Thousands of miles of cloudless sky, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains on all sides.

Suiyang City, which flourished in the past, is like a wounded male lion at this time, and on all sides of this male lion, there is a group of hungry wolves waiting for the opportunity to move, this group of jackals from northern Liaobei are hideous and terrifying, bloodthirsty and tenacious.

Suiyang City has been besieged for more than seven months, there is a huge consumption inside, there are no reinforcements outside, and the reinforcements sent by the Tang Dynasty are in addition to the thirty blank complaints, not to mention a soldier and a pawn, and I have not even seen a bucket of rice and a hair. The entire Suiyang City, from Zhongcheng Taishou to the poor people, has long been exhausted, and the way out of life is becoming more and more slim.

At the beginning of the first month, the 6,800 defenders formed by the convergence of Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan were less than 1,700 after more than seven months of unclear defensive battles. If it weren't for the wisdom of Lord Zhongcheng Zhang Xun and more than a dozen generals, plus all the soldiers defending the city who were not afraid of death, they were afraid that Suiyang City, which was full of holes and scattered, would have already been broken by those thieves, and the entire city would never have escaped being slaughtered.

The weather is not smooth, the location is trapped, and only the "harmony" in the city is still cohesive, and it has barely persevered until now, but at this point, the factor of "harmony" is about to collapse.

"There is no food"

This is the biggest dilemma in Suiyang City at present.

The so-called attack and fight on the battlefield, Suiyang City has been holding on for so long with the thick city walls and the sergeants working together, and the hideous horror of war has been slowly accepted and indifferent by people, and the mysterious horror of death inherent in human nature is no longer so terrifying. No matter how fragile you are and afraid of death, day and night looking at the bloody sacrifices around you, from life to death, your heart also begins to become numb, and it is natural to see more such things as dead people, the big deal is to die, what is so good, anyway, I am not the only one who died, and dozens of people will not die in Suiyang City one day! Life is only a matter of time before it is at this moment.

It's easy to die, but it's hard to live.

To live, first of all you will be hungry. For the current Suiyang soldiers and civilians, it is good to die, that is, there is no need to endure hunger every day. The number of enemies outside the city who lost their lives because of this battle had already been several times greater, and for the soldiers defending the city, they had already changed their capital. It's just that the taste of being starved to death is really not easy to endure.

The two young sergeants who left the alley were also hungry at the moment, and this was the time to eat the lunch meal, although the lunch was still three nests, but it was good to have those three nests, at least it didn't have to be as uncomfortable as this would scratch the heart and lungs.

"Oops, I miscalculated ...... just now"

Shao Dong patted his head and complained a little annoyed.

"What's wrong?"

The swarthy boy was a little puzzled, and didn't understand why the young owner suddenly spoke like this.

"I was just playing generous just now, at least leave two dough cakes for us, look at the dough cakes in that baggage, so big, so white, I can swallow one in one bite......"

As soon as the Shaodong family said this, the two of them really felt even more hungry, and the more they thought about it, the more hungry they became.

"Hey, forget it, those mothers are much hungrier than us, those cakes are in our stomachs to quench hunger, but when we get to their house, it's a life-saver."

sighed with emotion, and the swarthy boy also changed his words:

"But then again, those flour cakes of the Song family are indeed Baiao, much whiter than what you used to eat at your house. We are desperately licking the blood with the knife head, gnawing on the hard, rough and uneaten black nest head, these dog sons are lying at home and there are people waiting, but they are eating white-flour polished rice, I really want to pick up his family's rice warehouse and cut their tongues. I dare to pack the ticket, their family has enough rice and grain to eat for a year! The calm swarthy boy was also a little angry at the moment because he was hungry.

"A year? Do you think his house is my home? I dare to say that his family's private collection of rice is definitely enough for the two of us to eat for ten years! While pointing fingers at the analogy, the young owner did not forget to laugh at the shallow ignorance of his companions.

"So rich? No way! I don't think they have that much, and they don't dare to hide that much, right? The swarthy boy looked incredulous.

Shao Dongjia looked at this little friend who had known him for more than ten years with disdain, and saw that the other party was a little embarrassed, so he stretched out his hands and gestured:

"As you know, there are only more than 100 acres of land in our family, most of which are dry land, and there are only about 10 acres of water land. Even then, when the time comes to harvest the grain, seven or eight hoards are piled up like a hill, and none of them wears a hat. Just that one hoard, more than a dozen of us can't hold it, one by one is so high, and with a hat tip, you say you can eat a few bites, but you can't eat a hoard. ”

When it comes to his family's industry, the young owner seems to have changed back to the superior young master who was high above before, and the self-confidence that exudes from the inside out is not comparable to the black charcoal head follower in front of him.

“……”

The swarthy young man sneered, and he really didn't know how to answer this word, and the young man continued to analyze it arrogantly, forgetting that he was hungry at the moment, and his whole body was still full of strength.

"As for the situation of my family, it is only from the time of my great-grandfather that I became rich, and we are still in the countryside, and the foundation is congenitally insufficient. But these bastards of the Song family are different, it is said that their ancestors are the sage Weizi, the teacher used to teach us when he said that the sage Weizi is the eldest son of the Shang Emperor B, and the eldest brother of the later Shang King Emperor Xin, hey, the Shang King, the legendary unification of the human king, even if Wei Ziqi is just a cousin, but in the end it is also the blood of the human king, and later he was divided into this Shangqiu Suiyang, and established the Song Kingdom. A country, that has to be tens of millions of our homes, tens of thousands of acres of land. Although the history is long later, and the Song Kingdom is no longer there today, but after all, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and the soup is not changed, and the Song family is the owner of Suiyang City, which has been developed for thousands of years. So if you think about it, are these goods so rich, I guess, today's cakes are made for outsiders to see, if you don't fight, maybe today's steamed buns are too hard for his dog to eat, damn, we don't live as well as a dog! ”

The more Shao Dongjia analyzed, the more he felt that what he said was right, and then he thought about it and felt that what he said was wrong.

"Hey, no, I guess his family has a sea of food, and we can't eat it in two lifetimes, no, it's not ...... for several lifetimes or dozens of lifetimes."

The two teenagers just pondered while walking back, out of this case, the rest of the families in Nancheng don't have to go anymore, they were so noisy just now, they must have spread it all over every household, there was not much hope, and they were even more dead at the moment. It's better to come back and save yourself from running the wrong road, and you will be more hungry if you spend more physical strength.

The two teenagers did not discuss the beating today, as if they should have done so. Originally, there was an order from above, no matter the officers and soldiers, they were not allowed to disturb the people for no reason, not to mention the Song family who beat people like them today, and they still beat the Song family with a head and a face, two cautious and rigid villains on weekdays, if today's actions are known by the above, it will be a big trouble, and a captain may not be able to afford it, let alone the two of them with big heads and small soldiers. As the saying goes, more things are better than less, and the two of them tacitly never mentioned this matter.

In normal times, the two teenagers would never act so recklessly, but the strangeness of today's incident is precisely because of the surname of the person who was beaten "Song".

"Song" is a very common surname, there are millions of people with the surname Song in this world, everyone has friends surnamed Song, but the "Song" in Suiyang City is different, because there is a person in this "Song" family, and this person's name is:

"Song Yanzong"

This Song Yanzong is the family coquetteer in the mouth of Song Yanzheng, who was beaten by them just now, and he is a dragon and a phoenix among people. Song Yanzong himself is indeed a very remarkable person, he was born illustrious, modest, he had the reputation of "prodigy" when he was young, he read scriptures extensively, and poetry and articles can be recited with his mouth open, coupled with the rich family resources, he has been cultivated, so he is also involved in music and rhythm games, calligraphy, painting and tea, but because he is mainly calligraphy, he is not very familiar with the art of archery and horse war. All the doctors of Confucianism who taught him were full of praise for this student, praising him as "he will become a great instrument one day", and he is a well-known university scholar. Yanzong Yanzong, continuing the glory of the sect, seems to have great hope. Song Yanzong really lived up to expectations, he was not praised and killed by the "prodigy", but has been modest and cautious, low-key and unassuming, in addition to reading and learning almost no bad habits, all day long to carry forward the Song lintel as its own responsibility. Later, when he was forty-three years old, he was a scholar and a first, in this era of "thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi", the prime minister of a country was only a Jinshi, not to mention that he could be a high school jinshi at that age, which was already a well-known talent at that time. It was precisely because of this reputation that Li Ju, the heir of the king, personally sent his henchmen to ask him to be his shogunate adviser. Since then, Song Yanzong has officially entered the official career, with a very high starting point and a great future, and he is really worthy of the contemporary Suiyang "Song" family to carry the mountain.

Originally, such a person was extremely respected, not to mention that Song Yanzong and his people almost never bullied others and bullied the weak. In the eyes of many people, if a person is strong, not to bully the urine is the greatest virtue, and even sometimes the person is unintentional or intentional, doing something to hurt some weak, the strong have not said much, but the weak first reflect on the panic, is it what they did wrong, tarnished this perfect sage, sometimes the weak reflect slowly, will drill out of thin air a large number of defenders, they stand on the shining moral high ground, condemn you and spur you, defend the glory of the strong, make you ashamed of yourself.

Strong is the truth, weak is dung!

Human nature is sometimes so black and white, and sometimes it becomes unpredictable.

It is this Song Yanzong, who has a very high reputation in Suiyang City and is praised by everyone, but he is the first person to be spurned in the Suiyang garrison. The biggest dilemma in Suiyang City at present is "hunger", and the person who makes the entire Suiyang City starve is precisely this great sage Song Yanzong.

It turned out that just before Suiyang was besieged, Taishou Xu Yuanren was as his name suggested, and he was very far-sighted. Although he had the ambition of serving the country, he also knew that he could not reach it, so he planned to recruit virtuous people in advance, and one of the objects was Zhang Xun, who was still fighting the enemy in Yongqiu at that time, to form an alliance and discuss. Although the two of them were in two places, the national righteousness made them suspicious, and they formulated a thorough and perfect plan to defend the city through correspondence. Suiyang defends the city, from the fortifications and grain and grass to the strategy of defending the city and pacifying the people, no matter how big or small, the two people show their strengths, and the arrangement is stable and proper. Later, after Zhang Xun led his troops to repel the Linghu Chao Department that attacked Yongqiu County, the strategy shifted to Suiyang City, which was more politically geographically important. In this way, the two sides will unite and make a solid deployment for a year, which can be said to be all ready, waiting for the enemy, the whole city is full of confidence, the time and place are favorable, and there is almost no factor of failure.

But the development of things is often so wonderful, Song Yanzong, who was born in Suiyang, personally sent Suiyang to death.

At that time, the war was fierce, and Li Ju, the heir of Henan County, was appointed as the envoy of Henan Jiedu by Li Heng, who had just succeeded to the throne of Tang Suzong, to manage the entire anti-thief defense line. Therefore, Xu Yuan and Zhang Xun began to collect grain and grass a long time ago, and raised a total of 240,000 stone of salt and grain under the joint operation, which was enough to ensure the food and drink of tens of thousands of people in the city for half a year.

However, at that time, the battle in Puyang and Jiyin on the front line of anti-thieves was fierce, and there was a shortage of grain and grass in the two cities. After Li Ju thought about it, he felt that this plan was feasible, so he sent a letter to discuss the matter with Xu Yuan and Zhang Xun, and the two were shocked when they read the letter, and hurriedly wrote to state the stakes, showing that it was inconvenient to borrow grain. However, Li Ju was worried about the battle in front of Yin City, and Song Yanzong fanned the flames left and right, repeatedly analyzing how he had no last resort and a feasible plan. Then Li Ju ignored the dissuasion of Zhang Xu and the others, and sent someone to take the token and send 100,000 stone grain and grass from Suiyang City to Jiyin City. God made a big joke to everyone at this time, and when the mighty grain and grass brigade just entered Jiyin City, the guards of Jiyin surrendered to the enemy, and the original anti-thief military food just fed to the mouth of the thief soldiers, and this snapping ear scraper hit Song Yanzong's face, which was extraordinarily loud. When Li Ju heard about this incident, his intestines were all repentant, and he had Song Yanzong's heart, but the general trend was gone, even if he flayed Song Yanzong alive, it would be useless, so he had to send him away at will, out of sight and out of mind.

The people of Suiyang City are ignorant and ignorant, so they naturally don't know who cut off their way of life, and the "Song" family doesn't know that it is the pride of his family that forcibly buried tens of thousands of lives in Suiyang City. On the one hand, the people used the "Master of the Song Family" to admonish their children and nephews; The Song family is still complacent about the blessing of their ancestors, but they must say that the family dignitary "Song Yanzong" is only three sentences.

In fact, Song Yanzong can have such a move, which can be regarded as the bloodline inheritance of the Song family. The founding ancestor of the Song family was Yin Qi, the eldest son of Emperor Yi of Shang, but his life was not good, and his mother was not a princess when he gave birth to him, so he failed to inherit the throne. Later, he advised his half-mother brother Di Xin, but Di Xin did not listen to his brother, and Yin Qi could only endure helplessly. Later, King Wu of Zhou replaced Shang with Zhou, he did not help his younger brother, but surrendered to King Wu of Zhou, after the rebellion of the three eunuchs, he was named the monarch of the Song State by King Zhou for his merits, and the fief capital was in today's Shangqiu Suiyang City. In the long river of history, Song Weizi was shaped into a clear sage, he was sympathetic to his subjects, worried about the people, and dared to advise his own king, he was really a virtuous man born at the wrong time.

As the saying goes, there are always two sides to everything, and Song Weizi, who seems to be impeccable, is rarely known for his despicable conduct. I don't know if it's because of the missed encounter with the Shang throne, or because of the pursuit of fame and fortune in nature, as the blood of the Shang family, this influential prince chose to stab him in the back in the competition of the Shang and Zhou wars. On the eve of the Western Zhou Dynasty's Muye War, King Wu of Zhou sent Zhao Gong Xiao Shi to Gongtou Mountain to find Wei Ziqi, Zhao Gong obeyed the orders of King Wu of Zhou, and swore an oath to Wei Zi, so that he could secretly surrender to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the reward was to let Wei Zi Qi be the chief of the princes for generations, and observe the normal sacrifices of Yin Shang, allow him to worship the joy of mulberry forest, and make the vast fertile land of Meng Zhu his county, and allow Wei Ziqi to enjoy all the powerful positions of the orthodox Shang king in his own county. What is said in the history books that he was awarded the title to the Song State because of the pacification of the rebellion of the three prisons is purely to rub powder on his face to cover up the truth that is full of blood and. This long-standing sage secretly surrendered to the enemy Western Zhou, disintegrated and turned the spearhead, and chose to oppose his own brother. When the rebellion broke out in the Western Zhou Dynasty, as the only remaining veteran of the Yin merchants, he exerted his strong influence among the merchants, stabilized the resistance of some merchants, and incited some radical merchants to rebel against his king. Because he helped pave the way for the rebellion of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he became the chief of the princes and the king of Yin Shang as he wished.

A long river of history, a little story boat. The world only sees the monarch Weizi who has the last laugh when he becomes famous, but he can't see the name of the sage who is dyed red with the blood of half a million compatriots.

Human nature can be just that elusive at times.

Just like the current Suiyang City, the people are still praising the eldest master of the Song family, and only the people who defend the city know that the name of the person who gave advice and invited merit and killed countless unjust souls is Song Yanzong. Of course, compared to what his ancestors did, Song Yanzong was still trivial. Therefore, the two young sergeants who knew the inside story met the Song family today, but they didn't meet the biggest enemy. is still the same sentence, a bed bug crawling out of a dung heap, to deal with bed bugs, you naturally have to step on it with your feet, even if you can't step on it, you can still export evil breath to some extent!

Let's say that the two teenagers who beat the Song family are really hungry at the moment, after all, beating people is also a hard job! This person is very uncomfortable if he doesn't eat one meal, and he can't bear it if he doesn't eat two meals, but if he is hungry for three or four days, he will not be so uncomfortable, and he will even forget to be hungry. On the way back slowly, the two of them found a hidden shade, and saw that there was no one around, the swarthy young man let go of his armor, put his hand into his underwear, and made a fuss in his arms, and took out a piece of oil paper to wrap it.

The swarthy boy wiped the sweat on the outside of the oiled paper with his sleeve, and then opened the oiled paper bag little by little, layer after layer, wrapped in four layers, originally a fist-sized paper package, and when it was all opened, it was only half the size of a palm. Hidden in the oil-paper bag were three small pieces of air-dried mutton, crumpled and black, a bit like tree roots, which were the trophies they had found from Hu Bing when they were cleaning up the battlefield yesterday. The swarthy boy took the largest piece of it, the thickness of his thumb, and handed it to the young owner quite distressed, while he took the smallest piece and put it in his mouth, and wrapped the remaining piece in oiled paper, carried it in his arms, and hid it to death.

Shao Dongjia looked at his companion's actions with a smile from beginning to end, he took the other party's mutton jerky, did not say anything and did not thank him, took the whole mutton jerky into his mouth, did not bite, just melted with saliva, this will not be like in the morning, for fear that the mouth movement is too big to be seen, anyway, there is no one around, just sit down and enjoy this rare delicacy leisurely.

Although the autumn sun is vicious, but the tree is still extremely cool, although the water in the water bladder has been drunk, but there is just the right cool breeze, the cool breeze blows the two teenagers' hearts, such comfort, naturally is also excellent.

With meat in your mouth and wind around you, you can sleep and maybe have a good dream.