21. Scattered
People live in the world just for the sake of their own beliefs, but some are family and country, and some are small pots and small stoves, and there is no difference between high and low, but the pursuit is different, and the beliefs are also different.
After walking for half a day from the mountain road, Yu Yi was physically exhausted, so Bo Yi asked her to sit under the tree for a while to rest, but she did not sit down, but went to the river next to her.
Rushing day and night, endlessly.
She already likes water, but when she saw such a river at this moment, she was even more pleased: "Boyi, you see, the water of this river is clear, like white paper without ink." Bo Yi used to go out with the army, will he also encounter this scenery? ”
"I have never seen the rivers in the water towns south of the Yangtze River, but I have seen the lonely moon in the desert, and the mountains and mountains are magnificent." Bo Yi said with a smile.
Yu Yu squatted by the river to play in the water, and muttered to himself: "The mountain has a peak, the sea has the other side, I am also going to find a way back." After saying this, he still dialed the water with his hand, and the flowing water surrounded his fingertips, refreshing and cool, as if he had life.
After a quarter of an hour's rest, she stood up, took out the jug of water from the package, drank two sips of water, walked towards Bo Yi under the tree, handed her the jug, and said, "Let's keep walking, the sooner we arrive, the more peace of mind." ”
The two of them got up again and walked slowly forward, without fear, and their steps were light.
A few days ago, when I was in the town, I didn't see the officers and soldiers who the shopkeeper said about the search, and I was about to talk to Bo Yi, but I saw a group of people in front of me, she was about to speak, Bo Yi pulled her aside for safety, and watched secretly.
Looking at the clothes, they are not ordinary people, but they are all discouraged, looking like homeless people, Bo Yi asked her to wait here, and she went forward to investigate.
After waiting for a quarter of an hour, she came back, her face was not very good, and her eyebrows were still a little incredulous, and she muttered: "It's the summer moon, how can there be so many homeless people?" ”
"The shopkeeper said that the crops were not good this year, so maybe some displaced people ran here to take refuge." Yu Yi analyzed.
Bo Yi sighed: "No, it's the displaced people from all over the country, some of them have already broken their families, I heard them say that one is because the harvest is not good, the taxes are high, and the other is that the court recently issued an order to arrest you and Yi Shizi, and some soldiers in the army looted and burned in the people's homes on the grounds of looking for rebels, which is no different from the mountain bandits." ”
"In just a few days, the world has changed, so won't the officials in this place go to the book to make a report?" Yu Yu was puzzled, as a parent official, he saw the people in fire and water with his own eyes.
Bo Yi still felt that his little master had not been involved in officialdom, and he didn't know what was involved, so he patiently explained: "The little master doesn't know something, there are not many honest people in the court, and they are easy to be impeached. ”
"If their sons and daughters, their children and grandchildren, are displaced, how should they deal with themselves? Do you still feel that you don't dare to say a word? Yu Yu's tone was a little angry, more because he felt unfair, but he was very helpless.
"If half of them could think of it, it wouldn't be like that." Bo Yi sighed, but couldn't help.
There are too many unfair things in this world, if you count them all in detail, I am afraid that your life will not be finished, only if you are strong and stand at the highest point, can you have absolute fairness at all.
The two of them didn't go over, just passing by, and they could only watch from afar and couldn't help, there were too many people in this world who needed money and food, and they couldn't help.
For about half an hour, the two of them drank tea at a small tea stall on the side of the road, and there were still scattered homeless people on the roadside, and the shopkeeper was also conscientious, and poured tea for them, and the homeless people sat around drinking tea, still talking about this troubled world.
"A few days ago, some of our peasant families couldn't pay their taxes, and the land was taken away by the soldiers, and the grain and rice at home were also looted. A middle-aged man said.
Yu Yu's gaze fell on a woman, and she stared straight at her.
The woman had an empty swaddling cloth in her arms, and there was no child in sight, only clothes, and she was still muttering words in her mouth, as if she were coaxing the child to sleep.
She said, "Bo Yi, look at that woman, she is,"
"Hey, don't be surprised, this woman has long been crazy, she was respected by the family by relying on her infant son at home, but on the way to escape, her son was seriously ill and died. Maybe she couldn't accept it, so she kept holding an empty swaddling clothes, chattering all day long, don't be surprised, some people died of illness on the road, some of them died of illness and their wives and children, and there was no one in the family who survived. Seeing that she had not suffered so much, the man explained.
"Not everyone has a good life like a son, and there may be people who have been poor all their lives and have never had a full meal." An old woman beside him said.
When Yu Yu heard this, she felt very ashamed in her heart, she felt for the first time that being born in a rich and noble family was not all a good thing, and now that she saw the homeless, she really knew what it was to be a family with four walls and a miserable life.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of running horses in the distance, and some homeless people shouted in pain.
The homeless people who were drinking tea in front of them knew what was going on, so they picked up their bags and fled ahead.
Yu Yi didn't know why, Bo Yi pulled her up and ran forward, Yu Yi didn't react to what was wrong, her leg was scratched by the broken wooden stick on the table leg, and she staggered and ran.
The homeless people panicked in their hearts, and they didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, they ran straight forward, the two of them were knocked apart, Yu Yu fell to the ground hard, and her palms were also scratched and bleeding, she endured the pain and stood up, Bo Yi ran this way, but was blocked by a group of homeless people, as if going upstream, difficult and dangerous.
After all, there were a lot of people, Yu Yi got up and ran a few steps, there was blood flowing out of her calf, and she was pushed because of the inconvenience of her legs and feet, and she rolled down the slope next to her weightlessly.
Bo Yi squeezed this side, and looked around, but she couldn't see her figure when she was blocked, and when she saw the pursuers coming up, she had to give up first and move forward with those homeless people.
Yu Yu was already unconscious when he fell down the hill, the blood on his legs seeped through his socks, there were a few more scratches on his face, and his hair was messy.
"We've just arrived in Yuzhou, and we're still far away from Longxi. Wait two days before going to Gusu. ”
When Yu Yu opened his eyes, he heard someone saying something like this in the distance.