Chapter 48: The Embers Will Be Extinguished
The sudden outbreak of fighting outside Kawa was not only shaking the city, but also the villages in the Gyeonggi area, and the fish in the sea were once again agitated, looking in panic at the sea level above that was being hit by the storm.
Most of the villages in eastern Gyeonggi had already been occupied by the Batu army by the time the assault team arrived at Kawa, and most of the Batu troops had thrown aside the order to camp after occupying the eastern part of Gyeonggi, and only a few "elite of the elite" had faithfully carried out the arrangements made by the foreign officers before the operation.
For a time, the eastern part of Gyeonggi in Kawa was full of mourning in just half a day, and the Batu soldiers who entered the village began to loot wantonly, and those who extorted money were superior military discipline; Those who plunder money and adulterous wives and daughters are subject to moderate military discipline; Those who set fire to and slaughter villages are inferior military discipline.
The remnants of the Kawa army in eastern Gyeonggi did not fail to attempt a counterattack, on the contrary, after being routed by the assault team, these remnants still bravely launched a counterattack against the influx of Batu, and many of the Batu troops who were taking care of the plundering retreated one after another not long after the battle, and finally stopped the decline with the support of the Wei air boat army.
Seonyu Village is located in the southernmost part of the Gyeonggi region, so it escaped for the time being, but the haze caused by this huge crisis has already enveloped the entire village.
The calm morning was shattered by the sound of artillery outside the hill north of the village, and the members of the Officers' League and the villagers who remained in the village were taken aback, and everyone was talking and speculating about what was going on in the north of the mountain.
Teso, who was temporarily in charge of the position of village chief, looked solemn, and after thinking for a while, he gathered a few comrades-in-arms who stayed in the village together, and went out of the village together, deciding to go to the north of the mountain to have a look.
The group left the village near noon, but did not return until evening.
Seeing that Teso and the others had not returned for a long time, Ferrejo and the others were anxious, but they could not leave, otherwise, there would be no one to deal with the affairs in the village.
Although Ferrejo's heart was anxious, after finishing the daily work in the medical hall, he still smiled and persuaded Shi Cheng and the others to go home early to eat and rest, recuperate and continue to work.
Before parting, Shi Cheng said to him with some concern: "Little Bean, your complexion has been very bad these days. ”
"Don't worry about me, Mr. Orange." Ferrejo showed a tired smile and wiped the sweat from his forehead, "It just so happens that I've lived here recently, if I'm tired, just sleep on the bed over there, I can rest on the spot, it's very convenient, but it's much more comfortable than you." ”
Ferrejo still had a strong accent when he pronounced Shi Cheng's name, but over the years, he had corrected his pronunciation for the better.
Shi Cheng looked at the dirty hay spread on the ground in the distance, and sighed in his heart, "Take care of your body." ”
After saying this, Shi Cheng took out an object that looked like a wooden block from his pocket, handed it to Ferrejo, and said, "Before going to bed, order this incense, this thing has the effect of getting rid of snakes and insects, you were almost bitten by a poisonous snake yesterday." ”
"And something so magical?" Ferrejo took it in surprise and said with a smile, "It's Mr. Orange!" ”
After thanking him, Ferrejo didn't shirk any more, and generously accepted Shi Cheng's gift. After Shi Cheng and the three of them got up to say goodbye, he sent the three of them to a brown bean tree outside the door before turning around and returning.
After Shi Cheng took a few steps, he couldn't help but look back at Ferrejo's back that had become a little thinner.
"Old Shi, why did you stop?" Wu Neng turned around and asked.
Tie Mian turned around, looked at Shi Cheng, and then at Ferrejo, who was walking towards the medical hall, and said in a low voice, "He's lost weight." ”
After the figure of the little military doctor disappeared at the gate of the medical hall, Shi Cheng suddenly spoke: "It stands to reason that a child of his age should be in the school at this moment, before Mr. is on vacation, discussing with his classmates the novelties in the market, and where is a good place to visit the mountains and rivers......
Shi Cheng didn't say anything more when he said this, and the three of them looked at each other speechlessly, turned around and continued to walk towards the hut.
When he was about to arrive at the hut, Wu Neng finally broke the silent atmosphere, and he said to Shi Cheng and Tie Mian in a somewhat trembling tone: "Old Shi, Lao Tie, you have all heard the sound from the north of the village today......
"On the day the Wei warship came, I heard a similar sound, it was the sound of artillery, it was the sound of cannons, right!" Wu Neng's gaze moved back and forth on Shi Cheng and Tie Mian's faces, eager to get a negative answer from the two of them.
But the reaction of the two men disappointed him.
After the three of them walked into the hut, Shi Cheng closed the door smoothly.
He looked at his two companions and said, "Combined with what happened inside and outside Kawa City during this time, the sound of artillery coming from the north of the village today, in my opinion, there are three possibilities. ”
"First, the rebels are conducting exercises, and they also said in casual conversations with us that they have a small amount of artillery in their hands." Shi Cheng calmly analyzed.
Iron Mask shook his head and said, "If it's a drill, they won't be notified in advance, and they won't have come back yet." ”
"Well, the second possibility." "For some reason, the artillery units of the rebels went out without permission, and they hit a target without authorization. ”
Tie Mian and Wu Neng both understood some of Shi Cheng's words, and Wu Neng's face became solemn.
"The third possibility, and in my opinion, the most probable. That is, an army from a foreign country suddenly came in. ”
Wu Nenggan laughed twice, "No...... Not really, old stone. ”
Shi Cheng rubbed his forehead and said, "That's it, Old Wu." The fate of others, sometimes it is not something that a few of us can control, what will happen in the future, let's take one step at a time. It's hard to say, but these days, we've been worrying about the world [Note 1]. ”
Wu Neng also knew in his heart that what Shi Cheng said was indeed the truth, but after spending so much time with Ferrejo and others, he always felt that there was a breath in his heart that he couldn't vent, and he didn't know where it came from, and he didn't know where to go.
"Forget it, let's have a good rest first, don't think nonsense, I have to see the villagers tomorrow." Wu Neng comforted himself in his heart, "Maybe things are not as serious as I thought, just like Lao Shi said, maybe these days, we have been worrying about the world." ”
After all, Wu Neng still couldn't control the thoughts in his head, and in the chaos in his mind, he directly covered his head with his clothes and fell headlong on his bed.
Just when everyone looked ahead in confusion, no one would have imagined that the next day, the earth would shake.
There's someone in Kawa City.
Escorted by a group of Batu soldiers, two officers dressed in rebel uniforms and three merchants came to the village.
The mournful whistle sounded in the sky of Xianyou Village, and the villagers were urgently summoned to the open space in the village, and some of the villagers who were waiting for the sick in the infirmary were reluctant to leave, but under the scolding and shouting of the soldiers of the Batu country and the whistling of waving wooden sticks, the villagers who did not want to leave were driven out of the infirmary like lambs while crying and shouting.
Enraged, Ferrejo desperately resisted, but a Batuu unceremoniously punched him in the abdomen, and the little medic fell to the ground with his mouth open, the light in his eyes completely dimmed. The Batu man, who knocked him to the ground, snorted coldly and glanced at the other Batu soldier beside him, who pulled Ferrejo's leg and dragged him out of the infirmary.
When the villagers were herded into the clearing, Shi Cheng and the others were following a villager who made a living from fishing to check the water quality of a new well in the east of the village.
These days, the affairs in the village medical hall have been almost handled, which allows Shi Cheng and the three of them to free up their hands a little to help the villagers solve some other things.
This is not to say that Shi Cheng has rejuvenated and cured all the villagers in the medical hall, only those who have been slightly injured and those who have mild symptoms of poisoning have been cured, as for those who are seriously injured and seriously poisoned, Shi Cheng, who lacks tools and medicines, can only spread his hands and can do nothing.
It is precisely because the tools and medicines that Shi Cheng can use are really limited, and the work of testing the water quality has also made Shi Cheng think a lot, but the results of the test finally came out.
Seeing Shi Cheng shaking his head solemnly, the villagers who followed Shi Cheng also took two steps back.
Shi Cheng patted the villager on the shoulder, and said in Chu Ze, who had become more proficient than before: "Don't be discouraged, let's find a higher place to try in a few days, and we will definitely find a water vein that has not been ruined by the blue smoke." ”
After being encouraged by the immortals, the fisherman's face finally looked better, and he quickly nodded and said, "What the immortal master said is that he will definitely be able to find it." ”
Speaking of this, he looked at the sky, and then said: "The three immortal masters have also worked hard this morning, and now it is time to eat, let's go back to the village to eat first, my brother-in-law hunted a hare on the mountain yesterday, just invite the immortal masters to try it." ”
Shi Cheng knew that the supplies in the village were very tight during this time, so he casually found an excuse and resigned, "No need, the three of us need to practice these days, and we have to eat specific food." ”
The fisherman didn't understand these twists and turns of cultivators, so naturally Shi Cheng said what he said, he nodded with a smile, and said, "Then when the immortal master finishes your practice, my mother-in-law and I will invite you to eat a meal of wild meat." ”
While chatting, the group walked towards the village, and the distress caused by the waste water well gradually dissipated.
When they were about to reach the entrance of the village, the sharp-eyed Iron Mask and Shi Cheng suddenly spotted a villager standing on the path outside the village, and behind him stood two men dressed as soldiers with impatient faces.
"What's going on...... Shi Cheng was stunned for a moment, but still strode in the direction of the path.
When the villagers saw Shi Cheng and the others, their originally depressed faces finally relaxed, and he hurriedly ran towards Shi Cheng and his party, shouting, "Immortal Master!" Immortal Master! I've found you. ”
The fisherman asked with a puzzled expression: "Agulan, what's wrong, you look like you're in a hurry to pay tribute to the Lord of Hades, who are those two people behind you, are they from the village outside?" ”
The villager named Agulan gasped for breath, his whole body trembled a little, he cried and said incoherently, "Oops...... The two of them...... You...... You'll find out when you go back to the village. ”
"Note 1: Because it is from another world, some idioms will be changed, and I will mark all such idioms in the text."