Chapter 1 Changing children and eating
Persuade guests to make camel hoof soup, frost orange pressed orange.
Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.
Du Wu clearly remembers the skinny little black girl in "The Hungry Sultan", and not far behind her, there was a vulture waiting for her to die. At the beginning, it was just a photo, and it made people feel cold all over their bodies after seeing it, and pity arose spontaneously. However, when he followed Lin Lan into the Qingzhou territory, he really understood that the poem "There are frozen bones on the road" was simply a blank description. Along the way, he kept coming up with Heshen's famous saying: A person who is about to starve to death cannot be called a human being, that is, an animal.
The sky was gray, and everywhere was a dilapidated scene. The crops in the field have long been gnawed by the locusts in transit, and there is a thin layer of locust droppings on the ground, and occasionally a few locusts that have been dead for a long time are lying on them with their legs stretched out and staring, and they have been dried by the air. The trees on both sides of the road have been stripped of their bark, revealing their torsos of white flowers, and the leaves have long been eaten, and all the trees look half-dead, just like this Qingzhou. Lin Lan wept as she walked, and sometimes even knelt on the ground, crying bitterly and begging for the sky to hang the curtain and so on. Du Wu looked at the rotten Lin Lan and sighed. After all, it was a Han dynasty 2,000 years ago, and the level of productivity was still too low.
While thinking about it, he suddenly smelled a smell of meat, Du Wu's face changed, and then he looked at Lin Sinong, his face was already pale. The worst fears have finally come!
Bypassing a low wall, Du Wu saw an iron kettle hanging from the thorn bushes, steaming in the kettle, a man with yellow skin was adding firewood with a sad face, and the woman on the side had already fainted, holding a linen shirt tightly in her hand. Lin Lan shouted: "Stop!" An arrow rushed up and kicked the man away, and the man who shot the bow left and right had gold stars in his eyes. Everyone stepped forward one after another to get out the firewood under the kettle, but no one dared to look at the contents of the pot.
Unexpectedly, the man did not resist, and let Lin Lan's slap rain on him, but he never said a word. Lin Lan was tired and stopped, and the man shouted out in a loud voice, startling everyone. He knelt straight in front of Du Wu and the others, kowtowing frantically, muttering in his mouth: "You beat me to death, please kill me, I can't live......"
The woman on the ground also woke up leisurely at this time, and when she saw Lin Lan and her party, she hurriedly crawled over, grabbed Du Wu's trouser leg, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Please, save our Niuniu, she is at Zhang Mazi's house, please, save her, she was also boiled and eaten late, ah......"
Everyone followed the man and rushed out like crazy, but by the time they rushed to Zhang Mazi's house, it was already too late. When Du Wu arrived, he only saw Zhang Mazi who fell to the ground and laughed strangely, and the flesh of the white flowers rolling in the pot......
There was no sentencing, no conviction, not even a first accusatory. Niuniu's mother went crazy after seeing Lin Lan directing everyone to start disaster relief. Zhang Mazi is not crazy, I heard that there is no trace.
Depressed, depressed, and shocked, all kinds of emotions filled Du Wu's chest at once, making him breathless. After a month-long drought and locust plague, the granaries of the local government were already empty, and when Lin Lan arrived with the imperial court's relief grain, the victims ignored the swords and guns of the soldiers, and while looting, they angrily glared at the disaster relief officials with hatred.
Alone in the west building without a word, the moon is like a hook.
There is no West Building, some are just ruins, as if they had just experienced a war, and in fact they were. The locust plague not only made the people lose their harvest, but also caused the rogues in various places to raid and rob their homes one after another, and the people were miserable. After experiencing the first few days of Yi Zi and eating, Du Wu has not eaten well for a few days, in Chang'an, the pipa will definitely quietly bring a bowl of millet porridge and a few side dishes, and then obediently stand aside to watch himself finish eating, now the pipa has figured out Du Wu's temperament, and occasionally begs Du Wu to tell a few small stories, but she wants to know more what the parrot looks like, but unfortunately Du Wu's painting skills are average, otherwise she would have sketched the pipa a long time ago. The corners of Du Wu's mouth curled, and he was about to get up and go back, but there was a banging knock on the door outside. You could hear the footsteps of a large group of people coming closer and closer. Du Wuzheng was wondering, and Lin Lan suddenly broke in: "Sir, something is wrong, Zhang Mazi has led a group of bandits to come over and grab food!" ”
It turned out that Zhang Mazi was extremely sad after seeing Lin Lan start disaster relief. As the saying goes, if Lin Lan and them come early, everyone will be spared the miserable situation of Yi Zi and eat, and they will definitely be grateful to the court. If it comes late, everyone has already experienced Yizi and eats, and there is nothing to say. But as soon as the child was put in the pot, the food for disaster relief arrived, which made it acceptable? So in a fit of anger, the bandits had already run out of food, and they were planning to change the mountain, Zhang Mazi's news suddenly made everyone excited, especially the news that the imperial court disaster relief food team did not bring many soldiers made them overjoyed, so they killed to Qingzhou Mansion in a mighty way.
When he first arrived in Qingzhou that day, Du Zhong looked at himself differently, and made fun of the two people who were of the same clan, and An Han Gong sent Du Wu to assist in disaster relief, indicating that the two recognized each other in the dark, so they were quite close. This time the bandits attacked, Du Zhong proposed to discuss with Du Wu when he reported the military situation to Lin Lan, so he stood up immediately and grabbed Du Wu's sleeve: "Yu Gong, Mr. is the deputy envoy for disaster relief appointed by the imperial court and the Duke of Anhan. ”