…… There is no way, although the plain and Xuzhou are only eight hundred miles in a line, which is not very far, but considering that there is Boss Cao's Yanzhou in the middle, no one dares to rush through the gate of Boss Cao's base camp. Therefore, it is necessary to go east first, detour to Beihai, and then go south to Xuzhou. Therefore, their route of action is quite special, which is equivalent to running from the rear of Xuzhou.

Although the territory of Xuzhou is turbulent, their group are all heavily armed knights, and those displaced people who fled in all directions due to the war have no such guards, so who to attack, and the rogue bandits who took advantage of the fire to rob are very clear.

Therefore, this road is very peaceful for them, and there is not a single time when they don't want to attack.

As they continued to move south, the news became denser as they detoured through untouched areas of Xuzhou.

The good news is that after Cao Cao besieged Tancheng for more than ten days, he really retreated due to the exhaustion of food;

The bad news is that when the Qingzhou soldiers returned to Yanzhou, they took a very strange route.

As we all know, Yanzhou is in the northwest of Xuzhou, if you want to retreat, you should also go to the northwest, but Cao Mengde chose a way to go south, he detoured to attack Ying, Suiling, Xiaqiu, all the way to victory, some people even wonder if he wants to go south to Huainan to fight Yuan Shu, Cao Cao finally retreated to Yanzhou.

So the idea when chatting with Blackblade in Plains City can finally be verified at this time.

- What kind of war is this?

- What kind of person started this war?

When they passed through Xiaqiu, the Qingzhou soldiers had already retreated, so people began to return one after another, and those who were mostly scattered in the flight heard that the war was over, so they hurried back to their homeland.

But there seems to be nothing left in Summerhill City.

From the beams, window lattices, and door panels, to the clay pots, bamboo baskets, and dry firewood, not to mention the gold silk property and pigs, sheep, and rice grain.

However, it is not quite accurate to say this, because the Qingzhou soldiers left endless corpses for the city.

Before she could ride into the town, she heard a heart-rending cry, followed by blood.

The corpses died in a variety of ways, some with ease, some with pain, but none of them were clothed, and neither men nor women were hung naked in front of the house, behind the house, or stacked on the side of the road.

So those who returned one after another began to rummage in the sea of corpses and blood one by one, rummaging for their parents, brothers, lovers and children, they were dazed like wandering spirits, with bloody tears in their eyes, in every corner of this small city, they turned over every undignified corpse to see, whether the face was the person they knew, whether there was a birthmark they remembered, if not, they continued to look in this dead city full of dead souls, if they found it, the stone in their hearts finally fell to the ground, Then he took off his clothes, put them over his relatives, who could no longer open his mouth and smile at him, and dragged him out, and carried him out, and carried him out, and found a wasteland outside the city, and buried him.

Such a city no longer distinguishes between day and night, there are no soldiers to defend the city, there is no city captain to enforce the law, and naturally there is no husband to report the time, and it is not suitable for people, so they slept outside the city, and they were able to see many people wandering in and out of the city day and night, constantly moving the bodies of their relatives out for burial.

Although no coffin board can be found now, those who survived are still trying to do their last bit of goodness, so when Lu Hangyu shuttles through the fields, he sees all kinds of funeral rites.

Some people want to pinch clay puppets, which are so simple that they can't see their facial features, but they are also so precious, so Jian Yong told her: That is the custom of Chu, they want to send labor servants for the deceased, my Han Gaozu started in Pei County, this custom is the most common;

Some of them wore banners and shouted the names of their relatives, so Jian Yong told her that they were believers, and they were calling for names and gathering relatives, and they wanted to call back the souls of their relatives from the wilderness of the dark night, and send them to the place where the gods of heaven lived;

Some people were tearing their clothes and crying on the side of the road, smashing the clay pot in their hands, and continuing to beat the iron pot, so Jian Yong told her: These are the people of Wu Land, I heard that they think that ghosts are knowledgeable and can harm people, so they want to scare ghosts away, even if they are their own relatives;

There were also some people who were silent and pressed the yellow paper full of words under the stone, so Jian Yong told her: I didn't expect that there were still people from Taiping Dao, these people believe in ghosts, and they have to write down people's life deeds on yellow paper, and then they can send the soul to Jiuquan;

"How strange," said the scribe, who had been talking and laughing, as he looked at the people of the wilderness, "if these people had met on a normal day, I am afraid that they would have fought a long time ago, but you look at them as if neither of them could see each other." ”

"Sir," she listened for a while, and then suddenly asked, "Xiaqiu is not a famous city, why are there so many people of different origins here?" ”

Jian Yong was silent for a moment before speaking slowly.

"That's the exiles from Guanzhong and Jingluo, who heard that Tao Gongzu was benevolent, so they came thousands of miles to attach."

His voice echoed in his ears, and it seemed to echo across the wilderness.

"They avoided Dong Zhuo, avoided Li Dao and Guo Yan, but they didn't avoid this scene."

At the end of the funeral, it seems that no matter where the person is, he will take out a piece of clothing, stand on the earth covered with tombs, and call his relatives to the north, which is called "belly clothes", which should have been worn by the deceased, but these dead people have almost no clothes left, so the living can only take out their own clothes, hoping that as long as they have been touched by their relatives and contaminated with his breath, the souls of the dead will return to him with this familiar and intimate smell.

"Mother-come back!"

"Aya, come back!"

"Husband, come back! Come back! ”

No one can sleep peacefully on such a night.

She walked around outside the tent, but she didn't feel lonely at all.

For there were still people in the wilderness, who sat all night at the grave, or continued to busily light torches, looking for hope in the city.

They also don't feel lonely because they are with their loved ones.

The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night.

She walked slowly along the dirt road where Cao Bing had retreated, and there were corpses on the side of the road, one on top of the other.

As it was getting dark, she suddenly stopped.

In the grass by the side of the road were two bodies of underweight, one of whom looked to be a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, and a little girl of about ten years old.

The boy had a bloody hole in his back, piercing him not only but the little girl he was guarding underneath.

But even so, the boy tried in vain to protect the girl in his arms...... That didn't help.

Probably his sister, she thought.

She just stood next to the two corpses, staring.

It wasn't until the black blade's puzzled voice sounded that she suddenly asked a question.

[Do you know how Saburo died? 】

Blackblade was silent for a moment.

Indeed, it is very similar to him. 】

"Xiao Langjun, what are you looking at?"

The abrupt sound woke her up, and when Lu Hangyu looked up, she saw a woman in her forties standing beside her, staring at her with a grin.

She was disheveled, her face covered in mud and blood, but she smiled so happily.

"Don't look at them," she said, "it's a good thing, they're all gone, they're all gone!" My son also went, and the void was shattered, and everything was in ashes, and they all went to a good place! The light leaves people like you and me to suffer here. ”

As she spoke, her neck lifted proudly, and her expression was very similar to that of Fan's. So Lu Hangyu couldn't help but answer.

"Your child, where have you gone?"

The woman's loving and pleasing eyes looked up at the sky, containing a mother's greatest pride and expectation, and she looked upwards as well.

It was dawn, and there was a glimmer of light through the clouds.

Chapter 100

Tao Qian had not returned to Xuzhou for the time being, so Jian Yong met with him in Tancheng.

She didn't see what this person looked like, after all, whether from the perspective of identity or social skills, she was not suitable for meeting this kind of big guy...... Besides, if it was just in normal times, now the entire Xuzhou was slaughtered by Cao Cao in one go, hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in one go, "Surabaya does not flow", Tao Qian's mood can be imagined how collapsed.

For example, when Cao's army retreated, he set fires everywhere and often filled in wells with corpses, so the officials had to mobilize the people to slowly clean up and bury the corpses, and then dig the wells again, otherwise those polluted water sources would bring a terrible plague in the coming year.

A few years ago, the plague brought about the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Xuzhou finally calmed down, and in the past few years, it has barely been called a happy land, otherwise there would not be so many displaced people who came here, and now it has become a broken and ruined land.

During the few days she stayed in Xuzhou, she rarely spoke, hardly went out to socialize with people, and only occasionally walked outside the city to see the appearance of those people.

So ten days later, probably less than a month after going out, when she returned to Plains City, Xiao Lang stretched out two paws in anticipation, and she was stunned for a moment.

"Is Xuzhou fun? Is it good-looking? What grows in the ground? He tugged at the corner of her dress, two dimples on her round face, and his eyes were full of anticipation, "What did you bring back?" ”

She lowered her head and looked at Xiao Lang, Xiao Lang raised his face and stared at her, seeing that she didn't say anything, so the two thin eyebrows twisted together, and the whole face looked very aggrieved, but she still endured it, and didn't cry out immediately, as if she wanted to wait a while to see if she would change her mind and conjure a bag of candy from behind her to give him?

However, until Siniang hurriedly ran to drag Xiaolang away, and Dong Bai and Tongxin welcomed her in, Lu Hangyu was still silent and silent.

"Xiaolang must think that since you have gone out, you must be like those merchants, bringing something delicious and interesting back," Tongxin said, "How do you know that the world is difficult and the road is dangerous?" Lang Jun is still safe this way? ”

It was quite peaceful, she blinked slowly.

Dong Bai looked at her face and thought for a while, "I heard that Xuzhou was in turmoil and the people were scattered, so I guess ......"

Not exactly, she thought, and there were many people who did not "disperse".

They were in the wells, in the rivers, among the ruins.

Also in heaven.

However, this kind of contemplation did not last long, and when the two of them saw her such a gloomy expression, they immediately changed the topic, and first talked about the recent trivial matters in the city, such as the servants sent by Liu Bei would come twice a day, and they came a little perfunctory at first, but then they seemed to want to be a godfather to Ah Cao, so they became very active in chopping wood and fetching water; For example, since she left, Li Er has persistently carried out his plan to get rid of the order, but there has been no progress so far; Another example...... The autumn harvest season passed, everyone planted winter wheat with great expectations, and the field she rented was not exempt from vulgarity, and the work was handed over to Li Er to do, but when she went out of the city, she found that Li Er did not do that, but relied on the pit to deceive and deceive the mouth to find a short-term job in a butcher shop, so the salary she got was not only to hire someone to farm, but also to hide an extra money, which is really amazing.

Just as he was talking about where Li Er's money might be hidden, Xiao Lang ran over again.

"You didn't bring anything good to eat!" He grabbed one of her hands, broke it open, and as he stuffed something into it, he shouted a little dissatisfied, "Remember next time!" ”

…… Then he ran away.

…… She looked down and saw that it was a piece of caramel candy, because the bear child had hesitated to hold it in her hand for a long time, and the edges had melted away, so it was slimy in her hand, and it looked a bit like the unspeakable thing.

Dong Bai and Tongxin's expressions were a little subtle, Dong Bai immediately wanted to get up and bring a basin of water to help her wash her hands, but she waved her hand, picked up the piece of caramel that had been turned into a small half, and stuffed it into her mouth.

"It's pretty sweet." She looked at the two sisters who were staring at her cautiously, thought for a moment, and repeated, "It's really sweet." ”

To make what she said a little more believable, she also licked the little bit of sugar juice in her palm.

…… So Tongxin and Dong Bai's expressions cracked even more.

After returning to the plain, the days seem to be back to a lazy state, Tongxin wants to take care of the children, Ah Bai wants to teach Xiaolang to read, Siniang thinks that weaving and sewing clothes and doing housework is the right thing, but in addition to this, he is also willing to follow Ah Bai to learn a few words, Li Er goes out to make money during the day, and runs back at night to have a meal, maybe he wants to sneak out.

And she is the most privileged person in the whole family except for Ah Cao, she doesn't do any work, she doesn't care about the wheat, she doesn't care about the last few cabbages in the garden, she concentrates on moving around every day, walking on foot when she goes around the city, occasionally riding a horse when she goes outside the city, she goes to the county government every day to hang out, and when someone wants to go to the barracks to deliver a message, she generally rushes to do it for her.

The barracks naturally had heard of this "hidden in the market" swordsman, so they were very polite to her - the barracks under Guan Zhang's command were especially polite, so during the days she carefully observed, she found a lot of new things worth noting.

For example, Liu Bei had about 7,000 soldiers and horses, but 5,000 of them were transferred to the plain by Tian Kai, which could only be regarded as lending to Liu Bei, not Liu Bei's own soldiers;

He still has less than three hundred cavalry, commanded by Zhao Yun, but this cavalry, as well as Zhao Zilong himself, were lent to him by Gongsun Zhan, and they cannot be regarded as Liu Bei's own soldiers;

These two barracks have a neat lineup, although they are not as good as Gao Shun's trapped soldiers, they are well-fed and well-armed, but they also look like regular troops.

And the troops and horses commanded by Guan Zhang were very cold in comparison.

They were stationed in a small grange on the west side of the city, about a thousand men, and they practiced diligently every day, but this army was not only full of infantry, but also seven or eight hundred of them were spearmen, which was very strange.

Even if it is not a strong crossbow that only the regular army of the Han Dynasty has, an army should basically have swordsmen, archers, and long-card soldiers, and spearmen should have a rattan card for supporting protection, but in addition to spears, there are also some swordsmen in the thousand-person team of Guan Zhang, and in addition to this, only flag guards are equipped with rattan cards, which seems to be ......

It's not like the regular army, it's not much better than the bandits.

Look at the ragged appearance of these soldiers...... It's really not much better than a bandit.

She was a little curious to inquire about why the quartermaster was so miserable, and a small military academy replied like this.

"How do you know that a spearhead doesn't need five catties of iron, any blacksmith in the city can beat it, and a ring-headed knife is at least ten catties of iron, not to mention, it is very easy to break when forged, how can you dare to take this job if you are not a skilled hand? Even if he dared to take it, he couldn't find those iron stones, so naturally there were more spears and fewer knives. ”

…… Is there still a fight? She couldn't react a little when she heard it, and the little military academy guessed her expression, so she immediately added another sentence.

"Lang Junxiu looked down, most of the thieves who are waiting to gather in the mountains and forests only have long sticks, compared to us, this is not bad!"