Chapter 20 The Way of Heaven is Constant
A month later, Chen An said goodbye to Mu Shaoping and went to Binxian again. After all, he still has a job, not only the ship department, but also the dark department. This month's time is already the limit, if Zhang Xia and the others can't find him when they return after completing the plan, there may be some unnecessary accidents. Ning'er was very reluctant to let him go, but she still obediently bid farewell to him with Mu Qing.
This kind of scene may be the first time he has encountered it in his life, and an already cold heart has become warm, which makes Chen An very wonderful. But thinking of the deep hatred of the sea of blood on his body, he still hardened his heart and led the horse away.
Outside the medical hall, an ordinary-looking man quickened his pace, and gradually followed Chen An, who was leading the horse, his eyes were level, but his voice was low and fast: "The rent owed by Mr. Mu has been paid off, and the medical house we bought and the house next door are all under Mr. Mu's name. The houses around the Qingbao Medical Clinic have also been checked, and there is nothing suspicious. The brothers were divided into three groups and monitored the surroundings of the hospital day and night to make sure nothing went wrong. ”
"Well done. Chen An nodded, turned over, stepped on the horse, and rode away.
Chen An looked back, his mood was comfortable, and his steps were much brisker. But as I walked, my good mood disappeared. What I saw along the way, even if I had no heart and no lungs, was really unpleasant.
He was delayed for nearly two months before and after Lincheng, and it was almost golden autumn when he came, but it was the beginning of winter when he went. The winter in the south is slightly better than in the north, but it is still chilly. What's more, this year's weather is abnormal, the drought is followed by a harsh winter, and the bones of frozen and starving to death on the road outside the city are scattered everywhere, like purgatory on earth.
In some small deserted villages, a few ragged victims snuggled together to keep warm, but to no avail, and the next morning added a few more stiff corpses to the wilderness.
The relief grain of the imperial court and King Wu came down, but this drought led to no harvest in the entire Jiangnan Province, and those poor grains could only be supplied to some relatively large counties, villages and towns first, and there was still nothing that could be done about some remote areas and some small villages.
Therefore, Chen An found that there were many more refugees on the move than when he came.
Three days later, he arrived near Viet County, the hub of Gangnam Province. North to Fuzhou, east to Qucheng, south to Haichuan, can be said to extend in all directions. On a whim, he climbed a low slope on the side of the official road, but there was a valley below, the wind speed was slow, and the climate was a little calm, so many victims were gathered, forming a small village, and because there was a pool of clear water in the shade, the village was built with water, in fact, it was a lake with a small area, but it was winter, the upstream was cut off, and the downstream froze, and it became a stagnant water completely. It was such a stagnant water that allowed this group of disgraced refugees to survive.
This scene was in full view, which made Chen An's evil thoughts irrepressibly pop up again. This geographical location is simply wonderful, if the entire Jiangnan Province is full of corpses, even if Haizhou has a million troops, he can retreat calmly with his subordinates, and he doesn't need any sea ships to help him at all.
But it only took a moment for him to suppress this bad thought. He shook his head vigorously, it was too bad to hurt the heavens and the peace, so it was safe to go back and study the charts carefully.
He shook the reins of his horse and was about to ride his horse east, but he inadvertently saw several people with green eyes and dirty clothes pulling a short figure in tattered clothes towards the back of the dirt slope.
Anyway, the distance was not tight, Chen An was curious, turned over and dismounted and walked to the top of the slope to see what they were doing.
If Chen An would never have cared about this idle matter before, but since he met Ning Er and Mu Shaoping's father and daughter, he has been in a gloomy mood and unconsciously cheerful, returning to some of his youthful nature, and no longer being as indifferent to everything as before.
When I got to the top of the hill and was condescending, I saw the victims throwing the small figure in the middle to the ground. The short man was so smashed that he couldn't get up for a while.
At this time, the victims rushed forward one after another, pulling at the short man's clothes, but in a few strokes, the short man was bare, revealing his fair skin.
Chen An had such eyesight, he had already seen that the short man was a woman, and at this time, he saw that the victims stripped off his clothes, what else could happen behind this, everyone imagined that the victims were also human beings, and they also had physical needs.
At this point, Chen An is not ready to look any further, and as for saving people or something, he will not do anything more. There are many poor people in the world, and they all want him to save them, and they won't die of exhaustion.
He took the horse and rolled over and leaped on it, but he suddenly grabbed the reins and stopped. Because out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the group of victims had no intention of taking off their clothes and pounced on the white carcasses. Instead, he dragged out a large urn from somewhere, filled with water, and burned firewood underneath. Several people grabbed the woman and threw her into the urn, staring at the woman struggling in the water.
Chen Anxin thought that these victims were so clean, and before the other party, they had to let the other party wash up.
But when he thought about it, his face changed wildly.
Chen An's face was gloomy, he jumped up from the horseback with both hands, flew down the dirt slope, and beat one of the victims with one palm. The other victims looked at Chen An, who came out of nowhere, and they were all stupid. But Chen An's face was cold, and he took all of them with one palm, and then looked at the urn.
The water boiled quickly, and at this time the woman in the urn had completely lost her strength and sank to the bottom.
Chen An reached into the water, grabbed the woman's neck, and scooped her up from the water, only to see that the woman was only twelve or thirteen years old, her cheeks were thin, she seemed to have been hungry for a long time, and her body was also skinny, and the ribs on her chest were prominent, which was very terrifying, and her skin was fair, but there was no luster on the bones.
Chen An tried his best to pinch her to death, and save herself from this living crime. But for some reason, my heart is soft, and I just can't pinch it. So he exhaled hard, took off his coat and wrapped her in it, thinking to himself: That's it, whether to live or die is not for me to decide, or leave it to fate.
Chen An picked up the woman, casually stuffed a sperm pill into her mouth, put her on the horse, and then turned over and galloped towards Binxian.
Binxian is in the south, although it is only separated from Jiangnan Road by one or two hundred miles, but the climate is pleasant, and the four seasons are like spring. Even in the middle of winter, people just add an extra piece of clothing.
Chen An returned to his small courtyard, placed the woman in Ning'er's room, and went out to buy some ingredients and clothes. Since Ning Er left, Chen An didn't plan to let her come back, so naturally she wouldn't leave any clothes to salute. The woman was carried back by him naked, of course, he couldn't let her lie naked like this.
But it was really embarrassing to ask him to go to the street to buy women's underwear, so he could only endure the strange gaze of the vendor, hurriedly buy all the things he needed, and leave immediately.
Chen An returned to his residence and used the ingredients he bought to make a bowl of rice porridge that nourishes essence and replenishes qi.
That sperm pill was just able to hold her breath, she was too hungry, and she was boiled in an urn by the disaster victims, and the toss was not light, and her body was too weak, so she could only use this method to slowly replenish.
Chen An came to the girl's bed with rice porridge, and saw that the girl had woken up, but she didn't have the strength to move her fingers, so she could only wait for a pair of eyes that were slightly protruding because she was too thin to look at Chen An, her lips squirmed, and she made a sound.
Who knows what she said, Chen An didn't care, and it wasn't because she had any kindness to save her, but because she just wanted to act according to her own heart.
He took out the clothes he had bought for the girl and put them on, and it was not a matter of being so naked. It's just that he really hasn't studied the girl's clothes, and he has arranged the girl in seventeen or eighteen postures, and it took him a long time to dress it neatly, and he was sweating profusely, and he felt that he was not so tired after three hundred rounds of fighting with others.
As for the men's and women's defense, Chen An didn't pay attention to it at all, the girl was left with skin and bones, who could have any idea about a bunch of skeletons, the taste was too heavy.
The girl is also at his mercy, or she has no strength to resist at all, and some eat and sleep.
If Chen An is sick, he doesn't dare to say that he can be cured, but he is just weak and needs to recuperate, and he still has a hand.
However, in more than ten days, the girl's body gradually improved, she was able to walk on her own, and her figure gradually plumped, and she was able to support the clothes and accessories that Chen An bought for her, and she was no longer loosely hanging on her body, and in general, she could barely see her appearance.
Chen An is quite complacent, and often secretly wonders if this is considered a life and death.
In the past ten days, he also went to the ship division once, and found that it was the same with him or not, so he didn't bother others, and came back with a bunch of drawings and books to study, which was not too boring.
On this day, he cleaned up a table of food, all of which were things that nourished blood and qi, and naturally prepared them for the girl. He is now full of blood and energy, and for himself, everything he eats is the same.
This was the first time the two had sat down to eat together, and the girl had just been able to walk on the ground. She picked up the dishes and chopsticks and ate them in small bites, obviously well-educated. Chen An watched her dine, and for a while, he was a little stupid.
Of course, Chen An is by no means a nymphomaniac, and the girl's thin appearance can't see anything that captivates the country and the city, at most she can only see that her skin is fair.
The reason why Chen An was stunned was because there was a little more understanding in his heart.
It was the first time he had taken care of someone like this, and he never thought he would take care of someone. These days, he felt very satisfied when he watched the girl eat, felt very relieved when he saw the girl sleeping, and felt warm in his heart when he saw the girl's body gradually improve. Maybe maybe he's a good guy too, that's the only thing he knows about himself these days.
People say that Gentle Township is a hero's tomb, but if he can be surrounded by family affection, Chen An feels that he would rather put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha on the ground. In fact, he didn't realize the impact of Mu Shaoping's appearance on him. A person has nothing, naturally everything has to fight, if there is, of course, more often than not, I want to guard, after all, the insatiable people are a minority, and the small wealth is the peace of all living beings.