These refugees are yellow-skinned, skull-like, and have sunken cheeks, which at first glance are extremely malnourished.

Seeing that when they were working, they were all slow and without any energy, so Jia Baoyu called Li Gui over: "Li Gui, what's the matter with these people?" Are you depriving them of food? ”

Li Gui shouted that he was wronged, saying that he was fair and just, and he absolutely did not embezzle a grain of rice.

Supervisor Zhao saw that the young owner was criticized, and hurriedly explained: "Second master, you can't blame him for this matter, each worker has a ration of three catties of rice a day, which is sent to everyone, don't believe it, you just ask someone." ”

Supervisor Zhao called a few workers, and they also told the truth: "The owner is good to us, there are three catties of rice every day, and the owner's life is unforgettable." ”

Saying that these workers were about to kowtow to Li Gui, Li Gui scolded loudly: "What are you doing? What for? I told you that my young master bought all this food for silver, and I have told you how many times I want to thank my young master. ”

Several workers kowtowed to Jia Baoyu again, and Jia Baoyu asked: "Since there is enough food, how can you look like you are not full?" ”

When the refugees heard this, they looked at each other as if there was something unspeakable.

Jia Baoyu's face sank and said: "If you have anything to say, just say it, don't hide it, if someone withholds food, I will definitely punish it severely!" ”

The worker knew that the young young master in front of him was a big man, and he didn't dare to look at him squarely, so he smiled and said: "So that the young master knows that we people all have families and mouths, and some even have several children, and some of them have their own mothers."

Three catties of rice a day for this person is enough to eat, but if one point goes down, it can only be said that he will not die of hunger. ”

Jia Baoyu's face softened when he heard this, and said, "What about your family, where are they?" ”

The worker pointed to the shack outside the yard, "Right there." ”

Jia Baoyu remembered that last night, he walked outside these shacks in the dark, and he didn't hear any movement.

At this moment, he shifted his steps and followed the workers to a hut made of reeds and blades of grass mixed with branches, but only half of it was above ground and the other half was underground.

Through the sunlight, I could barely see that in the dark shack, several pairs of eyes were shining, but these eyes were full of fear and fear.

The worker shouted twice into the cave: "Da Mao, Er Mao, all come out, the owner has come to see you." ”

Hearing a familiar voice, two ragged children crawled out of the shack.

When Jia Baoyu saw the appearance of these two children, tears almost fell.

What kind of children are these two children?

He was bare all over his body, only with two rags around his waist, and one black and one purple on his skin, I don't know if it was black ash or something else.

Both children were not tall and looked like they were less than ten years old.

The two children were extremely thin, with visible ribs under the skin, and a thicker wrist than the others, which was the knuckle of the carpal bone.

Because of malnutrition, the two children's eyes bulged out violently, and the proportions of their heads and bodies were extremely inconsistent, like aliens with big heads.

The worker smiled flatteringly: "These are my two children, Da Mao and Er Mao." ”

The two children were shivering with cold, their heads lowered, and they didn't dare to look at Jia Baoyu and the others at all.

The silk and satin worn by the other party, as well as the white scary skin, were something that the two children had never seen in their lives, and they thought they were immortals.

"Unlucky boy, forget what I told you, say auspicious words when you see someone!" The workers hated that iron could not be made of steel, and when they raised their legs, they would kick the two children.

Jia Baoyu hurriedly stopped him, just these two thin arms and thin legs, he was really afraid that the other party would kick the bones as soon as he used force.

Jia Baoyu came to the two children, took off Li Gui's clothes, and draped them on the two of them: "Are there many people like you?" ”

Li Gui: ??????

The older children couldn't put it down and touched the clothes on their bodies, listened to Jia Baoyu's words, nodded desperately, and then pointed to the shack next to them and said, "I'm better, they don't even have a crotch cloth, so they can only play with their bare buttocks." ”

Listening to the child's tone, it seems that he has a sense of superiority.

Jia Baoyu was silent, no wonder the families of these workers were reluctant to come out, it turned out that they didn't even have clothes to wear.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Da Mao, and this is my sister Ermao." Da Mao's voice was a little weird, it seemed to be jerky that he hadn't spoken for a long time.

Jia Baoyu looked up, on both sides of the road, there were dense shacks, and he didn't know how many people were hidden in them.

"How old are you?"

Da Mao tilted his head and thought for a long time and said, "I don't know, anyway, it's not thirteen, it's fourteen, or maybe fifteen." ”

"You're fifteen?"

Jia Baoyu looked at the young man in front of him who was a whole head shorter than himself, "If you don't say it, I thought you were eight years old." ”

Jia Baoyu turned his head to look at the worker and said, "Why do you only have two children, what about your daughter-in-law?" ”

"My daughter-in-law is dead." There was a hint of pain on the worker's face, fleeting.

"Where are you from?"

The worker's eyes began to hollow, scratched his head and said, "I am from Shaanxi, Shaanxi rice fat drops." ”

It's still Li Zicheng's fellow countryman!

Jia Baoyu gritted his teeth and said, "Go back, go to that bandit, Lao Tzu has to break his stockade!" ”

At first, Jia Baoyu only had a preliminary idea, but now after seeing these refugees, he is even more determined in his idea.

The matter of buying food cannot be stopped, but it will take at least a week to come and go, and if it is changed to grabbing, the time will be faster.

He has no control over the refugees around the capital, but these workers and their families are his own people.

He has a shortcoming, protecting the calf!

At the same time, he is soft-hearted and can't see others suffering.

Originally, he was going to see Li Ruyue and take her back to the capital by the way, but at present, it seems that it will be postponed for a while.

When they heard that Jia Baoyu was going to attack Tianmen Mountain, several family members were embarrassed.

Even Hua An was a little embarrassed: "Second master, it's not that the little ones are afraid of death, just our twenty people, to attack a village of hundreds of people, isn't this hitting a stone with an egg?" ”

Hua An wondered if he had watched too much of "Journey to the West", thinking that he was the Monkey King with great powers, plucking a single hair, and being able to conjure up 100,000 monkeys and monkeys?

Jia Baoyu touched his chin and said: "Don't be frightened by the number of bandits, didn't the bandit leader say it, most of the bandits in the village are actually farmers, and there are only about eighty real bandits, plus those killed by us that day, it is estimated that there are more than sixty left."

With the quality of more than 20 of us, we still have a great chance of winning against dozens of bandits who are not in the stream. ”

Hearing Jia Baoyu say this, Hua'an, as a veteran who participated in the Battle of Salhu, still disagrees.

However, if there are opinions, there are opinions, and the master has spoken, and those of them who are subordinates can only do so.

Jia Baoyu instructed Li Gui to bring out the silver, and the silver from Baihuahua was packed into a large box.

The lid opened, and the silver shimmered strangely in the sunlight.

The people present, one counts as one, and they all swallowed a mouthful of saliva, their eyes attracted by the white silver, and they couldn't move away.

Jia Baoyu himself is also the first time to see so much silver, each ingot of silver is 25 taels of official silver, shaped like ingots, this box has a total of forty, a full 1,000 taels.

The 40 silver ingots were neatly arranged together, like soldiers waiting for the general to review.

Jia Baoyu looked at these family members and said: "Qi Shaobao once said, open a big array, against the big enemy, a group of guns poke, a group of guns poke, there is only one person in the army, so invincible in the world."

At the moment, there are only nineteen of us, so naturally we can't follow Qi Shaobao's tactics, but this kind of thing is the same way, as long as the enemy is defeated and subdued, it will be won.

This time our opponent is the bandits of Tianmen Mountain, there are gold and silver treasures and countless grains on the mountain, I need you to lay down Tianmen Mountain for me, no matter what method is used, just let the other party surrender. ”

A family member raised his hand and said, "Second Master, the old lady sent us here to let us protect you, not to fight." ”

The rest of the family members were also reluctant to participate in this kind of meaningless battle, they felt that Jia Baoyu was playing at home and did not understand the cruelty of fighting at all.

Fighting is dead, and no one wants to die in such an inexplicable battle.