Chapter 121: The Outcast
Out of the first month, under Liu Yan's worried gaze, Ye Lanming took Ye Chengyan, Jiang Shijun, Yang Si and Zheng Xiaoye on the road to Zhen'an City.
City Lord's Mansion, Steward He looked at General Mo with a worried look on his face, and couldn't help but comfort him, "Don't worry, nothing will happen on this trip, Ye Lanming is measured." ”
"I knew in my heart that there would be no problems, but I still couldn't control my feelings." The old general Mo smiled bitterly, the wrinkles on his face made him look even older, and there were many more gray hairs in his hair.
He looked in the direction they were traveling and muttered, "This is what few relatives I have left." ”
He Guan Shi looked at his brother who had been with him for decades, and his heart was also a little sour, he lost his father in his early years, his wife in middle age, and his son in old age, fate was indeed unfair to him.
He hoped he had a good night now.
The two carriages marched slowly, with Ye Chengyan and Han Jiu and Yang Si sitting in front, Ye Chengyan and Han Jiu looked at each other, neither of them spoke, the atmosphere in the carriage was very stagnant, Yang Si, who was sandwiched between the two people, silently narrowed his sense of existence, he couldn't afford to provoke any of these two uncles.
"Don't look so diligently, my sister won't eat your master." Ye Chengyan looked at Han Jiu for the twentieth time, turned his head to look at the carriage behind him, and snorted.
Being able to be his sister's student is that Zheng Xiaoye's blessing!
Han Jiu glanced at Ye Chengyan coldly, "Then what are you looking at in the future??? Jiang Shijun can't eat your sister either. ”
As soon as these words fell, the two of them were even more slashed.
Yang Si: "......"
Why bother, stab each other in the heart.
The front carriage was tense, but the back carriage was happy, Ye Lanming sat on the main seat, Jiang Shijun and Zheng Xiaoye sat on both sides, Zheng Xiaoye held a book in his hand and was reading to her, while Jiang Shijun poured her tea and drank it, and handed her snacks from time to time.
It's like a wanderer who hugs left and right.
"Xiao Ye, the first lesson given to you this time is that you yourself practice and go into the masses, see their living environment with your own eyes, and see their real situation."
"Huh?"
Zheng Xiaoye was stunned.
"Do you often eat the dim sum on the small table?" Ye Lanming asked.
"yes, what's wrong with this snack?" 郑萧野看着点心不解的问。
"There is nothing wrong with dim sum, I just want to tell you that it is a very ordinary dim sum in your eyes, and the vast majority of ordinary people will not be able to eat it in their lifetime." Ye Lanming said lightly.
"Their lives are much poorer than you think, cannibalism is common, and it's even more common for brothers to kill each other for a little food." Zheng Xiaoye's mouth opened wider and wider, and he was completely stunned.
What Ye Lanming said completely exceeded his imagination, although he was treated coldly in the palace, he was not too neglected in terms of diet, at most it was leftovers. Can't eat or even eat people, he doesn't have this concept at all in his little head.
"You'll know what I'm talking about when you've seen it." Ye Lanming looked at her confused expression, shook his head and said.
"Yes, I know, I'll definitely take a closer look when the time comes." Zheng Xiaoye said obediently.
In order to hide people's eyes, they dressed up as wealthy merchants this time, and the guards sent to Zheng Xiaoye by General Mo Lao all dressed up as entourages, pulling a bunch of goods around the field in a big circle, approaching the city from the south of Zhen'an City, so that the walking route can be reminiscent of Mocheng to the greatest extent.
Who would have imagined that the caravan coming from the south to the north would actually come from the south of Mobei.
As the convoy approached the villages around Zhen'an City, more and more displaced people came into Zheng Xiaoye's sight.
These homeless people were dressed in tattered clothes, gathered in piles of three or five, their faces were full of numbness, and there was a dead silence in the depths of their pupils, although they were human beings, they were more like walking corpses.
There were also some fierce men who reported to each other to keep warm, they were slightly better dressed, at least they could withstand the cold wind, and they used a few broken thatched huts as positions, and in the pots and pans in front of the houses were boiling the meat of unknown animals, and a few slender bones were scattered around the pots.
These big men looked at Ye Lanming and his party with greedy eyes, and they didn't dare to step forward because of the well-armed entourage.
Zheng Xiaoye lifted the curtain a little, looking at this terrifying scene, he looked at those slender bones, he had a bad guess in his heart, and his face turned faintly pale.
Seeing that their convoy was leaving, the big men were a little restless, and they looked at each other a few times.
In the car, Ye Lanming said kindly: "If you have seen enough, put down the curtain." ”
"I'd like to see it again." Zheng Xiaoye said stubbornly.
"Why didn't I see this in Mocheng?"
"Because there is a good city lord in Mocheng, and these miserable things will not reach your ears at all, who will tell you these things?"
"They will just say, you can stay at ease, it's absolutely safe here." Ye Lanming said sneeringly.
Unless deliberately, the suffering of the people can never reach the eyes of those in power.
Listening to his sneering words, Zheng Xiaoye was silent, and looked out in a daze.
"My lord, my lord, please be kind to my lord and save our mother and daughter, my daughter is only two years old and will starve to death, please give me a stutter."
At this moment, a miserable young woman's voice echoed in their ears.
Hearing this, Ye Lanming and Jiang Shijun frowned at the same time.
Lifting the curtain and looking ahead, a woman kneeling in front of the convoy with a child in her arms was kowtowing, but the attendant stopped her and did not let her approach the two carriages in the middle.
Zheng Xiaoye looked at the young woman's thin shape, shivering in the cold wind, her eyes shrunk, and her eyes looked at the carriage with a faint hope.
"Teacher, she's so pitiful, let's help her."
With compassion, he looked back at Ye Lanming expectantly.
Ye Lanming raised his eyebrows and asked rhetorically, "Are you sure?" ”
Looking at her attitude, Zheng Xiaoye hesitated a little, is there something wrong?
He looked at the woman carefully, but he didn't notice anything wrong.
"I'm sure." Zheng Xiaoye nodded heavily.
"How you want to help, do what you want." Ye Lanming said calmly, she looked at the woman outside, and focused on the baby in her arms.
"Give her a thick garment, and give her some silver and food." Zheng Xiaoye thought for a while and said.
Immediately he took out a thick cloak and gave the woman a piece of broken silver.
"Grab your stuff and hurry away."
At the sight of the food and the silver, the woman's eyes flashed with greed.
When I looked up, I looked miserable again.
"My lord, the women can't keep these things alone, I beg the adults to be kind enough to take our mother and daughter to the outside of the city, and I ask the adults to be kind enough to take me on this journey, and the women will definitely repay me."
Hearing the woman's request, Zheng Xiaoye hesitated.