Zhao Jing got straight to the point.

"Mr. Zhang allowed me to enlist in the army, for the sake of your face, I came to thank you and resign with you."

"Mr. Zhang?"

"It's the one from yesterday, Zhang Dayong."

After Zhao Jing's explanation, Su Ying learned that after Wu Qi's general soldiers were taken from their posts and escorted back to Beijing, the imperial court sent Zhang Dayong to come over.

Zhang Dayong had made great contributions in the military camp before and had rich experience in leading troops in combat.

It is also reasonable for him to lead the border troops to strictly guard against the surprise attack of the Great Wei army.

Zhao Jing said again: "Yesterday, General Zhang sent me back to the county seat, and on the way he promised me to enlist in the army, and asked his subordinates to bring me news early this morning, saying that as long as I complete the task he gave, I can go directly to the barracks to report." ”

"What task?" Su Ying asked and invited Zhao Jing to have breakfast together.

Zhao Jing was so excited that she didn't have the heart to eat breakfast at all.

"I won't eat at your place. The task given to me by Mr. Zhang was to bring Xiaohong back to the county seat safely. I'm going to take the man away, and when I get back to the county seat, I can go to him. ”

Su Ying saw Zhao Jing's excitement, so she didn't force her to stay.

"Come with me, I'll take you to someone."

Before yesterday, Zhao Jing and Zhang Dayong also had that fate, and they met in the county seat when Zhang Dayong was about to go to the capital.

She only learned yesterday that Zhang Dayong and Su Ying were from the same village, but she didn't know where his family was, and she didn't know where Xiaohong lived.

"It's just across the street from my house, no, it's there as soon as you go out." Su Ying pointed to the gate of the Zhang family on the opposite side and said.

happened to run into Xiaohong going out with a package, and Su Ying shouted, "Xiaohong." ”

"Su ...... Miss Sue. Xiao Hong blushed and stepped forward to give a blessing.

Su Ying hadn't looked at Xiaohong's appearance carefully before, but now she looked more carefully.

But when I saw that eyebrows and eyes, they were very similar to myself.

Inexplicably, I feel diaphragm.

It's not that the diaphragm should be Xiaohong, but that the diaphragm should be Zhang Dayong.

"Where are you going?" Su Ying asked.

"Go, go to the county seat." Xiaohong stumbled nervously when she spoke.

Zhao Jing hurriedly took the small package, put it on herself, and took Xiaohong's arm and explained: "Lord Zhang is not worried that you will go back by yourself, so he specially sent me to pick you up." Don't worry, I'm doing well, and I'll keep you safe all the way. ”

Xiaohong suddenly raised her head, her face was unconcealed with joy.

"My lord, is he worried about me, so he asked you to come and pick me up?"

"yes." Zhao Jing was in a hurry to enter the barracks early, so she urged Xiaohong to leave quickly, "I'll tell you more on the way." ”

After taking two steps, he remembered Su Ying, and hurriedly said, "I don't know when I will see you again." Don't worry, when the world is peaceful, I will follow you. I don't believe it, with our two skills, there is no place for it! ”

Su Ying suppressed all the worries in her heart, and only nodded heavily, "Take care!" ”

"I will, don't worry, my confidant friend!" Zhao Jing patted Su Ying on the shoulder, like a heroic man, turned around and got on the horse, stretched out his hand to pull Xiaohong up, and said with a smile: "Xiaohong, you look too similar to Su Ying, if you don't look carefully, you can really treat you two as one person." ”

Watching the two drift apart, Su Ying's ears kept echoing Zhao Jing's last words.

"You look too similar to Su Ying, if you don't look carefully, you can really treat you two as one person."

Somehow, Su Ying thought of the picture of Zhang Dayong and Xiaohong together at night, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt like she wanted to vomit.

Even a little scared.

Zhang Dayong won't gradually become so perverted that he will blacken, right?

I will definitely stay away from him in the future.

After more than two months, the situation became more severe, and the news of people dying of starvation outside spread more and more to Quanshui Village.

Even the surrounding villages can't stand it, and from time to time someone thinks about the potatoes in Quanshui Village.

The villagers of Quanshui Village have tried not to go out as much as possible, and occasionally when they come back from outside the village, they will describe in detail the miserable situation of the surrounding villages.

"Don't you know, there is no food in other villages, and the wheat yield in the field has been reduced by eighty or ninety, which is no different from a bad harvest. If the imperial court still does not exempt grain taxes and does not distribute relief grain, many people will not survive the autumn grain harvest and starve to death. ”

Not to mention the grain, wild vegetables, elm money, locust flowers, and even tree bark have been picked up by people.

The tragic situation on the outskirts of the county town is even worse, and the people who fled from the famine even stole the Guanyin soil in the temple to eat it, because they didn't digest it, and the final death was extremely miserable.

The reason why most of the people in Quanshui Village still have surplus food to support is because Shen Jinbao and Su Ying recruited a lot of people to work in the village at that time, and the wages were sufficient.

Now, the summer harvest in the surrounding villages is hopeless, but the potatoes in Quanshui Village are in full bloom.

As far as the eye can see, the surroundings are desolate, and only the spring water village is nourished alone.

But because of this, there are more and more people who are worried about Quanshui Village.

The village chief did not dare to be careless, and every day he gathered the strong labor of the whole village, and did not dare to relax his patrol in the fields for the first moment, lest the living potatoes be stolen and robbed.

The people of Quanshui Village have never worked together so much as they do now.

Even with such strict precautions, there were still accidents three or four days before the potato harvest.

That night, Su Ying didn't sleep well, and in a daze, she heard movement outside, and the movement was getting louder and louder.

The child in the next room also woke up, crying louder and louder.

Su Wenhai got up in his cloak and went outside to look, and after a while, he ran back, his face changed, and his voice trembled.

"Quick, get up, run away."

It turned out that the movement was coming from the field. At first, someone stole potatoes at night, but the villagers of Quanshui Village stopped them, and the group not only did not stop, but even went back and called more people to come over.

"There were a lot of people here, and some people even shouted that they wanted to go into the village to grab food, for fear that they would kill people. Let's get out of the way first. ”

"Where else can I hide?" Wang Yun hugged the child and trembled with fright.

If Quanshui Village can't stay, and they hide elsewhere, won't they be sent to death in a clear way?

Su Wenhai hurriedly explained: "It's not that I'm hiding somewhere else, just go to our cellar and stay until dawn." In case those people are hungry and anxious, they may not want to kill and set fires, you women and children are the most dangerous. ”

The Su family built a house last year and specially built a cellar with a lot of grain in it.

Now is not the time to hesitate, Su Ying took the child, pulled Wang Yun and went to the cellar.

Su Wenhai didn't go down, but sealed the entrance to the cave from the outside.

"Don't go out here, wait until I get back. If I can't come back, when the day comes, you'll crawl out of the other little hole. ”

"What are you going to do?" Wang Yun asked Su Wenhai worriedly.

Su Wenhai said: "The men in the village are all dispatched, how can I be a turtle with a shrunken head?" ”

After that, he refused to stay for a moment, and went straight to the field.