Chapter 143: Young Wren
The boys did not get the chance to beat the homeless, and the fool who dared to snatch the bread from the little child's hand flew up involuntarily before he had run three steps away. A quick arrow suddenly appeared in his chest and killed him. The boy's mouth opened wide, and he slowly turned his head to find that there was an extra man in his carriage at some point.
Strictly speaking, the man was not much older than them, even if he was also called a teenager. But even the naughtiest child won't treat him like a peer.
"Will ...... General?" the boy shuddered, and the wooden stick in his hand fell to the ground with a thud. In fact, he already had the answer in his heart when he saw that arrow, but such a close contact with the person he admired still made his heart surge, and the child king, who was calm and calm just now, was so stupid that he couldn't even speak.
"Yo, that's pretty good. I remember you, and your sister. El lazily lay on the carriage, rubbed the head of the little girl next to him and smiled: "You are the little ghost who is not afraid of me, and you are especially good at catching earthworms, right? Let me think about it...... What's your name?"
"My name is Wren, General!" the boy said loudly, blushing.
"Wren? Yes, there is a future, you know how to find a girl for yourself at such a young age. El glanced meaningfully at the little girl who was kneeling under the carriage and was so frightened that he forgot to cry, lifted her up and put her on the carriage, wiped her crying face with his sleeve, looked carefully and nodded: "It is indeed a beautiful embryo, and it is indeed very cost-effective to exchange a piece of bread for such a beautiful wife." ”
"What are you talking about......" Wren pouted disapprovingly, "General, I suddenly came up with an idea. ”
Seeing the young man's pouting expression, El vaguely felt a little familiar, and subconsciously pouted, suddenly realizing that this little ghost was actually imitating his own movements. He coughed and asked, "What do you have in mind, tell me about it?"
"I thought this guy was a local. Wren pointed to the little girl who was picked up, with a helpless expression on his face: "A little girl like her, she can't run far by herself, right, my lord? If she is a local, it means that there must be a village nearby, and there will be food in the village." ”
"You kid's brain spins so fast. El nodded in satisfaction and gave Wren a thumbs up, but before the boy could get carried away, he patted the little girl on the head and continued: "But it's not enough to have a brain, you also need to have eyesight." Look at this little guy, the clothes on her body have been torn, she is so hungry that her skin and bones are covered with a layer of mud on her face, it is obvious that she has been away from her family for a long time, and it is not easy to live until now. ”
"Yes, sir, at least this guy survived. Wren exclaimed, "Look at the fact that there are so many refugees around, they don't have as many food reserves as we have prepared, don't they all survive? There must be food in the vicinity, and it must be better than the earthworms in the cracks of the stones!"
"Hmm, you're kind of funny. Hearing Wren's words, El's eyes lit up and he couldn't help but fall into deep thought. If it's just a matter of food sources, there's no need to worry about it now. Tiana's food reserves don't have to worry about for the time being, and although the army has added a bunch of rice buckets, it is not a problem to have the perfect combination of Mr. Apache, a wild gourmet, and Mr. Wesley, the gold medal chef.
Compared to the brown hills where birds don't lay eggs, the territory around Fort of Swords is as fertile as paradise. Especially now that autumn is in place, it is the season when the melons are ripe and falling. Although the dealer is not yet ripe, there is no shortage of other ingredients. The fields are full of small animals running to stock up on winter food, voles and grouses are slowly gaining weight, and scarecrows erected high in the fields cannot drive away flocks of crows.
However, in fact, these little things are attractive enough to children in normal times, and for the more than 2,000 strong men under his command, they are not enough to stuff their teeth. Led by the kitchen duo, the Isttalon warriors stuffed almost everything they could swallow along the way, but even then they could maintain a state of three-point satiety at most, let alone combat effectiveness.
When El led three hundred warriors to accompany Roger to cut people, before leaving, he had a full meal with the tragic spirit of farewell, and after escaping from the ground, the carnival of that night made Roger's face green. Don't look at the mountains of gold and silver in his arms, he can't get food in that ghost place.
In those days, even the robbers' homes had no food left, and everyone had a hard time, so it was not surprising that General Hank led the night watchman troops to send people under the fence.
Although Wren's brain reacts quickly, he is still young after all, and it is understandable that his vision is lacking. Perhaps for him, the child king, being able to catch a few rabbits under the trap is a major victory. Although El is not a few years older than him, as a general, he has to think about more issues. Wren's words sounded childish, but they opened up a new way of thinking for him.
El turned his head and looked meaningfully at the refugees gathered around the convoy. Without his or Tiana's orders, the ranks of the exiles would never stop. And these groups of refugees did not dare to get too close in the face of the rolling wheels, for fear of being hit under the wheels and run over to death. This little girl like El picked up was a special case when the others dodged the convoy, she lay on the side of the road and couldn't get up, but fortunately she met the "good guy" before she was crushed to death.
Wren only noticed the question of how the refugees could survive the journey, because for a child, after experiencing the wind and sand of the brown hills, he would have experienced first-hand how difficult it was to travel long distances. But El noticed another problem, and he found that there seemed to be some unrest hidden among the refugees.
As the saying goes, dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, and when people are forced to have no choice, they will often do whatever it takes to survive. Don't look at these refugees now kneeling pitifully in the dirt and pleading, the homeless man who snatched the little girl's bread just now is one of them. If there weren't any armed guards in this team, maybe these guys would turn into beasts in the next moment.
The arrow that El had just shot shocked the nearby refugees, and after the homeless man fell, all the refugees around him either ran away or lay on the ground trembling and did not dare to look up, which was a normal reaction. It's just that with El's keen perception, he can feel that there are a few malicious eyes still hovering near the team. They were afraid of the majesty of the archers, but they looked like the most hated hyenas in the moor.
"Interesting, is this also natural selection? You can't underestimate these people who have escaped from the plague and natural disasters......" El sighed silently in his heart. Of course, the ordinary little vole is not worth making a big deal about, but if the mouse is fat enough and big, it is not impossible to make a snack.
El was still thinking in his heart, on this side, Wren had already handed the bread back to the little girl's hand, and with his ability, of course, it was impossible not to have additional reserves. This time the little girl no longer hesitated, opened her mouth wide and bit down, stuffed her mouth full, puffed out her cheeks like a squirrel and looked at Wren.
"Don't worry, I didn't save you just now because I said it doesn't count. Now that the general has saved you, no one will dare to touch you, you know!" Wren took the water bag from the carriage and handed it to the little girl, with a wicked smile on his face: "Swallow the bread, tell me your name, and then tell me, where can I get food? Who can get food?"
"What can a child know?" El said as he came back to his senses and looked at Wren's treacherous expression.
"General, don't underestimate this kind of imp. Wren looked up and smiled at El, "I knew she was a man with a story as soon as I looked at her eyes!"
"Aren't you a little imp too, bastard!" El scolded, slapping his head angrily, "Also, who did you learn this kind of neurotic words?"
"Eh, isn't that what storybooks say?" Wren looked surprised.
"Have you ever read a book?" El also looked at Wren in surprise, thinking that Lao Tzu had never seen what a book looked like when he was a child, and that he was just listening to the bards in the tavern. You kid has the talent to play hooligan, but you also have the culture, and the future is limitless!"
While the two of them were staring at each other, the little girl who was squatting next to her finally put the bread down with water. She patted her chest hard, exhaled a long breath, and turned around and whispered, "Yes......"
"Huh, what's there?" El asked, unresponsive.
"There was food, everywhere. The little girl stood up and pointed to the endless wheat fields on either side of the road.
"Isn't that unripe, you say?" Wren asked, stunned for a moment.
"Unripe wheat can be eaten when it is roasted. The little girl nodded vigorously.
"Can you eat roasted wheat?" El opened his mouth wide as he suddenly realized that the potential of human intelligence was truly limitless. He is a hunter in the mountains, and he has never grown wheat, but he knows that this crop can be turned into flour to make bread after being harvested and husked, and he really doesn't know that this thing can be eaten directly if it is not ripe. He subconsciously looked at Wren and found that the little ghost also had an expression of "I'm from the city, how could I know!".
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