding fragrance, maybe he was a little dazed from hunger these days, right?
"Little brother, come, eat a little steamed bun and animal meat, when you are growing your body, eat slowly, don't choke. The homeless was still hesitating, the arm holding the food had already arrived in front of the child, his voice was concerned and slightly immature, the child's excited tail grabbed the steamed bun, and said in his mouth: "Thank you, brother... Thank you, brother..."While taking a big bite of the gray steamed bun, he stretched out his other hand and sent the steamed bun to his father in a daze.
When Wang Wu and Wang Liu saw the scene in front of them, they couldn't help but think of the days when their two brothers lacked food and clothing, their eyes were slightly red, and they took the dry food and animal meat in their hands and distributed them to those homeless people one by one, watching them gobble up, and after the long-awaited food arrived, they did not forget to bow down and thank them, several women in the homeless group watched the children eat first with smiles on their faces, while they licked their shriveled lips with their tongues, trying to swallow the saliva in their mouths.
Qin Shiyi, Feng Qingru and others looked at all this, and took out their own dry food to distribute to those displaced people, with their almsgiving, more and more displaced people gathered over, and the dry food in their hands was obviously not enough to distribute to these displaced people, and in the end they had to take out the broken silver on their bodies and distribute them to those displaced people.
Qin Yulang touched his body, there was no broken silver left, and seeing that the few homeless people in front of him had not received anything, they were looking at him with eager eyes, so he reached out and took out a few silver ingots and distributed them to those homeless people. When those homeless people saw the silver ingots in their hands, their eyes widened with excitement, and they said loudly: "Thank you, Son, for your great kindness!", and as he spoke, he was about to kneel on the ground, thanking him for his generosity, but was dragged by Qin Yulang and stopped: "The man has gold under his knees, don't kneel down at will! Get up, get up!"
"Why don't you farm in your hometown and make a living, but you have to live outside?" Qin Yulang asked puzzled.
"Childe, don't you know, our hometown is also subordinate to Wuwei County, since the new county guard took office three years ago, the field tax has become heavier and heavier, and the grain that has been planted hard every year is not enough for the family in addition to handing it over. ”
"In the past two years, the imperial dynasty has been conscripting non-stop, and the young and strong people in our family have been recruited to the front, and the labor used in the family has become less and less. ”
Qin Yulang: "Young Zhuang was conscripted, isn't there a soldier's salary?"
"We've never seen the soldiers' salaries... Later, the powerful families in those places took the opportunity to collude with the officials and simply took away all our fields, and asked us to work for them, drink some porridge and rice bran every day, and not care about our ......."
Qin Yulang: "It's hard to understand, you can't get up to resist or go to the official family to avenge and report?"
The displaced people shook their heads: there are only a few children and old people left, where can they have the ability to rebel against those families?"
"This year, there was a great drought and a big disaster, and there was very little harvest in the fields, so those families simply didn't even give us rations of rice bran rations, so we had no choice but to sneak out. I heard that after passing through Wuyang County, all the way to the south, there is a forest there with many beasts in it, so we thought that it would be better to escape there and become a hunter, at least we can hunt, and maybe we can survive. ”
Hearing the gossip of those homeless people, Qin Yulang's mood was a little dull, and the rest of the homeless people took the food in their hands, and saw Qin Yulang distributing silver ingots, they all looked here, their eyes were full of anticipation, Qin Yulang's heart softened, and he said to Qin Shiyi next to him: "Eleven, take out the silver ingots on your body that are used as entanglements and distribute them to these homeless people." ”
Qin Shiyi didn't do what he said, but dissuaded in a low voice: "Childe, don't. ’
"Why not, even if we don't have these ingots on us, there are still some precious gold leaves that can be used as coils, enough for us to return to Muyang City. It's a big deal, we just need to save some money along the way. Qin Yulang was a little unhappy and said.
Qin Shiyi hurriedly clenched his fists and explained: "Childe, if you want to give alms to these homeless people, Eleven will not dare to disobey, but you must know that the husband is not guilty of his crimes..."
"Huh?" Qin Yulang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you mean, if you give these homeless ingots, will it harm them?"
Qin Shiyi replied: "Exactly, I think this Wuyang County is not only depressed, but also not peaceful. Just now passing through the city of Wuyang County, I felt that someone was secretly peeping at us from a distance, and these people were coming for us, perhaps because they saw us in bright clothes and for our money. ”
"Are you afraid that if these homeless people have silver ingots on them, they will cause trouble instead?" Qin Yulang's face changed slightly: "This is in broad daylight, in the city, there are even county guards and city guard camps, how can anyone dare to do anything wrong?"
Qin Shiyi saw that Qin Yulang's face was unhappy, and he didn't know how to explain, Feng Qingru next to him said: "Even if there are no villains coveting it, I'm afraid that after these homeless people have eaten their bellies, they will also have contradictions and infighting because of the difference in the amount of silver they get." ”
"Contradictions, infighting?" Qin Yulang shook his head, not understanding Feng Qingru's words.
Feng Qingru nodded: "There is a saying, it is called not suffering from widowhood, but suffering from unevenness." ”
"Don't suffer from inequality?" Qin Yulang muttered this sentence, thoughtfully, and the group turned around and got on the dragon horse, and continued to move forward. With tears in their eyes, the homeless people shouted words of thanksgiving. Everyone rode the dragon horse slowly, Qin Yu recalled the scene just now, his mood was slightly gloomy, he didn't expect that under the Great Qin River, there were such poor Li people, it was difficult to even maintain their livelihood, and they had to run around, and there was nowhere to live in panic!
Everyone walked out only three or five miles, suddenly heard a sudden sound of horses' hooves behind them, listen to the sound, not to mention there are thirty or forty horses are rushing towards this side, everyone tightened the reins, have reined in the dragon horse, looked back, at this time not far behind him came a surprised whisper: "Hey, these homeless people are holding bright and dangling things, is it a silver ingot?"
"Bold thieves, look at your ragged clothes, yellow faces and thin muscles, you are obviously some homeless people, why do you hold silver ingots in your hands? Where did you steal it?!"
"Take it all down for Lao Tzu!" With a loud shout, there were bursts of screams and screams, mixed with the child's frightened cry: "Let go of my father........."
I saw a group of armored sergeants rushing from behind, like wolves and tigers, arresting those homeless people one by one, and the silver shining things in the hands of those homeless people were not exactly the silver ingots distributed by Qin Yulang? You homeless people, you don't do a good job of farming at home, you all run out to make trouble everywhere, stealing and robbing and doing everything! Today we happened to be bumped into, so you might as well come to the heavens and clean up your gang of untouchables!"
"Give it back to me! Give it back to me! These pieces of silver were kindly given to us by the prince to buy food to satisfy our hunger, not to be stolen and robbed. Master Jun, we are all good people, not bad people. A woman was robbed of the silver taels in her hand, and in a hurry, she hurriedly hugged the sergeant's trouser leg, grabbed it and refused to let go, and kept pleading in her mouth.
The sergeant lifted his leg and kicked the woman out of the way a foot away, and the woman rolled to the ground with a "poof", and a mass of oiled paper fell out of her pocket. The woman struggled to get up from the ground, trying to reach for the oiled paper bag.
"Huh?" the sergeant looked down, saw the oily paper bag, reached out and snatched it, opened it and saw that it was a small piece of fragrant animal meat!
"And say that you are not thieves and pariahs, and you still have this fragrant beast meat on your body?" The sergeant was full of joy, took the small piece of beast meat in his hand, put it under the tip of his nose and smelled it, and exclaimed: "It is so fragrant!" Then he opened his mouth wide, bit down hard, and smashed his lips while eating, and praised again and again.
It was made by the third aunt herself, of course it was fragrant! Wang Wu muttered to himself in a low voice. Everyone was shocked at first when they saw that the sergeants here would attack this group of homeless people, and their methods were brutal and ruthless, but they didn't expect that these sergeants, who were the guardians of the dynasty, would do such a thing to these homeless, followed by a surging anger, and they turned their horses' heads and ran towards those homeless.
When the homeless woman saw the oil-paper bag being robbed, she immediately forgot her fear and fear, just now the child was going to eat those animal meats, she was only willing to gently tear off a small piece, and the rest was wrapped and kept, how could such a good thing be eaten at once?
"Please, Master, this is the only food we have left, the child hasn't eaten anything for two days, I can't bear to give it to him, can you give it back to me?" the woman dragged her injured body to her feet, hugged the sergeant's trouser leg again, and pleaded bitterly.
"you!" The sergeant was hugged by the woman's trouser leg, his body almost tilted, and the uneaten beast meat in his mouth fell to the ground with a "poof", and was seen by a homeless child next to him, and hurriedly grabbed it in his hand, didn't bother to wipe the dust on it, stuffed it into his mouth, and hurriedly chewed and swallowed.
The sergeant saw the fragrance still on his hands and the gobbling child in front of him, a nameless anger rose, and at this time, the sergeants around him saw his "embarrassment", and they all laughed loudly: "I said Li Erniu, you can't even grab a woman and a child, and the delicious food in your mouth flies like this?"
"It's just, who made your kid selfish, find such a good thing, and don't share it with the commander, so you start enjoying it yourself?!" There was military schadenfreude, and as he spoke, he glanced at the middle-aged commander standing aside, and he could provoke.
"Hmph!" the middle-aged commander snorted coldly when he heard this, slightly unhappy.