There were 2,000 children in the camp, all of them skinny and dirty as mud monkeys. The few shacks were for the soldiers and eunuchs who guarded them.

The children just live on the sandbar like this, and it is distressing to watch.

Take them into the camp, and the sergeant doesn't care, there is water all around anyway, and he doesn't worry about them running away.

Ma Sanbao can take a good look at the surrounding environment. He looked around and saw that he was not an island, but a relatively large sandbar.

During the wet season, most of these sandbanks are below the surface of the water, and now in autumn, when the water level drops, they all poke their heads out. Not only are there many of them, but they are also located in shallows, surrounded by dense reeds, which makes it easy to hide, and you can't find them when you go in and look for them.

It has to be signaled by someone on the inside, and someone on the outside can find its location.

After observing the terrain, he silently calculated his plan of action. It was already evening, and the reflection on the lake was too strong to interfere with the signal, so he decided to wait until dinner.

When it was dark, the sergeants began to put their meals, and a whole grain cake for each child, and a cucumber with sauce the thickness of a little finger, was their dinner.

Later, when it was time to eat, he heard from the older children that it was their only meal of the day.

"One loaf of bread a day?" Ma Sanbao looked at the coarse grain cake in his hand, which was yellow and black, and took a bite full of dry mouths, swallowed his throat, and spit it out in one bite. He was born in a family of eunuchs, and later followed the sixth child when he entered the palace, and he really never ate such an unpalatable thing.

"Hmm." The other children chewed desperately, and even picked up and ate the dregs. One of the older children said indignantly: "They deliberately made us not have enough to eat, so that we didn't have the strength to cry." ”

Ma Sanbao nodded silently, looked at these miserable children, and broke his cooking cake into several pieces and distributed them to the children around him.

"You don't eat?" The child is still pure after all, and he knows to be polite before he picks it up.

"I just arrived, and I'm not hungry." Ma Sanbao smiled, and then they took the cooking cake and thanked them. Then he hid it in his arms and was reluctant to eat it immediately.

Ma Sanbao is sad, no matter what the family background is, children of this age are the baby bumps in the family, but now they are caught and abused like this, which is really miserable. He was secretly determined to get the children out as soon as possible, no matter what......

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At the same time, Zhu Zhen and the emperor's eldest grandson and his entourage also took an official boat along the Surabaya River and came to Yanzhou City.

King Lu and his family, together with the city's civil and military, gentlemen and elders, have been waiting at the dock for a long time.

The sixth child waved to the old ten on the boat, and laughed quietly: "Our face is not small, and we can still work to greet the old ten." ”

One of the crimes of Lao Shi is rudeness. After he became a vassal, the king of Yan and the king of Qi passed by his fiefdom, and he didn't bother to greet him until the two crossed the border, and he didn't even show his face.

Of course, it's okay to talk about this, eleven or twelve are younger brothers, and the eldest grandson of the emperor is a nephew, so it's not good to talk about the elder brother's uncle.

The three of them laughed secretly in their hearts, we are here to check on him, does he dare not show up?

"Get off the boat." At this time, after the gangway was placed, Zhu Zhen beckoned the three of them: "Put it smart." ”

"Hey."

"Okay." The three of them hurriedly responded, dressed up, and followed the sixth child off the boat.

"Sixth brother!" Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, tried his best to squeeze out an affectionate smile and saluted Zhu Zhen, but he still startled the four of them.

"Oh, why did you lose weight like this?" Zhu Zhen couldn't close his mouth in shock. The last time he and Lao Shi met, it was when he got married two years ago.

At that time, Zhu Tan was still a little fat man with a double chin, white and tender, with smart eyebrows, especially pleasing to the elders.

It's only been two years, and he's lost weight, his double chin has become pointed, his complexion has become dull and sallow, and he has acne on his face.

"Let the sixth brother smile, he has been unaccustomed to the water and soil when he came to Shandong, and he has gone to half of his life." Zhu Tan smiled bitterly, and he didn't know if he had forgotten or was too lazy to say hello, he didn't even say hello to Eleven Twelve and Xiongying.

The three of them had to take the initiative to salute him, and Zhu Tan nodded indifferently: "What are you doing here?" ”

The three of them directly made a big red face, and the old twelve sneered: "Brother Ten, let's come and see you." ”

"Since it's a feudal domain, it's time to die and never get along." Zhu Tan's right eye and right cheek twitched, and he didn't give the old twelve face at all.

"It was my father who ordered them to come out with me to visit my brothers and see them for a long time." Zhu Zhen hurriedly gave the twelve a round.

"Hmph, my father is also very troublesome, what kind of insight can I grow from here." Zhu Tan even dared to talk about Boss Zhu, and he was still in front of the public.

Zhu Zhen heard that it was becoming more and more disagreeable, so he patted Lao Shi and said, "Okay, let's get in the car." Something to say back. ”

"Sixth brother, please." Lao Shi nodded, and then asked Zhu Zhen to ride with him.

As for the other three, he didn't bother to care.

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The three of them had to get into a carriage at the back depressed, and as soon as they sat in, Lao Twelve couldn't help but scold in a low voice: "Lao Shi is sick, right?" Talking nonsense in front of so many people?! ”

"Uncle Ten is indeed like a different person, I don't know him at all." Zhu Xiongying thought so, he had grown so big, and he had never been so ignored.

"Is this a complete disappointment?" Lao Eleven couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break his head: "But it's normal to see him to the sixth brother......"

"Because Sixth Brother can decide his fate, but we can't." The old twelve hit the nail on the head and said: "So he's too lazy to socialize with us, it's as simple as that." ”

"Makes sense." Zhu Xiongying nodded.

"That's not right," Lao Eleven shook his head and said, "If you want to say that we are indeed like this, but Xiongying is going to be the emperor in the future, and he is too lazy to socialize?" ”

"I guess he thinks that Xiongying is the emperor, and he has to do it in the Year of the Monkey, so he is too lazy to work hard in advance." Old Twelve guessed.

"No, Xiongying is twelve, if you offend him at this time, he will hold a grudge for the rest of his life." Old Eleven still shook his head.

"No, I'll forget it when I look back." Zhu Xiongying hurriedly denied it.

"Forget it, don't guess, what's the use of guessing." The old twelve smiled bitterly, pointed out the window and said, "Look at the street, there is really not a single boy." ”

The two looked out of the car window together, Yanzhou, as the capital city, was still very densely populated. In addition, the scene of the gathering of the five dragons is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and the common people all run to the street to see the excitement, and the people on both sides of the road are crowded with people, at least tens of thousands of people.

Lao Eleven and Zhu Xiongying carefully searched in the crowd, but they really didn't see a boy.

"Old ten, this perverted ......" Old Twelve scolded angrily.

"I didn't expect Yanzhou City to be like this." Lao Eleven and Zhu Xiongying also looked indignant, and they both felt deeply ashamed that they had produced such a scum.

(End of chapter)